Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 September 1895 — Page 2

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W. S. MONTGOMERY, Eilitor and '.-PIIIJIislier.

Subscription Kates.

One week 10 cents One year 55.00

Entered at L'ostoiliue its second-class matter.

ALTHOUGH nominations for State officers are almost a year ahead, yet there are some candidates actively in the field. Too actively we think. It however shows activity, earnestness and zeal which is always an excellent thing in a candidate. The REPUBLICAN however belongs to that class of papers which believes that too much fighting should not be done so far ahead of tiftie, as bitter feelings are liable to be stirred up. Voters can not very intelligently take sides and pick out the best candidate for the party, until near convention time when all the candidates have announced themselves. We think any candidate who is in the field this early soliciting votes, will hurt both himself and the party. Let the friends of any candidate for Governor or any other office who is trying thus early to generally and systematically boom himseif and secure promises of support, caution said candidate, that his boom, like buds that put forth too early iu the spring, is likely to get nipped by a chilly reception later on.

How's This!

-s We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that] cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHENY & Co., Toledo,I'O.

We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able, to carry out any obligations made "by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

WALDING, RINNAN & MARVIN Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

ft" Hall's Catarrh Curejis taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottlo. Sold by all druggists. dwaug •4 1

The Sunday Schools.

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Patrick Lawler, Wm. Anderson, Mike Flemming, Julius Mosier, Joe Kirkpatrick, Bert Ha-'d, Frank Swisher, Dick Marshall, Will Oreti, Harlen Evans, Ltwrence Evans, James McQuade, Chas. Voltz, Miles Pitts, Albert Irons, Douglas Shook, and Lewis Bishop members of the Greenfield Iron Moulders' Union, No. 299 went to Indianapolis today to participate in the Labor Day exercises.

a Taconia man nas married his stepmother. He thus escapes having a mother-

in-law. Of two evils choose the lesser one every time.—New York Recorder.

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THE BABY SHOW AT THE FAI

A Nlimber of Kutrles For the Fourteen Premiums,

We give here a list of the classes and the prizes awarded by the various business men in each clasn. 1. The most handsome girl baby—A fine baby cab, by the Hancock Democrat. 2. The baby with the prettiest eyes— One dozen $4 cabinet photographs, by Cuyler, the photographer. 3. The prettiest blonde baby—A fine pair of shoes, by White & Service. 4. The most graceful baby—One dozen $8 photographs, by Cuyler, the photographer. 5. The most handsome boy baby—A fine baby cab, by the Fair Society. 6. The smallest baby—A fine |.baby jumper, by J. W. Cooper, of the Department Store. 7. The fattest .baby—$5, by Charles Downing. 8. The prettiest ^brunette -baby—A solid gold necklace, by L. A. Davis, the jeweler.

The .jolliest baby—$2, by E. P. Thayer & Co. 10. The best dressed baby—One dozen $3 cabinets, by Cu ler. 11. The sleepiest baby—A fine baby cab, by Lee C. Thayer. 12. The prettiest colored baby—A nice $8 baby cloak, by J. Ward Walker & Co. 13. The finest pair of twins— $2 50 in gold by J. M. Hiucntnau and a fine pair of shoes by White & Service. 14. The baby with the best pair of lungs, and that can cry the loudest—$3 50 in gold by H. B. Thayer, of Spot Cash.

The entries and the various classes in which the babies were entered were as fallows:

