Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 42, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 June 1906 — Page 7
ECK'S BAD
30Y WITH THE CIRCUS
bv HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author 0 ' Pack bJ ii Abr
Flc.
nd the Bad Boy Stop Off at a Lively Western Town Pa Buys Mining Stock and Takes Part in a Kabbit Irive.
numerous tLf tiny mint) lu iff the rabbits, ami it was a liibt worth goplains adjoining th- green spot, at in uii'c to if 1: had been oiiie
Bight, and .tt i-veiythhig In ni-hf. so body ele tl . pj ih.it wa holding the once a year it-- i-pjo g,t, up a rab'dt c mer ot n.. t .14.", .nd ail the crowu drive and. pi out in Um night by the ' laughing at pa, aud yelliug U bin It hundi-d, on hotr-ba. k. and wtirr unl tand bis ground. I tlM country for ten miles or so, and It J Weil, pa IWItiel ÜU as handle n: daylight tide along towards a corral, killed au occasional rabbit, but tlMt. VhtN il: 1 1 1 Hol of rabbits are driven we.ru thou-aiols all around, aud pi , in an. I hhiurh' i I with dubs The set iw 1 to be wading up to Mt aatddll I in. u ride cIom' toge tln-r, with doflaJta rabbits, and they would jump all und no guilty rubbit can escape, lover blni, and buut him with their Pa thought 11 w "ild be a picnic, and j heads, nvA ratch biui with tb-ir tow I so we went along, but pa withes that he all, and the dogs would grab rabbit
M4 let well enough alone and kept out and shake Hum, ana pa wouw nu i of the rabbit gain -. Those natives are down and rabbits would ruu over him 'fall of fun ami .11 tin rabbit drives till you couldn't sec pa at all. Then the) always pick Ottt some man to , he would raise up uguiu and maul OM ' ... . I i.nlmul. .Ill, ..u nH Kill lilllhu.
have fun wrh, and they picken out pa , U the victim. We rode along for coveted with rabbit hair that couple of lours, BMluK rabbits by the he looked like a big rabbit himself dozen, and ti.-y would run along ahead , He lost his hat and looked as though 1 ! im ,..Un.tdsAJ im1 tri Alt hL
of us, nnd multiply. o that when the mu,auauiCu, -
Uis nanus ami
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ORGANIZATION OF FARMERS
Find Prr.toct.on Worthless und Bebel A.cinit Tariff -Fosteied Tiust.
Our Pattern Department
A DRESSY SHIRT-WAIST SUIT.
A.M. we are on the way back home, corral was in sight ahead the prairie
' uti.iiia.il in. I wttit f.n
having engaged In Hans, cowboys, ,gh riders and highway lubbers tu sj our show for next reason 1'a real young und kl'teny when we to the railroad, after leaving our l.er friends at the Hole In the Wall. Into the mountain country. We
was alive with long eared animals, so j y"lled to the rest of the men, who had
the earth seemed to be moving, and It almost made a man dizzy to look al them. Th" hundreds of men on horseback had c.me in close toother from all sides, and when we were within half
BM to a lively town on the railroad, a mile of the corral the crowd stopped every other house is a gambling at a signal, and the leader told pa that i im, and every ther one a plain now was the time to make a cavalry 1 11, and there was t:roit excltetnen. .harne m the rabbits., and he naked pa UM town over our arrival, cause ( If he was afraid and wanted to go don't very many rich and pros- back, and pa said he had been a sol1 us people stop there. I die nnd charged the enemy: had been i'.i had looked over the money the ' politician and had fought In hot
ha. I lriven him. to throw It ampa Inns, had hunted tigers ami
r .i.berc
w.iy, be tiuse
it was old-fashioned lions In the Jungle, and rode r
The Pony Tossed Pa in the Air.
