Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 January 1908 — Page 2
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GREKNCASTLE HER \M), GREENCASHE, INDIANA- TTI'SDAY, JAN. 21 HK)«.
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BROAD PARK Large crowds are attending the protracted meetings now in progress at the Chapel. Mrs. Allee, Mrs. Mary Dorsett. and Mrs. Gertie Mills, and little son Freeman spent Monday at Mr. Hugh Parker's. Misses No la Scott, Ida Wallace, and Inez McCollum visited Miss Mae Allee Saturday night. Samp Staley, and wife of Enlinence visited at Albert Wallace’s Saturday night. Aunt Phoebe Wood, is somewhat better at this writing. Mrs. John Stringer and daughter visited at James Buis, evening last week. Grandma Cline, is spending the week with Mrs. Kate Dyer of Stilesville. Sylvester Ellet and family visited at James Buis Sunday. Mrs. Dove Ritzel of Eminence visited her sister, Mis .Nora Sandy, Sunday. Miss Bertha Blank, visited Miss Hodge, Saturday night. Miss Vida Buis visited at William's from Friday night til Saturday night. Mrs. Herbert Allee, visited her mother Mrs. Mary Dorsett, sunday night. Teachers from their township attended the Township Institute at Belle Union Saturday. Mr. Janies Buis mother, who has been quite sick is better. Miss Edythe Sallust spent one night last week with Miss May Allee. Gilbert Dorsett and family visited at Nathaniel Stringer's Thursday. Mr. Joseph Vaughn is very poorly at this writting.
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 clean out of commission.” This great tonic, medicine and blood purifier gives quick relief in all stomach, liver and kidney complalntts and the misery of lame back. Sold under guarantee at the Owl Drug Store, jn
BLACK HAWK.
John Bence has moved to the Ed. Evans farm near Reelsville. Willie Neese •will move to Howard
Young's farm soon.
Rev. Tabor is holding a series of meetings at Mill Creek Church. George Sublett and wife of Manhattan were in this corner Sunday. Report is that Oscar Craft will start his grist mill soon. Fred Crouse of Brazil visited in this corner last week.
It Does The Business, Mr. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Main, says of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. “It does the business; I have used it for piles and it cured them. Used it for chapped hands and It cured them. Applied It to an old sore and it healed it without leaving a scar behind.” 25c at The Owl Drug Store. jn
Where Are Your Interests
Are they in this community > •J Are they among the people with whom you associate ? <] Are they with the neighbors and friends with whom you do
business?
If so you want to know what la happening In this community. You want to know the goings and comings of the people with whom you associate, the little news items of youi neighbors and friends—now don't you? That Is what this paper gives you In every issue, it is printed for that purpose. It represents your Interests and the interests of this town. Is your name on our subscription books? If not. you owe It to yourself to see that it Is put there. To do so
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Ho* a '' n May Know When He Is No Longer Really Young. They were nrguing about the signs of approaching old age. “Well, I'll tell you one thing.” said one. “When a girl ceases to take a lively interest In ,\oii and doesn't mind your seeing her with tier hair slightly untidy and listens to your conversation indulgently where formerly she manifested Interest and sympathy, then you may know you are growing old.” “No,” said another. “That Isn't an Infallible sign, because some young women show Interest and sympathy to everybody. It's when your bones creak slightly on arising from a chair and you no longer swing on a moving car with full (i ntidence and you walk up a flight of stairs a step at a time, then you are growing old.’’ “Not so." chimed in a third, "for yoi*ig people with rheumatic diseases gbs When the workings of your liver come to be of more importance that the affairs of your heart, tbeu you are growing old.” “You are all wrong.” announced a fourth. “When iu pulling on your trousers in the early morning you are compelled to gain the support of the bedstead when you slip on the other leg—then—then—you are growing old!” —New York Press.
