Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 March 1906 — Page 3
I) AWE FORTUNE FAVORS TWO IMMIGRANT BOYS Michael O'Connor and Robert Hughes, Sons of Erin, Now Roll in Wealth.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. 4 Tempemnea Lesson Internat-acel ; Sunday S-hool Lesson Tor
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Our Pattern Department
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MONEY ACQUIRED BY DIFFERENT METHODS
Former Prospers Through Speculation Real Estate Buys His Native Town Latter Inherit! a Million Dollars and Ancestral Castle In Ireland.
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w York "DUN Fortuue, that . being has smiled on two ra-ii to America II years ago i front the land of Shamrocks. Alboth Of tkm sons ot lid Ml I.
-1 O'Connor ami Robert Hughes. SV rieh. they obtained their tfc in ways that are greatly dlfferIhe stories of their ran.-rs and i triumphs which recently cr-wti-h-m. are the making of two as v and Interest illy romances as tore relating the story of Michael a ir it will be necessary to itnaif t'.tnsjMtrted across the So the ancient village of Iitrlm. . QH3oweOfl ii iv- ilved since immemorial. LHiini is on the . Of that mt.h -ung stream the 31 inn-.n. IWowd of "Tom" ..1 immortalized In hi songs. ..-c upon its brinks, stand the Of the (real old feudal h wa once the scat of M: 1 r Illustrious aacestor, Rhod-
adopted by heroes of romance. ttOTOai m - a 1 I fc l r-
rrom nine immemorial uav uu m-n. millions by wr- bUng it from the bo els of the earth, by clever maulpula- ; ti'tnn of th stock market, by war and
tOU at Bat who ever heard of a bero of romance who made his money
I in plain. prosaic real estate dealing.
That is w hat Michael O'Connor did.
and it paid him axtly more in returns thai, more romantic Btoaey .making might have. Penniless Vhefi I he came here, he managed to secure a clerical p.-iion almost Immediately upon his arrival. He was industrious and frugal, and after several years he h I managed to save up several hundred dollars, whlh he Invested in a few lots la the Broai It was the luckiest thing he could have done. Ht i id them for more than double sc era years later and reinvested himoney la more real estate. Michael O'Connor, from Lai trim Iowa was worth a hundred thousand dol
f the iri-h eapttal L'atll a few weeks ago Robert; Hughes never dreamed that he would be Other tkaao hard working silk weav- ' ei Tl.. wildest dream he indulged in wax that of an era which would know ; no striken and lockouts among the silk . mills in whl' Ii he has been earning his
livelihood ever since he arrived, which was Just ihn- weeks after MI hael O'Connor, of Leltrim, had -r-pj.i-d off
the gang ilank. For Roaert Hughes in suffer' . from the)
Incident to Um frequent labor troubles among the factories of Paterson. Inherits Fortune from Relatives. Hughe-,' fortune he inherits from a distant relative. John Hugh--. K.-q . merchant of Belfast, recently dead, leaving a fortune of $3,000.'d0 in cash and much valuable real estate In Belfast and the surrounding country. Hughes is :8 years old. three years oluer than Michael O'Connor. He learned to w i - silk in 'he fa ies ol Belfast loai tefore he left Ireland. He
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are loc.ited, is, as you know, a black and ugly place, and 'his white h,us-on the grceu liili always looked so beautiful ..lid : . . 1 I a t g; ilig i always rested my JOB upon the green of that hill when they got tlted following the pattern of the silk web. There is nothing like green to rest the eyes upon when they are tired, you know. I aaed to look at the hillside and at the white house, and I built astles in the air about what 1 would do and say and how 1 rhould feel if that whitehoue and tha- - :i hili-ide w ere mine. Di'P.m Finally Realised. "And now. all of a sudden something has happened which makes it possible for me to 11. e in a house much grander by far, and with gren gardens much more beaut if il. aerhapet, than the hillside at Paleraua or I oaeUd buyamu- h
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it Is rM. wtien It ti th ii I It t.itet like a Ilk an saMar. Tu s M thinK y-er tlangs t!i M ilt Ih like OM who ii .it in x viili-rit i ru k. but 1 fel nu i .it m. 1 a'li BOt c.jn. louul
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Mtehael 0Connor'i fath-r. to-day Che BSD : prosperous i Itlu in Lell m at. ! the happiest and proudest man to al the ereen land of Ireland. O'Ccnnor Cmes to America. F - Ml son. his first born, the boy wh f years ago set n.tll for the idkn land '.f America, has made a fortune beyond the dreams of lyltrlm and like a fairy prln-e hOI boachl bark ti t only the anntte oT his lone dapoer l aaceetora, bat the entire t wn of litrlm. his native place, bflehael, the lair haired, j'aie eyed.
