Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 June 1894 — Page 6

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A STRANGE CASE.

How an Enemy was Foiled.

Tho following prnphlr statement will he road with Intense interest: “1 j'annot describe

thenumb, creepy sensation tliJit existed in my nds and legs. 1 bad to rub ami beat

arms, ban

those parts until they were sore, to overcome in a measure tin* dead feeling that had taken possession of them. In addition. 1 had a strange weakness in my back and around my Waist, 11uri»f 11«>r wi i 11 n 11 iiidnKi'ribahlo 'irone*

feeling

waist, togetber with an indescribable ‘gone’ ng in my stomach. Physicians said it

was croeping’paralysis, from which, accord-

ni versa lei

fng to their universal conclusion, there is no relief Once it fastens upon a person, they say, it continues its Insidious progress until it reaches a vital point ami tho sufferer dies.

Such wmmy prospect. 1 had been dcx*toring

a year and a half steadily, but

_. with no particular benetit. when I saw an advertisement of Dr Miles' Restorative Nervine, procured a bottle and began using it. Marvelous as it may seem, but a few days had passed before every bit of that creepy feeling had left me, and there has not been even the slightest

Indication of Its return. Iwi

well as 1 ever did. and have gained ten pounds in weight, though I bad run down from 170 to 137. Four others have used Dr. Miles* Restorative Nervine on my recomendation. and it has been as satisfactory in their cases as in mine.”—James Kane, La Hue, O. Dr. Miles' Rt»storativo Nervine issold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Did., on receipt of price, $1 per bottle, six bottles for if>. express prepaid. It is free from opiate* or dangerous drugs.

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THE LAW AND THE DOG.

Tho Grasshopper Crop Is Ono That Never Fails.

Farmers Get One Dollar a Bushel from the Mat*- for llareesttng the Lively and Destructive Insects.

New Hampshire has a new crop. Grasshoppers. The state pays the farmers for the product. The price is one dollar a bushel. Mr. A. T. ISurleiph, of Franklin, last year (fathered ninety bushels, for which he received ninety dollars. Of course the state does not pay for the cultivation of the insects. They are a plague, and a bounty of one dollar per bushel is provided by law for their destruction. A Hoston Herald writer met Mr. Hurleigh the other day, anti was led by curiosity to inquire how ninety bushels of the lively little fellows could be captured. “The farmers have been troubled by the grasshoppers more or less for the past twelve years," said Mr. Burleigh. "We do not know where they originated or how they came, but they are here, and it seems that they have come to stay. They are worse some years than others. In 1SS5 I caught one hundred and nineteen bushels. My best catch was thirty-nine bushels in one day. In an area two miles long and one mile and a half wide live hundred bushels were caught and destroyed, besides those plowed in when too small to hop out of the furrow. These grasshoppers hatch about the first of June, ami are so small one would not notice them were it not for the rustling noise they make hopping in the grass. At this period you can destroy them only by plowing them in.” “I’ardon me, but this process would bring you no bounty. What I wish to know is how you catch them.'’ “I was about to say that those which are not plowed in we endeavor to catch. In order to do this they must be about half grown and able to jump or fly. We have constructed a machine which carries two pans of galvanized iron eight feet long, sixteen incites wide, four inches deep, and having a back eighteen inches high. These pans are divided into three sections and fastened to wooden shoes, into which they are set about one and one-half inches from the ground. This apparatus is attached to a pair of wheels with a long axle—one that runs through the wheels about eighteen inches being the best. The pans are tilled with an emulsion*—either kerosene and water, soft soap and water, chloride of lime and water, or any of the soap powders are good. Each section of the pans holds about three gallons of water, and lias to be refilled for each catch. To catch the grasshoppers to advantage one should take them early in the morning or at sunset, when they are on the grass feeding. Two men and two horses are needed for each machine, as one horse could not stand it to drag the heavy apparatus through the grass, for one must drive fast to catch the little pests.” “What is the extent of the injury they are capable of inflicting?” “To tell how much damage they do is like valuing something you do not have. In three days they will spoil a piece of grass that would cut two tons per acre, and in one day they have destroyed a half acre of onions.” “Have you endeavored to get rid of the intruders by other methods?” "Yes. The grasshoppers batch every season. You can easily tind their eggs in September or October, or in the spring. We have tried burning, rolling and drowning, us well as plowing, but the grasshopper machine is the only thing that will conquer them. There is but a week or ten days that you can catch them, this being when they arc about half-grown, anti before they can fly far. The bounty of one dollar per bushel, which we receive from the stale, just about pays for the time r»T*d OTpcTtve «<f ••n»<* , j»ng.” “I suppose the farmers generally are waging war on the hoppers? ’ "Toa greater or less extent all of them are lighting them. A neighbor of mine caught sixteen bushels last

season. “What was j'our loss last year?' “They destroyed more t han half of my hay crop, spoiled six acres of oats, ruined half an acre of onions, and damaged my carrots to the extent of fi'iuy or fifty dollars, besides clearing out an acre of beans so clean you would not know that anything had been planted ou the land.” The New Hampshire law, offering a bounty for grasshoppers, was passed in 1891. At the oflice of tire secretary of state in Concord it was learned that “in 1st 1 there appeared on one or two farms in Franklin and one farm In Canterbury a certain species of grasshopper. or locust, that was very destructive to vegetation. Tho insects did not move around much, but ate everything clean where they located, and became so thick tliat they could be collected in large quantities. They differ from tho common grasshopper in that they arv not so lively and come in much greater numbers. It was to cause their extermination that the law was passed. Of the common kind of grasshoppers a bushel could hardly be collected in a season, but these locusts are so plentiful that they can be gathered by the bushel, and farmers rig up machinery for the purpose.”

