Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 August 1920 — Page 2

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THE GREENCASTLE HERALD

TUESDAY AUCUST 17, ift 2 0.

HERALD

iCnteTc as Sec.-’id Clnar niail Matter I at the Greei.ii.-tie, Ind, postcftice.

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INTEREST IN OLD MANSES

LINKS WITH HISTORIC PAS1

Traveler Finds Atmosphere of Romance Surrounds Picturesque Abodes of eastern States.

Interest'rp to Tra n the Names of Streets and Lanes In City of Boston Today.

Cbariee J. Arnold ...Proprietor PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON Except Sunday at 17 and 19 S. Jackeon Street, Greencastle, Ind. TELEPHONE 65 Uardfl of Thanks. Cards of Ttarks are chargeable at a rata of 50c each. Obituaries. All ohiraareg are chargeable at the | rate of $1 for each ofcit’.nry. Additional charge of 5c a line is made for all poetry.

WILL THAT ALARMED WORLD

Eccentric Frenchman Planned to Build Up Large Estate. But in

the End Signally Failed.

Mingled wonder, indignation and jilarui were excited in the public mind •ver a will left by Peter Tbelusson, a Frenchman, who died on July 21, 1797. it appears that the testator hud accumulated a large fortune as a London merchant, and hy the provisions of his will he left to his wife and children ihe sum of £100.000, and the residue of b:a property, amounting to about £000,000, he committed to frostecs, to accumulate during the lives of bis sons, and finally to revert to bis eldest great-grandson. Should no heir exist, the accumulated property was to be conveyed to the sinking fund for the reduction of the national debt. According to the lowest calculation it was estimated that the fortune would amount to £19,000,000. The will was generally stigmatized as absurd and illegal, and the family tested it in court, where it was sustained, ns it was likewise in (he house of lords. In 1800 an act was passed making null ail bequests for the purpose of accumulation for longer than twenty years after the testator's death. Tbe last grandson died in ]fC>6, and a dispute arose as to whether the eldest son's grandson s-hould inherit or the eldest great-grandson. It was decided in favor of the former. By reason of litigation and accidents of management the fortune inherited was little more

than the original £000,000.

FISH HAS TWO UGLY WEAPONS

Giant Ray Said to Use Mouth Like a i Shark and I* Provided With

Dangerous Tail.

A so-called devilfish that is com- | mon on American roasts from 30 degrees north latitude to about the same degrees south of the line, is the giant ray. This fish looks very like a skate, but grows to an enormous size. It Ilf* on the sea bottom, covering square yaivls of coral sand, and if attacked limy prove not only nasty, but most dangerous. It is said to use its mouth like a shark, but Its most unpleawant weapon is the toothed spear iu its tail. Fishermen say it is able to drive this jagged lance through a man's thigh. Such a wound is extremely dangerous and almost Invariably proves fatal. In the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico specimens of tbe giant ray lia'e been killed up to 18 feet across. The ray hits two horns, one on each side of its eyes, the latter being green, -hideous and cruel beyond expression. A curious habit of this fish is to break water like a whale, fulling with a thunderous splash that Is heard for a

long distance.

Boy and a Sermon. The way of a hoy with a sermon Is thus: Compo-cs himself with a deep sigh; listens attentively fur three minutes, in unimpeachable form. Cautiouely feacln s hymn book from rack; drops it; recovers It; reads hymns for h'e minutes. Explores trousers pocket and examines with deep Interest one magnet, two nails, three pencil stubs and sev< rnl hits of unclassified junk. l>r< |is so:i;ethltig and hunts under seat until discovered. Sighs heavily; inspects all the stained glass windows and the overhead architecture and decorations. Puts sole of left foot against back of pew in front, at level of knee, and is highly surprised when foot drops noisily. Repeats same exercise with right foot with the same result. Sits still and gratefully sticks peppermint offered by merciful aunt. Sighs heavily. Experiment* to see what will happen If he presses on his Adam’s apple while head Is extended forward; strange choking sound endues. Immediately suppressed by domestic authorities.—Life.

He Had the General Idea. Ilousy Johnson had never attained to any ‘‘book lamin’,” but managed to absorb considerable of the general idea during one winter when the district school teachers boarded with him. Ituring the winter the teacher often ••orrected the Johnson children In their grammar, and Rousy was proud of his offsprings’ education. After the teacher left Rousy elected to keep up the good work. At the supper table one evening he asked Ted, the nine year-old hoy. a question, and received the answer: “Uh-huh." Koosy Judged ibis was a grammatical error. "What do you mean hy nnewerluff me thnt-a way?” he demand <d. “Uh-huh ain’t no word. If you mean yep. say jep, and don’t grunt like a pig!"

