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Vol. OY. Jaspee, Indiana, Friday, JANUARY 22, 1915, No. 16.

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A DIAMOND STORY.

Th Way a Russian Princess Dispose of Her Jewels. A few years ago Ludwig iSfis&e. ft well known wholesale-dealer the Maiden lane district, was in tN office 'of a diamond merchant ii London when a stranger came i.and offered an im usually beautif:

Btone for sale. The Englishman

aid not care to b thought he san n

DUMAS' AUDACITY.

Unique Literary Scheme of th

Great French Writer.

American readers are accustomet

to surprises in their newspaper

but imagine their astomshmei.

should some favorite journal pul lish in good faith, in daily instal

But ISssen ments anl adapted according to t1

am.

A BUDDING GENIUS.

I X O F I I i rr

Exit he uouons snie start writer,

' rt Offoin ri-il-i

"was not willing ty until he learned who owt: e stone and where it had conn n. The 'nan said he represented a friend, a 'oman, who did net care to have . jr name disclosed. The A-mp-nVrm wns

firm. If he could not Wm th; toniste for a Parisian newspaper.

owner's name he would not buy. j When Dumas the elder was edit The stranger said he would see the 1D& is journal, Le Mousquetaire ' T" TT T , 1 i

vornan and talk the matter ovr I uroam ages, one 01 nis assistant

with her.

A -

as, lor examrw

Dante's "Inf erao !" Yet the astoi ishinent so excised would not b without a parallel in the annals o newspaper management, inasmuc1 as Homer once figured as a f euille

Ambitions and Hard Work of tha Bay Saint Gaudens. Immediately on being appren

ticed to Avet I applied for aclmiasion to the drawing school of th Cooper institute, and every even

ing after my return from work at

6 o clock and a hasty tea I went

down there, where my artistic education began. I can recall there the kindly im

pression produced on me by Abram S. Hewitt as he glanced at me dur

ing Borne function. Father at that time was making shoes for tha Cooper family, and I suppose that

mat is why he looked at me. The feeling of profound gratitude for

tne help which 1 have had from that institution nhirlpsi trifVi mo

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wno was an exceptionally nne Lfreel thiq dv

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The next day lie came back and ; tU uue UUJ wusiasuc it wa3 during the next two or

took Mr. Nissen to the woman's , 7 exa"a u?n. tn.? ?eautleH three years that my first asnirations

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nome. ötie lived m a hanricom ' iUU- a vuyöbey. arj(i ambitions nwe thpmaAlv

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apartment m one of the most farV trfa & felr. i became a terrific worker. ionable quarters of the city. UL, " only you could read them ir toiling every night until 11 o'clock

me uiimui, bignea xa-es. after t in Connor insHfnt woa .r.

"Whv not?" flslrprl -nnmnu L- rr T : 7. r w rrw VT.V

-But, exclaimed Eagres, 'to Ur noovor, Km i,

,x acixuw, yuu uunb tLuuw aipn. eiven to the world.

WiU you translate for mef conveyances that if the men itandasked Dumas eagerly. . j-- on the n.ntfort aTnnn,

a nrtnn-li-nn.if TT. n 1 1 I . w .

uuumuoKXI! could rcai-e h-w j -eniuJ

r , ,Lr n 7 wuuiareaa the quiet looking bov by their side

rT i i 1. tIluu eV 1 they would be profoundly impresshteral translation. Dumas quickh a r AA

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turned out that she was a Russian princess ,who, with her husband and her daughter, had been driven from Eussia for having taken part in a nihilist movement. Of all

their large property they had saved only their jewels. She opened a

little safe and tmowed the Ameri

can one of the finest collections of

diamonds he had ever seen. They

were worth 200,000 or $300,000. "We sell them a few at a time1 ehe explained, "just enough, of them each year to give us a living. Perhaps you will wonder why we don't sell them all and live on the interest of the money? But my husband has the gambler spirit. .The money would not last a year. So we part from them piecemeal. I estimate that there are enough of them to keep us twenty years, and I don't expect to live longer thnr that'

One of those diamonds forms th; centerpiece of one of the most valuable necklaces in jew"-Yofk. few others are sent to this' country every year. In the "diamond horseshoe,, at the opera there is never a night when there are not some oi

the jewels of the exiled princess on

view. Kew York Tribune.

THE OBJECTION TO JOHN. DISTANCE "fÖF THE STARS. It Wail Eaiily Removed When thm Sit- u . uatinn ai c i j How Artronomer Set About the Tas' uation Was Exp ained. r .. m, . , H of Measuring It.

