Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 May 1909 — Page 2

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THR HERALD p'cuiiiictl 1906 PrBUSHED EVENING xcept Sunday by the Star and Democrat Publishing Company at 17 and 19 South Jackson Street, Greoneastle, Ind F. C. TILDEN - - - C. J. ARNOLD Editors TerniN of Siiltnerlption One Year, in advance $3.00 By Carrier in City, per week..6 cents Single Copies 2 cents \<l* ertl**iiiK Itateo I’pon A pplh'ntion \VHi:K LV STAR I > KM OCR AT Established 1858 The official county paper, sent to any address in the I’nited States, for $1.00 a year—Payable strictly in advance Entered «*is second-class mail matter at the Oreencastle, Ind., Postofllce. TeU phone No. 65 SCHOOL HOOKS. . If report be true the State Hoanl of Education is now experiencing some of tlie strenuous times that j vere common to the House of Representatives during the last General Assembly. And the cause is the pame old cause, the omnipresent l>ook man. and an ex-book man who sometimes |H>ses as a farmer. Contracts are to he let for about So per cent of the books used. The contracts to be let call for readers, geographies, arithmetics and writing Ivooks. It is said the large ex-book man has fixed up a list of books and is bringing pressure to bear to have it adopted as a whole. It is further said that the list contains the names of new series entirely. On this two things are to be said. First, we doubt with such men as Governor Marshall. Hr. Alev, Dr. nryan, President Stone and President Parsons, to say nothing o r the other men of the board, who are, we believe, equally able and honest, whether any pressure would have any effect. The Board can In' trusted to do the best possible under given conditions. As to the changing of the series, it is undoubtedly true that the present readers must go. The old price for readers was so low that a decent book could not be secured. and a docent book was not secured. A new series must supplant the readers of the Indiana series. There is complaint, too, in regard to the arithmetics. We believe that where possible books should be retained. In many families the handing down of hooks from older to younger saves much money, and a change of series makes this impossible. On the other tiand, the child should not be handicapped with a poor book, as has been done with the present series of readers. The new price voted last winter makes new conditions, and the board should give us the best hook and let the rest take care of itself.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Thoughts from men of affairs upon questions of the day.

Whooping t'ough. This is a more dangerous disease titan is generally presumed. It will be a surprise to many to learn that more deaths result from it titan fr >m scarlet fever. Pneumonia often results from it. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in many epidemics of whooping cough, and always wit it the best results. Delbert McKeig of Harlan, Iowa, says of it: “My boy took whooping cough when nine months old. He had it in the winter. I got a Itottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy which proved good. I cannot recommend it too highly.” For sale by al Idealers.

Tent iterance in Indiana. There seems to be a good deal of talk going around over the state to the effect that the people—the taxpayers of the state are very much dissatisfied over the surroundings of some of the state schools. This seems to be especially true of the state normal school at Terre Haute. A traveling man was in Brazil yesterday and he brought up the subject in the presence of several gentlemen. He said that he heard it wherever he went that there was a disposition on the part of a good many of the people in many of the counties to take the State Normal away from Terre Haute and locate it in heter surroundings where there would be less temptation for the boys and girls over the state that come to study there. “Why,” said lie, “look at the surrounding in Terre Haute. Who would want to send his boy to such a town at an impressionable age. to get into the atmosphere of vice and wickedness that seems to he so redolent in that city. And you need not go any farther than to take the Terre Haute newspapers for authority. Look at the talk in them about the ■lames Hook school. And when you insider that the surroundings of the •lames Hook school are not and cannot lie so very different than that of the tate Normal, as they are only about two squares apart, it seems something more than a mere idle tale. There has been a move on foot for some years to establish another State Normal school at Muncie. But the Terre Haute crowd fought it so successfully that its defeat was encompassed each time. The next move of the people who favor the Muncie plan will in to have the Normal moved to Muncie where there seemo to be an influence for morality and good rather than the wickedest little city in the world, as Terre Haute is acknowledged to lie. The question will be taken up in the next legislature on a moral issue. Brazil News.

The good p«- iple of Cass County are getting exactly what they deserve for not voting out the saloons. The saloon men, backed up by a large number of business men, promised to obe> the law, but now only a few weeks after the election they are at their old tricks, selling to minors, selling to habitual drunkards, drunkenness is common, wine rooms are in operation and liquor is sold after hours and on Sunday. If an election were held there today there Is no doubt that Cass would vote dry. The total disregard of their promises by the Logansport saloon men should be a warning to other counties that have the same conditions to meet that prevailed there.—Crawfordsville Journal.

