Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 January 1908 — Page 2

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GREEN CASTLE HER \LT>. GREKXCA-STLE, INDIANA. S \TIRD \Y. JAN. U*. 190«.

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F. C. TILDEN

C. J. ARNOLD

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Over Twenty Thousand Persons Were

Married by One Ce'emony.

The : '..•-•■t we<1ding ever ktj'iwn to history was when Alexander the Great and over © of his soidieni took part in a wtskUng in the court of Darius. k.ng of Persia, after the latter's conquest by Alexander. Twenty thousand two hundred and two person* were made husbands and wives In one

ceremony.

The facts are these: After conquering King Darius. Alexander deter-

The weekly official county address in the S1 .OO a year.

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Entered as second class mail matter at the Greencastle. Indiana. I’oatoffice.

WHERE I*> THE LEWIE. There were 5,0 '0 deiths and 2S6 injuries by accident on the railroads of the United State* during :he last year. As usual, when the yearly death rate of our railroads are published, the question is asked, where does the blame lie? It has usually been laid at the door of tue oSfia’.s It has been held that an a'tempt to operate fast trains with too few men, on single tracks, or too many trains on double tracks. Now it is urged that the blame lir-- largely with the employees. This writer, himslf a railroad operative, declares that it is the custom for train men to dis-e-gard rules for the running of train-

The iocai basketball season will be i ushered in this afternoon at 3:3u wnen the Independents, one of the strongest of the Indianapolis city I teams, meets the DePauw men on the opera house floor. The date was. scheduled with Franklin as opponents but it was called off because of j d.ikulties in the Baptist's squad and the city team taken on at the last moment. The visitors have a good

re-ord. however, and will doubtless! mined to wed statiro, daughter of the zive the locals all they want. conquered king, and issued a decree ~ v . , . , , , that on that occasion lul of his chief The squad has worked hard dur- shouk , [aarry W) , Tomeu from .ng .he pa^ weeks practice, an. noblest Persian and Medean fam--hould show a de ided improvement ^ H e further stipulated that 10.000 over the form shown a week aeo at of his Greek so.diets should take to'

Hanover. The lineup was not certain. but it is possible to judge from the p':ay of the men in yesterday's practice. Crick and Sheets at forwards: Pruitt at center and Grady i HoUope-er. % a-d- seems to be the five although Ell, Hodges and Bacheider will likely get in before

the close of the game.

Danville High School will meet the Academy team as a curtain raiser and it promises to be a spirited struggle. Ross Baker, the old DePauw basketball star is in charge of the high school five and the contest will

ve th:s added in'ere? 1 * < It Does The Business.

E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton,

LliiGTH CFTHE DAYS Difference Between the Star Day and the Sun Day.

ANXIOUS WAGNER.

IT IS GREATEST IN WINTER.

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Salve. used ;

says of Bucklen's

It does the business: I have for piles and it cured them.

Used it for chapped hands and it cured them. Applied it to an old

wife 10.000 Asiatic women.

For this purpose a vast pavilion was erected, the pillars being sixty feet high. One hundred gorgeous chambers adjoined this for the 100 noble bridegrooms, while for the 10,000 soldiers an outer court was inclosed. Outside of this tables were spread for the

multitude.

Each pair had seats and ranged themselves in a semicircle round the royal tbrone. As it would have taken several weeks for the few priests to have married this vast number of couples had the ceremony been jierformed in the ordinary way, Alexander invented a simple way out of the difficulty. He gave his hand to Statiro and kissed r her. and ail the remaining bridegrooms dlJ the same to the women beside them, and thus ended the ceremony that united the greatest number of Arnica people at one time ever known. Then occurred a five days’ festival which for grandeur ami magnificence

never has since been equaled.

He holds that it is thl- disregard of sore and i: healed it without leaving rule that is respons./.e for many a scar behind.” 25c at The Owl Drug wrecks. It is undoubtedly true that Store. jn

the business of railroading has a 1 peculiar effect upon the temperment and nerves of the engineer. Take, for illustration, such an accident as has happended near Greencastle often the past few years. An engine strikes and kills and mangles a man. i It is known to the engineer, he stops, I or he does not stop, as the case maybe. At any rate he climbs to his seat and starts again on his run. He must pass other road crossings with men and teams upon them. The accident is fresh in mind. Under ordinary circumstances the mangled

MAN AND HIS HORSE.

the

body of the dead would dance in bluring visions before the eyes of the enginman. But it is not so Time -has been lost and must be made up

A Fatal Austrian Flag.

