Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 December 1920 — Page 4

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Seor.-t Societies. Vfilat Is the moral effect of Free Masot.ry. Odd Fellowship, Knights of Labor and the numerous secret societies upon the home? Solomon, the wise man, suid: "Clarover not u secret to anotherand he had good reason for laying such an Injunction, for In his time, as at the present, there were people too much disposed to tell all they knew. One-haif the trouble In every commun’ty, comes from the fact that so many people have not the capacity to keep their mouths shut. Wo have two ears but only one tongue, which Is suggestive of the fact that we should hear more than we tell. By the power of a secret divulged, families, churches, ne'^ hborhoods and even nations fly apart. By the power of a secret kept, great charities, reformatory movements and Christian enterprises may be advanced. It Is an often discussed question w-hether assoclatlonsthat do not have their work with closed doors, cud admit their members with passwords, and greet each other with a secret grip are right ot wrong. Our answer is that It depends entirely upon the object for which they meet. If It is to pass the hours In revelry and obscene talk, or to plot trouble to the state, then we say with emphasis that It is wrong. But where the object Is the Improvement of themlnd. the enlargement of the heart, the defense of the government, then we say with Just as much emphasis that th*y are a blessing. There Is no need that those who plan for right over wrong should publish to the world their Intentions. Secrecy of plot and execution are wrong only when the object and ends are nefarious. Every family Is a secret society, every business firm and every banking Institution. Then men who have no capacity for keeping a secret are unfit fer positions of trust anywhere. Secret societies have done Incalculable good. Some of tho secret societies have poured a very heaven of sunshine and benediction Into the home of suuering. Some of them are loundec In fidelity to good citizenship and the Bible. Christ has given us a rule by which we may Judge, not only all Indlvidrals but all r«cr«'t aocletlM, “By their fruits • shall know them." Bat societies make bad men. Good societies make good men. A ha- man will not stay in a good society and a good man will not stay In a bad society. Test these societies by two or three rules. Their Influence on home. That wife soon loses her Influence over her husband who looks upon all evening absence as an assault on domesticity. That wife who becomes Jealous of her husbands nttention to art, or literature, or religion, or charity is breaking her own sceptre of conjugal power. But let ro man sacrifice home life to secret society life, as some do. Some men are as genial as angels at the society’ room and as ugly as sin at home.

i’ush. If there was more push in the world there would be fewer hungry, half-clothed. homeless, suffering children; fewer broken-down dissipated men and women; less need of alms-houses, houses of correction and homes tor the friendless. Push means a lift for a neighbor *i trouble. Push means a iift for yourself out of the slough of despondency and shlftlessness, out of trouble real and fancied. Push never hurts anybody. The harder the push the better, If It Is given in the right direction. Always push up hill, few people need a push nown hill. Don't be af-atd of your muscles and sinews; they were given you to use. Don't be afraid of your hands; they were meant for service. Don't be afraid of what your companion may say. Don’t be afraid of your conscience; tt will never reproach you for a good deed —but push with all your heart, might and soul, whenever you see anything or anybody that will be better for a good long, strong, determined push. Push! it is Just the word for the grand, clear morning of life; It Is Just tho word for strong arms and young hearts; It Is Just the word for the world that is full of work as this la If anybody Is In trouble and you see It, don't stand hack, push! If there Is anything good being done In any place where you happen to be! push!

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The Leceh a Weather Prophet. A leech confined In a vial of water will prove an excellent weather proptel. If the wea-her Is to continue fine the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the vial and rolled together In a spiral form. If It Is to rain the leech will be seen to have crept up to the top of Its lodging, and there It remains until the weather is clear. If we are to have wind the poor creature gallops through his limpid habitation with amazing swiftness, and seldom rests until It begins to blow bard.—The Scotsman.

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KEEP— RIGHT ON.

Wazxy—Your hair will soon be gray If Its keeps on. Wavvey—Well, If It keeps on I don't mind.

A TAME REHEARSAL.

Some husbands have their own way by talking about the things they want U do.

!'iiiK \\m\r, miss SHUliTI.MFR

■Willie Reade—But how could they get ships into a land-locked sea, Cncle Henry? L’ncle Henry—Well, perhaps there were some adjacent keys. £ NO TIME FOR TROTTOLE. ST

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“Have you had much trouble with tires?” “No, I’ve never had a set that lasted long enough to give much trouble.”