C7::Ll":r:7 . exception of a hundred;

r-""- q Ys"Tt ""7. rteCls at most we know nothing of tJ VHn John Gaylord at a distaces of the individual stars.

ZTZZnr, feU0W,as ev?r What is the cause of this state of

I TnhTr i tS Ti t , t0getÜ" thiQSs? Jt is owinS i0 the fact that LrrTf r u 7 NelsoVa9. we have Wo e4üiat we are entnere was naturallv no o-n-nnRitm-.. kl,! u . ,

y XTl awicu X1UU UJJLIV.LU UtJICfcilVe U)R (11-

Indeed, as the "affair" became se

rious it was evident to all, includ--r t - '

rection in which External - objects

j are -situated, but .to get an idea of

..rp muiV uiemseives, tüeir distance, . tö localize them in that the parents concerned were de-j space. But thismower is rati&r lim lighted. As yet there was no form- tted. For distances exc-tdin" someal announcement, but every one hundreds of yards it utterly fail? knew that it was "understood." and: Tim

evening after evening John talked; tween the eyes as compared with to Molly on the front porch, often the distance to be evaluated be-

tin rröTMT rr o-Pf- 11- - -.11, "KT 1 I

ah6wu6 O.XWCX .lit. uLiier eisons had retired. The surprise of the two was consequently great when one evening a ahufSing step was heard in the hall, and presently Mr. Nelson appeared in slippers and dressing gown, candle in hand. Quite evidently he had gone to bed and then got up for some purpose. "Why, father, what is the matter ?"

Molly's cheeks were burning, as

comes too smallf fffsunteiibave been devised by which the distant between the eyes is, as it were, art? ficMflly increased. With a gooll in ßtrument of this sort distances oseveral miles may be evaluated. For still greater distances we. may im agine each eye reulaced by a photo

graphic plate. Even this would be

quite sufficient for one. of the heav enly bodies viz, for the moon.

At. one and the same moment let

a photograph of the moon and the

her father stood there hesitating surrounding stars be taken both at

Roa! Cause of Baldncsa. Coming in from East Liberty m a train were two men who apparently were old acquaintances and who met in a jovial moefd. Both

men

Fages read he wrote a translati

and signed it. "In the name of all the ancient M. Bumas, " exclaimed Fage3, "V. you are sigidng your name to V TtiadP " "Certainly," responded Duma "that is, to my version of it. J will appear as a feuilleton in J Mousquetaire." Fages was filled with dismay, ? he afterward related, but befo

such audacity and naivete he fe helpless.. Hqw.mko f convinr a writer accustomed" to every b umph that he was too bold? And so the next day an instn ment of the "Iliad," as rendered half an hour or so by a man wl; could not read the Greek alphabe

appeared at the bottom of the pat

ana eying John closely. J ohn, lean- tne (Jatfe observatory ard at the

mg against the doorpost where he Royal observatory at Greehwieh.

nad stood tor the last fifteen min- irlacm the two photographs side bv

utes saying ;ood night to Moilv. side in the stere'cfccune. we shall

felt decidedly uncomfortable under clearly see theoon "lianging in Mr. Nelson's raze. space" and mav". evaluate its dk-

by the confiniii- work of cameo Iu fact, it was embarrassing all tance.

cutting by da and by drawing at around. "But John is a young man But for the sun and the nearest night that in the morning I was who goes straight to the point. planets, our next neighbors in the literally dragged out of bed by "Is anything wrong, Mr. Nel- universe after the moon, the diffimother, pushed over to the wash- Son?" he beran. "Am I to infer recommences.

ajfcand, where I gave myself a cat's that you object to my being here?" .The reason is that any available

w vucuuY ui utucr, unven 10 vun, nu, noi exactly, JOlin. "-ovajLivc ujj. une earui, iaen as eye the seat at the table, administered Mr. Nelson en'-udied slirhtlv. hesi- distance, is rather small ffcr the

my bireakfasr,, which consisted of tating. "(' on!v that mother and Ppose. However; owing 'to intea and large quantities of the long I would Hk- ..v cot a little slee-n' credible perseverance and skill of

French loaves of bread with butter, "Father, cticmI Molly, quite in- several observers and by Substitut---.J X 11 l 3 I I i . t XT J n t

uu tunioiea aownsrairs, out into aignant. we cfiüti n't have been dis- ms lfle mo rennea measurement

A Dilemma's Horns. The young lady sighed deeply and was almost affected to tears. "Harold," she said, "declares that if I don't marry him he will end hii life, and 1 am afraid he will."

