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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1f)08.

PAGE THREE.

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^ Drastic Remedies That Must Have Proved Speedily Mortal to the Unfortunate Snails—A Telepathic Theory That Was a Dismal Failure. It Is probable, though . bearing In mind the extent and profundity of the | lenruing considered ueeessary for “ev- | ery schoolboy,” provided he is educated ttt other people’s expense—one d<x>9 uot like to dogmatize, that slugs and snails were among the very earliest natural history subjects we were taught. The teaching, we may remember, was conveyed in the classical form of question and answer. “What," we were asked, “are little boys made of?” And the querist, alums always of the nurse or governess persuasion, supplied the answer with unmistakable relish. “Slugs and snails and puppy dogs’ tails’’ were, we were informed, the ingredients which went to the composition of the soaring human boy. It was doubtless the memory of the indignity rather than any righteous zeal against the foes of the flower garden that induced us for some time afterward Invariably to squash or otherwise destroy every slug and snail that our youthful eyes lighted on. As a matter of fact, however, a good deal of interesting old world lore clusters about slugs and snails, though considerably inure about the latter than the former. That, hov -w r, is of the less importance, in:: - • u h .as naturalists tell us the sin.', i: practically a snail which wears its shed under its skin, though possibly the definition may lie taken exception to from a seientific standpoint. It is worth remarking Unit, whereas oven body knows snails are considered a table luxury in several countries, iioho-L seems to wax ecstatic over slug It we except the beche de mer, or s,-a slug, over which as prepared in the far east some writers have risen to poetical eloquence. The Homans used to fatten their edible snails <>n bran . oaked In wine, and it is said, w ith a eonsiJcrable emphasis on the ' l," they attained such an abnormal si e that the shell of one was n ported to have a capacity of ten quarts. Indirectly snails may lie held to add styi more largely to our supply of nourishing food, inasmuch as the famous Dartmoor mutton Is said lo ow its excellence of quality and flavor to ttie myriads of tiny aid; eaten by the sheep as they brow o - i the short grass. It is a little di ronee,'dug after this to read the old naturalists’ dictum that the snail Is "a worm of slime and always foul and uneli an: is a manner snake and is n honu 1 worm.” Moreover, if any oae troubled with warts will secure a snail, pierce it as many times as the unsightly excres cences number and thc;i impale the hapless snail ou a thorn tree as the creature dies the wni: s will di appear. ; Equally deserving the a u ion of (he S. P. C. A. is a provlm ial eure for ague, which consist - in putting a live' snail Into a bag and wearing h around the neck for nine days. It is then to bo “thrown Into the lire, when It Is said to shake like the ague, and after this the patient i never tr-m! i-d with the tedious compiait::.” “S imped and mixed sometimes with < h <*, lope and rennet, snails do draw out thorns If they Vie applied to the place,” Luptou assures us, while the horns carried ou the person In -ire the hearer's virtue. It Is to he ass rued that some at least of these drastic prove speedily mortal to tli ■ snails, though really some <>f the stories of their longevity and r- -up) ative powers make oneJiesltale to dogmatize too

positively.

An-1 the snail Is not without its quasi mystic attributes. Very widely spread is the chlhli 1 h “charm” by 1 which It Is adjured to put out its horns—“Snail, snail, come out of your hole or else I’ll heat you tie black as a coal.” Sometimes a bribe is suhslituted for the threat, and "bread and barleycorns” an 1 promise 1 : an Inducement, to “show your horns." In Seotj laud It is said that the prompt obedience of the snail Indi ales that flue weather may he expected. In some places to catch a snail by Its horns on the 1st of May and throw It over th(> left shoulder Insures : >od luck. Possibly one of the queerest ideas that have ever been promulgated about snails was that with h gravely proposed to utilize them for Hie purp'. es of telegraphy. or; m re strictly perhaps, telepathy. Rnnil . It was alleged, were excessively sympathetic. Two of them were put together for pre-umably sufficient time to bring t’ uu thoroughly pu rapport, and the intending operators arranged their code. One of these went to New York with < • • snail and the other to Paris with the second. When the gentlemen in either (upk 1 wished to communicate wl h bl I frh nd, at an hour agreed vq on, ho put Ms snail on a dial marked with t! ■ elmracb-rs of the code and moved It from otm to the other till his message wa pulled out, and the snail In the otecr cnpibil would. Impelled by the inr'to. ions ympathy. of Its own accord Indlcite on a corresponding dial the message letter by letter! That was the beautiful theory that was doomed to dbuual failure.— London Globe. Too Much Checking. Mother <ste:nlj i - <’no ' you check your wife': eoiif-iniit -! mi for money? Husband oh mil ..by)-That's Just It! She's always after checks.— Baltimore American.