Lucile.Shumway, 1, 4, 6, 8, 9. James Robert Farmer, 2, 5, 7, 9. Reba Trittipo, 6. Ruth Catt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 8, 14, ll.^^£^a Cordelia Shane, 1, 2, 4, 9. Jesse Cox, 2. 3, 5. Morrison Herron, 6, 2, 5. John Dowiing, 2, 5, 8, 7. Nellie Duncan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9. Hazel Dobbin?, 1, 3, 2. Nellie Davis, 1,*2, 8. Benuie L. •Strahl, all premiums. Walter Wiggins, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14 Charles Henry Winsor, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9. Arthur Miudlehurst, 2, 0, 5, 7. Myrtla Swisher, 1, 2, 8, G. Lillian Kidding. 3, 5, 9, 2. Euima Furry, 1, 2, 4, 11. Lulu and Eula Lowe, 1, 2, 3, 13.J Join Sliuil, 2, 5, 7, 9. Mary C. Russell, J. Clifford O. Harper, 2, 3. Bessie Harper. 6, 11, 2. Elijah E..Russell, 5. Esta A. Wagner, 1, 2. Ellen E. Morgan, 1,'2, 3Roy» E. Curtis, 2, 5. Oakley F. Luse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7. Ralph Martin, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9. Myma Faughn, 1, 2, 3, 9. Gladys Cartwnght, 1, 2, 3, 4. Baby B:iity, 2, 3, 5. Elmer Heims, 5, 7. 9,4. Ertle Stevens, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10. Floyd Kirlin, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10. Mauorah E. Stanley, 1, 6, 3, 14 Josephine Mc Tiiire, 1, 2, 3,10. Naomi Elliott, 1, 2, 4, 10. Bergie Bridges, 1, 2, 9, 10, 11. Virgil Ostemeyer, B, 5, 9. Marie Bovel, 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11. Willis and* Willard Fields, 2, 5, 11, 13. Fay Wiseman, 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10. James P.Foley, 2, 5, 7, 10. John Wills, 2, 5, 7, 9. Leonara Willburt, 2, 6. Ruby.Pearle Hinton, 1,3, 7, G. Clarence Fisk, 2, 5, 11, 8. Clabour Andrick, 2,5, 8, 10. Earl Curry, 2, 5, 12. Minnie H. 'Irons,gl, 9, 10, 14. Eddie Loudenback, 2, 5, 11, 14. Maud. Williams, 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 14. Roy Cox, 2, 5, 7,10. Elmer^DaUas Cox, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10. Oren Neal, 1, 2. Clinton|Price, 5. Marguerite Plummer, 1, 2, 7, 9. The judges in the baby show were Mrs. Ed Howe, of Muucie, Mrs. Jenkins, of ludianppolis, with Mr'. G. D.^Busick, of Kokomo, as referee. The premiums in the various ^classes were awarded as follows:

No. 1. Clara Cartwright, of Indianapolis. No. 2. Benny L. Strahl.

No. 3. Charles Henry Windsor. No. 4. Ruth Catt. No. 5. Roy Cox. No. 6. L^nora Dell Willburt. No. 7. Floyd Kirlin. No. 8. -, ]STo. 9. Ruby Pearl Hinton. No. 10. Minnie H. Irons. No. 11. Cleaim Jeffries. No. 12 Earl Curry. No. 13. Willie and Willard Fields. No. 14. Menore E. Stanley. There was much dissatisfaction over the baby show for a number of reasons* It was too hurried and the judges could not examine all the babies. It iB claimed ontsiders interfered with the judges in placing premiums. Many ladies withdrew their babies as it was so warm and they felt proper care was not being taken.

The REPUBLICAN simply notes what was said, both by interested and disinterested people. What we say is that it was a remarkably fine looking body of babies, and shows that Hancock county is in the front rank in that department as well as all others.

A newspaper without a funny paragraph about Teddy Roosevelt toould be a novelty indeed. This is not a funny paragraph.— Wpahlngton Star.

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RAMBLES IN VIRGINIA

AN ODD AND fcUT OF THE WAY RlLIGIOUS BELIEF.

A "Soul Sleeper*' Interviewed—Queer De* luslcns Historic Ground The First Families—A Series of Battlegrounds.

Prolific of Great Men.

[Special Correspondence.]

HANOVER COTTRT HOUSE, Ya., Aug. 13. —I thought I had seen the forest land in Virginia north of Spottsylvania Court House and likewise exhausted the resources of local humor thereon, but eastward of that hamlet I tramped over a section where there was not fertility enough in the abandoned fields to sustain even a second growth of spearweed or white clover and found there a happy population of Mark Tapleys who could make merry over their own poverty. Southward, however, there Is an improvement, and the broad fiats or "socond bottoms" along the North Anna would almost rank as third class land in the Ohio valley. It is a surprise to read in person.il recollections of the war that when the Army of the Potomac reached this region it found "fields with heavy wheat, and growing corn, and luxuriant clover, lowing herds, and the perfume of blossoms, and the song of summer birds, the attractive homo of the Virginia planter, everything on a large and generous scale, and great ancestral elm trees dating back to the timo before our forefathers learned to be rebels. Coming as the army did so lately from where tho tread of hostile feet for over three years had made the country bare and barren as a thrashing floor, the region through which it now passed seemed a very Araby the Blest."

