Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 47, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 August 1905 — Page 1

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OL. 47.

JASPER, 1 DIAN A. FIUDAY. VK.TST 4. HK)f.

NO. 47.

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Behind ffimiiin disaster stands the Russian peasant. The official corruption that permeates the tincture of Russian governmenl points hack to the initial n istal . f would-be empire builders. The Kussians have never had a highly ,'elopel agriculture, and the men who have formed Russian i icy for centuries h not I anted that a thrifty, prosperous and contented rural clasa is the only source of enduring national i ength. The man who tills the oil in Russia has always been . acted, llie staggering weigh! bardensome taxation and cruel extortion has fallen ultimately on patient shoulders. Short sighted, greedy and corrupt landlords, officials and churchmen have preyed (Hi him for centuries. During the time that Rassis has built great cities, established manufacturiesand expended vast ma on engineering works intended to develop the resources Russia and strengthen the mpire. she has done nothing to increase the efficiency and relieve misery of the Russian peas About the time that the Japanese serf was made a landowner, the Rnssian serf was illted rith the miserable freedom of an oppressed tenant. 1 fnder the old conditions it was to the master's interest to provide the serf with suitable food a I shelter, but the grant of freedom transferred responsibility from the landlords shoulders to those of the tenant. The landlord no longer saw profit in providing food and shelter for these people. The peasant must now pay taxes and pay rent, and yet he could buy neither land nor home. To these ubrdens he has.

through his own ignorance, added the danger of starvation, by impoverishing the soil from which he must get his living. After the defeat of the Battle of the Sea of Japan, a St. Petersburg newspaper admitted thai victors rested with the man behind the gun, lut ultimately in this war victory will rest with the man behind the hoe. I'lie agrarian policy of the Japanese tatesraan, at the begin ning of their progressive era. showed that they recognized the fundamental importance of a thrifty, prosperous and independent agricultural class as the foundation f national strength. Shortly after the enthronement of the emperor in 1H, the cen tral goverment assumed the title to all the land previoulsy divided into fiefs under feudal barons, and inaugurated a new land system under which each tiller of the soil should acquire title to the piece of land his ancestors had Cultivated as serfs. The buying price w as tobe paid in BO equal annual installments and the purchaser was meantime to he exempt from direct taxation. This grea reform reaches 30.000,00(1 rural Japanese or tw othirds of the total Japane populatipn. It is on this deep and broad foundation that Japanese states men have erected the subsequent military structure that has surprised and twed the world and bumbled Russia This sound policy of the Japanese govermatlt means more than the mere economic feeding of Japan's 15,000,000 population for on her diminutive farms Japan if evolving a race of nun destined t wield the sword of empire. The sons of her farmers

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when they man the factories, Japan will drive competitors from t he world's markets in all lines of manufacture where they can supply themselves with rawmaterial. Not until Japan neglects her people will this supremacy be in peril. Russian policy towards her peasantry has killed the goose that laid the golden egg, The land stands for more than food supply. It is the one pit ce where the fouddations of the strength and character of race are laid. Slaves and machinery have harvested crops, but never to sustain an endurintr neoole. The

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THE HIGHT OF THE PRINCESS.

