Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 November 1907 — Page 4
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Mrs. Charles J. Arnold was In Indianapolis today. Over the Tea Cups met with Mrs. O. F. Overstreet this afternoon. Gen and Mrs. Jesse M Lee spent the day In the country with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daggy. The second lecture by Professor Tllden will be given at the Carnegie Library. Wednesday evening at 7:00
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The C. W. B M . of the Christian church, will meet with Mrs. James Me. D. Hays. Wednesday afternoon
at 2:30.
The Ben Hurs will dance at their hall on Thursday evening, Nov. 7. The grand march will start promptlyat 8 o’clock. Harry Maxwell has just returned from Joplin. Mo., where he has been assisting In evangelistical meetings. He leaves Friday for Evansville. The following invitations have been received: Mr and Mrs. H. Henry Tincher requests your presence at their thirty-fifth anniversary, November 9, 1907. Lawton, Okla The Over the Tea Cups meet this afternoon with Mrs. O. F. Overstreet. Mrs. Sawlen spoke upon things of interest seen during her trip abroad. Joseph Raub, of Indianapolis, formerly a DePauw University student and well known here, was here this morning for a visit with old time friends.
Miss Odessa Zeis has returned to her home in Noblesville. Miss Margaret Tribolett has returned to her home in Bluffton. Prof. Charles Preston of Monticel lo and Sam Preston of Indianapolis visited here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Wise of New York have been the guests of college friends for a day or two. The Evangelist "Billy’’ Sunday arrived today to spend a day with his daughter, Miss Helen Sunday. Dr. Hughes intends to be In Greencastle all week. This Is the first week the doctor has been able to spend here for quite a while. The Alpha Phis were at home yesterday afternoon to the faculty and town ladies from three to five. Manv friends called during the afternoon Starting to go into the cellar of her home on Anderson street yesterday afternoon Mrs. J K. Langdon slipped and fell. As the result she has a badly sprained ankle. Dr. and Mrs. Stephenson entertained at a six o’clock dinner yesterday evening. Dr. Stephenson has just returned from a hunting expsdition and he Invited a few friends in that they might appreciate his success In securing game. Officer Stone was called to south Indiana street last night to take charge of a hand car, which in the hands of parties unknown, was being pushed up and down the track. Hi.* coining was “tipped off,” however, and the car was in place and no one in sight when the officer ar-
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The District Meeting of the Woman's Foreign Misionary Society will open in Locust Street church on Tuesday morning at 10:00 o'clock. Miss Shaw, lately from Mission work in China, will be the speaker for Tuesday evening The public is cordially Invited to all the sessions. Nov. 4 07. The Rev. W. A. Sunday of Chicago, who will be here tomorrow to visit his daughter, who Is attending the University, will speak in Meharry hall to the students tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited. Rev. Sunday is popularlly known In the evangelistical field as the “base ball" evangelist.
HEBRON. C. J. Leonard is rerooflng his residence this week. Carl Seigmund and family have moved to Indianopolis. Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, of Indianapolis, has been visiting her brother. James Everman. Larkin James was through hero taking pictures of the sohools last week. Several from here attended tho sale of Jarvis and McGaughey, Saturday. Miss Ruby Scott, of Russellville, was the guest of Alma Gardner Saturday night and Sunday. J. C. Wilson and family and Mrs. Martha Burk spent Sunday at Wm Ever man’s. Hardy Nicholson has been quite sick the past week John W. Farrow was welcomed to this vicinity Saturday night, with an old fashioned chivari, he being recently married to Mary Goff, they will live at the latters home.
MOUTH WASHINGTON. Corn husking in full blast. Joe Evans has been suffering with a very sore hand. Lola Cagle visited her cousin, Maud Cashner, last week. Mrs Walter Senter and Miss Eliza Evans visited Mrs. Georgs Sublett at Manhatten last week. Jessie Senter visited Fay Sentei on Sunday. Levi Neese and family visited at William Neese’s on Sunday. Frank Cagle and wife visited relatives In Clay county on Sunday. Claud Kelluuns has been gathering corn for his uncle. Polk Kellun George Sublett and Ross Huffman of Manhattan visited Robert Eyuns on Sunday evening
• REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS • William H. Breeden to Mary F. Branson, land In Warren township, »1.000. Geo. E. Blcknell to J P. Grlmstead, Land In Greencastle township, $900. Joseph P. Rogers to Forest Hughes, land In Warren township, $1,500.
