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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1919
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! PROVED CURVATURE OF EARTH 7
red ns Second Claso mail matter, Scientist Settled Dis P uted Question, the Greencastle, Ind, postoffice. | But Loser ,^ rOVe c H iT' f t0 Be den J. Arnold .Proprietor; “Poor^Sport."
LISHED E\ ERY AFTERNOON pt Sunday at 17 and 19 S. Jackson Street, Greencastle, Ind.
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GRADUATE JONES National Sshool of Auct'oneerine ROBERT M. McHAFFlE Auctioneer
c or Write at mv Exoense Stilesville. Indiana
Chamberlain's Tablets. ?e tablets are intended es!ly for indigestion and constiThey tone up the stomach enable it to perform its funcnaturally. They act gently on iver and bowels to a healthy ion. When you feel dull, stand constipated give them a You are certain to be pleased their effect.
Oaelesa to Try. e were the words In a lecture, aroused untimely mirth at my :e: “The paths up this mounre too steep for even a mule to therefore I did not attempt the myself.”—Exchange.
Many Minds Make Speech. man can make a speech alone, the great human power that up from a thousand minds that pon him, and makes the speech, es A. Garfield.
Longest Dance. lain Kemp, aged seventeen, in ign of Elizabeth danced from n to Norwich in nine days, the t dance on record.
It will scarcely he believed that the question of the shape of the earth could ever have disturbed the peaceful atmosphere of the law courts. Yet in 1879 the question, indirectly, indeed did come before three learned judges, and the case excited a deal of interest and amazement. The circumstances were as follows: The plaintiff, one Hampden, entertained the opinion that the world was not round, and Issued an advertisement in a paper challenging philosophers, divines and scientific professors to prove contrary from Scripture, reason or fact. He deposited $2,500 In a hank, to he forfeited to anyone who could prove to the satisfaction of any Intelligent referee that there was such a thing as a convex railway, canal or
lake.
The challenge was taken up by no less a person than the late Prof. Alfred Russell Wallace, who proved to the satisfaction of the referee the curvature to and fro of the Rerford level canal between Whitney bridge and Welsh's dam (six miles) to the extent of five feet, more or less, and the $2,f>00 was paid over to him. But he did not keep it. The plaintiff apparently hegan to see that he was making a fool of himself, and brought an action and recovered back his deposit on the ground that the whole affair was a wager, and therefore illegal.—.Springfield Republican.
LURE TO THE ADVENTUROUS
Hand-Painted Gloves. gloves with hand-painted hacks nee a great craze in some of the an countries.
Daily Thought. lilies say: Behold without words, of Ina Rosetti.
how we purity.—
Rats Prolific. male nit produces 100 or more in its lifetime.
plendid Cough Medi c inc.
Through All the Agea Man Hat Dared Eve^-y Danger in the Search for
Beautiful Things.
Now. a thing of beauty that is rare and difficult to obtain seems ever to have exercised an irresistible lure to adventurous man. To possess it he will suffer the hardships of the highest mountain climb, or risk the almost certain dangers of disease in tropic zones. He will dare death at the hands of savage enemies and pursue his quest far into the regions of
unknown wilds.
Into the depths of shark-infested seas he dives with the hope of securing a lustrous pearl. Then to the topmost Alpine peak lie climbs for a rare specimen of the edelweiss. A glittering Jewel In an idol's head may tempt him to invade the sacred precincts of an Indian temple, or a beautiful flower lure him far into the primeval forests of Brazil, Colombia or Peru. To this spirit the civilized world owes not only its greatest geographic discoveries and important additions to scientific knowledge, but to it is also due the discovery of many of nature’s choicest things of beauty, things whose prnctioal value may tie I but slight, hut whose appeal is to the
I feel that every family should j artistic and esthetic sense.—National
what a splendid medicine srlain’s Cough remedy is, I am o pleased to relate my expernd only wish that I had known 'merits years ago,” writes Mrs. y, Ferguson Station, Mo. “I to my children when they he slightest symtoms of bej'upy, and when 1 have a cough on the lungs a very few doses ieve me, and by taking it for days I soon got rid of my
Geographic Society Bulletin.
Every-Day Fellowmen.
