Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 October 1920 — Page 2

THE GREENCASTLE HERALD

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ICiiLer«L hh Stcobxi Oai*r mail inatttr •t Greencastle, Ind^ postoffict. _ ■ ctaarl«R J. Arnold Proprietor , PUBLISHED EVERY aFTEKNOON Except Sunday at 17 and 19 S. Jackton Street, Greenrastle, Ind. TELEPHONE «5 Tarda of Thanu

and a Finale

From Life.

«•» M-H-f m H H « I m M I M l New York, September 10.

Dearest Marian:

Is it not time to break silence? Three months have passed since we

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Obituaries.

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NATIONAL TICKET

For President JAMES M. COX Ohij

For Vice President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT New York

STATE TICKET

Senator THOMAS TAGGART French Lick

Governor CARLETON B. McCULLOCH Indianapolis

Lieut. Governor SAMUEL M. FOSTER Fort Wayne

Secretary of State CHARLES H. WAGNER Columbus

Auditor of Stat e CHARLES R. HUGHES Peru

Treasurer of State GEORGE H. DE HORITY Elwood Attorney General GEOSOB D. SUNKEL Newport

Reporter of Supreme Cou' t WOOD UNGER Frankfort

Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District FRANCIS E. BOWSER Warsaw

Judge Appellate Court. First Distrlc^ BLBMT U. SWAIN Roekport

Jaoge Appellate Court. 2nd District .TORN O REIDELBACH W inamae

Rnperintendert of Public Instruction HDBI Ml BAYLOB Wabash

DISTRICT TICKET

For Repr* . aiativc in Congress CHARLES S. BATT 'larre Haute

COUNTY TICKET

For Prosecutor FAY S. HAMILTON

For Representative WILLIS E. GILL

For Treasurer OTTO G. WEBB

For Sheriff FRED LANCASTER For Surveyor ARTHUR PLUMMER For Coroner JACOB E. McCURRY

For Commissioner 2nd District REESE R. BUIS

For Commissioner 3rd District DAVID J. SKELTON

urc for the mountains. 1 wrote twice during the first, week. You did not answer. Pride forbade my risking another rebuff. Frequently 1 have been so deeper *te that it lias consoled me to run into needless danger. Often, during the summer, I have swum out beyond (he breakers when there was a heavy undertow. I have taken automobile tours by myself, speeding at seventy miles an hour over narrow roans along mountainsides. These foolhardy adventures were backed by what must seem to you an unaccountable desire for revenge. 1 pictured your face ns you read an aocouut of my death; gloated over the horror in your eyes when they scat, ned the ghastly details. I invented such news items as these: ‘Blake's body was cast upon the beach horribly gashed by the rocks’; or ‘The automobile leaped into a chasm. Blake clinging to the wheel was crushed into an unrecognisable mass when the ear turned turtle.’ This desire to punish you for your neglect seems a barbarous instinct or a childish whim, as you choose. But ashamed of it as 1 may be, and strug gle against it as 1 will, such a thought is often with the. Take this morning for instance: Alighting from the train at Jersey City, I stopped to admire the huge locomotive which has been lately put on the morning express. I laid my hand on one bulky cylinder. ‘What if ibis monster should explode with me standing here!’ 1 thought. 'What if one side of my face and my right arm were blown off! What would she say, my little Princess of Indifference, far away in her mountain fastness?’ 1 gave imagination its head. It soon seemed as if the horrible thing had really happened. They picked me up, conscious and suffering frightfully. Before 1 slipped into merciful oblivion the awful truth was apparent to me—my right arm was gone and the right side of my face was terribly scalded by the blinding steam. Weeks grew into months. The day before the bandages were to be re moved from my face 1 escaped from the hospital. I took a night expic.t, to Montreal. From Montreal I plunged into the wilderness, anywhere to get away from the sight of man, where, slowly and painfully, with my untrained left arm, I built a hut on the side of a mountain. Besides the rough furniture 1 installed a typewriter and a framed photograph of you. Just the e two things with which to start life over again. Here 1 learned with difficulty to i y pew rite with one hand. At first i* laffled me to devise some way of depressing the shift key. Then I attached a rough contrivance for working the shift key with my foot. Finally 1 became fairly expert, and began to submit magatine stories, with sorie s uccess. Often I dreamed of a footstep outside my cabin, of the swish of skirts, of a cry and somebody rushing across the floor. Two hands, unmistakably yours, pressed m> eyes my good eyo on the good side of my face and my useless eye on the useless side of my face. Then I seemed to play a gruesome hide and seek, twisting, turning, tlodsinc ever striving to keep the undamaged side of my faee toward you, coneealing the stricken side from vonr

