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Furniture.

LOW PRICES.

Undertaking and Embalming.

A new fuueral car; only one in the county.

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Saturday, Aug. 5,1693.

He played on velvet all night long, Until those jack-pots came, And now his wife wears calico— His neckties arc the same. Prof. Norman is visiting at Aurora. Miss Mamie McHaffie has returned from the World’s Fair. Thurman Allen has been here from (Chicago visiting friends. Chas. Merryweather, of Anderson, |s visiting relatives here. I never thought before That I’d like to learn to shoot, But I’m living uow next door To a mau who playa the flute. Large crowd in town last Saturday [and trade more brisk than usual. Mrs. Henry Renick and children re|turned from Spencer on Saturday. C. B. Winn, Esq., has been appointed postmaster at Russellville. Thos. Bosson, of Indianapolis, was jhere visiting his mother the first of |the week. Died, on July 28, of lung disease, J Eugene C. Giles, of Russell township, I aged 19 years. Some day we'll be io honest That it will come to pass That men will peddle berries In boxes made of glass. Mrs. Mary McKee and daughter, of Indianapolis, are visiting John Detrick and family. Dr. Hickman and family have gone to the World’s Fair, expecting to remain about one month, t Raymond Waltz desires to be appointed manager of the Western Union telegraph ollice in t|iis city. She wore m look of trouble After she'd passed the pearly gate Till she went back and asked 8t. Peter To please look if her wings were straight. Mrs. Vincent McVey has returned from Spencer, where she partook of the mineral waters and is greatly improved thereby. Mr. J. J. Weida and family are visiting in Clinton and Carroll counties, and the World’s Fair, and will be absent three or four weeks. He growled about the weather Like many another fool. And now he wonders why he growled When the days were nice and cool. A typographical error, in our last issue, announced the death of the youngest “son” of Dean Gobin; it should have read youngest “brother.” Richard Lloyd * reports the best wheat yield so far: Seven hundred and fifty bushels off of thirty acres; an average of twenty-five bushels to the acre. On Saturday morning, in some unknown manner, the wheat stacks of Thos. Heady, in Madison township, caught on fire and were destroyed. The loss was quite heavy—no insurance. It’s well enough to “apeak your mind,” And thus your vengeance wreak; But go slow, unless you know You have a mind to speak. House Burned- Men Injured. On Sunday morning about 2 o’clock the house facing the Vandalia R. R. tracks, east of the freight depot, owned by John Hannon, was entirely destroyed by fire. It was occupied ^ by a colored man named John Blanks, who had gone to the depot and left a l%hted lamp on the door, with two Mtive cats to keep it company, hence the blaze. The fire department arrived in time to keep the (lames from •nd also in time to be caught by the red hot bricks of the falling flue of the Hannon house it fell while they Wer.’ throwing water on the next house; Jas. Merry wether was hit on g the head and hands, receiving ascalp ■wound, a crushed finger and several bruises; Geo. Nelson had his leg . badly injured from the hip doevn, but fortunately no bones were broken; a ^■ooker-on named Bagley, from Torre ■Paute, was also caught by the flying ^Pricks and hurt considerably. j 1’ln in need of a valorous suggestion, For I fear that my courage will drop; ^ 1 took heart last night to pop the question, H But I quake now to question the pop.

Real Estate Transfers.

A. ami J. E. Farrow to M. E. Allen, land in

Qreencastle tp., f2K).

w W. Sellers to Ellen Sears, lot in Green-

castle, f*>00.

Eluabeth Trowbridge to N. J. Cooper, land

in Cloverdale tp., |125.

J. M. McCoy to Wm. Broadatreet, admr..

land in Cloverdale tp., f50.

J. W. McCoy to J. N. Cooper, land in Clo-

verdale tp., $3,825.

W. Broadstreet, admr., to J. N. Cooper,

laud in Cloverdale tp., flil.

J. H. Smith to C. A. and P. S. Olcoot, lot in

Bainbridge.

A Ulna Kenney to Maria Milburn, lot in

Roachdale, |650.

J. W. Kent to R. F. Kent et al., land in

Jackson tp., $400.