Vacation pilgrims traveling by automobile or trolley or pursuing Hie !c-s exhila■: ing but more tranquil Joy of exploring country highways and byways on toot or drawn by some faithful old Dobbin have singled out about overy structure or locality famous In song, story and history. Wit) side inns, taverns, military headquarters, churches and the birthplaces of celebrities have all come in for their share of worship. There is, however, one species of landmark which seems to have escaped the special attention of those inteic!%d in relics of our pious forefathers—the old manses of New England and the middle states. The rectory or parsonage of today was known In the time of our ancestors by the old Scotch title of manse. At first thought it might seem that no more particular interest would hover about these ancient manses than about any of the picturesque homes of an earlier century. Indeed it is not so much in outward appearance that they are to he set apart, hut because of an intangible atmosphere of sacred romance surrounding them—invisible “clouds of glory” trailing back to the days when the manse played a most Important part In the life of the community. Furthermore each of these old ministerial dwellings has a story all of its own. It was by accident I discovered this, and now whenever happy ehnnee takes me to a new locality the first place 1 hunt up is the manse.—Chicago Daily News.

BUILT IN HONOR OF BUDDHA

Hill Temple of Boro Budor In Java Is One of the Marvels of the World Today. The hill temple ef Boro-Budor In Java Is one of the most gigantic and finest works ever reared by the ancients. It represents more human labor and artistic skill than the great pyramid of Egypt. Said Alfred It. Wallace, the scientist: "The human labor and skill expended on BoroBudor is so great that that expended on tbe great pyramid sinks into insig-

nificance.”

The temple was built about the seventh century of our era. It stands In Central Java, originally a monument of Buddha. The ashes of Buddha, originally divided into eight parts and buried in eight different places, were disinterred aud re-divided into 84,000 parts, which were placed in vases and distributed all over his

dominions.

When Buddhist missionaries went to Java In the seventh century they carried with them oue of these vases. As a fitting receptacle for the vase. Boro-Budor temple, the finest piece of architecture in the then known world, * and one which has never been rivaled

v since, was erected.

Candles on Toast! An adult Eskimo is capable of consuming twenty pounds of flesh and oil daily. A Yakut will wash down this quantity of flesh with a quart or two of train-oil, and take as dessert a dozen tallow candles. A famous naturalist, who cooked part of a hoaconstrictor, declared that It tasted very much like veal. On an other occasion he tested crocodile and pronounced the flesh excellent. Frobisher and Settle both commented nn the way the Inhabitants around Hudson's Bay used to c-at grass "Such glass," says Settle, "as the country prodneeth, they pluck up and eat, not daintily or salad-w ise, but like

brute beusts."

Humboldt tells of men living on the banks of the Orinoco who eat earth. They knead the earth into balls of from four to six Inches In diameter, and hake them before a slow lire.

“Piazzas.” “Piazzas” 1 have written throughout, and I insist upon the name as 1 insist upon the thing. It Is not very clear from what suggestions our forefathers, In post-colonial days, developed the thing, and it is not clear at all how they came to adopt for it an Italian name, changing the significance as well ns the sound. In the South they have always said "gallery," and here at the North "porch” now appears to be displacing "piazza.” But these are rightly the names of other things, and while there can, of course, be no objection to the orthodox English "veranda,” II seems a pity to abandon a distinctively American name for a distinctively American kind of veranda. — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer In Scribner's Magazine.

Silver Fox Hard to Catch. On Mount Whitney and Its white crested neighbors of the stupendous Sierra Nevada, within sight of burning Death valley, and at the portals of semltroplc nouthern California, says the Philadelphia Record, trappers and sportsmen are gradually discovering that wild life teems In variety and numbers as In few If any other regions of similar proportions on the globe. The rarest of its treasures for milady Is the silver fox. Of these there have been captured half a dozen worth from' $500 to $1,000 each, and many of smaller value. The silver fox’s coat Is coal black, with a luster of burnished white metal, and a white tip to the tail. Apparently It Is quite abundant I In the place referred to, hut extremely l did,cult to catch.

