Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 30 November 1895 — Page 2
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Disagreeable kind of weather this.
It makes business for the Under
taker, because people don't take
eare of themselves. They get wet
and chilled, then comes "the ills
tliat flesh is heir to." It don'c pay
to
take chancas, thinking it won't
«Iast long. It's too
and disagreeable. These Mackin
toshes we sell at a very low price
knocks them all out. It don cost
much to keep dry and comfortable
when you buy your Suits, Over
coats and Mackintoshes of J. Kiaus,
the Star Clothier. That's the
Star Cloiii
J. KRAUS, Prop.
22 W. Main St.
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Furniture, Stoves, Dishes, Glassware, Carpets, Baby Cabs, Sewing Machines, Etc., Etc.,
Fgr'sale^at the lowest living prices. CtSbll and see my stock. I will pay highest prices for all kinds of secondhand goods.
T.JJ.OER,
Proprietor^econdlHand Store.
S^West Main"St. 7g-tf
,J. E. MACK,
TEACHER OF
Violin, Piano, Cornet, Mandolin.
.Residence, North Street, next to New ^Christian Church. d&w aug
DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN] and SURGEON.
Office and residence 42 N. Penn. street, west side, and 2nd door north of Walnut street.
Prompt attention to calls in city oi •ountry. Special attention to Childrens, Womena' ana Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childrens Hospital. 89tl
Excursion Kates, Atlanta Exposition. Round trip ticket to Atlanta, Ga., account the Exposition now on sale via Pennsylvania Lines at reduced rates. Persons contemplating .a trip to the South during the coming fall and winter will find it profitable to apply to ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines for details. The person to see at Greenfield is Ticket Agent
W. H. Scott. 38tfdw
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Like Brother Jasper's Sun—the world do move. Pretty and useful articles are being made in all lines, but nowhere have there been
Such Great Advances
As can be found in ^our line. Dishes of all kinds—useful and ornamental. Lamps, cut glass, stone ware, etc.
Dolls and Little Dishes For
THE BABIES Our prices are very low considering the elegance of the ware. Ladies, call and see us.
CHINA STORE.
W. S. MONTGOMERY, Editor and Publisher.
"•'Subscription Kates.
One week One year ®5.00
Kntereii at Postoffice as second-class matter.
SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1895.
A KICKKR is one who is never happy unless he is unhappy. He usually makes himself disagreeable by wanting to exhibit his sore toes.
TODAY there was a damage case brought against one of Hancock county's wealthy citizens. Theee suits seem to be getting numerous of late. It seems a little peculiar that such suits are always brought against men of means. As to the present case the REPUBLICAN is not posted as to its merits, but such wases are dangerous ones, as it is usually quite difficult to get at the exact facts. The general character of both parties always cats an important figure.
SEXATOR QUAY will advocate an appropriation of $50,000,000 to build 65 dams and otherwise improve the Ohio river, and additional sums for the Mississippi and other western rivers. He proposes to raise the money by a duty of one cent a pound on sugar, which would yield a revenue of $535,000,000 a year. Such a scheme would make Senator Quay popular along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, but we believe that by the time the dear people from the back country, who would have to put up the little $25,000,000 a year us a sugar tax, have set down on the above scheme, it will be tolerably flat. We believe in public improvements, but it is muc best for people who are especially and directly benefitted by such improvements fo pay for them themselves.
LOCKED UP BY WOODPECKERS.
The Fate of a Ground Owl That Had Taken Possession of Their Home. Although the woodpecker is industrious, provident and peaceful, he is not to be trilled with or tyrannized over with impunity, as the following incident will show:
A companion and I on an August day pitched our camp at a spring on the table lands of the ridge dividing Ojal from Santa Clara valley. About the spring stands a large grove of live oaks. In one of these not far from the tent door a pair of woodpeckers had for years no doubt made their dwelling place. Somewhat shy of us at first, the birds in a few days paid little attention to our presence. It frequently amused us of a sultry afternoon as we lounged upon the buffalo robes laid on the shaded grass to observe the birds with whoso labors the warmth appeared to have little to do.
