Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 January 1908 — Page 3
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Young couples and others who go to get married after this date will find themselves up against a serious proposition. Under the mariage laws of Indiana it is necessary to answer a series of rapid fire questions that stagger many a couple and there are instances where they have to back away from the first attempt and return home and get the family pedi-
gree.
It. is necessary to know where their parents were born, when married, and a dozen other things that is foreign to the average lovers mind. Now another marriage law bobs up that took effect the first day of January of tin’s year which requires the marrying couple to answer the questions all over again when the ceremony is performed or just previous to this ordeal. A blank is given the couple when the license is filled out by the clerk and In answering the questions the second time the repertoire must not vary in the least. If the questions vary, it is said that the license must be returned to the county clerk for correction before the marriage can take
place.
Heretofore the couples applying for license have felt like two criminals while going through the catagory, which was fired at them by the county clerk or his deputy, but under the new law they will have to face the music twice before the knot can be tied. Many will get the license, return home and commit the questions to memory before attemptnig to duplicate them before a preacher or a justice of the peace. What effect this will have upon Cupid's work cannot be told until the new law has been in effect for awhile.
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FOUR CORNERS. Aaron Thomas has completed the gravel hauling for the railroad bridge on the county line. John Aker is at Indianapolis doctoring for appendecitis, and is reported doing very nicely. Mrs. Node Knauer vistied at Janies Phillips' Saturday. Hugo Mann lost eight hogs one day last week. He thinks that they were poisoned. There was meeting at Otter Creek Sunday morning and night, Reeves Miller, from Illinois, preached. Not many there owing to the weather. Chas. B. Thomas and family; Jesse Ellis, wife and son visited at Robert Irwin’s Sunday night. Miss Avis Thomas spent Monday night with May Gardner. Cecil Vlnzant, of Terre Haute, was in our neighborhood taking orders for enlarging pictures Monday. Mrs. Chris. Brown is poorly at this writing. James Phillips and wife, Chas. Rowings and family attended the quilting at Minnie Knauers Tuesday. Chas. B. Thomas sold a stack of hay to Wise Morlan one day this week. Sam Colglazier and family of Salem are moving in with his father-in-law, Mr. John Sweeney. Cecil Vlnzant and family returned to their home in Terre Haute, Wednesday, the 15th. Charles Vinzant, of Anderson, has moved back to Lena. Mrs. Isabelle McElroy is some better at present.
The Water Sellers, Coffee Makers and Fakirs of the Streets. The most numerous aud also the most interesting of street figures In Cairo are the water sellers, some of whom go about with hideous looking goatskins filled with Nile water. Others carry more Inviting looking, reddish clay jars, decorated with brass bands, and these jars often have a piece of ice at their mouth and a sprig of mint protruding on either side of tee ice. The carrier with the goatskin calls out his mission, but the other with the jar carries in his left hand two brass saucers, which he clinks together with a sort of musical Jingle. The water in either case is not filtered, but is taken straight from the Nile, and the purchasers are all natives, who pay a fraction of a penny for all they aro able to drink. The street sellers of coffee are everywhere, squatting about ou the pavements lu the most unexpected places. Their outfits comprise merely a kettle of charcoal, a small copper coffee eup with a long handle, two or three small bowls of ckiua and a supply of coffee and sugar. It takes one only a few minutes to brew a fresh eup, aud as Turkish coffee goes that brewed by the street seller Is uot really bad. The ever preiwnt conjurer is worth stopping to watch, although the tricks are in most part generally ou the order of conjurers’ tricks in other countries. 'The most interestiug part of ♦heir paraphernalia is their sign, which is a small live rabbit. The moment thq performance begins the little aulmal rolls over, to all appearances dead, hut when some ten minutes later all of the tricks have been done, some of which are admittedly more or less puzzling, up Jumps tin* little rabbit as Chipper and gay as ever, it is claimed that the ego of the rabbit leaves the body for the express purpose of assisting the conjurer, aud one for a moment is inelined to give credence to this while watching the performance and after having seen the rabbit go into its trance.—Harriet Quimby in Leslie’s Weekly. ORIGINAL GOTHAM.
