Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 41, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 July 1910 — Page 1
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Vol. 52.
Jasi-er, Indiana, Friday, July 15, 1910.
A STUDENT JOKE.
NO 41
Conplrao of Silence That Put the Professor In a Panio. I'rofcscor HIias Loomis for many years occupied the chnir of aslrono-
niv at inio and was the author of! the well known scries of mathemut- i ical tctt bo ks. j Professor Loomis repeated each'
year to tho junior class a course of lectures on physics. The lcckirc wero illustrated .by experiments.
and in ono on coinprcsccd air Uv
explained the principle of the well,
known air gun. Tho students of each succeeding class as they entered the room for this particular Iccf irc found on the side of tho room remote from the
platform n small t:ir?ot. After e.v-i
niammg mo operation ot tho gun i'rofesFor Loomis wes in tho habit of landing three of its projectiles with mathematical accuracy in tho center of the bullseyn. The professor was always applauded for this feat, but his grim face, covered by n tightly drawn skin of parchment hue, never showed the suchtest sim of ratification
or recognition of any kind. To hwn ! it was apparently only a scientific!
experiment to be exactly demon
strated. One class of juniors, however, who had learned of the immemorial incident from the then seniors, at
tempted a little experiment of their own. the subicct beinir mathe
matical and scientific human na
ture! i
Three puflfs from the air gun, a. .d, although the students saw that the
bulleye was perforated as usu;'
there was not a sound of annlauso
Professor Toomis looked a moment
at tho clas in a startled wav. then
at tho target, and then, with a de-
pree of emotion he had never be
tore shown, exclaimed:
"Didn't it hit? Didn't it hit?
Didn't it Kit?"
A roar of laughter, followed by even more than the usual applauso, showed the professor that he had
not lost niFmathcinatical accuracy
Causes of War.
The horrors of the Indian muti
ny will still bo remembered, and tho cause Which led to it is a matter of history. Cartridges greased
wnn cow's tat were served -out to
the sepoys, who. refured to uu them on tho ground that the cow
to a sacred animal. Almost with
out any warning tho torriblc massam m.
eres ioi lowed, which were only avenged at an enormous expendi-
iure oi lives and money. Tho war which delucred Anstrik
and Prussia with blood in 186G em
anate! in the former failincr to an
Fw.-r a question asked by the latter.
in uio spring ot that year the Au3trians began to arm verv Bneedilv
and powerfully, ahd the Prussians
wanieu to Know the reas.on. To thi they would give no reply, and Prussia, thinking it was an unfriendly and nenacing action,
wrought about the gory campaign. London Tit-Bits.
Chinese Worship of Ancestors.
t The one spiritual force that dom
inates every class of society in Chi ßa ancestor worshin. In tho Chi
uese religion there is no other that
ran take its piace for a moment A Han mav or mnv nnf. vAT-aKin iAnU
He may express hu, utter skoptic-t km about them or profess belief in
inprn. one cares what ho
think. Let hirn, however, neglect
i worship of tho dead and he is
"f.Ko(1 upon and pointed to with o bitterest scorn both by his own relations and by,his neighbors. Tho
ri taunt that the heathen can nurl nwinst the Christian, and the oi that Rtinfjs him most, is tho
wring statement that ho has no inrft.tor3.Xow York Tribune.
