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SATURDAY, FEB 22, 1896 S(ss

HEPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

Pnrsaaut to the call of the Republican fptattj Committee, the Republicans of the Several townships of Hancock county, tprll meet at 1 o'clock p. m. on Saturday, Jftarch 7th, 1896, to transact the follow.fug business: 1st. To appoint delejat.es and altercates to the district convention to be held fct C'.nuersville, March 19th, 1896, to jCtiocse drflegates to the natioual convention and nominate a presidential elector. 2d. To appoint d^le^ates and alrern.ktes to the State convention to be held tg% Indianapolis, May 7th, 1896. 3n each o•. thes* conv^nt'oiis strict g.rcd State Hancock unty Will he entitled to ten delegates, which art# hereby uistrifcijred to the several townships as follows:

Jn each case let «n alternate be selected cr every delegate. Townships Del. Alt Place of Meeting Blue Kiver 1 1 Township Hall firm dywine 1 1 Carr lhon .Brown 1 I Warrington P.iick Creek Mt omfort Outer '2 2 Court Room n-en I 1

Jackson 1 1 Charlotti'sviHe -ar Creek 1 New Tales ine trnr,n I 1 rtville

L-eb good representative Republicans t: who will he selected as delegdts to 5 ch convention.

The secretary of each cenvention is re-^"e-ted to make out a list of the delegates fj' alternates to each convt-ntion iins.v -liately after the close of the conven-

Vj and mail It tu the County iairuian rref-nrteld. My order of the C-ntral Committee. J?MITAKD T. ROBERTS, X. SPENCER,

Secretary. Ch tirman.

SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES.

WHICH AI.L, ARE IN vi n- i.

Corner Pennsylvania and South Streets.

There will be no preaching at this Church tomorrow morning as the congregation wi 1 join with the Christian church &n tinir dedicatory services. In the evenuiig. there will be preaching at 7 J*clock.

FIRST M. E. CHURCH. M. E. NETHEROUT, PASTOR. 'Corner State and South Streets.

Sunday school 9 am. There will be AO service at 10:30 a. m. on account of the dedication of the new Christian church

The funeral of Mrs. Augustus Dennis wnr at 2 o'clock. '-fitrly love feast will be held at p. m. At 7 p. to. Rev. A. E. Mahia D. 2D of Richmond, Ind.^ will preach. All cordially invited.

M. P. CHURCH. MARTIN, PASTOR. South Street.

S. fit 9 o'clock, Junior C. E. sfefe

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•itjjeef^^ at 2 o'clock. C. E. prayer •eifeetirig at the church at 6 o'clock and •pfrac'aiDg at 7, subject "A Flight of Ctove Special revival services tonight. Turee at the alter. Come one and all,

The Glass Works Start np. &y the starting of the S. R. Wells aud Columbia Window Glass factotoday all three of the glass faeries of Greenfield are now in full |operton. This adds very largely to the iroeperity of our city as the money paid l* by these factories is again paid out to ierchantsj mechanics and ether business jf«®rerprize8 in the city. Dollars in Green-

Id more lively are counted many times ever in the course ef t^ ye« which is C&e proper way as it makes every citizen

Ah are ia the general prosperity.

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A Small Karat for Sale.

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MODERN CANDLES.

THEY ARE GREAT IMPROVEMENTS, OVER THOSE OF FORTY YEARS AGO/

The Unit of Light Has Been of Inestimable Service to Mankind—It Is a Mistake to Think That Gas and Electricity Have

Entirely Snuffed Out the Candle.

Now that candles have again come into use as a means for lighting reception rooms where gas is considered too hot and electric lights too glaring, comparisons are twing made with the candles of today »nd those of the long ago. He is not a very old man who still remembers the malodorous "tallow dip," sis to the pouud, that he bought at the grocery or perhaps may have helped to make in a domestic way on Saturdays when at home from school.

It is but a few years since candle molds were a very important and necessary part of every household, and yet so completely are they now banished to the limbo of forgotten and useless things that there must be thousands of young people to whom a pair of snuffers and a candle mold would prove undoubted curiosities. They were not very pleasaut to the nostrils, those old fashioned tallow candles, their illuminating power was not good, and their need of constant snuffing was indispensable, and though the fingers were the handiest of snuffers

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•object* of tlie lJifi'.-ieiit Pastors—SundaySchool and C. E. Announcements,'ami tffilier Iicins of Intere-t.

FRIENDS' CHURCH, L1NDLEV A. WELLS, PASTOR. North StHte Street.

