Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 December 1907 — Page 3

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Why ponder on what to buy for your Father’s, Brother’s or Sweetheart’s Xmas Gift. Good cigars are always sure to please. Nothing could be more acceptable. That’s why Our Christinas Cigars are so popular. Special Xmas boxes of the choicest cigars. We make them ourselves. We know they are good and can recommend them to you. They will be a most acceptaple gift for Men Folks. We have cigars from twelve to one hundred in a box ranging in price from 50c to $7.00 a Box They are of 5c & 10c Grades And then we have Meerschaum and French Briar Pipes. Special Xmas pipes with and without told mountings. Also cigar holders and tobacco pouches. The prices are not Xmas pries They are reasonable prices. HOFFMAN’S CIGAR STORE Headquarters for “GIFTS FOR MEN”

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The stoves that make the heat, warm the floor and hold fire, built tor service; the stove for you to buy. Quick Meal Steel Ranges are unsurpassed in construction and operation. Try one and be convinced. Fine line of nickle plated ware, granite ware, fine cutlery, safety razors, guns, loadr ed shells etc. Our Prices Are Right BICKNELL HARDWARE CO.

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HAS ONE TON OF BAGGAGE

LACK ANT, THE MAGICIAN WILL APPEAR IN ALL HIS BEWILDERMENTS.

THIRD NUMBER ON THE COURSE

Next Wednesday, December 11, wdll be the third number on the Lecture and Contest Course. The performance will be given by Laurant the Magician and Illusionist. He presents a superb entertainment of original mystical creations. This attraction is claimed to be the best of its kind on the American platform. The magician carries a ton of baggage with him, decoiating the stage with Oriental hangings and scenery. One of the most famous of his performances is the great casket mysI tery. A new one before the public is the Witch of the Flame. This promises to bo one of the best numbers of the course. Olin Eckley, one of the prominent seniors in school, has seen Laurant’s entertainment and is loud in speaking his praise.

OUR DISORDERED BANKS

C. If. Church, Cashier of the l»eleware Co. National of Muncie, Tells of the Situation.

OBITUARY. Nathan A. Bates was born in Estell County, Ky., April 11 1855. Died Nov. 14th 1907. Aged 52 years 7 months and 3 days. He was married to Lucretia Bray March 19th 1883, to them was born five children: Charles M., Eva Mays, Uessie, Elmer and an infant that proceeded him several years ago. He leaves an aged mother, wife, three sisters and five brothers to mourn his

departure.

Nath, as he was generally called, was of a jovial disposition, lie had no enemies but a host of friends. He has lived here in this community j for a number of years, for the past year he had worked on the Vandalia roads as cook, and had just returned from his work and was on his way home when he met with the horrible accident that ended his earthly career. He was not a member of any church but was always friendly to the cause of Christianity. While he w'as not old enough to die and his death was untimely yet, he is better off in the hands of a merciful God than in this world of sin and trouble, for we understand that he is a God of mercy while there is not very much mercy boro when measured up to the Christian Standard. Nath, we will not say good by but farewell.

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Hra/.il Times Makes A. O. Lockridge a IVofessor in Del’auw University. Was a Fine Lecture.

Clay City, 1ml., Dec. 5.—The Nineteenth Annual Farmer’s Institute and First Boy’s Corn Show opened here with a record breaking attendence. Prof. A. 0. Lockridge of DoPauw University, talked on the “Chemistry of the Farm in Common Terms,” and Prof. David of the local high school discussed the subject. Prof. W. C. Latta of Purdue spoke on “Physical Improvement of the Soil,” which subject was discussed by Senator R. W. Moss.—Brazil Times.

Monon Route Excursion*. To Jame»town Ter. Centennial Exposition, Ticket* on sale, Apral 19 to

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and 3rd Tuesdays each month. Season tickets, (27.80, sixty day, 124.25, fifteen day $20.25, ten day tickets on sale each Tuesday, $14.71 Numerous concessions in way of stop offs and variable routes can be ob-

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Homeseckers excursions to V/eatera and Southern States, on sale 1st J. A. Michael, Act

YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

It Is scarcely two months since the west was supposed to be practically financially independent of the east as far as financing the crop movement was concerned, and was flattering themselves that the socalled "rich man’s panic" could not | possibly effect them, when within ten days the speculative financiors of New York inaugurated a crisis and the bankers who controlled possibly three hundred financial institutions, with a capital of ono hundred and fifty millions, took such illegal and drastic measures that it resulted in the practical suspension of fifteen thousand interior banks, with a capital approximating ono billion, and resulting further in demoralizing the business interests of merchants and manufacturers to the extent of millions. The existence of conditions which will show the present calamity to be again inflicted upon this country will no longer be tolerated by the American people, who are demanding that Congress provide adequate relief.

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Perhaps no taks is more difficult than selecting Christmas gifts for friends. To sit down and think what is suitable, of the cost to fit the pocket book of the giver, with nothing before one to suggest ideas is a difficult task indeed. But Greencastle merchants have been thinking for many months these very things. They have stocked their stores with beautiful things. This week they are telling you about the things in stock and the cost. They hsve made the task easy for you. Take the Herald, sit down, turn to the various advertisements. You will find listed there just what you want for your various friends at just the price you want to pay. The articles are there before you. The i^-ice is marked. Select all, make a memorandum of the gifts, thou go out and buy. It will be time saved, worry saved, and friends pleased.