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THE HIDDEN SIDE OF CASTE

Founded on the Belief of Reincarnation— Four Classes Recognized. The hidden side of the oriental caste system, as originally conceived, reveals a colossal scheme for the ordering of society in such manner that the normal operation of the national functions should contribute to the culture of the Individual souls which constituted the population. Duty and responsibility were regulated in precise correspondence to education and privilege, strict accountability was imposed upon ail. There are divisions and subdivisions in the order of caste and national variations varying with national idiosyncrasies, but the scheme as a whole corresponds with the four grand natural divisions of society inevitable the world over: first the producing class who are engaged in supplying food, clothing and shelter and the other physical necessities of men; second, the distributing class; third, the guardians of the nations, the army, police, judges, rulers and kings under whose protection the producers and distributors labor in peace; fourth the teachers of the nation, the scientists, philosophers, priests who guide and develop the higher natures of the citizens. Should a soul, according to ancient caste system, by reason of its inexperience and youth, enter the lowest caste in society, the Shudra in the Indian tongue, the producers, the servers. His first lesson would naturally 1m_- those of a child, of obedience, of service, of subordination and of train ing. Little responsibility was given him and little in return was expected. Hardly any restriction was placed on his food; there was no restriction on travel. When the soul during a period of many Incarnations in the lowest, the Shudra caste, had learned the lessons of the infant school it passed on to the next grade, the next caste in its birth, and was born in the Merchant of Vaissya caste. Here both duties and restrictions were heavier. For the Merchant was a twice-born man. in the ancient phrase, and was therefore given the responsibility of wealth and its expenditure. He wore the threefold thread as a sign of belonging to a twice-born caste and was expected to hear and study the Vedas of sacred hooks. It was his to accumulate wealth, not for his own gratification, but for the support of the nation. He was the steward in the national household. It was his to maintain the temples, feed tlie starving, build resthouses for the traveler and hospitals for the sick. After many incarnations as a merchant man the soul came back to earth to learn the I os sons of ruling governing and guarding. The Kshytrya of India and the Samurrai of Bushi of Japan were tlie guardians of the national peace, preesnting tlie ideal or the d! vine kingship, the divine ruler. The perfect Samurai or warrior of Japan, according to a renowned citizen of the island empire, regarded his person as the most precious legacy left by his fathers, wherein dwelt in its most holy of holies a divine presence to he dedicated to the service of God, parent or master. His body was an instrument to be used for an end higher than its tenant's interest. Into the fourth, the highest caste came the souls who by many earthlives hail passed through the thre<' lower grades in the school of experience and having well learned their lessons were fitted to take upon themselves the momentous responsibilities of guide and teacher to the nation These were the Brahmans. It was theirs to teach in order that there might always be a succession of wise helpers who should direct the evolution and progress of the people. They must not teach for money, nof for any personal gain; they were to gain nothing for themselves and everything for the people. Their life was hedged about with restrictions in food and daily conduct, cut away from ail the enjoyments of the earth which they were expected by this time to have outgrown and surmounted In the high er enjoyments of learning, philosophy, religion. They were bidden to have no earthly wealth; since wealth belonged to the merchant man; they were bidden to have no right to struggle for liberty, since that was the privilege of the warrior; they were hidden not to eat and drink and travel about as they liked since those were the prerogatives of the child souls born in the lowest caste. Theirs was the severe life of self-denial. The divisions were founded entirely upon the soul's stage of growth, and upon this basis they were maintain ed. In the old days, if a man’s life proved that he had mastered the lessons to he learned in his own caste and was showing forth the qualities of the higher caste he could pass from Ids own caste the next.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

Curious Almshouse. The most curious almshouse is Eng land is St. Mary's Hospital as Chichester. There eight old ladies live actually in the church, which is a fine old Imilding, dating from 1680. It was originally a monastery, hut when Queen Elizabeth came to visit there she turned it into an almshouse, to endure as long as almshouses exist. The old ladies have two neat little rooms each down the sides of the main church, with windows looking out on the garden. They have each a coal supply, a kitchen range, water and gas. At one end of the church is the chapel, where daily services are held. The choir stalls are beautifully carved old oak, the original seats that the monks used. The church stands in a quiet little square.—Exchange.

