Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 1A, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 March 1921 — Page 4

NEWS NOTES

~ Stuart Carney will leave in a few days for Chicago. :

Mrs. J. C. Brunk visited her mother in Middlebury yesterday.

The LaGrange “All Stars” failed to show up Friday evening and the local team had to content itself by beating a Topeka team 16 to 14. ;

Mr. and Mrs. €. R. Leas of Goshen were Sunday visitors at the home of M. A. Cotherman. .

Wil Sisterhen, who has been suffering with a severe cold the past weck and was threatened with pneumoniu is out of danger. :

Funeral services for Mrs. Allen Myers Burgess- of Wolcottville who died at Waukegon, Tll. last Tuesday were held at the Wolcottville Baptist church Friday. - ’

Mary Weyer, ward of O. W. Christie was Sunday evening brought -home from the hospital at Elkhart where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. - -

Among those who attended the bas ket ball meet at Fort Wayne were Alfred Ackerman, Clifford Milre; Adrain Biddle, Leonard Selig, Misso Rose Selig and Catherine Baum.

WHOLE BLOCK OF ‘DEAD ONES’

Brewery Cemetery in. Milwaukee ‘Where Great and Small Alike Are - Lying Side by Side.

Hush and tread softly, for the dead sleep here, a writer In the Milwaukee Sentinel admonishes, - ~Rows upon rows of them, plles upon plles of them, scorched by the summer sun, drenched by the rains of months, The bleak night winds sigh and rattle their bones and the thoughtless city drinks its near beer and soda water and forgets its companions of days gone by, who lle neglected In the great sepulcher, - Mighty and humble, they lle there together, sharing the same fate, the same oblivion. The gix per center, killed with dozens of his brethren, at some gorgeous revel of the idle rich; the stmple pint who died in slow agony on the supper table of a lowly cottage, even the great-hearted barrel that whilom dispensed “cheer” at a ﬁd a throw, they are there side by - In silent grandeur In the brewery yards at Tenth and Prairie streets, they raise thelr heads to heaven, forming & mighty monument to the drinks of yesterday. ‘ Impressed by the sad sight, I turned in the other day to this “cemetery,” and approached the sexton, who was sadly watering some fresh corpses, and engaged him In conversation. Our volces were accompanied by the steady drone of the barrels to be piled atop of the others, and the ghastly rattle of glass “dead ones” belng carted away to the vaults beneath. “Yes,” sald the good old man, wiping & tear from his furrowed brow, *they were all gay and happy once. “They would spend the winters here, to be overhauled and go out again In the world in the summer, freshly loaded. There are some, you know, the best ones, that are saved to pack the pear beer, but that's only a few in comparison with what we used to turn out. A good many of these barrels are being sold for soft drink factories and cooperage, but most of these are ‘:ﬂ stored here, I don't know what's be dome with 'em; they may be thrown away.” ; . According to H. J. Stark, secretary, hundreds of thousands of dollars are represented in the surplus barrels, boxes and bottles left over from antiprohibition days. The lot where they are stored occuples an entire square,

| Japanese Studying English. Qlasses In business ethics, business BEnglish and other commercial subJects, recently started by the Y. W. * Q. A. In Tokyo, are crowded with applicants, according to word received from the Japanese assoclation. Girls who before this have been in industry, are entering business in large ‘numbers, but with almost no knowl.edge of the conventions usually ob“merved In the business world and with little experience in business subjects, Business girls, teachers, nurses, fac tory workers, students and young mar_rled women make up the membership of the Y. W. C. A. In Tokyo, which was ~ started fifteen years ago. There are . four other city assoclations and thirty student associations in Japan.

? Reafism of the Movies. ' Dorothy was at a moving picture theater with her nurse. There was : on the screen a train rapid- ‘ gmmx a spot in the fore- - ground where a man sat on the track ~ umaware of the oncoming danger. To _ the child the situation was a real one, __ and In excited whispers she entreated - her nurse: ; _ *Please have him get off the track! Please have him get off!” * As the train drew neareér the spot " where the man sat, the child, unable < to restrain the warning which she felt Was necessary, rose in her seat and - shouted at the top of her volce: - ¢ . “Man, get off!"” . :

Double Rations.

