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Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
A Fallen Indian Hero.

Metoxen, the fieetest, fiercest and
strongest of Carlisle heroes, whose
name was wont to ring on famous
fields few years back, is a plain,
hard-working farmer in Michigan
hauling corded wood to a paper mill
near Green Bay, and making straight
runs all the way down the field behind
his plow. But in the autumn the farm
cannot hold the warrior and harvests
can go hang, while he goes on the
warpath, to play football on the teams
of neighboring towns Metoxen has
not relapsed to reservation shiftless.
ness, and is laying up cash to buy
more farm land. Once in a while the
thought of old-time glories causes him
to heave regretful sighs of various
size. While in Green Bay recently he
picked up from the seat OF his farm
wagon a worn-silk-lined overcoat, thai
had been handsome garment in its
time, and remarked:
That's what we used to get when
we played football Now, umphi ]
get darn little and have to hustle fol
that" Colonel Pratt of the Carlisle
school, keeps track of the later ca
reers of his athletes, and is able tc
report that not one of these doughty
football players has drifted back into
idlesness and worthlessness. All have
gone out to buck the centre" an6
make white mans living in a white
mans style.-From Illustrated Sport
ing News.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
ToRPEDoEs ARE NOT NEW.
Chinese Used the Explosive Nor
Six Hundred Years AGO.

Chinese Used the Explosive More
!. Six Hundred Years Ago.
The torpedo is not modern inven-
ton, as the majority of people sup
pose. 1t, like many other devices of
which civilized nations boast, is hoary
with age. The invention of gunpow-
der by the Chinese seven centuries
ago, commonly attributed to the Con-
fucians, has been disputed, and the
credit for the discovery has been CIV
en- by various authorities to the
Greeks or Romans.
Combustibles like naphtha, to which
class Greek fire belongs, were in use
in the armies of the Califs, and were
confounded with explosives. Marcus
Graecus seems to have. had a recipe
for making gunpowder from saltpeter,
coal and sulphur, and his career has
been placed as early as the ninth cen
tury; but it would be more correct
to place his life in the middle of the
thirteenth. A critical sitting of the
whole evidence leads to the conclu-
sion that saltpeter was first known in
China, but not before the middle OF
the twelfth century.
In the successful defense of the Chi.
nese city Piauking against the Mon
gols, explosives, blasting bodies and
rockets were employed against the
enemy, and some diagrams exist
which show the form in which these
explosives were used.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

There can be no affinity nearer than
our country.-Plato.
Nothing can be truly great which is
not right-Johnson.
The most profound joy has more
of gravity in it.-Montaigne.
Better to die ten thousand deaths
than wound my honor-Addison.
He only employs his passion who
can make no use of his reason.-Cicero.
Half the truth will very often
amount to absolute falsehood.-W Whate-
ly.
We trif1e when we assign limits to
our desires, since Nature has set none.
Brand.
How oft the sight of means to do
i'll deeds makes i'll deeds donel-
Shakespeare.
The man who has too little con-
fidence in himself generally has too
much in others.
Health brings wealth. but this is
another of those rules that will not
work both ways.
No man ever did designed injury
to another but at the same time he
did greater to himself.
When a man has not q good reason
for doing thing he has one good
reason for letting it alone.
The hours we pass with happiness
in view are more pleasing than those
crowded with fruition,-Goldsmith.
Many a man who has the reputation
of knowing a lot manages very sue
cessfully to conceal his knowledge.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
OLD AGE NOW A FICTION.
! The Average Man of Seventy-five To-
day Is in the "Is" Class.

