Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 February 1898 — Page 6

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Uavine purchased the Zeigler & Reiman Restaurant I desire to inform the public that I am on hand to serve them again.

Business men, farmers and others will be furnished an excellent

15c LUNCH.

Fresh Oysters on hand at all tini^s. Cakes and Creams for Weddings, parties and festivals furnished on short notice.

Charles Reinian

East Main St., west Bobbins House.

If You Wish Things Especially Nice-

To eat let me sii[p: u.e cnubles. I handle only whni'r irt?sli«-"-t MI most toothsome. Besides 1 have a number of dainties and substantial tnat you en n't get every where at the low price I ask:

W.B. BERRY

The G-rocer.

Corner of Washington and Pike Sts.

$100.00

In Greenbacks

GIVEN AWAY.

We want a sni3rfc boy or girl in ©very city and town in the United States aud Canada to represent us as our SPECIAL agent. We pay you well for your leisure hours. In addition to this we give prizes in Greenbacks, Bicycles, Diamond Rings, Kodaks, Gold Watches, etc. The first applicant from each town gets the agency,

Send iO cents for instruction and how to obtain these prizes. (Vrifc to-day.) Address

Universal Supply Co.,

DEPT. A.

69-71 Dearborn Street,

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Mention this Paper.

THI^K ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.

This is the Time to Give Attention to Your Physical Condition

The warmer weather which will come with the approaching spriDg months should find you strong and in robust health, your blood pure and your appetite good. Other you will be in danger of serious illness. Purify and enrich your blood with Hood's Sareaparillaand thus "prepare for spring." This medicine makes rich, red blood and gives vigor and vitality. It will guard you against danger from the changes which Will soon take place.

A good cocoanut cracking macmne •would fill a long-felt want and also tbe pocket of the inventoi.

Men and medicine are judged by what, they do. The great cures by Hood'* Sarsaparilla give it a good name even where.' '4"

Hood's

Pills

Cure sick headache, bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, gas in the stomach, distress and indigestion. Do not weaken, but haTe tonic effect. 23 cents. The oalj Fills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

UpoD un average 10,000 pineappier are ported into London every week tti^oughout the year.

To Cure Cold in One Day-

Take I^ixarive Bromo Quinine Tablets All druVgists refund tbe money if it ails ti CTVe. 2j. *. 20 -6m

Peeplf'sNPariy District Convention

at Indianaptnlie, February 21 and 22. For the above\occasion the Big Four route will, on February 20 and 21 sell round trip tickets at one fare for round trip, good returning until Feb. 23, inclusive.

A Georgia editor describes a defaulter who had skipped out "as six feet tall and worth $10,000."

The first expedition to the South Pole took place in 1567.

The Sandwich Islanders estimate the beauty of women by their weight.

John H. Burford, formerly of this city, has been appointed Chief Justice of Oklahoma, at the handsome salar4

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UNQUENCHABLE LOVE

HOOSIER WILL. NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.

SHOOTS HIMSELF I- TWO PLACES THE FIRST TIME HE IS REFUSED.

HI* Sweetheart Nurses Him to Health In Her Home He Next Tries

Forcibly to Tuke Her from Her Father lu Church.

^^•1 HE s%iithfern part of Shelby county, Ind., is the scene of one of the most remarkable love affairs ever witnessel outside the story books. In that sec-

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BtRTII vwJGWDElf Samuel Vangordon, and high in the community.

The Maples

and Vangordons have always been on the best of terms, and especially is this true of Miss Bertha Vangordon and George Maple, son and daughter of the respective families. Bertha and George have grown up together, attended the same school, and both being popular, whenever there was a party in tiie neighborhood the evening's entertainment was incomplete urfiess George and Bertha were present.

One evening in October last, while the pair were returning from a church festival held at Geneva, George proposed marriage Bertha, which proposition he bad made to her on a former occasion. Bertha informed George that she loved him, but she would have to refuse his proposal, as her parents were unwilling that she should marry, and had so informed her. Bertha is idolized by her parents, and in return they are worshiped by her. She could not think of disobeying them in the matter.

