Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 November 1915 — Page 2

Won by I Waiting jj ; By VICTOR RADCLIFFE

(Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) "Six hundred dollars." "NO." "Five hundred. It's my last offer and it's the biggest bargain on the market. Cost eleven hundred. And xay you've got three hundred dollars cash. Good, pay that down and the rest on any kind of installments. See?" Mark Bartlett gazed admiringly and longingly at the really handsome automobile that a professional salesman 3iad just driven into the farmyard. It had of course been especially burnished up for the occasion, but the make was standard, and there was no doubt that the price named was exceedingly low. Nearly all the young farmer friends of Mark had machines. Most of them wore courting, or engaged, just as Mark was to pretty Mary Dowe. Mark had felt for some time that it gave distinction to a man to own one of the handsome flyers, and show his adored one how fast it could run. In fact, Uio agent had appeared because Mark lijLd been making inquiries about a machine. "Not now," finally decided Mark, hfs Hps setting resolutely as if it was hard work to say it. "Next season, maybe. Come and see me then." The agent got back into his machine and returned townwards disap..pointed. Mark's uncle, sharpening a scythe on a bench near by, looked up and addressed his nephew. "Wanted it bad, didn't you, Mark?" he suggested. "I did that for Mary's sake," replied Mark, frankly, "and because I It Struck the Wagon. see a good deal of pleasure for a hard worker like myself. It's better to wait, though," he added consolingly, though with a sigh. "Think that, eh?" v "Tell you. uncle," explained Mark; fcyostcrday I would Uavo taken the machine, for I could pay half for it and I'm not afraid that there will be no surplus when I get rid of my two 'crops this fall. You seo. though, our -nmWtTtoT- mt- Wnrner. came to me A y - V p - w ihts morning. I-lis wife is very ill and the doctor says that all that will save her is an expensive operation in the city. Poor Warner. He.s in debt, tue hank won't loan him and well, I'm goiB to let him have the money." "Why. Mark!" exclaimed his prudont, far-seeing uncle. "Warner is in nrettv risky fix. lie's got his place mortgaged and can hardly pay the in lereßt' "It's life or death to him, ' answered Mrk. "If he never pays me, i snau have the satisfaction of knowing I tried to help an honest worthy man in his darkest hour. 'Good boy!" muttered the uncle, but to himself, as Mark turned awa. "Bless me! if taters go up and 1 sell .that corner ten acres, if 1 don't give Mm a lift on the automobile myself! And it Marv Dowe sets up any pouting pipes, he's too good for her, that's Alt! But Mary did not. A sensible, truly Icriug girl, she rewarded Mark with a. sweeter smile than ever when he told her of his decision. "Why Mark," she cried brightly, and with a spice of mischief, "we can't sit half as close together in one of those big. sprawling machines as in the coxy, comfortable farm wagon! And 1 don't care one bit for whizzing through the air. and getting my hair out of order, and scared to death at "e'ery nrr-tw road. And youve to hclp pot - Mr. Warner you dear, good fellow' It shows your noble, unselfish Itcart. and I'm prouder of you than erer!" "Mary, you are a jewel!" enthused Mark. "No more than that, an angel! i know you are hiding a disappointment, for nearly all your girl friends have auto rides innumerable, but -we'll have our own machine yet" "Ourß!" felicitated Mary, beaming with happiness. "How nice that sounds !"

So Mrs. Warner went to the city and returned with a new lease of life and Mark worked harder than ever. He did not like it particularly when Nat Brown railed at him from his elegant roadster, because he did not join "the real set" and take pleasure flying. Mary, too, for a moment was glum as Nellie Blair flashed by, proud and contemptuous, in a dainty outing gear that enhanced her youth and beauty. In fact, Mary and Mark were in a measure ignored by former friends because "they did not keep up with the procession." But all this was forgotten as, returning from some show at a neighboring town, they let old Dobbin pick his way along the moonlit river road, while the night birds lulled them to serenity in warbling harmony, and the clear stars twinkled as if smiling upon the happy, contented faces of the loyal pair. Then once, they came along with old Dobbin just in time to haul Nat and Nellie back to town four miles to have a broken steering gear fixed, and at another time they pulled a touring party of four friends out of a ditch and won meek, shamed thanks from former deriders. One afternoon old Dobbin was taking them over to Gayville, where a county fair was in progress. There was a short cut possible by crossing a narrow bridge, used rarely except by teams. At either approach the road curved, and it was customary for anyone crossing in a vehicle to halt and see that the way was clear, as two teams could not pass at one time on the bridge structure. "Nothing coming. Get up, Dobbin," ordered Mark, after peering ahead, but as they got half way up the approach a clatter caused him to turn the horse sharply, hoping to be able to get out of the way. "An automobile!" exclaimed Mary in surprise. "Jump!" suddenly shouted Ned. He spoke- just in time. Mary leaped lightly to the ground and ran a few yards down the side of the incline. Mark sprang to the head of the horse, saw that he could not turn in time, and also sprang out of the way. Crash! What happened came with the rapidity of a swift movies picture. An