tHG NtCIG9S wan VI 0CNCuhJ-tING IL
day Is in the "Is" Class.
The time was and not SO long ago
either, when men of 65 and 70 regard.
ed themselves, and were regarded by
others. as having reached that point
when they should be willing to re-
tire from the activities of life, says
the Chicago InterOcean.
Our conception of the man of rs on
ly few years ago was that of a
white-haired patriarch who found
pleasure only in "reminiscences, the
sectarian weeklies, checkers, domin-
oes, and his grandchildren.
But the times have changed. The
average man of rs today is neither
bent, feeble. nor senile. He has not
retired from the activities of life,
that he is aware of; nor has he any
idea of retiring. Much less is he in
clined to surrender to the younger
people around him any of the respon-
sibilities or pleasures of existence. He
reads the sporting columns, plays golf,
roots for his favorite baseball club,
and may perchance take flyer on the
races.
Moreover, he is, if anything, inclin,
ed to be more attentive to the ladies
than he was at so, at 40 or at 30.
There is William Ross, aged 73, for
instance, a farmer of Chaplin, Conn.
who was supposed to be a retired and
confirmed bachelor. After living alone
for nearly half a century, after suffer
ing a stroke of paralysis, and after
frequently disappointing his relatives,
. who were looking for a share in his
fortune of 100000, by refusing to die,
he fell in love with a young widow
and married her He is, in fact, only
beginning life.
But this is hardly as forcible an il
lustration of the changed conditions
we have been speaking of as the case
of William Rich, aged 80, of Green
wich, Conn.,, who, twice a widower,
has just eloped with his mother-in-law,
with all the romance" it is said. "of
youth of 49,
This young old mans course, how
ever, it may serve to emphasize the
point that old men are no longer as
old as their years would indicate, can:
not be wholly approved, for it has
complicated matters in his family. His
present bride is the grandmother of
his three children by his first wife. 1t
is unnecessary to say that they are
somewhat confused both as regards
their relationship to their father and
their fathers wife, who is their moth
er's mother.
But this is a phase of the matter
which should be discussed independ-
emily of the marriage itself. The fact
that stands out in bold relief is that
at the age of 80 William Ross was not
only susceptible to the charms of wom-
an, but, like the true lover, disregard
ed all obstacles, surmounted all diff
culties and rose above all considera-
tions, save the unselfish one of max
ing his mother-in-law happy.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
FAD FOR BARvAs POTTERY.
Oddly Constructed Utensils That Are
in Current Demand.

Oddly Constructed Utensils That Are
in Current Demand.
In the Island of Lewis, so well
known to all readers of William
Blacks romance, is the little village
Of Barvas, where two old women car
ry on a rude pottery, for many years
unknown to any but their neighbors.
These, the only potters in the Scot
tish Highlands, have made their
coarse ware for village use and must
have been poorly paid, since the peo-
pie are badly off, and for many a
year now the crockery made in fac
tories has been procurable even in the
Isle OF Lewis. But sportsman stay
ing In the neighborhood saw and fan
cied the pottery and it's makers and
spread it's fame abroad and now the
old women can scarcely supply it fast
enough. Formerly only craggans, q
rude sort of bowl to hold fish oil or
milk. was made, but now to please
tourists and visitors strange and un-
couth tea services are turned out
The cups are not warranted to stand
straight or the saucers to maintain
their equilibrium, the teapot bulges
and the sugar bowl looks tipsy, but
they are queer, they are of Barvas
and so precious, the best of all they
keep the old women in comfort. These
dishes are made from local clay OF
a smooth yellow. After being knead
ed 1t is shaped by hand, scraped with
knife and dried for days in the sun
then fried among peats.-Springnel
Republican
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
CHEF or POLICE SAVED.

I Newberry. s. CIV. II. Harris. Chief
or Police Of Newberry, says: II suf.
<ered for number of years with
kidney complaint. There was a dull
aching across the small of my back
that was worse at night and made me
fcel piserable all the time. The kidney
secretioRs were dark and full of sedl.
ment and lack of control compelled
me to rise number of times during
the night. Between this ANNOYANCE
and the backache it was impossible
for me to get much sleep and my
health was being undermined. / tried
number of remedies, but nothing
helped me until 1 got Doan's Kidney
Pills. The use of this remedy accord
Ing to directions promptly brought
about a change for the better. After
using two boxes the backache all left
me. the kidney secretions cleared up
and the action of the kidneys became
normal"
A FREE TRIAL Of this great kidney
medicine which cured Chief Harris
will be mailed on application to any
part Of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn CO., Buffalo. N. Y.
Sold by all dealers; price, fifty cents
per box.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
JOKE OF "RUBY Boe's."
PugIlist's Odd Reason for Making
Present to Friend.

