New Richmond Record, Volume 5, Number 39, New Richmond, Montgomery County, 4 April 1901 — Page 4

f. - ■ TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS. < - On Inst Monday tlio township assessors out upon their annual tour of inspection. The appraisement this year will be confined to personal property and the owner will be permitted to fix his own value upon it- provided his ideas of values meets the approval of the assessor. The assessment includes poll tax and the assessor must secure the name of every male member of the family. The instructions to the assessors, in the main, are as follows: ‘‘Be very careful about putting down your figures; and it the party making the list puts down the figures, insist upon them doing as you are, by law, instructed to do. If you cannot by reasonable persuasion get any one to make a list, you are authorized by the law to make a list from the best information you can get and sign for them. It is your duty to get a list of all personal property for as largo an amount as reason will permit, not put an exorbitate price upon any article. You are supposed to be able to judge such matters. The law says you must list at a true cash value. In the city ask for money on hand or on deposit within or without the-state on which they might be liable for taxation, money loaned, whether with or without security. Ask how many rooms they have furnished. Ask for piano, organs, sewing machines, etc. You will often bo told that a piano or organ is rented. If so, get the name of the dealer, and we can accertain its correctness. Ask about bycycles, sleighs, horses, cows, etc.; and do not forget to ask for dogs. There is more trouble over dogs than any other item on the list. Dogs less than throe months old are not taxable.”

\ COMING NEXT YEAR. I I State* Geologist Blatohley is re- : pouting his warning to fruit growers in anticipation of the provalence of “seventeen-year locusts" in Indiana next year- The advance guard of the locusts maybe expected this summer, he says, but not \ in numbers sufficient to be dami aging to trees. Next year, he says, there will be millions of the pest, and he expects they will do great I damage particularly to young or- | chards. In anticipation of this, he is warning fruit growers not to set out orchards this year, or if they do set them out, he is advising them to take care to preserve the trees from the pests of next year. The locusts are due June 10, }902 he says. At that time they will have been in the earth for seventeen years, and they will make their appearance at the surface, climb trees, sing and deposit eggs for the crop that will appear seventeen years after. The deposit of eggs, the geologist says, is what injures trees. The eggs are deposited in tender young twigs, and these twigs break off and fall to the ground. The larvae are hatched and bury themselves for a seventeen-year sojourn in the earth. In this period they live' on rotten leaves and roots at a depth of about three or four feet beneath the surface of the ground. There were broods of locusts in the southern counties of Indiana Inst year, but not to a damaging extent.

p RICHMOND RECORD. SI.CMJ per Year, in Advance. Thursday, April 4, 1901.

i SAYS THERE’S NO DEVIL AND GIVES HIS REASONS.

Henryk Knights oi| Pythias No. 238, meets in their hall in the K of P. Block ever; Friday evening. C. C.—Jas. D. Wilson. V. C.—Thos. Kerr. Perlate—Walter Clarkson. K. of R. & S.—O. W. Mason M. of F.-M. L. Clay pool. M. of E.—A. D. Snyder. M. at A.—Jas. Rust. i. G.—Frank Rust. O. CL— Otto Jones. M. of W.-S. E. Magruder.

Rev. Edward H. Smith, the eloquent Congregational minister of Oskosh, Wis., who has startled fellow ministers by declaring his unbelief in the devil, that Satan is a creation of Milton and not of the bible, has given his reason:

‘•The serpent," ho says, “is nowhere called the devil in tlie Genesis story, and the only reference to such a supposed identification is iii the Apocalypse, which is a book of oriental allegory, whore we read of that old serpent, the devil, there so named simply in reference to the assumed subtlety and cunning of his character. “The story of the garden of Eden is a parable with a basis of fact.

The New Kichm o n d Lodee F. & A. Masons moots , at urday night on or before

each Full Moon. M.—W. W. Washburn. S. W.--J. A. Bailey. J. W.--W. T. Jones Treaa.—Stow S. Dotchon Sec. — E. T. MoCrea. S. D. -Nick Washburn. ■J. D.—Charles Kirkpatrick, Stewarda—Wm. Kite, James Battreal.

“In the story, the serpent is just what it is described to be--n mere animal made to talk for the purpose of conveying a lesson. The serpent stands merely as a poetical symbol of the subtle pleading of man’s lower nature against the higher law of bis being, the yielding to which constitutes sin. . It is allegory, not history.

