Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1908 — Page 3
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All the Democrats who are out for nomination for county office at the primary election to be held next Friday met Saturday with county chairman and arranged details for the election. Each candidate was assessed for his share of the expense of it he election. The following resolutions were passed: ‘‘We the Candidates of Putnam County, Indiana to be voted for at the Democratic primary election in said County and State on January 10, 1908 agree to stand by the following resolutions passed at the Democratic mass meeting, Dec. 21, 1907. Resolved: that it is the sense of the Democratic party of Putnam county that no money shall be used for the purpose of purchasing votes or other illegal purpose at the primary election to be held January 10, 1908. ” - David B. Hostetler, Daniel C. Brackney, Theo. Crawley, Jasper N. Miller, James H. Hurst, H. H. Runyan, F. M. Stroube, Theodore H. Boes, Edward H. Eiteljorg, Powell S. Brasier, R. J. .Oillespie, E. B. Lynch, A. Farmer, David J. Skelton, G. W. Raines, W. M. Closer, James 'E. Houck, Alec A. Lane.
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The candidates also passed a resolution ordering that any voter who required the preparation of his ballot by the eletetion clerks, should have such service performed in the presence oLthe entire election board, and also that any candidate not having a representative on the election hoard shall have the right to have A personal representative present while the count of ballots is going on.
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Notice is hereby given to tin Democratic voters of Putnam county that there will be a primary election held in the different townships of said county on Friday the 10th day of January, 1908 to nominate a candidate for each of the following offices, to-wit: Representative, Treasurer, Sheriff, Cornoner, Surveyor, Commissioner 2nd District, and Commissioner for 3rd District. Wm. B. VESTAL, Chairman. JAS. P. HUGHES, Sec.
If Heads Turn Ten Times In Sequence, Theory Says the Od^s Are Against Another Head, Yet Chance Says the Odds on the Next Toss Are Even. A famous mathematician. Professor Karl Pearson, once spent the greater part of his vacation deliberately tossing a shilling and making careful notes of how it fell. lie spun the shilling 25,000 times, and a pupil of his, working separately, spun a penny 8,200 times and also tested Jtlie drawing of 0,000 tickets from a bag. It may seem strange that a learned professor should put himself to such an amount of trouble to demonstrate what every schoolboy who had ever tossed a coin already knew'. Yet, as a matter of fact, few really do grasp, the laws which govern such an apparently straightforward matter as the tossing of a coin. In the words of the arithmetician, the theory of “runs”— that Is, heads turning up repeatedly or tails turning up repeatedly—is precisely as follows: The cliauce of a head is oue-half; of two heads following, is one-half multiplied by one-half—that is, one-quarter; of three heads In succession, one-half multiplied by one-half multiplied by one-li a If—that Is, one-eighth. Now, what do you suppose Is the chance of a run of eleven heads? It is safe to say Hint not many persons, however accustomed to tossing coin.-’, have reasoned this out. The fact is that one “run” of eleven heads is on the average only to he expected In 2,048 sets
of coin tossing.
Although the man in the street may not have reckoned this, he is always quite positive that if. say. a coin has fallen ten times head upward lie is safe to start hacking tails. lie puts his money on tails turning up because, he says, It stands to sense that the run of heads can’t continue. But does it? At the eleventh toss the head of the coin is just as big ns it ever was. What mysterious Influence can a past event, the tossing of ten heads, have on a future one which has no link with them namely, the tossing of the coin the eleventh time? Surely each toss is an event by itself, ns Sir Hiram Maxim said of a game at roulette at Monte Carlo: “It is a pure, unadulterated question of chance, and it is not Influenced in the least by anything which has ever taken place before or that ever will take place In the future.” A nasty piece of plain speaking this for the cranks who had published schemes for "breaking the hank” and whose plans depended entirely ou the theory that If one game ended In a win for “red” the chances against it ending “red” a second time were less, a third time less still, and so on. Tlds of course would he a sound enough argument provided that you regard some dozens of games of roulette or tosses of a coin all as one continuous*event. It is quite safe, for instance, to offer beforehand big odds against a coin turning up heads ten times running. But in practice the public house loafer does not do tills. What lie does is to hot on each separate toss by itself, thus defeating ids own aims. The odds against a coin turning up heads eleven times are as has been shown, something like 2,<100 to 1. But suppose you only start betting at the tenth toss. What are the odds against the eleventh loss again
being a head?
