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milk that goat on top Of the furnace,
with Pa sitting on a barrel Of potatoes
bossing the job. They are going to fix
a gangplank to get the goat down OF
the furnace. The baby kicked on the
milk las. night. guess besides tasting
Of powder and burnt hair the milk was
too warm on account Of the furnace.
Pa has got 10 grow a new lot of hair on
that goat or the oma won't take 1t
back. She don't want no bald goat.
Well, they can run tho baby and goat 70
suit themselves. cause l have resigned.
have gone into business. Don't you
smell anything that would lead you to
surmise that | had gone into business.
No drug store this tine and the boy
got up and put his thumbs in the arm
holes Of his vest and looked proud.
.'Oh, | don't know as ! smell anything
except the faint odor Of a horse blanket.
What you gone into anyway and the
grocery man put the wrapping paper I'M
der the counter and put the red chalk in
his pocket SO the boy couldn't write any
sign to hang up outside.
"You hit it the first time. l have ac-
cepted a situation Of teller in a livery
stable" said the boy as he searched
around for the barrel Of cut sugar which
had been removed.
Teller in a livery stable. Well. that
is a new one IN me. What is a teller IN
a livery stable." and the grocery la
looked pleased and pointed the boy TO a
barrel Of 7-cent sugar.
Don't you know what a teller is in a
livery stable? 1t is the same rs a teller
in a bank. have to grease the harness,
oil the buggies and curry of the horses,
and when a man comes in to hire a horse
l have to go down to the saloon and tell
the livery man. That's what a teller is.
l like the teller part Of it, but greasing
harness is a little too rich for my blood;
but the livery man says if ! stick to it !
will be governor some day, cause most
all the great men have begun life taking
care Of horses. 1t all depends on my girl
whether / stick or not. II she likes the
smell Of horses, l shall be O statesman,
but if she objects to it and sticks up her
nose / shall not yearn to be governor at
the expense Of my girl. 1t beats all,
don't it, that wimmen settle every great
question. Everybody does everything to
please wimmen, and if they kick on any
thing that settles it. But l must go and
umpire thai game between Pa and the
hired girl and the goat. Say, can't you
come over and see the baby? faint big
ger than a small satchel." and the boy
waited till the grocery man went todraw
some vinegar, when he slipped out and
put up a sign written on a shingle with
white chalk:
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PECK'S BAD boy.
By GEORGE w. PECK.


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"Oh, IL damned him"

ONt tAbfEttH htUt.
spunky, but that goat seemed to have q
grudge against Pa from the first. II
there were any places on Pas manly
form that the goat did not explore with
his head, Pa don't know where the
places are.
"Oh, 1t damned him, and when / LATED
Pa got mad. l told him every mar ought
to furnish his own goats when he had q
baby, and ! let 60 the rope and started
of, and Pa said he knew how it was, ]
wanted him to get killed. 1t wasn't that,
but ! saw the Nirish woman that owned
the goat coming around the corner of the
house with a cistern pole. Just as Pa
was getting the goat out Of the gate the
goat got crossways OF the gate, and Pa
yanked and doubled the goat right up,
and l thought he had broke the goats
neck, and the woman thought so. too, for
she jabbed Pa with the cistern pole Just
below the belt, and she tried { = ia hold
on Pas hair, but he had her - re. No
woman a get the advantage of Pa that
way, cause Ma has tried it. Well, Pa
explained it to the woman, and she let
Pa off II he would pay her 81 for dam
ages to her goat, and he paid it, and then
we took the nannygoat, and it went
right along with us. But l have got nv
opinion Of q baby that will drink goats
milk. Gosh, it is like this stuff that
comes in a spoiled ~cocoanut.
THE baby hasn't done anything but
blat since the nurse coupled it onto the
goat hydrant. l had to take all my play
things out Of the basement to keep the
goat from eating them. Iguess the milk
will taste of powder and singed hair now.
The goat got to eating some can
dies me and my chum had laid away in
the coal bin and chewed them around the
furnace, and the powder leaked out, and
. coal fell out Of the furnace on the
hearth, and you'd "a died to see Pa and
the hired girl and the goat. You see, Pa
can't milk nothing but a milk wagon,
and he got the hired girl to milk the
goat. and they were just hunting around
the basement for the goat with a tin cup
when the fireworks went off. Well,
there was balls Of green and red and blue
fire and spilled powder blazed up, and
the goat just looked astonished and
looked on as though it was sorry 80 much
good fodder was spoiled, but when its
hair began to burn the goat gave n
snort and went between Pa and the hired
girl like ii wal sLot out Of a cannon. and
It knocked Pa over a wash boiler into the
coal bin and the hired girl in among the
kindling wood, and she crossed herself
and repeated the catekism, and the goat
Jumped mp or the brick furnace, and
they couldn't get IL down.
II heard the celebration and went
down and took Pa by the pants and
pulled him out Of the coal bin. and he
said he would surrender and plead
guilty OF being the biggest fool in Mil
waukee. pulled the kindling wood of
the hired girl, and then she got mad and
said she would milk the goat or die. oh,
that girl has got sand. She used to work
In the glass factory. Well, sir, It was a
sight worth 2 shillings admission 70 sec
that hired girl get upon a stepladder to
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YELLOW SAND WANTED
FOR
MAPLE SUGAR.
ecoSrSrEp.l
THE DEAD.

