Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 February 1909 — Page 2

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Calendar of the Romans. To the modern world a "calendar" is merely a harmless necessary re minder of weeks and days, to he Ihmik up on New Year’s Day and consulted iu dating letters throughout the year. It has no such mournful sound as “calendarium” had tor the ancient Romans. The original "calendar" ot their timer, was the money lender - account hook, so-called because In torcui was ilue from the debtor on the calends, or first day of each month. Seneca speaks of “calendar" as a word invented outside the course of nature on account of human gre i d.

Yeggmen. A "yegg" or "yeggman" might be defined as a cross between a tramp ami a burglar. "Yeggmen” travel about the country always by stealing or begging rides on freight trains, ami their operations are generally confined to banks or postofflies in the smaller towns. Eventually "yeggmen" are likely to come to grief through the loss of a leg or an arm, when they take to begging, and be come known as "ex-yegginen,"

Who Got the Place? A Judgeship at Sacramento, Cal., was vacant. There were three candidates. Two of them, who believed their chalices were equal, agreed to shake dice as to which should withdraw, and did so. The governor heard of it and apiNiinted the third candidate to the place.

The Secret of Long Life. A French scientist has discovered one secret of long life. His method deals with the blood. But long ago millions of Americans had proved Electric Bitters prolongs life and makes It worth living. It purities, enriches and vitalizes the blood, rebuilds wasted nerve cells, imparts life and tone to the entire system. Its a godsend to weak, sick and debil luted people. "Kidney trouble had blighted my life for months,” writes \V. M. Sherman, of Cushing, Me , "but Electric Hitters cured me entirely.” Only 60c at the Owl drug store and Red Cross drug store.

Marvelous, Indeed. "By hvek. Cynthia," drawled old Farmer Hardapide. after his visit to Chicago, “them that’ city barbers are mind readers.” "That so, Hiram?" said his wife. "Why, I should say so. The one ! met knew that you cut my hair last, and, by gum, he never saw you in his life.”

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After neglecting her forests for hundreds of years, (Jreat Hritian tyas ome to the front with the most farsighted propo: al for forest work and land Improvement ever advanced by any nation iu it single plan, according to a tutement issued by the forestry Ini reau. The recommendations just made to the British government by the royal commission on forestation and coast erosion will make England scli-supporting In the production of timber if successfully carried out. The report embraces two separate proposals. Involving the forestation in one case of 9,000,000, and in the other ol (1,000,000 acres. The formcr proposal calls for the forest planting of 160,000 acres a year for Ixty years at an annual cost of $ 160,000 at the beginning to over $16,000,000 at the end of the period. After the fortieth year, however, the forest would become self-supporting. Vfter eighty years, the forest would have a value of $2,810,000,000, which Is $626,000,000 In excess of the cost of producing it, and would , icid a net annual revenue of $s7,.00,000, or $9.72 per acre from laud now barely producing 60 cents per acre. While these estimated returns itc more than half again as much e the highly developed forests of .saxony yield, it is considerably less than the net revenue from the historic town forest of Zurich, Switzerland, in Slhlwald. In volume, the innual < stimated wood production would exceed the present annual wood imports to England by 600,000 loads. Great Hritian lias long been dependent upon outside sources for her w. >oU : u pplies. But the • ont tantl) Increasing demand for wood, together with the overdrain already made npon those .sources, indicates a world shortage of wood unless those countries which now have to import are able to establish anti maintain their forest independence and grow the needed wood tit home. Most of the eountries of Europe have taken care to keep up the home wood output by looking after their forests before they were destroyed or hopelessly depleted, and managing them for a iihstantial annual yield about equal to tin' demand. The British Isles, however, are praetically stripped of productive forests. If Great Hritian is to grow her own wood, she will have to begin at the beginning, set out the seedlings on treeless ground, and wait for them to reach marketable size. The eoniinisaion recoin mends that the work of starting future national forests front the seed he undertaken "as a sound and re-

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munerative investment." There is no question, the report says, that substantially the anticipated resit!ts can be obtained. Experts testified before the couiniission that "the production of timber in Great Great Hritian will he more rapid than in Saxony," which was selected for comparison on account of the close resemblance between the economic and physical conditions in the two countries. Yet In Saxony the net annual profits per acre from the national forests has increased 412 per cent, in 90 years, mainly. It was testified, because of "the more systematic and careful management.” The lack of forests in Great Britian is the result, not of natural conditions, hut of bad national economy. This is further proved by the fact that there art* a number of private forests which, though but indifferently managed, are netting their owners

handsome revenues.