dismounted and were lined up at th
edge of the corral, nod said: "You eondemnc.1 loafers, why dou't you 1 .nie in here and help us dogs, kill off these vermin, cause I don't want to have ail Um fun. Come on In, the water Is fine,' and pa laughed as though
he was In swimming and wanted the rest of the gang to come in. The crowd thought they had given the distinguished stranger his inning and so they all rushed In with clubland began to Kill rabbits and drive t hem away from pa. In an hour or .-jo the most of them wer killed, and
pa was so tired he went and sat down m the ground to rest, and I got dowr iff my perch and went to pa and askec him what he thought of this latest ex pen -nee. and I began to pick rabbli
hairs off pa s clothes. "I'll tell you what It Is. Hennery," said pa. as be breathed hard, as though he hail been running a foot race, "thb rabbit drive reminds me of the way the rich corporations look upon the pour people, just as we look upon tht jackrabblu. Wl pity a single Jackrabbit, and he runs when he sees us,
and seem to say: 'Please, mister, let me alone, and let me nibble arounc and eat the stuff you do not want, and we drive them Into a bunch, the way
the rich and mean Iron-handed trusu drive the people, and then we turn Ic and club them with the ax handle ol Kraft and gred, aud we keep our power over them, if enough are killed ofl o we are in the majority, but thf jackrabbits that escape the drive kest nn breeding, like the poor people that the trusts try to exterminate Some day the Jackrabblt and the poor people
. will get nerve enough fight back.
COLD STORACE FOR FARM.
This Question of Orcwing Important to the Fannei Suggestions
of an Expert An arrangement for convenience li one place can seldom be copied In every detail for another, but may offer valuable suggestions for nianj others, so in describing our arrangement for cold Murage room, etc. In
lieu of a cellar, I shall omit such de tail as must vary with each Individual loi-atlon. and simply describe this one as It is. writes J. Marlon Shull, ol Hark county, O., In Orange Judd Farmer With the exception of th plastering, not a stroke of profession al labor was drawn upon for this addition to the house. From stone founda tlon to chimney cap. It was the work 'jf home talent. Like many others, we live In a sec tlon too level to admit of a cellar un der the bouse, and the only Substitut
must be a cold storage room, that be-
lue more healthful anyway We built
the addition as shown in the accom
panylng sketch, to include a summer
kitchen, milk room and cold storag room, connecting with the main housi
bv means of a porch which affords 8
sheltered passageway from one to the
nther as well as covering in the wen
As a further convenience tne enun porch is screened to keep out flies. Double walls are used only for th cold rcom and milk room. These wen made by using six-inch studding boarded solidly outside and in. and filled between with dry sawdust 11
Those new organizations of fanners
and pii.nters, known as the Equigr mcMtl and the Fanners' union. hal the cvowed purpose of lucreatdm; the piiie lor which agricultural product shall bo sold. That is a very natural undertaking of the farmers to try ard beuelit themselves by ooopcratlug to-
izether. They see others comimnng and
plundering them, why should not they 11 ..ate the trust and iorpor.it ion
oud put their own price on their own
products like the trusts do? Instead of selling their wheat, corn and cotton
at the price the buyers offer, why not bold il until the buyers come around
and arc willing to pay a profitable price? Why it looks Just as easy a falling Of a log r gliding down the cellar door that a little grease has made slick : r.d slippery. All you have to do, say the leaders, Is to refuse to sell uutil you get your price. One dollar a bushel for wheat and II cents a pound for cotton and the; price of other products in proportion. Eureka! the wnM is ours, it we only hang togeth t. Everything we buy is on the boom, from agricultural machinery to zinc DUtat Why can't the farmers do
the same? The trouble Is, the farmer, unlike the t..nff protected trusts and combines, has no monopoly. His wheat , is so'.i at the nrlce of the wirld's 1
market, according to supply and deman.l. All the surplus wheat of all the countries goes to the markets of
either countries that do not prouuee enough to supplr their own want. If there I.- a scarcity the price rules high; If there art bumper crops the world over, the price Is low. If all the furol is we raise in the- United
Wlnlir Kitchen
and then the Jackrabblt and the pooi
neoDle will outnumber the mn who
hita,l In thai rlri 11 nn1 ITOne Int. l . .1 1 1. Ml . 1 . ... t Vwiw sin
w.i. I . iu vM.y v . - , n - Tifmr 1 nein n ' h ii.' iu. mi . . T f ..
