Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 37, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 June 1910 — Page 1

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THE STOCK EXCHANGE. pit cl the First Agreement Among Nw York's Brokers. In ti. ' a-Iy part of March, 1792, the f "-t notice was printed of the cpcriK of n stoek exchange office at2 '. street by A. L. Hleocker iS"1 . J. ' -itard, McRvcrs & BnrcIa,. ( . ti. ,,lt & Terrors and .Fay. 4 Suit -l. Thee several firms held

f totk each day at noon, i rotation to insure equal r.!ie for each other. . the broker specialist? re- ! n rvtrieted or.nrrm-

Hon, . ii-l on -Maren 4i a meeting rasiall' -I "f the dissatisfied brokers, for p TjMi-'M of protection, and a cot,, vv.,s appointed to prorid'1 ft -nit.iHo room in wh:eh to jj.cn;'i- and to supiest fi"h rides tnd r."'td:'ti')nÄ for cond-u-ting thc.r i;i-!!us; as Mio committee! deor.i"! Tiefe-'saiy. The final result of t! i- mi'ct :ng, says Moody's Magium was the first ginned agreement nn.oiig dealers in securities, the fM-t record now in the archie; f the Xew York Stock Es

chau riie agreement reads as folic "Wc, the Subscribers, Brokers U: thv m:reha?a and Sale of Public Stock. J'i hereby solemnly promise inJ p!FL'" ourselves to each other, that we v 11 not buy or sell from this day, for any per.-on whatsoever,

my kind of Public Stock at a lcs3 rate than one-quarter per cent com-Eii-":rn on the specie value, and that wc will give a preference to esc!: other m our negotiations. In Tctimonv Whereof wo have set our fand-11! l?th dav of May, at Xew York. ir?" This organization had no local hatot.it m for conducting exchnngc bafino-. T.ike the curb brokers today, tran-.i tions were carried on in the own air at a point between Üie pre.-nt numbers of OS and 70 Wall Urt, under a famous old buttoned trr-c that stood there with widt'ireadmg branches, which protect them from the sun's rays and ord.narilv inclement weather.

Business in those davs was not

rashniT, and there was an air of

Ie:ur.- and quiet about the gather

og. Securities were not active enn.i"h to employ all tne time of

the Inkers, so between times bet-

tin? n the results of domestic and forei.n political controversies and

fleainiir m merchandise were m thic).

Tl- rrt inside quarters of the

exr! r 'o wore seeurefi in 1793.

hi t',. Tontine coffee house, at

uV r 't Invest corner of Wall and

Wil'i.irn street?, was comnleted.

Tl , . . . .

lop o ,i tmttonwood tree was abandoned, and the dignity of the broken organization wa3 elevated bv

the rhange. The Tontine coffee houe w as controlled bv n chartered

company composed of 203 subscrib

es at ifvoo each, organized as a

oerhants exchange.

me loalera in securities and the

cerdiants were all iumbled un to-

gethr-r, and at times when trading

as brisk theo was wild excitement nd fhi;i!s that would have done

credit to a band of Comanche Indian. Xo constitution for. a, stock ürhange was adopted until 1S17, ken the Xew York stock and exfhanpp board was formally organand a constitution adopted.

aih;uuel Prime was appointed

prt-Mdi-nt and John Burson secre

tary.

The Manager Was Cute. Ttii crowd swaved ioward the

Batia-r of the open air show. . hat did you mean by advertis- ' l.'t tifrUf

"?u-t what T said." rcnliod the

cDaVhod manager.

't the rope was laid on th' cripd tlin cnnVocmin "nn'

.ür fr.iud of a rope walker jus '4h' 1 "n it a step or twol Do you af; 'ut tight rope walking?"

"uainiyr sliouled tho manifer. "Ti. i' .l u

l'.., until ua iigiu, waau i er (-'levcland Plain Dealer.

"Well.

Impatient, if lliJit nin't tho limit r

ifcd the postman as he came

dfinc tvi ui s privam rcsi-

"Whnt'a 4t.n i l.l-O ti

Te pacing citizen, who had overe8rU tllO nnctm.n'o rntmx, 4V,lKf

"'IV. RTnlninoil ihn man in

Hvi'-f wnian in that house ' don't come along earliei Q'u pet W l n.