The Comparatively Small Area Which
Would Provide Them "a Graveyard.
In that curious article The Mum
Der Of People Since Adam" which
has found a place in nearly all of the
queer columns in the United States
during the past three or four years,
the author asserts, The whole sur
face of the globe has been dug over
l20 times in order to get room for
burial places" Let us see.
In 5000 years we have 60 centuries
and in each century an average Of
three generations or $50 generations
in all, each being a generation Of
1, 800, COG, 900. Give to each man.
woman and child a grave 5 feet by 2
or 10 square feet. A square mile con
tains something less than 2S, 900, 600
square feet. If this last calculation
be correct, you will have to have a
cemetery IS miles long by 10 wide
for each generation. Now multiply
this by $50, the whole number of
generations ''slnce Adam" and you
have a burying ground large enough
for every human being that has died
in the last 5000 years.
This vast cemetery. although aw-
full to contemplate, would be but
1900 miles long by So miles wide, or
in order to get it in better proper
ton say 220 miles wide and 450 miles
long. In other words a burying
ground containing 100, 900 square
miles would be sufficient for the
graves of every human being that
has ever existed. The area of Mis-
souri, and Iowa combined would be
amply sufficient for such a cemetery,
with %, 425 miles left for walks and
driveways.
If the calculation is carried out for
100, 900 years instead Of 5000, it will
be found that the cemetery need only
be a square 100 miles in extent
each way. On this basis the United
States east Of the Mississippi river is
large enough to furnish a grave
for all the human beings that have
died during the past 5000 and for
the 1900 years to come.--St. Louis
Republic.
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE BABY AND THE GOAT.

CHAPTER XIV.
II sABy AND THE GOAT.
well, how Is the baby asked the
grocery man Of the bad boy AS he came
into the grocery smelling very ''horsy'
and sat down on the chair with the back
gone and looked very tired.
"Oh, darn the baby! Everybody asks
me about the baby, as though it was
mine. l don't pay no attention to the
darn thing. except to notice the foolish
ness going on around the house. Say, !
guess that baby will grow up to be a
fire engine. The nurse coupled the baby
onto a section of rubber hose that runs
down into q bottle Of milk, and ii began
to get mp steam. and pretty soon the
milk began to disappear, just like the
water does when a fire engine couples
on to a hydrant. Pa calls the baby odd
No. g. lam No. L. and if Pa had a hook
and ladder truck and a hose cart and a
fire gong he would imagine he was chief
engineer Of the fire department. But the
baby kicks on this milk wagon milk and
bowls like a dog that's got lost.
1.-THE doctor told Pa the best thing he
could do was to get a goat, but Pa said
since we Insulated him into the Masons
with the goat he wouldn't have a goat
around no how. The doc told Pa the
other kind Of a goat think it was a
Samantha goat he said-wouldn't kick
with its head, and Pa sent me up into
the Polack settlement to see if / couldn't
borry q milk goat for a few weeks. ]
got a woman to lend us her goat till the
baby got big enough to chew beef for
81 a week and paid 81 in advance, and
Pa went up in the evening to help me
get the goat. Well, it was the darndest
mistake you ever see. There was two
goats so near alike you could not tell
which was the goat we leased, and the
other goat was the chum Of our goat,
but it belonged to a Nirish woman. We
got a bed cord hitched around the Nirish
goat, and that goat didn't recognize the
lease, and when we tried to jerk it along
it rared right up and made things real
quick for Pa. ! don't know what there
is about a goat that makes it get 80
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The results of six months observa.
tionsof Mars have led an astronomer
at the Lick observatory to the con
clusion-contrary to the generally
received views-that the dark por-
tons Of the disk represent land and
the light portions water. This is
supported by observations Of San
Francisco bay from Mount Hamilton.
in which the bay appears brighter
than the neighboring valley and
mountains at the same distance. On
this hypothesis the canals" would
correspond to ridges Of mountains al
most wholly immersed in water.
while their doubling may represent
parallel ridges Of which our own
earth furnishes examples. -Scienca
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COIpsmb ia '~G'OwmshipT Truss
tees Notice.