confederate money, when he found
that there was onlv one bundle of con- lions' dens, and been married, ana ne n oQ tne cowboys with the clubs
f. lerate money, and the rest was all guessed he was not going to show the trusts with the big head, and , . l greenbacks, the bundle of con-1 white feather chasing Jackrabblt. drlye tho9e wh() now pursue them intc federate money probably hav ing been They could sound the bugle charge as wrrajR 0Q prairies and Into peni;.i;ped west to some museum, and the ! soon as they got ready, and they would tentiarle8 lu the states, and those whe robben having got hold of It In the t Mnd him In the game till the curtain 1 pig.headed crUel will get 1 k. brought It along. Pa burned . wa rung down. theirs, see?"
up the bad money at the hotel, and That was what they wanted pa to tail he got stuck on the town, an lgayi go, as pa's horse was tired, they said he would stay there a few day . suggested that he get on to a fresh and rest up. and incidentally break a . horse, and pa all right, they few faro banks, by a system, the way r.n:! In't get a horse too fresh for him. the mart aleck break the bank at ;,n.i he got on to a spunky pony, and Münte Carlo. I noticed that there was no bit in the I teased pa to take the first train for ' nonys mouth, but only a rope around home, so we could Join the circus be- the pony's nose, and was afraid mm f .re It closed the season, and he could thing would happen to pa. I to d him rt to the managers the result of I he and I better dismount, and climb a his business trip to the west, but pa i mesnulte tree and watch the fan from ald he had heard of a man who had a PUreherd of buffalo on a ranc h not far from Pa said: "Not on your life, your pa that town, and before he returned to N clng right amongst the big game,
the show he wa going to buy a herd I and is going to make
lOftr"! 3imr, EBM Lr I Wah Room Mu I taWinier
Pattern No. 5549 and 5fi28 This exceptionally attractive costume la portrayed in pale blue chiffon taffeta, ornamented with bands of Valenciennes lace insertion. The blouse waist closes in the back, and the front is laid in clusters of fine tucks. A standing collar and neckband is provided. If the collarless neck Is not desired. The skirt is shaped to fit closely at the top and flares modishly at the lower edge. The trimming consists of folds of the material headed
! bv bands of Insertion. luisine, wool.
States was kept at home, when other j natiste, nun's veiling, organdy and
Inwn are all suggested for reproduction. The medium size will require on- and seven-eighths yards of 44lnch material for the waist and five Ml five-eighths yards for the plain skirt or eight and one half yards if the band folds are used. Ladle' Shirsl-waist No. 5549: Sizes for 32. 34, 36. 38. 40 and 42 incaes buat measure. Uclles' Tucked Circular Skirt in, nedljm sweep, round or short round hagth and with or without a center .mt seam. No. 5628- Blies for 22. 21. 2r. 28 and 3o inches waist measure. The above illustration calls for two seperate patterns. The price is
ten cents for the waist and ten cent
DIAGRAM
PH' iVVINO ME NT
A HHAN'iE-
those rabbit a
I told pa I thousht I could ee,
though there were rabbit hairs In my
ews, and then I got pa to get up and
mount his horse, and we rode back tc
town with the gang, while the 5.0'X
rabbit carcasses were hauled to town
in wagons and loaded on the cars.
"Where do you send those Jackrabbits?'' asked pa of the leader of the
slayers, as he watched them loading
the rabbits. "To the Chicago packing houses.'
said the man. "They make the finest
canned chicken you ever et.
"The devil, you say." said pa. "Then
we have been working all day to make
Da. klng house rich. Wouldn't that
skin you?
Then we went to the hotel and I put
rourtplaster on pa where the rabbits
had scratched the skin off, and pa ar
ranged to go out next day to the rancb
where the herd of buffaloes live, tc
look for bigger game for the show.
though he would like to have a rabbit
drive In the circus ring next year II
he could train the rabbits.
