Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 April 1894 — Page 6
SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY!
A Great Mistake.
A rrccnt discovery Is that, headache, dizziness, dullness, confusion of the ralud, el.'., are due to derangement of the nerve centers which supply the brain with nervo force; that Indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia, wind In stomach, etc., arise from the derangement of the nerve centers supplying these organs wit h nerve tluld or force. This Is likewise true of many diseases of the heart and lungs. The nerve system la like a telegraph system as will Ite' seen by the accompanying cut ■ The little white lines a r o the nerves which convey tile nervo for - e from t li o nerve centers to every part of the body,just us the elec:rieeui u ntis conveyed along till' ' telegraph wires to e v e r y station, large or small. Ordinary physicians fall to regard this fact; Instead of treallag the nerve centers for thecuuse ef the disorders arising thei’efroin they treat t lie part affected. Franklin Miles, M D., LL. B., tho highly celebrated speclul1st and student of nervous diseases, and authoi of many noted treatises on the latter subject, long since realized the truth of the llr-t statement, and Ids Restorative Nervine Is prepared on Hint principle. Its succe-s In curing all diseases arising from derangement of the nervous system Is wonderful, as the thousand- of unsolicited testimonials in possession of the company manufacturing the remedy amply prove. I>r. Miles’ Ilestorative Nervine Is a reliable remedy for all nervous disease's, sueli as headache, nervous debility, prostration, sleeplessiiesss. dizziness hysteria, sexual debility, i<t Vitus dance, epilepsy, etc. It Is Bold ny all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Hr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.. on receipt of price, 11 per bottle, six laittlcs for 15, express prepaid. Restorative Nervine positively contains no opiates or dangerous drugs
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DR. HUMPHREYS’ New Specific No. Seventy-Se?en FOR THE CURE OF 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 during its prevalence, prevents its invai sion; 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 C0„ Cor. William & John Sts., New York.
OUTGROWING WAR. A rioanant Theory Not Supported In the C'untpft of Europe. The groat and fatal argument against war is that it does not pay. There was a time when the force of this plea was not generally recognized, says Harper’s Magazine. The medieval spirit, with its chivalry and love of glory, survived long after the bodies of the old barons had turned to dust and their swords to rust. Passions were tierce, traditions strong, popular rights in embryonic feebleness. The hope of conquest, the quarrels of dynasties, religious differences, all tended to obscure the dawn of the coining era—the era of common sense, which balances the good and the bad of any given course and adopts the more expedient. Did not Louis Napoleon, when emperor of the French, once boastfully proclaim that the French nation was the only one that would go to war for an idea? Perhaps he was right. Alas, many thousand lives, many millions in money, a mutilated territory and national pride most bitterly humbled eloquently attest that the mitrailleuse and the eliassopot may not be safely trusted to disseminate ideas, however noble and however useful to mankind. The Anglo-Saxon race prefers to express its preferences and to make converts in other ways. It is now in the ascending period. Its influence upon the world is vast and growing. The United States is the leading nation of a hemisphere and bids fair in a brief period to be the first of the civilized world in population and general prosperity. We have all the territory that we require, so that wars of conquest hold out no temptation. Our government is so free that revolution would border on the ridiculous. So far as we may now foresee there is no reason to apprehend such aggression from other nations as to make armed resistance imperative. The people of these states have proved their ability on too many battlefields to make their prudence suspicious. On the same principle that a tried duelist may refuse to fight because he has shown his mettle, sword in hand, nations with honorable records of brave deeds may be slow to wrath.
THE CONTRADICTORY CAT.
THE SECRETARY BIRD. It T» a Voracious Exterminator of Poisonous Keptlle*. As soon as the secretary bird, or snalic eater, of South Africa, discovers a snake, it advances toward it, without hurry and without hesitation, and when within striking distance it im-
mediately elevates its crest and the
feathers of the neck, and, without los- however, he had placed his forage cap,
CnrlouB ( huracterlstlcB Attributed to the
Keltne.
