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Vol. 53. Jasper, Indiana, Feiday, AUGUST 4, 1911. No. 43.

Pre-Eminent Human Quality of our Wonderful Bible. The Bible is not a book. It isa library of sixty-six lillcrent hooks, written in the present form by forty

, i vi u.vwuua weis Wi lt.ten Ccn or twelve centuries before Christ; the Gospel of John, one of the latest, was written at the close of the first or the beginning of the second century after Chmt. Thus i.ar not less than 1,000 or 1,200 years was this library in process of formation. It contains all that is best in the literature of an ancient people which has survived the wrecks of time. In it arc found history, biography, law, both political and ecclesiastical; fiction, poetry, drama, political ethics, practical theology. Art. musicand science are conspicuously absent, as is philosophy, except in the latter portion of the New Testament, where it is philosophy used for practical purposes and applied to practical problems. To specify more in detail: Genesis contains the prehistorical traditions of this people, rewritten by an unknown prophet, prrbably as an introduction to the collection; the next four books are a collection of the laws of this people as they were gradually formed during the period of centuries of their national life; the books of history which follow are compilations from pre-existing materials, and it is possible now to distinguish to sojne extent these materials -the difference between two chiaf sources of the compilation .- C 1 ...1.. i-1 It 11 . 1 1

wining uul ciuany in me paranei dui independent narratives of Kings and Chronicles; Job is what Prof . Genuncrhas well called it. an "enicof the inner life:"

the Psalms are a collection of religious hymns, some of which were used in the temple service, others in the sjTiagogues, still others for private devotion ; Provex bs and Ecclesiastes are books of ethical culture, which almost entirely ignore both the theological doctrines and the ecclesiasticai institutions of the people; the Spng of Songs is a love drama, one of the earliest, as it is one of the most beautiful, in the world's literature, and the prophetic books which follow are collections of addresses which may be compared to the political addresses of the modern moral reformers and the sermons of the modern practical preachers. Tiie New Testament contains four biographies of Jesus of Nazareth, largely compiled from previous oral and documentary material: a history of the beginning of the apostolic churches; letters from evangelists to the infant churches, and a bcok of dream literature writ ;en to encourage faith and hope in the church in a period of bitter persecution. But they are all, from the first chap' er of Genesis to the last chapter of Revelations, records of human experiences. They .are written, not by amanuenses inscribing at dictation something which they could not have learned except by miraculous information, but by men of like passions as we ourselves are, writing down what they have seen and felt, and writing it down that their readers may see and feel the same life truths. The Bible is a library of characteristically human experiences. The Outlook.

Girls as Farmers. "There are many women wage-earners to-day who enter the already overcrowded field of unskilled labor because they have neither the incentive nor the opportunity to learn some healthful remunerative occupation," say Mrs. Oliver Ii. P. Belmont, in Physical Culture for August. While young girls have been passing the best years of their lives in sweatshops, over-crowded work-rooms, and unsanitay tenements, and have been paid less than a living-wage for their work, our, rich soil has been spasmodically tilled by nomadic tramps staying at one farm just Nig enough to work their way to the next, to spend the money that they have earned. "I want some of these pallid cheeked, hard-worked girls in the factories and shops to give up their city work and try farming. I hope to show them that farming may be made more profitable than factory work, that it is much pleasanter to do, and that they themselves will grow strong, robust and rosy after a few weeks of garden work. They will be bet-

i-iwa:iis, ueucer motners ana Detter neip-maces 11

they exchange their tiring city toil for outdoor work 'hjcli will be pleasant as well as supporting.

xnere is no reason wuy wonien-snoiHcuioc marce clever and astute farmers, providing they know their subject thoroughly and are interested in it.".

Why He Liked theTotal Abstainer. t-iP: QQ0- Blythe was relating some stories of the Civil war the other day. h -the canteen, its use and abuse," said Col. Blythe,. occupied the minds of civilians a good deal- during ine war. I remember an anti-canteen meeting that i attended, with a couple of dozen colonels and generals m Charleston. ' .

