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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1896.

REPUBLICAN

POLITICAL BULLETIN. ANNOUNCEMENTS. EDWTN

C. HUNTINGTON, oi Sugawreektown•bip, desIreB to announce bis name as a eaadidate for the nora' alion ef Commiasioaer sf be Wwtera Distr'cfc of Hanco«k cou*ty. ••bjeot the decision of the Republican nominating conrtion.

REPUBLICAN

The ^Republicans of Hancock county will meet in delegate convention at 10 o'clock a. m., on Saturday, June 13th, 1896, in the Opera House, Greenfield, Ind., for the purpose of nominating a county ticket as follows: Representative, Prosecutor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Assessor, Surveyor, Coroner rand a Commissioner from the Middle district and one from the Western district, and such other ^business as may come before the convention.

There will be one delegate for each ten votes cast for Secretary of S^ite W. D. Owen in 1894.

The townships will meet -in mass conventions on

Saturday, May 23, 1896, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the places hereafter named and select the number of delegates apportioned to them, also an alternate for each delegate and certify the same to the County Chairman at once.

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Blueriver, Township Hall 16 Brandy wine, Cowden School House.... 7 Brown, Warrington 18 Buckcreek, Center School House 15 Center, Court House 75 Green, Eden 12 Jackson, Cleveland 19 Sugarcreek, New Palestine 18 Vernon, Fortville 28

Let the be a large turnout of the Republicans of the county and a representative class of delegates be selected.

N. R. SPENCER,

HOWARD ROBERTS, Chairman. Secretary.

POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.

Republican National convention, St. Louis, June 16. Democratic State convention, Indianapolis, June 24.

Democratic National convention, Chicago July 7. Populist convention, St. Louis, July 22.

Silver Party convention, St. Louis, July 22. Democratic District convention, New Castle, July 22.

Do Not Tlilnk

Of leaving the city for a week or a month's visit during the summer without ordering the DAILY REPUBLICAN. It will cost you but 6 cents a week or 25 cents a month, and keep you thoroughly posted on the city and county news and aLo give you a complete resume of State, national and foreign news.

WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight and Wednesday.

STREET COMMISSIONER SAMUEL HOOK, is anxious that our city be put in the beat possible condition. Let every one clean the gutters and alleys adjacent to their property and he will see that the dirt is hauled away, Trash from lots is of course to be hauled away by owaers. If all citizens will look after their property, the city will at once take on a clean and genteel 'appearance and be in a better sanitary condition.

THE

free coinage Democrats in Indiana have the 'Sound money Cleveland Democrats cowed." The silverites are to be allowed to make the platform and name the candidate for Governor without a struggle. It does look a little peculiar though to see the President and his policy repudiated, as he is the only man in forty years that the Democrats have been able to elect president. He was elected on the strength of the idea that he was better than his party. Smiling Tom Taggart, the child of destiny, thinks that this is not his year and hps peremptorily declined to be a candidate for Governor. Taggart can tell when a political cyclone is coming and has sense enough to go in his cyclone cellar—the Mayor's office in the basement of the Marion county court house.

THE English toadying editors of the New York World, New York Herald and Commercial Advertiser are loud in their cries that Major McKinley answer their financial questions. They claim that the bankers and business men of New York are against McKinley, so are the English yon know and have been for sever?!

years, bnt the great American people are for the Ohio/ 'Napdeen. His record""®*, both the money apa tariff question" suitour people. He tifc*ffor America an against England ani' her policies where they conflict withfours. Of courts the? English tradesmeja anl their friends in America don't like McKinley bnt that is a strong recommendation,

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THB Boston Herald says "The City of Boston has paid out $13,309,210 for parks and she is getting her money back in the joy that comes from them." We hope to see Greenfield have a park some day. Some public spirited citizen could, with a small expenditure of money endear him* self to both present and future generations by presenting a park to the general 'public. It wonld add to the financial Talue of Greenfield property, make it more desirable place in which to live by adding to the joys and comforts of life.

THE mortality among Indiana children in the last year is something horrible to contemplate. From 50,000 to 100,000 children, sweet little cherubs from 6 to 21 years hare certainly perished since May 1895 when the school enumeration was taken. There is hardly a county but what has lost from 400 to 500, Hancock being among the lowest, but then we always did say that Hancock was a remarkably healthy county. The mortality seemed to be greatest at Indianapolis with a loss of 7000, and Vigo county, (Torre Haute) with its big breweries and distilleries also proved unhealthy as 5600 fell by the wayside. Laporte county with its marshy vapors reported over 1800 fatalities. 'Tis true and pity 'tis, 'tis true."