Once there was an epidemic of plague at Odessa, la Russia, which lasted : more than a year. It had a most re- j markable origin, being due to a fatal j fiag. An Austrian ve-sel arrived at ; Odessa, bringing one of the crew who I had die 1 during the voyage. The sail- j or was duly Interred in the t'atholic cemetery f.t the port, and at the fu- I neral the Austrian flag was carried by ! two seamen, tin their way back to | the ve- I the men entered a great

. , iii .i negotiating the obstruction, numla-r of saloons an-'. >wn the * . * u ._,

flag while drinking. A very short time afterward the sailors who had carried the flag died, and liefore long J ft was found that i>eop!e were ill in j all the houses where the men had eall-

Th» Way to Show Approval That

Amma WTi Appreciate. «

Caress plays no small part In developing the t/est ia any hor-e. but this Is ne'er to be by word of mouth. You may as well curse as bless for all your horse knows or cares. The caress of the band addressed to the part with which the animal has just performed some feat Is always appreciated—the expression shows that—and oue loves to see a good man as he lands safe over a big place just reach back aud give the clever horse a loving pat or two on that swelling muscular loin which I;:- t»een the chief agent in

. ed with the fa". :! tlag. Soon the plague

There must be no shrinking at the spread th. _- :t < »d filling all next crossing as he sees the farmer with terror an 1 claiming a frightfu. driving toward it. Shrinking would t0 ^- There is n-i doubt that tb< mean slowing of the train, loss of contained the plague bacilli In the,

. rolcl-? an 1 so si>rond the disease.—

time. The risk must be run. Both Baltllnore Sun

man and engineer must take their chances. And it is little wonder that month after month of ' his wagering with death in many forms leads to the breaking of rules for speed's sake —leads to carrying the wager a little further. And still the question

arises, where is the blame?

A Cure for Misery. “I have found a cure for the misery malaria poison produces," says R. M. James, of Louellen, S. C. "It’s called Electric Bitters, and comes in 50 cent bottles. It breaks up a case of chills or a bilious attack In almost no time; and it puts yellow jaundice cfean out of commission.” This great tonic, medicine and blood purifier gives quick relief In all stomach, liver and kidney complaintts and the misery' of lame back. Sold under guarantee at the Owl Drug Store. Jc

Strictly Business. ‘‘Sir.'' 1- _•.:» a stranger as he walked directly up t-> :i business man. **I am strictly "U business."

“So am 1.”

“Good! 1 believe every man should fumi-T money for his own tombstone."

“Bo d-> 1."

"Goo-1 a_-iiu: I want to raise $2o to pay for a stone over my grave. What as-istauce will you render the enterprise? I want a business an-

swer.”

“You shall have it, sir. Unless you immediately t.-.ke your departure I will aid the enterprise by furnishing the

corpse."

The stranger hurried off.—Cleveland Plain iK-aler.

Do not pat neck or shoulder or any part not actively engaged in the undertaking. Caress may tlo no good, but It is pleasant to believe that it does, and we are quite iwsltive that the voice simply diverts attention. The former mode of address is ;.t least wonky of trial if only as a mark of appreciation between two gehtlemen. The threatening tones ai ;-*iur sometimes serviceable, but this Ls so only when ; horses have been abused and associate punishment with the stern voice. The wild horse is as indifferent to the voice of affection as to that of rage.—From •'Schooling the Hunter.” by Frank M.

Ware In Outing Magazine.

Why the D ffer«nc« Occur* »nd Hov» It May Be Observed—Oddly Enough the Shortest Day In the Year I* Really the Longest Day In Time. How io'after all, is a day? The , geographies say that it is the time requ r.-d for the earth to turn once on .ts axis, that it measures twenty-four hours by the clock and that a fraction more than 3*15 of them are to be found

in a year.