This seemed to upset the mind of Maple, who, drawing a revolver from •bis coat, said he intended endiag his life. In some manner Bertha secured the revolver and kept it until they reached her home, where she, on his promising t&at he would not carry out his threat, returned the weapon to him and entered the gate leading to her horae. She had no more than done so, however, than she heard the report of the revolver, which was followed by a second shot. With a moan Maple fell to the road, while the frightened girl ran to her home, where she was met at the door by her father, ints his arms she fell, as he thought, a corpse. She was carried into the house and for two days remained Unconscious. After looking after his daughter, and seeing that she had not been wounded, Father Vangordon, with his hired hand, went to the scene of the noise, whiie a son was sent tor the nearest physician. On reaching the road Mr. Vangordon and his oompanion found George Maple with two bullet holes in his abdomen. He was conscious and was carried into the Vangordon home, where he was given treatment, arnd where he was nursed to health by Bertha.

When able he was taken to his home nearby, and despite the fact that the Vangordons are more than ever opposed to his marrying their daughter, he persists in demanding that she become his wife. Such an annoyance has he become that Miss Vangordon has refrained from accepting any invitations whatever. The other Sunday evening, the first time she had been away from home since the unfortunate affair, Miss Bertha accompanied her parents to church at Norristown, and soon after entering Maple "sralked In and found a seat directly opposite the one occupied by the young lady, at whom he looked constantly, never taking his eyes off her during the services.

At the conclusion of the exercises Bertha started to leave the church

GEORGE MAPLE.

with her parents, when she was accosted by Maple. He took her by the arm and demanded that she accompany hhn home. Her father caught her by the other arm and the scene that followed was an exciting one. The father pulled one way and Maple the other. The young lady screamed loudly and several women fainted, while men climbed over seats and seemed to lo.«s their heads. The parent was finally successful, and with his wife and daughter returned home.

Maple is insanely in lovci with the girl, and her parents are greatly grieved over the unfortunate position of their daughter, who is in constant fear that something dreadfuj may be tbe final result. ..v

S3 v\ Coming to It. Farnum—"It is claimed that therr was crookedness In the recent national golf tournament" Barber—"Jerusalem! The next thing we know peo «U will be bettlwr on Kolf."

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DISCOVERIES IN SCOTLAND.

Specimen! of Cephalaspis Found In Cliff at tiallHtiacli. V?

(Scottish Letter.)

Tne district in and around Oban has in recent years yielded antiquarian and geological discoveries of peculiar scientific value and importance. In the course of excavation for biilding purposes about two years, ago a large prehistoric cave, containing a collection of animal and human remains and several specimens of beautifully shaped implements of stone and bone, was disclosed in a central part of the town of Oban, and more recently a find of considerable interest, if of lesser importance, was made at Gallanach, the adjoining estate of Patten Macdougall.

It was only the other day that a number of urns of baked clay were unearthed on the borders of the burgh boundary, and that has now been followed by a fresh discovery, and one which is believed to be most significant of all, in a rocky cliff on the hill behind the town. In the month of June last a slight subsidence occurred in the cliff, and the fallen rocks having come under the notice of an officer of the geological survey, who is at present mapping the district, and who ?ame to the conclusion that they contained fossiliferous remains, they Were subjected to investigation by a specialist. The surfaces of the rocks bore well defined ripple marks, and rain pits, while worm pipes were as discernible as they are in the sand on the seashore at the present day. No definite fossil forms were brought to light with the exception that a gray layer of sliale at the base of the cliff yielded a few fragmentary specimens of cephalaspis.

