Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 November 1912 — Page 7

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Diplomat's Wife Becomes WASHINGTON. Washington's diplomatic corps was thrown into a flurry of excitement when it was learned the other day that the wife of a former secretary here has joined :tbe ranks of newspaper reporters. Madame Louis Pastor, wife of Don iLuis Pastor, of the Spanish diplomatic service, and formerly Miss Lee, of Baltimore, is the lady in question, and she has joined the army of women in Washington who are wageearners. She has become society reporter for a New York daily. Diplomats at all posts take themselves very seriously, and the dignity that hedges about a foreign envoy is something little short of that which surrounds a sovereign. An ambassador at court precedes everyone but the heir to the throne, and though Senor Pastor was but a secretary of legation, his posi 'Cats of the Capital City COMMON sense has administered another knockout to science, and the cause of human justice and feline liberty to the nation's capital still lives. A threatened outrage on the whole cat tribe of Washington has been averted, temporarily at least, and all the tabbies of the town, from the pampered parlor pets to the midnight songsters who grace our back fences, may now breathe a purr of relief. The district authorities have capitulated before the onslaught of an over'wrought populace, and our city will be spared the frightful spectacle of cat hunts, with home and hound, in the crowded thoroughfares of the metropolitan section. This is the age of compromise, and authorities are to be congratulated upon having so readily adapted themselves to the spirit of the times, as they did in modifying their obnoxious impounding order. Hereafter the pound will send for stray cats "on request." Hordes of bloodthirsty huntsmen will not go out upon the highways and byways to slaughter the innocents. "On request!" On whose request? The cats? Does the modification of tbe edict of St. Bartholomew with the accent on the "mew" mean that no cats will be sent for the poundmen un-

Old Spanish Grandee Swindle in a New Guise

THE old, old confidence game, which was so overworked it became too well known to be effective, and was 'therefore sent into retirement, has u,come back" and is again in our midst. It is slightly disguised, however, probably in the hope that it will escape recognition. Instead of the persecuted wealthy Spanish grandee with the lovely and beautiful daughter, who wished a little limmediate assistance, for which later he was to give a fortune in repayment, under the new guise it is a noted Russian banker named Sadrowsky, who "eloped" from St. Petersburg Kvith 5,000,000 rubles belonging to the Ibank. He has a darling daughter, too, just Hike the Spaniard used to have, and he twishes to secure for her nearly half .a million dollars that he has "planted" "Pass Up" $14-a-Week iyOUNG women should pass up the I $14-a-week clerk and go for big;ger game whf T seeking husbands," ssaid Rev. Earl Wilfley in a sermon the other night at Vermont Avenue Christian church. "Love cannot exist with a slimly furnished pantry and a bare, ill-furnished house. Always look to ,a young man's income and his abiliities as a bread-winner before you marry him or fall deeply in love with him. ,It is impossible to live comfortably and congenially on love and hugs and !kisses. They won't satisfy hunger or a desire for the theater. "Romantic love is one of the ills of this age. Too many of our people are inclined to tumble head over heels In love with each other and absolutely ignore the financial and practical side of life. If more attention wero given the practical things I have no doubt jthat divorce would be cut to ono-half jlU present high ratio. "We should tako lessons from the old Greeks in this matter of marriage, tin those days a husband made a careful examination of his wifo'fl fitness to jt&ke care of his housohold. Thoro waa po mushy sentiment about it either.

