Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 October 1908 — Page 6

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WEEKLY COURIER

BKS ED. HO AN E, l'ublUher. jAsrnn. INDIANA. There are two sides to every questiog except tho one which Is most dear to jour heart. A man refused an offer of $40.000 tor a horse. Probably ho is holding out for a kingdom. A man named Wind won $15,000 in a Panama lottery and. of course, blew it all in Inside of a week. It is coming. Some day, we will boar of rules requiring airships to turn to the right when passing. The Goidfleld miner who left his fortune to the girl who Jilted him must fcavo been mighty g!ad of it. Music is said to be tho food of love but you can't induce the butcher and grocer to swallow such talk. President Roosevelt's Idea of providing plenty of shade on the farm should snake a hit with the hired man. Another reason why men don't go to church is that so comparatively few or them are candidates, declares the Ohio State Journal. A day on the planet Jupiter is said to be as long as 50.000 American days. If we had a holiday of that length e'd nerer get over it. "What is more cheering than the sunshine after a storm?" queries the Chester (Pa. Republican. A storm after too much sunshine, of course. A Pittsburg girl offers $450 for a husband." Bat if she gets one at that price be will have no assurance that she will not trade him for a $30 pianola. The West Virginia boy who ran away from home because his father would not let him study medicine has been caught. He will now get his medicine. Rockefeller's autobiography is to be published in several languages, but for candid expression concerning the distinguished citizen English will remain the vehicle. A New York bull recently tried to throw a locomotive off the track, and It took three hours to get the meat out of the running gear. This should servo as a warning to Castro. Tho arguments for better highways axe well known. The interest in the movement grows steadily as population increases, boasts the Chicago Tribune. It is not a special Idea for the benefit of any particular class. Not one play In 00 of those that are written In England in a year has in It either an Idea, or evidence of clever treatment, says the Weekly Dispatch, that would induce a sane manager to encourage the author. The older States are slowly coming to a realization of the Importance of good highways, atfirms the Boston Transcript. They are a vital factor of our general prosperity and therelore among the best investments of public money. We are the greatest meat eaters In the world as It is, notes the Baltimore News. If scarcity were to drive the housewife to the exercise of ingenuity in devising substitutes, it would be a fine thing for the digestion, the health and the pocketbook of the workingxaan. Alaska Is clearing her title to a star in the flag. This month the last dance hall in the Territory will close its doors, its license being about to expire and a new one being refused. Decency and order are the rule, even in the larger towns, and there are few left of the usual mining camp characteristics, unloss it is the high prices which prevail. Though newspapers cost twenty cents apiece they have a big sale. Philadelphia can probably lay claim to the champion practical Joker. Of course, he's Irish, and his wit ought to make the renowned Brian G. Hughes retire from the field. Pat was digging a ditch. On the first day of the Job he dug and dug, but made small progress. He went back next morning only to find that what he had done the day before was entirely wiped out by a cave-In. Then a brilliant Idea occurred to Pat Half burying his pick and shovel In the earth, leaving only the ends sticking out, he carefully threw his coat and dinner pall over the edge of the cave-In and then hid. In a short time people came along, took In the situation at a glance. Jumped at the conclusion that the laborer had been caught In tho fall of tho bank, and wont to work hastily, trying to uncover his body. Half an hour later three sweating and puzsled men stood by the nearly completed ditch and wondered whoro tho buried man was. Thon Pat came out from his rotlroment and said: "Thank ye. gcntlemon. I knowed you'd bite ,n that"

