Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 June 1906 — Page 3

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PECK'S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS

By HON. GEORGE W. PECK Author of 'Tacfc'i B4 Buy Abroad,'' ( t

ConrUl-t bjr J. M. tlu

I window and pa's circs irrMnrt told him thut if he could fin 1 such an anl mal alh and rapture It for the show, our fortunes would be rnada We stayed there all nlht. and pn asked questions about the probabllR of ttx-re being atjelr animals alive at this day. and the scientists promptly told jia these animals only exl-' ' 'ages and ages ago, when the country j was covered with water and was a part 'of IM OMU, and that the anlniuls ! lived on the high pla'es, but when the I water receded, and the ocean became a desert, the dlnosaurus dlerd of a , broken heart, and all we had to show I for It was these petrified bones. Pa ought to have believed the seien- ! tints, 'cause they know ail about

their business, but after the scientist-

we started north o:. Ingest fed eipeliili.n ü.Ht ever v...- I it pa w n as earnest and excited as Peary planning a ti'Ttir p. de -xj I,', n. and as buay as a boy killing snakes After the cowl -- ii (i : the srimtlsta had tried to get I a t make his will before ho went, and t the addresses wh re pa want d our remains sent to In case of our being fo;nd dried Bp on the prairie, and our bones polish' 1 by wolve3. we were on the move, and pa was M happy you would think he had already b-und a live dinoaaai and had him in a cage. For four days wt rode along up and down foothills, and divides an I small mountains, and all the time pa was telling the boys how, after we ha l located our dinoaeuruaes. we

Our Pattern Department

LADIES' SHIRT-WAIST.

Pn. the Bad Boy and a Band of Cowl oy Go in Stnrch of a Live Di

nosaurus The Expedition Is Cap- i had none to bed the cow boys began to I would go back east and organize an

tured by a Gang of Train Robbers string pa. They told hlni that about 1 expedition with derricks and rar . a-

ig as a bouse, and come back and drive the animals in. And when we got them w!th the show people we would run trains hundreds of miles

'' 1 the rarest anim.t;.- any t-dmv

and Pa Is Held tor Ransom.

I hundred mlks to the north. In a valley in the mountains, the d-n.-aur'H still existed, alive, and that uo man dare go there. One cowboy

Wi en I saw pa clinging to tho saddle which had got loose from the

horse that he was riding when he t,ald he was herding a bunch of cattle

lassooed tbo Mack steer around the in a valley up there once, and the ; ever exhibited to a discriminating pubbelly, and the steer was running away, bunch got into a drove of dlnosauruses. j Ü and we could charge five dollars dragging pa and the saddle across the and the fir.-t thing he knew a big ' for tickets, and people would mob plains. I thought I never would see dlnosaurus reached out his neck and ' pach other to get up to the ticket bin alive again. Hut the cowboys picked up a steer, raised it in the air I 0OB. Thn the baffl would wir.k Rai 1 they would bring bis remains about M feet, as easy as a derrick ' at each other, and tap their foreheads back all right. When they rode away would pick up a dog hou.e. and the with their fingers, and look at pa ai

THE DECIDING VOTE

By I). J. I.AYTON

l ,rr,Ktl. bjr JoMyti Ii. Jiv.., The green presented an unwonted ap-

ouL His hands, trembling with age and excitement, showed wrinkled aad l Laad as ho bU.oJ gripping his desk. t "Mr Speaker." said he. "before I cast my vote I'd like to aay a llttla eomithia', if I have permission," and he peered around over his spectacles. "I won't take long, couldn't speak very long if i triad; I uia't cut out for a legUluV rman. "My deestrict. as you all know, la

pretty much agin Allison. Some of

. poaranco of atlvity. The bar at the

ancient botel near the state house was jus thought he wasn't runnin' this lit

rapidly redtMtag the Bjortüfi on the j tie political game right, and we fit I propertf i,im pretty strong. Snce I've ben ; it was the last day of the legislative I here. I've tried to vote an' art right. OOealon For four c:.rs the state had an' none of them lobby felle.-s have beeu unrep:- . ! in " L'oltl i State , got a-boid of me ylt I thought my senate. The factional quarrel In tho principles was too well known far aayRepublican party, unimportant at first, j one ter try ter bribe me, 'cauae I've

naa Become a national question. The : alius tried to fight agin bribery and

whole country was divided into Allbon aad antl-AUU'.n adherents. Allison had begun the present session

c rruption. But it seems that a man's princ'ples don't make no dlffrunce.