A FAMOUS DUEL The Fatal Meeting Between Commodores oarron and Decatur. On March 211. 1820, was fought one of the most memorable duels in the annals of the United States. Commodore Decatur and Commodore Barron met ou the fatal" Held near Bladeusburg that day. Both participants were wounded, Deoatur mortally, dying within a few hours after the encounter. The causes which led to the ill feeling between these two naval heroes have never been accurately determined, but it is generally supposed that Decatur's harsh criticisin of Barron on account of the latter not returning from abroad to take part in the war brought about the breach. Certain it is that Decatur's words were repealed to Barron, and a correspondence between the two ensued, which probably resulted tn the challenge. The impending duel was kept a profound secret. Only a few of the most intimate friends of the respective participants had even an inkling of it. Decatur was the first to arrive upon the scene. He was accompanied by Commodores Bodgers and Porter and several other friends. Barron arrived a few minutes later. The combatants bowed stillly to each other and stood waiting for their friends to measure off the ground and make the final arrangements. “1 hope, sir,” said Barron as they took their places, “that when we meet in another world we shall he better friends than we have been in this.” Decatur Is said to have haughtily regarded Ids adversary a moment and then replied: "Mir, 1 have never been your enemy.” A moment later the word was given, and two shots rang out simultaneously. Barron fell almost Immediately. De eatur straightened himself, hut the pis tol fell from his grasp, and' in a mo incut he was upon the greensward writhing in agony. He was raised by his friends and carried nearer the road, where Barron was lying. “1 wish I had fallen lit the service of my country,” Decatur muttered, whereupon Barron looked up. “Everything lias been conducted most honorably,” he said. Then, turning Ids eyes upon Decatur: “I am mortally wounded. Commodore Decatur, 1 forgive you from the bottom of my heart.” As Decatur was being lifted into a carriage Ualubridge, whom Decatur had once rescued from a Moorish prison, scoped down and kissed his cheek. With Ids head upon Bodgers’ shoulder and in company with a physician, Decatur was driven slowly back to the city and carried into his residence ou Lafayette square, where lie died a few hours afterward. The news of the duel spread like wildfire through the city. The following day .loltn Randolph offered consolatory resolutions in congress, which, however, were promptly objected to, and the press rigorously denounced the practice of dueling. Barron ultimately recovered from his Injury, but it is said the memory of the fatal duo! darkened his life ever afterward. He lived until the year lk,*i and had charge of several vessels. At his own request he was court martialed upon the charges made against him by Decatur and exonerated.—Ex-

change.

All Help One Another. What a wonderful oftler there Is In all human labor! While the hushandmnn furrows his land and prepares for every one his daily bread the town artisan, far away, weaves the stuff in which he is to he clothed, the miner seeks underground the iron for his plow, the soldier defends him against the Invader, the judge takes care that the law protect* his fields, the tax comptroller adjusts ills private Interests with those of the public, the merchant occupies himself in exchanging Ills products for those of distant countries, the men of science and art add every day it few horses to this Ideal team, which draws along the material world its steam Impels the gigantic trains of our iron roads. Thus, all unite together, all help one anottfer. The toll of each one benefits himself and all the world. The work has been apportioned among the different mcinlHM's of the whole society by a tacit agreement. If In tliis apportionment errors are committed. If certain individuals have not been employed according to their capaeitie , those defects of detail diminish In the sublime conception of the whole. The poorest man included in this association has his place, his work, ids reason for being there. Each Is something in the whole. -Emile Sou-

vest re.

