Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 August 1895 — Page 6

SAME OLI GAMES.

WE ARE PLAYINQ THOSE INVENTED BY THE ANCIENTS.

JO" Amcrkaii Indian* Plartd

Cricket,

Lmto

BMML

T«onl«, Cb«M ud Ohtok-

«n Date Frwn Aw*y Back—Novel tie* la Qum R*rely Catch On.

Few of tlie hundreds of nev? games that are invented every year beoonse mlar. They may be* serai in any toy by the score—lawn games and lor games, games of cards and games «f ball, games for yonng and for old. Hiey are a melancholy sight, for not one of them will ever take the place of the old standbys of infancy and boyhood. Even the names of most of them vill never be heard of by the majority

American boys and girls. This is the logic of history. ^4% mma an easy matter to invent a game. The best games are so simple, yet a popular game was neVer yet invented. Every one of them has grown, and the best of them have been growing lor hundreds of years. Scientific men tell ub that all sorts of queer creatures once lived on this earth—great lizards with wings sea monsters, half whale, half seal, and rhinoceroses larger than elephants. All these have died away because they were not fitted to live, while those animals that were fit for life have gone on growing better and better, till eome—the horse, for instance—we could not do without. It is just so with games. Those live that are fit to live, and the rest die.

Our best games form a sort of aristocracy. Their pedigrees run back to very ancient times, and no modern upstart can compete with them. Take baseball and crioket, for instance, probably the most popular outdoor games of modern times, the one in our own country, the other in England. They are first cousins, and their hold on American and English boys is in all probability duo to the fact that they each unite two strong lines of descent—that of the bat and ball games—to which tennis, lacrosse, hockey, croquet and, more distantly, billiards also belong, and that of the goal games, such as tag, puss in the corner, I spy and dozens of others.

All the nations we know anything about had bat and ball games ages ago. Nobody invented the bat and balL They grew up with our civilization from the time when little savages used to knock about a pebble or a fruit with a stick. Bo with the goal games—they have always been popular. Their name is still legion. The goal part—that is, the running from base to base—is a much more important part of the game in baseball than it is in cricket, and for this reason we Americans are justified in looking upon baseball as the better game, all other things being equal. To be sure, neither baseball nor cricket is the game it was 800 years ago, but both have grown, not changed.

Any ono who chooses may trace the growth of cricket from the year 1800. It is not as easy to trace the pedigree of baseball, for, just as with a great many American families, there is a break in the record back in colonial times. It is known to have been played by the Indians. It is a thoroughly American game, and no one loves it less because BO mo people olaim rounders as its ancestor and others rejeot the claim with acorn.

As for indoor games, we may prove their nobility in just the same way. Chess comes down to us from the ancient Hindoos, by way of Persia. Checkers were played in Egypt, and then in Greece and Rome. Cards made their appearauoe in Europe in 1850, and the Chinese say that they used them two centuries earlier than thia Tenpins was certainly played in the thirteenth century, and probably much earlier. All these have grown, but they have not changed their nature.

Lawn tennis is only an offshoot of tlie old game of court tennis, said to have been bronght into Qaul by Boman soldiers and still played. Again only a growth, not a new dovice. There is halina—only a variation of the old pyramid game of checkers. How about, parches!? The pompous title, "A Royal Game of India," inscribed on the old parchesi board, is often thought to have been only an advertising dodge, but it was quit© tAo. Parchesi, called by the Hindoos pscbtei, is widely played in Asiatic countries, and the Spanish explorers even found the Aztecs playing it under the name of patolli in Mexico, whither it may have boon carried across the Pacific.

These and many other instances are worth thinking over deeply, for they teach a lesson. If any one is tired of the old games and wants something a little different, let him alter the old in tlie direction of growth rather than try to invent something quite different The most successful inventor* of games have followed thia rule. Indeed it is more than a rule. It is a law of nature. You might as well

try

to please the human

palate with food made out of sand and sawdust as to force boy car man to get enjoyment out of a game that does not contain the old, well tried game elements.—New York World.