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That's enough of such rabblah. Fancies made mortdd by vour lor" silence have run away with m«. Forgive me. Rut have inert v and write! 1 hav. slopped running risk* in the water. 1 observe the legal rate of ' spied in my tar. Hut 1 have not gir- | en up art equally In zardotv adventure —loving y ou. Forever anti ever yours, JOHN.” "Paul Smith's Atllrondatkg, N. Y., September It. j YIv Ow n Silly .lohn : Your letter gave me Die shivers. Forgive me. ] have been thoilghtlc.-s and brutal. Your letter was so graph- | ic. your description of your make- believe accident in the train sheds so real, that 1 cannot get it out of my mind. 1 love you, love you, love you. j 1 shall leave here two weeks from to- ' morrow. 1'il leave tonight if it were not for mother, w ho is not well enough yet to travel. That fictitious cabin on the mountainside with you blinded and alone frightened me. Be careful, John; he careful, you dear, dear thing! Always yours, MARIAN.” (Telegram) “Noonday flub, New York, September 24. Malian Blaekmar: Paul Smith’s Adirondacks, N. Y. Tho cabin on the mountain was not fictitious. Neither was the explosion of the locomotive, which happened three months ago. I gave an assumed name at the hospital. Do not try to find me. There is nothing left worth | finding. 1 want to he remembered I ivs 1 w;lk when we parted. Good bve. JOHN.’ The Finale / i October noon shone through

s-srjs-urttM! brioches fell across Dm clearing where John Blake’s cabin clung to ! Die side of a mountain. The light from a shaded lamp, within, fell upon a .typewriter with Its singular attachj inent for depressing the shift key. Before the machine John sat, bowed I in thought, his right sleeve hanging I empty. He was thinking of the letter w hich he had written to Marian Bla« kmar, and which he had enclosed with a note to the steward of the Noonday Club, to ho mailed from New York, for Die sake of the postmark, of the telegram which had been relayed through the same club. The autumn wind coaxed the logs In the fireplace. The responsive flames lighted with a warm glow the photographed feature of Die beautiful girl in the oval frame. There was a footstep outside Die eatiin, the swish of skirls, a cry and somebody rushing across the floor. Two hands, unmistakably hers, were pressed over his eves, the good eve and the had eye alike. Two lips every now and then interrupting themselv* s against his. wept and laughed and pleaded ai d made believe scold, and finally persuaded John that no life can lie disfigured where love dwells. HIS ELUCIDATION. A parson's mol her resorted to old fashioned argument wiih her young son in high school when he started off for the ball grounds leaving the lawn tinmowfd. "You can get Just as good exercise by remaining right here and cutting this grass,” she admonishid him. And then the son, who recently had his initiation into Die mysteries of psychology, wisely replied: ‘'Mother dear, 1 am sorry to inform you that you are in error. You see it is like this: After the stress of the day’s work, the body requires exercise of a totally different character, one which will induce a sense of pleasuie, let us say. Cutting grass tends only to fatigue Die body further; consequently it brings greater weariness 'o the mental faculties. Now, playing ball, we must assume, while It de mands increased physical effort, it is tine, carries with it almost complete relaxation in that It quickens the emotion of enjoyment and relieves the sense of dullness on the mind.” The mother, however, after the manner of all mothers, loved her son and didn't summon the police. Lcit the Next One. “1 wish my car would come I hate to stand on the corner wailing for an electric car,” remarked a woman one afternoon on a street corner to a man, presumably her husband, judging from the niatler-of fact way In which he took the complaint. Then she espied a lady friend coming down the street and nude for her. "Why Mary, I haven't seen you fot an age. How are you?” How are the children?” and a lot more. Ten minutes rolled away, and I happened to approach Die same spot again, this •ime. ns It happened, wailing for a car myself. As 1 stood there I saw the woman leave her female friend and return to Die curbing where the man was still patiently waiting. •‘Hasn't that car come yet?" she asked. "Which one?” "Why, Die one we were waiting for ” "Well, one came, but I couldn't get a word in edgeways to let you know- | that it was here, so it went hv. Guess we’ll have to wait for another.” "That's just like a man,” she said, tw a tone of contempt for male characteristics. "It's no use wai'ing here for half an hour. Let's go look at the millinery openings.”

