Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 January 1908 — Page 2

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OREKXOASTLK HER VI.P. GREEXC ASTLK. rYPIAXA. SATTRHAY, JAN. 2A. 1908.

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CUNNING BIRDS.

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C. J. ARNOLD

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office.

THE FARMER'S INSTITl TE. During the meeting of the Farmer's Institute the listener is sure to hear, upon the street, some very queer remarks, both in fa\or of and in opposition to, the work being i done. Some are enthusif.ic in, praise, others give the matter a cold shoulder and pass it by w th a s .rug. and the at . a pointer worth a cent”. We do not , propose to atati the enthusiast or the p( '■ r is a fact, however, that t:.- r is room ; for Improvement in the general farming of the country. Sonn i me;, is being nude by the very men w ho ■ scoff at the “new fangVd idea- of the institute", but it is often i li by shrewd business deals by e. >n my and close bargaining. ■ uli e\ • i'e tr in themselves. 1 rather than by increased yield and fattening acres. Then, too, the very men who scoff, half unconsciously, take up. after a season or two, the things scoffed at, when they have been Tied by others and proved valuable. It makes no difference how the ideas tre s 'altered so they are scattered, and if a few try and prove good or bad the j theories presented, much in arcomp- i lished. Certain it is tha - knowledge is growing. In general conversation one hears words us -1 ’hat show scientific knowledge One j hears of •‘nitrogen”, “humos", “bac- j teria”, “rotation . make plain that the ideas of the institute are gaining ground in conversation, if not in practice \t least we are sure of this, if nothing fur-! ther is accomplished it : i and uplifting to hear how some one else does the thing we are doing daily. Perhaps he does it better, and we can imitate Perhaps he does it not so well, and we feel proud. In either case we are helped.

Strata;.: cf the Lapwing and tha Ruse of the Thruth. “The g.*.*e Is a frightful iiar." said a nature f :kir. ‘ lie quite puts me to abame.” “Really?’' “Really. You know how the goose, when you draw near It, hisses? Well, with that hi"ing sound it says: ‘Soott. beware. I am a serpent.’ Yes. from primeval timer; the p -rse has acted tlii'- i>' The primeval g'jose mother, fitting on her eggs in a place of reeds and sedge, would not tiy when au Intruder pp tred; tut. keeping her body eoncoa »',I amid the leaves, she would stretch • ut I r In.;», flexible neck and - y. ‘A shake In the grass.’ the ii-t . would say to himself us he !■ >• te.i. and on her eggs the goose

SLUG Ji!B SIL LS3L Queer 0;d Traditions That Cluster About the Gastropods.

CATGUT STRINGS.

A CURE FOR WARTS AND AGUE

Drast.c Rtmec c* That Hava Proved Speedily Mr'ial to the Unfortunate Sns t—A Telepathic Theory That Was a D.smal Failure. It Is pro ihie. though—bearing In mind the extent and profundity of the learning <••••.-idered necessary for “every scho‘1 jirovided he is educat-

The Wey They A r e Made From the

Inteet nee of Sneep.

Catg it strings. It Is well known, are made of the intestines of sheep. The intestmes of the full grown animal are

from forty to fifty feet long.

The raw material from the stockyards Is first thoroughly cleansed of fat and fleshy fiber by dull knives arranged on a drum turned by a crank. The white tough membrane that Is left Is then handed over to the splitter. who dexterously splits the material into even strands by bringing It against the Made of a safety razor set upright in the table before him. The strands are then spun together and

placed on the drying frames.

An American E violin string re-

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The Midou Bliss.