Words Which Rhyme Hot. The number of English words which have no rhyme in the language is very largo. Five or six thousand at least are without rhyme and consequently can be employed at the end of the verse only by transposing the accent, coupling them with an imperfect consonance or constructing an artificial rhyme oat of two word*. Among other words to which there are no rhymes may be mentioned month, silver, liquid, spirit, thimney, warmth, gulf, sylph, mtudo, breadth, width, depth, honor, iron, echo.

WoU Mas* vp,

*t. "CJome, dear, kiss my cheek and make it up," she said forgivingly. "I'll kiss it," he answered, "tat I don't think it wants any mors making

up I"—-Figaro.

rX

Mi

WHAT DO THEY 00 WITH IT?

The Mystery of the Constant Chinese Do* mand for CUnseng, Passing through the wholesale district the other day a reporter stopped in at one of the large houses to aak about prices. When ginseng was reached in the list, the dealer saids 4'What the Chinese use ginseng for is to the masses one of the mysteries of the age, but that they gobble up every ounce of the herb that the known world supplies is nevertheless a faot. Because the most thorough inquiry has failed to bring about a complete unfolding of the secret is not regarded by the average American as sufficient reason for refusing from $3 to $5 per pound, on the average, which the Celestial offers for the root Some of the largest firms in China make a specialty of handling the American export of ginseng and coin money at it Some of our shrewdest traders have ooaxed for the secret, and have offered money for it, but the gray matter at the other end of the Chinaman's cue doesn't seem to see it that way. "The American ginseng is growing scarcer yearly. The cultivated root has not the wonderful power which fixes the value of the wild article—at least it does not manifest itself to the same degree. This faot renders the cultivation of ginseng rather unprofitable. It might be planted and allowed to grow well for years and years and then be salable at good figures, but not otherwise. The older the plant the more pronounced the wonderful properties of the root. In view of the fact that it is growing scarcer, unless the demand diminishes, the price of ginseng must go materially higher within the next few years. "We encounter some funny experiences in buying the root. The diggers are often the poorest people, and far from enlightened. Well, the root is hard to get, and when it is thoroughly dried the weight shrinks like a nickel's worth of soap after a hard day's washing, so the digger resorts to all sorts of deceptions to fodge an ounce or two in a pound and reap more of the precious dimes and dollars. For instance, we have frequently gotten in root which was well dried, but suspiciously heavy. Upon investigation we found that many of the pieces were loaded with lead, thus almost doubling the weight of the whole lot This was done with a great deal of cunning and ingenuity. When the root was green, it was split, and lead melted and poured or driven in in slugs. The root was then allowed to dry, and in the process the seams entirely olose up, completely hiding the lead, which, in a case like this, was almost worth its weight in gold."—Nashville American.

-"JV: .r-

"Miracle Face" on a Tombstone. In the Oak Hill cemetery, at Stony Brook, N. 7., a large tombstone of mottled Italian marble bears a remarkable portrait of an average sized human face. The picture is not the work of a sculptor, nor has it been graven with the marble cutter's chisel. It is a natural production, the outlines of the face being formed by a peculiar grouping of the clouded veins and dark spots characteristic of first class imported stone. The remarkable peculiarity of this particular stone has been known for two or three years, and throughout the length and breadth of Long Island it is referred to as "the miracle face." Standing near, as one would in reading an epitaph or inspecting the grain and polish of such a memorial shaft, the outlines of the face cannot be traced, but at a distance of from 85 to 50 feet it is as plain as though done with an artist's brush, the grouping of the spots, veins and wavy lines combining to make not only a fair resemblance to a face, but a oomplete portrait, including hair, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, chin, eta Its outlines are clearest, of course, when the shadows and light play properly upon it, but at the distance mentioned, and in the proper direction, the portrait is plainly visible at all times. The face is on the back of the stone, and the eyes are so set as to appear to be looking down upon the grave of the person to whose memory the shaft was erected.— St Louis Republia

Chnrch Properties, 1RS8.

