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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
oaeEk HORSE eAoEs.
Kings and Princes Sometimes Drove Their
own Horsea In the Olympic Games.

Kings and Princes Sometimes Drove Their
own Horses In the Olympic Games.
The most brilliant and exciting con.
tests of the festival were the chariot
and horse races. They took place in the
hippodrome, adjoining the stadium.
The structure itself no longer exists
and we are dependent upon analogous
buildings and upon literature for it's re.
construction. The portion Immediately
adjoining the altis was an artificial EN-.
bankment, with seats backing against
those of the stadium. Farther on the
rolling slope formed a natural stand for
the spectators. The dimensions of the
hippodrome are not definitely known
but are put with some probability AT
two stadia in length and about 600 feet
In breadth. AS with the races in the
stadium, the chariot and horse races
also involved sharp turn, so that the
course was traversed several times b..
fore the finish. Pindar, in his lode to
Arcesilas," speaks Of the "12 swift turns
of the sacred course"
The relative positions of the chariots
at the start were determined by lot:
hut, as there was natural difference
between the inside and the outside
track, this difference was neutralized
by device in the manner of starting
invented by Cleetas. This il described
by Pausanias as in shape like the prov
of ship, with partitioned stalls, in
which the chariots and horses took their
stand. In front of the chariots was en-
tended n rope. First the ropes on the
eXtremities were slackened, and when
the horses stationed there advanced as
far as the horses in the second stalls
then the ropes there were slackened,
and so on until all started fair at the
beak. This shows that number of
chariots started together; how many
is uncertain. When Pindar speaks Of
the 40 charioteers who fell in the
Pythian contest in which Arceslas cor
quered he is not at variance with Sopho-
cles, who relates that ten chariots then
started together. for the races were
doubtless run in heats. Alcibiades alone
sent seven chariots to Olympia, win
ming the first. second and fourth prizes.
In the chariot race the skill of the
uIlNtT tOlu luT HlOTt IMAM Ine SDeeO OF
the horses. After the trumpet had
sounded and the bronze dolphin had
been lowered and the bronze eagle
raised as signal for the start, his cool
head in the first bolt for the lead, AMI
amid the dust clouds of the course and
at the taraxippos-that terror of horses,
the turning pOst-often guided slower
horses with success to the finish. where
beside the judges stood statue Of
holding n fillet for the
victor.
Long after the quadriga had ceased
TO be used in active warfare the chariot
race fourished in the great national
games. 1t was the event in which the
rich and powerful, princes and kings,
took part, and sometimes themselves
as charioteers. There are
many memorials of these victories in
Greek vase paintings, coins and gems,
varying in character from serious rep
reservations of an actual race to allie
gorical and symbolic scenes in which |
Cupids and winged Victories are the
harioteers.-Prof. Allan Maryland, in |
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
bringing out the Blushes.

Managing Mamma Ito Mr.. Featherly)
That IL my daughter TO whom Mr. do
Lyle is talking.
Featherly - All, indeed. What
sweet, understanding girl she is.
Mamma--f les, Clare Is a very modest
girl. Even the slightest improper re.
mark will make her blush.
Fcathcrly gazing In admiration)--
ies, and do YOU notice how becoming
her biushes are rs they come and go?--
Bay City Chat +
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Great Expeotntions.

Commuter-See here, conductor I've
torn my coat on thai broken car-seut.
DO I get anything from the company
for it2
Conductor Well. there's chance fo,
suit.-~N. Y. World.
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Farm Notes.

The more manure used the more Gull
tivation necessary. The n helps
the weeds as well as the crop.
Do not tolerate the hired man who
merely works for wages. The man
who takes an interest in his work is
worth big pay.
Every farmer should know to a dol
lar how much his produce costs him,
that he may determine whether the
business Of the year shows a profit or
loss.
Tho owner of d farm who has Il hired
ma on his farm who will take the
same interest in the farm as he would
if he owned it, is to be congratulated.
There are such men, but the number is
not large.
The man whose work is properly
planned can accomplish a third more
in Il given time, than he who hops from
n thing to another, uncertain what
he really must do first. Make your
head serve your hands and heels.
Fall blowing, whenever nature will
permit it, is one of the most effective
methods OF combating insect pests.
BY depriving them of shelter and OK
posing them to the action of frosts,
great numbers will be killed off, which
otherwise would come out in the spring
vigorous and ready to attack the young
crODS.
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Peoplc I'm Print.