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tum Of all Anyway. I did. I us d to hink when I w.s a li'tie barefoot By play lag about the rataa of the obi ( ;".le there. h'w mueh I would like, whoa l beei BM man. to able to (buy it and restore It to Its once 1 mous grandeur You see. every lwy in 'lyitrini knows the story of the castle gad of the ':'.ngs aid artaees who oaee feasted in i's greai halls. Then there were - ni:-. - old I r i -Ii .ni-- ') 1 keep our memory green. I suppo-e there w.is ii..- I boy in the village who di,j ao4 thare in the same emotion.
". 11. fortune has beon ery good to nie, and it turns out that I have bet D able to go bv k and buy not only
Thi treaalitloa of the Hebrew text should be compared with, and is substituted for, the rendering in the Fr liih -ision it U both interes ing and Instructive. The Drunkard's Portrait Gallery." This lesson depicts aa possibly am other Scripture lesson doea in suikingly accurate terms the portrait of a drunkard The pic; vre is not only descrtDtive: It i prophetic. It de-
scribes n-.1 Ma drunkard as nI is. but also the tippler as he will le I If he cori'inues to remata long at ths ! wine. The portrait is true to lif. It- counterpart may be seen any day j reehmr along the streets of any of our Urse cities. I "he Evils Tollowirg Intemperance H iw trapnlcally they are here described! Let us note them one by
one. Fin a lite nil ä wttn on and "alas ' Thse words are Interjections, not nouns. No translation can do Justice to them. Ko attempt is here ma le to de ribe the innumerable woes, regrfts. an1 pains which come to the intemperate man. Oh. the
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Pattern No
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The side closing mart efiect u thts-little blue and green -checked imming constats ot
lands of olain iri-n and narrow black
braid. The ilnhed -le. ve cap. arranged ver the fall bishop sleeve is a pleasing feature, bu' w .w l) umifed if desired.
I The full gathered skirt la finished by
deep hem ".c oique and line making The materia! Si
ere. challis. albatrosa.
i are all advised for the aaedtam size rquires h...f yards of 36-inch ; f r 8. 9. H and 12 yeare.
This pattern ) ETJ be aaat to you cm reee pi lernte. Address all orders U the I'att. rn Department ofUilaaafer. Be sure t.i give si and mimh-r uf pattern want. t). For conv. nu no. wr.tc v-.ur ..r.i.-r on the foUowiag cowpoa:
BREAKFAST JACKET WITH BISH OP OR FLOWING SLEEVES
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has wi.rked h.r. all his life, always nt .-ilk weaving. By virtue of intelligence and industry he was promoted something hke five years ago to the position of foreman His pay is. or was, 18 a week He ha a wife and two children to supiKirt. and by ,-;re: eeoaoaty he was able to lay by enough to buy a little house. Two tiny rooms downstairs and two upstairs, with a small porch in front that Is the sort of house Robert Hughes has bam living in in Lodi. The Belfast mansi.-n he has fallen heir to contains 38 spacious chambers, any one of which would alaaoal be tatfei than the little bouau in Lodi la iiodi Robert Hughes had one f.re. that which clowc 1 in the kitchen s'nve In Belfast then;
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more elegant house here. .But I want neither What I want is the hou.-e ot my years of dreaming and ttw grev.' hill it stands upon. That is all my w it and I and my little girls want. We feel wc can be happier there than in any other house in the world, and 1 believ we can." "Yes. I am sure it Is as my husb;.nd says." remarked Mrs Hughes, who bad leen darning sto slugs while her husband talked. " I want the house on the hill. We are plain reop-e We have been plain people all our lives, and It would not be becoming for us to put on the airs of fine folk now thit we have been luckv enough to inherit old Mr
Hughes' money and lands Besi.!- wl should not be happy to depart too much
Froai the way we have been used t" m ing. The white hii:se on the hil! is a large enough, and if I lived there I ar perfe-tly sure I could not be bappl
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int o: tompiaim i , m to have gon in re lilt) his own aalWe for hts and he has "wound hurts which r.
