Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1901 — Page 3

A RACE AGAINST TIM2.

, rlMIila? eeoaat of the Hrrr4i Ui. uklNi Jmmrmry of tor A aa irallaa-l tudi.ii Mall. "TranfporUtioii," tui( a k'akt Ix furt lh- Hit r: .i' loa i I'itil c(Mi;:reMo at 1'nil i. "undri.r.- nmtriial jr n hi SSf) isBSrtBW- at 't inn-re; without sraa aport at! oa ret w.iu.d i ItBpoMib! ihi M ! nations arc rich, powt-iful i ii'inii jio-r trssBaaeHstioa i,, are tltr l-st and must roin- . . i-; the dying eatlOHl nre with little or 110 tra:. Sportatiai u iitlaa n ihe BBSSjBSf ultrn-tl taeM two rabid BMBtBwSSS ,!, tolkmi the flap. Tn da follows the mail." If these statementa bo true, too i importance can hardly It ,i upon the remit aehi t in i t American 1'aciflc liner and of , Bra fii-Ht railroads making up tha ,-n: hnental s teni ltwn San ,-. and New York, of which M ( hars Barnard "he a graphie t in the "Four Track Ser ies." he poat oflice of Sydney, N. 8. V. there lay, early in the morning of list IB, 1901, 37 sacks of ihe most i t a nt mail matter eT sent from ralia to England. There are two - hy which such mail could go. ii an all-Hritihh route by way of --,iez canal. The other i. praean all-Ainericnn route, by way ainoiV Hawaii, San Francisco, New . and thence to London. Of .. under the present arrangeI the laut lap, on the bosom of tin broad Atlantic, is sailed under Iti titb flag. The llritish route ia der one and also the shorter, i 2,M0 miles, while the distance i other away around in 13.557, a n ore of over a thousand miles. ,i morning, the 13th of Aueust, imrican flap was flying on new -hip. freah from the American :ir.! on the Feraware. She was tin - t available ship that day in tha r.uirie. The only thint to tlo v to place the important mail on the new American, twin-screw r "Ventura," of the Ocear.io ship company, which M ine n o'clock in the mornintr. From tha Ventura steered straight n kland. and entered that bar tlie 17th. Taking on freight, - and passengers she again set j tor the beautiful and polandi of Samoa, thence for HaSaS Francisco. At seven p. S ptembcf 2, ahe anchored at tine in San Francisco harbor, made the voyage in SO daya ! iiirs. Had the Ventura been ! t is possible she could hate ari few hours earlier and landed t precious mail baps that day. I happened they could not be d till 8:3 on the morning of the They were at once transferred teams to the Market street statioa f Mm Southern Pacific (Opden route), and at ten o'clock they began their M ntful journey across the continent tu New York. MM miles ft way The ofUvera of th- Oeaaak IHaomshlp company and of the Southern Pacific w. re naturally anximis that th- mail should make pood progress and were ki p4 nfnrmed by telegraph of the gm ss of the train during that day ai d evening. deftly the unexpected happened. Tbe train arrived at Opden, I'tah, two dreadful hours late. !' mail was transferred to tha I ear of train No. ii of the I'nion Pacific. It was atill late when r ached Omaha. The Chicago, rl Bfjtoa Quincy put the single ! car containing his majesty's ' hind a special fast engine. It algal run against time for No. On and on. 00 miles an hour idy. The train entered I'nion ta- ' hicapo. at 9:0 a. m.. on the Mve bindred and eipht miles in '" I"' nntes. N . is the Lake Shore- New 'S rk "faal mail"- the heauet faat n in America. She had left 1 That train had to be overnew special, two cars und would try if it had to b.se the way Into Buffalo. At pro i 9:MtM a. m. she pulled out the Lake Shore station and -me hcur and 29, minutes As tha special ate up the it became evident that she Wfj i g np the lost time. She would ' iul No. 6 at Toledo. Two bunnrl forty-four miles in 265, tea. The thing had been done. The two hours lost 2.000 miles away ea made up. I'uffalo. the precaution wa to make up the New York ( en's No. 6 the fast mail into two fctiona, sending on thoae mail baps V nst ralia, together with I'nole mail, in the first section. Thia "i the fifth and last of the railroad forming the route across the 1 led Rtatea. The train pulled into flrmad Central atation the mornof the 7th at 9:57 three minutea I nl of time. il" i ampania sailed at noon, with jesty's mall on board. 25 days hours out of Sydney. At seven k Saturday morning, Septem'er he Australian mall was deliv. ! t the post office in London, ae led snd ready for the carriers, ad of the old time of 35 daya " l sonn houri by way of the Suea it was done in 38 days lese hours by using the American This la the natural way from 4oa to the South Pacific, best and ral Urciiuse it is nearly all withhe temHrate zone. It crosses tha P eh, while the Sues route keep u hin the tropics, as torrid Aden t -titles, aa oClombo and Port Said ralf prove. Tha great run wltft he Australian mail aettled f.revet the question of tha speediest routs hrt the new rommoBwealth I Aiistrnlui mad Eoxopa.

