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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
COFFEE EYES.
It Acts Slowly But Frequently Pro-
duces BIlsdness.

The curious effect of slow daily poi
soning and the gradual building in Of
disease as a result, is shown in num-
bers of cases where the eyes are af-
fected by coffee.
A case in point will illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont, expert
enced a slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes in the form of increas-
ing weakness and shooting pains
with wavy, dancing lines of light, so
vivid that nothing else could be seen
for minutes at time.
She says:
This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and I naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause.
About this time 1 was told that cof-
fee poisoning sometimes took that
form, and while l didn't believe that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, l
concluded to quit it and see.
Il took up Postum Food Coffee in
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at neigh
bors was unsatisfactory. Well, ]
made Postum strictly according to di'
rections, boiling it a little longer, be.
cause of our high altitude. The result
was charming. have now used Pos
tum in place of coffee for about 8
months and my eyes are well, never
paining me or showing any weakness
l know to a certainty that the cause
of the trouble was coffee and the cure
was &c quitting it and building up the
nervous system on Postum, for that
was absolutely the only change made
in diet and took no medicine.
"My nursing baby has been kept in
a perfectly healthy state since have
used Postum.
"Mr. --, friend, discarded cof
! fee and took on Postum to see If he
could be rid Of his dyspepsia and fire.
quent headaches. The change pro
duced a most remarkable improve
ment quickly"
There's a Reason" Name given By
Postum Co.. Battle Greek, Mich.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

DAYS OF FINANCIAL STRESS
MAKE FARM LANDS LOOK
RICH.

A staff contributor of a southern
newspaper has taken up the question
of the retaFn to the farm of many who
had forsaken 1t for the glitter of the
city. He says: ''It is a well known
fact that the history of this Govern
ment shows that those men who have
been most successful in life and who
have left their impress upon its peo-
pie and its institutions as statesmen,
soldiers, fiaanciers-have as a rule
been those whose youth was spent on
the farm, and it is to such as these
that there comes with overmasterins
power THE CALL OF THE SOIL.
More especially does it come with re-
doubled persuasiveness, greater pow
er and sweeter pleading to the man OF
affairs when the clouds of financial
unrest begin to darken the sky; when
the cry of panic causes people to lose
their wits and act like stampeded cat
tie; when with reason or without
reason there arises before him the
specter of ruin, grinning in his face
and waving it's gaunt arms in threat
ening gesticulation.
The pitiable state into which some
men were brought by the recent finan-
cial furry, which happily is now
passed, suggests these reflections.
Some were ruined and a very few be-
came insane because of their losses.
Two or three took their own lives.
It is when such times come that the
statesman, the great financier, and
the man of affairs becomes tired of
the struggle. He lays down his pen,
turns from his desk and listens to
the CALL OF THE SOIL.
There are hundreds of cases
throughout the United States Of those
who have money in the banks and are
looking for investment in lands. No
investment is better or safer. Take,
for instance, the lands in Western Can
ada that can be bought at from $40 to
SIS per acre which yield revenue
equal to and often greater than their
original cost. Those lands make a
certain investment. During the past
two months large investments in
these lands have been made, some in
tending to use the lands for farming
purposes of their own. Others to re-
sell to farmer friends. The agents OF
the Government of Canada located at
different points throughout the United
States have in their possession par
ticulars of districts in which there are
| free homestead grants of 160 acres
each accessible to railways, markets,
schools, churches, &C. These are val
liable lands. These agents will be
pleased to give information to any de.
sirous of securing, and will tell all
about the railway rates, &c.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Indian Native Always Knows Where
He May Be Found.

! have lived for weeks alonside quite
small, we'll defined forests containing
tigers, writes J. d. Rees in the Cal
cutta Statesman. Looking down from
the hillside | could always tell when a
tiger was on foot, where he was walk
ing and when he lay down to rest, for
all these movements were reported by
screaming birds and chattering apes
from the treetops.
By the like telegraphy and by the
woodcraft which is born in them, by
the interests and habits of countless
generations. the villagers are per-
fectly we'll posted regarding the great
beasts, and particularly regarding the
tigers, in their neighborhood. The man
eater is we'll known over the whole OF
his sometimes very extensive beat.
A sportsman arriving-provided the
villagers have confidence in him, and
this is large provision, for they must
know their man-will have no diff
Guilty whatever in being accurately in
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
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CAUGHT FAST.
Cen. Thomas Rose Had Thrilling Ex-
perience at Libby Prison.

