Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 January 1907 — Page 2

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. t.,NO TRUNK PACIFIC RAIL-

ROAD AND ESTERN CANADA. Will Open Up Immenit Area of Free Homestead Land. The railway facilitl of Western Cana l i hac .eon taxed to the utt a. u m recent years to transfer th. surplus I rain crop to the eastern t Lets and the seaboard The large Infi ix of aettlera and the additional a: a put under crop have added largeh : graiu i rod i I . ai .1 not w 'that.:: U IK the increased railway facti1 . i : it have been placed at the dis-

I i ot the public, the question or t portal! OD has proved to be a sa rl"'i3 -Tie. l! will, therefore, he cool news to everyone Interested la Western Canaii know Hurt an authoritative s:.i- irnent has beta given out hy C. ( M Hay president of the Grand Trunk Partite Railway, that that railraj Ul I do Itl share towards moving Che crop of 907 from Alberta. Saegatcbewae Bad Manitoba to tide water, god thu ' ,n remming a serious obstacle which has faced the settlers during recent years. Mr Hays, who has ui completed a trip from Portit la Pi Itrtt to Kdmonton In a pralrifl - 1 oar, a distance of 7;i5 miles, which was cover. 1 in eighteen days, t enthuataatie about the country This w;ll be grar.fying to settlers In the Canadian West, even if Mr Hays declines to be bound tu a time limit w:-h the exactitude of a stop watch. ' The Qrand Tr ink Pa i.ic road will be In a position to take part in the transI ort.it; am of the crop of li07. and that Will be satisfactory to the settlers in thai country when the harvest is gar ner-'d. The. wheat crop of ltC in Western O.r.ada was about N 1,901 bushels. and. wih the increased acreage which Is Confidently expected to be put under crop next "ar. It is safely calculated iliat fully lSS.Oae.004 bushels will be harvested in 1907. The necessity for increased transportation facilities . then fore, apparent, and the statement made by Mr Hay- will bring encr umgemenl to the farmers of the Canadian West, new and old The opesteg up of additional thousands of free homesteads Is thus assured by th" agent of the Canadian GovernBteat, whose address appears else- j srher- .

FREAK HAPPENINGS OF A YEAR

The Marvelous, the Laughable, the Weird, and the Pathetic "Tales Extraordinary Culled from Press Reports from All Over the Civilized World--Some Almcst Lnbelieveab.e Tales Among the Mass ot Material Gathered.

January. 1900. came la with proof that Kentucky deacons are made of much the same stuff as Kentucky col-

UaM l-i vd. of LU as w ed to A w ! i while, a month oat! of Nashua. N M tpinetc? at The Tfia" have In .t in i . V ii .1 :

a

who. at 90, f N In March . l teaeou French, married a

onels. Two of them had an argument as to John D Rockefeller's fitness for heave. deciding the matter with shot guns. The churchman who upheld

Mr iv . ' : two charg

bnckabOl in the breast. I tetth. in February a l.e Sour I.Minn.) June brought tiewi fr.m IV Moines matron painted he;- entire house, in that soui.' highwaymen ha I returned , October, Frank lloukw alter, returning

! !ed c.i. i rtr :ng

n more to tell. l,ansair. of Toa: her set of

to James Morgan, their victim of the nicht before, three teeth they had "unintentionally" knocked our. They thoughtfully suggested a plate se'ting. So the months of have run. In i.-:'i niy, too. the war opened Oddly. One Schnield had had carven upon his deceased wife's tombstone some frigid words to the effect tha she had died of unscrupulous treatment, whereupon libel suits followed.

Has Seen Much of Life John Avery Mcllhenny. recently nominated a civil service commisgfoaor, Ihtwijh only M years oM has put two girdles round about the earth, has ki:!"d big game In Africa and has fought in a real (though small war.