"A funny thing occured at this meeting. "The chief speaker, a Savannah man, had happened to get into cc n versa tion with the landlord of his hotel in the afternoon and the landlord, speaking out of a vast experience, said he preferred a total abstainer to a moderate drinker any daj. 1 1 'Will you come to our anti-canteen meeting said the lecturer eagerly, 'and address us on that head?' " 'Sure I will,' said the hotel man. "So that night, after the lecturer had finished his own speech, he said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us this evening Brother Dash, proprietor of the largest bar in Charleston. Brother Dash prefers a teetotaler to a moderate drinker any day, and he will now tell us why.' "Landlord Dash rose amid loud applause. " 'Friends,' he said, Til tell you how it is. A moderate drinker comes to my saloon, orders a large beer, collars all the morning papers, takes the best armchair in the place, and stays for three quarters of an hour and all I get out of it is a nickel. " 'Now a teetotaler, he rushes up to the backdoor buys a quart of whisky, buttons his vest over it, and is oft like the wind. He don't give a grain of trouble, and I'm in seventy-five cents.' " -.;- -.-.-- t t - r The Advertising Game. It is Simple, but N ot So Simple as Some Imagine. Advertising is a game. It can be played by any man who has intelligence enough to conduct a business. It is simple, to. but it isn't half so ..imple as many men imagine who think they have learned it before they have grasped the first principles. Advertising is not a game learned by instinct or intuition. A man does not naturally absorb it when he buys a stock of goods and prepares to sell them t ) the public. The most successful merchants have given more attention to learning the advertising game than they have given to the selection of their sto 2k. Any man can buy a stock of goods. Only a man who knows how to advertise his stock can dispose of those goods. To" say that the man who does not advertise makes his painful way toward bankruptcy and leaves the wide awake fellows with one less competitor is to state a self evident fact. To ask why the man who does not advertise does not succeed is to ask foolish question No. 41,144. The man in business must advertise. The business man who knows least about the advertising game and how to play it advertises. But he does not always get results, whereupon he deck res that advertising does not pay, but that he must advertise because the other fellow, cio. And it never occurs to him to ask himself why advertising pays some

men ana does not pay other men. He i oes not ask that question because he believes lie knows how to advertise that he can play the game. Many a man has lost on other ventures in the same way. They don't know how to plav the game. Richard Carle once issued a book entitled "What I Know About Poker' The fiftv pages of the book were blank. What a lot of men know about advertising could be put in book form in the same way. Defiance (O.) Crescent. "Last Sunday," said the cleryman to his congregation, "some one pt a button in the collection-bag. I won't mention names. I will merely say that only one individual in the congregation could have done so, and I shall expect the said member, after the service, to replace the button with a coin of the realm." After the service a well-to-do but close-fisted individual sought an interview with the clergyman in the vestry. "I er," he began, hesitatingly, "must apologize, sir, for the er -button incident, which I can assure you was quite an accif'ent. I happened to have the button in my waistccat pocket together with a quarter, and took out thr. former by mistake. However, sir, here is thequater." "Thank you," said the clergyman, taking the quarter and gravely handing him the button. "By the by, s'r," said- the close-fisted individual, "I can not unterstand how you should have known that it was I v ho er committed the er much-to be-regretted nistake." "1 didn't hiow," replied the clergyman. "Didn't Inow! But you said, sir, that only one individual ir the congregation could have done so." "Just fj. You see. sir, it is scarcely possible that two individuals could have put one button in the bag, is I now?" The mtton-contributor hurriedly bade the clergyman ooodby, and yearned to kick himself!

Expenditures -And Tux Levies For The Year 1011. The Trustee of Boone Township li t'oanty, protases for the yearly eiHlttims and tax lefies by the Atlti?oit Hoard at its anneal ineetme. tu heM "at t m Trustees office on the 5tu. day of wtember 1911, eumnif racing at lo'oVfock. A. SI., the following etimr.tee and amounts for said year: 1. Town? hip vxpeaditares, 750, and Ton'aehip lax. cente 03 the hundred dollar. 2. Ureal Tuition expen-JiSare, IlffiJö, and .ax, 20 cent on tire iaxnlud dollara. S. Spaeiai S. hoot Tax exrenditures. iW&, and tax, Hint on tlieundred dollars 4. Itotd Tax expenditure-. $H6, and tax. 5 ousts on ib bend red loltar. 5. Additional Itoad tax exjiniitiire?,

$332 and tax, lu cents on toe handr3

dollars:.

7. J.oor ex -entlitnrt lor puceedins

year, (53, and tax 1 tent on the ben-

dred dollars. Total expenditures, HH4, anl total Jas. 03 ceota on the hundred dollars. The taxable of the almre named

tow nship are as follows . -Total Valuation of Land axu! improre

raeate. ti,S50

Total Valuation of Personal

Property,

! THE OBJECTION TO JOHN.

Total ti,5

Amount of C re lit on account

of Slnrtrase Exemption, 21 ,253

NVt Taxable PronerlY of

Township. tjvM,4.J

Number of Polls, 1SJ. Simied Tiioxa ii. I x, Trustee. I to led Angtut 1, 1911. GOLDEN NEEDLES.

They Were Used When Gallants Id France Did Fancy Work. During the old regime in France, about-vhich so much glamour xemains Jo tt5, the very men who were lftimj qnd making the history of the emjw of Louis passed their leisure tiini a way -that seems to us of toda utterly "ridiculous. In all the lancv work on which ladies employed'thcmsclves the men seem to have

taKen. part.

