The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-01-12
THE NOW or NEVER CLUB.


Hall on the vacated alley on Dec
81, 1879 At II 2. NJ. Without
were ringing the bells Of the Trinity
Tower and the bells of st. Joseph,
whose voices were drowned by the
toot- Of the whistles of the mills on
the banks OF the frozen Patoka, in
terspersed by the occasional bang
Of blank cartridge and the war
vhoop Of our neighbDr, as the sky
rocket crashed through his window
and exploded over his sleeping
couch, and within everything was
silent aud decorous. The warm
stove hummed in silent content
ment; the clock on the she'll on the
wall tic-tacked measurely along
the electric lights shown brilliantly
and the huge silver loving cup onl
TIE table was emptied OF its de i ID s
New Year Punch.
The president, Silver-top, presid-
ed over the meeting; the secretary
wrote down the minutes in "A huge
book; and the directors sat at their
table in corner, near the s.ove,
and about sixty members were pre-
sent to take part in the proc 'edings.
: Every Que present answered to the
roll call.
President Silver-top called the
meefing To order by hitting the top
Iof his desk with large silver ham
ner. which brought Stuccle Berry,
the secretary. to his ieet, to read
The minutes of the last meeting.
Then after all the M mbers had
paid their dles, some Of them being
delinquent year or two, the presl
dent announced tnaf there WOULD
\ be discussion between the Hon
L1g-roller and the Hon. Dutch Gus
subject: "Where are we at?'
Z; The Hon. Log-roller took th'
q dhoor. and started the ball rolling a
the top of his stentorian voice, an'
ie With his huge form drawn to its ful
y he ght, and with his fit rolled vi
''linto a menacing roll held up higl
/ in the air, he announced that 1t wa
> an open question "Where we wer
70 at and that the subject which ha
10 to be decided then and there was
"whether we were living in the la'
wear OF the nineteenth century 9
IN the first wear of the twentiet
n century. +"
Just then the telephone on tn
=. wall rang 3, that was the cluh
:, number, p ring 3, and the pres
:. lent answered the cal. He al
T. 1 nounced that there was a dispatc
" from Pretzelburg, saving that Il
! !. chief emporium had Just burned uI
!, and that another dispatch state
- - that the switch engine on the Sla
y Line AT Huntingburg was tootir
y for dear life in honor OF a new Gel
- lturv.
. The meeting Of the Now or New
j. Club which had now broken up
row was recalled to order
Dutch Gus, the president haviI
zone down stairs to fill up with ;
da-water. and the Rural statesmi
=, moved and seconded and pass
the resolution to telephone the 81
II, Line at Huntingburg to at once d
~ nand its switch engine to cea
an footing until the question had be-
he decided bv the club, VIII ether Il
Inc old second hand engine was taotlr
IL. for q right cause or was footing
nd vain
,o, The Log-roller was now unal
in mously requested to proceed wi
IN his harangue, which he proceed
=, to do at the top Of his v)ice, 50 tt
nor Little Tick started to whistle a i
comedy tune with shaking OF
head.
Said the Log-roller! "what is
a use Of living, il we do not KIN
TO when we ara living Shall we
lad numbering down into the histc
.wo Of future ages as people who ,
i'm not know to what century they
liar Ilonged? what good will it do Bry
MOTTO beat Mckinley if he can't ev
ofItell il he did it in the ninetee'
,ndIor twentieth century,
ties Ju then the president ca
tumbling up the stairs ard said I
there was a rumor current III
ON town that there was a tapeworm
the large. running around loose. q
nge nobody knew whose it was. Lii
ut-ITick was appointed a committee
the one to 90 down and see if ne co
de not persuade the aforesaid "a
we worm to crawl into bottle Tor
ton ture preservation aud exhibition
rom "What is the use, resumed
q ~ Log roller, at The tip OF his vo
luer afor the Beers to lick the christi
'ses, IstuGling out Of 'he English bart
dl- lians. if they could not put il
cote, their almanacs in what century