Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 9 August 1905 — Page 4

Oil Age and Matrimony. When be was considered quite an old mail James, Lord Balcarres, weiit to Btay with old Lady Keith. There were a number of young ladies in the house and, before lie arrived, Lady Keith said to them: "Now, there is this old gentleman coining to slay, and I particularly wish that you should all endeavor to make yourselves as pleasant to,-^im as you can." They all agreed t£ do so, but a Miss 1 hi'.rymple said: /"You may all do what you like, but

I'll bet you anything that you please that I'll m.ike the old gentleman like me best of us all." And so she did. She made him perfectly dev.tied to her all the time lie was there, yet when he asked her to marry him she laughed In his face. Lord lalearres was extremely crestfallen, but when he went away he made a will settling everything he could upon .Miss Ilrymple. Somehow she heard of this, and said: "Then, after all. he must really care for me, and I will marry him." And she did. lie was lifty-eight then, but they had ten children.

Wise 1. IVs.

It need hardly be pointed out. says the author of "Fifty \ars In leet street," that to be elected a member of parliament does not necessarily imply intellectual superiority, shortly atter the Burmese war a young civilian, home on leave, happened to mention Burma. "Ah. yes. Burma," said an M. 1'. with whom he was sitting at table. I had a nephew who was in Burma, onl\ he used to call it Bermuda.

On another occasion, in the month of March, some one said to Mr. Livesey: "This is a cruel east wind." "Yes." was the would be witty reply. "I expect it will he Faster before it is over."

Thi was repeated by the author of the book (juoied to a respected member of parliament, who observed gravely: "I fancy i-c' right. 1 have known it last till Eas.er and longer yet."

A Clavjiow Ci'iiicloi'.v.

The Necropolis cemetery. (Jlasgow. as originally planned, contained almost exactly twentyd'our acres available for burials, and it was suggested that each division of one acre should be named after a letter ot the (Jreek alphabet, which contains twenty-tour characters. For various reasons this idea has not been fully carried out, but lift ecu sections of the cemetery have been so named from alpha to omega, the monosyllable letters between these being omitted. The names have not been applied in any particular sequence, but with the aid of a small map they are useful in locating any particular spot in what is now one of the most densely tilled graveyards in the kingdom.

Not Jlpsspiis'or Boy.

A beggar accosted a man on the street the other day and poured out a tale of woe. to which the gentleman patiently listened. Then he took out a card bearing his name, which was that of a well known philanthropist who contributes largely to an organization working for the relief of the poor. This he handed to the man after writing an introductory note thereon. The beggar turned away with disgust written on his face and the parting remark "Say, d'ye Fink 1 got time to beat it up to dat join I'm too busy workin' dis pike to waste me time dat way. Wot d'ye fink I am—a messenger bov?"—New York Times.

Tin* Dillicnlt Persian TonKno. Of the diriiculties in the language of Persia a traveler writes: "The words one uses in a letter are almost entirely different from those used conversationally. and those in an ordinary prose history are again different. Then it is almost impossible to distinguish the tenses, and. lastly, the adjective is generally indistinguishable from the substantive, and the link between an adjective and the term which it qualifies is the same as the sign of the possessive. For instance, the text. 'This is my beloved son.' may be read in the Persian Bible 'This is th,k son of my beloved,' without the slightest violence to the grammar."

Origin of One Graveyard. The family of a member of parliament from Yorkshire has a private graveyard and has had it for several generations. The founder of it was a Quaker, and the rector of the parish in which he lived said to him after a dispute on religious matters: "Well, if you don't come to church when you are alive, you will when you are dead." But the Quaker thought otherwise and founded the burial place, which is used to this day.

A Popular I.anffuiiKt*.

"I've called half a dozen bell boys this morning, and they haven't brought a thing I've ordered." said the irate guest. "Are they all deaf V" "Yes," explained the hotel clerk, "but they can hear through the palms of their hands. Money talks, you know. It is the only language they can understand."—Detroit Free Press.

A Useful Paragraph.

Singleton (reading)—It is said that the last word in an argument is often the most dangerous. Wedderly—Would you mind letting me have that paper? Singleton—What do you want it for? Wedderly—I want to show that paragraph to my wife.

To Be Discovered l»y Riperience. Furious Old Gentleman (to new Scotch footman)—Do you take me for a fool, sir? Footman—Weel, sir. I'm no lang here and I dinna ken yet.— Dundee Journal.

Always remember that it is easier to kill time than to make up time—St. Louis Star.

THE SACRED BO TREE.

On« of the Most Wonderful Natural Growths Ever Known. In October, 18ST, the sacred bo tree, at that time supposed to be the oldest living vegetable monument on the earth's surface, was uprooted and destroyed by a cyclone which swept over the island of Ceylon. The oldest written description of the sacred bo tree now in existence is that by the celebrated Chinese historian. Fa Ilian. who visited the island and the sacred tree in the year 414 A. I). According to this learned Chinaman, the tree was at that time 702 years old. having been planted in the year 2SS before our era by King Devinipiatissa.