EUROPEAN ElHOES.

In the :., t ,',u jreai I ranee bai agav fferted 9,0ou,ouo aerei of waste laud into for. -t Norway owns 325 different submarine cables, but their combined length ia onl . i tu,. es. French peopl, use six pounds of aoap a head yarly, against let pounds per KuglUh peraon. The duty on bleycle which a introduced in Franc in 1894 yielded an in .ii.. l.i. t year of nearly 5,500 IM) francs. M -re than 400 guicies have been insured free against accidents by the Bwiaa Alpine club, at an annual cost of aval iL' ,ooo francs. The three larget c.tie la Sw.i'.t ure Stockholm, with about iOo.ouO inhabitants; Oothinburg, with Ul.OoO. and Maltno, with 01,000. In the province of fatal, la Italy. 3,800 people were victims last year of pellapa, a disease roaeaftbliatg hprosy, and ending in mads M While the jir tport ion of male criminals has increased aoaaiaV ra bfaf in Qeraaaay since )-.. that of female offenders has remained stationary. Hessen claims a larger proportion of students among its population than any other torn, an state si to every 100,000 inhabitant-; while Saxony had 68. Baden 65, itavaria G2 Warte in berg 60, Prussia '.6. LEGAL LORE. A combination of dealers controlling 90 per cent, of the blue stone sold in the New York market is held, in tumuiiiigs vs. I'nion Hlue Stone company (N Y.J. M L. R. A. L'i2. to be unlaw f J. wher thy have united to maintain prices. Privileged communicjt 'ons to an attorney are held, in K .eoerv. Som r.(Wis., 52 L. B. A. 512. cot to inclu.U a conversation giving authority tc compromise an action, sine the givinp of fciich authority tieceaaarily implies a right to communicate the fact. A loan by a building and loan association is held in Borrowers and I. Bnildtag association vs. Eklund (III.) 52 L. R. A. 637, not to be exempt from the usury law. under a statute providing for the cx"inption of such associations, but prescribing that loans shall be Dftftd by off ring the money to the highest bidder in an open meeting or une'er a by-law establishing a uniform rate where the loan is effected by priv ate contract with the borrowers with out such bv-iiw. CHAT AND CHATTER. Advice for Hallowe'en: Nail down four barns. The average weight of a horse is 1,00C pounds. I ntil the year 1821 the word "don- " ku only .wen in slang diction' iriea. Mouse whiskers are now used for making the "gray gnat." a fly used ia trout-fishing. Best for the Bowels. No matter wast ails you, hes lache to a cancer, you wilt never get weh until your bowels are put right. ( sscarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy, natural movements, cost you just 10 centa to start getting VOBf health bach. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal hoses, every tablet has C. C. C. (tamped on it. Ben are of imitations. I.lfe'n MM Frletloaa. "Are yiu getting ready for winter?" "Oh, yes; we've had our last scrap with the ice man. and have liepun to quarrel with the coal man." Detroit Free Press. To Car a Cold tm Ose Dar Tske Laxative Bromr. Oninine Tsblets. AU drugKistsrefundmooeyif it fails to cure 25c. Wnile we pretend it is scorn, it .- reallf anvy uiat we feel for the sell :ilied person. Brooklyn L'te. IIMll I Hill I il - - I ll IUI -I II Piso's Cure for Cor.sumpi ion ia an infaTltVe medicine for cUf(h and cold N NN . Samuel, tKean Orove. N. J., Feb. 17. 1900. "(jot some bully good news, pa! There ain't goin' to be no sctiool todal" NN y not?" "Teaciier s m k." Indianapolis News. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain t Vie hands or spot the kettle (except green and purple.) When a tnsa is i k. he has it in for 'host Tieig'ibor who do n? lunic to see hitn. Atc.tison UlaLe. THE MARKETS. KW York, Nov. a. WT T'. 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