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tion was looked upon by his confreres with the same respect that is accorded any other member of a foreign court. Senor Pastor began his diplomatic career in Washington under the Duke d'Arcos, who was then minister here, some 12 or 14 years ago, and who married Miss Lowery, a belle of Virginia, under romantic circumstances. Pastor remained here many years, when he was sent to another post, later coming back to Washington to resume his duties as second secretary. He was promoted to be first secretary, and while summering at Narragansett Pier, some five or six years ago, he met and wooed Miss Constance Casenove Lee of Baltimore. They were married, and after a visit to Spain for the presentation of the young bride to court and her meeting with the husband's relatives, they came to Washington and established themselves in Q street Madame Pastor was so attractive that society received her with open arms. The Pastors eventually went to another post, and the next heard of them In this country was that they were back in New York. She has just returned to Washington, and is alreaddy making good in her new calling. Are Saved by Science less they prefer a request? It is a delicate legal point and may not be settled until the supreme court has passed upon it. However, as a temporary makeshift it will do. It gets us past a crisis. It will enable hundreds of good citizens to start upon their vacations with easy consciences, feeling that in their absence their cats, will not be gobbley up by heartless minions of the law, armed with nets and. traps and milk and catnip, but will be permitted to shift for themselves in the back alleys in the good old fashioned way. Next fall the subject can be taken up with fresh zest and new interest. Perhaps by that time science will have again reversed itself, and will proclaim a new doctrine that cats are the greatest blessing that a city could enjoy. in America. He beseeches assistance in his effort to do this, and to the one rendering such assistance he will give $16S,000. He incloses what purports to be a clipping from an English paper, in which there is a detailed report of his arrest in London, of his absconding with the millions of rubles and being taken back to Spain, where he is held to await trial for shooting another Russian with whom he had quarreled. The clipping also carefully states that Sadrowsky's portmanteaus were seized and carefully searched, but nothing except personal effects was found, "although the Russian ambassador declares that the prisoner ought to have several million rubles somewhere." The clipping is inclosed with a letter promising $1S0,000 reward for assistance, with the following postscript: "First of all, answer by cable, not by letter, as follows: To Luis Duran, Peso 6, Valladolid, Spain. "Send news 12." The letter is written in copperplate penmanship. The envelope in which it came bore Spanish stamps and was postmarked Madrid. Clerk Is Pastor's Advice Little J MICHT DOLLY, 5WfTNfART CONSIDER rr if you FARM NO RE THArt $4 A PFACH WILL YOU AIARRY MF ? WEEK 1 1 It was a very practical piece of business. The young woman suited the husband. He in turn was carefully gone over by the young woman's parents. The two people being suitable for each other, they were married. "What was the result? The young people lived happily together. Their temperaments were about the same, and they learned to love each other. Hero in Washington and other cities of the east, where there are no many elopements, wo find that the divorce courts thrive. "I believe with Dr. Eliot that people should marry young. This prevents much immorality among both sexes. Old maldhood, however, Is better than an unhappy married lifo or being a divorce."

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HISTORY OF THE DAY

Thanksgivinq Feast Is Peculiar to United States. HANKSGTVTNG day, coming with the regularity of a movable feast, is peculiar to the United States. Other countries now and again, as in Great Britain upon the occasion of the jubilee of the late queen, have a day of thanksgiving, but here, by an unwritten law, almost by the general will of the people, and certainly by the power of custom, Thanksgiving day comes each year as regularly as Christmas. Although Thanksgiving day must be proclaimed by the president" or governor, and usually by both, and the time of year and the date itself are left to their judgment, so strong is the custom that the calendars for next year have denoted the day far ahead of any proclamation. On the last Thursday in November the figures are printed in red. The banks know it will be that day, although there is nothing but precedent to establish it; business men know it will be a day of thanksgiving and never stop to reason why. The schoolboy, the football enthusiast, the farmer, the poulterer, all know Thanksgiving day is the last Thursday in November. As a generally observed national holiday Thanksgiving day is only a little over 40 years old, yet its history is in a measure of much greater antiquity. Like many another custom, we owe this to those stern Puritans who "separated" and came to Massa chusetts bay to make a lasting impression upon the social life of the New World. The hictory of the first Thanksgiving day in the Massachu setts plantation has been variously given. In 1621, it is said, a day of thanksgiving was observed m acknowledgment of the Pilgrims' first harvest in America. Those were trying days for the colo nists. The winter was one of great severity and scarcity. The people, we are quaintly told, "were necessitated to live upon clams and mussels and j ground nuts ami acorns, and these got with much difficulty in the winter time. People were very much tired and discouraged, especially with the last batch of bread in the oven." Winthrop had early in the preceding July sent the ship Lion to England for a cargo of provisions, but after an interval of many months the ship was not forthcoming. On the 5th of February, 1631, while the governor was giving "the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by a wolf at the door, at that instant they espied a ship arrived at the harbor's mouth, laden with provisions for them all." A general fast day had been previously appointed, but the arrival of the Lion, bearing their sorely needed relief, changed their mourning into joy, and, as Winthrop records in his journal, a day of thanksgiving was held in "all the plantations." Fran3vlin has left an interesting account o)' the origin of Thanksgiving in America, which is not without his humorous touch, and which, like most of his similar writings, is perhaps not as veracious as it might have been. "There is a tradition," he wrote, "that in the plantations of New England the first settlers met with many difficulties and hardships, as is generally the case when a civilized people attempt establishing themselves in a wilderness country. "Being piously disposed, they sought relief from heaven by laying ther wants and distresses before the Lorfl in frequent set days of fasting anl prayer. Constant meditation and discourse on these subjects kept their minds gloomy and discontented; and, like the children of Israel, there were many disposed to return to that Egypt which persecution had induced them to abandon. "At length, when it was proposed hi the assembly to proclaim another fast, a farmer of plain sense rose and remarked that the inconveniences they suffered, and concerning which they had so often wearied heaven with their complaints, were not so great as they might have expected, and were diminishing every day as the colony strengthened; that "the earth began to reward their labor and to furnish liberally for their substance; that seas and rivers were found full of fish, the air sweet, the climate healthy and, above all, that they were there in the full enjoyment of liberty, civil and religious; he therefore thought that reflecting: and conversing on these subjects would be more comfortable, as tending more to maks them contented with their situation and that it would be more becoming the gratitude they owed the Divine Being if, instead of fast, they should proclaim a thanksgiving. "His advice was taken, and .from that day to this they have in every year observed circumstances of fe licity sufficient to furnish employ ment for a thanksgiving day, which is therefore constantly ordered and rc ligiously observed." As we now have it, the festival dates from 1S64, when President Lin coln issued a proclamation for setting apart the last Thursday in November of that year as a day of national thanksgiving. In his proclamation Lincoln saiö: "It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with his guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in his mercy many and signal victories over the enemy who is in our own household."

