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the agent, Nj 1. himself
The confederate had left little to chance
for not only was the yacht ready to take
limit. but they had rigsed up a wire
tapping arrangement consisting OF two
thin copper wires. hidden among the thick
foliage, and running from the cottage to
the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
These wires, as was discovered later,
We're connected with the commercial wire
of the Western Union Telegraph company
and there was telegraph office in one of
the rooms of the cottage from which the
conspirators could find out all that was
passing over the wires of the Western
Union company
The cottage was surrounded early IN the
morning, after a reconnaissance had
showed that all the inmates were asleep.
While Herbert and the deputy covered
the rear. the sheriff and / went to the
front door and raped for admission
The window shutters were pushed open
and the inmates. peering out, discovered
that they were trapped.
open the door or we shall force it,,
shouted Sheriff Clark.
After a little parleying the front door
was opened. This was a double door
and only one-half of it was opened and
then very suddenly No. is brother-in-
law. very tall individual, appeared with
a double -barreled shotgun in his hands.
Before he had time TO raise the weapon
to shooting position, however, he found
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Mosiacs of Asiatic Origin

From the Kansas City Star.
Mosaic work is of Asiatic origin ID
had attained excellence In Greece in
the time of Alexander and his success
sors. when Sosos of Pergamus tha
most renowned mosaic artist of an
tiquity. lived. He ACQUIRED fame by an
accurate representation of an "un--
swept floor after a feat" The Ro-
mans also excelled in mosaics. Rvz-
antine mosaics dated from the fourth
century A. d. The art was revived
in Italy by Taft, Gaddi, Cimbaue and
Giotto. who designed mosaics and in
tfocuced higher style in the thir,
tcenth century. In the sixteenth
century Titan and Neronese DESIGNED
subjects for this art Practice of COPY
ing paintings In mosaics came into
vogue in the seventeenth century. In
1851 Salviau of Venice had estab-
iished his manufacture of enamel
mosaics, In 1854 he fixed a large
enamel mosaic picture in one of the
spandrils under the dome of st. Pauls
cathedral In London. Salviatrs mosaic
works is one of the interesting places
of Venice today
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~ ERLIN, February 21.-(Special)
N Even the greatest progress in
~ medicine and in hygienic living
cannot prolong life more than very
moderate amount, declares Prof. Max
Ruboer. Germany's most noted physiol-
ogist. In this opinion he takes issue
with Metschnikoff and Metschnikoff s
followers, who believe that life may
be indefinitely prolonged Rubner says
that man does not die primarily of dis
ease or of other avoidable causes but
because the stock of energy given him
al birth is finally exhausted
Metschnjkoff represents man to be
by nature perpetual motion machine
which ceases to work owing to the
wheels being ruined by friction. To
Rubner, man is not a perpetual mo-
ton machine, but an engine fed with
a fixed, not inoreasable stock of fuel;
and such an engine must cease run
ming when the fuel is all consumed.
The whole new science of "macrobl-
otics,' or lengthening life indefinite
ly by eliminating disease and unhy-
gienic living. is in Rubners view, un-
founded. 1t should be replaced by "the
law of energy" which governs the
lives of man and all other animals.
The law of energy is put by Rubner
thus Living substance keeps alive only
as long as it is producing energy from
the consumption of food. But the ca
pacity of living substance to do this
is rigidly limited. Every animal can
produce a fixed amount of energy and
n 60 can
produce energy is exhausted it dies.
That, in fact, is DEATH disease not be-
ing the cause of death, but only being
the cause of a decline in the energy
producing capacity Of the cells. Disease
shortens life. But entirely getting rid
of disease will not very materially
lengthen life. The most man can do is,
by careful living, to slow down the
process of using up his original cap
ital of energy. This slowing is prac-
ticable only to a certain extent. The
capital of energy is still being eaten
into, even if slowly, and when it Is
exhs usted death must come.
Professor Max Rubner is director of
Berlin Physiological institute, and was
formerly Berlin university rector. He
has held other posts. He followed the
great Koch as director of Berlin Hy-
sienic institute; is president of the
imperial health council, and is author
Of numerous works on biology and hy-
eiene. His theory conflicts with all
current doctrines and the cause of
death. Among these is Metschnikoff's
"autotoxine" theory. which says that
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death is largely due to arterio-scler-
osis, the result of poisoning by intes-
tinal bacteria. Other theories which it
opposes are Perino's: that death re-
suits from accumulation in the system
of injurious residues of nourishment;
Petzoldts that death comes owing to
an increase in the number of badly
functioning cells, and Ribberts' theory
that death is atrophy. All these imply
that Z only certain bodily LESSONS could
be prevented man would live for ever.
TO this Rubner replies that man, even
If he enjoys the best conceivable
health, and avoids everyone of these
causes of DEATH" will nevertheless die.
He will die when his initial stock Of
energy. all the energy which nature all
lows him to produce, is used up.
Rubner's experiments prove that,
with the exception of man, all the
higher animals have approximately the
same capacity to produce energy. The
amount of warmth developed from food
ard the amount of residue In the shape
of carbonic acid, water and excrements
corresponds with the skin superficies
of the animal. So that, roughly. the
animal produces Aenergy in proportion
to it's size. When an animal comes to
maturity its cells have the capacity of
turning a certain amount of food into
a certain amount of energy. This GER
tain amount of energy represents the
animals future life. Rubner has cal-
culated the duration" of this energy
life in animals and man in calories. A
calory is the amount of heat needed
to raise the temperature of litre of
water by one degree c.
For every pound weight of it's body
at maturity an OK Will produce
throughout its future life 10000 calor-
les. 1t will produce this amount Of
energy gradually in order to replace
energy used up by vital functioning.
movement. ETC.; and on the day 1t has
used up an amount of energy repre-
sented by 70,500 multiplied by the ami
mails weight in pounds. on that day
it dies. A dogs normal life consists
of $4,000 calories of energy per pound
of its weight; cats 111,5o0; q horses
$1,000. The average life OF one of
these four animals is the time it takes
to use up $1,000 calories of energy per
pound of weight. Thus II a dog weighs
10 pounds at maturity 1t will Qeaving
accidents out of account) die when 1t
has produced and expended about S00,-
900 calories of energy.
Compared with the lower animals
man Is favored. That accounts Tor his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22
A Burning Question