vuVHF Undersigned, Trustee OF Col
i umbia Tp., Dubois county, Ind,
will attend to Township business at
his residence on every Saturday, aud
persons having township business to
transact are requested to present 1t
on that day Of the week.
The TOWNSHIP library is kept at
the Office OF the Trustee, where those
entitled can obtain books.
NELSON HARRIS, Trustee.
June 9th. I686-ly.
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FINE FARM FSksALE'
IN Madison Township.

One OF the best farms in Madl'pD
township is now { = sale bv The undrrs,'
signed, to-wit: ll24 acres in sc e
Town One, South Range s West 'gr'
merly belonging TO John Burge' ~
ceased. 1t will be sold at a reasonag'
price, and on partial payments y n
sired. Ifyou want a good farm !"
good locality, near the thriving town =
Ireland, this is your opportunity I'M
particulars, cal on
CLEMENT DoANt
Al Jaspc Courier Office. !.
Also. 237 acres, formerly known \,
tie Adam Smith farm, at me Pv,
where the railroad crosses Patoka ~
will be sold cheap. Call soon.
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The Centaur Company, n Murray Street, New York City.
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A young lady visiting for the first
time in the country was alarmed at
the approach Of a cow. She was too
frightened to run, and shaking her
parasol at the animal she said in a
very stern tone: Lie down, sirl Lie
downi'-Calcutta Times.
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What is

Castoria is DR.. Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. 1t contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. 1t is q harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
1t is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. CastOria destroys Worms and allays
feyerishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd.
cures DiarrhGa and Wind Collie. CastOria relieves
tecthing troubles. cures constipation and hatulency.
CastOria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-.
toria is the Children's Panacea-thc Mothers Friend.
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CastOria.

"Castoria Is so well adapted TO children that
l recommend it as superior to any prescription
known TO me-"
IT. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly Of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among on.
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon IT,"
UNITED IIosrfTAL AND DIsrESsARy,
Boston, Mass
ALLEN c. SMITH, Pres,
array Street, New York City.
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"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which l am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones. by forcing opium,
morphine. soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
On. J. F. KrScHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
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CaStoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
DR. G. c.. Osooop,
Lowell, Mass.
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cambridge Township Trtis-
tees Notice.
slsHE undersigned, Trustee Of
1 cambridge township, Dubois
county, will attend to Township bus
mess on Saturday Of every week, at
his residence on North Main street,
between Seventh and Eighth, in JAS
per.
The Library Of said Township is
kept at the bookstore Of Mr.. jacob
Gosmann where persons wanting
books can obtain them at any time.
JOSEPH ECKSTEIN, Trustee
April 30, 1888 ~.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-26
Artificial Silk From NYnnd.