Too Great a Loss. Whoever knows nnvlhing about we email boy and his" pride in his Jlrt pair of trousers will rccognizo truth of a. story the Philadelphia Lodger prints. Tommy was at Sunday school in J firnt "real" clothes. "A picturo ? l;t of little angels was before claw, and the teacher asked iommy if ho would not like to be one. iu'' mn'am," replied Tommy w inspecting the picture. jot want to be an angel, TomS ?TOproached tho tcchcr. "Why '''Cause I'd havo to give un mj
The Real Indian, Deeply Religious, Generom and -Faithful to All His Mends. a"dle"ce ?f men listened spell-bound for an hour to Dr. Charles A Eastman, the Sioux Indian, as the noted author and lecturer portrayed in most picturesque language. "The Real Indian," and his philosophy. t JJr. Eastman spoke in the low musical tone peculiar to his race. At times his face glowed with the fires of native enthusiasm as he described the great virtues of the real Indian. His message was a distinct revelation ami his quaint witticisms and charming eloquence stirred his andience to frequent bursts of applause. JJr Eastman is perhaps the most cultured Indian in America today. A graduate of Dartmouth college and ot Boston University, and holding a position under the United Mates government as special agent in the adjustment of Indian land claims. It was his first appearance in Evansville and beside addressing the Evans Im? mreei!n he spoke to 231 boys an hour earlier upon The Indian Boy' at Y. M. C. A. hall. At the close of both meetings he was besieged by those anxious to shake his hand and thank him for his fascinating stories of Indian life. Dr. Eastman said in part: "The real Indian is a child of nature. He is trained physically to be as close to "nnfurp a nrwccJM tu
Indian in his character building begins early. Great importance is nlaced imon m-nnr-il infi
great maternal deare is that the new soul should be noble. The Great Saint is evprvwhpivi Thn rnriio
-, Yr 1 . . v,, J-ilv, simian finds the Great Mystery m the flowing brook, the beautiful skies, and the ereat oak. Hie
vades the universe. The Indian ? nnf nmlhr roiimnne
The Indian child is first taught silence absokte selfcontrol. When an Indian wants tn fa llr fn fho r.roof
bpirit he goes away by himself into the woods, or upon the hills and in absolute silence hp nravs rn Hip fs-onf
Spirit by his attitude of mind and soul. "The Indian is a lover of the tirezt "MVsfwv TfVioi
iittü iwu iiiuuLiisiui oi iooa ananis orocner nasnone, he divides. If he has one mouthful and "hi hmfhov dnC
WA. 11UJ none, he gives him that which he has. The real Indian
io f;cnciuua w tx iauit. xae ueneveä mis spirit is SiniesS and immortal. m His body and intellect are the sinning Darts. He believes the animals have soule anrl r?n nnt-
sm like men. The real Indian is a tnip f i
serves at any cost of endurance or sufTeriner. He is
very obliging. A friend says: 'That is a beautiful shirt you have; he will take it off and make him a preRPnt nfit An Indian woman wears a. hnnnh'fnl Hap.
skin gown, adorned with elks' teeth and porcupine quills. It is greatly admired by a friend. She takes it off and says 'You wear it; You will be prettier with it than I.' "The Indian covets a trained body and sound morals. TTfttsikps nridp in a finenhvsioue. broad shmilfforc r-
pering waist, lithe, symmetrical muscles. He will go from the sweat house and jump through a hole in the ice to get the reaction that makes endurance and srrpnn-fh. Nature hane all his lictures and thev pnm.
mand a beautiful outlook.
The second great lesson the Indian child learns is to eat little. We often fast even when we have plenty. The wViifo rrmn eats lob? now. hllfc hf will nnf- nnf-
-fc- A W If AI IV All V- A A ' " " 'J " 'W . u V W W much a little later. The Americans are victims of great indio-pcfinn Tho Tndian hnv r.nvp.nantc: with ha affio
not to eat, and he is purposely enticed, but under no consideration will he submit himself to the dangers of f ho nmvnvrJ'c covnnarlo. Neither will f.IlP Indian hca
profanity. This child of nature would not dare thus to greive the Great Spirit." Dr T.ncfman Aacni iKod nn f(mi innal fnlir hp nnn.
