Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 November 1908 — Page 1
Jasper Weekly Courier.
Vol. 51. Jasper, Indiana, Friday, November 20, 1908. No.10.-
THE PLEASURES OF perfume, i A Horse Dies From Grief.
Qnmplhinff More in the Bottle Than the Mere
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Sweet Sweet.
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Bho Nerwr" mAad, daax; UOd
are like kind word. He-How's tbat Sue TWay can ncvtr dye. Hai Ball-
Short Time.
Some people," sard-the large and and portly person to The emotional life of a horse is remarkable. There are he Washington Star reporter, as they stood in a drug instances on record where the death of the horse has been iture with a easeful of perfumes spread before them, traced directly to grief. One instance is called to mind, rlrm't seem to exercise one bit of iuderment in the selec- which occurred more than twentv vears ,1. A mrmis
tion of a perfume. What they appear to want is some-'had been performing in the little town of Ünionville, Pa., thing that will find its chief function in concealing some when one of the trained horses sprained one of his legs so r.thi r smell which is less pleasant. that he could not travel. He was taken to the hotel and
"It isn't so with me. To me there is sentiment in smell, put in a box stall. The leg was bandaged and he was1
if you win puuniL tue iiuiraduuii, cuiu a uuy my pmiuuie maue as comiorcauie as possioie, runs an account m tne because of the sentiment. When I was younger I don't Kentucky Stock Farm. i know but that I bought about as other people did, and Pie ate his food, and was apparently contented until still do; but now. having given up the frivolities of the'about midnight, when the circus began moving out of nay world, 1 live more in the past, and I love to think of town. Then he became restless and tramped and whined, what the world was to me as a boy. I lived in the coun- As the caravan moved past the hotel he seemed to realize
trv, and when one nas started irom tne ground ne never that he was being deserted, and his anxiety and distress foWt'ts his starting point. I might say he never ceases became pitiful. He would stand with his ears pricked in
Now, here,' said the large and portly person, an attitude of intense listening, and then bottle of some fashionable scent, 'this is an caught the sounds of the retiring wagons 1
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lor tnai reminus aiways ui uuweu u uan ruums, vi wo- as otoL nc couia wiui nis lniurea leg, irom one sicte oi cne
m sa-nib uiiu laces, ui jiivriiiu nui uaw, ui jhum; aim stau to me ouiei , pusmng at tne aoor wun nis nose ana .r m and wine and long hours into the night and hea- making every effort to escape. The stableman, who was
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whiff of that sort every time 1 take out my handkerchief? He would not be comforted.
Here's another. This reminds me of theaters, on : he stage Long after all sounds of the circus had ceased, his agiand "tf; the glare of lights, the temptations, the joys, tation continued. The sweat poured from him in streams the triumphs' the defeats, the late suppers, the bitterness and he quivered in every part of the body. Finally the the broken hearts, the everything that a man would rath- stableman went to the honse, woke up the proprietor and er forget, and a women can never forget. Not any per-J told him he believed the horse would die if some of the famed reminders of that kind if you please. circus horses were not brought back to keep him company "There are others that are equally undesirable, and At about daylight the proprietor mounted, a horse and there are others that are so artificial that they remind me rode after the circus. Pie overtook it ten or twelve miles of nothing, and they are, if anything, worse than the'away, and the groom who had had charge of the injured others. horse returned with him. When they reached the stable ".Now, this," and the large and portly person picked up the horse was dead, a bottle, "is what I use, because it is a redolent of the The stableman said that he remained for nearly an hour farm. When I catch a breath of it, it makes me a boy perfectly still and with every sense apparently strained again, and I can see the old fence across the clover field -to the utmost tension, and then, without making a sign, I can almost touch the clambering vines, I can feel. thefell and died with scarcely a struggle. The veterinarian nibble of the first spring fish at my pin hook, I can hearjwho was called remarked after the .circumstances were the cows in the pasture, I can see the blue skies up thru told him that unquestionably the horse died from grief, the leafy shade of the big old tree in the front yard, I canTf it is possible for all the mental faculties of the horse to see it all. I can hear it all, I can feel it all, and I hold the become abandoned to grief to such an extent as to cause bottle in my hand as a treasure greater than that lamp of death, how much more does he appeal to the sympaty and Aladdin's, which broutrht him cold for the rubbintr of it: retrard of mankind. I
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for what this perfume brings to me is what all the gold in the tarld can never bring to a man when once he l)as let it slip from his grasp in nis grasping for what is worth so much less."
