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Methodist Episcopal Church.

Sunday school 9.15 a. m. Junior
League 2.3O D. IN Preaching at 1890
a. m, by Rev. James Fraser, ID. d.,
President of New Windsor College.
Preaching at 7.30 p. m, by the pas
tor, subject "The First Man, the
second In the series or sermons on
First Things. - a--H. .arr
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The sheep that both. feeds and
clothes US, besides adding tremend-
ously to the fertility of the land, is
bound to be one of the biggest econo-
mic agricultural factors. Let III have
fewer dogs and more sheep
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Marriage Licenses.

~, Leroy Sellman, 21, and Ethel T..
Wlllet, 20, both of Carroll county.
Allen T. Wright, 22 and Margie H.
waltz, lS, both of Carroll county.
90 LAS E. Dorsey, 35, and Ida Warner,
20, both of Carroll county.
- Granville B. Bixler, 22, and Ethel
.. richardson, 21, both of Carroll
county.
sterling e. Zimmerman, %, and
Allce @ M. Myers, %, both of Carroll
county.
r. franklin T. Bachman, "a, and
sarah c. Rickell, 81, both of Carroll
county.
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Orphans Court.

g, Monday, November 21.-David T.
Snaaner, administrator of William
watson Shaffer, deceased, returned
Inventory Of money and settled his
nrst and final account.
!, Annie M. Fritz, Administrative OF
nordecai Fritz, deceased, returned re
port OF sale of personal property.
Letters of guardianship were grant
ga TO Meta B. Shaffer, as guardian of
HdWln Shaffer, an infant.
Letters Of administration on the
estate OF Benjamin y. Grouse, de-
ceased, were granted to Carrie >.
Clouse and Ira T.. Grouse, who re
eeived warrant to appraise personal
property, also order to notify credi-
Wfs. tt n
Urder Of Court directing that the
westminster Deposit and Trust COM
Pany pay To Edward ~. Reese WI. and
francis wv. Reese, amount therein de-
poslted' by Francis II. Reese, admins
erator of CoraeA A. Reese -
Francis A. Grawfords administrator
~ BENJAMIN IT. Hooper, deceased. re
turned additional inventory of debts
ahd settled his first and final account
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WESTMINSTER Md FRIDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 25 1910
PERSONAL MENTION

