Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 January 1908 — Page 3
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ORATORICAL ON THURSDAY Although It was at first thought that the state oratorical contest would be held on the seventh, Luther Markin, of the DePauw Association who was state delegate, last night announced that definite arrangements had been made to have the event Thursday evening February sixth in Caleb Mills Hall at Indianapolis. For the .past several years the oratorical people have used Tomlinson Hall, but in securing the more convenient one In the Shortridge High School building, they did better than usual this year. Chester Jew^ ett, DePauw’s representative has spoken frequently in this hall and If it counts anything, the change will be a point in his favor. The executive committee of the DePauw association will meet at the Deke house today at five o’clock and finally decided upon the matter of a special excursion. The I3ig Four, Vandalia and Interurban were asked for special prices and the committee will attempt to get the best service and lowest price for the students. Luther Markin,—the state delegate, has reserved a large section for DePauw and an Immense crowd is expected to go.
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RUPERT BARTLEY.
VTVALIA. This looks very much like spring weather. Sunday visitors In this part of the burg were: Oscar Wells and family, Joe Boswell and family and IJza Wells and Ruby at Uncle Dave Boswell's and C. Keyt and wife and (laughter, .tlonolona at C. O'Neal’s; Columbus Wells and family at John Skelton's and David O. •kelson and family at Jim Nelson’s. Mrs. Jane Boswell Is critically 111 with neuralgia of the stomach. Eugene Nelson of Clinton Falls spent Sunday with home folks. Mr. Day and Co. of Gena are hauling ties off Mrs. Milton Wright’s farm to Lena for the new railroad. Tobe Nelson of Clinton Falls visited his sister, Mrs. Lela Carmichapl, Saturday night. Neuton Stoner purchased a buggy of Oscar Wells. Fred Lancaster has returned from Newport, where he has been buying fur. He arrived with quite a good stock. Ola Lancaster and Anna Skelton visited Mary Wells Saturday and helped her do some quilting work. Charles Stites and wife visited htime folks near Mansfield last week and Airs. Stites’ sister returned home with them to remain a week or two. Oscar Brattain and wife visited Jim Roach Sunday. St *11 a Wells- and children called on Mrs. .Milton Wright Friday. Neut Stoner while cutting saw legs split his big toe open but he is ge ning along a - well as expected. Win. Wells killed a 800 pound beef last week, but sold a majority of it. Ohirkonpox thick in this vicinity. Mrs. Mary Wells, Ellen Wells, Rexa Floyd and Chloe Payne called on Stella Wells Saturday. The mush* social at Wm. Gown's was a success and a surprise on Mrs. Lillie Gowan. Keep corresponding Four Corners as news is plentiful down there. Rev. Air hart filled his regular appointment at the Baptist Church Sunday. The dance at Ji mes Carmichael’s was well attended. Ask him if he got there all right. Success to the Star and Deni, and get a good Dem. papea REELS VILLE Our hens are still on a strike and the governor has not ordered the troops out. J. C. Rodgers went to Tuscola, Ills., on Monday. We can now go to Oreencastle on the Van and come home on the internrban. Sunday night was a record breaket r for wind. It looks now like we were not going to put up any January ice. Peter Furney is reported seriously sick. , , Edith Hide of Chicago Is visiting her brother. Next Sunday will be ground hog day and then we will know how the weather will be.
WORKING OUT A SCHEDULE.