AVERAGE AMERICAN WORKMAN From the Stand point of an Observer He Appears to be a Myth. Is there a type of "average American workman?” Dr. Arthur Shadwell, an Englishman, author of “Industrial Efficiency,” tells how in one of the older towns of Massachusetts he witnessed a proewsion of cotton operatives on strike: "They were marshaled by nationalities with a very curious effect. The different types, cheek by jowl, stood out in vivid contrast—the French, the familiar English, the Celtic, the Scandinavian. the Slav, the small Portuguese and the swarthy Greek. Such a sight can be seen nowhere elese. It brought before my eyes in one living picture the amazing cosmopolitanism of American labor and made me think with a smile of that convenient abstraction but almost mythical person of whom we have heard so much—the average American workman.' ”

Serum for Fatigue. Dr. Weichardt of Berlin claims credit for the discovery of a serum, which, whatever its pracical merits, is certainly the most remarkable of the anti-toxins. He alls it the serum of fatigue. This is extracted from the blood and tissues of other animals bled to death after first being subjected to great fatigue, the muscular tissues being subjected to heat at high temperature. The resulting extract is iinjected into other animals also in a state of fatigue, and from the blood of these inoculated animals is obtained the serum which, according to Dr. Weichardt, destroys the toxinis resulting from fatigue.

Some Freak Chickens. Rays the Nouvoo (111.) Rustier: "A gentleman residing near Mount Sterling is the possessor of a number of freak chickens. The fowls in question are small weighing when full grown about four pounds, and the peculiar thing is that they have two horns which grow on tne top of the head and measure from 4!£ to 5 inches in length. The horns are shaped the same as those of a goat. Why nature has provided them no one has been able to explain.”

Best Means of Coast Defense. The eminent French naval engineer M. Ijiubeuf, in a paper in the Paris Matin, maintains that tne submarine is the one ideal means of coast defense for small states. The battleships, he says, remains the unquestioned master of the high seas. But history teaches us that from Ralamis, Myl&e and Actium to Lissa. Port Arthur and 'Isu Shinia, all the important naval battles have taken place within sight of the coast.

The Kaiser as Matchmaker. A curious instance of the active part the Kaiser takes In arranging the marriages of relatives and friends is recorder, A personal aid-de-camp of His Majesty was very much depressed by the lady of his choice giving him a refusal. The same afternoon the Kaiser drove to the house of the young lady, the daughter of a wealthy Berlin banker, and pleaded the cause of his aid-de-camp with such eloquence that the marriage took place a month later.

Where We Go Wrong. We all make the mistake of living in a tomorrow that never comes. We neglect the only time we have - now. We are blind to the only opportunity we ever shall have—the present. Wo fool away the only day that can ever be—today. And before we know where we are, life, opportunities, time and all have gone; and we realize that "the night cometh when no man can work.”

Sanitation in India. There are some terrible figures In a recent English blue book In relation to sanitary measuree in IndK Under the heading a plague it is recorded that the numlier of deaths due to this disease from the autumn ot 1896 to the end of 1904 reached the enormous total of 3,269,810, of which 2,609,if)! occurred in the British provinces.

How the Court Decided. In deciding a suit arising from the delay of a shipment of threshers until after the season for the sale ol such machinery had passed, the Kansas Supreme Court held that common carriers are charged with a knowledged of seedtime and harvest and the general eustonls relating thereto in the territory in which they do business. BifTousncNH juitl Constipation. For years I was troubled with biliousness and constipation, which made life miserable for me. My appetite failed me. I lost my usual force and vitality. Pepsin preparations and cathartics only made matters worse. I do not know where I should have been today had I not tried Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The tablets relieve tiie ill feeling at once, strengthen tlie digestive functions, purify the stomach, liver and blood, helping the system to do its work naturally. Mrs. Rosa Potts, Birmingham, Ala. These tablets are for sale by all dealers.

Monon Itoute Excursions. Homo-seekers excursion rates to southern points on sale first and third Tuesday each month. J. A. Michael, Agt.

QUEER CURES IN GERMANY.