We had camped there a week or ten days when before daybreak one morning we heard a commotion about the home of our staid neighbors. Our attention was attracted by their shrill outcries and the whir of their wings among the branches overhead. It had no sooner grown light enough to see than we pushed back the flap of the tent door and peered out to ascertain the cause of disturbance.
It soon became apparent that»fc little tecolote, or ground owl, at the approach of day had taken lodging in the hollow occupied by the woodpeckers, to their consternation. But the return of day brought courage to the rightful owners, and they resolutely set about finding means to eject the invader. They tried bluffing awhile about the only aperture to the hollow tree, but to little purpose, other than to cause the tecolote to peck at them when they appeared to be about to thrust themselves in.
At last, finding that neither threats nor entreaties were likely to be effective, and resolved that if they were to be deprived of their home it would be the last of that tyrannical owl, the woodpeckers brought presently from another part of the grove an oak ball of the size of the aperture, and, driving it tightly into the hole, withdrew to another hollow tree, leaving the bird of prey hermetically sealed up.
After several days, when we started to return to San Buenaventure, the ball was still in the hole, and the woodpeckers, settled in their new home, were going about their business as if there had never been a tecolote. —Portland Press.
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DON'S TRADE REVIEW
Little Change Except in the Shrinkage of Prices.
IRON IS DECIDEDLY WEAKER
Rumored Tliat One of the Big Nail Combi
nations Has Gone to Pieces Prevalent Feeling That Foreign Imports Will Fall
Off—Tin Weaker and Lead Stronger. Wheat Keceipts Failures. NEW YORK, NOV. 30.—R. G. Dun & Company's weekly review of trade says: Business has not improved though there is very little change except in the shrinkage of prices which a period oi inaction naturally causes. After the extraordinary buying of the summer and early fall, a marked decrease was inevitable and it is yet too early in mo si branches of business to judge how fai the future was anticipated in purchases. Retail stocks are still reported full in nearly all branches, with delayed distribution in many on account of unfavorable werther. The movement of crops is only fair, both cotton and wheat being largely kept back in the hope of higher prices, and there is a prevalent feeling that foreign imports will fall off.
The woolen business makes scarcely any gain, although Clay worsteds are largely sold at the advanced prices recently marie and some dress goods and overcoatings at prices partly higher and partly lower. The sales of wool, which to a large extent represents speculation and supplies for the future rather than present consumption, have been at the three chief markets during the past i'oui weeks 24, ':)5,050 pounds, against 16,129,100 last year, and 24,371,831 in 1893 and 21,457,000 in the same weeks of 1892.
The iron market is decidedly weaker again, and while Bessemer pig has de-j clined to $ 2.85 at Pittsburg and gray forge to $12.25, and plates to 160 at Philadelphia, so that the average of all quotations is ab^ut half of 1 per cent lower than last week, the markets are really I much weaker than the quotations, as concessions are generally given by man-1 ufacturers in order to secure business. A sharp decline is noted in barbed wire, attributed to the failure to complete an unexpected combination. The bar iron association and the two nail associations refuse to reduce prices of their products, although the demand has been surprisingly reduced since the great advance two or three months ago, and there were rumors in the market that one of the big combinations had gone to picces because of underselling by members. I
The coke combination holds prices firmly, but it has been obliged to reduce I its output to five days in the week, so that a decline of 10,380 tons for the week is recorded. Offerings of copper are less urgent at 11 cents for lake, but tin is
supplies, while lead is a shade stronger at 53.7. The western receipts of wheat continue larger than last year, for the week 4,505,201 bushels, against 3,565,404 a year ago, and for four weeks of November 29,902,512 bushels, against 15,880,078 last year. As before Atlantic exports are relatively small, and for four weeks have been only 8,267,106 bushels, flour included, against 6,742,495 last year. It is evident that with such movements higher prices can hardly be expected, nor can the exchange situation be favorably affected.