As soon as it was known throughout the island that the tree had been destroyed by the fury of the elements great crowds of mourners gathered around its "sacred remains" and held regular funeral services for two or three weeks. After the season of mourning was over the tree was cut into proper lengths, each piece wrapped separately in white cloth and cremated with the same funeral rites which would have been given a member of the royal family.

So perished the sacred bo tree, one of the most wonderful natural growths known to the world—a tree which had been worshiped daily, one might almost sav hourly, for 2.17." years.

THE CHOICE OF MATES.

Artificial Matrimonial Selection Has Given Poor Results. No one knows what type wiil be the best for survival in ah unknown future environment. We often see the extinction of families of parents whom any physician would have pronounced ideal, but their children lacked resistance to the invasion of pathogenic organisms or there was some other defect which made them easy targets for climatic causes of physical decay.

On the other hand, we quite often find that parents below par physically have line families. The curious unions which take place must be the result of laws such as we tind in every biologic phenomenon. Man has the same instinct found in lower animals to select a mate who is more or less different from himself.

Should like types mate, their common characteristics may be so exaggerated as to be harmful and the line perish. It is an instinct of those of great intelligence to marry those of less than the average, for the offspring revert to the better average. It is very evident that if we try to improve the race intellectually by the marriage of like types we will violate the natural law upon which our existence is based. Artificial matrimonial selection has been tried, though the results were disastrous.—American Medicine.

HIS "KINGSMAN.'

The Silk Xeclterchief Worn by the London Coster monger. Speaking of London eostermongers, Mayhew says: "The man who does not wear his silk neckerchief—his 'kingsman,' as it is called—is known to be in desperate circumstances." The neckerchief is more prized than any other item of his attire and a coster's caste is at stake if his kingsman be not of the most approved pattern.

This habit is derived from the gypsies and doubtless dates from some long forgotten oriental custom. It is very curious that a taste for similar colors prevails among the Hindoos, gypsies and eostermongers. Bed and yellow are the favorite colors and tlie oldest. Of these, the coster chooses his plush waistcoat and his kingsman. the gypsy his breeches and his wife her shawl and g.nvn the Hindoo his robe and turban. If a fight occurs, the favorite colored article of dress receives the greatest care. The pugilistic coster ties his kingsman round his waist or his leg, where, by the rule of the ring, it is comparatively safe. London Telegraph.

The Origin of Grocer.

Grocer appears in Ilolinshed's Chronicle, 1580, as "grosser," and in other mediaeval records it is sometimes written "engrosser," and was applied to the spieers and pepperers who were wholesale dealers in various spices— that is. who dealt en gros—in large quantities, as distinguished from "regrators," who were retail dealers. The Grocers' company first adopted the word grocer in 137.'}. when the spieers and pepperers allied themselves into a single corporation.—London Express.

Bail Writer With a Good Memory. Harvey Waters, an expert on patent cases, had occasion to write Itufus Choate on some important question, and when he received the reply was unable to read a word of it. so took the missive to Mr. Choate and asked him what he had written. Mr. Choate replied: "I never can read my writing after the ink is dry, but if you tell me what it is about I will tell you what I have written." And he did.

The Tables Turned.

The Editor (gloomily)—I must say you don't seem to realize how terrible it is to lose yoa. The Authoress (sweetly)—You mustn't take it too much to heart, my friend. Rejection does not necessarily imply lack of merit.— Judge.

Horrible.

St. Peter—You married for money, I believe? Fair Spirit—Y-e-s. St. Peter —You may come in, but you will have to spend eternity with the man you married.

Suffering becomes beautiful when one bears great calamities with cheerfulness, net through insensibility, but through greatness of mind.—Aristotle.

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Free Street Carnival.

Knightstown is to have a merchants' big- free street carnival. It will last one week, beginning" next Monday August 7. It is being advertised as the largest, grandest and best open air festival ever held in eastern Indiana.

Four big free acts will be given daily: Eaton's glass palace, the great train robbery, the big" Roman coliseum, and a magnificent Ferris wheel are among the things that will be seen.

There will be no immorality and no gambling. The management assures that every attraction presented will be strictly high class and moral in every detail. Knightstown is so easily reached by interurban from Grreentield that a good attendance from this city is expected.

SCHOOLS AT STATE FAIR.

The State Board of Agriculture has created a new department for the Indiana State Fair. It relates to rural school work and the first exhibit will be at the coming fair, which opens at Indianapolis on September 11. The plans of the department were carefully worked out with the aid of the State Department of Education, and State Superintendent, |F. A. Gotten, has been active in seeing that this first exhibit is a large and creditable one. The rural schools all over Indiana have been ask ed to send their best work, the State Board of Agriculture paythe cost of shipment. Effort has been made to enlist the service of county superintendents and school jteachers, and the workot pupils"will be carefully called that the very best efforts of the scholars may be shown. The prizes to be awarded will include™ metals and diplomas. School consolidation work will be shown»from La^ran^e, Fountain and Deleware counties every school in Benton county will'be represented: Randolph count)7 will make an exhibit of architecture Pulaski county will contribute pictures and Floyd'county schools will send maps. The special work of these counties include their exhibits which were sent to the St. Louis world's fair. The rural school department will also include the best compositions on certain subjects, the best examination papers collections of flowers and plants will be shown. In fact, the exhibit will give a perspective view of progress making in the rural schools of Indiana. This is a permanent department of the State Fair.