Old Trinity Churchyard. There is no more dismal and hideous sight than a new graveyard full of glittering, obtrusive white monuments, square, ponderous and costly. But a burying ground which has attained a ripe age, say. a century or so. is callable of affording a distinct sensation of aesthetic pleasure. Toned and tent pered by wind and weather into neutral harmony, the Intrusive lettering ou the stones half obliterated, there remains no ghastly funeral suggestion, but only a gentle Impulse to quote Omar on the evanescence of things. Such a graveyard Is the old Trinity, past which the busy crowds of Broadway and Wall street surge all day. It Is a thing of beauty, though perhaps not one In a hundred of those eager faced men hurrying past ever stops to look at it or think of it. If he did, one Imagines he would slacken Ills pace and perhaps take n half holiday. The ancient plo* of ground, sown thick with low gray and brown stones and looking like a field of mushrooms, makes that human torrent rushing by seem melancholy and meaningless.—

New York Globe.

J: A Game of Poker. I -M-M-i—'•d'H-i-!-;**!-! -l- I-i—!—!••!-!••!••.’-* [Original ) Ned Haunard. his bride, Tout Pendleton and I sat down one evening at Ned’s bouse to a game of poker. Susie Banuard had never played curds, so we ngiTed to help her. We couldn’t : leave her out and only ex|>ccted her to bet low ou the l>ost of hands. The’ game was penny ant® with a two cent

limit.

People who think they know tilings are very hard to teach. Susie hadn’t played half a dozen hands before she Insisted ou playing her own game tn her own way. She kept losing rtendily, and, although the stake was very small, she was soon minus something like $2. Since I had won more than half of this I determined to get It hack to Iter. Having a pair of eights In my hand, when she and ! alone, were betting, l made a great ado. daring her to bet. I raised ber, and sin- raised me until I saw that there was a dollar in the pot for tier, then called her. To my dis comflturc she had only a pair of fives. Instead of losing a dollar I had won another dollar from her. I proposed that we should play some other game, but Susie could not I e induced to give up poker, so we proceeded as we were. Some one opened with a jack pot, and the woman In the case, after studying a long i. bile, asked for one card When 11 w given her she looked at It and said. “Oh, pshaw!” It was plain that she had drawn to a flush and hud 'ailed to till. Wo v re all very nnuh di- rtmth-l when the came In. Ned and I were both anxious to bet and didn't want to win h- r money. Nod told her uot to make a goose of herself tu.d to s<av out. When she refused he told h - - that she’d hav" to stand the loss out o!' her private fund. She paid no Htt-mti m to thi and raised us both. V d. very much vexed, raised the pot t > top me. and before we knew it ue had several dol lars on the table. No 1 and I showed down, but the lad.i couldn’t be prevailed upon to do so. I had three kings and Ned three aces. “One pair Isn’t any good, is it?” asked Susie. “No,” replied iter husband, “uo ■ two pairs.” “But suppose there are two pairs, with another card like one of the pairs?” Ned and 1 lo iked at e h other: then ho seized itis wife's cauls and threw them on the table face i p. She bad a full band. Susie was now slightly ahead of the game and quite proud i f h. r elf. Ned. foreseeing a phingmg n her part that might he einharras iu-g. \ roposed to quit, but siie had <-::u..'it th • gambling fever ami Insis’i I in proc-eli g wilh the game She didn't •om< iq tor two or three hands. Th -i w - all knew she’d got something ii tulsomc. for sin* looked hoppy and sai l gill i.\ that she was "going to bet.’’ “How many cards?” "Is it any advant ;e to have the cards run together-fm r. five, six, for instance?" “Yes, If the whole live run that way.” Site studied a long while, then said, "We!l, y- u may give me two cards.” We all laughed, and the game pry< ceded. This time Tom rendlebm either had a big hand or wned l to bluff, for he raised the limit. Ned, convinced that be was Idufing, rn! 1 him. I stayed out. “Wh"! are you going to do, Susie?” asked Ned. “I don't know. 1 can't tell whether th e oa. Is are any good or not.” Ned a kc 1 me to look at her band, lad she laid it faced >wn on the table. “You .my.” she said, turning her pretty eyes on her liege lord, "that the cards must all run up or d -ivn, and if there is one that doesn't ft it spoils the hand?” “Yes, and ihcy nr t ail lie of the same suit. You couhhi't fill a hand like that by drawing two cards once in a hundred th o-s.” She studied her lurid till wo nil g it tired waiting, and Nod passed cigars. By the time wo ha 1 ligh-od i p Susie had come to a decision. ‘ It's . i m\ ful risk,” she said, “liui theio ai thr e cards In my hand prettv high. I may win- on those.” She chipped i : and Ned groaned. Then he whispered to me that he was going to (each h t that It’s expensive to be stupi I. He 1 ilsed her, and Tom and I ho a dropp. I out. She saw Ned and raised him. Then he raised her again, with the sr.iiio result, and tin' rail ing went on till there was about .$12 hi the p it. “That'll Just buy a bracelet 1 saw this morning that I want awfully,” said Susie. “Won't It be nice?" Ned looked at me and smiled. "Can’t we get it up to $15?" Susie asked. “There’s t oniuj, thing else for Sd I want too." “Very well,” said Ned, •'we'll take off the limit for this hand." And they chipped In the required amount. “Wh it you got? A full o’ kings here,” said Ned He threw down his hand and was raking In the pot when ids v. ife laid down the ace, king and queen of diamonds one after the other. “Are they any good?” she asked, looking at i eagerly. We told her they were not. She heaved a deep sigh and carelessly dropped her other two cards They were the knave and ten of the same suit ns the other three. There were varied exclamat ms from the men, while Susie was wo adoringly looking at each of us for an explanation. Then I told her that she held a royal flush and bad won the pot. Ned sank back in Ids chair and laughed Immoderately. Tom and I to!d Susie that she was the best poktr > r er we had ever met. And : hr we i acre It no better way to dc-eire .a antagonist than not to know yoi elf what you’re doing. EUGENE HOLMES BURT.