MADE ONE BLUNDER. But to Square It an Offer of Generous Restitution Was Made. In one of the northwestern states they like nothing lietter than to tell how n few years ago there came to that section of the Union a Boston newspaper man whose mission It was to “write up" lynching In that quarter, although It appeared that there had not been an illegal execution in the state for a long time The natives took the questions of the eastern scribe iu good part and even "jollied'’ him Into believing that for downright lawleas ness the community wherein he was for the moment sojourning was about the most conspicuous portion of the United States. "Don’t you ever make a mistake in these lynchiugs?" guilelessly asked the Bostonian—“that is. don’t you ever lynch the wrong man''” “That happened once,” put In some one, "but we tried to do the square thing by the widow.” “Indeed!” “Yes; we appointed a committee to inform the widow that the Joke was on ns, and we gave her the choice of the crov d for her second husband.”— Llpplncotfs Magazine.
How She Rests. Iu Germantown there dwells a family of ancient lineage which for years every summer has employed a colored woman named Liza as a cook while the family was at the shore. Sons and daughters have married and migrated, reared children and added to the branches of an already luxuriant family tree. On one occasion a number of these signified a desire to assemble again under the old roof. The old lady who now is the head of the family, seeing that 8[>ecial help was necessary, sent for Liza to come and help cook the dinner. Liza’s answer was brief and dignified. “Dc winter am my vacation,” she said, "an’ den 1 donn’ cook for nobody. In de winter I rests, an' all ! does Is wushin' an’ Ironin’,"— Philadelphia Record.
A Curt Reply. A story Is told of Professor Masson when editor of Macmillan's Magazine. It refers to the days when Kingsley and Newman were engaged iu their .famous pamphlet war. Conscious of the excellence of an article on the subject of the controversy which he had written in the magazine, Masson ventured to bring It under the notice of Newman, but he was not prepared for the reply In? received, although he afterward spoke of it with philosophic humor. Newman’s laconic message was iu words such as these: “1 have not heard of your magazine, and your name conveys no impression to my m iud.”—Wee t m ins ter Gaze tte. Heartfelt. Ixird Carrington when governor of New South Wales made his first public appearance at the mayor's dinner at Sydney. Having committed a few words to paper, he delivered them in reply to the toast of his health and then sat down, feeling very much satisfied with himself. Opposite to him there sat an M. P. who had suffered long from the abundant eloquence of the new governor’s predecessor. When Lord Carrington sat down the man filled his glass to the brim and said, “Thank the l/ird, he can’t speak!” Just a Spill“Beg pardon, sir," said the awkward waiter, "but was that last meal on
you ?"
“Not all of It, garcou,” replied the guest ns lie meekly rubbed his much spattered trousers; “only the soup.”— Pittsburg Press.
Lots of It. ‘‘Initiative is the great thing that we all need and that most of us lack.” “Well, my husband has lots of it,” replied Mrs. Gottawadde. “lie’s Initiated in something nearly every night.” —Chicago Record Herald.
Sensitive. "Willie is so sensitive.” “Really?” “Exceedingly so. When papa kicked turn (tow n the steps the Inst time he didn't call again for three weeks.’’— Cincinnati Enquirer.
While the world lasts fashion will lend it by the nose.—Cowper.
He Wanted to Burn Them. Husband Rooking up from his paper) —What asses men can make of themselves IWife—What is the matter now. dear? II. -I am looking at the love letters In this breach of promise case. W. —Are they interesting? » H.--Interesting? They are absolutely sickening. Hear this: “My dear ducky,” “My lovely dovey.” Ha, ha, ha! W. (demuraly)—It does sound rather foolish, doesn't it? II. (with a burst of laughter)—Foolish? Idiotic, you mean. It’s the worst nonsense imaginable. To think that any man in his senses could write such stuff us this: “I send you a million kisses, toy goosie poosie, sweety peety!” Ha. ha, ha! W.—Perhaps he loved her when he wrote those letters. H.—Suppose he did! Is that any excuse for writing such bosh? W.—Yes, It should lx*. Here are some letters I found today when looking over my old relics—relics of courtship. They are very foolish, but very precious to me, I assure you. They are your letters. One of them begins, “My ownest own preciousest little ducky darling, my”— H. (hastily)—That will do. Put them In the fire.—London Scraps.
