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OREENCASTLK, IND., FEB. 16. 1895

Vol. 22, No 44

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CITY AND COUNTY

O. W. Ellis has been visiting in Greene county. Overcoats at half price; Hurst Bros., Mt. Meridian. Kingan’s best lard and bacon, 9 cts., Hurst Bros., Mt. Meridian. Mrs. J. S. Nutt is in St. Louis, visiting her daughter, Mrs. Miller, who Is sick. Miss Alice J. Soper is to be married, at the residence of W. H. Kelly and wife, Putnamville, to John I. Harden, of Indianapolis, on Peb. 20. Life in real, life is solemn. For we feel from fall till spring, Up and down our spinal column, Microbes, blythe, meandering. Application was made at the Clerk’s office, a few days ago, for a marriage license for Charles W. Shuey and Miss Sheckells, but as they were first cousins, they could not obtain license in Indiana. In our report last week of the paper read by T. C. Grooms, at the Historical Society meeting, he was made to say: “The first challenge to fight a devil,” etc.; it should ha\e read the first challenge to fight a “duel.” We apolgize; don’t call with blood in your eye and a pistol in your pocket. It brings a blush to the cheek of youth, This very dreadful show; And everything goes with the youth that im-

proves

The complexion, don't you know. Those who travel now have a twofold reason to take the Rand-McNally Guide. First, it is the standard; second, it insures you without charge for $UK). 40 cents per copy. $:?.00 per year. On sale everywhere. Send subscriptions to 106 Adams Street,

Chicago.

Keep track of your children. If they are worth bringing up at all, they are worth bringing up well. Some people seem to think they will come up themselves without any attention. But the weeds must be kept out of the garden or there will be no “truck” at the harvest season.

Darling wife, I’m absent from you, And ray nerves are all unstrung; For I’m wondering while I’m absent What use you’ll have for your tongue.

One of the Seniors of DePauw University, who has a record as a love maker and flirt equal to any previous record, says he has made a study, by experience and investigation, of the acts, words and symptoms of young ladies when a proposal of marriage is made directly or indirectly, says:

Albert Farmer has been confined to the house by sickness . 26 pounds light brown sugar, $1; Hurst Bros., Mt. Meridian. The Century Club met with Miss Sidelia Starr, last Saturday afternoon; the paper of the day, an able and very entertaining one, was by Mrs. F. D. Ader, on “Classic English.” The microbe wafted on the breeze, Now makes his annual trip, And when the folks begin to sneeze, We know he’s brought his grip, The revolver manipulator fired a shot, on Friday night, that sent a bullet throught the plate glass in the window of the business room occupied by F. G. Gilmore, causing a damage of about $7. r >—no clue as to who done the deed. The Monon Railroad will not employ intemperate men, if the management know that they are intemperate, and has adopted a new scheme to detect drinking by its employes; it is the kodak system. It is not uncommon now-a-days for employes of the road to be called before the superintendent and told that they are not wanted because of their drinking proclivities. A denial of the charge is met by a neat photograph, taken by some road detective, displaying the offender at the bar, pouring down the liquor. It is quite positive proof and there is little room for discussion. “1 cannot answer,” said the sase, “Though wise in lore of every age. Grant me, O Fate, some easier task, Than answering questions kids can ask!” Brace Up. Brace up. Put some electricity into your fibers; raise your head, chin up. Don’t bend to the ground as if your last friend were gone because times were hard. Why, that is what does

it.

Brace up.

Face the music, do battle with the fiend of depression and he will be conquered. What cannot a man do who wills it; what cannot the mem* bers of a community do who put their shoulders to the wheel and witn a unanimous shout push forward; what cannot the people of a nation do if they will it. The Star-Press man is an optimist from his bump of hope to the bottom of his feet. He believes things are better and will grow still better, as the days go by.

Brace up.