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Delinquent Tax List for 1908 STATE OF INDIANA, PUTNAM COUNTY, SS: Auditor in anti for Haiti County , do hereby certify a correct list of tho lands and town lots returned

delinquent for the non-payment of taxes due on them for the year UOO and previous y^ars; that said lands and town lots are described and rharLM .l with the taxes on the current year 19U7 in tin* following list, tin same as they are doscrilssl and charpsl on the tax duplieate of said county, and that said taxes appear due and unpaid anil^that

said list was recorded on the Mist day of December, IUU7. (tiven under my hand and s* al, tins 1st day of January, 1008.

IU 8 ] D. V.. MOFFETT.

Auditor of Putnam County, Indiana.

1, I>. V. Moffett, that the following is

Owners Name

Description of Lands |

Jackson Township 81)1 Orlapp, Richard ... pt nw n\v 82 .VJ0 Utteroaek, Eli/.nb'h F.pt nw se 2 Franklin Township 023 Butcher, I>. H. . . ptsw ... 6 Johnston, B, & wife.. Carp’tv’o 50 7 UM8 Trail, Maggie Jane pt ne 80 1074 Watson, Dorcas Carp’tersv’e 2 bk 0 Koaclulaln Town 121D Evans, Charles \ w ifeCline add 11 12 bk 8 1831 Littell, J. ( ’. A; MaryC.Cline 2d add 18 12bk8 1384 Lodoga B & L O P 1 2 8 bk 3 1840 Mere, r, Alice O 1* 10 Uussell Township 1041 Fannonbaum, Sol pt e l i sw l IhTjO Scott, Mary K pt v l 4 ne lo Kusselvillo Tp. Inderson Bum A* <> P 88 Monroe Tow nship 2741 Lee. Joseph Dee.d) .. pt II 1 2 HW 1 Floyd Tu\\ nship 8170 Bodenhamcr, W. D....pt sw nw 85 same pt ne se 20 same pt sw sw 20 same pt nw nw 85 Marion Township 485 Storm, Lena W pt w*£ sw 13 same pt nw nw 24 same pt se se .... 14 432 Siddens. J. T. & wife pt e 1 -^ s v 3 Greencastle Tp. 5k{ Bryant, Matilda ... Silver’s add 2 3 4 5 fl 7.. .. 587 Black. Albert M. Com PI J) bk 10 737 Daniels. I>. W Com PI 10 bk 12.. 832 Gully, John C. etal...pt sw 7 same pt w l a se 7 same pt nw ne 18 same pt nw nw 18 Oso Kurtz, George H Com PI II bk 28 1112 Nichols, W.M. tte M. J.pt uw. 15 1120 Owl Mercantile Co. ..Com PI 9 bk 32 nil Peck v Hawkins .. Com PI n bk 81 1 • JO Sn I ho, Nancx E pt ae >w .... 11 1808 Yickirs, Isabelle M K U enl'rgment 41 1340 Whitehead, Sarah E ...pt so 20 1:145 White, Geo W Com PI h bk 4 (ircencastlo (’it v 1620 Bell, Delia (4 P 5!) same O P 82 2815 Weift, Fred O P 04 Madison Tp. 152 Ilarland. Susan nt ehj nw 2 406 Young, John W Roadway. 