Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 December 1908 — Page 1
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VOL. 51.
Jasper, Indiana, Friday, December .4, 1908.
No. 12.
CHRISTMAS ON THE FARM.
By Myrta Ciiamkeklin. Vre' i wilkins and Amanda Jane, his wife, Had 1 . U together forty years a peaceful, happy life, They owned a farm near Jonesburg, located on the pike, And hxd no child to leave it to, excepting Oliver Ike. Ji.siah's farm was the richest for many miles around, Wfjile Mandy's "dairy product" was the best that came to town; Tiu ir horses, cattle, sheep and hos wore of the highest grade;' Their fields grew the finest harvests, their trees the deepest shade. Tvas Monday before Christmas that Amanda Jane began T arrange for a Christmas dinner, according to her plan; So she said to her .losiah: "The holidays draw near, And I'd ilce to go to Jonesburg to buy some things, my dear " S) they loaded in some turkojs, and geese, and chickens, too, And butter, and eggs, and spare ribs, and stocking yarn, white and blue; Tlien hitched the big gray horse to the bobsled painted brown. And, with parting words to Oliver Ike, soon hurried off to town. Tde 'mesburcr clerks were courteous and
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f.niie, ,.j soon exchanged their products for an enormods1 pile c. luxi rics of every kind that the season might demand, V, i they were soon in the sleigh again, with rein and whip in hand Winn Amanda Jane to her nephew called he was working in the store (Vmeout to Christmas dinner, James, and bring a dozen more; .Tut ask a lot of boys and girls, your ma and sister Sue, p.r Oliver Ike will be specting jou, and me, and Josiah, too." So ristm s morning at the farm found them ready for the day, For . manda .'ane and Josir.h had fnif.hfnllv wnrl-. n'nwnv
An i hen the folks began to conre, there seemed io be no end (f ..our.g and old and middle-aged, who came that day to spend. Tl i re was Kesiah Smithkins Sykes and Deborah Susan Spear, Who had known Josiah and Mandy for more than forty year; And Pelig Bedot and the Haines girls and Uncle Ephraim Snokcs
ntm iuuni uiy anu aamantny nanes ana an tneir nttle lolks W ile in the load of y9ung folks came Alexander Payne, Si I) 'lkins and Jim Crinmn nnrl Hnnw nnd Ici-in Pmnn
I). - ides some stylish clerks, who worked with Jeems in Master's
iure Ai.d Rube and Garry Updyke, young Lehman and some more. And Ruth and Desire Cornstalk and Jane and Abagail Drew, Ii .phemy Starks and Debby Stiles and Lize and Joe and Sue, And several that were strangers, with a violin or two. To make the time pa.s pleasant'y, and for entertainment, too
Who can describe that dinner and the subject fairly treat, Fir thprP WAR nnfllfncr norinr fVinf wnc r.nnA rlitrtlr r.f nnf
And for two full hours they sat there as each course before them
A:.d expressed their full approval of each from first to last-
S j( h roast goose, duck and turkey, and mince and pumkin pies. With quince and apply jelly, and plum pudding a full supply, And Jersey sweet potatoes and olives and celery and fish, With raws and stews and oyster pie as fine as neart could wish. And the lively scene that followed in that grand old dining hall, TIim mjsic and the dancing so happily joined by all, ill never be fprgotten, but rer eated o'er and o'er. On each returning Christmas day till time shall be no more You may talk about the Christmas time in gilded palace walls, Or d. scribe a gorgeous masquerade within some brilliant hall; ih.-e cannot be compared at all; they have no equal charm, T give the satisfaction of a "Chistmas on the Farm."
sAmnai&h
STRETCH YOURSELF. ! Do It the First Thing After You Wäko In the Morning. A splendid thing for the body is streU hing. When you first wake up in the morning, take a good, long stretch. .Stretch the hand as far out sideways an possible. Thou' stroteli them over the head ns far a' you can reach, and at the Eame time ' stretch the feet downward a far as you can liaise the feet and . trotch , upward just as high as you can, and then lower the feet and legs very slowly. Wliou you get out of bed, raise' your arms over vour head, and!
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""""""o "vv iiuw ueur you
can reach the cei in?. Thin w.nllr
about the room while in this posi-j oie tion. Stund on the right foot and lv
stretch the right arm forward and upward as Inch as vou can. while at
the same time the left foot is raised from the floor and stretched outward, and the left hand is stretched
bnckward and downward. This is sx
fine exercise for the whole body and ' is especially good for the wait and t hips, making them firm and strong. Standing on the left foot this exer
cise can be reversed.