er." Chicago N

All About Senator Bristow. No, Joseph. No, Joseph Little. Thrice no. Joseph Little Bnstow. You can talk your bless J head off Senator Bnstow of Kansas, and talk it on again, and' in the memorable words of Senator Brad l.y, you "mout better writ a litter." For the gentlemen of the Upper House haven't forgot what vou did to them, 'senator, while you were the fourth assistant postmaster, general, and beyond all possibility of cavil the livest wire that ever was strung through that cavity. Down in the recesses of their desks, Mr. Senator Biistow, they have a little pamphlet written by you, and entitled "Bristol's Report," in which you turned a blinding light upon the conduct of the Postoffice Department, your dearly loved boss, "Bob" Wynne, and his friends in the Senate. And whenever you are found to be on one side of a proposition they duck their heads down beneath their desk lids, and refresh their memories by a hasty glance tthat booklet, and come up grasping fori rath, butsufficiently long winded to vote the way you don't want them to until the cows come home. And thus it ever shall be. Aaahmen. And so it didn't do Mr. Bristow ary good to get red across the bridge of the nose, and stamp and holler when Senator Aldrich pulled a rule that he had forgotten, and gave the gentlemanly presiding officer the quick nudge to make the hasty ruling, and thus left the gentlemen from Kansas corked and full of boiling- language. And it won't do him any good today when he gets up and shouts, "Have a care, Jack Dalton," For Mr. Bristow's race is run, so far as the present Senate is concerned. The only way in which this highlv estimable, verv long-legged, ornately rough-house person can make certain of a smilef ul hearing from the Senate is to change the Senate. The present incumbents lose their appetite when they see him, and remember what he has said and done to and about them. But they don't prod him much. He is too unrefined and common in his methods to altogether suit. This especially applies to Senator Bailey. Mr. Bailey may choke b'enator Beveridge, and bend an umbrella over a reporter, and in other waj's establish himself as a fussy person. But any time he has occasion to differ with Senator Bristow, watch him do it in a tone of polished courtesy. For if he tries to rough it with the Kansas person there will be some far Western doings on the Senate floor in two-four time. Joseph Little Bristow was born in Kentucky fortyeight years ago. He's tan and long-legged and aggressive. By and by he drifted out to Kansas, where he became the editor of a paper. Bristow seems to be the natural muckracker. He found that the prosecuting attorney of the county was taking bribes fr)m the liquor men; he got documentry evidence of the fact, and he muckraked that attorney to a fare-you-w ; d. The attorney was about twice Bristow's apparent size, and when he read the story he ran up the stairs to Bristow's office three steps at a time, howling murder at every jump. When he got inside he found Bristow sitting in the editorial chair toying with an eleven-inch butcher knife and glaring at him out of a pair of steady gray eyes. "How do you do, Mr. Bristow," siid the prosecutingattorney. Lov ly weather we're having, yes? Well, I must be going now." A little later it developed that the attorney may not

nave Deen mucn 01 a lawyer, outne classed way up as a physiognomist. Bristow said a few unpleasant columns, with double leads and slugs and impassioned capitals about a professional gambler, a "bad man." The gambler gathered his friends about him. "See that spot?" he asked, pointing to a freckle on the pavement beneath Bristow's window. "Watch it. That's where that gander-legged editor will light." His friends stood about, open-mouthed. The gambler went up stairs. By and by a form hurtled through the window and fell upon the spot indicated. "Hooray!" said the gambler's friends. "Old Bill made good -what?"

xm lube ijaiiuuiiy irom uie spoc ana nisseci at

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stove

Eulogy on Grass.

John J. Ingairs eulogy on grass has probably been copied more times in the columns of the newspapers than any other similar selection, with theexeption of Senator Vest's tribute to dogs. It is worth at least one appearance each year in every newspaper. "Grass is the forgiveness o nature her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannons, grows greea again with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass grown like rural lanes, and oblitereted. Beleaguered by the severe frost of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortresses of its subteranean vitality and emerges upon the first solicitation of spring. Sown by the wind, the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the el men t which are Its ministers and servants, it softens the nude outline of the world. Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in its place and prevents its soluble components from washing into the fasting sea. It iivades the solitudes of the desert, climbs the maccessable slopes and modifies climates and determines the history, character and destiny of nature. Unobtrusive and patient, it has immortal vigor and aggression. Banished from the thoroughfare and the fields, it bides its time to return, and when vigilance is relaxed, or the dynasty has perished, it silently resumes the throne from which it had been expelled but which it never abdicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the sense with fragrance of splendor, but its homlyhue is more enchanting than the lily or the rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet, should its harvest fail for a single year famine would depopulate the world." '

A CROOKED BOUNDARY.

The Mail Order Song. Said the crroceryman to the

butcherman, "Really it is a sin that you buy your salt on the wholesale plan and I never see

the tin." Then hied him bacfc ro the grocery store and quickly an order sent, for a fev choice hams

for family use and a box of fish

A STRIKING CONTRAST.

