Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 March 1907 — Page 3

TOMMY AND LOVE BY HAROLD HUNT

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HURTS THE FARMER

NIGU T0U8 WORKING OF THL TARIFF LAW.

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; never did t tif 11 k much of Irl never! Hither liny are lanky Md I thing and think they an play

i s Just as well as boys, or else

i . . lit flirty and silly, und think OM , tit to be always making leva to

l.ovc, iuieeu MU'ii roi wen, i, m 'il telling you ilia' last term, a i caught Stewart MIIU writing a i,, letter to ail Cow eis Qraee. ' iao ! worst licking he'd had In his 1 Tb check f lilni Yon see we' I A d hltn to Join our fraternity, .'and. mystei Ions KMp-t that chaps would give theii fin i to Im 1 flowed to Join, only wo don't allow it come tM cheap the "Brother j ! of th Cory Hand' -and Otte ofl . rowi we have to take Is not to M . , lw be mixed Bp In any BOB- . , w.'h women. We are all 1 he e her detectives, or pirates, or dlscovol unknown count rics when we jjron up. and In any oi UMMN noble. -. his one Is sure to come to j t;rief if one doesn't steer clear of the So, I never did think much of girls: j r the episode I am about to

...i :-. doesn't that sound grand and after the episode I BJB BO ;' i narrst, you may bet your boots I less of them than ever. ii-al! did se-:ii as if Marjorie VT( -i 1. vie was tunie decent than l of ( hem, she jraa older, for oae -quite grown up: and she could m i '., sensibly for a girl about Mil and hockey and jsnlf. and thlnga that are really worth talking about, and she saw gte bring a gun i the warden without, shrinking back , ,' prying 0t: ")h! do take care! VOU I Ute it Isn't loaded?" So I BBOBH unite so stiff and standh Willi her a 1 am with most girls-on principle and I explained to her BBC r two things about sports thai ' had got a little muddled with. kB ! -. trb'd her very best to underr 1 .i I wasu't really so stupid, for So I really Ukcd to talk to her. and ma) imagine bow ürngnatti I wa v en 1 came upon her one evening in :he garden with that solemn ass. Leonard Ashwell. and I do believe he wan talking poetry ab ut the moon tights As I came near 1 saw Marjorie' Aunt Henrietta oniing down from the house to Inn!; tor her. Marjorie Ve. schoyle called out to me quite eaK ri to ask what score the football team 'ad made No doubt she was tired iBBtt ef Shelley and the moonlight and i i I to have a little sensible tivera i. a lor a chatig . ' It's Tommy Hraddori.'' said -r Henrietta. iMeanwhile Ash well ha f -ncaked off down the shruViery.) I am so short-sighted, hut 1 really thought " III I'.radilon Is giving mo a most an account of the Kam1,'' said Marjorie. W.- had quite a good talk: she I to want to mßt the taste of -h . ! s poetry and moonlight out of her mouth; but half an hour after, when I s'i .lied down the garden to have a l irteptitlous cigarette, blessed If be wasa'l at It again' looking at her a -enl inu ntally aa as a rat at a saucer mi! Mut there wasn't much "ti'inicnt after 1 joined them, you lit-t ' ThOM that Ashwell began tryinc to make friends with me asked me into room to have a quie snioki and wi ob. I suppose he saw that Miss 1 ojhJ thought no end of me. and waatOd tO get on my right ide I'm not so easily fooled. - Vera hoy le w as quite Inter : t . h'.ir tliat I had been In his and asked me heaps of quesBl a!. out the furniture and ornatl and especially about the photoJlraphs. Was there one of Mi- Hisarf " she I Miss Disart was a girl who was ai iB at our home, too a hamlsom" ixtt not my style-, who was mak i b ad set at l'onard Ashwell. So I told her. "there wasn't one Miss Disart. but there was a pordl aa his writing-table that he was BBjn jazlng at when he thought I lOB'l looking." What what was It like"" she asked. Well. I think it was an actress." I Ndd iSbe quite shuddered She 4 a star In her hair, and stars on hw dress, and a great deal of bare "boulder." Miss Versehoyle blushed Fancy AiBg booaaaa I tallcod of an utiaaa 1 shoulder! Hut I like girlsdo be simple. dn't you? For us men It's quit diffen nt, but a Kirl can't be too " Hilde for me. Vid ou re uro there Isn't one of Mls rosart'" ,he asked again. Sure." I said. "I've got one of her. tboagh, it you want to see one. Her tier swopped it with a lot of other m liish for my old camera." taOJ here." said Marjorie confl Uly. I wish you would offer to Rive It to him In exchange for the for etreea, von know. i should like 1 ' to know what h would say." n Tove! I will." I erlel; ' hut I'm sire he's too Tar gone on that " She actually blushed analn. Net time I saw her, he aid: wel, what success?" it is just as I expected.'' said; "he "ild not hear of parting with that holograph.'