Educating a Frlnce. It is a costly business, the education of princes. The great Krupp establishment at Essen recently turned out a miniature fortress to be set up in the private grounds of the royal palace at Potsdam. It is to be used in the education of the crown prince of Germany fcnd his brothers. Its cost was six hundred thousand marks, and its principles of construction are not to be made public. There are armored turreU that rise, fire their guns and instantly Sink out of view. It is said that a number of new principles are embodied in the construction of this fortress, but th^y are for the present to remain ser . i

Two Interontlng Derisions of Questions In Massachusetts Courts. If one interferes with two dogs that are fighting and is bitten by one of them he cannot recover damages unless lie shows that he was in the exercise of due care. The full bench of the supreme court lately so held, according to the Boston Transcript, in the case of Artcmus Hodgson against Charles H. Hodgson and William T.

Tapley.

The three parties live in Dedham. The plaintiff was out riding, accompanied by his two dogs. A shepherd dog owned by the defendant followed the carriage and got into a fight with one of the plaintiff's dogs. He went up to the dogs and seized the defendant's dog, when it turned on him and bit his hand. The suit was brought under public statutes, chapter 102, section 93, and the plaintiff claimed he was not obliged to prove at the trial that he was in the exercise of due care. The court holds that he was and says: “In the case at bar the plaintiff voluntarily submitted himself to danger and we have no doubt that the ruling of the court below was right.” Another dog-bite ease to call forth an expounding of the law is that of Jesse O. Boulester, of Rockville, against Charles \Y. Parsons, of Walpole. The bite in this case was inflicted upon a horse, which died in consequence and tho plaintiff sued for his loss. The plaintiff s brother was driving an express wagon, drawn by a pair of horses, along a country road; and in the rear of this wagon was another horse attached to a single wagon. The defendant's dog ran out of his master's yard and bit the hor.-,e attached to the single vehicle. The defendant contended it was negligence on the part of the plaintiff to lead a horse harnessed in a wagon behind as was this one. and thereupon the plaintiff requested the court to instruct the jury in substance as follows: “A man has a right to lead a horse in the way and manner described, and the mere fact that he was so leading a horse is not such evidence of negligence as would preclude the plaintiff

from recovering in tkis action for the bite of the dog.” The judge at the trial refused so to rule, and submitted the question to the jury whether the method of traveling adopted was negligent and was such as to induce an attack by the dog. The jury found for the defendant, and to the refusal of the court to rule as above the plaintiff

excepted.

The full court sustains the plaintiff's exceptions and says: “We are of opinion that the ruling requested should have been given in substance. While the doctrine of contributing negligence lias been often said to apply to an action on the public statutes, chapter 102, section 93, and we have no doubt it does apply where the plaintiff incites or provokes a dog, and it may be in other cases, the doctrine lias no application to the case at bar. The leading of a horse behind a wagon was simply a condition and not in any sense a contributing cause of the injury. * * * To hold that the question whether leading a horse behind a wagon should be submitted to the jury as evidence of negligence on the part of the plaintiff in inducing an attack by a dog, would render it necessary to submit to the jury the question whether the color of the horse or of the wagon, or of the clothes of the driver might not have induced an attack. The law does not pay this respect to the characteristics or prejudices of dogs.”

SHE SAW MRS. CLEVELAND.

Tho M idule-Aged Woman Made a Hun for Jt and liot There. Women adopt all sorts of devices for getting a good Mok at Mrs. Cleveland. On fine days the mistress of the white house generally takes a ride in the family phaeton, accompanied by her babies and the nurses. In the afternoon between three and four, if the sun if '■hin’ng. «ny« a Washington f oformant, she goes out in the victoria, accompanied either by her husband or a friend. Women, young and old. have discovered this ittibiL of Mrs. Cleveland, and are beginning to lie in wait for her to catch her as she comes out on the trout portico to enter the carriage. There is no privacy for inmates of the white house, and so when Mrs. Cleveland goes riding site is obliged to walk through the public vestibule and across the public portico. A day or two ago a bevy of schoolgirls joined the waiting group on the portico, and when Mrs. Cleveland came out she was obliged to run the gantlet. When she returned an hour or two later a funny thing happened. A welldressed, good-looking, middle-aged woman, evidently a stranger in the city, was passing the street gate when a carriage turned into the circular drive of the white house grounds. The quick-witted sightseer instantly surmised that the occupants were Mrs Cleveland and iter babies. Site saw’ a chance to accomplish her long-felt desire of getting a good look at the president’s wife and site did not miss it. The race was a long one anil site knew site could not win it unless something happened to detain Mrs. Cleveland after she arrived under the porte cochere. Lifting her clothes in both hands she started up the circular pathway along the drive at a breakneck speed. The pass-ers-by and the spectators at the door applauded, and perspiring and panting. site reached the steps just in time, for Mrs. Cleveland hud stopped to give an order to the coachman, and the energetic lady was enabled to plant herself where she could stare the president's wife in the face for at least ten seconds, anil could also see the babies as they were lifted from the carriage by the nurses and carried into the house. As Mrs. Cleveland disappeared in the vestibule a gentleman standing by said, admiringly, to the female sprfnter: “Well, you made it.” “Yes,” she said, mopping her face, ‘folks from my part of the country gerlfcallv do.”