The proposal of the eoniinisaion is • ■specially interesting to Americans in view of the fact that the measures that are now being proposed In the United States are so much simpler and leEK expensive. In this country the forests are already on the ground All that is necessary Is to bring them to a state of full productiveness. The present annual production of forests in the United States Is scarcely more than twelve cubic feet per acre of all kinds of wood. The centuries of experience in Saxony, Switzerland and France show that the came kind of land will grow three to eight times as much wood under wise forest management. Protection and proper cutting begun now and steadily followed as a policy will keep America from reaching a point, where, like Great Hritian, It w ill be necessary, except in the prairie region, to start the forests of the future from the seed, and wait for them to grow. A tithe of the great outlay which tin' British commission contemplates would easily guarantee tills country's forest independence for all time. And tin* wood needed each year could be got out of the

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RAISING DWARF APPLES.

Some Interesting Experiments Being Made in New York.

O. T. Powell, of Columbia county, N. Y., is conducting some interesting experiments’on tbe value of dwarf apple trees in business orchards, says the American Cultivator. It is tbe idea of Mr. Powell that trees of a low habit of growth will be required more and more, because of the need of convenience for spraying anti harvesting. The scale insects make it almost impossible to thoroughly treat large trees, and the cost of labor makes a saving at harvesting time of great importance. Two styles of dwarf trees are under trial. The socalled “Paradise” is very dwarf and is short lived. The “Doucin’’ stock is half dwarf, making trees Hi to 18 feet high, and promises good lesults iu commercial orcharding. The trees are planted two or thiee inches below the union of stock anti top. In Mr. Powell's orchard the trees of “Paradise” stock are set as fillers lietween those of the larger dwarf kind. Tlte rows in the orchard are 20 feet apart, and the trees It) iu a row. The wide spaces between the rows allow plenty of room for cultivation by horse power, while the trees in the rows will be thinned out as soon as they become crowded. The dwarf trees give fruit in a few years front planting, and the amount gradually increases. The small dwarf KUid lasts six to eight years, and the semidwarfs for about 20 years. For dwarf trees the Spltzenberg, Jonathan, McIntosh are found successful. They produce fruit of very fine appearance and quality, suitable for packing in boxes for the choicest trade. For the half dwarfs, the Northern Spy, Roxbury russet, Twenty-ounce, Astrachan Baldwin and greening are satisfactory. The dwarf trees must receive good culture, with plenty of plant food, and careful cultivation. The soil is plowed and harrowed in the spring, and is kept in a cover crop of clover during the summer. Scale and ithei insects are eaiily treated in the dwarf orchards. The idea appears so promising to Mr. Powell that he is pruning his large trees on the dwarf plan, cutting hack the tops of the standard trees, iu order to cause them to spread out and to remove the high parts of the tree, which make so much difficulty in spraying old trees.

dot a salesman. A house hunter, getting off a train at a suburban station, said to a boy: "My lad. I am looking for Mr. Smithson's new block of semi-detached cottages. How far are they from here?" "AIhiui twenty minutes' walk,” the boy replied. "Twenty minutes," exclaimed the house hunter. "Nonsense! The advertisement says live.” "Well," said the boy, "you can believe me or you eou believe the advertisement; "hut 1 ain't tryin’ to make no sale."

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TO MAKE TUFTED CUSHIONS.

