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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

Probably the most of the pol
iticians who are advocating a
third term for the president know
he will not take it but think it
will be pretty safe as a matter
of record to point out at home
that they were for him anyhow.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09
COURT HOUSE NEWS.
PROBATE COURT.

Report OF sale Ol redl eSIdIS dI
private sale filed and same con-
firmed in estate of George Searls.
Final account filed in guard
ianship of Ruth May King, in
guardianship of Maude Faulkner
and in estate of Rebecca Hetsler.
Application filed to lease real
estate and to sell personal prop
erty in guardianship of Maude
Faulkner.
First account filed in guardian
ship of COrnelia Reid.
Report of sale of personal pro-
perty at private sale filed in es-
tate of Frederick Thumm.
Henry Layer was appointed
guardian of Ruth May King.
Bond $4,000.
Mandate from Circuit court filed
in case of Joint Board of County
Commissioners of Darke, Miami
and Shelby counties VS. Big -Four
R'v Co. Cause remanded back
for trial in Probate court.
State of Ohio VS. Ora Kendall.
Information filed charging OBJ
tanning goods by false represen-
tation; plea of guilty entered and
sentence deferred.
Jacob Selby was appointed as
guardian of Bessie May Selby
Bond 5000.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Alonzo E. Gable, 25, teacher,
and Myrtle Ardinger, 18, both OF
Greenville.
Harry McCool, q, farmer, Mi
ami county, and Pearl Westfall
23, Franklin township.
Lew H. Gentner, 32, farmer
Jackson township. and HATTIE
Dixon, 80, Greenville.
Wm. E. Williams, 27, glas
blower, Chicago, ILL.,, and Mrs
| Cordelia Houk, 80, Greenville.
Arthur Stickel, 22, teamster
and Opha Roberts, q, both o
Greenville.
Hurschel M. Resor, 27, labor
er, Union City, and Elsie Norris
26, MississinaWa township.
| COMMON PLEAS COURT.
NEW CASES.
! 18436-Greenville Building &c
" Harry Johnson ct al; for $63O.7
and foreclosure of mortgage.
18437-Frank Kimble v Deli
Kimble; for divorce.
COMMON PLEAS DECISIONS.
Bessie May Brinkman VS. Jaco
| Brinkman. Divorce granted an
plaintiff restored to her Made
name of Bessie May Winn.
P. Odlin & Co. VS. Workman (
Daley. Cancellation of describe
mortgage ordered.
John Howard, surviving a'
signee of Peter Odlin, VS. B. I
Weaver & Bro. Same entry 8
case above.
Albert Harter ct al. VS. C. {
C. & St. L. R'y Co. Plaintiff
recover from defendant $1O58 j
satisfaction of all claims.
Lydia Dershem VS. l. F. Rel
inert ct al. Partition sale to b
made of described premises.
| Elizabeth H. Culbertson '
VIM. M. Harper. Demurrer /
first and second defenses cor
tanned in answer of defendar
sustained; defendant admits tn
execution of a note of $265 jar
uary l, 1896, with 8 per cent ir
tereSt, and that said note was t
be received by him in paymen
as in the petition set out and tn
court finds plaintiff is entitled t
the relief prayed for in her pc
tition.
Laurinda Downing VS. Mary f
Bicknell ct al. On application O
the plaintiff leave was granite
to annex a copy of said will t
the said petition; plaintiff grant
ed leave to file an amended pet
tion herein by May 6.
W. H. Wolcott VS. Lizzie Wol
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-09

