Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 December 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER

II BN KI). DO AN 13, Publisher. jAsroit. tlreat Britain's railroad octopus was not made In Geraiaay or In tlio United States, butj it is guaranteed to be Just as good. Some ono has Invented a roncuino that "will write 40.000 words an hour.' Now invent another ono to boil 'era down to 10.000. A Philadelphia man who inherited $2.'o,io tea years Ago has died ponnlless. He moved to New York after get ting the money. Prof. Starr of Chicago, says the Fili pinos are not laxy. All the same thoy seem ready to accept almost any office that is offered them. If the kaiser will go to work now and invent a cheap and serviceable bal'oon brake ho will place mankind still further in his dobt. A man over in London hos shown .thar he can operate a typewriter by means of the wireless. But think what a lonely job that would bei Harry Thaw found going insane quite convenient, but it annoys him greatly to think of having to remain insane for an indefinite period. Mrs. Langtry won $100.000 on a horse rat e a few days ago. Her friends should earnestly advise her to cash In now and quit following the races. Western farmers will get about ?135.io,oim for their crops this season, and expert to spend the long winter even ings Hunting their pipes with dollar hills. It has always been maintained that a cat might look at a king. And now anyone in America can send a letter to King Edward for the small sum of two cents. The Countess of Yarmouth's title coat her considerable money, but she has thrown it on the scrap heap, and hence forth will he known as Mrs. Copeley Thaw. The night riders have been active recently, but the college hazers can still point with prido to the fact that thfy are beating all others in produc ing cripples. During the post '-ur or Ave months !4mmo freight cars have been put to work. Loafing around isn't good for a freight car. Just ns it isn't good for man. Now comes a student of criminology who asserts that blond criminals large ly outnumber the criminal brunettes. This puts an entirely different face on tli matter. Jmt to prove that Mr. Rockofeller wrote his autobiography himself the maeazino prints a photograph of his handwriting. That ought to convince the skeptics. Japan purposes to save $100.000.000 on its public works by not executing them. The Japanese version of tho old saying is that a yen saved is half a dollar gained. Let us hope that when all mankind nas teamed to fly there will be no cutting across a neighbor's crass nlm slm. ply because ono Is too lny or Indiffer ent to walk around. China asks a holplng hand, declare LI Sum Ling, tho Hong Konc editor. Anyone who has attempted to master chop sticks with only two hands will realize that China should have a third. Whllo nimbly flitting from Iceberg io ireoerg in the North Polar Sea during the pleasant winter months Pr. plorcr Peary may wish ho at onco for tho South Pole and speedily g i nau-way there. A hoy 7 years old was sent to Jail tor two uaya because he told lins. TTn,i the lawyer been keen, tho boy might have been acquitted on tho ground that ne was merely practicing for n political rare er. Bailey, the short-spasm writer of the Houston I'ost. gets off this nun .i,ii, Is had enough to reprint: "It takos one of the rndhv.t and dimpled little pants-pau-mng. sociwlarninc. hIh-cnntr,.M. Ing bride of grand old Texas to rip a sympnony out of a cooking stove." President Roosevelt's mlnrv n . - rf tvj pociate editor of The Outlook Is to be Mn.nno a year. The roportor who Is starting at tho bottom should take courage arter reading these'figuros. By getting himself elected President, he, too. may succeed some time in winning goldsn spurs In Journalism. The roads in the United States, Syrin and Australia belong in tho same clnss, according to a speaker at tho recent good roads convention in Buffalo. Some of them are jjood and wmio are had. H- al-o says that roads In the Fjjj Islam's arc better, as a whole, than those Li r and ho i ocs not speak without uacrlence.

