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managed To ask.

managed TO ask.
why, her daddy's jest passed
through town, going like wildtire to
head 'em off ut the county seat but
there ain't much chance he git there
IN time. The postmaster looked at
Pike curiously as he spoke. His com
panions were likewise puzzled to know
what caused the color to leave the
bachelor s cheeks
Pike broke the awkward pause that
followed the postmaster last remark
II must be gettin home" he said
GOOD day to you oil"
He turned and walked abruptly away
from the group and entered the drug
store.
"Mr. Smart, 1 don't believe can
use these here drops"
The apothecary mechanically received
the package from Pike. He asked no
questions. but emptied the candy into
the jar and returned the dime The
bachelor left the establishment without
word: He went direct to Smith 8
store.
NEEDN'T to mind about that suit, +"
he said to the proprietor. 'I've con-
cluded don't want it.
Esau is dead, but George Pike still
lives i'll solitude on his farm near Hill
Top. Although the incidents Of the
story narrated in the foregoing para
graphs occnrrcd 90 years ago, the old
bachelor $ secret has never escaped his
lips Even al this late day old residents
OF Hill Ton occasionally ;!,i each oihrr.
~ wonder what caused George Pike
70 art 80 pecnliarlil:c on The day ;hlt
Harvey airl elnred '-Sg. Lpuij 4,
luhlic.
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A Mathematical Name.

A good story is told of the Rev Otti-
well Wood, accelerated English preach
er. Mr.. Wood had to appear as wit
ness in a north country assize court and
was asked and gave his name in due
course. "What?'' asked the judge
peevishly, being rather deaf Mr. Wood
repeated his answer. Cant hear you.
Spell it out. snapped the judge. 80,
double T, /, double U, E. double L,
double U. double 0. D." The judge
threw down his pen in despair.
This is even q more remarkable narne
than that of the late Admiral w. w.
Wodd, which the cadets at the Annapo-
lis Naval academy, when he was an in
structor in mathematics there, always
wrote "W cube, 0 square. D."-Buf-
falo Commercial
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JOHN HITTsON'S ROUND UP.

W, |
New Mexico, underwent many in. |
vasions from the time tho Toltecs |
and Aztecs campcd III her valleys
on their long march southwark to
the valley of Mexico up to the un.
furling of the United States flag in
Sante Fe by General Phil Kcarney
in 1876" said the man from Colo.
RADIO in al up town hotel last night.
but doubt if any other conquer
ing hero ever created quite the sen
sation among her people that Cat
tlenan John HittGon did with his
army Of Texan cowboys when, in
the early seventies, ho marched
across her eastern border and began
to round up the cattle. 1t was IL pri-
Watering expedition. and tho leader
bore letters OF marque, issued by
the governor Of Texas, empowering
him to coniiscato and appropriate
amy cattle he should find beyond the
western limit OF the static bearing
the brands, Of Texan owners.
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scientifically Correct.

"And when I proposed to her she
turned all the colors Of the rainbow at
once"
''How can You make such ridicu-
lous assertion 2"
'All the colors at once, If You havo
not forgotten your high school lessons,
you ought to know make white In
dianapolis Journal.
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TAKE NOTICE,

'GliE t"rarirer:l;ip oxi-finv between
H. i. .iAien an! j. Il, rril;;i. under
-" trn. "ai''c g: .'li,r. K j'ru.:, las
iiiS day ,Hn ''irsnivrd u. .n,nnl con
s";i! 80 'nih PARTIES init rested, i f.
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF ANDERSON
COURT Oa! COMMON PLEAS