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iu a sly, contemptuous

“The lapwing is another liar. Apprn u h her nest and she sets up a distres>fu! ■ ryii.g and runs baek and forth in front of you, trailiug one wing as though it were broken. You follow. You think to snatch her up In your hands. With this lie she lures you away from her you tig. “The thrush in time of drought beats with his feet on the grass like a clog dancer. Thus he Res to the earthworms. He makes them think that it is ruining Up they come iu silent haste, and the deceitful thrush makes a rich meal.’’—New Orleans Times-

Dem rut.

ed at - so—one does ' ■ ' ' ’ ; , f ?^ snails were among the very earliest

natural history subjects we were taught. The teaching, we may remember. was conveyed In the classical form of qi: >:ion and answer. “What,” we were asked, “are little boys made of?'’ And the querist, almost 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 coinI>osition of the soaring human hoy. 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 after

The strands, at one end fastened to an upright post, are twisted together while still damp and pliable by means of a spinning wheel. Taken from the drying frames, the str.ugs are cut In lengths, coiled and boxed In oiled palter for shipment To polish the strings very fine emery paper laid on a grooved aluminium block is used. While the strings are still on the dryiug frame the covered block Is passed over the strings, polishing as many at one time as there are grooves In the block. It can be seen that from the manner In which the strands are twisted the effect of polishing is to weaken the

string.

In the essertial features the process

WELL Bi'F.iED.

Two F-ne s Fcr One Man Provided

For by His Will.

Curl- : s directions f r the dls|>osal of h!« rei: lit;- were left by John Roliert rringic o' Cal ford. v. ho di -d leaving an • te of gross value of £$.04i)Its. 3d.

The totat- r directed;

“After my dece -o. | desire that a i tor ct medii ine shall, by any experiment he may deem suitable, thoroughly satisfy himself that life is absolutely extinct. My cari ass u to be cremated and the residuum there' f dip' >sited In two metal urns, numbered respectively 1 and 3. On the ashes in No. 1 are h- t>e placed a packet, which will In? found on my desk, and my mini-'ure portrait scarfpit!. nr,on the a ••- No. 2 a

icket. which also will he my desk, and my miniature

;ger ring.”

led that the urns were then •red down and No. 1 buried her's grave nt Newport Pag-

nell and the ntlmr in “my dear Lizzie's grave'' in the Streatham cemetery at Tooting. He also enjoined his sop to see that the graves of his mother and of the testator's motii.-r were properly

looked after -I^mdou Mail.

ward Invariably to squash or other-

esti ever - ig an ! snail that of makin ® the ® ne k ' Jt ! ’ tr * tl!!S * or sur * our youthful eyes Ug . ^' al u ^ s or ttt? ; lY - v stn “S s three *

however, a g ' “ 0,1 K

- <rap>°y* '• for ■ ■ '■ • ' -

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i.":.s:,:, rably more about the latter * n i' 11 -’ (' as e of the musical strings ex- . i rer, Is i^e latter are handled with :•• care 1 hlcago Record-Herald. uralists tel! us the slug is practically j DARING PHOTOGRAPHY. s^in, though (Kissibly the definition

similar p found on portrait th He dire< to lie ' ! In his m t

Rank Foolishness. "When attacked by a cough or a cold, or when your throat is sore, it Is rank foolishness to take any other medicine than Dr. King's New D - covery,” says C. 0. Eldridge, of Empire, Ga. “I have used New Discovery seven years and I know it i c the best remedy on earth for coughs and colds, croup, and ail throat and lung troubles. My children are subject to croup, but New Discovery quickly cures every attack.” Known the world over as the King of throat and lung remedies Sold under guarantee at The Owl Drug Store. 50c and il.OO. Trial bottle free. Jn

When you lose anything tell the people about it in the Want Column of tin Herald. You probably will get your property back.

At Liberty ta Seresm. It was cu a ferry!' a; plying between Sydney and Manly, one of that city’s beautiful suburbs. Every sent was occupied. En-h occupant felt the influence un 1 prepared for an enjoyable trip when a lank girl of fifteen appeared, dragging by the hand a screaming child. 1 here she stood, glowering. A mild lady suggested the child might l>e In pain. An old bachelor muttered that people who had charge of children should keep Them at home. Low voiced but distinct Imprecations were now rife. Site took not the slightest heed of the muttering or the bawling, which was now at the highest pitch, till the suggestion was offered that medicine would do it good. Then she arose in her wrath, as it were, and. giving the child a vigorous shake, said: “Ethel, cry as loud as you like. I've paid your fare.”—London Tit-Hits.