Threads and Pins That Enable the Officials to So Place Trains as to Avoid the Danger of Collision and All Unnecessary Loss of Time. Travelers who consult the ever hnn- | dy time tables to the arrival or doJ parture of the particular train that Is to carry them probably never give n ! thought to the manner in which a mod* j eru time table is made up. To the un j initiated It Is a Chinese puzzle, and even those well versed in Its mysteries often liecome confused. How are time tables made? What Is the procedure In determining the speed of a train and the exact time and place it shall meet another train? The answer to these questions Is to be found in the chart room. The chart room is usually in some quiet corner of the general otllees of a railway company and for weeks at a time Is locked. But every now aud then the word goes forth that the schedule is to be shortened or lengthened, new trains to be put on or some change made that necessitates the revision of the time eard. Then from distant points of the system Uie division superintendents gather for a conference with the heads of the passenger and freight departments in order to learn the most desirable time for trains to arrive iftul depart from terminals. With ibis information, they retire to the chartroom, where there Is a separate chart for each district. The charts are white hoards about six feet wide and from two to five feet high. The names of the stations, accurately scaled, are printed ou the boards at the side, and from the top of the board many colored strings dangle, more suggestive of a parlor game than a too! for laying out the path of traffic and commerce. The superintendents confer regarding the time at junction points on connecting trains and then work out the schedule on intermediate points ou a chart of his division. Horizontally the chart shows 12 midnight on the left side, and there Is a line extending across the chart for each five minutes from that time until the full* twenty-four hours have been shown. For convenience each third line, representing a period of fifteen minutes, is in a different color. Superintendents are supplied with various colored silk thread, plus and a tack hummer. Red is used ty designate a passenger train, green for a second class or freight train, and black is for a third class or locarfroight train. Whenever a train is scheduled out of a terminal at a certain hour a pin is driven at the intersection of the station line and hour line—this lieingthe beginning —and such other times at various stations as may be desired are determined by drawing the thread over the hoard to meet the intersection of the various stations and hour lines at tin* proper times. Where necessary tacks are driven to keep the thread on the proper schedule. Westbound trains run down and diagonally to the right. Eastbound trains start at the bottom, run upward and diagonally to the right. Wherever these threads cross, a meeting point Is Indicated, and if Ibis crossing of the threads is between station lines It is then necessary to adjust the time on each train, so that the meeting point will lie at the most convenient station. This Is done by holding the lines crossed at station with a pin. Of course on double tracks these meeting points are not necessary. After the chart has been strung a former issue of the time card with pen and Ink Is brought into use. and the superintendent begins at original terminal, looks at the station line, and whenever any string representing a train crosses fids station line lie notes the time as shown on the proof of the time card. One train at a time is read from start to finish, and after they have all been checked they are rechecked to see that all meeting points are properly made and noted ou proof, after which the time table is ready for the printer. To make a successful time card a superintendent must be perfectly familiar with the grade and track conditions and when stringing the thread must allow more time for unfavorable grade, railroad crossing and other unusual stops, so that the running time of the train will he uniform. Whenever It is desirable to make a meal stop a pin Is put In at the proper station and the string run horizontally to the line until the required number of minute lines have been passed, when It Is again taken down the board at the proper degree of speed. By making the string more vertical the speed Is Increased, as there are fewer minute lines crossed. By swinging thretid lo the right the speed Is decreased, and by the use of pins this can he arranged between each station to suit conditions.—St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
Disposing of Her Rivals. “The president of our club Is an awfully clever woman.” “What did she do?” “Disposed of her rivals for office by putting them on the nominating committee."—New York Press.
r Double Surprise. The Friend—-Your marriage to Sapphead was quite a surprise to me. The Ex-Widow -Well, I guess it was more of a surprise to him.—Boston Herald.
Condor'Individuality. We' hid the best chance of studying tie >.olors of the condor head. The bill was turn color, aud the red skin of the head extended down, covering it about halfway. The legs were tun, but on each knee was a patch of red. On the breast of each bird the skin was blood red aud could he seen occasionally when the breast feathers were spread and the birds were preening. Both had light colored wing bars, and the primaries were well worn. The skin on the throat hung loose, aud the lower mandible fitted close under the upper. The chin was orange red. and below this ou the neck was a strip of greenish yellow merging Into the orange about the sides and hack of the neck. The top and front of the head were red, but between the eyes was a small patch of black feathers, and these extended down In front of the eye into the orange red of the cheek. The pupil of the eye was black, but the Iris was deep and 'red and conspicuous. The bald and wrinkled pate, the flabby jowls, with the cave-ln expression of a toothless old woman—these helped to make up the condor individuality.— William L. Finley lit Century.
