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GREENCASTLEHERALD

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1IM)8

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LIGHTNKiG AND SHIPS.

What Grrencastle 1 cc^ie and Their Fnends Are Doing

J. T. Boyd is spondinR a few days in Mitchell. Miss Anna Ricknell is visiting Brazil relatives. Mrs. Olivo Priest of Bainbridg* visited here today. Fred W. N'icliols of Indianapolis was in town on ‘business today. Mrs. Oscar Thomas is visiting her slater, Mrs. Ilynier at Crawfordsville Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Arnold returned last night from a day in Chicago. Sumner Woody has returned to Chicago after a visit with parents here. J. Ci. Stiles has returned 10 his liAiiw in Hammond after a visit with Ids parents here. Mrs. George Cole and Mrs. Wm. Houck are attending the convention of the I). A. U. at Muncle. Mrs. Rose Sublet! and sister-in-law. Miss Sublet! of Putnamville ar’ visiting Mrs. Noble Snyder. A party of stockholders of the Burlington Railroad stopped off here today on their way to Chicago. Prof. Aaron Doty has returned to New York City, after a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. .John Doty. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Gilmore returned this evening from a visit at Cincinnati and other points In Ohio. Rev. D. L. Vandament returned last night from the Annual Council of the Christian Union at Columbus. Mss Priest of Brirk Chapel left, today for Banning, California, where she will spend the winter with her son. Miss Bethena Vandament returned last night from Bedford where she attended the W. C. T. U. convention. Mrs. W. S. Eggleston has returned to her home In Belliare, Wisconsin, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank Stitos. Mrs. A. P. Burndde and Mrs. A. B. Phillips are attending a meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society at Danville, Ills. Miss Lorone Crouch attended a shower given Saturday afternoon hy Miss Beulah Risher for Miss Margaret Kerfoot of TVasil. Mrs. H. C. Allen and Miss Matt'e Croueh are attending the eonventi e, of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at Danville. Ills. Mrs. W. B. Bridges of Fincastle visited with her sister, M T . 0. Brothers last night on her way home from a visit at Indianapolis. The Aid Society of the Brick Chapel M. E. Church will meet on Saturday afternoon at 2:d0 o'clock at the Itune of Mrs. Oscar Thomas. Mrs. Mary Hargrave returned today from Russellville, where she has heen spending a week with her son, Rev. W. L. Hargrave and family. James, the little son of Mrs. E. K. Watson of Atlanta, Georgia, who m visiting here is quite ill at the home of Mrs. Watson's brother, W. P. Rackett. Mrs. Cole, regent of the D. A. R. and Mrs. Swahlen, delegate left on the 1:15 train for Muncie, where they will attend the state convention of the D. A. R. Andrew Crowder of Bethany, Ills., is here the guest of .1. G. McCoy and family. Mr. Crowder came specially to visit with his daughter, Miss Florence, who Is attending the university.

Mrs. Margaret Matthews will leave tomorrow for Boone, Oregon, for an extended visit with her sister, Mrs. J. C. King. Mrs. W. R. Beefier who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown, north of town, left today for her home in Cincinnati. Invitations have been issued bv Mrs. Albert Gray Potter and Mis4 Potter for a five-o’clock tea on Hi 0 afternoon of Tuesday, October 15. Brazil Times: Misses Louise Handler, Elizabeth Siek and Mary Reddle of Terre Haute, Clara Murphy an 1 Margaret Riley attended a t; oYloer dinner last evening in Greencastle, given by Miss Bessie Fitzgerald. Mrs. Mary Mathias entertained tt dinner last night at her home on East Seminary Street. Those present were Mr. and Mrs Goodwin, M.. and Mrs Joe Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donner. Mr. and Mrs. Itasqori O’Hair and Mrs. Smythe. E. N. Houck returned last night from Chicago where he went wit'i four ear loads of cattle belonging to Hi mLockridge. The cattle sold yesterday in Chicago for $1; a hundred. Mr. Iiockrtdge is still in Chicago and will remain there for several days. Mrs. H. C. Allen, Miss Mattie Crouch, Mrs. Albert Burnsides and Mrs. A. B. Phillips left today for Danville, Ills., where they will attend a branch meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Hociet Mrs. Allen is the regular delegate from the College Avenue Methodist Church.