The odds, so far from being 2,000 to 1, are actually 1 to 1! To use an Irishism, the odds are even—that Is to say, if you split up the eleven tosses Into eleven separate events to he bet on separately your bets should lie “even money" all the time, however often heads turn up running. Rut if you view the eleven tosses as one combined event and you offer a preliminary bet against the whole eleven results being heads you will have to give gigantic odds. All tills goes to prove the absolute uncertainty of gambling. The greatest mathematicians of the day cannot be certain how a coin will fall, so that the man of merely average abilities who stakes anything important on the toss of a coin is allowing that part of his fortune to pass entirely outside his control.—Pearson’s Weekly. South Africa's Locusts. Millions and millions of locusts settle, and millions' and millions continue flying to settle farther on. They have been settling in myriads for a hundred miles and more, and yet enough are left flying to hide the sun. <>n the ground nothing can lie seen hut locusts. So thickly do they pack that not a square inch of eartii or grass is visible. As you walk through them a narrow wake is left for a few seconds in your track where they have flown out of your way, and as they rise in thousands before your feet the noise of their wings Is like an electric power station.—Grand Magazine.
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Putting It Miidly. The flooding of a Yorkshire mine had a tragic result, and a miner was deputed to break the news to a poor woman whose husband had been drowned. “Does Widow Jones live here?” “No,” was the indignant lady's reply. “You’re a liar!” lie said.—London Tatler. Never tell your resolution beforehand.—Seldcn.
A FOOL QUESTION.
Asked In a R.iilway Station, It Won a Caustic Reply. He stood at the ticket window slowly unrolling an old fashioned leather hag, while a dozen men stood behind him, driven to madness by the shouting of the gatemeu calling their trains. After he got about a yard and a half of bag unrolled he suddenly stopped and said to the ticket clerk: “Is that clock right?” “No, sir.” “’Taln't?" shouted the startled passenger, stooping down and making a sudden clutch at a lean and hungry carpetbag. “’Taln't rigid? Well, what 'u tile name o’ common sense do ye have it stuck up there for, then?” “To fool people,” calmly replied the clerk. “That's what we’re here for—to fool people and misdirect them." “Great Scott!” said ttie passenger, hurriedly rolling up his bag. “I’ve missed my train. I’ll report you, I
will!”
“Won't do any good. It's the company’s orders. They pay a man to go round every morning to mix and muddle up all the clocks, so that not one of them will be right and no two of them alike.” The passenger gasped twice or thrice, but could not say anything. The ticket clerk went on: “It's the superintendent’s idea. He is fond of fun, enjoys a Joke, and it does him good to see a man jump about and hear him jaw when he buys a ticket and then finds his train lias been gone two hours.” “Which way is tills clock wrong?” the passenger asked in despairing accents “fast or slow?" “Don't know. That's part of the fun not to let anybody in the building know anything about the right time. All I know is that it’s about ninety minutes wrong one way or the other.” With a hollow groan the passenger grabbed his bug and made a rusli for the door, upsetting any man who got in Ids way. In about two minutes he came hack, crestfallen and meek, and took ids place at the end of the line. When once more lie walked up to the window he said, as lie named his stu tion and bought his ticket like a sane
man:
“What made you talk to me like you
did ?"
