Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 28, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 April 1915 — Page 2

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i By H. M. EGBERT (Copyright, 1015, by Yf. O. Chapman) Tho Misses Penfield were quite well to do, and quite alone in the world. Miss Lizzie was. forty, if she was a day. Miss Mary confessed to thirtytwo, but even the sweetest of women may he pardoned for deducting a year or so after passing the thirtieth milestone. They were the only daughters, the only children of "Square" Penfield of Bodminton, New England. Once the family had played a prominent part in New England's public life; but with the growth of the industrial system and the fading out of the old ways of life they had become more and more isolated. After their father's death they were more or less "hermits," as Miss Mary ruefully declared. All the village respected the two maiden ladies, but somehow they seemed an anachronism, a survival of other times in the hustling commercial times of the twentieth century. Two months before Miss Mary, who subscribed, to an English newspaper containing a good deal of literary matter, had seen an advertisement. It stated that one shilling, or a quarter, would purchase a pound of tobacco, a box of matches and 50 cigarettes for one soldier in the trenches in Belgium- The sender's name was to be placed upon the package. "I'd like to send a shilling for one of the poor fellows," said Miss Mary. "But wouldn't, it be a little forward, my dear?" inquired prudent Miss Lizzie. "Not in time of war, dear," answered Miss Mary. With many searchings of heart the ladies embarked on their daring enterprise, and in due course a box went "How Can You Say Such a Dreadful Thing?" forward to the allies' trenches bear ing the namo of Miss Mary Penfield upon the cover. And now a letter had come. It was marked with a red sign: "Opened Uiv dor Martial Law," which alono sent a delightful thrill down tho two ladies' backs. They opened tho onvelopc -with shaking fingers and rend; "My Dear .Miss Pen Hold: I write to thank you very much for your delight ful gift. You ennuot Imaglno what pleasure such a thing gives us out here, and greater than tho gift is tho thought that thoro Is someone who is thinking of us. I have passod your box of cigarettes all along tho tronchos, and It you could see our fcl lows pulling away tinder a hall of Khrapnel you would find yourself am ply repaid in tho ploasuro which you have given them. Wo uro all blessing your namo tonight, for wo have not had a good smoko for ages." "What is this slgnaturo, my dear?" inquired Miss Lizzie. "It looks Hko Cop. Richard Barton.1' The two ladies examined tho signa turn carefully. "Why, It Is his rank corporal, of courso," said MIbs Mary. "Ho must be qulto a respectable man, to have been mado a corporal. You know they are very strict in the IDng- ' Ush army. A drinking man could novor become a corporal." Bt it Is sad to think of thorn abandoned to tho habit of tobacco, ' una wared Miss LUuiio. " Mo wo vor ought wo to write lm?fc to him, my dour? "Would would It bo proper, sister?" asked tho other. "We shall never see him, and per haps a letter would chcor htm up. And thou, tho poor follow may bo shot." 0h. no!" exclaimed Miss Mary in horror After a long talk they decided to write Corp. Richard Barton a joint letter, to preserve tho proprieties. .If was a letter that might have mado tho frrcveront laugh. It dealt with all tho small Ulk of the village, for to tho two id 7, t den Uuiiet Bodminton waa tu

world in miniature. From that they passed to earnest inquiries as to the corporal's health. Then in rcstraineci, . but very fervent language, they ex- . pressed the hope that he was not given : to worldly ways, and above all, that ho I shunned the use of intoxicants. The j