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Lilllts ILOUiO Ul ltO All Over the Just Missed Century Mark. Meilsen Davis. 80 yours old. died Columbus last week. al Good Showing in Corn. C. W. Shakos, on a swamp land farm, in .Marshall county, raised 100 bushels of com to the acre this s on ion. Killed by Son While Hunting. While liuntine near Hluomliiirton. David Shields, 45 years old, was acclJentally killed bv it s son Parker. Well-Known operator Dead. J. Smith Talley. the widely known Indiana coal operator, died of dropsy at his home at Terra Haute last week. What Restaurant, PIease7 While eating oysters in au Evansvilla restaurant Albert Drlzlus found two pearls, and oue of them was sold for 30V. Scouts New Coal Field. David Ingle, an Oakland City coal operator, has leased 000 acres of land near Princeton, and will develop a new coal field there. Not Late in Eleven Years. Miss Goldie Gibson, of North Salem. it is believed, holds a Stato record for school attendance. She Is a high school pupil, who has uot been tardy, sick or absent in her eleven years of school life. Won't He Be Tickled I For the last several days a stork has been seen in the Wabash river bottoms, below Owensville, and efforts re being made to capture the strange bird in order to send it to President Roosevelt, at Washington, D. C. School Boys Start Forest Fire. The forest fires in Dubois county that raged for three days last weok were started by several schoolboys, who burned a pile of leaves in the woods near Kyana. The fires spread over hundreds of acres of valuable timber lands. Wife Dies During Family Scrap. The forty-year-old wife of John Ha ber, of Ft. Wayne, dropped dead dur ing a fight -between her husband and their two sons. William and Fred. Räber, it is alleged, had come home drunk and started a rough house. The boys threw him outdoors and in the excitement of calling the police heart failure ended the mother's life. Fight Foot and Mouth Disease. Indiana has declared quarantine against Michigan cattle, and. to nrotect Indiana cattle against the mouth and hoof. disease that Is epidemic in .Michigan, the State will send Veteri narian Dr. G. H. Roberts, of Indianapolis, to sutdy, along with other vet erinarians, the mouth and hoof disease, and the methods of preventing It so that the disease shall not spread into Indiana. Very, Very Sad if True. A woman living south of Bedford placed her turkey In a pen a week ago to have it in proper condition for Thanksgiving, but the bird, appar ently, interpreted the meaning of its confinement and actually committod sulcido by cutting its throat- on a barbed wire. It was found in that condition when the owner wont to the pen with an ax to slay the bird for dinner. The woman Is convinced the turkey committed suicide. Bet They Were All Thankful. While at dinner Thanksgiving at the homo of W. A. Abbott, of Columbus, Mrs. Mnry Coleman received a letter from New York lawyers stating that the Lefever estate, valued at $300,000,000. to which she and most of the company present are heirs, was now ready for final settlement. A reunion of tho Lefevc-r family was being held at the time. Tho estate, which is located both in this country and England, has been in litigation for thirty years. Let Cat Out of the Bag. 'Why, how do you do, Mr. Prince? How are your wife ami children?"' A harmless enough salutation seemingly, yet it was the undoing of Evry Prince, of Seymour, a real estate man. Tho words were spoken by Miss Green at a social at Kilzabethtown, and were the first Intimation that Miss Cordin Smith, daughter of Rev. W. F. Smith, pastor of the Eliznhethtown M. E. Church, had that the man with whom she sat chatting and who hnd boon paying court to her since July wus married. Fox Terrier Saves Family. A fox terrier snvod the live nf Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lippelt and their thir teen-year-old adonted son. Frank Ladendorf. at Hammond. A leak in a gas pipe under the house caused the tumes to enter the houso while the family was nsleeh. Tho fox torrior Jumped on the bod and scratched Mr. Lippoirs mco until he aroused him from his stupor. Two, Past 80, Seek Divorce. A divorce case was hoard in the Hancock Circuit Inst week in which both parties to the suit are past SO year old. Tho plaintiff, Emily Crane, Ii S2, and seeks divorce from William Crane, S3, on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment and unfaithfulness. Slew a Big Eagle. Cnrl Kei'slinn. a farmer lhlne south nf Ind nna. Mil's, r "' ontlv kilh-d an imkI", in i'H-irniir eicht feet from tip 0 tip it w luh'd about fifteen bounds.