It Dictn t Come Natural. “I have heard that man tell the truth once or twice," said one Wall street man talking of another. “He can tell the truth. I admit, but It does not come natural to him. He reminds me of the Russian moujik. “A Russian moujik sat one day in the anteroom of the military commissioner of his town. There was an anxious frown on Ids faci*. \ friend approached and said: “ 'What is the matter, piotr?’ "‘I am worried,’ Piotr answered, ‘about my son. I don’t know what to say when the commissioner asks me about his age. You see, if I make him younger than lie Is he will he sent hack to school, and if I make him out older they’ll stick him in the army. What the deuce am 1 to do?’ “ ‘How would it do,’ said the friend thoughtfully, 'if you told the commissioner his exact age?’ “Piotr slapped his leg and laughed delightedly. ’** ‘The very thing!’ he cried. ’I never thought of that!’ ”
Pay of Army Officers. When a young man becomes a cadet at West Point, he enters upon a government allowance of !fii>i)i).r>0 a year. Ou graduation the West Pointer is commissioned a second lieutenant and receives a salary of $ 1,PM if unmounted or $1,51)0 if mounted. Increases at each five year period bring the pay at the end of twenty years up to $1J>60 in the one case and $2,100 In the other. The pay of first lieutenants begins at $1,500 and $1,000; captains, ."i.soo and $2,000; majors, $2,500; lieutenant colonels, $.!,00O; colonels, $:!.5oo. Each officer attains a 40 per cent maximum In crease in twenty years. On the average the salary of the army officer Is higher than that of the college professor, the minister or the graded civil service employee. The officer lias allowances for residence and personal attendance. He may buy household supplies from a government commissary at cost. — Detroit NewsTribune
NOAH'S RAVENS. A Kr.otty Question Answered ' y a Blacksmith Preacher. Many years ago there lived in one of the motiuliim counties of Tennessee a blacksmith who to his reputation for honest work during the week added that of being a powerful exhorter on Sundays. Held in high esteem by his nelghlKirs, possessed of a sufficiency of this world's goods for that primitive community, tie seemed to have solved the question of terrestrial happiness, but the “thorn in the flesh” Is indigenous to all dimes and conditions, and for the blacksmith It grew In the person of one Tom Bradley, a tall, lank mountaineer, who was the wit and wag of the neighborhood and who also occupied the unenviable position of skeptic in that orthodox community. Tom delighted to prod the smith wttli certain Inexplicable Biblical statements, and these encounters sometimes resulted disastrously for the exhorter, causing him much humiliation and making him, ns he said, “wrasale lu prayer aud cry to the Lord and spare not” Once at the yearly rump meeting the old man was giving hfc “experience" lu the tone and manner that were considered devotional In those parts. “My brethren, ah," lie said, ‘as 1 was a-stnndin' In my shop an' gittln’ ready to shoe Billy Hite's old gray mare, ah, 'long come that son of a gun Tom Bradley, ah He nst me ef 1 believed everything lu the Bible, ah. 1 said everything from klver to kiver, ah. 'Believe that yarn about Noah bein’ shot up lu the ark with nil them different sort of critters, ah?’ sezze. 'SI, 1 done swnllered Jonah an' the whale, ah. an' j w.i'n't a-golu' to gag at Noah, ah.' 'Well.’ sezze, nh, 'ef that raven Noah sent out got lost, nh, where did all these here ravens come frum. ah?' Brethren, I thought fef a minute, ah, that old Satan had got the underholt on me, ah, an' was about to time me, ah; hut, 'thank the Lord, ah, I Jest timed hack my head, ah. an' the sperrlt •of knowledge plum filled me. ah, an’ 1 sez, sezel, 'If was the old he raven, nh, that got lost, an' tin* old she raven was n-settin' on five eggs In the nest, ah, an' Ihat's where these here ravens come frum, ah ’ ”
Could We Live on Mars? The physical conditions ou Mars are In many ways intermediate between those found upon the earth and the tnoon^ and it seems plausible that the life existing upon it should similarly he of a higher type than that found ou the moon and of a lower type than that found at present on the surface of the earth. Even if the physical conditions, as we understand them, w’ere equally favorable with those on the earth, civilization would by no means lie a necessary consequence. Had it not been settled by Europeans the United States would slill he a wilderness. How much less should we hasten to accord civilization to a planet of which we know little, except that tf we were transported there ourselves we should insjantly die.- Professor IV. II. Pickering in Harper's Magazine. Wise Insects. In tils experiments to determine whether it Is the color or the odor of flowers that attracts bees and other insects M. Plateau, the Belgian zoologist, bethought film of trying a mirror, lie selected a flower of striking color ami strong odor and placed It before an excellent glass in which the reflection was perfect. All the Insects went straight to the real flower, and not a single oue approached the reflection In the mirror.—Youth’s Companion.