automobile came flying down the in cline. It held two men. As it struck the wagon it splintered it to a thousand pieces. The machine gave a lurch and threw one man over into the river. The other jumped. As the man in the water swam for the shore and the other made for some underbrush, Mark saw half a dozen persons headed by the village marshal, come dashing over the bridge to the spot where the disabled machine lay, a wreck. Old Dobbin was running affrighted in the direction of home. The vehicle had been torn bodily from him and he was unhurt. Some of the newcomers started to search for the two men who had been in the automobile, but they had disappeared. A hurried voice informed Mark that they had entered the bank and had secured a portfolio containing over fifty thousand in bonds and bank notes at the point of their revolvers. Is this it?" spoke the fluttering tones of Mary, as she extended the portfolio in question. It had fallen at her feet, flung from the grasp of the thief who held it when the collision came. The president of the bank, coming up hatless and pale, grasped the hand 0f jyjark in wild fervor as he learned that the robbers had been baffled. 'Reckon I'll have to send in a bill for that wrecked wagon, mtimatea Mark. "Well call it eighty dollars." "We'll call it one thousand dollars. my friend!" suddenly . shouted the bank man. "Why, if those fellows had got away with all that money, how gladly would we have paid five thousand dollars for its return, lou come right up tQ banK g(?t y0ur check. "Mary," whispered Mark, as quite willingly they followed the banker, hugging closely his recovered money "we'll buy an auto for cash now all cash!" Work of Earthworms. The soil in which plants take root and grow is the product, not of inorganic disintegration, but of continual tillage by innumerable minute organisms. Attention was first called to the work performed by earthworms in the production of humus by Charles Dar win in 1SS1. Darwin demonstrated that earthworms regularly eat earth, assimilate the digestible organic constituents and deposit the residue as excrement in little heaps on the ground. In this way they incessantly till the superficial stratum of soil and carry downward stones and other coarse parts. All of the soil passes through their bodies every two years, and it is thus loosened, fertilized and prepared for the growth of plants better than can be done by human agency. Earthworms improve the soil also by burying leaves, which rot and are then eaten by the worms. Hence earthworms are among the most valuable of animals and thoy should never be killed, but their enemies, moles, field mice and the large running beetles and millipedes, should be destroyed. Control Torpedo by Electricity. The dirigible torpedo of a New York inventor is propelled electrically, guided by a single insulated wire, and kept at the required distance below the surface by an automatic depth regulator. At the will of the operator, a jet of untor nr a beam of licht can be I V V w W I thrown up from the torpedo.

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New Yorkers Find Some N BW YORK. "There are many queer become popular," said an old jehu

"Of course, i have carried dogs before, but they were always chaperoned. The lady in 23, down the street, sends

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have knocked me over with a spark plug. I started off for the park in a sort o' daze, with that kyoodle settin' inside starin' out as sassy as brass. The foist friend I met, who's drivin' private, almost fell out of his seat when he saw me, and asked me if I was drivin' for the S. P. C. A. We git a lot of queer business, anyway. There's, a lot of business drivin' swell kids to school, especially on rainy days. You see, the kids are put wise to the taximeter works and keep tab on it, so they won't be overcharged. Thei we often gets a call from a jewelry store and have to drive a well-dressed young fellow from the shop to some swell house on Fifth j venue. That means that a big diamond tiara or something worth a lot of dough is being delivered to some dame in the millionaire belt. s "Another lot of folks who have got the taxi habit are the auction cranks. They are mostly women, and they buy a lot of stuff and use the taxi for a truck. Say, DO, I have carried everything in this machine but a piano. The milliners are on to the game, too, and call for us to carry one of their girls with a fancy hatbox as big as a millstone. I suppose when they are sending a regular lallapaloosa bonnet they don't dare take a chance m a crowded street car. The taxi is used by the bonks to cart money a lot, too. Only the other day I took two fellows with two grips from an uptown bank to a "Wall street bank. After they had delivered the grips and started uptown, one of the fellows said: 'Do you know what was in those grips?' 'No,' says I. 'A million he says. Tm glad I didn't know it before,' says I, 'or I'd been likely to bust into a lamp post from excitement' "