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Length and Breadth of Indiana. Dies Horrible Death. John G. Hill, aged 10, died of hydro phobia at Indianapolis, lie was bitten by a dog several weeks ago. Heavy Sentence for Egg Stealer. For tho theft of ono goose egg and six hen eggs from his fatlior Ol llnrtman, .of Columbus, must sorve from ono to eight years in tho Michigan City Penitentiary. Slays Despoiler of Home. William Dwyer. aged 27, an employe of tho Vnndnlia railway, was shot to dentil at Goods hotel at Swi' City by William Good, proprietor of the hotel. The shooting was caused by tho presence of Mrs. Good in Dwyer's room, and it Is claimed by Good that ho had suspectod relations betwen the two tor some time. Mrs. Good claims that she was discharging her duties ns housekooper in Dwyer s room when her husband entered and killed him without "asking explana tions. She denies there was any cause for Jealousy on the part of her husband. Good and his wife are under arrest. Fat Ladies Wouldn't Roll. "Wo won't roll on the floor," was the Ultimatum delivered by a dozen I.ogansport society women when .Miss Margaret M. Hall, who organized a class in physical culture, insisted they had to emulate her example. A class in the science of reducing adipose tissue was organized, follow ing a series of health lectures, and enthusiasm ran high among the wo men until the instructor rolled from ono end of the hall to tho other, and invited her class to follow her. You've got to do it or lenvo tho class," she said, and, while the more enthusiastic matrons and maids rolled and played leapfrog, the rebellious mumbers marched out in a oody. Indiana as Lumber State. Indiana produced 501,790.000 feet of lumber, as against J47,S0S,0O0 feot during lOuG. an Increase of 12.7 per cent. For a loug time Indiana has been the leading State of the Union in the production of walnut lumber. Walnut is the highest-priced native wood cut into lumber in any considerable extent in the United States. Last year Indiana produced 9,075.000 feet of wal nut lumber, valued at $117,512. This was 24 per cent, of the total output of 41.49u.OOo feet. The avorage value a thousand at the mill was $43.31. Indina also led In the production of sycamore lumber. Of a total of 40,014,000 feet of sycamore produced In tho country, 11,129.000 feet, or 24.2 per cent, came from Indiana. The average value a thousand of tho Indiana sycamore lumber was $16.71. The total value of the lumber production of Indiana in 1907 was $12,47S.074. The Latest Thing in Bunko. A twentieth century graft, new in its conception and original In its workings, has come to light in Shelby county. The farmer Is the victim. To work the game four persons are necessary a reputed minister and his wife, a bashful boy and blushing girl. Late In the ovoning, when it is pre sumed Mr. Farmer is ready to retire, ho Is called to the door by a loud knock. Ho Is greeted by a ministerial-ap pearing man, who asks lodging for the night for himself and wife. They have been doing work among the farmers. and were caught out later than they anticipated. The long frock coat and white tlo appeal to tho farmer and consent is 'readily given. At tho fireside religious work Is dis cussed at some length, when a second knock nt tho door cnlls the farmer, and ho Is greeted by a blushing young man and demure lass leaning on his arm. "Is Ihoro a minister here?" Inquires the young mnn. The farmer's interest Is awakoned. "Certainly," ho ropiios. The youth, stammering and fussing like a schoolboy, confides his secret. Ho and the young girl are eloping, and, learning that a mirflstor is in the neighborhood, desires his services. "No! no! no! I can't become a partner to such an Incident," emphat ically declares the minister, when told of the couples desire. But Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are not desirous of missing such a culmina tion of a romance witli.n their home, ami persuade the minister to perform the ceremony. Tho minister consents at last. "Now, as witness," suggests tho minister, "sign this certificate hero." The farmer, excited by the even ing's events, quickly affixes his signa ture. Tho bride and groom leave at onco, and the next morning tho minister and his wife sny adieu. Revelations come with tho arrival of the postman. The county seat bank informs the farmer that a note. duly executed and duo nt a certain date, is now In Its possession for collection. The farmer Instead of signing a marriage certificate, signed his name to a note for $500. Dully for Farmer Wolfel On tho front page of a Portland paper, J. M. Wolfe, a farmer, announced that tho man with the gun and dog can have a free rein on his property. The notice roads: "Hunters can hunt on my farm all they please. Come up to tho houso when tho dinner boll rings nnd got your dinner." In tho same Isstio tho usual prohibi tory notice to hunters appears. It Is H'ltned by forty-nine land owners. Tho firt notice sounds good to hunters, and it is thought many of them will I take advantage of it.