11 Washington Tp. f05 Estep, Wm. U. A: wife pt ne 8 817 Mace, Prentice pt nw sw 15 873 Neese, Wesley Hrs pt nw sw 13 1*03 Peffert, Littleton .... jit ne bl same pt so lie 31 DUO Smith M. M pt nw 31 same pt sw 80 1042 Treager, Belle pt ne ne 8 same pt e 1 ^ He 6 1060 Whit akin*, Susan Manhattan lot 118 1088 Waltz,.!. U pt nw sw 13 4851 Burns, Thos pt nw se 11 Maine pine il same pt nw 11 same pt se 12 same pt e 1 ., sw 12 same pt nw 12 same jit w?i ne 12 same pt ne ne ... 12 Warren Township. 1108 Barton, H. P e 1 ^ 20 same pt w44 nw 28 same pt w 1 ^ sw 20 1283 Dunnington. Sarah K, pt eb, se 11 1800 Messer, Chris pt si* se 22 1388 MeCormick, Geo pt sw 10 same pt nw 10 1427 Sublett, David Putnainville 1814 ... 1458 Turner, Benjamin F. Jenkinaville 9 10 14):<) Vickers, A. B Jenkinsville 2 1477 Williams, Hiram T lenkmsvilio 4 6, 147!) Rice, Mary E pt w 1 ., sw 8 JctlurHon Township 1578 Donovan, A. J Jr pt nw ne 13 (Moverda h* Tp. 2048 Evans, Win. H ptsw 5 2115 Harrison, J. H pt w 1 ^ se 38 2107 Killum.Wm. A pt se se .18 24U) Whitaker, M, K. et al ptnw 14 (Moverdah* Town 248*.* Evans, M. Ester Brown add 8 2630 Jones. Squire T. et al South add 4 bk 1 ... ... 2664 Shoemaker, H. & M.E.McCoy 1 2 3 4 bk5

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NOTICK OK 8AI.K Notiop is liervlij given that the whole of the several tracts of laml nml town lots contained in the foreK u,n K list, which were returned delinquent by the Treasurer of Putnam Cennty, Indiana, for the year IflCH, for the non-payment of taxes, penalty and interest due thereon, Including gravel road taxes, and including the taxes of the current year inoT, or so murh thereof as will he necessary to pay the taxes penalty, interest and cost due t her non. at the time of sale, will be aold nt public nnetion by Edward MeO. Walts, Treasurer of said county, at the foul l House disir, in the City of Ureencastle, In said county, comnicncini; ut 1U o'clock a. m. on THE SECOND MONDAY IN FEBRUARY, 1908, IT BEINU MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1908. And continue said sale from day to day thereafter until such lands and town lots or so much thertof as shall be necessary to discharge the taxi s, penalty, interest and cost accruing to said sale sliall have 1» 111 sold. oiven under my hand and seal, this 1st day of ,lanu uary, 1908. D. V. MOFFETT, January 1, 1908. Auditor Putnam County.