Tyler— Win. Dewey. — o—

“It is admitted that there arc passages in the bibio that, superficially read, do appear to encourage the idea of a personal devil. But those passages should be read and interpreted in the light of the inevitable conclusion of our own reason, and the study of the bibie as literature and not as a fragmentary collection of taxes.

New Richmond Lodge No. 718 I. O. O. F., meets every Wednesday night al their hall on the second lloor of the F M. Perkins business block. N. O. Herman Litka. V. G.—Quinn Kirkpatrick. Sec. -William Vincent. F. Sec. —Ed T. Oppy. Treas.— P. M. Lynn. Warden-- J. W. Smith. Conductor —John Cash. 1. G.—John C. Oppy. O. G —Cleveland Terrell. R. S. to N. G. Albert. Esheiman. L. S. to N. G.- Fred Ciough. . R. S. to V. G.—Richard Thomas. L, S. to V. G.- George Schleppy. Ghaplin—H. G. Messer. R. S. S. Ben Dillard. L. S. S. H. L. Snyder. Trustees -Perry McLain, J. W. Hoilin, J. C. Oppy.

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“It*is true that the New Testament, especially that part which relates to the temptation of Christ, seems to support the popular idea of a personal devil. But Jesus nowhere himself ascribes his temptation to the devil in person. Tradition does that, but not Christ himself ■ “It would seem from the historical point of view, not to say the rationalistic, that the idea of the devil stands not for a person, not for a demon, but for a principle.”

Dr. H. E. Greene, specialist, Crawfordsville, treats all diseases of eye, ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted.

ABOUT THE HOUSE.

A malignant type of measles lias lately developed in the family of Frank Fawbush at Montmorenci and three members of the family have succumbed within ten days. First was a daughter aged 5 years, then the mother and then a two-months-old babe; the babe and its mother being buried in the same | grave.

Ashland Temple Kathbone Sisters No. 160, meet in the K. of P. Hall ever} Thursday at 2 p. m. P. C. —Jennie Wilson. M. K. C. —Nannie Lee. K. S. Anna Meharry. E. J. Ida Rust. M. of R. and C.—Nina Long, if. of F.—Anna Page. P. T.—Martha Bennett. (1. of O. T.— Mary Jones.

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“With the idea of naming my boys,” said a white-haired man, “so there could be no nicknames — which I have always detested—in the family, we called the first Edmund, the second Edward, the third Edgard, the fourth Edwin, the fifth Edson and the sixth Egbert.” “That surely served your purpose, didn’t it?” asked one of the listeners. “Not at all,” rejoined the patriarch rather shamefacedly. “Beginning with the eldest, they were know'll as ‘Eddie,’ ‘Chuck,’ ‘Bim,’ ‘Snorkey,’ ‘Muggins’ and ‘Pete,’ and every mothers son of them answered proudly to his nickname.” —Youth’s Companion.

The best dustcloths for highly polished furniture are of soft, worn silk, worn French flannel and a fine quality of cheesecloth. Adamp cloth will cloud the polish of furniture and should not be used. Chamois skins may be washed in clear tepid water. Hang them up, and when partly dry rub until soft and pliable. A newspaper wrung dry from water, torn in bits and scattered over a dusty carpet prevents a swirl of dust, cleans the carpet and shortens the process of sweeping.

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NEW CONFIDENCE GAME.

Confidence men are in this section of Indiana working the fanners, occasionally with success, with a smooth game. A young fellow, a stranger in the community offers a farmer 875 an acre for a farm and an agreement is drawn up in which it is set forth that if either fails to carry out his part of the agreement the one failing will pay the other 8500 as a forfeit. Shortly after the article is signed another stranger appears and offers the farmer 885 an acre for the farm. Of course the fanner is anxious to realize all the money he can out of his place, but the agreement he has already signed holds him from accepting the second man’s offer. So he hunts the first man up and compromises by paying the forfeit of 8500. The second stranger can not be found and the fanner discovers that he has been worked to the tune of $500. —Veedersburg Nows,

Straw matting can be cleansed by washing with weak salt and water, or with water in which a small bag of bran has been boiled. Salt used upon carpets when sweeping will brighten them and act as a preventative of moths.

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