It is a good plan when one reads anything In a book to test It when he can fi>r himself. We want to see just bow long It takes the earth to turn over once. Let us take any one of the fixed stars that chances to be la line with some convenient point and. watrh in hand, notice the precise moment at which the star touches, let us say, a particular tree, b&ncb or steeple on the horizon line. If on the next evening we stand at precisely the same spot and sight the same star again In line with the same point as before. turned on its axis just once. Curiously enough, however, we shall discover, if thi* is done -.refnlly, that, in spi*e of what the boots say. It does not require twenty-four h :rs for the earth to turn over once. About four mlnub-s before the day is up, by the ' cl- r-k. the earth has revolved once and brought the star back to its old posi- ! tion In the sky. Really, thert. the earth | turns on its axis once In twenty-three hours, fifty-six minutes and four sec- : onds and. a« one can easily reckon. I mak**s something more than 3d0 revolutions In a year. . But human beings ar^r.ot so much Interested In the stars as In the sun. We really don't care n.uch how long it takes the earth to turn over and bring a star back again to the same point in the sky or b vv many times in a year a star s^ms to go by. We set otir clocks and reckon our year by the turning of the earth under the sun, and because the earth not only turns under the sun. but also goes round It, it takes about four ml i-iics longer to bring the sun up to its old place in the sky thaa to bring back a star. This comes about simply enough. Suppose one is in a room looking out the window at a tree. If he turns round once exn< t*v he w ill find himself looking straight at the tree a .- tin, but if he trie- - tl. : g h-a he was-on

a moving train he would find that whi:-.- he was making the turn the tree

Golf. Golf ns a recreation appeals to practically all ag- Impetuous youth, staid middle age and the man In the evening walk of life alike feel Its fascination aud enjoy its manifold pleasures. Golf entails walking, the best of exercises foe the average man. It trains the eye* and the arm. and. while it tri- s. 1: < ught also to train the temper.—Liverpool Courier.

Our Sympathy is always extended to those in distress, but we have no sympathy to waste on the man who borrows his neighbor's paper when he can have one of his own at a mere nominal expense. Your home paper stands for your interests and the interests of your home town. It deserves your moral and financial support If you are not a member of our family of readers you should begin now by sending in your subscription.

A' Warm Time Coming. ‘Tin doin’ me I«e8t with the fire, sir,” said the janitor at the door of Galley’s office one cold morning, "but I’m afraid I can’t make It very "arm for you. You see. sir”— “Never wind,” feverishly replied Galley. who had l*-en out all night. "My wife will lie here shortly, I expect.”— Philadelphia Ledger.

DrOAned Manuscript.

James Russell Lowell, the first editor of the Atlantic, was walking across Cambridge bridge when his bat blew off and fell into the Charles with half a dozen or more manuscripts with which It was freighted and which he was returning to the B«>ston office. A boatman recovered the hat. but the scattered manuscripts jierishe-J In those wares oi oblivion. "If they had been accepted articles. It wouldn't have been quite so bad. for." said ha. “we might with some grace ask the writers for fresh copies. But how can you tell a self respecting contributor that his manuscript has beei^not only rejected, but sent to a watery grave?”—J. T.

Trowbridge In Atlantic.

Loaded. Farim r Jones (to amateur hunter)— There wasn't a lietter water dawg livin' until you shootin' gents took to borrowin’ 'im. Now ’Is 'Ide's that full of shots he’d sink to the bottom like a brick.—Bystander.

A Domestic Breakdown.

A well known lord discovered a thief to his London bouse. Aided by the butler, he secured the man and then tang the bell. A servant appeared, whom the peer requested to "go Into the kitchen and bring up a policeman or two." The domestic returned and said there were no policemen on the premises. "What:” exclaimed his master in incredulous tones. “Ijo you mean to tell me that with a cook, two scullery maids, a kitchen maid and three housemaids in my employ there is no policemau fn my kitchen? It Is indeed a mirnwle, and our prisoner shall reap the benefit Turner, let the man go instantly .'"—London Standard.

Standards. She—Men and women can't be judged by the same standards. For instance. a man is known by the company ho keeps, fie—And a woman by the servants she can't keep.—Judge.

True to Nature. “Are you satisfied with your dentist?" “Perfectly. He's a real artist His false teeth are perfect jewels.” “Can't you tell the difference?” ‘tThey are exact Imitations of nature. There Is even one that's so good an Imitation that It aches sometimes.” —Paris Journal.