" The time had come to dole out the 5&7‘.!1&00!. and in an Irish regiment -the quartermaster and his assistant . Were portioning them out in preparation for istribution. N ; - At last, Just before the orderly men ~ were ‘due to arrive, the assistant - turned to the quarter. With a twinkle ﬁhlﬁ eye, Mike sald: ‘ g"" yo plaze, sorr, there's a loaf _ghort. Who'lLl give it to?” ) - “Keep it yourself, Mike,” replied the

WATER “CURES” OLD BELIEF

in Both Ancient and Modern Days Fountains Have Been Considered - Pools of Healing.

- When you drink mineral water do you do it because yßu belleve in fts curative properties or because you are superstitious? Or both? : tributed to the waters of pools and streama by nearly all peoples of all times. Among the modern Greeks today we find the remnants of the old belief that the water from the Grotte of Macedonla would cure all those who drank If they entered the cave with a lamp or torch in one hand and a pitcher in the other, filled the plitcher and left some scrap of clothing behind, going silently and not turning back from “being scared by the nolses that ensued.” And not only in Greece, but in England, there are many spots where the bushes around a certain pool will be bung thick with shreds of clothing left by those who came to be cured. , - » According to modern Greeks the mineral saprings are under the protection of the Nerelds, and the virtue of the water depends upon It being drunk In silence and with appropriate sacrlfice. Old Church of Eogland eanons dating back to 1102 forbid the worship of wells without the bishop's permission, attributing the ‘custem to heathenishness and a survival of the worship of the fountaln as a symbol of the source of life. It was pointed out then that the naming of wells was as old as the days of the Patriarchs; that Abraham and” Isanc dre both spoken of in the Bible as having done 80, but that worshipping them was a different matter, e

DESIRED TO TAKE THE VEIL

Oldest Daughter of Thomas Jeferson ‘Attracted by Quiet Life Within - Convent Walls, e

Martha Jefferson, oldest daughter of Thones Jefferson, third President of the United States, came near to be Ing a catholic sister, She was a student at the school of Abbaye de Pan/ th€mont ‘at the time the French Revolution was In progress. The daring and flippant Infidelity of the French frightened and disgusted hét, and she clung to the calm and serene life of the convent with all her strength. Her mother had taught her In the ways of the Church of England, but the surroundings at the, school overreached’ this, and she decided to become a nun. . .

She wrote to her father asking his permission to edopt the vell. No answer came for several days, and then Jefferson appeared In person. He greeted the girl with a tender smile, Interviewed the abbess, and then came out and told the girl to pack her things. Her school Ilife was ended at that moment, and the next day she was Introduced to soclety and made the mistress of her father's household. She declared years afterward that neither she nor her father bad ever alluded to the subJect by a single word from that day on.

Historic Stratford-on-Avon.

The history of Stratford-on-Avon may be traced back for a period of 1,100 years, and as the birthplace of Shakespeare is has become a classic center visited annually by some 50,000 people. The Guard house, where Shakespeare was born; Shottery, where he courted Anne Hathaway; Charlotte park, once the seat of Sir Thomas Imey, whose - displeasure Shakespeare Incurred by stealing his deer; the Shakespeare Memorial theater, on the banks of the Avon, and Shakespeare's monument, are all places worthy of visitihg in the old market town of Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare hotel, situated in the center of the town and close to the Shakespeare . Memorial theater, was erected in the Fourteenth century. A few doors from Shakespeare hotel is the ‘Harvard House, which was the early home of ‘the Harvard family, founders of Harvard universty s T

How to Know Poetry.

We literates have been taught -to read poetry, and taught also that it Is highly commendable to enjoy it. In order to know what kind of poetry ought to be especially enjoyed, we read other books, written by critics. In order to understand what the poetry that ought to.be admired means, we read other books by professidhal grammarians. By ¢he time we have finished this preparatory reading, we are somewhat confused. We are in doubt as to what poetry actually is, and how it differs from prose. Ip this predicament we fall back on the printer. If every line begins with a capital letter, we assume that it is poetry.—Samuel! McChord Crothers in the Atlantic Monthly. =

india’s Fertility.

