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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16
Floral Decorations.

There is no more artistic decora-
ton than flowers; they give the
note Of refinement even to a room
that seems otherwise impossible,
and they cheer and brighten as no
other dumb thing can. Somebody
has called them "heaven's messen-
gers. :" And yet there is Que mel
ancholiy thing about them says an
exchange-t h e r transientness.
Preachers have a way of noticing it
and pointing a moral, and the aver
age woman sighs-because brief
staying charms make flowers an
expensive luxury.
Flowers treated properly can last
and look well even after six weeks,
thus taking from them their only
reproach, and rendering them pos
siLle pleasures for the poorest.
Every night take them out of the
vases and thoroughly rinse the
stalks under the tap, removing with
the fingers any decomposei matter.
Then place them to bed for the
night in basin OF strong soapsuds.
BE careful not to allow any water
to touch the blossoms, as this only
fades them. The soapsuds supply
a certain amount of nourishment.
In the morning, rinse the stalks
under water again, and as each
blossom is arranged for the day in
the vase of fresh water snip off the
tiniest possible portion of the stalk
with pair of scissors. Always
carefully trim away any faded por-
ton. Food for the day is supplied
by sulphate of ,ammonia, a small
quantity Of which can be bought at
any druggist fer a few cents.
If he knows his business he will
he able to tell you that sulphate of
ammonia contains all the properties
of good manure for keeping the
blossoms alive. A few drops in each
vase is quite sufficient; indeed, if
you use the soapsuds at night, as
well as the sulphate of ammonia in
the day, some intervals must be
spent by the flowers in nothing but
clear, cold water. 1t is possible to
kill with kindness, remember.
Put the flowers at night into some
dark, cool place, say scullery or
pantry, as il is not good either for
the flowers or for the household that
that they should remain altogether
in the living rooms.
To revive flowers put them into
warm salt water, to which has been
added few drops of sulphate ef
ammonia.
To keep spray Of arranged flow
ers, place on damp cotton wool un-
der a basin. This keeps the air
away and preserves the blossoms.
The fragile, delicate maidenhair fern
is best treated in this way.-Prairie
Farmer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16
w. CT. U. COLUMN
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. l.. HOBBS.


The Rams Horn Of last week
blew a blast that it is hoped viii
reach the tympanum Of the gentle
man in the White House who has
power to wipe out the canteen with
a stroke of his pen.
The editorial referred to is as fol
lows:
San awful responsibility lies al
the door of the national administra-
ton. 1t must answer for the deaths
of hundreds of American youth who
have fallen victims, not TO Spanish
guns, but of fever. Whether the
President and his official advisers
will answer this solemn indictment
to the satisfaction of their country
men depends, in great part, upon
the result of the congressional In
quiry which is surely impending
But no official inquiry board can
glance over this canning fact, that
what killed the greatest number OF
our soldiers was, not lack OF medi
cine, not lack of food, but it was
the presence almost everywhere, OF
beer, rum or whisky, the use OF
which SO thoroughly disarranged
the digestive organs, that no food
gave nourishment, and the soldiers
who INDUCED in these stimulants
tell prey to disease. They posses
sed no reserve force to combat 1t.
We make this charge with the sol
emn conviction o. its truth, afler
repeated interviews with regular and
volunteer soldiers who have return.
ed from Cuba, and from the encamp.
ments in the southern states. 1t is
the universal report that those sold
iers who drank liquor, were frs to
tall in the swift and unseen attack
Of fever. Thousands of mothers
and fathers having sons in the coun-
try's service this summer, learning
that they have lost their lives and
their souls, perhaps, by reason OF
the poisonous and vicious environ
ments which the regimental beer
shop has produced, are gathering
in mighty union of protest to the
president, and their protest will
take the form af a demand that he
break away from the coils Of the
LIQUOR power and close the army
canteen. If he does not do so, he
must bear on his own individual
head the obloquy and curse which
only parent can heap upon one
who has been accessory to the ruin
Of child.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16
Her Method.