Joining the Great. An Oxford undergraduate was reciting a memorized oration in ona of the classes in public speaking. After the first two sentences his memory failed, aud a look of blank despair came over his face. He began ns follows; “Ladles and Gentlemen —Pitt Is dead. Fox is dead. Gladstone is dead”— Then, forgetting, he hesitated for a moment and continued, “And—I—I—1 am beginning to feel pretty ‘sick’ my-self."-Lloyd’s Weekly.
The Poet's Son. “Why, Freddy, how dirty you are, alid only yesterday you wrote a verse for papa's birthday, promising always to wash yoifi' hands clean." “Well, mamma, that was only n poetic license.”—Fllegende Blatter.
Asserting Himself. He—Will you be my wife? She—The idea! Don’t be ridiculous. He—Yes, 1 kuow It sounds ridiculous; but, then, I’m not so particular ns some men are. —Boston Transcript. Nothing Is Impossible to the man who cun aud will.—Mira beau.
THE OPERA. It Appears to Have Originated In Italy In the Year 1600. The way Streatfelld. author of "The Opera,” traces the developu.eut of op era through the centuries i inn-.| clem and concise and leaves you with the Impression that upon (lie matter of history, at any rate, he is master of his subject. Opera. It is shown, was the result of an attempt made by some Florentine uinateurs to revive the lost glories of Greek tragedy. They failed to get back to the conditions of Athenian drama, but hi falling they unconsciously laid the foundations of a new art form which somi worked itself Into the affections of the people. The beginnings of epera might be said to date from the year 1000, when a public performance was given lu Florence of Peri’s “Luridice" In honor of the marriage o. Marla dc' Medici and Henry IV. of France. This work consists almost entirely of accompanied recitative, which was the invention of there Florentine reform ers, and tin* voice.; were accompanied by a "violin, chilaroue (a large guitar), lira grande. Unto grosso and grnvlcem halo or harpsichord, which filled In ibe harmonics indicated by the figured bass.” H la Interesting to know that in this very prliuiilvo work the com poser tried to follow i s closely as possible lu his niti.de the ordinary inlloetions of the speaking voice. Mouteverde, who was a contemporary of Perl, hut whose first opera was produced some seven years after “EuridIce," made a similar effort to reconcile music with speech, aud many years after Gluck and still later Wagner trlfd to do so. and It Is amusing when oue knows how far In other directions music as an art and opera us •i convention have progressed since 1(100 to think that old Peri was probably closer to the Dehilssys and Reynaldo Hahns of our day than all the great men who have come between.— New Age of London. A Big Mistake. A fool, a barber aud a baldheaded man were traveling together. Losing thetr way, they were obliged to sleep In the open air, aud to avert danger It was agreed to watch by turns. The first lot fell ou the barber, who for amusement shaved the poor fool’s head while he was sleeping, lie then woke him, and the fool, raising his hand to scratch Ids head, exclaimed: “Here's a pretty mistake. You have awakened the baldheaded man instead of me.”—Liverpool Mercury.
Getting Closer. “When I first knew that man,” said the observant waiter, "he couldn't have been making more than $1,000 a year. I'll bet It’s $10,000 now.” “How do you know?” asked the other. “Ho used to give a fifty cent tip, hut now he only gives me a nickel."—Philadelphia Press.
A Model Cookbook. “What! You have written a new cookbook for your wife? How did you do It?” “Easy enough. I wrote the name of ea^h dish and underneath It the restaurant where It cau l>e bad best.”— Fllegende Blatter.
The watched pot never bolls. A gas meter is different.—Washington Times.
How a Marine Slipped His Cable.
