Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 March 1910 — Page 2

WEEKLYCOURIER DEN ED. DOANE, Publisher.

JASPER INDIANA Winter Is still on the Job with but short Intermissions. 1'ndcrtnkors talk of raising prices. Speaking of tho high cost of living The afternoons nro getting longer although you may not havo noticod it. What will piano tunors do whon we havo wireless instruments? The only greon thing about the uo-to-date farmor is his groen Holds. And, we may add. pianos aro cheaper now than they wer ton years ago. A man's conscience seldom troubles him as much as the corn on his little toe. With slang indorsed, languago "sharks" should become mighty common. At this season of the year the abolition of the house fly seems comparatively easy. Perhaps the shirtwaist makers' strike is but n lead for the abused shirtwaist buttoners. New Jersey collected last yoar $40.000 hunters' licenses, and the game they got was worth $61.S0. Peanuts cannot be eaten In SL Louis' trolley cars unless the peanuttcr carries away the shells. One recipe for gottlng popular is to to be able to laugh heartily when somebody tells an old story. Butter couia fall another cent or two without sending the butttcrmakers over the hills to the poorhouse. Another reason for the high price of food Is that farmers are buying automobiles and they need the money. It is said to be possible to go to the north pole by aeroplane. However, there are a lot of pleasanter places to which to go. A Wisconsin professor thinks that "he went up In tho air" may become a classic. Already U can be used In polite society. If it takes 30 alarm clocks to waken a motorman In New York, how many clocks will It take to arouse a policeman in Chicago? As a slogan for tho anti-meat eaters we suggest: "Beat your skillets into oatmeal boilers and your gridirons into egg boaters." For the sake of scionce let us hope that that busy St. Louis seismograph is not reporting some loose Joint in a street-car track. Texas and Florida havo been a little chilly of late, but In a short time will be knocking at the door as usual with early garden truck. This row between benzoate and acetic acid has n tendency to discourage the poor consumer from using catsup of cither sort While all this excitement prevails about the cost of living Mr. Roosovelt continues to dine frugally on roast monkey and baked elephant's heel. Tho Atlnntic liners carried last year 1,730,000 passengers of all classes, and all classes were seasick. The sea is no respecter of persons. The weather bureau gives us exact figures on mean temperature; but its vocabulary is unable t oconvey the whole truth as to mean weather in its entirety. A college psychologist declares that anyono can hypnotize himself Into a trance. The theory is very likely; It is the only way to explain some people's action. The man who prays in public is the mouthpiece for the congregation that is either listening or praying with him The essence of the people's silent prayers is concentrated In his. One of the most remarkable, as well as the quickest, retributions on record Is that of tho man In New York who, in trying to tunnel his way from his own place to n Jewelry store opposite, which he wished to loot, was burled alive In the grave of his own digging. Life would raenn very much If such energy, originality, determination nnd readiness to tnko risks were displayed In a better cause. Tho prevalence of high prices for food nrtlcles Is worldwide. The restaurant keepers In Berlin. Germany, nro meotlng the exigency In effcctlvo fashion by cutting down the portions served to customers Instead of raising the rates But those and other facts go to show that complaints of Increased cost of living aro not con-1 fined to tho United Stntos. To solve tho problem tho facts In evory civilized country will have to bo taken into consideration. The wireless operator who perpetrated the Joke of sendlne out C. Cv D. X nit,uwo ivi iiiu uvuuu Ilium )UtPUtS tho same variety of sense of hnmnr : as is exemplified by smashing straw hats on the Btock exchanges, tooting tin hornB and Jangling cowbolls, hazing at colleges and perpetrating April fool sells. That aeroplane record-breaker of Worcester, Mass., will be able to "rcato a greater sensation when ho oakes those alleged 200 to 300-mile Ights in broad daylight