The large and portly person was silent for as much as a
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Dead tu ihm World.
Humorist - I've Just written fifteen jokes on the man who doesn't advertise. Poet That's wrong. You shouldn't jest about the dead. - Cincinnati Enquirer. More Than Enough.
"I fear jou hT not Jiad enough experience." "Not ad 'nuff experleace? Why, l'r 'ad ten places ta tto last month," London Tatkc
"Won't Die Jut Yet,
The Day and the Knight. Lord Kelvin when a professor at Glasgow university was occasionally
minute, gazing as if at something which was not of the obscure and complex when the in-, earth, Then be spoke again. ' ßlQZ "Yes," he said to the clerk, "you may wrap me up a subjcct of an whirh con; bottle of this and give one to this gentleman also, nod-.trasted his methods with those of dine: with a persuasive smile at the reporter. i His assistant, Day, to his disadvan-j
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inge. l ne occasion cnosen was uiac of his return from having received his knighthood, and a student WTote upon the hluckboard, "Work while it is yet Day, for the knight cometh when no man can work."
Oaught In the Rain. "Oh, Isn't It Jollyr said Dicky to Dolly. "I wonder why people complain. If we are together, what matters th we.ithcrT I love to be out la the rain!" "No need of a brolly.' " said Dicky to Dolly;
"We're not made of mjRnr or salt!
A Lesson In Poisons.
Eating an Orange. Fine oranges grow in Florida, and some of them are eaten at the table. The Florida style is to sever the
A Druggist in Kentucky Has Had the Temerity to Set up a Queer Window. It seems scarcelv wise for a man in the state of Ken
tucky to declare that whisky is poison, says the San Fran-,ora?p aVhc nuator.nnJ1 sorvc tho dscoyExaminer But there' is a reckless individual Nicholasville, Ky., who has done it, and done it in a bold, of thc zodinc laTQ in the divisions disagreeable Sort Of Way, tOO. t ! of the orange. Chisel them out This person's name, which is apt to be anthema in Ken-; with the spoon and eat them. Leave tucky henceforth, is James W. Gordon. He is in the drug tbe partitions, u is bad form to business in Nicholasville. Just how long his neighbors! At the Flood. and fellow-townsmen will encourage him in pursuit Of Hearing of a rising river at the trade is Very difficult to Say. i headwaters of the Euphrates, with Mr Gordon has gratuitiSusly "rubbed it in" to his comjfailm patriots on the somewhat dangerous score of whisky. He;canthropiIS 0imnged his mind and has fitted up in the front of his drug store what he calls a,fninkiy admitted it to Noah. His
Poison window, and a bottle of the corn juice dear to the
Kentucky heart is there
manner was that of a chastened and softened person.
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il I. itiww.T .6 . J o' , &r ; the patriarch. "We gave you a thing. It is a whole course of lessons to a man who wants' ohanJc t0 come in wiU, us nn(i you to commit suicide. In the middle, white and grinning, is wouldn't take ij. Now we have aru skull. Clutched in its teeth is the deadly cigarette, an, ranged for all the stock we care ach nlJr.;. Ur, Af fl-.n ,.?vhf nf fbo clriill is: n -nt--labout trying to float."
nilefwfth ae. go'od corn juiced the KdZf dies. At its left is a bottle of port wine. Scattered but the insillori!.iiuek.
about in the foreground are cards, dice and poker chips.
me rest oi tne winaow is nuea wiui siuau uumaiu ing liquid noisons and naners unon which are heaped pow
ders enough of various sorts to end the troubles of a reeri-!
rcc . Througn. - A Strang o-iieml a church hi)
the middle of the r-ermon and seated himself in the hack pew. After,
nient. Every article is labeled, from the cigarette to the! awhile he hegnn to fidget. Leaning nrnscjie nnM or1 .rv.T0r,f o nnccihlp miRimHfli'stand.l over to the white haired man at his
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.v article m tms window is noiscn. mir
The Ostrich Ft swallowed a packet of x nails, and they've dtsapreed with me. Would yer recommend a stroar emetic? Dr. Monk No. I'd recommend a strong magnet
The Modern CblU.
