Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 22 August 1905 — Page 2

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EVERYBODY PLEASED

Trade and Crop Conditions Were Never Better

jgCorn! Corn! jCorn! The word can be hearTeverywhere. Farmers shout it. Merchants'"grow enthusiastic.- Townspeople are amazed at it. And nature just smiles and continues to make more corn, corn, corn. "It's wonderful," said a Pr01^~ farmer today, ''perfectly wonderful. There is money in it, lots of money in it. Ho^s grow fat on corn and hogs are ^hovering about $li. 50. After an exceptionally wet season the weather for

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growing is perfect. You

can almost, hear the rustle of the blades as they cut the air in their upward shoot. I nless signs fail the farmer is* now in the heights ot prosperity. Not one year in the past] ten or

O the arly circumstances for the plant-

since the panic nineties have all been so favorabl er. It's simply great, the way things are coining his way. It's my impression that the felicitation of the tarmer will be reechoed from the workshops, mines, factories, and in fact everywhere over the country. Gentlemen, I anticipate one of the most splendid conditions in the history of our country within the next year."

Ninty-Third Birthday.

The children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Morgan Miller, gathered Sunday at bis home at Cleveland, as is their annual custom to do once •each year on or near the date of his birthday to do honor to the occasion. Mr. Miller's birthday came on last Wednesday and he was 1)3 years old, but several of his relatives could not come at that date, so they arranged to all meet with him on Sunday. The day was beautiful and the occasion a pleasant one, and was enjoyed by the immense crowd of relatives present. The day was spent in renewing acquaintances and recalling pleasant memories of past days by the older ones, and in pleasant games by the younger members of the family, and all present assisted in disposing of the bountiful dinner.

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Bllnil Horse*.

A well known veterinary who has been traveling about the country says that the question most commonly asked him in rural neighborhoods concerned nuiking horses blind. He was astonished when it

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His business had always been to save, aot destroy, the animal's sight. It seems, he says, that the automobile has created a demand for sightless Worses. A dealer told him that people are becoming afraid to ride behind horses, so frequently are they frightened by recklessly driven, record breaking motor cars. The veterinarian could not or would not suggest any humane way of destroying the horses' sight.—New York Tribune.

Kin Alfonso.

A Paris journal relates a new anecdote concerning King Alfonso of Spain In driving down a mountain side on his last visit to r'atalonia his coachman ran over a boy. The king immediately got off the carriage, carried t.Istboy into a tavern and made sure that be had not been injured seriously. To the mother, who had meanwhile appeared on the scene, he said, "I free your son from military service." The Jaoac then brought a glass of his best

wine to the king, who, after drinking •/it, took the tavern keeper's sign and wrote on it, under the name, "Purveyor to his majesty the king."

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AMUSING JOKE3.

Some That Have Ei'c:: i'^'i.ved on

of Sfioutiii!' Societies.

Nothing is so funny—ij the joker—as the development of a practical joke or hoax, and the most learned ai'e sometimes fooled in this way. their great discomfiture. An anuisiny hoax was perpetrated on the learned members of the Dumfries Antiquarian society of London, when an alleged Greek charm, said to have been taken from the dead body of a Bedouin, was presented for their inspection and admiration. It was said t: have been an heirloom in the I»ed')uin's family for many centuries and consisted of a scrap of skin on which was transcribed a mysterious legend. It was circulated among the members of the august body of the Antiquarian society until it. feil into the ham's of I r. Semple, who. amid much amusement, deciphered the hieroglyphics as "Old Bob Iiidley. O, the retrain of an old song.

One of the best of these jokes was practiced with considerable success by an eighteenth century wit. who professed to have unearthed an ancient memorial slab 011

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was just decipherable: BENE A. TH. TH. ISST. ONERE. POS. ET.

H. CLAT'D, COS TER. TRiP E. SELERO. F. IMP. IN. GT. OXAS, DO.

TH. HI. S.C.

ON. SOR. T. J. A. N. E.

In vain did archaeologists and linguists rack their brains to find a solution of this cryptic inscription, which its discoverer "humbly dedicated to the penetrating geniuses of Oxford, Cambridge, Eton and the learned Society of Antiquaries," and it was only when it. had driven the cleverest men in Ergland almost out of their wits that the following reading was suggested by the hoaxer: "Beneath this stone reposeth Claud (roster, tripe seller, of Impington, as doth his consort Jane."