Be wise bxlay. 'Tls madness to defer.—Young. •
[Original.] Ensign Peabody should have l»eeu In the navy a hundred years ago, when the men were treated mure like brutes than human beings, instead of today, when every sailor, whether officer ot seamau, has his rights. But there are natural tyrants who are by nature tyrannical, and Peabody was one of them, thuugh he kept within the reg illations, using Insult instead of com inlttiug a violation of an officer’s restrictions. Tom Spencer was a marine on hoard a United States cruiser. He was a good soldier, always spick and span and was well educated. The reason for his enlisting in the marine corps was that be hoped some day by good conduct to secure a commission. Fot some reason or other Peabody con celved a dislike for Spencer. Some said the reason was that Peabody had been appointed to the academy from the gutter and it had failed to make him anything hut a gutter snipe, while Spencer had enlisted from the parlor and could only he a gentleman. Be this as It may, whenever Pen body got a chance to put the screws on to Silencer he did It In as irritating and disagreeable fashion as It could be done. There ""is a tire smoldering in Silencer’s breast which nothing but the mutiny laws could keep from breaking out into a volcanic eruption. There had been a liberty party on shore and some of the leave men had got Into a light with the natives—the cruiser was lying off the coast of Peru and when they returned Peabody was officer of the deck. Spencer was one of them and gave evidence of his part in the fracas by having his uniform torn to shreds. Peabody seized upon this to storm at him and, his hatred getting the better of his discretion, used a common opprobrious epithet In connection with Spencer's mother. Like a flash the marine's right arm went out, and the ensign went sprawling on the deck. Here was a case of mutiny. In some of the world's navies even in time of peace to strike an officer means death The penalty is not so severe In the United States navy, hut it means 1m prlsoimient. Spencer was put in irons and charges preferred against him. It was in the hot season, and there is no telling how long a time may elapse before a man may Ik* brought before a court martial. It was probable that SiNMicer would either be sent home under guard for trial or would be held till the cruiser went north. It was too hot to keep him between decks for an Indefinite time, and he was given the liberty of the ship during the day, only being put Into the brig at “pipe down." The ship's master at arms was made responsible for him and watched him to see that lie didn't gel away to shore It was a grim prospect for the prisoner. The insult he had received would he no palliation for his offense. He might have preferred charges agalnsl Peabody, hut on no account cwtdd be have taken the law Into Ids hands. In stead of a commission, he would doubtless get at the least calculation dis honorable discharge and several years at some naval prison. He was the picture of woe as he lounged about and an- object of sympathy with Ids shipmates. who hated Peabody. Spencer, who was in the social scale far above Ids comrades, had but few intimate companions, ills only chum was Bob Sawin, whose father was a captain of a merchant vessel. Bob was a great- scapegrace and generally conceded to be the most reckless man on the cruiser. The trouble on land had subsided and liberty parties were again going ashore. They usually left the ship at four bells In the evening. One afternoon Sawin [nit in .an application for liberty. There was a young ensign aboard who had been ill ever since the cruiser had left United States shores, and on this very afternoon he had returned to duty and was officer of the deck. It was his part to call off the names of the liberty party. When 8awin's name was culled. Spencer, well got up in his best uni form for shore leave, stepped forward, with a “Here, sir.” saluted, went down the ladder and took his place In the launch. The ensign didn’t know him from any other marine. There was Suppressed surprise on the fat *); of the men who knew well enough that Spencer was not Sawin, but never a man spoke, and when the party was checked off the cutter bore them, Spencer sitting in the stern sheets, to the dock. Meanwhile Bob Sawin was hiding under a tarpaulin on the fo’c’s’le. There be remained till darkness spread a friendly mantle far more to the purpose, then let himself stealthily down by the anchor chains, dived, swam under water as fur as he could hold his breath, came to the surface and swam to shore. The next morning he returned with the party In Spencer’s uniform. Silencer as soon ns he found himself ashore made for the mountains and within a few days was lost to any searching party that might be sent foi' him. He had some back pay stored away in his pockets, by means of which In time he returned to tiiqpUlilted States. He was not missed aboard ship till tin* master at arms bunted for him at “pipe down” to put him lu the brig for the night. When the Spauisb-Americnn war came on Spencer enlisted in the army, distinguished himself and came back a captain. Either before or after tht war he succeeded in getting his naval slate spunged off, so that he could begin in United States service again. This he did through a relative who was a congressman. GEORGE DISNEY MILLS.
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