Sunday school at 9 a. m. C. E. prayer meeting at 6 p. m. Preaching at m. Everybody will receive a hearty ^t'lcome. Subject The salt of the earth. "Our morning preaching service is called in, in favor of the dedication of the new

C/hristian church. Remember our Sabfjath school will be fifteen minutes earlier Hot Sabbath n.crnu'p.

PRE3BYTEUI AN CHURCH. E. W. SOWERS, PASTOR.

was very apt to get badly

smudged in the course of an evening. Yet the world stumbled along with no better light than that for 18 centuries and accomplished considerable things on the way. Great scholars were made by saved up candle ends, great volumes written and the world enlightened, even if the writers and teachers groped a great deal.

The great performances of Qarrick and Siddons were given behind footlights of tallow candles, and the candle snuffer was one of the most important of supers in the theater of the olden time. "Without a candle snuffer," says Goldsmith of a play he had seen, "the piece would lose half its embellishments."

In those days "early to bed and early to rise" was a maxim that had much more significance, for it was necessary to get more out of daylight than in this era of gas and electricity. Candles have always occupied an important place in. public worship. In the old times Christmas was called the Feast of Lights, because many candles were used at the feast, while the custom of setting a candle at the head of a dead person after being "laid out" is still a practice.

But if people think that candles are not much used nowadays they are mistaken. There are still several candle manufactories in New York. A very large export business is done here, chiefly to the West Indies and Central America. In the United States sales are principally in the western states. The mining region takes large quantities, for no light but candles is used in gold and silver mining.

Candles are also used for church purposes, at country hotels, and to some extent in families. Many of the people of the east side, newly come to the country, use candles in preference to oil, being accustomed to candies and afraid of the oil. Although it is not a great while before they are won over to the use of oil, there are always thousands of others who, for the first few months of their being here, shun oil as they would a deadly poison.

No branch of industry has undergone the change that candle making has in the last 80 years. Formerly it was merely a mechanical operation. Anybody could make candles and almost everybody did.

Now it is a scientific industry, bringing to its aid the resources of chemistry. Formerly a candle was a greasy, noisome thing that one usually handled with disgust now it is artistic and refined and can be handled without the least offense. The wick is so prepared that the combustion is complete, and snuffers have long been banished. An ancient candle maker could only work with materials already provided by nature, so that he had to use fats, with all their impurities.

The modern candle maker by chemical process removes impurities, which leaves him nothing but the hard and white fat for his candles. Fat changed by this process is called stearine, and from this material are made the star and stearic wax candles. These are extremely hard and are sometimes called adamantine, do not grease the hands and give a soft and pleasing light. Spermaceti and wax candles are also made.

The candle has ever remained the unit of light. Sometimes you hear of a light, say gas, being of 25 candle power. The standard is a spermaceti candle burning at the rate of 120 grains of sperm per hour. There are candles, too, which are made of paraffin, but no candles are used so extensively as the star or stearine.

The great improvement in the manufacture of candles dates from the investigations of the French chemist, M. Chevreul. He discovered that the fat of tallow was separable from the oil, and the result of the process was two valuable products—stearine and glycerin. Those who have used the candles of the past can scarcely realize that candles can now be shipped to warm climates. In former days a merchant would as soon have thought of exporting skates or snowshoes to Havana as a oargo of tallow candles. They would have all melted into an indistinguishable mass going across the gulf of Mexioo. But such candles as are made now can be used in the hottest olimate in the world.

Candles, however, are not a cheap light. A box of them will cost as much as a barrel of oil, and yet the barrel of oil contains nearly 30 times the illumi« Dating power of the box of candles. Th« only great advantage of the candle is its Kaf(j"v.

CM f^nn gas are much cheaper. Where i-ar *1• used danger from fire is re« ?v rha lowest.—New York World

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I Baffled, but bravely, like a stag at bay. She faced the driving gale and angry sea Under short canvas, and with helm a-lee,

Hovp to, upon the starboard tack, she \bj Axi looked into the wind's wild eyes that day, Over the great green rolling billows she

Bode like a stortn bird, and did seem to be A mist born phantom rising from the spray. Her tightened weather shrouds rang like a lyre,

Swept by the furious storm king as he passed Wild ocean wraiths wailed in the thundering choir,

A thousand demons shrieked in every blast Yet, better far to battle with the gale Than drift o'er glassy seas with listless sail. —Wave.

TRIAL BY FIRE.

