Waynetown Despatch, Waynetown, Montgomery County, 9 January 1903 — Page 4

|OR THE last twenty years I have sought you with tears, To make you know just where to trade. Suspenders and Sox I have given with each box •••••'.

Of Clothing or shoes for you made. My Shoes are the best—yon know all the rest, How others have skinned you alive

But my Suits look as snug as a cat on a rug, And as sweet as a bee in his hive And the Hats, Caps and Bows, that you buy up at Lough's,

Are the latest, the newest now out. It takes but few "rocks"-to buy his Mittens and Sox, And his Underwear the warmest no doubt, The prices are now cut, so get out of the rut

Of paying for things, more than their worth Buy this year at Lough's, especially your clothes And before long you'll own part of the earth.

BEGIN THIS WEEK.

House of six rooms, out buildings, cellar, cistern, well, barn and wagon shed and fruits of all kinds.

House of four rooms, 2% acres of land, barn, wood house, summer kitchen, well, cave and small fruit.

I also have houses and lots varying in price from $425 to $900, and farms from #55 to $86 per acre.

P. J. LOUGH.

UPPER FOTJ8TAI1S

C. E. Short was in Covington on Monday. James Murray is under the care of a physician.

Mrs. Lennie Short was in Indianapolis last week. J. H. Newlin preached at Long View, 111., last Sunday.

Clarence Hummel of Newtown paid this part a flying visit last week. •. •.

Frank Campbell matriculated Purdue University for a short course in agriculture.

Norris West has returned to Hartford City after an extended visit with relatives here.

Mrs. Will Edwards and children of Veedersburg visited at E. E. Newlin's from Friday until Sunday evening.

The teachers of Cain, Richland and Van Buren townships will mett in joint institute at Hillsboro on Saturday of this week.

S. M. Compton, of Irvington, has been employed as pastor of the Antioch church and will begin work the first Sunday in February.

The third feature of the season's lecture coure will be given in Hillsboro on Saturday evening, Jan. 10. John Temple Graves of national reputation will be the orator of the evening.

Our school houses were thrown open on Monday after being closed for the Christmas vacation. Teachers and pupils each laid aside his 'best bib and tucker'' after ten days of social successes and took up the burden of living once more.

Real Estate for Sale.

House of six rooms, two lots, wood house, cellar, cistern, small barn,fruits and berries of all kinds.

House of four rooms, two lots, summer kitchen, cellar, cistern, well, barn and wagon shed and fruits of all kinds.

ALLEN BYERS.

An Ancient Table.

"That must be an antique," remarked a Visitor to a collector of bric-a-brac who was exhibiting his

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oak table. "Indeed it is," replied the other proudly. "I believe it to be the finest and oldest specimen of furniture extant." "It may be the finest, but not the oldest," remairkied the other. "Why, have, an Arabic table at home which dates before the beginning of the Christian era. In fact, it is known to be more than 2,000 years old." "You surprise me," said the collector, not a little nettled by the remark. "I had no idea there were any tables as old as that. Is its history authentic? What is its character?" 'Oh, it's very simple," added the

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FRENCH WRESTLING.

An Amusing Match at Hyeres, Where Men Crawled Around. Hyeres, writes a correspondent, is one of those places which provide amusement for all classes. Royalty, has appreciated to the full its de-, lightful climate and sccnery. Still, it may be questioned whether there are any who visit Hyeres solely for the wrestling. French wrestling is a thing all to itself, wonderful and worthy of a a sriictic nation. 71 has no affinity with the uri as practiced either by "girt Jan Ridd/' our Devonshire or Cornish men, or that' doughty Cumberland champion who was ready to fling everybody and "foight" them afterward.

Every country almost every country—has its different style of wrestling, but the French system, it has been well said, "for downright absurdity bears off the palm." One of the special points about it is that to be conquered it is necessary that both shoulders of the fallen man shall touch the ground' at the same time. To any one /imbued ^wit-h Engglish ideas of wrestling thTe cffect of two^"3 rolling oh' the ground seei/'^'tcher brutal* but the real struggle, when it comes to a strftg-

floor. Possibly the company was. more interesting thai* the'entertain- general and that showman in par ment for at a wrestling match, be it ticular.—^London Telegraph French or English, even as at a boxing match, party spirit runs very high, and, though the room was by no means crowded, the gentle restraint of the police was required to keep enthusiasm within proper channels.—Golden Penny.

The Right and Left.

the right hand. The great philosopher Newton records that at first he confined his astronomical observations to his right eye, but afterward he managed to train his left. .But

At Kunyenye, in Africa, Cameron relates being introduced to the heir presumptive to the throne, the nails of whose left hand had been allowed to grow to an enormous length as a sign of high rank, proving that

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Took His Breath Away. carved in salt and lighted with'elecIt is told of a well known Ken-1tric liShts- s«ch a thing as infectucky colonel that once he invited }10US ^ease m1 imknown in^^ Kela gentleman to dine with him at of the inhabitants die of old age.. Chamberlin's, in Washington. Among other things ordered was porterhouse steak, with onions. His guest asked to be excused from partaking of this dish. "Jt gives me a bad smelling breath/' he said. "Never you mind about thjat," remarked the colonel. "Wait till you get the bill that will take your breath -awav." The ease with which the

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NORWEGIAN SKEES.