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Hall's Catarrh Cure is taker internally acting directly upon the blood and mucoi surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.

Choice Farming Lands in South Dakota Along the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railway can now be had upon usual terms. The crop prospects were never better and a glorious harvest for this year is already assured. Thousands of acres of unoccupied lands in over twenty counties are now open for settlement. For further information address H. F. Hunter Immigration Agent for South Dakota, No. 295 Dearborn street, Chic ago, 111. 20t2d&w

Eighty Acres of Farm Laid Free Or its equivalent in cash will be given to any active, wide awake and energetic young farmer, who will sell a section er more of the best farm Hnds along the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee&St. Paul Railway in South Dakota, at prices ranging from $7 to $12 per acre onehalf cash, balance on time.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime to secure a home, and this offer remains open for sfxty days only.

Thousands of acres in over twenty counties in South Dakota have been recently opened for settlement, which the railway company is anxious to have disposed of on favorably terms to actual set tiers. For further particulars vidress W. .E. Powell, General Immigration Agent, 410.01d Colony building, Chicago, III. Excursions every day from Chicago. 20t3d&w

Our esteemed fellow townsman W. R. Jones, says he has worn one pair of Vicuna skin shoes for two years and his opinion is that they are the best shoes he ever had—only $2. Sold by Lee C. Thayer.

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To Pittsburg, "Washington, St, Louts, Chicago and Elsewhere. Via Pennsylvania Short Lines.

Special excursion tickets will be sold via Pennsylvania Short Lines as follows: To Pittsburg, May 24th, 25th and 26th, account the National Prohibition Convention good returning'until• May 30th also on June 6th, 7th and 8th for the North American Saengerbund Convention good to return until June 13th.

To St. Louis, June 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th, for the Republican National Convention good returning until June 21st inclusive.

To Chicago, July 3d. 4th, 5th and 6th, for the National Democratic Convention good returning until July 12th.

To Washington, D. C., July 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, account the Christian Endeavor Convention valid to return*July 15th, with provision for extension of return limit until July 31st.

Special local excursions will also be run during the season in addition to the foregoing. Please bear in mind the concessions in fare will be granted over 4he Pennsylvania Short Lines, the desirable route on which all the comforts of travel may be enjoyed. Application for information addresed to passenger and ticket agents of the Pennsylvania System will be cheerfully and promptly answered. The person to see at Greenfield 1b W. H. Scott, Agt. 143tf

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REM4FU6GQNT.

I'm only a rock, a. big Jjlack rock, standing alone jpyJjbe sea, With no one near ^nJpifcory to hear.

I'm as lonesomeaylonesome can be. I'm only a rock, a grim old rock, Watching tha:s&ur,e&-Qn the shore, The sharer for years in the joys and fears

Of maidens and youths by the score. I'm only a rock, a Virren old rock, Sick of such talesT)!' love, Andl almost groan, though I'm only a stone,

When they swear by the stars above. I'm only a rock, a bleak old rock, But I know a thing or two— Whether made at night or in broad daylight

Buch pledges are seldom true. I'm only a rock, a strange old rock, Dreading the summer once more, When in their glory they'll tell the old story

I have heard so often before. I'm only a rock, dHiarted old rock, Ealf buried in siifA. and sand, Bport of the sea when the wind blows free,

My weary vigil I stand. —James T. Sullivan in Boston Qlobe.

CROWNED AT OLYMPIA.

Honors Paid to the YIetora In the Greclaa Athletic Contests. Immediately after each contest the successful athlete appeared before the judges and received a palm branch, and his name was heralded before the assembled throng. But at the close of all the contests, on the final day of the festival, the much coveted prizes were distributed. Into the altis at early morning streamed the long, joyous procession, headed by the judges, the religious and civil authorities, and the public guests, escorting the now brilliantly clad athletes and victorious horses bedecked with flowers. The song they sang was a song of victory by Archilochus, which began "Hail to thee, powerful Hercules, conqueror in the games, and to thee also, Iolaus, both famed for the spear I Tenella, tenella! All hail to the victor!"