PugiIst's Odd Reason for Making
Present to Friend.
Robert Fitzsimmons Is not habit
ual wit, but he has the faculty OF
arousing laughter with a quip once
in six months. There is no one bet
ter known in the collegiate and anna
teur athletic circles of Philadelphia
than George Brooke.
He is squash champion-which
Homer Davenport to the contrary not
withstanding, does not mean a cham
pion judge of squashes.
He made the acquaintance of Rob
ert Fitzsimmons, and Freckle Faced
Bob highly approved of him.
So much so that he gazed at him
long and earnestly, and said:
Squash champion, are you? Right,
Oh, well. Mr.. Brooke, 'ere's little
present I'm a-going to give you.
Il got two howls over to Benson
hurst. and I'm goin' to give you one.'
Zone what?"
"One howl. A bloomin' fat biTd
that sleeps all day"
Obi" said Mr.. Brooke, "an owl
yes!"
You shall ave it tomorrow"
"But look here, Mr.. Fitzsimmons
why the deuce are you going to give
me an owl?"
Bob's little eyes glinted and his thin
lips compressed.
SO you can smack i'm on the eye
with you bloomin' squash bat an ear
the beggar 'ooti"-Boston Post.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
Preposterous.

Several well known gentlemen, in.
cluding Senator Mason, were sitting
about in Washington club room dis
cussing the unusual cold of the pres
ent winter. 81 saw it so cold" said
one of the party, about twelve yeas
ago that there was no ice. 1t got so
cold that the ice all cracked up into
hard snow"
Il remember back in 1840," said
another, that it was so cold the cleo
tricity liquefed and dropped off the
wires. Several people bottled it up to
cure their spring rheumatism
ut wasn't much more than ten
years ago" said Senator Mason,
since saw it so cold that the mes
senger boys actually ran to- keep
warm"
That broke up the conversation.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
MICE INJURE FRUIT TREES.


The horticultural section of the Iowa
Experiment Station is in receipt Of
numerous reports from various Sec
tions of the State conveying the infor-
nation that during the recent period
in which the groundjwas covered with
snow, many fruit trees were badly
girdled by field mice. Such trees, if
left unattended, are very likely to die.
The majority of them, however, may
be saved by covering the injured por-
ton with earth. The growing layer
which lies just beneath the bark will
form a new layer of bark If it is kept
moist by banking up with earth for
two or three inches above the girdled
portion. The earth should be firmly
tamped about the stem and pains TAX
en- to see that it is not separated by
the tree swaying in the wind.
Another effective method of treat
ment which is more trouble, but surer.
perhaps, is to wrap the wound with
broad strips of cloth coated with graft
ing wax. The wax is made,by boiling
together lOur pdrtS rOSIu, TWO parts
beeswax, one part tallow. To make
this work effective the wound should
not be allowed to become dried out,
and no time should be lost in covering
the girdled portion. In cases where
the injury has not been too severe this
treatment may also prove effective
in saving trees injured by rabbits.
In this connection attention is called
to the fact that trees may be protected
from injury by mice by mounding hp
with earth for distance of four or
five inches ON the stem each fall. A
large number of young fruit trees are
destroyed annually by mice which
might be protected from injuryiin this
way.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
THE SEA.

Come down with me to the moon-led
sea,
Where the long wave GIBBS and fills
Are these the tides that follow
As the lunar impulse willsf
Nay, rather this is the heart of God,
Naked under the sky,
And we hear its pulse with wonder
The shore, and the clouds and III
Unearthly, awful, uncompelled,
Eternity framed in clay,
The urge of exhaustless passions
Rocking beneath the gray!
Its life is the blood of the universe
Through coSmie arteries hurled,
With the throb of its giant pulses
God feeds the veins of the world
And the lands are wrinkled and gray
with time
And scored with thousand scars,
But the sea is the, soul of the Infinite,
Swinging beneath the stars.
Frederic Lawrence Knowles, in New
England Magazine.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
FALL OF A GRIZZLY BEAR.
Without an instant's Warning Tract
.Lt p.-.x K;IiS III. rr.In>r.

Without an instant's Warning Tract
able Beast Kills His Trainer:
Another distinct type Of a zoo rogue
Is the beast that goes wrong owing to
accidental temptation-like Shaggy,
an exceedingly intelligent, tractable
Rocky Mountain grizzly who reverted
to savagery and turned man-killer in
a twinkling, owing to the unfortunate
misstep and fall of his trainer.
Shaggy was big, handsome, gray
old fellow, with jungle-thick coat and
numbering, awkward gait, and fun
ny twinkle that made him particularly
adaptable for his part of clown in a
remarkably trained group of fourteen
bears. He had come under the hands
of his teacher when but a helpless
cub, had never lost his liking for ca
resses, and, although the mightiest
beast in the collection, was least sus-
Fectcd of being dangerous. Once, when
a striped hyena hung to the ankle OF
his friend, he had run to the rescue,
and cut loose right and left with his
ponoerouS lore paws, and mad DltIen
and torn and mangled the ugly beast
to death before he could be beaten
of. Among his accomplishments were
that OF turning admirably grotesque
somersaults and the more difficult feat
OF balancing himself on his hind legs
on three-foot wooden sphere.
Not scratch or a scar had his
trainer to show for the years of work
he had put in with the bear. And yet
without an instant's warning, this
same beast attacked and injured his
master SO that, when rescued, he was
semi-demented. and so dreadfully cut
and lacerated that the surgeons de-
cided it useless to try to save his life
-McClure's Magazine.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
Actors Independent Valet.

