Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — Noted American Educator. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Noted American Educator.

William Rainey Harper, president of (he Unlveraity of Chicago, who recently underwent a surgical operation, Is recuperating his strength at Lakewood, N, J. It was on tlie personal advice and solicitation of John D. Rockefeller that the educator sought the New Jersey resort, where he will receive X ray treatment ’or cancer. President Harper Is accompanied by Dr. Joseph F. Smith, an X ray specialist of the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago; Samuel Harper, his son, and Miss Cobb, his stenographer. He is able to walk and is fllst recovering the strength lost by the operation recently performed. It has just come to light that shortly after the operation Presi-

dent Harper Bad such a severe coughing fit that the stitches in the wound were torn out and had to be made over agajn. This delayed his recovery. While he is convalescing he will continue to direct the affairs of the university. - Dr. Harper Is a native of Ohio and In his forty-ninth year, in 1870 he was graduated from Muskingum college, since which time he has been connected with various institutions of learning. From 1879 to 1886 he was professor of Hebrew In the Baptist Union Theological seminary, Chicago, and from 1888 to 1891 was professor of Semitic languages and of Biblical literature at Yale. In the latter year he became president of the great University of Chicago, of which John D. Rockefeller Is a liberal patron. Hindoos and Cow*. The Hindoos, or natives of India, worship Idols of wood and stone. They also worship animals and plants. The cow Is considered the most sacred animal; still they worship the ox and the bull, the fish, tortoise and bear; also serpents, monkeys, demons and spirits. They believe that when a person dies the soul passes Into some animal* or plant and lives another life, continuing to do so until it has lived millions of lives. They think that perhaps some one of their ancestors may be living in the cow or some other animal. For that reason they are very kind to animals and dare not allow them to be killed. When the cows become old, or for that reason become helpless, they are sent" to the “asylum for animals” In Punjakole, India, where they are well kept for the rest of their lives. A good Brahman or Hindoo priest will feed his cow before he takes his own breakfast.

DR. WILLIAM R. HARPER.