W NJ W'h'' AMI i:.t. w,,r, partners ia trade a,
t,idrrS"n. : e.. isnccr tl.r firm nam of W,hi,
!. webb llhiuit.. asAI,,,r +. NJ Niruly a.
trustee iNr t." 'isl':l,r "i tiurihy 81
'!,c'"s"'. Lucas " Nii.f li,. =. i.urisr VI !r-
my. Ir"nr' Arr. ih'rn'fly Aiurlhy ~, Mur-
ihy. 'la''i' r.l,y. .'r.D DO.' NAr ~ ANA
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~: ~ your answer - ih,' .it ..o...Ii. oi.
;h'' srl'riihors ai ih'lr "1i,.. Aui.tso. rrar;
it'ntr. N'nth carolina. within vrniy iaS- a.i.r
s'f.ir'; AaA Is :on TAI! 10 answer the comp ll;mi
wiih;n li" t.ir aforesaid, The Plaintiff, in ,hia
action ~ apply IL ia" Court for the relic. de-
maud. IN h" Complaint,
Pate. And'i."n. So, January II. isy"
ipNiiAM y WATKINS,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
SEAL jcm; Z. WArKlHs. {. l..
/. '''' absent Defendant. Clarence Murphy
on viii take notice ,lat Tho Complaint, in this
aM'li''i. M '"i''hcr with copy Of the Summons. WAS
h'rh h'rh III 'i," oi.ic" 81 the Clerk Of the Court OF
"'ntn"n i!ras ter Anderson County on January
I'M ls.'', ana ar"ry oi same is herewith served
on You EoNIlAM * WATKINS,
Jan H. iN'' Plaintiffs Attorneys.
/" thc l!.iA! heirn'lAils, Claude Murphy, Clar-
rn'c Al"rHhy and ionis Murphy
'h ana '"h 81 you are hereby not flied that
hhi'>' within twenty days after service of this
Sunmon. an! tniirl..int yu,I you procure the
appointment "f Guardians nj lilru to represent
y"'i IN This action" the llaintin, will procure such
aprn'ii ih'nts 10 i,c r:lir
IUNll.N = WArKl%S plaiuiit,,' At,ys
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Dissolution Of Copartuership.

NI5soIUt20N OF CopaftneTshlp.
Al, i',ru. .: FREEMAN ~ PACK
was d".S,ivc'. ;,u 10" 30 !, rf ,Iau,ia-
rv. P"r-"i.- owing th- t'irn' will ;.n.sa
i..nN" in'H~t!ito payment to mo or IN =
nuiiinr.ZrH .t..r,i; only. y II claims ayaius;
I'll" Firm viii l,n rendered t. mo AZ Green
rii!r, :. G..
W !, FREEMAN.
Fob S 1880 II: ~
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= Diogenes lived in tub, but you
have never heard that there was any
water in it.
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A woman mourns her mother-in-
law deeply when black is becoming to
her.
- Conceit frequently produces "a
placid expression which passes for
goodness.
- The most profound problem of
our lives is why other people don t
like us.
- The man who keeps his mouth
shut seldom acquires the reputation
of liar
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20

WANTED - SEVERAL TRUSTWORTHY
w Persons In this state to manage our
business in their own and nearby counties.
IL il mainly Office work conducted at home.
salary straight 500 year and expenses
definite, bo nafdc no more, no less salary
Monthly $40. References. Enclose self al
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert n. Hess.
Prest., Dept. MChicag0. l.26
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Success in Politics.

The men who win at politics are
the men who play politics all the
year round. The average Ameri-
can citizen considers himself much
superior to the average American
professional politician; and when
the average American citizen, a few
weeks before cleo ion, takes an in
terest in this candidate or that can
didate-tries to bring about his
friends nomination for assembly
man, say, and finds the assembly
district convention in control of the
politician, who proceeds to nomi-
nate whom he pleases, as he pleases
without regard TO the feelings oil
superiority of the average American
citizen, the average American citi
zen cannot understand it at all
The secret of the whole matter i,
that thepolitician keeps everlasting
ly at it. He goes about among hi
people day and night and reaps thu
fruit of his labor at convention time
The citizen devotes few hours or
few days to politics every year anC
wonders that he can't carry conven
tons ard dictate nominations lik
his neighbor, the district leader o
ward committeeman. -Cosmopoli
tan for January.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20
Appellate Court Makes IN Interesting
Decision rs to Married WOmen's
Contract.