Official discussion in Washington of re-
Gently revived social questions has pro-
voked inquiry all along the social line,
and it has been asked through the public
print il it is proper to write "the Miss
smith or the Misses Smith" This is
an old question, but perhaps some new
suggestions may help to settle 1t, says the
New York sun.
The Smith family is generally and not
improperly often called "the Smiths" In
classifying the family we say the adult
Smiths, the juvenile Smiths, the infant
Smiths. DID any one ever hear the
adults Smith or ''the Juveniles Smith
or tho babies Smith?''
We list the Smiths for invitation and
address MIR. and Mrs. Smith," But this
is simply an elision. 1t means Mr.. Smith
and Mrs. Smith. We want also to invite
the elder daughter. who socially is Miss
Smith" and we want to invite the young
er daughter, who is Miss Mary Smith.
The title @'Miss Smith is everywhere a
social distinction of seniority. Socially
there cannot be two Miss Smiths"
Now, if We write 'the Misses Smith
on an invitation to the two daughters.
Miss Smith is deprived OF her social dis
tinction as elder daughter, and Miss Mary
Is given undue social distinction. In the
science of social usage we have at
tempted the impossible feat of making
Miss Mary as old as her elder sister.
Sometimes Miss Mary may not care to
be rated as old as her elder sister. Why
should she be listed as older than she is Z?
Miss Smith has her dignity OF seniority
why should not Miss Mary have her
charm of youth? The joint invitation
saves paper, but is a very vulgar econ
omy that saves paper at the cost of de-
tracing from the social distinction of
those to whom we send invitations.
In no other connections do we use such
expression. The city directory shows
how many DIR. Smiths there are. It would
be very surprising If some one were to
ask how many Doctors Smith, there
are. 1t would be more surprising II the
young men of the Smith family received
an invitation addressed to "the Afisters
Smith Doubtless Christmas Nrinrs
some present to ''the Smith babies'N but
not to the Babies Smith" JJndoubted-
ly Miss Smith and Miss Mary are Smith
misses, but they are not the Misses Smith.
The truth is neither "the Misses Smith
nor 'the Miss Smiths is polite or proper.
In conversation no one every refers to
the young ladies of the Smith family
otherwise than as the Miss Smiths. Per-
haps It would be proper here to offer an
apology to Miss Smith and Miss Mary
Tor this free use of their names.
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"
chance Of a much longer life through
the perfection of medical science and
hygiene.
long life. For every pound weight of
his body at maturity the average man
produces and consumes $4,000 calor-
les of energy before he dies. Death
comes when he has consumed that
amount. Nothing that he can possibly
do will make his body produce during
adult life more energy than the 362. 800
calories; and nothing can possibly pre-
vent death when this amount of energy
is produced.
Mans $4,000 calories per pound of
weight, his whole store of life, are
produced in the "bions," as Rubner
calls the living elements of the cells.
The bions are constantly being ex-
hausted. and constantly being renewed; !;
and with every calory of energy pro-
duced in them by the combustion of
food the cells lose so much of their
capital of energy-producing power.
thus after man has produced and
consumed 10000 calories of energy for
every pound OF his weight he will pro-
o1ce In future only 100000 calories.
and when these are produced he must
die. After he has produced and con-
sumed another 100000 calories, only
100000 calories remain to him: and
this 100000 represent what LIE he has
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there found Sheriff Clark, who, in he
requisition papers, was instructed to
render me, as agent for Texas, all the
assistance which | needed. Accom-
panied by the sheriff and a deputy I
returned to Ocean Springs, stepping off
the train at a station about five miles
distant because I had been informed
that No Is brother-in-law visited the
depot at Ocean Springs every night to
see who had arrived. We three, tax
ing roundabout route, met Herbert
at point agreed upon, near the cot
tage.
Before leaving upon my mission / had
instructed Hubert to go to Ocean Springs
in the giise of an invalid, and there to
make No. Is acquaintance. Hubert rep
resented himself as a sufferer from
chronic rheumatism, and soon met No. l,
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himself covered ny two double-harreled
shotguns, and dropped his own promptly
on the command. The sheriff took pos
session of him and l started into the
cottage. No. / appeared at his door, a
pistol in his hand, and was promptly ar
rested
where is the agent?' I asked.
TN the room across the hall replied
the other sullenly. | wrapped and being
refused admission, burst the door open
where | found No. 1 partly dressed. He
and his wife We're arrested, and the
whole party marched to the hotel at
Ocean Springs. where the landlord was
greatly surprised TO learn the true nature
of the detectives mission.
The prisoners were taken to Dallas
Tex, by roundabout route, and so
quietly that that city reached before
the story of the arrest had become pub
lie. The cause for this secrecy was that
Nos and had been located in Dali
las, and it was essential to arrest these
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Unique Method of Tipping Waiter

