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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Terre Haute. Ind. Aug. s. - The
Commercial club. whose success in Sc
curing new industries for Terre Haute
has been 50 great that the towns
prosperity has become = matter Of
comment i'm all other cities in the state.
has progressed 50 rapidly that il is
now constrained TO give lis attention
to novel situation--that Of pro,id-
ing houses for the new population. The
cry OF a house famine j. heard on all
sides.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
is COMPLETELY WRECKED.
The Norwegian steamer Vera,
which Went On the Rocks Near
Rencw's' n. r.. Broken Apart.

st. Johns, ". f., Aug. 6.-Thc Nor
wcgian steamer Vera, which struck
on the rocks near Rcnew's. Friday
night last, broke apart Sunday night
forward of her engines. Her hull =
now i'm two pieces and her bottom DE-
stroyed by the rocks. The vessel -
lifted considerably. the decks being
on level with the water. All her
movable gear has been removed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Washington, Aug. 6.-Thcrc is no
news at either the Colombian or Ven
eztelan legations here to confirm the
cabled report from Caracas that q
battle had taken place between the
government troops OF Venezuela and
the revolutionary force under Dr.
Gabrias.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
Fatally Injured.

Brazil. Ind Aug. 5.-E,eline Cane.
the ten-year-old daughter Of Thomas
Cane. and Fay Hixon. the eight-year-
old daughter OF William IIiNon, were
fatally injured by the explosion Of a
-ailroad torpedo. They found the
deadly continuance by the Nandalia
railroad track. and thinking il was a
box endeavored TO open it with a
knife. when il exploded.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Dansille. Ind. Aug. 5.Firc de-
stroyed the Danville steam laundry.
the residences Of Charles McCurdy.
Edward Stewart. C. W. Stewart and
two warehouses belonging 10 Hadley
and Carl aed c. Landland. The total
loss is $4,000. fairly covered by insur-
ance. except the steam laundry. which
was owned by Fred Miller. and the loss
on which is 200. with no insurance.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
Rnhherr Gnnnl,t.

Shoals. Ind. Aug. 81. Deputy Post
master Parsons found robbers at
work in the post Office and all were
arrested. They gave their names as
Hal buchanan. aged - years. and
Roy Christian. aged -. Of Memphis
Tenn, and Harry Collins. aged 81
years. Of st. Louis. Mo. They had
enough nitroglycerin to blow up a
block
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The edict OF the emperor of China
providing for the reorganization OF
the Chinese foreign Office has been
received in Pekin. Its tone and sub
stance satisfy the ministers of the
powers. The edict comedies with the
demands on the subject formulated by
the United States special commission.
er, Mr.. Rockhill, as a condition OF
peace.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

X. l. Fosburgh, of Pittsfield, Mass,
the father of May Fosburgh, who was
shot. August 20. 1900. on the 3ist
withdrew all rewards privately of.
fered and substituted one of 1900 for
the arrest and conviction of the
guilty parties.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Valparaiso Ind. Aug. 5.At n meet
ing OF the Porter county bar. Circuit
Judge John II. Gillett. Of Hammond.
was indorsed for Judge Of the United
States district court. TO succeed The
|. . Judge W. A. Woods.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Ksntland. Ind. Aug. 5.-.James Cam
non. 81 this place. one 81 the most
trusted patients Of the northern In
diana hospital for The insane. jumped
in front Of a vandalia fast train while
out In search Of turkeys and was
killed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Acting Fourth Assistant Postmas
ter-General Conrad, on the 30th. di-
rected the establishment of the first
post Office on The Island of Guam. IL
is located at Guam, the chief point on
the island. ranks as fourth class, and
Antanasio Tartano Perez has been APP
pointed postmaster.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The monthly comparative state
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures shows that the receipts
for July, 1901, amounted to Sj2.320, $40,
and the expenditures So. 301. 500. which
left surplus for the month of S12,-
$50. as against deficit for the month
of July, 1900, of $4,000, 900.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

At great Protestant meeting held,
on the Goth, in ST. James hall, Lon
don, Lord kinnard presiding, reso-
luton was adopted, protesting
against the change in the kings &C.
cession declaration. 1t was also de-
cided to address memorial embody.
ing the resolution TO the house OF
commons.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09
Generous Rasnfau In Tex...

