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The Human Electrical Forces!

How They Control the Organs of the Body.

Tb(> electrical force of the human body, a* the nerve fluid may bo termed, la an especially ottractlve department of science, as It exerts so marked an Influence on the health of the organs of the body. Nerve force is produced by the brain ami conveyed by means ..f the nerves to the various organs of the iHsly. thussupplying thu latter with the vitality necessary tolnsure thvir health. The pneumoitastrlc nerve, as shown here, may lx? said tobethomost Important of the entire nerve system. as It supplies the heart. lum;s, stomach, bowels, etc., with the nerve force necessary to keen them active and healthy. As will bo seen by the cut the Ions nervo descend ins from t h o base of the brain and terminating in the bowels Istlie pnoumogaxtrlc, while the numerous little branches supply the heart, lungs and stomoeh with necessary vitality. When the brain becomes in any way disordered by irritability or exhaustion, the nerve force which It supplies Is lessened, and the organs receiving the diminished supply are eon■Muent ly wea kened. Physicians generally fall to recognlte. the importance of this fact, but treat the organ Itself Instead of the cause of t he trouble The noted specialist, Franklin Miles, M. 1)., IX- B.. has given the greater part of Ids life to tlie study of this subject, and the principal discoveries concerning ft an' due to his efforts. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine, the unrivaled brain and nerve food, Is prepared on the principle that all nervous and many other difficulties originate from disorders of the nervecenters. Its wonderful successInCurlng these disorders Is testified to by thousands lu every part of the land. Restorative Nervine cures sleeplessness, nervous prostration, dizziness, hysteria, sexual debility, St. Vitus dance, epifepsy, etc. It Is free from opiates or dangerous drugs. It Is sold on a positive guarantee by all druggists, or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, II per bottle, six bottles for 15, express prepaid.

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DR. HUMPHREYS’ New Specific No. Seventy-Seven FOR THE CURE OF Gr RI I^IPE With all its symptoms of Influenza, Catarrh, Pains and Soreness in the Head and Chest, Cough, Sore Throat and general Prostration and Fever. Taken early it cuts it short promptly ; taken dnring its prevalence, prevents its invasion; taken while suffering from it, a relief is speedily realized, which is continued to an entire cure. This being a New Remedy, if your Druggist will not get it for you, it will be sent prepaid on receipt of price, 25c., or 5 for $1.00. HUMPHREYS’ MEDICINE CO., Cor. William £ John Ms., New York. CACTION.— If a deftlrr on**.-. XV. Du light* shoe, nt a ruducud priee, or *ftj. he lut. them without name .tAiuped oa bottom, put him down u. a fraud.

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Notice lo Noii-ItesMlenls. The State of Indiana, I’utnam County, In the Putnam Circuit Court, April Term.lSW, Etta May Spann, William A. Spann ve. (leorgia Blnnchfill et al. Complaint No. ."»2S2. For partition of real eatate. Now come the Plaintiffs, by Allee ,t Neleon, Ibeir Attorneya, and file complaint herein, iw.otuui wi.hau iididi,^ it ;hal eaid dcfendauia, Oenrgia Blnnchfill, Frank S. Blanchfill and Alice Blanchfill, are not reaidents of the State of Indiana. Notice la therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the Wh day of the next Term of the Putnam Circuit Court, to be holden on uesday. May I, I'M. at the Court House In O-icr-votle *e s.xl«t C.-n*>tv .twf s’t.t., .pit agiswer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in thrirabsence. Witness my name.and the seal of said I'ourt, affixed at Ureencastle, thin 1st day of March, A. P. TM4. DANIEL T. DARN ALL, Clers, by >V . It. it - t-t'Li.ts, Deputy 4i.ii

See the advertisement of Vaughn’s Seed Store in the columns of the Star-Press to-day, and note the great offers made therein, U7.5

INDIANS REAL AND IDEAL

The Halo Which Romance Given Poor Lo.

