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PARIS PAWNSHOPS. R.in by tle State. They Arc a Doon to AH Classta of People. Tin- "iiiont ilt'-pietc," as the fr.iv ii equivalent of the pmriifhop g,., , !, in a ftato HiititHtion. Confer ,,'. there is not tlmt friendly (Oj1,.!! . ..in betwevn the lender and ( . ,1 . ut thrtt one 'op in London. T' ,-re o "pmule oltice"

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I pf i i' ;nnt-U'-pie'e. i i'lio Sir-1 thing that huh! om j pjzc - a " ."irI muuM ipal" putrni- ' lifljr i i hd' down the pavement outi fidf t. en trance. Witu m feeling of wholesome reipert f r the majc tv of the low. voj tn enter a large room, of ihuh one eide i? ott-uped by bei)i !i-' (very hard and tnu-omforta-b!o in") and the other by half a iK'n enp'oyees bcl.tnd a counter. Ha. in minded your property to i clerk w!io-e desk bears the infcnpt "n, "Kcceptitn of Article," rou meive a numbered motul click in h.mge and then join the ranks of the expectant borrowers on the bonohe. Tl ere are all sorts nnd conditions cf men and women, from the work pirl wl: brings her Sunday hat to the great lady who brings her , jewels and wl.o-e iiotor car is waitin? in the ft reot. B .t if i'iere is no fraternity in !. "mont-dn-piele" there is at least taai t, and no precedence is given to utaith r fa-hion. Wi .'ii tie vahe of your properly m i t n estimated in nnother room atlerk tails out your number and the amount offered, which you can ecu;t or refuse. Jt is never more than half the lowest selling price of the objit t, as the valuer is responsible for any loss ariiing from unrefined pledges. If you accept his poller your name, address and pco'fficinn urn tnt-nti ilntrn hv nnntlmr

clerk, and you must produce papers to establish your identity. The interest charged is only 7 per cent per annum, nnd there is no doui't that the state pawnshops render groat services to all clashes of Frsmh people. London Standard.

What Attracted tho Attention of t'n Solemn Faced Man. One of our southern salesmen brought home the following from hi lat trip: The proprietor of a tnnyard built a stand on one of the main streets of a Virginia town for the purpose of wiling leather and buying new hl'le. When he had completed the buildin?. he considered for a long time hat sort of a sign to put up to attract attention to the new establishment. Finally a happy thought ftr.i. k him. He bored an auger hole through the doorpost and stuck a calf's tail into it with the tufted end outside. After awhile he 6aw a solemn lWd man standing near tho door l"kmg at tho sign. Tho tanner atc hod him a minute nnd then iteptted ouf and addressed him. "Hood morning, sir!'' he said. "Morning 1" said the other, without taking his eyes off the sign. "Want to buy leather?" asked the tanner. "No ' -Unv hides to sell?" "N..." "Arn you a farmer?" "Merchant?" lf "NY" I i "Uwver?" t '. I ' ., tor?" "W "v lint r.re vou, then?" '1 in a philosopher. I've been tar.-Lng here for an hour trying to Eßure nut liow that calf got through that auor hole." Hoot Strap. Nececsary Then. (i "It ain't true," Bßid the milkman, tha we always put chalk in our