You will like tufted cushions much better than the ordlnarj kind for your backless chair, or the little Russian chair in tiie hall. While there are countless upholstering materials, the cretonnes are very nice for such cushions and they are clean looking too. Select a good grade of cretonne and make the cushion wider than the chair seat, because tufting will take up material in length and width. Of course the side piece is one long strip, usually about four inches wide and it can he made with a welt edge by first stitching the side piece to the top portion, allowing at least one Inch for a seam After the scam is made place a heavy cord around the edge and whip it in place; turn the goods and sew closely along the edge of the cord and you will have a rounded welt or cord edge on the outside edge, a good finish. 1 he best filling, of course, is coarse hair used for upholstering work, though one can get jute or moss at an upholsterer's for the purjiose. The lower portion can be sewed on three sides of the cushion, and this sewing should all be done on the machine with the heaviest thread the needle will tarry. To place the buttons it will lie necessary to have upholsterer’s needles; they can be purchased in different lengths suitable for stitch ing through a mattress of any depth. Place the central button first. Run the ne d'e from the bottom of the cushion to tiie top, tdip on the cretonne button, thrust th«' nc’dle closely to the thread and push it through the mattress; draw it as tightly as possible and tie. Next place a button above this one, leaving a space of about three Inches, then place the next button to the right or left, then one below the central button, always working around the central one to keep it uniform. A curved needle Is used to place buttons on the side, but this work is almost too difficult for an amateur. Having the buttons in place, tiie lower portion can lie lined with a sofe material matching the cover. Small hassocks can lie made in similar manner, only they are lined with oilcloth and the ears are sewed in when the material is stitched together and cord is used to hide seams.

Interesting. American women have gone faiseitair mud! They started with a switch added a rat, anti finally puffs, not by twos and fours, but by the dozen. All of which has to do with dead Chinamen. Chinese coffins are being robbed by the hundreds of the queues. A ton of Chinese hair, some of it from the head of decapitated bandits, lias Just arrived in New York on the big freighter Wray Castle. Twentytwo more cases of pigtails arrived on the British steamer Seneca Both consignments are direct front Chinese cemeteries. The hair is being made over into "rats,” puftjj, curls and switches. There Is a demand for all tlte Chinese hair that is offered. The market price is 50 cents an ounce, and is steadily advancing.

Have Beautiful Teeth. If you wish to have pretty teeth you must remember that after every time you eat you must clean your teeth, and do it immediately, as to 'cave particles of food about your teetli is to invite malignant bacteria. Cleanliness cannot be obtained by using an old, water soaked toothbrush, nor one which is used constantly. One should always keep two fairly stiff toothbrushes, and when one has been used for two days it should be washed iu carbolic acid water and laid in the sun and air for two days. Carbolic acid water is made by putting two drops of carbolic acid into a pint of boiled water. As soon us your toothbrush becomes discolored on the back It should be thrown away.

To Restore Blue Dress Color. Wash it carefully, then place it in a basin of water containing oxolic acid, one teaspoonful of dissolved acid to a half gallon of water. Leave R iu the water until the color is restored, which will be about one-half hour, iierhaps. As this acid will rot goods, the garment should he thoroughly rinsed to remove every particle of acid. An iron rust on blue material can be removed with this acid, making no change in the goods.

Polishing the Stove. An easy way to keep the stove shining is to buy a paint brush, to keep the hands from coming in contact with the polish, and have a polishing brush that is made especially for stoves. Apply the polish with the paint brush while the stove is hike warm. Allow it to dry and then polish. A beautiful shine will he the result without much time or labor. Mix the polish to the consistency of thick cream with soapsuds.

The Postal Shower. If you happen to have a girl friend away on a visit and know- her birthday is near at hand, arrange to have her numerous friends send postal cards on the day. Even if a birthday is not at hand the cards will be greatly appreciated by the recipient. Send them so that all will arrive at the same time. Little niceties of this kind add much to the enjoyment of girl life and are incidents to be long remembered.

LEGAL PROVERBS.