And then she was nioer to me than awar And she would hardl -peak to I-coimrd Ashwell that !., an 1 the to xt And he seemed quite low cl about it. And In the evening I heard hin trying to persuade he, to cone- with him town to the lake She seeine! Ic ta'ing. so I Just whl-peied to her as 1 hBPpaaad to paaa RaaMBbor th actress!" She looker! at me and smiled. Thank you. Tommy, I will " Just then bi t Aunt Henrietta COBM out. Where are you going. Marjorie"" She was always following MarJori ahoal and noticing whom ahevaa talk Inf with. "I was goiiiK down to the hike " said Marjorie. "Mr. Hraddon will tak hh of nie. w on't fOB, Mr lb add m"'" f)t course I walked off with bBf having LaOBBUd Ashwell statidir.i! there am' Jolly well serve him right! Hut we had hardly got to the lake when Marjorie NuiB to shiver, and usked me to fetch her a shawl from he house. Well, of course. I had to go and fetch It: and when I came back, she didn't seem to ns-l a shawl, not much

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Leonard Ashwell's Arms Were Around Her. for Ionard Ashwell's arms were round her. and she had her head on his shoulder. Aa you may Imagine. I was speechb ss wUh disgust. And then he actually had :he audacity to kiss her

before me and to say: "Congratulate (

us. Tommy You've been our best friend all through" Aa if I wanted to he a friend to a pair of spoony lunatics' And the actress? Well. It turned out to he a photograph of Marjorie herself In fancy dress, and flattered out of all recognition. And if a girl who once seemed to have some glimmerings of sense in her can make such a fool of herself as that, can you wonder that I think lesi of the sex than ever? Absentminded Man. ' I gie-ss I had the most ab.-cn'mini-. d man ;n the world in my chair this morning.'' said a Seventeenth street barber yesterday. "He came In and sat down near the door to wait his turn. I yelled ntxl' at him two or three times when my chair was vacant, but he was dreaming and didn't hear me. F'naliy 1 touched him on the shoulder and told him I was ready for him. " What do you want me to do?" he asked Why. get In the chair if you want anything. I replied This is a barber shop ' Oh. yes.' he said, and then he sot Into the ehalr. He leaned back so I let the chair I v.n and shaved him. He didn't have a won! to say. When I finished him u I he got out of the chair and took the ehOBh over to the cashier. He paid and started out. When half way through the door he stopped. ''Bay.' he said to me. what did you do to me?' " I shaved you.' I said. "'Darn the luck.' he replied. 'I wanted a haircut.' Then be went out -cowling." Daater Net. High Time for Compromise. In Mcintosh county Georgia, there was a lawsuit about a cow. The cow was dead, but th hr-vsait went on. It was decided by the Justice off the peace, appealed, remanded, decided again, and once more appealed and remanded. This went .n until the case came back to the gfjajlia far the eleventh time. It was a jury case, and when the last trial was on the squire astonished the attorney by announcing an Indefinite post ponement. saing "This case has exhausted the whole jury venire of the county, and you will have to wait until the coming generation gets old 'iough for Jury service ' Then the litigants compromised. His Experience. "After all." said the philosopher, "tne real Joy of a thing Is in the anticipation of It." Well. " replied Henpeck, "If there's Bay Joy In matrimony that mu t be It-" Catholic Standard and Tina