That, too, was a clever, if rather heartless, joke which Steevens, the Shakespeare scholar, played 011

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known to posterity as the author of "Sepulchral .Monuments." Gough had criticised a drawing by Stcevens rather mercilessly, and the latter forthwith planned a revenge which should hold up antiquity to ridicule. Procuring a Hat piece of stone, he scratched on if. iii Anglo-Saxon characters, the inscription, "Here Ilurdcnut drank a winehorij dry. stared about him and died," and had it. exposed in a shop which Gough

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ing. A few days later Gough called at the .shop, saw the slab, which, ho was told, had been found in Kennington lane 011 the supposed site of ITardicanute's palace. and. overjoyed at his good fortune, carried i! off in triumph as a discovery of rare antiquarian value. He showed it with pride

to his fellow members of

the Society of Antiquaries, a paper was written on it, a learned discussion followed and the inscription was published in the Gentleman's Magazine. Steevens' triumph was complete when he took the public into his secret and laughed with them, but what, his victim's feelings and language were it would not have been possible to express in print.

Something over fifty years ago the ingenuity of antiquarians was tested by a legend faintly traced on a time worn slab of stone which, so its discoverer said, had been unearthed during some excavations in Cumberland. This was the inscription:

TH. ISI. SAHAR. DNT7. TOO. RA C. K. But what language was it and what could it mean? The accepted opinion was that Ihe legend referred in some way to Hardieanute or Hardnut, but beyond that speculation even was dumb, until the wicked joker had the effrontery to confess that he himself had chiseled the inscription, of which the true translation was: "This is a hard nut to crack." And so it was.— London Answers.

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Ills.

"Talk of a woman's jealousy of her husband." said a physician of long experience in New York. "It is nothing compared to her jealousy of another woman's chronic ailments. Half the doctors would starve if it were not for the prevalence of illnesses that are purely imaginary. Of course, it does not do for us to tell a woman who has linnly made up her mind that she is ill that she is not ill. In nine cases out of ten she would lose her temper and consult another doctor. Among certain women invalidism gives them a distinction which is gratifying to their self love. They may literally be said to 'enjoy poor health.' They look for the doctor's visit to them or their call at his office as the most exciting event of the day. If they know him well enough, they implore him to waive professional etiquette and tell them about ailments of other women who consult him. Women of this description—and they are legion—have a craving for martyrdom, which doctoring an imaginary illness seems to satisfy."—Xew York Times.

Tin" One 1'erMon.

Therf' was a certain old New England minister who had a blunt way of getting right at the bottom of things. With a solemn air he announced from the pulpit one day that a button had been found in the collection. "Only one individual in the church could have been guilty of this trick," he said, "and I shall expect this person to replace the button with a coin." After service a member of the church owned up to being the culprit and asked: "Mow did you know I was the man?" "I did not know," said the clergyman. "But you said only one person could have done it." "Just so," was the reply. "Two persons could not have put the same button on the plate."

BIG PAIR ATTRACTIONS

What Indiana State Fair Will Offer in Free Attractions.

Besides the concerts of the Duss Band of New York, many other free attractions will be presented at the Indiana State Fair, the week of September lltli The vaudeville features have taken well with the visitors to the fair in other years, and the new list is longer and more pretentious than heretofore. The vaudeville numbers will take place before the grand stand between the trotting' and pacing races. The features will be seen both morning and afternoon. "Dare Devil" Castellane will make his marvelous ride on a bicycle down a steep incline, leaping two gaps and looping- one.

The most famous family of acrobats in America is without doubt the Nelsons, who make their tirst appearance on any State Fair ground during- the fair at Indianapolis. This family includes eleven, ranging from the father down to a little g-irl hardly out of her toddling steps, and they do some wonderful feats. A feature of peculiar interest to the little folks will be Tony Rider's Monkey Circus, which will give performances on horizontal bars.

The Ward trio will give an uncommon performance. the three men doing athletic teats on ladders unsupported other than by their own strength. Primrose and Kohl off, comedy Chinese acrobats, will be the chief laugh producers of the vaudeville bill.

This is the morst expensive array of outdoor talent the State Board of Agriculture ever engaged, the Nelson family alone costing the board £1.000 for the week at the comingfair.

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Tlie Multitude of Ways In Wliloli Is How lili7.«'«S. No longer does the shoemaker throw away his scraps of leather. He can find ready sale for every fragment.

The number and variety of articles now made of leather waste almost passes belief. There are leather railroad ties and leather paving blocks.