At length, when she was well whory, she came uj oa a wide and shallow pool Stones stood in it like islands; bullrushes fringed the eoast ; ihe floor was paved with the pine needles; and the pines themselves, whot-e rools made promontories, looked down silently on their men images. She crept to the margin and beheld herself with wonder, a hollow and bright eyed phantom, in the ruins of her palace robe. The breeze now shook her image; now it would be marred wilh Hies; and at that she smiled; and from the fading circles, her counterpart smiled back to her ami. looked kind. She sat long in the warm sun, and pitied her bare arms that were all bruised and marred with falling, she marvelled to see that she was dirty, and could not grow to believe that she had gone so long in such a strange disorder. Then, with a sigh, she addressed herself to make a toilet by that forest mirror, washed herself pure from all the stains of her adventure, took off her jewels and wrapped them in her handkerchief, rearranged the tatters of her dress, and took down the folds of her hair. She shook it round her face, and the pool repeated her thus veiled. Her hair had smelt like violets, she remembered Otto saying; and so now she tried to smell it, and then shook'her head, and laughed a little sadly, to herself. The laugh was returned Upon her in a childish echol She looked up; and lol two children looking on, -asmal. girl and a yet smaller byp, standing, like playthings, by the pool,' below a spreading pine. Senwhina was not fond of children, and now she was startled to the heart. 'Who are you?' she cried, hoarsely. The mites huddled together and drew back; and Seraphina's heart reproached her that she should have frightened things so quaint and little, and yet alive with senses. She thought upon the birds and looked again at her two visitors; so little large and so far more innocent. On their clear faces, as in a pool, she saw the reflection of their fears. With gracious purpose she arose. 'Come,' she said, 4do not be afraid of me,' and took a step towards them. But alas! at the first movement, the poor babes in the wood turned and ran helter-skelter from the Princess. The most desolate pang was struck into the girl's heart Here she was, twenty-two soon twenty-three and not a creature loved her; none but Otto; and would even he forgive? If she began weeping in these woods alone, it would mean death or madness. Hastily she trod thoughts out like a burning paper: hastily rolled up her locks, and with terror dogging her, and her whole bosom sick with grief, resumed her journey. Past ten in the forenoon, she struck a highroad, marching in that place uphill between two stately groves, a river of sunlight; and here, dead weary, careless of consequences, and taking some courage from the human and civilized neighbourhood of the road, she streched herself on the i.-reen margin in the shadow of a tree. Sleep closed on her. ;it tirst with a horror of fainting, but when she ceased to struggle, kindly embracing her. So she was taken home for a little, from all her toils and sorrows, to her Father's arms. And there in the meanwhile her body lay exposed by the highwayside, in tattered lincry;and on either hand from the woods the birds came flying- by and calling Upon others, and debated in their own tongue this strange appearance. A lutle below where thev stood, a good-sized brook passed below the road, which overleapt it in a single arch. On one bank of that loquacious water a foot, path (kc ended a given dell. Here it was rocky and stony, and lay on the steep scarps of the ravine; here it way choked with brambles; and there, in fairy haughs, it lay for a few paces evenly on the green turf. Like a sponge, the hill-side oozed with well-water. The burn kept growing both in force and volume: at every leap it feu with heavier plunges and span more widely in the pool. Great had been the labours of that stream, and great an 1 agreeable the changes it had wrought. It had cut through dykes of stubborn rock, and now, like a blowing dolphin, spouted through the orifice; along all its humble coasts, it had undermined and raf ted-down the goodlier timber 1 f the forest, and oil these rough clearings it now set and tended primrose gardens, and planted woods of willow, and made a tavourite of the silver birch. Through all these friendly features the path, its human acolyte, conducted our two wanderers downward, Otto before, still pausing at the more difficult passages to lend assistance; the Princess following. From time to time, wl en he turned to help her, her face would lighten upon his her eyes, half desperately, woo hint He saw, lu dared noL understand. 'She does not love me,' he told himself, with magnanimity. This is rim rse or gratitude;! were no gentleman, no, nor yet a man, if I presumed upon these pitiful concessions.' Some way down the glen, the ftr,am. already grown to a good bulk of water, was redely dammed across, ai d about a third of it abducted in a wooden trough. Gavlv the pure water, air's first cousin, fleeted along the rude aqueduct, whose sides and floor it had made green with grasses. The path, bearing it close Company, threaded a wilderness oi briar and wild rose. And presently, a

little in front, the brown ton of a mill and the tall millwheel, spraying diamonds, arose in the narrws of the glen; at the same time the snoring music of the saws broke the silence. (To b Continus!. W. C T. U. COLUMN. DMUCTKL) BY M KB. 11 . L. HORBS.

A Wondrrful Kevival! The fjaaiifH of the Dubofal County VV. C, T. U. met in Ireland Wednesday afternoon. July 1. in their County Convention. A renewed interest was sluAvn in the work; several new members were reported and every Union in the County was represented. The following County otliceis were elected: Mrs. M. L. Hobbs, President. . " Flora Root, Ree. Sec. Klfa Clezen, Cor. Sec. Sarah Kelso, Treasurer. Superintendents of Departments were apxinted as follows: Sabbath School Work Emma Alfocd Scientific Temperance Instruction Helen Rose. Medal Work Mrs. Jennie Lemmon. Temperance Literature Mrs. Mary Glezen. Press Work Mrs. ML L. Hobbs. Unfermented Wine Mrs. J. F. Wells. Sabbath Observauce Mrs. Sarah Kelso. Loval Temperance Legion Mrs. Flora Root. Among other interesting features of the afternoon was the presentation of Miss Martha Glezen (daughter of Theodore Glezen) to the County W. C. T. U. Some time ago Miss Martha was adopted hy Hillsboro W C. T. U. and soon will be adopted by the State organization at brazil, Ind. The Snoot Memorial was read and duly signed Resolutions were ordered commending Governor Hanly's executive bravery. A free will offering from each Union was voted to Mrs. Katie Lee of Jeffersonville. who has so freely given her service to this county lor the past three months. All the stranded actor wants is a show. A lawsuit is the proper court dress for an attorney. The cigars some men smoke are not worth a scent. The picture of health is often a g mtliM work of art. He Hire you are right then be certain you are sure. It's l wise man that knows If tinu'is money, some peopel's time must be counterfeit. A woman s worst enemies are apt to be those of her own sex. Love is the last, but not the lout of the diseases of childhood Too m?n men are known by the company they are caught in Some people's idea of getting rid of dept is to dodge creditors Members of the last congress who voted for the Ksch-Town-send bill have just made a painfull discovery. It is that their names constitute a nem "black list" of the railroad companies. It is stated that all the eastern railro.ids and several of the west ern lines hare agreed not to show anv favors to congressmen who are recorded as voting in favor of th" bill providing far goverment regulation of rates.

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