The Scheme by Which Its Inhabitants Fooled King John. This name Gotham, was first applied to the city of Manhattan in a book of humorous sketches called •‘Salmagundi,” written about 1807 by Washington Irving in collaboration with his brother Peter and the poet Paulding. It was evidently intended to suggest that the people of New York made undue pretensions to wisdom, and that there were both satire and wit iu the suggestion Is shown by the story of the original Gothamites. Gotham was a parish in Nottinghamshire, England. The old story tells how King John wished to pass through the parish, but the people there, fancying that the passage of the king over a route made It a public road, decided to prevent the transit by all pretending to be crazy. Therefore when the king and his party arrived they found every one of the Inhabitants employed in some peculiarly foolish task. Thus a group were joining bands around a thorn bush to keep a cuckoo from getting away, some were trying to drown an eel, others dipping water with a sieve, and so on. When tiie king saw these performances, he swore at the people for a pack of idiots and, turning, departed with all his retinue, says the Housekeeper. The Gothamites were delighted with the success of tlieir scheme for turning aside the kiug, regarding it as superlatively clever. After this Gotham came to have the reputation of being a sort of headquarters for conceited fools. In the time of Henry V1 1 >. a book entitled “The Merry Tales ol the Mad Men of Gotham” was published. Among these was the story of the “Three Wise Men of Gotham,” one of whose exploits was to go to sea in a bowl.
“A Tempest In a Teapot.” The expression “a tempest in a teapot” is one of great antiquity. Its first historic appearance is in the ”L»e Legibus” of Cicero, who quotes It ns a common saying, "Gratldius raised a tempest lu a ladle, as the saying is.” The French form, “Uuo tempete dans tine verre d’eau” (a tempest lu a glass of water), was first applied to the disturbances In the Geneva republic near the end of the seventeenth century. In England the word “teapot’’ was substituted for the sake of alliteration. It is said to have been popularized by Lord North, who employed it to characterize the outbreak of the American colonists against the tax on tea.—Boston Host. His Slim Chance. “You can answer me one more question perhaps, Miss Bute,” said Archie, mortified at her refusal. "Is there any other mau?” “There is every other man, sir," she responded, with flashing eyes. “You would bo absolutely the last, Mr. Feathertop.” As there appeared to be no further business before the house, Archie hastily adjourned without form.—Chicago Tribune.
Her Bread. "Mean thing!” exclaimed Mrs. Newliwed. “It’s Just brutal of you to call It ’tins stuff.’ You said you’d be glad If 1 baked my own bread"— “Y<-s, dear,” replied the great brute, "but I didn't say I wanted you to bake uiiraa.”—I’hiladelphla Press.
Usually. Newod—Don’t you believe marriage broadens a man? Oldwed—Well, I don't know about that; but it usually makes him shorter.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
BEWARE OF STRIPES.