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 5.-Thc first
rain OF consequence that Dallas and
vicinity has had since last May, began
railing at 4 a. m. and lasted until
noon. The rainfall appears to have
been general over an area extending
apparently 100 miles in all directions
from this city.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The steamship Deutschland, of the
HambIrg-American line, which ar.
rived at New York. on the LIST, raised
the western average for hourly runs
TO 23.07 knots. The best previous av-
erage was $500 knots, and was made
by the same vessel. Her best days
run was COL knots, which is also new
record.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The Turkish minister of marine has
decided not to order any more war
ships or materials from Germany be-
cause of the attacks made upon the
sultan in the German newspapers. and
owing TO the circulation Of false re-
port that the Turkish cruiser Izmar,
AT kiel, had been hypothecated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The contest between the British wal
Office and the London Daily Mail ter
minated, on the lst, in victory for
forced, by public pressure, TO call of
the boycott on official news estab
lshed against the paper.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Marion. Ind. Aug. DIR. Joseph n.
Trask. Of Matthews. was sandbagged
and robbed while returning from a
sick call. He was found unconscious,
and j. thought to he fatally wounded.
Two men were arrested charged with
the assault
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Lord Mayor Frank Green received,
on the lst, through j. :. Morgan &
Co. of London, a contribution OF { g.
600 TO the Queen Victoria memorial
fund, made ION behalf Of the dele
gates of the New York chamber Of
commerce" who recently visited Lon.
don. The lord mayor returned cor.
dial acknowledgment.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The stock Of gold in the Unites
States treasury is the largest in tn c
history Of the government, and il q
accommodating at the rate of 81, 500. 900
20 $5,OO0.000 month. The figures. on
tho 3Oth. were $500. ,2o7. of which
s24s,6ss,6es is free gold. but including
the sl50.C0,oOO gold reserve. Since
July /. 1900. the stock of gold on
hand has increased about Ss1. 600 goo.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has ruled that in case of es-
tates coming within the legacy tax
law. the assessment Of the govern.
ment tax mast he made on the value
of the estate on the day of the tesla
tors death.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The quarter-centennial anniversary
OF colorado's admission into the
Union was formally opened at Colo
RADIO Springs. on the LIST. by the un-
yelling of a statue Of Zebulon Mont
Fomery Pike. who discovered the
Peak that bears his name Mayor
John Robinson and Gen. William Pal
mer delivered commemorative adj
dresses in the presence of 5000 peo-
pie.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The town of Lawton, Okla, which
sprang into existence, on the night OF
the lst on the I'd contained 10000 in
habitants, 400 temporary business
houses and newspaper. Three streets
had been laid out and a national bank
projected.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

The New York Mail and Express
says the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
Is about to issue from $4,000. 900 to
si5,O0O,000 OF new bonds to he used
largely for making the change in mo-
i've power on the Texas and Califor-
ma lines from coal 10 oil; for con.
stfucting pipes "a transfer oil and fol
OIL properties which the company haS
acquired or j. about TO acquire. in or.
DEL 70 guarantee an abunda. supply
Aor years to come
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Official chemical examinations made
OF food products in Berlin during the
month OF June show that 50 out Of
2e4 specimens did not meet the legal
standard. Four out OF five samples OF
milk were adulterated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

Huntington, Ind, Aug. 6.-The pri.
vate bank at Andrews. this county.
was closed, yesterday, ana the pro-
prietor Is under arrest, charged with
forgery to the amount Of $4,000
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-08-09

interviewed at Omaha. on the I'd,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson said,
among other things: Corn is some
what seriously injured in all the
states in the corn bet, how much |
can not pretend TO saw. Our monthly
bulletin, issued August 10, will give
the percentage. You people in Nebras-
ka are not going TO starve, il is only
question Of how much money you
will be able TO put in the bank"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
A MODERN CUSTOM.