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OF HOOSIER SfflE WIRE REPORTS OF HAPPENINGS OF INDIANA. EIGHT MEN ARE INJURED Electric Light Linemen Have Serious Fight with Non-Union Telephone Men Warrants Issued for Ten Arrests. Hammond. Mar. 1. Ten John Doe warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the principals in n bloody light which took place between nonunion linemen brought out here from Chicago by the Chicago Telephone Company to take tho places of striking union linemen, nnd union linemen employed by tho Northern Gas & Electric Company of Hammond. M. Dugan of Hammond, a lineman for the gas company, is under arrest for inciting riot. A. J. Smith of Chicago, non-union lineman, was fearfully beaten up. The electric light m.m outnumbered the telephone linemen. Eight men were injured. Net Catches Minister's Son. nioomington. Mar. 1 In a "blind tiger" raid at Ellettsville. seven miles north of this city. George Shoemaker, son of Rov. William Shoemaker, a minister of the Baptist church, and Roland McXeeley Avere arrested. The two young men were charged with soiling liquor without license. McNeeley gave a $200 bond for his appearance, but Shoemaker. In default, went to jail. Complaint had been made by tho W. C T. U. of Ellettsville to Sheriff Ratllff. The women informed the sheriff that they hnd spent $200 in trying to put the "tiger" out of business. Street Riot at Elwood. Elwood. Mar. 1. The first street riot that has broken out in the city for more than six weeks occurred on the South side near the tin mill. Some boys began to tease workmen, who were returning home from work, calling them vile names. James Meal boy's mother, who was encouraging the youngsters In tholr work, rushed out and attacked Mead. Mead knocked the woman down and men who are on strike rushed from their near-by homes and a free-for-all fight followed. Open War to Curb Vice. Laporte, liar. 1. In the churches delegates representing the men's classes were named to form a church federation, which will have for its purpose a general reformation of the city. It is proposed to make the federation a crusading force, to domand the enforcement of the laws, to curb vice, with th ultimate end in view of making the organization n potent influence in a campaign for stato-wldo prohibition. The organization is to be followed by a county federation with the some ends in view. Charles E. Drummond Sentenced. Fort Wayne. Mar. 1. Before Judge O'Rourke. In the circuit court. Charles E. Drummond entered a plea of guilty to the charge of grand larceny und was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in tho Joffersonville reformatory. Drummond, aftor a night of revelry, smashed a window in the Christen drug store, gained entrance to the store and stole $364. At 87 Inherits $500,000. Nashville, Mar. 1. Isaac Chitwood, 87 years old. who claims to have dug more wells than any other man, has gone tn California, where he has inherited an estate of $500.000. His uncle, the late Benjamin Chitwood, died recently nnd left $20.000.000 to 40 relatives In farming land, city realty and a gold mine. Brothers Meet After Long Separation. Oakland City, Mar. 1. Marlon Ayers of Lucas county, Iowa, camo here to visit his brother. Will Ayers. He had not seen him for 43 yenrs. While the brothers were children Will Ayres was adopted by an uncle and moved to Marlon county, this state, while his brother Marlon Ayers went to Iowa. Young Man Kills Himself. Richmond. Mar. 1. Gall Crouso, age IS. killed himself nt Eaton, 0 1C miles east of Richmond, by drinking four ounces of chloroform. A few weeks ago Crouse was arrested here on a charge of passing a worthless check on the Westcott hotel. Had His Mother-ln-Law Arrested. Torre Haute, Mar. 1. George Brannon objected to a visit from his moth-cr-ln-law and when slip came nnyway ho caused her arrest on a charge of trespass. On that charge she was fined onp dollar in a justice of the peace court. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Evansvllle. Alfred Ilughos. wanted at Went Union, O.. on the chnrgo of wife desertton, was arrested hero. Evansvllle. Charles Slhlor. who will become postmaster of Evansvllle on March HI. probably will reappoint Moses N. Ross as deputy. Ross has hold tho position for the last twelve yenrs. Vabash. The Wnbash city school board has nnnounced tho appointment of Dr. C. J. Snldemnn as dental In spector for the city schools. Wabash Is the second city In Indiana to adopt this department of tho work, Prince ton being the first.

