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A STRANGE CASE. How an Enemy was Foiled. Tht* following prrnphle statement will Ns reail with intenseluterest: ‘1 eannot descrlNl 1heiiuml).< ree|iysensHtl<>ntliHtexiste<l In my arms, hands nun Iok- . I had to rub and beat those parts until they were sore, to overcome in a measure the dead feelliut that had taken possession of them. In addition, I had a strange weakness In my back and around my waist, together with an indescribable 'gone' feeling In my stomach. Physicians said it was creeping paralysis, from which, according to tlieir universal conclusion, there is no relief Unco it fastens upon a person, ttiey say.lt continues its insidious progress until it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies. Such was my prospect. 1 had been doctoring a year and a half steadily, but with no particular benefit, when I saw an advertisement of Ur Miles' Uestoratlvo Nervine, procured a bottle and began using it. Marvelous as it may seem, but a few days bad passed before every hit of that creepy feeling had left me, and there has not been even the slightest indication of its return. I*now feel as well as l ever did. and have gained ten pounds in weight, though I had run down from 170 to 137. Kour others have used Or. Miles’Restorative Nervine on my reeomendation. and it has been as satisfactory in their cases as in mine."—James Kane, La Hue, O. Or. Allies' Restorative Nervine Issolti by all druggists on a ]H>sitlve guarantee, or sent direct by the Or. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, fl per bottle, six bottles for <5. express prepaid. It Is free from opiates or dangerous drugs.

It Is a Pleasure To cat the bread, cakes, pies, etc., made by Chas. Luetcke, The old, reliable, ever progressive baker. Prices smas ns low as the lowest.

DR. HUMPHREYS’ New Specific No. Seventy-Seven FOR THE CURE OF ORir’F’E With all its symptoms of Influenza, Catarrh, Pains and Soreness in the Head and Chest, Couch, Sore Throat and • general Prostration and Fever. Taken early it cuts it short promptly : taken during its prevalence, prevents its inva- ** sion; taken while suffering from it, a relief is speedily realized, which is con1 tinned to an entire cure, b This being a New Remedy, if your Druggist will not get it for you, it will be sent prepaid on receipt of price, 25c„ i or 5 for $1.00. HUMPHREYS’ MEDICINE CO., Cor. William & John Sts., New York.

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W. L. Douglas S3 SHOE TH^ WORLD. W. L,. DOUGLAS Shoes are stvlhh, enrv fit give better pi* is friction nt the p, ces ;:<!• • jvertised than anv other make. Try one pair and . ^)e convinced. The stamping of W. L. Douglas’ name and price on the bottom, which guarantees their value, saves of doli.tto Xo those who wear their. Dealers who push the Lile of \V. I,. Douglas Shoes gain customers, i’hich helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods. They can afford to sell at a less profit, r pnd we believe you can save money bv buying all * your footwear of the dealer advertised below. ‘■ •i Catalog,,,* free upon application. Address W. JL. DOUGLAS, Hr. * kton, - §m38 P. II. CHRISTIE FwaTER HKO.-j., Ki-KLaViU-fi.. 1NU.

7 (VoIm u lu .Sion-ltusidciilK. an The State of Indiana, Putnam County, 1 In tho Putnam Circuit Court, April Term, 1894. Etta May Spann, -)j William A. Spann v*. Georgia Illnnchfill et al. Complaint No 'i2K2. Tur parlitiou ol real estate. Now come tho Plaintiffs, by Allee A Nelson, their Attorneys, and file complaint herein, together with an affidavit that said rtafemtant. Georgia lilanchfill, Frank S. blanchfill and Alice lilanchfill. are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the Hth day of the next Term of the Pntnan Circuit Court, to be holden on uesdsy, May 1, 18H4, at the Court House in Greeiicastle, in said County and State, and it::.jj to said complaiul. thu .im. will be heard and determined in their aosence. Witness my name.and the seal of said Court, affixed at (Jreencastle, this 1st day of March, Mi l>. I*'!. RANIFT. T. DARNALL.Clerk. •Py W If. If Crr-rv. I'er-ufy 4'4‘ :

'. See the advertisement of Vaughn’s Seed Store in the columns of the Star-Press to-day, and note the gfeat offers made therein. t47.6

The Failure of Protection. j THE ELK PLAYED POSSUM. It is interesting to note that while A SarprUo Awaited the Hunter Who uhe United States are engaged in the j started in to skin the iteast.