Organization Among Agriculturists of Little Avail While Protected Trusts Retain Their Privileges. The farmets of Um 'antral, western and southwestern sta'es have for the past two or three years been organUIntC with the object of increasing the price of tli it product by tlxin the minimum price for which the produoers shall sell There are two orgaa Iratlons, one the Society or Kquity, and Vo ether known as "Farmera' Unions," but both appear to havo the same ead in view Aa nearly every trade and profession is organized for the putNise of increasing profits or fei or wages, it would s. "in but a matter of self defense for the farmers to do likewise it is not a all certain, however, that this combination of fain. rs egg succeed In their object etoept In part, for the price of all farm products of which a surplus is raised more than can be consumed In the t'nited States, must Ik? exported and there sold in OOatpotlUoa with the surplus crops of other countries. Th great law of supi.ly and demand in fixing the price of the surplus Is certain In a great measure to control the home price. As an example, the price of wheat in Chicago, St. Iouis. imluth or New York is the same price as Liverpool. London or the continental wheat markets. ! the freight and charges from our markets to the I reJga ones The Bodetf of Equity has alr- adv dUoowered 'his. for the price of one dollar a bBfBJBl for wheat at Chicago, which Its olhcials declared laf fall was to be 'he minimum price for which the menibeYs should sell, has never ie.o h. -i th.-.r tiu ire and is BOw b it Ts cents. The reason for this low price of wheat Is a very simple one. There is a large surplus here, the crop of 1906 beinz a hBBtBBt' one, which Is trying to find a market in such eoBBtrtea as Qreai Lritain. and the surplus frm India. Argentina and elsewhere is seeking the same markets and rery naturally the Knglish buyers or other buyers fix the price they will 'iay. It all our wheat farmers were ?pemht of the Society of Equity and re(Baad to Market their wheat until the price was one dollar a bushel, it might and probably would compel our consumers to pay that price, but the wheat growers of the west, with their present limited storage on the farms could not retain the wheat. The moment a bushel of wheat leaves the farmer's hands although he may not aell It but only store it in an elevator, it at once becomes available for the western mills, or may be shipped to New York and even exjMirted. If the farmers owned all the elevators they might prevent the whea' stored there from being shipped, but that would require enormous capital for the farmers to own and build all the elevators. But eventually the stored wheat would have to be sold either to the mills or for export and although if the wheat was held hack in the elevators the home demand would force up the price, the surplus must still seek a foreign market and the price there would be less than the price in the t'nited S'ates. Hut while the farmers were holding back their wheat from market, the mill owners would be using their influence with the administration to allow Canadian wheat to Im- Imported In bond, made Into flour hi bond and the flour exported without the payment of the duty of 2'. cents a bushel That was actually done In the spring of Ltl when the supply of wheat in the western states ran short In consequences of the short crop of 19ol The:.- vw-e :'" v'4 barrels of flour so ex;orted and the draw back paid amounted to lgg,17S The tariff law. It Is thus evident, is administered by our Republican high tariff friends for the benefit of the wheat manufacturer, and the farmer Is left in the lurch when the pinch comes Tot If that Canadian wheat had not been Imported in bond. It Is not likely that the price of wheat and flour would have been much If any Increased, for there was enough whea! ar.d flour to supply the home demand and the average price as reported by the agricultural department was 92 4 cents a bushel, the highest since 1888. For It Is a law of trade that when the price of even necessities coes beyond the abilit- of the consumer to pay. consumption decreases and thus kieps the price within a reasonable limit. When i' comes to making cor.sume: s : a the price fixed b rh,. Society of Fqulty on other farm products, such as corn, oats and cot 'on. similar obstacles will prevail, for we alvas have a surplus of those products to sell and the price is fixed by the law of supply and demand in the countries to which the surplus Is exported. Thre Is. ierhaps. an exception with regard to cotton, for It Is ossihle for cctton growers to hold back th'-lr crop, or part of It. from the market nntll the price stilts them. For cotton can le stored cheaply and with but little deterioration, for sometime Hut we have a virtual monopoly on cotton and It Is not protected by the tariff, but wheat and corn and oats are. yet even If a partial failure of our crop of these cereals occurs, ft the case of wheat it Is seen how t e tariff law defeats Its own profBM rl object of protecting the farmer by allowing whe-.f to be lmiorted by the mills and exported as flour without payment of dut except one per cent of the duty of M cents a bushel, and oorn vnd oats are never imported in