ducted when he brought a number of great chiefs from a western reservation to the large cities of the middle west and east. The first big city was Chicago. As the party struck the business street, one chief exclaim-
'u; j-akjk. uie fjeopie rustling nung,. xxic uicy yuijuuu by wolves?" 'Oh, no Dr. Eastman replied. "But see the harrowed looks on their faces, they must be hard pressed by wolves." "No," said Dr. Eastman, "that is their business strenuosity. It is the wolves of commerce that puisue them." He told of attending a reception of President Cleveland's at the white house. The chiefs wanted to don their war paint and wear their full dress blankets, exposing their shoulders and chest as evidence of their maturity and right to sit in the great councils. Dr. Eastman assured them that American men were very modest and would not think of thus exposing their shoulders and chest, but permitted the women folks in high society to do so. ; In New York the great things of civilization impelled an old chief to say, "It is given to every naked child that is born to make these things. Some want to, some don't want to. We don't want to. Give us back the woods." Ev. Courier. ,
of string beans sold for a peck will be a peck,, while a dozen radishes will not be merely a dozen radishes, but will represent so many pounds, or parts of pounds, of radish. Not only in these two articles will the dealer be compelled to give the consumer what tfee consumer pays for, but the doom of the pasteboard crato. which measures, automatically tke farmer's eggs by the doeen, will be sealed, and the driver of the covered and time-honored "huckster wagon" will be compelled to carry a pair of properly tested steelyards and weigh
me pruuuet or tiie poultry nouse. Ii short, the food and drug commissioner, H. E. Barnard, has got back of a movement started by Isadore Wulfson, inspector of weights and measures in Indianapolis, and is preparing to pull for a weights aad measures law by the next legislature, so that tke peck measure, the quart ladle, and the egg crate as methods ! of measure in the market places willbe relegated to the 1 past. 1 The steady advance of the food package m the mar- , ket has aroused the focd and drug commissioner to ä realization that something is necessary to protect tke buyer. A short time ago there was taken to the office of the commissioner a package of butter put up by a Chicago house to sell for 20 cents the package. Soon there followed another made to sell for 19.cents. Another followed to sell for 18 cents. To the average buyer of butter there was no perceptible difference in the weight of the packages, but there was, as shown by the scales. "There is no reason why the butter dealer should gouge the consumer bv the package method " said Mr
Barnard. "Our experience with sundry package goods has tieen that the weights have been gradually lessened until the consumer is paying roundly for the privilege of having his purchase in a package. As competition grows keener and the package goods come more and more into common use, with the unscrupulus packers quick to see the unfair advantage they may take of the consumer, the public is going to have need of some law which will protect it from the avarice of the shortweight packer. ? f
selves up that tue organized a prayer meetin' rlgbSiere
ana sung a hymn."
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Dynamiting The Dog A Remarkable Fish Story in Which No Fish Appear" As a Washington Star reporter was browsing around one of the downtown hotels the clerk pointed out to him a tall, gangling boy of 18 or 19, lolling all over a chair in front of a window commanding a view of the avenue and apparently having a first-rate time to be
so iar away irom nome. tne cierK took the reporter over to the boy after a minute or two and introduced him, with the remark that the reporter wanted to know about that fish story. "Well, "smiled the youngster, "it wasn't so much of a Ash story as it was a) dog story and it wasn't so much a dog story after it wjg"all over as it was when we first took tke dog oat tiH,,us. You see, it was this way: Four or five opus young fellows about two or three weeks ago took a notion we'd go a-fishing1, and we took a dog along. He was a nice little dog that was so fond of water that people swore he'd never been raised in Kentucky, but he was. He was my dog, and I ought to know. We was fishin' in a nond nd after nhont three hours nf it we rVrln'f:
get a smell, much less a bite, and somebod3r come along and said the way to fish a pond was with dysamite. "All we had to do was to sling a cartridge in, let her blow up, and we'd have fish to carry home on a freight train. The cuss that told us was a raikoad hand and wasrworking down the road about a mHe, and if we'd go down there we could get for a half-dollar eough to shoot all the fish in the eounty. Me jfnd another fellerwent along with him and they fixed up a cartridge tied to a floater and all we had to do was to light the fuse sling it in the pond and run like the d 1. The dynamite would do the rest. We forked over the halfdollar course they bought whiskey with it and went back to the pond where the others was waiting "Then we follered directions, but we forgot the dog. and wheu I slung in the cartridge and the float the dog he gave a yelp of joy, and bang! he went in after it. He got it, too, and started for snore wft-h it, though we fired rocks at him and howled our lungs out to make him let it go. That's the kind of a dog he was; he never did know what to let go was. Well, we seen we u-it t i l ,i ... - i.