A little more than half a century ago an Irishman named Powers, who had come to this country and learned the tanning trade, discovered a way of skiving and pasting together scraps of leather so that, they made "pancakes." From these pancakes heels could be cut. Waste leather could be bought for a song in Powers' time, and he and others made money manufacturing pancakes. Now the business amounts to millions per year.

It is estimated that over :io,000,000 pairs of old shoes an discarded in this country every year. Formerly they went to the scrap pile. Many of them do now, from first hands, but eventually find their way into other avenues of usefulness.

There are many mills in New England that make a specialty of preparing scrap leather for new purposes. They grind up old leather, mix it with jute, hemp, cloth or other fiber and cement and then pass out through their rolling machines a material called leather board. This leather board is used for making trunks, suit cases, dinner boxes, molded counters and bottom stock for shoes.

Leather railroad ties have been successfully used in western Massachusetts. These ties and pavings are made of leather of all kinds, ground up, mixed and compressed by a process the secret of which the inventor now holds.

If men do not care to buy ties and pavings of old leather the inventors will roll the leather into coverings for books, into pencils or penholders, pipe cases and a hundred and one other novelties. The leather may be embossed fov furniture covering, wall paper or molded into little ornaments, like condemned money at the mint. Leather carpets and leather door mats are now getting common among housewives, for they wear like iron.—Philadelphia North American.

Wheat In California.

Twenty years ago the average yield of wheat for California and the San Joaquin valley was forty bushels to the acre. Now a. yield of twenty bushels is considered an exceptionally good crop. The millers of the state complain of a marked deterioration in the quality of the wheat now grown. The gluten content is becoming more starchy. The land used for the production of wheat has been used for the same crop since Americans have been in California.

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The September "Smart Set.

Molly Elliot Seawall's novelette, "The Chateau' of Montplasir." which opens the September Smart Set, is just the kind of story one .wishes to read in the warm weather. It is delightfully humorous from beginning to end, and, while some of the situations are hilariously laughable, the author never oversteps the bounds of probability. Those readers who remember Miss Seawell's "Papa Bouchard"—and who does not? which the same magazine published about four years ago, know what a pleasant hour is in store for them in this last piece of work. Miss Sea well hasj never given us a more rollicking and genuinely witty story, nor one so full of the very spirit of comedy.

Stephen French Whitman, who contributes a powerful short story called "Hashimoto'" to this number, is a name quite new to magazine readers yet this brief and vivid Japanese tale should win him many admirers. It is a long time since a more striking short story has appeared. Elizabeth Duer is always entertaining- in "The Man on Horseback'' she is at her best, and every reader will be quick to discover what famous person she had in mind when she wrote this little tale. "Studio Sweepings'' by James L. Ford, is one of the keenest satires on bohemian New York which this clever author has produced. James Huneker is represented by a remarkable short story, which he has entitled "The Eighth Deadly Sin," and Henry Sydnor Harrison, in "The Measure of His Greatness," tells another Ware River Club tale, full of cleverness and truth. Frederick Trevor Hill, Ruth Kimball Gardiner, Catalina Paez and Cecil Carlisle Pangman have stories of refreshing originality, while Kate Mastersou contributes a short, entertaining story, called "The Masque of Venus," wherein she places under a white light many feminine foibles. There is the usual story in French, and much meritorious verse by Wallace Irwin, Mabel Earle, Theodosia Garrison, Edith M. Thomas, Madison Cawein, Arthur Stringer, William Griffith and others equally as well known. How the Smart Set maintains its high standard of excellence each month is one of the wonders of the magazine world.

$22-35 to Colorado and Return Prom Greenfield Over Pennsylvania Lines-

G. A. R. excursion tickets will be sold at the above fare. Their sale will begin August 2(.)th and continue daily until September 3d. Tickets may be obtained to Denver, where the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held September 4th to 7th, and to Colorado Springs or Pueblo.

The fare is an unusually low one, and the occasion presents an exceptional opportunity for a sight-seeing trip to Colorado and the West. Excursionists may go over one route and return over another, making the trip via Chicago, returning through St. Louis, or vice versa. Full particulars may be ascertained by consulting F. A. Meek, Ticket Agent, Greenfield.

The Pacific Northwest.

*A complete and interesting presentation of the scenic beauty and the rich natural resources and rapid growth of the Pacific Northwrest. 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.