During the past week failures have been 279 in the United States, against 289 last year and 47 in Canada, against 36 last year.
MORE BARGES SUNK.
To Date 400,000 JJushels of Coal Have Been Lost on the Present liise. 5 PITTSBURG, Nov. 30.—The Little Fred, with a tow of seven barges and two flats of coal, was wrecked yesterday at Dead Man's Riffle and sank three barges, completely bloc-king the channel, compelling the boats following to tie up. Colonel Amos Stickuey has ordered the wreckage to be blown out with dynamite, which will be done as soon as the necessaiy papers of abandonment are granted.
Thursday night the Onward sank six barges just below Davis Island dam. Up to date the loss of coal by wrecks during the run on this rise amounts to about 400,000 bushels and the loss on craft and coal will foot up at least $40,000.
Trappers' Murderers Cauf-lit. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.—A special to The Republic from Paris, Tex., says: United States deputies have captured two negroes named Hickson and Lee, in the
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Fatal Football.
WICHITA, Kan., Nov. 30.—In a football game at Eureka, Kan., Tlnu\sday between the Southern Kansas academy eleven of that place and the Lewis academy team, ff Wichita, Jesse Jenne of Eureka was so severely injured that he is lying at the point of death and can not survive the night. Captain Mason, also of Eureka, is suffering from injuries which may prove fatal, though there are strong hopes of his recovery.
Cullum Not a Candidate.
NEW YORK, NOV. 30.—United States Senator Slierlby M. Cullom of Illinois was in the city yesterday. He said he came to the city on private business. "I am not here in the interest of any presidential boom," he said, "not even my own. Some people out my way have mentioned my name for the presidency. I wish to state that I am not a candidate and that goes for its face value."
Killed by Accident.
BATAVIA, O., NOV. 30. William Stewart, aged 21, of Marathon, O., while hunting Thursday, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his uncle, John Stewart. The whole charge of the gun was lodged in young Stewart's head and death was instantaneous. The dead man's uncle was so shocked that he stood for half an hour over the reiiiaings, bemoaning (he dead.
weaker at 4.25 cents because of heavy expression. A clear and coherent train
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the murdered hunters, who were found dead on a boat near here last Saturday. There seems to be little doubt that they are the persons who killed the two men and boy, and the arms, clothes, guns and other belongings of the liuntitg party were found in their possession. The prisoners will be brought here.
CHIEF JOSEPH.
One of the Noblest Figures and Greatest Warriors In Indian History. One of the noblest figures in Indian history and one of the greatest warriors is the Nez Perce Chief Joseph. In this same year, 1877, he had resisted attempts to put him and his band on the Lapwai reservation in western Idaho and had sought to carry all his people hundreds of miles to Canada. He outran the force that General Howard had on his trail, escaped from Big Hole, where General Gibbon fought him, and again from General Sturgis, who engaged him in the Yellowstone valley. Sturgis had been sent out by Miles, aud when the latter, on the evening of Sept. 19, heard what had occurred, ho started the same night with all the available force of the Tongue river cantoument to head off Chief Joseph before he should reach the border.
Hard marching brought the command, on the last day of the month, to Joseph's village in the Bear Paw mountains. The heroic attack was resisted with a valor as heroic, and in a short time Captain Hale, Lieutenant Biddle and 22 soldiers were killed and 4 officers and 38 soldiers wounded, among them being Lieutenant Baird of the general's staff. One gallant charge by Captain (Darter, with a small body of Fifth infantry, had cost over a third of his command. Promptly varying his plans, therefore, and adapting them to the situation, the general moved up his artillery, and disposed the troops so as to hold the Indians under siege, with escape impossible.
