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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27
An Episcopal Dull.

A number Of bulls" by members Of
parliament and others have been printed
lately. but bishops seem to perpetrate
them sometimes. His lordship Of Ripon.
in sermon the other day at Calverley,
near Leeds, betrayed his Hiberniar
origin. not for the first time. in the
same way. He said. my brethren,
beg Of you to take hold Of your own
heart and look it straight in the face. y
Westminster Gazette.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Why did Hawthorne call the
greatest novel he ever wrote "Tht
Scarlet Letter."
Because he wanted it red.
Why does your wife call you Fact
Because you are a stubborn thing
Why do you call your wife
Revenge?
Because she is sweet.
Why do | always call my wife
Honesty?
Because it is the best policy.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Prohibitionists have long contend
ed that the payment Of the United
States liquor tax in places under
prohibitory laws should be prima
facie evidence that the payer is sell
ing alcoholic liquors. In Texas
there is law to this effect, and the
Court of Criminal Appeals has re-
Gently decided that the law is con-
stitutional. There should be a sim
liar law in all Prohibition States.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27


A very large share of the milk
skinned for private butter making
in Indiana, is set in cans or crooks
and the cream skinned from the
surface.
Milk may be set for cream in
various kinds of vessels under dill
ferent conditions. The poorest
method is to set in shallow tin pans
or crooks on pantry shelves or in a
cellar. Milk thus set is exposed to
a greater air contact than when st
otherwise, and SO is more liable 10
be affected by injurious odors, by
diseases transmitted through the
atmosphere, and by hot and cold.
Milk so set will oftentimes rapidly
sour. or in very cold weather may
freeze. If it sours badly in summer,
when skinned, curds will be likely
to get in the cream and remain
more or less in the butter, alter
churning, forming white spots,
theirby seriously iniuring the
quality of the butter. Or, if the
milk or cream freezes, an inferior
grade of butter will be made from it,
If cream is to be secured by set
ting milk, the best plan will be to
set the milk in round TIN cans,
about Is inches deep and 5 inches
in diameter. If the can is placed
in ice water or cold spring water, to
The height of the milk in the can,
the conditions tor cream separation
will be greatly improved, especially
if inside of refrigerator or creamer.
This method helps keep the milk at
a uniform temperature and enables
the cream to rise to best advantage.
Such cans as these, open at the
top, are commonly known as "shot
gun" cans, and may be bought of
dairy supply houses or can be made
by any good timer.
These deep cans are skinned in
one of two ways--either by conf
cal skinner flom the surface, or by
means of a faucet or valve at the
bottom of the can, where the skim
milk is drawn off. In experiments
at the Indiana station, in compar-
ing these two methods of Swimming,
where the milk was skinned from
above, there was an average loss
about twice as great as in that
skinned by drawing off from be-
low. During 10 days in February
the average los. from surface skim
ming was O.34 per cent, while that
skinned from below showed a loss
|of but OH per cent.
1t is important that milk should
be set only in tin vessels of good
quality. The cheap tin sold on five
and ten cent counters, is SO thin a
wash, that it is readily corroded to
the under metal, which gives a
ruinous flavor to the milk if it sou; :
in the vessel at all. Where used fol
holding milk, the tin should be OF
xxx grade. This is more durable
sitter and less affected by the acid
in sour milk.
In general, persons striving tc
makea fine quality Of butter, should
have a cabinet creamer. In this
the milk may be kept to best adj
vantage and properly protected from
Objectionable odors and dirt.
c. s. PLUMB,
Director, Purdue University Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station.
No.. cl<J.x... - xIc e
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

A man is killed in Paris; it is a
murder. The throats of fifty thous-
and cut in the East it is question.
Victor Hugo.
In the United States we can say,
GA man is killed in Armenia, and
it is a murder. Fifty thousand
American boys and girls are pois-
oned by alcohol, and it is 'ques-
ton. +" Yes, but the question is;
-"Where is thy brother?"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Idly, vainly shall we seek to stop
excessive drinking so long as we
permit drinking at all. As well
might you encourage men to drift
over Niagara falls, but exhort them
to be sure to stop when half way
down.-Greeley.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

