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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-16

President Roosevelt has the distinc-
tion OF being the only public man that
ever declared that a cowboy. whom
he described as "brutslly dlssipat9d'
and riding into saloons and firing
pistols right and left" is a much better
companion than small farmer. an
agricultural laborer or even mechanics
and labsring men. Here is what he
said in his book. Ranch Life and
Hunting Trail: They are much bet
ter fellows and pleasanter companions
than small farmers or agricultural la
borers: nor are the mechanics and
workmeA OF a great city TO be men
toned in the same breath"
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE
TO WED ACTOR LOVER
Miss Amy Hamlin's People Learn OF
Her Engagement to Robert
Kelly of Chicago

BERKELEY, Dec. 14.-News OF
their daughters engagement to mar
~ a prominent actor has Just come to
the parents of Miss Amy Hamlin. who
reside here. The girl will wed Robert
Kelly, with whom she played in Sag
Harbor" two years ago. The cere-
mOny is to be performed in Chicago
next Sunday at the home of the
grOOm's mother, who is a wealthy
woman of Chicago
Miss Hamlin graduated from the
university in 1899. She was promf-
nent IN amateur dramatic productions
In college, and was encouraged to 90
on the stage by the late Professor I,
du Pont Syle- She has since starred
in THE Little Minister" "The viz
lage Postmaster" and other plays. Her
parents are Mr.. and Mrs M. c.
Hamlin
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
lNVEN1S MACHINE TO SOLVE
PROBLEMS OF LOGIC.
Will Give Rest to Faced Brains
Professor Rieber Believes He Has an
Apparatus That Can Reason.

what similar lines to those laid down
by DR.. Rieber. but it has been known
to make errors and is comparatively
crude and unsatisfactory. DR.. Rieber
asserts that he is working on his ma
chine with an idea of correcting the
mistakes made by the Englishman' s
apparatus.
Plausible arguments are used by DR..
Rieber to prove that logical machine
may succeed on the same lines as the
now familiar adding machines. In logic
there are certain rigid rules to be fol-
lowed, just as in mathematics or the
science of quantities. The logical ma
chine upon which DR.. Rieber is at
work follows out the principles used
in the adding machine, applying them
to the subject of a qualitative reason
ing. It will be more complicated. how
ever. than the adding machines In
adding machine turns out the answer
seven" when -four" and three" are
pressed, the logical machine will turn
out all the possible combinations of
letters that can follow from a given
proposition. All com mbinations incon-
sistent with the premises are eliminat-
&c by the machine, and when a propo-
sition is put to the abacus that does
not follow out the rules of logic the
machine will refuse to work. When the
machine is asked to consider disjunct-
i've propositions it's operation will Of
necessity become more complex.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
TELL OF FIRE AND
A LACK OF WATER
Hearing of Niehaus Bros Suit De-
velOps That There Should Have
Been Greater Pressure

OAKLAND. Dec. 14.-While the
flames were devouring a mill valued
at $164,000 the water would not run
six feet out of the end of the hose, was
the testimony introduced to-day in
the suit of the Niehaus Bros Com
pany of Berkeley against the Contra
Costa Water Company for this sum
to reimburse them for their loss by
fire.
Guy Hyde Chick of Berkeley, for
merly the agent there for the water
company, took the stand on behalf of
the plaintiffs this afternoon and said
that there should have been a sew
enty-pound pressure on the pipes on
the night the flames destroyed the
mill.
Philip Sisterna, a member of the
volunteer fire department, said that
on the night in question the water
hardly ran out of the end of the hose
He was corroborated by George Pirie,
a resident of the neighborhood and
one of the first to arrive at the fire
and who helped unroll the hose. c.
w. Burgess, a resident OF Eureka,
who happened to be visiting close by.
also testified that the water would not
run.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-15
Aged Man Stricken.

ALAMEDA. Dec. 14.-After lying
for two or three days in a semi-cOn-
scious condition ]. P. Smith, "a years
old, was found PROSTATE to-day on a
porch at his residence. 1916 Railroad
avenue, where he had fallen while try
ing to help in a sudden Illness.
The old mans head was badly
cut. The condition of the injury
showed it was inflicted several
days ago. DR.. II. NJ. Pond was called
and after dressing the injury, pro-
nounced the patients condition seri-
Gus. Smith is said to be the oldest
member of the society of California
Pioneers.