Astonished the Natives

"Remarkable "Performance of French Wizard in j.tcrtaThero are several of our older readers who have doubtless witnessed tho performances of that famous French prestidigitateur, tho late Robert Houdin. He was never excelled, nnd seldom equalled, in his calling. He was well declared to be tho prince of conjurers, for he elevated his occupation to a profession, nnd was an able mathematician and mechanician. His Ingenuity was unlimited, nnd it was absolutely Impossible to dotect tho secret of his Innumerable tricks and performances. Without tho least assistance he would hold an audlenco in delight and amazement for hours, everything being done with a graceful facility which showed that Houdin absolutely enjoyed his business. He taught his son many of his original tricks, but never imparted them to others; while the secret of some of the most remarkable performances has died with their great master, and no one can ever hopo to reproduce them. Probably the first instance in which a conjurer has been called upon to exercise his profession In government employ was that of Robert Houdin. He was sent to Algeria by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to exercise the black art in that benighted country, hoping thus to destroy the Influence exercised among the Arabs bv the Marabouts, an influence which was often mischievously applied. By a few cunning, yet clumsy tricks, these Marabouts passed themselves off as sorcerers, and were held in fear and veneration by the ignorant tribes. The French Government desired to show the Arabs that these would-be leaders among them were mere impostors, and that their pretended supernatural powers were without the least foundation in truth. The best way to do this It was thought would be to send one among them who should eclipse their skill, and thus discredit their science and pretended powers. It was resolved to send Robert Houdin, and the wizard was ordered to appear at the government olnce In Paris. Houdin was a sittle puzzled to know what the Minister of Foreign Affairs could wnnt of him. The plan and purpose of the government were made clear to him and he entered with spirit into the idea and its successful application. With every facility and all needed protection Robert Houdin sailed for Algeria to astonish the natives. Arriving under such favorable auspices, he went at once to work upon the object of his mission, and gaping crowds followed him everywhere, thinking him to be inspired. He succeeded in showing the people that he could vanquish the control over the ignorant masses of the population, and thus threw them into such discredit that he succeeded in disarming them almost entirely of their influence. Still there was one of the Marabouts whom he had not yet met, and who scoffed at the reported power of this French wizard. A day was therefor appointed when the two should appear before the people, nnd each give evidence of his own peculiar powers. One of tho great pretensions of the Marabout was to invulnerability. At the moment that a loaded musket was fired at him. and the trigger pulled, ho pronounced a few cabalistic words, and the weapon would not go off. Rob ert Houdin instantly detected the trick and showed that the touch-hole of the musket was carefully plugged. This rendered the Arab conjurer furious, and he, of course, abused his French rival without mercy. Houdin was perfectly cool, and said: "You are angry with me?" " I am." said the Arab. "And would be avenged?" "Yes." "It Is very easy." "I will show you," said Houdin quietly. The Arab was all attention. "Take a pistol, load it yourself. Here are bullets. Put one in the barrel. But stop--" "For what?" "Mark the bullet with your knife, so that you may know It." The Arab did as he was told. "You are quite certain now," said Houdin. "that the pistol Is properly loaded?" "Yes." "Tell me, do you feel no remorse in killing mo thus, oven though I consent?" "No." "It Is strange." "You are my enemy, he coldly answered, "and I will kill you." "Walt but a moment." Houdin then stuck an apple on the point of a knife, and calmly gave the word, as he held the fruit raised In one hand: "Fire!" The pistol was discharged, the apple flew far away, and there appeared In Its place, stuck on the point of tho knife, tho bullet the Marabout had marked. The spectators, though aroused to Intense excitement of feeling, remained mute with stupefaction, while the Marabout bowed before his superior, saying: "Allah Is great! I am vanquished." Great was the triumph of the French wizard. Houdin then called for an empty bowl, which he kept constantly full of boiling cofTee. though but few of the Arabs would taste It. for they were sure that It was the devil's coffee-pot whence It came. He then told them that it was within his power to deprive them of all strength, and to restore It to thorn at will, and ho produced In Illustration a small box. so light that a child could lift It with the fingers. And now came their astonishment. This box suddenly became so heavy that tho strongest man present could not raise It. and tho Arabs, who prlzo physical strength above everything. looked with terror upon tho magician, who. they doubted not, could annihilate thorn by the exortlon of his will. Tho people expressed this belief, in which Houdin of courso confirmed thorn, and promised that at a day njpolntcd he would convert one of them into amoke. The day came and the