Arthur Boucher, the English actor.
once hired as a dresser" a frequen-
ter of the gallery at the theater. Mr..
Boucher says: "One night q new
play was produced by me, and when
came back to my dressing-room from
the stage found the door locked. AS
time was pressing, 1 sent another man
TO search for my missing servant He
was caught red-handed in the gallery
among his old associates loudly boo
ing his master. Arraigned before my,
be maintained the frmest attitude
possible and asserted boldly, No, sir,
I am your servant behind the scenes,
but as an Independent man and ho1-
est gallery boy l am bound to express
my unbiased opinion either for or
against any play which l may happen
to see at first night
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE.

Strawberries, black raspberries and
vegetables may be grown in the apple
orchard. Care should be taken not to
plant such crops too close to the trees.
The distance between the outside rows
and the trees should be increased as
the latter increase in size. The ground
should be we'll fertilized, thoroughly
cultivated AMI every foot utilized, but
ample space should be left around
the trees for root pasturage.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05

heads that it completely hid them from
view, and for two foolish young low
ers the beating rain was turned into
a golden mist!
A policeman's finger tapped Clayton
sharply on the arm.
You can sit on the bench IL you
like, but you're not allowed TO scratch
the paint by standing"
The bewildered couple suddenly be-
came conscious that the sun was shin
ing brightly and that half a dozen
idlers stood there in the walk, gap
ing curiously at them.
Nor you dent need your umbrella
now," added the policeman, with an
incipient grin. Its been fine for the
last half hour Chicago Tribune.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
Women of Siam.

There are no old maids in Siam, for
there all the girls marry, and woman
is not considered to have attained her
highest estate till. she has become a
mother. Then she has reached the
pinnacle of honor. The chief wife, is
the first wife, and she may not be
sold, but if her husband desire to be
rid of her he must divorce her &C.
.ording to the law.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05

Or. Parkhurs..r attention mas been
salled to a morning newspaper account
# an interview with his dear old
'riend. Thomas G. Platt, and particu-
srly to the senator's assertion, II am
town for business and religion"
shcn with contemptuous snort:
Why use eight words when six would
io7 If Platt's going into religion it
must be for business"
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
MUCH GAME IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
Country 10 Full Of Caribou; Moose,
and Wild Duck,


and Wild Duck.
Warham Whitney, Of Rochester, N.
T.. was at the Holland house for q
day recently, at the end of q hunting
trip of several weeks in Newfound-
land and New Brunswick, says the
New York Tribune. He was in the
Adirondacks through August, and
when September opened he was off
for Newfoundland.
Plenty of game and flsh-splendid
sport" was his comment on his ex-
perience in Newfoundland. Much of
the country" said he, lis marshy
plain, but there Is plenty Of caribou.
saw more than three hundred OF
them-twenty-eight in one herd--and
| brought some trophies of my marks
manship and good fortune home with
me. Proof of the plentitude Of game
was the variety on one occasion In
our camp larder. We had black duck,
teal duck, caribou meat, and trout.
The big game In New Brunswick Is
moose. They come to the water night
and morning, and the quiet coves,
where they can stand in the water
and nip the lily pads. is the place to
get at them unawares. | have the
head of one | shot. OF course, one
must endure some hardships on such
a trip, but when it is all over the
mounted heads upon the wall at home
bring back the whole experience as a
pleasing reminiscence. Up In New
foundland quiet water surfaces, lakes
and the like. are always 'steadies,
and the running streams are rapids,
while in New Brunswick the lakes
are dead water the streams are
quick water and a cove is 'bo
poDt ~
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
Beware of Oiutments For CIsarrh That
Contain Mercury.

rs mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole sys.
tenn when entering 1t through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be usel
except on prescriptions from reputable ply.
sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarra Cure, manufactures
by +. ]. Cheney i Co., Toledo, o., contains
no mercury, and is taken Internally, actin.
ofthe system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cur
lie sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally, ana made IL Toledo, Ohio, by f.
J. Cheney Il Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle.
Take Hall e. Family Pills for Constitution
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
Gigantic Boring scheme,

The Chamber of Commerce, at Den
yer, Col, is considering a PROPOSE
ton to bore one and an eighth miles
into the earth at a point fourteen
miles east of the city, in search of
natural gas, oil and coal. The cost is
estimated at $4,000, but the plan is
considered feasible by experts who
have investigated the geological for
nations.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
A VALUABLE ORCHARD.