The use of finger glasses after din
ner is quite a modern innovation in
Germany, introduced from England.
Until about ten years ago glasses were
indeed brought round at dessert at the
very end of the meal, but this was for
the purpose Of rinsing the mouth, and
very comical sight it was indeed to
see gentlemen and ladies in plain dress,
or en- grande tenue, washing their
mouths at sunptuously furnished ia
ble-or, for the matter of that, in any
private or public assembly room-in-
stead Of retiring to some private cham
Der for this purpose.
In Bavaria it often happens that
persons of talent, but without much
knowledge of the manners of what is
called polite society, are invitel to
dine with royalty, and not unseldom
has the mistake above referred to been
made there. The following little an
ecdote, however, contains the details Of
practical joke played by number of
artists on a colleague still living who
had for the first time received an invi-
tation to dine with the prince regent
at the Schloss at Munich.
Several masters of the brush had re-
ceived similar invitations, and as the
painter in question was somewhat
elated and excited by the honor con-
ferred upon him and at the same time
singularly nervous and inquiring as to
the way he would be expected to be-
have at the royal tables his conferres
put their heads together and deter
mined to pay a practical joke upon
him.
He was accordingly told: "The first
time anybody is invited to dine at court
special drink is handed round in glass
bowls, and the newly invited guest is
expected, according to strict etiquette,
to take one of these bowls in his hand
and to rise and exclaim, I drink to the
health of his royal highness, and then
to quaff the contents Of the bowl at d
draft, make a profound bow toward the
prince regent and so resume his seat.
The gentleman in question acted to
the letter according to the instructions
given him. To the manners of the
court must be attributed the suppress
sion of all suspicion of a giggle, and
it is stated the royal host did not ap-
pear in the least disconnected, but af-
terward the merriment was unre-
stricted
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
HEADACHES JES' FORE
SCHOOL.

1 guess my health is gittin' poor,
Er somep'n er the kim,
Fer every mornin' jist as sure
(Espechully if it's fine)
git sich offiul shootin' pains
AT ma says: ats jes' cru'l
Ter make at poor boy study, with
Sech headaches jes' fore school,"
Ma thinks my mind is breakin' down
From learnin' of so much.
She puts wet towels on my head,
An chopped up ice an such,
An tries ter git me off ter bed.
But pa says he's no fool;
He thinks birch oils the only stuff
Fer headaches Jes' fore school.
An teacher, too. don't sympathize
18th boys wots feelin' bad,
Fer, soon's she sees me mopin' in,
She says: "Now, amt at sad
Ter make them suff'rin' children work!
Young man, set on at stool
An do them sums" Huh! she makes fun
OF headaches jes' fore school.
'Tis kind d'r funny, though, how soon
I'm over bein' sick,
An me an Jim Dim he gifts cramps),
We sneak of down It the crick
An 90 in swimmin'. Gee! We got
A bully diyin' pool
An spring board. Gosh! you bet they cure
Them headaches jes' fore school.
An fishin', too. We got raft
An dandy hooks an lines;
Ketch bullheads, lOts-an' sunfish. Say!
Down underneath them pines
They bite like thunder! Settin' there,
Feet swashin', nice an cool,
Pa ins, nothin! Say, d'you ever git
Them headaches jes' for school?
m. C. John, in Chicago Chronicle
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
HUMAN FINGER PRINTS.