The following is the syllabus OF
the decision of the Appellate court.
1t will be far. reaching a. to bust
ness men and their wives.
1862. Roache VS.. Union trust
company, administrator. Marion
&C. Reversed Wiley, j.
/. A contract by husband to
pay his wife ceftain reasonable wa
ges for clerking in his store, or do
ing other work not ordina' lily Incl
dent to her marital duties, is sup
ported by sufficient consideration
and may be enforced.
2. Where a wife received such
wages and invested them for her
own benefit, and afterward loaned
them to her husband and took his
note for the amount loaned, such
notes are valid claim against his
estate in the hands of an assignee
to whom he has transferred it fol
the benefit of his creditors.
3. A married woman may make
any contract not forbidden by some
statute.
Judge Wiley, of the appellate
court, discussed at length the cor
tractual rightc of married women in
an opinion handed down Friday, in
the case of Elizabeth Roache, OF
Indianapolis, against the Union
Trust company, assignee OF Patrick
Roache, her husband. Mrs. Roache
worked in her husbands dry goods
store at SO 80 or $3.50 week for
several years. The money was paid
her by her husband and she invest
ed it heie and there, but loaned
most of it to her husband, taking
notes aggregating over ~ 900.
This money the husband invested
in his business. Mrs. Roache filed
the notes in court as claim against
the estate. The Marion circuit
court refused to allow the claim, on
the ground thatthe contract between
husband and wife was null. The
appellate court reverses the lower,
holding the contract and the claims
good for TIE reason that the statute
regarding contracts of wife and hus
band does not expressly inhitit the
one in question. If the contract
had been for pay for services in
household duties. then the court
says the contract would have been
void. Such a contract as that OF
Mrs. Reaches would have been
void in common law. The request
for new trial is granted. Indiana.
polls Sun.
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A Rope Made of Spider Webs.
New York Evening Post)


To furnish an exceedingly light
rope to be used with the balloons OF
theFrench military utdivision
the webs of spiders are made use Of /,
ard spun into a rope which posses
SEES considerable strength, while at
the same time it is quite light. The
spiders used in this operation are
arranged in groups of twelve, each
one located about reel, on which
the insect is expected to spin from
thirty to forty yards Of thread. The
web is then washed and eight Of the
threads are woven together into a
cord, which is both lighter and
stronger than silk, and is very val
liable in balloon construction.
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Madison Township Trustee
Notice.

Notice is gwen that hereafter the Trus
tee of Mad son township will be at the
office of DR.. Bean. in Ireland, on every
Saturday, for the pur bose of attending &c
township business, and all persons hay
ing business with the township are ex
pected to confine it to those days.
The township library is KEEP. at lsaa,
Alexander's in Ireland, where all may
obtain the books.
The Indiana School books will be
found at VIM. T. Young's store at al,
times. john r. NORMAN,
Aug. IS, '95-y Trustee Madison TIP
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An Old Adage Reads:

"There is a place for everything.
Now for everything to be in its
place the Louisville Dispatch should
be in the home of every Democrat.
The Louisville Dispatch is the peo-
v'le's paper, owned by the people
I nd read by the people. Tie
!, .ouisville Dispatch is the only
! emocratic paper published in
ouisville. 1t stands squarely on
ne Chicago platform. 1t is not on
y in a hourishing condition after
eighteen months battleing against
adverse circumstances, but is to-
day the best news medium in the
South. And its Motto-If you see
it in the Dispatch it's so; if it's Sc
it is always in the Dispatch, has
been fully verified during the Ameri
can-Spanish War, during which the
superiority of its news service has
been daily apparent.
The Dispatch news service il
furnished by The New York Sun
The Chicago Inter Ocean, Tn,
Northern Press Association ard Tn,
Leslie Syndicate, with an activ,
salaried correspondent in every i'm
portant city in the world, besides
its own staff of over $50 correspon
dents in Kentucky, Tennessee anc
Indiana Got Tho Dispatob I,
gives the news, and it tells the trutl
about it.
The Dispatch is Kentucky
greatest paper. You should be
reader. For the next few weeks w
will club the JASPER COURIER witt
the Weekly Dispatch at the ex
tremely low price of $l.25 for bot
papers, in advance.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20
CHANGING THE CALENDAR.
How Our Almanacs Are Kept In Accord
with the Clock In the Sky.