Quimy Sor* Throst. The following mixture will generally quickly bring relief in case of a quinsy sore throat: Thirty grains of chloride of potash, three drams of tincture chloride of Iron, four drams of glycerin and enough distilled water to make four ounces. The dose for an adult U one teaspoouful every hour until re lieved. To avoid the constipating effect of the iron a good dose of some saline laxative should be taken.—New York World.
Method. “He occasionally says things that are wonderfully apropos,” said one statesman. "Yes,” answered the other; “he’s like our parrot at home. It doesn't know much, but what It does know It keept repeating until some circumstance arises that makes the remark seem marvelously apt.”—Pittsburg Press.
Classical Music. "What Is your Idea of classical mu sic?” “Well,” answered Mr. Oumrox, “as 1 understand It a classical piece is some thing that is very hard to play written by somebody whose name Is very hard to pronounce.”—Washington Star.
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Incongruous Names an Observer In a Museum Noted.
BIRDS OF ANOTHER COLOR.
The Purple Fmch, For Instance, Is Not Purple, but Wine Colored, and the Great Blue Heron It Gray—Flowers With Fantastic Designations. “The purple finch.” read the man, as be stood before a glass case of birds In a sc ience museum. He squinted at the bird and then remarked scornfully, “But the bird is not purple; It Is wine color." In the next case he encountered the label “Great Blue Heron" at the feet of an extremely long legged creature who was not blue at all, but a decided gray. The neighbor of the blue heron was the “green heron.” a bird almost brown, with the tiniest flecks of green on it Only by a big stretch of the Imagination could It be called green. A familiar looking water bird bore the name “black duck,” although It was brown with Its wings tipped a tawny shade, In the next case there were three birds whose names the visitor read with disapproval. One was the “snowflake,” a small bird of a decided brownish hue. Another was the “purple graekle,” a brown bird with only the merest suggestion of purple. And lastly there was the “redstart.” which was not red at all, but an undeniable orange and black. When he read the next label. "Rose Breasted Grosbeck," and observed that only the throat of the bird was rose color, while Its breast was gray, the visitor hurried to find the curator to tell him how wrongly and absurdly birds were named. The curator laughed. “My dear fel low," he protested, “you have happened on about the only birds In the museum that are incorrectly named As a matter of fact, the birds found in this part of the country are very well named indeed, and you have picked out only the exceptions. What could be better named than the scarlet tanager, the bluebird, th u catbird, the yellow bird, the woodpecker, the pboebe. the red winged blackbird, the bobolink. etc.? If you’ll examine the wild flowers you’ll find much more incongruous names. For instance, there's the oxeye daisy—and, by the way, the oxeye daisy Is the common white petalled daisy with the yellow center, and not the yellow daisy with the brown center, as Is generally supposed. Now, I cannot conceive how that little flower appears like the eye of an ox. The black eyed Susan, commonly known as the yellow daisy, is better named, but it Is certainly extremely fantastic. It Is a crying shame that a certain little sweet pale lavender flower which grows profusely should bear the hideous name of one flowered cancer root because Its root vaguely resembles a cancer. But the name sticks. “Then there is the Indy’s slipper. Can you Imagine a lady’s slipper fashioned like that? It Is pouchy and clumsy, and Its name Is no compliment to the fair sex. Another far fetched name is Solomon’s seal. You know the flower Is a tiny greenish or creamy white affair and is very unattractive In appearance, something like wintergreen blossoms. Well, It gets its name from Its root, which bears a round scar left by the broken off old stalk which is so unlike the impression of a seal that It makes one wonder how any one could possibly have seen the likeness. The false Solomon’s seal, by the way. Is disgracefully named. It Is far prettier than the real Solomon’s seal and should have a pretty name of its own. “Now, the name dogtooth violet Is another bad one. In the first place the flower does not at all resemble a tooth of any sort, and In the second place It Is nothing at all like a violet. The wild geranium is a fragile flower, lavender in color, something on the bepatIca type, only considerably larger, so you can see how much likeness it has to the sturdy garden geranium. “You’ve seen that crimson flower which at a distance looks like a wild rose and whose leaves are much like grape leaves and whose stems are very sticky? Weil, Its name Is purple flowering raspberry, while Its color Is an unmistakable crimson.