- Read our clubbing ofier.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

enables the types to be set vertically
in grooves made in the grille.
''The method of use is as follows:
The type are in the body of the case
and the Roman letters bear on an ink
ing pad below In the lid las the case
lies OPEN is the empty grille, under
which sheet of paper may be slipped.
The blind person recognizes the type
by touching the Braille characters and,
taking them one by one. places them
in the grille from left to right. The
type are thus set closely side by side.
TO separate the words the groove to
the right of the last word set is al
lowed to remain empty. When all the
type are in place slight pressure i'm
presses them on the sheet of paper
The same apparatus enables one who
does not know the Braille alphabet to
write to blind person, in which case
the ink pad is not used. The charac-
tiers are placed in the grille, taking
care that the Roman letter is upper
most, so as to be seen by the operator.
The latter composes his words letter
by letter and places them in the grille
at the right, going from right to left.
Pressure is then brought to bear on .
sheet of paper, placed, as before, un-
der the grille, the Braille characters:
are forced into the paper, the pressure
necessary for this depending on it's
thickness. The paper is then turned
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
"NoTIcE At OUR CLIENTS"
Portuguese Sign That Assurediy Has
Elements Of Humor.

A firm of preserved fruit merchants
in Portugal has issued a notice at
our clients which is not without hui
NOR. 1t is difficult to understand.
1t says:
For to avoid the limitations of our
produces, so appreciated in the mar
kets of Portugal and foreign, should
demand in all boxes the inscriptions
with the medals and registered marks
of our manufacture; because to have
manufacturers which desire to INIT
our articles, inclusive announcing pre-
MUM of expositions that never con-
cur"
Terrible penalties are threatened for
"adulterating of Uniting regis
tered mark; to call with .perfidious-
ness the articles with adulterate
marks, initiate or fraudulently used;
copying or initiating drawing or
commercial model deposited; to sail
with Righteousness or to introduce
in the country objects that the draw
ings or models was copied or imi-
tated of others manufacturers; to ex.
plor RIGHTEOUSNESS a drawing or mod
Ell deposited for anoter.''
Even these do not cover the con-
travener, because "besides of the pen
alties which yoa contest for the con.
traventions are subject at the action
for loss and damage intended for the
mechanical or merchant of analogous
produces, with recompense, marks, or
registered Names" and "the reitera-
lions are punished with the double of
the penalty" :.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

The tube containing the saline solution
in which this was evolved had been heat
ed to 100 degrees Centigrade for 20 min
utes. This temperature is fatal to all
known heterogeneous.
the question of spontaneous genera
ton, has returned to his experiments.
some of the interesting results of
which he has permitted us to repro
duce. DR.. Bastian held against his
three great adversaries that even in
perfectly sterilized and isolated media
germs of life would appear, and he be-
lieves that he has now found conclu-
sive proof of this. During last year
he prepared certain saline solutionsi
which he enclosed in Theoretically,
sealed tubes that had previously BEEN
perfectly sterilized. AS further pre-
caution, explains London Graphic, he:
subjected the closed tubes and solu-
lions to temperatures of from 100 to
100 degrees Centigrade, a degree of:
heat now known to be fatal to all mi
cro-organisms. 1t is fatal to bacteria,
micrococci, to torulae, to vibriones and
moulds; and yet in his solutions, after
months of exposure to diffused light
or to uniform heat of an incubator he
discovered these FORMS They were
found in deposit of silicon which ap-
peared at the bottom of the tube, the
liquid above remaining perfectly clear,
which it would not do if it were not
completely steril1zed. Carbon is not;
present in the solutions, but it's close
chemical ally, silicon, is; and DR.. Bas-
tian contends that there is good primal
facie evidence from his experiments
to show that silicon is capable of en-
tering into the composition of proto-
plasm itself-that is. wholly or in part
taking the place of carbon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
STERILIZATION.
FOR THE BLIND.
ingenious Portable Printing Outfit De.
signed by Frenchman.