There is but one way of insuring
good work, the old fashioned one Of
being on the spot.
"How do you always manage to
have such delicious meats?" asked
one housekeeper of another.
"Well, select good, honest
butcher and then stand by him"
"fou mean you give him all
your trader"
"No; mean that | stand by him
while he is cutting the meat. y
Youths Companion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

Boy, to sea captain who has a
reputation to maintain-"Did you
ever get your leg bit off by a shark
captain?"
Captain-"Did |, sonny? Did I?
Well, rather. Dozens of times l''-
Tit Bits.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

"f!ow did you get such a pleas
ant expression on that ugly Miss
Passee's portra:t?"
81 got her to telling me about
men she might have married. -
Brooklyn Life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

"Do you give any thought to the
future?" asked the cleric Il looking
man, solemnly.
do IL" exclaimed the giddy
young thing. "Well, sayl you
don't happen to know Of any real
nice, eligible young man, do you?"
Chicago Post.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

"Dickie, did you give your papa
and mamma my thanksgiving din
ner invitation?"
"Yes'm, ma said she'd accept
with pleasure, an pa said tiat he
wouldn't 60 if " come after him
with policeman. Detroit Free
Press.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

VxYANTEp SEVERAL TRUSTWORTHY
w Persons in this state to manage our
business In their own and nearby counties.
IL u mainly Office work conducted AT home.
salary straight 500 "A year and expenses
definite bonafldc. no more, no less salary
Monthly SIS References. Enclose self ad
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert u. Hess
rrcst., Dept. M.Chicago. 1St
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16

The wis, man gets lot of free
instruction from fools,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-12-16
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. z. COX,
Attorney at Law,
JASPER, INDIANA,

Prosecuting Attorney for the 18th Judicial
Circuit, and will carefully attend to any civil
business entrusted TO him in any county OF
che circuit
once in spayd's building on Public Square
Dec. 9, 'S2-ly
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
Gun play In School.

On Monday, the 14th inst, says
the Salem ''Monitor," at the open
ing of school, in Black Oak district
Ernest Sites, son of j. G. Sites,
entered the school room. The teach
CT, E. l.. Mari, asked him what he
was there for. Sites said he was
there to attend school. He was
told by the teacher that being over
school age (2O) he could not at
tend. Sites replied that children
were there attending school who
were under school age (under 6
years. and that he did not see why
he could not enjoy the same privi-
ilege. The teacher is said to have
told Sites that he would give him
just one minute to get out of the
school room, and picked up a small
clock to note the time. Half min
uet later Mari told Sites his time
was half up. At the end of a min
ute Marr drew a revolver from his
pocket and fired at Sites, the ball
grazing the left side of his neck
breaking the skin near the main
artery, or jugular voin. The shot
was fired over the head of a little
son of w. O. Bonebreak, and it is
reported that his face is powder
burned.
Sites immediately left the room
and the teacher, Marr, dismissed
school and went home. A warrant
was issued from the circuit clerk
Office here, on information filed by
Prosecuting Attorney Cope, and
Mari was arrested and gave bond
for his appearance at preliminary
hearing.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
From Bonne Terre.

The public school at this place OPEN
ed on the l4th inst, but the new s25.-
600 school house was not formally
dedicated until yesterday evening.
The exercises were held in the audi
torium of the lyceum and the large
hall was filled to its utmost capacity
with an intelligent and appreciative
audience. Speeches were made by
J. Wyman Jones, president of the St.
Joe Lead Company: Prof. Gray, supt.
Bonne Terre public schools, and Rev.
Boehm, pastor NJ. E. Church, South.
The speech Of the occasion, par excel
lence, was made by Rev. Mr.. Boehm,
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
LongfelloW to be illustrated.