Friend—Did he like your work? Artlsl—I don’t know. He said I ought to send It to the comle papers

“An’ ray grandma, we have drllD ■t school, too. only they ain’t a really fire 'cause nobody jumps and hollers, or rune.’*

Really Gilford was not at all to Mime for It. Anybody might have made the same ml -take Gifford was short and fat and new to the big woods. Ho had been :n camp a week and had spent most of the time lying In a hammock and reading a novel while the oilier men tramped ihe trails or rowed eight or ten miles through Kaele Greek to Virgin or l.ake Julia Everybody r. 1 that Gifford was too fat ar.d Lzy ever to make a woodsman. Hut that was before Miss ShurllrlT and her mother came to the camp. They nad a log cabin next to tho big eouk shack and it was announced that Mr. Sburtleff would come up to join them later. The young woman was tall and athletic looking, full of life, and eager to see and to do all there was to he seen or done within twenty miles of Big Lake. Perhaps it was Intentional—at any rate Gifford got mixed up on the introductions. But that was nothing against him Anybody might easily have made the same mistake. Gifford fell desperately in love with the younger of the two women at iirst sight. And ihe new love transformed him. He became all at once the most enthusiastic oarsman and'woodtramper in the party. It made a hero of him. What would have terrified him before he now gladly undertook. One evening when everybody In camp was sitting out under the birch trees watching the sunset a curious animal as large as a small dog ran shambling down in front of the shack and tried to hide under a pile of logs. Gifford and Gifford's Irish terrier, both entirely new to the woods, wore up and after it In a minute. “O, what in the world is it?” cried Miss Shurtleff. "Do you suppose it is dangerous?" Gifiord would show her he knew not tha meaning of fear lie ran directly towards the beast, which, badly frightened as it was, made hut poor progress over the sand Gifford's dog was even before him. It attacked the uuimal with open month Hut It made but one bite and then began to roll over and over, yelping with agony "Look out," ailed one of the guides "Its a porky hog Better not touch it." But with Miss Sburtleff looking on Gifford would have tarkled a raging lion, lie raised a club ho had picked up from the ground In his right hand, and with the other grasped tho beast by the back Rut. like the dog. he did not keep his hold. His hand felt ns If it were full of red hot needles, and • from his heroic lips came a groan of pale But even that was Wurth while, for his sufferings called such expressions of 'ender sympathy from the red lips of his divinity that Gifford would gladly have embraced another porcupine, Tommy, the guide, pulled barbed quills out of Gifford, who bore ihe pain like a Spartan, and then performeil a similar operation on the dog, which for Hie remainder of its stay in the woods absolutely refused to go within reaching dlstam-e of anything that had life Doubtless Gifford would have discovered Ins mistake earler If the two women had not persisted in always remaining together to keep him in Ignorance of his mistake, though no one believes that either Miss or Mrs. .Sburtleff was a party to It. And tho fact that the two women called each other by their first names—Anne and Julia—prevented his making the discovery in that way. With his left hand done up In a bandage to soothe the pain of the porcupine quills Gifford became more than ever the slave of the young woman. She, ou her part, was kind enough to him. though she seemed anxious that fie should pay attention to the older lady rather than lo her. And Gifford obeyed her commands and waited on the ancient person assiduously. Once the old lady announced that she would like to drink some milk, fresh and warm from the milk Ing, and Gifford, at a look from Miss Schurtleff. volunteered to get up every morning at 4 o'clock, when Tommy milked, and get the milk for her. That was heroic, for Gifford liked better than most meo to lie abed late iu the morning Every day, when he could persuade them to go. Gifford took the two women out rowing or fishing or exploring. Before they came to camp he had been lo lazy to go out ou the water unlest Tommy pushed the loot, but now he was always ready to row a boat containing Imtli Miss Shurtleff and her mother any number of weary miles, while Tommy, with a smile hidden under his brown mustache, came skimming along behind, with nothing but the lunch basket in hln skiff When you consider that Gifford's arras wets short and thick, tho his wind was bad and bis hands tender, and that ho had never done any row. ing before -naf summer, you may begin to realize the power of love. Big blond blisters came on the palms of Gifford’s pudgy hands and he suffered almost continually from pains in his back and legs, but not for a moment did he ever think of giving up the battle. Miss Sburtleff expressed an admiration for water lilies; Gifford waded out In ten Inches of water arvd two lent of mud to get them, greatly to the damage of his footgear and trousers. Miss Sburtleff casually remarked that the great hairy woodpecker must be a curious-looking bird: Gifford, fat and round, climbed a forty foot pine stump and took a young bird out of Ua neat to show her. Iu-

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