A little boy from the priestly class had already cut with a golden knife some branches from the olive tree planted by Hercules, and crowns made rom these branches had been exposed in the temple of Hera upon a beautiful chryselephantine table made by Colotes. The crowns were then brought to the temple of Zeus, where, before the representatives of all Greece, the judges, clad in purple, crowned the heads of the victorious athletes. This Olympic crown, as the supreme reward of Greek ambition, is well expressed in the story of Diagoras. Himself a victor in the games, he returned in his old age to Olympiawith his two sons. Both bore off a prize, and then ran and caught tlicir father on their shoulders as the crowd of pilgrims pelted them with flowers. 'Die, Diagoras,'' they cried, 'for hou hast nothing more to live for!" With

High

joy the old man expired. The crowning of Olynipia did not end the victors' glory. Their statues were made by the most famous sculptors, their portraits painted by tlio most skillful artists, their deeds glorified in verse. They were feasted and maintained at public expense, received sea.ts of honor at the theater and were cherished as gods in the hearts of their countrymen. As Pindar has well expressed it, 'He that overcoineth hath, because of the games, a sweet tranquillity throughout his life forevermore."—"The Old Olympic Games,'' by Professor Allan Marquand, in Century.

King by Trade.

While in Geneva in 1891 Judge T. J. Mackey of South Carolina was selected by the American colony to deliver a Fourth of July oration at a banquet given in honor of the day. It was attended by all the foreign consuls, and among them was the consul general of Austria-Hungary, who furnished for Judge Mackey's address the following anecdote and vouched for its authenticity:

A number of Americans residing in Vienna in the year 1810 united to celebrate Washington's birthday, and invited the Emperor Francis of Austria to honor the occasion by his presence.

That genial monarch, a true gentleman, although "every inch, a king," overlooked the disregard of established forms into which his would be hosts had been betrayed by their patriotic zeal, and made this answer in his own handwriting: "Gentlemen, I thank you for your hospitable invitation and the gratifying terms in which you have expressed your desire that I should attend a banquet which you propose to give in celebration of General Washington's natal day. "But you must excuse me from uniting with you to honor the memory of your illustrious countryman, since I could not do so with sincerity, for Washington scorned a crown and did more to bring royalty into contempt than all men who have ever lived, and I am a king by trade."—Youth's Companion.

Some Gigantic Photographs.

The largest photographs that have ever been made, if Ave are correctly informed, were those used in Baltimore's Columbian parade in the fall of 1892. They represented scenes in the life of Columbus and were used as decorations for the float of St. Pius parish in the parade mentioned. The largest one of the lot, a copy of Gribayedoff's "Columbus Before Ferdinand and Isabella,'' was 9 feet long and 6 feet wide. This photographic triumph was made by a special process. The patent belongs to Photographer W. H. Weaver of Baltimore.—St. Louis Republic.

Eveu Iu Italy.

First Fair Neapolitan (bearing her laundry basket on her head)—I say, Jeannetta.

Second Fair Neapolitan—Well? First Fair Neapolitan—Is my basket on straight?—Jjondon Tit-Bits.

My pen is at the bottom of a page, Which being finished here my story ends 'tis to bo wished it had been sooner Cone, but stories somehow lengthen When begun.—Byron.

Brewers in England receive $6.85 a week in-Germany they are paid $5 in Holland, $0 in New South Wales they receive

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ONE OF THE QUEEREST OF LAKES.

A Paul* to Geologists In the Bide Grass Region of Kentuoky. jinking creek, in the northwestern part of this county, is not a running stream or creek, as one would imagine from its name, but it is a large lake, which forms only in the spring of the year, when thaws and rainfall produce an overabundance of water. The formation of a lake covering over 200 acre3 of land and sometimes over 300 comes with the suddenness of a rise in the Mississippi river.

The lake is formed in a hollow entirely surrounded by gradually inclined hills of blue grass fields and meadows. These hills are at first imperceptible to the eye on account of the gradual and even slope of the surrounding country. A closer examination of the country shows that for miles around it all gradually inclines to the place where the springtime lake forms, but the place itself is merely a slightly rolling tract of land, over which various fences, trees and shrubberies are seen. As the lake depends on the rainfall for its supply of water, it is larger some years than others and has been known to cover 350 acres of land and the water all the way from 5 to 80 feet deep. This body of water is a veritable Mecca for duok hunters at the time of the year when ducks pass through Kentucky on their way to the northern lakes.