There are contradictory elements in the character of the cat. No animal is more independent, says the London Saturday Review, and, if we may "speak freely concerning' cats,” like Montaigne, no animal is more capricious in its choice of a home than a cat. Vet none is more remarkable for its power of finding its way back from great distances than a cat is if it pleases so to do. As Mr. Romanes says, the psychology of the cat unsubdued by civilization tils it for a Uobinsuu-Crusoe-like existence in the woods. A dog lost in a wood howls all night find disturbs a whole county. A cat, instead of using her “homing instinct.” makes herself at home with rabbits, pheasants and small birds. Again, the cat in towns sometimes deserts Ids home in dudgeon at some perhaps imagined insult, and abandons himself to a life conducted entirely on apolaustic principles. Everyone knows that a perfectly comfortable, well-fed cat will occasionally come to ins house ami settle there, deserting a family by whom it is lamented, and to whom if it chose it could find its way back with ease. Tins conduct is a mystery which may lead us to infer that cats form a great secret society, and that he who was "King of Cats” was really grand master, an Aramis of cats. Doubtless they come and go in pursuance of some secret policy connected with the education of cats, or perhaps with witchcraft. Otherwise, why should a creature which does not know the manacles of space leave one home for a strange residence? We have known a cat to desert a house for years; once in six months he would return and look about him with an air of some contempt. “Such," he seemed to say, “were my humble beginnings.” He went on no offense given, and in about three years lie came back for good, his mission elsewhere having probably been accomplished. A COOL SCOTCHMAN. He Marveled Greatly at the Modern P«e of Hows anti Arrows. In the force defending the Shah Nujeff. in addition to the regular army, says W. Forbes Mitchell, in Reminiscences of the Mutiny there was a large body of archers on the walls, armed with bows and arrows, which they discharged with great force and precision, and on White raising his head above the wall an arrow was shot right into his feather bonnet. Inside of the wire cage of his bonnet,
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CABINET. Numerous Ncwspnpsr Scrapbook* Kept fonMember* of tho Administration, The keeping of scrapbooks is one of the most interesting employments among government oflicials of the present administration. As a rule, clippings of a highly complimentary nature are more apt to reach the cabinet oflieers than defamatory articles. The private secretary or other subordinate doesn’t care, says the Washington News, to give his chief a bad taste in the mouth by turning over to him articles calling him a prince of scamps, and so the chief often dwells in gardens of blissful ignorance. The greatest enemies of the vanity of public officials are those persons who have been turned down by them or who are in the list of their political enemies. The average cabinet officer as well as the members of congress can depend on these persons to send them a sufficient lot of literature davoted to propagating stories of their meanness. Companies that deal in clippings arc resorted to at times for all stories about them by prominent men. These companies, for a trilling fee, furnish all articles appearing in the papers throughout tho country containing references to their clients, and for one who wishes to be comprehensive in his collection and to save himself work it is the very best method. One of the greatest collections of clippings is made for the president. Mr. Montgomery. one of the clerks of the white house, lias for several administrations prepared scrapbooks of the comments and news articles of the lending newspapers of the country. These he arranges according to the subject. When I‘resident Cleveland was previously in the white house there were accumulated about thirty books of clippings for him. When he again leaves, there will be as many more volumes ready for him to take along. 7 HE AMERICAN BUFFALO.
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ing any time, delivers a blow with its foot. If the snake has avoided the blow and attempts to strike in return, the bird interposes a wing, thus receiving the deadly fangs harmlessly upon the long feathers, and immediately strikes
again.
The fight is then virtually over, for if the secretary gets in a single blow the snake’s back is broken, and the bird, like lightning, plants its foot firmly on the reptile's neck and head, pressing them into the ground, while it delivers the coup de grace with its heal:, and then deliberately swallows the snake whole, beginning at the tail, and just before the head disappears giving it a parting rap on the ground. Rut there is nothing refined about the secretary bird's appetite, for one writer says he found inside one three serpents “as long as his arm,” eleven lizards seven inches long, twenty-one tortoises about two inches in diameter, “besiiU's a large quantity of grasshoppers and other insects,” or, in other words, seven and a half feet of snake, six and a half of lizard, three and a half of tortoise, and say a yard of mis-
cellaneous trifles!
The secretary bird is protected by the cape authorities for the immense public benefit it confers in eating poisonous snakes, and a penalty is attached by law to its destruction. And, if it were necessary, hundreds of eye witnesses could be called to prove its right to the title "Serpentarius." Curiously enough, too, this bird can be trained, and is trained, to protect poultry yards
folded up, and, instead of passing right through, the arrow stuck in the folds of the forage cap, and “Dan." as he was called, coolly pulled out the arrow, paraphrasing a quotation from Sir Walter Scott's “Legend of Montrose,” where Dugald Dalgetty and Ranald MacEagh made their escape from the castle of MeCallum More. Looking at the arrow, “My conscience!'’ said White, “bows ami arrows! bows and arrows! Have we got Robin Hood and Little John back again? Rows and arrows! My conscience. tlie sight Aas not been seen in civilized war for nearly two hundred years. Rows and arrows! And why not weavers’ beams, as in the days of Goliath? Ah! that Daniel White should be able to tell in the Saut market of Glasgow that he hud seen men fight with bows ami arrows in the daj's of Enfield rifles! Well, well. Jack Pandry. since bows and arrows are the words, here's at you!” and with that he raised his feather bonnet on the point of his bayonet above the top of the wall, and immediately another arrow pierced it through, while a dozen more whizzed past a little
wide of tlie mark.