N hat a his price? that's all. Mr. Al

to capture the steer and release pa. dlnosaurus swallowed the steer whole, I stopped crying and laid down under and the other dlnosauruses each swal-

tho chuck wagon with the dogs, to think over what I would do. alon- In the world, and I must have fal'. n asleep, for the next thing I knew the dogs barked and woke me up, and

lowed a steer. The cowboy said before he knew It his whole bunch of I tOOTf was swallowed whole, and they

though ihey expected he would break

out violently insane any minute. Finally we cot up on a hlfh ri Ire. and a beautiful, fertile valley WU infolded to our view, and Bill, the COW

A boy Dinowaurus Reached out His Neck and Picked up a Steer.

would have swallowed him and his boy who had had his herd of steers

horse If he hadn't skinned out on U I eaten by the dinosaur i. . rail tt.it

was the place, and he began to shiver like be had the ague. He said he wouldn't go any farther without another hundred dollars, and pa asked the other cowboys If they were afraid, too. and they said they were a little scared, but for another hundred dollars they WOtlld forget it. forget their families, and go down Into the death valley. Pa paid then the money, and we went down into the valley, and rode along, expecting to Jump a flock of dlnosauruses any minute, but the valley was as still as death, and pa said to Bill: "Why den't you I ring on your dinosauruses," and Bill said he gue.-sed l- the time we got up to the far en 1 of the valley we would see something that would make us stand without hitching. We went on towards where the val ley came to a point where there seemed to be a hole in the side o! the mountain, when all of a sudden four or five gun shots were hear !, ati four of our horses dropped dad la 1 1. i r traks. and about a dozen men

i come out of the hole in the wall and I

i looked off to the south and the cow- i gallop. He sai l he couil near me ; told us to bold up our nanus, ana boyi were coming back with pa's re- dlnosauruses for miles, making anoie when we did so they took our guns U on a buckboard. like distant thunder, whether from away and told us to come in out ol I went up to the wagon to see if j eating the steers, giving them a pain, the wet. pa looked natural, and he raised up. 1 or w hether bidding defiance to bin -c went into a cave and found that Ilka a corpse coming to, and said: i and his horse, he never could make j we had been captured by Curry's gana, "Hennery, did you notice how I roped ' out. but bo said nothing but money 1 0 train robbers, who made their keadthe black steer?" and I eald: "Yes. I could ever induce him to go into that 1 quarters In the hole in the wall. The pa. I saw the whole business, and saw valley again. leader searched pa and took all hii you start pouth. chasing the steer. Pa asked the other cowboys If they money, and told us to make ourselves armed only with a saddle, and what had ever been to that dlnoaurus val- at home. Pa protested, and sal 1 he is the news from Texas?" ley, and they Winked at enh othor and ! was an old showman who had come Pa said: "Look-a-here, I don't want said they had heard of it, but there ' to the valley looking for the supposed to hear any funny business. I dolitr 1 WaJ not money enough to hire them ' to b -extinct dlnosaurus. to captUN ered the goods all right, and if the ' to go there, 'cause they bad heard that one for the show, and the leader ol cinch of the saddle had held out faith- 'a mans life was not safe a minute, j the gang said he was the only dl ful to the end, I would have tied the BtU, who had told the story, was the 1 nosaurus there was. but he hadn't !terr in record time, but man proposes OBlf man who bad ever bfOl there, been captured. Then the leader anl the rest you have to have to ' tnd the only man living that bad slapped our cowboys on the shoulder! luck I was out of lurk, that is all. I seen a live dlnosaurus. told them they had done a good but the ride I had across the prairie Then we turned in. and pa never Job to bring into camp such a rlcfc ba given me some ideas about flying slept a w ink all night, thinking of ! f id codger as pa was. and then w machines that will be worked into our the rare animals, or insects, or rep- fcund that the cowboys belonged te fbow next year." tilts, or w hatever they are. that he Curry's gang, and had roped pa it Pa got up off the buckboard and expected to land for the show He ; In order to get a ransom, shook himself, and he was Just as well j whispered to me in the alM and said: The leader a3ked pa about how and bUtrtr as ever, and the cowboys i "Hennery. I am on the trail of the j much he thotteht his friends at Um got around him, and told him he was j dinosaurus. ami while I am not pre-, fast could raise to get him out. and a wonder, and that Buffalo Bill parwd to capture one n!ie. at thla when pa found he was in the hands of bandits, and that the dlnoaurut

mine was salted, and ne naa :een made a fool of. he sal I to me: "Hen mry, now. honest. bOtWOM man ana man. wouldn't this skin you?" I began to cry and said: "Pa, both of us are skun. How are we going to get out of this?" and pa said Watch me."