w-oild not have had had he been ser I hae ,.ften;imes viied men in some of our city htspiMls who were not able to account for the wounds which may have caused even the amputation of a limb. Lying there ir their bail bruised and crippled they have confessed that they did not know how they received KM ti wounds. Ha l they been sober men they would not have had these "wounds withou cause Thin dimness of sieht.'' or red-
Bees of eyes' is anotba the inebriate. The visi blurred, darkened a- th' the brain. We are all the red. blurred eye of It lack brightness, cl Such i the awul po
who "tarry long at the wine." Tirrlers Soon lieeome Tarriers. II we ; ;. at tnc wine it will n
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merry niouthed boy who sailed away 13 veirs ago. is maater of the town and Ps castle to-day. He it If who wns the long Village sued, the forge.
th agotberarf shop, the oohbleT shop He it la, little Mike 0''mnor. who owns the sfjulre's white house, tad thbrown rectory, and ah' even the pret Utah hurch and the chapel stände on Mi baej O'Connor's freehold ground Formal announcement of the purchase of the Tillage was made re. entlv In the Iltrlm Observer, published at Carrick-on Mie Shannon, and the same 1- M i l atahaal a detailed story of Mb ha 1 O'Connor's adventures In the land of his adoption. Fortim- Made Through Real Estate. Strangely enough, he did not make his loriaBi after the mnnr ueually
I the c.istle but the old town Every stone and stick of the dear old place is my property to day. Including, to be i sure" the homestead where my fore
fathers for generation upon generation have been born and lived and died. 1 have :.. en able to buy the dear old plaet and know that my father and mother will live there for the rest of tlolr lives." Mr. O'Connor and his wife and daughter expect to take formal poseestk of their feudal town and castle
eaily In the coming summer Storv of Robert Hughes. Robert Hughes' story is the very oppsle to Mi. hael O'Connor's. Wealthy, too. he Is to-day. to be sure, wealthy j
beyond the dreama of avarice, but. nn
like the brother in good ion one. ne H I not earn It. it came to him like a
ine to work, and tney too nana iKe u might le blown in a dream (,), ye I sMi! g" wot 5 everyday. The habit of work is very strong, espei when one h;is worked all his life as I have done Indeed. I do not ,.: whether I shall ever be able to stop anil iBf now that I have an opjortunlty
to quit. Will I go back to Ireland to live? N. ton yoar Kfo I VOald not take the whole vity of Pelfas'. mu h as 1 love every stick and stone of the dear old pla.e I would not take It all as a pre. ions gift and be oblige! to live there the rest of my life and ghe up my American LUlMinahta t have toiled and suffer" 1 here. I married niv w ife here and nn .hil. Iren were born here. I have helped to elect three presidents of the
1 nlted States I tell you i am mign.y proud Of being r.n American and 1 would rather forfeit all the money of .lohn Hvighe. of Belfast, than lose my right to that name. Cod has t een good to me. and I'nO Sam has been good to me in spite of all rny hard hick America has stuck by .-hen t was down, and now that I am
up I mean to stick to her. Amcrtra was good enough for me o earn a living In. and I Pi If g"inK ' KnfKl pnf,uh f..r me to spend my money In. Will Buy Coveted Home Will I move to New York city" No. I won t. I don't like New York. I have leen up there twice, and I don t like the place. I don't feel at home there I'd rather stay right here In !U even ir If Is barren and ugly, than to go up to that hreat. cruel, unfriendly city. No. t
tactful Quaker. Some time as there lived a gentle, man of Indolent habits who spent bfc I time visiting nmong hl Mead After
wearfibj eat in aekeaae in hi" aari neighborhood bethought he WOUM .it an tld Qeaker friend some miles distant On h'. arrival he wa cordially Wceletd by the Quaker, who thinking the visitor had taken nv:.-h pains to ceeae so far to see h'm. tr- af ed him with a great deal of attention and po'.itene for several days At the visitor showed no suns of learin the Ouaker became uneasy, but
ore it with patience until the eighth ,iar tthen he said to him
My frbnd. I am a'raid Hat will never come aeain " ..0 r i shall." said the rtaRaf T have enjoyed my visit much, and shall certainly come again ' Bnt." said the Quaker, 'if thee will
n ver leave how can the roroe j again?"- London Black and White Remains.