any quantity whatever the BJBB) oiay be It naturally must occur to the farm er wii.. laveetlgatoa tlv tartar law, that it has been created for the borynt of the manufacturer and that the farmBf fata, Bet only no benefit, but is a gnat io.or, for the protected trusts, Into alafe most manufacturers are oriihlned, charge enormous extra profits on what he ouys, Ix-cause the tariff protects tlumi in so doing. If the members of the Society of V'o'ilty and the Farmers' Union arrive at that conclusion, they will, as a matter of s.- .' Broleetloti, vote to have the tariff revised, so as to abolish this unjust protection to the f. w at the exIM tise of the many.

RAILROAD LEGISLATION. So Far the Public Has Gamed but Little. Tag railroad lobbyists are having a strenuous time trying to prevent several atj'tes from passln a two-cent passenger rate law. In most of these states the house of representatives has pa ted Um law and the more corporation controlled senate Is holding it up. which would look like the blandishments of the lobbyists were suenoaifal la the thickly settled states the temaad for the two oeal rate g reasonable, especially as the fre pass and rebate evils have been In a great m urare hnMaatd. but in the aaara thinly s::lid westers states on branch ln.es. at least. It may be unreasonable to require it Juwt yet. Hut the question of a cent a mile for passenger fares is not the great question, for it adds but slightly to the annual expense of the people, eslecialiy the farmer:-; and workingmen who have but little time for pleasure excursions. Tin- constant and unreasonable freight rates are of much greater larportaaee to the general public, for everv thing sold is Increased in price i the merchant addlBg the high freight rate to his profit, and on the traaaportatloa of products to market high freight rates reduce the profit of th? farmer, the miner and Other producers The railroads are now telling us they must Increase rates as their expenses are Increasing both for wages and materials, but this Is a bluff to prevent freight rates and passenger rates from being reduced and the fear of the actual value of railroads being inquired Into, so that what are reasonable rates may be determined. With the great majority of the Republican politicians helping the railroads, secretly at least, It will he a prolonged fight befoie these law-breaking corporations will be thoroughly curbed and a fair, just and reasonable basts of charges established. The railroad officials are already declaring that their sins should be forgiven and that no more rate legislation should be attempted. Hut so far the public have gained nothing but some facts of railroad wrong doing and although restitution will never be made to a plundered people, yet It must lie made certain that the plundering will not be continued.