Poinsinet in one of his comedies

represents a voung L-arquij entering a roornwnere two fair damsels are embroidering. One is working

& niece oi or ess trimming, the other a Afaxly flounce. The beau examines the embroidery with the eye of a connoisseur, points out here and there the specially good touches and is too polite to notice any deiecte. He takes a little gold tube out of the Tocket of hi? -richiv UpcnTiiipn

waistcoat and selects a "dainty gold

noeoie. lie goes to the frame at which Cidslise is working and finishes the flower which she had begun. From her he moves to the sofa and, seizing one end of the flounce, as.-ists Ismene, to whom he pays special attention, to complete her task.

At this time it was the custom of the ladies inrariatMr to carrv their

workbags with them to the eveninz

receptions, in which thev had not

only their embroiderv materials, but

uie ittft novel, the popular songs, their patch boxes and rouge pots. Gentlemen ako carried deftly embroidered little bags into companv.

wtucn neiu "a whole arsenal of cut lory and fancy articles, such boxes of different shapes filled w!t lozenges, bonbons, snuii and scent.' At another period the fashion oi the day was to cui oat dra wines

from books and .pamphlets and to

Easte tnem on screens, lamp shades, oxes and vases. The skill in ihi

was to so arrange the drawings or

pans ot dmeront drawings as to produce a curious or amusing effect Then there came a season when all the rage was for charades and riddles, which gave a peculiarly good opportunity to exercise the light aifd rapid wit so conspicuous in the French. Every evening the drawing rooms were converted into impromptu charades. Some lady would suggest a word or phrase, and forthwith it would be converted into the subject of a sprightly little play. Many of ihe word games now current with us in America had their origin in the necessity the Frenu salons were under in the last century to divert themselves. In some of the salons the fashion of keeping a daily chronicle of news, which was too often a mere chronicle of scandal, was adopted. Mine. Doublet de Persan issued bulletins which she called "nouvelles a la main." In her apartments two registers -were kept, one of the authentic news received here and there by her guests, the other of floating rumors and on dits, and from these the budget of her chronicle was made np and circulated throughout tTraac. Appleton's Magazine.

H Wa Easily Removed When the Situation Was Explained. The Gaylords and Xelsona hate always been neighbors and intimate friends. So when John Gaylord st twenty-four, as fine a fellow as ever was, began to see what an altogether charming girl Molly Nelson was there was naturally no oppositionIndeed, as the "affair" became serious it was evident to all, including John tad Molly themselves, that the parents concerned were delighied. As yet there was no formal announcement, but every oae knew that it was "understood and evening after evening John talked to Molly on the front porch, often lingering after the other Nelson had retired. The surprise of tho two waa consequently great when ono evening a shuffling step was heard in the hall, and presently Mr. Nelson appeared in slippers and dressing gown, candle in hind. Quite evidently he had gone to bed and then got up for some purpose. "Why, father, what is the matter r Molly's cheeks wer burning, u her father stood there, hesitating end eying Jchn closely. John, leaning against the doorpost, where he had stood for the last fifteen minutes sayinjr good nicht to Molly, felt decidedly t:ncomfortable under Mr. Xclson's gaze. In fact, it was embarrassing all around. But John is a young man who goes straight to the point. "Is anything wrong, Mr. Nelson?" he began. "Am I to infer that you object to my being her?" "Well, no, not exactly, Tohn." Mr. Nelson, coughed slightly, hesitating. "It3 only-, that mother and 1 would like to get a little sleep." 'Tather," cried Molly, guite indignant, "we couldn't have been dis

turbing any one! John has been talking very low" 'T don't doubt that, my dear." Mr. Nelson was beginning to enjoy the situation- 'Tf s not that, nor have I any objection to John's talking to you. In fact, I haven't an objection in the world to John nor to his conduct, except" Mr. Nelson is open to suspicion of fiaving prolonged the matter unnecessarily at this point. "except in one thing. Mrs. Nelson and I do object seriously, my dear John, to the habit you seem to have formed this evening of leaning against the bell push. Our bedroom is next to the kitchen, and this continuous bell ringing ia not conducive to repose." Redeeming Time. Dean Swift, when he claimed the degree of A. B., was so deficient ti to obtain it only by "special favor," 8-tenn used to denote lack of merit Of this disgrace he was so ashamed that he resolved to study eicht hours a day, and he continued this industry for seven years, with what improvement is sufficiently known. This part of his history deserves to be remembered. It may, says a commenter, afford useful admonition to young; men who, having lost one part of life in idleness and pleasure, are tempted to throw away the remainder of it.

Pure Milk. "Have you thrown cow into the antiseptic tank r' "Yes." "Have you washed the can 'with carbolic acid solution?" "I have." "Have you plunged into the germ destroving bath yourself V "Certainly!" "All right. Go ahead, now, and take the cow into the airtight glass cage, but keep on the lookout that no stray bacteria get into the milk." Bohemian.

"BtlTataBtaw -i mm mj m mmmmmr aBB?

Ootlate (returning to his hotel at.2 ft. m. and mistaking: bk rosta Good

gxadous, I maat be la bed alrea4jj