“The blue vervain is a tall weed, with tiny, homely flowers, which grows In waste places beside the road, and it Is purple, not blue. The Iron weed has a queer Latin name which means ’Mr. Vernon, belonging to New York,' and Is named after an early English botanist of New York state. “How do you suppose those pink, fragrant blossoms along the roads which are near cousins to the garden phlox got the name of bouncing Bets? It seems Incongruous and flippant for this delicately tinted flower. On the other hand, who do you suppose gave the name cowslips to the small flowers of the meadow? It is certainly an appropriate one, but I wonder who conceived the pretty name.”—New York Tribune.
THE RATTLER'S BUTTONS. De Not Rely on Them to Tell the Ag« of the Reptile. It is a very common fallacy concerning rattlesnakes that each segment ol , the rattle indicates a year of the serpent’s existence, and It will probably be accepted until some one devises a safe method of examining the teeth One has only to stand for a half hour i In front of the rattlers’ cage at any ; zoological garden or museum to hear it repeated several times, together with many other bits of misinformatlou which make the average “nature sto ry” seem a statement of bald fact by comparison. Although the young rattlesnake comes into the world equipped with but a single button on the eud of its tall, when a year old It may have a» many as a half dozen segments, while three a year may be taken as a fair average development. In hunting, crawling over rough country and through tangled brush the rattles are i apt to be Injured or lost, and occasion ally a very large specimen is seen with but two or three segments, while one of the banded variety procured In Pennsylvania for the Bronx zoo was less than three feet In length and pos sessed seventeen perfect rattles, the absence of the terminal congenital button demonstrating that one or more pieces had been lost. A segment Is added to the rattle each time the snake casts its sklu, and this may occur every mouth of the snake’s active season, which In the northern states lasts from early May until the first severe storm of winter drives It to the den for Its long hibernation. This casting of the skin, which Is com mou to all serpents and many of the lizards, is a curious provision to pro tect the reptile from disease and dis comfort, and, like most of nature’s provisions, it Is a wise one. Since the day when the serpent was condemned to crawl abjectly on Its belly, instead of wriggling gracefully upon its tail, as a punishment for whispering suggestions for the fall into the eager ear of Eve it has been peculiarly liable to Injure Its sensitive integument, and. spending its existence In close contact with the ground, it becomes the unwilling host of many ticks and parasites which are harbored by the decaying vegetation. Any un fortunate who has accumulated a few wood ticks and laboriously removed them from his hide with »he point of a knife and ammonia will appreciate how much easier it would be to grow a new skin and envy the serpent the ready means at its disposal to rid itself of the unwelcome pests. — Francis Met calfe In Outing Magazine. She Didn't Boost With the Chickens. The homely forms of speech used by the country people with whom little Edith and her mother boarded last summer were frequently very puzzling to the child. One evening the farmer's wife, in talking for a few minutes with Edith's mother, remarked that, as she was very tired that night, she believed she would “go to roost with the chickens.” When Edith's bedtime arrived a little later the youngster was nowhere to be found. After a considerable search she was discovered sitting on a large stone near the chicken house quietly watching the fowls as they came iu one by one. “Edith,” called her mother, “what are you doing there? I’ve t>een looking for you everyw-here. It’s time to go to (>ed.” "I know, mother,” was the reply, “but they’re nearly all In now, so she’ll be here soon, I guess.” “Who are In and who will be there? What on earth are you talking about, child?” asked the mystified mother. “Why," explained Edith ratln* Impatiently, “you know Mrs. said she was going to roost with the chickens tonight, and I’m waiting to see how she does It”—New York Times.
