Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 January 1915 — Page 1

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: . tOÖ BULLETS PER MI HUTE, The recently invented Berf-Mar citr gun combines tho rapidly of Are, range and effectiveness of a machine gun with the lightness and notion of a magazine rifle. Tho gun

is fired from a rest and held against ; the shoulder of itä (Operator, who' can either fire from a Bitting position or lying prono. Tho regulation cartridgo is used in clips that hold 50. A good rifleman can discharge from 300 to 500 shols per minute, if assisted in feeding by a man to fill the clips. The gun is at present undergoing ä series of tests by arm)1 officers, with a view to its adoption by tho govarnment Popular Me chanica, I Vo TERROR OF THE HOSTESS Unpunctual Quest Seldom Realise How tht In Upnttttlng th , Household, t , Tho unpunctual ;piU ia tho torSor of tho hostosfl unle.M the haa the. iq-jms and inclination to cross tho 'aim of each sorvaut of tho houso hrlth gold. Jn that caeo a clogreo of laxincmu will bo tolerated which, i a member of tho family wore con cemed, would b mot with tbroala of departure. Not evary procrastinating gnartt ig rich, howovor, and when ona of tlio impecunious or grudging one arrives by a train later than the cm upon which she was o.vpcctecl it ia the algnal for robcilion. From Hit moment alio enters tho door until her departure tho mistrens of tho kouaehold ia in a tato of continual tmtftaintti left tht dolinqucnt shall not ba wall aerod, or that a dome Jtto oriaia will bo precipitated. Why cold bitaWaita jad roorai not Mono I 'ftp promptly do ftot in tivr.G reveal Jtli procraitinatom that they are Vpmttk a houaahold and derapralJbrfof rouibe of each servant, is 'a quartion that haa never been anjwarad; büt when n hint k thrown ml to tham as to.tho inconvenience i. i ''Oh I don't mind mo I if I can only hare thoe Inst few forty winks; I neror think if breakfast is cold or not4 and tho hoyloatf can Bay no tnoro, But her mental vow, when food-by it crrontually said, is uau ally adhtirod ia r KMF MOVING rORWARD. There uro many times In tho life 'of a poon who doon things thai are worth whilo when ho gots lerriJity disooumgeel und thinku ft oiudo?

ill h ort) Ih no victory In rotronling,

my urmson nwou innrcion m Hue cn Aiatfantv. wo ßhoukl novo! wv any ln ea unburned behind ny wa pan for rolront to it our w .whom, luciooiBion or MragimuMU, If thore 1b any , wo over ho grateful for, iL h wo havn had courago ntul pluck fh to puah on, to golnfj thhgH looked dark and when )gly Insurmouulnblo obntaclßi wUcd UH, 1 UNKIND t First Sweet Thing Oh, hes awfully gono upon her, dear, I anaure o ma for the last ten minuti, en

larging upon her eyes, hor comp t xiop, her mouth ! Second Sweet Thing Oh, I don't pk ha oould pottibly do tliat, diu '

