Ligonier Banner., Volume 55, Number 21A, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 July 1921 — Page 2

Our Contract With You This is the contract we make with eveiy depoéitor: . To protect every dollar you deposit with us from . thieves, flood and fire. ; ; _ To return those dollars to you whenever you desire them, together with the interest they may have earned. '_ : To give you in addition any advice or information which our broad banking connections make - available. ! : ‘ : It is a broad obligation, buf one which we have in every case fulfilled. ; You will find this a good bank to tie to as do our . : _hundreds of other depositors. . ' Ligonier, Indiana :

Quality Laundry Work--Satisfactory Service is our constant endeavor. , This achievement requires time and much skill and management that will safe guard your linens. o . Our service charges are based on a continuity of patranage. ' : Your cooperative patronage creates a mutuality of interest and will enable us to further maintain and improve and efficient laundry. service of quality. , et Can save you money by sending us your-next bundle. _ PHONE 86 i AND DRY CLEANING ¢

We Have Receivedf Large Shipments , e Hard and Soft Coal Chestnut, No. 4 and Furnace sizes in hard coal. Best grades of . softeodl. Full line of Building Material now - oonland . . COMPTON & HOLDEMAN HOLDEMAN & SON Straus Wool House. ~ Phone N 0.279

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Straw Hat Season Here Come to Carney’s for one of those - cool straw hats. We have them in - Panama, Sailors and Leghorns. We have a hat to fit every head. i - Large line of cool summer =~ L aelßele - ol - We have just the bathing suit for you ' o Carney Clothing Store

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Published every Monday and Thursday and entered in the Postoffice at Ligonier, Ind., as second class matter. T T eS N -Capital Stock Tax. . July 31 is the last day for filing returns of the capital stock tax. To avoid penalty, the returns must be in the hands of collectors of internal revenue on or before midnight of that date, Blank forms are available at the office of Cbllector of .Internal Revenue M. Bert Thurman, Federal Building, Indianapolis. Form 707 is required for domestic and 708 for foreign corporations. . The capital saock tax is a special excise tax imposed on corporations with resepct to ‘‘carrying on or doing business.” The tax on domestic corporations is $1 for each $l,OOO or so much of the fair average value of its capital stock for the preceding year ending June 30 as is in excess of $5.000. Foreign corporations. a:n‘e required to pay a tax at the rate of $1 for each $l,OOO of their capital employed in the transaction of business in the United States without the benefit of the of the $5,000 deduction. The tax is payable in advance, returns filed in July of this year covering the taxable year begining July 1, 1921 and ending June 30, 1922. . ;

Crops on Famous Hawpatch. The old Hawpatch section of famous farming territory always noted for fertility is hard hit by this warm period. The wheat will not average over 65 to 76 percent although a large amount of straw was cut. The recent heavy rains of this section did not extend over -the Hawpatch and the corn is left in a parched condition Hay was much lighter than of former years owing to the late season, Not Many Soldiers. The Indiana national guard contains a roster of 2,239 officers and enlisted men, according to a report just compiled by Harry B. Smith, adjutant general for Indiana. In the organization are the 151st infantry 181st field artillery, 113th battalion of engineers, 38th signal corps, 149th motor transport company and state.staff of quartermaster’s department. : ' Ford Somersaults: All’s Well A Ford car carrying men who are marking telephone poles withthe Lincoln Highway emblem, driven by James Rippey of Warsaw 11 years old sommersaulted when it struck loose sand at a point between Goshen and Ligonier, but all of teh party escaped ‘serious injury, The trip was resumed ‘as soon as the car was righted. ;

. Hurt in Fall. Miss Jennie Pancake a teacher in the Elkhart schools, while visiting at the home of her brother John E. Pancake, had the misfortune to fall down stairs Thursday afternoon. The lady was badly shaken up but received no permanent injury.; - - - Fighting Extradition. ; B. F. Schwarz, wanted in this county for selling alleged worthless stocks and located in Chicago is fighting extradition in the Illinois courts. Some of the best legal talent in Chicago appears on both sides. ! : P. M, Pay Raised. Postmaster Gaby has an increase of salary of $lOO a year since the receipts of the Ligonier postoffice passed the $20,000 a * year mark. Mr. Gaby’s pay is now $2,700 a year. Addressed Union Meeting. Dr. F. H, Masters head of the Christian church organization in Indiana delivered the address at the Union services held in the Presbyterian church Sunday evening.

