Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 December 1920 — Page 4

THE CREENCASTLE HERALD

PAGE 4,

MONDAY. DECEMBER 13, I92o

Mumnne IN INDIANA, It would be an Idle Jest, and might not he warranted by the facts, to aay that young folks get married In Indiana because of the ease of getting unmarried there The evidence la to the contrary. Mushy sentiment does not actuate Hoosler lads and lasses. They get married In order to live comfortably, and they take every precaution to make sure of It. Peachy cheeks and curling mustaches are no ground for a license there. Here are the scheduled requirements of the Young I.adies' Protective Association for the Promotion of Domestic Happiness: Salary. Sd.OOO life insurance, $2,000; license fee, $2 There are obvious ommlsslons, and a certain distrust of the stipulated income seems to be Indicated by the requirement of $2 In actual money. The young men who think the price of admission Into matrimony is reasonable may be right, but there are those who could warn them that the price to staying in Is manifold that of getting in. However, no advice need be wasted upon them, for they have demonstrated that they are well able to care for themselves in Columbus, Ind The Young M^n's Precaution Club passed no criticism upon the cards dealt by the young ladlc-s, but they wanted to know what they were going to get for all that good money. Accordingly, while accepting as reasonable the aforesaid toll sheet, they drew up a get of questions giving points to a life Insurance catechism. The full $2,000 Is allowed only to candidates who can pass an examination in food fads and have no prejudice against masculine habits. A scale of demerits Is provided for prohibition of smoking, fondness for cats, mania for wrapping things up In bundles without a label on the

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Is a Scarce of Heat and Light to the ( City of Tacoma. How the ice-llelds of Mount Tacoma are made to light streets and , run cars nearly a hundred mile* away Is Interestingly told by Day ! Allen Willey In the Technical World Magazine. Says Mr. Willey: "From the glacial streams of Ta- ! coma Is already generated a very 1 large quantity of electric power, j which Is being utilized not only for 1 power, but for heating and lighting ! as well. To give an Idea of the <31- j versify of uses for the current It may be stated that It operates the electric railway systems In the cities of Seattle and Tacoma aggregating 168 miles of trolley line, In addition to cable railways situated In the hilly portions of these cities. Besides this service, however, current Is furnished for one of the most notable tntururban electric railways In the United States, that extending between Seattle and Tacoma, where power Is secured from the third rail In connection with the multiple-unit system, This lino Is employed not only for passenger service, but for transporting freight and express material, and ranks among the most completely equipped electric systems In the world." "The horse power required for a number of the largest Industries In the city of Tacoma, Including the shops of the Northern Pacific' Railway and the waterworks pumping plant. Is also obtained from this source: while illumination for streets and buildings in both Seattle and Tacoma, depends upon It to n considerable extent. The demand for power Is increasing so rapidly that within a few years Mount Tacoma will be supplying fully 50,000 horse power to the cities mentioned." PACKWOOD TURNED TO COAL.

Action of Turbine Rupl.'cate. Processes of Nature.

exterior, inability to keep house without servanta and so on.

MODELS. "No public building of this decade Is complete without at least a dozen figures of Corsl painted upon its walls." says a write, in the current “American Magazine" In an entertaining account of "the finest model In the world as well as the most famous.” There are fifteen repit’tions of Antonio Corsl s figure in the New Amsterdam theatre, seventy in the Boston Public library and four in the McKinley memorial windows of the Canton church, while he Is repeated ad infinitum in our Metropolitan Museum aud Hall of Records. Corsl is thus multiplied in the art ot the decade because his Is that rarest of combinations—striking features, a manly and graceful figure and an "ambition for perfection" that Is "nothing short of genius” and that maker his potes an Inspiration to the artist and an amplification of the latter's vision. It is this recurrence of Identical forms which leads foreigners to infer that a settled American type has already been evolved from our divorce ethnic elements—a certain tiptilted delicacy of feminine feature; a certain massive, half-Indian physiognomy for the male human l>et It be admitted that for good or evil the artist's models are perceptibly Influencing the national type, at least on the feminine side. It seems to be possible for the American girl to look like anything she wants to.