A further examination of the rocks, however, has now been begun, and the results are already of the most satisfactory character. A large number of more perfect specimens of cephalaspis have been produced, and, though none of them are complete, they conclusively mark the geological age of the rocks in which they were imbedded. Sir Archibald Geikie has always believed that the purple shaft and conglomerate strata of Western Argyleshire belong to the lower old red sandstone age, and while he regarded the somewhat indefinite forms discovered in June as confirming this opinion, the more recent specimens place it beyond doubt. So far the specimens embrace only the heads of cephalaspis, but several 1 them are particularly well defined. In one case the outlines of the head are almost perfectly preserved, and the eyes are distinct and prominent enough to look uncanny. Cephalaspis is classified as one of a peculiar ai|d extremely ancient breed of palaeozoic fishes, limited to upper Silurian and lower old red sandstone it belongs to a group of fossil fishes which are among the very earliest to appear in the geologic ll record. Though confined to the lower old red in Britain, cephalaspis survived up into upper old red sandstone times in Canada. The present discovery is not only of outstanding importance geologically, as fixing the age of the old red outlier of Oban, but It enables it to be correlated with the same formation in other parts of Scotland. With the exception of some worm trails and pipes in quartzlte discovered and described some years ago by the duke of Argyll, these older metamorphic rocks on which the old red sandstone rests have never to now yielded any fossils, and in the absence of these invaluable aids the geologist is largely left In darkness. Hugh Miller has described the Highlands as a picture set in a frame of old red sandstone. At Oban the frame and picture can be seen in contact.

A BLOODY RECORD.

Spaniard* Nicked the Blade Each Time a Cuban Was Killed With It.

From the New York Journal: H. L. V. Parkhurst, a well-known artist, with a studio in one of the skyscrapers on Nassau street, was recently presented with a machete which has the reputation of being one of the most deadly ever sent to this country from Cuba.

The machete is one of Spanish make, and originally belonged to a bloodthirsty Spanish officer, who, in an attempt to outrival "Butcher" Wey'er's fame for heads, finally succumbed himself after having been credited with the death of at least 100 Cubans. His machete later became the property oi a private, whose habit it was to notch the blade upon each victim. He had sent fifty adversaries to their death, and then he was killed himself. The history of the blade is lost from the death of the private till some time after, when it again resumed its former deadly career in the hands of a Spanish soldier at one of the battles of Santa Diego de Cuba. Here it was put to such use—twenty-five a day falling before it—that it became too notched after a while to be of further use, and the soldier who wielded it threw it away with disgust. This typical Spanish weapon, which resembles in a way a great butcher knife, with its threefoot blade, has a handle of silver and bone. Although in point of history the machete is an old weapon, it has never been used to such an extent by any nation as it has been by the Spaniards and the Cubans since tne beginning of the war between them. James Edwards, a cadet in training for the position of captain on the Red liner Philadelphia, which occasionally touches at Cuba, saw the machete during one of these trips, and upon learning of its record, professed such a fondness for the weapon that the Spanish officer who had come into possession of it and laid it aside as a curio, presented it to him. Edwards brought it to this city, and upon an ofTer made him by Parkhurst for the machete he parted with it. Parkhurst, in addition to being an artist worthy of note, is also a collector of such relics. He considers it one of the prizes of his collection.

TOOTHBRUSHES AID HEALTH.

Hound Teeth and Body Only to He Had by Their Frequent I'se.

It is but a little thing, yet on its proper use depends much of the happiness of modern man. Why civilized teeth should be so rotten is a question which has often been debated, and probably the true answer is more complex than some would think. Many good mothers are content to put

BOATS DRAWN BY MOTORS.

Electric Power to Supersede Horses or. a French Canal.

