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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

vial, as shown in the cut. TO pre-
vent air from getting into the bot
tie you should lay a few sheets of
dampened blotting paper in the bot
tom of plate and stand the bottle
on them.
Then press firmly upon the bot
tie to make the connection at the
neck perfectly air tight, and in a
short time you will see little jet
of water come up through the tube
from the vial, and if you have fol-
lowed these instructions closely the
jet will go up and strike the bottom
of the bottle. The reason is that
the contraction of the inner air
from the cooling Of the bottle
causes a pressure to be exerted upon
the surface of the water in the vial,
and that forces it up through the
il1ba
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
O a . TO R "A.
Besrs che 4, The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ss &(M2zzzM
THRILLING NEWS.
How the Discovery of Ether Excited
the Medical World.

1t is difficult at this day to re-
alize what the excitement must have
been both in the world at large and
among the medical profession on
the discovery Of ether. The late
Sir Benjamin Richardson in his
"Vita Medica' gives an account of
the commotion which prevailed in
the medical college at Glasgow
when the news reached the physi-
clans of the city.
According to custom, large
class was seated in the college thea
ter, waiting for the midday lecture.
The professor, DR.. Moses Buchanan,
was always scrupulousIy punctual,
but minute after minute went by
and he did not appear. Finally he
came, but onl ly to say, to the stu
dents great surprise, that there
would be no lecture that day. He
had, he announced, wonderful
piece of news to teIl-the fact that
a method had been discovered
through which surgical operations
could be performed without pain.
81 am," said he, "on my way to
the Royal infrmary to take part
there in the trial of the new system,
and by and by we shall meet to
learn if the news which has reach
ed us is really true. If it be, this
day is a red letter day in all our
lives"
The announcement created the
greatest excitement, and all the stu
dents trooped off at once to the
Royal infirmary. There Professor
Andrew Buchanan, who was to per-
form the operation, stepped forward
and repeated the news which haA
come from the Massachusetts hos
pital and described the process so
far as he knew it. The patient was
then sent for, and he came in quite
smilingIy, rather proud of being the
first man in Scotland to enjoy the
honor and good fortune of being
cut without pain.
The usual programme followed.
He laughed, wept and went through
the gamut of emotions produced by
ether, but he finally sank to sleep,
and the operation was brilliantly
performed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Sheridan once had occasion to
call at hairdresser's to order a
wig. On being measured the bar
ber, who was a liberal soul, invited
the orator to take some refresh
ment in an inner room. Here he
regaled him with a bottle of port
and showed so much hospitality
that Sheridan's heart was touched.
When they rose from the table and
were about separating the latter,
looking the barber full in the face,
said, son rejecting | don't intend
that you shall make my wig"
Astonished and with blank vis-
age, the other exclaimed: "Good
heavens, Mr.. Sheridan! How can I
have displeased you?"
"Why, look you," said Sheridan,
"you are an honest fellow, ard, I
repeat it, you shan't make my wig,
for | never intended to pay for it.
I'll go TO another less worthy son
of the craft. Liverpool Mercury,
The journal aud The American Boy
both one year for only $3.50.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

mulct the railroads of several
hundred thousand dollars, should
the maximum penalty be impos-
ed in all cases. 1t is said that
cases can be made against every
important railroad in the United
States and that this will be done
as rapidly as the papers can be
prepared.
The government is continually
losing good men from its scien-
tific department, owing to the
fact that the government sala-
ries paid them are extremely
small and are limited by law.
Private corporations are under
no such limitation, and if a man
makes for himself a reputation
it is almost impossible for the
government to keep him. The
past week has been particularly
notable in cases of this sort. The
Agricultural department has lost
one of it's most expert scientists,
DR.. Herbert J. Webber, who de-
veloped the long-staple upland
cotton, the hardy orange, and a
number of other important i'm
provements in the plant-breeding
line. The Bureau of Corpora
tions has lost Herbert D. Brown,
the man who did the most i'm
portant work in the Bureaus re-
port on oil transportations, while
the Geological Survey has lost
two men. One of them was Har-
vey Weed. a copper mining ex-
pert, who from a position of
$14OO a year was taken up by a
big New York corporation at a
salary Of $4,000. The other was
j. E. Speer, who made the ini-
tial reports on the Tonapa gold
fields, he gets a salary of $lO,-
600.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