There are few prophets in the world, . . . few heroes. I cannot afford to give all my reverence to such rarities; 1 want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellowmen, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces 1 know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy. ... I herewith discharge ray conscience and declare that I have had quite enthusiastic movements of
In Washington. j admiration toward gentlemen who h," suid tlu: head of the de- ! spoke the worst English, who were [m, “to let some of my clerks occasionally fretful in tiiier temper,
( and who hud never moved in a higher 1 sphere of influence than that of parish
nothing for them to do.” j overseer; and that the way in which 1.” said S» nator Graball, “that’s 1 have come to the conclusion that reason for wanting to let human nature is lovable—the way I go."—Louisville Courier-Jour- i have learnt something of its deep
pathos, its sublime mysteries—has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighborhoods where they dwelt.—
George Eliot.
An Early Riser.
koo tail, ■ •• • a me iiM trouhp- in your boy awake in the morn-
It's the other way around ^ir.ee he was ill ttv army Josh tne it his business to wake up ply at daybreak, blowing e
Japanese Masks of Shame.
One of the most unusual features of a Japanese court to a stranger is the fact that each prisoner has ills head covered by a wicker mask, more like
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Writer Denies Statement That Pale, Fragile Women Appeal to Chivalrous Instinct in Men. There seems to lie no end to the discussion of marrying and giving in marriage, and the vlewimints of the disputants are as various as their previous condition of servitude. The latest to add fuel to tiie ever-lnmbent flames of the controversy Is a speaker who told the international conference of women physicians that “what every woman knows’’ today is that “pale, weak women are most appealing to men” because of the chivalrous instinct of fragility and pitiable dependence. To this finding many will enter their respectful demurrer, says a writer In the Philadelphia Ledger. There Is nothing particularly attractive to a man in the prospect of having a life partner whose health is precarious and who is unable to look to the ways of her household or to be the participant In the husband’s interests In his business or in his recreative hours. There are all about us the most beautiful and touching examples of devotion and interdependence between husband and wife, when the one or the other Is enfeebled by an Inherited or an accidental ailment, hut such an ailment Is a liability and not an asset in the partnership; and while in the mld-Victorlan days, of which we hear so much, it may have been fashionable to look as though one were passing into a decline, and it may have been considered soulful and splritful to be unhealthy, today It Is held to be morbid and even immoral to make anything less than the most and the best of the bodily tenement that Is the home of the immortal spirit.
like three, or seven, and it has not the
Ghostly Visitor Who Appeared to extraordinary properties which mathe-
Lucky Campers Proved to Be
Mrn of His Wo^d.
A good ghost story comes from New Brunswick. Two men were out camping and shooting in wild country. One night one of them awoke and saw sitting over the glowing embers of the dying fire a figure dressed in an eighteenth century costume. “Who are you?” asked the sportsman, startled. The ghost bade him search in the cliff above which the camp lay, and told him that he would find his (the speaker’s) hones there. He ordered him to hury them decently, and take as his reward what he found
In the cave.
The figure then vanished. At dawn the two comrades set to work. They found the entrance to a cave which hud been almost blocked by a landslide. Inside was a skeleton with a massive gold ring on Its bony finger, and around the skeleton lay various books of dates varying from 1059 to 1685. There was also a manuscript gfVIng the locality and description of a treasure buried near by, which the lucky finders duly dug up and appro-
priated.
maticlans have discovered in the number nine, about which a whole volume might be written without exhausting the subject. But the manner in which It figures in both fact and fiction is /certainly calculated to pique curiosity. It is impossible to discern any mathematical reason for such use of it. wherefore the natural assumption is ’that it tiad its origin in some striking incident.
HONOR MEMORY OF WOMEN
GOLD LOST TO THE WORLD
Destruction of Precious Metal Practically Goes On Without Ceasing,
Either Day or Night.
takes with her u certain amount of
Almost Perfect Tim*.
i Our day—the sidereal day of the apparent motion of the stars—Is 3 minutes 55.91 seconds shorter than a mean solar day. Considering clock gearing, a French astronomer calculates that with four wheels having 119. 330, 817 and 314 teeth sidereal can he converted Into mean time with the loss
Every ship that goes to the bottom | 0 f only one second In eight years, and
that with wheels having 188, 405, 508
gold. It may he only n few pounds’ j nn d 227 teeth the error can be
Many Places of Prominence Named for Distinguished Members of the
Weaker Sex.
Many geographical names have been given places to honor the memory of women. Thus it is that Elizabeth, N. J., wfcs named to honor one of England’s queens, while Virginia was named to honor the virgin monarch. Maryland preserves the name of the queen of Charles I. The Naval academy at Annapolis does honor to
Queen Anne.