From the Philadelphia Record: With the exception of the Erie eanal experiments nothing has been done in this country as regards the electric hauiage of canal boats, but is France there are perhaps as many as half a dozen systems in actual operation, some of them hauling over 1,000,000 tons a year. If electric power is superior to horses for street' cars, why is it not recognized as superior to animal traction for the heavier work of hauling canal boats? The system described here is now being installed on the Aire and Deule canal. The method is peculiar in that what might be termed an electric horse is used to draw a train of loaded boats, the power being derived from an overhead trolley. This electric horse is in reality a form of independent electric motor carriage which travels on ordinary paths or roads, dispensing with rails. An eight-horse-power motor is all that is required, thus being geared to the large driving wheels shown. These wheels are of iron, with aloe fiber rims, which gives the whole a certain elasticity and increases the adhesion. The electric locomotive is steered by the front wheels by the motorman in the cab, through a series of bevel gears. The electric horse weighs about two tons, and can draw a load 387 long tons at a speed of about a mile and a half per hour. Another system by the same inventors, which is also to be used on this same canal, consists of an adjustable propeller and rudder, which may be attaohed to any caDal boat, thus transforming it into an electrically propelled boat. The propeller consists of a motor hermetically sealed to its armature shaft, passing out through the casing and carrying at its extremity a three-biade propeller screw, which makes 300 revolutions per minute. The ordinary rudder is removed and the propeller attached in a very few minutes. By this method a speed quite equal to that attained bv the electric horse is reached but a sliehtlv zreatA? power consumption. The current will be supplied from power stations at each end of the line at a pressure of 500 volts at the boats. These two systems are lower in operating expenses and maintenance than any of the other electric systems. Over fifty boats a day are to be hauled, and the yearly tonnage at present is estimated at over 3,000,000. After charging off 6% per cent for depreciation, the investment will yield a fair rate of interest. So for one more service the horse is fast being displaced by electric power.

Clara Barton.

Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross Society, is living at Glen Echo, a suburb of Washington, ten miles from the capital, where the headquarters of the society now are. She is attending daily to the work of the Red Cross, and says her health is as fcood as could be wished for

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toothache down to lollypops, but th:t sugar in itself is not responsible for bad teeth is proved by the splendid "ivories" often possessed by negroes who practically live upon the sugar cane and thrive upon it too during the whole of the season when it is in maturity. Dental decay is common enough, however, among negroes in towns, and it seems clear that the caries of the teeth whic'u is so common among most civilized races is due not only to any particular article ef diet so much as to digestive anQ nutritive changes imposed «pon us by our mode of life, and to some extent by the fact that by hook or crook we do somehow manage to live, notwithstanding our bad teeth, whereas in a state of nature the toothless man soon dies. Recognizing, then, that until the time arrives when some great social reformer either mends or ends our present social conditions our teeth will tend to rot, and that, whatever the predisposing causes, the final act. in the production of caries is the lodgment of microbes on aud around the teeth, we see that for long to come the tooth brush will be a necessity if the health is to be maintained. It is only by the frequent use of this little instrument that those minute accumulations can be removed which are at the root of so much mischief. A few elementary lessons in bacteriology would, we fancy, greatly startle many people, and certainly would show them the futility of trusting to one scrub a day. The fact is, that if people, instead of looking at the tooth brush from an esthetic point of view and scrubbing away with tooth powder to make their 6ront teeth white, would regard it merely as an aid to cleanliness, they would see that the time to use it is after meals and at night, not just in the morning only, when the debris left from the day before has been fermenting and brewing acid all night through. They would also see how inefficient an instrument the common tooth brush is unless it is used with considerable judgment. One of the secondary advantages of spending a good deal of money on dentistry is that at least one learns the value of one's teeth. By the time we have, got them dotted over with gold stoppings and gold crowns we learn to tafee care of them, even although that may involve the trouble oi cleaning them more than once a day and using perhaps more than one brush for the purpose.

AMBER.

Two Hundred SpeclmAji of KxtlactLlf* Found Imbedded II tbe Latter.