Animals That Wear Them Are Said to Be Treacherous. “Show me a striped wild animal, and I will show you one you want to keep your eye on,” said the circus man. “I have had to do with wild animals now for a good many years—I won’t tell you how many because I am getting old enough to feel the weight of these time posts—and I have never yet come tip with a striped beast that did not show menu traits. “Sometimes I wonder if this is not the way nature has of marking up the bad fellows so that they may be known, just as we put striped suits on the impossibly bad of the human kind. Take hyenas, for Instance. They come under the head of a dog species. How seldom you ever hear of a dog snipping the hand that feeds it! These ugly things are liable to do it any time. "Zebras are pudgy little horses with stripes that give away their temperament. Every now and then you hear of zebras broken to harness. Well, I have seen a few of these, but they didn't go far before something else was broken besides the zebra’s mean nature. They are strong and good looking, but so Infernally cussed that there is no doing anything with them. “Sometimes a lion's mane is marked with uneven black circles. When this Is the case. It Is wise not to get too familiar. It is the sign of a bad streak somewhere in Leo’s makeup, and there is no telling when this strain might turn Ids strength Into savage danger. “The elephant Is good nntured and obedient. The camel takes life easily and doesn’t seem to worry a I tout anything so long as ho Is left to munch by himself. A bear with a fur of several shadings is a bad one to take risks with. “The tapir is a harmless beast and lather affectionate. He can even cry. Big rolling teardrops show this when his keeper euts him out of a meal or goes away for a day or two. The llama is au animal sort that may lie properly classed with the spotted animals. Brown and white and blaek and white lu huge splashes lend to the good looks of its curling coat It lias big lamblike eyes and would run from a baby.”—Boston Globe.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. There are a good many rabbits playing lion parts. If you let others do your bragging for you. it isn't so apt to be overdone. When authority spoils a man, it Is also apt to lie hard on those over whom it extends. Careful comparison makes any oilier heritage look Insignificant compared with common sense. You often hear Impolite children criticised. Ever realize that there are a good many impolite grown people? Some houses are so prim and orderly they remind one of the systematic ar rangement of the tombstones iu a well kept graveyard. If you want to know how people speak of you behind your backs, listen to the reckless manner in which they pitch into others. We admire n patience that doesn't parade it. The lien, for instance, when sitting doesn't look ns If it felt that no rooster could ever be such a martyr.— Atchison Globe. Pocahontas and John Smith. The pretty story of Smith’s rescue from imminent death by Pocahontas when he was in the clutches of her redoubtable father, Powhatan, lias been rather blown upon by later historians. It lias been shown that Smith In Ids earlier narrative only mentions the princess incidentally as a child, and it was not until she came afterward to England and Smith wrote on account of her for the edification of the court that be described vividly how she hazarded tin* beating out of her own brains to save his. By that time the romantic Pocahontas had been metamorphosed into Mistress Rebecca Rolfc, wife of a Virginia settler of standing, and her portrait, with plumed hat, ruff and fan, has been duly handed down in (Ids capacity.— London Times. Wife Appreciated it. They have just "blown themselves” for a new 1m.h], an old fashioned, colonial sort of bed, that looks as though It might have been In somebody’s family for a hundred years or so, and they think a great deal of It. They have discussed its many merits time and again, but It remained for the young wife to discover one feature of the new bed that had never appealed to the husband. “There’s one thing I like about the bed,” said she, “about the sideboard, and the way it’s put ou.” “What’s that?" asked he. “It's so low I don’t believe a man could crawl under It,” said she.—Indianapolis News.
The Taps on the Wall. His mother was superstitious afore Mm and always knew when ’er friends died by hearing three loud taps on the wall. The on’y mistake she ever made was one night when, arter losing no less than seven friends, she found out It was the man next door hanging pictures at .‘I o'clock in the morning. She found it out by 'ini bitting Ms thumb nail.—Strand Magazine.
