Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 April 1897 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

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Thp price of lima beans has "riz." Aren't you glad to know it? Russia's consul at .lanina has been Insulted by the Turks. This may be made a casus heili. The more we hear of the European concert the more certain it seems that one or two of the instruments are out of tune. The cowboy evangelist is said to be throwing his laseo into all of the dark places in Omaha, and about twenty come forth for branding every night. Ect the round up go on. South America is to have another war. With so much fever of belligerency loose in tlie world for many months, it is a wonder South American countries have been peaceful so long.

The story that Mrs. Cleveland will seek a divorce from Mr. Cleveland is denied, as it ought to be. but after all this is not the punishment the large coarse liars who sent the story out deserve. They should be imprisoned. The buildings of the Indian school at Flandreau, in South Dakota, are to Ire illuminated by electric lights. It was not very long ago that the papooses and young braves learned the legends and traditions of their tribes by the light of the camp-fire or of a birchbark torch. “The world moves,” and in this epoch almost everybody moves with it.

A lesson in honesty and self-sacrifice is given to the world by Miss Sarah Hudnut of Indianapolis, who for three years has enjoyed the large estate of her dead brother, believing herself the only heir till this week when she found a will directing the property to go to the brother’s divorced wife. Site 'promptly turned over the last cent, leaving herself absolutely penniless. Miss Hudnut certainly deserves a place 3n glory.

When the curriculum of any school io not calculated to send out its pupils sound in body and mind it should be revised. A course which cultivates the mind of the average bright and studious boy or girl at the expense of the body should be condemned and rejected. A movement in behalf of the bodies of the Brooklyn High School girls has been started by a medical society of that city. There is room in many other cities for similar movements. In the State of New York two justices of the Supreme Court have had occasion to rebuke gland juries for refusal to do their duty. In one instance the jury would not indict a violator of the state excise law because of a local prejudice against that law. In the other ease a defaulting county official was let go because of his high social connections. In its perfection our jury system is the beat safeguard of justice, j If permitted to fall into decadence it ! may become an outrag ous instrument of injustice. Every hearty laugh in which a man or woman indulges tends to prolong life, as It makes the blood move more rapidly and gives a new and different | stimulus to all the organs of the body from what is in force of other times. \ Therefore, perhaps the saying, “Laugh and grow fat,” is not an exaggerated '-ne. hut has a foundation in fact. No •ter words were ever tittered than Vte which state so clearly, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.” The jolly, wholesome, happy-hearted people are those who have most friends and see the best that life holds out to them. From a summary of me mineral production of Canada for 1836, just issued from the Geological Department at Ottawa, it is seen that the total value of the mineral product has nearly doubled. Increases are shown in the pi eduction of coal, copper, gold, lead and silver, while the output of iron ore, natural gas and nickel has fallen off to a considerable extent. The increase in coal is altogether due to Nova Scotia, which produced 296,163 not tons more than in 1895, but this increased output is offset in a large measure by a decrease of 104,629 tons in the production of British Columbia. Copper shows a large decrease in Ontario and a small increase in Quebec, while British Columbia’s contribution is 3,818,556 pounds, which amount is 1,848,193 pounds more than in 1895. In gold, large inceases are to be credited to Nova Scotia and Ontario, but British Columbia heads the list with an increase over the previous year of $497,075. Owing to the dull state of the Iron market during the year, the production of iron ore has fallen off to a considerable extent in all the provinces, with tne exception of Ontario. Miss Caldwell of Boston says: “I want to thank God that the women of Americtm have enough sense not to tell their ages. I warn every woman, from thlit day on. never to reveal her years." Wonder what Miss Caldwell of Boston takes the women of America for, anyhow? •\ Minnesota legislator lias introduced a bill appropriating $11,500 for a phrenological commission to examine, free, the heads of residents of that state. It will hardly be necessary to have his examined.