Swung His Ax Handle.
... v.., f .ho oowhova and Indians I think the day of Judgment has arrived
to chase around the wild west show.K.ivr- me a club. I couldn't do anything with pa. W The leader handed pa an ax h ndle. J thBt town until ,m ft MM! ho fl MO tewyia tbl . . , 11.. i.iwke,! mut.iI wheie the rabbits had b.-en
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f. n 1 illl'l
tho fan bank snm. lnt me gwimi " i -r TZ " : ,:"; h. . O.U... :. -.cue... ;. - '"
break any bank, so tney juiapessj or. .
s and began to ' as though mere was a iwow u.iur m
.......... mit ir 1 u s 1 1 '.11 rr 1 . 11 n . o r 1 1
- I -m alMf.L- 1 Yl nilllHB H I I I I II I i - - -
,....a-.v. ri, , if thev only had h- was ready a fello
weiw iiiiii..u.j - . I . 1 ..,..1 ,.r .... tho
ami pan i'u.' n.i.t.i . M.
that he could
dosed up their lay-otiti
sounded a bugle.
money to develop them. They saitci Mine mines near town for pa to exuralne, and when he found that thev contained gold enough In every shovelful of dirt t make a man crazy, he bought a whole IX of stock, and then the gamblers entertained pa for all that waa out. They got up dances and fandangos, and pa was It. sure, and I was proud Of him. cause he did not lose his head He Just acted dignified, and they thought they were entertaining a distinguished man. Everything would
ha vi pi Hi .1!! right
got out with honor. If it hadn't been
... . 1. ..oi rui.iiii ('.im th.ir 1 ame my
m ,..,! hmm P,.rt nf the t ho corral and tried to pick out
till . 1 r 1 i 1 1 . 1
Mammy" "Wouldn't Tell.
On his native heath down In "Ol
Vlrulny" there Is nothing the averse darky resents s vigorously as im pertinence on the part of one of the race. A regular "'fo'-de-wah mammy." known by young and old as "Aunt Piudy, 'was toiling up a long hill near her cabin home with a huge basket ol clothes on her head, when she waa stopped by a little plc'-anlnny slttlna on the fence who yelled In a shrill voice. "Whar yuh goln'. Aunt Prudy?" Aunt Prudy turned slowly, and, with frown to make a statue thrill, thus ad-lr ssed the little negro: "I'se gwlne
whar I'se gwlne. dat's whar I'se gwlne. Yellah brat a-sitti' on de fence axln me whar I'se gwlne! I'se gwlne what I so gwlne. dat's whar I'se gwlne. an doan yuh aie re no mo' whar I'se Rwl le. kase I ain't gwine to tell you ! Baltimore Sun.
for the corral, and all the other horses started, rtn.l everybody veiled, but th-v
held back their horse so pe could have the whole field to himself. (Joe. but I was orry for pa. Btf horse rushed right Into the corral amongst the rabbits, and vrhen it got eight where the rabbits -.vere the thickest, the darn horse began to buck, and tossed pa In the air Jus? as thmigh he
had been thrown up in a blanket, and he came down on a soft bed of struggling and scared rabbits, and the other 1 . A 1 ... A I
an 1 we would have iio r en. ''il mulee. a, ii.e ... ..-
orral and w:iti rjed pa, ami 1 got on
h.r-e and limbed up on a post of
pi
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. . ... j .., .,.n I l lion .1 ni iniimrru "i ii."i w.r,.-. -
country m irrmaieii, nun hii . h 1 ..,..- .1 are grown, lut the JackraboiH are I were let loose in amongit M and the Journal.