She-stifled a sob, then continued: "And Eandolph declares that if I don't marry him he will go into politics and become great and famous, and then he says I shail'seewhat I have missed, and I am afraid he will keep his word too." Overcome by emotion, she buried her face in her hands, not knowing whether to save a life or to spart the country another politician. The First Csnsus. The idea of the census orierinated

among the Romans, when a .group of the many functions performed by-the high officer called censor received the name of census. It wai taken ovorv fire ye-ir and indicated not o :y t number of the respective c!; sse, of the people, but their dome.-tic options as husbands, wives, fat . -: iors, sons and daughters. 'P.r '-! modern nation io to' tip ti:-. census was the United .es of America in 1790. -The first J:riti.-h ,-cnsus was-in 1801, but this did not include Ireland. A STRIKING CONTRAST. '

the itreet, where I awoke.rEeni- turbine .wv htl Johm;has beeTi Uor stereoscopic examination, as-

imicences of Augustui Saint Gm- Jaikinor Ä" tronomers have succeeded in over-

m uentnry.

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Care. He was a fntn iRt. nt ft wu i . .

- - " - jtv ODiectior: j-;

x il no to his J.fif

wouia not venture lortii without Ins xt-p v - Jo. . .

don't th-fbt that, mv denr coming the cüfScnltT for the sun. I

V -,4 think we mav rav thnf of

trtnuout Fatalism. x,A oUnni'n tu, I'Jwa Imnw if AM

r.i.3 at. n i . - I i iKi i . I. u: uui LuaL, nor " -o tw uxvxixu a 1 1 In Ahn i rn r 1 1 tth -i ATn ? I 1 1 -,- .

. r : . .6"A Trr1 CVT nave 1 anv nbjVH inn to John's talk- tnousanatn part of its amount.

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fact. 1 haven't m snowing tne gun'f distance, we eret

'vorid fco John nor rat a G Pets by a well!

rent" Known relation existing between the

"!M.n to suspicion of Plaiietary distances. 1 I lie matter unneo ?ut no for tIle stars,

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Thi'c fn,;n. i kA i 1 ' . . essaniv r ti-;.- !-omt. wmuu musu ue nunoreas oi tnou-

.vj wi.Fxxoxiti uib ui juiuudi' ouss. wnen ne enme to trot if: moo . . ---- x: s ..

ism raised such a storm of criticism missW from the rack made of an ef c;?,:;si "" thlS- Mrs. Kel- - removea tnan that Dumas was nersuaded to ? i Ä f r6 al": ßon and 1 1 object seriously, my the Tliere evidently can be no

:x ,r. . , . , rAWO AU xiuuö. oume flPflT Tfthr n fi.. i.Tx; , - " xl question ot anv ßuäieient v niR-

i. ... t i , i uuxi Liu ii it aiLer rnfi rmrn itirtp - i r. n f xi x At tw """ yuu csccxii iu -v

invr;, i xt.., J ment, thourrh it was doubted thai Lt down to w4 tin ;t Qa J nav.e lorn ed hls evening of leaning

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then sat a stout party with a shin-ir V cV7 -A wna tQe PacK-

'inr dome that was almost iesütutei J aui "ess-

of hirsute covering.

of Le Mousquetaire, with the note blunderbuss. One day he had an h'f; Continued in our next." .Trmnrtant. m- w navin.? 1IOm -

" viv, .u --ü W1UUUV1- COT V t ( i '

The two fr fends exchanged face-

tiois remarks about silvered locks,

Left Tift C,.licd For.

Wlur Wilkinson went to his of-

then indulirod in some pleasantries! rice one dav last week he felt calm

about tin "thinning of the thatch," with cfiMinl references to doorknobs and b.lliar.l balls, much to the aniViVit of the paengere, but

to tfie M.!ent discomfiture of the

Jaluln't! d man. The t.tlk finally developed into an argument the cause of baldness, ard aft.T considerable jocularity the pair t imed to the pearly pated

!'tranrer, and one said:

"My friend and I have beven discu5 !n t':e cause of baldness, but we i-i n't -rem to arree. W :ld you mind tf!I:nr us what you regard as the real vi;e of baldness?"