throng was prodigious. A fanatical Marabout had agreod to give hltnsolf up to the French aorceror for tho experiment. The preparations wcro on n grand scale. The Marabout wns made to stand upon a table and wns covered with a transparent gnuzo. Then Houdin and another person lifted the tnblo by the ends, when the Arab disappeared lu a profuse cloud of smoke. Tho terror or the spectators was Indescribable. They rushed out of the place, nnd ran a long distance before some of the boldest could make up their minds to return and look upon tho Marabout. They found him near tho spot where ho had so mysteriously disappeared, but ho could not answer their questions. Ho could tell thorn nothing at all, and only gazed wildly at them like one bereft of his senses. He was entirely Ignorant of what had happened to him. This was Houdin's closing exhibition in Algeria. He had filled tho minds of the people with wonder, he was venerated by all, while tho pretentious Marabouts were in utter disgrace; their influonce was banished. Ho had met these conjurers on their own ground, and had in a most incredibly short time completely vanquished them. The object of the French Government was completely attained, and Houdin returned to his home. He had made no pecuniary terms with the Minister of Foreign Affairs before obeying his orders, but so well satisfied was the government with his remarkable success that besides paying all his expenses he was presented with a check upon the treasury for 50,000 francs. Such is a single chapter in the life of a famous French wizard. Lieut. Murray in New York Weekly. FARM TO BE ADAMLESS EDEN. Russian Woman Plans Philanthropic Experiment on Long Island. Long Island Is to hnvo an "Adamless Eden." Mine. Davidoff. a native of Russia, but now a resident of New York City, is establishing an experimental farm at Bellcrest, near Northport, Long Island, which will bo operated by women. Men will be barred from tho greenhouses, where fruits and flowers are to be grown every month In the year by the aid of electricity. While similar experiments have been made by this and other Governments, Mme. Davidoff believes her experiments will prove more successful than those carried on by the Bureau of Plant Industry of tho Department of Agriculture.

Mme. Davldoff is a writer for magazines. She says the experiments will be based on the theory that the growth of vegetable matter, which ceases at sundown, will continue through the night if proper artificial light is supplied to stimulate the developing powers of plants. Fruits and flowers that are grown In this section only in the spring and summer months, she believes, can be cultivated during the entiro year by supplying the necessary artificial heat through the electrical process that will be adopted. "This Is not intended as a monoymaking enterprise." said Mme Davldoff recently. "While, of course, we expect the experiments to prove successful nd the farm to be self-supporting, yet my object Is to make it a philanthropic enterprise with the view of helping members of my own sex. as well as to prove the scientific value of the plan which I have been experimenting with for several years. There is no connection between my venture and the utterances of Sir Oliver Lodge, the English savant, relative to the influence of electricity on plant life. The two systems differ chiefly from the fact that all of my experiments are made under glass and under certain conditions a static machine is used in addition to dynamos." Active work on the farm at Bellecrest will begin, she says, within one month upon the completion of the necessary buildings and the Installation of the electrical apparatus. New York Herald. BOOK AGENT IS REPROVED. He Tells One at His Own Expense The Story. The book agent seldom tells a Joke at his own expense, but here is one recently related by one of the much maligned fraternity: "I had been In poor health," said this particular book agent." and had been advised to go to the mountains of Eastern Tennessee to recuperate. To kill two birds with one stone I took along somo specimens of an encyclopedia I had on my list, thinking I might possibly get a few orders. The first person I stacked up against was a typical mountaineer. He was sitting In the sun In front of his shack, watching his wife do the family washing at a little brook that flowed In front of the house. He listened attentively while I got oft my little speech. He allowed ho could get along without an encyclopedia. "Then I started afresh, and I saw he was getting a trifle bored. 'Why, sir, no family Is complete without this book. I exclaimed. "'Talu't, huh?' he drawled. What you all consider a comploto family? See them 'ere young 'uns a-playlng about?' i nodded. "'How many d'ye sec?' ho demanded. "I counted nine. "'Thero's two more at school," he said, 'an three boys a-worklng down on the new railroad cut How many do that make?' " Fourteen, I said. "Then he commenced to call his dogs. 'See them hounds?' he nsked. "I saw them. " 'Wall, they's six o' them, nn three more often In tho woods. How many do that make?' "I told him nlno. "So no fam'ly la comploto without that 'ore book, eh?' ho ruminated. ' 'Pears to mo fo'teen children an nine dawgs Is a pu'ty comploto fam'ljt, an' I hov mnnagotl to struggle along without It so fur.' ". Spiritual wealth may often depend on willingness to experience material poverty.