Merrill Trained Bear Qualifies as a Chauffeur MERRILLr, WIS. John Akey's bear, Alice Teddy, is rapidly becoming civilized. Some tinier ago Alice took up roller skating, but this sport now bores her and she is learning to operate an automobile. Almost any day Alice may be seen whirling through the-

streets in a machine. Merrill inhabitants who are- forced to use their legs in getting from' place to place are voicing strenuous objections to allowing Alice at the wheel, claiming the bear has not been properly instructed in rules of the road and they are in danger of being run down. Thus far no formal protest has been filed. Those wTho are in favor of curbing the joyriding activities of

Alice have not yet been able to citeany statute that is being violated. The Ishw contains provisions intended to stop any person, or persons from reckless driving, but Alice- does not claim to be a person. Some say there is a law against intoxicated persons operating a car, but there, again, her identity saves her, and besides she has not yet taken to drinking. Some of the more interested persons claim special legislation will be necessary if Alice is to he kept off the- road. And in the meantime Alice is taking her daily spin. She has become an expert at guiding the machine and is fast matering the- complicated pedals controlling the gears and speeds. In time hsr owner hopes h.e can train Alice to mend punctures, but just now he is afraid; to intrust this task to her, fearing the effects of her claws. When Alice comes honking down the street in- her nooby motor cap, goggles and. linen dnster strangers in the city stop and gasp, but Merrill citizens long ago gave up in despair at the antics- of Alice. Philadelphia's Snake Market Is Affected by War PHILADELPHIA- It now comes to pass that the European war, which is the regular catalogued alibi for anything and everything during these tremulous days,, has put a crimp in the world's output of long and vicious and poisonous snakes. This information is

rica or the- so-called mysterious Asia sections sirree the war began," he said, "but we have been doing a whopper business with our domestic and South American varieties. "it can be seen readily that the war has helped to increase the consumption of our home-grown snakes, the same as it lias aided home production in other commercial lines. "Some people have an. idea that the snake business is dying out, but

that's a mistake. I started in the show business with old Adam Forepaugn

in the seventies, and Tv. been in this years. Right here in Philadelphia,, This snake-distributing game is-

Cash in advance is the universal rule. The snake man showed: a telegram, from New York. It read: "Send a nice assortment of snakes about ?l5i worth, C. O. D." Ferocious Automobile Runs Amuck in Hammond

HAMMUfsJj. iv lerocious lime runaoout spi ectu yumc m tut: auucio vjl .irmond recently. The machine was a new one, fresh from the factory, and

belonged to .lohn Arthur of Gary. it was a little skittisti, he attributed this to lack of exercise or overfeeding. Art nur drove the car through Hammond at a fast clip, and was going at a good rate when the machine shied at a new-style tox-trot sKirt and backed into a water plug. The plug snapped off, and a stream of water shot into the air and descended on Arthur's head. Just then the machine balked and refused to move ..... . , i until Arthur, half drowned, escaped from the driver's seat. Then, snorting

and chugging, the car galloped wildly up the street, swaying from side to side Several pedestrians ran out and waved their hats in an attempt co

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Finally, worn out from its exertions, the motor came to a halt. Fred Grady, a garage man. started to tow it to nis automobile sanitarium. This enraged the motor. After bucking and kicking for a tew moments it crashed violently into the rear ot Grady's saddle-nroke machine, snapped the tow line, and again started away at 50 miles an hour, chasing Grady, who nad leaped rrom nis machine and tied for his life. A telephone pole and several rods ot fence that carelessly neglected to get out or the way were ripped down Dy the angry auto, which then slipped and fU on its side.