Vhn j.r..:i"T wlieeled about, eyed hi tve ü 'rs tlorcely and sroried Äßra:i:, '"-Ittsburg Gazt-it-

Wnat Foods Weight

I p.tV oe vonxewlent to knof.

pJi.ti; a

pa llid a'id two ounces; a quart of bci-t .r.'r, one pound; a quart of pbW urr. l v. 'ate sugar, one pound and one 'no : a qu;. : of best bron sn ..ir, :.e, pounl a :d two oul tiiat i : 43 om

pr; .a. tLiKi'h t.vs depends somb-

and -rntented. l ie hnda't any need to vvfrrv about hia wif$ s loneliness

any More, for he had bought a capi

tal watchdog ior her.

But, when he arrived home

his wife met him with the depiora-

Die news that the do had gone.

"Eh!" said Wilkinson. "Did ha

break the chain, thon?" "No," she replied, "but a great, ugly looking tramp came her an acted so impudently that II t' dog loose. But instead of te.ri the tramp to pieces the nasty d went off with him." "Great Scott!" said Wilkinso. ,fThat must have been the tramp ; bought him from!" London I press.

:But, Abe, I thou gh t you were

fatalist?" said a friend.

"So I

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asramst tne bell nush. Onr Lp.

Mtche ringing

Entering th United States Stnata and the House of Lords. When a senator is elected in the tMted States he sends his credentials on in advance. They are presented by his colleague, read from the desk and filed in the secretary's office unless some objection if

raised, when they are sent to the

committee on privileges and elec

tions for examination. When a -senator elect appears he steps quietly

up to the clerk's desk, escorted bv

his colleague, takes an oath to support the constitution of the United States and is then led to a desk on

the outer row, which his colleasrue

has selected for him, where he re-

keicongratulations. of. his..,.

mends and introductions to the senators who care to make his acquaintance. He looks as wise as may be and waits for adjournment, when he goes to the secretary's office, writes his autograph in a big red book for the use of the cashier and draws his mileage. In the English house of lords the proceedings are very different. A newly created peer enters that historic chamber in a robe of scarlet velvet trimmed with ermine, at-

iwered.

am," the old man an-

room is next to the kitchen, and ' Y? Wltn a new 03M this continuous bell ringing is not ! ?.mes Sreater thai1

conducive to repose"

Telegrapher'! Cramp.

tance On OUT PÖTtTl 'rOTTr"hili nn-J

-uccess with the sun has provided ten,d.cd b-v hvo lellow peers, who et uj with a new on distance, 24,000 h,ls Wora and escorted by the

; black rod, as fh sergeant-at-arms

A Fsouliar Couple. Corf rri'nn had turned to )

arc of flour weighs om subject of two men, utterly !is-

uirt of cornmeal, one!!lnr wnn nevertheless roon-.f,)

wL

bit oc quart c , ounc.

e ?i : hixteon la:re ta-

half a pint; & j.e pound and ons

n Cid,

gether One of these men u : cor a.Tdy conceded to be a "freak " ! eae v.-n-- John. "Joi.n.aud .r.m are certainly queer pair o,;;-ed somebody. fJohn a in! p:-tjody are a quo pair' opined v-o?rebody clev?. Poor John 1 Exchanr

Then why bother about your interesting feature of ielegblunderbuss ?" taunted, the friend, fapher's cramp is that certain letYou are in no danger from the Id- ters are nearly always the stumbling dians, since you can't possibly die block. The most frequent are C till your time comes' and Y that is, the code signals "Tes' said the old man, "but Ußed for these letters. When a suppose I was to meet an Indian sender begins to be "conscious" and his time had come. It wouldn't about so common a letter as C his do for me not to have my blunder- soon becomes hopeless. Anoth-

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distance on the earth, for now that . ls iaiowu an-fl. tlle rter g

bugs, would it ?"

An Old Story. Once when Eudyard Kiplinsr wia

j a boy he rah out on the yardann of

:&h Ch..rv.oi$ Leather. a slllD. .solution :f soap j "Mr. Kipling," yelled a sailor, v.at. Rub pivty ol!ffvour boy is on a vardarm, and if ,!-o the huth.r ; sd let ! he lets go he'll drown!"

it soak for t wo hours, then rub k , ÄAh' responded Mr. Hipling, till quite clean. Aftenvard rinsi i with-3 yawn, Cfbut he won't let gor it weil in a weak Folntioii of wärmt ThiiT incident also haoDcned tn

cater, soda and yellow soap. AiteT Jchn Bun. Horace Yaipole. KaL 11 ,. . . '

w msing wring i wen in a rougn poieon ;rte, Dick Tu

towel, dry quickly and pull about Julius Tartar and the

To v: anl war. I5ft soa i

Disenchanted. a fYes,,, she admitted, with a sad little sigh, "thei-e was a time whe.I thought him the grandest -fnan ii the world when I fancied thit

nothing could ever make -me cease to love him.3'

"Well' her friend replied, I

suppose we are all doomed to these

disenchanting experiences. We have

only to become acquainted with a man to discover that he is not the

god we had supposed him to be."