PARIS FASHION HINTS.

25S3 -Boys' Overcoat. This is a styl Ish and attractive little model adapt able to serge, cheviot, tweed or frlezo cloth; 4 sizes, 2 to S years. 2G03 Child's Coat. This stylish lit tle garment for the growing girl, developed well In serge, corduroy, velvet or velveteen, the cape hound with silk braid or a bias baud of satin; 4 sizes, 1 to 7 years. 2053 Ladles Semi-Fitting Coat, in Three-Quartor Length. This is a most stylish model for the separate coat of covert cloth, cheviot or serge, with tho long front and long back scams curving In slightly at the waist-line, and the wholo garment fastening in single breasted effect; G sizes. 32 to 42. 1122 Misses' Coat, with Uox-Fronts and Semi-Fitted Back. This model is an excellent one for the girl still in the school-room, and may he doveloped In any material that suits the wearer's fancy; 3 sizes, 13 to 17 years. 2539 Ladieä' Dress, Closing at Loft Side of Back, with Thrce-Quarter Sleeves, Body Lining and with or with out Mikado Bands. This is a charming model for the house dresa made in dark red cashmere or Henrietta, with the princess panel trimmed in a fancy design with narrow black soutache braid; G sizes, 32 to 42. 5S4 Ladies' Linen Collar nnd CuffSet to be transferred to linen, silk. satin, Indian-head, etc.. and worked in mercerized cotton or silk floss in outline embroidery and French dots. Fashion Editor. 400 Century Building, Indianapolis, Ind.: Inclosed please find 10 cents. Please send Paris Pattern No SIzo Name Addross Gags From the Minstrel Show. "Toxas is becoming a good state," says Hones, who, by the way, carxios no bones. "A good state? How is that?" "Why, yo' can't get into tho saloons on Sunday." "Well, that is a good sign. What do you think it means?" "It means," says Bones, "that thoy're too crowded." Or this: "So you were born in Missouri? I supposo you'vo lived here all your life?" "O. no; not yet!" Honey Boy Evans tolls tho audienco that ho doesn't object to shirt waists. "For a long time," says ho, "l didn't care for them, but I see through 'em all right onough now." This same comedian, who is really funny and capablo as a singer and dancer, takes fino advantage of tho political situation. "I always vote for Bryan." he says. "and I mean to bring my children up to do tho same thing. Touching tho pny-as-yut-onter cars, Evans said that he nevet saw a cor poration so anxious to got tho money. "Just ns yo steps up to tho car they's a man thore to ask yo for yo' nlckol. It won't bo long before they'll send an agent 'round to yo' house to ask yo' If you's goin downtown In tho mawnin . Seeking to suppress his friend who is telling a particularly atrocious yarn ono of the many comedians says: "O, do turn on your side," SL Louis Times. Too Suggestive. Wimhleton Hello, Simpleton! How did you enjoy your visit to tho insane asylum the other day? Simpleton Oh, ho-so. It wag all right enough, I guess. Wimhleton well, you don't talk as though you wore much impressed with It. Did you give the superintendent my note of introduction? Simpleton tos, I gave It io him. Wimhleton Well, what did ho say? Simpleton Oh, he Just looked at mo and said, "Make yourself at'home." Llpplncott's 'Mngazlnc. Elephant Ivory. Fifty pounds of Ivory Is tho average yield of ono clophnnt.