rioih the new 1Ork l1mes.
Leo Moser, banker, has convinced
himself that he has worked out the ideal
tipping system. To do so he applied
the technique he acquired while acting
as president of the American Institute OF
banking, and made draft on his expert
ence acquired as advertising manager
of the st. Louis Union Trust company.
Mr.. Moser. who is young and good
looking, thought he was so we'll taken
care of by the young woman who waited
on him in hiG favorite lunch room on
Fourth street that he straightway put
his system into effect. He obtained the
name of the young woman, went to the
savings department of the ST. Louis Trust
company, and opened -rcnunt in
her name. He kept asts .ha res
taurant and none but Hh the
savings account coult 1a hfn, He
never affronts her NIfa tin.
but when he feels 5s fs Ice is
just little better II Al eason-
ably sxpeok. = depos cssdit
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- ARLY in the month of January.
r 1854. ] was suddenly called to
- the office of Capt. c. G. Warner.
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who invited him to visit the cottage and
to take sail on the bay in yacht
which he kept anchored in front of the
property Hubert accepted the invitation,
and was introduced to the wife of Dillard.
and a good-loohing young woman. who
passed under an assumed name, but was
subsequently discovered to be the wife
of the missing agent CNo. d.
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the 362,900 calories per pound is all that
the healthiest cells can produce: and
there is no prospect that they viii ever
be BILE to produce more
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and managed by little man some five
and thirty years of age. Herbert was not
introduced to this mah by his host, and
thought little about him, imagining him
to be the sailing master, since he was
always In uniform. However upon re-
ceipt of Herbert's letter containing a de-
scription of this man, | was satisfied that
the sailing master was none other than
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-02