An ingenious portable printing out
fit with which the blind may COM
municate with those who see, and vice
versa, has been devised by Director
Vaughan, of the Quinze-Vingts blind
asylum, in France. The following de.
scription of the device is translated
from La Nature by the Literary Digest.
Says this paper:
1T is well known that the blind use
for reading and writing, the system
of points in relief devised by Braille,
in which words and phrases are
formed by proper combination of
these points. In reading, the blind
touch the points with the finger; to
write, they form the text in Braille
points by means Of a stylus and a
grille beneath sheet of paper. The
portable printing set for the blind,
which is represented in the accom-
panying figure, is box containing
types in it's lowest part, and above
these a grille to receive these when
set. The characters used are specially
cast for the purpose; -. they
bear at one end a letter of the Braille
alphabet, and at the other the equiv
alent Roman letter. These characters
are also furnished with tongue
placed lengthwise at the base of the
letter, and indicating it's position. This
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

What-to-Eat. was only temporary and
tney landed in comparatively aood
health.
Capt. Maboly OF the foundcred
steamer Gwalior and his second Off
GER created record less than two
years ago by living for II days on
boot leather and pint of water a day
each.
! Of course no teeth can tear cow
hide boots; they have to be. cut up
and shredded with knife and the
shreds chewed and swallowed. Boil.
ing, even when possible, it is said,
does no good, but takes from the
noursishment of the boots - '-.';
A diet of boots and shoes is one of
the commonest of last resource foods.
and though it is hard for q well-fed
person to imagine that anyone could
masticate and digest the leather. a
pair of long sea boots will keep a. man
alive for a fortnight ifshes has "a: little,
water. 3. u - Il i ~ Il + E
Two men who went to- "a Il S small
island son the Irish coast not long ago
KEEP. themselves goins Tor ten days avs
81: on q diet q probably worse than this.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
SLICED OFF HIS OWN FEET.
Capt. January Performed Desperate
Operation in Andersonvilie Prison.

Capt. J. w. January. who has just
died at his home at Dell Rapids, S. D.,
after an illness extending over a num-
Der of months, was one OF the most
famous men who ever resided in
South Dakota and had most wonder
full career. While a prisoner in the
south during the war of the rebellion
he, with a rude jackknife which he
had in his possession up to the time
of his death, amputated his own feet,
this being necessary to save his life
Before his death he wrote the fol-
lowing account of his experience in a
rebel prison:
I'm the fall of 1861 the Fourteenth
Illinois cavalry organized in Peoria,
and I enlisted in Company B, served
until captured on Stoneman's raid,
in July, 1864 upon retreat from Ma
con. I was captured by six rebel SOL
diers, sent to Andersonville, and there
kept until the fall of Atlanta made it
necessary for us to be removed to pre-
vent falling into the hands of the
Union forces.
Il was taken to Charleston, S. c.,
with others, and placed by the en-
envy under fire OF our soldiers and
gunboats: remained here ten days and
was taken to Florence, S. c.. where
we passed the winter of 1866, and
on or about February Is was strick.
en- down by an attack of swamp
fever and for three weeks remained
in delirious condition: the fever
abats'l and reason returned
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

They landed in a boat which was
smashed by wave ON their trying to
relaunch her, and they were Kept N
the bare rocky island without faod. !,
Fortunately there was spring on
the island, but nothing in the way OF
sea gulls, which they could catch, and
nothing with which to make a fire
as distress signal. There were not
even any shell fish, as there was no
beach, and the pair had to subslst for
ten days on cold, raw seaweed 1sashed
up by the tide.
!: The best known and most usMful OF
starvation diets for wrecked castaway
people, however, is that o. bafasclesji
Three .EnSu slinen and 4. crewasf La l
cars who had been forced to Abandon
the sailing vessel North, Star. = few.
months ago kept themselves going tor
more than a week on barnaclas. ], !. {
/. The worst Of this diet is that the
#barnacles give one Internal cramps.
and cause an insuffsrable thirft, but
they do nourtsh thu frame. You havs
TO reach under sthe vessel side AMI
pull ehsm Of, taking care not Is leave
the best half of them sticking to TIE
zplanks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
QUEER FOODS GLADLY
MADE USE OF BY
SHLPWRECKED

Shipwrecked persons have been
kept alive on the most repugnant and
unwholesome Of foods. Probably the
hardest fare that six strong men and
= boy of Is ever kept alive on was the
daily menu of the Windover's sur
vivors, who were cast up on the Irish
coast near Kilsegg not long ago. They
lived 16 days on stewed rope yarn.
When they took the ships small
boat they had water enough for a
month, but only a small amount of
provisions. These lasted only four
days. After having nothing at all
to eat for the following two days they
tried boiling lengths of tarred hemp
rope into pulp and swallowing it. - j.
They had key Of parafan wax:
which they boiled to add to the nour-.
ishment. The sickness they expert
epced as . result Of tho diet, says.
s 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
Ace Of Fishes.