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The Sultan Of Sulu And His Wives. Hadji Mohammed Momolol Kiram is the first American snltan. Re rules the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines, and his rule was recognized by the recent visit President Jacob 0. Schurman of Mckinley's Philippine commission and by an arrangement to suj.port by American money his tweh e wives and his picturesque court. i' rom all accounts Hadji is not much of a sultan, but doubtless the breed can be improved. Meanwhile Hadji will have to do. President Schurman, who wett to the Sulu archipelago to take possession of our new sultan, reports that he is 35 years old. The cunning Sulu photographers, however, make him look younger. There is a whole harem of sultanas who go with the sultan likechromos with a pound of tea. They are all American sultanas now and form a picturesque adjunct to American society. The costume which a sultana wears consists of an undershirt three sizes loo tight, and a pair of bloomers three sizes too big. They also have a kind of shawl for cool weather. Anyone who has seen Little Egypt dancing the coo-chee-coochee will have a pretty good idea of what an American sultana looks like. A mother also comes with the sutm. She was originally a slave girl, but Hadji's father fell in love with her beauty and married her. The sultana immediately acquired such an ascendency over him that she was recognized as the real ruler of tre Sulu archipelago. But the Spaniards became dissatisfied and deposed the monarch, naming in his stead a gentleman named Paduca Marasari Maluna Amitil Maunin Harun Nanasid. The old sultana was greatly displeased, but she laid in a new supply of corrosive sublimate and sent word to the usurper that she wanted to marry him. But it was not to be! Paduca had heard about the careless way in which corrosive sublimate had been handled in the royal palace and sent word that his staff of sultanas was overcrowded. He added that he had at first considered the matter favorably, but on second thought preferred to die a natural death. Nevertheless, his reign was short. Hadji returned to the throne moved his sultanas back into the seraglio and now the sultana enjoys the triumph of seeing her son starred as the only original Oriental potentate connected with the free and enlightened government of the United States. But she still retains the corrosive sublimate habit and only recently, when a foreign ship was in port, she endeavored to replenish her stock by pretending that it was needed to kill rats. In case the sultana ever comes to visit her great and good suzerain at the white house in Washington this will be remembered. Sultan Hadji, who, it is to be, presumed, will be the father of along line of Yankee sultans, is a small man light of limb and intellect. In full dress he resembles a Spanish bull fighter with Oriental trimmings. He wears light pantaloons, rides well and when he goes armed presents an alarming aspect. On these occasions he carries a barong. which resembles a butcher's clever, a long kriss (dagger), with a wavy, snake-like blade and a big two edged sword, besides a pair of horse-pistols. The barong is said to be one of the most horrible weapons ever constructed and a reasonably smart man can cut a foe into with it--if the foe doesn't see him first as easily as a small boy cuts down a thistle, In this case it is considered the right thing to catch the enemy behind in the small of the back and cut nearly through him at the waistline. When Hadji comes to do homage at the president's knee it will be well for his brother American to keep an eye on the barong. Although he is a real, sure enough sultan, Hadji doesn't live in the style which sultans are commonly supposed to keep un. There are lots of ordinary grocers and flour and feed merchants in this country who have better homes than Hadji Mohammed Momolol Kiram. In fact, it is only two stories high, and it is said to look quite like the homestead of a Missouri farmer. It is also said that there are American seraglios in Salt Lake City that would make Hadji's zenana look like 30 cents. Moreover, travelers who have been introduced to the sultanas of Sulu say that there is only one good-looking woman in the whole bunch, and that even she has chewed so much betel that her mouth resembles a cake of tar rather than a rose-bud. On the whole, the new American sultanas are likely to prove a job lot dear at any price and of little credit to the Americans who engineered the deal. Of course it is needles to say that the only American sultan is a Mohammedan and while he will accept his politics from Washington he will take his religious tone from the defender ot the faithful in the Yildiz Kiosk at Constantinople. When President Schurman called on the sultan at Maibun he found that he had already begun to adapt himself to American fashions and was wearing an ordinary full dress waistcoat over a white nightgown. Of course, this is not correct, but matters will pro-

bnbly improve when Hadji has grasped the significance of the different kinds of shirts used in his newly adopted country. He also complained that his wives were expensive. This may be regarded as a movement in the direction of civilized thought and a primary influence toward monogamy. President Schurman had ofTered Hadji a pension of $6,000 a year, which is $1,000 more than the British pay him for staying out of his heriditary domain in North Borneo, but Hadji rrade a powerful kick for permission to levy a customs tariff in part of his dominion. He needed it, he said, for pin money for the sultanas. As a whole, Uncle Sam's subjects are rather a wild set. The Spaniards were never able to control them, except under the guns of their fortresses and robbery, brawling and murder were common. Possibly the event of a future war in which this country p'layed a star part, a few regiments of these new Americans might be useful to pl?ce in the front of the battle.

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"It is we of the human clan only who are troubled by the vast waste and refuse of life. There is not any such waste, neither in the myriad spawn nor the myriad seed: a Spirit sows by a law we do not see, and reaps by a law we do not know. There are mysteries of which I cannot write; not from any occult secret, but because they are so simple and inevitable, that, like the mystery of day and night, or the change of the seasons or life and death they must be learned by each, in his own way, in his own hour. It is out of their light that I see, it is by these stars that I set forth, where else I should be as a shadow upon a trackless waste."

For the Judge's Information. The police court judge could not repress a smile when his eyes rested on a card that was lying on his desk during a session of the court. On it were printed two stanzas under the title "The Perfect Man' and he could not but look at the motley gang of prisoners who sat before him. And he did not think 'the card had been dropped accidentally. The verses read: There is a man who never drinks, Nor smokes, nor chews, nor swears, Who never gambles, never flirts, And shuns all sinful snaresHe's paralyzed. There is a man who never does Anything that is not right. His wife can tell just where he is At morning, noon and nightHe's dead. - Indianapolis News.