The constancy of human finger
prints has chiefly been discussed in
connection with the Identification Of
criminals. Assuming that the evil
dence Of finger prints is to be admissi-
BILE in criminal proceedings, it will be
not only necessary to prove that in the
case of the man the finger prints re-
main unaltered, but that no two per-
sons have Identical finger prints.
Where is the evidence of this?
There are probably 1,500,O00,000
men and women on earth. Can we
suppose that no two of these have iden-
tical finger prints? Nor indeed is this
all. We may be comparing the finger
prints of a living with those of one
who has been dead for years past, and
the doctrine Of heredity might lead
up to expect to find similar finger
prints in the case Of parents and child
rem and of different children Of the
same parents. 1t is at all events GER
tain that if this finger print system
were once introduced into our courts
of justice there would be any amount
of wrangling as to whether they were
indentical or only similar, experts con-
tradicting each other and involving the
whole subject in confusion.
Moreover, professional criminals
would probably soon find some mode
Of altering their finger prints. No
doubt if the person who committed
crime-a murder, for example-has
left the imprint of his fingers on any
thing it may prove an important clew.
but the same thing may be said OF the
imprint of his boots or shoes. But
clew is one thing and proof is another
thing.
Let me point out another difficulty.
In country where there are large
number of criminals whose finger
prints are collected the number of
these will soon be very large. How
long would it take to examine this
collection in order to find out whether
any of .hem corresponded accurately
with the finger prints Of the man who
is not accused? The task would, l
think, be boneless one.
That the finger prints may he i'm
portant in the detection of crime when
ever the criminal has left the print of
his fingers behind him l do not dis
pute, but without much stronger evi-
dence than We now possess that no
two persons have undistinguishable
finger prints such evidence ought
never to be permitted to outweigh
what appeared to he tolerably salts
factory alibi.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
THE FACE OF A WATCH.

IL will wager" said Broadway
matchmaker to customer the other
day, "that you cannot correctly put
down the numerals on the dial plate Of
your watch"
"Done!" said the other. And he
wrote down, I, II, III, " :
"Wrong," interrupted the watch
maker.
"How wrong?"
"Pull out your watch and look at
the figure four"
Sure enough the figure was iii,
not Nv.
care all clocks and watches made
that way?" asked the customer, as he
puts his watch back in its fob.
"All that have Roman figures on
their dial"
"Why ?"
"Well, there is a tradition which
accounts for the custom. The first
clock that resembles the ones now in
use was made by famous French
jeweler named Henry Wick, in 1870.
He made present of it to Charles ",
surnamed the Wise. Now, Charles
was wise in many ways, but he did
not know everything, though having a
reputation to sustain, he pretended to
omniscience. When Wick brought him
the clock he examined the works very
attentively, seeking flaw somewhere.
Yes he said at last, the clock works
we'll, but you have got the figures on
the dial wrong Surely not, your
Majesty demurred the jeweler. Yes,
that four should be four ones.' you
are wrong, your Majesty Il am
never wrong' the King thundered.
Take it away and correct the mistake
Wick did as commanded. The fashion
was followed by others. And so to
this day we have I'LL instead Of
~"
"But suppose my watch had Ara
bic and not Roman numerals ?''
Il took that chance, of course, be-
cause the larger proportion of watches
have the Roman numerals. But even
then I'd have had you in all probabili-
ty. For there is another popularity
about the figures which is almost uni
versal in watches. But I will show
You. Go on writing the rest of the
figures"
So the customer continued and
wrote down V, VI
"Wrong again." interrupted the
matchmaker.
"But-"
"Pull out your watch and see,"
calmly retorted the other.
Once more the watch dial was ex-
posed to view. There was no six on
it. The space where it should have
been was occupied by the second
hand.
"The second hand" continued the
jeweler, "is to be found in exactly that
place in almost every watch that is
made. Whether your dial was regis
tered in Arabic or Roman numerals
there would be no six on it. 1t is
only on few Of very cheap sort of
watches that the second hand is omit
ted and the or the vi stands reveal
ed."-Neu York Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