The trouble between the pres
ident and the Senate clique over
the discharge of the 25th Infan-
try has developed to a very un-
usual and possibly a serious sit
uation. 1t has been many years
since a president of the United
States was in a position where
even a threat of impeachment
would be dared against him, and
while there is little idea that the
breach between the president and
the Senate will have any event.
uality, still that possibility has
been limited at. The whole thing
is a matter of politics. Senators
Foraker and Penrose both have a
large colored constituency and
they are bound to talk for the
effect which it will have in their
respective states. The chances
are that if Foraker and Penrose
were left alone they would talk
for the benefit of the Congress
sional Record and then let the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
GAS ToREA.
Bear. the nIhs Kind You Have Always Bought
'''.a'''' s &eHAzzzM
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAoHlNOlON LIE Elk.
There is a good deal of fun for
outsiders over the situation in
which Congress has left itself,
owing to the refusal of the House
to pass the bill raising members
pay to $500 a year. All men,
bers were in favor of the meas
ure; in fact, it would be hard to
find a man anywhere who would
be averse to having his salary
raised. 1t even may be said that
there is a fair reason for making
the raise in this case. Members
of Congress are not overpaid and
the expenses of living in Wash
ington have increased to such an
extent that it is becoming hard
for a man to hold a seat in Con-
gress if he has not independent
means with which to exc out his
salary. However, the members
of the House were afraid to vote
for a raise of their own salary,
and after increasing the salary
of Speaker Cannon they voted
down the bill to boost their own
wages. There was a hope, if not
an absolute expectation, among
the members that the Senate
might bell the cat and pass such
a measure after which the House
could concur with becoming re-
luctance. But the Senate is show
ing little disposition to pull chest
nuts out of the fire for the House.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Pour water into vial until YOU
have half filled it and then through
the cork run a piece of straw or a
small glass tube of sufficient length
to project slightly above the cork
at the top and to reach within a
quarter of an inch of the bottom of
the vial. With varnish or sealing
wax hermetically seal the cork, leav-
ing the tube open, of course.
Get an ordinary pickle bottle and,
having warmed it over the gas or a
lamp, turn it upside down over the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
The snes-ewood Tree.

This queer name is given to GER
tain tree that is native to Natal and
other parts of South Africa. Work
men cannot saw or plane it without
sneezing, the dust having precisely
the same effect as the strongest
snuff. The wood has bitter taste,
and insects give it a wide berth.
For this reason it is much used for
work that is required to last a long
time.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
Lonq Series of Bridges.

The railroad which is to run from
Miami, Fla, to Key West will re-
quire from the mainland to the lat
ter city an almost continuous series
of bridges. These, aggregating six
ty-two miles in length, are to span
the stormy channels separating the
coral islets known as the Florida
KEYS.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

The Secretary of Agriculture
says he will be unable to decide
for some time to come just what
whiskey is. For the purposes of
the public it would answer just
as well if he could decide what it
isn't. 4,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Emperor William has about
concluded that the East Africans
are a benighted lot Of people who
don't deserve to be colonized.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

An Atlantic jury has just ac-
quilted four negroes who are
charged with murder in connec-
tion with last September's race
riot. Apparently the jury want
ed to save a few of the survivors
to remember the event by.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
VARICOCELE

Is an unhealthy state of the spermatic CO rd
aud veins Of the Scrotim or bag 1t is caused
through self-nbuse, excuses, severe strains
blows, falls and sometimes bicycle riding
in the left side. The whole vein in old cas-
es is knolty, corded and ell larged, bulg ging
out in places into little pouches, giving the
vessel when full OF blood kuotty APP
pearance. The disease com on slow ly with
heavy aching pal II, sometimes extending up
the cord to the groin and back. The bag feels
as If filled with a bunch of angle worms. If
neg lected the testicleS will be ruined and
the whole sexual and nervous syst m sap
ped and impotence follow, Do not delay.
Consult DR.. Adair at once His treatment
restores the testicles to u lie althy condition.
tn of mr.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

matter drop. But at this point
another factor enters the equa-
ton, and that is Bailey of Texas.
Bailey hates the president, po-
litically and personally, with a
wholesouled and consistent hatred
that is rather unusual in that
gentleman. 1t is expected that
when he comes back after the
holiday recess, he will take ad-
vantage of the situation to vent
his personal spite during the dis
cussion of the Foraker resolution.
Most of the other southern MEN,
bers would be glad to let the
matter drop, because it is neither
good politics nor to their person
al liking to keep the race ques-
ton stirred up at fever heat as
it now is. Moreover, it is sus-
pected they secretly approve the
president, right or wrong.
The more conservative view of
the situation is that the Foraker
resolution will be passed and pos
sibly that the committee on mill
tary affairs will hold a post ses-
sion meeting and go into the dis
charge of the troops until they
are driven off by the hot weather.
There is every prospect that if
an investigation once starts it
will be a long and tiresome af-
fair. The president has an
nounced his intention, if a meas
ure is passed reinstating the dis
charged troops, of vetoing the
same. If it is passed over his
veto he says that he will take the
matter to the Supreme court for
a final settlement and those who
know him best say that he is full
ly capable of doing so. AS the
president and Senate have theo-
retically equal powers it would
thus be left to the Supreme court
to decide whether or not the
president as commanders in chief
of the army had exceeded his
rights. Ammunition is being ac-
cumulated on both sides. The
president has already sent Mr..
Purdy, of the Department of
Justice, to Texas to make a thor
ough investigation into the facts
of the case, ard the committee
on military affairs, in spite of the
large amount of work already
cut out for it, has been looking
up precedents and the law in the
case with a view to meeting the
issue when it arises, as it is al
most certain to do. The fact
that this is a short session stands
against deliberate action, but
there is bound to be much talk
and the country will be treated
to a test of strength between the
Legislative and executive branch
es of the government such as has
not been witnessed for a gener-
alton past.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
WOMEN