Two Ways. Ur. Llojd George's wit on the platform is well known, but the followii g was one of th» neatest retort* he ever made: Ho wa* addressing a meeting is South Wales when the chairman, thinking to lie witty at the chancellor’s expense, remarked to the andi cnee that he was a little disappointed in Mr. Uoyd George * appearance. ‘T have heard o much about Mr. Lloyd George," h ■ said, "that I naturally expei ted to meet a big man in every sense; hut, ; you can see far yourselves, ho is v< ry small in stature.” Many nn orator would have been grievlously upset by Bitch an unfortunate beginning to the p oceedings, but not so Mr. Lloyd George. ‘Y am grieved to find," he said, with mock seriousness, "that your chairman is disappointed in my size, but this is owing to the way you have here of measuring a man. In North Wales we measure a man from his chin up, but you evidently measure him from his Dili! down!” After that Die chairman made no more personal remarks.

In I'hiladrlphia was started America’s first savings hank, and that institution now has about 100,000 more depositors than any other bank in the i' n i 11 (1 It | Th“ land at the head of Wall street, on which Tiinity church and cemetery stand, comprises a plot 291 feet long by 227 feet broad, valued at $17,000,000.

French military estimates show that about 26.000,000 horse power is developed In the explosion of a charge from one of the biggest camion now in use. A man with a lot of money is always a lot of help-- to himself.

TACGAR1 SINK-HOLE SPENDING Instenl of pourln/ puhtli i tonev into sink holer, never to return a cent on the Investment, would it not be better to apply this money to vis rational education, scientific farming, the trades and domestic science?— Senator Thomas Taggart, in a senate speech opposing unjustifiable public building appropriations, Aug 11, 1916.

Girl Spoils Bothers’ Plan. HOFRTONVILLK. Ky.—H earing burglars at work in the cellar of the local bank, Miss Jjoln Dye. a telephone operator, quickly summoned a number of citizens who hurried up with guns. The burglars made tUeir escape in an auto but without having secured any loot. Another girl tele phone operator saved the (tank at Finrhburg, Ky., from being robbed In the same week

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THE WAGES OF SIN. Girl on Her First "Party” Drink* of Cup of Blindness. NEW YORK. A young girl aged 1!*. went out with some young men and women on her first "party ’ one dav last week. She was induced to take a drink of brandy—the first drink she had ever tasted. Three hours later she was taken to a hospital in convulsions. The next day, she was perma

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Saved Baby; Lost Own Life DALLAS, Tex.—T. E. Elliott 0 f this <hly, when driving in bis am 0tt bile saw a baby In front of b s , L chine, lie instantly jammed on th* brakes and succeeded in stopp ne L" fore reaching the child, but the rho, caused his death almost instant|y *

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‘-■pHE railroads were partly responsible. But it wasn't until the automobile reached its present state of development that the old barriers a East travel were finally brc.fcr; down.

More people own automobiles today than ever thought cf owning a horse and buggy in the old days. That's because the cost of motoring has been brought within reach of the average citizen's pocketbook. We look upon it as part of our job to keep it there. If it weren’t for the trade of the man with the medium priced car there wouldn’t be

much in this tire business for us. III The less a man has to spend on motoring, the more important it is that his tires should be cf first quality. Any tire is not good enough for the small car owner. He wants a tire that will give him ,just as much for his money in the small size as the big car man gets for his money in the large size. IV In thinking over what kind of tires we would represent in this community we tried to put ourselves in the place of the car owner. And we believe we hit it exactly when we selected U. S. Tires.

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A J. Cox, Greencastle Battery Uo , C. E. Knight. King, Morrison & Foster. Thos. F. Randel, H. R. Nicholas.

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