Last year Charles Dana Gibson
illustrated ''The people of Dickens
for the Ladies' Home Journal. The
pictures were so successful that
this year, and during next year,
w. l.. Taylor, the New England
artist who has made such rapid
strides in his art, will illustrate
''The People of Longfellow''-
also for The Ladies' Home Journ-
al. The poems selected are ''The
Psalm Of Life,' ''Hiawatha, :"
''Evangelinc," " ''The Courtship OF
Miles Standish," ''The Children's s
Hour" ''The Village Blacksmith, -
and others.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

for the forces of nature to do the
work he wants done. Certain in
strumcnts have been invented and
u metallic connection formed be-
tween them. Because the condi-
tions are at hand, Ole can now do
something that would have seemed
witchcraft to our unscientiic anccs-
tors.
What promise of conquest of
the unknown is contained in this!
Wireless telephony is almost with
in our grasp. The time may not
be distant when the human voice
will be heard from hemisphere to
hemisphere, and the solid globe it.
self be but a conductor for the
winged fire that bears the spoken
word. ost-Dispatch.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
and was not only enthusiastically ap
plauded but was in the nature ola sur

and was not only enthusiastically ap-
plauded but was in the nature of sur
prise to all present. The occasion was
of great interest to the community one
and was duly appreciated.
With the advantage of the best pro-
vided school building in southeast Mis-
souri, and under thesable management
Of one of the foremost educators in
the state, it is easy to believe that a
new era of prosperity has opened up
on the Bonne Terre public school.
The opening day of the schools
showed an enrolment of of 522 which
figure is now doubtless considerably
surpassed.
Pres. Jones, Vice-Pres. Crane,
Treasurer Camp, Secretary Dwight
Jones, and MessrS. kidder and Cole,
representing the st. Joe Lead Co.,
were here On their semi-annual official
visit last week. These gentlemen ex-
pressed themselves as highly pleased
with the condition and prospects of
the immense business interests that
they represent. Having finished their
business they departed for New York
Monday.
About o'clock on the morning of
the 18th the thoroughly equipped meat
market and ice house of A. Gidley
were entirely destroyed by fire, togeth-
er with steam meat chopper, engine
and boiler, etc. Mr.. Gidley puts his
loss ,at $500, all of which falls On
himself, as the proximity of the ice.
house, which is barred by insurance
companies, prevented the carrying of
any insurance, whatever. Mr.. Gidley
is hardworking, Industrious and en-
terprising citizen and the misfortune
which has oyertaken him is regretted
by all who know him.
Among the many new houses that
have been erected here during this
fall none is more deserving of special
notice than the elegant, three story,
residence of Supt j. Burns, OF the NJ.
r. & B. T. Ry., now nearing compile
tion. While presenting an elegant
appearance on the outside, it will be
finished on the inside with the latest
improvements, including hot-water
heating apparatus, electric lights,
etc. j. NJ. X.
November q, 1898.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

Bro. AXE, of the Iron County
s'Register" last week commented
at some length upon the peculiar
ties of Washington County politics.
Among other thing he mentions,
that it is reported that the Repub-
lican State Committee put 81 1000
in the county, lone leader getting
$4OO, and another $780," the checks
being cashed at De Soto. We arc
surprised that the astute editor
of the s'Register" should place
confidence enough in this story to
give it publication. This cry of
Republican noodle was raised after
the election by the Democrats in
order to turn attention from their
own now notorious Doodle cam
paign- The Republican candidates
for State offices received a majori-
ty Of ia in this county, and no
one would he so foolish as to in
innate that money brought about
this lead on the straight party
vote. Only two candidates on the
Republican county ticket-Sheriff
and the Presiding Judge of the
County Court-ran ahead of the
State ticket. Thus, the more the
returns are studied the more con-
vincing it becomes that not the
Republicans, but the Democrats
used the Doodle here. AS secretary
and treasurer Of the Republican
County Committee we state pos
itively that the State Committee
sent no money into this county,
to. be used through the local organ
ization, and it is hardly likely any
could have been sent to individual
candidates without notification to
tho county committee. Bro. AXE
saws he can't understand the re-
suit of the election in this county.
that the Democrats should get all
the moneyed Offices in the face of
big Republican majority. There
is an easy answer to the problem
aside from one or two instances
whore personal popularity of the
candidate figured, Democratic boo
die did it.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