TO TEST LIQUOR REACTION Result In Wells County Will Deter

mine Whether the Voters Are Turning from the Local Optlonists. Bluffton.-- Whuthor there Is to bo a reaction against local option, which swept over tho stato last wintor and during tho early spring and which cnrrled 10 counties Into tho dry column, with but 13 adhering to the lleonsod saloon is being tested In this Vells county to-dny. Both sides nro organlzod and appear to havo plenty of money. House-to-house canvasses have boon mndo by representatives of both, and literaturo distributed In quantities that would do Justice to n national campaign. The advocates of local option feel that they havo reached a crucial point in tho history of the movement and that state-wide prohibition is involved In tho issue in this count. Tho liquor elemeut has been predicting reaction for months and has been circulating literature addressed to business men and drawing many comparisons between wet and dry counties, all of which arc to the disparagement of tho latter. Tho importance of the election here may be seen In tho fact that the county has been dry for a year under the remonstrance law. and to make It wet now by election would bo a great victory for tho liquor element nnd Indicate renctlon without question. Firebug to Plead Insanity. Princeton. John Dyers, the alleged Evansvllle firebug, IS years old, who recently confessed to starting a number of fires In Evansvllle becauso he liked to see tho excitement, was brought here and placed In the Gibson county Jnll. as his case has been venued here. It probably will not come up for hearing until next term of court. Byers, whose attorneys will offer Insanity as the defense, to local officers stnted thnt he was forced Into the confession by Evansvllle detectives and that he is not guilty of all the offenses ho confessed. Victim Shields Assailant. South Bend. Although in a critical condition from knife wounds in the abdomen, Joseph Kozak, 19 years old, refuses to tell the detectives the name of his assailant or any of the particulars of the stabbing nffalr The young man was discovered In hla room by his father, apparently In a dying condition. Tho father was attracted to tho room by finding blood stnlns on the floor of the hall, the trail of which led to his son's room. Finds His Home Deserted. Rushville. When Ollis TarkT, a section hand on tho J.. M. & I railroad, returned to his home in Falmouth, Rush county, he found it vacant. His wife nnd two children departed during the day. Mrs. Parker told her neighbors that she was going to her mother's homo In Anderson to live becauso of family troubles. Parker said that his mothor-ln-law was the cause of tho separation. Well Digger Heir to Millions. Nashville. Isaac Chitwood. ST. who holds tho unique record of having dug more wells than any other man now living, has left his old home and gone to California, where he has inherited an estate of nearly a half million dollars. His uncle, the lato Benjamin Chitwood, died recently and loft approximately $20.000,000 to forty relatives In farming land, city realty and a gold mine. Another Rioter Sentenced. Princeton. Nlnneth Harper of Fort Branch, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, in connection wltP the riot on a traction car near Haubstadt last December, was found guilty by a Jury of assault and battery and fined $150 and sentenced to srve four months in Jail. Harper is tho fifth of the six men Implicated In the riot, and all tried have been convicted. Mad Fire Department Horse Shot. Evansvllle. Suffering from In sanity as a result of brain fever "Ben," one of the oldeBt horses on the Evansvllle firo department, had to be shot. The old horse had mnde over two thousand runs in the fifteen years he was on the department. Severnl of the firemen wept when the faithful old animal was killed. Buggy Upsets In Creek. Nashville. Dr. Raymond M. Tilton, while making a professional call was nearly drowned when he drove Into Clay Lick crock. The buggy turned over nnd part of his body wbb held under It in two feet of water for Beveral minutes. He was almost frozen when he freed himself and hurried to n farmer's residence. Steel Worker Drawn Into Machine. Hnmmond. John Homlllgl, employed nt the Inland stool mills nt Indiana Harbor, was drawn accidentally into what 1b known as a twisting machine and was klllod. His head was twisted from his body and his body was othcrwl3o mangled Wishes to Drive Out Ghosts. Washington. Sheriff Colbert received a letter from J. D. Moreland of Laesa, Cat., asking permission be given him to come to Daviess county to drive from the county Jail the ghoBts that are said to be nightly visitors. Tho publicity of tho visitations was given when George Cole, a confessed murderer, was confined within the Jail, nnd who said thnt of nights the spirits of thoso who had ended their lives within the cells wore ever present Many times he called to the sheriff for assistance.