India, more than half the size of Europ&=has every variety of surface, climate and production. The contrast between the level monotony of the Great plain and the beautiful contours of the Milgiri and Pulney hills {8 no greater than that between the ~arid heat of Jacobabad and the polar frigidity of the Himalayas; or that between the palm groves of Cochin and the wheat fields of Lyallpur. The productivity of .India extends over three zones: the tropical, sub-tropical, and - temperate ; though on accountpf_ vary-. ing elevations these do not always comply with mere considerations of ilntltude.» : o TR ' Ligonier Democrats will meet in the city building this evening to complete the selection of city cashlidates for ‘the May primary. ; S A, M. Cleland ot St. Paul, Minn,, Genammr agent of the Nor-

LAID BIBLE SCENES IN CHINA

Native Artist Had No Conception of Any Other Land Outside of His Own.

. In north Fukien province there dwelt an artist who painted plctures on silk for the gentry of his iittle village. The people In this secluded hamiet pestied amid the hills, hud never seen automoblles or airplanes, nor did they take the long journey to Shanghal to watch the great steamers come In laden with merchandise and messages from the ports of the world. But they knew the words of Comfucius and Lao-tse and they lived and died with simple dignity as thelr fathers bad done before them. One evenlng the artist, who had been working all day ob a me morial portralt, -strolled out into the dark, cool street to refresh his tired soul, writes Elsle F. Well in Asia Magazine. The tiny white church of the forelgn god beyond thé tea shop was brilliantly lighted. The artist stood a moment in the open door. The young missionary was talking most eéloguently; he was not preaching, but he seemed to be telling stories that were as fascinating as those recited in the ‘bazaars. Almost In spite of himself the artist sank unobtrusively Into an empty seat. For the first time he heard some of the beautiful old stories of the Bible, which have held the people of the West enthralled for 2,000 years. And the artist returned to his home and made pictures of the story of Noah and the flood, and of the parables of the lost sheep and of the prod--Igal son and of many others that were in the book Gf the weatern missionary. ‘But he h.d never heard of the Palestine. To him Noah was Chineése, and the lost sheep belonged to a farmer of bis province and the prodigal son might well have been a dissolute youth of his own village, .

TWO IDEAS OF CIVWL LIBERTY

Difference Between Governments of - Greece and Rome and Those of the Gothic Tribes.

~ There was thig radical difference between the governments of Greece and Rome and those of the Gothie tribes. In the former the state was everything, the individual nothing; the - state was thought to bhave a perfect right to the property, liberty, and even life, of its citizens. In the latter the indlvidual was everything and the state comparatively -nothing; all rights were thought to exist, to inhere by naturc In the Individual; and the ~state could demand nothing from him for public use without giving him an equivalent. Here we find the fundamental principle of civil liberty; that principle which has been so carefully - guarded In the English and in all the Anglo-American _constitutions, and - which was se happily and tersely ex~pressed by Jefferson In the Declaration .of Independence. Our rude Saxon ancestors, though under a kingly government, had more real liberty, and a more just appreciation of the true dignity of man, than had the polished citizens ot/the republics of the Mediter%anean. " The legislative authority was vested in the witenage-mote, or assembly of wise men.—Dexter A. Hawkins.

Remorseful Ghost,

A pathetic story is told of the ghost of Bisham abbey. It is sald that the wife of Sir Thomas Hobby was unnaturally severe with her son, who, it seems, had a peculiar aversion to writ. ing, and In his obstinacy would wilfully blot his copybooks. One day his mother, enraged at hif' perverseness, Jost her self-control and beat the poor boy so unmercifully that he dled from his Injuries. Since then one of the bedrooms in the abbey has been haunted by the specter of the cruel woman, who glides through the chamber in the act of washing the bloodstains from her hands, e ' It is stated that some years ago, when an old window shutter of the sixteenth century was removed, “a packet of antique copybooks of that period was discovered pushed into the wall between the joists of the skirting, and several of these books, on which young Hobby’s name was written, were covered with blots.” : W

Movie Theaters In Rio.