Reduced Fares to Richmond via Pennsylvania LinesJuly 31st, August 3rd, 5th and 7th, excursion tickets to Richmond, account Conference of American Friends, will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from all ticket stations. For full information regarding fares, time of trains, etc., apply to Local Ticket Agent of those lines.

TherPacific Northwest.

A complete and interesting presentation of the scenic beauty and the rich natural resources and rapid growth of the Pacific Northwest are set forth in a beautiful illustrated booklet recently issued by the Chicago & North-Western R'y, which will be sent to any address on receipt of 4 cents in stamps.

The Lewis and Clark Exposition with the very low excursion rates and personally conducted tours in connection therewith over the North-West-ern line from Chicago and the east have created an interest in this subject never before equaled. For full particulars address W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., 215 Jackson Boulevard,"Chicago.

FOR SALE:—A tine thoroughbred male Jersey calf. Augustus Dennis *3tw Eden, Ind Jt

August Lippincott's Magazine.

So inviting is the table of contends presented in the August number of LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE that it tempts even the jaded appetites of tired readers who had decided "just to loaf' during the warm season. The Magazine's leading feature is an always-first-class novelette. This possesses all a novel's best points so condensed as to omit tiresome explanations and descriptions, leaving a well-cover-ed. kernel to delight the palate. "Her First Elopement" is by "Clara Bartram'"—so called— and supposed by those who know to be an alias for a prominent writer who is on intimate terms with New York fashionables. This is a rattling good tale of Newport with its^worldrenowned yachts and its lovely women. How, or why, or with whom "Her First Elopement" comes off it seems hardly fair to reveal. But for piquant situations, sparkling dialogue, and an altogether clever handling of a lively, ingenious plot the author merits warmest congratulations, which she should share with the magazine which was so fortunate as to be the medium of the story's presenting.

Prince Vladimir Vaniatsky writes of American and English people at Bombay in "The Madness of Sari."' His blending' of light and shade is deft. A summer story by Anne O'Hagan is called "Lady Alice at Iled'Ete-"' This hits the weakness of Americans for titled personages and deals with the theft of some jewels on an island off the Maine coast. The ice-bound shores of Labrador bespeak interest in "Deborah of Fort Yaivak." The heroine is made of the stern stuff that counts no effort too great to rescue the man she loves. Its author is Mary Bourchier Sanford. Arthur Hendrick vandenberg's story of a landdeal is entitled "A Boom in Reality." How a journalist gets the best of a real estate broker and overreaches himself is amusingly told. Though Gay Bentley'Wuerpel's contribution, called "Who Killed the Heifer?" opens with a death, it quickly develops into a really sprightly story of the unselfish arrangements a man makes for a successor to himself in the affections cf hia wife.

One of Agnes Repplier's bright, clear-cut papers is published under the title of "The Album Amicorum." Her views on the subject of autograph albums are no less definite and delightful than on many other subjects.

August verse is plentiful and up to the usual high standard. The poets of the month are Clara Sherwood Stevens, Theo dosia Garrison, Mounce Byrd Richard Kirk, Isabella Fiske, Hilton R. Greer, Stanwood, and Phil strong-.

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Special Home-Seekers Excursions via Pennsylvania Lines.

Anyone contemplating a trip West may take advantage of the reduced fares for the special Home-Seekers' excursions via Pennsylvania Lines to points in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Oregon, Washington, Texas and other sections in the West and in all the States of the South.

Stop-over privileges permit travelers to investigate busi. ness openings. These tickets will be on sale certain dates during the summer. Detailed information as to fares, through time, etc., will be freely furnished upon application to Local Ticket Agents of Pennsylvania Lines.

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By far the most attractive trip for health and pleasure the coming season is that offered by the Seashore excursion Thursday August 17th, over Pennsylvania Lines to Atlantic City. Cape May and seven other famous summer havens on the Atlantic Coast.

The fast through trains over Pennsylvania Lines take passengers in a few hours out of the heat and humidity of summer to the cool breezes of the old ocean. This mid-August excursion occurs in the season for rest when it is most convenient to leave business. Excursionists have the added pleasure of seeing' Atlantic City wlren it is in full tide of the fashionoble season. The greatest representative gatherings ever known at any resort are seen at Atlantic City. As many as 50,000 people promenade the famous boardwalk. The fashionable bathing hours present an unparalleled scene —fully 100,000 bathers in the sea and on the beach.

The healthful effect of the seashore trip is due to the salt and pine air. So beneficial has this proved that physicians send their patients there to get the benefit of breathing the pure ocean air.

Special low fares will be in effect for this Seashore excursion. Full information will be freely given by local ticket agents of Pennsylvania Lines.

Beware of Ointment? for Oatarrah' that Contains Mercury, as mercury wiil surely destroy the sence of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surface. Such articles should never be used excepc on prescriptions from reputable physicans, as the damage they will do is ten fold t.othegoodyou can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrah (hire, inamit'ar1.1.1 red by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains

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