Time to Get Baty“But life lias no bright side.’” walled the pessimist. “Then get busy and polish up the dark side,” rejoined the optimist.—Cbb engo News.

Many Sides. “That’s the way the thing was told to me. but of course there's always more than one side to a story." “Of course. There are always a» many sides to a story as there are people to blame."—Philadelphia Press.

One of the most rare kinds of courage L the courage to wait.—St. Louis Glolie DemocraL

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

Quite a Difference. “What does Vernon do for a living?" "lie works In a paint shop.” "Why, I understood he was a writer for the magazines." “Well, you asked me what he did for a living.”—Bohemian.

had f.- leu behind. He would then, ac eon'.:- - to the way he twirled, have to turn a little more or a little less to bring the tree straight liefore his nose. Therefore it is not quite true that a day is the time required for the earth to turn once on its axis. It really is this time p us the T-ur minutes or so required for It to turn and look back at the sun The time required for this extra turn is not the same at all times in the year. One can easily see In the case of the moving train that the faster the cars were moving or the nearer the track the tree stood the more the : tier would seem to shift its position. S • o t!. • earth is s ■* 3.000.000 miles nearer the sun in " r than in summer. and since a’.so the nearer the sun it Is the faster it travels, the difference betw en star day and sun day Is greatest in winter. Oddly enough, it happens that Dec. - • .: of any day In the year and is therefore cornn. -uly said to be the shortest of all day'*, is really the longest. It does, as a matter of fact, run almost half a minute over twenty-four hours, while the true shortest ylay. which comes on Sept. 17, falls short by about the same time. So we roally hare three different "days.” There is the star day. which is the time during which the earth turns over once. This, because the earth spins steadily, is always the same 1 zth, twenty-three hours, fiftysix minutes, four and nine-hundredths seconds, and there are 3GG of them to a year. Then there is the ordinary legal day. which is the time required for a proper clock to get round twice. This is just twenty-four hours. Besides the-e. there is the sun day. Its time told by the sundial, which, taking short with long, averages twentyfour hours, but Is never found to be exactly thr- same length for two days in succession. There is a string of long days in the winter, followed by a series of short ones in the spring In Abe summer the sun days get long again, though not quire so long as in the winter. In the autumn come the shortest days of all. Only occasionally are clo« k day and sun day of the same length. Only four times a year do clock noon by the clock hands ami sun noon by the sundial occur at the same moment, while, because the long and short sun days are found in sets, they oftentimes may be more than fifteen minutes | apart.' The vast majority of the people reckon their time by the sun. Br.t time for civilized men is time by the clock. The days are ajl twenty-four hours long, and no matter where the sun Is it is noon for us when the clock strikes 12. Nevertheless, astronomers often go by star time, get In an extra day In each year and Lave their noon fall at ail times of the day or night.— E. T. Brewster in Chicago Record Her-

ald.

It Isn't so that woman Is at the bottom of all trouble. It's money.—Man Chester Uniop.

It Is a king!?, act to help the fallen.— Ovid.

The F.r*t Pt-formanc* of “Riorvai" at Dresden. In Ludwig Frankenstein's Wagner year l-.- k G.-tav K.etx teiU this story In couaevtioo with the first performance of "Rlenzi” at Dresden: “On the day of the first performance Wagner asked me td meet L m in front of the theater after the box office had been opened, so that he could give me and fcy friend is fi i-ter. the butcher, tickets for the f»Tfor:..ance. Wagner was la a state of great excitement and when he gave me the two tickets Heine w hispered to me. *Take some one with good big hands with you.' He watched the people as they came toward the theater, and every time one went in he would make some remark to his wife which showed his satisfaction. 1 had to go within, but 1 shad never forget the childish Joy of the composer when he saw groups enter the house and the disappointment when others passed the open doors. 1 thought of It even that evening when the enthusiasm was the greatest. How happy Wagner and his wife must have been at the following two performajices. when the house was so filled that even his relatives, who had come to Dresden for that purpose, could not be admitted to the theater:”

W. A. BEEMER d* Sanitary Plumber and Heating Engineer Shop Moved to 209 W, Washington St, Phone 288 ' AH Work Guaranteed.