Has

When the Truth Is Told the Noble Ked Man llecotnr* Anything But the Grand Creature luiAftinatlon lias Tainted Him'. The student of ethnology finds no more fascinating branch of humanity than the Indian. Not the race as depicted by Catlin, Schoolcraft and brake, who have painted him in glowing colors. but the Indian as he exists to-day. The time has come when the truth about Indian life should be told. The gentlemen mentioned gave much thought to the subject of which they are the accepted authorities, but he who goes among Indians as a student will nt once perceive that the whole study of the red men has been one of externals to the exclusion of the more secret and inner life that discloses the real character of the race. The following paragraph appears in the introduction of Drake’s masterpiece: “There was found in him (the Indian) an unbounded hospitality, a friendship vouched for with life itself, an unfailing remembrance of a kindness done him, a nobility of soul that held it firmly to his ideas of honor, filled him with reverence for the sages and heroes of the tribe and inspired in him an ardent longing to emuiate their renown. In social and domestic life kindness and self-control were constantly manifested, wrangling and strife being unknown in the Indian dwelling.” It is difficult, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, to conceive of a more incorrect statement of the case regarding the mental attributes of the Indian. In addition to the error that lias been constant in the minds of the people, through such statements and ideas as romantic and prejudiced writers have given out as ethnological data, there has been a fundamental error in the study of Indians in classing or grouping them all together. It is true that there are certain constant characteristics among the Indians, just as there arc in the Caucasian race, but it is also true that the mental and physical differences between tribes are more marked than between the European nations. It is through reading such authors as viewed the outside or apparent life of Indians that the world to-day knows almost nothing about the dominant characteristics of the red man. In civilized circles the belief is current that the perceptive faculties of the Indian are highly developed; that he ts acute in all things, and that his mind almost intuitively grasps philosophical subjects; that he is a born orator with a natural rhetoric; that he pierces the fallacies of sophistry with almost divine powers of analysis; that he has evolved a religious system and worships one God under the title of Great Spirit. These are the mental attributes with which he has been clothed by those who have been accepted Os authority. His physical powers are no less those of a demigod. He is supposed to be a bundle of muscles and nerves, capable of almost superhuman endurance. His eye is so true that he distinguishes objects and tells their characteristics before they come within the range of vision df the whites. Owing to his unerring aim his markmanship is phenomenal. His idea of location is so highly developed that he finds his way over untrod plains and mountains, and notices the slightest displacement of stick or stone. What are the facts? The Indian is not an orator. He expresses himself with extreme difficulty and in the simplest manner. He has neither rhetorical nor analytical power. His philosophy is of the crudest sort, and he has no religion. He does not worship a great spirit except as he has been taught by' the whites. His mental powers have nothing supernatural in them. Physically he is the inferior of the whites as he is mentally. His muscles are weaker and his nerves more easily "unstrung; his eye is less keen than that of the white plainsman, and he is a tyro nt marksmanship; his idea of location is bounded by his environments. He sees few sights, hears few sounds, smells few odors, and tastes few flavors. The result is that his whole life is narrow, as the facts presented to him arc few. His perceptive faculties are of a low order and his powers of discrimination small. This, however, is a rule which, like all other rules, has exceptions, for there are now, and have been in the past elevated minds among the Indiana. HOTEL GUESTS.

Women Who Will Have What They Want and Men Who Won't Keitister. The average guest at a first-class hotel puts his fist on the register and takes what the lord of the rooms gives him meekly and uncomplainingly. There are rooms and rooms, just as there are hotels and hotels; and when the hotels are crowded it takes an experienced and determined man to get the best—or a woman, says the Wash-

ington Rost.

No hotel clerk has ever yet stood up before the onslaught of a lovely female bent on having a front room lighted on both sides and not higher than the third story. Hut there is another class of the dwellers in tents—the men who never register. Every hotel lias them, and Washington hotels more than any other city. Here it means the game of politics. The man who wants an office, and is afraid his rivals are going to put up combinations against him, wl'l slip into the hotel and tell the clerk thao he does not want to be seen or put on the book, and the clerk tells him that it is all right.

