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OUEENCASTTE HER ALP, GREENCASTEK, TV1HAXA. THTRSPAY, JAN. 10. 1008,

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The committee of the Junior class on a year book met yesterday afternoon in Col. Weaver’s room. Representathes from the various organiza'- j lions were present. A complete plan : was made out and will be presented to the entire class at a future meeting. Without doubt DePauw will have some kind of an annual from the Junior class. It was also decided to hold a social “stunt” within the next week or two. However, the members of the class refuse to disclose the nature of this affair. Announcements will be made tomorrow.

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: : j ldentity*f Tommy ij

By AD DIE F. MITCHELL. Cop) ri«ht, 1SIU7, by K. C. Purcells.

Entered ns second class mail matter at the Greencaslle, Indiana, Postoffice.

MICHIGAN OUT

\\ i:\IIIIUT10N OF NERVE.

That Senator Aldrich, at the in- j stigation of the Wall street financiers. should have the nerve to offer i the currency bill now being killed ' in the senate, is an illustration of the overweening confidence of the “senate kings." After the “flurry,” due as all now know to rotten finaneertng, it required eonsumate nerve for Aldrich, a friend and partner of those same rotten financiers, to offer any bill at all. Especially was it a matter of pure nerve to offer a bill which, on the most superficial examination, showed plainly that it was drafted in the interest of these mad financiers. The elastic currency which Aldrich advocated was the very thing all thinkers on finance have feared. It makes the basis of the inflated currency railroad stocks and bonds, and other paper of like standing. Paper, in many instances, without intrinsic value, subject to wild fluctuations at the mere breath of rumor. Our financial system, unstable now, would be absolutely weak and tottering should the control of our finance be still further intrusted to the New York banks, and this is the intent and purpose of the Aldrich bill. Finance, to be sound, should be based upon the resources of the whole nation, not upon a few corporations nor controlled by a half dozen banks. It is little wonder that the bill met the ax in the senate. The wonder really is that aqy man \ffth sense should have the nerve to offer it. It only shows the low estimate placed upon the intelligence of the people by the “natural

leaders” of the G. O. P.

Wolverines Withdraw From “Rig

Nine" For Good.

All hopes for a return of Michigan to the “Big Nine ' fold have been destroyed by a statement from that university's board of control which discredits any such move. The maize and blue representatives view the five game schedule, and the abolition of the training table as steps which do not tend towards pure athletics and good studentship and therefore against Michigan’s athletic policy. The announcement has occasioned much regret in Western athletic circles for it was believed that the Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois games were of sufficient conttequence to persuade them to abandon their “policy of secession.”

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LEST THEY FORGET. And while the Republican Central Committee is organizing and perfecting its plans for the coming campaign in the county, state and nation, it might not be a bad plan to make a study of the record of the Republican party in the city’s affairs, the only place they have had full control. We suggest they make a studj of the traction question as affecting Seminary street, of the condition of the new cement walks on north Locust and south Locust, that they do not forget the odor from from police affairs, that they recall the walks round the government lot, that they glance at the condition of our streets, with the beautiful collection of hills, gulleys, ravines, etc. If after such a study they still conceive it their duty to ask for place in other affairs, their bumptionsness deserves the pruning it will receive.

Engraved cards—script —at tlie Herald office. One hundred cards and a plate for $1:50.

Don’t Preach About Home Trade and at the same time send your oroers for job printing out of town. Your home printer can do your work just as good, and in nine cases out of ten he can beat the city man's prices, because he pays much less for running expenses. By sending your next printing order to this office you’ll be better satisfied all around, and you’ll be keeping the money at home.

COATEKYILLE. Mrs. Masten attended the wedding of her nephew at Indianapolis Sunday. The revival at the Christian church still continues. Services every nigfit commencing at 0:45 by the pastor, J. C. Ashley. Mr and Mrs. John Hall, of Clayton, attended church here on Sunday. A musical will be given by the Rand Boys in the Methodist church Saturday night, Jan. IS, 1908. Ad-mi.-cion 10 and 20 cents. Miss Emma Phillips and Ellen Reeds spent Saturday night and Sunday in Baiabridge. Jack Gainbold and wife will leave fo.- Cit'ifornia in a few weeks. Mrs. Flora Bambold is visiting her brother in Chicago. Quite a number from around here went to Greencaslle Saturday to help the Democrats to jollify. Mrs. Chas. Smith of Greencaslle visited Mrs. John Masten and mother Saturday.

COIN MOTTOES.

Inscriptions That Were a Joy to the

Cynics and Critics.