Baal : i mc a former rough nder, ho is one of the richest men in lxulst- and the w: ana His pepper farm on Avery island, i days. lb ria nansh is famous, and so is the ; In Man:!

huge (a tory in which he makes pepor nance Two yea- ago the Meli- . hennys entertained the president older daughter, now Mrs Longworth,

In their New Orleans home at carnival time and last year the president himself waa their gue.-t.

to his boyhood borne in Attica. Ind.. after tC years 'absence, had the doorstep lifted tha' he might find a dime he had '.ost down -he crack as a boy of five. He found it. And each of UM M was Just three nxirc years and ten.

I The note of pa' hot. which so often lOUndl wrth age. came from Middletown. N Y In April. Matthew Bmedao, aged To. could no longer resist the call of the fields. He took ti he plow again and was found dead , in the first furrow bo had cut died

in harness, as ha had wished to die' Australia may claim something near rhe record! Ar MCae amateur theatricals near Victoria in January, two people in the stalls, whenever the heroine wa, kissed, kissed each other

loudly The man of this couple was

husband to the stage heroine, and this

his way of reproving behavior s the footlights to which he was

Bants and Divorces. The divorce mill seems to have recorded a new "Farthest Nor;h." A Seattle fudge separated an even dozen couples in 75 minutes in February, ore formerly fond husband receiving the boon for which he prayed because his wife has become a Bhakereaa, and

For the "23" Pirty.

Jail for 14

leanest man In th

islands stole his mother-in-law's tonab-

I stone and pawned it. An actual sale of burial memorials was held in September, in Breslau. A 1 "ring ' of undertakers had been formed ! to bear prices, but a speculative outj sider insisted on playing bull, and the local troops had to be called in to

Th extraordinary popularity of fine ' quiet the resultant hard feeling, white goods this summer makes the JuBt jove

choice of starch a ma'ter of great im-

p ir'in e. Defiance Starch, being free

from all injurious chemicals, is the only one whhh is safe to use on fins fabrics. Its great strength as a stlffener makes half the usual quantity of fareh necessary, with the result at prfe finish, equal to 'hat whn the goods were new. Sixty Years a Lamplighter. Timothy BoMrU, who has died at Yarmouth, Kncland. at the age- of 82 years, had been in the service of the local e is eoanpnny more than M yearn, and before that, as a youth, was employe.! .i heht the street oil lamps with a flint and steel Old Adage Corroborated. Corroborati m of the old saying thai "the way to a man s heart is through his stomach" is found In an itetc which announces that a western millionaire Is going to marry hia cook. THE FIRST TWINCE

Of Rheumatism Calls for Or. Williams' Pink Pills If You Would Be Easily Cured. Mr Krank UM . a teJl known citlen of Portland. Ionia Co , Mich . was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In speaking about it recently, he said: "My body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about live years ago I began to f al rheumatic pains in my arms and across my hack. My arras and legs grew numb and Che rheumatism seemed to etile in every Joint so thai I could hardly moe. while my arms were useless at times. I was unable to leop or re?t well and my heart pained me so terribly I could hardly stand IL My stomach became sour and bloated after eaMng and this gtew ex bad that. I had Inflammation ot

the itcmach. I was extremely ncrv- 1 ous and could not bear the leat noise or excitement. One whole side of my body became paralyzed. ; "As I said before, I had been guff- ! wring about five years and seemed to be able to get no reli f from my i doctors, when a friend here In Port- '

One lover has cabled his proposal to New York from Buenos Ayres. and another, over In Indon. took advantage of his dentist's trade to send In his heart-deep proposition neatly engraved on the plate of a set of false tnatk. Both won out. At Lynchburg. Md . were married a couple who had found a new use for old love letters. The high contracting partie-s knelt upon white satin pillows stuffed to crackling with their amatory epistles. letters of another sort have figured In the news of the twelvemonth Ellsha Hawes. of Stoughton. Mass . baa received, in his ninety-third year, one written to him during he civil war by his boy. then at the front; while another missive, mailed In Ho ton in litt, never reached Its object In Granville. Y.. till last September. I'p In niddefor-d. Me . an honent farmer had a dream reminding him that he owed a neighbor a dollar Both had forg ; 'en It. but. having figured that the loan was of 2ß years' standing. It was formally closed up. Law's Lighter Side. A London magistrate discharged a man and his wife charged with con piracy, on the ground that they were Ingalty one person, and one person Could n" conspire