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uses for the taxi since they have while waiting for a prospective fare. out ner poodle every day, sometimes with herself, sometimes with a pretty French maid. But yesterday morning when I called the old lady comes out herself with the barker done up in all sorts of baby clothes, and says: 'Fluffle will go out for a ride ah alone today, and you'll take good care of her, won't you? Good-by, Sweetums!' and then she tucks the mut in as if it was the queen of England. Say, you could given chiefly for the benefit of persons who may not be aware that Philadelphia leads the United States in the importation o snakes, which the blonde ladies in the tent shows swing around like so many sawdust dolls. The snake man said that his firm has sold some1 8,000 reptiles this season, and. that the firm's cash husiness will hit around the $60,000 mark. "We haive had nothing from Af wholesale snake game for tthß last 28. too, and the business holds; up every conducted on a purely busisiess basis;. He took it out for an. airing. Although mechanism was beyond control.

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Canned Salmon or Sardines Useful as Bait. Expert Gives Some Hints That May Lead to the Capture -of This Delight of the Southern Darky Fur of Little Value. It is usually easier to- take a couple Lof good dogs into the country, especially that country below the Mfison and Dixon line, to secure opossums, than it is to bother trapping them. But this does not mean that Mr. 'Possum is difficult to lime into a trap. For bait, use canned salmon or sardines. It will bring every opossum within smelling distance- Set the traps near any thick woods, or in shallow ditches. The best method for water sets is to stake a fish just above the surface of the water and surround A Happy Darky. it with.' traps. Some prefer to b'nild' pens of brush with only one entrance to each and place baits in them. The entrances,, of course, are guarded witlri traps:. In weeds place a bait upon a stick about a foot and a half from the ground. Under this place a trap, carefully concealed. One can always recognize tire presence of the opossum by the sharp claiw-like marks it makes in the mud. Search aboutr until you find a small tree whose roots are above the ground and come- together in the shape of a sharp angle. In the back part place a fish.. Arrange the pen of sticks about the bait so that it cannot be approached: except from one direction, and' have- the only entrance guarded with traps-- Leaves make an excellent covering for sets of this kind. Sets may also be made at-the entrances- to- dens. These, however, must be placed with extreme care, otherwise they will not prove successfuL. The-opossumi is known to the trade as a; "cheap fair." The reason is that most of the pelts secured are not prime.. The skinv too,, is of little value, and itf was not until lately that there was much: demand for it at all. After a. poltr is- dried,, one can tell whether it is prime- or- not by examining It closely:. If black spots are found near - the throat,, especially the hide isi not first' olasK Tlie larger the spots.-.the-less tlra- vahrew Great IVTushroom. Av mushroom weighing more than thirty pounxis and measuring three and. one-half feet in diameter, was. found in Beverly by Mrs. Alice? Wool of BostoiK according to the Trauscript! It was like two great roses of cream- miwrj color, wraxy while and füll of: irregular holes on the under side. A litter of boughs and: pasteboard' boxes had to be made, two men. carried it to the station andt placed it iir a; toiggage car on a Bosto.niboundi trairr.. It could not be taken into a street car or a taxi, and Mrs;. Wool hired an automobile for its trarasportacion to Horticultural hall for the Myeoiogical club exhibition; The members tasted it and pronounced it gocwL Four years ago at this; time Mrs. Wool found a smaller- specimen ic. the same spot 021 the North shore. She has gone there evory season since, but failed, to see anything which looked like a polyposis. This leads her to conclude that it takes four seasons for the spawa to form a plant growth and product Dduce ä flower. Riches Fotrnd Through Dream. Acting on impressions received in a dream, wfcich was repeated four nights, aivatys maicauxuas tue iuv,aiai of fabulous wealth, Andrew Nelson, an old-time prospector of Anaconda, Mont., Strock a ledge rich in virgin gold. The news ot the strange- find created a stir in Anaconda., and a rush of prospectors: to the cliff above Flint creek started. Religious Belief Causes Trouble. Admiral Li of the Chines navy is a Christian, and his firm adherence to his principles has of late months made his official life unpleasant. He incurred the displeasure of President Ynnn hvre.fusinr to obey the order that all' officials connected with the hnflrds of the armv an(j naVy should go to the temple of the war god to worship in the old Confucian manner. Easily Explained. "Why did that young man look so cross when Mrs. Smith told him she heard he had such killing wayi?" "She told him that? Great Scott! H'i a doctor." .