Gen. Thomas Rose, who has recent
1y died, made himself famous by his
remarkable escape from Libby prison.
The record of the work on the tunnel
which led to liberty shows it to be
marvel of patient, heroic endeavor. In
Mr. Moran's account of the enterprise,
published in the Century Magazine,
one particular incident stands out
fraught with especial horror anc pos
sible tragedy.
Before the actual tunnel, which was
TO burrow its way under the founda-
tiOns of the prison, could be begun, a
starting point in the cellar had to be
reached. The only mode of access 10
this place was through a kitchen fire
place, the bricks of which must be dug
out, one by one, replaced every morn
ing and all traces of work removed,
until hole large enough for a man to
slip through was ready for the nightly
exit of the tunnel-workers.
With an old Chisel and a jack-knife
Rose and his Comrade toiled between
the hours of ten and four every night,
in the dark and without noise. Every
bit of the SCOT from the chimney was
swept into a rubber blanket Each
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Names for the Great Fast.

By the word Lent is understood the
fast of 40 days preceding Easter, kept
(after the example of Moses, Elias
and Christ Himself) in order to pre-.
pare the faithful for the great festi.
val of Easter. The Greek and Latin
names for the fast, "Tessarakoste"
and "Quadragesima," indicate the
number of days. The Italian Quar-
esima and the French Careme come
from the Latin. The German Fasten.
zeit and the Dutch Vasten denote the
fast, while our own word, Lent, from
the Anglo-Saxon Lencten, means
spring, !. O., spring fast
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
IN THE WILDERNESS.
One of the Youngest Soldiers Tells of
His Hard Fight with Fire.

While | do not claim to have beer
the youngest soldier, l think there
were few younger or smaller who saw
any more hard service, writes Rogers
w. Cox of Scranton, Pa, in National
Tribune. l first enlisted in Schooley's
battery of heavy artillery as bugler,
but when they looked me over said
was not heavy enough for the job, and
sent me back home l tried it again
in August, 1862. and enlisted in COM
pany Z, One Hundred and Forty-third
Pennsylvania, as drummer. They save
me a musket, and l was mustered in
as a private, Is years and ten months
of age, weighing 101 pounds, and short
Of regulation height. We joined the
Army of the Potomac in February,
1868, being moved to Belle Plain,
where l was detailed as foot orderly
for Gen. Doubleday'S headquarters,
Third division, First corps, serving as
such till about October, 1868. May 4,
1864. found me on picket when the
army moved on for Richmond. On
May 10 We charged the enemy's works
at Laurel Hill, and were repulsed.
The woods caught fire, and our
wounded were in danger of being
burned. Comrade p. De Lacey asked
Maj. Cunningham for a detail to fight
the fire, who replied that he would not
detail men to go to certain death, but
that De Lacey could have all the vol
unteers he could find. No one, how.
ever, wanted the job, and finally my
tent mate, John Otto, and offered to
go along with De Lacey. The three
of us fought the fire between the lines
in front of the enemy's breastworks
They gave us a warm reception, but
finally ceased firing, probably because
they saw we were trying to save oU
wounded. | was wounded twice, but
not severely enough to put me out OF
service. AS our dear old flag, which
had been carried through Chancel
lorsville, Gettysburg and all the bat
ties from the Wilderness to first
Hatcher's Run was nothing but a few
rags and staff, the ladies Of Wilkes.
barre presented US with a new one,
and l was detailed to carry it. This
was about the biggest undertaking l
ever had on my hands, as l only
weighed about 1875 pounds then, and
a flag is hard thing to carry anyway,
specially through the woods. l was
mustered out with the regiment after
nearly three years hard service, and
never having lost days duty except
when had a frog felon on my right
hapd.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
THE LIVING ROOM.
Il Should at All Times Be "LtvahIe"
Room.