Of the Chinese and What the Peculiar Expressions Signify. There is no surer test of real feelings of a people than their prow t ma sayings, those "gems which on the stretched forefinger of all Time sparkle forever.” That China is no exception to this rule might have been supposed even if we had no direct proof, says the North China Herald. Proverbial expressions are very common in thina. Dr. Arthur Smith says that “common talk,” the nearest approach to "proverb” in Chinese, is "literally in the mouth of every one, from the Emperor upon his throne to the woman grinding at the mill.” Native proverbs relating to legal affairs divide themselves roughly into three classes first those more or less common to all people, and dealing with that "once bitten twice shy" sort of wisdom which leads a man to put up with evils rather than to go to law Such, for example, are the following. If one family has a lawsuit ten families are involved iu calamity. If but one word of Information against a man gets into court, nine 1 ullucks cannot drag it out again. Let householders avoid litigation, for once go to law and there is noth,ng hut trouble. Win your lawsuit and lose your money. Instances of this kind might be multiplied. But we must pass on to the mandarins; and here it may be •said that though the majority of the proverbial sayings are not complimentary, there are a few to bear witness to the good that a good man may do even In an official capacity, while ethers give pointed advice—e. g., "Never beat if you must fine; if you do, all fines decline." Most, however, as is natural .deal with the seamy sine. The following are a tew specimens: No punishment on tlte bench, no law below it. Deceive, but don't insult a mandatin. Men's hearts are like iron, and the rule of the mandarins like a furnace. Even an honest Chih-fulmay, during the three years term of office, saves ten myriad snow white titles ot silver. Before he conies into office he reproves a thousand faults; after ne tomes into office he commits tiie same Hmself. Quickly pay your taxes, even if he -liottld empty your purse; then you will be most happy. Wishing to criminate, no difficulty will be met In finding a pretext. Of ten reasons by which a magistrate may decide a case, nine are tinknown to the pubiic. With only right to back you, sure the yametis lack you. Yamens. are deep us the sea, anu their corruptions lofty as heaven. In life beware of yamens; in death beware of hell.

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Failed to Control the Liuhtning. Recently several thunderstorms vis ited the Kingwilliamstown district ot Cape Colony and two remarkable incidents are reported. Certain native doctors claim power over lightning, and these were greatly in demand. A native had his kraal struck anil five goats killed. A “doctor” was called, and after perform.ng certain ceremonies declarthe place proof against the lightning bird—the natives believe that lightning is caused by a bird—received seven sheep for his services and departed for home. Next morning he was found dead, having been struck by the lightning which he professed to control. Later on the same day another storm burst about four miles away. Another member of the “doctor" profession was standing in his hut, surrounded by his family, and going through the preventive rites. In a state of fury he dared the ••bird" to approach There was a terrible crash and the "doctor" dropped dead, strut k by lightning, the rest of the family being unhurt. The two incidents the same day caused consternation among the natives.

Dying to Win Honors. When the Japanese protectorate over Korea was declared recently many Koreans grumbled and some even went the length of committing suicide in order to mark their displeasure. According to the Korean Daily News the emperor has conferred posthumous honors upon several of these suicides One of the misguided men. who poisoned himself with opium, was a minor "ffleial of the educational department but the emperor raised him to the rank of vice-minister of education, and an official of that department was dispatched by the emperor to inscribe the title upon his coffin. Another man, a private in the army, who committed suicide at me same time anu lor the same reasons, has also had posthumous promotion conferred unon him. v

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TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE NOTICE

Jackson Township. I will be at my home in Jackson Township every Friday to transact tlte business of my office as Trustee. BENJAMIN WALLS.

Warren Township. 1 will be at my home In Warren Township on Thursday of each w-r’c and at Putnamville on Saturday! :o transact the business of my office of Trustee. FRED MASTEN.

Monro** Township. I will be at the Bainbridge Bank each Wednesday and at my residence on Friday to look after township business. D. V. ETCHESON.

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Madison Township, I will be at my office at my residence each Wednesday and Saturday to transact the business of Trustee of Madison Township. J. W. STROUBE.

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Location of Fire Alarm Boxes. f&VXoT'- ^ College Ave. and Liberty 21 Hanna and Indiana 11 Jackson and Daggy , , 1 Madison and Liberty !!!!!!!'*' 51 Walnut and Madison c, ’Pile Dept. Headquarters ‘)*>t Hanna and Crown ,. ; | ’ o, Bloomington and Anderson 42 Seminary and Arlington ' 52 Washington and Durham no Washington and Locust . 72 Seminary and Locust 0 0 Howard and Crown 00 Main and Ohio ^ College Ave. and DeMotte Alley! 53 Locus* and Sycamore r* 1—2 —1. Eire Out. Box rung for all telephone calls.

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