The nan i < of the streets and lanes of Boston iiie closely linked with the hlsterie past. Others there are which could be connected with Boston only, sui h as Treruont street, a corruption of “Tri-miMiiintn,” by which name Boston was known to the early settlers on account of the three high hills that serve as a background to the peninsula. This replaced the name "Khawmut," given to It hy the Indians. Mary Harrod Northend writes In the Century .Magazine that the streets of tliis quaint city in the East were laid out hy straying eattle. After the Revolution the names of many Boston streets were changed. Queen street became Court street, and King street the State street of today. School street took its name from a school that was erected there. Park alle.ys. leading off the principal streets on every side, were named after pathways, usually depending on where they led to. <’reek lane originally led to tbe old creek. It was in tavern days that this was the center of stage-coach life. The old custom house once stood on Flag alley. Corn court took Its name from the fact that the corn market was at one time situated there. Summer street was once know as "Seven Star Lane.” It is now one of Bostons busiest streets.

LIVED LONG ON FRUGAL DIET

Englishman Who Died in 1680 Proved That It Was Possible to Eke Out Existence Cheaply. Thomas F. Curby, the champion eater of Massachusetts, declared that dyspepsia is the result of eating too little, and not too much. His Sunday dinner consisted of thirteen lobsters, sixty eggs, and one hundred oysters. At the other end of the scale must be placed old Roger Crab, the first vegetarian, who died September 11, 1080, after proving that a man could live on 75 cents a year. Originally a haberdasher in a big way of business at Cheshani, England, a free liver and drinker «if strong ales, he "got religion”—also dyspepsia—in middle life, sold his stock, gave the proceeds to the poor, and took to living in a hut on three-farthings a week. Instead of “strong drinks and wines,” he says in his autobiography, ”1 give the ’old man’—he lived two centuries too soon to call it “Little Mary”—"a cup of water; and, instead of roast mutton, rabbit with bran, and pudding made with bran and turnip-leaves chopped together.” And on this diet he lived to a ripe old age, surviving repeated cudgel ings and imprisonment for witchcra ft.

Moths Take Big Chances. The high-flying species of morpho which Inhabit the mountainous districts of western America, are much eaMer captured than those which frequent the plains, though their capture is often attended with difficulty and danger, says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington. One naturalist hunting moths and butterflies fn Bogota, fell over a precipice and broke his arm, and then found that he had three days’ journey to make on horseback before he could meet with a doctor to set it Another naturalist, who was collecting In Bolivia found that morpho godartit. Gtter., a beautiful species, of a rather light blue which was previously almost unknown to entomologists, frequented nn inaccessible ledge in the mountains; he was obliged to have himself lowered by ropes over the precipice before he could obtain It

Franklin’s Court Harmonica. One of the first musical Instruments made hy an American was a mouth harmonica, made by Benjamin Franklin at the time when he was minister | at the court of Louis in France, where lie played it with considerable skill before Marie Antoinette and her court

ladies.

The queen wag so delighted and Interested that Franklin presented the little instrument to her. After Marie Antoinette was beheaded In the great French revolution, this - mouth harmonica had many sensational experiences till finally It came Into the possession of a wealthy musical amateur and collector in this country, who has it I believe, to this day.—Musical America.

The Horse of Thlrty-Flve. Study of the relation between the total length of life and the time required to reach maturity lias brought out an Interesting comparison between men I and horses. A horse at five years old I is said fo he, comparatively, as old as a man at twenty, and doubtless may he expected to behave, according to equine standards, after the manner of the average college student following human standards. A ten-year-old horse resembles, so far as age and experience go, a man of forty, while a horse that has attained the ripe age of thirty-five is comparable with a man of ninety.—New York Evening Posh

About the Same. “My father occupied the chair of applied physics at Cambridge.” "Dat’s nuttin’: mine occupied tbe seat of applied electricity at Sing Sing.”—Massachusetts Tech. Voe Doo.