Quit growling. People have so gotten in the habit of looking long faced and telling their neighbors

Out of a hundred cases eighty-one l ' me8 are awtul hard,” that the dissink into the arms of gentleman, eaRC has Permeated the entire mass

sixty-eight rest their heads on gentle- I ?rac ” U P-

man’s breast and only one sinks into < ^ 1 ^ ou w ’^ s ’ n k- A well man, if he the arms of a chair; eleven clasp wil18 it ’ ma y sink into ‘^ease. A their arms around the gentleman’s «'ek man, if he wills it, may rise from

neck, six weep tears of joy silently

his couch into health. There isnoth-

and forty-four weep tears aloud—| > n g like the little pill of will to make whatever that means; seventy-two t!’ 6 kl 001 ! cour8e with rythmic thump

have eyes full of love, and nine out of * n ones veins, a hundred rush from the room and Prace up.

tell everybody. Onlv four are greatly surprised, and eighty-seven of a handred knew that something was coming. Five giggle hysterically and one even sneezes. Only one of a hundred struggles not to be kissed, while six kiss gentleman first. If we believe this statistician, one out of a hundred will say: “Yes, but don’t be a fool.” Awarded tlighcs* Honors—World’s Fair. ‘12R;

Ed. Bicknell and wife have re-

turned from Florida.

Co-operation Unawares.

, Much noise has been made about co-

t baric,s Anderson has been visiting operation, government ownership of

relatives at St. Louis.

railroads and telegraphs and of other industrial enterprises of interest to the

whole public.

But meantime, without any flourish of trumpets or great announcement of

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Now is when the world needs braced up men. AH around are people trying to make us believe the world is going to ruin across lots, and that soon we will go out like the twinkling of a star. Some time we will, but not now. Mark it, not until several ages have passed.

Brace up.

itis needed in business that joli meet the emergencies. Perhaps you are one of those who bit off more j than you could masticate. If so, brace up; make the effort until your limbs ache and the cells of your lungs

crackle. Brace up.

Let Greencastle people heed the | admonition. Greencastle is all right. Get the best move on you know how, not the air castle move; hut one of returning confidence, and let a senti-

ment of brotherhood induce every! least brightening up these bleak win-

Thi» world would be a happy world

And men would all be brothers. If people did themselves one-half That they expect of others.

to^Iubs^nd^Tife h^hi’s^t^rin What ,0 b ° ^ there already next issue of The Ladies Home Jour- ; T™ 7 7* , nal. “I consider the club,” writes 1 ! “ , fh ^, 10118 T by the reformer, “to be one of the' t ^ 16 I H!0p ® t welves and run wholly

on the mutual benefit plan. One of these that may bo mentioned is the Mntnal Life Insurance company. As a matter of fact, it lias no stockholders, none at all. There are no dividends to be satisfied such as most corporations pay. The company was organized, jvobably without a thought that it would signally illustrate the power of co-operation, yet that is precisely what it docs. The Mntnal Life company has a capital of $100,000,000. It has officers who undoubtedly get large salaries. These manage its affairs. But aside from these it is run by the people themselves for their own benefit. They pay the money and get the insurance. The officers transact the business of the organization and see to it that surplus funds

aro invested safely and wisely. Savings banks and building and loan

associations the country over are another brilliant illustration of union for their own benefit among the plain, intelligent people of this country. The people put their savings into these banks and draw a small interest thereon. They expect the officers to invest the money so that it will justify such interest. The savings banks are practically run by the people themselves. Hundreds of millions of capital are invested in them. Thousands of individuals of the very best class in this or any country have been enabled by them to build homes and become

comfortably well off in their old age. Consider the vast moneyed interests

involved in the building and loan associations, called in Massachusetts the “people’s banks.’’ Their officers until very recently worked altogether without pay, simply for honor and out of good will. Now small pay is given to certaiu officers. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century no economic system has been devised which has conferred such benefits on wage earners as they have done. Yet those who organized them never dreamed they were forwarding any socialistic or co-operative

scheme.

The point is this: What has been done in the instances named in the matter of money saving can bo done quite as effectively in the matter of money

getting.

International Arbitration.

England is probably not afraid of the United States, and the United States is certainly not afraid of England. Therefore it is fitting that these two groat countries should take the initiative in international arbitration. We aro one in language and methods of thought and closely united. We are one in being unconquerable and determined to uphold our own dignity and rights the world over. We are also the two most powerful nations on the globe. So if England and the United States form a treaty fur arbitrating misunderstandings that arise between them the example will be followed by other governments, and the reign of universal peace will bo the

nearer for it.