He Surprised Eliza. A story Is going the rounds of the territory press of a farmer, living a
mile from llenryetta, who wore
his old suit until everybody was tired gl it, and his estimable wife was al,osi a.-l-anifd of him But one day. when srlling produce In town, he determined to buy a new suit, and a happy thought struck him. He would surprise Ellia. So he bundled a new suit intr the wagon, h.trrled toward home, ; mi at the bridge, two miles from Mwn. he stood up in the wagon and 'pee led" and threw the despised olil suit Into the creek Then he reachel for his new clothes. They were one ho! 1oMed ou of the wagon The night wai cold, and his th chattered as he scurried for home. He Mrpmed Elba even more
he lauclpatea. nana is viuy
built. The sawdust extends to tne top
and covers the loft with a 10 or UInch layer also.
The floor Is left en a level with th around, but the soli was first throwr
out and tben rep;acea wnii ar-
well tamped, and then covered with
a layer of cement which extenda up the stone walls around the room tc the Bills, thus inclosing everyihlni
water tight Windows and doors are also made double, but the outer window la removed during summr and should be replaced with an awning Across one end of the cold storage room are bins made so as to lie entirely removed Rt will so that each summer the room can be thoroughly cleaned with the least Inconvenience 8helves. one above another, accommodate several hundred cans of fruit at well as empty cans, seed boxes, flowei pots. etc. Along one side of the milk room is a tank two feet wide and as long as the room, to accomodate milk Jars. A two-Inch steel pipe with elbow turned upward on the outside, passes through the double wall and Into the tank. At
the other end. a trifle lower, its height being determined by the desired depth of water, is a similar but straight pipe leading to the stock trough od the outside. Then for convenience lr
occasionally emptying and scrubbing the tank. It must have a drain pip near one end. and the cement floor ol the whole room should gradually slope toward this point, where it must havt connection with a tile drain, the trough pipe opening into the mouth of the larger floor drain. The position of the tile drain must depend somewhat on the lay of the land, but plpwt from the pump trough, from the milk mom floor, and from the clatern overflow Into which the cistern pump trough Is also drained may be conveniently brought togethei Into a single drain, at no great dls tance from their starting points. From the pump a heavy tin run due-
Ith mm elbow at each end, the
one turning downward Inside the upturned steel ellKiw mentioned above
. 1 ... ,1 ..Of..
the other turning apwsiw uo im
1... .nii.r the nunin spout when in
ne carries the water to the tauk
When not In uae. It is swung around against the wall, where It lodges in a hooked support and Is out of the way. Few of these double-walled noms built entirely above the ground are absolutely frost-proof in the severest weather. They could doubtless he made so by sparing no expense in making thicker walls, but with few , xccptiotis the rooms as d.-a Hin ! are sufficiently warm When, however, there is reason to fear the cold, a thermometer is placed In the itMMI and If it is likely to become too cold a fire l built In the wash room a od the. illHTttll 40QVI Kept open iintll the tcur.perature has been raised to a safe degree, when they are again closed. This Is necessary only whei the cold I very sever or long pro
countries had good crop, there would
probably bo still enough to supply the Liverpool market, which rules the worlds price. In that case, with nearly 400,000,000 bushels of wheat on our hnnds more than we could consume, what would we do with It? What would the price at Chicago be then'' 1 1 1 of one dollar a bushel it wonb. heaper than corn. To store ill ' . -urplus whea and await an advance in price, through pcor crops drewhera, Is an expensive process. It costs money to store wheat, hasJits, it will only keep a couple of years without damaging. It ee8 not look encouraging for the
Equity society members as far as the j frr tne skirt
price of wheat is concerned, ana similar obstacles will be met with In tryinc to fix the price of corn, oat Mai eattle. Wtih the cotton planter the outlook
Is more promising. This country raises j nearly all the surplus cotton, and the j price u greatly influenced, if not entlrefj fixed in this country'- Cotton J will keep, merely requiring a good Kf c ver It. The greatest danger la j from fire, and Insurance of auch an , Inflammable substance is expensive. Huh the southern planter and the ! northern farmer can. however, proMet themselves from the trust hluh prices by uniting for the abolition of UM protective tariff. whi h has fos-
torr.i these lombines. With reason
able prices for what they buy they can ifford tc take reasonable prices for what they sell, and still come out ahead In place of very high tariff rates, ns at present, there should be a tariff for revenue that Is. enough tariff tax on
t.. ... 1 '. the necessarv rev- 1
enue fur the government, and not htth enough to protect the trusts in charging their plundering prices. It wlh pay the organized farmers to talk that, important matter of tariff reduction over In their meetings and In their homes. The Republican party has fled to prevent this, by declaring that r 11 organizations of farmers must be nonpartisan, and as far as the National Grange is concerned, the Re
publicans control It. which has doubtless driven the Independent farmers
to join the .Jquity aoasssy "i r aimers' viilons. where more latitude is allowed for political discussion. There Is no political Issue that is so Important io the farmers as the tariff, as
It rosters trvsts and combines VBIc n plunder them The pretended protection of 2r. cents a bushel on wheat. 15 cents on corn and lä cents on oata provided In the tariff law has been town I by the farmer to be entirely worthless, b-cause the surplus of those crops sold abroad fixes the price at homo, and the price would be just aa good if there was a tariff duty Of 1 cents r. poiyid. It would not add to of reduce the price.
