The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-04
LEFT HOME TO
JOIN FANATICS
PURDUE COLLEGE PRESIDENT
TO RESIGN BECAUSE OF
WIFE'S ACTION.
MYSTIC YOCA DOCTRINE
Dealing With Love Rppea to Woman
and She Writes Husband From
Europe That She Will
Not Return.

Lafayette, Ind, LAY 3-FFrcs den
w. Z. Stone, of Purdue University
will, it Is said within a few days ten
der his resignation 20 the board o.
trustees and leave for an extended
visit in Northern Michigan.
He is suffering CRAFTY from ner
vousncss, as result OF the n)tori t,
caused by his wife's leaving him saud
denied himself to all callers today.
His wife, whom he still loves, has
withdrawn" from the world, hef
husband aud her family to pursue the
Yoga philosophy Il mystic teaching
said to be imported from India.
Lured by the peculiar prayers aud
odd philosophy o; this strange cut
the wife of the noted educator is in
Europe, from where she sent her last
farewell to her hu. 1and in the form
of a letter.
DR.. Stone revealed his sad story b.
fore the Presbyterian church, OF
which he is member.
No Legal Proceedings.
Il am utterly crushed" he sal 81
can scarcely stand mp under it. | want
your sympathy aud your prayers
love my wife; would welcome her
back. She is as dear to me as she
ever was, but am sorry for her. |
hope that in a year or two she viii
come tn her senses and return to me
and my boys
81 feel il my duty to tell you of her
letter, but wish to say for her that
| believe she stll respects me. | do
not thi1k that sho would say an un.
kind word of me. ! do not eontem
plate any legal proceedings and nel
ther does she.
Following are some of the bftss~ef
philosophy from the Yoga teachings
that touch upon love:
Slaves of Love.
who loves the mortal creature
ending there, is no more free-he has
given himself away to death
eff one loves another in such d way
that If that others love be withdrawn
all happiness will fade out of life,
hen that first person Is slave of
a slave to the others
tmotions and passions.
so long as one is tied or attached
to any particular person or thing s,
that his happiness seems dependent
thereto, he is the slave of that person
)r thing.
Love, glorious though it be, IS a
disease as long as it destroys or even
mpairs the freedom of the sul
lraw thyself from love, make it thy
slave and all the miracles of nature
shall be in the palm of thy hand
The Yoga Ego.
Here is the Yoga prayer it exempli-
lies the doctrine of the ego:
Il am master of my mind, not its
slave. can set aside my sensations,
passions. desires. intellec-
ual faculties and all the rest of my
mental collection of tools as not I'll
hings and still there remains some
hing, and that something is r that
cannot be set aside by me, for it is
my very self"
Ii was no emotional. impulsive ac-
ion that took Mrs. Stone from her
amily to the faith she now processes. |
Her course was a matured. deliberate
me, and sne has followed it after long
'enection and apparently after count. |
ng the cost.
Will Not Return.
More than year ago she an
iounced to her husband that she was
going TO her old home in German
Poland to visit her mother. Nothing
vas thought of the length of her stay
It first as she had made visits six
months in duration several times pre-
'iously. But letetrs nave come from
Mrs. Stone to her husband i'm which |
he states that she will never come
,ack. preferring to continue the study |
# the Indian faith.