A Chicago physician was guilty of robbery, inasmuch a-

diagnosed a certain case In a way afterward proved wrong The Jury ' regarded his fee as distinctly obtained I under false pretenses, and he had to j give back $10.'. j Another glimpse of legal methods ha onUM across from tlemiany. where the mayor of a town til cauuhf pick

found he had

"in gratitude for hiving been so often entertained by their writings." Alphonee Strauss, one of London's millionaire merchants, dying last May, disposed of an estate of $ 1 4SI .1 '),") in just words, nearly 3S,0B a word; while January brought bidden wealth to a poor French girl who attended t! e -.tie : .i great aunt's effects buy in some trifling memento of her. The only blddt r for I shabby old lxHk of davodione, aha found between it taavaa a win linutuwlin upon her the entire property, valued at 80,00t. Life's Little Ironies. In Milwaukee i February i one Harry Martens, playing ghoal to frighten some negroes, fell down stairs in the dark and hecatne a ghost A follow named Dnrenne, living near Quebec, in the helief that the rope by which a suicide has hung himself will bring a later owner luck, stole such a rope, only to fall to his death the next minute through the rotten flooring of the belfry. Was It not Ironical, too, that a mere fra :ment of the handwriting of the Ragliek poet Chntterton should have s dd (October) for $155. and that In the unfortunate versifyer's native town of Bristol, where he had died of starvation in his seventeenth year! In Foreign Parts. Rnrope has had many an odd tale to tell during the year. Antrim has produced a man beside whom Pooh-Bah I - a laborer of very tingle aim. For this busy Irishman is land steward, pier overseer, iort pay clerk, gameke per, mining superintendent, bogballff. auctioneer, real estate agent. ..- of khiMiir - and the man-

another because his better half had üf a ,-,rivau. mtiaCM beddes. Circulated a reiwirt that he was an . . . , . . - , Coiored rain. In the shape of mil1 '' ' . . . x , ! lions of tiny red. green and yellow inMrs uorenz on tne o ner nana, re- g fell at Angers. France, in reived a divorce in Cincinnati n the v. . . , , . March liik In Nantes a young felislb e ground that it was difhcult , . , ' . , ,, . . . low, (lautier by name, has murdered to live peacefully with a man who in- . , . . . ' . . . ,,.

Ola Moj'iaiuer wiai ins iiiuuary ivivIce might be a year shorter through his being the only son of a widow." At one of London's West End clubs a match game of billiards was played by tvtc men, one clad In full armor, save for his hands, which were encased in the hea lent woolen gauntlets. nd the other dressed as usual, but wearing boxing gloxves. Woo' mittens won after a hard fight. Coincidence and Paradox. Two other all but-unbelievable transAflan'ic tales tell of a New Zealand bOfUU race, which was won by a oneeyed mare, ridden by a one-eyed Jockey, the two weighing-room clerks also having but two eyes between them; and of a Parisian June wedding when the twin brother? Charteon married the twin sisters Voisse. twin cousins (male and female) acting as best man and mal 1 of honor. In New York, during a February masked ball, there "vas a panic and

many casualties, all because the cotton snow man of 'he grand march had suddenly caught fire.