Such aro some of the arguments that bo advanced by William Randal Cremer, M. P., who comes to this country as a soraiofficial international arbitiailuu iiyOnt. His mission .s scniituficiul in that ho himself is a member of parliament, and the address lie will lay before President Cleveland and every member of congress is signed only by members of the British parliament. The Loudon Daily News warmly advocates such arbitration and says that if it lasted years it would probably last for ever. The address in favor of a treaty of international arbitration between the United States and Great Britain is signed by 345 members of parliament.

cleverest devices of the devil to prevent homes being made, and to sterilize and undermine them when they

are made.”

“Why are you silent?" she whispered.

To him who never could show A nickel, and softly he answered.

It s money that talks, don't you know.” The oratorical contest, at Meharry Hall, on Friday evening, result in a victory for Maynard Daggy, of this city, and the victory was a signal one and worthily earned. The speakers and their grades were as follows: M. L. Daggy, 12; T. W. Nadal, 16; John M. Walker, 211; H. L. Murray, 32; Fred W. Hixson, 261, George W.

Kenny, 261; R. J. Roberts, 34*;

Married, in this city, on the evenof Feb. 9, by Rev. R. R. Bryan, at the residence of the bride’s parents, George H. Kurtz and wife, Mr. George A . Helm, of Murdock, Ills., aud Miss Loie Mary Kurtz. The groom is a well-to-do Illinois farmer, and Miss Kurtz is an accomplished and charming young lady; a host of friends wish them joy, prosperity,

and long life.

Hood's Sarsaparilla, actinc through the blood, reaches every part of the system, and in this way positively cures catarrh.

Real Estate Transiere.

Wm. H. Shuee to John H. Risk

land in Clinton tp., $776.

Charles W. Ellis to Frank and Mary A. Allen, land in Greencastle, $1. George E. Bicknell et al. to George Bicknell, land in Greencastle, $6,500. John G. Dunbar to Oliver G. Evans,

land in Madison tp., $1.

David AN ilson to E. J. F. Howard;

land in Russell tp., $1.

Eliza F. Howard to David Wilson,

land in Russell tp., $1.

James Brandon to Wm. H. Young, land in Greencastle tp., $2,800. . James A Rice to Tillmann T. Prather, land in Franklin tp., $100 . Anna B. Buis to Henry C. Posher,

land in Russell tp., $250.

August F. W. Bauer to Henry C. B. Werneke, land in Greencastle, $1. Henry C. B. Werneke to A. F. W. and Lena Bauer, land in Greencastle,

$1.

Otto Rentzseh to Zella and M. J. Brandon, land in Greencastle tp.,

$1,950.

H. G. Johnson to Zella and M. J. Brandon, land in Greencastle tp., $1. Serena J. Washburn to J. B. and Julia L. DeMotte, lot in Greencastle,

$2,600.

Mansfield.

A surprise was given at Columbus Gargus last Sunday; Mrs. Gargus was 50 years of age: there were 164 eat dinner there; the table was filled with good things and ail seemed to enjoy it George Wilson lias been wearjug abroad smile since Sunday—it is a boy Rev. Shnnkwiler preached at the U. B. Church last Sabbath .... Mrs. Parker visited her daughter Mrs. Chastain Tuesday John Wilson returned to his home*will near Roachdale Saturday—he lias been visiting relatives and friends. .Tatpes Miller and family took dinner at Roly Parker’? Sunday J. Reaves is hauling flour to Carbon this week Otis Ames and Lenard Moore were in Rockville < n Saturday Miss Chastain visited Miss Zellia Moore Saturday .....John Weltz and wife were taken in as full members at the m. k. Church on Sabbath Listen for the wedding bells soon. xx

The country's daily production ot

paper is 21,000,000 pounds.

