Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 July 1911 — Page 1

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otiftef. Vol. 53. Jasper, Indiana, Friday, JULY 7, 1911. No. 39.

THEIR COLORS, A Touch of Human Nature Amid the Horrors of War. Out of the midsL of the bloody horrors of the battle f Fredericksburg comes a sweet and touching incident which goes to prove that the rage of battle cannot obliterate the tenderness dwelling in the hearts df mi'ii. The story is taken from Major Robert Stiles? "Four Years Under Massa Robert." The Federal army was entering the town, shot was living in all directions, and Buck, a Confederate soldier, was peering round the corner of a house. A little three-year-old, fair haired baby girl toddled out of the alley, accompanied by a Ncwfounland ill.", and in the midst of the hissing shells chased a i a nion ball down the street. "Buck grounded his gun MkmI out into the storm and swung his great right arm round the baby. Then he ran after his company the little one clasped to-his breast. The company took refuge behind the stone wall which has now become historic, and there for hours and days of terror the baby was kept. Fierce nurses took turns in petting her while the storm of battle raped and shrieked. Never was a baby so cared for, and scouts scoured the countryside to get her milk. When the struggle was over and the Federal army had left, the company behind the wall received the It of honor in the van to lead the"column into the t.-,vn. Buck stood about in the middle of the regiment, the baby in his arms. There was a long halt; and the brigade staff hurried to and fro. The regi-3 mental colors were not to be found. Suddenly Buck sprang to the front. He swung a-l-ft the baby girl, her little garments fluttering Tike the folds of a banner, and shouted: "Forward, men of the Twenty-first! Here are our colors!" H started the brigade, cheering lustily. OOCXXK - Advertising is Necessary. The business man who doesn't believe in advertising, .says the Reading Times, belongs in the same category with the farmer who doesn't believe in fertilizing the soil. The husbandman can gather several successive but constantly diminishing crops from tiie same piece of ground without restoring to it the life-giving elements of which he robs it; but there comes a time when, completely exhausted, the land refuses to respond to agricultural entreaty. The business deprived of the stimulating influence of publicity furnishes an apt parallel -gradual failure, ending m complete paralysis of its functions. Advertisng, like fertilizing, is mighty cheap in proportion to the money value of the growth it promotes. The Ideal Life. Xo matter how sensitive a young person's heart may be, like a bare nerve in the weather, flattered ly the soft touch of music and colors, pared into gracious action by the chisel that builds the statue's jymmetry, twitched by the finger of tragedy till the Hint of tears is opened his ideal life does not benn till he turns away from these to take up his own instrument of work, to chip a conscience out of school" 'tping, type-setting, engineering, cooking and Housework, to quarry some vital activity of a free people John Weiss.

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Learning From Nature. The American temperament needs at this moment nothing so much as that wholesome training of semivural life which reared Hampden and Cromwell to assume at one grasp the sovereignty of England and which has ever since served as the foundation of England's greatest ability. The best thoughts and purposes seem ordained to come to human beings beneath the open sky, as the ancients fabied that Pan ipund the goddess Ceres when he was engaged in the chase, whom no other of the gods could find when seeking seriously. The little I have gained from colleges and libraries has certainly not worn so well as the little I learned in childhood of the habit of plant, bird and inject. Thomas Wentworth Hig-gmson.

Men And Women. The Legislature of Virginia has made an appro

bation for a memorial tablet to Patrick Henry, to

e placed m the wall oi old bt. John s Church, in

Richmond. It was in this building that Henry made the celebrated speech before the Virginia House of Burgesses. Mrs. John A. Logan is one of the most active members of the Woman's Army Relief Corps. Teachers who are looking onward and upward may be interested to know that some time about September of 1911 the city of Newark will open a new industrial high school for which a principal is now being sought. The salary will be about $4,000. A.B. Poland, city superintendent of schools of Newark, will receive applications until Sept. 1 of this year. Spokane has three policewomen. One belongs to the Salvation Army and two to the American Volunteers. They will take charge of all culprits of their own sex. The women of the Episcopal Church in Nebraska will be allowed to vote in church affairs if the amendment of the constitution adopted at the recent annual diocesan meeting is approved at the next year's meeting.

An Echo From Africa. The Sunday school lesson was relative to Daniel in the lions' den. "Now, Johnny' said the teacher, "what great man was in the lions' den?" ' 'Roosevelt, " was the prompt but unexpected reply. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to instruct, even our fri ends Colton. Only he who lives a life of Iiis own can help the lives of other men. Brooks.

Humorous Toasts. A publisher once gave the following: "Woman, the fairest work of all creation. The edition is large, and no man should be without a copy." In regard to the fair sex we have: "Woman, she needs no eulogy, she speaks for herself." "Woman, the bitter half of man." In regard to matrimony a bachelor once gave: "Marriage, the gate through which the happy lover leaves his enchanted ground and returns to earth." Iron for fruit trees. -The scales which fly off from iron being worked at forges, iron trimming filings or other ferruginous material, if worked into the soil about fruit trees, or the more minute particles spread thinly on the lawn, mixed with the earth or flower beds, or in pots, are most valvable. They are especially valuable to the peach and pear, and supply necessary ingredients to the soil. For Colored flowers they heighten the bloom, and increase the brilliancy of white or nearly white flowers of all the rose family. -! .'!: Poses As W oman 30 Years; Death Reveals. Boston, Mass., June 23. -Stewardess Harriet Kelly, burned to death on board the Boston-Nahant steamer "Governor Andrew5) last Sunday morning, was a man, although for thirty years he lived, dressed and successfully passed as a woman. An autopsy performed today by Medical Examiner McGrath disclosed the fact that had been carefully guarded even from Kelly's relatives in this country. An amazing phase of the case is that the imposture was so successful that at least three men in Boston and Wellesley had made proposals of marriage and several wealthy families in the Back bay had employed the supposed woman as a domestic. Kelly was born in England thiry years ago, reared and educated there as a girl. When 23 years old Kelly came to Boston as the servant of John Fleming of Brookline.