DEARTH OP CANDIDATES. It Is a remarkable condition when only one candidate for the roinlUry U found lu a year In the Presbytery of Philadelphia Tbs Presbyterian Church is by no means the largest n membership of the Protestant denominations of this country, but it Is one of the largest and In Intellect, wealth, and Influence stands second to none Philadelphia Is the headquarters of this branch of the chiu-eh, and from this city have come many of the greatest clergymen In tnls denomination Yet there Is only one candidate this year for clerical orders The same situation In some degree exists not only in Philadelphia as to other denominations, bat ell over the country Everywhere there Is the complaint tnat young men are not seeking the ministry as a vocation. The cause is not hard to find. In thlr country there are few which give clergymen a liberal suppoit according to their social status, while there are otter co..slderatlons of a more linp^itant nature There are many young men of elf-sacrlficlng character who are devoted to the work of Christianity, as Ir seep by the large number of foreign tnls-don-aries sent abroad every year These men must work hard and suffer; but at least they have some compensations They work In a virgin field and are free from certain restraint* which make the ministry undesirable In many pulpits of the country.

Any boarding house mistress will tell you that often the people who itav* the front rooms are behind In

their rent.

A carious case of transformation of pack wood Into coal has been reported by G. Arth to the French Academy. A. Jonval turbine wa* > running with its steel point on a pivot of packwood. It was a 13 horse-power turbine making 113 revolutions per minute, and the ma'i* In motion weighed nine hundredweight. The packwood was not exactly under water, but It was always wet; It was a wood of best quality. After six months' running the turbine was dismounted, and It was observed that, while the lower part of the block of wood was apparently unchanged, the upper portion, on I which the turbine shaft had been roI lating, was turned Into a black mass, i full of fissures, and brittle. The | fracture was brilliant, as In coal. The man w.is analysed in the wet and dry states, and It proved that the (barrel packwood occupied by It* composition as well as by Its heating power a position intermediate between lignite and coal. It gave 7;194 calories, against 8000 of an average coal. The observation ,s Interesting on account of the short time which the change had required. The pressure and friction were, no doubt, considerable, but the tem- | perature cannot have risen to a I high degree The author of AWs I paper believes that this observation I should modify our views on the I length of the geological periods gen ••rally considered necessary to exI plain tt. formation of our coal bed*. High Jumping at Sea. "The most stupendous of all leaper* of the sea,” says a writer lu Outing. "Is the whale. I have seen a monster weighing hundreds of 1 tons, possibly eighty feet in length, | rise slowly and deliberately out of the water until It appeared to be | dancing on the surface, entirely clear j of It, then sink slowly back. "Such a leap Is on record in th« annals of the British Navy. A large whale cleared a boat, going completely over It, an estimate leap of twenty feet In air—how many In a lateral direction was not known. "Exactly how high a tuna can leap It Is difficult to say. I have seen the watST beaten Into foam by them four ’ulles distant, and have a photograph showing a fish-—a black streak at least a mile distant high In air—* Jump of certainly ten or fifteen feet; and It Is my opinion based on what I have seen, that is not Impossible for a lusty tuna at full speed to project Itself twenty feet Into the air and thirty or forty feet In a horizontal

direction.

“I Judge the latter possible from the leap of a big tuna which cleared the kelp and landed high on the rocks at Santa Catalina. I have I often stood In the centre of a school I of leaping tunas and watched them, j but the situation Is not one suggestive of repose or peace of mind." Superstition In the Orient. It Is a common belief among Chinese, that If one commits any crime against certain animals—cats, for example—the soul of that animal will take possession of the wrongdoer until the offence has been purged, j A servait girl, ac-ordlng to the Orl- ] ental tale, unmlnu 1 of tradition, | put to death a cat 1 Its three kittens. She was taken violently 111. Her mistress, suspecting the cause from the fact that the maid was scratching and mewing, apostrophized the body of the dead cat, demanding to know why It thus tormented the girl. The spirit of the cat, speaking by way of the girl’s mouth, denounced the quadruple murder The whole story was toM by *he girl .a the character of the cat. Then she expired tn violent

LIFE IN THE OOKOEOrfl EAST.

CLOVER BLOAT IN CATTLE.