The major was one of the many well born Englishmen who come to California with a younger son's portion and a email monthly allowance and hope to make a fortune on a vineyard or a wheat lancb. The plan always looks feasible in England, and the agent assures his victim that the thousand pounds will buy a teu acre plot, plant vines, build a decent bungalow and tide the owner over until the vines shall bear and bring him a harvest of good American gold.

The major was goiug the way of many of his English friends. The £1,000 legacy was gone, and the monthly allowance of £20 (which, viewed from a distance, seemed large) always grew painfully small as it neared California and the debts it was supposed to cover. The major's little mountain vineyard had been destroyed by phylloxera, and he was living on the uncertain promise of a number of green shoots, called, respectfully, "the olive orchard." But the major was not unhappy. When he was not tilling tho soil, he sat on his little veranda, with his brier wood pipe between his teeth and studied the long, narrow, picturesque Napa valley far below.

It may be that the major's failure to succeed in the grape business was not the fault of the country, but that his genial, unpractical nature was the true obstacle to success. The major was, iu fact, the most helpless Englishman who ever came to California to take care of himself. The poor fellow became so convinced of this after a short trial that he engaged a man to act as valet to himself and incidentally cook the meals for both.

The major was a solitary bachelor then. The gods alone know in what unpropitious moment he picked up Pete to hang about his neck, a millstone of inefficiency. Pete's poverty must have been his recommendation and the major's poverty the excuse for keeping him. Pete had about as much knowledge of laying out and caring for a man's wardrobe as the major had of running a ranch. The consequence was that the major often presented himself at his friends' houses in the most surprising garb—a combination of white duck trousers, black frock coat and russet hinting boots being one of Pete's masterpieces. In his capacity as cook Pete was not one whit more efficient and often suffered mental agony over the ponderous directions of the major's French cookbook, which were like the hieroglyphics of the ancients to his clouded intellect. Considering the diet of sour bread and tinned meats which Pete provided, it is only less than marvelous that his benefactor was still alive.

When the major married Ellie Smith, a pretty San Francisco girl, Pete was promoted to be manager of the ranch and expended his grooming talents on the pet mule. The major's wife was "artistic." She had studied sketching and did some really clever bits. Her admiring husband was sure that she possessed the divine afflatus, and consequently much time was devoted to art and little time to ranching.

But this was not without protest from one individual. NotthatbewasdisturbI ed by lack of work, but poor Pete was oftener than not the unwilling model for Ellie's clever studies. One day Pete posed for 'The Man With the Hoe." His temper was particularly tried on that occasion, for he had taken up his tool with the honest intention of weeding the primitive vegetable garden. Though he had scudded through the back yard and climbed the rear fence he had not counted on meeting his young mistress in the barnyard. He began to wrestle with the weeds and pretended not to see her. His education, however, had not included a sight of Millet's picture, or he would have fled down the mountain side in utter despair. "Stop, stop, Peter, right there. Don't move an inch," called the sweet voice that drove him to madness'. "Kenneth," Ellie called to her husband, look. Isn't it wonderful? The lights, the pose, the very landscape like"— 'The Man With the Hoe,' shouted the major gleefully. "I'll get your paints, Ellie. Hold on, Pete!" And before that honest son of toil had time to collect his scattered senses, he found himself posing in a very uncomfortable attitude, with the Napa valley lying at his feet and the major's familiar phrases ringing in his ears—"fine pose—jolly good subject—delicious coloring."

After Pete had posed for a hundred or more indifferent works of art without uames, he began to think of deserting his master aud leaving him to a just and awful fate. But this stupendous blow was averted by the arrival of Brompton Edwards, another Englishman, who had come to learn practical ranching under the direction of his father's old friend, the major.

After a week had been given up to driving his protege about the valley and introducing him to tho English colony, the major returned to his daily-routine of pruning olive trees and digging out worm eaten grapevines. Ellie soon discovered in the young man's clean cut features and fine, athletic figure an entirely new field for art study, and EdWards found the time pass more pleasftntly as a model than as an embryo rancher. They were together during tuosl of the daylight hours. When

Brompton was not posing for a wild Norseman or a Greek hero, he was sitting very close to Ellie, criticising, in Boft, caressing tones, the sketches of himself which she had been doing. W) rhout actually straying from the path duty, Ellie was treading on dangerously uncertain territory, fclie quite frankly admitted to herself that she was pretty and charming, and, being of that mind, she did not repress comparisons between her husband and the younger m.m.