FORMS OF BUSINESS.
Novel Form of Receipt Adopted by »
Pennsylvania XluHincsH Woman.
Forms .of business expression have become so stereotyped that a departure from the ordinary always creates sur
xona: of fuff on ay el JlO.il) LETTISH.
Healed proposal! for keeping in repair
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tion twenty-eight of the Free Gravel Roads of Putnam county , ouid -eeliou twenty-eight being on the I ndiunapnlU, (ireencastle and W«hit«h Frr? Gr-.vel tu.t of (u
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deuce of W. I. Buis, will be received up to one o’clock p. m. of Tuesday, the 10th day of April. 1NW; bids to be made for so much per day of ten hours for team and driver, and «n much per dav for single hand. Bids to be tiled with the Clerk of the Board at his office in Oreencaatle. The successful bidder will be required to give bond. The Commissioner. reserve the right to reject any ami all bids. JOHN S. NF.WUENT,
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J. F Ml'LHOLN, 8AMCEI. FARMER, Clerk of Board. Commisiioners. This the Ihtit day of March, 1S3:. St 13 Eggs for hatching from high scoring Barred Plymouth Rock - and “ ! n
BRASS AND COPPER WEDDINGS. The Uelglan* releb-ste These Annivcrsa-
riea In a Curious Way.
From a lady in Belgium I have received some interesting notes with regard to tlie fashion of celebrating brass, copper, etc., weddings in her
country.
She tells me that when people have
been married six years and a half it is
usual f'>r ♦hen ♦>> invite their to a feast, ball, or any form of enter-
tainment they choose, to mark the occasion of their “brass” wedding, and if Jhey specify the reason of the festivities it is customary for each guest to bring a present in brass, says a writer in Gentlewoman. After twelve and a half years of married life invitations are again sent out, for the “copper” wedding this time, and every gift must be of that metal. In due course come tho "silver” and “golden” weddings, well known to us here, when, of course, nothing less than presents of silver and gold arc offered to the happy
couple.
Mrs. Goemaore tells me that there are naturally many people who pass by this string of auspicious events in silence, but thnt when the occasion of a golden wedding becomes known, lie the couple ever so humble, the mayor of the town goes personally to con-
prise. For this reason the Pittsburgh
not only 'from s n a k c s wh i ch*a r^ at f too | Di . s P at< ; h m, * kes ,,f a " 0 , ri * in . al ri " fond of eggs, but from other birds of celpt. given to a resident of that c.ty in
the course of a transaction m horses.
P ^ The citizen had heard of a team that
lie thought would suit him at a point many miles away from me railroad. He managed to find the place, and discovered that the owner of tlie horses was a woman—one who hud made a success of farming, and evidently had exalted ideas regarding the fair sex’s ! adaptability for managing business. | After a great deal of bargaining, in j which the woman endeavored to show I off that superior skill which had made iter successful, while other farmers of the sterner sex had failed all about her. the price was agreed upon. “Well, I'll give you my check for tlie amount,” said the east ender. “You don't catch me that way," retorted tlie woman. “I want cash—cold money or you can't take the horses.” The gentleman told her tli at he did not have that amount of money with him, but would send it out to her the following day. The next day he dispatched his coachman for the horses witli the money and told him to bring a receipt. The coachman brought the horses and a piece of paper back. On the slip of paper was written: "You got tlie horses; I got tlie money.” and signed by tlie owner
of the horses.
Extinction of Anium! That Not Lone A go I’inckentMl the I’lainH. When the first white settlers landed in Yirginia the bison ranged east of the Alleghenies almost to the seacoast, westward to the dry deserts *lying beyond the Rocky mountains, northward to the Great Slave lake and southward to Chihuahua. It was the beast of the forests anil mountains, in the Alleghenies no less than in the Rockies, but its true home was on the prairies and the high plains, says the Rocky Mountain News. Acflbss these it roamed hither and thither, in herds of enormous, of incredible, magnitude: herds so large that they covered the waving grassland for hundreds of square leagues, and when on the march occupied days and days in passing a given point. But seething myriads of shaggymaned wild cattle vanished with remarkable and melancholy rapidity before the inroads of the white hunters and the steady march of the oncoming settlers. Now they are on the point of extinction. Two or three hundred are left in that great national game preserve, the Yellowstone park, and it is said that others still remain in the wintry desolation of Athabasca. Elsewhere only a few individuals exist, probably considerably less than half a hundred all told, scattered in the wildest and most romantic and inaccessible portions of the Rocky mountains. A bison bull is the largest American animal. His huge bulk, his short, curved,black horns, his shaggy mane, clothing his great neck and shoulders, give him a look of ferocity which his conduct belies. Yet he is a grand and noble beast, and his loss from our prairies and forests is as keenly regretted by the lover of nature and of wild life as by the hunter.