letter closed with an earnest prayer for his worldly and spiritual welfare. It was seven weeks before this letter reached the recipient, the,n lying in the base hospital recovering from a wound. He had been struck by a fragment of a shell while leading his company to the attack, and he would never lead it again, because a tendon in his leg had been severed and "Corp. Richard Barton" must go limping through life thenceforward. True, the limp was not a very pronounced one, hardly visible, in fact, when the soldier walked, but it is one thing to walk across a drawing room floor and quite another to charge a line of trenches at full speed across barbed wire entanglements, laden with one's accoutermentu. A second letter reached the two ladies in due course. Miss Mary, who j was romantically inclined, opened it in the presence of her sister with a thrill of delicious wickedness. Miss Lizzie, however, was inclined to think: that Miss Mary had been a little indiscreet. She intended to tell her that in her opinion the correspondence must be brought to a close. But as the ladies read it they looked at each other in dismay. "He has been wounded!" exclaimed Miss Mary, tremulously. "The poor man! I hope it is not a serious wound." "He says it will prevent his going back to the ranks again," Miss Mary announced, as she read further on. "And Oh, Lizzie, what do you think? He says that some day he may come to America for a visit, and that if he does he will take the opportunity to pay a call upon those who were so kind to him!" The letter fluttered out of her hands and she sat down in a chair breathless. "Mary!" said her sister severely, Litis io tvuai tuuica ui i.cii i j infc, vjh a. -Sr. -it .1- r- 4- r-i r v-v- - rt s P nn TTTrin nr ATI O flirtation with a strange man!" "Sister!" gasped Miss Mary. "How can you say such a dreadful thing? Did you ever know me even to think of a man?" "A common soldier just a cor poral!" continued her sister, reprov ingly. "You know, my dear," she went on, relenting, "the lower classes in England are not like they are here. The man may be anything. Perhaps he is a drinker!" Miss Mary rose to the occasion as she had never done before. "Well, sister, if he is a drinking man," she said, "I shall I shall send Willis out to buy a bottle of beer for him! There!" and she walked out of the room indignantly. But as the weeks went by and noth ing more was heard about the corporal Miss Lizzie's fears gradually subsided. And so the weeks slipped into months, and then "Miss Mary, there is a gentleman in the parlor waiting to see you, ex plained the maid. "He says he hasn't a card, and he thinks you will remem ber his name, Mr. Richard Barton." Miss Lizzie looked at Miss Mary as the two sat together in tho sewing room. "Sister," she said, "perhaps It would be better for me to see this Corporal Barton!" iknd that time Miss Mary did not reply, because she was already in her bedroom brushing her hair! How desperately she brushed and liow quickly she changed her frock, hearing a bass voice talking In tho living room below, and dreading every minute that her sister would succeed in dismissing the visitor before sho could get dovn. And when at last sho did get down and stood before a tall, neatly drossed, soldierly man of about thirty-five, her heart beat and sho felt her faco suffused with foolish blushes. "My dear, let mo present Captain. Barton " said Miss Lizzie. "Captain Barton!" Miss Mary gasped. Tho captain pulled his mustache and stammorod: "Well, Miss Penflold, tho fact is, that whon you deciphered my illeglblo hand writing as corporal tho joke seemed too good to lose. And so I mado my self a corporal in my second letter. I know It wasn't right hut It's hotter to mako ono's solf a corporal whon one's a captain than vlco voran, isn't It? And, Miss Pen Held, I assjuro you that I am not a drinking man." "And Captain Barton is going to atny to lunch," said Miss Llzzlo. During tho lunch Miss Mary pluckod up courago to look at tho captain. And tho moro sho looked at him tho moro ho came to rosemblo a cortaln Idol in a little secret shrlno tucked away in hor heart. What was moro to the point, Miss Llzzio discovered that the captain had mado a very similar discovery with regard to hor aistor. And for onco Miss LUr.io Indulged In that romantic speculation that sho had so discouraged in hor sister. Tho captain was visiting Amorlca oil business connected with a cortain rich old property which ho owned not many miles away. This left amplo opportunity for subsequent visits, and boforo tho tlmo for his return arrlvod ho had persuaded Miss Mary to mako tho trip to Europe In his company, under his namo. "And Miss Llxzle must accompany us on our honeymoon," he Inslstod. "You aeo, it was pretty hard to mako my decision, bocauso I havo always coupled you two together in my mind, you know." And that delighted Mti Lizzie juit aa much a though ah bad beilert4 It

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Smithsonian Hears of More Great Sea Serpents WASHINGTON. Officials of the Smithsonian institution consider the receipt of sea serpent stories merely a part of the day's work and refuse to be in the least excited by telegrams or letters telling of the discovery of the marine monster. Two such re

remains, and neitber was anyone there with a camera. The other sea monster, discovered on Derniere island, Louisiana, was described as a huge fish, "80 feet long and with an estimated weight of 90 tons 180,000 pounds with the head of an elephant with ivory tusks, the snout of an alligator and the body of a whale." This, the officials assert, probably is the carcass of a whale of unusual size. Most frequently the fish which is mistaken for a sea serpent is the thrasher shark, which grows to a length of 20 feet or more. This shark is commonly known to fishermen in northern Atlantic waters, in the Mediterranean sea and also off the coast of California as the "swingle-tailed shark," because of the great length of its tail. Frequently when a number of these sharks travel together there is the appearance of an extraordinarily long fish, and the long tails, which are used to thrash through the water, support the belief that a sea serpent has been seen.