R. F. Kent et al. to J. W. Kent, land in

Jackson tp., $ .

J. E. Scott to M. B. Cox, land in Jackson

tp., $800.

A. Miller to V. J. Kyle, land in Franklin

tp., $100 80.

John Sage to T. F. Sage, land in Oreencastle

tp., $300.

Paul Pickett to Nettie McElroy, land in

Washington tp., $!ll.

F. B. Peyton to H. M. McCammack, land in

Jefferson tp., $1,000.

Q. Broadstreet, exr., to H. M. McCammack

land iu Jefferson tp., $—.

M.J. Couk to J. VV. and Nora Sutherlin,

lots in Roachdale, $300.

ley Boyd to M.J. Dodd, lots in Roachdale,

$son.

A. T. Hood to Trustees East Unity Christian Church, land in Cloverdale tp., $1. W. K. Marshall to Al. Rice, lots in Roachdale. $800. City of Oreencastle to Alice Abrams, lot in Forest Hill, $87.50 E. M. Osborne to C. B. Weber, lot in Qreencastle, $1,650. W. 8. Wilson to A. E. and E. E. Black, land in Oreencastle tp., $2,600. R. L. O'Hair tc Ella Peyton, lot in Oreencastle, $2,575. J. A. Shirley to O. M. Payton, land in Washington tp., $2,500. General's Harrison’s Criticism. While in the office, and after his nomination thereto, President Harri son was noted for the felicity of his public utterance. Since he has become ex-President the felicity seems to be leaving him. We noted his deliverance some time ago and gave reasons why we thought it “transgreHsed the proprieties,” which in beginning it he “hoped it would not” do. He speaks now again, as reported in the New York World, and we are forced to say to no purpose that will increase his reputation. It would seem that having signed the McKinley law, the effect of which has been to decrease trade and to cut off a much needed revenue, and being responsible, to the extent of his signature, for the Sherman law, with its panic-breeding tendencies, and under whose administration the national treasury was depleted, he would manfest more delicacy in criticising the Cleveland administration in its struggle with inherited difficulties. We regret to see that he does not seem to realize that criticism from him, of all men in the world, should be conspicuous by its absence. The country has not forgotten the desperate struggles of his Secretary of the Treasury, for more than, a year, to avoid an unfavorable balance. He himself should be able to remember how Tanner and Raum squandered the magnificent surplus turned over by the first Cleveland administration. And surely ho can not have forgotten all the talk about bond issues during the last year of his term. These things played a great part in developing the distrust of which the ex-Pres-ident speaks in his recent interview —distrust, specific and general and it was because of this distrust, this lack of belief in the wisdom of the course pursued by the party of which Mr. Harrison was the head, that he left Washington last March the worst beaten candidate since Horace Greeley. There is nothing in the interview that is of importance in itself. It is to the spirit of it that our criticism is directed. The interview is an unpleasant piece of self-photography. Mr. Harrison would do well to give us a little silence. News. 1

History of Silver. A reporter in conversation with Secretary Carlisle, last week, suggested to him that there was a lack of precise information touching the amount of silver coined up to the present time, and, also as to the manner in which the present operations of the treasury, under the Sherman act, result In the payment of gold in the purchase of bullion. In reply to these suggestions, Secretary Carlisle said; The operations of the United

^ E\Y STOCK the coinage^ was stopped by

‘lact of Congress, hut in ittfs ii was J resumed, under the so-called BlandAllison act, by the terms of which the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to purchase and coin into standard silver dollars, of -1121 grains each, not less than $2,000,000, nor more than $4,000,000 worth of silver bullion each month, and between the date of that act and the 14th of July, 1890, a period of twelve years, there was coined $379,106,796. In addition to this there has been coined from trade dollars, $1,088,472, and from the seignorage of bullion purchased and coined under the act of July 14, 1890, the sum of $6,641,108, making the aggregate $389,886,374 in full legal tender silver money issued by the government since 1878. Of this amount only $58,1)16,019 were in actual circulation on the first day of the present month, the remainder being held in the treasury as a part of the assets of the government, or being represented by outstanding certificates. The act of July 14, 1890, required the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion each month, provided that he should continue the coinage of silver dollars at the rate ot $2,000,000 per month until the 1st day of July, 1891; and under this act there have been coined $29,408,461, which makes the total coinage of silver dollars under all acts since 1878, $419,294835, or more than fifty times as much as was coined during a previous per-

iod of eighty-one years.