A coilectiou of coin mottoes gathered by au Italian stmleut. Amerigo Scarlatti. was published in Miucrva. au Ituiiau periodical. Scarlatti is of the opinion that such inscriptions, though uot Intended to be cynical, too often admit of such an interpretation through

the Irresistible habit of the public of I Mn , V hn t down tUe letter she ignoring the intention of the designer ha(] beeu reildl , vith a trouble d lltand applying the motto to the coin It- t|e 8 , h Her daughter Madge looked

self.

Thus when Charles II.. king of the two Sicilies, had engraved on his silver ducat the Latin words “Unus non Sufficit," meaning “One is not enough,” all the world insisted oa forgetting that the king referred to a single scepter and enthusiastically agreed with him that one ducat wasn’t enough for any one. On the contrary, a storm of Ironical opposition was aroused when Louis de Bourbon, king of Etruria, in the early part of the last century inscribed “Videaut Fauperes et Lactentur” on bis coins. The words mean “Let the poor see and rejoice,” and <>f course every one wanted tb know why a poor mau should rejoice at merely seeing a piece of money. On the papal coinage of 1573 bearing the arms of Gregory XIII. are the words “Et Super Hanc I’etram” (And upon this rock). Of course tlie pope and the artist who designed the coin meant the words to refer to the papacy, but the evil minded applied them so maliciously to the coin itself that the issue was speedily stopped. A similar opportunity for evil tongues was afforded when tlie Knights of Malta coined an issue of dollars with tlie sign of their order, the Maltese cross, and their motto, “In Hoc Sigim Militamus" (In tliis sign we comhnti. The ribald affected to take it as a confession that with them money was truly the sinew of war. A Venetian lira dated 1474 lias the somewhat ambiguous motto “In Tlbl Solo Gloria" (To thee alone the glory). A sequin coined by C ardinal Rezgouico iii 1714 bears the words “Yen! Lumen Cordium,” or “Come, thou light of hearts.” Clement XI. Issued a coin with au image of the Madonna, with the legend "Causa Nosirue Laetitiae” | (Cause of our Joy), and a Yenetlau I piece with an allegorical figure of Jus- | tice. with tlie words “Xostra in hac ellcitas" (Our happiness in this). All | of these inscriptions were Irrevently ; diverted by contemporaries from their true object to tlio money itself.

TOMORROWS BIRTHPLACE.

HEBRON.

Elva Norman was on the sick list

It st week.

Morton Donehew, of Marshall Co., visited relatives here-last week. Rev. Robert Sickle, of 111., will preach for us this year, he preached it the new church Sunday. Mrs. Malissa Sloan, of Indianapolis, has been visiting relatives here. Myres and Carrington finished up shredding at Melvin McGaughey’s

last week.

Wilbur Harbison and wife spent Saturday night at Ed. Clodfelter's, The sale at Henry Palmer’s was very well attended Thursday. Harvey McGaughey and wife, Parkville, spent Sunday at D.

Norman’s.

Isaac Simpson and family, Indianapolis, recently visited

Taylor Carrington’s.

Teams have been busy hauling pipe for the new pipe line that is going through south of here.

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Line In the Pacific Where It Shakes Hands With Yesterday. Most people who have read Jules Verne's "Around the World In Eighty Days" will remember how narrowly tlie traveler missed his bet. having forgotten that in following the sun from east to west he had gained one day. When one crosses the Atlantic from London to New York he gains rather more than half an hour each day. From- New York to Chieaao another hour is gained, another Tb Denver, another to Sau Francisco, which Is reckoning time eight hours later than Lou don and of course the best part of u day later than Shanghai and Yokohama. In crossing the Pacific there comes a time when the day begins, where yesterday and tomorrow shake hands and where the traveler is cheated out of a day in ids life. In mid-Pacific, going west, one skips from Sunday to Tuesday. Going east he has one day of the week repeated - two Sundays or Tuesdays, ns the case may be. The line of the changing day is not a straight one. The islands in tlie Pacific take their time from the continent with which they trade and from which they were discovered. Thus tlie line of the change zigzags down the Pacific from south to north, dodging between the islands. Hence it might easily happen that a ship which lias already skipped a day would reach an island which clings to San Francisco time. In such a case it would t»e Monday on shore and Tuesday on the ship. If the ship’s jolly boat were lying at a wharf, it would be Monday on the wharf and Tuesday on the boat. And if a person lives somewhere near the line he can get a sailboat and visit yesterday and tomorrow in the most delightful fashion.

Advance Thanks. The phrase “Thanking you in an ticipation” is now becoming common. I think it is one of the meanest ever Invented and one of the most insulting, for it implies that, however much pains the worker may take, he will pet no thanks for It afterward. Why should he? He has been thanked already. It further implies au imperious and insufferable demand which must and shall have immediate attention on pain of being considered no gentleman. Surely no one wuo really respects a correspondent ought to employ this touting bagman’s phrase.— Professor SLeat in London Academy.