NOW TI/WUoi XMAS PH 1 TOS Don’t wsit until just h G w dins nr n week before Christinas but fio to Canmiuck's Studio now wbile he is not rushed, aud while jou have time. You should see those Artist Froofs; nothing liner. J. O CAMMACK Telephone for an engagement. Phone 2 on 251.

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Meharry Hall Wednesday Night

Part of the Rites of the West Indian Cult of Obeah. WORSHIP OF THE SNAKE GOD.

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That Is the Root Idea of the Peculiar Religion of the Negro Natives. Dread of the Obeahman and the Superstition of the Snake Stick. Renders of the lute Sir Walter Resant’s novel “The World Went Very Well Then" may remember the sinister old medicine man, Mr. Briujes, and ttie snake stick, by means of which lie compelled every negro he met to do his bidding. If Mr. Briujes were alive today ami living in the West Indies he would lie n very great obeah man—the prophet, priest and klug of our colored brethren. During five years spent In Jamaica. Haiti aud other West Indian islands I found Mmt obeah and Vaudoux—both derivations of the west African fetichism brought over generations ago In tlie slave ships -are the real beliefs of the great majority of the blacks, veneered by Christianity or even grafted on to that faith. In a Jamaican village the dirty, one eyed, diseased obeah man has usually more power than the parson. I saw tliis proved once In a very striking manner. It was on n Sunday morning, and the people were trooping out of chapel with their colored min ister. The local obeah man was passing by and ’mocked them. The parson nervously attempted to rebuke him but in* threw his snake stick on the ground and cried defiantly: ‘You no go fe b’lleve Obeah, yah! Deu pick up me stick. I say him turn into snake If you touch him.” I’lie stick was left lying on the ground. Not even the colored minister dared to touch it. He had been educated in a theological college, but lie had not quite outgrown the superstitions that were inculcated In ids youth. The root idea of Obeah ism and Vaudoux is the worship and propitiation of the .snake god Obi, a west African word typifying the spirit of evil. Vaudoux Is the more extreme form of 01>enh practiced in Haiti. Santo Domingo and the French West Indies. Its rites are always accompanied by the sacrifice of fowls aud goats and in only too many cases by the offering up of the ‘‘goat without horns”—the human sacrifice, usually a young girl or boy. Several cases were officially proved when 1 was in Haiti. How many more never came to light can only be guessed. The lonely groves and mountain caves where the devotees of Vaudoux enjoy the orgies of a Walpurgis night seldom give up their secrets. There are two sects of Vaudoux, the white and tint red. The former, which only l>elieves iu the sacrifice of white fowls and gnats, is tolerated by the laws of Haiti, and its rites are as commonly practiced as those of the church. But even the red soot, which openly stands for human sacrifice, Is seldom interfered with. The authorities dare not suppress it. for their own policemen and soldiers stand in awe of the “papaloi” and ‘ mnmaloi”—the priest and priestess of the snake god. More thnu that, there have been presidents of Haiti in recent years who believe in Vaudoux. Hippolyte was even a “papaloi” himself. He beat the black goatskin drum in the streets of tho capital to call the faithful together to see him kill the sen set fowl. Another president. Geffrard, tried to do bis duty and stamp out the cult A terrible revenge was taken upon him. His young daughter, Cora, was shot dead us she knelt in prayer before the altar of a church lu Port an Prince. Today there Is a temple of the red sect iu the Hal tlan capital, near by a triumphal arch which Is Inscribed with the unctuous words, “Liberty — Education — Prog-

ress.”

Under British government Obcahlsm perforce ta’^cs forms less dangerous to the social order than It does In Haiti, hut t Is none the less a eon stunt public peril lu Jamaica and the other British ’West Indian islands. It Is the bitter foe of religion, education and social advancement. In olden days it worked by means of wholesale pel soiling, and in quite recent days there have been not a few cases of olsiali men sceklug to do murder In the old

way.

When 1 lived in Jamaica, an old villain made au offer to a black man. whom he thought I had offended, to poison me by mixing ground glass with my food. Unfortunately for him, the negro gave him away, and he got twelve months’ hard labor and a sound flogging. Not long before an entire family at Montego Bay was poisoned by the same method. Another favorite trick ot tlie obeah man, both in Jamaica and Haiti, is to mix the infinitesimal hairs of the bamboo in the food of persons who refuse to bow tlie knee to them. Tills finally sets up malignant dysentery. If the afflicted one remains contumacious, he dies; if he makes his penee^vith the obeah man and gives him a handsome present, the slow process of poisoning censes, and he lives. In nil crises and troubles of life the negro flies to the obeah mun. If the has to appear at the police court to an swer for his sins, he pays the obeah man to go there also and "fix de eye” of the magistrate so that he will be discharged. Perhaps ho has lieen turned out of his office of deacon In the Baptist chapel for immorality hy white minister. In that case the obeah man will arrange for a choice collection of the most powerful spells— sucli as dried lizards, fowls’ bones and graveyard earth—to be placed In the

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