Gunpowder. The explosion of gunpowder Is divided into three distinct stages, called the ignition, inflammation and combustion. The ignition is the setting on fire of the first grain, while the inflammation Is the spreading of the flame over the surface of the powder from the point of ignition. Combustion is the burning up of each grain. The value of gunpowder is due to the fact that when subjected to sufficient heat it becomes a gas which expands with frightful rapidity. The so called explosion that takes place when a match is touched to gunpowder is merely a chemical change, during which there Is a sudden evolution of gases from the original solid. It has been calculated that ordinary gunpowder on exploding expands about n,000 times or tiUs a space this much larger as a gas than when iu a solid form. When this chemical change takes place in a closed vessel the expansion may he made to do a work'like that of forcing a projectile along the bore of the great gun or test tube iu the line of least resistance.
Why Snow Is White. The reason snow is white is that all the elementary colors are blended together in the radiance that Is thrown off from the surface of the crystals, which may be examined In such a way as to detect these colors before they are mingled together to give the eye the impression of whiteness. The whiteness of the snow Is also in some degree referable to the quantity of air which is left among the frozen particles. Considerably more than a thousand distinct forms of snow crystals have been enumerated. These minute crystals and prisms reflect all the compound rays of which white light consists. Pink and various other tints may be seen reflected from sheets of snow under certain angles of sunshine. So much light Is reflected by snow in the day that the eyes often suffer from it, and enough Is given in the night to guide the traveler in the absence of artificial light or moonlight. Chicago
Tribune.
The Eleventh.
Archbishop Usher was once washed ashore from a wreck off the coast of Ireland. Almost destitute of clothing, he wandered to the house of a church dignitary and asked for shelter and aid of a brother clergyman. “How many commandments are there?” inquired the other, thinking to detect an impostor. “I can at once satisfy you (hat I am not the Ignorant Impostor you take me for,” replied the archbishop. “There are eleven commandments.” “No,” was the sneering comment; “there are but ten commandments iu my Bible. Tell me the eleventh and 1 will relieve you.” “There it Is,” said the archbishop; “’a new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.’ ”
Holding His Job. Michael Callahan, a section boss for the Southern railroad, has a keen Gaelic wit. One warm afternoon while walking along the railroad tracks he found a section hand placidly sleeping beside the rails. Callahan looked dis gustedly at the delinquent for a full minute and then remarked: “Slape on, ye lazy spalpeen, slape on, fur as long as you slape you’ve got a job, but when you wake up you ain’t got none.’’—Llpplncotfs Magazine.
A Run of Luck. Ruffien—Old fellow, you look blue. Are you on the wrong side of the market? Trumbull Market be hanged! I moved yesterday. The van man broke £5 worth of the furniture. I lost a five pound Bank of England note, the gas company held me up for double the usual deposit, and I’ve just been summoned on a jury.—Loudon Mail.
A Choice of Evils. “Your daughter can come to me for her music lessons and can do her practicing at home.” “I’d rather you’d give her her lessons here at home and have her do her practicing at your rooms.”—Houston Post.
A Mountain Vie.w. She (on their wedding trip In the mountains)—Carlo, what’s that long white streak on the ground over toward our inn? He—My Lord! That’s probably our bill! Transatlantic Tales.
Behavior Is a mirror in which every one displays his Image.—Goethe.
^AAA.VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS j = The = E 3 Schoolmaster:
By HERMAN LEWIS. Copyrighted, 1907. by E. C. Parcella.
There was no doubt that Farmei Watkins was the richest man at Robj bison's Corners, and there was nc doubt that his niueteen-yenr-old daughter was the best looking and best educated girl for live miles around. In one way that was saying much, for the other farmers were poor and the other girls rather plain and uneducated, but In another way It amounted to very little to amoutsider. The schoolmaster was an o’ntslder. lie had come from a distance of fifty miles to teach the winter term at the Corners. He was a young man of twenty-three, slim and pale faced, and the "big boys” whe were to attend the term smiled and chuckled at sight of him. There were half a dozen who “reckoned” they could stand him on his head If he got
too fresh.