They Didn’t Know Paper. Scholars have wondered why it was that the ancient Roman genius never achieved the art of printing. The secret of the failure lies probably In the fact that the Romans never discovered how to make paper, for recent investigations prove that they had iu general use wooden and metal stamps for marking wares, packages, etc.—Pittsburg Post
a queer calculation. CONSCIENCE FUND STARTED
The Power That Would Be Required to Move the Earth. Statisticians sometimes have queer Ideas. One of them amused himself by caleulnt'ug bow much energy, water and coal it would take to move the earth a foot, supposing that It was subjected throughout its mass to n force equivalent to terrestrial gravitation. This is a gratuitous supposition, for in spite of its enormous mass the earth weighs nothing. Starting with the fact that the earth’s mass is about O.inO million-million-million tons, our statistician calculates that we should require 7o,(HK),000,OOU years for a 10.000 horsepower engine to move our globe a foot. Tiie boiler that should fieisl this engine would vaporize u quantity of water that would cover the whole face of the globe with a layer 300 feet deep. Tiie vaporization of this water would require 4,000 million-million tons of coal. This coal, carried in ears holding ten tons each and having a total length of thirty feet, would require 400 millionmillion ears, whieli would reach so,000,000 times around the earth. This train, moving at tiie rate of forty miles an hour, would take more than 5,000,000 years to travel its own length, it would require for storage a shed that would cover 1,000 times tl^e area of Europe. If we realize that this fantastically huge amount of energy is nothing at nil compared with what the earth pos Besses in virtue of Its rotation about it's axis, its revolution id' mt tiie sun and Its translation In space with the solar system, of which the earth is but an infinitesimal part of the universe, we may get some idea of the imp >rtnnee of man in the universe and estimate his incommensurable pride at its Just value.
A PIQUED BONIFACE. Meilhac and a Costly Dish That He Did Not Eat. Among tiie most ubsentminded of geniuses was the French composer, Meilhac. On the* occasion of the first presentation of one of hi - operas Medhae, In evening dress, entered a fu a lonable restaurant and Hive\v himself down at a table, thinking earnestly about tile event of the evening anil nothing else. A waiter brought him a menu. J.eil line, a man of very simple tastes in the matter of food, alislraclei'dy indi rated with ids linger iho tir-t dish on tin* bill that his eye h id '.truck Now It chanced that this was the mo t elaborate and costly dish on the I ill. and when the waiter went to the kitchen with the order there was In consequence great commotion there Tiie proprietor himself was summon'-1, and lie and tin* principal chef devi ■-.mI themselves to the preparation of the famous dish. One man was sent for this choice Ingredient and another for another. Meanwhile Meilhac waited, ab-
sorbed.
At last the dish was liroi dit with a great flourish, and the proprietor, with a proud smile, stood not far away to observe the result. When it was deposited in front of him Meil cic regarded tin* disli witli an expression of melancholy interest. “Did t order that?" he asked. “Certainly, M. Meilhac.” “Do you like it?” “Yes- yes, monsieur; but” “Then kindly take it aw ty and eat It yourself,” ordered Meilha \ "and bring me two fried eggs.”—Chicago Reeord-
Herahi.
Couldn't Quit Gambling. Driving a cab in the street t of Loudon Is a young man who Uni literally thrown away £So,(>00. The son of a wealthy family in Yorkshire, lie went Into the army, hut soon became distinguished by his gambling propensities. He ruined himself and bad to 1 avc his regiment. Some time ago while living In a garret news was brought to him that he bad been left £80,000. There was a condition attached to tiie legacy—that the money was to immediately pass to another person, named lu tiie will, if the legatee was ever found gambling. A detective was set io watch the ex-captain and saw him enter a well known chib one evening, where he lost the sum of £3oO, which he had raised on ids expo tntlous He forfeited ids i'so.Oiri before he hud ever laid hands on it.—Loudon Tit-Bits.
In Coils of a Python. Mr. Coeklin, - ••■iking iu thick grass near the Marico river, Bcchuanalaud, was thrown to the ground by a fourteen foot python, which colled around his legs aud then tried to drag him to a tree near by, so that, by colling its tail ajound the trunk, it might proceed to crush Idm to death. When within two yards of the tree Mr. Coeklin got a hand free and shot the snake, which was so heavy that it needed three men to lift it.—East Loudon Dispatch.
Hardly.
Miss D.—Angelina, why don't you marry Lieutenant Y.? Miss A.—First, because he has no brains, and '.io can't ride, dance or play tennis. What could we do with him? “But he swims beautifully.” “Oh, yes. But one can’t keep one’s husband in an aquarium, you know.”— London Tit-Bits. The Poor Doctor. “Say, Weary, here's u doctor dat says de best kind of exercise is walkin’ to your work.” “Is dat so. IJnipy? Den I suppose de doctor gets his exercise by visitin' de cemetery on foot." 'Jeieland IMuln
Douler.