Same to Rachel Conaway, lot
433 in Arccnum, 81.
Nicholas Goubeaux to Rev.
Henry Moeller, lots IL and "a in
North Star, $1,000.
Edith Mcfarland to Ida M.
Wolford, part lot l in Union City,
$500.
Ezra H. Cox and others to S.
J. Eikenberry, 40 acres in Van
Buren township, $65OO.
Della P. Sarver and others to
Ezra H. Cox and others. 80 ac-
res in Van Buren township, $9750.
S. S, Coons to Trustees Luth-
eran Church of Ithaca. a small
tract in Arcanum, $3.50.
Sarah F. Baker to C. E. Dow.
ney, lot 80 in Arcanum, $1,000.
Philip Strock, per executor, tc
Ashton Wickersham, 80 acres in
Jackson township. $9246. 95.
A. J. Smelling to John H. Fow.
BILE, 39A acres in Butler township,
$4,000.
James H. Stoltz to VIM. Senan,
! acre in Gettysburg. $3.50.
Caroline F. Coble to Henry H.
Coble. 70 acres in Wabash town
ship. 81.
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Has Your Child WormtP

Most children do. A Coated,
Furred Tongue; Strong Breath;
Stomach Pains; Circles under
Eyes; Pale, SalIow Complexion :;
Nervous, Fretful; Grinding Of
Teeth; Tossing in Sleep; Peculiar
Dreams-any one of these indi-
cate child has Worms. Get a box
of Kickapoo Worm Killer at once.
1t kills the Worms-the cause of
your child's condition. Is Laxa.
tive and aids Nature to expel the
Worms. Supplied in candy form.
Easy for children to take. 25c,
at your druggist.
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ney will be used largely in coun-
ties which establish county ex-
pertinent farms.

In a ruling issued by Secretary
of State Graves, those who voted
the Progressive party ticket in
1912 will not be permitted to take
part in the Republican primary
election this year.
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Notice to Printers.

Notice is hereby given that the Board Of
Deputy State Supervisors OF Elections Of
DaTke county viii receiYe bids for printing
the ballots for the primary election to be
held August II. 1914, until Saturday, July II,
1914, at 1880 pm.
Bids should be accompanied with bond
with substantial sureties guaranteeing faith
ful performance of the contract
Details will he given at the ONCE of the
BOARD of Elections.
d. ]. HARTZELL, Chief Deputy.
4. e. MOTE, Clerk.
June 25, l9ll-2w
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Swedish farm labOrers. who are
hired by the year. receive an average
wage of $S5 annually. with board and
room In addition.
The first film play ever shown was
some forty feet In length "Quo Va
dis" which required l.!00 actors, Is
on a film 5000 feet long.
In this country there are about 27T.-
900 acres, sufficient to support d.95O
cattle or $4,000 sheep. now worthless
because of the prairie dogs
Japan is rapidly developing the cellu-
loid Industry as all the raw materials
for its manufacture except nitric acid
are produced in that country.
The Bulgarian government has com
missiOned an Austrian factory to coin
a variety of pieces. 70. 10 and sto-
links. One hundred equal 1913
cents.
Turkish tobacco has now become the
staple crop on eighty farms In South
Africa. all of which have been sue
cessful in the production Of this type
of tobacco
The English postoffice has 261O,65O
miles of single wire. made up Of S13,-
sos for telegraph, 2,234.215 for tele-
phones and 62.030 for private and
leased wires.
The granite statue of King Edward
VII. recently dedicated at Aberdeen,
Is believed to be the first granite stat
ue of ruler erected since the days OF
the PharaOhs.
Philip voss recently paid $50 for an
inch Of land in New York city. The
inch was needed to give him clear
title to q piece of property which he
already owned.
The London Herald was the first
| English newspaper to employ war
correspondent This was George Bor-
row. who wrote of the Carlist fighting
in Spain in 1899.
India has 15OOOOO0 people, less than
| half Of whom can read even the ma
| tive vernacuars Nevertheless there
are 658 newspapers and 1902 peri
odicals published there.
The lowest human habitation is said
| to be that of the coal miners In Bo
hemia, some of whom make theil
dwellings at a point over 1000 feet
below the level of the sea.
The department of public instruc
ton and fine arts of Spain has beer
allotted $63000 for use toward estab
fishing and improving workshops o.
the country's Industrial schools.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-02

The Supreme court in a decis-
ion holds that corporations are
not taxed for good WILL" Cor
porations other than utility COM
panies should be assessed as in,
dividuals.
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Valuable Farm for Sale.