There is no outlet above the earth in the way of a creek or hollow. There is no cave or sink hole on any of the land which is covered by water through which the water may escape. Yet within one month this immense amount of water disappears. After the disappearance the earth which is covered, instead of being a wet, marshy place, as is the case of an ordinary springtime1 rise in water, is a beautiful, fertile, blue grass vale, over which blooded Kentucky stock roam during the summor months and fatten on the rich pasturage. No appearance of a marsh or water weeds, etc., is found after the lake has gone.

Exactly what causes the "sinking" of the lake has never been determinated, although various geologists have visited the scene. It is a well known fact that quicksilver thrown into a pond or lake will cause it to soon sink, and it is claimed that the water forming this lake, as it is drained down from the surrounding hills, brings with it a composition of some kind similar to mercury or quicksilver in its action on sinking a lake, and that this is the key to the mystery of Sinking creek.—Nicholasville Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.

A DANGEROUS BIRD.

What Will Happen Some Day to an Incautious Hunter of Blue Herons.

"Some of these days," said the longshore hunter, "I expect to open my daily paper and see a headline something like this, 'Killed by a Blue Heron,' and I'll tell you why. The blue heron is a big, powerful bird which has already badly disfigured the faces of several men. The men have wounded a bird, and then thinking to capture it alive they went up to it. Why, I'd as soon try to kiss a wounded grizzly. The birds grow as tall as 6 feet, and have necks like a fish rod and just the kind of muscles to move it the quickest with the most strength. They could drive their bill points through a quarter inch panel. "The hunter goes up to the bird and sees it lying there looking as innocent as a robin, with only a wing broken. 'What a fine pet it would make,' the fool hunter thinks. Then he picks the bird up and starts for home in a wagon or a boat, with the bird between his knees. The bird's neck is drawn back like a letter 'S.' All of a sudden the bill shoots up and gives the man a gash alongside the eye three inches long. That is what always has happened. The wounded bird has missed its aim, but sometimes—and you want to remembe* it—this feathered spearman will drive its bill iar into its enemy's eye, and like a steel umbrella stick the point of the bill will penetrate the man's brain. I guess the bird's aim has always been spoiled by the pain of its wounds, and so many a human life has been saved- I don't monkey with wounded bitterns, or cranes—well, scarcely."—New York Sun.

A Homely Court.

A backwccds court is thus described in the Cincinnati Enquirer: 'A desperado was offended at the court and used unbecoming language, and when fined for contempt claimed that he could not be guilty of contempt, since there was no courthouse. The squire ordered a circle made to represent a courthouse, whereupon the desperado got outside of the line and renewed his insults. When told that lie disturbed the court, he said, 'Make your courthouse larger.' Another line was drawn, with similar results, and still others, until the murmurings ceased to disturb the court. Another defendant was guilty of a breach of the peace. The court sent him to jail, writing the following mittimus: 'Jailer of Garrard county, you will please lock John Blevin up in j'1^

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keep him until I call for hint. He lias been cuttin up and cussin and tryin to fight.'

What Touched Thackeray.

At the sale of Lady Blessington's household furniture, her library, her pictures, porcelain, pliite. and some of her jewelry, which were disposed of before she left

for the last time, ono

little iucident ought not to bo forgotten. A French servant of Lady Blessington's wrote her a letter in which he told her that he had observed many of her friends passing through the rooms, and he added that "Mr. Thackeray had to cover his eyes to hide his tears.''—Speaker.

Her Plaint.

A fat French lady despairingly says, "I am so fat that I pray for a disappointment to rnako me thin, but no iooncr does tho disappointment come han the joy at the prospect of getting hin»makes me fatter than ever.''

tE€^ND OF THE CROSS

WOODSBERIVED TFTOM THE TREE OF UFE?IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

A Story of the Death

Adam and the

Crucifixion of Christ Which Was Recited In the Middle Ages—How Seth Got a Glimpse of PaTadlse.

When Adam was^Jpanished from par* adise, he lived in penitence, endeavoring to expiate the past by prayer and toil. When he reached a great age and felt death approach, he called Seth to him and said: "Go, my son, to the terrestrial paradise and ask the archangel who keeps the gate to give me a balsam whioh will save me from death. You will easily find the way, because my footprints scorched the soil as I left paradise. Follow my blackened traces and they will conduct you to the gate whence I was expelled."