If you have been sittinir in the
same position for a Ion timo read
ing, studying, writing or sewing and
me muscles have boinc tired and cramped, the best thing to do is to get up and stretch. Stretch the arms upward and outward and for-
ward ami iiaekward. Lift the shoulders as high as you can and drop them. Expand the chest and breathe deeply, or, sitting in the chair, stretch tho hands upward, lift the feet from the floor and stretch them forward as far as invisible, any way so you give the muscles ft good, vigorous stretch. When one is very tired, there is
nothing more restful than strelchinT tilO inimrlos niwl ihon rlrtnr
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Stout ai-d Sitter.
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i Don't Speak to Your Hon. Caress must promptly reward fKirforniance and tho voice be neve WONDER :,JL MOVING VINE used the horse does not under ; stand your words, and if you are i 0ne of the Mo,t '"tereting f am nngry your tones will only further , Pheocmena on Record, disconcert him while if you are' . car ht bank of the Goadalape eternally talking to him you ßimply ' nver I saw something green upon
renuer nun cnreies3 anü inattentive. , t'ruuim anu, nurrymg lorward,
Tares the spot vou have just ad
dresswl nor think that he under-
found a 1-nelv int with loaro-
smaller flian those of the smiliT
v ' .lima lliak UC UUUcl" I " .. ....... ... ui Ulli, stand a n.it on thn Tipplr n- rov.-nrrl'of a pale. UMider arten. Th rin
for something he has just done with (bad its root about live feet from tie
his hind quarters. Go direct to the
spot, and where two norta hare been
addressed caress them both, as in
trunk of a towerini potton-rrA
tree and si read out on th crnm-d
four Or five inches Wld hVroTnintr
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backing, the hind quarters and the!a I'Me narrower as it approackad sides where the legs came, etc. tne tree. I could see no eieros'or
and do the same thing in bitting, tendrils, so thick was the growth, Do not pat the neck if you asked and as 1 drew close to the tree I saw him to yield his jaw. "Don't re- tnat the vine branched just abore ward your daughter for your Eon's tnc ground and went climbing up successful geography lesson" that the great trunk and the branches is the idea in a nutshell. From grew moie and more slender uo;"Directing the Saddle Horse," by til far up 1 could distinguish onlr a
V. if. Ware, in Outing Magazine.
Corruption of Names. The name of Applecross, the old Hoss-shirc seat of the Mnckcnzies, is a modern corruption of Abercrosan, meaning "at the mouth of the Crwan," the little river which there flows into the Atlantic. The name
of many places in Scotland have undergone changes as curious and confusing. The thousands of travel ers who weekly alight at tho fine station of St. Enoch, in Glasgow (called after the neighboring church), no doubt identify the name in some vague way with the patriarch Enoch, mentioned in an early chap ter of Genesis. It is really a corrupted form of St. Thenog, or Thelinw, who was the mother of Kcnti frern, Glasgow's first bishop and patron saint and who is the subject ofvts quaint a legend as any to br found in mediaeval sacred histoi-y ilodern Societ.
Tile aortal police at nurk a vsl'
Illuminating Gas.
Tn the Philosophical Transactions
of the Hovnl Society of London for
hö'j is printed a latter, written in 11391, in which the Her. John Clav-
tor details a seriw of experiments he made in distilling coal in a retort, showing not only that he had
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evolved, but that he had-collected ! and stored them for some time in!
hlfifUW Tn 1 T nvA UntxA
made gas from coal, with which he 3f ucar .re-Skoteh.
lÄVi10! hf ,r0f PIT a-nranpe. To pet'l it and eat In 1,92 Robert Jlurdoch besan the ?f i.... .J...j. .1
experiments wnicii resulted in the Vv York 1 rc?. establishment of ronl n- an n illn.i . .
minating acent. In 1797 he nubhc-'
lv showwl the svstem he had ma
tured, and in 1 798. boinp pmnlovwl
in the factory of Bonlton & Watt,! Hirniinghani,"he fitted up an apparatus for the manufacture of gas' in that eftablinhment, with which it was lighted. This was the first.
I use of illuminating gas except by way of experiment " ;
Two of a Kind.
"There Is one thin? I never realized until I be-an to cast my bread upon the water." "And that Is?" "How many people are out for the dough.' Philadelphia Tress.
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threadlike line of ereeu.
As I stood intently watching the delicate, gi ecful vine, I became aware that it was pervaded by a curious, tremulous motion. Thea I saw that the individual leaves were not stationary. Picking up a twig from iln ground, I touched one of tin? ! aves and found tn tor
amazeim nt that there was a broTi ant umh-r it about as long as my little finger nail. Kach leaf was held in tho mandibles of an ant in such a way as to conceal the body of tho insect, and the ants were romimr
down the tree. Tin discovers catao
upon me with a shock. I had stumbled on a nest of umbrella 'sat. Books had told me that such an-t
were found m the Ironies, whom
they carried bits of leaves over their
heads as if to protect themselrei from the Hin. Rut here, on tbt'
banks of a Texas river. I had found
a colony of them, shading them selves where there was no sun and completely hidden bv their coverinr
of green.