Don’t Preach About Home Trade and at the same time send vour orders for job printing out of town. Your home printer can do your work just as good, and in nine cases out of ten he can beat the city man’s prices, because he pays much less for running expenses. By sending your next printing order to this office you’ll be better satisfied all around, and you’ll be keeping the money of heme.

Handsome Dogs Are Good Dogs. In the ui'ist characteristic of English dogs, with the English bulldog as an unfortunate exception of a glaring sort, common sense principles in the canon of judging are distinctly marked. In the case of hounds any good eye can pick out tlie best animals. This was curiously illustrated not long since in private when au artist taken over one of the bigger kennels of foxhounds picked it the prize and pedigree dogs one after the other, lie went purely by his own sense of what was strong and comely, of “strength and beauty - s;;ys In a very different connection. — London Outiook.

may be taken exception to from a scientific standpoint. It is worth remarking that, whereas everybody knows snails are considered a table luxury in several countries, nobody seems to wax ecstatic over slugs if we except the beche de mer, or sea slug, over which as prepared in the far cast some writers have risen to poetical eloquence. The Romans used to fatten their edible snails on bran soaked in wine, and it Is said, with a considerable emphasis on the “said," they attained such an abnormal size that the shell of one was reported to have a capacity of ten quarts. ' Indirw Oj snails n y e held to add ! still more largely to our supply of nourishiug food, inasmuch as the famous Dartmoor mutton is said to owe Its excellence of quality and flavor to : the myriads of tiny snails eaten by ; the sheep us they browse on the short i grass. It Is a little disconcerting after this to read the old naturalists’ dlcJ turn that the suail Is “a worm of slime and always foul and unclean; is a manner $uuke and Is a horned worm.” Moreover, if any one troubled with j warts will secure it snail, pierce it as many times ns the unsightly excres- ! fences number and then impale the I hapless snail on a thorn tree as the 1 creature dies the warts will disappear. : Equally deserving the attention of the ' S. P. 0. A. is a provincial cure for ague, which consists in putting a live I snail into a bag and wearing it around the neck for nine days. It is then to | lie “thrown Into the fire, when it is | said to shake like the ague, and after | this the patient is never troubled with | the tedious complaint.” "Stamped and | mixed sometimes with cheese, lope | and rennet, snails do draw out thorns | If they be applied to the place,” Lupj ton assures us, while the horns car- | ried on the person insure the bearer's virtue. It is to lie assumed that some j at least of these drastic measures prove speedily mortal to the snails, ' though really some of the stories of | their longevity and recuperative pow- ; era make one hesitate to dogmatize too

j positively.

And the snail is not without Its ! quasi mystic attributes. Very widely ' spread is the childish "charm” by ' which It Is adjured to put out Its horns—“Snail, snail, come out of your

Perilous Feats of the Men Who Ma-

nipulate the Cameras.

A man who can stand or sit on the flange of a steel beam not so wide as the sole of your shoe and 000 feet above a roaring granite paved city street, there coolly to take successful pictures of the top of the city far below him, must be possessed of three jualificatlons aud each of the first wa:er. He must have judgment patience and courage, these three, aud. one may add without slighting the other two. the greatest of these is courage. So writes H. G. Hunting in the Technical

The eager eye of the camera goes everywhere nowadays, and the man who makes picture getting his business adopts no peaceful, unexciting pursuit. If he is under contract to a great newspaper or magazine he may be called upon to secure a picture of anything, from a tla>h!lght in the black depths of a metropolitan sewer to a portrait of the fairest white slave in a Turkish harem. He may be asked to “get" a female grizzly nursing her whelps in her mountain lair to Illustrate some naturalist's work at one end of the year, and before the other end lias come he may snap a shutter on tlie lip of some smoking volcano's

crater.

When you see a striking or a startling picture of man or beast in some extraordinary place or pose, do you ever stop to think where the photographer was who made the negative or how he got there?

Pepper In Olden Time*.