HE WANTED IT REALISTIC

Tolrtol Knew How a Man Ought to Act After Balng Ktektd Downstairs. Some old anecdotes are told of Count Tolstoi. Once, when one of his plays was being rehcaraed at a theater, lie was invited to be present. His religion did not prevent him from acceptiiig tho invitation, but ho went to tho theater as ho wtmt to his work dressed as a peasant. Tfc was a small company of tho very select, and tho doorkeeper wat careful to admit only tho propor persons. When, therefore, a shabbylooking peasant appeared in the entrance hall ho ordorcd tho man in peremptory tonics to got as far away aa ho could in aa little timo at potsihlo. As tho poaiant showed no immediate signs of obeying, tho doorkoopor soizod him and throw him down tho slops. "My name's Tolstoi' tho peasant said whon ho had picked himsolf up again, i Tho doorkcoper, when he could (r A iirA n1 m Its. v l.J. - L M'wi profound in lm apologies. Thorol uujjuiK'u tu uu ia i,jiu piny Tin incident of a similar kind, and at the close of tho performance, in a little spooch ho was callod upon to make, tho count complalnad that the actor did not make tho most of this incident. "I know oxflclly what I am talk ing about' ho said, "for Fvo just been thrown downstairs myself," YOUTHFUL TAFT IS MODEST Younoeat Son of tha Prtddent Evfc datly Hai No With to 8hlna In Reflected Qlory. President Taft tollt a atory about Charley, hit youngqitt ton, which ili lustrates the fact that lit it a real American boy and gives hit father a little pardonablo prido. Charley is jutt in long trousers and homa from school for tho holidays. Ho slnrki nono of tho responsibilities of being tho son of a president, but doet not seek tho limolight. Charley was a gcst at a party of girls and boys of his own ago, and had boon seated at table besido a little miss who failed to catch his uamo and did not recognize him. Thoy became suiUc lenity interested In each other to make her wish to know his name, "What is your name?" shu pwch poundod frankly. "Charley' 'was tho nomowkn ) lied Information which oho tw This satisfied tho little gltfl m timo, but, Charloy is a wlnuomo bojr and hor intoront grow. So she pursued tho Inquiry further by twk ngj ,fWhevo do you live?" "On Poimsylvanla avonue' wafl the answer to this, Jtwas true, for tho Whllo TEouäq la located on thU thoroughfare, "What doos your fathor do?" pureu)tl tho young lady In 'a further attempt to placo her wort, (o which Charley naively replied ; fr0h, ho haa a pol 1 1 leal position horo in Washington' It waa from her hoatoss that tho voting lndy Anally learned that sha had been sitting with tho Ron of tha DrtiidanL Bneramt, Ifrnnw, haa tho honor of pnKlucing Ui first glass tlut ifi ; ihrcakftbls. The now prn?taH ha& ' fi-n sucemfully applied to the manufacture of lamp chimneys for use in coal mines containing much tire damp, The glass makers of Baccarat have alto succeeded Mn increasing the elasticity of tho glass. This they accomplish by adding magnesia and oxldo to tho ordinary crystal gists. Success Magazine. AMERICAN IN LONDON. Mrs. Miller Graham, who is now one of the wealthy hostesses of Qroavcnor street, will take tho place! of ICi'ppl, who was such a

gnat fa -ito of King Edward. She U tin wi of a California millionaire and one of her ball noveltiet wat a hugt watermelon which waJ M iPto.Jfct jsid6ya oi (J xmKk