Superstitions Prevailing To-Day—The Dead Man's Healing Touch. Some one has been making an investigation as to the survival of medical superstitions in Germany and his discoveries have been reported in the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. All sorts of outlandish ideas and practices were found in active prevalence in tlie marshlands of the Weser, north of Bremerhaven, and in the Luneburg Heath, a barren region between the Elbe and Aller. In both of these districts the touch of a corpse's hand Is still regarded as curative of many local ills. In the Wesermarsch the practice is to steel secretly into the hoom where the dead person Is laid out and with the dead hand stroke the afflicted part. In the Luneburg Heath the application is especially used as a cure for warts and for cramps in the stomach. Less grewsome is the remedy for hernia still applied in the marsh country. On the night of St. John the Baptist's day, June 24, the patient must be dragged through the split of a cleft ash tree. Three men tearing the first name of John must perform the operation, it must he conducted in dead silence. Some of the cures depend, on the contrary, upon verbal formulas. For hiccough the sufferer must cross a little wooden foot-bridge over a stream. As he crosses he must repeat: Snik-op un ik gungen ober dat sreg Snik-op full herin un ik gung weg, This bit of dialectic German may be translated: Hiccough and I went over the bridge. I went on. Hiccough fell in the ditch. For erysipelas a fire is lighted and a pinch of ashes from it is rubbed on skin to the accompaniment of a saying to the effect that the ashes and the sore went over the Red Sea together; the ash came back, but the sore never again. Numerous other sayings supposed to have the force ol charms, usually when uttered simultaneously with some action, are quoted. The Luneberger, for instance, who has warts makes the sign of the cross on the warts while gazing at the orescent moon, saying, “What 1 see, that I win; what I wash, that disapliears.” It rhymes in the German dialect. Sometimes the formula is not spoken. Tlie Vv essermarsch tolk have a saying which they write on a slip of paper when any one has fever; then they burn the paper. The Luneburgers have no formula, but they write the name, year of birth and birthplace of the sick person in a lonely place three nights running. Other remedies for fever consist in swallowing spiders or dust filed from a church bell. 'When a tooth comes out the loser must throw it backward over his head. Hair combings must not be thrown out of the window, because the birds might get them and fly away with them. In that case the person who was separated from them would speedily become bald.

Americans Taller Than Englishmen. Peter the Great was six feet eight and a half inches. Abraham Lincoln was just six feet two inches. Sis Walter Ralqigh and Sir Richard Burton six feet. Allred de Musset, Froude, Ihivis de Chavannes, Poussin, I,e6sing, Schiller, Lamartine, and Sterne were tall men. W. S. Gilbert is over six feet. It would be possible to lengthen this list to the point of >ediousness. But the more the subject is examined, tlie farther away we get from the Napoleonic theory. Nature has a pretty wide range in these matters, and she makes the most of it. When it comes to averages, figures prepared by the anthropometric committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science indicate that ihe average stature of the male adults of England is five feet seven ! inches and seven-eigths, although the professional and commercial classes show “a mean heigth of from two to three inches above this, and the laboring classes an inch or two below.” The Scotch and Irish are a little taller. and the Welsh a lltte shorter than than the English. The average for the United States is said to lie taller than the English— a fact which implies neither genius nor the lack of it.

How to Use a Barometer. The following rules are those which are used by the Seawanhaka-Corinth-ian Yacht Glut) in their very successful attempt to fosecast the weather with the aid of the barometer. A Rising Barometer.—A rapid rise indicates unsettled weather. A gradual rise indicates settled weather. A rise with dry air arm cold air increasing in summer indicates wind from the northward; and if rain has fallen better weather may be expected. A rise with moist air and a low temperature indicates wind and rain from the northward. A rise with southerly winds indicates fine weather. A Steady Barometer.—With dry air and seasonable temperature indicates a continuance of very tine weather. A Falling Barometer.—A rapid fall Indicates stormy weather. A rapid fall witn westerly wind indicates stormy weather from the northward. A fall with a northerly wind indicates storm, with rain and hall in summer and snow In winter. A .all with increased moisture in the air and heat Increasing indicates wind and rain

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WALL PAPER

AT LOW PRICES We have a large selection of room patterns in wall pers, which we have marked to a remarkably low fim! There is enough in each pattern for an ordinary y/ed room. These patterns will be sold ouly in quantities 0 f 12 bolts of side wall, 8 bolts of ceiling and 65 f eet 0 f border, at the prices named, for cash. These patterns will sell at the following prices

$ .90 1.00 1.10 1.15

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75c Indianapolis Excursion

fhH Pennsylvania !££ Next Sunday Trains leave (Ireenciistle 5:57 and ^ H:63 a.m. Hid May 3-5-7. I

“Big Four Route" Excursions

Sunday, May 2, 1909. 75 cents to Indianapolis Train leaves 9:00 a. m. i

MONON TIME CARD In effect Sunday March 7, 1909. NORTH BOUND 4 Chicago Mail 1:45 am 6 Chicago Express 12:23 pm 10 Orleans and Laf. acco.. . 9:42 am 12 F. Lick and Laf. acco.. . 5:48 pm SOUTH BOUND 3 Louisville Mail 2:20am 5 Louisville Express .... 2:17 pin 11 Laf. and F. Lick acco... 8:25am 9 Laf. and Orleans acco.. . 5:21 pm All trains run daily. J. A. MICHAEL. Agt.

New Business Deal

Phone No. 50 For rubber tired cabs for ail trains or city calls, day or night. Price 15 cents. Prompt service positively guaranteed at all times. Give us your call and we will do the rest. Cabs for parties and funerals on short notice. HARRY COLLINS Successor to H. \V. Gill, Oreencastle Transfer Company.

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