What to do with the living room IS
a problem that confronts every house
keeper. The living room should be
in fact as we'll as in name living
room-a livable room. 1t is the room
in which the most of our time at
home is spent, the hours we have for
leisure, the time we have for play,
the place where we entertain our
friends and it is absolutely essential
that the walls and furnishings of the
living room should be harmonious in
color, suitable in texture, and durable
in material.
The rich, soft, solid colored walls
are the ideal walls for the living
rooms. They make a better back
ground for pictures, throw the furni-
ture out in better relief, are less dis
cordant with rugs and carpeting, and
indicate a higher degree of taste and
culture than do the colored mon
strosities which we paste on when we
apply wall paper.
Who ever saw roses climbing up
pIastered wall growing out of hard
wood floor? Yet, that is what we
suggest to the Imagination when we
paste paper covered with roses on
our walls. They are neither artistic
nor true. Roses are all very beauti-
full, but they were never made to
climb up interior walls and they do
not grow from hardwood flooring.
The set figures Of wall paper are also
tiresome and equally disagreeable and
repellant.
The alabastined wall IS the only
correct form of tinted or solid col
ored wall. Fortunately it is the only
clean way, and more fortunately it is
the only permanent way; the only
way that does not involve the end
less labor in the future.
In lighting the walls some thought
must be given the color Light colors
reflect $50 Of the light thrown upon
them. Dark colors reflect but 1870.
Lighting bills can be saved by choos-
ing a color which will reflect the
largest degree of light. In north
rooms use warm colors or colors
which reflect light. In south and
west rooms sometimes the light can
be modified by the use of darker
colors. Dark green's absorb the light:
light yellows reflect it; browns mod
ify 1t, and so on, through the scale
of colors. The color scheme of a
room not only is dependent upon the
color of the carpetings but it is also
dependent upon the light of the room.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
GUARDED JEFFERSON DAVIS.
This Soldier Knew the Confederate
Leader as a Prisoner.

A. c. Van Dusen, a sergeant or
artillery, retired, served in the United
States army for nearly half a century
in the artillery branch. Throughout
the civil war he was a sergeant and
sometime before his retirement
reached the grade Of ordnance ser
geant Toward the close of the war
he served AT Fort Monroe.
Il was on duty at Fort Monroe when
Jefferson Davis was brought there as
prisoner" says Sergeant Van Dusen.
Il was sergeant of the guard over him.
Il got to know Mr.. Davis very vel"
he said. 1T was against orders for
any of the guard TO talk with the pris-
oner and during the first few days OF
his Imprisonment this order was
strictly obeyed Later on it was some
what disregarded and broke the rule
number of times because ] knew
there was nothing TO be gained by
such discipline and because the tempta-
| ton to answer civil questions from Mr..
Davis was too great to be resisted,
when such answers could do no harm
to anyone.
"I remember how we all felt toward
the prisoner Most of us were seasoned
soldiers, had seen four years of real
service, had swapped coffee and sugar
for tobacco with the Johnnies and we
were all long past feeling any per
sonal ill-will toward anybody on the
other side. But here we were face to
| face with the man we had for four
years regarded as the head and front
of the secession business. We knew
that Lee and Jackson and Johnson and
Beauregard, the Hills and a score OF
others were big men, but we Ganks
thought that Jeff Davis was the big
gest of them all. OF course, We re
garded him with a great deal Of curl
osity.
The guard soon got to like him be
cause he was very gentlemanly and
there was no attempt at haughtiness
in his manner toward the men detailed
to guard him.
"The order to iron him was a great
surprise to us. We saw no reason fol
it, because there was not ghost of q
chance for him to escape. Even II
there had been no guard over him he
could not have gotten out of that fort
or even out of his own cell. He never
made any sign that he would try tc
escape. We were all glad when under
the surgeons advice the shackles were
taken Off
'Mr. Davis never ha6 %c-ss- mach tc
say to me except Good morning, ger
geant, how is the weather outside?
or something like that. When he
came to the fort he was not allowed tc
have tobacco and this seemed to &C
pretty hard with him. l remember
when, on the doctors orders, smoking
tobacco was brought In to him. He
always smoked a pipe, big brown
old meerschaum pipe which he had
brought with him. l never saw him
smoke a cigar and late along in his
Imprisonment he used to give me
cigars. | think they were given hin
by officers in the fort"
Sergeant Van Dusen lives near the
hamlet of New Glatz in Prince
Georges county, Maryland.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
HE COULD BE TRUSTED.
Youngster "Made Good" Before Temp
tation Was Put in His Way.