For the Want of New Blood.

Where is that luxuriance now? Here and thcro a fine farm still attracts attention, but most of the valley is covered by a dense second growth of pines. There is no appearance here of gold in tho soil which 'tho northern company is to work," as on the Rapidau,to explain this situation, and so the people fall back on the old statement, "The negroes left at the end of the war, and tlio owners won't sell and can't improve." Tho real reason I suspect to be that the war cured tho young Virginians' intense love of home and gave many of them opportunity to see how much finer land there was in tho world, and so they went west, and tho old families died out little by little for want of young blood. I am tho more persuaded of this because in many a country town of my acquaintance in the Ohio valley ono may today find as many Confederate veterans as in a town of tho same size in Virginia. Five miles southeast of Spottsylvania Court House I lodged for a night with Captain John Smith, who gained somo fame in the en-

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gineer corps during the war, and from him I gained some valuablo hints in explanation of the puzzling movements of both armies. Down that way tho planters indulgo in much satire on their neighbors of the moro barren lands. "UpaboutMassaponax," said one, "tho land is so poor that you can't raise a disturbance ou it without a forcer, but whisky is cheap. Up thcro they put a load of fertilizer in with every man they bury, because without something of that sort nothing would come up at the resurrection."

Life Believers.

Perhaps this explains the rise of a very peculiar sect of religionists I encountered in tho north central part of the Wilderness, who call themselves "Life Believers" and are called by others "Brownites" or "Soul Sleepers." Tho distinct feature of their faith is that man is by nature an animal in spirit as in body, by nature he is not Immortal, and those who remain in a state of nature perish as brutes perish, while only those who are divinely regenerated got a soul, and oven they sleep till tho final resurrection. Now, I have had a great mania for odd and out of tho way religious beliefs ever since I lived in Utah and have never failed to visit any peculiar community of tho sort I went near. And hero was a novelty indeed. So I talked with tho chief local expounder, a Mr. Kennedy, and learned that Mr. Brown, leader of the sect, lives in New England and only comes here occasionally, but that there are many ablo to set forth tho views of the "Life Believers" with convincing force. With many other things, Mr. Kennedy said: "Wo bolievo that tho notion of a natural mortality is a heathen notion and was put in shape by groping philosophers in the time of darkness, therefpre the Israelites were never taught such a thing, and you can't find it anywhere in tho Old Testament, but it was condemned along with the other heathon notions, lest the Israelites might sacrifice for the dead, as the heathen made their children pass through tho fire. They woro especially warned not to meddle with witches or anybody that pretended to hold converse with tho dead. Solomon was tho first to mention immortality, and that was after he had worshiped Astoreth, tho goddess of the Zidonians, and Mllcom, tho abomination of tho Ammonites.' Now wo know that these Phoenicians believed in tho natural immortality of the soul long before this, and Solomon took up with their notions when he made alliance with them and married their women, but when old age and ropentanco came ho declared that 'what befalleth the ons of men befalleth the beasts, even ono thing befalleth them, as tho ono dieth so dieth the other yea, they all have ono breath, and man has no pre-eminence above a beast all go into ono place all are of tho dust, and all turn to dust again.' And so it is indeed with the natural man, but Christ has brought immortality to light and bouome tho first fruits of them that slept'—the first fruits, mind you— 'and at the end all them that are Christ's Bhall rise at his coming.' 'The w,ages of sin is death'—not eternal punishment, bvlt death—'but tho free gift of God is eternal lite in Christ Jesus our Lord. There is ho Scripture properly translated and understood that teaches the rosurreotion of *ny that are out of Ghrlst."

Patient Waiters.