Tha Greeting at the Pier. “One of the most unsatisfactory experiences that I know of.” said a man who likes to make his time count, “Is meeting people, home from Europe, at the pier. They are glad to see you. as you are, of course, to see them, but I have never yet greeted a relative or friend under these circumstances without realizing the fact that my presence was more or less of a nuisance. What with the collection of the baggage from the stateroom and the hold, the fuss Ing with the customs Inspectors and the getting of the Impedimenta to the express office or the cab the returned xoyagers are fully occupied, and It is asking too much to expect them to pay particular attention to those who are right on hand to say ’how-de-do.' 1 Imagine that ninety-nine out of a himdred travelers wish that their welcomers would wait until there was a chance for a breath or two to be drawn.”—New York Press.
Russian Betrothal Feaat. A Russian wooing culminates In the betrothal feast, at which the bride elect casts off a long tress of hair and gives It to her betrothed, who In turn presents the bride elect with bread and salt, an almond cake and a silver i ring set with a turquoise.
Superstitious. “You say,be is su|>er«titious?” “Yes.” “What form does his superstition take?” "Why, be thinks it’a unlucky to work.” - . . .. .
Eglinton Castle. One of the most remarkable castles In Scotland—and there are many historic piles north of the Tweed—is Eg linton castle. Ayrshire. It Is not an ancient castle—having been built about 100 years ago—but It contains much of Interest. From the town of Irvine to the lodge gates Is a mile, and then there Is another mile to traverse before the castle itself is reached. All the principal rooms open out to a circular saloon with a cupola roof, which contains many mementos of the famous tournament of 1830, organized by the present Lord Eglinton's father, who spent £10,000 In an attempt to reproduce the chivalrous forms and ceremonies of olden times. In the saloon, too, are kept, among other objects of Interest the gun with which a poacher slew the tenth Earl of Eglinton and the battle ax used by the Percy who was killed by Montgomerie at Chevy Chase. —London Tit-Btts.
[Original 1 Ell Mulbolland, a bachelor of forty, at 10 o’clock at night went up three pairs of stairs, opened the door of his rented room and as he entered heaved a deep sigh. It was heard by Lydia Nutter, the landlady’s daughter, aged twenty, vir> wondered what caused it. Had shy. too, been forty Instead of twenty, without having followed the course dictated by nature—mating and rearing children she would have understood that if translated Into words tlie s!--rli would say: “Oh. this lonely room!” Eli Miilhollnnd had in his youth chosen athletic sports with which to beguile his leisure hours. He was a man’s man rather than a girl’s man. He remembered a pair of bright eyes learning upon him when he had won the champion cup for single sculls. 'I hey and the smile that accompanied them were then no more to him than a passing whiff of violets. Now, as he entered his lonely room, he remembered that the girl he had failed to claim was the wife, and mother of children, of the man he had beaten In the race. He had won the cup, which lie had so dearly prized, leaving for Ids antagonist the girl, whom he had considered merely one of a million. Now the cup was in a vault with other trinkets; the girl was the light of a household. He remembered another whom he had played with iu a double game of tennis, an execrable player, but a soft voiced beauty; how lie had saved the game by Ids skill and activity; how she had received the prize -a sliver mounted racket—from his hands, with blushes Hint told tdm she would have gladly taken him Instead. These and others with whom he had feared to become entangled contributed their part iu that deep drawn sigh, so unintelligible to Lydia Nutter. He was no longer the companion of young people lie had passed the mating period and hud not mated. “What troubled you last night, Mr. Muihollaud. as you went iuio your room?” asked Lydia the next morning as the bachelor went out to get his lonely breakfast. ”1 troubled? What do you mean?” “Y’ou drew such a sad sigh.” As Eli looked into her sympathetic eyes something of two decades before came back to aim. Was it too late to save what remained of his life from a loneliness Intensified with each passing year? As quickly as the thought came it was banished. Had be stood still for twenty years while others had grown old? He turned to pass out without reply. How could he tell this girl, who