cuuiun b stay uiuutiu uieie ciuu we went, u wtiuuptn , and the dog came after us, draggin' the dynamite, for it wasn't heavy, and catchin' up with us at forty miles
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CA k M JVUI. "He was friskin' his tail and yelpin' pleased most to death, and we were gettin' scarder, for, we knew that
COMMISSIONER SEEKS PACKAGE REGULATION!
fUof ttro fr.-f fwar The dnrr ennlfln'h fref
through the cracks, and while he was draggin' at it nnA hnrl-in' fit tn kill that wirtridce went off rieht hv
UIIU " ..... O ' O V If the state food and drucr commissioner, who. under his nnse. and when we erot on our feet acrain at the
the present law, is guardian over the public milk can, foot of the hill we couldu'tsee anything of the dog or the corner grocery and the drugstore across the way, floater or about four panels of fence. They all went has his say, after some time early next year every peck . together, and we felt so fehjmkfui uihen me picked our-
Dog Hood of tho Atlantic
DetpwAjelRghUr. The seal hunters hare been called heroes, but they haTO earned tho title in doing jurt what their fathers and forefathers have done ior ZOQ yeacscatching icals to ihaket living. When vc tnink of Eeala wo bring io mind the animala for whe richcoat of fur mÄady is' älKpfr to ixfjv hundreds or even thousands of dollars the fur seal, whichv; h$abi$' tnp north Ptcjtfc ocean, "Bui w the aiera ot the 4tlantic lives knoihef eperies, wtöcn is also sought lor JU'coat or hide, vhieh go into many thousand, ef poqgatSopks, satchels,, plorea and otfcer artues, for which lfis especially valuable. So every year hardy KwWndlandcrs teke' their lives in then- hanüs in the seal hunt, for not enly is its coat valuable, mt the Wufctex of "the roung $e!ds a'or nwch prized foi different jmrpof es. There are-Jxnv speeies of &e&ls ir-. tho waters "around TSevrfotmifiaQi1 nnd Labrador: the bay aaift, harp, ttie hood and Hire square dipper. The harp' sca the sdkl o cominerce is so caUod from having a broad, curved line of dark connected spots extending 'along each shoulder arid meeting on ihe back above the ta.il, forming a figuro something like an ancjerft Barp. ' As the hoods ao often -with the, harps, tlicy are also taken for .the'r ' ekins. Tlie male, called -Uie vdo . hod," is distinguish from the ft male by a curious pack or bag ? . flesh on his nose. When attack:
enraged he inflates this hoc
or
with air so as to cover the face and
eyes, and it is strong enough to resist seal shot.. When thus promoted he can be- killed only by alfbot-... ing him in the nock and the" base of
tne sKUll. Unlike the cowardly harp seal, the dog hood figlrts desperately in . defense ol his mate and )tung ones,and if thev are kfHed ho become furious, inflates hia heed, while Iiis nostrils dilate into twe huge bladders. 'As he rushes at hisenemjr with floundering Ipaps, it is as well to keep a safe distance if the hunter is alone, for instances have occurred where a fight Between an eld dog hood and iivo or six moo haJf' lasted for an hour, and more lhan ' nce a map has been crunched" to death by thcpowerful Jaws. The eel is a great traveler, but depends on. the rivers 6f the oceaiv to taRb him fliere he wants to go: Like a good many other touriste, he spends his summer in the north, lesving the southern waters in day antl sionding about, three months in the seas about Greenland. With the beginning of the arctic-winter the seal horse starts on ita long southern vayagc. Day Allen Wil ley in Van Norden's. Dead to the Werl.
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Huniorist-rve Jast -written fiftl Jokes on tue man doesa't dvar i Poet-Tb.it's wron. JTsu rtjetildn
tfls Great Ncd. The father received note iro a young mnn who had been "gGtr with" his daughter recently whi read ns follows: "Dear Sjr -Wt like Jessie's hand in marriage. J . aad I arc in luv, and I think I na wife. Yurcs, flenry." Tho father replied by letter, say lag: "Friend Jlenr You don'i tvi a wile. You need a spelling booV Oat one and study it a year. the write me ajraia."