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SIZK NAME ADMUEM

LADIZS ONE OR TWO-PIECE CIRCULAR SKIRT

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I j a Niiid uuui vi mjikb. no nson came to see me yesterd.iy an crawled slowly up to 29, and there ho ; audible titter ran around the hall, Mop; el. Argutneuts. threats, pensua- I this was Allison methods wdth a vension availed nothing. Every scheme geonce "an' he ast me fer my vote, known to political science had been i told him he couldn't have it. bit tri. d. Dickers and deals had been met ways of doin' bizness wasn't quite my , with counter deals. The Democrats and ; way. Th't I was 'posed to bribery and the antl-Allise.n men could not combine c'rruptlon anyways. 'If that's all ! i and Allison could not land another sin- j the ways,' Eays he, 'you kin vote for gle supporter. Another deadlock I me with a clear ' conscience. Oui seemed imminent. j princ'ples ain't so difT'runt.' Each day for over a week the clerk "Well, he argyed 'long fer quite a had announced: "For John Allison, ' spell, an' finally, seeln' I was still

29: for Randolph Keener. 2C. for 'posed to him, he says: ' Well, Mr

Henry TbOBMU, 4. Ne. vssary to a choice. So," and the speaker, a Litter "Antl." had drawled out, with his nasal twang and with an Increasing satisfaction as the prospect for an cleci tlou lessened, "and no one havng a ma- : Jorlty of the votes of those present and voting. I declare no election." It was 11 o'clock; the final ballot would be taken at noon. Allison was sitting in the govcrnor'a private room, talking with the governor aud the secretary of state. Allison was a tall, heavy man, who dressed well, but quietly. In his lapel he wore a plain Grand Army button. His was a strong, kindly face, thougli careworn. "If I thought that crowd were sincere in their principles," said he, "if i ibeir methods were cleaner than mine. I

would respect them at least, and I would have stepped aside long ago. But it's not reform they're after. They want to lick me. Thomaa ran up against me in a financial deal some years ago, and he's been after me ever since. "Four man oppose our 29. Speaker Henry, owned body and 60ul by Thomas; Snyder and Hall, two unmitigated rascals If there ever were any, nd old Wood, the only member they

1 have from the country, and the only i HIS HAND HAT.F RAISED as IF is

honest one they have. Why, he really 1 w 'Test. vhinks Thomas never spent a dollar in Wood. I won't argy any further, you this fight. I had some hopes thut he , 6pem t0 De gtandtn' up to your princ' might be with us, but he's as stubborn j pieB eveQ j you are mistaken in your as a mule. I had a talk with him last party.' and he left me. night. x0t it wan't Allison that tried to "We re stronger now that we ever j bribe me." said he. looking around; were, but it seems that Thomas hold j "I s'posed you all thought so. I was the winning card. He has powerful lookin' out fer that myself. Didn't friends and powerful interests, and ; 'spect no better out'en him, but I did

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We Were Captured by the Curry's Ging.

couldn't hold hold a candle to him as an all-around rough rider and cowboy combined. So pa hired alntut a dozen of the cowboys to go with our ahow. and then we went Into camp for the night, and the cowboys told of a place about 20 miles away, where some scientists had a camp, where tbof were excavating to dig out petrified bones of animals supposed to be extinct, like the dlnosaurus and the hoday, and pa wanted o g.i there nnd about It. and fie next day we took half a dozen of thev cowboys pa had hired, and wo rode to the camp. r.ec. but I never believed that such animals ever did exist In this country, but the scientists had one animal picture thai showed the dlnosaurus as he existed when alive, an animal over 70 feet long, that would weigh as mtirh as a dozen of our largest elphants, with a neck as ling as IB Klraffes. and then they s'iowcd us bone of these animals that they dug out and put together, and tie completed mess of bones showed that the diaosaurua could eat out of a alx-story

