Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 October 1913 — Page 1

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" RUNNING THE RHEA. -Rafativa of Ostrich Chased With Dtj and Horse. Tor the person who- desires a unique form of sport "running the rhea" in southern Patagonia is recommended. The rhea is a member of the ostrich family, but somewhat smaller. It runs with the swiftness of a greyhound or a fast horse and

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has a knack of doubling on its, track, which often serves it in elud-! ing its pursuers. The natives in hunting it use horses, dogs and the tola. The dogs course after the fleeing bird in full cry, while tha hunters follow after at top speed, prepared to throw the bola if opportunity oilers. The bola, consisting .of fro or three heavy balls o lead or stone - attached to a thong six or eight feet long, serves to hamper the movements of the bird, for the balls twine about the part which the bola strikes regardless of whether it be ihe legs, neck-; r rnt -I il t "1

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wings, lnis permits tne aogs ana hunters to overhaul and dispatch, the bird. At the approach of dajiger the rhea will often crouch flat upon tho rround with neck outstretched under the grass, remaining motionless until the dogs have passed. This trategem is often successful when the wind is blowrag against the icent, but when the contrary is the case the dogs soon discover the hid- . ing bird. In this case, doubtless bewildered by the sudden failure of its artless ruse, it makes no attempt at escape. The chase of the rhea, which aometimes extends over a distance of fire or six miles, is a thrilling one. It has for the rider all the exk citement of a horse race, with the added satisfaction of knowing that

;the winning of the race will result in a welcome addition to the larger. The wings of the rhea have. a flavor not unlike that of turkey, and if one is not averse to the taste of

horseflesh the meat of the thigh is verv satisfactorv. The rhea is one 'of the main food supplies on a Patagonian hunting tep New York Tribune. " Generally. Doleful Donald Some of my brightest thoughts com to me when I am asleep. Thirsty Gus Troubled with lnson mSa, ain't you? New York Mail. Necessary Then. fIt ain't true " said the milkman. that we always put chalk in our milk." "Do you mean to say' demanded Mrs. Houßkcep "that you never do it?" fWell Geneve? except after a heavy rair when the water gita brown and muddy." Ohio Stat Journal. . Didn't Suit Washington. Until the early part of the last century Milf ord, Conn., had a house in which "Washington was said to have spent a night. It was in 1789, when Washington made a tour of few England. Tradition says that there were certain tilings about his tay at the Milford tavern which he did not enjoy. The supper set before him consisted of boiled meat and potatoes. He was not pleased with tho meal and asked for a bowl of bread and milk. The landlord brought the new order and a broken pewter spoon with which to cat it. "Have you no better spoons than this?" asked General Yashington. "It's the best I have in the hous. ir' replied the host. "Send me the servant5 said hia excellency. 'Here's 2 shillings. Go to the minister's and borrow a silver spoon." Tradition does not add whether lit got the spoon . or sot. Ex-

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THE VOICE IN THE DARK. A Memory of Pickett Brlgad and Night Attack. Some years after the civil war a

gathering of veterans of both sides was exchanging reminiscences at a banquet given by the board of trade of ISfew York, writes Mrs. La Salle Corbell Pickett in Lippincottfs. The presiding officer was Colonel J. J. Phillips of the ISTint Virginia regiment, PieketFs diviston. He was speaking of night attacks and recalled one in particular, not because of its startling horrors, but because of a peculiar circumstance, almost resulting in the compulsory disobedience of orders the obeying, as it were, of a higher command than that of earth. "The point of attack had been carefully selected' said Colonel Phillips, "the awaited dark night had arrived, and my command was to flf when General Pickett should signal the order. "There was that dread, indescribable stillness, that weird, ominous sience, that always settles over everything before a fight. You felt that nowhere in the universe was there any voice or motion. "Suddenly the awesome silence was broken by the sound of a deep, full voice rolling over the black void lik? the billows of a great sea, directly in lino with our guns. It was singing the old hymn, 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul "I have hoard that grand old music many times in circumstances which intensified it? i repressiveness, but never had it scorned so solemn, as when it broke the stillness in which wo waited for the order to fire. Ju:-t as it was given there rung through the night tbe words : "Cover my dofonselesa head With the shadow of thy winff. . "'Ready! Aim! " Fije . to the left, boys!' I said.' "The guns were shifted, the volley that blazed our swerved aside, and that defenseless head was 'eovered' with the shadow of his wing." A Federal veteran who had been listening looked up suddenly and said: "I remember that night, colonel, and - that midnight attack which carried off ho many of my comrades. T was the singer." There was a second of silence. Then "Jesus, Lover of My Soul' rang across mat oanquei uouru. aa on that black night in 1864 it had rung across the lines at Bermuda Hundred. He Would Gt Over. "If he's as good as he looks,'' said Lord Archie, fhe'll do.w "Thry him, yer honor, thry him," said Delaney confidently. fTve a grand field and plenty o' jumps. The colt was saddled, and Lord Archie mounted. He first galloped around the field, about twenty acres in extent, and then took him over a couple of hurdles, a wide turf fence and finally a stone wall quite five feet high. King Brian jumped like a stag, he could go a good pace, and his mouth was perfection. " "How about water?" asked hi3 lordship. "Wather, is it?" said Delaney, with supreme disdain. "Sure, if ye put him at the river Shannon he wouldn't balk." "Do yon think he'd clear it?" "Well, no, yer honor," replied Delaney thoughtfully. "I wouldn't go as far as that. But, bedad' he added, with an air of conviction, "what he didn't jump he'd swimT London Answers. Percy Bore Love you? Wiry, 1 lore yau from the word "go." Klaa SJiarp Thtn plas g.