A CARDINAL’S SIMPLE LIFE.

Outward Pomp la But the Covering of Unostentatious Austerity. The private life of a prince of the church is always a subject of wonder to the curious. They are astounded at its simplicity, and almost disappointed at what they would term its unromantic character. The cardinal's palace whether its exterior be of princely appearance or not, is certainly very plain within. His apartments are not adorned with luxurious profusion, ami usually contain only such articles of furniture as the demands of his work require. ’ 1 remember a visit to the rooms of the late Cardinal Simeoni, in the Propaganda palace, and was struck by the absence of everything suggesting a life of ease, writes Rev. F. A. Cunningham in Donahoc's Magazine. The three or four antechambers contained but a few chairs for the accommodation of those awaiting an audience. There was nothing remarkable in any one of them. The reception room itself is even more plain, a small apartment containing a long tabic with the usual covering of green cloth, a dozen common chairs for the use of the secretaries, a crucifix and a few pictures. The only object of absolute worth in the whole suite of apartments was the grand old man himself, simple as a child, yet holding in his hand the religious fiovernment of over twenty-five million people. Rising at an early hour, the cardinal's first duties are immediately to God. Morning prayer, mass and meditation precede the slight breakfast of black coffee, with one or two rolls. His morning is occupied with the routine of business, and it is only in the evening that he eaa find the few hours of leisure for society. In the social circle, sufficiently large at Rome, the cardinal appears most to advantage. It is then, in the brilliant play of learning and wit, that he is forced to display those charming qualities that must endow him for his high position. The outward pomp, however, which etiquette requires of him, is but the covering of a simple, unostentatious life; and if at the end of the day he may be seen walking out upon the Pincian hill, like other people, and taking a little rest and recreation, we cannot deny that he*litts earned it well.

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NATURES PYROTECHNICS.

The West Indies Is the Flare to See Them at Their Beet. The phenomenon known as lightning. followed 1(3’ a rolling, reverberating report, recognized as thunder, is common to a wide zone of the earth, but it is not generally known that there are localities where the vivid flashes and the deafening peals are incessant. The most notable of these continuous lightning districts, sa3 - s the Pittsburgh Dispatch, is on the eastern coast of the island of San Domingo, a leading member of the group of the West Indies. It is not meant that the lightning is here continuous the 3’ear round, but that, with the commencement of the rainy season, comes tit is zigzag feature of electric illumination, which is then continuous day and night for weeks. The storm center is not continuously local, but shifts over a considerable area, and. as thunder is seldom hear'* over a greater distance titan eight miles, and the lightning in the night will illuminate so as to be seen thirt3’ miles, there ma.v be da3 - s in some localities where the twinkle on the sky is in a continuous succession while the rolling reports are absent. Then again come days and nights when the electric artillery is piercing in its detonations; and especially is this the case when two separate local cloisl centers join, as it were, in an electric duel, and, as sometimes occurs, a third participant appears to adti to the elemental warfare. Then there is a blazingslqv with blinding vividness ami stunning peals tliat seem to pin the listener to the earth. Long before the echoes can die away com.'* others, until the mechanism seems hammered into chaos.

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APRIL FOOL DAY.

Uncertainty Itegarding the Origin of th« Custom or Flaying Tricks. The custom of sending one on a bootless errand or otherwise “April fooling” him on the first <!.%t of that month is very ancient: 3 T et it cannot truthfully be said that anyone is equal to the task of tracing it to its origin. Some antiquarians nrofess to believe it a survival of the travesty of sending the Saviour hither and thither, first from Annas to Caiaphas and then to Pilate and Herod. The opinion is strengthened by the fact that during the middle ages tliat ver3 T scene in Christ's life was made the subject of one of the Easter “Miracle l , la3’s” enacted on the chief streets of London and other English cities of the first class. Even though the above opinion lias received the sanction of Braude, Moore Wid Hone, it is not at all unlikely tliat it is really a relic of some old heathen festival, such as the Httli festival of the Hindoos or the Roman "Feast of Fools.” The custom, whatever its origin, of playing tricks and pranks of all kinds on the first day’ of April is universal throughout Europe, and is also practiced in many other countries and under various names. It is a curious fact tliat the Hindoo Huh festival, where April fool tricks of all sorts are played, is held on the night of the 31st of March, and the orgies are not discontinued until sanrit" on tho morning of April 1.

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