The English were particularly gen-
erous in conferring names of women on places. In Australia the late Queen Victoria is honored in two provinces, Queensland and Victoria, while the
most beautiful city In that common- | “Fell” for Feeding Baby, wealth, Adelaide, was named In mem- i New York is a terrible place, ory of the queen of William IN of | Look at all the murders and holdups England. The province of Alberta, In | nn< i safe cracking and everything.
Princess | Country people sometimes think all
we do here is kill each other.
worth or—ns in the ease of the famous Lutlne—a million may be lost in
a minute.
Every fire that occurs means a destruction of gold, and there is never a minute, day or night, when scores of human habitations are not burning. London alone lias 2.4(H) fires yearly. Besides all this, there Is the matter of hoarding. In countries where hanks are not found in every town, the people who have gold hide or bury it. In many eases they die without revealing the hiding place. In this way Ihdia alone swallow^ up more than £600,(MW) worth of gold yearly, China more than this, while Africa is at present absorbing gold in this way at a rate of more than a million pounds a year. The money is paid as wage® to Kaffir laborers at the mines, and by them carried away to their kraals,
whence it never returns.
duced to only one second in a period of 249 years.
Canada, was named for
Louise Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria, and wife of the marquis of Lome, who was governor-general of Canada In 1882. The largest lake in Africa is Victoria Nynnza, and Victoria falls were named for Queen Victoria, as was also the capital of the province of British Columbia, Canada. The island of St. Helena was named , after the mother of Constantine the Great, who also gave name to her | birthplace, Helenopolis. The French i were especially prone to honor the |
Yes, indeed, this island is a wicked
place.
Yesterday afternoon a cjowd was gathered on the sidewalk staring fns-
Salah! The word Selah, which occurs so frequently in the Psalms, Is usually believed to he a direction to the musicians who chanted the Psalms in the temple. Mattheson. the great musical critic, wrote a book on the subject in which, after rejecting a number of theories, he came to the conclusion (liar it Is equivalent to the modern “da capo,” and is a direction that the air or song Is to be repeated from the commencement to the part where the word is placed.
Dwarf Tree Nearly 200 Years Old. A species of Greenland fir. believed by scientists to be nearly two hundred years old, is growing on the Shenk farm in Bullfrog valley, near Hummelstown, Pa. The unique tree is less than two feet high, but its branches have a spread of 15 feet nnd a circumference of about 60 feet. It resembles tt collection of shrubs, and is one of the largest specimens known.
The First Needle.
Needles were first made in England
climated at something in a doorway on | j (y R na tive of India In 1545. The art
Forty-second street. 8(>mo direful
crime must
have been committed
there. The inquisitive youth rushed
forward.
In the doorway sat a woman with a baby on her knee. The baby held a bottle of milk to his mouth. lie
holy women of their race, aril Sault 1 clutched It tight in his little lists. The 8te. Marie and other points In Lanadn, I crowd was delighted as the milk grew first pierced by French priests, blaze 1 ],, ss ., n( ] ] ( . ss | n t j,/, pottle. ‘.heir trail across the continent. ! S(10n t j,p bottle was empty. The baby
look'd up and grinned at the crowd. And the crowd grinned hack at the
baby.
Isn’t It awful to have to live in such town as tills?—New York Time'*.
Putting Pest Damage to Profit.
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Every one who has a garden detests ; a mole—every one, perhaps, but a cer- j tain woman gardener out in Bryan j R
’ was lost at his death, but Christopher Greening recovered it in 15C0. Mr. Hamer, an ancestor of the earls of Dorchester, settled at L nn k Grendon, In Bucks, where the manufactory was
still extant last century.
Machine for Grain Inspectors. Grain inspectors must know the oxnet amount of moisture in specimens submitted nad a machine lias been made to determine this in a thirtyuiiuute test.
uloor.
county, Okla. This Ingenious person, who reported her experience to the United Stiites department of agriculture, puts them to work. A number
Av ator Bars Camel Ride.
Lieutenant Bousseutrot, who piloted the airplane Goliath in its Paris-Daknr
of these pests undermined her garden, i ibglit and entne to grief on the sands digging diminutive tunnels hero, there, ! Mauretania, relating his exiterienees and everywhere. It would have dls-. to fho members of the French Aero couraged the average woman; It didn’t i < '' , ib at a dinner given in his honor,
disturb this one. She startl'd a little!