Captain Leming's Origimal Scheme. Former Scheriff J. G. Leming lives on his live stock ranch near the Portersville ferry. Across the river is Portersville, which is in Dubois county, not as yet dry territory. The captain says the ferry, is a very busy one, citizens in his neighborhood seeming to have much business at the little town which contains a saloon c r two where a great deal of beer is handled, considerable Daviess county dry territory being supplied with the amber fluid which is making Portersville famous. "On each side of the road," said the captain, "Empty beer bottles can be seen thick as leaves in November. I wanted to take a contract to improve a few miles of road leading from the ferry and passing my farm, using the empties for paving purposes. A beer bottle is made of heavy, coarse glass and by placing them neck down in a plowed road and passing a roller over them a good road could be constructed. The paving material is right at hand and would cost me nothing." Washington Gazette. What Fine Hair Means The girl whose hair is her best feature puts up the best bluff. We see her about every day, and thoughtlessly call her pretty, beautiful, perhaps, simp y because she has a soft, shining, luxuriant, pompadour of a bright color. If a girl's hair only grows prettily around her face, and if she is handy at doing it, she almost can make it a good feature by promoting its growth, by having it brightened a little, and by waving it becomingly. Her idea in doing it is simply to brin- it enough to show its wealth glory and to mass it softly at the back. If she succeeds in getting any bright shade into it, her color scheme immediately is laid out for hor, for she will make it more beautiful by jpessing in shades of brown and tan.

THE WAYS OF JAPAN.

You Are Never Sure f Privacy, Evtl While Taking a Bath. As one steps heore the vi open doors of the reception roo i or into the court or the kitchen, . j the ease may he, the host r -proaches and greets with a low b followed hy the hostess nnd usui:! one or more of the maids, vl kneeling, bend to the floor. ri ealutations arc returned, a word exchanged perhaps about the ro" or the meal that is to be prepa' and the guest seats himself oi. : . low porch or platform that rrounds the entrances nnd rei , his shoes or sandals, learing tue on the ground. If one wears ' Japanese cloth shoe and straw -dai, as I did some of tho time, 1 feet arc always washed in a wo- i u basin of water brought by a ? i 1. who comes clattering around i'ie outside of the house on woo-' clogs to bring it and sets it d' .. i before one on the ground. A liKi towel is brought, too, unless one, usual, has this most useful of artcles about his person. Then the guest steps in, in eto- king feet or barefoot, and, prcce.le1 by a ?ervnnt, passes through V open rooms, often between a do line of all the peoplo of tho ho .. who arc bowing to the floor. J'" enters the room allotted to him . there" e-its himself cross legged a ctiFhhn on the matted floor 1 fore a tny charcoal fire in a brai'-r and res-ts at least pretends to tv if he ic ?t foreigner until disreg;: for corcuiony gets the better of 1. and he adopts an easier positi , Presently comes a demure or sm. ing li'l maid, with rosy cheeks ar fancif'.i'y colored silk kimono, vl kneels v.itsido and slides open tl paper !oor, enters, kneels nicloef i . brings tea things to tl center ! the room and, kneel in -pours oi t a wee cup of tea to t' -guest or each of tho guests. Th:done, she bends her forehead to f floor and patters out, opening nn closing the door, as before. If t'.i' guest is an honored one some dan ty, such as bean jelly or cakes raw dough rolled in pink n green powder, is brought with 1' tea. Then the guest steps out i the porch to wash, and as he dru his face he looks at the little ci tured garden or oil to the distant valley or forest or mountain or sen. Returning to his room, he i most of the time alone until the coming of the meal or, if it chances to be afternoon or evening, until the announcement comes that "tho bath is ready." One is never entirely alone. Access to the room is always "free on several sides, and host, visitor or servant may come in nt any time. One becomes used to this and learns to like it in mo i wayB. There is nothing hidden. 1: makes life simple and informal ar I more natural. We found it a d advantage sometimes when we hn : too many visitors whose curiosity got the better of them, but wo always took it in good part, finding it amusing rather than annoying. Robert Van Vleck Anderson ii Popular Science Monthly. talna on Laathor. Staini from leather are remove? by the use of paraffin. It likewiso pves a brilliant polish. To remove lugar and sirup sUins wash tlu stained part Titti warm water wit): out soap, then rub with ammonm diluted irith warm water. If no tnuh&hle Pay diluted alcohoflf Mag Billy, I regrets tcr fay aai our engagement has got tcr ba broke oft. Billy Wot's do troublo now? Mag Mo ma won't leave me "wen yer ring no more, 'cos it make3 n.j finger black. Leslie's Weekly. Snrcaim. "Shorry I'm sho la'c, m'dear," began Dingle apologetically, "but ihome fresh jokers stopped me an wouldn't lemme go" "Indeed!" interrupted his wife, "Why didn't you take" the brick out of your hat and hit them with it?" Catholic' Standard and Time3.

How He Won Her. "Tho man I marry," said the girl in the parlor scene, "must bo but a little lower than tho angels." "Well, what's the matter with me?" queried the young man as ho dropped on hi knees at her foot. "You tee, I'm a, little lower thuu n Um." Houston Post.

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