LETTER LIST. The following list of letters remain in the postoffice uncalled for Wednesday, Jan, 15, 1908. Barger, Mrs. Mary Drake, Mr. Otis Davidson, Charlie Gowns, Jasper Gordon, Mrs. Ira Mercer, Mr. Shirley A. Rose, Mr. Edgar Smith. Mrs. Eva In calling for the same please say “adverUsed” and give date of list. J. G. DUNBAR, P. M.

Succeeded. Gaddle—You don’t seem to have made a very satisfactory Impression ou Borem. Oleverley—I tried very hard to do so. Gadflie—Well, he told me yoii didn’t impress him as a man ho would care to associate with very much. Cleverley—Fine. That’s very satisfactory. It’s the very impression I wanted to make.—Phiiadelpliia Press.

All In the Family. Rector (shortsighted' Well. Richard, hard at work, eh? Let me see, you are Richard, aren't you? Laborer- No, sir. 01 be John. sir. You 'ad the pleasure o’ buryln’ Richard last week, you remember, sir!—London Punch.

up from the step. “What’s the matter, mother? You look us If you had been rending your death warrant” “1 biive—the death warrant of our summer's i»eace. Aunt Mary North writes to ask if we won't keep* her Tom while she and Mr. North go abroad for the summer.” 'Who's her Tom?” asked Madge succinctly. "Her stepson. I’ve not seen Aunt Mary since she married Mr. North, and I know next to nothlqg of the North family. But Mrs. Wilson knew Mr. North when they were living in Chicago (that was in the time of the first Mrs. North), and she said there were two girls and a boy. The boy yas in kilts then, and that was five years ago, so he must be about eight or nine years old. Aunt Mary says he has beeu ill with typhoid and hiat she reluemliers with hope for his health that the air at Plneeroft is healing.” “But we can't have him. mother. Think of having an eight-year-old boy on our hands tlie whole summer! We can never get enough cooked for him to eat, and he'll be drowned regularly once a week and break all Ids arms and legs on the other days. And l wanted a quiet, heavenly rest this summer lief ore I have to go back to that awful office. And it will lie—well, the other kind of n time with a Tommy around, that is certain.” “But. Madge, I can't refuse Aunt Mary. She was your father’s favorite aunt and always so good to him. No, Tommy will have to come, whether we want him or not.” “Well, then, when?" “The letter says next Tuesday unless they hear from us that it is not convenient.” “Tell Aunt Mary 1 have the smallpox or that I died suddenly at the news—anything. Please, mother!” “I was wondering," said her mother, “whether au eight-year-old boy would lie afraid to sleep in a room by himself. Shall we put a tied in the alcove off my room or fix up tlie south chamber?” “All the boys I've ever seen.” answered Madge, "were afraid neither <>f the things under the earth nor of those upon it. Give him a room to himself, and then you’ll lie saved tile everlasting clatter of fishing tackle and knives and toads and tilings in your room." Still grumbling. Madge helped her mother get ready the south chamber. As she worked she grew interested and even took from tlie walls of her own room some interesting prints which she thought would lie suitable for a boy’s room. "I can’t see, though, why Aunt Mary didn't take tlie little wretch abroad with licr—tlie sea air would do him good. Take out all the fancy things, mother, ns you value them.” “If you only understood big boys ns well as you seem to understand the small ones you would not be twentyfour and still single.” teased her moth-

er.

"I do, mother,” said Madge vehemently. “I understand them altogether too well, and that’s tlie very reason 1 am stilbslngle." There was no immediate reply to tills, and Mrs. Vaughn tr.ned her attention to the room. “Get all your old picture books and put them on that shelf, Madge, and I think I'll bring Jim's old hobbyhorse down from tlie attic. He may despise it, but you never can tell.” “I suppose I could make him some kites," said Madge. "There's all that red and blue paper aud miles of yellow string. PerhiAis if I make a big one he’ll get fastened to it and fly off, to Mars. And while I’m pp In the attic I'm going to bring down some of Jim's old overalls.” Arrangements were finally completed. and Madge rather looked forward to the coming of the little boy, so that when Tuesday came she willingly drove to the station for him, though she protested that St. Lawrence and his gridiron were as nothing to the torment she was undergoing. She took along a bag of cookies, “just to stop up bis mouth so lie can't ask questions,” she explained. The train was late, ami Madge got a little cross as she waited in the open trap with tlie hot sun beating down upon her. The pony was restless, and she dared uot leave him to go luside of the station. When tlie train finally steamed In. however, she gave the reins to a porter and went to find her young charge. She watched the few who came out of tlie coaches nervously, with one eye on the dancing pony, but as far as she could see no small boy* was on the train. Fearing that he had not heard the name of tlie station called, she spoke to the conductor, who told tier that no such person was on the train. “Well,” she thought, “I suppose i should lie glad of it.” and was going back to tlie trap when it occurred to her that he might some way have got past her into tlie station and might be waiting for her there. She looked in. No one was there but a very tall young man, who was lenuftig back rather limply against the sent, pale as from a recent illness. Madge gave him more than a passing glance .because she wondered who he might lie. Young men at Pinecroft at this season were a rarity. “Looks sick,” she muttered, “or a lit-