Two methods have become known of late
in France for manufacturing silk from
wood-that of Chardonnet and another of
Du Nivier both of which in reality are
based upon the same contrivances. If one
pours nitric and sulphuric acid not partic-
ularly concentrated and in IL limited quan-
tlty, upon cotton consisting of cellulose
(woody substancc), one receives kind of
weak gun cotton that placed into mix
ture of ether and alcohol becomes II mucous
mass known as collodion. Exposed to the
air this mass becomes solid again by volatil-
ization of the ether and the alcohol. The
two French chemists named prepare of
wood mass similar to collodon that
placed in water becomes solid nearly instan-
taneously. From this mass under water
threads are spun that are called artificial
silk But, says the New York Herald. it 4,
Il well known fact that artificial products
always are inferior To natural products
This is also the case with the artificial silk
just described. 1t is glossy. it is true. but
1t differs i'll some degree from natural or
genuine silk, particularly by its combus
iibility. IL burns with brighter flame
than silk proper, wool or even cotton
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Produce and Merchandise.

New YORK, Aug. 25.-Flour weak,
dull, prices unchanged; Southern flour
dull, weak. unchanged. Wheat fairly
active, firm; No. 9 red, store and elevs
tor 66L@67, afoat 66%@G7; options
weak and declined 16@Mc, rallied
closing firm at SO &c over yesterdays
and fairly active; March. SIX: August,
81; September, 67$s; October, 70.
Corn dull, weak; No. 3, SIS elevator.
45@454 afloat; options declined 5S@%,
rallied A@% and closed steady with
moderate trade; August, 45%: Sep,em-
Der, 44M; October, 1879. Oats fairly
active, firm; options quiet. firm; Aurusf.
29gl; September, 80; October, 3O5;
November, 81; No white, October. 49,;
spot No. 2, 2915@29s<; No. white,
32H@33; mixed Western, 30@39; white
do, 33@4O.
Wool steady, quiet; domestic fleece,
2O@2S; pulled, 16@25. Beef steady;
family, Hole; extra mess, : 50@s 90;
beef hams dull, II so; tierced beef
steady; city extra India mess, 15@l7.
Gut meats steady, quiet. Lard easier,
dull; Western steam closed s.60@s 65;
city, s@sI; refined easier; continent,
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Smnlcless POWDERS.

Smokeless powders, The Times Democrat
assures its readers, are not absolutely but
only comparatively smokcless. Ignition or
explosion is always attended with IL faint
blush pun, but it is so slight and so evan
escent thatit can only he seen at short dis
tance and almost Immediately disappears
The L nited States navy department has
invented and uses smokcless powder of its
own known as the navy NJ n compound :"
Like the English cOrditc, it is of twisted
macaroh form and possesses great stability
changes of temperature, even violent ones
scarcely affecting it perceptibly 1t is also
perfectly safe 10 handle, it's chief drawback
being that its "balistic strength" is not as
great as that of some European powders.
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IEaAL N,,s,,rro,E.
JOINT RESOLUTION.

