The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-03-18
GLASGOW H0ARY WITH AGE.
Scottish Metropolis Was Founded
1900 Years Ago.

We hear a great deal IN these
days in praise Of Glasgow as a truly
model city and Of It's municipalizinl
in the interest Of the citizens OF
nearly every public franchise. That
is all true, and Glasgow highly mer-
its all praise bestowed upon it. Al
present, however, we would briefly
remind our readers of Glasgow il
the olden time, hundreds of year:
before it obtained its present state
of perfection, and of which we now
rarely hear a word.
1t is about 1,S00 years since Glas-
gov was founded by Kentigern OF
st. Mungo, but the city did not
amount to much until after the act
Of union between Scotland and Eng
land, about 200 years ago. 1t was
that act which enabled the mer-
chant adventures of Glasgow to
send out their ships TO Virginia and
Maryland for cargoes Of tobacco
leaf Thus tobacco manufacture
was the first important foreign
trade and home Industry established
by Glasgow enterprise.
Very soon the city became the
center of the tobacco traffic. For a
long time thereafter the tobacco
lords" of Glasgow in their scarlet
robes and on their own privileged
beat were almost as strongly marked
figures in history as were the mer-
chants of Venice. When the Ameri-
can colonies revolted and the Unit
ed States republic was established
Glasgow lost its aourishing tobacco
trade, but some of the tobacco
lords" who held heavy stocks, made
enormous fortunes by the rise in
prices. These fortunes formed the
foundation of larger enterprises
elsewhere and the begetting of the
numerous merchant princes" that
soon characterized Glasgow.
When driven from Virginia the
adventures established trade with
the West Indies, where sugar sue
ceeded tobacco as a staple of trade.
Then came cotton and next coal,
which was soon followed by iron.
Meantime there had been a continu-
Gus development of trade with In
dia, with China, with South Amer
lea, with the United States and ulti-
mately with Australia and New
Zealand. Till then the Clyde had
been little better than a stagnant
ditch, but Glasgow by degrees
formed deep, broad, navigable wa
terway, and then came commerce
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
She Got n Bargain.
He met his wife as she came from a
bargain sale. and after looking her
over he said:
'why. Lily, you've lost the plume out
of your hatv
"Have II" she replied. "That must
have happened while | was getting
some OF that Is cent soap for cents.
oh, George, but | got such bargainw
"And your dress is torn" he contln.
ued.
Dear me. but expected it! 1t was
while was after regular 10 cent
for @ cents. Think Of that,
George
"And the heel IL OF one Of your
shoes"
us It? l thought 1t felt queer. 1t
must have been as jumped into the
10 get one of those dollar rugs
Tor 6S cents. You will be delighted
with IT,"
"And how did you break your para.
solY' he asked.
"Is II broken? So Il is. Well. George,
don't scold. | was after a card OF those
regular cent safety p,ns reduced 20 3
cents for this day only, and the crowd
almost pressed the life out OF me. But
got them. though. and they are so
nice and such a bargain. and you won't
have TO hunt under the bureau any
more for collar buttons."- Brooklyn
Citizen.
Experimenting.
Cannibal Chef-This vounr man