The age of fishes, it has lately been
discovered, can be determined either
by study of the scales or of the
curious 'otoliths" or ear bones. In
both cases, these structures increase
by periodic additions to their circum.
ference, at such a rate that two rings
are formed annually. In the case of
the otoliths there is added each spring
between February and June-a
white ring, and each autumn-July to
October-a black ring. So that, by
counting the number of white rings,
outside the white center, the age of
the fish may be accurately deter
mined. Experience has shown, says
Country Life, that as. record OF
growth the otoliths are more reliable
than the scales, at least, in SO far as
fiat fish are concerned. With such
fish as the pollack and cod, however,
the. scales appear to be more help.
full. s.r@ -. @t:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

in the pocket. A Massachusetts man,
realizing this, and probably being adj
dicted to the habit of carrying loose
matches in the pocket, has solved the
problem in peculiar manner. He
has devised and patented a match that
is unique in construction. It is shown
in the accompanying illustration. 1t is
made in the usual way with a splint
having an ignition head. Instead of
using the ordinary round splint the
latter is formed with a conceived or
channel portion extending from the
head of the match to the opposite end.
In this channel is placed igniting ma
terials. In use two matches are taken
from the pocket, the head of one be-
ing drawn across the other, and the
match thus ignited. A hundred could
be safely carried in the pocket, with
no chance of accidental ignition.
There is also no necessity of marking
up the walls.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
Peat and Cosl

Coal is fossil peat. The peat-bogs
Of to-day might become eoal.beds in
some future geological age. Profess
sor Potonie of Berlin says there is
strict parallelism between the differ
ent kinds Of peat and of.coal. When
the remains Of plants collect under ter
restrial conditions, An ordinary peat
bog Is formed. This corresponds With
bright" coal. # the remains collect
under water, an organic slime is
formed, and this corresponds with
dull" or camel, coal. When terres-
trial and aquatic conditions have 81.
ternated during the collection 81 the
remains, fstrata-pea results and
this corresponds with coal deposits
consisting q alternate layersof brigh1
and dull coal. The chemical ana ply.
steal properties IS the various kinds
|of pest and coal show & sinail Cor.
Sehponde
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

New YOrk.-The climax of the great
Chinese famine is at hand. In the
seaboard provinces 100000 men,
women and children are starving
more than the population of Manhat.
tan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and
Richmond: According to the latest
reports, the situation is much more
serious than that described in these
columns few weeks ago by cor
respondent in Shanghai. Since early
IN the winter the 100000 refugees
have been homeless and destitute, Ac-
cording to the viceroy of Kiangsu, it
Is ten times worse than any famine
known In China in the last 40 years.
In point OF mortality, it is the worst
calamity that has befallen mankind
since the beginning of the new CEN
fury.
The end is not yet. AS the Chinese
winter reaches its height, more and
more people must succumb to hunger
and exposure. 1t is not a question of
surviving, but of how many thousands
must die. That the famine will last
for months to come is a certainty
With all the generosity of other civil.
lied nations, the relief is Inadequate
10000 Square Miles Flooded.
The messages received from China
last December told of the beginnings
Of the famine. For 40 days and nights
it rained constantly. The great canal,
extending 700 miles from Tien.
Tsin to Hang Chan, close to the sea-
coast in the provinces of Chekiang
Nangsu, and Shan Tung, burst it's
banks ond 10000 square miles of low
plains were flooded. Fifteen millions
of people in five provinces were more
or less affected. OF these, 5000, 900
lost their property, including their
buildings and food supplies. Four mil
lions were left absolutely destitute.
TO these beginnings. nearly three
months Of unspeakable misery have
since been added. The intermediate
stages were, in some respects. pecu-
liar to China. The dwellings and farm
buildings had mud walls and roofs of
thatch. The walls melted like paper
as the water leaked through them.
The peasants were forced to abandon
them and wade through water up to
their armpits to reach dry land.
Stores Of Grain Lost.
These Chinese farmers were fru.
gal people living on millet, rice, pea
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29