In addition to the silver bullion purchased by the government since 1878 and coined, as above stated, the Secretary of the Treasury has purchased under the act of July 14, 1803, and now holds in the vaults of the treasury, uncoined, 124,292,532 fine ounces of silver bullion which cost the people of the United States $114,299,929, and is worth to-day at the market price of silver $103,411,386, thus showing a loss of $10,838,534. By the terms of the act the Secretary was required to pay for all silver bullion purchased by the issue of new United States treasury notes payable in coin, and it provides that upon the demand of the holders of any such notes they should be redeemed in gold or silver coin, at the discretion of the Secretary, “it being,” in the language of the act, “the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may he provided by law.” In the execution of this declared policy of Congress it is the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, when the necessity arises, to exercise all the power conferred upon him by the law, in order to keep the government in a condition to redeem its obligations in such coin as may be demanded, and to prevent the depreciation of either, as com-

pared with the other.

The records of the treasury department show that during the thirteen mohths beginning May 1, 1892, and and ending May 1,1S93, the coin treasnry notes, is. ued for the purchase of silver bullion, under the act of July 14, 1890, amounted to $49,961,184, anil that during the same period the amount of such notes paid in gold was $47,745,173. It thus appears that all the silver bullion purchased during that time except $2,216,011 worth, was paid for in gold, while the bullion itself was stored in the vaults of the treasury, and can neither be sold nor used for the ppyment of any obligation. How long the government shall thus be t impelled to purchase silver bullion and increase the public debt by issuing coin obligations in payment for it, is a question that only Congress can answer. It is evident that if this policy is continued and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be compelled to issue bonds or otherwise increase the interest bearing public debt, it will be for the purpose of procuring gold with which to pay for silver bullion purchased un-

der the act referred to.

the net gain in four years l>6ing $54 -

772.0WL "

When the Democrats were rest >red to power, after four years of Republican rule, the surplus was spent and a deficiency was impending. The free gold has been drained out of the treasury. The expenditures of the government exceeded the receipts, though these had been increased. A Republican silver law menaced the national credit and had unsettled business. The country had lost to Europe $122,000,000 in gold, tarifffostered trusts and unmolested lawless conspiracies, failing through grasping greed and unrevealed rascality, and brought the country to the verge of a great panic, which only the faith of the people in President Cleveland has averted. This contrast of facts shows what experience it was that “came high Sound Advice. Elkhart Review: When you come in possession of yonr well earned money, much or little, don’t fasten it down in your pocket and purse. Delay not, but as soon as possible square your account with the merchant who so liberally dealt with you, advanced his money that you might live and thrive. Be assured he will welcome you to his place of business as much as he did when you asked him to sell you his wares and extend you time or trust you. Do not suppose that he does not need or want it. He is anxious to settle up his accounts with the wholesale houses, and by your promptness he is enabled to acquire a good commercial standing. Pay up promptly and relieve anxiety. Never allow a merchant or his clerk to persuade you to purchase on time unless you are in absolutely in need of it, and see your way out. Time is fleeting and soon comes when when he expects you to come and settle. You may have other accounts to square, but this bill being the oldest should be paid the first, and seems a hard nut to crack. Don’t make unecessary debts. It’s and old and true saying, “Money makes money.” Are you the lucky and happy possessor of lucre? You no doubt are aware of its value, but you like-wist-know that hoarded or piled up like grain it never accumulates, hut more likely diminishes. Allow some other person to use it in business. Let him employ and and turn it in his daily routine of commerce so you may share with him in the profits he will be enabled to create by its use. Assure yourself that it is in responsible hands, and at a remunerative interest. Thus keep the ball moving that it may gat her grains of wealth and add to the commercial interest and welfare of the town and country at large. LEARN HOW TO THINK.

A Costly Experience.

