Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 19 February 1896 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY, FEB, 19, 1896

Tom Reed has Maine and Texas extreme Wjn^forhitn for Preside at. If he can .(feenre and protect his ceuter now, he is », all right. .Jotitf BULL id MNXIOUSIY awaiting a re-port-is to whether there are any gold lei aloul tie N rtli la. *here

lie lays a claim thQ.m rtgM now.

are

CLVKLA.ND aud irliale sae tlie treasury sinking lower every day aud the fcainiliacln* auuoancement is madetia

Knottier bond sale will be male in a few fl*vs. Why not bring the revenues of *},e oouutyup to the expenditures and #t the rid sal^s.

Im the LWawaiv, eoauty primary Saturday Gouge ssman Charles viHeury re 3ived a m«j )"ty of the votes aud will therefore receive the -solid vote of that couuty for the Congressional nomination. His opponent was I. P. Witts, of Winchester. Mr. H«n-v w" -"iominated.

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J. W. McCord, teachav ac No. 2 school ko-i.-,e in this township, is very sick. ,Liss Jennie Pops. who. is teaching at W^t.aud, was at home Saturday. ,f'Tne Socia. Gviss" that was given at tl««» U»iversalist- Church Saturday even iUjr, waa very entertaining.

Wlh be

given again Friday evening, Feb. 21st. General admission, ou\y ten cents. rue pro scti'd meeting at the M. E. (Jturcli closed Suuday night. -3 D. McCord, a fanner living south of A^Curdsville, with his family were away 17., home last Saturday, wheu they returned they found everything "topsyiurveyM and all their nlverware, revolver, i: :ieral-rod and over five dollars in iiiey was missing. Mr McCord being •iK. -.lembsr of the "Horse Thief Detective

A ociation," came to McCordsvilie and re sorted to the company, the bloodinds of Anierson were sent for imme d' toely, and arrived upjn the scene about eii o'clock on Sunday morning, but it vr»s useless, as it was reported that his sou had done it all, jiwt for a ke. It seems like that is carrying a jkejust a little too far. It cost $15 and expanses lor the hounds. Costly joke wasn't it?

James McConuell, living west of here iti Marion Co., died of consumption Mon­

day morning. Twelve affidavits were filed in Squire Day's court Monday morning. •€i-»ude McFarlan was fined $5 and costs for disturbing public gathering at the Haiversa isfc Church and $L aud costs for drunk, making in all, $2'3 50. Warrants are out for the arrest of others. It is well 4q let the young people know that we Lave laws. Others may profit by this example.

Mr. Walter Todd taught for Squire Bay on Monday. The Squire was "court iug

The Masons have placed a fine datestone on their room. It contains emblems of each of the four branches of Masonry.

A musical and literary entertainment Will be given in the Ebenezer M. E. Qnirch on Saturday night, Feb 29th., toy the young people of the Epworth

League of the M. E Church in McCords ville The music will consist of solos, duetts, quartetts, and choruses, the literary programme will consist of recitations, Select readings, pantomines etc. Proceeds for the benefit of the M. E. Church at Ebenezer. General admission 10 cents.

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Mrs. John Kelly is sick with typhoid fe'ver. Miss A'-na Williamson who has been visioing relatives at Anderson for a few weeks recurnei home last Tuesday.

Rev. James Mills, of Marion, assisted fc 7 Rev. O. C. Beuson aud others will begin a series of meetings at the school fcouse here in about three weeks.

Mrs. Ves Hamilton WAS sick with tonsilitis last week. Isaac Vandyne who has been sick with phoid fever for several weeks is improving slowly.

Mrs. Sarah Conkling and daughter, Delia and Leota, visited Henry Woods and £&mily last week.

H. O. Boren and wife, of near Knightstown, spent Sunday with relatives here.Mrs. Ethel Hamilton, *of Anderson, limits her parents, Isaac Williamson and wi|e, and other relatives here last week.

Several from this place have been attSTjdicg the revival at Prairie. Floyd Kitterman's new house is almost completed.

Only three more weeks of school. Orval Hugheswentto Indianapolis, on business laat Saturday. :,.f Mrs. Lydia Johnson and daughter,

Itfartie, spent the day with Mrs. W. D. Shomas and family last Wednesday. Prayer meeting at the M. E. church eferv Thursday night.

Dim Ulner and wife visited the former's fej/ f^r^nts at Kennard last Saturday night. Some of our young peop'e attended a ••v." leap year ball at Wilkinson Thursday

Bight. Ernest Thomas aud Alf Hamilton attended church at Clear Spring one night fast week.

Try a cau of Hopkins' Steamed Homtug (Flailed Corn). It is delicious. Fall 10c. 87dw4

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ri)0 SNAKES OBABMf

THERE ARE PROS AND CONS TO THIS QUESTION APPARENTLY.