It was Farmer Watkins who engaged the young man. lie was president of the school board, and what he said went. It was his daughter Jennie who decided him in this. She was his only child, and he was a widower, and what she said also went. There were also a dozen other applicants,, and she threw her Influence for Walter Crane for a very curious reason. He was the only one among the applicants whe had the manners of a gentleman and the only one who appeared to her to l)e her superior in education. The school didn't require and had nevei had a gentleman for a teacher. It did not require and had never had an edu-
cated man.
The pupils were a rough and Ignorant lot, attending when they* pleased and doing about as> they pleased. Sometimes the farmers' sons of eighteen, strong us horses and rough us bears, had broken up the school after four weeks; sometimes they had let It continue on until spring. Sometimes the “big girls" had rushed the master and rolled him In a snowdrift and shattered his dignity, and sometimes they had been content to turn the schoolroom Into a sewing lice and laugh at him us he protested. And now they were going to try a new teacher, and Jennie Watkins had plans to make him trouble from the very start. She had no particular dislike, but she wanted to see him taken down a peg—several pegs. He had too much assurance—too much confidence In himself. Why, at the examination of candidates at her father’s house, when Mr. Crane had been asked what ocean surrounded Switzerland he had smiled and replied none at all, when she knew as well ns could lx* that it was the Atlantic. She didn't say anything then, but she saved It up for some future time. She had always spelled the word “dissipated” with one "s,” but he went right nt It and spelled It with two, and even produced a spelling book to show that he was right. She had always answered that the Rocky mountains were In Kansas, and when he moved them farther west her cheeks got red and she put a rod In pickle for him. That young man was pretending that he knew altogether too much. He was even condescending u little to her father, and he wasn’t paying half enough attention to her. Mr. Crone secured board at the house of a farmer’s widow and opened his school, lie announced Hint it was to begin at l) a. m. Heretofore it had begun at almost any hour to suit the scholars. He made tills announcement without consulting Farmer Watkins and without Farmer Watkins consulting his daughter. This was another sign of his independence. He insisted on having dry instead of green wood for the big box stove, and he insisted on repairs to the stove to carry the smoke away. There was no blackboard, and he made and painted one. Some of the benches were broken, and he asked that they be repaired. There were some panes of glass needed In the windows, a lock on the door and a new tin water pall, and before school actually opened the teacher was being looked upon as a living curiosity. He had gone through the neighborhood and made n brief call at every house to ascertain how many scholars he would have and to form their acquaintance In advance. Ills call did not last longer at the Watkins’ house than elsewhere. He was gentlemanly, unembarrassed and n ready talker, and Jennie had Just begun to wonder if she wouldn't like him after all when he picked up some poetry she had been writing aqd had left where he was certain to see it and criticised her rhymes and the spelling of three or four different words. He did worse. He suggested that she attend school, and, falling In that, he would assist her of an evening now and TTieu. The girl restrained herself from killing him on the spot, but she said to herself that his career would he brief and full of tribulation. She went to her father for sympathy, but after she had stated her case her surprise was unbounded to hear him reply: “Well, mebhe you do make a mistake here and there. This eddecatlon is such n tangled up thing that I can’t see how anybody ever spells ‘cat’ twice alike. I guess that young feller sorter knows what he’s about." The custom In district schools all over America Is to give a new master a week before procofkllng to let him understand who runs that schoolhouse. The rule was followed In this case. There were those who thought there would he no outbreak. Miss Jennie Watkins was not one of them. She hadn’t exactly conspired, hut she had had something to say to several of the big boys and girls. Just a week.