Pulpit and Platform. Muttons sewn on a silk ground formed a scrollwork sold at a recent

sisted on appearing in the parlor with tiei-hn; '. - .ck 'ngs Des Moines produced, in May. a baby who changed color three times a day. When little EU Kami awakes he Is a proper pink My noon he Is a dark ginger in hue and before bedtime Is startllngly pale. Hut then, he Is h- son ot Hin loo father and an 1111nola mother , In August the "hello lady'' on the I line lietween Meredith and Wolfboro, ! N. 11 . heard the voice of a two hourold subscriber. The news of his arrltrnl in the world came first, and then ! his infantile Indorsement traveled across I-ake WlBBlptswOgeO. Hard Liquor. Chicago and Kansas City give two of the besr of the year's hard liquor yarns In one case three saloon keep era vara fined $7..vx. to be paid the orphans of a man who had died of drink; and In the other a certain Selbv Jones w i -.ntenced to get drunk

THREE GOOD IDEAS I LiriJitNw bowman

ONE IS IMPROVEMENT ON EVER POPULAR FUDGE. Addition of Marshmatlows Makes th Confection Delicious Odd Fur nishino. for Den Oysters in Chafing Dish.

Joined m the Kissing.

Fudge is now as poiular as when first introduced s-eral years ago. re placing the favorite chocolate caramels The eapari fudguanaMr seldom thinks of uieasutiiig her materials, but Just guesses at the quantity of sugar, milk, chocolate and butter necessary. It g fuel lx lore the fudge Is done thai the additions which give It noveitj go in Nuts are always good One variety or several kinds mixed may be used Then there Is crystalIzed pinner cut in small pieces Another mixture Is of marshmullOwu Fot this the following recipe may be used: One fourth cake of unsweetened ChOOOlatC. two cups of granulated augur, one cup of milk, one teaspoon 'nl ot luit'e Boil for five minutes, then take from the fire and pour In a heaping saucerful of marshinallows torn in small hits Meat until the mixture bagiau to stiffen, then poor QUiCk ty into buttered tins to cool Another wav is to sprinkle the shred ed mnishmallow on the tMttoni of the pari, and pour the hot fudge over it. This is convenient when lMith the marshm.illow. nut. and the plain varie ties are to l.e made from the same boiling. A den seen recently was furnished In black oak and the walls were dOM iu deep red burlap The trim. Including a wooden cornice, was also black. The Ceiling was a deep cream, or irhaps more on the buff. The couch was upholstered in linen taffeta to match the walls. There wer- many pillows In plain red and a few in buff. A plate rail of oak for china and steins was Oar lied around the room. On the black oak reading table was an oriental scarf, harmonizing with the walls and the pillows. l'Mn this rested I wrought iron lamp with a deep red bwwii and shade of gold wire cloth. The mantel was ornamen'ed ih several old brass candlesticks About the loom ware scattered several pieces of old brass which wer put to use A large brass bowl was utilized as a scrap basket. For luncheon or Sunday ni-ht tea oysters may be prepared In the chafing dish at the table. I'se a tnblMpeoafUl of minced celery Put it in your blazer with a tablespoonful of butter, a teas;oonful of lemon Juice, a Httie salt, and paprika. When the mixture is thoroughly hot. put In as many oysters as you need and cook them until they are plump. Then add a cupful of cream, and when it has thoroughly heated, serve on ho tcast.

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IN FORTV-EiCHT HOURS

K-BÖ-M LIED HIM. Cold Affected Head and ThreatAttack was Severe.

to raise the wherewith to carry out tho Kansas City sentence.