New additions to the ranks of as
pirants for the post Office are daily
occurring, and there is no telling
what the number will be when the
congressman gets ready to make the
Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Speak out on the Prohibit IN
question in your prayer meetings.
God expects every one OF us to do
our duty, and one important duty
is to thunder out against the unholy
alliance of church and saloon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Prohibition has come to be the
recognized method of fighting the
saloon evil. No system of dealing
with the traffic which does not in
some way embody this principle
can command the confidence OF
temperance men.-New York In
dependent.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

It's a regular summer day picnic
to revel IN the bargains and de-
molishing prices offered by The
COURIER advertisers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

One million standard silver dollars
weigh 4l2.5O0 900 grains. or 800, 375
ounces hoy. or 7l,6l4. 50 pounds troy,
or 5S,92S.57 pounds avoirdupois, o.
30. AGA "short" tons Of 1000 pounds
avoirdupois each, or 49,. 307 long"
tons OF 2,2i0 avoirdupois each.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

If for ten years England could
get rid of drink, she would at that
time become such paradise as men
would hardly recognize.-John
Bright.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Oh, say, does that star spangled
banner still wave Ger the homes OF
the spree and the den of the knave?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

Brass pins were first made in New
York by English machinery in the year
1912.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-11-27

The lowest ticket rates to the West. as Wen
as folders aud general Information, viii M
furnished on application to the undersignea
See that your ticket reads via tho al,
Line" V. Il. CLAYCOMB Ag't ,Jnsner
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Director, Purdue University AZ
ricultural Experiment Station.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

lantic, the bottom temperature was So deg,
and the last 1000 fathoms might be de
scribed as absolutely glacial. The second
LUZ 1athomS consisted of water from 81 TO
369a deg, and in the course of the next 500
fathoms the temperature rose to 40 deg.
The remaining 400 fathoms constituted the
warm upper stratum of water, 10 deg. being
the limit AT which the suns rays exert any
direct heating influence.
In the North Atlantic no lower tempera-
ture thaD 30 deg. is found, and the warm
stratum, instead of being only 400 fathoms
Is 500 or 800 fathoms deep. One reason for
TINS comparatively high temperature is
that ridge runs at the bottom of the sea
rlght across the ocean from Greenland to
Norway, rising above the surface to form
Iceland. This ridge is of such height that
the deeper and colder parts of the Arctic
basin are unable to communicate with the
North Atlantic.
DR.. Nansen states that the soundings
taken ~ the Fran, while drifting with the
ice, gave a depth of between 1,6C0 and / 800
fathoms. and he thinks that the whole Po-
lar p2Sin should be considered a continual
ton of the deep channel which runs be-
tween Spitzbergen and Greenland from
What ne calls the North Atlantic ocean. In
NorWe sian charts the North Atlantic may
reach as far as SpitZberEen, instead of
terminating. as in English charts at the
latitude OF Iceland. But as the doctor s
words are liable to misinterpretation, it is
IS Well TO point out that no deep channel
exists connecting the Arctic ocean with the
main portion of the North Atlantic ocean.
The increased depth of the warm stratum
Is also due TO the fact that the waters of
tropical latitudes have been heated by the
Gulf stream or Florida current The Gulf
stream itself dies out in mid-Atlantic, los
ing It's movement, warmth and deep color
ana becoming mere surface drift But the
ocean water it has heated, gaining a great
er specific gravity under the evaporating
action of the dry trade winds, sinks down
ward, and, mingltng with the cooler water
peIow, extends the depth of the warm stat
um to 500 or 800 fathoms. The warm STRAIT
um Is then carried northward by the YER
tlcal circulation of the ocean. the cold bot
tom water from the poles rising near the
equator and the warm surface water from
the equator sinking near the poles This
action is attested by the fact that the plane
OF 40 degrees of temperature rises at the
equator from 200 to only 800 fathoms from
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
A Tale for the Household.