Disappointments are wings that bear the soul skyward. Whatever makes men good ChrisI tians makes them good citizen-'. Kindness is a precious oil that makes the crushing wheels of care seem lighter. Happy the man who Icarus the immeasurable distance between his wishes and his powers. It is a good deal easier to convince a man that he is wrong than to get him to acknowledge it. Enter into the business or trade that you like best and for which nature seems to have fitted you, provided it is honorable. It is the character of consummate merit to be able to live in a retreat with honor, after one has lived in pub- , lie with splendor. Words are good, but there is something better. The best can not be explained by words. The spirit on which we act is the chief matter. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: The human race is divided in two classes— those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit anil inquire, “Why wasn’t it done the other way?” Be cheerful. If you have no great trouble on your mind you have no right to render other people miserable by your long face and dolorous tones. If you do you will be generally avoided. The best way to remember anything is to thoroughly understand it, and to often recall it to mind. By reading continually, with great attention, and never leaving a passage without comprehending it well, we cannot fail to j improve the memory. It is a truth which needs continual j emphasis that the highest work for | any one is that which he can do best. | A weak lawyer,an inefficient physician, an incapable financier are vastly inferior as men and as workers to the skilled mechanic or the well-trained laborer who knows his work and does it with thoroughness and self-respect. Mountain Sheep Decreasing. Mountain sheet) appear to he decreasing in Colorado, and, stranger still, the rare and timid animals are leaving their dizzy haunts among the high mountain peaks and drawing nearer to the habitations of man than ever before, in the comparatively low lauds, near the town of Jetlersou, there is now a (lock of fifty or more mountain sheep. .Tellerson is on the Nouth Park Kailroatl, about eighty-oue miles south of Denver, in Park County. It ts an old-fashioned community, and has near it the well known summer resort, -leiTersou Lake. The vicinity, disturbed by the rumble of trains ai well as the sounds of human life and industry, is not at all a quiet one. It has none of the characteristics which usually mark the natural home of the almost extinct nionntuin sheep. And yet for several days past a band of at least fifty of the soft-eyed, largehorued native sheep of the Rocky Mountains has been calmly grazing around the town of Jefferson an I close to the railroads. It is said that the sheep do not display any sign of fear of the Jefferson people. Mauy of them come in open daylight within easy pistol shot of the residences. They do not run away unless somebody purposely frightens them. For many years past the sight of a mountain sheep has been a rarity in Colorado, aud usually but one at a time has been seen. A hunter far off from civilization might descry a solitary sheep perched on a crag overlooking some wild and steep canon, but hardly ever within gunshot range. No such thing us fifty sheep together has been reported, oven by the veriest Munchausen of hunters. When a lone sheep was seen it usually disappeared from view at the slightest alarm. Considering these things, the descent of fifty sheep upon- the town of Jefferson, as though they had formed themselves into an excursion party somewhere among the mountains, does not look reasonably explainable. Thu general theory is that bitter cold and deep snows in the higher altitudes diove them downward, and that they joined together for mutual protection us they traveled from peak to peak. Killing mountain sheep is absolutely prohibited by law in Colorado. It is a closod season all the year round with the animals, just as it is with the buffalo.—Denver Republican. Study of Eni’lhqiinkcs. Professor Milne described to tin Royal Institution recently tho latest discoveries regarding earthquakes. He mid that seismology was now so well developed that he was able not only to study earthquakes which no one felt, but had commenced to investigatetho : r relations, of which there wore many, with the most promising results. As far as geology is concerned there are thousands of earthquakes or earth tremors every year, and a half oi them came from deep water. The ocean was really the home of earthquakes. Twenty years ago their study was commenced in Japan, with the result that the seismology of that couutry hud revolutionized tho seismology of the whole world. As a consequence the methods ot building in Japan had been ! entirely altered, so that the houses erected on new principles stood while their neighbors’ were shattered.

DEATH IS LIKE LIFE.

SMART THINGS FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

Hon Thl* Picture Talked. NEW YORK, March 1C—This, or something like it, is the way the colonel in charge of the Salvation Army Labor Bureau describes the peculiarities of the servant girl of the period, when the door is pushed open and enter an elderly woman, with a sort of self-satisfied timidity, that finds its expression in her walking sideways to the colonel’s desk and taking a sent in a wooden chair just under his nose. “Well, mother, what can we do for you?” asks the colonel, to begin with. “Indadc. thiu, most onytbing. Oi want work.” “What kind of work?” “Most onythiug around the house.” “What, for instance?” “Phwell, Oi don’t loike t’ wash er oiron, an’.Oi don’t eare much about •weepin’ or wnshin’ windys.” “Then, what will you do?” “Oh. Oi loike t’ cook.” ‘-‘Can you do fancy cooking?” "Phwell, OTve done it in me day. Faith, no wan better." “How many can you cook for?” "How many, is it? Oh. Oi’ve cooked fer big noombers.” “Can you cook for twenty?” “Oi dunno,” hesitatingly. r "Can you cook for ten?” . "ludade. Oi raoight.” "How old are you?” “Sixty, come th’ ind nv Lint, an’ divil a lie in it.” “Are you married or single?” "Yis.”

“Single?” “Indade, Oi’m not.” “Married, then?" “An’ who toul 1 yes?