This is from a list of plate ornaments belonging to the church of St Nicholas, Cole abbey, in the city of London, 1552:

Two candlesticks, copper and gilt, for high altar. &*,' .Two great candlesticks of latten.

A great lectern of latten, with five branches to it.. Piece of lafteu for the pnscaL 'A

Two holy water stops of latten. A branch of latten that stood in the roodloft.

Eleven candlesticks, small, of latten. Two more standards of latten**'^ Jt Two latten basins. •''I*./vi Twenty-fine latton boo Is. Seven other latten boo Is that stood before Our Lady and GabrieL. Vj/jf

A beam with five books arid two chains that hung before Jesus. Four small candlesticks for quire..

Six bells with Sanctus bell in the steeple. •, fgM a A pair of organs. —Notes and Queflfies.

Months.

All Are Said

©3*5^

Some mouths look like peaches and cream and some like a hole chopped into a brick wall to admit a new door or window. The mouth is a hotbed of toothaches, the bunghole of, oratory and a baby's crowning glory. It is patriotism's fountain head and the tool chest for pie. Without it the politician would be a wanderer on the face of the earth, and the oornetist would go down to an tmhonored grave. It is the grocer'« friend, the orator's pride and the denlist's hope. —Mammoth Spring Monitor.

A Bit of ftassw.

First Tramp—All I have in the world to a counterfeit quarter. Second Tramp—And all I have Is a plugged dime.

Both—Let's hold a monetary oonfer«ice.—Detroit Free Press.

t»

Confined Sonnd.

^JiThe intensity of confined sound is finely illustrated at Causbrook castle, isle of Wight, where there is a well 200 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter. Tho well has 18 feet of water in it, and the entire interior from top to water is lined with smooth masonry. This lining so completely confines the sound that a pin dropped from tho top can bo heard very plainly to strike tho water, at a distance of 182 feet below. Another instance i« citMl from India, where workmen at the waterworks often talk with those at the reservoir, 18 miles away, their telephone being an IS inch water main that is no longer used for conveying water.—St Louis Republia

A Year Clock.

Queen Victoria has one clock which the indolent must envy her, especially the man Matthew Hears, about whom the verses of the eight day clock were written. The timepiece of royalty is a fine example of Louis Seize work by the celebrated Lepante of Paris. The case is ebonized with ormolu mounts. The movement, which is in perfect order, requires winding but once a year.

Nothing occupies one like a conversation In which one has failed to say what one ought to have said. It haunts you like a melody of which you cannot find the ood.

One of the simplest methods of gaining a dispotative person's good will is to begin by doubting his judgment and then allowing oneself to be convinced.

The first state as an oat producer is Illinois, with S,870,70S acres and 187,334,838 bushels.

TEERE HAUTE MAIL, AUGUST 24,1895.

NO BIAUY WHO MQRSE8,

Be Descendant* of Those

That Once Were Domesticated, Is there such a thing as the wild horse, un aboriginal or truly wild horse, in the world now? The answer is more than doubtful The mustang of Mexico, the wild horse of the South American pampas, thebrumbi of Australia, all are descendants of the domesticated animals introduced from Europe. The first horse was landed in America at Buenos Ayree in 1687. In |880—that is, in less than CO years—horses had spread to regions as remote as Patagonia, In Australia the diffusion of horses that have escaped from civilisation has been quite as rapid, and in 1875 it was found necessary to shoot as many as 7,000 wild horses in the colony of New South Wales alone.

In some parts of Australia the horse

pest

has received legislative notioe. The wild horses tempt domestic horses to join them, and wild stallions also invade the Australian horse runs and vitiate choice herds in a most annoying manner. They recur to the anoestral manners in away that is always the same. Each stallion has his following of mares, ranging from a few up to 40 and even 50, and these parties may be separate or banded together in herds of considerable size, even, it is said, 400 strong. The young and the weak mares remain with a scanty or even no following. The stallion has to maintain his supremacy by frequent combats, which especially occur at certain seasons of the year. The animals are suspicious in the extreme, swift in flight, but bold in defense with tooth and heel in emergenoy.' They range extensively in search of pasture and water, and when hard pressed by danger and famine the herds break up. It is said that each troop has a leader and implioitly obeys him. He is the first to faoe danger and give the hint to fly. When pressed, the horses form a ring, with the mares and. foals in the center, and defend themselves vigorously with their heels, or they close in on their opponent in dense masses and trample him to death.