It Ils at the cinema themters that the QOariocas (citizens of Rio de Janeirg) know real comfort; for, umke our moving-picture houses, those In Rio have spacious waitingrooms, where you sit, listening to excellent music, until the hour for the first reel comes round. The pioneer house of the kind Inaugurated this custom, and now the people refuse to stand outside -waiting for the even hour to arrive or fp enter after the film has started. . With so much profitable space taken from the auditorium, the movies in Rio Janeiro are not as great money-makerg as with us. The American favorites are popular, quite outclassing Italian and Brazilian film stars.—Harriet W&Nu—tional Geographic , \

Inspect Moths by Machine,

An elaborate machine called the choseiki is used by the Japanese in the inspection of silkworms for disease. The machine in the inspection house of Nagano prefecture requires - 2000 migroscopes and a large corps of Mothis are made to lay their eggs each on dne square of sheets of cardboard bearing 28 numbered squares. They then are killed, their bodies pul.verized and exam'ned. If the bacilll are found, the square “Containing the eges laid by the diseased moths is cut out qgnd burned.—Japan Advertiser. { "'he highest level area in Indiana is in the southern part of Rand. vh counPR S e " Mrs. Ollie Simmons spent Sq,‘vmy, with friends in New Paris. . | Lamar Hussy made his weekly pilgrimage to Albion Saturday. - i TVN ST SAR T S SRR T GU R eAT R B G R TER ORI

POINTS OUT HUSBAND'S DUTY

Writer Insists No Man May Stand In the Light of His Wife's Domes ~ tic Ambitions. .

" "Puzzled husband™ writes us that be is sorely tried by his wite's amb)tion to bake the family bread, and other things. His domestic sffection snd_spirit of chivalry will oot permit him o tell hi¥ wife the truth—that the bread i= almost as heavy as a paving stone and quite as Indigestible. So he goes to work every morning with & heavy heart and an even heavier stomach and is bedeviled with gripes and abdominal palns all day, Greene M. Farley writes In the Seattle PostIntelligencer, _ Not only that, but his wife Is a constant reader of domestic sclence departiients and she uses him as sn experiment station. This last week, he says, he had biscults that would do for sinkers on a fish line and an angel eake that could not be differentiated from old putty.- The heartrending fea: ture Is that she asks him with a bright smile how he lkes 1t all, and he eannot find it in his breast to tell the truth about 1f; so he les frankly and whNeheartedly, : ;o : All: this Is getting on his nerves and on his stomach and on his fonisclence. In the course of a little time he feels his life Insurance Is going to be qua. L Should he tell her the. truth, or should he suffer In silence and let her go ahead and collect the life Insurance? - . : - - If life 18 worth anything to Mm he might conclude to tell her the truth and let her go ahead and procure her divorce. - She might find a second husband with a cast-iron digestive apparatus and the present husband ought not to stand in the way of his wife's ciareer a 8 a domestic scientist, .

SHRINES BEYOND ALL PRICE

United States Has Many That Are In--expressibly Dear to the Hearts _ 4 of the People. : :

This' old Plymouth church belongs to the noble dead, to the living only as trustees, but by way of preeminence it belongs to the generations that are as yet umborn. COivilization Journeys forward partly on books, partly upon the memorial days of great men, who are buflders of the state, upon organized laws and figally upon historic bulldings. : -No one can fully value the Influence of the Temple in Jerusalem upon the Hebrew state. In llke manner the. Pagthenon was like an invisible teacher, whose strong hands shaped the plastic soul of the Greek race. There are half a dozen builldings in Great Britain, ipcluding Westminster abbey and St. Paul's, and to take those buildings out of England's life would be like taking the ilntellect out of man's body. . ‘ The people of the United States have but a brief history, only three centuries, but they Rave Independence ‘hall, Mount Vernon, that shaft at Gettysburg, 7 Faneuil hall, Old South church, Lincoln’s house and shrine at Springfield, and old Plymouth church, priceless shrines for the American people—~Newell Dwight Hillls, .

Mexicans Are Great Walkers.