Seth hastened to paradise. The way was barren, vegetation was scanty and of somber colors. Over all lay the black prints of his father's and mother's feet. Presently the walls surrounding paradise appeared. Around them nature revived, the earth was covered with verdure and dappled with flowers. The air vibrated with beautiful music. Seth was dazzled with the beauty whioh surrounded him, and he walked on forgetful of his mission. Suddenly there flashed before him a wavering Ikte of fire upright, like a serpent of light continuously quivering. It was the flaming sword in the hand of the cherub who guarded the gate.

As Seth drew nigh he saw that the angel's wings were expanded so as to block the door. He prostrated himself before the cherub, unable to utter a word. But the heavenly being read in his soul, better than a mortal can read a book, the words which were there impressed, and he said: 'The time of pardon is not yet come. Four thousand years must roll away before the Redeemer shall open the gate to Adam, closed by his disobedience. But as a token of future pardon the wood whereon redemption shall be won shall grow from the tomb of thy father. Behold what he lost by his transgression!"

At these words the angel swung open the great portal of gold and fire and Seth looked in.

He beheld a fountain, clear as crystal, sparkling like silver dust, playing in the midst of the garden, and gushing forth in four living streams. Before this mystic fountain grew a mighty tree, with a trunk of vast bulk and thickly branched, but destitute of bark and foliage. Around the bole was wreathed a frightful serpent or caterpillar, which had scorched the bark and devoured the leaves. Beneath the tree was a precipice. Seth beheld the roots of the tree in hell. There Cain was striving to grasp the roots and clamber up them into paradise, but they laced themselves around the body and limbs of the fratricide as the threads of a spider's web entangle a fly, and the fibers of the tree penetrated the "body of Cain as though they were endowed with life. Horror struck at this awful sight Seth raised his eyes to the summit of the tree. There all was changed. The tree had grown till its branches reached heaven. The boughs were covered with leaves, flowers and fruit. But the fairest fruit was a little babe, a living sun, who seemed to be listening to the songs of seven white doves who circled about his head. A woman, more lovely than the moon, bore the child in her arms.

Then the cherub closed the door and said: "I give thee now three seeds tak jn from that tree. When Adam is ad, place these three seeds in thy father's mouth and bury him.

So Seth took the seeds and returned to his father. Adam was glad to hear what his son told him and praised God.

On the third day after the return of Seth he died. Then his son buried him in the skins of beasts which God had given him for ax overiir.r, and his sepulcherwas on Qclj-oilia. In cmrrse of time three trees grow i'rom the seeds brought from paradi^i. One v.':ts a c. d:ir, anothera -d tho third a pino. They grew v."? marvelous force, thrusting their branches to right and left. It was with one of these boughs that Moses performed his miracles in Egypt, brought water out of the rock and healed those whom the serpents slew in the desert.

In the time of Solomon this was the noblest of the trees of Lebanon. It surpassed all in the forests of King Hiram as a monarch surpasses those who crouch at his feet. Now, when the sou of David erected his palace he cut down this tree to convert it into the main pillar supporting his roof. But all in vain. The column refused to answer tho purpose. It was at one time too long, at another too short. Surprised at this resistance, Solomon lowered the walls of his palace to suit the beam, but at once it shot up and pierced the roof, like an arrow driven through a piece of canvas or a bird recovering its liberty. Solomon, enraged, cast the tree over Cedron, that all might trample on it as they crossed the brook.

The queen of Sheba found it there and recognizing its virtue had it raised. Solomon then buried it. Somo time after the king dug tho pool of Bethesda on the spot. This pond at once acquired miraculous properties and healed the sick who flocked to it. The water owed its virtues to the beam which lay beneath it.

When the time of the crucifixion of Christ drew near, this wood rose to the surface and was brought out of the water. Tho executioners, when seeking a suitablo beam to serve for tho cross, found it and of it made the instrument of the death of the Saviour. After the crucifixion it was buried on Calvary, but the mother of Constantino the Great, tho Empress Helena, found it deep iu the ground with two others. Christ's was distinguished from those of the thieves by a sick woman being cured bjr touching it -—Baring Gould's '-Myth# of the Middle Agea.