ucr ilothes can hf mndod; now, Isn't H Allh nobody near to find fault?" "The etreets are no sticky," Haid Dolly to Dicky. "A:.d ace how my Hair's out of curl! Plnaso tal;o me to mother!" "Ob. dearl" aid her brother; 'N'ow. Isn't that Just Vu . clrir
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Forl Cnd the Coin. Plate two forks with their prong. one set over the other and slip a coin between the middle prongs of the forks. Then place tho coin Hat on the rim of a wineglass ox
"Shall wj po Into the toy store together, Alice? There are Borne lovely dolls there!' "Why. yes-lf It will plvo you any pleasure, grandma !" Fliegende Blat ter. Confuting,
mK of his moiling W.Gordon' las fronted the whole; fjf deadly collection with a statlmg sign, which reads : 'Ev- ..Howf I(fn& !,',
,, 'What makes the druggist's venture more inexplicable is Thirty or forty yre, I hmk ib "''iiltrTil Uat he is a voter in Kentucky and carries no- life insür- -, "swored, "I it-. .," 'h ' "J; .1 1
lack of policy is pitiful.
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'Til slay then," decided tho stranger, "lie must bo nearly done' Everybody's Mnjiaziii".
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thc glass into another without cu turbing the coin or thc two fork.
Outlate (rcturnlnK to bin hotel at 2 a. in. and mistaking his room) Good frrnclous, I must be In bed already Here are my feet l'ele Meie.
A WARNING. The Utter Uselessness of Taking a Course in German. A ciiütoTier during, a trying on asked her dressmaker, . whose. fiOD was at college, if heuere pursaing a general counse or peeializiDg in auv particular brarieb. The anairej came promptly, through a mouthful of pins: ''Sanskrit, ma'am. IlVn specializing in Sanskrit. I can't pay but I'd have preferred something J.bii more usual in thc way of education something more plain tailor raid for every day like. Sanskrit's such a flimsy study.' Her critii-m. i oddly vorded, was I'Dinpn l cn-ihle and not .unintelligent. r.es reasonable and equally unexpected were the remarks of an old farmer in a remote hill village upon the favorite studie$lof hia son. lie had always been suspicious of the higher education and Was far from pleased when his Joe, whom he wished to keep on the farm, obtained a scholarship. "languages may be all right for folks that's loiu to 'em in foreign parts," ho diviared recently, witht iinpressivo dcli'xTation, "but a man that ain't had hotter talk plain Yankee and do thiugs. "To see that boy of mine sit down with a book ye can't read, saying over words ye can't sense jest putter, putter, mutter, mutter, sputter, sputter why, it makes mci&ir eick. And for all he's been at it moat a -year, he can't make those Italians on the highway understand three words together. He owns himself he can't." "It is Italian he is studying, then?" the listener murmured po litelv. "Xo, 'tain't; it'p German;' admitted the old man in a reluctant growl. "But a precious poor excuse I call that, and so I io d him. "I don't care if 'tam't their on lingo, Joe,' says I. 'It oughtcr com a long sight nigher to ittbaa;jet United States talk. Squeezed tall up together the tray folks be jw ihe map o' Europe, course they mUt gtt used to each others' talk enowgk- to make each other out. "'Bet ye my Sunday-f-io-meeting hat I told him"iy tlkcd reel German to thow Itali thev'd understand vel' 1 "But he can't. All he'CaiJlo ' to set in a corner with." hiibock, putter puttering and ijrafctirrsytiltering. "Don't ye talk to me Waballeges! Joe's a warniig. Tut4ri. Companion. Cured by Funny IfriM. Having vainly tried mtxr and various remedies to refitord to.nealth a business man whonFl know and who had fallen into a morbid condition owing to years of overwork, a famous Baltimore physician at last persuaded his patient to take a course bf funny stories, obb at each meal, with an extra tiro at dinner. The patient, a 6oleain;ad gloomy fellow; at first rebelled, bt, finally falling in with the idea, adopted the course recommejUed and was in the end rttorelfl to health, the effect of laugbier. bing entirely to change his mental and bodily condition. Laughter, in fact, is one of , the cheapest and mostr effective Of medicine3, breaking up stagnation of mind and body and sending a healthy vibration througfi one's aystern. There is very little the matter with the man- who can enjoy a hearty laugh. Nashville Tenneaseean. The Unwitting .Jet. Hero are spme'-gem answers to questions" put in a recent history examination at a large private school: "Simon de Montfort formed1 what was known as the mad parliament It was soniclhiug thc same a3 it is at thc present day." "Cromwell raised a famous body of soldiers known to history as 'the Ironclads.' " "Mortmain tried to stop dead men from leaving their land to, churches." London Tatlcr.
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