The Wizard Cultivator Has more desirable features to commend it to the farming public than any other; among them are: Adjustable Arch-Thus enabling it to be widened out or narrowed at will and accommodating it to rows of different widths. Swinging Beams—Each beam works practically independent of the other. and each horse does his share of tho work. Eoualizer Doubletrees This improvement stamps “The Wizard*' the great Cultivator of the day. Clevis Hitch It enables you by means of draft rod to change the penetration of shovels to suit your ground. Much better and more durable device than springs for that purpose. Scroll Spring—The most complete spring attachment made. It is easy and effective, and does not bind or cramp in operation. Cone Bearings—Most durable and easiest operated coupling movement ever devised. Works smooth and all wear is taken up ami looseness overcome by simply tightening the nut. For sale by H. S. REISICK «£ CO., Orocrxcastlo.
LADY DETECTIVES IN PARIS.
A Tide on La <1.
From observations made at two Prussian stations at Tencriffe in 1889, 1890 and 18’ji, showing slight and continu-
Unknown to You They Miay He on Your Invitation l ist. Apropos of the affair of espionage which was tried in Paris recently a high official of the detective department has made some curious remarks, lie affirms, says tlie London Telegraph, that a number of ladies well known to Parisian society do not disdain to offer their services occasionally to the police for cash down. These are the “auxiliaries,” but there are others, who receive regular nay, varying from eight hundred to twelve hundred francs per month, besides certain sums for which they have to give an account. In illustration of what he means this official relates an instructive anecdote: Some time ago one of his friends who had bought a house in the neighborhood of the Arc dc Triumphe gave a i.ouac warming party, and a day or two before lie called and expressed tlie hope that he would not send him any of his "spies." "Have you the list of your guests?" asked a colleague who happened to be in tlie room, with a smile. The list was liandcd to this official, who presently returned it with the remark: "it would be useless to trouble you. You have already five here.” The functionary in question added that the ladies tvho made a specialty of foreign politics were less numerous, but cost much more, and, he explained, “their point d’attache is not with us, but at the Qual d'Orsay.”
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grata late them and to offer them in | ous changes of position of the plane of the town’s name two pieces of plate, | the horizon, Dr. von Kcbeur Paschnitz upon which arc engraved tlie arms oi, has concluded that the tviqt—cly rigid the town. | surface of the earth is subject to a It is amusing to hear of the unique : movement of rising and falling like tho way In which my correspondent cole-1 ocean movement that produces tho
, , brated her copper wadding. No men- j tldcs . T: plitud# of the otwenra- £ n rO , T er "7 Si” nn L ,^, -2 OO i0?’ t,0n was mn,1 “ ,,f ,h “ • lions is very slight, but the apparatus |1.C0 1 cr-C, ’A..' v .. ’ and. instead of courting her friends made It. elenrlv norcontlKi.. Th«
from pure high bred Black Langsbans and White Wyandottes, #1.00 per 13. $2.00 per 30. Call on or address Forrest Ellis, Bainbridge, Ind.
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generosity, she reversed the situation and with her own hands worked n>j less tlinn two hundred and sixty stnail
used made it clearly perceptible. The direction of the plumb line also points to a daily disturbance, which is attributed, in conjecture, to solar radiation.
presents, with which she presented i y 0 f movement may be roller guests, needless to say, to theii I '\n'r<jd to distant earthquakca-
great consternation. 1
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The letter Q is a superfluous alphabetic character—a nondescript of tho worst sort, and of no more real value in expressing or helping to express thoughts in writing than one of the Chinese word signs would be. 11 never ends 1 an English word ant) cannot begin one \ without the aid of the letter u. being ; invariably followed by the last inen- | tioned letter in all words belonging to j our language. The man doesn't live j who can tell the "why” of the peculiar ! i relation of the letter-, q and n, or why j | the former was given It* cuiiou* nutue. . Some argue that its name was applied I because of the tail or cue at the bot- ! tom of the letter, but the original q. when sounded just as it is to-day, was made without the cue, the character much resembling the English sign for ; pounds, I
R. L. O' Hair, Pres.; M. /•’. McRaffie, Vice Prei; At. D. Bridges, Cash. J. L. Raadel, Asst. Cash.; E. B. Evans, IE. Ji. Alice, F. A. Arnold.
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Vaughan’s Stoeds end Plants
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