There was a man in our town who thought
himself wondrous wise.
Said he. What costly trumperies the aver
age husband buys!
Now I'll cut out all the Household Hints
and give them to my wife.
And she'll furnish the house on nothing at
all. you better bet your life!'
So he bought some ancient newspaper files,
and his wife got on her knees
And began TO manufacture things with ele-
gance and ease.
She gathered lot of barrel slaves and
made a window seat;
She thought of new canary cage and a
hoopskirt was her meat;
She painted old shoes with liquid gilt and
hung them over the wall:
She covered a keg with turkey red for a
hatrack in the hall;
She made some beautiful picture frames of
her husHands cast-on socks.
And built a table and sideboard out of an
empty dry goods box.
She hung the coal scuttle over the door;
Ctwas lovely, so she said);
She turned a hideous. hen house into a
handy folding bed:
She cut new mantel draperies out Of old
plaid underskirts;
She made some parlor lambrequins of her
husbands flannel shirts:
She planted a palm in his old silk hat and
tied up his cane with bows,
And what she didn't finally do, the Lord
He only knows!
The husband puned and pined away and
sickly grew his soul.
AS he saw her making a standing lamp of
pitcher and curtain pole.
And his step grew slow and his cheek grew
wan as she hammered away with force
Amazing fancy Japanese screen of a
rickety old clothes horse.
One day she began on n chandelier, and
then he went outside
And swallowed poison, cut his throat and
shot himself and died.
New York Press.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

transferred to the Cathedral of San Luis
Rey. in the City of Mexico. Among the
San Diego records of the Indians is the
statement, dated August 9, 1873, that
Miguel Fejar, a Mexican Indian, rather
intelligent, of good habits and very in
dustrious, aged ." was vaquero of the
mission herds. In March, 1871, there is an
entry of the birth of a female child to
Miguel Vejar, aged %, and his wife Lu-
sardo, aged "a.
The records of the San Gabriel mission,
now in the cathedral in the City of Mex
leo. show that Miguel Vejar, "son of Mex
ican and Indian parentage and aged So
years" was baptized in the mission by
Father Romero, Easter Sunday, March,
1893 The late Don Pico, who was the last
Spanish governor in California, said a few
years ago that he remembered Miguel
Vejar in 1874, and that he was then up
ward of so years of age. Many people
remember when Miguel passed his Tooth
birthday. When President Harrison was
in California in 1891 old Miguel was brought
from his miserable old house in San Jacin-
to valley and presented to General Harri-
son as the oldest man in the United States.
At that time the old fellow was able to
speak little broken English and told
few facts in the story of his life. Since
then his memory of English words has
completely failed and when he. now speaks
at all it is in mixture of Spanish and
Cchilla Indian dialect.
Miguel Vejar has been married twice.
His first wife was killed in an earthquake
in 1906. He married young squaw a
year later. She died in 1876. He has been
the father of thirteen children, none of
whom now lives. His last child died, aged
80, in San Juan. He has a dozen more
grandchildren scattered among the half
breed Indian tribes in Southern California
and Mexico. but he knows none OF them
and has no recollection even of their
names. There can be no doubt he has
over 100 great-grandchildren, whom he nev-
er knew. and a large number of great
great-grandchildren.
Psychologists will have to study old
Miguel Vejar closely to find the secret of
his extraordinary long life. He has suf-
fered hardships among the mountains and
on the burning deserts, like other strong
men who died years and years ago. He
drank many a gallon of firewater in his
day and, along with other red-skinned
young bucks. painted the tribal pueblo
deep carmine many nights. He was a
smoker of cigarettes (not the white mans
kind for about century, or until he got
too old to roll them himself and to rustic
for his favorite variety of the weed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

Fifty-six Hours to Los Angeles.
The California Limited. via Santa Fe
Route. Swift. safe and luxurious,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
The Shortest Line west.