Caut of the Peculiar Linea That 01 vide Two Statt. If you will look on the map of j New England you will see two cu-j rious irregularities in the dividing j line between Massachusetts and

v-onnecricut. une oi tnera 13 m Granby township, a little northwest of Hnrtfonl. and the other in Enfield township, on the Connecticut river, foiith ef Springfield. It

is a Etandinsr conundrum why. m

j long as the boundary is imaginary. J they did not make it straight in- ' stead of erooked. But thcrejiv I

hangs a talc. ,u j

Those two little jogs on th mop.

t are monuments to human obmnucy i and to the persistency which is one ; of the chief traits of the Yankee character. The ancestors of .h

, farmers who own those little spou i j of ground preferred to live in MasBacWetts rather than in Connectl- ; cut and fought for their preference

until theyhad their way. The controversy began in 1713

and continued for 112 yean before it was finally decided. In 172-t- the question was appealed to England, : but the government was eo much -engrossed in the Seven Yeare' war that it was never brought to the attention of the crown. Up to the. (Outbreak of the Revolution bothj ! states continued to ley taxes and 'send notices of fast days and clections to the farmers who occupirid) the land, and there is no record of?

how they avoided one or whether they paid both. Later, however, they voted and paid taxes in Massachusetts only, notwithstanding; the protest of the county authorities in

! Connecticut, in 1793, after peace

Entering the United States Senate and the Heuee of Lords.

When a senator is elected in the'was restored, both states appointed United States he sends his creden-' comaissioncrs, but the dispute wa

tials on in advance. Thev are ore- earned on until lb04, wfcen a com-

sented by Ris colleague, read from the desk and filed in the secretary's

at

for lent. Said the clothing: man Xn , lr ?T? h to the hardware man: Ybucer- IT 'J J- i i tainly don't do rieht, when you g"? oa. pncges and elec-

get a suit of an eastern house u""s ur n-

with my big stock in sight" rnT v Tyr But the clothier wanted anew ?P 10 e clerK? desk' bJ

t i

tnem proianeiy. yinac editor grabbed me when

wasn't iooKin', said lie. "And now he s got me

un so that I can t climb them stairs nn mnre."

But a recital of Bristow's scrnns wnnlri rpnrl HL-o rbo

first nine chapters of "Fistiana " Except that he has always favored the knife rather than the clenched finger in doing dattle. He saved an innocent negro from lynching out in Salina once because he had that eleveninch ripsaw of his ready for action. The infuriated crowd of lynchers figured out that two or three of them would sustain punctures if they pressed too close, and so they went away frcm there. Then, just to show that he possesses hnman inconsistence he took that job as fourth assistance P. M. G. and put though the bulliest job lynching that shrieking Washington has ever seen a band of venerable senators being the victims. They got Bristow canned from his place in the post, office, just for that, but Kansas liked the way he cut up so that it elected b im to the Senate. They do say that the only man gave him a kind word when he enterwas the porter who has the bootblacking privileges and-who figured on an extensive contract after he got he got a peek at the new arrival. These are a few of the reasons why Aldrich and the rest don't like him As for the other reasons he's furnishing them daily.

steel range and it came as the

neighbors knew, in a box that he tried to hide in a box marked Gee Hawbuck Co., Thebusiness

men thpn called a meeting- to see

where the trouble lay, and they all agreed it was the editor man and not the devil to pay. "Why don't he roast th mail order

stores, these grouchy knockers said, "and stand by them who patronize him and give him his daily bread? So they drew up a

contract long and strong for the

editor to peruse, and waited on him with aspect grim, as he solemnly dug for the news- But the editor laughed a big horse laugh till the gang all too to the

woods for twas written on axle grease letter heads that came ;with a bill of goods I I Think I See My Finish This comic song and chorus is njvv bein? featured from coast , to coast by the variou; minstrel and theatrical troupes, and has

met with the approval or the

public, receiving several encores nightly. Composed by B. Cal mes All players of the piano shou d

send for a copy at once Our

readers will receive a copy postpaid by sending 10 cts. in silver

or postage stamps to ine uiooe

Musical Co., 160 W. 17th St., New York Rossini's Retting Plact. For years Rossini's body Tostcd in Terc Lachaisc, and then city of Florence asked that it might be transferred to the Church of the Holy Cross in that city, where the bodies of Galilei, Michelsuigelo, Machiavelli, Alficri and other great Italians are entombed- Consent was received from the municipality, but the master's widow, Dona Olympia, would consent to the translation only on condition that when her time came her body might be placed next to that of her husband. This request was bluntly denied, for the reason that only Italians "who had achieved greatness" could rest there. In 1S78 the widow died and before her death consented in writing to the removal

of her husband's body to rlorence, provided herbodj be placed in th grave from which his -would be taken in Pore L&chaifc, and aitr m. long time for consideration taia vas done.