A Runaway Match

XOho XnderJtands a XÜotnan? He saw tho gracoful figure, in its becoming blue habit, tho Hocked sunlight upon her shining hair, ahead of him, and reined up his horse. Sho looked over her shoulder und seeing him. gave a vicious cut with her whip. "As if 1 would intrudo upon her! A heartless coquette a woman without womanly principles!" ho said bittorly, drawing his horse down to a slow walk. She disappeared around tho bend In the road in n whirl of reddish dust. Guy Mortimer's thoughts, as they folfowod her, wore not pleasant Only last summer he hnd been the accepted lover of tho prettiest girl In all tho Blue Ridge region of Virginia, to find himself one day suddenly supplanted by a wealthier rival. He wondered why she had como back to such a quiet little out of the way place as Vinto, and why she had not married. Tho horse slowly made its way along the shady road and turned the bend. As he did so the man gavo such a start as caused them to draw up abruptly beside the dismounted rider stnnding in the middle of the roud. "Have you been thrown Mab Miss Andrews?" he asked, springing out of tho buggy. She moved toward him. tho sunlight resting upon her red gold hair, her eyes on the ground. "My horse tho saddle something was loose," she murmured incohorently, "and when I got down to see if I could fix it why the horso ran off. I hupe he will go home! Do you think he will?" "I should not worry about him nor mvself," he said slowly. "I am going yo'ur way and will tako you as far as the plantation in my buggy- It will be no trouble at all," ho continued, In answer to her question of protest, 'i suppose you are staying at the plantation." She hesitated an Instant, tho red blood mounting to her face at his tone and coolness; but she allowed herself to be helped into the seat beside htm, and looked straight ahead. f "I am putting you to a lot of bother, sho murmured at length. "It Is too bad tho horse left mo. I could walk" hesitatingly. "Oh, I hope nothing will happen to tho horse." ' He will go homo of course. I am surprised at his running away from vou; the plantation horses are generally more than gentle they are poky," he replied. There was a pause. "Do you think It will rain?" she asked. "Vou are Just as mean as you can be! I'm so vory sorry to subject you to all this annoyance" "No excuse necessnry one ran endure anything for a while. I did not intend coming here this summer, only I supposed you had gone far to othor fields, and this little couutry place was so restful." "Thank you!" coolly. "I had no idea you would bury yourself here again when you could enjoy the fashionable world under Mrs. Wadsworth's chaperonage." i really don't know how I withstood the tempetation," she retorted, since Johnny Wadsworth is such a nice fellow. Ho would tako me any distance in his buggy or auto and never snub mo once." The eyes that looked Into his from under the visor of the Jaunty cap wero (nil of laughter, and In an instant his control of himself was gono. 'i see you still find me amusing!" he exclaimed bittorly, "you laughed at mo then; and you laugh, at me now; you gave me tho discipline I deserved for thinking of you that way, but it was a true love on my part, even If it was laughable to you. Wo two have como to the parting of the ways. 1 shall leave you at the plantation, and drive on to the station; so I will not intrude upon you again." He illcked his whip and the horse broke into a brisk trot. "There was a light in tho girl s eyes that had not been there before, as she leaned over and took tho lines from his hand. "Since this is to be our last drive," demurely, "thero Is no need of hurrying. It will be over soon enough." He turned and looked at her, his face white with emotion and his throat throbbing fiercely. "What new scheme Is this? Is it only to play with me longer make life harder to live without you?" There was a little tremor In her voice. "Listen." sbe said. "When you told me what l was to you, you told me in tho next breath how jealous you were of Johnnie Wadsworth, of all persons on earth. Why, he could never bo anything more to mo than a friend, and besides he is to marry cousin Laura. Ills mother Is good to mo. She and my mother were schoolmates, and since mother's death she has tried to take her place as far as she was able. I tried to explain to you, but you would not listen to reason. You left mo without a word. I have not seen you for a whole year; and If that horso had not deserted mo in tho lonely woods " Rut Guy Mortimer had listened In passive silence long enough. As they drew up to tho picket gato an hour later, thero seemed to bo a commotion in tho yard. The whole family were gathering about a youngster who Btood holding tho truant horso. 'i tell you I saw It myself," ho was saying. "It ain't no lie. I was a-com-in the nigh way through the woods, when Miss Mabel got off the horso and hit him a cut with the whip, and Dolly came a-tearln down the road. Didn't you, Miss Mabel?" ho added, as tho .buggy scattered tho group. Mabel's face was very red. but before she could frame a denltd. Guy sprang down and slapped the youtigster on the back. "Of course Bhe did, Jack." ho said gleefully, "because I was behind to pick her up. Here, son, there Is a circus coming next week," and he slipped a dollar into his hand. The youngster looked after tho Inughlng crowd ns they trooped back into tho house, and nt tho monny in his hnnd; thou ho rubbed his head. "Sho looked mighty shamcd-facod, and never said nothing; but who," rofloctlvoly, "can evor understand a woman? Wnvorly Magazine.

LIONS TURN MAN EATERS.