At New York City Charles Stanley
Reinhart, a drauslitsman and illus
traitor of international reputation, died
at the rooms of the Players club.
Rudyard Kirling has left his home at
marlborough. VT. to sail from New
York to England, where he will make
his home for mn indefinite period.
Alexander Joseph Ribot, prime min
lister and minister of finance in France
during the early part OF President
Faure's administration, arrived in New
York City OH the steamer La Brctagne.
At Elyria, Ohio, Frederick William
Beese died. He was born in Germany
in 1906, and would have celebrated his
hundredth birthday December 10th. He
came to America in 1860.
1t is thought that Pierre L%ourdereau,
who is nincty-two years old, and who
lives in Paris, is the last survivor of
the men who fought in the July revo-
luton in 1880.
Mrs. Catherine Salisbury, the sister
of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet,
and the only surviving member Of the
family, celebrated her cighty-third
birthday in Fort Green, Ill, last week.
One of the most prolific authors Of
short stories in England is Mr.. PETIT
Ridge, who in the five years he has
been writing them has produced $50,
besides a large number of sketches
and dialogues.
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BOTH DIED HARD.
Obituary Notice of the Last Sub.
scrfber and the HObOken Has.

Obituary Notice of the Last Sub
scrfber and the Hoboken Has.
been.
"Mike!!" called the editor OF the IIo-
boken Hasbcen to the foreman of the
composing room.
Eyes, Sir" replied the latter, poking
his head through the slide.
Don't forget 10 double lead this edi.
torial announcing farewell bow to
the reading public of IIoboken, and
print the paragraphs calling attention
to u manly struggles against ad-
vcrsity auld final surrender to the
grim destroyer in plea"
Yes. sir; anything else?"
eyes. Commence the obituary with
a wreath Of immortelles initial letter,
if YOU have one; ii you haven't. slide
in that cut Of the broken column out
of the u~ndertaker's ad. We shan't
need it any more"
"-All right, sir" returned the fore.
man. But whose obituary is it,"
The editor sighed as be looked affec.
tionately at his mucilage bottle and
shears.
ut is the obituary of our last re-
manning subscriber" said he.-Mc-
Leansboro Leader.
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Accidental uannenlnua.

AAaVVSAtA9"
The forests of Northern Wisconsin
| are still ablaze and the fires are caus-
ing great damage.
John X. Cowan, president of the Bal
| timore Il Ohio railroad, dislocated his
shoulder by q fall from a bicycle at
Nantucket, Mass.
The business part of Laddonia, Mo-,
was Quilted by a $50,OO0 fire, which
| started from an unknown cause in the
drug store of Frank Bcagles.
The state institution for feeble
minded children at Glenwood, Iowa,
was completely destroyed by fire, in
volving a loss of $150,OOO. All of the
inmates were rescued.
Victoria Leroy, an %aeronaut, making
her fourth ascension Of the week from
the grounds Of the st. Louis County
Fair association, fell 1900 feet and
was instantly killed.
Lurane Bartlett, aged 2, daughter Of
Albert Bartlett found q couple Of
headache powders in the yard and
swallowed them. Since then she has
been at the point Of death.
J. v. Carleton, one Of the Oldest and
most prominent newspaper men In
Southern Indiana, accidentally shot
himself while hunting neal Bedford.
His injuries are not thought to be
fatal
An explosion in the nitro-glycerine
house Of the California Powder conf
pany at Pinole, CAL, wrecked the
building and caused the death of
twelve workmen, eight Chinese and
the following whites: James McNulty,
w. w. Crates, James Fritz, NJ. Garcia.
Franklin Wells, president of the
Michigan state board of agriculture.
| was thrown from his buggy by a run
away horse at Constantine, Mich, re
ceiving serious injuries. His face is
| distigured almost beyond recognition,
and it is feared that he has suffered in
ternal injuries.
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THOUGHT HURTS THE TEETH.
Brain Workers Have More TroubI
With MOlars Than Do hor