M. de Sarzic recently excavated at Tello, Asia Minor, the ruins of the palace of the most ancient kings of Cbaldaas, about 4,000 years B. C. The speed of the new British torpedo boat, the Daring, nearly 34 miles an hour, makes it the fastest boat afloat. The boat is 166 teet long. The Hon. Thomas B. Reed’s efforts at practical statesmanship aro at

I'he National Debt. Aug. 31, 1865, the Uuited States government owed $2,881,630,295. This was the highest point of the national indebtedness. The rapidity with which the greater part of tiiat debt has been paid furnishes one of the most brilliant achievements in modern finance. An older nation could not hate accomplished it We can never do it again probably, for the public resources of this new country are more nearly at the end than they were in 1866, aud they are growing less every year. The war closed in 1805. In 1866 the nation began to pay its billions of debt. By the end June, 1867, $38,000,000 had been paid. The payment steadily increased until in one year, 1870, the sum wiped out was $115,000,000. That was the largest amount ever paid in any one year. The decrease went on. The panic of 1873 interrupted the payment somewhat, but not seriously. In 1879 the resumption of specie payments caused Secretary Sherman to borrow $90,000,000 in gold, by which sum the debt was increased. Then it began to go down again. It decreased from nearly $3,000,000,000, till it was only $586,029,330. That was the amount in February, 1894, when the treasury again began to borrow gold. Since then the debt has been increased by $100,000,000. But while wo were paying we did it at the average rate of over $64,000,000 a year, $12 a minuta We are going to pay the rest of it too.

In a paper read before the American Economic association Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright pronounces the Chicago “combination strike and boycott" an epochal event in the labor movement and in the industrial development of this country. He says it was an incident in a revolution which is quietly taking place m this country, a revolution begun when congress passed the interstate commerce law in 1887. As to the Chicago strike, Colonel Wright says it demonstrated first the right of the national government while not interfering in tho operation or control of strikers themselves to send troops into a state to protect its own interests, whether tho state asked fur them or not. It has shown tho assertion of tho right of the civil courts to expand the power of injunction and mandamus, to define crime under certain circumstances, “to execute their own views by legal process, to interpret their own acts and impose sentence.” In brief, it has forced the recognition of the fact that railroads represent public as well as private interests, and that railway employees are quasi public servants. "But this is essentially state socialism and compulsory legislation.” Colonel Wright further considers the interstate pooling bill now pending in the senate as a ’ ‘socialistic measure equaling the compulsory insurance legislation of Germany.”

A correspondent of the Des Moines Register suggests that there ought to be occasional newspaper readings in schools, it would be the best possible means of teaching young people current history. If there is not time for a regular reading each day, then the teachei ought to carefully sift out of tho news tho principal events aud relate them tc tiio pupils and comment on them. It could be done in five minutes. In country schools a weekly reading would suffice. But it would be necessary for teachers themselves to read the papers. If Dr. Roux’s serum remedy for diphtlieria really effects a cure, that will be glory enough for France to close the nineteenth century with. The French chamber of deputies was evidently impressed with this fact when it granted without debate or question 200,000 francs to spread the remedy throughout France. # It is apparently impossible for some P‘'op!<> to distinguish the exact difference between the truth and a lie.

Tho United States agricultural department is investigating human food, with tho view of ascertaining what aro the best articles for farmers to produce. Bulletins are to bo issued dealing with tho nutritive and digestible qualities of i different tilings wo eat. This will be ad- j miiable, if the writers of the papers do !

Various European celebrities aro making a very good living telling Americans what the people of the old world think of us. This has gone about far enough. Americans who form their opinions of their own country aud people on the basis of tho judgment formed by foreigners are great fools. It is time we turned around and told Europeans what we think of them.

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not hurl in so many of their blessed long names which nobody can understand, and if, at the end, they give a clear idea of what the farmer ought to raise that will be at once best for his own pocket

and other persons’ stomachs.

man to act on the forward movement j ter days for the Hon. Benjamin Harplan, in a manner justified by the rison and the Hon. William McKin-

times, but ahead and not backward, ley. Courier-Journal. There are silver linings to all the r-. r ~Z,~7^ VT , j , j , , J DeaiiieBH (Jaimot ue Cured. Clouds, and the sun will shine out and'i .. ’ t 1 by local applications, as they cannot reach

we Will be Up and a coming from this the diseased portion of the ear. There in a ? , ... .. , , only one way to cure Deafness, and that is , time Oil, anil with smiles and good I by constitutional remedies. Deafness is