Alliteration Appropriate Again. An Austrian nrmy, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Bolgrado;

Cossack Commanders cnunonndlng come, Dealing destruction's devastating doom. Every endoavor ongineors essay Fur fame, for fortune lighting, fur ious fray Generals against Gonornls grappl 11 radons God! How honors heavon heroin hardihood! Infuriate. Indiscriminate in ill, Kinsmen kill kinsmen kinsmen kindred kill! Labor low levels loftiest, longest lines. Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, 'mid murderous mines. Now noisy, noxious numbers notlco nought Of outward obstacles opposing ought: Poor patriots, partly purchnsed, partly pressed. Quite quaking, quickly quartor, quarter quest, Ri.'ioci; returns, religious right re dounds, Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds; Truco to thee, Turkey! triumph to thy train! Unjust, unwise, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish vain victory! vanish victory vain! Why wish we warfare? Wherefor wolcome we Xerxes, Ximes, Xanthus, Xavler? Yield, yo youths! yo yeoman yield your yell! Zlcno's Zarpatus, Zoroastor's zeal, And all attracting arms against appeal. AFRICA 1909. "Hollo, brother," Said tho old gorilla As he saw those Hashing teeth; But, ha-ha-he, Ho did not sec The rlflo down beneath, So his skin came off! "Hello, cousin," Said tho yellow lion As he heard that awful roar; But, hn-ha-ho, Ho did not see The trusty old choko bore; So his skin came off! "Hello, uncle," Said the little monkey As he heard the sounds of strife; But, ha-ha-he, He did not see The glittering bowio knife, So his skin came off! "Hollo, son," Said tho G. O. elephant As that well-known form was seen; But, ha-ha-he, Ho did not sco The loaded magazlno, So his skin came off! "I seem to fool 'em," Said the Mighty Hunter, "Where'or I chanco to roam; But, ha-ha-he. Thoy don't know me. It makes me think of home, So their skins como off!" New York Sua. Deceitful Appearances. "I went to tho door this morning, John, and there was a plain-looking man with a black leather bag. Of course, I recognized him at once as a peddler." "ou should bo moro cnroful, my dear." "J know It, love. I feel that I am too apt to judgo by appearances. I said to the man, 'No; we don't want anything today,' And what do you supose he said?" "I'll bet anything he said ho came to pay me somo monoy. "No, ho didn't." "It wasn't Summerlight with tho rent, was it?" "No." "Woll, what did ho say?" "Ho said, 'I've got some fine sam ples of toilet soap hore to show you at 9 cents a box. " Clcvoland Plain Dealer. Billiard-Playing by Electric Sign. One of tho best examples that can ho found to show the progress of tho Ingenious art of electric-sign adver tising is described with illustration In tho December Popular Magazine. It is a billiard-playing sign displayed In one of the streets of Chicago. It is double-faced, projecting across tho sidewalk and, although only 11 feet long by 4 feot 10 Inches wide, it is drawing as much attention as any sign in tho great Western metropolis. On one side is shown a billiard table with two players. By an automatic flasher controlling the lights which mnke up the sign ono of tho players is seen to strike tho ball with his cue, apparently making it roll across the tablo and strike tho other two halls which are correspondingly knocked Into now positions after rebounding from tho cushions. Too Much for Him. Smlthson used to labor under (he Impression that ho was a horn humorist, but he has given up trying to bo funny now. He called ono day on an old school friend nnd was shown Into a room where- his chum's sister was busy arranging a quantity of dried grass which she hnd collected. "What a quantity of dried grass you have collected, Miss Ritchie!" he said. Then his humor burst forth. "Nico room for a donkey to got into" "Make yourself at home, Mr. Smithson." said the girl pleasantly . When ho arrived homo nil tho humor was crushed out of him forever. London Scraps. How Business Men May Rest. Miss Lillian B. Hill told n number of Duluth Jewelers nt a recent jewelers' banquet n good way to get off for a vacation without being missed from business. "During tho last Easter holidays," she said, "I met a Jeweler at n scasido hotel. "'Why, I thought you woro such a busy man!' I said. 'How do you manage vour affairs hero at tho shore?' "Oh, said he, "I am Just keeping my advertisoment out of tho papora until my return, nnd so, you see, thero aro no affairs to manage.' "Duluth Trlhuno. . . .