Brain Workers Have More Trouble
With Molars Than Do Laborers.
A prominent New York dentist made
the statement the other day, which he
said was backed by the highest scien-
tihc authority, that intellectual pur-
suits play havoc with the teeth, and
that the more a q tolls with his
brain tho more likely are his teeth to
disappear or become diseased before he
reaches middle life.
Tie reason why people in this
country have poorer teeth than those
OF any other country in the world is
because they live ut the highest posi-
bic pitch of nervous pressure. Savage
races generally have teeth superior to
those of civilized races.
There are many unusual occupations
too, that have a bad effect on teeth.
Quicksilver miners. bleachers who use
chloride of lime, people employed in
soda factories, are some of those who
suffer. But the most harmful trade of
all, not only in its effect upon the gen
eral health, but also upon the teeth, is
that Of making matches. The phos-
phorus used in their manufacture af-
fects in some way the health OF the
teeth Of those who handle it.
Artificial teeth are made of all sorts
Of strange substances nowadays, but
probably the most curious of all mate
rails used for this purpose is COM
pressed paper. A dentist in Germany
has been making them in this way for
many years past. False teeth were
never so cheap as they are to-day, and
at the same time never SO dear. They
can be purchased as low as So per set,
or they may cost al high as $500.
There are expensive dentists, as well
as expensive doctors, and it is not an
uncommon thing for $500 to be paid
for a new outfit Of molars.
When it comes to expensive teeth
or, rather, an expensive tooth-proba-
bly, the costliest and most highly priced
in the world is that of the sacred
monkey. 1t is in one of the temples of
Siam, preserved in a gold box. The
value the natives put upon it may be
judged by the fact that they paid
$3,75O,OOO to Portugal for its ransom
when the fortunes of war placed it in
the possession of that nation. The
Cingalese also venerate as sacred q
monkeys molar, while the people OF
| Malabar worship one of the elephants
grinders. In the Tonga Islands q
tooth from a sharks jaw is regarded
! with great reverence, and in India the
faithful adore a tooth that is said to
have been cnce in active service in the
mouth of Buddha himself.
The first dentist, in fact, must have
lived long before Buddha. At any rate
there were dentists in plenty in Egypt
and Greece 500 years B. c., who used
gold filling teeth and golden wire fol
fixing artificial ones. Gold has ever beer
been discovered in the teeth of mum.
mics known to be many thousands OF
years old.-New York Times.
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Winter Rye.

Winter rye is a safe and sure crop to
grow as pasture. When soWn in .Au-
gust it can usually be pasturcd to
extent the same autumn. and in
the early spring i: will furnish a great
growth Of pasture if rightly handled.
Where grass pastures are not abund-
ant these ma be spared until they get
4 good start if the rye is pastured in
the meantime. When rye is pastured
it should not he allowed to get long or
it will form tie Il and when it does
the impulse to grow is weakened. 1t
is not generally known. perhaps, that
rye furnishes an excellent pasture for
mich cows. providing they are not al
lowed to stay on it for a longer period
than two hours after the morning
milking. They will eat enough to last
them till noon in two hours. They
should have other food in the after
noon, or the rye will affect the milk adj
verscly. But if managed as described
the milk obtained will be excellent,
and also abundant. And one of the
grand features about rye as a pasture
is the fact that another crop may fol-
low it after it has been eaten off.
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For Over Fifty Years

AN OLD AND WELL-TR12D REM
EDY.-Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
rup has been used for over fifty years
by millions of mothers for their
children while teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays oil pain, cures wind
collie, and is the best remedy for
Diarrhea. Is pleasant to the taste.
Sold by Druggists in every part Of
the world. Twenty-Five cents a bot
tie. Its value is inculculable. Be
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup, and take no other
kind.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Preparine Lambs for show.

They should be chosen with care, e1-
aiming each lamb infinitely as to
wool, skin and other points character
istic of the breed; and, as a rule. early
we'll grown lambs have much the best
chance. Let the lambs selected he
dipped at once, repeating the operation
a month or six weeks later; give them
as much room as possible on land
which has not been feed with sheep,
housing them at night, and supplying
them with green food, and about one
half pound Of Nnseed cake, oats and
bran, mixed (not beans or peas; and as
the year advances, house In the heat
and glare of the day, and allow them,
recourse to a field for q few hours In.
the evening. AS the show time ap-
proaches, it may perhaps be advisable
to trough-feed entirely and only allow
them out for the sake of exercise, 40
they are apt to fall away when from
home, IL not so treated, and unaccus--
toned to confinement.
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A Good Time to Build silo..