It is distinctly proved, then, that there can be no aboriginal or wild horse in either America or Australia, although there are tens of thousands of unknown horses. Tradition points to central Asia as the original abode of the horse, and. there the original stock of wild horses may still possibly exist. Darwin's statement that no aboriginal or truly wild horse is known to exist must still be held as explaining the exact position of this question. But we must supplement it by stating that it is not certain that truly wild horses do not exist, and, on the whole, conolude that the evidence is in favor of the existence of the wild horse in central Asia, but that we have no evidence as to his pedigree in relation to domestication. The wild horse of the British islands is now practically the Shetland pon^, but he is not the powerful animal ascribed by Csesar. The domesticated animal everywhere, however, reverts very easily to the savage state. The paces of a wild horse are a walk and gallop. The double and the canter are artificial, and it is still a mooted question as to whether the wild horse ever trots.—Paper Read Before the Bombay Historical Society.

A Sanson Pawned the Guillotine. '^Ehe Sansons have a place in French history, not only because they continued so long to hold their odious office, but because two of their number, a father and son, held offloe during the evil days of the reign of terror, when they were kept so busily engaged with their guillotine. The last of the Sanson dynasty was dismissed from his post in the reign of Louis Philippe, in 1847, under remarkable oirorunstanoes. Although he had inherited a comfortable fortune from his father, the executioner of the revolution, he got into pecuniary difficulties and was guilty of pawning his guillotine, surely the most lugubrious pledge evor taken by mortal pawnbroker. An order came from the procurator general for the execution of a criminal, and the necessary apparatus was not forthcoming. The prison authorities had perforce to get it out of pawn, and the execution took place. But the last of the Sansons was informed that his services would no longer bp required. What became of him afterward does not appear to be known.—Loudon News.

STRAIN ON THE IVES.

Children at School Are Inclined to Have "the Aeademjr Headache," One

of

the common causes of pain

above the brows is the overuse of the eyes and the strain of accommodation In constantly looking at near objects. In its transient form it may be familiar to some as the result of a visit to a picture gallery, but in more senses than one this may be known as "the academy headache," for if it is temporarily developed in a morning spent at Burlington House it is even more readily excited and permanently established among the ohildren at the board schools and the girls of the high schools. Seventy-two per cent of the children of today are said to be sufferers from defective eyesight, generally in the direction of difficulty in seeing near objects olearly. Headache is almost always present in the oases of the poor little creatures, whose bodies are starved while their minds are overfed in the soramble for educational grants.

The ocular headache is often coexistent with the aneemio headaohc, especially in growing girls. Here we find frontal or supraorbital pain, due to eye strain, associated with the vertical pain felt all over the top of the head, which is characteristic of bloodlessness. Plenty of wholesome food, fresh air and out of door exercise will help to combat the anaemia, while the practice of looking at distant objects, and, alas! the use of appropriate spectacles may relieve the headache of eyestrain, but reading, writing and sewing will permanently damage the sight, so that for the sake of education and in the struggle for life the coming race is growing up purblind. —Philadelphia Press.

1 v..

Rational Dress In Bicycling. Ladies who ride cycles appear to be pretty evenly divided on the question whether a short skirt or knickerbocker is the most rational dress for their pastime, but an incident which occurred last night outside a newspaper office points to the suitability of the latter. There is a custom which iB general here of carrying at night a paper Venetian lantern within the spokes of the wheel, instead of a regulation lamp. One ybung woman has found that the plan may be pretty, but it is dangerous. She came into contact with the curb, upset the machine, and the candle in the lantern set her skirts alight, and there was a rush on the part of gallant pedestrians to put the flames out, which were happily extinguished before much damage was done, except to the lady's knees. "Had I worn knickerbockers," she said, "I should have come to no harm."— London Telegraph.