A SCISSORS ARTIST. The Wonderful Feats Performed by Joanne Koctren. More than 'Jun years ago a little girl was born a\ Amsterdam, Holland, whose name was Joanne Koetren. She was a peculiar child hi that - he eared nothing whatever for play and sport, but found her greatest delight in making collies of tilings about her, imitating in wax every kind of fruit and making on silk with colored (loss exact coides of paintings which were thought wonderful. But after she bad become very accomplished in music, spinning and embroidery site abandoned all these for a still more extraordinary art that of cutting. She executed landscapes, marine views, tlowei s, animals and portraits of people of such striking resemblance that she was for a time quite the wonder of Europe. She used white papers for her cuttings, pliuliig them over a black surface, so that the minute opening- nn.de by Iwr scissor* formed the "light and shade." The czar, Peter the Great, and others of high rank paid her In:nor. One man high in otliee vainly offered tier 1,000 florins for three small cuttings. The empress of Germany paid her 4,000 florins for a trophy she had cut, hearing the arms <>f Emperor Ixtopold, crowned with eagles and surrouuded by 11 garland of flowers She also cut the emperor's portrait, which can now he seen in the Royal Art gallery In Vienna. A great many people went to see her, mid she kept a hook in which princes and princesses wrote their mimes. After she died, which was when she had .lived ixly live years, her husband, Adrian Block, erected a monument to her ineinory and had designed upon It the portraits of these titled visitors. Her cuttings were so correct in effect and so tasteful as to give both dignity and value to her work and constitute her an artist whose exquisite skill with the scissors has never before or since heen equaled. Would Mortgage the Farm. A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Floyd by name, says: “Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight In gold. I would not be without it if I had to mortgage the farm to get it." Only 25c, at the Owl Drug Store.

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Vessels Aro Struck More Frequently Than Is Supposed. In spite 1 f the popular impression to the contrary, ships remote from the laud are seldom damaged hy lightning, although some of the most awe Inspiring displays of atmospheric electricity are frequently witnessed by those on board of them. Standing rigging and even parts of the running gear are now made of steel wire, and this substitute for the old fashioned hemp serves the purpose of lightning conductor when the ship is not titled with such an aid to safety. The electric current is conveyed down the wire rigging and reaches the sea through the vessel’s metal hulk Damage occurs only if the current he interrupted on its way down In a comparatively large proportion of Instances ttie fore royal truck is struck by lightning, that of the main less frequently and the mlzzeu least of the

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Very serious casualties under this head occurred to warships and merchant vessels in the days of wooden hulls and hempen rigging. In July, 1N02, as thirteen sailing vessels of the East India company were trying to round the cape in the vicinity of Algoa bay, homeward bound, two of them, the Britannia and the Bombay Castle, were struck by lightning. The foremast of each was soon/ enveloped in flames, and the masts b n 'l ,0 Cl, t away in order to save flic ships and their combustible cargoes. A heavy gale was blowing, the night was dark, and the other ships of the fleet, which were hove to at the time, were witnesses of this thrilling incident. Many vessels are now litted with lightning conductors of approved types lest the wire rigging should fail to carry off the electric current. In May, IStii'i, shortly after a severe thunderstorm, accompanied hy lightning and rain, in o degrees south. ST degrees east, tlie 1*. and <>. steamship Victoria had a sudden increase of deviation amounting to (l degrees in both the standard and the wlicolliouse compasses, and later it was discovered that the lightning conductor oti the fore had fused. The ship must have been struck by lightning during the storm.— Knowledge Magazine.