.But it wasn t becoming ac

quainted with him that destroyed

my ideal. I am sure that I could still think him splendid if I had

never seen him m riding breeches " Chicago Record-Herald.

er 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 itrain involved is enormous and

we know the distanr.n nh wlVh .. i arnjs arrayed in a gorgeous tabard.

earth travels in its orbit around the lue procession marches around, Bun we can take the diameter of its ak,nS Iow ws to ,J:he empty orbit as our eye distance. Photo-! cllron? r ' tn lhe l'iding olbeer, graphs taken at periods six months j fho is t!e lorLl hil chancellor, apai-t will represent the stellar from Afferent parts of the gilded

world as seen from points the dis-1 cnamDer' Lo wlllcn tllafc imposing

tance between which is already best I it I- -!;..

expressed in the time it would take

light to traverse it. The time would be about sixteen minutes. However, even this distance, immense as it is, is. on the whole, inadequate for obtaining a sU-reo-icopic view of the stars, it is on1 tn quite exceptional rases that pLo tographs on a large snileihat is obtained bv the Vad of hi" irl

scopes show any stereoscopic ef feet for fixed stars. B accurate

measurement of the photos we may

peor life.

till quite soft It will then be bat

ter than most new leathen.

HcTooki. Presently it will "hapit , T- .

pen ugAHL ionaon Am wen.

uUermllk a Lift 3avtr.

A French medical man advise!

eople to drink buttermilk for loner

He says that the lactic acid

dissolves every sort of earthy deposit in the blood vessek, keeping the

veins ana arteries so supple and free running that there csn be no clogv ;;n up, and hence there is no de-' posit of chalky matter around the joints or of poisonous waste in the1 muscles. It is the stiffening and hardening of the blood vessels' which bring on old age. Butter

milk is likely tn postpone it ten oi

practically a form of nervous break

uown. D'jndee Ad certifier. n Nc;! For Hun ,

leads fairly commonly to what if perhaps get somewhat beyond wha

we can attain by simple steieoscopic Inspection; but, as we said a mo

ment ago, astronomers have not ?uc-

person gravely responds. When the new peer reaches the throne he

kneels reverently and places upon the empty chair, where his majesty ought to be sitting, the patent of nobility lie lias received from his sovereign. He is then led to the woolsack, where the lord chancellor

administers to him t'.ie oath. His sponsors next lead him to the prpper bench, where he takes his seat for a moment. Then all three rise and bow three times, at the vacant throne and three times to the presiding officer. The brd high chancellor then leaves the woolsack and comes down to shake hands with the

new peer and welcome him to th

ceeded in this way in determining ( house. The other peers come ata

une distance of more than a nun-1 ao tender their congratulatio:

dred stars in aU.Scientiic A men'.

can.

A Disciplinarian, Miss Hobson was most popular with the two young and unmarried

members of Centerville's school board. They did not nronose to

have any change of teachers in district No. 3. 'Do you think iliss Hobson jfaya quite enough attention to disci

pline?" suggested oneof the elderly married school committeemen on day. "Discipline! Why,; of course ihe pays a great deal oü attention to it' asserted Ed Porter hastily. "W never had anybody else be

gin to pay as much;", said Henry ;Lane. "Why. one afternoon T

EET ni J r l!tSPi k. m

Cholly Trii-U do vou tb.nlc of th

The Gentloinan with the Bonnet Boi gin to nay as mTe, Aid !T-nT-r ri:GiiGut riur I vp .r icfr.-.

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twenty year.- u f reply drunk. A' -won't stop me, old chap! Ddn't stop'Lane. "Why, one afternoon I wui WHUe-Ow It's g.-est! She Itt

quüii, u uüj Kiiouiu oe tne mini- A c UL nac ror my wir in there at No. 3 and 1ha Hobeon wear n xvhl oülr teilmn u mnm thA movirmtm . tn here, and if I'm nnt r.n!nV Ir'U hsl i ii , ' , . ... ! TMnln,,nt ! i ,ii,.-,i..i t-iv

, M-.w .v .. acuiuuiif w , M . . . ' w anent me wno i rv rrT-r Tmn i .-u i mu.

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