What America Lacks in Way of Art Education REALIZING that many Americans who have begun their art studies abroad will be compelled to continue their work in the United States because of the European war, Dr. P. P. Claxton, commissioner of the United States bureau of education, has had a report

made on the professional art schools of this country by Miss Florence N. Levy, editor of the American Art Annual. In the study which Miss Levy has made she has outlined the history of the movement in this country and has described the system of management of the various institutions, including the academic schools, schools of design and industrial art, schools of architecture and of normal art. Miss Levy is of the opinion that,

while great progress has been made in the development of many art schools in this country, art education as a whole lacks co-ordination, that Americans apparently have begun at the wrong end, having many schools devoted to academic work in contrast to a few industrial art schools. It is believed that much can be done by the federal, state and municipal governments in the way of encouraging the progress of fine and industrial arts in the United States by establishing a system of scholarships similar to the practice in a number of European systems. There a system of small scholarships has been developed which gradually eliminates the less talented pupils, but gives continued and increasing support to the unusually gifted. According to Miss Levy, the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia in 1S76, stimulated a new interest in art and art education in America. She credits the Columbian exposition in Chicago in 1893, and the Louisiana Purchase exposition, in 1904, as giving added impetus to the art movement in the United States, and expresses the belief that the Panama-Pacific exposition, in San Francisco during the coming year, will bring about a great awakening in art on the Pacific coast.

When Adamson Appeared in New Suit of Clothes WILLIAM CHARLES ADAMSON, representative from Georgia for the past 16 years and chairman of the house committee on. interstate and foreign commerce, has a new suit of clothes. This announcement would not be made but for the reason that Judge Adam-

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on his wearing apparel, both verbal and published, that the judge, as ho is familiarly known, decided to tone up a bit. Accordingly ho bought this new suit and wandered in where tho crowd was thickest, in tho house lobby, to show it off. He strutted up and down tho lobby several times and finally blurted out: "Well, I don't see any use in buying a now suit if nobody is going to say anything about it." Whereupon conversation ceased and Adamson was "given tho once over" by. about thirty pairs of eyes, and instead of compliments tho remarks wero, "Where did you got it?" "How did it happen?" ot cotora. Ho said: "You soo, they wanted to charge mo $U for this same suit, but I thought that was too much and so I waited until thoy had a marked down snlo and got it Tor $10." In summer Adamson is one of tho first to don an all-white costumo, including whlto canvas shoos and whito socks, and tho suit usually has tho appearanco of having boon used also as pajamas at night. It is thereforo an event whon Adamson puts on a now suit.

Right Initial Is Very Important to Congressmen THE alphabet makes a hig difference In a congressman's quota of leisure. To be born under a letter coming in the last chapter of the alphabet is just as handy for a congressman as hoing horn undor a lucky star. Hero is an example One of tho big gongs in

tho houso ollico building sounded ominously, notifying members that patriots over in tho house chamber wero fixing to hold a roll call and that all hands should heave ho. Representative Allen of Ohio came scampering out of his ofllce and headed toward tho nearest elevator, for Inasmuch as his namo comes among tho first of tho A 's, ho had little time to lose. A few doors from Allen's place Is tho olllce of Roprcsontatlvo Young

of North Dakota. "Aren't you going ovor to vote?" asked Allen. "Oh, yes: lator on I will' replied Young, yawning. "I've got throe or four dozen letters to dlctato llrst, and bore's a couple of big reports I must read over. What's that " But Allen had hustled along. Inasmuch as it takes about forty minutes to call tho roll, Young and tho rest of the Y's, and a lot more congressmen with lucky initial can take their tlmo. At the end of a two-year term in congress a man with the right sort of an initial letter ought to gain at least seven or eight week of spare time over UU less fortunate colleagues.