“What made you ask questions like a fool?”—Ban Francisco Chronicle. PLEASANT JAILS. The Way Prisoners In Montenegro Are T rented. When I paid a visit to the Cetinje jail I found that all the prisoners were out for a walk. For two horn's every morning and again for two hours in the afternoon they are allowed to wander about on the green before the prison. There Is nothing, indeed, but their own sense of honor to prevent their going farther afield unless they lie murderers, In which case they wear chains. The authorities provide them with housing, of course, and with clothes—not uniform- also with a lire at which to cook their food, and they give them fonrpence a day each to buy it. The prisoners cater for themselves. Two of them go to the market every morning to buy provisions for the day. They are not required to work unless they choose, and they are classl fled not according to the seriousness of their offense, but according to their standard of life and general behavior. If a man of education and refinement Is sent to prison, care Is taken to lodge him, so fur as possible, in a room where tlie other occupants belong to his own rank i8 life. I found on one bed a beautiful counterpane and a pillow covered with delicate embroidery. “Y’es. poor fellow, that's his wife’s handiwork," the governor of the Jail remarked casually as we passed. In one prison life was made so easy and pleasant that on leaving It I ventured to remark that to ho there was no punishment, it seemed to me. “No punishment!" the official who was with me exclaimed In surprise. “But think of the disgrace of being here. Is not that in itself punishment enough ?" I had and still have doubts ou the subject, for l had just seen a cheery old fellow who, although the time for which he was sentenced had expired, stoutly refused to quit the prison.— Edith Sellers in Fortnightly Review.
White African*.
The Berbers, who, although African, are as white as Europeans, are the oldest white race on record, says an explorer. They are supposed to have come from the south of Europe in ancient days, the Dundee Advertiser says, and, although their language and customs are entirely different from ours and their religion Mohammedan, they are probably closely akin by descent. Blue eyes and fair hair are not at all uncommon among the Berbers, and many of them have rosy cheeks and features so like our own that were they dressed In British fashion they would easily pass as natives
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Equality.
. Uncle-Hello! Dot got a new doll? Little Miss Dot-Hush, uncle; don’t speak too loud! She Is not one of my own. but belonged to Millie Simpson, who was cruel to her and’bnndoned Iter, so I have 'dopted her, but I don't want her to know, because I mean to make no difference between her and my own
dollies.—London Tit-Bits.
What It Was.
“These deceitful women are so ridiculous!” said Miss Passey. “As for me, I was never afraid to tell what my
age was.”
“No woman," replied Miss Wise, “ever minds telling what her age was.”
—London Answers.
e^ooooooooo docxxx>ooooooooo § WALKING A § CHALK LINE. § OOOOCXXXXXXXXKV'C>2Y*20GCC->2fV! [Original] Jaqueliue was not twenty-two when she was appointed malinger of the household of a widower with two sons. Before entering on her duties he said to her: "It Is to he expected that both my hoys will fall iu love with you. Neither lias a cent in the world except ’ what I give him. It behooves you, therefore, if you are to retain your position to walk a chalk Hue. Do you understand? "1 do.” Six months later the younger t»oy. ' Alex, said to her: “You are trifling!” “Trifling with whom?"
“Me.”
Jnquellne laughed. "Yesterday you were very sweet to me; this morning I saw you sitting in the window seat with Tom, and it looked to me as if he were holding your hand." "I love your brother.” “You confess It?” “Yes, and I love you, too, Alex. Do we not make one family? Since I came in here as housekeeper, after your mother’s death, I have striven to make your home as happy as possible. You and Tom, instead of thwarting mo by making love to me, should treat me with proper reserve. You must remember that, living under the same roof with two such susceptible hoys, I must walk a chalk line.” “I am willing you should do so provided you walk that line with me." “With you? And what would you have me do with Tom?” “Oh, Tom Is not ns much in love as I am. He'll get over It.” “Come, come, cease tlds absurdity. 1 am three years your senior and am just Tom’s age. By this silly contest you’ll spoil everything.” “Well, If you insist upon walking a chalk line, ns you call it, you’ll flud you'll have to walk it with some one, and I could never lienr to see you walk it with any one hut me." “Go away and behave yourself." Alex went away and instead of “behaving himself" went straight to Tom. They had been loving brothers until the appearance of Jnquellne, since when they had been growing in enmity. The two were spoiling for a fight. Tom opened fire. "You have been spooning with Jnque-
llne."
“Sup|M>se I have What’s that to
you?”
“Oh, nothing, if Jnquellne cares for the attention of n mere hoy scarcely out of his teens." “Huh, you are not so old as she your-
self!"