To Denver. Cheyenne, Ogden. Salt Lake,
San Francisco. Portland. there is only ons
shortest line. the Old Reliable Union Pa.
CHIC. Two trains daily from Kansas CITY,
1910 a. m. and 7:3O p m, fully equipped
with Pullman palace sleepers. Pullman din.
ing cars tcafe PLAN, free chair cars. Trains
lighted brilliantly with Pintsch light: heat.
ed by steam; soldly vestibuled. No other
iine as short or as good. Why not take the
best? 1t costs no more.
Telephone 1109. City Office No. 1000 Main
street, corner Tenth. J. 3. FRAwLEY.
General Agent
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
ANCIENT WEALTH.
Prehistoric Treasures That Are Ex-
humed and often Lost 10

The search for gold was the primary OBJ
ject of majority of the early explorers
and conquerors in America. They stripped
the Indians of their treasures OF precious
metal and levied heavy tributes of gold and
silver upon the practically helpless natives.
This search is still continued. ages after
the ancient civilizations have been destroy
ed and the descendants of the primitive
people reduced to abject poverty. The an
cient graves are now the object OF spoila-
ton, and with the same spirit that actuat-
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

the South and the soft air of the sea. Jeykl
does not lie alone on the waters. Within
few miles of 1t are many beautiful ISL
ands, the famed Sea islands which en-
Eroider the coast of South Carolina and
Georgia. and which are noted for raising
the finest cotton of the world. 1t is now
winter here in the North, but December IN
Jekyl is like June in Dakota The flowers
are in bloom and nature has on it's seven
leagued boots of luXuriant life. Your sur
rcundings are those of perpetual spring.
The air is such that 1t opens the soul of
the most ascetic. 1t was here that the
pious Charles Wesley fell in love, and here
John Wesley came to straighten out mis-
brothers. trougle. Here John Wesley
preached some of his great sermons. and
it was on one arm of this island that
Charles Wesley stood when he composed
the well known hymn, the first verse of
which is:
10! on narrow neck of land
'TwiXt two unbounded seas / stand,
Yet how insensible!
A point of time. moments space
Removes ire 10 ynE heavenly place,
Or shu:s me up in hell"
Above JekyI is St Simon's island. upon
which Fanny Kemhle lived for a time. aft
er she had married one of the Sea island
cotton kings, and it was there that Gov
ernor Oglethorp fought the Spaniards more
than quarter of a century before our in
dependence was declared. l went 10 the
island with Mr.. C. w. Deming, the news
paper man of Brunswick, who made him
self famous through bis reports of the
yellow fever here of some years ago. We
had little payltha steam launch, and our
captain and pilot was a oTe-eyed negro
who knew less about boat than the aver
age salt water sailor does about digging
gold in the Rockies. We started at noon
and wound in and out among the islands
through narrow channels until came
into a wide river or strait which lies be-
tween Jekyl island and one of the other
bits of land lying below it.. AS we neared
JelIyl we could see the cottages shining out
of the trees. We rode for some miles
through low, marshy lands, which are
famous for their hunting and are filed
with snipe and ducks. Beyond these we
could see the forests and off in the dis
tance the great casino or club house. where
the most of the members of the club have
their winter quarters. We landed at the
wharf and spent some hours in going about
the island. ---.--..- -. --...
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

He may have-but you can never tell what
the president has DONE know that Fight
ing Bob Evans, who went with him, won't
tell, and that his physician, Doctor O'Reil-
Iy. who was also along like all good doc
tcrs, keeps the secret of his patients. es-
pecially when one of the patients is the
president of the United States.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

the South. There is
no doubt he was very
near to it. But the
details of his journey
have been kept Sc
c-et, and no one
knows whether he
has been wading
about the swamps
trying to bring down
the festive snipe with
his gun or whether
he has been rolling in
the lap of luxury
with the nabobs Of
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
AMERICAS OLDEST MAN.
Said to BE Miguel vejar, of California,
Aged 13O.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
The Oldest living person in the United
States is half-breed Indian Miguel Vejar,
who lives in the valley of the San Jacinto,
in Riverside county, Southern California
He is 13O years old. In 1891 Chief Urbaza
died on the tribal reservation near San
DieGo aged 127 years. Miguel Vejar was
born in Northern Mexico at about 1866
His wonderful age is verified by the rec
ords that were carefully kept until 1881 by
the priests in the Franciscan missions of
Southern California. In 1881 they were
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
The Warm Stratum.