THE DESERT SANDS.

Why the Arabs of Sahara Lose the Use of Their Eyes. “I shall winter in the Sahara.” said a traveling man "With a caravan I shai. traverse under a blinding sun and an endless plain of snow white sand, but none of my Mohammedan attendants will wear any kind of shade over his eyes. “Against that dazzling glare the backs of their necks will be swathed In white linen, and even their ears will be protected. Nothing, though, will keep the sun out of their faces. "Wondering about this. I said one day to the kaid of an Algerian village; “‘Why don't you Arabs wear a cap of so:; e sort? You live In the world's worst sun glare, but neither fez nor turban under any Urcumstances has a peak.' “ The Koran.’ the kaid answered, ‘forbids all true believers to shade their eyes. Obeying the Koran implic Itly, we dwellers in the desert avoid like poison hr'a.s to our headgear. In con •xj;: -u e there is more blindness among us than among any other people in The word.' Los Angeles Times

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A Popular Play Indeed. Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar” has been translated Into German nine times. Into French seven. Into Italian i six. into modern Greek three, into Latin and Swedish twice and Into Croatian. Danish. Dutch. Frisian. Polish. Iboimautan. Russian, Magyar, Portuguese aud Yiddish. There are seven or eight English acting editions of the tragedy. Bift one attempt actu- i ally to alter and improve it has ever j been made. This was In 1722. when John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham, divided it into two parts at the death* of Caesar, calling it "The Tragedies of '

Banner Skating Rink Open each Afternoon and Night r'k ATINU H< >1 Afternoon, 2:00 to 5:00: nights, 7:30 to 10:00 ADMISSION: Gentlemen 10c; Ladies free. Skatesl5 cents. ERNEST WRIGHT FRED GLORE /

Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus," and

made many other changes. To enrich this poor play. or. rather, these poor plays. Pope furnished some choruses, . but they had the usual effects of ill ad- j Justed ornaments—they served only to make the meanness of the thing they bedecked the more conspicuous.

Full Faith In the Doctor. A young farm laborer called one market day at the registrar's office to record his father's death. The registrar asked the date of death. "Well, father ain't dead yet." wns the reply, "but he will be dead before morning, and I thought it would save me another journey if you would put it down now." “Oh. that won't do at all.” said the registrar. “Why, your father may take a turn before morning and recover.” “Ah, no, he won't,” said \the young laborer. “Doctor says he won't, and he knows what he's given father."— Liverpool Mercury.

Irish Wit. As Sir Walter Scott was riding with a friend near Abbotsford he came to a field gate, which an Irish beggar, who happened to be near, opened for him. Sir Walter was desirous of rewarding him by the present of sixpence, but found be had not so small a coin in his purse. "Here, my good fellow,” said he; "here is a shilling for you, but, mind, you owe me sixpence.” "God bless your honor:” exclaimed the Irishman. 'May your honor live till 1 pay yon."’ • The Ban*. “Say. paw.” queried little Tommy Toddles, "what is the bone of contention?” “The Jawbone, my son,” answered the old man. with a side glance at his wife—Chicago News.

A Blunder. Customer—I must say, waiter, this Is the first time I've ever had a really tender steak here. Waiter (aghast)— Good gracious. I must have given you the proprietor’s steak! — London Standard.

Hi* Awful Threat. Mother—Why did you not scream when Hans kissed you? Daughter— He threatened me. Mother—How? Daughter—He said if I did he’d never kiss me again.—Meggendorfer Blatter.

Worry. He—Y’ou know, if you worry about every little thing it's bound to affect your health. His Wife—Yes. I know. That's one of the things I worry about. —Town and Country.

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T. E. Evans, Grocer Sells the Best in his line—he cares for the health ami happiness of bis patrons.

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W. H. MILLER Tinner and Practical Furnace Man Agt. Peek Williamson Underfeed Furna.es. All classes of Tin and Sheet Iron Work. Walnut Street, opposite Commercial Motel

A T fencer Steak Makes the most delicious nafta'. in the world, and the place to g«t It h Haspefs Meat Market

“Our Meat Market” has a well established and enviable reputation for cleanliness, the good quality of its meat and for square dealings. Northwest Corner Public Square

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