1t is doubtful if there ever will be u
time when material, for a silo, may be
purchased cheaper than it a now.
A number of farmers seem to be talk
Ing advantage Of this fact and getting
ready to build a silo. For the man
WHO has the money, there is probably
no better way in which he a invest it
thnn In a good silo. Whether the price
of butter goes up or down, we want to
get all the butter out of our corn that
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This Is Your Opportunity.

This Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps
. generous sample will be mailed of thu
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Curs
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St., New York City
Rev. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. j
q emphasize his statement, ''It is a posi-
tive cure for catarrh if used rs directed."-
Rev. Francis w. Poole, Pastor CentralPr
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
From Foreign shores.

from VOre1En SnOreS.
The Turks are butclering Armeni-
n again.
Nicholas Brokenshire, an English So
licitor, who combined with his law a
confectionery business, has gone into
bankruptcy.
Cartridges tested by the Roentgen
rays to show that they have been care
fully loaded are offered for sale by a
London goldsmith.
Wagner's violin teacher, Robert Sipp,
who Is now 90 years of age, was pres
ent at this summers performances at
Bayreuth.
Formosa continues in a state of re-
bellion against Japanese rule. Japan
csc forces are kept constantly alert in
IN endeavor to subdue the rebels.
Eaton Hall park, the residence of the
duke of Westminster, will h%encefortb
be closed to the public On Sundays,
owing to the continued misbehavior of
rOwdies.
i The Cologne Gazette published a dis
| patch from Zanzibar saying that the
| German consul has refused the request
of British officials to surrender Said
Kahlid.
Boy housemaids have been lately
proposed in England as substitutes for
the incompetent British servant girls.
1t is argued that what Cinnamon and
Hindoos can do Englishmen can do
equally well.
A French anti-tobacco society has
petitiOned the chamber of deputies to
enact a law forbidding school boys and
postoffice clerks to smoke cigarettes,
and Furnishing tobacconists who sell
smoking materials to children.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Rioting MT Elections.

Madrid, Sept. 8. = The elections for
members of the councils general yes
terday have resulted in the return Of
a large ministerial majority. Serious
rioting has taken place at Barcelona.
where the electoral college ballot box
was smashed and knives and revolvcrs
were freely used. Several persons
we're wounded during the disturbances.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
IIumor Across the styx,

1T doesn't pay to so back on your
fixed habits" observed Socrates. Look
at old Diogenes, for instance. Never
went anywhere without his lantern,
and now he's been arrested"
"What for?" queried Caesar.
riding a wheel without q lamp"
snickered Socrates.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Dockcrs Nay strike.

London. Sept. ga meeting Of 1000
lockers was held ut Canningtown to-
day in connection with the threatened
at this meeting that 100000 CONT
mental lockers had joined the interna-
tional federation of ship, dock and riv-
or workers. The principal ports of the
United States, it was further an
nounced. had also sent inquiries with
a view to Joining.
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He Would Try 1t,

Mr.. Glibb-Havc you ever been to
Niagara Falls?
Mr.. Gabb-No.
'Then you ought to go. I took my
wife to see Niagara Falls last week. It
was the first time she had seen that
mighty cataract, and she was struck
speeches. with admiration and sur
prise"
"she was struck speeches., did you
say?
eyes"
I'll take my wife next week."-Pitts-
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Marnhine Did 1t.

Minneapolis, Sept. 8. - Edward s.
Briggs, thirty-three years old, of Nc
vala. Iowa, during the past week a
visitor here. committed suicide yester.
day by taking morphine in the room Of
his boarding house. A letter showed
that he had taken morphine. 1t is
stated that the cause of the deed was
domestic trouble, his wife having left
him
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Long Wait.

Mr.. Haysecd (after a long, long,
weary wait in a New York restaurant)
Seems to me that Drilled Philadelphia
spring chicken we ordered is a long
while coming"
Mrs. Hayseed (rcsignedly)-I s'pose
the train is off the track.-New York
Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
A Safe Guess.