bllng fingers the sorrowaaaai a small box which
hail lust been left by the postman
When the lid was removed t'uere lay revealed a boy s shoe, part of a crava, a ring und a collar button "Alan!" sighed the grief-stricken old ' man, jraring on the fragments. I a'. ways feared hat Clarence cou'dn"' I atend tha haling Jo ige.
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true to our lives. The only safe attlt'l le for V. t tak' 1- ;!i ;s:tioa advocated by the Bible. "Look not on the wine when it is red in the CUB Da not put yotrrself in the way ot strong drink. Avou he saloon. PUsj
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The Last Touch to the P: -ure. We ha here .isritjed not merely j the pnwent. but also the eternal ruin wrought by drink: "At ia.t it bit- i like a aerpent. and stiigeth like aa adder.' Its consequences are fatal nut only in this lite but in the lite to come. No drunkard shall enter the kingdom of Heaven. But you say. ' I Bsstar expect to be a drunkard Ma neither did the man who has just rilled a drunkard's grave. No drunk ard ever did. Watch out for the wini when it is In its attractive s'agewhen it is red. when it gheth Its color: when it moveth itself aright." or. as it may be translated, when U goeth down smoothly. " Beware ot It in Its afr.i.tive stages, when to s.p It seem- not only p. it 'tly harrulew. but. on the contrary, thrilling and Inspiring. Remember that the ser pent has a venomous sting as well a a beautiful skin When It fascinates It kills. In Evsry Wine Cup. Look right I wr. to tits very bot ton
of ee: win" cup and see ther--
a coiled serpent ready to spring a your throat and take your very til, Remember Miat the same light which a trau the m-nh kills it We can wall, the streets on a summer evening an I eee hundreds of thesw iasects lying ,tni1 around the ItgtT Kemembi
thai while wine ticklet an 1 pleases It ruins an! kills. NVlne not only Btupefifs. sadden, brings sorrow, misfortune in I regret: but. worse Mian all this. II iamns üi soul eternally aad fore er.
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lee dreeatag sack or breakfast jacket, it was deteloi ed in pale blue Preach flannel, with bands of white flannel Jutted with blue. The fronts aregathtred and attached to a yoke The back la fitted in to the figure, and a trimming band fumSahew the neck and front The ileeree ere in the regular bishop shape, gathered to a narrow Hand. If preferred they may be in flowing style Several fabrics are ap- . . prlate to the making such a flannel. ,,htii-r' . fid I w n The melium -ic will require three yards of 3'i-inch materi..: Sizes for 34, It, St, and 12 ii. V - I -' measure
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to the Pattern lX-par Be snre to give iae la "ti muaied. Pbf vo-jrorrter on the u
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Sh See to It. T ofen wonder what make you so thoughtful of fan wife?" Y.m wouldu 1 wonder If yo'i knew my wire better llousfon Post Premature. What .1. you think of the future of the atrsnip" 'My dear sir.'- replied the old and practical person, what is the use of thinking about Its. future until It acquires a present''' Washington Star. . mm mm, r M
All Stars ran.
Bacon They say you ran tHI a ow'a age by her tongue? Keltert Perhaps, but you can t tell a woman s age that way Why. some of the young ones talk ts much as the older one! Yonkers Sutesmaa.