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ALFALFA PROVERBS By Charles M. Carroll. Alfalfa enricbet the ground. Alfalfa Is a drought resistor. Alfalfa is tho best soil doctor. Alfalfa nddt humus to the soil. Alfalfa incronsos the milk flow. Alfalfa it high in feeding value. Alfalfa balances tho coon ration. Grow your pn VDin don't buy it. Alfalfa sod grows larger corn crops. Alfalfa is tho grcatott of all tubioU ra. Alfalfa hat no eaual at a ho pat fcuro. Alfalfa koops stock In good condl tlon. Alfalfa ahould bo grown on every farm. An alfalfa field la a hog's Idea of heaven. , Fox tali is the greatett enemy of alfalfa. Growing alfalfa la good busineaa farming, Alfalfa moans more xnone and befr tor homos. . Halso what you food and toed what you ralne. Alfalfa doos things and never loaft OH tho Job. Affalfa with a fair ohanoo always makoH good. Alfalfa Alls tho hay mow and pay for tlio prlvllogo. Alfalfa is tho cheapest and bast fend for bonf. cattle. ATTuTlul TfffmToK TirKor yields from tho crops that follow. Alfalfa contains moro protein per ton than clover or corn. Alfalfa is tho agricultural wondor of tho twentieth oontury. Alfalfa ylolcls from two to three timo a much h olovor or timothy, and Is moro valuablo hay. Alfalfa Is being siKjcoRHfully grown in ovory agricultural county in Now York, and on at least oao farm in nearly ovory township. It la possible to Krow it on some part of practloeily ovfvy farm In tho ttata. 80CIAL. INFLICTIONS, I liavo scan men who neigh Ilka a horse when you contradict thorn of say Bomothing they do not understand ; then the overbold, who make their own invitalion to your,hoarth ; tho porsovoring talker, who gives you his society in largo, saturating doses; tho pltiera of themsolvoa u perilous class; tho frivolous Asmodons, who relics on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist; tho monotones; in short, every stripe of absurdity these are social inflictions which (ho magistrate cannot cure or defend you fromuiul winch milat bo Intrusted to the restraining force of tniütom, und provorbs and familiar rules of behavior Impressed on young people In their school days. tan. .hum WHAT HK WAi DOING. Two young Loulnvlllo elorkn, harw Ing a clny od, oneh hired a bioyole and look a spin in tho country. Ten mllofl from town Iho eyolInU decided to havo a race, rOno dintancod (ho othor flonvo 000 yards and was roJoichig in hl8 victory, whon, in turning a had aornor ho collapsod oveV a heap of fltonoa. The wheel was demolished and thtuider wns irrolrlov ably mixed among the spokes, An aged woman, who, happened to U passing, was mot at a turn in the road by clerk 3sTo. . cfy good woman1 said ho, "have you seen a young man on a bicycle around bore ?" "I havo not' sho answored, simply; "but I saw a young man up tho road a ways, who was sitting on tho bank, monding umbrellas." A Vain PrecautionLord TRlbot Do Malahlde was ta! lng in New York about the thoroughness of the customs Investigations. "The smuggler," he said, "is bound to be detected if he tries hit little game in your metropolis. The smuggler. Precautions ngRinst detection at this admAbly-managed port are as vain and ludicrous as the precaution of the dreaming Irishman. "An Irishman, you know, ence dreamed that he was visiting the late1 Queen Victoria, j "Will you have a drinkr the queen saidvto him. , " I will,' said the Irishman. A drop of Irish, av coorse, hot by preference, your majoity.' . j "So the queen put on the kettle, but when the water boiled, tho noise1 awoke the dreamer. j "Holy St Patrick!' tald he, 111 take It cold next timet' " i - - - ' i

' A CROOKED BOUNDARY. Cause of the Peculiar Lines That Divide Two States. If you will look oi tho map of New England you will seo two curious irregularities in the dividing lino between Massachusetts and Connecticut. One of them is in Granby township a littlo northwest of Hartford, and the other in Enfield township, on tho Connecticut river, south, of Springfield. It

is a standing conundrum why, so long as tho boundary is imaginary, they did not mako it .straight instead o crooked. But thereby harigs a talo. Thoso two littlo jogs on tho map aro monuments to human obstinacy and to tho porsistonoy which is one of tho chief traits of tho s Yankee character. Tho ancestors of tin farmers who own those littlo spots of ground preferred to livo in Mubtacnusctts rubber tlmn in Connecticut and fought for tbolr profaronco until they had their way, The controversy began in 1713 and continued for 118 years before it was finally decided. In 1724 tlve question was appealed to England, but tho government was so much ongros9cd in the Soven Years' war that; it was never brought to tho attention of tho crown. Up in tho outbreak of tho Hovolution both states continued to levy taxes and sand nottooa of fast days and elections to tho farmers who occupied tho land, and the.ro is no record oJ how they avoided ono or whothei thoy paid both. Later, howovor thoy voted and p.iid Inxei in Massachusetts only, notwithstanding thi protest of the county authorities h Connecticut. In 170, after peace was restored, both states appointed commissioners, hut the dispute wacarried on until 180-1, when a compromise tva reached. There wcro sovoral Mi'vlar disputes between the two süitfMv) (.jidotf tlmeo which now appear updh Iho map, ainl an agreement va fivaehed by which Massachusetts enrooted Iß surrender her claim to a strip of territory in AVoorhtopk, and Sufliold townships, ()rovidcd Connecticut would yield lor claims to 'the other tracts in dispute. No action, however, was taken upon the report. In 1ft 10 the controversy was re-! vived by some legal precoouiufj, and another commission was appointed, but if it ever reached a conclusion there is no record to bo found In 1820 a third commission was intrusted with tho settlement, 9 and after two years thoy decided upon the present boundary lint, which was adopted by the legislature of both states, Exchange, Two of a Kind. First Hammer filrl-Who Is tlmtclanr shn von. IwimUmuc ho ? ReroiKl Summer (tri- Oh, heH an itetnr! I'Mrst Siiiuujev Girl No. I mean thi other uno. Second Summor-CJlrl Oh, -bt hasn'i; tny luoutjy alUierl Punch, Urft Aln n. BeKf?ar-rve lost all my klnfolks. Lmh- You poor mnn! All iioart? BcKffurNaw; rlch,-.-Womau'ji Uoxt