A Spirited Old Ladj.

Mrs. Mary Ann Smith of East Lyme, Conn., lately celebrated her ninetyfourth birthday. Four days before this event she led forth a party of women to mend the roads she had vainly petitioned the selectmen to repair. One petition after another had been .presented to the town fathers, without avail, but the women and ohildren, with old Mrs. Smith at their head, cleared the loose stones from the road and made a safe passage of what had for weeks been a perilous track.

That Tired Feeling

Is a common complaint and it is a dangerous symptom. It means that the system is debilitated because of impure blood, and in this condition it is especially liable to attaoks of disease. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the remedy for this condition, and also for that weakness which prevails at the change of Beason, climate or life.

Hood's Pills act easily, yet promptly and efficiently on the bowels and liver. 25c.

Use It In Time.

Catarrh starts in the nasal passages, affecting eyes, ears and throat, and is in fact, tho greatest enemy of the mucous membrane. Neglected colds in the head almost invariably precede catarrh, oaus Ing an excessive flow of mucus, and if the mucous discharge becomes interrupted the disagreeable results of catarrh will follow, such as bad breath, severe pain across the forehead and about the eyes, a roaring and buzzing aound in the ears and oftentimes a very offensive discbarge. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for these troubles.

Rheumatism Cured In a Day. I "Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upou the system is remarkable and mysterious. It lemoves at once the cause and the dlseamj immediately disappears. The first dose greatiy benefit*. 75 cents. Sold by E. H. Bindley fc Co., TerreHaute, Cook, Bell A Black and all druggists. "T. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster of Promise Citv, Town, says: "I bought one bottle of •AlysUc Cure' for Rheumatism and two doses of it eld me more good than any medicine 1 ever took.,' Sold juy E., H. Bindley o.. Terre Haute, Cook, Bell A Black and all druggists.

"I have a dear little babe, and am well. I thank Mrs. Pinkbain for this, and so uld other motherless women. I was a victim of Female troubles.

Lydia E. Pinkham11 Vegetable Compound cured me."

MHS. GKO. C. KincnxRR, 361 Snediker

Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

ETC.

jq-OWC® TO HEIRS, CREDITORS,

In the Vigo Circuit Court, September term* lWSk. In the matter of the estate of Miebaei M. Josh, deceased.

jbwiuw.

presented

and filed his aceoant and voucher* In final settlement of aatd estate, and that the mme will «o«e up for the examination and action of Mud Circuit court, on the Mb day

of

tember, UK, at which time all heii*. creditor* or legatee* of said estate are required to appear! nMld Court and show cause. If any there be, why Mid account and Toncher* *^l»^tScfi^«2dseaIof «aldVlgoClrcult oourt, at Ten* Haute, Indiana, this 8M & WWJBT. Clerk.

MODKL 41 COLUMBIA

COLLEGE ENTRANCE

ATTENTION

G. A. R. and their friends are interested in the imposing ceremonies and great reunion, September 18th to 20tb, 1895, at

Dedication of the great National Park. Do you want to go? Write for. free supply of beautiful illustrated books and maps, issued by the Queen & Crescent Route Sent to your address by W. C. Rinearaon, G. P. A., Cincinnati, O.

CONSUMPTION

To

THE EDITOR—Please

Physicians recommend bicycling. Dame Fashion says it it "good torn." Two new models for women's use in

Columbia Bicycles.

Model 42 Columbia has been especially designed for the many ladies who prefer to .rear knicker* bookers rather than cumbersome skirts.

Ladies' wheels also in Hartford Bicycles at lower prices |S0, |60, |S0.

MODKL 48 COLUMBIA

inform your read­

ers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free toanyof your readers who have consumption if they will sendme their express and post office addreso.

Resncctfully, T. A. Slocum, M. C.,

Wo. 183 Pearl Street, New York.