Persons who contemplate going away, have
friends visiting them, and desire publication of
same. will please send the names to this ofice.J
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sacred to be defiled with a corpse and
the work of the worms is too slow and
too vile Instead they lay their bodie:
out in the open on an iron grating under
the sky and the birds pick the bones.
The place where the towers of the dead
stand is a beautiful one. 1t is on Mala-
bar hill, an elevation rising almost
straight up from the sea, and washed
by the winds from the ocean. The hill
is covered with a beautiful garden. You
walk up to it over well-paved roads
shaded by tropical trees and bordered
with flowers and shrubs. Winding your
way through this luxuriant vegetation
you at last reach a point from whence
you can see far out cover the Indian
ocean and turning landward view the
whole of Bombay. Here among the
trees at one side, shut off by an iron
railing so that none but the priests may
enter, stand five great, circular towers
as white as the bones which lie on their
top.
Laid Upon Gridiron
Each tower is about % feet in height
and 80 feet in diameter 1t is crowned
with a grating or great circular gridiron
which slopes toward the center, where a
we'll five feet in width runs down to the
sea.
The gridiron grating is cast in sections
and so formed that there are foot paths
here and there through it. In each tower
there are certain divisions for the classes
of the dead. One section is devoted to
the bodies of men, another to those of
women and a third to the children, the
last part nearest the we'll The bodies
are stripped naked before they are placed
upon the towers and after the flesh has
been devoured by the vultures the skele-
tons are left to bleach and dry in the
sun.
The bodies are taken into the towers by
two bearded men dressed all in white.
These are the carriers of the dead At
every funeral they take the corpse and,
entering the tower through an opening
about eight feet from the ground. walk
up a flight of steps and place it upon
i-s proper location After it has been
stripped by the birds, and has become
perfectly dry, they take tongs and throw
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right, 1910, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Bombay, 1910
HE richest, the most powerful, the
most intelligent and most charit-
able of all religions Is the Parasee.
| has its headquarters here at Bonn
use these terms in comparing it
the other great religions as to the
er of its members.
re- are less than 100000 Parsees in
Eorld; but their banks and other
hal institutions are scattered
'Ehout the far east, and their pos
ms are untold millions. They have
considered in every business move
that goes on in India, for they are
nancial kings of the country. They
oted for their integrity and pro-
veness, and just now, when India
up by the populistic Hindoos, the
hat they stand in favor of the gov
nt is of value to Great Britain.
f their biggest capitalists recently
It Parsee mass meeting that his
denounced the violence and anar-
advocated by the revolutionists of
sects, and referred to the British
s an unmitigated blessing to India.
Hindoos are illiterate. Not one
can read or write. The Parsees
Universally educated. Many of them
raduates of colleges and universe
Ind they have large boys schools
iris Schools at Bombay and other
in Hindustan for the training of
children.
Millions for Charity
he are no more charitable believers
b world than the Parsees. They
ways giving to public enterprises,
heir institutions. founded for their
people, have cost many millions of
). During the past year the be-
of the late Naoroji M. Wadia
been largely distributed, and in adj
there have been other gifts from
es here at Bombay aggregating
The Wada requests amount to
than five million gold dollars. All
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this was for the ameioration of the con-
dition of the poor and the promotion of
education among the Parsees.
I drove today past the Jamsetjee Jee-
jeebhoy institute, which was founded 60
years ago by a Parsee of that name.
He began life a poor boy and died worth
s10,00O0O0. A great part of his wealth
went to charity. He gave s5,000,000 to
hospitals, colleges and rest houses, and
about 100000 to this school. The gov
eminent of India took charge of the
gift aid agreed to pay 6 per cent upon
1t as a loan. Since then other Parsees
have added to the endowment, and the
capital of the institute Is fourfold as
large as when started. The Parsees of
Bombay are building sanitary houses
for the poor of their comm snities. Their
scheme is about the same as that of the
George Peabody trust fund, and they ex-
pect to make only per cent on their
money.
Charities of Parsee Women
Such charities are not confined to the
men. They are pushed and aided by the
women as well. They have rich widows
who compare in their gifts with Mrs.
Russell Sage. and girls who might stand
side by side with Helen Gould. OF the
latter character is Miss Hamabai Framji
Petit, who has Just given her jewelry,
valued at 100000 rupees, for founding
Parsee girls orphanage, where 1t Is
proposed to teach the various arts and
industries. SO that the graduates, upon
leaving, may earn their own living Miss
Petit has given this money over to
trustees, and a committee of influential
Parsee gentlemen are now laying out
the plans for the institution.
One of the Parsee ,givers of the past
whom we might compare with certain of
our millionaire widows was Mrs. Bal
Motibai Wadia, of the same family as
the man who has just left the 100000
gold dollars. She was the wife of mil
lionaire Parsee of this city, whom she
outlived shore than 80 years. During that
time she gave away $1,500.000 In public
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the bones into the well, where they are
left to crumble to dust.
These towers are we'll drained. The
heavy rains of the tropics fall upon Them
but the water goes off into the sea and
there are filters below them filled with
charcoal so that all is kept Clean In
deed, the bone dust accumulates so slow
ly that it has taken 40 years to make 1t
rise to five feet.
A Look at the YuItures
I shall never forget my visit to these
towers of silence. None but the Parsees
can go close to them and it was through
a Parsee of high rank that 1 gained adj
mittance. Climbing the hill with one of
the sections, 1 made my way about
through the paths of a garden comprising
perhaps 60 acres of trees and flowers.
was shown the Parsee Temple and then
taken to a place where l could overlook
the great towers.
At first each seemed to me huge
cylinder of white with a frieze or cop
ing of mighty black birds. AS contin-
ued to look the birds sprang into life.
They raised their heads and craned
their necks, and I thought they mag
ined us corpse bearers A moment later
a funeral made it's way up the hill, and
[ saw that they We're gazing at 1T. In
front came the two carriers of the
dead and upon their shoulders lay the
corpse of a baby, which was clad In
white. The carriers had their faces
covered, and behind them came mourn
ers on foot, in white clothing. All Par
sees walk to their funerals and they
dress much the same. There are no
differences of condition at the Towers
of Silence.
Naked we came into the world and
naked we must depart from it," said my
old Parsee guide. THE bones of us all
go into these reservoirs. and the flesh
of the rich and the poor feed the same
vultures."
As the procession drew near the birds
grew excited They flapped their wings
and flew from one side of the tower to
the other, The slope of the grating Is
such that l could not see the little body
as it was stripped and laid in its place.
Such sights are visible only to the
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Getting Magazine Facts Right