A WARNING.

Th Utter Uselessncss of Taking t Course In German. , A customer during a trying on asked her dressmaker, whose son was at college, if ho were pursuing a general course or specializing in anf particular branch. The answer came promptly, through a mouthful of pins: " Sa n s k r i t , ma a rn . fl e V pN i a I i z ing in San krifc. 1 nio't siy hut I'd (have pro. erred something s bil moro usual in tho wav of ed mntim something more plain inilnr nuidi for every day like. SankritV stn-l a fussy stud)f." Her criticism, if ndclly w(rdl was comprehensible and not unin telligcnt. Ucss reasonable and ocjuaily unexpected wore tho remark of an old fanner in a "remote hill vil läge upon I he favorite sLudief nf hi, son. Ilo had always lecrn suspicion of tho higher education and wan fai from pleased when his Joe, whom ho wisnod lo keep on tho farm, ob taincd a scholarship. "Languages may be all right foT folks that's horn lo 'em in foreign parts' he declared rccontly, with I f 1 l 1 i en i impressive aonnerauon, "out a man that ain't had better talk plain Yankee and do things. "To see that boy of mine sit down with a book yo etufi road, saying over words yo ean't, seno jest put tor, putter, mul'er, mul (or, sputter, sputter why, it makes mo fair sick. And for all he's been at. it most a year, he can't mako those Italians on tho highway understand three wards together. Ilo owns himself he can't." "II; is Italian ho is studying; then?" the listener murmured politely. "No, Hain't; it's Qerman' admitted the old man in a reluctant growl. "But precious poor excuse T call that, and so I told him. "I don't caro if Hain't their own lingo, J oc says I, 'It oughtcr come along sight nigher to it than jest United States talk. Squeezed all up togethor the way folks be on ihe, map o Idiropo, course thoy must get used to each others' talk enough to make each othor out. "'Bot yo my Sunday-go-to-meeting hat I told him, 'if yo talked reel German to thoso Italians they'd understand yel' "BuUio can't. AU he can do 'h to set in a corner with Ids book, putter puttering and sputter sputtering. "Don't yo talk lo me about colleges I Joe'ii a warning." Youth'n Companion. How Hf Won Hr. Tho man I marry," said the girl In the parlor scone, "must bo but little lower (bun the ungols," "Well, what's tho matter with mo?" queried tho young man na ho droppod on his knees ab hor foot. You noo, Tin a liltlo lower Ihuu - .foulon Poat What Attrnoted tho Attention nf tri 8olmn Flood Man, Ono of our mv.iI horn salosmon brought homo Iho following from his last trip: Tho propvietoi "f M IrnvMrd built a stand on one nf l! e i tr-cf tf of a Virginia town for iln rpoKe of selling loatiior and buy ig now hides. Whon ho hml comploted Mm build. ing, ho considered fr a lung timo what sort of a sign lu put up to attract attention to tho now establishment. Finally a happy thought struck him, Ilo bored an auger fcol through tho doorpost and stucV a calf's tail into it with tho tufted end o'suido. After awhilo ho saw a solemn faced man standing noar tho door looking at tho sign. Tho tanner watched him a minulo and then stepped out- and addressed him. "Good morning, sir I" ho said. "Mornirjrl' said the othor, without taking nis eyes off the sign. "Want to buy leather?" asked the tanner, fNo." "Got Any hides to sell?" "No." "Aro you a farmer?' "No." J "Merchant?" . -JJ "No." W : I I "Lawyer ?" 'No." I doctor ?" "No." "What aro you, then?" "I am a philosopher. I've been standing horo for an hour trying to figure out how that calf got through that auger hole. Boot Strap.