Opulence and Poverty Aro Close Companions In India. One of the first objects that caught attention when I began to look about mo In Bombay was a man In very conspicuous vesture, writes an observer. His head was crowned by a largo and showy turban, folded with bands of gold, and he wore a robe of rose-tinted satin, with pendant earrings of pearl and a necklace of amethysts and emeralds. But when I looked below these splendors I found them supported by legs in frayed cotton pajamas and feet shuffling upon old carpet slippers. And when I came to know more It seemed to me that this figure was typical of India, In Its strange mixture of pomp and squalor, of gorgeousness and grime, of luxury and discomfort, of gold and ashes, of Ideal beauty and naked, realistic wretchedness. There Is a certain amount of luxury with an absence of elementary neressarles, more show than comfort. There are places where a silver ewer Is more easily to be got than enough clean water to wash your hands or a glass of It pure enough to drink. The Anglo-Indian expects to sit down to a meal of four courses In the midst of the wilderness, but he doe* not hope to get a slice of nonrlshing fresh beef or mutton. His elaborate menu at dinner Is largely made up of the flesh of animals w hlch have been running about the compound at lunchtime or whose bodies have been conveyed to him in tins from Australia and America. There are many places where he can have Iced champagne, but not milk which can be put Into his tea with safety. Life Is very public In India. Most of the bungalows have no Internal passages. All rooms open Into one another or upon the veranda, and If you want to know If anybody Is at home the simplest way Is to lift up the curtain and look in. Lastly, the luxury Is compatible with the denial of some things, without which we suppose that existence would stand still. You cannot say that the drains are good or that they are bad In an Indian house, for as a rule there are no drains. The sanitary arrangement Is precisely that which prevailed in England In the fifteenth century and lu Scotland In the eighteenth. And Hie "goreous East," with Us external glitter and Its Inward limitations, comes home to us again when we reflect that a man who perhaps rides abroad with a cavalry escort before a salaaming multitude lives at home under conditions which no English town council would permit If they were Inflicted on a day laborer in a common lodging house.

Securing the la-dgcr. Among recent introductions, tending to save time and labor Is a locking bar that can be placed in looseleaf ledgers which will keep the sheets always In a firm position. It tonslsts of two bars the length of the

ledger, these bars being separated and kept apart by means of small shouldered notches attached to each other. The notches on one bar overlay the notches directly opposite, one being movable In the other. Resting against the ends of the Inner notches are springs which contract the space between the two bars as much as the contents of the ledger will allow, tending to fill up all the vacant space remaining.

Where Christianity IP'gun The hills of Bethlehem are full of eaves—natural and artificial—and many of them have historic significance. There is the Milk Orotto, In which Joseph and Mary are said ta have concealed themselves before their flight Into Egypt to escape the evil designs of Herod. The snowy whiteness of the soft chalk out of which It Is hewn Is ascribed to the spilling of a few drops of the Virgin’s milk when she nursed the Infant Jesus. Another grotto Is pointed out as that In which St. Jerome, for moro than thirty years, led the life of a hermit, when bitter factional dissensions had forced him to leave Rome. On a western hill a rock-strewn plateau, around which stately terebinths stand guard, marks a place where the ancient Hebrews brought their sacrifices unto the J-ord. It Is a solemn place, well fitted to excite devout thoughts—a place where a man might well keep communion with his Maker. In Its broader features Bethlehem Is almost unchanged since the days c* David.

World's Biggest Forest. Few people who have not travelled about the Russian empire can Imagine how boundless Is lie wealth In timber. "Wooden Russia” Is the name applied to the vast forest areas of Russia In Europe, which cover nearly 5,000,000 acreo, or 26 per cent, of the entire area of the country. In Russia houses built of any other material than wood are almost unknown outside the cities, and wood constitutes the principal fuel. The forest belt called the ' "Taiga,” In Siberia, stretches In a direct line from the Urals to the Pacific for 4,000 miles, and In many parts 500 miles broad. All this la the property of the Czar.

Attention to Condition of F:3d Will Prevent Loss cf Cattle. If *he cattle s’e given a lew armfuls rf bay, fodder, or eyen straw, 1H>erally sprinkled with brine befor-s lurning into the clover in the morning, there will be little dunger of bleating on the wet clover. We have seen some bad cases of bloat result from clover wilted by winds tn tho alternoon, and these cases always aie more serious than when liioal Is caused by wet clover iu the morning We have given two ounce doses of hyposulphite of soda with good r>» suits, and if this Is not at hand, half a t'.acup of common baking soda may lie used Instead. In serious cases the use of the trocar and canula should not be delayed a moment, a point about midway Jietween the haunch bone and the first rib being the proper place for the puncture The operation Is attended with no danger, and, in the condition of the animal, but Utile or no pain, and it always brings immediate relief. Some animals a r s disposed to bloat more readily than others, and must carefully he watched, and always given some dry leed before being turned on clover.