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jfoine mon, an’ it’s sorra th’ day thot oi lost him. Av lie wuz aloive now it’s not Ids wlddy would be Inkin’ fer worruk in th’ city av New York this day. Ah, me!” “What countrywoman are you?” “Oi’ve been in Ameriky most all me lolfe.” “Yes; but you were not born here, were you?” “Oi wuz not. Oi’m a Scotchwoman." "Where were you born?” “In th’ Nort’ av Oirebuid.” “Well, but you see. mother there li a great deal of young bind In the market. And people like young women for servsnts." “Oh, thin. Oi kin do ez much oz mony a young one. an’ niehbe more. Thim young gals now only fink about eoortin’ an’ spiashin’ about !n foine clothes an’ cuttin’ up their didoes at Coney’s Oisland. But Oi’m ready f do me wurruk, ’cept wance in a wholle whin Oi loike f take me bit av pleasure in Clutral Park whin th’ quality is all there.” "What church do you go to—Catholic?" “Oi do not. Oi’in a Scotch Presbyterian.” “Oh; fire and brimstone." ’’Oh, Oi dunno. There’s others.” The colonel was so astonished at this bit of up-to-date slang from the aged woman’s lips that lie stopped catechizing, put down her name and what she wanted, and told tier to come in on Monday, when he would try to place her. The aged woman thanked him gracefully, and with a bow that smacked ! somewhat of the oldzfashioued courtesy, smiled and withdrew.

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Tilt* Medicine-Taking Hub t. Medic;ne-takers are mostly women, though the habit is by no means confined to them alone. Many men may also be seen popping Mnall pills and dumping little powders between their jaws at all too frequent intervals. All medicine-takers do this mechanically, however, almost automatically, as though they had no particular motive in so doing beyond the tact that they were the victims of a habit.

WEIRD END OF HAPLESS JACCARD.

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Died with Hor Newly Horn Child on » Bed ot Straw—Her Brief but Wild Life Hereditary Criminal Tendencies the Cause. CONSTA B LE stands guard over the body of Mrs. Clara M. Jaccard.at Hillsdale, N. J., pending an investigation to confirm or dismiss the authorities’ suspicions that she was poisoned. Thus, dying, Mrs. Jaccard has bequeathed another sensation to the long list that her family of the notorious Rawsons has given. Mrs. Jac- ! card was the heiress to an estate of $25,000, and yet she died in squalor on a pallet, like a beggar's wife. When Mrs. Jaccard died the cause assigned for her death was pleuro-pneumonia. Then the authorities remembered the circumstance that an unknown assailant shot at Mrs. Jaccard a month ago. A suit is pending against Artist Albert L. Rawson, father of the notorious Rawson twins, now in jail for burglary, to remove him from the executorship of the fortune that his daughter would have inherited next May. A month ago Mrs. Jaccard had her step-, mother, the third Mrs. Rawson, arrested on the charge of stealing articles left her by her grandmother, Laura Keene, the actress, who held the head of President Lincoln when he lay dying at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The $25,000 which Mrs. Jaccard would soon have inherited was her part of the estate left by I^aura Keene. Among the articles alleged to have been stolen was the famous “Lincoln” dress, the one worn by Laura Keene the night of the assassination, and which, it is said, still bears blood stains. When the Rawson twins were locked up in Hackensack jail for burglary and their father was arrested and put under bond for having burglars’ tools, Mrs. Rawson was left alone. She gathered her things together and left town, going, it is said, to live with the queer sect, the Angel Dancers, on Lord’s farm. Clara Jaccard was 20 years old when she died. Like her two brothers, there seemed to be some taint of wildness in her blood, a prankish, gypsy strain. She w’as as hoydenish as her two brothers were wild. She took a savage glee in practical jokes. Before she was 13 all Bergen County knew of her. “Isn’t she a tartar?” people would say. “Wonder what she’ll do next?” This is what she did next, and it w’as more startling than any one had conceived. She eloped with Jules Jaccard, a hard-faced, gray-bearded itinerant clockmaker. Jaccard. with his peaked cap and long, ragged coat, was a familiar figure, and here he was becoming a bridegroom of no less a person than the bewitchingly hoydenish Clara Rawson. Everybody was aghast, just as they always are w hen a Rawson does something. “No one could ever have guessed that!” they said. “But it couldn’t have been old Jules that run off with Clara. It must have been that Clara run off with old Jules. Another one of her jokes.” But it wasn’t a Joke. Jules and his bride returned to Hillsdale very seriously and began housekeeping. The tranquility or her husband seemed to settle on Clara, and she became quieter. Her name did not come before the Bergen County public again until some weeks ago, when she revealed a disagreement with her father and filed suit to have him removed as executor. She and her husband were often in want,