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ILLUSTRATED By Clorllla Minch was n most attractlvo girl in many ways, nnd quite a hello of llotzville, and sho would havo been married long ago If her father had had sense enough to keep still nbout Clorllla's feet, but as soon ns Clorllla would got a lover well primed for the mnrrlago ceremony old Minch would tnko him aside and explain about tho Doosenbury feet. Ho said he had suffered all his life by tho Doosenbury feet, and he wasn't going to havo another human man step up against those feet unwnrned. Clorllla's mother had been a Doosenbury, and Clorllla inherited the feet along that line. Old Minch would pay: "Now, for forty year I havo had Maria's feet against the small or my back every night, and 'every night her feet wero like Ice. nnd if 1 hadn't been a martyr by nature, and meek and mild, never would I have stood it. And look nt mo now. My back bono Is froze solid and I can't bend in the middle. Doc Weaver says It's no use trying to thaw it out for Maria freezes it up again everj' night. And Clorllla has her ma's feet, only colder." Then he would call attention to Clorllla's feet, which were actuallv so rold that frost gathered on the outside of her shoes In the hottest August weather. In cool weather they were ten times colder. Generally this frightened the lover awny, but not always. Abraham Wangle was one It didn't frighten away, and Phllllpus Googe was another, and It looked as if they So Every Day Clorllla Would Cook Up a Cooker Very Hot, would stick it out and have a tight race for Clorllla's hand. Abraham told old Minch that he guessed he could stand a small thing like a pair of cold feet so long as he hnd had fair notice, and ho went to work Immediately getting into training. Every night when he retired he took a 50-pound cake of ice and strapped it to the smnll of his back, hoping thus to gradually become acclimated to the temperature that Clorllla's feet would be. At first the Ice gave him shivers, but In a month or two he had become so used to tho coldness of it thnt he did not feel It nt all, and he began complaining that the Bctzvllle Ice Company's ice wns poor Ice. At tho end of the third month ho sent up north for his Ice, bo as to get a colder quality, and ench month nfter that ho would send further north for Mr ice. In a short time the small of his back became so used to cold Ico that It suffered with the heat when It had no Ice on It, nnd he hnd to go around all day with Ice on his back. It molted and ran down into his shoes, and Abraham Wangle going along Main street sounded like a cow in a slushy lane. But Phllllpus Oooge went about it another way. On Clorllln's birthday ho grave her a firoless cooker. Phllllpus hoped that if Clorllla cooked her feet In the firoless cooker every day she would gradually cook the cold out, of them, for a flrelesa cooker needs no Arc, but keeps on cooking anything that Is put In It until It Is taken out again. So every day Clorllla would cook up a bran mash and put In the cooker very hot, nnd put her feet in It At first the mash had a habit of turning Into a solid chunk of Iced bran Immediately npon coming In contact with her feot, and then her parents would have to chip off the icy

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PETER. NEWELL mass with an Ico pick, but gradually her feet began to wnrm up, and they grew warmer and warmer as the weeks went by, until Clorllla could not get the bran mash hot enough to feel comfortable. Evon whon It wbr boiling hot Clorllln complained thnt It, felt chilly to her feet, and her feot beenmo so permanently warm that when she put on her shoes they scorched the leather, nnd she had to have special shoes made, lined with asbestos. By that time the very thought of cold against her feet made her tremble with fear, and she told Abraham Wangle that she could never marry a man with an icy back, and poor Abraham had to start in again, training his hack to llko heat. Ho gradually reduced tho quantity and coldness of his Ice pack, and then began wearing n small oil stave on the smnll of his back, and In a few months ho could He right down with his back on a hot stove and never know It. It was just then that Phllllpus Googe forever deprived himself of all hopes of Clorllla by sending her a much larger Ilreless heater. Clorllla said this was an Insult, and that she would never use a flroless cooker again, and to show her hatred of Phllllpus she discontinued useing tho cooker nnd begnn resting her feet for hours at a time on a cake of ice. So Abraham Wangle had to shirt In once more icing his back. Abraham iced his back and iced it, Bran Mash and Put It In the and Put Her Feet In It. and then he began to be frightened, for It would not grow cold. It remained hot He went to see Doc Weaver about It, and Doc told him plainly thnt the sudden change from hot to cold and back to hot again hnd taken the temper out of tho smnll of his back, and had rendered It Impervious to Influences of temperature, nnd that It was like a firoless cooker now, and would remain hot as long as It remained at nil. So Abraham spoke to Clorllla, and she did what was right and began to heat up her feet again. But whon she tried It she found that her feet were like the small of Abraham's bnck and had lost their temper and would never become warm again. They were llko a sealed cold storage vault and would remain cold ns long as they were feet. At present looks as If Clorllla and Abraham were to he forever separated, and Uncle Aslulod Cloots soys It is one of tho most striking warnings ngaliiBt flirting ho has evor seen, for If Corilla had not tried to draw Phllllpus on sho would, by this time, hnvc had a good husband with an Ice cold bnck to place her Ico cold feet against. But old Minch scoffs at this. Ho says that from what ho knows of Doospnbury foot no ono with feet or that kind would over marry a man sho could not annoy with them. The mnjority of tho Betzville voters ngreo with him. (Copyright, 10C3. by W. G. Chapman.) In New York Factories. The salaries of the 03,261 officers and clerks of the 20,939 factories of Now York city amount to $73,017,656 every year. The number of wage earners In these factories is greater than the population of many large cities. The pay of tho wage earners is nearly $250,000,000 annually,

