The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1897 — Page 4

The Greencastie Democrat

H. B MAHTIN, Eriit' r itnu Propri tor.

OUR CA T

NOT GOOD LVIDENCE.

ttn!ore*1 1 the I'OKtof i e at GrerocaiiUe, (•<5.. as h • < 1 rl ma i r g-L" Office of I'ohlication: Democrat Dailrfhif/, Sorthircnt Corner Public Square. srnSCltl»*TION: i*ei Year SI OO Movith8. M 50 Pti liable Invariably in Aden nee. Greencastie, Inil, .Ian. ‘2, 1S97.

The legislature convenes nest Thursday. It was a black Christmas and so we arc to have green cemeteries this year. KkntI'cky’s flop in politics has not improved her morals. Eight murders, four wounded with bowie knives and revolvers and seven lynchings is the record for last week. The reform resolutions made and good intentions cherished yesterday would furnish rungs for a ladder leading from earth to heaven, but the rungs would be of glass.

The ways and means committee of the House is hearing the suggestions of interested corporations and firms anent the tariff schedules to be enacted by the forthcoming congress. Hundreds of tariff beggars are flocking to Washington to dictate what reimbursements they must have for the fat fried out of thi m by Mark Hanna. The people must pay the bill. As a dupe and sucker the American voter is superb. Senator Tin RsToN.of Nebraska,isfor recognizing the independence of Cuba. That is right, but the country has little faith in the sincerity and patriotism of Thurston. He debases the exalted position he fills by using it to advance the schemes of a corrupt corporation, of which he is the salaried attorney. He says he sacrificed a father in the cause of the country and n )\v wants to sacrifice a son. Why not shoulder a musket and offer himsolf on the altar of the country he professes to love. He could better serve it that way than in aiding the Pacific railway companies to rob it. In the way of making sacrifices,the Nebraska senator beats Artemus Ward “all holler.’’

To the Spencer Democrat: (live credit to whom credit is duo. If reports are true, four young men, a cab and four good jags made things lively down on south Locust street near the small hours Wednesday , night. Charming manners: For two or throe young ladies to lock arms and j walk abreast on a narrow side walk, i compelling all who meet them to step into the gutter or collide with them. A married woman ofthiscity recently swore out a warrant against her husband who was arrested and placed in jail. While making thi affidavit ' she cried the whole time, and told j how she had been treated by Bill, and ! how she would not stand it any longJ er. But when she faced Bill in the po | lice court, it was the same old story, they kissed and made up.

W. J. Bryan is a “holy terror” to the republican press. Previous to the presidential election it strove, by falsehood, misrepresentation and all kinds of dishonest and vile tactics to offset the effects of his brilliant campaign. Since the election, the fisty barking at the heels of the great bimetallic leader has been kept up with monotonous pertinacity. Every act and every word of Mr. Bryan has been criticized and misrepresented, and every ovation extended to him has been belittled by the subsidized journals owned by the trusts, monopolies and thieving ghouls who hope to fatten upon the opportunities offered by the firthcoming Matk Hanna administrati >n. As an illustration of the course pursued by the most dishonest papers we quote from thi Indianapolis News. Speaking of the Atlanta lecture of Mr. Bry: n it sa> s: “It is not surprising that Mr. Bryan has failed, or only measurably succeeded as a lecturer.” The writer uttered a deliberate falsehood when he attempted to convey the impression that Bryan’s lecture at At'anta was a failure. Every inch of since throughout the great hall in which the lecture was delivered was occupied. The youth, the beauty, as well as the most talented and distinguished citizens of Georgia’s capital were of the vast audience. When the orator was introduced some one cried, “hurrah for the man of 1900” and there ensued an ovation such as was never before accorded a lecturer in this or any other country. The lecture was listened to with the closest attention and delighted the hearers. The New York World says it wan an echo of the campaign. The News says it was a failure, but that signifies little. It v as the most unfair and dishonest pap rthat visited thiscity during the campaign and seems deter mined to keep up its unsavory reputation among the friends of bimetallism. Wonders Never Cease. No one need suffer the tortures of rheumatism, because that modern liniment, Salvation Oil, positively cures it. “I was a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism, and the host of doctors attended me without relief. 1 commenced using Salvation Oil. and two bottles helped me wonderfully. It certainly has worked wonders with me. Mrs. E. J. Phelps, Box 2*, Enfield, Conn.” Salvation Oil is for sale by all dealers for 25 cts. Take uo substitute. For Saif byW. W. Jonen, For Real Estate, Abstracts, Loans, call on Broadstrect & Vestal, Green,stle, Ind. 28