In pursuance of an order of the Pro.
bate Court of Darke County, Ohio, to
me made and directed, will offer for
sale at private sale, the valuable farm
of 80 acres, the property of David Ro.
dehafer, deceased, situate in Wash
ington township, Darke county, Ohio.
For terms and particulars, call on or
address S. L. Curtis or Kirk Hoffman !
attorney, Greenville, Ohio, or the un-
dersigned Frances G. Rodehafsr,
Administrative Of David Rodehaffer,
5lw4 deceased.
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continue and even grow worse.
Truly, Democracy, so far as the
tariff is concerned, has learned
nothing. but the people must
learn anew tn lesson of 1899"
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Common Pleas Judue

We are authorized to announce the
name of William w. Teegarden as a
candidate for the nomination as Judge
of the Common Pleas Court, subject
to the decision of the Republican vot-
ers at the primary to be held on Aug
ust II, 1914.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-07-02

Cancer yearly kills 25.OOO persons in
the United States.
Some 2SO British cities maintain mu.
nicipal market houses
Germany thinks Of taking up serious.
ly the growing OF soy beans.
England has ninety-twO centena
rians. Germany has seventy-six.
More than 3,O00OOO gross of pencils
are annually made in Philadelphia.
OF every 200 persons who live to be
forty years of age. l25 are married.
Argentinian cattlemen are looking
for cheap and fertile lands In Brazil.
There are 1903 Presbyterian churches
In Philadelphia. with 54.33O members
Missouris 1913 wheat crop amount
ed to 35.390.S33 bushels. valued
$2S.505,S4G
st. Paul is the birthplace of new
fraternal order. to he known as the
Camels Of the World.
Havana now has newspaper de.
voted to the Interest of the equal rights
of women on the island
John It. Baylies. ninety -One. OF Ros
ton, boasts that he has smoked u pipe
since he was twenty one
The Germany navy has Il salvage
boat especially designed for the recoy
cry of sunken submarines
Capital punishment was abolished in
Italy In 1875. Since then murders
have increased 42 per cent.
More than 100000 pianos are built
In this country annually. They are
valued at nearly $70OQe.OOO.
Granulated glass is being tried as a
preservative for the surface of wood
In England with much SUCCESS.
A plate sterilizing machine for hotels
and restaurants. automatic In its op-
GRAFTON. is Frenchman's invention.
Italy has Joined several other Euro
pean nations in prohibiting the man.
ufacture, importation and sale Of alb
Sinth.
A novel traction engine literally
walks instead of rolls along, being pro-
Vided with four legs shod with broad
shoes.
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Getty sburg.

Wheat and hay harvest has be-
gun, but rain during last week
hindered the progress of the
work and gave the farmers some
faded hay.
Copious showers of rain fel
last week and furnished relief tt
the tamishing crops and put tho
ground in condition to transplant
tobacco. This week will com
plete that work. Considerable
Of hail fell on last Thursday anC
some on Saturday here.
Manassa Boyer. an aged per
son and resident Of the northeast
corner of this township, died last
week. Burial in the Oakland
cemetery last Thursday. He
leaves surviving a numerous pro.
gery of children and grandchil.
dren and many friends.
Brick layers resumed work on
F. P. Lehman's block today after
about two weekc' cessation tc
enable the excavation and foun.
dation work to be done. The
walls will be rur up rapidly, and
ere long it will be ready for bus
mess occupancy.
A woman named Sprague, liv-
ing near the Cromer mill, aged
about a5 ye7rs' committed sui
eide one day last week at her
home. She is survived by Fus-
band and two children. Inter-
ment in cemetery at this place.
We are looking forward to a
safe and sane celebration of the
Fourth next Saturday through
out our vicinity.
TIE bunker Brethren Of Oak
land and Harris Creek churches
will hold a Joint celebration at
the latter named church on next
Saturday afternoon, consisting
of religious exercises. discussion
Of Sunday school topics, etc. We
bespeak a large attendance and
4 profitable time.
Rev. J. A. Hoffman aid wife
of Bowling Green arrived here
last Friday to visit the latter's
parents for a week or more. Yes
terday they all drove to Piqua in
auto and attended divine service
at tie First Presbyterian church.
In the afternoon they drove to
Ireenville and attended both the |
afternoon and night programs of |
he Chautauqua. They report
hat both were excellent. Rev. |
:. w. Oneal is a master in ora
ory and his sermon was very |
rood. Mother Lake gave a must
xcellent talk on the divine rights
f the child, the gist of which
vas that a child had a right to
e born right and reared we'll.
Mrs. Pickett's Sunday school
lass Of misses. gave a festival in
lr M. E. church parlor last Sat-
rday night, serving ice ram
aHI !.