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HEALTH VERY POOR RESTORED BY PE-RIM Catarrh Twenty-five Yt !- 1 lad a Ha! Cot. Miss Sophia Kittlosen. E.'1.,vt.,B writes : "I have been frnnliliut : for nearlv twnnfi-.fi tried many cures for it, but obu wry nine neip. i lien my brother ndvised n t Perunn, nnd I did. "AIv lll'Illtll Wfl VOPt. tinn ,. .!.. I began takinjr Perunn. M ,r.t very Bore nnd I hnd a hnd ioi;', "I'crunn has cured nu chronic catarrh is roiic and health is very much mproved. "I recommen.l Perunn t. ;i friends who are troubled ns I . nrefor tnlllt'tu rnthnr tliiin . fluid form. Such people ran ! i.n I iin innieis. wnicn represent t1 m nnl inirriilloii ti nf IWimn v., i, ,. equals one nvernce dose of Per, n Alan-a-lin tho Ideal Laxative. Ask vour Druetrlst fnr a f Per una Almanac for 1909. While exploring the wood- if C well, N. J., Miss Anna 1 Brooklyn, found a blnckbi i s n and In it was a diamond rv u w 1350. TO CUIti: A COM) IN OM-. 1) V Take LAXATIVK BttOMO QuJnlti- Tab lirmiSHM refund money If It fmu t. H.W.GltOVK'S Signatur lsoneah Ui According to Its Name. 'My book on house furnace is . ing vory woll." "Glad to hear It. It certain!. 01 to be found In our best coll.tr. : tlmoro American. SI0O Reward. SI00. The readers of this paper will to learn that there Is at least on. dlcaso tlmt science has been able t all Its tage, and thnt Is CatarrS Catarrh t'ure Is the only positiv.' known to the medlenl fraternity Iclnc a constitutional llsear. r, constitutional treatment.- Halt Cure In taken Internally, acting .llr. the blood nnd mucous Hurfacv of tern, thereby deütroylnc the foun 1 1 the d I son sp, nnd Klvlns the patient by building up the constitution n: : In? nature In doing Its work. T! tori have so much faith In Its cur r crs thnt they offer One Hundred t' any enso that It falls to cure. i of testimonials. Addrens: K. .1 CHRSEV A CO . I Sold by nil Druggists. 7."f. Take Hall's Family Pills for cor.- ;'! Irn II . " 1 mi I c ' i t'if 14 Harry B. Ayer, of York Cour.-- .V whllo hauling traps near P.i!'k captured a huge lobster, wekh u 1 no. u rids. It is lielipvnd that tin to was from thirty to fifty year- .1 Mr. W'miW Soothing irnip for chlMr" W tot, softens tha gums, redoens m-'s '! Uij pain, cures wind colie. 2c.liU a Lottli Bad Taste in the Moutli, Appetite Bad, Head Heavy, StomachSour, inr. nf leinr tif. iM 6 ..... ni.C.t for l.!li.InH!i I (Ml duties or pleasures of life. f Is that the Way You Fk 1 1 i If it li, you should know t;. M famous tome laxauvo, Lane's Family Medicine (called nbo Lane's Ten will giro thnt perfect iniernnl linesa and wholesomcnesi wir duces health ni.d tho feeling of fort that nmkt s life enjoyable. All dru. ish Boll it in 2j. 50c. packages. unl TOWERS FISH BRAN WATERPhw OILED GARMENT! I ..4 mm I irrt patterns. design , .Fogive lhewe3$ Kn i ilmnd rnmiOn 'jjCHT-MIRABlE'CW i.1 mo ...Ji 1 SOlTS3i i ar uiffrir anil" A JTO-tt CA SM' 'J Ti

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