FROM FARM TO BARROOM.

Toe Joarnry and (Iradaml Inrrr**e in Price of a Bu&hel of Corn. Illinois is the great corn state and Peoria is the center of its most prolific belt. Peoria is a great grain market and especially for corn. Vast quantities of the golden grain are shipped into that city for general distribution and loaded into its mammoth elevators by the hundreds of thousands of bushels. A great deal of corn is shipped from Peoria, but a vast quantify is used tliare. There is more corn used in Peoria than in any three cities in the union, even though these cities be New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The reason is obvious, says the Peoria Herald. Peoria is not only the center of the great distilling interests, but there are located two of the greatest sugar houses in the country. Down the capacious maws of the great distilleries tire poured every day iiO.OOO bushels of corn. The sugar houses use from 5,000 to 10,000 bushels more each day in the year. To supply the constant demand the product of 1,000 acres of rich corn la uds is daily shipped into Peoria for home consumption. Aside from these there are fully 5.000 bushels used daily for other purposes. So that it is safe to estimate that fully 9.000,000 bushels of corn are used in that city annually for manufacturing and other purposes. The greater part of this is manufactured into spirits. It is wonderful to consider the changes made by a bushel of corn in its transition from the owner's crib to the glass of the consumer. These changes arc various and far reaching. They are other than financial. Hut consider simply the mere element of value. Corn was sold the other day in Peoria for 85 cents per bushel. 11 came all the way from Nebraska, perhaps, where it brought but 25 cents. In transit two dealers received a commission of 1 cent each. The railroad company received 8 cents for its freight and other charges. The distiller paid 35 cents. He took and converted it into four and a half gallons of finished spirits and fed one of his steers on the refuse'. The distiller sold the spirits to a local dealer for $5.12, of which I ncle Sam received 84.05 as a tax on the spirits, leaving a balance to the distiller of 73 cents after he had paid 35 cents for his corn. The spirits, after being well watered and compounded, are sold at a profit by the compouhder and rectifier to the dealer, who sells out at 15 cents a drink. The four and one-half gallons have swelled to nine, and before it gets through it swells many a head and also the revenue of the city where its lines may be cast So that, in its travels from the Nebraska crib to the Chicago saloon, that bushel of corn has increased in value from 25 cents to many dollars, and with its constant running mates has furnished employment to at least to fifty men or more and has contributed to both the national and municipal revenues. Such magic there is in the juice of the golden corn. Of the juice of that one bushel of corn, at least 100 persons have imbibed, from the pious old lady whe took it for "la grippe” to the jolly old toper who took it for “the tight.” To resume, that bushel of corn was thus scattered on the highways of business and pleasure: Farmer, 25 cents; railroads, 88 cents; commission men, 2 cents; distillers, 72 cents, 72 cents; feeder, 19 cents; Uncle Sam. $4.05; compounder and rectifier. 26 cents; retail dealer, $10; city, $3. The consumer got whatever was left in the spirits, each according to his strength or weakness. CAPABLE OF GREAT EXPANSION.

The Swell Toad Not Naturally Big—How

to Huvo Fun with Him.

What is called the “swell” toad on the Carolina and Georgia coast is in his natural state only about six inches in length and four inches across the back, but he is endowed with wonderful expansive facilities, being capable of inflating himself like a Yale football on the slightest provocation. Many tales are told of his poisonous qualities and of the death-dealing fluids that are stored axvay at the base of his fangs, but all naturalists agree that the toad is nonvenomous, and that stories to th" contrary are but bits of idle folk lore. He this as it may, the coasters handle him (when they condescend to touch the ugly creatures at all) as charily as they would a live rattler. The under portions of the body of the “swell" are of a dirty yellowish white, corresponding almost cexaclly to the color of the true bufo’s belly, but where the latter is smooth the former is as prickly as the pod of a “jimson weed.” In order to see him swell out of all proportions it is only necessary to rub this prickly surface with a cane, stick or other object. To do this properly the creature must, of course, bo turned upon his back, and the funny part of the whole experiment is this: He cannot expel the air which the irritation has caused him to inhale until he has been turned right aide up Although originally a six-inch animal, the St. Louis Republic says it has been known to expand until it is a* tight as a tfruin and had lost all semblance to animated life. It lias even been related of them that they would continue to expand under irritation until the body would finally burst from overinflation.