Stop That Backache! I There's nothing more discouraging than a constant backache. You are kmc when vou awake. Pains Tiercc you

V t i J i;fi. Ti t .J- i.- r s wnen yon nena or mt. it h imra. tw iuaw j and next day it s the same oRt story. Pain in the back is nature 8 warning- or kidney ifto. Neglect mov pave th& way to dropsy gravel, or other serious kidney sickness. Don't delaybegin using Doan's Kidney Pills the remedy that J trouble for over fifty years. An Indiana Case 3tfrs. Ishanr Thür- ""Evrv man. Sixth itnd Lo- ?.,l,r' cust Sts.. Boonville. if Tnfl an ire- T wna Oiwy V laid' up in bed all one winter with kidnoy complaint. There was a constant ache In- my back and I had hemorrhages of the kidneys. My feet and ankles were so badly swollen1. I couldn't w x t k. Doan's Ktdffey Pills removed; every sign of the trouble." dtft'EToan's Aay Stere, 50c a Bx DOAN'S VRZV FOSTER-MJLB URN CO, BUFFALO, N. Y. The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day; J "J - CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS sre responsible thev not only giverehef P ADTTDS they perma uhi i urw R HITTI C nently cure Cci1TTLE ftipatioB. Mil IVER PILLS. lions u-s-e them for BilioHsnessy Indigents, Sick Heaftch, Snw Skia SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine' must bear Signature LÄXO-TONINE THE KEY TO HEALTH Corrects ailments of tbestomaofa Hvey.iidnejrs and bowels. Sond twenty0YO cents ir oae month trial treatment Booklet. IS LIFH WORTH LIVING, included FliKH. Dr. i He rh-. 8.,.Sfou!, O. Salmon Thrive, in. Maine. Success has.- boon met by the bureau of flsheries-in establishing humpback salmon oh . the Madsio- coast, accordingto- reppTtB from.' that territory. The fish!' were planted; in February, 1914. Maxryt fish weighing five to seven aud i &i half pouols have been taken- or seen air iPenobocot Tiver, Me., and twenty were captured alive by agents of the bureau near Bangor and held in; an effort to obtain) ripe eggs. From two of these fish 3,000 eggs were taken September G, and; after fertilization, sent; to th'o-Gnadg Br?ok hatchery for- incubation j Local fishermen caught. and; ate large numbers, and an employee oftthe-Green La&e hatchery took fifteen-üsh lasfc week. These had passed through, tho fishways in dams in Dennys river; and weae dropping down stream in- at spent condition; at the same -time both live and dead fish were obssrrediblow the dams. She? Knew. Olive, aged four years went for a walk with" her fatüier ons- June morning. Heading- a- bird irvgrng by the roadside,- she stopped to admire his beautiful blacteand-whifes- coat. "Oh, papa!" she exclaaoied, "see this bobolink!" "How doyou know itfs a bobolink?" asked her father. " 'Cau&O' I 'stinctly heard it bobble' was the re-ply. An tii lLots oT Them. "I: sog- wheue the Russian cavalry rode down the Germans in the trenches whesre they were digging jin. themselves fw the wcixiter. "See?. that -was a harse on them!" miURN OVER TIME Whew Nature Hint About the Food V&mn there's na relish to food and all thüJL oca eats liaesn't seem to do any gpod then is the time to make a turtirO;ver in the diet, for that's, Naturote way of drojoing a hint that the foOjL isnt the kioal required. 4,Fr a number of years I f alio wed rßüxoÄd work, Emch of it being office. :VA0ck of a trying, nature. Meai times ece- our busiest:; and eating too much. an1 too quickly of food sufli as ife 4 coaiinonly sensed in hotels, and resbS taurants, to&euhex with the- aedentaxyy . I if habits, weroinot long in giviog me I pepsia and stomach troubj which jj duced my weight from 205 to 1,60 ! pounds. "There, was little relish in any food: and non ot it seemed. Ira do mx anygood. Titi seemed the uswre I ate. the poorer L got and was, always hungry before another meal,, ao matter horn much L had eaten. 'Tien. I commences a trial o GrapeNuts fooc!, and was surprised how a small saucer of it would CAcry me along, strong, and. cith satisfied appetite, until the next meal, with ao seneations of hunger, weakness or diiSress. as before "I have been following tis diet now for several months and my improvement has been so great U the othera in my family have takea up the ui of Grape-Nuts with complete satisfaction and much impnyrement in health uMost people eat hurriedly, hav lots of worry, thus hindering digestion and therefore need a food that is prdigested and concentrated in nourishment." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co Battla Creek, Mich. Ever rend the abeve letter? A lie Me aspeare tram tlata te tlate. T:e7 are aeaalat. trae, iM tall at ai

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