Matters had arrived at a state where a Warm hearted but vain youug woman needed a friend with the strength to hold up a good, powerful, unrelenting mirror for her to gaze into. Pete could have held up the mirror with right good will, but he did not know how. In those days he followed the major around ith doglike devotion, and only glowered when Ellie came out to the orchard one morning with her paints and succeprlcd in bringing upon herself a scolding from her overindulgent husband. She held her head very high and stiff, and marched over the hill some distance away, where she seated herself and pretended to sketch, but was in reality nursuig her injured feelings to keep them alive. Tho major watched her disappear wifh a pained expression on bis good natured face, and then went dejectedly into the house. Pete was deeply incensed against Ellie, and made another solemn vow to desert the ranch. It was the ninety and ninth time that he had done so, and this time he sealed the vow with an oath.

The long grass on the Napa hills was burned and crisp and Eli:e was daubing yeliow ocher and burnt umber over bet canvas with vicious strokes. She was not giving any attention to her work, however, for an athletic form stood between her and the landscape, aud she was indulging in a very foolish day dream. To do the little woman justice, she was not in love with Brompton, line her vanity had been stimulated to such wonderful activity by bis youthful gallantries that she fancied he was deeply infatuated with her. She wondered if he would ever tell her that he loved her. If she could only have some test of his love, what a satisfaction it would be!

Over on the mountain side a half mile away Pete leaned on his hoe and watched a thread of fire crawling like a red snake through the underbrush of chaparral manzanita. He knew only too well that no human power could stop it, and that within a few minutes tho gentle breeze would cause a flying spark to fall upon the loug dry grass, and puff—the -crawling snake would become a great swirling, galloping mass of flame and smoke and would pass over the very place where Ellie sat sulk'ng and dreaming. Pete bad firmly determined to leave the ranch. He had washed his hands of these people. He would not—but the grass was on fire, and Pete made a dash for the house, yelling at the top of his lungs for the major.

The volume of smoke was rising high when Ellie rose to her feet and sniffed the air. Before she could gather up her paints a thin rim of fire ran along the top of the little hill above her. The small birds and insects rose from the ground with a whir and scattered down the hillside. Ellie glanced quickly backward and saw the fire licking up tho grass as it bore down upon her and the smoke rolling heavenward in dense, sooty clouds. She did not lose her presence of mind, but remembered a small plowed field a short distance away, where the flames could not reach her, and ran nimbly down the hill, with her fluttering skirts gathering cockle burs and sticker weed as she sped.

When she was fairly on the plowed ground and gasping for breath, she saw the young Englishman tearing along the hill at a frantic rate. Through the smoke he looked pale and frightened. Ellie felt a thrill of satisfaction. Here was the longed for proof of his love. He thought she was in danger and had come to her rtiScue. A deep blush mounted to her cheeks and her heart beat to suffocation. But he did not seem to see her. It was evident to her that he was orazed with fear and would plunge into the fire in search of her. Merciful God! He would be burned. "Brompton!" she screamed. "Dear Brompton, I am here—safe."

The fire was very close, and she had to throw herself flat on the ground to escape being burned. She gave one moxe despairing cry as she felt the hot breath scorch her clothing. "Brompton! Brompton! Brompton!"

A great wave of smoke and flame swept around the edges of the plowed ground, and for a minute nothing could be seen or heard. Fortunately for Ellie the dry grass burned like tinder, and the fire was soon roaring down the hill toward the valley.

When Ellio, choked and frightened, lifted her head, she saw the thiu, long, scantily clad legs of her husband bounding over the blackened earth toward her. His duck trousers were smeared with soot, and he had a wet blanket about his shoulders. He could not speak, but caught Ellie in his arms and burst into stifled sobs.

Back of them was heard the voice of Brompton Edwards. "Hello there, major!" he called. "I had a very narrow squeak of it. My hammock and books ire burned to tinder by this. By Jove, old fellow, you are burned yourself, aren't you? Your wife was safe enough. I knew she could take care of herself."

But Ellie buried her head in the wet blanket with a shudder and burst into tears of shame and contriti on. "Well, well," gasped Pete, who had stumbled up the hill with a bundle of Wet sacks. "I never was so plaguey soared in my life. Thought you'd be burned sure, Miss Ellie. Me and the major'll have a fine time next week clearing"-—

For Pete had reconsidered his ninety and ninth vow. Indeed it was only a week later when he was speculating if there was ever a happier couple than the major and his Ellie. And Pete beamed as he thought of the ignoble part Brompton Edwards played on the day of the Sre.—Stella Walthall Belohk in San Franc isQo Argonaut.

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