During the middle ages in Europe pepper was the most esteemed and important of all the spices. Genoa, Venice and other commercial cities of central Europe were indebted to their traffic in pepper for a large part of their wealth. Its Importance as a means of promoting commercial activity and civilization during the middle ages can hardly lie overrated. Tribute was levied in pepper, and donations were made in this spice, which was frequently also used ns a medium of exchange in place of money. When the imperial city of Rome was besieged by Alaric, the king of the Goths, In -4' 8 A. !>.. the ransom demanded in-

The British Breed. British bred animals, whether they i»e horses, cattle, sheep or even pigs, are superior to ail others In quality and stamina. There is some strange and admirable power in our soil which puts a stronger fiber and a more enduring stamp of excellence into tlie live stock bred in our islands than are found in the same breed or species iu any other part of the world.—London Times.

hole or eb’' I'll boat you ns black as a fcluded 5.1)011 pounds of gold, 30,000

i"' ' ''' *11 Ter and 3,000 pounds of pepper, Illustrating the Importance of

lei e- ^I’ice ut that time,

ment to "show your horns." In Scotland It is said that the prompt obedience of the snail Indicates that fine weather may l>e expected. In some places to catch a snail by its horns on the 1st of May and throw It over the left shoulder insures good luck. Possibly one of the queerest ideas that have ever been promulgated about | snails was that which gravely proposed i

A City of Happy Hemes. Dublavin took a walk in the cemetery, where lie noticed on the tombstones. “Good Husband,” “Good Wife,” “Good Son.” “It Is evidently here that tlie happiest hi mes are found." lie reflected.— Nos Loisi rs.

An Admission. Alice — I rather like that young Thompson. He lias such a good, firm mouth and chin. Hazel—Goodness! Has he iteon kissing you too?—Kansas City Independent

Always Strong. Church—They say the human voice is stronger in the morning than it is at night. Gotham—I can't see any differetue in 1 by's. — Yonkers Statesman.

For Poetical Reason*. "Perchance.” called the amiable vfrldow. "come here!" The little lapdog trotted meekly np. “Surely that is a strange name for a dog!" exclaimed the gentleman visitor. “What made you name him Per-

rhance?"

“I am so fond of poetry!” explained

to utilize them for the purposes of te- th* ' 8| ly lucidly.

' v forgive me, but I fall to

telepathy. Snails. It was alleged, were 30(1 the applicability.” Ti o of them “Why, silly man." exclaimed the bly euf- : : - '' : low, “I i l It after By fleient time to bring ti t thoroughly ron's dog! Don't you remember where ?n rapport, and the intenilingoperators ; be says, ‘Perchance my dog will arranged their code. One of these went howl?'”

to New York with one snail and the other to Paris with the second. When the gentlemen In either capita! wished to cimniunicnte with bis friend, nt an hour it greed upon, he put hi< snail on a dial marked with the characters of the code and moved it from one to the other till liis message was spelled out, and the snail in tlie other capital would. Impelled by the mysterious sympathy, of Its own accord Indicate on a corresponding dial the message letter by letter! That was the beautiful theory that was doomed to dismal failure.—

London Globe.

A slip of the tongue is worse than that of the foot.—Spanish IToverb.

Too Much Checking.

Mother (sternly)—Can't yon check . . your wife's constant demand for nx>n- ' e ' ^' er ' ey? Husband (despairingly)—That's just It! bii'-'s always after checks.—

Baltimore American.

What He Knew.

Master—If your friend were to borrow 12 shillings from you, agreeing to pay 1 shilling a month, how much would he owe at the end of the year? I’ujill—Twelve shillings. "You don't know the elements of

arithmetic.”

“But I know my friend.”—Loudon

Scraps.

The Bonds.

“I want to get rid of some bonds." "Out of my line.” replied the lawyer. “But these are matrimonial bonds,” rejoined the caller, putting a different face on the matter. — Philadelphia

When we are happy we seek those we love. In sorrow we turn to those

who love us.—Cecil Raleigh.