1 Tale From Texas Which Supports the Affirmative, but There Are Naturalists Who Say No—Claim That the Snake's

Victims Are Self Hypnotized.

A gopher snake at Escondido has been the cause of much earnest discussion among local naturalists. The question Siscussed was, "Do Snakes Charm or Hypnotize Their Prey?" Oue of the naturalists had theunusnal but fortunate axperience at Escoudido of happening npon a large gopher snake just as the reptile was about to overcome a trernoliug cottontail rabbit and envelop the animal in its deadly coils. For some rime the naturalist watched the snake's movements.

It was within 10 or 12 inches of the apparently fascinated rabbit. Silently md almost impeiceptibly the snake had wormed its way nearer and nearer to its Fictirn. Its eyes glistened with an inense brightness. Not a movement did it make which might alarm the timid •abbit. The forked tongue, which to 'Jbe eye of a human being is so repulsive *nd intended to be terrifying, appeared exert an entirely different influence jpon the mind of tho innocent rabbit

This darting tongue either excited the victim's curiosity or caused the animal to so concentrate its mind on the snake's tongue as to throw that mind into a hypnotic condition of such strength that it could not break the spell and run away from impending death. Tho forked tongue darted out of the snake's mouth almost as regularly and rapidly as the needle of a sewing machine rises and falls in the cloth. The lithe body crept nearer and nearer. The rabbit was motionless. Its eye was fixed on the piercing eye of the snake. Even the waving of tlie wind kissed shrubs about tho rabbit failed to break the spell, and softly and slowly grim death in snake form wreathed its folds about the sreatme. Then was the spell broken.

But the strong coils of the snake were in position. Never ai rabbit lived that Dould break that embrace of death. Realizing at last the terrible peril, the terrified rabbit struggled vainly to escape, and as the rings of the snake drew closer about the frail form so tightly that breathing became difficult the rabbit uttered a despairing cry almost human in its intenseness and sound. It was the rabbit's last earthly utterance. An extra twist of the cruel coils and poor bunny was no more. Lungs, heart and bones were literally crushed. The snake did not relax the pressure for fully ten minutes. Unwinding itself, the snake dragged the prey under an adjoining bush for dinner.

To the naturalist, who watched the capture of the rabbit it appeared as if the snake had certainly fascinated the animal. As a gopher snake is not poisonous and has no well developed fangs its only means of killing prey is by constriction. In order to catch an animal it seems almost necessary for the snake to fascinate the victim.

Other naturalists claim that snakes do not possess the power of fascinating either birds or animals. One man who has given the matter much study remarked that "no error is axiparently more rooted in the human min^d than that which attributes to snakes this peculiar power of fascination." By this power they are said to be able so to paralyze their victims that tho birds or animals are rendered utterly incapable of movement and wait- for the attack of a snake or even go forward to meet it in fear and trembling, but without any power of retaliation.

Now, any one who watches the behavior of small animals placed alive as food in the cages in which snakes are kept in captivity in the hope of seeing this marvelous power in operation will be grievously disappointed. Chickens, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, all move about with an utter absence of fear of the snakes. My belief is that it is possible to account for the popular belief that snakes possess a power to fascinate for several reasons. An observer may come on the scene and find a number of birds mobbing a snake just as they will mob an owl or a buzzard. The dashes of the bird toward the snake and their fluttering round it may easily be put down to the effect of the snake's glance, while they are in reality merely attempts of the birds to drive off the intruder. A mother bird whose young are attacked will almost certainly behave in this way and may herself fall a victim, not to the power of fascination in the snake, but to the force of her maternal feelings.

It may be the mobbing of the snake by the companions of a victim tdiat has been seized or of a mother whose nest has been robbed it may be simply the effect of poison already injected before the observer has come upon the scene, or it may be simple curiosity. In ninetynine cases out of a hundred one or the other of these causes has been at work. What, then, of the hundredth case, and what about the fascination exercised on man, cases of which have undoubtedly been recorded? The explanation lies in the probability that it is a case of self hypnotism.

It is an error to suppose that will power has anything to do with the effect. The matter has been taken up scientifically by the medical profession and it has been found that the hypnotic state of sleep or trance, or whatever it may be termed, can be produced by looking fixedly at the operator or at a coin or at the tip of one's own nose. It is not necessary to go into the question of how the result is brought about, but there is a physiological explanation. What happens then in the hundredth case is that the man or the animal may be self hypnotized by gazing fixedly at the snake, tho subject being thus thrown into a sort of trance, making no attempt to move out of danger unless roused by some exterior influence.—'San Diego Cor. Chicago Tinjea-Herald.

The "general" of our Army has no dnti&fl p^esoribed.

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King of Tigre, comrade true. Where in all thine isles art thonf Bailing on Fonseca blue?

Wearing Amapala now? King of Tigre, where art thou? Batt ing for Antilles' queen?