Il soon learned from the surgeon
after hasty examination, that l was
the victim Of scurvy and gangrene
and was removed to the gangrene
hospital. My feet and ankles, five
inches above the joints, presented a
livid, lifeless appearance, and soon the
flesh began to slough off, and the sur
geon, with a brutal oath, said l would
die.
But I was determined to live, and
begged him to cut my feet off, telling
him if he would do that l could live
He still refused, and believing that
my life depended upon the removal OF
my feet, I secured an old pocket knife
q have it now in my possession) and
cut through the decaying flesh and
severed the tendons. The feet were
unjointed. leaving the bones protrud-
ing without covering of flesh for five
inches.
AT the close of the war I was
taken by the 'rebs' to our lines at
Wilmington, N. c., in April, 1865, and
when weighed learned that 1 had been
reduced from 165 pounds (my weight
when captureD to As pounds. Every
one of the Union surgeons who saw
me then said I could not live; but
contrary to this belief l did, and i'm
proved.
six weeks after release, while on
boat en- route to New York, the bones
OF my right limb broke off at the end
OF the flesh. Six weeks later, while
in hospital on David's island, those
of my left had become necrosed and
broke off similarly. One year after
my release was just able to sit up in
bed and was discharged
Twelve years after my release my
limbs healed over, and, strange to
relate. no amputation has ever been
performed upon them save the one l
performed in prison. There is no
record of any case in the world SINH
lar to mine.
MY one theory of the cause is
this: While delirious was SO weak
that the pulsations of my heart were
too. feeble to throw the blood to the
extremities, and below the point of
circulation, death took place.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
Perpetual Motion.

AS the man with the small black
case passed down the, avenue he was
hailed by an excited Individual who
was leaning from an upper story win
dow ~ i.ress I'll ~: .sg5 Il Mt ss, ~
4 Come up here at once!" shouted
the chap above. 7 want you to attend
my wife i. -5 {.
o But, my dear sir, : replied the man
with the black case under his arm, Il
am not e doctor + 90 round fixing
talking machiIe
Vell, that L. Jus why 4 called you.
wife HAS been liking continuuus-
AZ for i've hours an ant 20 SEQ Sc
d IN err stop
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
Rivalinq the Nile Dam.

The government of New South
Wales is about to begin the construc-
ton Of dam at Barren Jack, on thel
Murrumbidgee river, which will form
reservoir 40 miles In length, andi
containing more than SO ,000, 900, O0a|
cubic feet Of water, or 50 per cent.
more than Sydney harbor contains.
This immense artificial lake, which
will be but little inferior In capacity,
to that created by the great new dam
on the River Nile, is, says the,
Youths Companion, to be used Tor ir-I
rfgation. The dam Will be situated I'M
a gorge cut BY the river through !
granite ridge, and its height win be
200 feet. s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-29
A Bullet Struck Lincoln.

Lieut.. Col. William P. Roome, Six
ty-f1fth New York, ia west Eighty
sixth street, New York city, N. Y,
gives an interesting story about a
bullet having struck President Lin
coin during the fight at Fort Stevens.
He says that the president came into
the fort, and stopped within a few
yards Of him at point where he
could have good view of the piano.
rama of the fight. The firing was
quite heavy, but most of the 2enemy's
shots fell short of the fort, though an
occasional bullet would come singing
over the works. A long-range bullet
struck the president on the thigh.
The force was not sufficient to harm
him, possibly to even penetrate his
pantaloons, and the bullet fell to the
ground. President Lincoln paid no
attention to it other than to glance
down and smile momentarily.