time. I am going to that valley and see the animals alive, and make plans 1 for their capture, and report to the l management of the show. What do I you think about it?" I told pa that I thought that cowi boy. Rill, was the worst liar that we had ever run up acalnst. and I knew I by siudylng geography In school that j the dinasnuniB was extinct, and had : leen for thousands of years. Pa said: "So they say the buffalo Is extinct. I hut you can find ' m. If you have got the money. Lots cf things are ex- ! tlnct, till Kroe brave explorer p m tratea the fastnesses and finds them. I The mastodon Is extinct, according to j the scientist, but they are alive in ' Alaska. The north pole is extinct. , but some dub in a balloon will And it all rlaht. I tell you. I am going to I see a live dlnosaurus, or bust. You 'hear me?" and pa heard them eooUing breakfast, nnd we got up. j Before Bawl pa had organized a pack train an i hired three cowboys, and j got some diagrams and pictures of I dlnosauruses from tha acicntista, and

PULLED OFF HIS ARM. Quick Presence of Mind of Man Wht Wr.s Being Ciushed Saves His Life.

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j some w ay he has the press of the country ' back of him. He seems certain to deTeat me now. but there's n reckoning!"

think my own party'd know bettern to try that on me. "I don't know as I've done anything to be insulted like that." he went on, complainingly. "I've been

tell you. Hall." he said to his companion, a dark, heavy man with a cold. Impassive countenance, "I tell you, it had

No 5230.

Cincinnati The quick presence oi mind in the face of a terrible accj at is all that saved the life of Frank P. Thomas, manager of the Peacock distillery. The accident occurred at the plant of the ppacock company, at Kalaerton. Ky., which Is four mileä fron I aris Mr. Thomas went to the plant sever nl days apo to superintend the placing of new machinery and prepare to stirt the distillery for Its aeason run. A 10 machine had Just been Installed, which is used to crush the grain for

its mash. The rollers of this macnin.

are adjusted to crush the grain down to the thickness of a newspaper. While feeling up the grain chute whicb f . lo this rusher Mr. Thoma. who wore a glove, accidentally got too close to the rapidly revolving rollers, and his right hand was drawn into it Hsi arm w-as being rapidly pulled throttp.li the mnchlne. when, with rare preeeaca. ol mind, and with a power ful Jerk, he palled off the crushed portion cf his arm. the rollers having reached to within a few Inches jf his elbow. Hi was removed 10 the office of tha company, where medical 111 wa summoned, nnd hi nm was later ampatated near the shoulder.

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NAME

: The auditor's office was the headquarters of the '"Antls." It was unoccupied

aave for two men. They were talking a Thomas man right "b ng. but seems tagatber in low tones. J as if some of our crowd thought as I One was tall and thin, with a peculiar was old, that I was weak nin', an' cast in his eye. His eyes never me: j,u that I'd have to be spliced up. He ' squarely; they were over you.besideyou, ' was a cute feller, too. slicked me all beyond you. but never at you. He was Bp with my val yble services, an' that 1 Snyder, a member of the house and n lt'd be a pleaaure to help me out'en i leader of the Thomas forces. He was j my f'nanclal troubles If I'd stand nervously chewing the end of a cigar, straight thru' to day. He never

Jerking his sentences out rapidly. "I j fooled me a mite, iou kin gene ally

tell a skunk If you git clost enough to one I s'pose he thought I was conslderln' the offer," said the old man

to be de ne. I saw Allison have him in j with fine scorn, "but I was Just tow yesterday, and you know what that I a t hinkln' what Allison told me. that means. I krajw something was up. I our princ'ples wasn't so diff'runt after thought of those mortgages the first i all, an' I was kinder openln' my eyes, thing. Wood's all right, but he a I says: 'Would you mind puttln that

In wrltln'?' and he kinder hes'tated at fust. 'Caln't you trust me?" saya he. 'Yes.' I saya. 'I kin. hut I'm not froin' to, 'cause promisee don't worry

precious farm. You bet Allison had i some people much after they've got

, something to any about them. I tell you what thOf want." an' he wrote it out It was what saved us this time. We've an' signed his name. 1 got 'em sure now. and with Allison ' "I've got morgldges on my place." aafe at home and not muslin' up things went on the old man "Put 'am there down at Washington, we'll see who gets to send my two boys 'way to school.