The ''Independent'' has figured
it out that the salaries and fees of
tie six Democratic officials elected
will, during their term of Office,
amount to S21, 600, while the re-
muneration of the six Republicans
elected, in the same time, will only
be- $1,000. We arc glad to give
these figures to our readers, they
show how expensive it is for Re-
publicans to scratch.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
A Telephone Marvel.

With the completion of the long
distance telephone line between
Bar Harbor, Me-, and Austin,
Tex, another wonder has been
wrought by modern invention.
# is indeed marvellous that the
human voice will on this line be re.
produced instantaneously 26O0
miles from the spot where the
speaker stands.
And it is noteworthy that this
wonder is performed simply by
mans making suitable conditions
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

Our. new island territories are
rich and resourceful enough to pay
their own running expenses, SO we
won't lie awake and lose sleep
thinking how much it is going to
cost Uncle Sam to govern them.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

BRYAN thinks the late Republi-
can success was due to the war is
sues, aud yet MIR. Bryan's party
did all it could to keep the cam
.aign along this line by claiming
the credit for having forced the
war upon Spain.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

The next Missouri Legislature
will be Democratic, but, alas! the
Mitchim family will not be repre-
scnted therein. Both Frank and
Charlie fell dead outside the breast
works.-Cape Girardeau Gazette.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

EVERY once in a while some
Democratic paper lets 60 an cdi-
torial yawp about the ''Chinese
wall'' of protection killing our for
eign trade, and in the next issue it
will print the figures showing how
many hundred of millions our for
eigu trade has expanded in the last
year or two.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

The next session of the Missouri
Legislature is expected to give US
better road. laws, but as that body
will continue to be controlled by
a Bourbon majority, we don't look
for much Improvement.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

The scandal the Democratic
raoers and orators tried to kick
up in connection with army affairs
previous to the election, appears to
have been abCrtive in effect.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

The vote for Congress in this
county shows that Reppy received
eleven more votes than Steel did
in 1896, while Robb ran fifty-three
behind his vote of two years ago.
The intelligent work of the ''Journ-
ar'' is apparant in these figures.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23
j. y. FAHRIs beat E. G.. Baugh-
~ .u the race for State Senator in
ac 9th district by 1900. majority.
The small-fry Democratic politi-
clans in Missouri are now engaged
in Il wild scramble for legislative

THE scratching Republicans in
his county have made themselves
Z raw place which the Democrats
ao,v take delight in rubbing.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

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restore its health. 25c. For sale at
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-11-23

Tread in the Christian Standard off remark.
able discovery for the cure Of DEAFNESS which
seemed so reasonable and simple resolved
to try 1t, having been deaf in my right ear,
from which there had been . most disagree
able discharge for eighteen years. From the
time was one year old was afflicted with .
distressing cough; / had severe headaches
and my eyes were very sore, com mpelling me
to wear glasses. Catarrh troubled me worse
At night and in the morning. Ialways had to
sleep with my head propped up on five or six
pillows on account OF difficult breathing and
paroxysms OF coughing. My throat was very
sore; tonsfls enlarged. To my great surprise
and qualification my hearing WAS restored
the very nrst time used the treatmen
within three months my voice and throat,
which had been seriously affected, were cured,
the discharge and distressing cough stopped,
my eyes were much improved, and received
benefits in many ways that cannot describe.
I breathed freely and easily again. Aerial
Medication is certainly q grand discovery,
and it gives me much pleasure to recon-.
mend it.-Miss Lizzie Paisley, Lisbon, Ohio.
FREE.
Aerial Medication will positively cure deafness
catarrh, throat and lung diseases To prove this i
WILL for . short time, send medicines for three
months treatment free. For symptom form AID
particulars address
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-17
Engiand's Big warships,