Saber hilt or olive bough? Crown of dust or laurel green? Raving love or marriage vow?

King and comrade, where art thou?

Sailing on Pacific

6f)as?

Pitching tents in Pima now? Underneath magnolia trees? Thatch of palm or cedar hough?

Soldier singer, where art thou?

Coasting on tho Oregon? Saddla bow or birchen prow? Round the isles of Amazon?

Pair.pas, plain or mountain brow? Princo of rovers, where art thou? Answer me from out the westl 1 am weary, stricken now Thou art strong, and I would rest

Beach a hand with lifted brosv! King of Tigre, where art thou?" —Charles Warren Stoddard.

FANNINtt'S HEART.

Miss Irwin was very busy. She was handling a difficult assignment which by rights should have been given to one of the men reporters, and so it happened that she remained after every one else had goue to dinner, and for some time the walls of the city editor's room had listened to the unsusual sound at such an hour of a bad stub pen scratching over thin brown paper.

Finally the monotonous scratching was interrupted by the opening of a door, and Fanning, tho police reporter, hastily entered. Miss Irwin paused in her story Inug enough to look up. "Oh," she said, "it's you, Fanning. Been to dinner already?" "No, ma'am, not yet. I'm looking for Scranton. Hasn't come back yet, lius he?" "Not yet. Anything lean do for you?" "No, thanks. I just wanted to see him about a story—that little chap that was hurt. Read about it, didn't you? Scranton's interested. The little chap's dying. I've just come from the house. The doctors all say he'll die tonight, and I wanted to tell Scranton. I am so worried. Pshaw, I'm worried sick. I"— He paused, ran his fingers through his hair and looked embarrassed. "Come, now, Fanning, tell me all about it," said the thoroughly interested Miss Irwin. "There ain't much to tell. Oh, you mean what I'm worrying about? 'Well, to put the whole thing in a few lines, I'm afraid he might not die in time for me to get my story for the morning's paper. Just think of what I'd lose— such a beautiful story."

Miss Irwin looked shocked, and Fanning saw it. His blue eyes took on a resolute expression, but the muscles of his face did not move, nor did his red cheeks grow the least bit redder. He lit a cigarette and said doggedly: "Yes, ma'am so long as he's going to die—they said he won't live through tonight—he might have enough consideration for me to arrange it in time. Just my luck to get scooped." And he knocked off some cigarette ashes.

Miss Irwin gazed at the boy in astonishment. "Why, you cruel, cruel fellow," she exclaimed, in a disappointed tone, "I didn't tliink you were that sort.

It was Fanning's turn to look disappointed. "You seem to think, because I talk as I do, that a police reporter hasn't any feelings at all," he said, in an injured way. "Maybe we've got more than you think. Now, there ain't anybody sorrier than I am for that little boy. Why, his mother and siste#.think I'm the best friend they've got, because if I hadn't said my say, the bully who hurt the little chap wouldn't have been held at all. I fixed him all right enough, though made things pretty lively at the police court, didn't I? Well, I guess. "Say, if he would only hurry up and die in time I could write the most elegant and touching story. You just ought to see him. Everybody takes so much interest in him, and folks send him books and toys and jelly and all sorts of good things to eat. When I saw him this evening, the bed was covered with playthings, but if you'll believe it, he didn't seem to care for 'em at all. The only thing he noticed was a bunch of roses somebody had sent him. He wouldn't part with 'em, and when I saw him lying back there with the flowers against his cheek, I thought how pretty it would be for me to have him die with them in his hand. Say, wouldn't that be picturesque? I won't bother you, though, any longer. If you see Scranton, tell him about it he'll be interested.

The door closed, and Mis* Irwin was again alone. She couldn't take up the train of thought she had been pursuing when interrupted, and she still had the shocked look she assumed at the beginning of Fanning's conversation. "Such a hardened fellow," she muttered, "and yet at heart I really believe him to be what he says he is."

The next morning Miss Irwin scanned the papers, but saw nothing about the boy. The evening papers contained long accounts of his life and death. Miss Irwin felt rather sorry that Fanning, with all his cruel, kind heart, had been scooped. She was sure his account would have surpassed those she had read, and she sighed as she thought of the roses. They had not been mentioned at all.

Several days passed. She was anxious to meet the police reporter. Cariosity caused her to wonder what he would say. Finally the chance came. She happened to be waiting for a car when Fanning passed. She stopped him. "By tho way, Fanning, I saw yon were cheated out of your story about the little hoy."

Yes, I was. Luck's dead against me." "What time did he die?" "Three a. m. exactly. Just too late for me to get in even a line. I was, there when he died." "Poor, dear, little fellow! How did he die?" "He died on space rates, ma'am."