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BIG BAND AT STATE FAIR

J. S. Duss, Millionaire Bandmaster to Give Concerts

For several years the Indiana State Fair has had as a strong feature one of the big" band organizations lor series of concerts, and thousands of people heard the programs. A new band is coming' to the State Fair during the week of September 11th, and it will give four popular concerts at the grand stand. The bandmaster is .J. S. Duss, who has suddenly leaped into the place of one of the great conductors of America and he lias a band of about titty men: Duss is a millionaire, who directs his own bund chiefly be cause of his love ot the work. He has had an uncommon career. Early in his youth he went to Economy, Pa., the famous communistic town near Pittsburg, and spent several years with the Harmony Society there, as the mutual ownership organization was called. He later went to college, was a breeder of line cattle in Nebraska, and went back to the peculiar colony in Pennsylvania. When thirty years old he had become a trustee of the colony, which wis gradually becoming extinct because of its stringent laws. He rose to the financial head of the colony and soon straightened out the difficulties of a savings bank in the organization, paying the 8,500 depositors in full. He also saw that the colony's debts, amounting to $1,500,000, wese paid in full. He went through eight years of litigation in the courts over the property of the colony and finally won. Then he sold out his holdings aud turned his attention to organizing' one of the neatest bands America ever heai 1 lie programs at the State 1 an will be made up of popular music.

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[Reprint From Cincinnati quirer, Thursday, June 1905J.

Samuel B. Hart man. of Columbus, Ohio, through attorneys E. W. Hinkle and F. F. Reed, began an action in the Federal Court in Covington yesterday against J. D. Parks & Sous. g|

Hartman alleges he is the inventor of a patent medicine and asks for an injunction restraining the defendants from indue ing or persuading, directly or indirectly, relative to the purchase and sale of the plaintiff medicines or preparations, or from in any way defacing, mutilating, breaking, altering or destroying the wrappers or fering any of the remedies sale

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Jackson Reunion.

The Jackson reunion will be held at Spring Lake Park Friday, August 25, 1U05.

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Niagara Falls $7.00 Round Trip Prom Greenfield Via Pennsylvania LinesAugust 24tli is the date of the annual excursion to Niagara Falls. Round trip fare will be £7.00 from Greenfield. For particulars apply to F. A. Meek! Ticket Agent

Salesman Wanted.

We desire to secure the services of a real live, energetic and competent. salesman in ever}' count}* in this State, to represent us among" Farmers and Stockraisers. Guaranteed salary and commission.r Address Superior American Stock Food Co., Find lay, Ohio.

Niagara Falls Excursion- August 24th the Date. $7-00 Rate. Pennsylvania Lines the Route.

Full particulars about the annual excursion to Niagara Falls will be furnished upon application to F. A. Meek. Ticket Agent. Pennsylvania "Lines, Greenfield.

A Vacation Trip To Niagara Falls at Low Fares. Ticket Agent at Greenfield will answer inquiries about the annual excursion to Niagara Falls over the Pennsylvania Lines, which otter excellent opportunities for a delightful vacation trip at small expense.

LEARN TELEGRAPHY and R. R, Accounting. s50 to *100 a month salary assured our graduates under bond. .. Our six schools the largest in America and endorsed by all railroads. Write for catalogue MORSE SCHOOL OF TELI'CRiVPHY, Cincinnati, O., Buffalo, N. Y., Atlanta, Ga.. La Crosse. Wis. Texarkana. Tex.. San Francisco, Ca l,

Labor Dt.y Fares on Pennsylvania LinesSeptember 4th excursron tickets will be sold trom all ticket stations on the Pennsylvania Lines to any station on those lines titty miles or less from selling point. Return coupons good until September 5. Inquire ot Pennsylvania Lines Ticket Agent for hither information

Excursion Fares to Philadelphia via Pennsylvania LinesSeptember 15th, Kith and 17th, excursion tickets to Philadelphia, account Meeting, Odd Fellows. Patriarchs Mi 1 itant and Sovereign Grand Lodge, will he sold from all ticket stations on the Pennsylvania Lines. For full particulars re gardmg tares, time ot trains, return limit, etc., apply to Local Ticket Agent of those lines.

Excursion Fares To Kansas City Via Pennsylvania Liues- •, August 27th and 2.sth, excursion tickets to Kansas City, account Convention. National Firemen's Association, will be sold from all ticket'fstations on the Pennsylvania Lines. For full particulars regarding" fares, return limit, etc., apply to Local Ticket Agent of those lines.

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