TURKEY LEADS WORLD

Is Most Highly Prized as Table Delicacy. By JOHN L. COWAN. F the new world's contributions to the food resources of civilized man, potatoes rank first in importance, and corn second; but as a table delicacy thfi turkey is most highly prized. It has been carried around the world, and everywhere it has been welcomed as an important ad dition to the short list of domesticat ed fowls. The turkey was introduced into Spain in 1520, and into England in 1524, and soon was reared as a barnyard fowl in both countries. Not for nearly half a century was it taken to Prance. So far as can be learned, the first turkey ever seen in that country was shipped in 1570 from Boston, then a little settlement in the almost unknown American wilderness, for the delectation of the guests at the wedding feast of King Charles IX and Elizabeth of Austria. Civilized man prizes the turkey solely as a table delicacy; but strangely enough, the American Indians esteemed it more for the sake of its feathers than for its flesh. When the bow and iarrow constituted the most important weapon of war and of the chase, feathers were of the greatest utility to the tribespeople, being attached to the shafts of their arrows to give them buoyancy, and to cause them to carry straight. For this purpose, most of the tribes employed the feathers of eagles, some those of turkeys, and some these of both birds. The Cheyennes, whose hunting grounds comprised most of the present state of Wyoming, are said to have used turkey feathers exclusively for their arrows, and were known to the neighboring tribes by a name that signified '"striped arrows," in reference to this preference. The Apaches, also, used turkey feathers for arrow making, as did the Navajos. Sioux, Arapahoes and many other tribes, al though no others employed them so exclusively as did the Cheyennes and Apaches. Bevond doubt the most striking: and ntfmotiva Ti cm rfriro Pvpr wnm hv anv aboriginal neonle was the war V U V V W A 4-A. V V A S W V V J I bonnet of the western Indians. It was composed of the tail feathers of turkeys or eagles (depending upon the practice of the tribe). It was fashioned to encircle the crown of the wearer's head and extend down his back to the ground. The war bonnet was worn only by chiefs, and every feather was supposed to represent a separate deed of valor. In the ceremonial dances, strange and grotesque masks are worn by the participants, some of whom personate ' the nature cods, while others take the role of the clan ancients. Many of these masks are elaborately decorated with feathers of turkeys, eagles, owls, hawks and other birds. In the decoration of the altars erected on ceremonial occasions for the worship of the nature-gods, feathers are conspicuous. But perhaps the most common use of feathers is in the making of nraver sticks, which are planted at springst, bv the banks of running streams, near the shrines of the gods, in the fields where crops are growing, or where seed has been planted, and i r.nnrc -itiJ nraT,rioo' amnncr Ti o X XX llUUiig U11U VX Ar ill w J Ulli tllV rocks. The prayer sticks are made by the priests and given to the people. Analogous to the use of feathers in 1, n,n1riff ? -ro,röt cfinVc on4 olfor dpnorfltinns is thoir emnlnvment for thft Tnnkin nf fetishes used bv the vnrmnc conrnf nrrc nr froforniHoa These fetishes, of course, possess magical virtues, understood only by the initiated. Among the Zuni is a fraternity known as the "Hlewekwe," or sword swallowers. The "sword" is a long, wooden implement, which in the course of the ceremonial dance of the order is thrust far down into the throat of the performer and then withdrawn. To the upper end of the "sword" is attached a large bunch of he tail feathers of the turkey, to which, of course, the ceremony owes much of its supposed magical power. This dance of the sword swallowers is important for the reason that it is supposed to bring the snows of win ter. which melt and sink into the ground, thus preparing the soil for the reception of the seeds at planting time in the spring. Feathers of many birds, and particu larly of the turkey, are used in the sports and games of the Indians. The game of "PokiannI," a favorite among the Zuni, is played with shuttlecocks made of corn husks and turkey feathers. Fetishes are made by the priests for foot racers, consisting mainly of feathers from the legs of turkeys, which are supposed to give fleetness of foot to the runners. Teaching Is Plain. Thanksgiving day is no mere civil ordinance it is a religious festival. It should be so regarded. Certainly Its teaching is plain enough. All that we have of good liberty, political equality, self-government, religious freedom, national and individual prosperity is held in trust. We can show our thankfulness for these great blessings only by using them for ths glory of God and the good of human