THE SEEING TELEPHONE. What Blny Ilnppcn When Foit1v Invention Ih In Dally Uc. You have probably heard tho storj of tho absentmlnded man at the telephone answeriug the Inquiry o th friend who had forgotten his umbrella, "Is this it?" ho shouted, holding tb rain deQer to tho mouthpiece of tin phono. This absentmlnded man was prophet as well as an unconscious humorist, for it won't be Ions, they ay, before ho can see umbrellas and ail sorts of thlnn over tho wire. The vico which Is expected to accomplish this miracle is called tho telovue. It was Invented by J. B, Fowler of Portlaud, Ore., and has already been tested with success over a distance of 0,000 feet. Preliminary patents hav beam Issued In Washington. i The tolovuo looks very much Met an ordinary telephone. On the cablAtt ar

miss nosn yoTOim ikd tmk tklitu a glass six Inches In diameter, bofor Which tho talker stands, and a recairlng plate one and three-quarters lncba across, in which tho .transmitted lmag appears. This smaller disk Is closa to to tho mouthpiece, so that tho nsernf tho phono may see the person at tha other end of tho wire and talk with him at tho same time. Insldo the box am an extra Induction 'coll and two mora batteries than In an ordinary telephone. Tho visual Image la transmitted in tlio form of a ph Hojjruph, and tho working of the apparatus Is said to depend "upon tho variations In the electrical resistance dt ji) ribton ofsejeuium prettucod by variations In' tho Intensity of n bonm of UrIU Impinging upon It" What a boon lo tho busy hoimowif tho telovue should prove! No mora buying of undersized or sickly vegetafolcii over the phono, for tho grocer will have to lmld each ono to tho glas. Madmn may even order her bonnet bf wire and waidi It progress to perfection by merely calling up the battery from timo to timo, Street car compitnten will be driven to tho vcrga of bankruptcy nutt dry goods store will be converted Into vast tulephooa - thauffoB. 110 Cc'tr ol Humen. Mniv petiplv havo noticed with (Buncb intere-t t!,e many tinted Imr tnd band Hint li.u in Lie Impo of forked toggles nf tbimM from wood burning n u flu Thouo varied hup are lh result of combustion from Hie dt "Mvnl oiniuonU of tbo i'upI, The hht blue In from tho hydrogun and tha whllo from1 tbo onrbon, The violet la from Hit mananeMo, (be r 1 from tbo iil nwln und Ihe 0llow from tho Rod M'blob are ennaUtuant, port of ihm rood Pfovc f Her Flirt, Senator Pen; e at tho dcdlca' tion of Pensvlvania'a splendid cap-

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itol at Harrisbur; said of a certaim ipecch that had I en made at a prH vate dinner be! 10 the dedicator! ceremonies: "That speech -as pregnant witS (meaning. It rovo'tle.i hi every eenUnco its auth character. Brief! and lull and 'nminating, it reminded me o: . teautiful youngi lady who murmi.rrd to herself ont afternoon m bc ?atiaetV uncurtainljn on a street mme; . ' "fVnt n W-! I'..: the lifo ofl me I can't ruinet'ih . ilur VxtH to meet Morns in TrAr Btraat on Tukor in Morris UimiLV i 1 v

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