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DATES FROM PRIMITIVE MAN That the Giving of Knives “Breaks . Friendship” Is a Superstition of Ancient Days. The popular superstition that 1t “breaks friendship” to give or accept & knife without something of value—préferably money—passing in return, is a survival from the primitive man, declares London Answers. The savage, having progressed from a club to a knife or spear as a weapon, soon learned the danger of relinquishing it merely for friendship’s sake. His trie/nd, having disarmed him, was apt to be his friend no longer, . _ So, for giving up his knife, even to his friend, he demanded a recompense. And he saw that when a friend presented him with a weapon, that friend presently came to regard him—because of regret for the act or because of envy at the added superiority the gift bestowed—with suspicion, growing into emnity, : Whereas if he gave a consideration for the knife it was a matter of fair trade and friendship was likely to endure. ! e

All this became so deeply ingrained in the mind of the primitive man that the idea survives today as a popular superstition, o Popular superstitions belong to folklore, and where they have not a religious derivation are mostly survivals from -ancient clvilizations or are inherited from our savage ancestors. APRON WORN AS ORNAMENT Women of Czecho-Slovakia Don Garment With a View of Attracting ot Masculine Eyes. -

In the villages and country portions ‘of Czecho-Slovakia the women do not wear aprons as a badge of work. - On the contrary the Czecho-Slovakia maid does not put her apron on when she enters the house—she dons it only when she is going out to capture the eye of some swain who long has paild her court. And these®aprons usually are heirlooms. Green {8 the favorite color. Next in popularity come gold or yellow, sllver, pink, blue, cerise and flaming rose. Usually the embroideries which display these colors are upon dark foundations. Some, however, are white. In both types gay ribbons sometimes play a part. And often the white mutton sleeves of the waists are gayly embroidered to complete the radiant effect the wearer’s apron lends as she strolls down the street or along the country lane. : ’ Their skirts are usually black and always short. Their stockings are for protection in their walks as well as for display. Some have small, bright de~signs knitted Into the dull black. The - walst-length jackets they wear are ~usually quite plain, save for the handmade lace around the bust and on 'the sleeves. The head shawls sound the varying color note. But it is in the aprons that the love of color is more clearly shown. ‘

Not Enough Amateurs. - Speaking recently in London, Lord de Walden expressed some views anent the musical amateur. He held that the sad thing about the amateur was that there was not enough of him, that he should be 85 per cent of the population and it did not matter how badly he played. The worse he played the more modest he was likely to be. From bad amateurs was drawn the audience who listened to good professionals. The ordinary taste of the amateur was.just as likely to be‘'good as bad, it depended upon what he was first offered. Cultured taste was real1y the only bad taste in England and he would rather trust the ordinary crossing-sweeper for an appreciation of music than the gentleman who had come from a public school. Lord de ‘Walden also insisted that it was obvious that. the English were musieal as that the French were not, and claimed that larger audiences of amateurs would result if all concerts in England did not take place practically in one plot In the west end of London where there were 4,000 times too many concerts for the ground on which they were given.

Four Major Crimes in England. In England there are four crimes punishable by death—setting fire to the royal dockyards or arsenals, piracy with violence, treason. and murder. Death was in former times, in England, the ordinary punishment for all felonies. Blackstone refers to 160 offenses as punishable by death, some of them of a nature which appears trividl. For instance, a man who cut down a tree or impersonated a Greenwich pensioner generally paid the life penalty. Due to the exertions of Sir Samuel Romilly, this severe ecriminal code gave way towards the end of the reign of George 111 to more humane conceptions. Since the statute of 1861 there have remained only the four crimes punishable by death.

When Water Was a Mystery. - Up to 1781 water meant either nothing at all or else a great mystery to the 'scientists. In that year Henry Cavendish, teacher of chemistry, discovered that it really consisted of a number of gases that had been chilled into liguid form. '« .. o

It remained for the French savant Lavoisier to bring about, in 17883, the decomposition, of water into exygen ‘and hydrogen, and seven years later two other Britons improved on this method. They were ,Nicholson and Carlisle, who succeeded in separating the two elements by means of the voltaic battery. = -

Loses Four Fingers. While endeavoring to release the air Brake on a car at Albion Conductor Calkins of the B, and O, fell and was run over by the car. Four fingers were amputated. = .- -For sale a second hand furance. Phone 90 S e NS