The main source of ^lie amber supply is the seacoast of the Baltic ocean. It is fossil gum, originally the exudation of a species of cor.il'er now extinct, says Harper's Round Table. This grew in luxuriant, profusion hundreds of thousands of years ago on the marshy coasts of northern Europe, when thft climate was much warmer than it fs today. The nltural history of amber is thus explained. The immense forests of umber pine underwent their natural downfall and decay. The resin of the wood accumulated in large quantities in bogs and ponds and in the soil cf the forest. Where the coast was slowly sinking the sea by and by covered K.e land, and the mber,which had been gradually hardening, was at last deposited at the ocean bottom. Bat in the higher regions the pine continued to flourish, and so amber would still coniinue to be washed down the shore and deposited on the later formed green 6and and the still later formed stratum of lignite or brown coal. The gum became fossilized by its long burial underground. liore than 200 specimens of extinct life, animal and vegetable, have been found imbedded in amber specimens, including insects, reptiles, plants, leaves, shells, fruit, etc., which had been caught in the liquid gum and entombed there for all time. Some of these specimens are so curiously beautiful as to be almost priceless, and one English collector has a cabinet of them which is valued at £100,000. One piece embalms a lizard about eight inches long, a jeweled monster perfect in its form and coloring, which has no like in Anything existing now. Indeed, in many instances, science is able solely through this medium to study details of animal life which perished from the earth many hundred thousands of years ago. There are flies preserved with wings poised a? if for flight, where the prismatic sheen glowing through the yellow sepuleher is as brilliant as if they were floating alive in the sunshine.

HELPED THE COLONIAL CAUSE

Women Who Owned Newspapers Durtug tne American Revolatiou.

To the women of the revolutionary period is due as much credit as to the men who spilled their blood for the success of the revolution. Of the thirty-seven newspapers printed in the American colonies at the time several were owned and managed by women. In nearly every case they advocated tbe colonial tause, and their editorials did much to arouse tio spirit of patriotism in the men. In 1773 Clementine Reid was publishing a paper in Virginia called the "Virginia Gazette," favoring the colonial cause and greatly offending the royalists two years later Mrs. H. Boyle started a paper under the same name, advocating the cause of the crown. Both were published at Williamsburg and both were short lived. In 1773 Elizabeth Timothy started a paper in Charleston, S. C. After the revolution Ann Timothy became its editor and was appointed state printer, which pasition she held for seventeen years. About the same time Mary Crouch started a paper in Charleston, in vigorous opposition to the stamp act. She afterward moved it to Salem, Mass., and continued its publication for many years. The first newspaper published in Rhode Island was owned and edited by Mrs. Anna Franklin, and established in 1732. She and her two daughters wrote the items and set the type, and their servants worked the printing press. For her quickness and correctness Mrs. Franklin was appointed printer to the colony, supplying pamphlets to the colonial officers.

IMPORTANT CANAL IN RUSSIA.

One to Be Bnllt to Connect the Black Sea and Baltic Sea.

From the Philadelphia Ledger: Next spring work will be begun upon the great canal through southwestern Russia that when finished will connect the Baltic with the Black sea. The political significance of this work is evident, and it is of far greater importance than the industrial. This waterway will enable Russian vessels to go from St. Petersburg to Constantinople without passing hostile forts or being in danger from the navies of other nations, and it will generally enlarge the scope of Russia's maritime effectiveness. The work of building the canal is a stupendous one, but it is not as great as one would think on first consideration of the length of the canal, which is to be 1,080 miles. The River Duna, flowing into the Baltic, and the River Dnieper, emptying in the Black sea, are not far apart at their sources and only 120 miles of canal will have to be dug outright. The rest of the distance will be through canalized rivers. The canal is to be 217 feet wide and 28% feet deep—so that the largest war vessels can pass through with ease. The banks will be strengthened, In order that a speed of six knots can be maintained, and the journey from one end to the other accomplished within a week's time. The cost will be about $100,000,000, and it will require four years to finish the work. So far nothing has been done toward the work except the elaborate surveys and estimates, just completed.

A Wonderful Shawl.

The shawl of shawls belongs to the Duchess of Northumberland. It formerly belonged to Charles of France, and was manufactured entirely from the fur of Persian cats. Many thousands of cats' skins were utilized, and the weaving occupied some years. ,.

Speed of Cable Messaires.