On the sixth day Chief Joseph advanced to surrender. It was a scene for a painter, a typical scene in American history, when this noble looking warrior, facing General Miles, a worthy counterpart in mien and bearing, handed his rifle TO his white conqueror, and with impressive dignity pointed to the sun in the heavens, saying, "From where the sun now stands, I fight no more."
General Miles, in announcing the victory, used the terse, significant phrase, "We have had our usual success." His full report described his brave adversaries as "the boldest men and best marksmen of any Indians I have ever encountered," and Chief Joseph as "a man of more sagacity and intelligence than any Indian I have ever met.''—George E. Pond in McOlure's Magazine.
STEVENSON'S STYLE.
We Was No Mere Epigram Turner or Pyrotechnist In Expression.. Brilliant as were
8iwenson!s
powers
of thought and word, he was no epigram turner, no pyrotechnist in idea or
of thought runs through his most sparkling chapters in its elucidation every phrase plays an indispensable role, and the garment of style fits the thought so closely that, although each sentence is in itself a work of art, none exists for itself, but all for the sake of the general effect of the whole.
Singularly excellent^ this whole as a medium for the transference of thought impeccably lucid and limpid, translating all shades of perception, sensation and emotion with such ease and preciseness that the reader scarcely remembers he is absorbing the thought of another. But even this rare merit does not necessarily imply great charm of style. To achieve the highest kind of sharm, of beauty, the ear must be enshanted while the mind is definitely and delicately led.
If you do not possess an ear for the music of prose (which has nothing at all to do with the ear for music proper and is different even from an ear for verso, and a good deal less common), no one can make you understand the extraordinary beauty of Stevenson's work. But if you do possess this organ you will rate him, as an artist, at least as high as any poet. The essentials of good poetic form, with its organized measure and accentuation and often its determined rhymes, are symmetry and balance, diversified uniformity, varied repetition, echoing assonance and resonance. The essentials of good prose form are a graceful symmetry, a discreet avoidance of actual in favor of suggested balance, harmony in perpetual diversity, no obvious repetitions or echoings and yet in every phrase a recognition of the form and color of all ^ucompanying
higher technical sense, goes to the mak-
ing of very good prose than of even very good poetry there are no formulas or rules to give assurance or warning, no signal cries determined upon in advance find thereafter loudly audible as helpers of a doubting ear.—"Robert Louis Stevenson and His Writings," by Mrs. M. G. Van Rensselaer, in Century.
An Arctic Rhinoceros.
A gigantic specimen of the arctic rhinoceros has lately been discovered frozen up in an iceberg which stranded at the Lena delta. This specimen was seven feet taller than the largest variety of the rhinoceros of today and was armed with two nose horns, the shortest of which was 3 feet 2 inches in length. The animal doubtless belonged to an antediluvian species of rhinoceros, and his immense size gives some idea of the enormous and terrible beasts which inhabited this planet in the "days when the earth was young." The creature's body was entirely covered with very long, thick hair, which proves that the arctic regions were his natural habitat. —St. Louis Republic.
Lightning.
The curious fact has been observed that while buildings generally are more liable to accidents from lightning during the first half of the year than during the last, barns form an exception to this rule. In attempting to account for this it has been suggested that a full barn is warmer than an empty one and that the heated and somewhat moist air rising from the straw or hay is more aonductive than cooler air and attracts" lightning.
A BAlTLE OF HORSES.
A FIERCE FIGHT BETWEEN ARMY STEEDS AND WILD ANIMALS.
Equine Passions That Became Fiendish When Fully Aroused—Riderless Cavalry Steeds That Showed the Results of Their
Military Training.
Just at sundown, and while we were at supper, a drove of wild horses numbering 88 suddenly emerged from Thatcher's pass and deployed on the level ground of the valley. They had made use of the pass to cross from Climax valley, where grass and water might have failed them or horse hunters had appeared to give them a fright. They emerged from the pass in single file, led by a spotted stallion whose mane reached almost to his knees and whose tail touched the ground when he ®1S
was at rest. He wasn't as handsome as some of the drove leaders to be met with in the days of the wild horse, but he was yet a king among horses. Of the remainder of the herd about 30 I were fine animals. The others would hardly be worth the catching. Three or four were recognized as cavalry horses abandoned on the march, and twice that number had collar marks to prove I that they had stampeded from some immigrant train.