HIDDEN CHURCHES OF BER0EA

EdlflcM Were Refuges for Macedonian Christiana From Turkish Persecution. Beroea. By far the most interesting sight to the modern traveler in Macedonia, says the Christian Herald, is that of the "hidden churches" of Beroea. I have consulted many volumes of commentaries and descriptivewritings, the scanty guide books of Macedonia and all other available sources of information and find no remotest allusion to this most interesting feature of Beroea. Even the missionaries and Greek Christians of Salonica, 40 miles away, so far as I could learn, had never heard of them. There are no less Typical Greek Street. than 72 of these hidden churches which were tucked away, in all sorts of obscure ana undreamed or corners, when, some hundreds of years ago, the ureeKs were in aeacuy iear OL Turkish persecution. No outward sign gave a hint tnat a church was anywhere in the vicinity, but our guide led us through crooked, narrow streets with overhanging balconies whose upper stories almost touched each other; then would enter a courtyard where a family or per haps a dozen families lived and where the housemothers were cooking the noonday meal or doing the weekly washing. Out of this courtyard anI 1 11 i other door would open into a sun narrower yard, and there at the end perhaps we would see a door with a rude cross marked in charcoal or in chalk upon it One of the inhabitants of this inner courtyard would be found to nave tne key of the door and, opening it, would usher us into a tiny church, perhaps .not more than ten feet square, but in it we would always see one or more icons or pictures of Christ and the saints, covered with tinsel or gold foil except for their hands and faces. There would also be a row of candle spikes on which to impale tne tapers so freely used in Greek worship, an I altar, and 2L IlOlV OI hOlieS DeillllCl a 1 J w painted curtain. Some of these churches were much larSer than such a one as I have deSCriUÖU ÜUU UU Iii IUI L11C1 QlliO was often a way of egress, sometimes an underground passage, so that if the Persecuting Turks Should Catch the VVUIÜU1cia c-w mht escape massacre o nignt. ARRESTED FOR DOG'S TRICKS Railway Station Blocked by Impromptu Circus Performance at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pa. Because his trained dog performed tricks In Broad street station and caused a crowd to collect, Arthur Randall.of 1918 Rittenhonse street, was arrested and arraigned before Magistrate Track, sitting In the Twentieth district police station. He was discharged after be ing reprimanded. Randall went into the station with his pet water spaniel on a leash. When his pet began to display the more than ordinary acquirements of the dog Special Policeman Horn demanded that the exhibition cease, and it was upon this ultimatum that the policeman and the owner of the dog took Issue. A lively argument followed, which resulted In the arrest of Randall. CROSS-FIRE BALL HITS MARK Negro'3 Head Needs Doctor's Aid at the Firemen's Carnival Baseball Player Is Good Marksman. Newark, Del. Thomas Truxlon, colored, the principal actor in the amusement of throwing baseballs at a negro's head at the firemen's carnival, caused that part of the carnival to suspend operations when he failed to pull his padded head tnrough the canvas in time. A cross-fire delivery from a Newark basebaH player landod on Truxton'a mouth and the negro had to be taken to the office of Dr. H. O. K Kollock for rtpalri.