It takes about .hree seconds tor a message to go trcm one end of the Atlantic cable to the other

Dandruff

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When dandruff appiars it is usu ally regarded as an annoyance should be regarded as a disease ', ft, presence indicates an unhealthy'™* it on a if leded, leads to baldness. Dandruff should be cured ar once. The most effective means for the cure is founi in AVER'S HAIR VIGOR promotes the growth of the hair,

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stores it when gray or faded to fa original color, and keeps the scak clean and healthy.

"For more than eight years I was greatb troubled with dandruff, and though a voinS

man, my hair was fast turning gray

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ingout. Baldness seemed Inevitable until I began to

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The dandruff has been entirely removed and my hair is now soft, smooth and glossy and fast regaining ifsoris-inal color." —L. T. VALL.il, AUenton, Mo.

Curions Notices.

A facetious hotel proprietor hung up this sign in his rooms "Indian dubs and dumb-bells will not be permitted In any of the rooms. Guests in need of exercise can go down to the kitchen and pound a steak."

A notice displayed in a Norway hotel is a curious specimen of "Bnglish as Bhe is spoke." It reads as follows: "Bath! First-class bath. Can anybody get. Tushbath. Warm and

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Except Saturday. By two hows forbore." This brings to mind another spe«imen of foreigner's English, displayed «n a notice posted up in an art exhibition in Japan, to which foreigners are welcomed. Here are a few examples of the rules: "Visitors ic requested at the entrance to show tickets for Inspection. Tickets are charged 19 oens and 2 cens, for the spsoial and common respectively. No visitor who Is mad or intoxioated is allowed to enter in, if any person found in shall be claimed to retire. No visitor is allowed to carry in with himself any parcel, umbrella, stick and the like kind, except his purse, and is striotly forbid-* den to take within himself dog, or the same kind qf beasts. Visitors is requested to take good care of himself from thievery."—Tit-Bits.

The Office He Held.

A man who for some years has been engaged in the service of a large telephone corporation in Greater New York was recently asked by an acquaintance to name the title of his position. The telephone man replied somewhat as follows: "I hardly Know myself. Whenever there is any little task requiring some tact, or when an unruly customer has to be pacified, or when a situation requiring a little diplomacy arises, or when any kind of work that no one else wants to do comes along, your humble servant Is called upon. I have asked several times to have my position defined. The nearest that I can come to It is that I am a special agent. I have about decided to take a title for myself, and I think it will be 'First Aid to the Injured/"—Electrical Review.

Ootpat of Cent Pleees.

The mint of Philadelphia is almost constantly engaged in turning out oents made of copper, with a slight alloy of zinc and tin. The state of Pennsylvania alone absorbed 11,000,000 last year, and New Yorlf 9,000,000. There is as much curiosity about the final fate of these cents as there is about tl.at of pins. Nobody is able to tell where the pins go to, and it is Impossible to even surmise what has become of the hundreds of millions of cents issued by the mint since it began operations. It is rather a profltable business for the government, as it means the conversion of copper costing 10 cents a pound into a form I in which it is worth $2 or more a pound.

Owns the Finest Pearls in Europe,

The duchess of Cumberland possessI es the finest pearls in Europe. They I were part of the crown jewels of Hanover, and in 1857 they were valued at £160,000. These pearls were claimed in 1837 both by tbe queen and her uncle, king Ernest of Hanover, but iit was not until 1857 that Lord Wensleydale, Lord Hatherley and Sir Lawrente Peel unanimously decided that 1 they belonged to Hanover. So they were then given up, along with a splendid casket of jewels, part of which had been brought to England from Hanover by George II., and the rest had belonged to Queen Charlotte, who left them by will to her son, Ernest.

Burglarised a Beefsteak

A burglar broke into the bouse of John Hughes, in Belleville. N. J-. cooked a porterhouse steak and warmed up some potatoes, which were ready for breakfast. Then he petted Mrs. Hughes' little, girl lu the dark and went awav."