And much more of the some sort. Not far away is a still queerer congregation, a jltt)e lMtad which taoet* frojp time to kline

in a mere cabin of $ church about in tbirj center of the Wilderipess, who are expeot-| ing Christ's secorja coming in a fev^ months. The yoaV 1888 was set by their first leader, but a fresh reading after tlfe. event showed them that they had miscalculated the 70 weeks of Daniel, and they are not yet able to decide whether tho general windup is to be a given number of months before the end of this century or the same number after it. It is a pity, too, because the matter is of importance. Tho neighbors tell mo that they met there a few months ago all in their best clothes and waited patiently two days and nights for the coming of Christ, but I liavo noticed that the neighbors always exaggerate such things, and it is probable that this was only a special season of worship. The amusing feature of the case to my mind is their supreme egotism.

It is ever thus. In all my travels I have noted that it is in regions remote from great lines of travel, where the land is poor, and the brush thick, and tho population thin, that religious delusions prevail and Mormons and Millonarians flourish. It is where tho peoplo sit in log cabins of long winter evenings by great roaring wood fires and discuss Chiliasm and infant damnation, grace, free will and predestination, election and reprobation, whether few will be saved or many, whether God foreknew bccause he had foreordained or because foreknowlcdgo is inherent in infinite knowledge, whether ho predestinated the elect or elected the predestinated, arid all the other complicated conundrums of supralapsarian theology. On the other hand, it is in great cities, mining regions and manufacturing centers that wild delusions about money, work and wages abound, but tho latter are far less excusable, for in theso matters wo havo experience to go on. And yet they are equally persistent, and I sometimes thinl: much more injurious. No delusions are so hard to cure as those of city men who think themselves above error in business matters. I know a man in New York city who maintains that gold is a fixed and invariablo standard of values that while all other products of labor are forever fluctuating gold is gifted with the attriburo of God—immutability! The man is quite sensible, too, in most respects, is entirely harmless and allowed to run at large.

Military Matters.

All this,"'however, has nothing to do with tho wide extended battlefield I havo lately surveyed and the routes of tho two armies I havo just tramped over, or even the long disputed question on which I havo been seeking fresh light, Why did Grant attack Lee's intrenchments at Spottsylvania., seeing that the route which he finally took was open to him without attacking? All writers.on military scionco agree upon three principles—never attack a fortified place when it can be turned, nover attack an enemy on ground of his own choosing if it can possibly be avoided ai never do what the enemy expects and has provided for. Grant violated all three and several other rules of war during his 13 days before Spottsylvani:i. The rc,-,-,:!ts were a dead loss of some l."i,o:)0e'ifectives and then tho march to tho left by way of Massaponas, preokoly as l:o might liavo marched without tiring a shot. A:i army of critics have wrestled with the subject, but if any one of them has wivi a satisfactory explanation it. has eseapeil my notice.

As Grant mowu oil" eastward and then southward it was of course open to Leo to move nearly directly southward and then eastward. I first traveled from tho Fredericksburg railroad northwestward over Grant's route and have just finished my tramp southward over Loo's to the North Anna, where the next struggle for position took place but, being weary by this time of great pine forests, where the stagnant air is almost stifling, of the Wilderness, where good stopping places are few, and of hearing tho same old complaints of hard times for tho farmers, I came in hero for a littlo rest. And, much to my surprise, I found that this queer old hamlotof perhaps 300 peoplo is the center of a little region rich in historic interest and is itself a place well worth visiting. Hero, for instance, is tho courthouse, erected in 1785 of bricks brought from England, tho bricks being glazed and of a peculiar make and absolutely unchanged by 1G0 years of weather. In this courthouse Patrick Henry mado his first recorded speech, tho ono headed in his biography "Against tho Parsons." His famous liberty or death speech and that in which ho compared Georgo III to Caesar and Tarquin woro mado at Williamsburg.

Arid Land.

Two and a half miles from hero Henry Clay was born in a region called "The Slashes,'' Thero aro still a few peoplo living in that tract, but how they live passes my comprehension. It is rather tho most singular combination of sand flat, swamp, river bottom, brush thicket and hummock land that I oversaw. Thcro is just enough sand to make the land poor without making it dry and just enough black dirt to make it muddy without making it fertile, and just enough of rock to bo troublesome without serving as a foundation for any road.

How many great men were born hereabouts it would tako a long timo to tell if the local statement bo accepted, but among them I might mention tho once notorious rather than famous Beau Hickman of Washington. In this region, too,' contrary to tho rule elsewhere, many of the old manorial families have held tho land originally granted1 to them from the crown, and tho people still point with prido to families the names of which would make along roll if this wcro a directory instead of an itinerary. As to battles, why, all the region for a day's rido around town is but a Combination of battlefields, largo and small, and by every arm of tho service. But ol this more anon.