|
article OF the Constitution OF Virginia and
pa9vidlng for publishing said amendment,
Assembly, "'"'iA'
Approved February 10, 1922.
!. Resolved fy the Senate and Ilousc NJ Della
gates "a majority OF the members elected 10 rscb
VI tue Two houses agreeing thercto) That The fol.
sjMts "nehdment 10 the Constitution of Vir.
S.nis oG' anu is hereby proposed, and L. hereby
reIcr1ed TO the General Assembly To be chosen NJ
, tue neSi general election of senator's and mem.
ei vi tne Housc or Delegates for its concurrence
IN conformity with the provisions of section one
OF article twelve OF said constitution viz: Strike
canso ~ INC constitution of Virginia the tenth
words: 10 III TIC iohowihS
~. ihai IN all capital or criminal prosecutions
man hath right to demand tho cause and
nature of his accusation, to be conrron cd with
.nG accuscrs and witnesses, to call for evidence
10 MIS- favor, and to speedy trial by an Impartial
Jury OF his vcina3c, without whose unanimous
consenI ne csnnot be found guilty: nor can he be
o M 10 give evidence against himself that
~ man oe deprived OF his liberty, except by the
law OF the land or the Judgment of his peers '"e
a. Anu T insert IN lieu thereof the following:
man hath right 10 demand ,he cansc snS
nature OF his accusation, to be confronted with
IN his favor, and % q speedy trial by an imparti.i
Jury Oh MS vlcinage, without whose unanimous
consent con- he cannot be found guilty, but the Gen
otherwise than by Jury. or u man accused OF
criminal r offence not punishable by death or con.
nntment In the pcnitcntiary; nor can he be com
PEELED to give evidence against himself. that no
man oe deprived OF his liberty except by the law
OF inc lsnd o; the judgement OF his peers.
=. resolved, That the clerk OF tho Senate or the
CLERK OF the House OF Delegates, or, liza vacancy
happen IN both Of said offices. the presiding on
Ger OF either house OF the Ger cral Assembly he
authorized and required tH cause this proposed
amenumend and these resolutions to be Published
III one newspaper published in each OF the cities
OF the commonwealth having more than ten
spoushhu INHABITANTS, once n week for three con-
secutlVc months previous 10 the time OF choosing
the members of the General Assembly al the next
gchcrai election OF senators and members of thc
House of Delegates. ~ Wv
the clerk of the House OF DELEGATES be rcorircd
10 transmit to the General Assembly, to he
CHOSEN NJ inc next general election of senators
anu members OF the House OF Delegates a ccrti.
iicu copy OF said proposed amendment and OF
,rhI a.;soiutons together with certificates of
III which said proposed amendment shall have
been published. ''
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PERTINENT POLITICAL POINTERS.

IL the country could be saved with
words, this Congress could give her an
insurance policy covering the next
twenty centuries at east.-Washington
Star.
1t is to be hoped that the baggage
smashers of Washington have no feel.
ings on the Chinese question. Yung Yu,
the new minister, has arrived at San
Francisco with eighty tons of baggage.
Washington News
PETERS resolution, offered in the SEN
ate, should be entitled "a measure to
force ABOUT 1000 national banks to sus
pend A few more PETERS, Aliens and
Bates in congress would sink the con-
Germ beneath the contempt of intelligent
men.--Chattanooga Times.
1t seems to be generally conceded tn It
Mr.. j. Allen Watts, OF Roanoke, will be
the Democratic candidate for the State
Senate to succeed the late incum bent,
Hon. James W. Marshall, in the distric t
composed of Montgomery, Roanoke and
Craig. News.
The selection of Hon. ]. Taylor ELY
son as chairman of the State orRaniza-
ton OF the Democratic party was in
Keeping with the splendid work of the
convention No ADLER or more Jealous
leader could have been selected and in
him will be found fit successor of the
lamented Barbour Suffolk Herald
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FOuCAULT's PENDULUM.

Demonstrating the Invarinbility OF the
Plano OF Oscillation of tho Pendulum.
When the table is cleared for dessert, you
can, with the assistance of aN apple or even
orange, repeat the celebrated experiment
of Foucault which was performed beneath
the dome of the Pantheon in Paris in 1851
Pierce your orange with wooden tooth
pick so that the ends project. TO one of
these ends attach II thread, and you have
your pendulum. The other extremity of
the thread is to be knottcd and pin passed
through the knot, which in turn is thrust
into a cork. The cork is supported ON
tripod of forks. Set upon dish or plate
Now oscillate your pendulum, having first
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regulated the length of the thread in such
way that the lower end of the toothpcll
nearly touches the base of the plate and
therefore leaves its mark in the little heaps
of powdered sugar at either side, which are
intended to represent Foucault's circles of
sand disposed about the point of the pen
dulum.
The plate represents the earth AS long
as the plate remains i'll one position your
pendulum will strike the sugar at the same
point and pillow single furrow Ifnow, to
initiate the rotation of the earth, we slowly
turn the plate upon its axis without inter
fering with the pendulum (of course tho
forks and cork will follow the plate), we
shall observe that the direction of the pen
dulum is not in the least changed, but that
as the plate turns and in proportion rs it
turns new furrow is cut every time by
the toothpick i'll the sugar.
In quite simple, practicable manner,
then, we have demonstrated the invaria-
bility of the plane of oscillation of the pen
dulum, which is the principle that guided
the we'll known experiment on gigantic
scale of the French philosopher Foucault.