The proportion of ships Of very large
dimensions to the total number built is
not nearly so great as is often asserted.
Taking the 100 ships Of the English
navy, it may be interesting to arrange
them according to displacement ton
nages. There are 20 ships over IA, 600
tons All but two are battleships. The
exceptions are the Powerful and the Ter
rible, cruisers Between 1000 and ID,
900 tons there are III ships, battle
ships and cruisers; between 10, 600
and $4,000, 10 ships, 2 being battle
ships Twelve cruisers are from s, 500
to 8, 100 tons, "a between 1000 and
8, 500 tons, As between 2, 900 and 4, 600
tons Between 1000 and 1000 tons
there are 20 vessels, and 4S are less
than /, 900 tons Little more than one
fifth of the total number are over 1000
tons Sir w. IL White in Nineteenth
Century.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-17
THE Star spsngled Banner

Talking Of the obligation upon the
American to know something about the
nations patriotic songs, story Lillian
Russell tells will be in place: Miss Rus
sell had been asked to assist in the open
Ing ceremonies of Carnegie Music Hall,
in Pittsburg, and when she went to the
rehearsal it struck her that it was some
what odd that 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner'' was not included in the pro-
gramme. She suggested that it should
be put in at once. "All right, said the
master of ceremonies, "but who knows
the words right now, so that we may
go over them with the organ?" Miss
Russell confessed she did not know a
line-so did every singer there. 1t re-
manned for German painter who was
putting the finishing touches to the fres-
Goes on the ceiling to call down that be
knew 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner. "
"Give US themi" the singers cried.
And be did-but in German
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-06-17

from Tom Barker at Richfield Springs.
Persimmon was the next wood tried,
and the two, with hickory for shafts,
have since been in strong demand.
Greenheart is also used for shafts sue
cessfully, but it is apt to be too stlif.
The German boss now furnishes the
wood, supplying any sort of head or
shaft wanted by the gross He obtains
the dogwood and persimmon in Vir-
ginia, hickory in New Jersey and this
state, and greenheart from the West
Indies. He has made many experiments
with different woods for heads. Cedar,
California redwood, poplar, black gum
and maple were found to be too soft,
elm and ash too variable, and oak too
short grained and brittle. The old wood
turner has now in hand an experiment
in shafts that he thinks may amount to
something. This is the use of close
grained reddish African wood, sent TO
him by Beveridge, the clubmaker at
Shinnecock Hills. According to Bever-
idge, the wood is called assegai, and is
used by the Zulus for their spears, as
the Indians formerly used Lakewood for
arrows.
Apple wood makes durable and re-
silent head, but it is so apt to be knot
ty and hard that it does not pay the
wood turner to use it as staple COM
modify. A carefully selected piece Of
apple wood, he admits, will make good
head. He says the same of certain roots
brought to him by some amateur golf
ers. Both apple wood and roots have
merits, but they cost more time and
money than they are worth to Gull the
good from the bad blocks.
The wood turner's opinions, while
based only on the commercial side OF
the question, agree with the experiences
of American golfers Hickory is incom-
parable for shafts, and in our change
able climate dogwood and persimmon
are more satisfactory than beech in the
heads. In the moist air of Scotland or
England beech head will keep so soft
and springy that It will show the dent
of the ball after the drive, and when
the face wears away the head is still
kept serviceable by refacing Of leath-
err. But in this country beech hardens
and chips or splits, and it cannot be de-
pended on. Dogwood. if well seasoned,
is as durable as compressed wood or
metal. and whether faced with leather
or not does not lose its resiliency on ac-
count of its hardness. Many players
hold that when seasoned dogwood
head can be obtained for the second
play club it is useless to carry bras
sey, for where the dogwood cannot be
trusted it is time to use an iron. New
York Sun.