The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-06-12
GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL
And Learn 10 Say the Ten Com.
mandments.

m00dments.
Indianapolis sun.
III Il 10 evident thst very few men kpo,
!. the ten commandments or God. d
: course, when they were little boys in ID
: Sunday school class they could rattl
|, them of without . hitch, but now the
are too busy to remember them. In Of
Der TO test peoples knowledge OF th
bible The Sun put the commandments Il
the following shape, with Q blank spsc'
81 the side OF each one for the number
and reporters presented them to many
prominent men on their routes askini
each 10 number the commandments cor
lrectly:
4 "Thou shalt not bear false witnes,
against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thon shalt have no other God be.
fore me.
1 Thou shalt not kill.
| Honor thy father and thy mother.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
Remember the Sabbath day to keep
III holy.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt no. take the name Of the
Lord BY God In vain"
You should have seen 'em at the state
house. Soon after the reporter ''sprungD y
the commandments there was { grand
hunt for bible in every Office, but there
wasn't : copy In the whole $1,000 600
capital.
Said w. Brooks Roberts: II wouldn't
try that for the world. II would ruin
my reputation as Sunday school teach.
er. But let's see, me boy-2, 8. /. 3. g. j.l
4, 10. 9-how'll that do?"
Gov. H0vsy refused to attempt Il. He
knew how. or said he did, but when the
reporter offered to wager his Job against
the governors be wouldn't bet on the
subject.
Secretary Matthew'S: "Why, l can do
that in second, and do 1t right, too.o
This is the Matthew'S way: 8, 6, IL, 49,
3, 10, 90.
w. T. Noble was "chewina the rsRn,
with clerk Noble. why, that's . pic.
MIC be said. Twenty minutes later he
asked: Sweeney, which have you cot
for No. ], Thou shalt not kill or "Thou
shalt not stesl ?" The Noble way was:
Z, 7,919,4,2,6. >, $40. /
Clerk OF Supreme-court Sweeney
studied the list for foriy.fve minutcs
and satd: "When was : boy could
just rattle EN- on / wish you'd brought
this around then. cant tell which is
the fourth Let Il 90 THE way -itsl'
right: 1854 8. 5. 10. 8, 2. The
sixth and seventh are numbered differ.
ently IN the catholic aud protestant YER
lions."
Tim Griffin scratched IL gray hairs out
Df bis head and slid out Of Il by Say ing !:
i aint got any time. I'm going out aud
give them dogs in the flower beds the
lsmmin' they ever had
Somebody told Green Smith about the !.
idea aud be slipped out
he north door Of the capitol, went down
own and stayed there al day. ,
MyrOn King promised to finish bis list
q five minutes. II was left there Friday ,
morning and ct 10 80 Saturday Be-
cached No. 3.
Treasurer Gall came out flat.footed. !.
md 'fessed up that he didn't know howl
At the clerks Office in the u. 8. build. /,
ng Willard Nichols knew sll about theli
Nos. 8, 6, !, 8, 4, 10, Nh
~, 8 was bic arrangement Of the list /
printed shove. |,
Deputy prosecutor Cockrum sYourll
'et killed comm round here about sl,
title thing like that" No. 10, 8, /, s, 4,
!, 3. 8, 2, 2, is the way be arranged Il.
Deputy -cierk McDeveitt: ~ o u|n
eedn't come around me tryin' to get 81 I
lite At your old gag. II theys auyIS
hromo In this III get Il. This is right, D
u bet: 8, s, IL 4, 8, 3, 1917. 2n Id
Col. jim Rice was "swspping yarns"|f
a the clerks Office. "Whst is that" he|a
lid, Jim Riley's latest? state Secre- d
Try Matthews 10 smart and innocent. v
int he? See how he's numbered them .
mis- is the only correct way: 90, 1, 8, Il
10, 8, 3, 7,2v Il,
Charles Absolum Bookwalter: "IIW
'asn't brought up with : church on myc
,oulders aud don't know nuthin' abouts
but III bet lot In kenwood that 9, b
I. 5. :. 10, 3.s,6 2, 10 right A
Granville Wright looked at the listlir
ver, under aud through his glasses, Ia
lrned the clip upside down, and ssid lib
can do that the easiest in the world, q
II ! haven't time right now. lfyou'li|w
ing Il around one day next week-I1llol
Too late? Well, let me hsve Il, tin
ont take long," II took 30 minutes d,
d resulted 70, 8, !, 10 4. 8, 7,6,2 q
Capt. Fox, OF the controllers Office. lal
lmhered them !, 2, 10. q. 4.5, 9, z, 3, cid,
Deputy controller Sam perrott NUN. lol
red them Q, Z, !, 8, 4, 8. q 10. g. 3. In
Building Inspector Michsel Fitchey
ID the list carefully and slowly, and 81
Ter reaching the bottom turned it
or. looked st the blank on the other |
le and remarked: 'Say, where's the A
'venth commandment? Some mistake g,
re-" 10,
Sec. Snyder, OF the Board Of public Ia
Iety, ssid he heard them every Sunday lo
! the past 20 years. lie grabbed up M
list aud began BY stating that tho N
|rd commandment wss left out Alto M
Their. which is not 90. lie numbered M
en- Q. o, 4, 8, 5, 10, 49,, 2, and discov- n
% the fact that the tenth command. N
mt had been split Ia two. O
Bud SWift did hia dnrnslcaA and ss,r- ~