A Convenient Piggery. Every farmer should provide for his swine protection from the hea: cf summer and fne cold 'if winter: a place where the young pigs can he fed by tiiemselves, and where the fattening cs well as breeding stock may re ceive proper treatment. A good pasture in summer and a sunny yard hi winter are the best places for pigs the greater part of the year, but during ceitain seasons some kind of a home is quite necessary for them This may be cheap or expensive, 10 suit the tastes and means of the owner. A very good piggery Is shown in the accompanying illustration. The building, a perspective view of which is seen in the figure is 20 feet wide and may be made as long as neces-

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sary to accommodate the number of swine to be kept Yet It is not advisable 10 keep too large a number in one house; when more than 70 or 75 are to be raised, it is better to timid additional houses. A width of 20 feet admits of a e.ntral alley-way four feet wide, and pens eignt feet wide on each side of It. Each sow siiou-d have two pens, six by eight feet high, with 14 door for each pen leading into an outside enclosure. 12 by 1C feet. The center posts an tight feet high. Over each pen and under the center roof are small windows to admit light and air. One or two of the pens may be used for sto 1 ’ mg corn and bran. From a neverlading well, situated on higher ground a short distance away, water is conveyed ;nto the house in pipt »—Farmers Voice

Hair of Farm AnimEls. Tbe hairy covering of our farm animals is hy no means a worthless thing. It not only protects from cold, heat and rain, but makes the appealance of the animal more agreeable. We often say that an amm. l Is of an ugly color, and yet It is more agree abio looking than It would be without hair. As an indication of the qualities of the animal, the hair is made of vaive to the breeder or feeder. Fine, Mlay hair, especially if it has a tendency to curl, is an indication that tnc animal will fatten easily, and that 1’s flesh will be fine-grained and of f-ood quality. Coarse, stiff hair Is Invariably found on an animal slow to fatti n and of coarse flesh Tills applits to caltle, hogs or sheep, and Irrespective of brerets The shrewd feeder, and also the shrewd breeder, will reject an animal with very coarse hair. Such hair usually accompanies a bad disposition A coarse-haired row generally gives poor milk; a flnehanert cow gives rich milk. But usually coarse haired sows aie more prolific while fine haired sows are (ho better sueklers Staring hair Indicates an inhealthy condition of the body, hut when cattle lick the hair—In the wrong direction—they are thrifty Br studying th* neruliarlrloi of the hair of our live slock, much of the interna*, structure and of the disposition of the animal* may he learned—Indiana Farmer.

Fattening Market Horses. It It very Important that horses tr tended for the city markets bo well fattened This can usually bo done by feeding a mixture of coarse fod .iers, com, oats and barn. By addini; a title steamed grain, with oil or (laxseed meal, once a week, the fattenIng process may be hurried along Horses ought to gain from three ,0 four pounds per day. If properly fed — American Agriculturist.

Have a Corxb Bucket Made. A comb bucket may be made al small cost by a competent tinsmith and Is something every bee keeper who has much honey to extract should have It should be provided with a cover, with handles securely riveted to the sides Galvanised Iron or extra heavy tin should bo used for this Unless heavy, tin Is hardly strong enough to carry the heavy weight of a number of well filled combs, therefore galvanised iron would probably be thd better material of which to make a comb bucket.

When a man should ma.-ry: A young man not yet, aud elder uusa a/A at all. —Thales,

Mrs.—Henry, I don't believe you conr.der me half as much as you used to. Mr.—Oh. yes I do; exactly the same, hut you know you've grown twice as large as you used to bo. OF A SORT.

If you’ll only *top At our little shop, Someday when passing by— 'You'll find it neat And the stock complete And the prices not too high We have gifts And favors for Xmas, For weddings and birthdays, too Come and see for yourself, On every shelf Something attractive for you Open each evening until 10 o’clock

The Porcelain Art Shop Phone 728 201 S. College Ave, CREENCASTLE, INDIANA

’’i' suppa-s his returns from the c lltors are large. Ob, yes; be Is very scrupulous about enc^jb 'taD.'T-

Fancy Potted Plants —Fresh Cut Flowers Fancy Christmas Holly at 25c a pound Holly Wreathes made at our Office cannot be excelled

Overtime. Tenderfoul When the clock strikes KI whnt time is it? Second Chi'is Scout—I really don’t know. What? Tenderfoot—Time for the clock to he fixed. — Bovs' Life.

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Christmas

Brunswick: Phonographs and Records

Plays All Records The Gift Supreme

You have been going to do it for several years. Don’t put it off again. If you do your family will lose 365 days of real musical pleasure before another Chr i s t m a s rolls around. You never exhaust the good things with a Brunswick because it— plays all records You probably will never buy another phonograph. Don’t he satisfied with anything less than a Brunswick You won’t be The best costs no more than the near-best so why not have the Brunswick and be entirely satisfied?

V/e are the home of the Baldwin Player Piano8»-Several Beautiful Models on the Floor. Most complete line of Player Rolls in the city. Come in and select your gifts for Xmas.

James L Hamilton East Washington St Greencastle, Indiana