[Cop>ri*ht. ISCT. by Jessie Morg-in.] Pardon's bank, as it was known for 1 fifty years, stood on the corner of two streets in the business center of a populous Canadian town. The business ; had descended from father to son. Besides its own building, the bank owned one face of the square, and this ground was covered with stores and the buildings rented from year to year. The one next to the bank was a two story brick and had tieen rented at different times for different purposes. Just now It stood empty, with a sign of "To Rent" in the window. The banker was a man who was familiar with all the minor details of the Institution He accepted or rejected tenants aud signed the leases. It was to him that the Widow Bliss applied 1 for the vacant store. She was the widow of a New Y'ork inventor and electrician, and she had herself worked with tools and studied the science of various problems. She had an electric . Invention In mind and had come to Canada to perfect it. It was the problem of heat. She hoped to reduce Its cost lieiow that of coal or wood. She j would have to fit up the building with an engine, dynamos, shafting, etc., but there would be no noise to disturb any one. In fact, her force of three or four men would work mostly at night, when | there was smaller chance of outsiders prying Into their secrets. A banker may be a close observer of human nature, but when he is a widower and the other party Is a good looking and well to do widow who Is on the point of revolutionizing *ie heat problem and making it possible to keep warm at the north pole the machinery is apt to skip a cog. It did la this case. Mr. Pardon was interested In the widow, and if he could save coal by adopting her new Invention that would be to the profit of the bank. The tenant went ahead aud fitted up the place, and when all was ready she spent an hour showing her landlord the machinery and explaining Its operations. He knew nothing what- j ever about any part of it, but he did ; know a copper wire from a telegraph pole, and he expressed his satisfaction and left the place. It was to call again, however. In fact, It was to call almost every day for the next six weeks. While the widow was always In her little front office after 2 o'clock In the afternoon, It was understood that most of the work In the cellar^ and shops was done at night. If any one had told the banker that he was falling iu love, he would have scorued the idea, aud yet the other fel- | low would have been right. His ad- j miration was growing day by day. aud we all knew that admiration Is the first step iu love. When he was in his ! room In the bank making loans or Inspecting securities he decided to remain faithful to the memory of his dead wife. When he was in the shop next door listening to the widow's talk about fuses and short circuits and crossed wires he could hardly hold himself back from making a proposition of matrimony. After two weeks men began to smile at each other. After four they l>egau to wink. It would have hurt the banker's feelings had he known it, but the smiling and the winking were done behind his back. Pardon’s hank was an old fashioned building. As its outer walls were • three feet thick. Pardon, the elder, had considered that a pretty good safeguard against robbers. Therefore when he erected his money vaults down cellar he used brick only—brick walls and an Iron door. There was no watchman o’ nights. Who could make his way Into the bank past the iron barred windows and bolt studded doors? Aud even if once In there were more doors and bars to be overcome. With a wide awake aud vigilant policeman In front the place was ns safe as safe could be. Two mouths had gone by since the Widow Bliss fitted up the shop aud began solving tae great problem. The banker hadn’t demanded the second mouth's rent at daylight on the morning of the first, when it was actually due and overdue, but had waited till noon, when It was sent In. The widow had won his confidence and admiration to such an extent that had she wanted a loan of $25 he would have accommodated her without the customary two securities. Beyond ad miration and confidence he didn't quite know his feelings. He was rather afraid of himself. He was afraid that If he proposed marriage she would refuse him and afraid that If he didn't he would miss a good thing and regret it ever afterward. When he called on a certain afternoon he was informed that the heat problem would probably be solved that very night. He went to bed that night to kick around and wonder and pondei and make up and unmake ills mind a dozen times over. He slept late and had a late breakfast, and it was half an hour behind his usual time when he reached the bank. He arrived Just In time to hear a yell from the cashier as that individual, who had been down to open the vaults, came running up 1 stairs. The vaults were open. They had been oi>en since midnight, when the underground tunnel from the shop to the bank had been finished, and the Iron door blown off. That’s what the widow Biiss’ men had been working at for many long nights. They and the widow had taken $00,000 from the vaults and left the tow-n never to re turn. So nicely were their plans laid that they could not be followed a sin gle mile. The house warming problem had not been solved for tlie general public, but It had for Mr. James Pardon. He was robbed fifteen years ago. but he Is warm yet M. QUAD. 1

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A I ender Steak Makes the most delicious meal In the world, and the place to get It Is i^pefs Heat Met

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