attempt to shake off the incubus of the McKinley law, all Europe is in “an economic ferment,” ns some writer has phrased it. It is well known that all the principal nations on the continent have high protective tariffs. According to the doctrines which have dominated our legislation since 1861, they ought all to be happy. On the contrary, they are all unhappy. France is giving another turn to the screw, showing that the tariff of 1891 has not brought about the blessings expected. Quite the reverse. The Chamber of Commerce at Marseilles declares that since its adoption there has been a constant reduction of commercial operations, alack ofnowenterprises.asuppression of many that previously existed, that no new factories are building, that those burned down are not replaced, that the number of idle ships grows larger every day; in short, that there has been a change for the worse in foreign commerce, attended by a similar condition in agriculture and internal commerce. Tho remedy now proj 03ed is a still higher tariff, another turn ot the screw, an expedient certain to aggravate the evils now prevailing. In Italy there is chaos. I’prisii g8 have occurred to resist the outrageous taxes on the necessaries of life, and these have to be put down by military force. At the same time there is a deficiency lin the revenue, and while it is proposed to reduce expenditures the proposed economies are admitted to be insufficient to avoid a deficit. New taxes are proposed, to be levied upon a people already exhausted by excessive taxation. Fifteen years ago, Germany entered upon the enterprise of making the people happy by protective taxes. This was largely in the interest of agriculture, which demanded to be shielded from the curse of cheap food. The system ran its usual course. It did not answer expectations, and its advocates said it was not high enough. So in 1885, rates were put up again. Two years later it was thought necessary to make a further increase. These constantly augmenting imposts on the necessaries of life have caused great distress among the poor of Germany. But what effect have they had upon agriculture? For answer let us turn to the speech of Dr. Miquel, in the Reichstag, on Thursday. He has been counted on in some quarters as an opponent of the treaty with Russia, as he is known to be in sympathy with the agrarians. He said that the main task of the Prussian Government for the next few years must be to devise effectual assistance for agriculture. “In any case,” he added, “the treaty can not render the condition of husbandry any worse than it is.” Such is the effect of fifteen years of high protection upon German agriculture. Even in the opinion of its warmest friends its condition can not be any worse. This is but a repetition of the experience oftheUnited States. We have had a continued demand for higher rates, and they have been advanced [from time to time. The McKinley Bill went to the extreme of high protection, and what is to-day the condition of our industries? According to the statements of the parties interested they were never worse. They are waiting for the repeal of the McKinley act that they may have a chance to revive. It is alleged, of course, that business depression is duo to prospective reduction of the duties. To what then is it due in Italy, where there is a prospect of an increase? To what is it due in France, where an increase has just been made? There is no fear of tariff reform in France, but there is a paralysis of industry and trade. To what shall we attribute the depression in Germany, where agriculture, its chief beneficiary, is admitted to be in so desperate a condition that no commercial treaty can make it worse? The limit has been reached in putting up duties, both in Germany and the United States, but the expected blessings have refused to materialize. There is a deep philosophy underlyiny this “economic ferment” that prevails in all protective countries. The theory of creating prosperity by high taxes is breaking down. Protection has been tried and found wanting. The man who said: “Follow diversified farming, keep as much stock as the farm will carry, feed it well, feed and apply the manure, and you will not bo much interested in learning the comparative merits of commercial fertilizers,” came pretty near knowine what he wns talking nhoufi, Moscow is said to have 1,706 “big bells,” the smallest of which weighs .),(KMi pounds, and the largests M3.77?. The greatest recorded depth of Lake Michigan is 870 feet. The mean depth is 325 feet. More people have died from colds than were ever killed in battle.

“An elk beats the dickens for mischief,” said an old hunter to a writer for the New York Sun. “One time I was hunting on the Yellowstone river with Uncle Pete McDougall and a squaw man named Jackson, and every kind of game that you ever saw was found there. We shot no end of buffalo, deer and antelope, and thought the list complete when we struck a band of elk in tho open valley. The squaw man said that tho only way to kill an oik was to bury yourself in a clump of bushes and wait for him to come to you. I knew better, and so wo horded up the group and tried to close in on them in a circle. Well, they all got away except one bull, who xvas cornered until I could get a shot at him. I was flattering myself that it was a great shot when I saw him fall fiat on his side and never move a hair. “ 'You know all about killing elk,’ I said, sarcastic like, to the squaw man. “ ‘You killed hiia, you skin him,’ he said. " ‘All right,’ said I, ‘but you don’t get any of the meat.’ And with that I out with my knife and walked quickly over to the dead elk, never noticing where he was hit. I got square over on his neck, and was just reaching with my knife to strike the skin from his head when of all surprises I ever got that was the worst. That bull elk just raised up in the air with me on his neck, and, tossing his head, caught me squarely on his horns. 1 came down like a piece of lead ore in a thousand foot shaft. I tried to hang on to his horns but he jerked my grip and threw me high in the air and on the ground, where 1 lay with the breath knocked out of me and too scared to move and thinking he would trample me to death in the sage brush. Finally my friends got in their xx’ork. The elk had so much fun that he did not see them coming, and Uncle Pete put a ball in his heart just as the beast was about to jump on me with all four feet. The elk turn bled over on me, and under his crushing weight I fainted. The next I remembered was the smell of smuggled Canadian whisky and the squaw man saying with a laugh: “ ‘It takes a long time to learn an elk's ways.’ “Like Gen. Grant in the interview, T had nothing to say on the subject.’ ”