1t was at one time held that the tempera-
ture of the ocean never descended lower
than 80 deg. Fahrenheit. but this unfound-
ed assumption was disproved by the Chal-
lenger expedition. AS low n temperature
as q deg. has been obtained in the South
The freezing point of salt water is % deg.
Fahrenheit. and the fact that II contracts
steadily down to the freezing point instead
within deg. of it, causes the coolest water
to sink always to the bottom. In a sound
ing Of $500 fathoms taken in the South At
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

10! on narrow neck of land
'TwiXt two unbounded seas / stand.
Yet how insensible!
A point of time moments space
Removes ne 10 ynE heavenly place,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
Where Wesley Made Love.

President Cleveland would be delighted
by a visit 10 Jeyk. It is fairy island.
where it is almost always summer Heated
rs II is by the amorous kisses of the vo-
luptuous Cuff stream. the air is always
halny, and the trees are always green. Ii
IS. you know, just opposite Brunswick.
Ga. which is one of the great turpcntine
and resin markets OF the country. and the
sweet smell of the long leaved pines is
mixed with that of the tropical plants OF
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
JEKYL ISLAND, WHERE 100 RICH
MEN SPEND THEIR WINTERS.
TAKES AN INVITATION TO SEE 1T
ITS MILLIONAIRE OWNERS GUARD
WELL ITS PRIVACY.
Where George Gould, Pierpont Nor
gan, the VaDderBiIts and Other
NabobS Go for Rest-Joseph
Pulitzer and His Rent
ed Cottage.

Copyrighted. 1896. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
Washington, Dec. 2s, 1861 wonder If
President Cleveland visited the Isle of
MiDionaires during his last weeks trip to
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-12
RACING AT LOS ANGELES.
Fall Meeting of the Sixth District Agrcui-
turai Association win Open
TO-DAY

LOS ANGELES. CAL, Oct. 1.-THE
Sixth hsAgricultural District Association IS
fair and racing meet will begin at Agricul-
tural Park tomorrow. The attractions
at the turfside for the week promise to be
the most varied and interesting ever pre-
sented in Southern California. On the
opening day, in the 2:14 class trot, such
game steppers as Mamie Griffin, Chris
Petersen, Gillette. Jasper Ayers, Rex Gif-
ford and Challenger will compete. The
2:20 pace will bring together George r.
May, Nutford, San Luisito, Gladys w,
Montecito Boy, Juliet D. Jennie Nc and
Beachw ood. This is big and we'll
matched field. With one or two excep-
tions all the entries to this event are
owned in Southern California, and as sew
eral score up for the word for the first
time this season it will be no easy task to
pick the winner.
The Australian device for starting
horses, which has come into general vogue
since its Introduction at Ingleside track
less than year ago, will be seen in opera
ton at this meeting. The Los Angeles
Der by will be started with the gate. As
the distance is one mile, the start will be
made directly in front OF the grand
stand, and every one will have a chance
to see the machine at work.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-12

versts from Inman, the last station on tn
road, and in many places washed away
For several days telegraph1c communica-
tion with Vladivostock was interrupted.
Grain crops were being gathered and
the hay was stacked in the fields. All
were destroyed, as well as livestock and
the buildings of farmers. There are
meager reports Of great loss OF life.
The Governor of Vladiyostock dis
patched soldiers, steam launches and life
boats to assist in rescue work.
Great distress and a famine will un-
doubtedly result from the loss of stock
and foodstuffs. The Government is doing
all in its power to assist the sufferers, but
from the nature of the country the dis
tress can be but partially alleviated dur
ing the next twelve months. Siberian
papers call for subscriptions to aid the
sufferers.
The season had been exceptionally wet
in that portion OF Siberia. At the
west end of the railway on only
thirty-eight days in the whole season
could field work be carried on. Embark
ments and bridges were washed out and re-
placed again, only to meet the same fate.