All chronic diseases OF women successful
ly treated. NO unnecessary exposure, ex-
animation or embArassm Consult him
before you consent to that operation, IT you
are losing flesh, getting weak, feel tired and
gloomy, don Y give up Hll hope, but 60 and
have a little talk with DIR, Adair. 1t Will cost
you nothing, as he Is always willing to ad-
wise and help you,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Lawyer Patrick says he does
not want a pardon for a crime he
has not committed, and he is
prepared to carry on his fight for
years to come. We should think
a threat of this sort would get
him almost anything he wants.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Mr.. Carnegie says an income
tax makes liars. Not exactly,
merely gives them a fresh op-
portunity.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

1t is now stated that the pack
ers have established frstclass
veterinary college at the stock
yards. If all reports be true
they could scarcely have selected
a better spot for clinic.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

1t does not seem to have oc-
Cured to any congressman yet to
inquire how the new rate law is
going to affect the next mileage
appropriation bill.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
BLOOD p0IS0N

The terrible poison of Syphilis, or loath-
some blood and skin diseases with follow
Ing SYMPTOMS: Falling OF the hair, sore
throat, swollen and suppurating glands, g.
stiffness OF joints, destruction of bones o.
the nose, with offensive discharges from the
nostriis, forever driven from the system
without the use of Injurious medicines. Re-
member that this horrible disease. II neg
iected or improperly treated, curses the pre-
sent and coming RantratlOn.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Wouldn't Senator Bailey have
stood a whole lot better show
with his fellow Texans if he had
omitted to pay back the money
he borrowed from the Standard
Oil Company?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

The House last week debated
for some time over the proper
committees to which to refer the
presidents message. 1t finally
decided in favor of the Commit
tee of the Whole.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
STRICTuRE

1t matters not how long you have su ffered
from structure, or how many different doc
tors and corresponding Mushroom Medical
Inst flutes have failed in y our case, he will
cure you just as certain as you go to him.
He will do no cutting or dilatiDg, His meth
cd is bl' odless, painless, safe and sure, cures
w Unr al
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED on APPLICATION.
THURSDAY, JAN. 3, 1907.

Mr.. Bryan is now in a position
to state that his government own
ership idea has been purloined.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
EVERY FARMER KNOWS

that his ground should be made yield than he is getting
and is know how
We prepared demonstrate that land be made produce
100 bushels of 40 bushels 800 bushels potatoes
every and no weeds possible.
Our system makes the farmer independent of the
No matter how little assured with only 60 days labor
Worn out land can be made wonderfully productive
Our system based and the result of fifty of labor by
the lawes d Gilbert at Rothamstead, England.
Your land actually worth five times its market value All is
fully explained In our letter sent
The FARM LAND IMPROVEMENT co, Inc CINCINNATI, O.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
UNNATURAL DISCHARGES

Unnatural discharges, whether recent or
chronic, GonOrrhea, Gleet, structure, in.
tiammdtion of the bladder and prostate, OIL
chitIs, hydrocele and varicocele In all their
stages, forms ana complications, cured quick
ly, permanently and without hindrance to
business by remedies tested in many years
nlnln ~. Of iEaIA
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

Office in New Weaver Block, Green
vile, End floor, (take elevator) to the
Bi-Chemic Medical Offices, DR.. Adair
in charge.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