Miss Irwin thought that she had besome used to the reporter's peculiar

style, but his reply was too much far hfer. When she regained her composure, she fgfcl: "f'inean, did he know anybody? Was he conscious to the last?" "Oh, y^s. He just opened his eyes then he shut 'em again, and ho opened 'em again and smiled real sweet at bis mother and sister and me, and then, and then he—he just died nice, real nice. "Say," he touched Miss Irwiu on the arm and laughed, "what do you suppose? His mother thinks so much of i.iG she asked me to pick out the coflln said she didn't know what would be appropriate. I selected a little beauty. Say, you ought to have seen him in it.

Miss Irwin was becoming vastly interested in Fanning. He was so diii'erent from any one she had ever met before. Then, too, he puzzled her. liis conversation was certainly of a "don't care" style, but somehow she couldn't believe him to be as heartless as he seemed. His story about the death of the little boy had affected her greatly so much so, in fact, that she went to see the sorrow stricken mother.

Oh," said the mother, between her tears, "you are from The Morning Herald, you say? It is so kind of yon to come. My poor little boy thought The Herald was the beat paper in town he often sold it. If all the people on The Herald are so good and kind as you and Mr. Fanning"— "Fanning!" "Yes, do you know him? I don't know what on earth I would have uone in all my trouble if it hadn't Luen for him. He's got the kindest, most generous heart. 'The Lord loveth a cheerful giver,' bat then, Mr. Fanning can afford to give, and"— "Fanning afford to give!" ejaculated Miss Irwin. "Why"— "It's a blessed tlii'ig to be rich, and to have so much power on a great brj p*aper like The Herald," continued tho elder woman. 'Of course, if ho had been poorer off than he really is, I wouldn't have let him do what he did. "May 1 ask what he did?" inqu.red Miss Irsvin. "Yes, indeed, and I'm only too glad to tell you about it. I believo in mentioning good deeds. Mr. Fanning's paper took such an interest in my little boy that it printed long columns about him, and then Mr. Fanning had the man who injured my boy put in jail, and then he sent him flowers beautiful roses, tho ones he was buried with—aud Mr. Fanning even bought the coffin with his own money. When I told hiin not to do that, ho laughed and said that was nothing—he could afford it." "So," mused the lady reporter, as she walked away, "Fanning has spent all his hard earned savings on tho flowers and coffin. He's a dear, good boy."— Omaha Herald.

Always Room For "Isera."

"The kind of men I want to hire," said a newspaper publisher tho other day while talking to a friend, "are seldom to be had. No matter what their lines of business 'isers' (a word that rhymes with scissors) are never out of work and always get good money. I want some isers." "Isers?" exclaimed his companion. "What on larth are isers?" "To explain what they are," replied the publisher, "let me tell you a story of a 'want ad.' Once a man wished to employ for his circus an acrobat who could throw triple somersaults. So he put a 'want ad.' in the paper. In reply to the advertisement ho received 50 letters. Together with a friend he read them over. Some of the letters he put in a pile by themselves. They were the ones that read something like this: "DEAR SIK—You advertise for a man who can throw a triple somersault. I used to throw triple somersaults and think that after a little practice I could do it again. I'd like a trial. "The other letters were put in another pile and ran something like this: "Deaii Sill—Iam a good acrobat but, while I never have thrown triple somersaults, I think with a little practice I could do it. I'd like to have a trial. 'Well,' said the circus man, as he shook his head sadly, 'there are 50 letters from 50 acrobats. Twenty-five of them are "has beens," 25 are "going to bes," but there ain't an "iser" in the whole lot.' Now, I want 'isers,' and so does every other business man, but they are all employed.''—New York Tribune.

Mistaken Kindness.

One of the first resolutions which are formed by men and women who are succeeding in life, that is, as measured by the only standard in use nowadays, increasing their possessions far beyond their actual needs, is that they will put safeguards around their children the hardships which they themselves contended against shall never, if they can help it, be encountered by their offspring. They not only coddle themselves, indulge themselves with unaccustomed luxuries and spare themselves all avoidable physical exertion, but they believe this course to be the right way to live, and that if it is good for them, it is good for their children. They do not understand that character is formed ander the pressure of the compulsory hardships and self denials of youth, just as they forget that health is not a gift or an accident, but the reward of febstinence and of hard work under natural conditions, perhaps continued through several generations.—Frederick Tudor.

First Electric Light In a Theater.

It is beiieved that the first electric light installed in an American theater was a Jabloehkoff candle, used as a focusing lamp in the old California thefcter, in Bush street, San Francisco, in 1878. The managers of the theater at ihat time were Messrs. Barton & Hill, Heneral Barton and Frank Lawler. The (day was "Antony and Cleopatra," Rose Kytinge and Cyril Searle taking the Ieadihg parts. Mr. A. H. Reece was the Engineer in charge of the work.

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is not a theater in the United Hates which could dispense with the lectric light.—Electrioity.

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