cranky, and he's a r-hnrk for money. He's got a couple of mortgage on that place of his, ar. 1 he'd turn a corner

quick as greased lightning to save that

Drouthy Days Coming. Years ago. It is recalled. Parton predicted thnt the OOailng man would neither smoke nor drink The cominp man has nor yet arrived, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. But If the mini? man will neither smoke nor drink the Indications arc that It will be because the coming woman will 'cave him nothing to smoke or drink.

the offices." "Snyder." eald Hall, rousing himself; "you've made a mistake approaching Wood about those mortgages. I know Wood, used to court one of bis daughters, and he's as straight as a

an' I'm not ashamed of It. They're f.ne boys. too. an' both of 'em a-doln well, an' they'll take care of any morgldges I got. "Now, m likely aa not npset aomebody's cal'clatlona by th' way I vote.

trlng He's one man that'll stand an' I hadn t tended to rote thi? way 1 without hltchtne He'd kick th trarps 1 till this mornln'. But I've kinder had

Great Golf Drive. Prof Milne, the seismologist, was the first man O drive I gidf ball aeross the Victoria falls, this being d'ne during the recent visit of tho British association to South Africa

In the Spring. If you meet a man with a stiff back ar. I blistered hands you -nn aafely ask what he planted yesterday.

Honest. The Reporter Do you think football rales should be revised.' The Coach Sure thing! Yon may quote me as strongly condemning biting in clinc hes and kicking below the neck. Puck.

Her Day Out. Mr. Snhbiibs Great heavens! Lucy. Mary Ann tried to start the fire with gun-rotten, and she has !een blown out throtiKh the roof! Mrs. Hubbubs Never mind; It's her day out. anylriw. Tlt-RIts. An Ate-air.ent. She I don't think any girl should mnrry until she reaches a certain age lb- (eagerly) Exactly' That Is when she reaches an age where she's certain she loves a fell.iw as you love ma. Philadelphia Prcma.

pretty ouirk If he knew some of the tricks wo ve been working. He may

1 tar charged, though,

j musingly; "people do. I did. There was a time whrtn I would have knocked 1 a man down if he had tried to InfluI nce my vote, and now these lobbyists rome to me the first one I'm inclined ! to take your Judgment, for you've got la long head and a sh.rp eye. when there's rascality going on. Let's get

ap" The rasping voice of tha opeakcr railed the assembly to order. Some one moved In a perfunctory manner "that the Joint assembly do proceed to ballot for the election of

t United States senator " The hum

In the ganeries Increased Slowly the roll-call proceeded. Down the Rut the clerk went, and no change. The end

' was not to b exciting after all. Hto I and tbe-e a member was keeping tally ' as the roll-call went on. "U-pminh Wood." ran out th

clerk. There was an Instant's paust, and Wood rose slowly from his aeat. his hand half raised, aa if In protest He was an old man, with a flowing white beard etalned yellow around tu mouth from the constant uae of tobacco From behind bla heavy steel iptcUclee ahrewd, kindly area looked

my eyes opened, an' I've cum to th c'neiuslon that If they's any dlff runce

Qn went on. tween cur crowd an Allisons :ts just

'boat th same, an mat dc:p so we might Jest as well let m'Jority rule acin. Now. I don't want nobody rhnrgln' me with Sellin' out an' I don't want no newspapers sech as you an' I knows of. to be a-jumpln' on me, neither I pot most o' my information from them papers, an' It eeema they lied. I didn't want to come to this legislates but two year from now. If I'm alive. I'll want to be n candydate agin, and I'm 'ncllned to think I'll be 'lected too. ' Mr p nk"r. my vote Is f.r John Allison. He may be rotten, but there'o others that's wuss." Amid the pandemonium broken lOuOQ, 111 sat with a sarcastic smtla on his face.

Blind Irver.tor. A blind man named Noack. of Wittenberg, haa Invented an automatlt disconnecter for electric current which can be made to break the connection according to will at any tlma from one to fifteen minutes and can be fltttd to any apparatus The cos of the Invention la 60 cents. Neeck

Is 47 and haa beea blind aioce the

following his birtJa.