SALESMEN WANTED

Pushing, trustworthy men to represent as in the *ale of our Choice Nursery Stock. .Specialtie# controlled by us. HigbeatSalary orCommiiwioo paid weekly. Steady employment the year round. Outfit free exclusive territory: experience not necewary Wfmired workers special Inducement* to beginner*. Write at once for particular?! to

ALLEN NURSERY CO.

ROCHESTER, IT. V.

J. A. DAILEY

509 Ohio Street.

Give him a call If yon hare any kind ot Insurance to plaoa. fie will write yon In as good eompanieaasarerBpreaentedln thedtjr

A. B. SfelMBtftal, Attorney tor Ptalntiflk.

JS^OTICE

TO

HOW-

RESIDENT.

The State of Indiana, Vigo County. In the Superior Conn of \lgo eounty, June term,

Ho. 46%. Daniel W. Moody and John B. Coffin vfcHarah J. WTionhardt Attachment. Be It known that on the 21st day of August, 1806.lt was ordered by the oourt tnattheclerk notify by publication aaid Sarah J. Wbonbardt as non-resident defendant of the pendency of litis action acainst her.

Said defendant lsnerebv notified of the ency of said action against her, and that nku«ur/ wu «w"wu ,V!r^ toe same will stand for trial October 16th, MS&, the aame being at the September term of aaid court In the year 1M&

Attest [SSAZ.] HUOH D. ROQUET, Clerk

CQtPHTlfr-nsr slaost fly.

Bicycling

Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute.

THE POSITIVE CURE.

ELY BROTHERS. 06 Warren Bt* New York. Price SQcta

WHEN YOU ORDER YOUR

Get the very best, and that is the product of the V"

TERRE HAUTEvfeREWING CO.

Artificial Stone Walks!

and Plastering*

Moudy & Coffin,

jLeave orders at 1517 Poplar St., 1241 South Flftb St.. 901 Main St., Terre Haute, Ind

S3 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. TELEPHONE 886.

PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES, FINE CHANDELIERS AND GLOBES..

Special attention given to Hydraulic & Hand Power Elevator Repairs

.Women

for

aoeron NBW TORS OMIOAO* Bfev' •AM rNAMOiaOO MOVIDKMOB Nnut

POPE MFG. CO.

Cmnl Oflcae *•4 factMlMb HARTFORD, Cesiu Send for Catalogue.

Free at any

Colombia Ayvncy, or by mail for two »««nt stamps. Six handsome Paper Dollm, show* lng ladies' bicycle costume* by noted designers, mailed for fire »^ent stamp*.

J. FRED PROBST,

Agent for the Columbia and Hartford Bicycles,

642

PLUMBERS GASFITTtRS

YOUNG PEOPLE

CO TO

TERRE HAUTE,

Where a thorough business education is given all students.

MERCIAL COLLEGE 19 one of the oldest and largest West. National in its character. Students enter at any time^ Both sexes. Terms low. Fine illustrated catalogue, free.

Address W.'C. ISBELL, President, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

HI

Graham & Morton Transportation Co.

Steamer Lines from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph to

vr ?r

CHICAGO and MILWAUKEE

Finest Steamers Plying Across Lake Michigan

Double dai iy service toChlcago during June, July and August daily trips remainder of season. Trl-weealy Bteamers to Milwaukee.

Connections made with all trains on Vandalia Railway at St. Joseph. Through tickets on sale by all Agents Vandalla By.

For through rates of freight or passage, apply to railroad agents or address

J. II. Graham, Prest.,

Benton Harbor, Mich.

CAGC'S ART STORE.

Artists' Supplies/ Flower Material. Picture Framing a Specialty.

648 Wabash Ave, ,North Side.

TERRE HAtTTE, IND.

C. & -EL X.

Tt. JEZ.

.v.- Reduced rates to ail

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North and South Dakota.

Ticket* on sale to Sept. 30th, good returning Oct. 31st, 1806. Passengers have an opportu-ful\/Q

... a

A

PhiiMffQ ints and

torn via steamer or rail. For further information call On

J. B. CONNELLY, Gen. Agt.,

656 Wabash Avenue.