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HOOSIER NEWS

BRIEFLY TOLD Indianapolis. Rev. Albert Detch, a retired Methodist minister, who has for a long time advertised! his marriage parlors in this city ancL sought business as a marrying minister, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Minnie Losh. He is charged with performing an illegal marriage. The charge is that he married the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Losh to Ocel Bratton, twenty-two years old. The girl was a' school girl in the seventh grade at the time. Detch was a minister for a' number of years at Lafayette and' other places, and has been state chap-' lain for several lodges. He withdrew from the ministry a few years ago. Methodist church officials are making an investigation with a view to starting church proceedings against him. Indianapolis. Miss Luetia McFad den, sixteen years old, a telephone operator, living at 1302 East St. Clair street, was rescued by neighbors from an unidentified assailant. Miss McFadden was on her way home from work and left a car at Massachusetts avenue and St. Clair street. A man followed her on the other side of the street and, just as she was at her home, crossed the street and attempted to choke her. The girl's screams attracted neighbors, who frightened the assailant away. Bicyclemen Englebright and Brady made an investigation, but could find no trace of the man. Laporte. Hundreds of people attended the funeral services of Prof. Elmer G. Bunnell, formerly assistant state superintendent of publio instruction, at the First Christian church. Rev.W. H. Baker officiated, assisted by Rev. E. S. Smith of Union Mills. Pallbearers were Superintendent F. R. Farnum of Laporte county. Superintendent Arthur Deamer of Laporte city schools. Superintendent Aaron Kline of the Wanatah schools, Principal J. W. Rittinger of the Laporte high SCllOOl, B. W. Dunn Ol Indianapolis and Deputy State Superintendent John Hoffman. The body was taken to Hanna for burial. South Bend. Leveme E. Crall, messenger for the National Express company, is under arrest on a charge of forgery and also stealing $250 worth of gold consigned to a local dentist. It is alleged that, after stealing the gold, Crail forged the name of Dr. R. F. Lucas to the delivery book to cover the theft. It is anticipated that the defense of Crail will be that he lost the package and then signed the name of Lucas to the book to cover his carelessness. Columbus. The Bartholomew coun ty council appropriated $100 fcr dental work on the teeth of the children in the local orphans' home. The local dental association recently made an examination and found that eighteen of the twenty children in the home have defective teeth. Members of the dental association have agreed to do the work at half price. Richmond. Thirty-five hundred men employed in the Standard Steel Car plant here were thrown out of work by a fire in the power house of the plant. The Are was caused by crossed wires and entailed a damage estimated at $200,000. As soon as the company is able to get electric current from another source, which vill take several days, work will be resumed. Gosport. The bodies of Mrs. Emma White and daughter Delia, who committed suicide in Indianapolis, were buried in one grave here after funeral services at the Methodist church. Epworth League girls were pallbearers, and pupils of the high school attended in a body. Dell White was a high school student and an active member of the league. Lafayette. William Burns, fortyseven years old, of Cleveland, O., Is dying at St. Elizabeth's hospital as the result of falling from a car off a Wabash freight train, while he was sleeping. He was found lying unconscious In the yards here with his skull crushed and suffering from internal injuries. He boarded the train at Danville. 111. Crawfordsville. Engineer Edward Briggs of. Logansport was severely injured In a head-on collision between freight trains on the Vandalia roud north of this city. Sereral freight cars were demolished. The cause of the accident is said to have been carelessness of an operator in delivering orders. Gary. Ethel Smith, the girl for whom Billy Rugh, newsboy, gave up his life, was reported to be improving at the hospital, where she is ill with pneumonia, Laporte. That loan sharks are to be severely dealt with by local officials wa3 brought out In council meeting when the matter was discussed fully and several cases which wore pitiable were brought out An ordinance will bo drawn up at the next meeting which will prevent any excs.pt entirely responsible parties from operating loan shops in the city. Tacts brought out show that already tha loan sharks have fastened on many worktng mn of ths city. It hai not corat yet to the point whtrt any ob ba dtprlv! U furniture