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promise wa reacneo. xnere werat several similar disputes between the two states beeide those which novj appear npon.the map, and an agreement was: reached 'by which 3flfcaichusetta congested to esst eakr -her -claim to a atrip f territory in Woodstock and Suffield towakiw,

his colleague, takes an oath to sim- ProT1e? tonnecuonj wooia ymx port the constitution of the Unkedr f19 Ö other tracts in , States and is then led to a desk onlf1 N. ctn, howtrer, the outer tow, which his colleague l"? ?e P? ?

has selected for him, where he re- .3t 0 w re ceives the congratulations of hi3 .ed by some leg proceeding, and

&uouier coHumfiäiou tu appoiuieu,

Is JL810 the controversy was re-

mgratulat

riftwil 9 o wyA AJittAt Ann 4-V

""T" to T , (but if it ever reached a conclusion quajmance. xie iooks as wise a3,lfi9A .... (xmrnistinn vita in.

and

2. , , x . !iaao a taird commission wa may be and waits for adjournment,; Mttlement, when he goes to the secretary's of-: ... 4 , a a.;a.a

, 1 , v aiKi mis titer uitwaucu uuvu

, , , 0 yy, .7: the present boundary inae, wnieh book for the use of the enshttr u4 b th ttve. o draws his mileage. vv .L, tLv- I

See,

red

ana araws nis mileage

In the English house of lords the proceedings are very different. A newly created peer enters that historic chamber in a robe of scarlet velvet trimmed with ermine, attended by two fellow peers, who act as his sponcor3 and escorted by the black rod, as the sergeant-at-anas is known, and the garter king at arms, arrayed in a gorgeous tabard. The procession marches around, making low bows to the emntv

throne and to the presiding officer, who is the lord nigh chancellor,

from different parts of the gilded

cnamoer, to wnicn urn imposing

person gravely responds. When the new peer reaches the throne he kneels reverently and places upon the empty chair, where his majesty ought to be sitting, the patent of

nobility he has received from his

sovereign. lie is then led to the

woolsack, where the lord chancellor

administers to him the oath. His sponsors next lead him to the proper bench, where he takes his seat for a moment. Then all three rise and bow three times at the vacant

throne and three times to the pre

siding atlicer. The lord high chancellor then leaves the woolsack and comes down to shake hands with the new peer and welcome him to tht house. The other peers come also and tender their congratulations.

It Wat Wattad en Him. He was a callow youth and assumed many liberties. "Ah, Lucy," he said to a young woman with whom he was somewhat acquainted, "you look tired. What have you been doing?1 "Hunting a flat," she answered. "And did you find oner" he asked. Her eyes snapped. "I found one, she replied, with a meaning look. But, of course, he didn't see the point of it Cleveland PJaii Dl

both states. Eichas ge.

Ysaf-Ttlng Pr Lljht.

"When it comes to consuming gas in large quantities blind people can boat then" seeing brethren "til kollow' said an inspector of tha gas company. 'T know two families where both husband and wife are blind. Every jet is turned oa full tilt in their houioq at night-andj is kept "oiii" at thai rate clear up

to 12 o'clock. Light nnd darkness are all the Fame to the afflicted ones, but they insist upon illumination brilliant enough for a reception. And that partiality for light is not a whim peculiar to those twe couples. Most blind people feel that way. They demand the light, and in all private homes and institutions where the blind are cared for the gas bills vouch for the strange fancy." Exchaaire. t Cured by Funny SUriss. Having vainly tried many od various remedies to restore to health a business man whom I know and who had fallen into a morbid con

dition owing to jears of overwork, a famous Baltimore phvsicun. at I

last persuaded his patient to take;

a course oi lunay stones, one at each meal, with an extra two at dinner. The patient, a solemn and gloomy fellow, at first rebelled, but, finally falling in with the idea, adopted the course recommended

and was in the end restored to

health, the effect of laughter being

entirely 'to chance hu mental and

bodily condition.

.Laughter, in fact, is one of the

cheapest and most effective of med-

lcinei, creaking up stagnation or,

mind and bodr and sending a

healthy vibration through one's System, There is very little the matter with the man who Can enjoy a

hearty laugh. Nashville TtoMl leean. "i