Jan. is not comparable as a public
holiday with Christmas as to the uni
versatility or antiquity Of its observance.
Before 1852 the year began on March
25. The change in the calendar was
made in that year for Great Britain by
an act Of parliament, and we inherited
the existing custom Of marking the be-
ginning of the year from the mother
country. The day was not observed in
colonial times with the formality which
has marked its observance in later years.
After the colonies had adjusted business
affairs to the new date, the LIST of Janu-
airy grew in Importance and in course Of
time became legal holiday.
An interesting incident Of the change
Of the calendar in 1852 was the drop
ping Of III days between Sept. and
IA, giving that month only 10 days, to
bring the English into harmony With
the Gregorian calendar. The omission
Of the IL days attracted great interest.
and long notice Of the proposed innova-
ton was given in the newspapers Of the
period, SO that business affairs could be
accommodated to what was called the
new style" The act Of parliament cor
recting the calendar also ordained that
the years 1900, 1900, 400, 2200, $500
or any hundredth year, except only
every fourth hundredth, shall not be
deemed leap years, but shall be consid-
cred common years Of 365 days only and
that the years 1000, 2400, $500 and
every fourth hundredth shall be leap
years, consisting of $3.50 days.
Every year whose number is divisible
by -four is leap year, except only when
the number ends with 90, in which case
it is leap year only when the preceding
figures are divisible by four BY this
rule the year 1900 will not be a leap
year, while the year 1000 will be. BY
this ingenious arrangement, says a
writer, "our almanacs are kept in har
mony as nearly as may be with the great
clock Of the skies, the only perfect time.
piece" All the old colonial literature
Tor some time after the change referred
20 gave dates under both the old and
new styles TO prevent confusion. -Phila.
delphia Ledger.
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Hall Township Business

HNotice is hereby given that the under
signed, Trustee OF Hall township, will
attend to township business on each Sat
urday of the year, at my office, and per
sons having township business to tran.
sact are required to present it TO him op
Saturdays.
The township library will also be found
a: my office near Rosamond, and the CIT
liens are invited to call there for library
books.
The Indiana Series of School books
may be had at my office, and at John j..
Meschede's, in Celestine.
LEVI l.. JACOBS,
Trustee Hall township.
Aug. 8, 1877
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Institutions Get Their Money.

Deputy Auditor Of State Hart sent
to the treasurer of each of the three
state educational institutions war
rant on the state treasurer for the
Institutions special tax revenue foi
the last half of 1898. The State
university got $50, 2S3. IA, the State
normal school 500, 462. 36 and Pur-
due university 500, 462 ,36.-Indian
apolis Sentinel.
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Small -Pox In the Indiana Regiment.

HAVANA, Jan. 14.-There are now
seven smallpox patients in the
l6lst Indiana regimental hospital,
and surgeon-mai. Smith fears that
perhaps half dozen more may con-
tract the disease before he succeeds
in stamping it out. The surgeons
com plain that acquisitions for vac
cine virus were sent to Washington
over two weeks ago, but that they
are still unhonored.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20
DEATH REMOVES DINGLEY.

Hon. Nelson Dingley, Of Maine,
leader Of the republican side of the
house Of representatives, died, Fri
day night, at 1890, Of heart failure,
due to double pneumonia. The
past few days had given great hope
of recovery, and only when it be-
came apparent that he was dying
was the family called to his bed
side.
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Boone Township Trustees
Notice.