ports came to them recently, however, that were somewhat interesting. One told of the finding of the remains of a serpent at Indian Rocks, on the west coast of Florida not far from St. Petersburg. The creature was described as fully 40 feet long, with a huge head, and if it was not a veritable sea serpent, the oldest fisherman on the coast did not know what it was. Unfortunately, no scientist was at hand to preserve the

son seemed a bit hurt the other day when he strode in before about thirty of his colleagues attired in the new purchase and nobody noticed it. Adamson- has been careless of his clothing, save that he has shown a particular fondness for bright red neckties and red vests, and his suit usually fits him about as gracefully as a shirt 011 a beanpole. He does not care, so long as ho is comfortable, but so much comment had been made YOU OUChT TO BE CUD YOUR NAH BEGINS WITH INSTEAD OF OR

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Statesmen Did Not Understand Natur s of Disease, So How Was Any Other Course Possible? Representative Murray of Oklahoma and Col. C. C. Harris of Alabama, formerly an officer in the Confederate army, sat discussing a bill pending in the house committee on pensions. Harris is strongly opposed to most of the pension bills and Murray, on the other hand, is equally insistent that most of the bills should be passed. Some of Murray's arguments are unusual. "Here's a man who has a disease that I can't even pronounce," said Harris, running is finger along a dotted line leading to the name of the ailment. "How7 am lj to know he contracted such a disease as that in the army? Or that it amounts to anything?" "That's just the point," declared Murray. "It's a disease that you and I knowr nothing about. We can't even pronounce it. Who are we to say that it isn't a serious disease? The man may have been incapacitated for years." "I never thought of it in that way," admitted the ex-Confederate army officer. "I suppose we'll have to allow tha pension." Kansas City Star. SORROWS OF THE NEUTRAL Small Nations, in the Present Conflict, Seem to -Be Caught Between Two Fires. The neutral is living in a world in which vexatious and costly inroads are constantly being made upon his means of subsistence. The responsibility for his losses lies between two marauding powers. Each of them indignantly repudiates all imputations of misbehavior and indignantly accuses the enemy. Each of them claims that the way to prevent any further marauding is to hand the keys of the storehouse to him and to lock out his opponent. Great Britain insists that Germany cannot have it both ways. Germany insists that Great Britain cannot have it both ways. The insistence of each that the other cannot have it both ways does not prevent both from seeking to have it both ways. The result upon the fate of the belligerent of this ! repudiation of all the rules remains to be seen, but its results on the fortune of the mere neutral is crystal clear. When a number of big belligerents are insisting upon having it both ways, the inoffensive and thrifty neutral is evidently doomed to get it both ways. The New Republic. London Stock Exchange Seats. It costs considerably more to become a member of the London stock exchange nowadays than in the days when its headquarters were at "Old Jonathan's," on Cornhill. Serving for four years as a stockbroker's clerk reduces the cost, but an outsider has to puy an entrance fee of 500 guineas and to find three members who for the ensuing four years will be responsible for the sum of $2,500 apiece, this being forfeitable in the event of the new member being "hammered" during the period. In addition, the candidate must buy three stock exchange shares, the present price of which is about $950 per share, and he must purchase from some retiring member a nomination. This can now be bought for about $350, although when nominations were first created the top price was $3,500. Disappearing Peach Trees. Some of the Colorado fruit growers on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains have adopted an ingenious method for protecting their peach orchards during the winter season. The plan, which has been found to ho a meritorious one, consists of bonding tho trees down to the ground, covering their branches with hay or straw and then burving them under about two inches of soil, in much tho same way as blackberry and raspberry bushes are cared for in cold climates. Although In the past tho peach trees in this section suffered much damage and frequently wore killed outright during tho winters, by this method of culture thoy are surviving severe weather without dlfllculty and bearing good yields of fruit. The Wicked Printer. Unobserved and unannounced tho president of a church society entered tho composing room of a nowspaper just in time to hear those words issuo from tho mouth of the hoss printer: "Billy, go to tho devil, and toll him to finish that 'murder' ho began this morning. Then 'kill' William J. Bryan's youngest grandchild, and dump tho 'Sweet Angel of Mercy' into tho hellbox. Thon make up that 'Naughty Parisian Actress' and lock up 'Tho Lady In Her Boudoir.' " Horrified, tho good woman (led and now her children wonder why they aro not allowed to play with the printer's youngstor. Offcnso Proved. In Judgo Pollard's court In St. Louis Mrs. Blanche sought the law of hor husband for smiting hor on tho nose. "How did he strike you?" asked tho judge, "show me." "All right," ropliod tho lady, and forthwith sho landed a terrific slap on the judge's features. "Enough," said tho judge, aud ho fined the husband $50. King George's Relatives. Kins George V is related to nearly all tho reigning houses of Europe, one exception being Austria-Hungary.