A train from the north pulled into
the station at Charlottesville, Va. An
elderly man thrust his head out OF
window of a day coach and summoned
a little colored boy. The following col
loquy ensued:
Little boy, have you mother?"
"Yassuh."
"Are you faithful to your studies?"
"Yassuh."
"Do you go to Sunday school,"
"Yassuh."
"Do you say your prayers every
night?"
"Yassuh"
Can trust you to do an errand
for me?"
"Yassuh"
"Well, here's five cents to get me
couple of apples. Success Maga'
zine. -
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

Near Settat, in Morocco, during
fierce engagement, soldier of the
French foreign legion was struck by a
Moorish bullet and fell fiat on his face.
HE is dead" said his corporal, lean
ing over him. Lifting a battered face,
the legionary groaned: "No, corporal;
not dead, but badly hurt" where is
your packet of lint?" demanded the
corporal. 81 have forgotten it," said
the soldier, trying to wipe away the
blood. 1.-TWO days arrest" shouted
the corporal, and lifting the wounded
man onto his back he staggered to
the nearest doctor amid hail Of bull
lets.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
THE PAINTING SEASON.

Good results in painting at the least
cost depend largely upon the material
chosen. Paint is a simple compound
and the ingredients can be easily test
ed. The solid part or pigment should
be White Lead. The liquid part
should be Linseed Oil. Those best in
formed on painting always buy these
ingredients separately and have their
painter mix them fresh for each job.
Before the mixing the test is made.
Place a pea-sized bit of White Lead
on piece of charcoal or piece Of
wood. Blow the flame against it and
see what it will do. If it is pure
White Lead, little drops of bright, pure
metallic lead will appear, and with pa
tience the White Lead can be COM
pletely reduced to one globule of metal
lie lead. This is because pure White
Lead is made from metallic lead.
You may test dozens of other So
called White Leads and not be able
to reduce one of them to lead. If they
will not change wholly to lead but
leave a residue, it is clear that some
adulterant is present.
If you should have your painting
done with such materials, no matter
how cheap they might seem, it would
be costly in the end.
National Lead Company, Wood
bridge Building, New York City, are
sending on request blowpipe free to
any one about to have painting done,
so that the White Lead may be test
ed With it will be sent handsomely
printed booklet having as it's frontis-
piece the Dutch Boy Painter" re-
produced from the original painting.
This little painter has become noted
as the guaranty of pure White Lead.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
swItzerIand,s Liquor MononoIv.

Since the government monopoly Of
the liquor traffic in Switzerland has
been in operation it has met the
wishes of the legislators. The con-
sumption of alcohol has been reduced
from SGT liters to less than four litors
a head. Ten per cent. of the net profit
of the monopoly is given to the can
tons, provided they devote it to meas
ures repressive of drunkenness. The
3antons have been so jealous in re-
form that they have spent this 1.-THE
and more in the work.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
How'S This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward eor an,
:sse Of Catarrh that cannos be cured by HALF
F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo n
We, the undersigned, have known r / CSenrsr
for the last IS years and believe him perfectly hon
Orabe In all business transactions and fnanciaIi,
WALDINa, KINELN & MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists Toledo q
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally act,nS
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tn
system. Testimonials sent free Price T5 eents naS
oOttle. Sold by all Druggists. P~'
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
A Bow on CIeroyme1.

Bishop Potter, at an ecclesiastical
dinner in New York, read Coopers-
town schoolboy's essay on CLERGY
men," The essay, which created much
amusement, was as follows:
There are kinds of clergymen
bishups, recters and curates. The bish-
ups tell the recters to work and the
curats have to do it, a curate is thin
married man, but when he is recter
he gets fuller and can preach longer
sermons and becums a good man."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
TOOK TIME.