A Lively Chill. ! Tho old time darkv had a great'

admiration for high sounding words and phrases. He also had a deep respect for n man who -has the boldness to devise innovations of speech. "I jes' tell you Massa Itawson has a pow'ful control ob language," said one old plantation negro 'thoughtfully on hia return from a neighborly call. "I 'spect to learn 6omet'ing ebcry time I hear him talk. He was telling tfajor Williams bout his wife being tooken sick after dat dog bite sha had, an 'stead ob saying in respects to her shaking fit she had dat she 'shook like she had dc ages,' samo as most folks would say, what figur' is yojrs'posing he used?" "I dunno;" Said the old man's wife sulkily from tho ironing board. "He said she 'shook like an ash pan Dat's his figur', an' I ain't gwine forget it." Youth's Companion. Not Born.Tn'ere. A Washington man, whose business had brought hiin to New York, took a run not long ago into Connecticut, where he had lived in his childhood. In the place where ho wa3 born he accosted a venerable old chap of some eighty years, vrho proven to be the very person the Washingtons an. sought to answer certain- inquiries concerning the place. As the conversation prccecdcd the Washington man said: "I suppose yoK hare always lived around .here." "Oh, no' said the native ; "I waf bora two good miles from here' Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. New Outlet Fop the Palicc

Tho aerial police at work a rUU f the near future. Sketch. Gladstone's Handthaks. An 'Aberdeen paper tells a Glad stone story of the memorable Mid

lothian tour. On one occasion

there wa3 a great handshaking or

deal at the -window of the old gentleman's railwäy carriage, and he

was rapidly getting the worst of it. A stalwart young .policeman who accompanied Mr. Gladstone proved efual to the occasion. Crouching behind the great man and thrusting

his hand under Mr. Gladstone s In

verness cape, the muscularr"pceler" gave each comer in turn a grip that had no lack of cordiality. "The auld man'3 uncommon vecgorous at his time t life," observed one unsuspecting Scot aa'he stroked his fingers. file is that, concurred another of the polieeman'a victims, "but did re notice hia dirty, nails?'

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"Before I cnpage you I must tell you my husband Is very particular and very cross." "Don't fear. Between us we'll man xe hlnx" FHoscnJe Blatter.

Left Till Called For. When Wilkinson went to his office one day last week he felt calm and contented. Ho hadn't any need to worry about his wife's loneliness any more, for he had bought a capital watchdog for her. But, alas, when he arrived home hia wife met him with the deplorable news that the dog had gone. "Eh I" said Wilkmson. "Did lie break the chain, then ?" "So," she replied, "but F ngly looking tramp can here and acted so impudently that I let the dog loose. Bat instead ei tearing the tramp to pieces the misty dog went off with him." i "Great Scott!' eeJd Wilkuuon. That must havo been the tramp I bought him from!" London Express.

A Peculiar Coupls. Conversation had turned to the subject of two men, utterly dissimilar, who nevertheless roomed together. Ono of theso men was generally conceded to be a ''freak." His name was John. "John and Jim are certainly a queer pair," opined somebody. "John and anybody are a queer pair," opined somebody elsePoor John! Exchange. Why Elsie Wat Sent to led. While little Elsie's elder sister, May, was entertaining her latest acquisition, a moat dignified and gesteel young man, in the parlor Elsie was relegated to the dining room to play with her doll. This particular one, the possessor Of a kid body and a bisquo head, had been somewhat atfing of late, owinz to the fact that it3 Head was graf nally becoming detached and fit pivotal eye3 refused to pefftjTJx their functions of opening mrl closing. After considerable proV mg for the cause of tfctj frcgSb Elsie made the discovery tmttlEeÄ was something inside Df it uanoaVly succeeded m extracting Jf roll of tightly curled hair, it raiment later she burst into the parlor in a great state of excitement and shouted: "Pity sakes I No wonder Dorothy was sick! Look what was in her itummick ! She mutt havewlDowed Sister Maa rat!" Pittiburg Gazette. Second Thought. 'Tt cannot be," sighed the maid. "I respect you highly, Mr. Huater, but we are incompatible." "Well, 1 suppose it cannot bo helped," the younjr man replied, pocketing his chapnn and looking about for his hat. "but it defeats all my cherished ho pi's. I had planned a house in which I fondly imagined we might be happy. It was to have had a pantry twice a? large as the ordinär- size, with a roomy closet in which to stow away the now cooking utensils and things that a woman naturally buys when a peddler comes around." "Stay, George,"" she said, faltering. "Perhaps I have been too hasty. Give me another day or two to think it over. It is not impossible that that"

Serjeant Brown (".holding up" a bur flar until the police arrive) Ah, 07 man, you didn't knowIM necn a vehae teefforflftcca years,4lll,yea? Bikes Oh, don't eay that, curie U might to orf be mistake! Saetek

The Bird of Death. New Guinea is tho abode of the moit wonderful feathered creature known to the student of ornithology tho awful rpir n'doob, or nBlrd of death." The venom of thi3 bird is more deadly than that of any serpent except tho cobra. In fact, no antidote for the bite of tho creature is known. A w.ound from iU'bcak causes excruciating pains in every part of the body, loss of sight, Bpfcch and hearing, convulsions, ljyaw andi certaitteatK. . '

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