From Everybody's Magazine.
Important articles in magazines of the
type of the American Golfers.
"McClure's," and "Everybody's,' like
plays, are rewritten rather than written.
To begin with, there must be the idea,
then to find the man or woman best able
to embody it, That settled, the author
must steep himself In his subject. When
he acquires mastery, his findings are
written down and submitted to the editor.
This may take months; it often requires
years.
1t has happened that the editor did
not know what he wanted until he read
this first draft Now he has the subject
spread before him by an authority. His
associates all read it and criticise. Some
times that first draft Is flawless, but
most often it is returned to the author
with direction for reconstruction. The
process may be repeated half a dozen
times. Finally the manuscript is salts
factory, which means that it is valuable.
simply expressed, and readable 1t Is in
shape for publication. 1t is put into type
and sent around to outside experts who
are the representative authorities on the
subject
In these days a magazine can afford to
have its conclusions disputed, but it's
facts must be incontrovertible. Perhaps
the trouble the big publications take to be
right-and that means square and just,
as we'll as neutrality-suspicious. such pres
tige and influence as they now enjoy in
America.
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THE FIRE WORSF1IPERS OF INDIA-By Frank c. Carpenter

carriers, but I could tell the time or
the exposure by the flock of vultures
which came flying from the various
towers to that part of the Enclosure.
and by the Tapping of the wings and
the noise. The sight was horrible
one; but when l thought that those
birds in two hours would accomplish
what millions of insects and Shiny
worms might have been weeks or
months in performing. 1 doubted after
all whether their method Is not better
than ours.
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II seems strange to think of beauti-
full. well-bred, intelligent woman, the
wife of millionaire, fighting in the
courts of India for her right to Parsee
burial. This means that at death she will
be laid naked upon one of the Towers of
Silence, and have the flesh picked from
her bones by flock of vultures which
have always fed upon human f1esn. rms
is the universal Parsee disposition of the
dead. They do not bury the body in the
earth. nor burn it, Fire - too holy and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
FALL TOURNAMENT Of
COLUMBIA GOLF CLUB
Final Curtain for the Old
BrightWood Course to Be
a Big Affair.

The annual fall tournament of the
Columbia Golf Club starts tomorrow
morning and runs through until satur-
day evening. closing with the finals OF
match play and the usual big handicap.
The opening card tomorrow will be a
qualifying round of eighteen holes, in
stead of the usual thirty-six, in the
morning and the first round of match
play in the different sixteens.
For Friday will come the second and
consolation matches for the different
players who have been put out in the
initial rounds.
Saturdays card will cover the semi
finals and finals Of the matches and the
popular handicap for everybody.
This will wind up the old sporty course
on the Brightwood road, as the spring
tourney will be held over the new course.
just beyond Chevy Chase. Advanced i'm
provements in the building line have
crowded the Columbia golfers off one Of
the finest courses In the country, but 1t
is reported that the new home will fur
nish plenty of sport in the playing line
in the future.
The tourney that starts tomorrow Is an
open affair. and 1t is expected that sew
eral of the crack golfers of Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Norfolk and Chevy Chase
will participate. The old course is in
prime condition at present, and 1t Is
among the possibilities that new figures
may be hung up as sort of goodbye
for the old grounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
WON'T CO AGAINST TIME
CHAMPION TROTTER UHLAN
WILL NOT TRY FOR RECORD.
Trainer Tanner Has Driven Several
Horses to Worlds Marks in
His Career.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLEVELAND. September 2S.-Charles
Tanner returned from tour Of the east
Billings would probably not start his
great trotter Uhlan. I.5Ss4, again this
season. There is a possibility. however,
that the worlds champion may be seen
ut North Randall Saturday, but this is
uncertain now. Uhlan is now at North
Randall. having arrived yesterday from
Allentown, Pa, where he lowered the
worlds half-mile track trotting record,
held by George G. Uhlan's time was
2.051,. Uhlan made a break going away,
the result of his jumping over a shadow
on the track at the eighth pole. He trot-
ted the final quarter in .30A. official time.
although many watches caught it 80
fiat, and stepped the last eighth in 1412.
This is the second worlds half-mile
track record to be held by a trotter
driven by Tanner. At Lima, in 1906, the
Cleveland trainer drove George G.. the
two fastest consecutive heats ever trot-
ted on a half-mile track, his time being
2.OsIa and 2.OsA The track at Lima is
longer than a mile, and in 1907 when
Alta Mcdonald started Sweet Marie and
George G. there, he was allowed to drive
the regulation distance. AS a result
George G's 1906 record was beaten.
However. had George G.. been allowed to
trot the regulation mile when Tanner
drove him he would have hung out
time for each heat below 2O6.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
MISS ELEANORE SEARS
LOSES AT LAWN TENNIS
Her Defeat by Miss Edith
Rotch Only One of Exciting
Matches at Longwood.