Loudon is responsible for thli The

ritirt x':l . i J' ior lone-- wrls liter ,T.

ins the pocke., of I prisoner, and was ns,H m rhiraPO for sfalinlc n , rde:

, sen' up tor a montn. Wilmington prodncad the champion 13 story. Franci- K Daria, with 13 b trers In his name, was arrested by Patrolman Francis 0 (Ireen idit'oi at 10 IS on January IS, the call going In from box 13. At Pfll next day be was arralaml before Kdwln R CocaV ran M3 letters again i. and his fine and costs totaled exactly t. Miss Margaret Srhidu. of Cleveland, on August 23. sent Invitations to 23 friends to attend rc-r twenty third

8 Good Things to Remember. If yon iieat your knife you rn cut hot bread easily. a laaaununfil al bnrpantina added to a pail of warm water Is excellent for all cleaning UUTpnaUUi Also put a lit t I- in suds on wash day. St taw matting should never be washed la anything but warm water and salt. Angni cake ran be rnt easily if knife is wet In cold water. To polish floors rub them once a week in beeswax and turiientlne To test eKirs. drop eggs in dish of cold water, if they sink they re iresh. Lentil Curry. Soak over nlghl in cold water one cup of leriMls Wash, cover with fresh water, and cook slowly for two hours Drain, put two tahlespoonfuls of butter Into a saucepan; when melted add two onions chopped tine; cook -jowly until a golden brown; add a teaspoonful of curry jiowdcr. a dash of cnyeane, and half pint of the wate- in which the lentils wert boiled. Add lentils, cook slowly for 2i minutes; add a teaspoonful of salt, the jnice of one lemon, and serve with well boiled rice. Deep Apple Pie With Cream Cheese. Pak a nice deep pie alottt half an hour before dinner Have a small cream cheCSC DW Med through a rb er, mixed wPh a cup of whipped cream and a little salt. Press through a pnetn labe er imict funnel on top of the pie In a pattern and serve as dessert while still warm. This makes

a tine and always apnreciateii coin

Piny desse-t for cold weather. The cheese ami cream combination may also be used, on the ni linary twocrust apple pie.

Chas. W, ltowman. 1st Ueut ani Adjt -th at s. M. Cur. Vole a from Lanham. Md . as fbllowi "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more : to becoming a professional afl man. It seems only a piain dutj in the present instance to add iny e. perience to the columns air. ad. ten concerning the curative powers of Peruna. " hae been particularly benefited by it use for colds in the heid itnd throat. I haxc been able to full cure my self of a most severe attack la forty 'eight hours hy Its use according to directions, i use It as a prexenthe whenex er threatened xx.:h an attack. "Members of my family ab" a It for like ailments. We are ri mending it to our friends " Chas. W. Bowman Ask Your Druggist for Free I'en.na AfanaauM for IW7. Sound Law in New Book. A C. Fox lavls, a London lawyer, who has written "1 fUdUUMa, gnuifl n the peerage and law. has broken itO the field of fiction with a detective rtory In which he warrants that I law Is all right. He wrote the book Just because he found the law alt wrong in one of the best of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Always to Be Depended Upon. When a person gets up in the morning with a dull headache and a tired, stretchy feeling, its an almost certa n Indication that the liver, or beweis, or both, are decidedly out of at At such times Nature, the wisest and best of doctors, takes this m to give warning that she needs the help and gentle assistance which can best be obtained from that old family remedy, Hrandreth's Pills, which has been In use for over a century They are the same fine laxative tonic pill your grandparents us! when doctors were few and far between, and when people had to have a remedy that could absolutely be de pended ujon. Hrandreth's rills can bo dopende! upon, and are sdd in ev::; J: iu I ! medicine store, plain or susar I

Bare Feet

the PaHor.

Newspaper for the Blind. The announcemer.t that the !. -d Daily Mail Is about to issue a " ' 7 edition for the blind, draws ntteel n to tkw other Hritish Journals pubUubed in Braille type, which have had a. : and useful carer. thouch they havs seldom been seen by the general r"blie The first weekly newspap - far the blind was pu'di-hed on June L Iths, and called the Weekly Sonrmarj It has always been issud below N price, and Its promot m d. -ive no benefit from its publication I other was started only last v-ai ralb-d the Ibaille Weekly, and u.eJ from Boinborgh Transforrnat on In New Mes'cc "Tliree seas.m of rainfall I tran-formed Now Mexico frooi 4- al panse of unproductive territory Int I a country of bountiful crops, mni n

treams and happy. nraaparoM pie." Is the report which K. W M.riar ,r tlit ir o '-nineat land

at Clayton. N. M , brought to Waskiat

-V ihingron rnat,

Fox.