Th« Greatest Pyramid.

The great pyramid of Gizeh is the largest structure of any kind ever erected by the hand of man. Its origlinal dimensions at the base were 7fll feet square, and its perpendicular height in the highest point is 488 feet; it covers four acres, one rood and twenty-two perches of ground, and lias been estimated by an eminent English architect to have cost not less than *;.su,uoo,ouu. wnten in t nited Mates currency would be about $145,200,000. Internal evidences proved that the great

THE VENICE OF AFRICA.

A Town That In Built Upon Three Coral Islands. The Italians, says a recent writrr, are fond of comparing Massowah to Venice. The town is built of three coral islets close to the mainland. During late years a considerable number of Italian buildings have arisen among the ruins of the Egyptian occupation; the white Egyptian palace, built by the unfortunate Arakel I’asha, who fell at Gudda Guddi. fighting against the Abyssinians, on December 1<V, 1875, is now the residence of the Italian governor; adjoining it is a very pretty military club, with an open-air theater; water surrounds you on every side, and steamy, enervating heat makes life a burden to those who have just come from more bracing climes; yet, strange to say, Massowah is by no means unhealthy, fevers are rare; bugs, fleas and other vermin—alas! too common on the high plateau—are unknown here; there is no vegetation to decay and cause malaria. The only difficulty with which Italian officers have to contend is debility and anemia, which is at once removed by a residence of a few weeks on the high plateau, or a few months’ leave in Europe; in fact, they say that Massowah is healthier than any of their military stations at home. If Massowah is infinitely inferior to Venice in its external appearance, it is infinitely more beautiful in its surroundings. The mighty Abyssinian mountains approach quite close to the coast line at this point, and from a stupendous and lovely background to the town. SIGHT IN EARTHWORMS.

In some cities such actions would be J RyaiuM whs begun about G, e year 270. rigaliy regarded us suspicious, but not, the time of the birth cf

in Washington. The leading hotels will average two a day during the first year of a new administration; after that they drop off to two a week, but it is a peculiarity of Washington ho-

telo.

Abraham. It is estimated that about 6,000,000 tons of hewn stone were used in its construction, and the evidence points to the fact that these stones wore brought a distance of about 700

miles from quarries in Arabia.

Sense* I’osMonBefl by the Supposedly Senge-

less i'reutureg.

James Weir, Jr., in a curious little study in evolution, shows that all the five senses of man are found in the lower forms of animal life. Darwin, while admitting that earthworms are sensible to light, maintains that they are blind. Weir, in the North American Review, maintains the contrary. He says that the circumscribed spots on the dorsal surface of the worm are primitive eyes. The microscope reveals in these spots a transparent membrane, an accumulation of pigmentary matter, a special nerve spread out in this matter and extending to the central nerve structure. The membrane is the cornea, the pigmentary matter a retina, and the special nerve an optic nerve. As there is no lens the worm can distinguish only light and darkness. The arrangements for the sense of touch are not materially different from those in man. The sense which they are without is that of hearing, but sound waves arc conveyed to the sensonum through the sense of touch. That worms have taste and smell can be proved by experiments with food. As to smell, put musk near them and it is amusing to see them hunting their holes to escape it. “The nerves of taste and smell are blended together, and can readily be made out with the microscope in the lips, so to speak, of die oral pouch.” JAPANESE TYPES. Two Dtatlnct Clasass of Physiognomy Among: Japnii'K Inhabitant*. There are two totally distinct types in Japan, which may almost be said to be each other’s opposites. The firsL which the Japanese themselves call the Chinese or Corean, is the more common. Those belonging to it, says Harper's Weekly, have round faces, flat noses, full cheeks, rather thick lips— very pretty ones often—and very good white teeth. Those belonging to the second, or true Japanese type, have long and comparatively pale faces, noses arched like the beak of a bird, thin lips, large eyes, with not ve.'y strongly marked eyebrows, and teeth mostly good, always very white, but often long and irregular. This is the aristocratic type, which, when at its best, is really worthy of admiration. To be called handsome a Japanese must belong to it, while those of the Chinese cast of countenance are never more than pretty. Strange to say, the moral character of the sections of the community differs as much as does their appearance. I have noticed that, as a general rule, those with Chinese faces are gay, laughing and restless, full of careless good humor, while the others are silent, indifferent, melancholy, sometimes