How These Peculiar Snowshoet Are Made and Worn. It is during the Norwegian Winter that the most characteristic sports in that country hold sway. When the fiords are frozen after the snow has fallen, the water is covered with the bright, shining ice, and, like the gulls during the summer, the-Nor-wegian boys now glide about 6n their skates where iii July and August they had crossed in sailing boats. But when the snow covers 1 mountain, valley and fiord ihany feet deep snowshoeing or skee Jobning, as it is called in NorWay^ becomes universal not "merely as a sport, but also as a necessary way ol traveling.

The skees are made of wood,-gen-erally of ash. It is the most suitable wood for the purpose, but they can also be made out of pine or birch tir of almost any wood in which the grain runs straight and which is not too knotted. But woods like ash, which is both hard and flexible, are admirably adapted for skee making. The skees are some ten feet long and about four inches broad and taper up in front in a graceful curve. A very slight groove about half an inch wide runs all along the middle of the skee from front to back, giving a tendency to keep it, steady in one direction and to prevent it to some extent from sliding to one side. About an inch back of the middle of the skee a loop is made out of twisted willow or in recent years frequently out of leather covered bamboo, forming a firm but flexible support for the foot about two inches back of the toe. Another loop of leather covcred bamboo runs from the base of the loop for the toes and all around the heel, while* one strap combines the two sides of this loop under the foot. The skee runner then finishes the fastening by buckling a strap over his instep.

This peculiar arrangement of loops ana straps allows the runner to move his heel in a vertical direction so far that he could, although with effort, put his knee down to the skee in front of him while his toes still remain in the loop, but in a horizontal direction the foot is arrested. The skee must follow every small movement of the foot to the right or left.-rC. E. 'BorchgrevjLnk in St. Nicholas. ..

He Saw the Fish.

A showman had. a ,billout?i3(j tent which read, "Come and see great sawed fish." A learned gc tleman read it and informed showman that it ought to be "s"i fish. "Yer'd better come in and see tpr

gle, is, after all, child's-play com- yerself. The hadmission is. ofaly pared withj' f'OT 'example,' a' Lark'ti- tuppence," was the.MipwmanV only shire match. In this instance noth- reply. ing very exciting occurred. Neither champion attempted a "Gornish heave/' a "double. Nelson" or- any intricate 'locks," for the TYerdi rules arc directly antagonistic to the very elements of a struggle as wc understand it. In fact, as some one aptly said, the match seemed to consist mostly of crawling about the

So the learned man paid his tup-: pence, went in and was- shown a lar^e cod sawed in half. .. ,"Yer ain't the- fust rent wot'a: tried to loaoh r/.e.'ow. to spell, hut I've had a good ,eddi?a]tiqn, an.' l'ra running this show to prove it,*' grinned the man.

The learned, gentleman departed, deeply meditating on the world in

What We Escape.

"Your waist/' once wrote Mrs. Barbauld to a friend, "must be of the circumference of two oranges, no more." That was in the days of stiff stays, tight lacing, high heeled shoes, towering headgear and disregard of comfort in the costume of what she elsewhere termed "the modish woman, presentably ,pre-

The buttons on coats, etc., are placed on the right side and the shed of the hair in boys to the left,! pared^for the scrutinizing eye of, soevidently to suit manipulation by ciety."

It was also, by way of necessary relief, the day of the "shameless short gown and sack," often worn until late afternoon or till it \?as necessary to go out or to' receive

there are persons who could not do callers, for an all day endurance of this owing to the unequal strength compression of two orange degree of their eyes. Strange to say, the was beyond the capacity even of our Chinese assign the place of honor heroic foremothers to the left

A City of Salt.

One of the most remarkable cities in the world is Kelburg, iiear Cracow, Poland, for, besides being Situated underground, it is excavated entirely in. rock salt. The inhabit-

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Uncertain About Her Age. A Boston servant, like many of her class, does not know her age. She has lived with one family eleven years and has always been twentyeight. But not long ago she read in a newspaper of an old woman who died at the age of 106. "Maybe I'm as auld as that mesilf," said she. can't remimber the time when I wasn't alive." Boston Christian Register.'

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Clearing Sale.

While the weather is favorable to the selling of winter merchandise, and most people have money to pay regular price for any articles they may need or desire,and we could no doubt sell our entire stock of heavyweight goods, which is smaller in many lines than ever before, without reducing prices, we have inaugurated a great January clearing sale. This dops not mean that every item of winter goods will be offered at cost, but it does mean that we will offer thousands of items at greatly reduced prices, and in many instances at much less than cost. In a business of this size the number and amount of broken lines, broken assortments and odds and ehds^iat are left after a season's bu^y iuish more than the stock of smaller stores.^-

As it is the policy of this house to always show a new line at the beginning of the season we hold our semi-annual clearing sales, when we offer alfodds and ends, broken lines and remnants at greatly reduced prices to close them out quickly. Such is the occasion for this January Sale. We have also recently made some fortunate purchases of seasonable merchandise which will be included.

We have been too busy to get a list of the items to be offered in shape for today's paper, but they are on sale and prospective purchasers will do well to come in at once.

THE BIG STORE

LOUIS BISCHOF.

127-129 E. Main St. Crawfordsville, Ind.

P. S. During this sale no goods will be charged to anyone.

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