Civilization in Korea. History for many years B. C. tolls us that the people of Korea were among the highest In genuine civillzalion. About the year 1597 a general by the name of LI built the first iron fleet, composed of wooden circular vessels with Iron plates on top. studded 'with iron teeth. Because of the prosperity of the Korean nation. Japan was extremely jealous, and had therefore brought 700 boats In battle array. However, LI. with his 50 boats, succeeded In inflicting a disastrous defeat upon the Japanese.
LAND OF GORGEOUS COSTUMES Peasants of Northern Dalmatia Display Their Wealth in the Finery
of Their Garb.
There is one spot of the modern world where the men dress as gorgeously ns the women. Among the Morlacchl, or peasants of northern Dalmatia, the women are gay ynough to look at, hut their men folk are gayer. Like peasant garb the world over, the costumes have remained the same from year to year, and will doubtless continue unchanged for years to come. The women wear short skirts, almost hidden under aprons embroidered in bright colors, with loose white waists and white linen kerchiefs serving as headgear for the older women, and little red caps for the girls. Large, quaint earrings are common, and so are necklaces nnd rings to match, and on her arm the Morlacchl woman Is likely to carry a great bag of the same material as her apron tor the transportation of miscellaneous packages and a permanent equipment of knitting. The men are more gorgeous, going about their business In large, darkblue knee breeches, encircled with a many-colored sash, and topped by coat »nd waistcoat often of bright red; and the buttons of these garments command especial attention, for they are large and shining nnd chains dangle from them. A Morlacchl, It Is said, carries his wealth on the front of his waistcoat, which is often decorated with knobs and bars of solid silver. It may even happen that a man is rich enough to have these ornaments In solid gold, and then truly is he widely admired. On his head he wears a red cap, like the caps worn by the girls; and an interesting point to the student of Dalmatian costume is that the cap gets smaller and smaller as one moves
southward.
Beauty. Animals living in nature are every where beautlfa!: but it is only mu,nig men that ugliness flourishes. SavageH nearly everywhere are gracious uni harmonious; it is only among the eivtitzed that harshness ami diseorfl are permitted to prevail, if the eugenic ideals that are now floating before men’s eyes never lead us to any heaven at all. hut merely discourage among us the generation of human creatures below the level of decent savagery, they will serve their turn.— Havelock Ellis.
Brains Not Their Strong Point. Even an oyster has a brain of a sort; and a clam likewise. The bruins of fishes are very Inferior, as compared with those of matmunls, but tin* optic lobes are enormously developed, because finny creatures, to get the food they need, must be able to see well in dim light under water. Reptiles generally are very stupid creatures, nnd so It Is not surprising to find that their brains are remarkably small. That ot a 12-foot alligator is no bigger than your thumb.
One ef the Family. We had a beautiful outdoor wedding for our sister on a September morning. Elaborate floral arches, altar, etc., had been arranged. Our guests were assembled. From out the house came the procession, the minister leading, the bride nnd bridegroom with their attendants, when to th« merriment of all, our family dog joined in the procession, walking along slowly as the rest, and he laid down by the altar during the ceremony.—Chicago Tribune.
Courage.
True courage is a spiritual victory and cannot he marked with a physical label. It is developed and strengthened, ns Is everything, by exercise. Its
STUDY OF FEET INTERESTING I Index Is not In squareness of chin, but
in squareness of purpose; not in firmness of lips, but in fashioning the lips to speak the truth; not In depth of chest, but in depth of soul; not in con | fident tread, hut in walking uprightly.
No Two Pair of Them Alike, and Alt Tell a Story to the Observant
Individual.
—W. S. C.
Trials of Matrimony.
We were stopping at a hotel, while
spent in transit by making a study j on our honeymoon, nnd were trying
of feet. Large f eot, small feet, nnr
In the subway nnd on the surface cars—in fact, in every sort of public conveyance—I have always found it Interesting to while away the time
to hide the fact that we were newlyweds. We succeeded quite well until dinner time. Just ns we had reaohi*d the center of the big dining hall, a tot stood up on iter chair and shouted. “Which one is the bride, mamma?” Every one then knew, by my telltale blushing, that it was I—a most embarrassed bride.—Chicago Tribune.
row feet and broad feet have characteristics till their own, and no two pairs of them are alike. The long, slender, graceful foot of the woman of fashion, site with the rather lavish taste, betokened in tlu* extreme heel nnd narrow, buckled vamp; the smartly shod foot of the executive business woman, with mahogany calf and mill (ary heel; the neat hut worn black leather shoe of the shop worker, and the ultra faddish down-at-the-heel. high-cut kid shoe of the stenographer or factory girl. All of them tell a story. The girl who cares about getting abend, and tin* boy who is ntnhi tiotts, watch out that your feet do not betray you. Very often I have seen a well-groomed litt'iin*^'; gir! whose appear fo was "titiroly stoiled by a inttiVv i i • n pair of ■■lovs. and I ulw:<v< her nccordhiglv At employer, tilri alt o ;.•■* hoy ot > hi* de-I Net in c: * r '’
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Freak of Nature.