Telling him that his conscience had been hurting him to a great ex-' tent, Samuel Hollopeter a well | known member of the junior class j yesterday received a letter from an old class mate, whose name he re1 fuses to disclose, who said that with- ( in the next few days he will send him six dollar to cover former thefts. The classmate told the DePauw junior that when they were newsboys together he had robbed him of subscribers and had cheated him in collections. He added that he did not know exactly how much the in-1 debtedness would be but that he was sure it could not be loss than six dol-
lars.
Hollopeter would not mention the name of his former classmate, but said that he had recently graduated from one of the leading Indiana colleges and was doing well in business. The DePauw students said that he was greatly surprised to receive the communication ami that he never had the least Idea that Ills former classmate was dishonest. Hollopeter added that the six dollars would be the first conscience money he had ever received. OBITUARY. Not dead but sleeping—Mary S. Woodall fell asleep in Jesus, Jan. 8, 1908. She was born April 22, 1846, and was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weathers. She was married to John Woodall In 1875. To this union was born five sons, all of whom have grown to manhood. She united with tiie United Brethern church in her girlhood and lived a faithful Christian life. To know Mrs. Woodall was to love her, for she made it so pleasant and cheerful for every one that it was a pleasure to be with her. She expressed her love for Jesus in all her earthly doing, and by always having a kind word for every one. How hard it is to look upon her in cold death, but God doeth all things well. She lias only gone to a happy home where we may meet iter again, where there is no sorrow nor trouble hut one eternal rest. She was a kind ami loving wife and mother, always ministering to the needs and wants of her family. Alas, the flower lias faded and gone to meet those loved ones gone before We saw her suffer, heard her sighs, With throbbing hearts and weeping eyes, But now she eamly sleeps at last, Ml pain, all grief, all suffering past. We loved you: yes, no tongue can
tell.
How much we loved you ami how well; God loved you too, and he thought
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To take you homo to lie at rest. Her la-t sickness was not of long duration, stie was stricken about two o’clock in the morning and passed away about three o’clock. About ten years ago she had a strode of paralysis and was never very strong afterwards. A second stroke was tiie cause of her death. How sad it is to see our dear ones pass away; sad indeed to look upon that vacant chair, but we should ail live in such a manner that we shall meet her. We must hot feel that stie is dead for we are taught that a human soul can never die; she is only waiting for us on the other shining shore, in tiie city of God where we will never say good-by. It is hard but we must say, “Thy will lie done, Oh Lord, not mine.” Though her pure life Is ended, her pure humble, patient life will ever linger as a precious memory to inspire us to better I'ving. “God calls our loved ones but we loose not wholly What he has given They live on earth in thought and deed as truly As in his Heaven.” She leaves to mourn her loss a husband, five sons, Everett, of Areola, 111.; Frank, of Hillsborough, III.; James, of Fillmore; John and Robert, of this city, and three sisters besides a host of relatives and friends. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. T. Riley at Locust Street Church and tiu remains were laid to await the Resurection Morn in Forest Hill cemetery. A Cousin.
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MORTON. Alva Phillips continues quite sick with lung trouble. Our Sunday visitors were Chris Crodian and wife. Geo. K. Lloyd aud wife at Frank Bettis’; Eber Llloyd and wife at Sam Lloyd’; Goldie Newgent at G. K. Lloyd’; Warren Newgent’ and J. B. McCabe at C. L. Clodfelter’s. Lon Cox has moved on Alva Thomas' farm near Brick Cbapel.
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Miss Edyth Kinney will be at tjje Opera House nightly as a feature of tiie big vaudeville bill arranged by Manager B'.ake for this week. No advance in price.
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