CLARA JACCARD. and it was supposed that she wished to have her income increased. Then came the arrest of her step-mother in connection with the Keene dress and the Keene relics. The Jaccards seemed to grow poorer and poorer. He and his wife and two children lived in two tiny rooms. The third baby was born a few days ago. When Dr. Eugene Jehl, of Park Ridge, the family physician, was dismissed he says he left Mrs, Jaccard in good condition. Dr. Townsend came in response to a second call. He found the granddaughter of Laura Keene and the daughter of the founder of the American Society of Water Color Painters, the author and doctor of laws of Cambridge University, lying on two old bags thrown over a straw tick. The room in which she lay served as workshop. dining room and bedroom. Mrs. Jaccard was then sinking rapidly and passed away a few hours later. “Pleuro-pneumonia!" Dr. Jehl cried, when he heard of the death. “Impossible! This death is very suspicious. I suspect foul play.” Alfred Leighton Rawson, Mrs. Jac-

card’s father, is 77 years old. He passed his last birthday in Hackensack Jail, and a strange figure this venerable man, with snow-white hair and oldfashioned courtliness of bearing, made among the felons and thugs of the jail. The only congratulations he could have received for having attained his 77th birthday were from the two desperadoes in an adjoining cell—’his twin sons. Albert and Alpheua—charged with burglary and highway robbery. And little comfort (heir expressed good wishes could have given him. since their deeds, from the time they were 14 years old, had in their effects wished him disgrace. He, as he pondered miserably over his past life, his expulsion from the Thirteen Club for having altered the Prince of Wales’ declination to become a member to an acceptance, would have had to go back a good many years in the life of his two sons to find a time when their ways were not evil ways. Before Albert and Alpheus were 14 their boyish pranks, marked as they were by deviltry and cruelty, had made them notorious in Bergen County. They began with slungshots, bows and arrows and blowguns and plunked away at inoffensive people, with diabolical zest. But they soon discarded their slungshots for Winchester ridea and burglar's tools. They began to roam over the county like bandits, stopping people “in fun,” as they said, but taking their money in real earnest. They formed a band called tho “Kickapoo Indian Terrors” and fixed up a cave in the woods for a hiding place. They entered and robbed unoccupied summer houses, desecrated churches and stole all of the books from the schoolhouse. Finally there came last spring the daring attack on the railroad station at Ridgewood and the shooting of

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A. L. RAWSON. the agent and his assistant. Then tho agent at Undercliff was held up and clubbed, always “in fun.” The Rawson twins were finally captured early last January. The arrest of their father followed a few days later. Tho daughter of Laura Keene, whom Rawson married after he had an established reputation in Ixmdon as a landscape painter, did not live long after her daughter was born. She willed everything to her three children, making her husband guardian. Mrs. Rawson, it is said, was the favorite child of Mrs. Kcen%, who died at Montclair, N. J., Nov. 4. 1873. It was in October, 1838, that she brought out “Our American Cousin,” the play which she was presenting in Ford’s Theater where Lincoln was shot.

REMARKABLE CONTEST. A Slrk Woman’ll struBi-lo to Outlive au Invalid, A remarkable case developed at Morristown, Ind., the other day, says the St. Ixniis Republic. Morgan Chandler, a banker and a resident of Greenfield, several weeks ago executed his will, dividing his large estate among his nearest relatives. Among them was Eliza Burton, to whom he had bequeathed $!0,000, which she was to receive providing she was not living with her husband, Charles, at the time of tho testator's death, she having married Burton against his wishes. It was also stated in the will that, should the testator survive the niece, tho bequest was to go to the other legatees nr med in the will, not to Burton or his heirs. Soon after the will was drawn Burton died, leaving Mrs. Burton to support the children, which she did by taking in washing, sewing, etc. Several weeks ago the niece was taken ill and at about the same time the wealthy uncle was also stricken. Both grew constantly worse. The neighbors and friends of the widow took great Interest, wishing her to survive the uncle, having learned the provisions of the will Greenfield and Morristown have telephone connections, and the friends of the widow were kept constantly informed as to the condition of tho uncle. Both parents grew weaker. At times the mother would seem to be breathing her last, but stimulants would be administered and. she would revive long enough to inquire as to the condition of her relative, when she would return to a comatose state. This was continued thirty-six hours and all hopes of prolonging her life longer were virtually abandoned. Finally a message came that Morgan Chandler was dead. Mrs. Burtqji had endured the tortures of death long enough to secure a fortune for her children. They were summoned to her bedside and, with a blessing upon them, she closed her eyes and passed away. Cashier McDonald of the Union bank has been appointed their guardian. Wamaw’* »«• Onvernor. Prince Alexander Imeretinsky, the newly-appointed governor-general at Warsaw, is the son of the late independent prince of flu* Caucasus, and was formerly regarded as the Russian candidate for the Bulgarian throne. He took a distinguished part In suppressing the Polish rebellion in 1863, and in the Russo-Turklsl. war of 1877.

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