WALL STREET “TIPS.” Best Place to Plant Them if They Come Your Way. A seasoned Wall street campaigner condenses a life of practical observation in the remark: "Stock market ‘tips’ are, as a rule, founded ou nothing better than guesswork or pure invention. Although usually without value, openly peddled out to the public and not possible to trace to any reliable source, they come clothed in such a garb of mystery and apparent Importance that there are always a lot of ill Informed persons who will accept them and act on them us ou gospel truth. “Often these so called 'tips' are but the wh pen l suggestions of some manipulator who was confident that his mysterious, semiconfldeiitial hint would travel and he made the basis of large buying of some stock he was especially anxious should be largely sold. “It Is told of one great speculative magnate of the past generation that when he was approached by the pastor of a rich nml fashionable Fifth avenue church In search of means by which he could become suddenly rich he put his lips close to the clerical ear mid whispered: ‘Buy I’aeifle Mail. It's a sure thing. If you lose on It I'll make good your losses.’ "The pastor departed gleefully. Some two weeks later he called at the oflice of the manipulator and deplored the great tinaucial losses be had incurred in following the confidential ‘tip.’ 'How much were they?' asked Mr. G., and on being told he drew Ids personal check for the amount. "Tlie minister took It and after expressing his thanks hesitated a moment and then said: ‘But how about my parishioners? You placed no ban of secrecy on me, and their losses have been enormous.' “The financier smiled grimly ns he remarked, ‘You see, doctor, those were the fellows I was after.’ “This story may be true or may not, but It points a moral. If you get a tip’ on Wall street bury it in the back yard and forget It”—Cleveland Leader.

A Double Headed Bull. On the occasion of a public reception at Napier, Australia, the school children of Hie town, after being duly complimented by Ids excellency from County Tyrone on tlie hearty manner in which they had rendered the national anthem, were solemnly assured that if they put their shoulders to the wheel they would he sure to reach the top of the tree, upon which a compatriot turned to me and said. “Sure, It was an axletrec he meant, bedadP’—London Spectator. Equally Cutting. “Your voice,” said the commanding officer, "is decidedly rasping.” “Yes, sir,” said the subordinate, touching Ids hat. “1 have heen out roughing It with a file of soldiers all morning.”—Chicago Tribune

Why He Loved Spain. Gioacchino Rossini, who was a great Jester, was once seen embracing a Spaniard with great effusion. Asked the reason, lie replied. “Because without Spain we would he flic last nation.”

Kilty, Sam and the Peacemaker. By COLIN S. COLLINS

Copyrighted, 1908, hy Associated Literary I’rtss

The Motive. Lawyer -What took you to the scene of Hie murder? Witness—The cars, sir. Lawyer—No, no! What motive was It? Witness—The locomotive. Lawyer—Yon iiiax go — F’atblinder.