The excuse every once in a while indulges in a little squeak about county matters, it is when the sore put upon its back on November 2 begins to itch. It predicts all kinds of calamities ini store for the democrats at the next county election. If the lories who control the republican party in this county will continue to give the excuse all the rope its wants, the democrats need never have any fear of Putnam county being in control of the city ringsters. Stilt* in Literature. “Not only is their thought so much better than your average thought hut their language is so much better than your average language,” says“Droch,” with reference to standard fiction in the January Ladies’ Home Journal. “I do not mean,” he adds, “simply correctness of speech- -but something finer that is called stylo. Style has been written about very learnedly by learned men. In its highest development it is a very complicated thing. It is the very essence of culture, knowledge and artistic temperament that gives a flavor of its own to every sentence that an author writes. But without entering into the subtilties I of style, it is surely evident to every reader of average intelligence and sensibility that there is a great differ-1 enee in the manner of tolling a story, I for instance- It does not require a subtile mind to feel the difference in the telling of Hawthorne’s ‘Scarlet Letter’ and Hugh Conway’s ‘Called

Back.’

“By common consent Hawthorne is acknowledged the best master of style that America has produced. When you have read ouo of his stories no matter how dark the crime that ne has studied in it you never feel that he has dragged down your thoughts. It is not only because he is a great moralist in his stories, 1 ut because he is a great master of stylo also. His language is elevated, poetic, fascinating. It makes the appeal to what is line in your nature rather than to what is

gross.”

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It l* an Kasy Matter to ( hango Phot***

IMrtures.

Photographic copies of an original, it is claimed, atv ne t acceptable as pnnf before a court, inasmuch as the photographs may easily be ehanged to suit the with. Expert picture makers can take a photograph, and by various process! s secure a composite containing s- vcral features desired that did not exist in the original. A celebrated photographer of this city dtvlared that it is an easy matter to change photographs. Pictures ean lie made to show the body of one person with the head of another, or it is possible to insert certain features desired iu a photograph. The producers of art photographs often use rho form of one subject and the head of nnothi r in order to obtain the most symmetrical results and thus form a sort of composite

picture.

“By the use of nitric uoid, ” ho said, “any part of the silver print photo graph, the one commonly used, can l>e erased. If the picture were a platinum print, which is unlikely, the sumo effect could Is- secured by the use of aquaregin or a liquid composed of a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids,which nets as a solvent for gold or platinum prints.’’ H was shown that original signaturoe could bo i rased and others pasted or copied tin nsiii and then a photograph taken -cinch would sis>ni that the result was a perfect photograph of uu original paper.—Ph idelphia Call. Tol.l l>y Napoleon’s Valet. Much has Ins a written concerning the scanty knowledge of court etiquette shown by Napolwn during the early days of the first empire and of the awkwardness of his companions in arms, who, from being mere soldiers of fortun , wt re elevated to the highest [>osts in the country. In later days, however, the emperor himself become a martinet on the snhjiiet of the observance of courtly ceremonies. When staying at Bayonne, in isos Constant relates that ev -rybody was struck by the awkwurdncssof the king and queen of Spain, tl bad taste shown by tin ir dress, the disgntcefully shabby state of their equipage's and the heavy, constrained air of all those who formed their suit. "French elegance and all our handsome court equipages formed such a sharp contrast that the dew dim ss of the Spanish became unspeakably absurd. The emperor, with his exquisite tact, did not fail to notice this, but he did not like the idea of letting crowned heads be a subject for raillery. One day, when dressing, be pinched my ear and said to mo: ‘1 say, you rogue, you undt rstand all that sort of thing so wt 11, so you might as well give the valets of the king and queen of Spain a hint or two. Their awkwardness is jsisitively pitiable. ’ 11 agerly offered to carry out his majesty's wishes, but he did not h t the matter stop there, but made certain observations to the empress about the queen of Spain ami her ladies. ” Josephine, the very embodiment of good taste, accordingly gave certain orders, and for two-days her hairdress* rs and dressmakers spent their whole time in giving lessons to their Spanish colleagues in the art of tasteful and elegant dressing. This euly shows that the emperor found time for everything— time to plan a battle or teach a fixitmau bow to dress.—Philadelphia Telegraph.

Content to IV11 the Simple Truth. Leroy T. Carleton of Winthrop was swapping yarns with Captain Sargent the other day. “Now just for a moment I want you to listen to a true story,” I said. “I can spin a yarn on great occasions, bur this is gospel. While I was a boy wo lived up in the town of Phillips, pretty well over to Weldline, under the lea of the old Blue. Just to tin west of our house was tin valley leading up to the notch in the mountain range. This valley was a regular thoroughfam for wild gm se going nonth in thi spring and going south m the fall. We used to shoot quantities of them—in fact, one fall I alone shot— But as this is a true story we’ll let that pass. “In the fall we had very sudden ebaugt s in temperature, and when a chill northwester set in there was a sudden and alarming drop in the nien-ury. One night 1 heard a great ‘honking' down on a mud i>ond near the house. Once or twice 1 heard it in the night. Next morning it was freezing cold, and those geese were still making a ris-lo t. “My brother and I took our guns and went down. Creeping up cautiously, wt fired. Two birds tumbled over, but the nvit only squawked tls- louder, but m ver moved. Going down on the shore, we found that a sudden drop in the temperature had frozen a whole Aoek into the mud around the shore. All we had to do was to go up ami knock them on the ht^id. “AVe got loll and had roast goose all winter. ’’—Lewiston Journal.