Charmed at the sieht. I turned
back to call mv comoanions. who
;were fishing in the river. Within a 1 few yards I met my husband coming I to look for me. He was even more 'excited over the phenomenon than T
wa3 and shouted for the others to come quick!v. On investigation we found that the snot where the vine
f coined to have its root was really.
tne opening ot the ant nest. The tiny creatures had by some instinct learned thai the topmost branebe'
01 me cotio'iwood had put out their first small leaves. They had climbed the immense distance and h4
cut off and broueht down tlieJrl
o 1 . leaves to feed their young on? we sunnoeed. The ants whfeJi is
sued empty jawed from tho nest made a loig circuit to the farther side of the tree and climbed up where thev would not Interfere with the leaf bearing thousands coming down. St. Nicholas.
Flrt Summer Girl Who that clear1 liavon. liandtH'ine my Second Summer Girl Oh. he's nu actor! ' n.t Summer Girl :.. I mean th.
other 1.. :e. Hceoml Scainrer Girl Oh. he hasn't any money either! ranch.
Generally.
Serjeant Iirown ("holding up" a bursar until the police arrive! Ali, my man, you didn't know I'd been a volua teer for fifteen years, did you? SIkes Oh, don't sny that, RuVnor, It might go orf be mistake! Sketch. Vacation."
SUBSCRP TIONS FOR ALL NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES Received at the Courier Office!
Any Periodical Published in Any Conutry t Or Anv Language.
Drtleful Donald Some of my bright
tw.if.il-" i luv IllfJ iU'll & IUI
Mr. Ilaninfntt I say. MciJootii, ncroi asleep, an article about a follow who walked Thirsty Gits-Troubled with Uisom around the world. qj alllt yon'-N'ow York Mall. Mr. McDootli. An actor, by Jovel-Wa-slilutoii Star. 1
No Harm Dane.
Green --Rounder looks happy
finco ins marriage.
Brown Yes. Iiis wife married
him to reform him. Green And she has succeeded?
Brown Oh, no; she failed. De-
troil Tribune. An Easy Taste. In his day Herr Lauterstein had
been a busv instructor of manv miw
sic students. Promptness and econ
omy were two of his watchwords. Now that lie had crown old and
taught hut sparingly his habit of
sjwucn oncn caused a Sinuc. "What time shall I come foe my leason tomorrow ?" asked one f his few pupils. "ou come ven you get realty," said the music master, "but be
brompt, so as not to vnste my time nor your orrn. Understand?""
Not Lost. A bus conductor ws shoutino
"This way for 'Olloway! 'OllowayT when a would be witty jester on the parement called out: "Stop, con-
uuctori l ou ve dropped one of vour 'h'fi ' " There was n litter
inside and outside the bus, but the conductor quickly retorted, with a broad "Tin: "Xevor mind. sir. IM'
nick it up again when ve get to the Handel," -Loado Jumwctj. ,
A Lively Chill. The old time dnrkv had a rreat
admiration for hi"h soundinr words
and phrases. He also had a deep respect for a man who has the boldness to devise innoations of speech. "I jes' tell vou Massa ilawson has
a pow ful control ob language Raid one old plantation negro thoughtfully on his return from a nejghborlv call. "I sneet to learn nme-
t'ing cbery time I hear hira talk. He was tilling Ma)or Willifc.ns 'bout his wife being tooken sick, after dat dog bite she hud, an Vtead ob saying in respects to her shaking fit she had dat she 'shook like she had dc agcr,' same as most folks would say, what ficur' is vou s'noa-
ing he used Y
I dunno," said the old man's wife sulkily from the ironing board.
"lie sum sue 'shook like an ash
nan Dat s hl fimii' an I ain't
gwine forget it" Youth's Compan
ion.
Not Born Ther. A Washington man. whose busi
ness had braucht him to New York.
took a run not long ago into Connecticut, where he had lived in his
childhood.
In the nlace where he was bom
he accosted a venerable old chap of
some eichtv rears, who nroved to
bo the very person the WasMngtoni. .i i i
bu Miugui in answer certain in
quiries concerning the place. As the conversation proceeded the Washington man said: "1 sunposo you Iihvc always lived around iiere."
"Oh. no. ' said Iho native: "I wa
born two cood miles from here.H
Cincinnati Commerciai Tribun.