Hunger Drives Them to Prey on African Native's. A now terror has bofallen somo of tho districts of Nyasniand, tho British colony l)'ig along tho western shore of Lako Nynsa. In hls region gumo has never boon plentiful and tho supply bus been still furthor depleted by excessive hunting in the last few years. Tho result Is that tho nattiml food of lions Is becoming scarce and tlioy have been driven by hunger to prey upon tho natives. Fortunately tho Hons nro not so numerous thoro as they are In British East Africa. Hut tho natives are In torror, owing to tho fact that the animals now look upon them as an excllunt Bourco of food supply. Tho evil at present Is groatest In tho district which lies between the Govornment station of Ngara and Dowa In the high country west of Lako Nyasa. In this locality during tho last year tho Hons have become a scourge. Those natives have surrounded all their villages with stockades at least 15 feet high, the tops of wldch aro thickly woven with thorns. These precautions seem to nfford no security. Lions have repeatedly climbed over tho stockades, broken Into the huts, usually by tearing away tho roof thatch, and carried off natives. Even those not attacked are usuully too terror stricken to offer resistance. A party of whites traveling through this region in May last observed many small villages deserted by their inhabitants, although the huts wero still quite new. On asking the reason tho answer was Invariably the same: "Tho people could no longer renir.in. Tho lions have become so bad that wo nro all afraid we will bo killed." At one village three women had been killed and eaten by these animals; at another a man and two girls, and so on. Tho Hons that are committing these ravages aro believed to hav been driven to prey upon human beings only by hunger, for man-eating lions have not often terrorized this region. Most lions aro not the ferocious boasts thoy havo been thought to be. They run off Into tho jungle at tho sight of a human boiug and never attack a man unless wounded or hunted. But with tho man-oatlng lion it is different. Ho lies in hiding all day, and at night tires, guns and noise will not keep him off. He springs into a group of natives und carries one off before the others have time to make resistance. He enters tents without fear, clawing away tho fastenings. When the man eaters attacked the laborers on tho Uganda Rallraod everybody built platforms and slept on them at least 20 feet from the ground. All that is necessary to turn an ordinary lion into one of the man-eating sort is for him to acquire a taste for human flesh. He may first feed on the remains of a human body that a man eater has left and as soon as he learns that the human kind is easy to kill he is likely to attack men, women or children in preference to any of the game that has been Ins food. Then ho becomes a man eater, a terrible evil. This is tho gravest feature in the present situation in Nyasaland. The Hons are being turned Into man eaters. Of course, this state of affairs has Incited the colonial authorities to mako every effort to dostroy the lions. New York Sun. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. You can discourage a man past 50 awfully easy. Evory boy has an unconquerable longing to kill a wild goose. A really dangerous man generally tries to avoid trouble. It is all right to hope If you don't noglect your work to do It. Investigation will reveal that every lllnatured man is a sick man. When a man accepts charity somo one is sure to say ho is undeserving. If a man asks a candid opinion of a friend and gets it, it makes him mad. Admire a man's teeth, and somo ono present is reminded that he has no hair. Cash, photographs and compliment's all come under a woman's list of debts to be paid. A cross man would be worth at least a dollar a day more If ho would become good-natured. What has become of the old-fashioned boy who, when asked his name, replied, "Pudentalne?" When age and lovo together begin their softening Influence on a man, the result is often dangerous. When a man is governed by your advice it Is another Indication that you are good at guessing what people want. A man suddenly becomes awfully polite nnd considerate for tho public when an opposition business Is started In his town. One of the meanest things about people Is that after they have been acquainted a long time, they begin to tell stories on each other. If a woman has a husband and four children, It means that she has to do the thinking and planning for six. Some women cook for tnon as though only women lived in the houso and then expect the men to be satisfled. Every one Is occasionally shocked when ho realizes how easily ho became reconciled to the death of a friend. A father will never admit his daughter was given the outlandish nnmo sho calls herself, but a mother sometimes will. Ask a man how his sick wlfo is, and ho will not be as lluont as if you remark that doctors charge too much. Somo days when we look at the women wo more thnn half bollevo that they aro wearing hoop skirts again. When nn employer discharges a clerk his wife, his father, his mother and his children all begin to berate the employer. When a woman falls in lovo with a man she Is preparing to find him out. A woman lu lovo believes a wholo lot of things about tho subject of her affection that he la sure to disappoint her In, nnd sho will claim finally that ho "deceived" her. Atchison (Kim.) Globe. , Lovo docs not stop at tho boundaries of liking.

PARIS FASHION HINTS.

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