BOSTON, Mass, September 2S.-Many
long matches, the defeat of Miss Eleanora
r. Sears at the hands of Miss Edith
Rotch, Miss Louise Hammond's two easy
victories, the hard time Miss Marion
Fenno had defeating Miss Husette Davis,
and the all-morning contest between Miss
Elsie Little of New York and Miss Frieda
Paine of the same city, gave LOngwood
woman tennis players as exciting day
yesterday as they have had during lawn
tennis tournaments here for years.
The summary:
Women's doubles first round-Misses careg
and Lowering defeated Misses Sturgess and
Hutchins 9.l1: O., 60: Misses Harrington
con. 6-3. 81. Ga; Mrs. Whitney and NJ. IS
Romans defeated Misses Bowker aud Kearney
Harding laS" and Gu Greenoash, So 60; Miss Mar.
garet Curtiss and Miss Evelyn Sears defeated
Kisses Williams -. and s, hunnewe ,.s go v f
Allen and Pierce. 90. 6.3
Second round-Miss Marion Fenpo and Miss
hallow, Go, 60; Misses Thompson aud Brad
ford defeated Misses Carey aud lowering. 6-?,
lo-s; Miss Harriet Curtis and Miss Fr:eds
Paine defeated Misses Schwartz and Hind, O.,
CO; Miss Lois Moves and Miss Edith Rotch
defeated Misses De Ford and Cunningham. 81.
Mixed doubles, first round-Miss Marion Fenno
and \. w. Miles defeated Mis-. Edith Wendell
and j. as., Blake Co., s MI Mis-; Eie1 E;s
Little and Harry G. Johnson. 81. Ga.
Women's singles, first round-Miss Louise Ham
mOnd, New York. defeated Mrs. e. Stanwood.
Boston. 60. 6-1: Miss Elsie Little New York,
defeated Miss Frida Kane, New York. 60.
1912, ca.
Second round-Mss Hammond defeated Miss
Alice Thorndike, Boston, 6-l; Miss Marion
Fenno. Boston, defeated Miss Suxette Davis.
Boston. ga, 70, IS: Miss G. Pendie-
ton Boston. defeated Miss Hilda Williams Bos-
ton ga, G-2; Miss Evelyn Sears, Boston. de-
fea ted Miss Marian Romans, Boston. 6-2. rs.
WI I'd Rdfh Rotch ROstOH O.
feated Miss Eleanor Sears, Boston, 40, GO.
a.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
IS ONE PITCHER WHO
SEEMS TO HAVE COME BACK
Twirler Who Beat Giants OCT of Pennant
But Failed Thereafter Promises to Be
Real Star Now.