A dog who has eaten up a farm and a set of buildings has been found in eastern Maine. This dug killed a neighbor's sheep. The neighbor offered to call it square if the dog was killed. The dog’s master refused to agree to this, ami a lawsuit came next To pay tin costs and damages assi-ssi d by the court the owner of the dog had to mortgage his farm for $100. The mortgage had a bigger appetite than tiie dog, and soon his farm was gone and the owner bad to move away. The dog is now dead. Parsnip Fritters. Undoubtedly the best manner of cooking parsnips is us fritters, according to Mrs. Henderson: Scrape and, if large, cut them. Put Into well suited billing water and boil till tender. Then mash them, adding to 4 or 5 pursnifs a hesiping teaspoonful of flour, 1 or S eggs well beaten ; pepper and salt to taste. Form the mixture into small cakes tlire»--quar-ters of an inch thick ami fry on both sides to a delicate brown, with a little h«»t better Servo hot.

Sunday m ITiinatown. The population of Chinatown on Sundays is about 4,000 or 6,000, ou weekdays very much less. The difference may be aceoevu-d for by the fact that j on Sunday the Chinese from all parts I of New York and Brooklyn, and from Long Island, New Jersey ami Connecticut towns, flock to Chinatown to visit their friends and to do business. Since the American Sunday does not permit laundry work on that day. the lauudr -- men seize upon it as a general recreation day and go to Chinatown by hundreds. This, therefore, is the gn at business day of that region, and all tho stores art open and every employee is constantly occupied. Hem the laundrymeu buy all their dry groceries,.their clothing and tln-ir i laundry supplies. Here, also, are the great family headquarters whither comes the mail from China and where the Chinese meet to discuss the affairs of their people and incidentally the various phases of American anti-Ch’-uese legislation.—"The Chinos** of New York,” by Helen F. Clark, in Century. BroakfAst Gems. A cup of swis't milk, 1 \ cups flour, an egg, a teaspoon salt, a teaspoon linking powder, beaten together five minutes. Bake in hot grin puns in a hot oven about 15 minutes. T. F. Anthony, Ex-Postmaster of Promise City, Iowa, says: “I bought one bottle of‘Mystic Cure’ for Khcumatism, and two doses of it did me more good than any medicine 1 ever took.” Sold by Albert Allen Druggist, Greencastie.

-THE GREAT--

W ill continue ONE WEEK longer.

Hon. \\. J. Bryan’s Book. All who are interested in furthering the sale of Hon. \V. J. Bryan’s new book, should correspond immediately with the publishers. The work will contain, an account of his campaign tour; his biography, written by his wife; his most important speeches; tho results of the campaign of 189»); a review of the political situation. .Mr. Bryan has announced bis intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause ol bimetallism. There are already indications of an enormous sale. Address \V. B. Conkey Company, publishers, 341-351 Dearborn St., Chicago. SI PLUNKAHD COMING. J. ('. Lewis, one cf the cleverest of comedians, assisted by a company of merit, will present the amusing Yankee drama, “Si Plunkard,” at the Opera House Wednesday, January <>th

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THE DEMOCRAT FOR 1S9T.

1897. Mr. Lewis has surrounded himself with a good company of comedians. The characters of the play, especially the principal ones, are not greatly overdrawn from real life, and that makes the fun genuine and hearty. Si Punkard is the st ory of an unsuspecting, simple old farmer being defrauded by a clever sharper from the city, assisted by an unscrupulous Jew. Mr. J. C. Lewis appears in the character of the traditional Downeaster, Si Plunkard, whose chief reason for being is to serve as a foil to the conventional vilHan. The sensational features presented are a full working threshing machine, a thrilling railroad scene, introducing a locomotive and a train of cars 150 feet in length, pass across the stage at lightning speed, presenting all the sensational effects of a train of curs. The county fair scene, a realistic scene, at a county fair, and many other catchy novelties. “Si Plunkard” will be presented by a company of comedians, headed by the great and only Frank E. McNish; the famous Ministrel Comedian and Dancer lias been especially engaged to play the comedy role in the piece and will be seen in a new and novel specialty. Mr. McNish is too well known by the amusemontpublic throughout the coun try to need any further introduction than to announce his coming.

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