Easy Part Chorus Girl—What am I to do In the new revue? Stage Director—Nothing! Youll hate nothing to sing, nothing to say, | gnd almost nothing to wear. j

TCV.N LIVES WITHIN ITSELF

Fiiho. cn thr Ij’.ind of Santo Dor-iingo, Uni rely V/ithout Accommodation for Travelers. The tow n of Seibo, on the island of i Snnto Domingo, notorious for its ban- i dit irihos, is one of the few eomniuili-! ties on the ishind that has no hotel ac- J eoiinnodalloiis, the nnbefriended stranger finding nothing hut miserable i thatched huts with nests on three legs ! for beds, and a ragged old negro crone ' for a servant. Seibo is tbe most nutof the-way. astonished at strangers, mi-acqmdnied-u i:h-lhe w orld tow n of any size that can be found In the West Indies. Though a large detachment of United Stales marines rami' at its bandit-threatened door, the people ^ show unbounded surprise to see Atner- I l< an civilians. Groups of almost fop- < pisbl) dressed nu*n lounge in the i streets, yet ihe town Itself is little short of filtliv. A curious old church, a part of It ; built 400 .tears ago. on the top of ] which is the marine wireless station, is the old) building of Importance. From the iop of this church Seibo is seen to be surrounded by low hills, everyw here wooded, without a hut outside its compact niiiss, described by Harry A. Franck in the Century Magazine. a* having “Its skirts drawn up like those of a nervous old maid in constant dread of mire.” The town also lias the proverbial garrison house that seems like a fort of the medieval

ages.

ENTITLED TO HIS PENSION Intelligent Dog Well Earned the Gratitude cf His Master—Action Saved Child’s Life. Teddy, age twenty-two. is. his owner declares, the oldest dog in Ohio. Me is now resting on his laurels, for he recently saved the life of one of the children of Ids master, Onias O. Kwamler, a fanner, near Toledo. Ohio. It has been Teddy’s duty and joy to nccouipaii) the Swamler children to school, a mile distant, and bring them home again, daily. He has never been late on the Job. On the way home from School recently, one of the little Swantlers became III suddenly and fell by the roadside. Teddy immediately started at Ids fastest pace for home ami made such a fuss that members of the family accompanied him back along the road. They found the child, unconscious, and extremely cold. He was hurried home and restored to health. The Swanders believe that Teddy's prompt action saved the child’s life. Mr. Swander immediately bought a dog license for Ids faithful dog. "I'll have no dog catcher chasing him. If anything should happen to that dog, my family would grieve as much as if he were one of them,” declared Mr.

Swander.

Teddy is half coyote and half Indian dog. He was bought from a hand of Comanche Indians in Oklahoma If! years ago.—Charles A. Henderson, In Our Dumb Animals.

BEYOND THE POWER OF MAN COMFORT IN AIRPLANE CABIN

Vainly Doer H« Attempt to Still • Woman'* Tongue or Stop Her Garrulous Finger*. A woman's talent—amounting almost to a genius—for letting her husband know that be Is not much of a follow in her estimation, would seem to he seriously impaired when she happens to he a deaf mute. But. according to the testimony submitted in a divorce case tried in court recently, feminine ingenuity refuses to admit any handicap in this oldest of all games. She annoyed him in the sign language. The husband, being merely a man, did not adopt the simple expedient of tying her hands together when lie wanted a little soul quiet. He failed I to have recourse to the obvious expe- ) di'iit of shutting his eves when she | fingered to him that she thought he | was tlie biggest donkey in creation. Thus lie proved once more that man { truly Is a creature of a lower order. He can build ships and fight wars, til) , the soil and manage big industries, but | w hen it comes to stopping a woman’s tongue or her garrulous lingers, he is | not therei—Detroit News.

Up-to Date Lone Jack. Confining himself to an actual lirt of community calamities, Mayor King of ; Lone Jack, Mo., reasons convincingly that the blowing up of the local elcc- J trie light plant, the quitting of his Job by the jitney tins driver, the departure from the midst of them of the sole barber and the robbery of the local bank—all In a short space of time— indicate the secret arrival of a jinx in town and a high-pressure distribution of Ids malign tiifluenc) 1 . But it Is to lie observed that 25 per cent of Lone I .Tank's ills is due to preventable accident and 25 per rent to crime of tiniisiial magnitude and daring, while 50 per cent is due to labor troubles. Life w ithin Lone Jack is only typical of the larger life outside of l.otie Jack. It Is a cross section of a status prevailing in the entire country; indeed, throughout the world. Lone Jack is j Just up. to date. St. Louis I’nst-Dis- j patch.