and then five or s!\ gaunt and overgi’ow u girls “rushed'’ the master. He took It as a Joke, and it was the girls who were buried in the snowdrifts. Mr. Crane said that he would dismiss school any day for fifteen minutes to enable the pupils to indulge In athletic exercises. Miss Jennie was Indignant when one of the l**draggled girls came along and stated the result of the rush. She went to her father about It, and after thinking it over he answered: “Mebhe it want the most dlgnifiedest tiling that ever happened, hut I can’t see where it's going to do any hurt. If the gals begun it, then It wasn’t his fault.” That night the schoolmaster dropped In at Robinson's to see about having some clothes pegs put up. Miss Jennie was ready for him. There were three or four others present, and at a proper moment she asked him to demonstrate a certain example In mathematics. “Excuse me.” he smilingly replied, “but you pronounce the word as ‘Ue-mon-strate.’ It is dem-on-strate.” “I beg your pardon.” “And I beg yours.” A pocket dictionary settled the dispute iu the teacher’s favor, and then and there the husky sou of a farmer, who was present, whispered to the chagrined girl that he'd lick the teacher before Saturday came again, and she didn’t say a word against It. Two or three days later it became known all over the neighborhood that it was Mr. Crane’s last week. He was to be licked out of the neighborhood. If he heard, he went his way the same as before. Friday afternoon was the time appointed, and Will Hayes was the champion selected. When school was culled again after dinner there were several visitors, and on the fences outside sat a dozen farmers. Instead of calling up the class in geography, the teacher took from his desk a pair of boxing gloves and said: “There are several young men here who would probably like to learn the art of boxing. The man who Is a man stands up squarely instead of roughing it. Will, wouldn’t you like to step outdoors and put these on with me?” Will said he would. That's what lie was aching to do. Ten minutes later he was aching to get the gloves off. He had been jolted and jarred and knocked head over heels until he thought his head was as big as a barrel. It had all been done iu a good natured way, but beneath it he read the lesson, qnd that night he said to one of his cronies: “Say, if that feller should turn himself loose once we'd be little lambs ’lo::':-i ie of ! ini. One of his swats would knock a barn off its underpinnings.” That put a quietus on any further thoughts of insurrection, and Miss Jenny said to herself that she hated the young man from Hie depths of her heart. He called and corrected her grammar, and her hate was intensified. He called and found fault because her verses made “sorrow” rhyme with “tailor,” and she stamped her foot. The girls wouldn't try another rush, and the boys refused to tackle him. while her father said that things were going better than ever before. In this emergency she turned to herself. There was a small lake ou which the teacher used to skate for an hour in the evening Sometimes he had company and sometimes he was alone. The family nx and the family daughter might have lieen missed Just at dusk one evening. Later on the family daughter might have been asked Die cause of her restlessness. She was up and down all over the house, and she finally put on her hood and cloak and went out into the night. It was she with a long pole who pulled the teacher out of the air hole into which he* had skated and was In danger of drowning. It was she who wrapped her cloak around his shivering form as men carried him to her father's house. It was she who acted as nurse for the next three days, and it was she who hid her face in her hands and said: “I'm an awful wicked girl. I cut that air hole In the lake, hoping you would skate Into It and be drowned.” “But I wasn't, you see,” replied Crane. “No-o-o-o, and I'm so glad!” “And so am I. 1 wanted something to happen so that I could tell you—tell you—so that I could”— And he demonstrated what he meant, and she accepted the pronunciation of the word without appealing to the dictionary.
He Changed His Mind. A buyer for a large cotton house Invariably paid only half for his goods and gave Ids note for the other half. This note he rarely met. As the buyer was a sterling fellow In everyother respect. his friends all agreed simply to charge him double, and then, of course, destroy the worthless note. One day, after effecting a $1,500 purchase for which, as usual, he was charged $3,000, he gave, after the customary grumbling over the high prices asked, $1,500 In cash and his note for another $1,500. “Now," said he, “where’s my little present coming in?” The merchant thought fora moment, then took down n box from a shelf and unwrapped u beautiful shawl. “Perhaps your wife might fancy this,” said he. “That shawl, sir! And ou a $3,000 order, sir! Your generosity is ineoin prehenslble, sir!” Over the face of the merchant there beamed a radiantly beneficent smile. “You are right, sir. I’ll give you something more like.” Taking out his wallet, he smoothed out the $1,500 note he had Just received. “Here; I can’t do letter than this, sir." tendering the note. Surprise, embarrassment, sheepishness on the part of the other, and then, softly, “I’ll take Hie shawl!"—Harper’s Weekly.
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