HOME VS. THE CITY

Republicans Attack Reform. Senator Carter of Montana in his vicious attack u;on Secretary Hitchcock undoubtedly has the sympathy of all the land thieves and grafters, and nearly a hundred of these who have been convicted of land frauds no doubt endorse what Carter says of the secretary's policy as lielng. "unwarranted In fact and founded on base i ss suspicion Mr. Harriman views this activity of Secretary Hitchcock with great displeasure, since the I'nlon Pacific and one of its coal companies have been lndkted In Flah for land grabbing And the list of objectors nilnht be almost Indefinitely extend. . I to all who have ben in the land grafting business. Senator Carter pre tends to be fighting for the homestead settler, but no honest settler who has complied with the law Bead fear the inspection of the land department, and if any have been Inconvenienced It is beca-is-' tin land thieves have compelled the government to Investigate the honest as well as dishonest to discover who Is entitled to the benefit of the land laws Quite BggvtMy some mistakes have been made and Secretary Hitchcock may have been overzealous In trying to punish the guilty to prevent the government land from being diverted from honest settlers to dishonest n i sons and corporations Senator Carter's attack on the only department of the government that has without feat or favor criminally punished the grafters, would Indicate that his Interests lie In close proximity to some other interests that have been disturbed. Is he actln as the spokesman or attorney of the land grabbers, or Is he trying to disorganize and throw discredit on the only true reform efforts that have been made by his party, so that the "re actlonaries" may control the next national Republican convention0 However much these politicians may deceive the Republican voters, many of whom are easilv hoodwinked. Democrats will always be found ready to stand by those even their isdltlcal oiijMinents who are honestly striving for the reform of great abuses. esiedally the land frauds that have flourished In th" land department under !(. publican manipulation and rule. Honesty at a Ducount. Those Republican members of the house of representatives whose cooUtBOatB have been Nggjftti In the Hitchcock dragnet for land frauds took It out on the administration by abusing the officials that caught the thieves No wonder there are so few honest Republicans In office when they are so criticised for total 'heir nlain duty.

THAT 18 WHAT THE HOME TRADE PROBLEM AMOUNTS TO. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? If You Are 8ending Your Dollars to the Mail-Order Houses You Are Battling Againtt the Home Town. (Copyrlfhtrd. by Alfred C. Clark A far seeing, provident businesa man will not pursue a pollc which Is subversive of his beat interests. He will not destroy his own house, neither will he Jeopardize his business. He will observe the golden rule, not only In theory, but In practice, and Its practical observation was never more aeoded than at the pres ent time. Men droam about the "Qoktea Age" and yet, oft times pursue a policy which renders the dawn of that age an Impossibility. Within the horizon of every country resident there exists an evil whi'.-h Is yearly assuming greater proportions. We refer to the mail order business which last year amounted In money sent to Chicago alone to 1200.000,000. Two hundred million dollars diverted from Its legitimate channel. Two hundred million dollars cent out to enrich those who were not needy, while those at home sorely in need of aapport were passed by coldly; the local trade waa Impoverished just to that extent. This golden trade reviving stream should have remained within its own channel, thus enriching its own soil, and causing desert places to bloom and blossom. Many unemployed would have been engaged at living wages, households

In a certain rural community, thla official order and warning was Issued: "l nless bad roads are fixed there will be no rural delivery at all." It is Impossible to put roads In repair without money. This lack of means cannot be traced to poor crops, for the harvest Just gat hen d In has been superabundant. Man cannot support arid build up business concerns In distant cities without aeriSeiag the local good. Is It fair to establish the city by depriving the country of Its Just support? Many hold forth the Idea that the country Is the feeder of the city. This Is only partially true That doctrine has been preached tili the text Is threadbare. It would be much wiser for men to get a new text and talk and work the country up, then glloa) the city, Including Its mail order Octopus, to work Its own problems awhile. This, Instead of being selfishness, would be the finest order of common sense A more marked feeling of brotherhood interest is saidly needed In the country on this particular ioint. The rural jxipulatlrm complain of lack of facilities and conveniences; In order to obviate this, let $200,000,000 this coming year be disbursed among eoaatry merchants, among the humbler storekeepers, then observe what will follow. The Improvements would be marked. Social conditions would be greatly ameliorated. A new order would maintain In the home and over the broad acres of the farm and best of all, the social spirit of brotherhood would be felt as never before. Listen to these thoughtful words from Gov. Folk, of Missouri: "We are proud of our splendid cities, and we want to increase in wealth and population, and we also wa:W our country towns to grow. We wish the city merchants to build up, but also desire the country merchants to prosper. I do NOT BELIEVE in the mail

The batteries of the catalogue houses are carrying destruction to the smaller cities and towns. Are you helping in this work of hurling destruction at the local schools, churches and industries? Are you assisting in the distribution of mail-order literature and sending ammunition in the way of home dollars with which they will continue the campaign?