MOSI VI Tile SclldCOFSJ IL Hldy DS
remarked, are wealthy men, to
whom an increase in salary is a
matter of comparative indiffer-
ence. So it looks as though a
few sessions more might pass
leaving the increased compensa-
tion of members still an urgent
but unsolved problem.
There is another matter of sal
ary increase which the underpaid
clerks to congressman are watch
ing with hungry eyes and which
stands a little better show of
passing. AS the law now stands
congressman are allowed $1,000 a
year for clerk hire and many of
them put their wives or daught-
ers on the clerical roll, pocket
the money and do the work them
selves. Others club together and
hire a single clerk, each paying
him not more than $40 a week
and pocketing the remainder of
the salary. The measure of re-
lief for the clerks contemplates
putting them on the regular sal
ary roll of the House and Senate
and paying them each $500 a
year direct. 1t may be said in
justice to some representatives
and senators that they not only
give their clerks all the stipulated
$1,000, but a good deal besides,
and some of them by generosity
with market, real estate and 9TH
er tips, have enabled their clerks
to become independently rich.
There is one case known to many
correspondents in Washington
where correspondent losing his
newspaper job got a clerkship
under a wealthy eastern senator.
He made good and saved the SEN
atOr time, money and trouble, in
the numerous ways that an eff
cient secretary can for a public
man. One day the old gentle
man suggested that he buy a
bunch of X. Y. z. stock on the
theory that it was going up. The
secretary replied that he had no
money to venture in such a spec
ulation, whereupon the old gen.
tleman wrote O. K. on his card,
addressed it to his own brokers,
and inside of a week advised the
clerk to sell out. Meantime the
stock scored an advance of S65, =
600. This is by no means a COM
mon case, but it does happen
some times. On the other hand,
one of the very wealthiest sena-
tors, who still occupies a seat,
took in a newspaper man as his
secretary about a year ago, kept
him all one winter, allowed him
to spend over $40O in small treats
for disagreeable constituents
whom the senator did not want
to meet himself, and at the end
of that time refused even to set
tie the wine bill and other prac-
tically necessary expenses which
the clerk had contracted on his
behalf.
The Secretary of Agriculture
has at last gone after the rail
roads for violation of the cattle
transportation law passed at the
last session of Congress. 1t will
be recollected that the old law
forbade railroad companies to
keep cattle on the cars for more
than tWentyeight hours without
food and drink and a rest of five
hours. Even this was entirely
too long, but the packing house,
railroad and cattle interests made
a bitter fight to have the time
limit extended to thirtysix hours.
In the face of the strenuous pro-
tests from every Humane Socie-
ty in the country this was done.
But the railroads were not salts
fed even with this iniquitous law
and cases have been certified to
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
MEN AND WOMEN

If your case is curable he will so inform
you. If incurable he will make no promis-
es which he cannot fulfill. He holds your
secrets In sacred confidence and every per-
son treating with him is fully protect ed
from embarrassment.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
he TREATS

cases only, such as Stomach, Liver,
Bowel. Rectum, Constipation, DIarrhoea,
Dyspepsia, etc. Piles cured without the use
of knife, caustic or injection. Call and in
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03
Notice Of Appointment.

Estate Of Jacob Vogt, deceased.
NOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ undersigned has been duly appointed
and qualified as Executor of the last will
and testament of Jacob VOgt, deceased, late
of Darke County, o,
Persons having claims against i'd estate
will present them duly authenticated, fO
allowance; and all persons indebted to sale
estate will please make payment.
A. V. JOBES, Executor,
Geo. A. JObes, Atty.
Dec. 20, l906W3
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-01-03

railroad and cattle interests made
a bitter fight to have the time
limit extended to thirtysix hours.
In the face of the strenuous pro-
tests from every Humane Socie-
ty in the country this was done.
But the railroads were not salts
fled even with this iniquitous law
and cases have been certified to
the Solicitor Of the Agricultural
department in which they have
kept cattle crowded and starving
and famished with thirst in the
cars for periods running up to
ninety hours. The Secretary of
Agriculture has secured evidence
in between five and six hundred
such cases and they have been
presented to the Department of
Justice for rigorous prosecution.
The maximum penalty for each
individual shipment is $500, and
if a carload of cattle should be
shipped, all belonging to differ
ent parties, the maximum penal
ty for over-running the time linn
it with such a load would be $1O,-
600. Not many such cases are
included among the list, but there
are se au1h prosecutions afoot to
q lrecover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09

Britt, in explaining his acceptance of the
weight article. He made rfngside weight
for Nelson. didn't he? Well IT did not seem
to weaken him much. l don't think, so what
was the use Of holding out against few
pounds when it apparently has no effect on
mans fighting strength?
You fellows seem to think that he Will
beat me, and as the odds In the betting
will be against me, a short-ender has a
right to protect himself on the money.
Il am going after the winners end. and l
think I am going to land it, but 1 am not
such a fool that 1 don't know what am
up against in this Cans, who now seems
better than ever and l am not such fool
that I want to have all my trouble for
nothing in case he gets me-"
Britt will Immediately go into training
at his old quarters. He has been out OF
the game for some time. and he feels that
he wants to come back to fighting form
slowly, so he viii begin his hard work early
and gradually taper off.
The contract with the Nevada promoters
provides that the men shall be on hand
at Tonopah to begin training not later than
March l. Coffroth said that Britt and he
would soon make a trip to Tonopah to look
over the facilities for training. They
would then return to San Francisco. and
Britt would shape his plans so as to be in
Tonopah to begin active preparations for
his fight by the middle of February.
1t is a notable fact that the fight Is to
take place on the tenth anniversary OF the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons contest, which was
also held in Nevada.