When clear of the pass, they formed in lino and advanced upon us to within a quarter of a mile. We had 75 horses at the lariat pins, and for half an hour we had all we could do to prevent a stampede. The wild horses were finally driven down the valley by two mounted men, but they did not seem to have much fear of us. On the contrary, the leader of the drove exhibited such temper that the men feared they would have to shoot him. It was an hour before our cavalry horses calmed down in the slightest. Every animal seemed enraged at the sight of the free herd, and the captain's Kentucky stallion acted as if possessed by a fiend. He had been doubly fastened at the beginning of the 9xcitement, and later on this proved a fortunate thing. He made the most tremendous efforts to get free, and when at length he realized the futility of further efforts in that direction he uttered shrill screams of rage and lashed out with his heels till no one dared approach him. All night long he stood on his feet pawing and snorting, and the camp sentinels reported the wild horses as hanging about within half a mile of us.
Daylight had come, and the sentinels of the night were coming into camp, when the wild horses rushed into view a mile below us. On the instant we
discovered them, and while four-fifths of the men were yet under their blankets the captain's horse uttered a scream which must have been taken as a sig nal. He reared up, shook his head like an angrv lion and freed himself of his halter. In the same instant every other horse in the command secured his liberty. Some pulled up the pins, some worked their heads clear of the straris, and away went the whole drove down the valley. It was not a stampede, as we naturally feared. Even had our animals desired to join the ranks of the free they would have been rebuffed. Our horses were bunched, and in a solid bunch they drove right through the lines of the wild horses and left four of them lying crippled on the grass as they passed. The prairie drove retreated np the valley half a mile and then wheeled about in a single line. When our drove halted and turned, there was a distance of three-quarters of a mile between the combatants. Wo were ordered to fall in, with a view of advancing upon the wild horses and driving them off, but before we had gotten into line it was too late.
The sight was a •wonderful one. The two leaders advanced as if they meant to decide the issue by a fight between them, but when within 40 yards of each other they wheeled and returned to their respective lines. Then we witnessed something which only a cavalryman will credit. Our horses fell into a double line and dressed to the right as perfectly as if a trooper had occupied each saddle, and while we looked the lines suddenly moved forward on a charge. When they swept past us, the alignment was absolutely perfect, with the captain's horse on the right and leading by about 20 feet. The line of wild horses bent and wavered, but did not break until struck. It was like striking a drumhead with a sledgo hammer. I believe that fully 40 horses went down under the shock, but all except four were speedily on their feet again. From this on it was a melee, the whole drove circling around, and each horse biting and kicking and displaying such ferocity as to astonish us. The mob fought past us down the valley and back, and right in front of the camp the climax came. The battle had been raging half an hour, when the spotted stallion hobbled out of it on three legs and bleeding from half a dozen wounds, and that seemed to take the pluck out of his followers. Some ran up the valley and some down, but of the 88 onty 57 got away. When the hottest of ifc was over, we dashed in and secured a horse here and there, and in this manner we finally got hold of the last one, which was the captain's.
Of the 75 only 5 had escaped scot free. Every one of the others had been bitten and kicked, and 12 of them were so crippled as to be worthless. In almost every instance our horses had kicked off both hind shoes, and in some cases the front ones were gone as well. There were 7 dead and 36 crippled horses on that battlefield when hostilities ceased, and of the 57 wild horses which made their escape many were limping badly. Before breaking camp we turned to and put an end to the sufferings of the cripples, and we were not yet in the saddle when a hundred buzzards and a dozen wolves were feasting on the bodies.—Detroit Free Press.
A tough or freshly killed fowl may be made tender by biwyiug in the ground for some hours.
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