A Scotsman, having hired himself
to farmer, had cheese set before
him that he might help himself. After
some time, the master said to him:
Sandy, you take a long time to
breakfast"
I'm truth, MASTER" said Sandy; "a
cheese O. this size is ma sac soon eaten
as you may think"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Sermons in Ships.

"I think it's a shame that wine
should be used at launchings. We
temperance women are going to try to
stop it,"
After all, instead Of kicking about
it, why not use the custom to point
a moral?"
Glow do you mean"
"Why, simply by drawing attention
to the fact that after her first taste
Of wine the ship Immediately takes
to water and sticks to it ever after."-
Boston Transcript
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Sympathy.

Its serious thing, Verena," i"
sighed Mrs. Upmore, ito be the wife
of man who holds a public Office.
1t demands so much Of his time and
keeps him away from his home"
Il know just how you feel, ma'am,"
said the elderly domestic. "My first
husband was the grand imperial out
side guard of the Amalgamated and
Solidified Order of Fuzzy Guzzlers,
and sometimes he was that busy tryin'
to remember the signs and grips that
l couldn't get word out Of him all
day long"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

"Why cid you turn that young man
DOWN." asked the genial younger part
ner "He looked willing and capable" "
"He might have been all that, "
growled the crusty senior, "but I'm
told he is an inveterate joker"
"Wel, where's the harm in that?
'Tt's this The first thing he'll do If
I take him on will be to take me off. y
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
DO NOT FEAR THE TIGER

formed concerning the maneaters'
movements, but whether he will per-
suade the villagers to help him to get
up to his quarry will depend entirely
upon his personal reputation.
1t is easy enough to build little
leafy screen in a tree over pool and
to sit and doze there night after night
till the tiger comes to drink in the
moonlight and cannot be missed, but
it is quite another thing to beat out
and face the maneater on foot. Conse-
quently the sportsman does not always
get taken up to the maneater, but this
is not because the villagers do not
know where he is, or rather she, for
it is the female who generally preys
on man.
The indiscriminate offer of rewards
in no way tends to the destruction of
the real maneater, while it insures the
wholesale determination of the useful,
indeed, indispensable, deer and pig
stalker and the cattle litter.
Danish Proverb.
TTo.a. A. 4,o- khof oixoc vo,, chaI
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Innnortant to Mothers,
mo- TroubIe 10 Show Goods.

Old Gentleman Ito beggar)-What
do you do for living?
Beggar-I make post holes, sir.
Old Gentleman (absent-mindedly) -
Yes? Well, never give charity:
bring me along any you have on hand
and III buy them from you. ~
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
The Poets Error.

"Of course" said the poets friend
"he has his faults, but he's true poet
He gives his life to the service of the
muses."
Yes" put in the critic, "but seems
to make the mistake of supposing that
Bacchus is one of the muses."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Out Of the Mouths Of Babes.

Little Arthur stood peering down
into the countenance of his baby sis.
ter. whom the nurse was singing to
sleep.
Say, nurse" he finally whispered.
'ft's nearly unconscious, isn't it?"
The nurse nodded in the affirmative.
and sang on.
Then don't sing any more, or you'n
kill it."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Very True,

The Best Friend-I hear her old
husband shows her dog-like devo-
ton.
The Casual Gossip-Yes, they say
he is always growing az her.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Perfumery G. Toilet soaps.

Manufacturers to consumers, at whole
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oE' oottle 1oc OF. 30t
oH' :. QUO OF. 8O'
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lyn, N. Y.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
A FORGOTTEN ROMANCE.

"Do you remember, Jane, 20 years
ago, moonlight night, when / whis-
pered, tenderly: Jennie, love you,'
and you answered, passionately: John,
you nose looks so funny and swollen.
Do you suppose something's bit
ten it?'"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

Not vainly does he strive who can
endure.-Procter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23

Danish ProVerb.
Honor the tree that gives you shel.
ter.
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