I'm the Matchmaking note left on the
premises by the assassin there are sew.
IN words spelled wrong and no punctu.
ltion."
AHA! Then the villain Is either q
typewriter or a sign painter! Bring
a the directory Cleveland Plain.
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Misses Them.

"say, grandpa, don't you wish't you
was a boy again?"
swell, mebby I'd like to be one eff 1
could git back the two fingers l he'd
blown off by one of them blamed little
cannOns."-Cleveland Plaindealer.
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Nsu> Tr.s~an-

"NNhat Il brilliant imagination Cutely
must have to jump SO suddenly into
fame as a novelist"
Nothing strange about it. He made
out the bills Ut q big plumbing firm for
years."-Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Shot bv a Jenlous Coachman

New York, Sept. 9.-The World this
morning says: William Moran, coach
man for Judge Wandell, Mt his summer
home in Saddle Rock, N. j., shot and
killed Mr.. Bowling of New York, n
guest of the Wandells and then COM
mitted suicide yesterday afternoon.
1t is said that MI. Bowling was the
favorite suitor of one of Judge Wan.
dell's daughters. The coachman, who
had long been i'll the family and who
was not treated like other servants,
is said to have gone mad in love for
the same young woman.
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12

L%ilienthars tragic death will not pe:~
nlanently retard the final realization of
aerial navigation. Its possibility is
now a demonstrated fact; but there
are some mechanical details to be ar
ranged that may delay this realization
for n number Of years. Yet it is prob
able tliat many people who are now
alive will live long enough to ride
through tic air on the perfect flying
snaoIiuo
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OF Frequent Occurrence

He-Have you ever had your ears
pierced, Miss Gay?
She-Yes, at every amateur musicale
I have attended.-Town Topics,
The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
Is in it; and there is no way in which
we eau do this except by n silo.

Is in it; and there is no way in which
we can do this except by n silo.
Did you ever stop to think, in look
ing owe your corn field, there are just
so many pounds of butter in that field?
If it all could be fed Just when the
ear is beginning to glaze there would
he no loss at all. But as soon Is we
wait n few weeks, and the fodder be-
gins to dry. there is not SO much but
ter in the field as there was before.
One of the things that we do not uE.
derstand is, why a dry cornstalk, that
has been carefully cured, and will an
alyZc just the same rs a green one,
will not produce so much milk or but
ter as the green We explain II
by saying that the succulencc makes
the difference; hut when we have said
that it is succulcnce. we arc no wiser
than we We're before, because we do
not know why it is.
But we have to accept certain facts,
even if we don't know why: and the
two that affect us the most nov arc.
that green corn will make more but.
ter than dry, and that the corn in The
silo is the next best thing to green
corn.
There is a lot of feeding value vast.
cd every year in the way the corn
crop is handled. Part of this waste
may be prevented by the proper cur
ing and housing Of the fodder; but IL
the fodder is put into tine silo there is
practically no waste.-National Stock
man.
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Weed. md Good rnrmine.

NsGSS ~ NboA
Occasionally a farmer is heard to
nsk how the weeds can be killed; but
he does not realize that if by some
rapid process they could all be dis
patched new legions would fill their
places at once if the conditions which
they enjoy remain. What farmers
need to comprehend is that without
some radical mistake in the manage
mcnt of their land the daisies would
never have gained such a fOothOld.
All plants. including weeds. settle and
thrive where the competition for life is
such that they can enter into it and
prosper. A good stand Of grass leaves
no room nor any hope for weeds. 1t
is not in we'll titled fields that Canada
thistles flourish. but in neglected past
ures and by the roadsides. In the
contest with the best agricultural prac-
tice they cannot prevail. The remedy
for weeds is to keep the land busy
with a good crop on ii, and this
means that the farm ers must give per-
sistent and connected thought to his
business. If the daisies crowd out the
grass. it is because the meadow has
been neglected and the grass has be-
gun to fail; and wherever there Is ii
vacancy by the failure of the grass.
every enterprising weed finds Il right
full opportunity to establish itself. If
the farmer asks. therefore. what will
kill the daisies, there is one answer:
Better farming.