tle daffy.” She was getting Into tlie cars when a quiet “I liog your pardon" caused her to wheel around. The strange young man. hat in hand, was certainly speaking to her. She merely looked her surprise. 'Are you not Miss Vaughn, and weren't you expecting me?" Her blue j eyes widened into a positive stare of amazement. "I—I am Madge Vaughn, but you— you must be mistaken," she said. “I am Dr. North—Tom North, my mother wrote.” He was blushing a little at the queerness of her reception. “You —you are little Tommy? Why”— She began to laugh merrily, and the young man laughed, too, a bit stiffly, for he did uot understand the Joke. “You have the advantage of me,” j be said. Madge sobered at bis tone and real- j ized that she was not displaying any ( marked hospitality. She held out a j repentant baud, which the young man took eagerly. “We're sort of cousins, I guess,” she said. “Anyway, if you are Tommy North we've been looking ; for you, so get in, and we'll start.” “1 can go away If it is not convenient,” protested the man. “Convenient! After I’ve worked for threG days getting picture books and kites and little blue overalls ready for you? No, sir; you will have to use all those things.” “You see,” she explained as she drove along, “we got the impression from some one that you were about eight years old. Your mother never mentioned your age or height, and so we got ready for a small l>oy. and—and hero are some cookies I brought along so that you would uot ask questions ou the way home." She thrust a paper bag into Ids hands. The'y were both laughing like children as they drove in at the gate, and by tlie time explanations were made to Mrs. Vaughn the .voting man was thankful that the surprise had happened. He felt that it had lieen a good thing to take Madge by surprise, for when two people have laughed together they have rapidly progressed in their acquaintance. / On tlie very first day Mrs. Vaughn had looked at tlie two with compreliensinu in her eyes, and as the weeks j grew into months she felt reasonably sure that Madge would never go bftek to tlie office. “Why should she.” whispered the old-1 er woman to herself, “when a prosper- j ous young physician is not only wifi- ] ing. but obviously anxious, to monopolize her?” The day before lie was scheduled to go h:'> k to ihe city a new man by | reas a of Pinecroft air and agreeable companionship they took the lug red and blue kite to the top of a nearby hill to fly It. It soared clear-above tlie trees ns tlie man slowly unwound tlie long yellow string. The girl watched it rather sadly, for as yet there had been no word of love between them and she realized that she had grown to care so much that it was hard not to let him see it. She felt glad, though, that she had uot let him see it, because there might be another girl in the city to whom he was bound, aud she—well, she had her work at the office. The tears had come into her eyes, and now they splashed over. The young man looked up just in time to catch sight of them, and, letting the string go. he turned and caught her In bis arms. “Dear,” lie whispered, “what is it?” She did not speak, but she did not try to get away either, and after n moment be said: “Is it because I am going away—is it, Madge?" She shook her head. “Why, then,” lie urged, “tell me.” Suddenly she began to laugh -a soft little laugh that made the man hold her closer. “I was only wondering,” she said, "whether or uot there was a girl”— “You lK?t there is,” lie interrupted, “aud I’ve got tier right where I want her.” Which sentence, slangy as it was, seemed to be wholly satisfactory to Madge. Trees and Fools. Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away, and if they could they would still be destroyed—chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns or magnificent hole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them. Nor would planting avail much toward getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man’s life only saplings can lie grown in the pla'ce of the old trees, tens of centuries old, that have been destroyed. It took more than 3,000 years to make some of the trees in these western woods—trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing hj the mighty forests of the Sierra. Gotl has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and fkwxls, but he cannot save them from fools. Only Uncle Sara can do that.—John Muir of California.

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Out of the Schoolroom. A schoolboy was asked to give some information in regard to the Cary sisters, the once famous New England poets, and he said of them: “The Cary sisters were two poets who lived in Massachusetts most of tlie time. They went to New York, where they made many fast friends. Their fastest friend was John G. Whittier.” At the time of the Longfellow centennial, when the school children were writing so much about him, one boy wrote: “Longfellow’s poems were mostly of his own composure, but be wrote ‘Tails of a Wayside Inn,’ where others did the talking. He was tlie poet lorryett of our country and was a craekerjack when it came to real poetry.”—Lipplncotfs.

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