Women are prone to base their hopes
of success and happiness in this world
upon personal beauty in a women, in
the eyes of men, consists of, or what
constitutes success and happiness to
themselves. Classical features in a
statue or painting are all right, for the
man who looks upon them understands
that neither covers a heart, much less
soul. A dimple in the cheek is all
right, and is pleasant to look upon
dropping eyelashes over pair of lu.
minous eyes convey pleasant impress
sion, while pair of ruby lips is apt to
create desire for closer acquaintance,
but none of these things are lasting.
Beauty in woman consists in the
power of the soul to make itself known
to all with whom its owner comes in
contact-to impart feeling of trust
and confdence-to make the man who
communes with it feel that he has been
bettered-that his ideals are nobler and
that his hopes in life have been raised
to higher level.
These attributes in woman render
her beautiful to man, no matter how
plain her features may be or how un-
prepossessing her form. Such wo-
man as this seldom fails of reaching
her ideals of success or falls short Of
achieving happiness. She is not hunt
ing a husband, but most generally she
finds one just fitted to her nature, and
thereafter her efforts are devoted to
making him happy, and her hopes of
success are centered in the desire to
rear children worthy of their sire,
whom she believes embodies the noblest
traits of humanity. Sometimes this
woman is misled in choosing mate,
but not often, if 80, she makes the best
of the situation and almost invariably
succeeds in raising the man of her
choice to her own level, at least she
never renders him less man than he
was when she married him.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-It is al
ways pleasure to meet the teachers
of Maryland in any of their organiza-
tions, whether district, county or
State. This pleasure is particularly
emphasized when the assembly is that
of the great county of Prince Georges.
1t has been my privilege on more than
one occasion to attend conference of
your county organization. and, without
intending to be invidious,I wish to say
that have not met in the State a
body of men and women who have
given expression to a more compre-
hensive view Of the duties, obligations
and aspirations incident to the arduous
task to which you have devoted your
lives. Your thoroughncss, your enthu-
siasm and its directing inspiration have
come to me on many occasions in con-
crete form, in the shape ola well trained
boy seeking a further extension of
what you have so we'll commenced.
Your accomplished Secretary in
vtcd me to be with you to-day, and
assigned me the topic, -" Should train
ing or into' nation be the the object of
our methods in school work." These
two purposes are so correlated that it
is difficult task, by any refinement
of analysis, to draw a sharply defined
line of demarcation between them so
that their merits can be emphasized.
1t is only when we take each in it's re-
stricted or concrete sense that the COM
parative value can be at all gagged.
Training children, as contra-dis-
tinguished from giving them informa-
ton, it occurs TO me, is just the differ
ence of view you have. as to what end
the individual is to attain unto. If the
end is to produce a machine, accurate
ly constructed IN all of its parts; the
cycle of it's life confined to single
trend; producing one result, and this
always with an unalterable precision
in the sphere of its action; deaf to every
possibility, every aspiration and every
impulse outside of that groove in which
ifc no,,f ro ,t oil ovistop.o 10 ,ost tbon
simply, to know ends, without the
causes and facts; without the reasons
for them,-assumes an Importance
which may we'll commend itself to
those who have this view ofthe dignity
OF a human being. Education is not
an exact science. 1t cannot be such
until our social and our political con-
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
The NEW SPEAKER.

In the October number of"The Ma
tional Magazine" Joe Mitchell Chap
pie, the editor, writes entertainingly
of "The Personal Side of Speaker Hen
derson." Regarding speech deliver
ed in the early days Of "Colonel
Dawes" career, he writes =
Henderson's Grafton was fiery ap-
peal to the voters "to stand by the
flag" brim full of war anecdotes which
pleased US boys and the soldier fathers.
He closed one of his characteristic fun
ny stories by patting Us on the head
and saying: "God bless the boys" His
manner partook OF the rudeeloquence of
the Methodist revivalist and the SYM
pathy of the audience was with him.
while the fire and spirit with which he
replied to several insulting Interrupt
tions from the rear of the room by the
Tilden men made US boys volunteer to
go back and "clean EN- out" but the
speaker needed no such assistance, for
he soon had them quelled.
The Colonel had simple, direct way
of talking. He had come down from
the stage with homely gesture, say
ing: 1--WE are all on one level" and the
tin shades in front of the footlights
quivered every time he turned to en-
phasize point by striking the stage
with his hand.
There we're few people in the hall
that night who would have ventured
prediction that the man before them,
twenty -four years hence, was to occu-
py the speakers chair in the House of
Representatives.