REPARTEE WITHOUT A STING Celebrated Retorts That Have Been ~ Considered as the Very Best S e Thelr Kind™ It was Bir Francis Burnand who made the celebrated retort about Punch. = Some one said to him: _“Punch is not what it used to be.” Burnand brilliantly replied: “It never was.” But repartee is a gift that be- . longs to no special elass. It is said that the one amusement of Burton, the author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy,” was to sit and listen to the witty encounters of Oxford bargees. Cardinal Bourne once talked with an American, who boasted that the Mississippi was a finer river than the Thames. He descanted on its superfority, saying that an English river ~was only “ a sickly stream.” To this the cardinal very -cleverly- replied: | “But your river is confined ’t_o its bed, -isn't it?’ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was never at a loss for a witty rejoinder. "Among his many gifts was a faculty for recognizing people, and remembering their names, If he ever made a mistake, he would rectify it felicitously. Thus, a gehAtleman who had been at the annual college supper was present again the following year.. Mr. Spurgeon saluted him with “Glad to see you, Mr. Partridge.” The gentlemah was surprised to find himself recognized at all, but, recovering: himself, replied: *“My name is Patridge, sir!” “Ah, yes,” was the instant reply; “I won't make game of you any more.’%’—'London Mail, BROUGHT VENDER TO TIME Loyal Small Girl Convinced Him What a Very Important Person__Her Daddy Was, ey s _ The- a%miration of four-year-old Mary Elizabeth for her father had been the cause of much comment in the family circle. Mary Elizabeth was stmply filled with adoration, which seems entirely old-fashioned. :

So when the circus came to town Dad the Magnificent said there could be a box party, and added to the thrill by volunteering to escort his daughter and her little playmates to see the wonders of the greatest show. During the very first part some bright eye chanced to discover a balloon vender. Immediately there was a unanimous vote that balloons were next in line, and Mary Elizabeth was dispatched hastily to bring the vender, dad, of course, keeping an eye on her retreating figure. :

When she returned with the man and the whole crowd had been presented with the bright-colored balloons dad asked her how she had made out on the journéy. . “Well,” she. informed him primly, “the: man started to be very rude. I told him you wanted him to bring those. balloons up to our seats, and he said he was busy and couldn’t be bothered. Then I told him that he better come at once, ’cause -he didn’t know what an important person my dad is."—New York Sun. Decency and Bedtime, - “All decent people should be in bed by one.” Such is the dictum of an eminent uplifter. It is calculated to startle even a world familiar with the Intellectual divagations of uplifters. | The quality of decency has often been debated. It does not appear that a universal satisfactory defigition has jet been reached. But a time limit bn decency is. something new.

By what magic has one o'clock. in the morning become the witehing hour that divides the sheep from the goats? lany respectable citizens are not abed :t that hour. Is their respectability put a cloak for indecency?

It is hard to believe that a virtue tan be so accidental. None will deny that one o’clock is a very good hour to de abed. ;

It is quite late enough for those who )ave to be downtown in the morning. Btill, it is easy to imagine sufficient teasons, not discreditable, either, for being up even later—New York Tripune - :

: Salt in the Ocean. The best-supported modern theory Is that the ocean has been salt from the very beginning of time., The old fdea-has been that the salt in the sea was not there originally, but was brought to it, little by little, throughout the ages, by rivers which washed it out of the land. In the process of evaporation the moisture was drawn up, leaving the salt behind and thus gradually = concentrating it in the ocean. However, the old idea is discredited by the fact that there is a great similarity between the salts found in the ocean and those present in the gaseous matter ejected from the interior of the earth during a volcanic eruption, and the great difference between the salt of ocean water and that of inland salt lakes formed by the evaporation of river water. :

Old Court of St. James. - The historic background of court .dignity still prevalls in Great Britain, A portion of the old royal palace of _St. James, where the ceremonial levees .still are held, dates back to Tudor days, and every Ameriean tourist is familiar with: the famous horseguards stationed before its gates with their brilliant uniforms. To this court “America has sent as her ministers and ambassadors statesmen, men of ‘letters and brilliant lights of the legal ‘profession. Some of these mén have .gone from this position to the Presi‘dency, while others have rounded out ‘their years of public service in that »a_ﬂy?‘lg_;;' ~ 8 ol S i

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