This time is is an Ohio Republican organ which says that “experience

The Mrutal Faculties May He Cultivated

as WeU as the Manual.

There is as much or more difference in the way meu use their mental faculties as there is in the way they use their tools. Just as one man will proceed deftly and systematically to the accomplishment of a piece of work, with everything conveniently at hand, every motion intelligently directed to the furtherance of the main purpose, and an expedient ready for every irregularity or difficulty which presents itself, so, according to Power, the ready thinker proceeds at once in a right line to the pith of a subject, sifting out the extraneous matter, defining the main point, and bringing to bear upon it all his available information. On the other hand, a clumsy thinker will chase a question up one side and down the other without getting anywhere or arriving at any relevant conclusion. The mental, like the manual, faculties are susceptible and require cultivation. It is only by practice and continual use that the dexterity and skill of the expert machinist or other manipulators are acquired. No matter how naturally Ingenious and handy a man may be, he will lack deftness when placed upon work to which

he is entirely unaccustomed.

In order to think with facility a man must be accustomed to thinking. It is one thing to let the mind roam about tlie things one knows, and another to put it hard at work and keep it there, grintling at something you do not know, but want to. It is easy and entertaining to read an article which tells you something which you knew before and which you can indorse, but

e&me* high aud'tfcaMfee j; thing by reading it. It

now paying the penalty of restoring the Democratic party to power.” A reiteration of the plain, cold, undisputed facts is all that is required to explode this kind of partisan fool-

ishness.

When the Democrats went out of power in 1889 there was a surplus in the treasury of $>>5,000,000. The gold above the reserve was $98,000,000. The annual excess of revenue above expenditures was nearly $100,000,000.

States mint commenced in 1792, and ! The silver purchased was coined, not trom that time to 1873, a period of heaped up like useless iron. The elghty-one years, the total amount of i country was prosperous. Trade was silver dollars coined was 8,045,838. 1 good. Gold was coming this way—

rewarded accordingly. Always read a little ahead of yourself. Read m'-♦ which requires an effort on your part t*j undeiMand. The effort will not only place you upon a higher intellectual plane, but tke mental exercise will develop a habit of accurate thinking which will bo of more value to you than volumes of average matter read only to be forgotten. EVILS OF READING.

requires an effort to read tin article which contains real information, however plainly expressed. It has to be studied, applied, digested, criticised, the suggestions raised by its perusal have to be followed out to tho in-con-clusion and to conscientiously read an article of this character is a task which a man is inclined to shirk just as a lazy man might shirk a physical task. But compare the man who shirks with tho man who reads, and you will find in the first a mental bungler, in the second the accurate and able thinker, and the man whose head saves his hands and who is always valued, respected and trusted with the conduct of work and tho administration of affairs and

An Article Which Aver* that Honk Knowledge la Not Nceeuary to Rrilllanrr. The London Spectator lately had an article on the ill results of reading, which has a grain of truth in it. It speaks of the bad effect of getting one particular book on the brain and being able to see no more. Then it says Mme. d’Arblay certainly wrote much worse after she came to know books and she doubtless lost her power because of her reading. The article goes on thus: “Certainly there are plenty of people, men and women, who are exceedingly intelligent—and this is not in any limited direction—who never read, who know nothing about books and who could not gain from them any appreciable addition to their brightness. They have observed, they have thought, and they can talk. They observe, as a rule, much more closely than the readers who are apt either to be preoccupied or to be mentally ‘dissipated’ —there is no other word—and they think, when they think, in a more original, or rather, as that word has now a conventional meaning, in a way which is less obscured by the influence of the common sense of most.” Their thoughts, poor or perfect, are at least their own and are strong thoughts. “They lack width usually, though not always, for intercourse with readers has much of the effect of reading; but they have a certain directness and tenacity as to the point at issue. They are apt, too, to have humor, the incongruities of things striking them even tnore than they strike readers—how much had Burns read? and humor of the peculiar kind which we define rather indefinitely by the word Taciness,’ that is flavor, the trace of the onion which animates the salad. In talking, it is said, they are deficient, but that is often only because they are in presence of persons whose knowledge of books they dread, or because they belong to the classes or races—for there are both—to whom the privilege of talking easily has not been given. “There are women among us who never read, and tal1< excellently well— there were scores of them in France just before the revolution—and men who talk as only chiefs of professions can, but who have never seen a book since they were at college. Indeed, we believe that if the literary would inquire they would be rather startled at the number of the latter.”