even dKinal

QUEER NESTS FOR DUCKS. Made of Ku*hea and Hung: on Pole* In

the Marshes.

The water-fringed village of Grouw, in Friesland, north Holland, is remarkable for two things—cheese and ducks. The lakes which fringe the village on three sides are thick with bulrushes and water grass, nud afford excellent cover for wild ducks and other aquatic fowls. To promote the comfort of the former and at the same time facilitate the colleetitm of their eggs the villagers construct nests made of pluiled rushes, and hung on poles driven into the soil or perched between the forks of trees. Above each coterie the owner of the nests fixes pieces of colored cloth, which enable him to readily distinguish his nests from those of his neighbors. These bits of bunting are useful also to the birds, who invariably keep to their own nests. The owner goes each morning in his boat to the nesting ground, thrusts ins arm into the bolllc-shupcd nests, and collects their contents for the market. Auiericuu Jr uolgetti'. American workingmen are more lightly shod on the average than those of Europe, and nothing excites more scorn and astonishment in tliis country than the heavy boots and shoes ! brought over by immierants. Shoes ' thickly studded with hob-nails last ! perhaps three times as long as the ; lighter footgear, but the American j -.vorkingmau would feel himself ( clogged and hampered by such foot* j weights. The immigrant quickly learns that with such a handicap he cannot compete with the spry American, and he adopts the footwear of the country perhaps before his heavy imported boots arc worn out.

f When Loi/e!y Women Gtccps to Folly, S S and continues to use th;: old-fashioned, so-called J > soaps, which destroy clothing and clean nothing; soaps which are cos* iy at any price, ineffective, < | labor-increasing and wastelul, instead of using])

Santa Ciaus Soap,

* \ «»

J And Finds Too La to that flfen Betray, * bad temper when their collars, cuffs and shirts, # and the household linen, are ruined by cheap, [ [ wretched soaps; ( ) What Charm can Sooths her Melancholy? ]] J Why! Santa Ciaus Seep ] ] !To = Be = Sure!!{ Sold by all Grocers. Manufactured only by < ► N. K. FAIR BANK & CO., - - Chicago.?

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E. A. HAMILTON,

-DEALER IN-

GLASSWARE, ETC.

Loivent Price#, Fresh Goods. Call and see me at SOUTHEAST COKiYEK OF SQUAHE.

GEORGE RICK NELL,

-DEALER IN-

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AWRpnC is the result of our displays at the World'/, MIV M It a# O Fair—wore than any other firm in Horticulture. Vaughan’s Seeds and Plants have made a record worthy of the occasion. The best Seed Book for 1894 is VAUGHAN'S GARDENING ILLUSTRATED. It tells the whole story of Gardening to date. Splendid plates of Oannab. Fttnaies ami oweei reas snown by us at the t air. on which we received highest awards. It tells you about MONEY IN VEGETABLES IN THE HOME GARDEN. And Contains valuable gaitteiiing hints for a hard itiUfH year. Free 10 inteiidiug buyers, or lor 20 cts. we C-.ui -1lit it 1 tw.ol our i-'nze iinnvers Onion Need. For the larnest yield trom this ijuantlty wo offer yon 850.00 CASH. Try It lor s Crop. Try It tor »I’rlso.

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