“There is a saying in Europe that the Spanlards are the champlon walkers of the world, and certainly their descendants in America, the Méxicans, are the champions of the new world. Three nights every week there is a concierto in the main downtown plaza In Monterey and nearly all the Amerfcans in town, including many big, husky transients on the way to or from Tampico, sit-on the park benches and watch in wonder while the Mexicans walk. Vo e All the young people In town, it appears, walk around and around and around that plaza, the boys In one direction and the girls in the opposite* direction, while their parents and chaperons and a few aged people share the benches with the husky Americans. Aot les LRARR

This Monster Was Battler.

The curators of the Launceston and Tascanian museums have presented ta the Royal Society of Tasmania the preliminary account-of a. nearly complete skeleton of d gigantic extinct monster, recently discovered in the pleistocene beds of Tasmania. ‘ The animal was as large as the largest existing rhinbceros. The new discovery shows clegrly that it was a rhinoceros-like nnl;l. with a skull built for aggressive warfare, and at least one powerful horn on the snout. Evidenzﬂ:f the gigantic battles in which animal engaged is to be found in the complete smashing and partial mending of - the. :mue,‘ and in the crushing and su efit repalr of the bones of the nose and snout, e s o

Embroidery Ancient Art.

The art of embroidery has been practiced from time immemorial—it is said to be as old as the art of dressing. The mummy clothes of ancient Egypt show the earliest extant embroidery and the “pome-grdfiates of blue and purple and scarlet” of the book of Exodus were of embroidery. The art reached ‘its height in the early middle ages. “In Greece and Rome laws were made to moderate its use, but without suceess. The most distinguished artists did not count it condescension to make -the designs from which she highest ladies in the land executed their embroideries. No workers were more skilled.in ‘the art

‘The Misses Helen Jeanneret and Wilma Dickinson spent .Sunday in 'Goshen. T i Ten dollars for every man woman and child in Indiana . is the :avergg‘ annual crop loss in.lndiana from -J

- BIG HORSE SALE Forty /7 . Forty FINE lOWA HORSES i ’Logﬁcser & Shobe will hold a sale of high ~ Towa horses at the sales barn of Shobe - & Shobe, in Ligonier - - FRIDAY, MARCH 18th ~ These horses are all lligh_'gradé,» and ~ well broke. Farmers in need of horses . will do'well to wait for this bunch as - they will be the finest ever offered here LOESER & SHOBE

Marguerite Clark and Marrison Ford at Crystal tonight. : .{’almé Steil‘er s;wtﬁ Sunday at hxﬁ‘i" home in thee ountry. . \ ~ Mildred Kent of Goshen college visted Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kurtz. * Mrs. Ross Lutts who is at the Elkhart hospital is getting along nicely. . For Sale-Gasoline engine 2 ‘incubators and good breeding roosters. John W. Himes : - fladt For Rent—Large . furnished bed room with closet and bath. Enquire Banner office. . latt -~ Herbert Brown ‘_ﬁm'm Beer_i’sert-' ously ill of pneumonia is convalescing He was able to sit up for a few 'm!n‘u;eq Sunday. . | - Mrs. C. P. Harp of LaGrange, WilHam Adams, Mrs. Ed Thompson of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Lancaster and Dorethy Harp of Sturgis attended the funeral of George Adams Sunday.

Society Brand Clothes ~ Are Guaranteed - A Society Brand Suit must give complete satisfaction, that is our pledge to you. We have the authority fo refund the full - purchase price if you are dissatisfied in any - 3 ~Society Brand Clothes 1~“\525,530,35r540 ~ You must see this line of real tailor made - clothes to appreciate the drop inprice. . LIGONIER °-~ “You Must be Satisfied”. ~~ INDIANA

100 Varieties - This announces to you that we now have ready for sale the greatest variety of garden seed this stere has even shown. You now have cur catalog in your possession and can make your selection of Seed for Spring Planting. While we do not carry everything named in catalog we do carry the most popular and best for this vicinity. , : We have Twenty varieties of Beans also a great variety of corn and peas. Whether.your garden plot is small or large you will want new fresh seed of best variety. Make out a list of seed wanted and bring in and have filled before the rush comes. _ - . ' Phone 134 o .