A Gun of Hpmarkable Power. A distinctive progress in gunmaking is recorded. A gun has just been tested in France, which, upon trial, has given most remarkable results. It is of 6.3 inches caliber and over 47 feet long. To this enormous length the wonderful initial velocity of its projectile is attributed. This velocity reached the phenomenal figure of almost J.OOO feet a second, surpassing all previous records. The gun is impractical for use on board ships, under present. conditions, but it does not necessarily follow that it may not be used with advantage on shore, especially in seacoast defenses, where such high initial velocities would bo greatly desirable for the purpose of piercing the armor of hostile war vessels, provided, of course, that a projectile could be found of such hardness as to pass through toe opposing armor Aanauieti* In the Anuamese language, spoken in Cochin China, the same word is gifen many different meanings by the moderation of the voice. Thus the syllable “ba" pronounced with a grave accent, means lady, an ancestor. Pronounced with a sharp accent it means the favorite of the prince. Pronounced with a semigrave accent it means what has been thrown away. Pronounced with the grave circumflex it means what is left of fruit after the juice has been squeezed out. Pronounced with no accent it means three. Pronounced with the ascending or interrogative accent it means a box on the ear. Thus “ba ba ba ba” is said to mean, if properly pronounced, “three ladies gave a box on the ear to the favorite of the -rince.” To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all our slaves besides.

The many truthful testimonials in behalf of Hood’s Sarsaparilla proves that Hood's Cures even when all others fail. Try it now. If wrong iu our hearts, our heads are right in vain. We could not improve the quality if paid double the price. DetVitt’j-'SVitch iln2>'. - live is the best Solve that experience can produce, or that money can buy. Albert Allen, agt. ly Gutta-percha was introduced into Europe from Malaga in 1K52. The annual consumption now is 4.000,000 pounds.

The eterner and more revolting phases of life are subdued and the higher qualities of friendship and love obtain on the yielding of human suffering and the restoration of health, strength and contentment. The following is calculated to assuage human passion and beget elevated thoughts and actions: H. S. Cate, merchant. North Oakland, Pa., writes: “ Please send six bottles of Dr. Fenner's Kidney and Backache Cure to Samuel Cate. Amesburg, Mass. It is for my mother, who would be glad to give you a strong recommendation of this medicine, as she thinks it has prolonged her life. •’ It is equally good in all kidney diseases, female complaints, blood and skin diseases, etc. If satisfaction not given money refunded. Taka home a bottle to-day. DR. G. C.' SMYTHE, Physician and Surgeon Offi.'p ir i veptdenee. Vine itreet, between WnahingtGii jinii Walnut utrfletp.

J. R LEATHERMAN, CHVXH’I4.\ lui,] s, Kt. 1 ON Office over Alien's I>ru*; Store, Washington

ftofire of Acliiiiiiistration.

iven that the undersigned l by the Clerk of the Cireuit unty, State Gt'lndiHna, Ad-

Notice is hereby giv

has been appointed »

Court of Putnam County. State ot .... ministrator of the es»;i*e of \Vi'$un Spaulding. late of l*Gtijiiui County, Indiuna«

deceased.

said Estate is supposed to be solvent. Dated this <1 lay of September, 1892. WILLIAM M. SPURGEON, Smiley A Neff, Attys- dtlo Administrator.

One word describes it—“perfection.” We refer to DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve, cures obstinate sores, burns, skin diseases and is a well known cure for piles. Albert Allen, agt. ly A fig for your bill of fare; show me your

bill of company.

Mr. Chauncey M. Depew's advice is, “Go South young man.” The best inducements to visit the natural resources of the Great South are now offered by the Mobile Sl Ohio ii. H. See advertisements. 5tf

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; to one fear and sorrow, real poverty.