HER HEART ON HER SLEEVE. The Couter Girl Never Illden Her Lmotion*, a* Fine Ladies Do. It is an interesting sight to see the real coster girl, not her stage present ment, enjoying herself on a bank holiday. First of all, she is very smart according to her own ideas, which, to do her justice, are original and not pale copies of the West End ladies. Her hair, especially, engages her attention, and in this she prefers a distinctive style of her own. The hair is parted at each side, cut short and very much curled and crimped, and surmounted by a large hat and ostrich feathers coming well over the eyes, in some cases almost hiding them. She is musical, too, and easily breaks into singing and dancing. It is sad to note this unsatisfied longing to indulge in rhythmical movement as exemplified in a slow valse danced by two of the same sex, or a wild sort of jig partaking of the cancan and the breakdown shared in by both men and women, says the London Graphic. A crowd of admiring and encouraging bystanders gathers round quickly, applauding or criticising in their own peculiar manner. The belle is arrayed in a brown dress with pink bow at the neck, a large preen velvet hat and feathers, a large white shawl and white gloves. She is as self-con-scions as the beauty of a Belgrave Square hall, and dances with an enjoyment and an unction unknown to the languid lady. There is no sitting out here, no useless dancing men, for both sexes seem equally delighted to revolve with each other. There in an evident love of bright colors in the dress of boys and girls, and there is a hearty, boisterous flow of high spirits and of somewhat rough good-nature, coupled with a laudable determination to be happy, which is as refreshing as it is unforced.

FOND OF NURSING PEOPLE. A Charncteriitlc of Vlorencs Vg V.l:i;;ale from Il«*r Uarlir.t Youth. Florence Nightingale, the worldfamous nurse, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1823, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. Her father, William Edward Shore, of England, inherited the estate of his grand-uncle, Peter Nightingale, and, in pursuance of his will, assumed the name Nightingale. As the child of wealthy parents, Miss Nightingale was well educated. From early childhood the care of the sick was a favorite occupation of hers, and in 1849 she entered, as a voluntary mirse, a school of deaconesses to qualify herself to minister to the sick. In 1854, at the solicitation of Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, she went to Constantinople as the superintendent of a staff of nurses to care for the soldiers of Great Britain who were wounded in the Crimean war. By her rare executive ability and thorough knowledge of what was neees i -ary she made the hospital, which was in a most deplorable state, a model in thoro ugliness and perfection of its appointments. No immense were her labors that she frequently stood for twenty hours in succession giving directions. Notwithstanding this her pleasant smile and kind words to the sick made her almost idolized by the army. She returned to England September 8, 1S56. Her services have secured her the sincercst gretpede of the English people and a world renown. Queen Victoria sent her a letter of thanks, with a superb jewel. A subscription of two hundred and iiity thousand dollars was raised | to found an institute for tho training | of nurses under her direction, and the soldiers of the army, by a penny contribution, raised a sum sufficient to erect a statue to her hon jr, which she

refused to allow.

CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT DOGS. Etklmos Find the Faithful Animal a NecetHit? of Their Mlnerable Kx In ten re. “Without dogs the larger portion of the great Eskimo family peopling the barren northern coast of America would find it impossible to exist in its chosen home.” So writes E. \V. Nelson in his “Mammals of Northern Alaska.” They are used in the winter for hunting, sledge-drawing and the like, but in summer are mostly left to shift for themselves. They receive much hard usage, as well as do much hard work, but are described, nevertheless, as a rollicking set, full of play, fond of human society and quarrelsome as schoolboys. Mr. Nelson credits them with a vein of humor and declares that their varying characteristics can be read in their faces. They are worth from two dollars to fifteen dollars apiece, according to age, size and intelligence. For sledge-drawing they are harnessed in teams of either seven or nine—three or four pairs and a leader. The load is from three hundred and fifty to seven hundred pounds and the course is mainly through unbroken snow or over rough ice. With a team of seven dogs and a load of more than three hundred pounds Mr. Nelson made a journey of more than twelve hundred miles in about two months. The last sixty miles were made over a bad road in a continuous pull of twenty-one hours. They are much affected by the moon. During full moon half the night is spent by them in howling in chorus. “During the entire winter at St. Michael’s,” says Mr. Nelson, “we were invariably given a chorus every moonlight night, and the dogs of two neighboring villages joined in the serenade.” He speaks of its “wild, weird harmony,” and seems to have found it agreeable rather than otherwise. The influence of the moon is also very apparent when the dogs are traveling. They brighten up as the moon rises, and pricking up their ears start off as if they had forgotten their fatigue. The fur traders take advantage of this fact, and sometimes lie over during the day and travel at night. The dogs endure an astonishing degree of cold. Mr. Nelson saw a female with two newly-born puppies lying upon the snow near a hut, with no sign of shelter, when the thermometer ranged from thirty to thirty-five degrees below zero. OBEYED ORDERS STRICTLY. How a Collortor Secured a Six Week*' Holiday and a Partnership. “WTicn I was a youngster of seventeen,” said a successful business man to a Detroit Free I’ress reporter, “I got a job as collector with a man who was about as strict a martinet as I oversaw. He insisted on everything being done just as he said, and there were times when life was verily a burden, but I stuck to him for six months, then we had a difference. It was this way: One morning he called me up and handed me a bill on a man I knew and said for me to take it around and col-