only necessary TO TREAT STOMACH

SAYS COOPER Tho now theory advanced by L T Cooper relative to tho human stoma , has attracted Buch widespread ht. t Hon that tho public In cities visited I v the young man lias been Joined l many physicians in a discussion of hu beliefs and inodlclnos. Mr. Cooper says human health I dopondont almost entirely 1,1,011 ti, stomach. He says that no disease nn bo conquered without first alleviating nil stomach disorders. Ho further sa a that most nion nnd women of UiIh gt n ration aro half-sick owing to d g. erato stoicachs. And lastly, hoclatn s that his New Discovery medicine vo 1 rejuvenate Ü10 human stomach in 'j days. Cooper has been traveling from or. city to another, conducting in ea u what ho calls a campaign of educa tion. For the past year he has nut tho public in the larger cities of tho country, and his success has bt n phenomenal. Thousands of people ha flocked to his headquarters where; r he has gone, and the sale of his rat 1 cine has been beyond anything of tho kind over before witnessed. Possibly tho most interesting fi turo of tho attention this young uiar, has attracted is what his army c' followers, whom he has convert id his boliofs through his medicines, luv to say on tho subject. Tho follow i' statements aro from two well-kn.s residents of Chicago and Boston, r spectlvely, and tho enthusiasm cf these is characteristic of Cooper's au mlrers generally. Mrs. II. B. Mack, of 3201 St.v iitreet, Chicago, says: "I havo bin suffering for 12 years from a comlita Hon of stomach trouble, catarrh anl constipation. I had n gnawing pain in the pit of my stomach, a sort of a dull pain that I could not quite und r Ftand. Then there was a dull heal ache, and my mind seemed to bo wan derlng continually. I could not eat, and what little solid food I did eat I could not retain on my stomach. I tried every remedy I could think of and also tried out a number of patent medicines, but without any apparent result. It was through ono of my friends that I heard of Cooper's prcr aration, and I immediately decided try some of It. It Is two weeks sie I took my first dose of it, and 1 t " like n new woman. The headach' seems to have disappeared, and th--pain in my stomach, along with 1 Tho medicine Is worth its weight r gold, and I want to thank Mr. Cod; t for what he has done for me." Mr. Edwin F. Morso, of 2 Oak! v street. Dorchester, a suburb of Uos- r . says: "For three years I Lad not a well day. My stomach wa :n fri.,., ful shape; the more thou--.'. -if f" J would nai.Eoate mo, and I r- .1 v ha i 1 horror of anything to eat I . : food, would causo me extrem.- .ndv -tion, bloating and gas on m hij.k !' and nothing tasted right. S : ,p ü ago I got some of this Vori r w : clue, about which ther' is fo n. . u talk. I actually feel as v !l an-lstr T as .1 boy over slnco th.- fir.-t bott Every sign of stomach tm ii :. hasdi appeared, and I have a luary api tite and eat threo square n.-alb ev-v thing seems to tttsto good. An who knows what chronic In l g't 1 Is can appreciate what this nean me. I consider this the most remark able medicine I ever heard of." Cooper's Now Discovery Is sold tr nil druggists. If your druggist canr supply you, wo will forward you the name of a druggist in your city who will. Don't accept "something Just as good." The Cooper Medicine Co., Dayton, Ohio. Inelialble. So you wouldn't let Bombazine BUI sit on the Jury that tried the horso thief?" "No," answered Three Fingered Sam. "we do things fair and squnro In Crimson Gulch. Bill's a good man. but the fact that he runs tho only undertakin' business in the counv couldn't help prejudlcin him some agin the defendant." Nothing New. "Congratulations! I hear one of your daughters Is engaged. Which cm Is it?" Get out' It's only Bessie again Meggendorfer Blnetter . Bronchial Troches I An ttuUJr Jurmlta remedy 'or Sor J"? ! HoftentM nd Ought. Clv iromUte rtlil la I UrorxhUl nd Lun(f Affection. nur year 1 ripuuuwi. - , Price, 25 eenti, 60 centt nd $1.00 rr box. 5mr.Ie rent on request. JOHN 1. DROWN SOK. RHtantililj

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