One might think that the powerful bumblebee and the milkweed would make Ideal partners, hut such is not the case says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington. These remarkable plants, which not only flow with honey, but also invite their insert. guests by n strong honey scent, are utterly ignored by the Iflg hungry
bumblebee
looking.—(’■ 1 noklyit Engle.
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the cracks the gate at Peter's bulling, which made him grow! : ttd nil his bristles n u if he would chew the poodle up. Peter said to It's dog: “Drop your bri'gb'si. Pel!; not' big doing w"!' >:;• h *| Pltle it >!» I 1 e ihat.”
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IrrUmtion plant of her own, using its tunnels as irrigation ditches. Site fillvl the tunnels with water repeatedly, «ntil the garden was well watered, and finally drove the moles oil the premises.
;ep? Does a dry oough keep you awake? MP’S BALSAM Ipill stop the tickle i at makes you cough. ' GUARANTEED, J. DUFF Dcal;r in
prevent recognition of the prisoner, to permit him to hide his shame under the disguise anil, very possibly, to prevent him from making a bolt for liberty. The sight of a prisoner so arrayed is ghastly, the mask bringing up the suggestion of the hangman's cap. Once In the prisoners’ box, however, the masks are removed, while the prisoners «it with deeply bowed heads in an attitude of the utmost huj utility.—Boston Post.
Origin of Sand. It Is calculated that nine-tenths of the coasts of the world are covered with sand. What is the origin of this sand and to what circumstances is Its abundance due? Men of science, says the New York Sun, have explained this in part by saying that it is due to the erosive effect of the waves upon the rocks, hut it is generally admitted that tills is not sufficient to account for the vast quantity of sand that borders our benches. Undoubtedly a very considerable portion represents the material carried to nnd toward the ocean by the storms and glaciers of the Ice age.
Pennsylvania's Bituminous Mines. According to D. H. Downey, in Pennsylvania the greatest number at one time of bituminous mines employing ten men or more underground was 2,<HK). There were in 1918 probably as many as 2,000 small temporary workings, hut the aggregate production of these small operations was less than one per cent of the whole out-
put
Novel Stunt in Advertising.
They tire not so slow in Russia ns J many of us imagine. An American rej lutes that while in Moscow before the ‘ war he one day saw a crowd gathered j around a little fellow who was hawl- ! lug at the top of his lungs. Many
| asked him what the trouble was. but I Peppermint Production in Japan. I lie kept on crying, and the crowd in-1 The production of peppermint in the j creased; then all of a sudden he stop-1 prefecture of Okayama during the lust | jj , u ,,| | j„ , Hei,'-. loud voice: "ljtisQiL>' ■ ,r amounted to 90,725 kin, val-
“Flying a thousand kilometers over the desert, making forced landing on ! tin* Atlantic shores, living on crabs and shellfish for six days, drinking I water saturated with oil, with the temperature at 110 in the shade—all that 1 was nothing compared to that 00 miles we negotiated on camels’ backs to
reach Port Louis.
“I would rather fly around the j world In the Goliath than ride a camel around the Champ de Mars.” Britons Br&ed Rabbits for Fur. Rabbit breeding in Great Britain, to supply a portion of the large quantities of fur purchased In the country, Is stated by a commerce report to be the purpose of the new Beveren club. The fur of the blue beveren Is described as having a lovely shade of lavender blue throughout, and as being long, lustrous, exceedingly fine and silky; that of the Havana rabbit Is a rich chocolate color and Is thick and fairly long. From these varieties it Is hoped to produce natural furs with a fine color that will not fade.
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Ingersoll watches, all prices, good discount.
Italian Forests Small, The total area of Italy, Including the islands'of Sicily and Sardinia, consists of about 71,500,000 acres, which is equivalent to the combined area of the states of New York and Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey, says the Forestry Magazine, of Washington. Within this comparatively stmUl area a population of iHl.tHHi.oOO, more than equivalent to one-third of this country, ie congested. Of the total j area of Italy only 17.64 per cent i.s now
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