Great Contrast in Flight* in Inclosed and Open Machines; as Described by Passenger. T recently had the opportunity of making two airplane flights in the same day, rhe first in one of the completely inclosed transport machines, Ihe second in a fighting machine which was developed in America during the last few months of the war and which lias a speed of about 135 miles an hour. The force exerted hy the air against any exposed surface is about three times os great at this speed as it Is at 80 miles an hour. During the first of these two trips ihe only complaint that could hnvl> been raised against conditions in the pilot s compartment would have been that It was rather close and we finally had to open a window in the side of the body to secure a litlle ventilation. One of the occupants of Ihe cabin was wearing a soft felt hat, and nor the -lightest rustle of air disturbed t lie brim. In the second flight, on the other hand, it was only with difficulty Drat 1 could lift my head far enough out of the gunner's cockpit (o look over the side at ihe ground. The instant my head was raised above the top line of the airplane body, so that the w ind got a hanee at It, my hair threatened to he torn out hy the roots,—Edward 1’. Warner in Yale Review.

Rudyard Kipling’s Autograph. They say that u bank check hearing | the signature of Itudyurd Kipling j fetclu - n bigger prh e for It- autograph | thnn for the amount of money nntned In the cheek. I’rohahly much depends on the size of the cheek. A distinguish'd pent of Boston once sent a poetic cnntrihiition to a well-known periodical. It was promptly accepted null publMied and in due course he rc'•(•Ivo'l a check for $.’! for It. Instead of '•n-hing the cheek he had It mounted, framed ainl hung up in Ids library for j the edification ntul amusement of his I friends. I’ossllily Mr. Kipling may liuve had similar experience to verify | the current item nhout the autographic and cost value of checks sent lo blm. —Boston Globe.

Overedusated. "If was too much education that landed me here, mum.” said the burglar to the visitor at the penitentiary. "I had an assistant who was bom In Boston. One night we had a good second story Job, hut he queered the whole thing at the la«t minute.” “How do you mean?” asked the vis itor. "When 1 told him to climb up the down spout to get tbe swag out of rhe second »tory lie said: T refuse to do anything so parndnilcal ;’ and Just then (Jie copper woke up and collared us."—Pittsburgh < 'hronlele-'IVIegrspli.

Acidity of the Stomach. The commonly received belief that ton acid ga«trie juice Is the cause of Hirer of the stomach has been absolutely disproved. Dr. Frank Smithies In his address as chairman of the section on gastro-enterolofy, American Medical association, summed up tliis proof. Such ulcers have been found when the gastric Juice was either td>senl or lacking in acidity, others hn\r henled In the face <>f great hyperucid•‘F

Chorus Girl Worked as Housemaid. A Parisian housekeeper who had long been without a servant succeeded the other day in engaging ont? who seemed very promising indeed. She entered upon her duties in the morning. and worked to her mistress’ complete satisfaction. An early dinner was cooked and served excellently, but at 8:3»t the new maid appeared in the drawing room with her hat <>n, stud explained that she had to go out. as she was in the churns at a music hall i.inl was sine to he fined if site arrived lute. Apparently she was quite prepared to continue Iter two jobs without regarding them as Incongruous, owing to a lack of modernity in the m|stn-s' ideas, this interesting experinieiit whs not continued.—From the <'"titlneiitnl Edition of the London .Hail. Cures Wrought by "Sleep-Baths.” Among the many wonderful cures which the war lias produced is the “sleep-hut h.” It is to lie had on Hie thousand-acre '“Stale at Knhaui, Hampshire, where ninny of the disabled men are being treated. Practically every kind of bath is available there, but the big “sedative lialli” lias wo ked the must miracles, Tlie patients lie In hammocks, while water flows over them. The hammocks are immersed, anil the water is kept about tlie temperature of tlie body. The gentle flowing motion has a most soothing effect upon the nerves. Provided the man has not been pronounced incurable, any disabled exsoldier may apply for treatment through bis local |H?n«ion committee. Human Fly Says It’s Saf*. Policy, tbe human fly, who climbed the 37 stories of tlie Woolworth building in New York, says climbing tall buildings is just a trick of balance. It took him nine years to acquire it, but now that be has It be believes his way of making a living is as safe as any other. He recently told a reporter for Capper's Weekly lie had never fallen, except on one occasion when a “fly" above him fell and knocked Pulley to the ground. Policy doesn't smoke, drink or Indulge in any habits that might injure tils health. He declares he takes no foolish chances and that he neter becomes dizzy.

Broke. “Hi, there, sir”’ shouted a Florida landlord to a departing gue«t «ho was rushing for the train, "you've dropped your pocket book.” "All right,” shouted back die guest without stopping. “I’ve no further use for it.”—Boston Transcript.

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