“I am but ten days her Junior. Her birthday comes on the 14th, mine on the 24th. Besides, I am past twentyone and a man. You are still a boy.” Alex could not brook his brother's superior manner. Alex’s age, or, rather, his youth, was a sore point with him, and Tom’s holding it up before him was like slinking a red rag before a mad hull. “I wish you to understand,” lie said, “that I am old enough to know my own mind, and, take warning, I "'ill have no more interference from you.” “You should consider the position iu which Jnquellne ts phned. Jaqueliue, you know. In tills household, admired, I admit, by me and besot by you, must walk a chalk”— “So she lias been talking about that chalk line to you, lias she? I told tier that If she must walk it I am the only man she shall walk It with.” “You mean the only boy. Women don’t need to walk chalk lines with
boys.”
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do with you/’ said Alex, glancing at Ills brother “I’ll fight you over a chalk line.” “Do you suppose I would strike my
little brother?"
This was pure bluff, for Tom was but five feet five and slender, while Alex was five feet ten and muscular. “The reason I proposed to tight you over a line,” sneered Alex. “Is to give you a chance to get out of the way. You would have the advantage ©f my
not being able to follow you up.”
Alex ran off for a piece of chalk, which he found In the billiard room, and, coming hack with it, removing the rugs, drew a straight line on the floor; then, taking position, he dared his brother to stand up and face him. Tom was loath to do so, both fearing to have Jaqueliue catch him in st> undignified a position as fisticuffs with her youthful lover and knowing that Alex was the better man. However, after Alex had sneered at him, called him coward and threatened to trounce him anyway If he didn’t stand up and fight like a man lie concluded to give the hoy a chance to work off Ida wrath. So, taking position on one side of the line, he began to parry the blows that rained from the other. While the two young men were In the thickest of the fray the portiere was suddenly drawn back, and their father and Jaquellne stood In the doorway, an amused ex-
pression on the face of each.
“Boys,” said the father, “stop this nonsense. Jnquellne lias told me of the persistence of both of you. She has told you that her position here between two such fiery lovers could only lie maintained by her walking a chalk
line." Both hoys groaned.
“You have insisted on her walking that line with some one, and she lias concluded to walk it with in#. Cense this ridiculous struggle and give your new mother that Is to he a kiss.” Tom went to Jaquellne and, taking
■ her hand, raised It respectfully to his
lips. Alex, who was full of emotion and very youthful in bin feelings,
’ threw his arms around her.
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A HANDSHAKE. Story of a Parting Clasp by One Who Observed It. They had been talking about various ways of shaking hands and had pretty well gone over the ground covered by all the philosophic writings on handshakes when one of the men In | the group said: “The most expressive handshake 1 ever saw was given by one man to another. There was no tie of kinship between them. “Each was about forty. Both were in perfect health. One had the prospects of many years of life. The other was to die within a minute, and the man whose hand he held was to kill [ him. “it seemed to me then that 1 could read the meaning of the handshake given by the man about to die to the man about to kill him. It seemed to say: 'You are a good man. and I like you. I thank you for many acts of kindness and especially for this friendly grasp.' “Then, with a gently lingering eling, he let tlie other man's hand slip from his own. There was a volume of mean ing iu that motion. “It seemed to say that there were the morrow's sunrise and many more for the man whose hand he was releasing, but for him a few moments more of life, and then— It seemed to say that there was an age of human companionship in every instant during which the two hands touched. "It seemed to say that when the clasp was broken he was forever cut off from the living and was as one dead. And many other tilings it seemed to say that 1 cannot translate into words. “Within a few seconds one of the men gave the signal that ended the life of the other. “It was a case,” the story teller continued, "of tlie hanging of a man In Connecticut for murder. While under tlie Influence of liquor with other men he had dealt one of them a blow that resulted in his death. “The condemned man was not by nature or inclination a criminal. He had never been arrested before ho was taken into custody for murder. “The sheriff, who shook hands with him on the gallows Just before the drop fell, had a genuine liking for him. He offered the condemned man the usual merciful portion of liquor before tlie execution, but the man refused it. “By tlie way, I have seen several persons hanged, and I think tills man was the only one I ever saw go to the scaffold without being ‘doped’ with liquor, and he was the steadiest In nerve of them all. Ills only betrayal of weakness, if it was such, was his noticeable clinging to the sheriff's hand before releasing it”—Washington Post Try some of that home made mincemeat at Broadstreet’s grocery. It Is clean and so good.
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