lect it.

“ ‘It's one of our standbys,’ he said, ‘and every collector I ever sent to him reported him absent or not findable or something. Now you go and don’t come back here till you see him.’ “ ‘Do you mean that?” I asked, as two or three clerks looked up. “ ‘You know me,’ was all he said in reply and I went out after my man. "lie wasn’t at home, the people said, and wouldn’t be for six weeks. So I stuck the bill in my pocket and went off up the country on a visit. The old man sent after me half a dozen times, but my folks could only tell I was out of town, and I never paid any attention to a letter I got from the boss, but went on enjoying myself. Then I came back and had a visit with some other friends and at the end of six weeks I called on my man again with the bill. I found him at home and told him what I had done, and he paralyzed me by paying the bill with interest. Two hours later I stepped into the boss'

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“ ‘There,’ I said, before he had time to gather his wits, ‘is the amount of your bill and interest. He was out of town for six weeks and I couldn't see him before. You told me not to come back till I did see him, and I was obeying your instructions. I had a rattling good time and the house owes me six weeks’ salary.’ “The old man gasped, got blue in the face and I thought he was going to explode, but he didn't; he gulped it all down and stuck out his hand. “ ‘Young man,’ he said, ‘you ought to have been a soldier; I’m going to put you in charge of the collection department and double your salary, and,’ concluded the merchant, ’when I was twenty-five 1 was a partner. Y GLoulIak Haakury. In Brussels there is a restaurant entitled the Cafe de la Mort, the walls of the subterranean chamber being hung with paintings of skulls, skeletons and crossboncs, the chairs are stools, the tables coffins and the beverage, which costs six cents a glass, is called “microbes.” A performance takes place nightly in an adjoining vault. On the black curtain rising a man is disclosed standing upright in a coffin. As the assemblage watches, his white bones are gradually seen to shine forth through his clothes until he becomes a grizzly skeleton. A death certificate is then presented to the principal actor in this optical illusion and the performance closes. How Swimmers Drown. The Northwestern Lancet offers a new explanation of the sudden drowning of good swimmers, hitherto attributed to cramp. There is nothing in a cramp in the leg to prevent an ordinary swimmer supporting himscl! in the water by Ms hands or on hf'- back, ncr to cause him to throw up his hands and sink once for all, like a stone. Such cases are attributed to perfora lion of the eardrum, through which the excess of water pressure occasions vertigo and unconsciousness, and a practical caution results to persons Laving such perforation to protect their ears with a stopper of cotton when bathipg. As. - -

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a rt.vr I iriAtrt I/IHL r Jirniin 11U r lit U11UT C * Vaughan’s Seeds and Plants have made a record worthy of the occasion. The best Seed Hook for 1894 is VAUGHAN'S GA30ENIMG ILLUSTRATED. It Uth tht whole storv of GnrdrniHr to date. SplenHir} pistes of ' Carinas. Pansies and Sweet Pcoo shown by us at the Fair, on which We received hi^/tesl awards. It tells you about MONEY IN VEGETABLES IN THE HOME GARDEN, and contains valuable eardeniopf hints for a hard timi’K vrar. Frc ■ :o inter,iltr.tf l.nv.-r- ... f... ‘>i» et". ' vn mall \ ith it 1 oz.of our I’rl/.o Danvers Onion Seed. For the Isre St yield from thin quantity we offer you (400.01) CASH. Try it tor a Crop. Try It lor a Prize. Some Rare! ^£ r/yo imq 4 Tuheroiei, Including varifgatcd leaved. 1«< Dctrgdina • • I 20UmnLca 1 #PUnu,iocladiog5R4»8« f $1.(H

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