[i o m* A m m o n i r Al 001°o r ‘anyo. h e r-u fu i t e r a rd! * heer we wil1 aSHist others to P r ° 8 P er xX'n !. A Bost ° n ’^y teaches that % 40 ycipc Tun by prospering ourselves. ! this tube igets inflamed you have a rumbling anger and unpleasant feelings cause _• . . * ___ ■ lonnd orfmperfert hearing, and when it is chemical products ill the bodv that ill-

entirely closed ueiiiuetta i*» me teoUiVt ■•**«»

unlees the inflammation can be taken mil Jure and ill time ruin tho health. The and this tube restored to its normal condi* i t ai (ton, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine chemical result of good temper and hon- ; cases out of in. arvcaasvd i.y taUrrfc, which esly on tho Other hand is health.

| is nowiing uul an iiiilctuicd couvitliou of the

mu cotta Kurfuces.

j We will give Due Hundred Dollars for anv I “lM a nnriarfif-nnri t.hnfc Mr find Mr<5 I case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that 11119 understood mac Mr. aim MIS. cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. W. K. Vanderbilt will occupy the marSend for circulars, free . . XT . . ,, . F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0., bio place at Newport next summer.”

The armor plating of Andrew Carnegie’s check is tliick enough to stand any ballistic test.

HE best investment A in real estate is to keep build* ings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell—many a good house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should be, though, “the best paint or none.” That means Strictly Pure V/hite Lead You cannot afford to use cheap paints. To be sure of getting Strictly Pure White Lead, look at the brand ; any of these are safe: “Anchor,” “Southern,” “Eckstein,” “Red Seal,” “Kentucky,’ “Collier.’ For Colors.—National Lead Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can beinfj sufficient to tint 2«> iiounds of Strictly 1 Pure White Lead the desired shade: they are fn no sense ready-mixed paints, but a combination I of perfectly pure colors in the handiest form to • Ictfy Pure White Lead. A eood many thousand dollars have been 1 saved property-owners by having our book on painting and color-card. Send us a postal card I and ect both free. NATIONAL LEAD CO , New York. Cincinnati Branch, Seventh and Freeman Avenue, Cincinnati.

No More High-Priced Wheat. Mr. Oliver Dalrymple, the great wheat farmer, in a letter to the Cincinnati Price Current takes the ground that there is no probability of j wheat ever again being worth $1 a bushel. He says: “The day of high-priced wheat, as a permanent thing, has passed by. Nothing but an exceptional andworldwide loss of crops can give highpriced wheat again for any length of time. When wheat struck fifty cents in Chicago in 1894 it probably struck bedrock; because it reached the same price per pound, practically, as corn, oats and barley, and thus went into the great feed bin ofthe world, which absorbs ten bushels for live stock where one only is consumed when eaten by the human family. Whenever wheat declines to forty cents in the country west ofthe Mississippi river, being superior to any other grain for animal food, it will go to market on foot, as corn has done for the last quarter of a century.” Mr Dalrymple is probably right. Statisticians do not agree as to the amount of wheat on hand and accurate .figures are impossible, but farmers had better make up their minds to cheapen the cost of production by more scientific methods of agriculture or turn their attention to diversified farming. When wheat was $1 a bushel the profits were such that production increased in a greater ratio than consumption. The great plains of the Northwest offered fortunes to wheat growers, and the same was true of immense territories in South America and the vast regions belonging to Russia. Wheat can be grown ! nearly everywhere, and as it does not exhaust the soil as other crops do there is virtually no reduction of the acreage. But there are still immense regions in both the Old and New worlds where a plow has never been run and which are adapted in every respect to successful wheat culture. The two Dakotas and Manitoba have millions of acres, fertile, cheap, easy of access aad already penetrat-ed by railroads, but which are still unoccupied. If high prices were to return for two or fnree years not only would farmers in the old country immensely increase the acreage of wheat, hut these virgin fields would be occupied by thousands of wheat farmers and this peerless grain would again be thrown upon the market in I excessive quantities. It is not unreasonable to suppose the prices will advance to considerably higher figures than now prevail, but the day of excessive profits has probably gone for good. NVith intelligent farming there is no reason why the cost of cultivation should not be greatly reduced and a living profit afforded, even at fifty cents a bushel. If not, the evil will gradually correct itself by a decline in production, but I it seems folly to expect a dollar a bushel again unless, as Mr. Dalrymple says, there should be a world-wide loss of crops.

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