MONON ROUTE TO CHICAGO $5.35 Round Trip $5.35. Daily half fare Excursions to the World’* Fair. Tickets good ten days on all trains Call on J. A. Michael, Agent. ■****• - .«•./«_. The smallest tree in Great Brittau grows on the summet of Ben l.omond. It is the dwarf willow, which is nature when it attains the height of 2 inches. If you can afford to be annoyed by sick headache and constipation,don’t use DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, for these little pills will cure them. Albert Allen, agt. ly The properties and use of the mariner’s compass were known to the Chinese centuries ago. It was brought to Europe in the thirteenth century and first used on the Mediteranean —R- T. Jones, the photographer of this city, who for many years was in the Ravne block, offers as a prize to Putnam county farmers one dozen cabinet photographs for the heaviest measured bushel of wheat in this county, weighed at the machine. The contest is to close Heptemher 1. Mr. Jones' place of business is now over the Hub Clothing Store. _ ,118 The crow tlies at the rate of but 25 miles per hour. The sparrow hawk flies six times as far, or 150 miles, in the same length of time. $5. 110 and 20, Genuine Confederate Bills only five cents each; $50 and $100 bills 10 eta. each. 25c and 59c shinplastere 10 cents each; $1 and $2 bills 25 cents each. Sent securely sealed on receipt of price Address, Chas. D. Bahker, 90 S. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ua. 4tl8 81.00 a Day at the World’s Fair. That is all it will cost any reader of the Star-Press for lodging who will cut this out and take it to the headquarters of C. E. Dorn At Co., 62nd St., opposite the World’s Fair gate, who are proprietors of the Columbian Union of Hotels. They have seven hotels built of brick and stone, new and elegant and their rates vary from $1.50 to $3.(«) a day. These hotels are distant only one to three blocks from the central entrance to the World's Fair. The Star-Press has made an arrangement with C. E. Dorn A Co. to take our friends for 11.00 a day, and we are prepared to accomodate 1, ,00 people daily, within one to three blocks of the World's Fair entrances. C. E. Dorn & Co. absolutely guarrantee satisfaction. Tliis notice will secure rooms at contract rates, but to reserve rooms in advance, call on or write to C. E. Dorn A- Co. and pay 50 cents for a ticket of registration, and this will reserve your room for any time you want it. The fifty cents will be credited you on your hotel bill. This is absolutely the best arrangement that can be made, and no one who tries it will he disappointed. The regular rates will be charged unless you can ahow that you are entitled to the .Star-Press contracl rates. We have also a contract for good meals at 2.5 cents, or table d'hote dinners at 50 cents. You can stop at one of our izood hotels for $2.00 per pay, including m< als. To reserve rooms, remit 50 cents to C. E. Dorn Si Co. who will issue a certificate entitling you to hotel accomodations at $1.00per day at any time you designate. For full information, and a free guide to the World's Fair, address C. E. Dorn A Co.. Central Office, 62d street, opposite World’s Fair Gate, Chicago. 8tl4 Government is not mere advice; it is authority with power to enforce the law. Our prayer should be for blessing in general, for God knows best what is good for us. What Your Great Grandmother

Did.

She hetcheled the flax and carded the wool, and wove the linen, and spun the tow, and made the clothes for her husband and ten children. She made butter and cheese, she dipped tallow candles, to light the house at night, and she cooked all the food for her household by an open fire-place and a brick oven. Y# s: and ^hen , -ht was fortv yiar, of age. the was already an old laoy wtioseTSST" days were over. Her shoulders were beu» ami her joints enlarged hy hard work, and she wore spectacles and a cap. Her great | granddaugliter, with all the modern conveniences for comfort, refinement and luxury, may be us charming and attractive at fortyfive as at twenty. Especially is this true, if she preserves her health and beauty hy the use of Dr. Pierce's favorite Prescription, i which wards off all female ailments and irj regularities, cures them if they already exist, ! keeps the life current healthful and vigorous | and enables the woman of middle age to re- , tain the freshness of girlhood upon brow and cheek, the light of youth in her » es and its ; elasticity in her step. Sold by all druggists. Vast chasms cun be tilled, but the heart of ( msn can never be satisfied.