When it has been “Sain” and "Kitty” from babyhood it is rather difficult to pass suddenly to tlie "Mr. Hastings" and "Miss Norwood" stage. Both Sam and Kitty felt the strain, though each took mental obligation to do nothing that In any way might he construed into an overture of friendship. it had all started innocently enough. Kitty on her way to tin* postofllce en•ountered Jim Saunders. She regarded Saunders as a persistent pest, but she could not very well refuse Ids suggestion that they stop In at the drug store and have a glass of soda. Then it happened that they turned Into Holding street In animated conversation, and Sam could not know they had met just around the corner. Of all the summer visitors to Auburnvtlle Sam disliked Saunders the most, and Nitty knew it. It looked to him as though she had deliberately accepted Saunders' attentions to puuish him for a trivial quarrel of the night before. Kitty was just finishing tlie last tiny lump of Ice cream from the bottom of the tall glass when Sam entered the store with Belle I’anlding, Kitty's dearest enemy. Ho had bowed stltlly in salutation, and Killy had responded with a "Good morning, Mr. Hastings,” emphasizing the name as sweetly and as coldly ns the frozen delicacy she had just consumed. That lind been tile start of the trouble, but the end had been slow in coming. That afternoon Kitty went motoring with Saunders, though she hated motor ears, and Belle went buggy riding with Sam to punish Saunders for Ids imagined disloyalty. Saunders and Miss Paulding had quickly patched their quarrel up. hut Kitty was unyielding, and there was a squareness to Sam's chin that did not argue In favor of pliability of personality. With ceremonious politeness each strove to show tlie other how little It mattered, but Kitty erled herself to sleep night after night, and Sam swore softly, but fervently, at what he was pleased to term the foolishness of womankind. So matters stood when the excursion of the Auliurnvllie cornet band was announced. The boys needed new uniforms, and Dick Potts had promised to learn the euphonium if they would buy him one. All public spirited citizens purchased tickets. Sam bought txvo through force of habit and then viciously tore them up, whereby the hand profited another 60 cents, for Sam was determined to go on that excursion If only to show Hint he could go without Kitty. lie had never gone on an excursion alone save once, when Kitty was spending a week with her aunt over In (’ndyville, and lie had had a miserable time. Now he did not look for enjoyment, hut Kitty needn’t think he could not go alone if he wanted to. Much the same sentiment animated Kitty, though she arranged to go with a married sister, and It so happened that they passed over the gangplank together, with the formal greeting that xvns now customary. The picnic was held on Paddle Island. out in the lake, a favorite picnic ground. A narrow strip of laud connected two rough oval extremities that by an abuse of tlie Imagination might l»e said to resemble a paddle. Bobby Seaton, who was in the primary class, aptly, if Improperly, described it as "a peninsula with an Island at each end.” As soon as lunch was disposed of the elders settled themselves near the baskets, while the young folk wandered off to either end of the island, followed by a fusillade of injunctions to hurry back the moment the first whistle sounded. Sum mid Kitty folfowed suit, but Sam made certain that Kitty was beaded for tin* southern blade of the paddle before he started north. It was dreary work sitting all alone on the point, and presently the fresh atr and the soft tied of pine needles combined to bring sleep to the worried brain. It seemed to Sam that he bad enjoyed only a brief nap, but by the time ho had hunted up the cabin some of the boys had built for use in the duck season and had borrowed the bathing trunks he found there be was in tlie cool water a few minutes when the warning whistle blew. Madly he dashed from the water iuto the hut to find that in that brief Interval some one had “chawed” his clothes. His underwear was ns full of knots as a snake that had been lunching off a full set of pool balls, bis trousers were tied Into a true lover's knot that suggested anything hut sentiment, and (lie laces of tils shoes offered a good ten minutes of unpicking. Sam was still surveying the damage xvhen the second whistle sounded. "Blow, durn ye!'' he cried savagely as he attacked the knots. "If you can't wait for a fellow I'll swim for It. I’m not goin’ to make my dee-bu In this." He cast a glance of scorn at the infinitesimal swimming trunks and attacked the knots with a haste that verified the old adage as to speed. The boat was a good half mile from shore as he hurst through the bushes that grew about the rude landing and shook his fist at the departing steamer. He was still expressing his opinion of tilings when there was a rustle In the bushes, and Sum turned to face

Kitty, who walked with a limp and carried a stick In her h tnd. •■Has the boat gone?" she cried in despair. "I started up so quickly that I wrenched tny itukle. I culled for help, but no one seemed to bear. "I was at the other end of the island,” explained Sam, who seemed to think that the reproach was directed against him. "1 i<-ok a nap and didn't I realize how long 1 slept. I took a | swim after that, and some kids j •chawed’ my clothes. I just got here myself. Tliey’U miss us at the dock j and send back for us. Can 1 fix your j ankle?" “I'm afraid 1 shall have to ask your assistance, Mr. Hastings." said Kitty, suddenly mindful of the fact that she was speaking to Sam. He helped her to a rook and care- J fully out away the shoe. Then with the sleeves of his shirt he improvised a bandage that brought relief and I noted with satisfaction that the sprain I seemed to lie slight, since there was [ little swelling. “That will have to do until we can get to town." he said as he rose to his feet. “Does it feel any easier, Miss Norwood ?" "Very much, thank you, Mr. Hastings.” Sam gritted his teeth and mentally assured himself that when a fellow takes tlie trouble to bind up a girl's ankle and sacrifices ins very newest and handsomest shirt for a bandage the least she might do would lie to call him “Sam.” as of old. He moved stiffly away and took a scat on a bowlder behind her. If she was lonesome she could call him. But Kitty, though she was dreadfully lonesome and a little bit afraid, was too proud to call. Even the faint scent of tobacco that now and then drifted past her on some vagrant breeze was comforting, since it was an indication of Sam's presence, but she would not speak. Sam gloomily regarded her eloquent shoulders and longed to take her in his arms and comfort her, hut he assured himself that it was her place to make the overture. It looked as though the deadlock would continue unbroken when tlie serpent entered this lonesome Eden. It was only a tiny gartersnake scarcely twelve inches long, and it was hurrying away from the human intruders as rapidly as possible when Sam spits! it. With a long switch be turned its course and headed it past the rock where Kitty was sitting. The rustling In the grass caught her attention, and, looking down, she spied the wriggling length of green. With a shrill scream of “Sam!” she struggled to her feet and the next Instant xvns sobbing in her terror, witli her arms about his neck. With cruel ingratitude Sam dispatched his benefactor and lifted the girl In his anus. ‘‘We'll go sit on the dock, Kitty,” he suggested. “There are 110 snakes there. Fretty soon, if help doesn't come. I’ll swim over to shore and get a small boat somewhere.” “Some one will come, Sam,” she declared. "Anyhow, It’s nice here—for awhile." “You bet it is, Kitty," assented Sain as the girl crept close to the protecting circle of his arm. Then in a torrent of words they had their explanation. It cleared the air wonderfully, and presently Kitty patted the hand that clasped her xvalst. “You say you didn’t like to take Belie riding," she whispered, “Just as though you had all the trouble. 1 bet you wouldn't like It any better to let Mr. Saunders pretend to make love to you.” “No, 1 wouldn't,” assented Sam honestly as be lient his bead to claim another kiss. “Kitty, I’m sorry I killed that snake.” "But it was a snake,” explained Kit* ty, as though that were sufficient reason, even though it was very nice—for a snake.