This pattern will be sent to you on receipt of H cents. Addre s all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper, ho sure to pivo size and number of pattern wanted, l'or I ..nvenience. write
your order on the following coupon.
No. 5549 AND 5628 .izn NAME ADDRF.SS
Our Pattern Department
LADIES' DRESSING SACQUE
Pattern No. :.r.03 -ThlB simple deMgn for a dressing saeque was attraetivelv developed in soft gray French flannel, th afM finished by buttonhole 1 sMltopBi A broad pointed collar extends over the shoulders and I strap of the material is arranged ore the front rioslnß. Eiderdown, on
ani
the
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President Roosev.lt has ctecMC, -JT .. n!,nroI,riate for
.. ihi.mvh tiic wer .i-. -
to mase em ... - - rnf,.jim K r . will requir Ml northwest In June. UVt, and wUl jd J f g embra,e the opportunity to discus. JJ for 34, M and v. nv nubile quest Ons In advance of 'ncn m.neimi. 3TUdtlS nominations Mr ItM nches bus, measure. vvtPi.er he will attempt to defend hla 1 This rattern will he sent to
Ail'U.-S CII omer
. . . 1 a
r-ourse it. respect to tne .Morris 111c 1lent, the Barnes appointment and the Chandler embassy remntns to be .n. No doubt he will discuss the beaut le of th' tarlif and of railroad reguiu- , UiHt allows him to ride on free
special trains. - Cnetess evidently recatiN the I i . .A .1 ..if.niirwiliRtK :t I 1
:ii ir oae. . .1110 1 1
ft large and influential majority of the
people of ihe 1'nited States.-oicugo Kecord Ib rald. The tariff Is still nn Issue." remarks the stun l-pat Salem Statesman. We aurce. and it will be until t!io Dtodel 'w expcri. n es an earthpiake - Portland .louinal. LyHciicc toeMMMal that the ,tandpatters are not pHng to lie dls-ipiolnw-d in their hoK that they will have I Chane to .how what they CS1 really do along this line In an 1 ruerfancy, indlanapolls Newa nmi.
fo.'iMoi ot 10 ecus.
U the Pa1 era Department of thispa;er. De sure to give Btaa nnd number of pat-U-rn vvsnte.l. For eOOTenienee. -vrite n.iir or.lei- on the following coupon:
No 5503. SttV.
Mi
Annrtr's
The Litth Dog Lanc,b-d. A ycoar; tl tj was th" object ol much MMtni 01 aceoant of her rather unusinl size. On one occasion she waa pliylttg tennla and Jumped to strike the ball lltttl u who was present laughed uproiiriously. ac 1 ald: That remlnot. me of the. time when the 'cow Jumped over the moon.' " 1 1, ,tr he said: "Well, yon 4.UOW whu laughei. '-Strav Sturie.