too wild to keep by Manager Clarke Crit
fifth, has returned to the Reds, after a
wonderful season in the Southern League
league, but the Southern is but one class
removed from the big leagues
Coveleski went to Birmingham discred-
tied. 1t was limited he. had streak of
saffron foot wide. Some said he'd
soon be back in the Tri-State. where he
hailed from originally.
When released by Cincinnati, Covey
shed tears and exclaimed: Released.
Why. don't they even think enough of
me TO keep a string on me?' He didn
understand. The string was there all
right, only he didn't know it. And the
Reds tried hard all season to jerk the
big fellow back by means of this same
string. but without success.
No Southern League club was able to
do anything with Coveleski during the
last six weeks lie was in the organiza-
ton. When he was announced to pitch
the opposition curled up and faded away.
They say that all Birmingham had to
do was to toss Coveleskis glove onto the
mound, tell whom it belonged to and
then go in and win while the other fell
lows stood around petrified.
The Birmingham management followed
a system IN pitching the big Pole, which
seems 10 have worked splendidly In
stead of pitching him in his turn every
five or Six days, Manager Wordsworth
put him in twice in some four-game
series; twice he doubled up the Pole in
three one-game series, permitting him to
rest for the next six or seven days The
result is that Convey is back among the
big ones again. apparently as good as
when he beat the Giants OF of a PEN
nant two years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
FOOT BALL ELEvENS
NEED PASSING GAME
Penn and Other Teams Would
Do Well to Have Assistant
Canadian Coach.

PHILADELPHIA, September as.-It is
usually unwise to indulge i'm predictions.
but here is one which ought to be safe
enough: That foot ball team which
makes the most of the development Of
the long side passing game is bound 10
be rated highest In the foot ball world.
AS yet this side of the game Is like an
unexplored country to Americans. But il
is field which promises the greatest re-
turns. So far coaches have been too
much welded to the old game to really
appreciate the possibilities OF the new.
They cannot free themselves from the
old idea that possession of the ball In
everything. Sooner or later. though. and
probably this fall some team will awake
to the possibilities of the passing game
and will uncover an attack Of long.
quick side passes of the double and
triple variety that will set the foot bail
world agog.
Apparently 1t is going to require some
thing of this sort to break up the ultrs
conservatism OF many Of our coaches
The Carlisle Indians. under the able
coaching Of Glenn Warner. usually meas
ure up to the possibilities of such plays,
and they may give the foot ball world
the expected treat when they come to
Franklin Field next month.
1t would seem to be the part of wisdom
for Pennsylvania coaches to engage a
one of their coaches Canadian or Eng
lishman who has been brought I'D on
the passing game The present coachers
have tried in a measure to teach this art
Of quick passing and catching, but with
little success. for the reason that they
are as much IN need of a teacher a.
their pupils. The cost of such an add.
tional coach would be a mere trifie, but
the results would be Of incalculable value,
Every big college in the land is hound
to profit " Pennsylvania's defeat Sat.;r,
day. Thu We're q good many visiting
coaches in the stands to observe how the
Red and Blue Interpreted the new game.
They probably learned more foot ball
from Ursinus than they did from the
Quakers, but from watching the QuakeFs
they ought, at least. to have learned
some things they should not do.
tice must have been impressed with the
Of their defeat TO heart. Primarily they
which on Saturday was not up to school
real practice the men have had at tack
players. The failure OF the coaches TO
tackling earlier in the season has been
noted ard commented upon. But Penn
,ylvania teams are never slow to profit
from their mistakes, and We may expect
to see clean, sharp tackling hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-28
REMARKABLE THINGS.
IN COVEY'S WORK

Won twenty or Twenty-Five
games, one being tied.
Eight of his victories were shut
outs.
Not more than three runs scored
of him in any of his winning
games.
In only one game did the enemy
score more than four runs, and in
only two games more than three
runs.
He pitched one no-hit game, four
two-hit games, three three-hit
games. six four-hit games, four
five-hit games and four six-hit
games.
In only four games were more
than six hits made off him.
In his twenty winning games but
twenty-three runs were scored off
him.
His team was shut out in four of
the eight games he lost
Only thirty hits We're made off
him in the eight games he lost.
In three of the losing games he
allowed but three hits per game.
In one losing game he pitched
no-hit-no-run ball for nine innings.