Pick out the most critical smoker you know. Ask him to try one of your Fatima Cigarettes. It would be a strange taste that didn't like the mild, delightful Turkish blend of Fatiinas! 3 out of 4 smokers prefer Fatimas to any other 15c cigarette. This Catalog Free Write for It J. M. Hanson-Bennett M&catlne Agency is the largest In tbc irorkl. Save Magazine Money Oar 191S enUlosr llU uro lim 3(XK) Periodicals and CI ab OSers. It's a. Big Hooey-Sirer. Sea uyetr n&ma and addrets today. AgentsWanted! J.M. HANSON-BENNETT Mccorlne Ascncu til W. JacUon Bird., ChlMge. II! Official Denial No War Tax on Homestead Land in Canada The report that a war tax is to be placed on Homestead lands in Western Canada having been given considerable circulation in the United States, this is to advise all enquirers that no such tax has been placed, nor is ther any inteution to place awar tax of any nature on such lands. (Signed) W. D. Scott, Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, March 15th, 1915. FOR SALE 80 acres (1SS acre: 80 acres $151 acre; 15 acres $110 aero; 214 acres 1 150 acre: 241) acres 111 acre. Shelbr County. Lim etono soil. J. V. CONGER, FLAT KOCK, IND. Nm4li rulrnfo Wheat and Corn Land For Sale V norm LaKOia have lOOucres and XJOaeres farm land for sale, price $20 and $25 per acre, on easj terms; located on the New Hockford-Montana lino of tha Gt. Northern and east of Wilton on Northern Padua BISMARCK REALTY CO.. Bismarck, K. D. BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY Liverpool Man Exceedingly Careful That He Should Not Shock the Nerves of His Friend. In Liverpool there is a man, writes a contributor to Pearson's Weekly, who is famous for his calmness on every occasion. One day he strolled leisurely into the office ofa friendjjk "I've just had a chat with your wife," he began. "Why, I didn't know she was in town." "Oh, she wasn't in town," replied the other. "I called at your house." "I didn't know she was receiving today," said the husband, with some surprise. "I thought she had a headache." "She didn't mention it to me," said the calm man. "There was quite a crowd at the house." "A crowd!" echoed the husband, "Yes," went on the calm man. "They came with the fire engine." "The fire engine!" gasped the husband. "Oh. it's all right." went on the calm man. "It's all out now. It wasn't much of a fire, but I thought youd like to know of it." 1 He Ought to Know, Adam complained. ' "Tho early bird may get tho worm, but if you arc too early you get a snake," ho cried. THE WAY OUT Change of Food Brought Success an Happiness. An ambitious but delicate girl, after falling to go through school on account of nervousness and hysteria, found in Grapo-Nuts tho only thing that seemed to build her up and furnish hor tho poaco of health. "From infancy," he aya, "I hav not boon strong. I3olng ambitious to learn at any cost I finally got to th High School but soon had to abandon my studies on account of nervous prostration and hysteria. "M food did not agree with me, and I grow thin and despondent. I could not enjoy tho simplest social affair for I suffered constantly from nervousnsa in spite of all sorts of medicines. "This wretched condition contlnu&d until I became Interested In the lettors of those who had cases Hko mln, and who wore being helped by eating GrapeNuts. "I had littlo faith, but procured a pkg. and after tho first dish I experienced a peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never gained from any ordinary food. I slept and rested bettor that night and In a fow days began to grow strongor. "1 had a now feeling of peace and rostfulnoss. In a fow weoks, to my great joy, tho headaches and nervousness left me and lifo became bright and hopeful. I resumed my studies, and later taught ten months with eastusing Grape-Nuts every day. I am now tho mistress oa happy home, and the old weakness has never returned." Name given by Postum Co., BatU Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to WU villo," in pkgs. "There's a Ream." Kver rcMil the afceve Wttrrf A BMW ar wia, tra am im m later t m a. m a mm a a

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