when be was her age was scarcely born, that he had wasted his opportunities, and. though he had gained the world. It was worth less; that which he had selfishly thought he wished for hiuiself when attained had shriveled Iu his hands, since he had no wife or children to bestow It upon? ‘‘When you feel that way again, come down and we’ll try to comfort you,” said Lydia. There was u wistful loek in his eyes as ho closed the door. That night he sat In the reading room of his dull pretending to read the newspapers, while lie was watch Ing the clock. Ib* wished to go to the house where he roomed, but he would go neither too late nor too early—not after Lydia had gone to bed. not so early that he wfnild seem to have come to be with her, for that was his Intention. He chose half past 9 as the hour most likely to conceal It and, after two hours’ watching the clock, left the club. Lydia was in the sitting room with her mother, the mother reading, Lydia at some fancy work. “I’m in rather early tonight,” he said to Lydia. “There was nothing doing at the club. I’ve brought some playing cards. Would you mind a game?” Again the smile that greeted him reI minded him of the face that had beamed upon him when he had been an athletic victor. Then It had been ae- ! companied by the flush of victory, the plaudits of thousands. Now It was bestowed upon a lonely soul hungering I for sympathy. They sat down to a game ostensibly j of cards, really to one of love. Lydia had admired the stalwart middle aged man whose hair was beginning to turn, | but had not dreamed of being the wife of one she regarded so great Ell Clutched at what be regarded a straw to save him from a desolate old age. Neither believed It possible to win the game, and yet both had already won It Ell Insisted on a stake, sweetmeats, and always contrived to lose. It might all have been arranged at once, but Ell, fearing to spoil his game by haste, thinking that great skill at angling was essential, did not dare declare himself till the winter had passed and the time of the singing birds had come Then when lie bad spent months setting Ids trap lie sprung It. Eli Mulbolland Is now fifty and bis wife thirty. He does not brood over the difference in their ages, for, while when they were married she was but half ids age, now she is three-fifths of It. Resides, several curly headed urchins are of far more importance to both. Eli, who at twenty coveted wealth to spend upon himself, Is now happy that he has a fair share of It to spend upon Ids wife and children. If this experience could be imparted to Hie young, how many more people would pass a contented old age! GERTRUDE GOWAN.
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Procesi by Which the Odor of Flowen Is Obtained. Flowers that are to he used in the manufacture of perfumes are always gathered at nightfall or quite early in the tuornlug. when the dew Is upon them. Before they are gathered, however, receptacles are prepared for them lu the shape of large frames, over which are stretched cotton cloths well saturated with olive oil or almond oil. The cut flowers are brought In and are thickly sptvad on a frame. Then another frame is fitted over it. and that In turn is well spread with flowers. Then a third frame is fitted over the second spread of flowers, and thus the work goes ou until a huge pile of flowers is prepared. This flower heap is left for two days, at the end of which time the flowers are removed from the frames and replaced by fresh ones. The frames are tilled and emptied every two days until two weeks have passed. Then the cloths are detached from the frames and placed under great pressure aui all the oil is pressed out of them. The oil thus obtained is heavily charged with the fragrance of the flowers, and It Is mixed with double its weight of very pure rectified spirit and put iu a vessel called a “digester,” which Is simply a porcelalu or block tin kettle that fits In another kettle. When lu use the outer vessel is tilled with boiling water. In this vessel the mixture of oil and spirits “digests” for three or four days Then, after having cooled, the spirit IS; decanted Into another vessel, holding' the same quantity of fragrant oil. aud the digesting process Is repeated. After being thus digested three times the spirit Is found to have taken up enough of the perfume, aud It is then decanted from the oil for the third and last time through a tube, one end of which is filled with cotton wool to serve as a filter. The fitthl thus prepared is called “triple extract.”
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