would have been cheered and hearts warmed; but no. It went to swell the dividends of surfeited, boastful city concerns. The live and let live doctrines was overlooked; Its old fashioned wholesomeness was utterly disregarded. The country merchant would have been engaged In his daily struggle, instead of battling at leng odds against ostracism, adversity, big bills and meager receipts. Think of 1200,000,000, ye who cause the catalogue houses to flourish as the cedars of Iycbanon. and the green bay tree; remember that their prosperity Is at the expense of your brother, the local merchant, and local progress. Then ask this pertinent question: Can we afford to play the game longer, can we longer stultify local interests" This great evil affecta every farmer, teacher and work hand, every home, every school, every church In every country community. It also touches the interests ol the physician, preacher and pedagogue. It really robs the country merchant before his eyei, In a heartless way. He sees the freight yard crowded with consign ments to Individuals from gr?at cata

logue houses, and sadly does he look

order citizen. If a place la good enough for a man to live In and to make his money in. It Is good enough for a man to SI'KND HI3 MO.N'KY In. Patronize your own town papers, build them up, and they will build your town up In Increased trade and greater opportunlttea." These are the words of wisdom and foresight from a prudent. patriotic man. As It Is to-day, these words aro expressive of the opposite of what should be In many country district. The mail order citizen may think ho is gaining: the truth Is he Is sawing off the limb upon which he sits. Disaster only can follow. The mall order citizen makes his money locally and scatters it abroad in a field where It is not needed; this Is unfair to both the town and to Its merchants. This shortsighted citizen complains of the size and character of his town paper, at the same time he pursues a policy which tends to destroy both. Then, publishers ought to be careful how they exploit and give publicity to the mail order houses; even If they are paid well for the space. It reacts disastrously on the town's best prospects.

Iet men ciand by the local mer-

alty and practical cooperation. ARTHt'R M. FKOWDRN.

at his country store with Its stock rhanfi iPt them protect his interests.

accumulating, for want or traue, ami for fhfv tmis farther their own. The thus decreasing In value every day. tow (hat made thf? man g,.mil(1 bft Sadly too does he look at the refuge mi(Je by tnp man Tnls , falr to al of bankrupt y hourly being hastened! Ij?t mon p.dcr whi this truth, that because his tow nsmen prefer the cata- wp arp all interdopndent ; that the logue house with its ubiquitous cir- vcln of brotherhood underlies the enculars Those train loads of goods tro amj commercial fabric, were bought with money that should That together we stand or fall; that have found lta way into the honest ( thp g00(1 of th1 country demands loy-

hand of your local mentiant. wno nas the good of your locality at heart, and who Is expected to contribute liberaily and continuously to vry moral and benevolent institution In your midst. Then likewise remember this, that of all the millions thus sent to swell the coffers of houses In great cities, not one cent will ever return to bless your community, to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry or to educato the Ignorant! This Is certainly a misguided, 111ad vised policy ; If self preservation la the first law of nature, the (gal Just stated should cause lovers of this

country to think. Continue this policy

Fortunate Men of Prominence. Admirers of great, rich or famous people often bestow their wealth upon the objects of their regard. The fJeriuan emperor heads the list of lucky ones so favored. His receipts In money and real estate during the last ten years would, it Is said, make a millionaire envious. Following precedent, a Hamburg merchant prince left more than 1 ,000,000 to the emperor's chancellor, whom Kaiser William Immediately created "Prince" llitelow.

William Jennings Bryan recently

snd what follows The valu of real I came by wealth In the same way. In

estate decreases, local Improvements ;ease. material progress stops, the whole country suffers. 1 The money of a community repreaents In a business sense Just ao much possibility, and every honest occupa IBM Is Injured In proportion aa that Is withheld or sent elsewhere.

Kngland Iord Allerton has received

1 100.000 from an admirer of his public enreer and Dr Jameson Inherits a sum one-fifth larger under the will of Mr. Helt yueca Victoria was very fortunate In her admirers, of whom thi wealthiest was NMd. who bcpiuathed to her the sum of :i.2ü0.0üü.