THE COLORADO DESERT.

Haw Sound Carries and the Way Mirages Come and Gs. Talle about wireless telephones! The Colorado desert goes science one better in that line. According to travelers in tjiat neck of sand and sagebrush, jbu can dispense with any. kind of telephone, with or without wires, at least up to a certain distance. Two men a mile apart can carry on a conversation in an ordinary tone of voice, particularly if there happens to be a small hill behind each, writes Harvey Hall Kessler m the Travel Magazine. The prevailing silence is so intense that it might be called deafening. Perhaps, after all, the weirdest among many strange features of the desert is the mirage. We have camped perhaps and gone to bed early in the evening with the thermometer registering not far below th hundred mark. We awake, sheering with cold beneath our j blankets! and look toward the east. There is the slightest suggestion of light in the skf there, hich as we watch grows slowly in strength. A grayish haze marks the horizoVa , ede, which stands out more sharply! at one point, from which broad, pale rays creep np and ont high above hi the sk v. TV.oce again slowly '.fade as a point of brilliant light appears at their bao. This , point grow? to a half circle, then , brealcs'and mm n'ong the. sky line I in a surging golden lake. , Upon tl'.c shore of this lake cities spring up. towers, soires and solid block:;': Those fade into fielda

and forests and funning scenes- fnQie CK- M "A fields of golden grain, cattle stand- a confederate behind the ing in green alfalfa, shiets of wa- reen sharply blow out each can, te?. The mountains near the edge, th a pair of bellows. of the lake separate from their' In most instances where a ball or bases and float upward, topple over other object has to be broken on a and stand on their heads, their nn- jmg person's head blank carwieldyjfpet in air. ' i used and the effect proSoon our lake begins to -contract ced V otter. meana- A Pecl and collect into a big round ball of wig mth a spring concealed in it

dazzling brilliance hung just above yricea dt a w tmaer ine oioines the honzon. Farms and forest dis- generally rue the confederate apnear. The mountains, as though manipulating tke prfcig ftnnltaatäshed at being caught in such an aeously Tvtth thg tong of the rifle, unseemly attitude by the broad As the baU fa tt extremely thin light of day, quickly Tesume their glass, a mere touch suffices to shatnormal position, while all tho stark ter it. ...... , landscape stiffens into unstirring en-' In these exhibitions some of the durance of the garish light and "experts; invite gentlemen blazing heat of the desert sun. The from the audience to testify that

mirage is gone like a bubble. Uniy j&e gray desert remains. DlKtinctloa Without a Dlffc Sensitive Golfer (who has foozled)Did you laugh at ine, boy? Caddie No, sir; I "wis laughin' a! snncifivp nnifpr-AT1fl xrhnf a fnniti about him? Caddie-He plays gowf aufu' Ui, fou, sir.-Puuch. . DEVICES OFJHE BODY. Tl.. r.n.mU Rm. .A ZnU kmm Measures of Self Protection. One of the most interesting facts about the human body is its power of self preservation its power of evading or overcoming the thoutne tnou I sand and one conditions which, un less corrected, would be injurious or destructive. Anion cr the most common of these acts ot self prcservaüon are

we cüuäii, uie ju 1mui u u., "Jennie, please give Andrew Even- one fanuhar with these tbout foui' E4wberr . acts, yet few people ever ask them-, Jenni eded to fulfill the selvos the cause, and fewer still of hr wSatsegs and counted could explain them. 'mt the hemes, "One, two, thret, One of the simplest of the body's our ' ' ' devices for self protection is the, & tested the chili cough. The cough is merely a blast; your mother mi four," of air propelled from the lungs in I

i & m a r -r n t i r r I SUCH a numuer iu lu; j.uiuiuij uialodge some foreign suktance which!