nimvchnlr of a confirmed tippler, used church fair In Montreal, Canada. It

at a "psychometric lecture." mole tipsy every one who sat Ir. It. The ttgau Of drinking continued upon four subjects till Th.' chair was burned. when um y it onee loharad up.

land told me how Dr. Williams' Pink, birthday party. September 23. at 23

Bast Twetity tlilrd stree An orches tra of 23 pieces discoursed exactly 23 sweet dances from behind 23 palms. The oth r h'x I " 'b s ran-e uj, twice In April, i ne when a Haltlmore negro was arresied for stealing 13 chickens; again at St. Louis, where a b-is. ti.id fan" fell dAl of h, ar .Msease during the thirteenth Inning of the Ht Loans' Pittcbttt K game. The Old Folks. T ie annual kaMvtroonM of an age past expecting J un ttat of ihtm weie

When gueathod

Weird Wills. late Michpel Davltt beall bis friend -i kind

PIMk had cured him of neuralgia in

the f.ue. even after the pain had drawn it to one side I d cided to j try the pills and began to see '-ome Improvement soon after using Jhem. This encouraged me to keep on until I was entirely cured I have never

had a return of the rheumatism or of th paralysis. The pl'ls sre for sale by a" druggist or sent postpaid, on receipt of giri'-e. r0 cents per box. six boxe r.ft. by the Dr Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. Y.

th

was the w.;k of the clergyman 'a wife

whi thus cenverted into useful cash the button.; Contributed to hor husband's nffartorjr baelrnta. The Hon. Hoke Smith. sraMng a Atlanta in Septi ntbar, was TUthuttnatl Illy bagged b Policeman T. J. Wllltama. The !atte, An then hauled

bi fo-e hli com in 1st! .-em for taking

to my eaentlea the fallest i n Intereat n pol it Ion."

possible forgivene. and to Ireland my BUdylng prayer for her nhnUtuta dorn." he did not leave the strangest will of the t weivenionlh'a ! probate.

Mrs. t'hristina H x li. of Hnsikiyn. willed the ashe of her btly, when rt emitted, as fertiliser for a rose bush

The Philadelphia Westminster report. 4 that I New Tutt firm offers to fit out any chtt-cl' with null mirrors set n the pewhacka to enable feminine worahlppari to tee if thatr haa are on straight during prUTUff 'Im". The Kana e .'.ton crop having sh'iwn a turpi us, agricultural naiiien

on leu ... Mr- ls;iliel Kream of the hi-o.. e,-,.,i ,t t.':ts he r.ihds er. at V e.tmster. Kng . left her cork an Inch langer faf lM, That, they to li.e piri'h M)i warden . and m , A. wmll :n' -.. the '., luand 'or

Preservative for Eggs. A ibnpta sidntlon of salt and lime is a gaud piauai retire for ccks. Put into n Utaavo pfir a lump of llnte weirh ng about two pounds Pour on this mo quart of wsf t and stir unt'l lime ic broken ntJ add one gallon of water and one pint of salt Place the eggs in this Jar and keep tbem well covered with the solution.

Parmp Cakes. For this purpCUU they must be boiled until tender, praanadf through a colander, and to each four good sized parsnips a well beaten eK and one labten poonful of flour should be added; mix. form Into mall round cakes and saute In a llttl beef dripIM

if of noreUCU, Italy. buenthad ! cotton Just enough "to Btaka thlngt I w, , i. a

li.aQv to the staff of a local ruwsiaper come out evoa." '

Soiled Clothca. No lUOaptackl for soiled clothing

thoui I under any cli cumstancat he

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