In Marion County, Pa, is 140-acre
orchard 1t contains 6000 apple trees,
and many thousand plums and pears.
The peaches are set with the apples,
and have done their best work by the
time the apples need all the room. Mr..
Ledy fertilizes well, cultivates per-
sistently, and prunes peaches closely.
He says that profit comes from
quality, not quantity. An unpruned
tree will set from 1900 to 1000 fruits.
He does not wish over 200, and fewer
are better. OF large varieties, 13O to
100 make a bushel, and bushel to a
tree is enough. This means a small
charge for picking, packing and
freight, and big price for fancy
quality. Mr.. Ledy shipped two and
one-half bushels to Philadelphia and
received $4.95 gross. A neighbor
shipped twenty bushels the same day
to same firm and received SO gross.
Charges for picking, handling, etc.,
per bushel were the same. The twenty
bushel lot gaze net returns of thirty
cents, or one and one-half cents a
buShel. The two and one-half cent
bushe4~1ot netted $1.5O a bushel. Mr..
Isedy fertilizes with acid phosphate
and muriate of potash, 400 pounds
rock to 100 pounds muriate. For
nitorgen he uses cow peas, crimson
clover, etc.-Country Gentleman.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05

ASTON GiDson, one OF Andrew JacA.
sons favorite jockeys. is LIVING quiet.
iy at Calera, Ala, having nearly
reached the age OF 116 years. He was
born July 1 1888, in South Carolina.
ard there is documentary evidence Of
his great age The old man still takes
much interest in racing matters. With
Gibson is his wife. when be ma ried
in 1889. She was hors. in 1915.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
High Birtl, the Test.

It Is his blood, and not the amount
of his wealth or the extent of his
lands that ennobles Rajput. Many
of the noblest families are very poor,
but the poorest retains the knowledge
and the pride Of bis ancestors. which
are often hia enlr inheritaneA
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
TEMPERATURE OF HoTBEDs.

The temperature of the hotbeds
should be below eighty degrees when
the seeds are planted. When the seed
lings are of size to set out, which will
be in about six weeks, the ground
should be thoroughly cultivated, SO
as to kill all the weeds that may be
starting. The ground should then be
laid off IN rows eighteen to twenty
inches apart. Onions will stand great
deal of crowding, and some growers
put the rows as close as twelve inches
and the plants three inches apart in
the rows.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
II He Only Could

"How's my boy getting on?" asked
the farmer of the city merchant.
"Oh, he's all right. Does just wha
he's fold, but seems to lack judgmen
of his own
Well" replied the farmer, ''h,
knows a whole lot if he could onl,
thiAk uf Cleveland Leader.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
a Poem.

Must poems always be a yard
Or less of words strung en- a page?
Do rhyme and meter make a bard,
With just pinch of wisdom sage?
A fig for verse like that, say l,
When Helen gayly passes byi
What swinging rhythm in her walk!
What symphony of eye and hairi
One glimpse and Pegasus would balk.
Refuse to bulge, to soar in airi
No pleasure now for him to fly,
And Helen smiles while passing by.
Let bookworms scan the printed page
And over first editions" sigh;
Let poets fall into rage
Because their wares 1 will not cry
The very soul of poetry
Thrills me when Helen passes by,
&C. +. Weeks in Boston Transcript
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05

It Is well known that Japan e a
very small country as compared with
the Russian empire. Its area is 147,-
600 square miles, while Russia has
1900, ,OOO In population the disparity
is much less, but still very great-44,-
OOO, 900 for Japan against $4,000, ,0c0
for the Russian Empire.
Greene County herald., 1904-08-05
RAKC WILL NOT CLOG.

Among the mino- conveniences for
the garden worker is the anti-clog
rake shown in the accompanying cut.
In implements of this character of
the ordinary type the grass and other
matter scraped up from the lawn in
variably clog up the teeth of the rake,
so that the operator must stop at fire.
quent intervals for the purpose of