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TRICK SHOOTING.

Tho Way 3om of tho Stage Ft Kt Accomplished. When a champion rifle shot fires blindfolded at a wedding ring or a penny held between hi3 wife's thumb and finger or seated back to her shoots, by means of a mirror, at an apple upon her head or on a fork held in her teeth, the danger of using a ballet is obvious. Tone. of course, is t needed. The explosion is enough: The apple is already prepared, having been cut into pieces and stuck together with an adhesive substance, and a thread with a knot at the end, pulled through it from the "wings' so that it flie to bits when the gun is fired, is "how it is done." Generally the more dangerous a feat appears the more carefully is' all danger guarded agamst. In the ''William Teir act the thread is. often tied to the assistant's foot.! When, again, the ash is shot oft5 aj fsar Jhe. afstaa i , , -. . J . f e ht W e cigar, thns thrusting off the ash ftt m?en f ...... A favorite but simple trick is the 6bootlDf s0 ,dl tanf anf or?e he!d a Gr?at PP1 invariably forthcoming ." tlle b" lot lT0.f n hr open tne fruit. It is mserthand earlier m the evening. Another popular trick is that of ßllffinS out hltei. 9anles-, R dozen .are in front of m hich as many email a. bored one against each weujn carLriuge biiown iooijjs very wen, uui it is a shell of thin wax blackened to resemble a leaden bullet. It would not hurt a fly. London .TitBits, Auntie (upon her return, to somewhal -pessimistic nephew) Did I'omjnjlJM ' with you while I was out tf Ltf .n't make you cry? Nephew He made me ajr PhlUp, , MM ' ttTiy U.i tUc IILUU UiUUIuL Wua UUL1 Nephew Well, I laughed tiU I An Indefinite Number. Three-year-old Andrew waa In a - i fi ,iQrif j QTia in tAt - t j. customary ff00a hunior his mother promised him som preserved strawberries if he would he gd. nrBmmg .a:j Knnf nrir ,3? lald tbUt f0Ur' rtAnd he got tha flftH. Now Tori

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Telegrapher's Cramp. An interesting feature of tU$ rmpber's cramp is that certain lettew are nearly always the stumbling Hock. The most frequent are 0 an& Y that is, the code signal tued for these letters. When a lender begins to be conscious" about so common a letter as 0 his case soon becomes hopeless. Another form of cramp attacks the receiver of the message. It takes the form of inability to write fast enough to take down a message quickly transmitted. This is easily understood when it is remembered that a receiver often has to write continuously to code dictation, so to speak, for hours at a time. The strain involved is enormous and leads fairly commonly to what i practiVr;!'. . :or:n of nervous breakdown. - i .nltM Advertiser. A Circus Horse In E5attle Colonel Charles Marshall, who was aid -do -emu; i to General Bobrrt?

E. Lee and who went tkxough tiua battles of the war with hi chief told 1 1:.- J lowing amusinf atory of his experience with a nw horse: His bid horse had been shot from trnri ivr him in thm fiffht of the nreYious dav, and he had taken possesdon. of an animal that seemed to nit the work. In the battle a fewt Kotos later he was riding across a flald in which there were numerous stumps. Suddenly the performance open-, td. The guns roared, and the air was filled with, smoke and noise. Before Colonel Marshall knew what waa happening the horse had nia four feet on one of the stumps and was gayly dancing in a circle In th meantime the firing was increasing, and the situation was any-t ftingDut comfortable. But th horse kept on as if he were enjoying it , "It was not until afterward," said Colonel Marshall, "that I found the horse had belonsred to a circus and naq. ueen traineu to uu uui amid the firing of cannon." - ninfftrated Phmse. Going against Lhe gruln. Clilcxit. JournaL Difficult to Catch. New Member (who desires to ba dubbable, to old member) Do you fish ? Old Member (who hasn't been IntroMmmAJJ TT k iw j u&cucu. f Diabolicalnett of Diabtlio Diabtla. Tkc worlcL the flsh and th