Didn't Lose Any Sleep. Jenner, the famous English physician, xvas essentially a strong and self reliant man. He attended the prince consort through his fatal illness, he was the Prince of Wales’ doctor when the heir to the British throne had so narrow an escape lu 1872, and he also went to Darmstadt and remained In attendance upon the Princess Alice till she died. To practice medicine lu "the fierce light that beats upon a throne" is not calculated to lessen the physician’s anxieties, and one who knexv Jenner well once questioned him on this point and hinted that his responsibilities must sometimes be sufficient to render sleep or rest impossible. “Sleep,” replied Jenner in big characteristic way. “I don't think that anxiety about a patient ever kept me awake five minutes in my life. I go to a bedside. I do my best. What more can I do? Why should I not sleep?” Hamlet’s Bowl of Gruel. George Melville, an old English actor, was fond of telling a funny story at his own expense. He xvas acting Hamlet lu Bristol. It xvas the actor's rule to take a bowl of gruel In tho course of the evening, and his landlady sent over tlie usual refreshment from the lodgings In cjueen square. She happened to have a ''uexv" servant girl, who was explicitly directed to get to tlie stage door by the entrance from Bank street and'then enrix the gruel into the greenroom. She arrived at a moment when Mr Melville was “on.” Being unused to the xvays of the theater, she asked a man I at the wings where Mr. Melville was. ' "I here." said the super, pointing to the stage. 'Die actor was h. the middle of the soliloquy "To he or not to he” when the girl advanced toward him, bearing .’.n" 1, ? ntl s:,id ' ‘‘ If • vo " Pteuae, Mr. Melville, sir, her* Is your gruel.*'

Hon. John J. Lentz

At Greencastle, Saturday, Oct. 17, LIK) p, ni.

Rev. Sam W. Small

At Roachdale, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7:30p.ni. Henry Warrum and Ralph W. Moss At Cloverdale, Wed. October 14—l;30p. m.

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October 13—7:30 p. m. jSj C. C. Gillen and Geo. W. Wilson Fincastle. Thurs. October 15—7:30 ’tt W. H. Miller and C. C. Gillen

At Biick Chapel, Tues. October 13—7:30 p. m ®

John H. James rg Grovel and, Friday, October 10—7:30 ^ W. H. Miller and Geo. W, Wilson At School House No 8 Floyd tp, Tuesday October ^ 2o 7:3o ^

Theo. Crawley and Jackson Boyd JJ* Fox Ridge, Friday, October 16—7:3o

Jackson Boyd and Theo. Crawley Jg Mt Meridian, Tuesday, October 2o — 7:3o ^

W. H. Miller ® Riley Allen School House, Washington tp, Wednesday, October 21--7:2o ^

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