J. H. BEADLE.

Spurs For Gamecoolis.

Steel heels or spurs for fighting cocks, to take the placo of the natural spur, are made in SO or moro varieties in shape and length. They aro sold all over the world. In the United States spurs of different styles are used in different parts of the country. Longer spurs are used in the south than in tho cast and north. The shortest spurs are used in New York. Tho standard longth horo is 116 inches. In all other parts of the country tho length is adVanced.

A good set of steel heels costs $10. The spur projects from ono side of a ferrule or socket, which is like an open thimble. A leather band is attached to tho baso of the ferrule. The natural spur is sawed off, and when tho stool spur is used the ferrule is placed over tho stump, and tho leather band is wound round the cock's leg and )3ound with twine. A pad or cushion is placed within tho rim of the forrulb to make it fit the stump of the natural spur snugly and firmly.

It is said that if a well bred gamecook, which had been without food until it was nearly starved, should then be placed In: tho presence of another gamecook and of food, it would fight before it would eat— in other words, that It would rather fight than eat.—NeW Ybrk Sun.

Nervous headaches that well might drove him to distraction first introduced him to Paines celery compound. That was five years ago, and until that time he was one of the most pronounced opponents of prepared remedies to be found in the city.

Just how Paine's celery compound was first brought to his attentiou he does not remember, but it has done him so much good that the compound has no more enthusiastic champion living. He is as happy as any one in the enjoyment of good health coukl be, and for that happiness he gives full credit to Paint's celery compound. Read what he had to s^ay about the medicines: "I am always ready to reccoramerd Paiue's celery compound when 1 hear of a case similar to my own. Some five years ago I was suffering from headaches which were sometimes so severe during working hours of the night that I would clasp my hands over my head to 'hold the top on,' the pain being excruciating. These attacks would occur sometimes as often as three times a week. Sleep was out of the question, the pillow seeming but a block of wood. "Just at the time I was suffering most 1 bought a bottle of Paine's celery compound, began at once to take it, and before a week had passed the headaches began to disappear. I felt almost anew man before the bottlo was emty. I purchased more, and for two years kept it in the

f0REMAN CMS. R0LFE.

Superintendent of one of the Biggest Composing Rooms in America.

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Up in the top story ©f The building, where the typeseting and other machines do everthing but talk, says Boston Globe, there is a pleasaat-faced, clear skinned light complexioued man of 53, who has been with The Globe ever since the birthday of that great paper. He is the night foreman of the composing room, and looks fully 15 years younger thau he realy is. Vis name i3 Mr. Charles Eolfe.

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house for use whenever I lelta return of the old pairis. The other members of my family also beaan to take it—my wife for a feeling of general weakness, she being at that tune much'run down' and never feeling well enough to perform the work of the home. Within a week she was. as she expressed it, 'as well as ever in her life,' and similar reports came from all our friends to whom we had recommendI cd it. "I feel confident that in nervous headaches and a run down, system the cotnI pound will be bencfical every time, if not a perfect cure. "In some instances wo have not only recommended it, bur furnished it to very aged friend.*, and the eit'ect of one bottle has si-emed marvelous, and particular o!u friends of mine telling ms that befoio one bottle had been used he -felt at least ten years voumrer, a id cerlaiuly had not I Mr a^- good tor IP ^e-tr*. i••.•••''-••During the «st five ye.-u« I have used I ayreat many bottles of the compound —that is, in my home. I am positive tha* it is a sure cure, for nervous headaches and a brokemiown ft eling especially in lie cise of eldeilv p^r-ons I "Tlu-re is one case in particular I call to uiitul, in wh-cli Paine's celery compound asserted its good quilities. We had a young married lady friend, who was nursing her 4 month old child, and found that she could not perform Ler household duties on account of the weak I conditions she seemed always to be in.

On the recommendation of my wife and myself she took one bottle of the compound, and before two weeks had passed was able to do her own washing even, iu addition to horsework. About three bottles were used. I have yet to hear from any friend to when I recommaaded it other than the most favorable results.

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