The undersigned, Trustee OF Boone
township, Dubois county, hereby gives
notice that he will attend 10 all business
pertaining 10 the office OF Trustee, at his
residence, about one mile west Of ior-
tersville, on Portersville and Ireland
road, on Saturdays OF each week, and
requests all persons having township
business TO present il on saturday. Citi-
zens desiring books from the Township
Library, are notified that the Library is
kept by VIM. Mcllarris, in Portersvllle,
n. b. CoFFMAS, Trustee.
Aug Z. lS97--y.
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Columbia Township Trus-
tees Notice.

The undersigned, Trustee OF Column
bia Tp., Dubois county, Ind, will attend
TO Township business AT his residence on
every Saturday, and persons having
township business TO transact are re-
quested TO present il on that day OF the
week.
The Township Library is kept at the
office of the Trustee, where those en-
titled can obtain books.
r. z. SMITH, Trustee.
Aug. 10th, 1897 V.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20
A Good Initiation.

The other day an amateur artist was
producing some rapid sketches to amuse
his children. He drew sketch Of hen
so naturally that when it was afterward
thrown in the waste paper basket 1t laid
there London Fun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-01-20

Suspended from the thlrd-stoTy
balconies of the state house and
hanging in front Of the main en-
trance Of the governors office is the
famous battle flag OF the ship lndi-
ana, that waved from that gallant
vessel and cheered the stout hearts
of her brave officers and fighters or
July 3, 1898, when she took a
prominent part in sinking the
Spanish fleet before the harbor OF
Santiago de Cuba.
In the private office Of the custo-
dian of the state house is Norden :
feldt machine gun, taken from the
firing top of the Maria Teresa, one
Of the most powerful of the doomed
Spanish ships that went down be-
fore the American guns on that oc-
casion.
These two historical trophies We're
Yesterday morning presented to the
state OF Indiana by the officers and
crews of the good ship taat bears
the name of this state. The pre-
sentation was a memorable and
patriotic affair and was. witnessed
by the state officers, members OF
the legislature and several thousand
persons who crowded the corridors
# Indiana's capitol. One of the
central figures OF the occasion was
native of Indiana, who has just
retired from the command of the
great American navy-Admlral
George Brown.
CAPT. TAYLOR REPRESENTED.
W. II. Elliott of the New Castle
Courier, represented Capt. Taylor,
of the Indiana. Mr.. Elliott is grad
uated from the naval academy, was
a midshipman on board the Con
stitution in 1861, during the great
battles and victories of that vessel,
and saw years of service on the
high seas.-Ind. Sentinel.
The question of the hour in Mas
sachusetts Just now is what to do
with the 10 900 extra women of that
state. The men are doing most OF
the agitating; but it is understood
that the women are back of it, and
some Of them have already con
cluded as a beginning to oppose
both the the bachelor candidates for
mayor at Boston. 1t is to be hoped
that this will result in a race to the
parson, and that the candidate who
gets there first with his blushing
partner will win the municipal stake.
cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-17
DEBS' RAIL WAY STRIKE ECHO
Test Suit Brought by PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Against Cook County
for Damages by Fire.

CLEVELAND, o., Nov. l6.r-Seyersi Cleye-
land citizens were subpoenaed in the test
suit brought by the Pennsylvania railroad
against Cook county Illinois for damages by
fire sustained during the strike several years
ago.
The Cleveland officials are brought in the
case through William Inglis, alias Bloom,
who was arrested here in 1897, on the charge
of firing the Kelly block. Bloom feigned in
sanity so well that he was finally committed
to the city infirmary. He escaped from
that institution soon afterward and has
never been heard of since.
When Bloom was first arrested here, he
said in the presence of several city Of
fcals. that he was deputy United States
marshal in Chicago at the time of the
railroad strike and started the fire that
destroyed thousands of cars and other prop
erty The Pennsylvania company will try
to attempt to prove that Bloom started the
fire that destroyed its property and that
he was not insane.