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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09

nerves drains the vitality robs US of brains and annib
ates grey matter all with the mocng pre.ense OF oct
ting the most pleasure out Of life.
Inc pursuit OF pleasure idle quest for she flies on
ohe wings OF the arr is swifer than the roe and more
elusive than sun beam Pursue pleasure and She van
she eyaporaes IN your empty grasp and in the yawnng
VOID springs up her anthesis True pleasure comes to
tread the path of Nature ' why
Nature has no pity for her creatures She has some
thlhg Detter-t IS Justice. She is not sorry for the foo
nor she proud OF the sageshe accepts each as matter
o1 course and deals with each he merits Nature has
endowed life with Joyous exuberance capacity for
happiness ana pleasure along natural lines bus when Al
selves upon the unnatural and the premature. Nature
calmly cuts them of early for their usefulness is gone
Health IS the greatest wealth and perfect phVsicaI
and mental development make for the greatest hapnne
Inc JOY OF life only for those who have an ot then
natural faculties, unmpalred. Life is most worth livno
lor those whose senses have not lost their normal keen
ness their sensbilities alone capable of the finer
appreciation that puts US in harmony with the universe
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
MIND THE MASTER
Man NJ lie unfolds, like the rose, from within.
For mind is source of all. "i'''''''


! For mind is source of ALL ~
mans mind is, so is his life w 0 -
Mind Is the master weaver of dactinv Mil :
the man with conditions of its own maxine 0t f ol, ~
hu comes every word, action and achievement that
make up ones life ~ o'ii0i' 'hd
| No more pregnant words occur in hov writ tbor ,L
AS man thInketh in his heart SO is he ~'
Inc man difference between millionaire and napnor !;
Us that one thinks IN millions and the other in nennioc
the inner mind r mo- ~
Every man where he and what he is bv reason Of
.e oughls out OF which he has made himself and his
% %cpnaiuons mere Is no deviation from the divine law
thaJ thought Is the molder of circumstance
The law of cause and effect is as absolute and inmut
of visible things W i'u
The highest word the fantest smile be sliobat il
Slye action, were first definitely framed in the mind
me ost intricate mechanism existed first as thought
Inc grandest cathedral the greatest work of man was
ed out of thought Thought was the builder
not the machne-lke workman Tho1ghti thn Snbcanca
not the dead stones
Joy and sorrow, hope and despair courage and fear
love and hate enlightenment and ignorance. the warn
ana WOo1 OF llfe.--are nowhere but in the mind
The boy who longs for the and whose heart leans
the sound OF the breakers and thrills at sight of sail s
building his ship.
The youth who sits spebound bv the word of rho orator
ana makes the sotudes eloquent with his own declama
llons Is erecting his own rostum pulpit.
Inc enid Napoleon playing ceaseessly with his wooden
So,dIeLS was making new map of continent
Wishes are wings
Upon them we mount to what heights we will.
But they must be genuine, sou-deep
The painter cannot, by mere wishing have the coorsl
arrange themselves upon his canvas The wish must be
'rie enough to give to ceaseess effort and con-
'ummate skill.
For the thought wish that does not shape itself into
ne concrete form OF determined and continued effort is
)ut whim
We become what we wish to become we do what we
wish to do-not in fieeting fancies but in the earnest
constant yearnings of the soul
he who control his thou yhts can control his DESTINY
nd his de stny will be grand as his thoughts Louis
il e Herald.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
The Cost of DISSIPATION
Z. J. CAMPBELL.

Every normal human being is endowed with a certain
amount OF vital energy the vry that courses through
the veins with the thrilling vgor of the divine spark of
lie Inc nerves are keyed at tension that responds to
the inner sensbltes The healthy human body is an in
strument attuned to the harmony of life by its Maker
Such is the natural refinement of Nature
The Individual who is born into the world minus this
parents or ancestors aid the persons who deprves himself
OF this priceless heritage, which alone distinguishes man
IRON the lower forms of animal life, both knave and
fool.
The chief agencies in this reducing process are alcohol
and nicotine but they have hundred axiares that drag
and dram the human system quenching the fire of youth
and smothenng the live spark that makes man fit to as
soclate with the gods Phs supreme price is paid for
few moments diversion and amusement, unnatural
pleasures craved chiefly because find ourselves dull com
and because We are initiative creatures.
= Artificial nerve smulants deaden the sensibites
They produce peasurabe sensations prodigous cost
The moments of unnatural brliance and the artificial rose
hued dreams paid for 5y hours of duness and DAYS of
stupidity The of such stimulants have sold their
brthrgh for mess of red pottage that takes the keen
edge Oft OF life and leaves it dull indeed They deprive
themselves Of the highest joys for the stupid satisfaction
OF the OK in his stall ministering to his appetite They
derive artificial pleasures by the sacrifice of the pleasures
that are real
Dissipation costs the product of thousand years
Df evolution. 1t projects him the gddy heights for
moment but only to sink him to the gloomy depths-it
wipes him off the natural plain of real he is eithe
above or below mostly below He has lost his equ Ill
)rium.
Most of US come into the world with an intelligence
too keen for the welfare of our existence none of us
lave brains to bu m grey matter TO throw awayyet
MS is precisely VIII at dissipation does; it deadens the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09

Mrs. Frnk was a trusting soul
and rarely questioned the opinions
Of Others about matters concerning
which they were Supposed TO be in
formed One day She came home
with a new pair Of shoes under her
arm. Got them al BRIDES" she
explained. "ard thcy re the best /
ever bought YOU"
w hat Is 50 very good about
them Z" inquired her son, FOR whom
the shoes we're intended.
"Why, the salesman said that Won
could walk farther in them than in
any others without getting tired.
and ! said that you couldn't walk
very far just now on account Of
your knee, YOU know, and lie said
that he meant farther for tie same
distance. So | bought them. and
here they are. Save the string.
please"
She did not notice The smile on
her sln's face as he undid the pack
age, and he was spared the trouble
of explaining. - Youths Compan-
ion
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
She Sturped Gladstone.

lie story Is told that at Hawar-
,'a oa~ morning little Dorothy
l'.e" refused to get up. When all
~ mean, had failed to coax her
"f bed Mr.. Gladstone was
a'lcl
~ III won't you get up, my
A.lf be asked.
hr grandfather, didn't YOU
ne to % what the Bible saws Z,
stea Dorothy.
81. certainly"
"'.N 7 disapproves Of early ris-
ITS waste Of time"
W.. Gladstone knew his Bible bet
'.'dn most men, but he was not
-4i to Dorothy For once in his
4 '.e wa. nonplused.
: ol listen, then" went on
lo'HE ~ reply to his exclamation
a,'Dn,hment, and, turning IN
hia.e- she read the second verse
we One Hundred and Twenty
gn'n Isalm, laying great empha-
Y" '.e hrst words, 1T is vain for
Y V rise up early"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
RUNNING The RHEl.
Relative Of Dstrieh Chased wish De-.
ana Horse.

For the person who desires a
unique fora Of sport running tho
rhca IN southern Patagonia Is rec
commended. Tie rhca Is a member
OF the ostrich family, but somew hat
smaller Ii runs with the ,Wlltncs
OF greyhound or a fast horse ana
has a knack Of doubling or its
track. which often serves il In elud-
ing Its pursuer-. The natives in
hunting it use horses. dogs and the
bola. The dogs course after the
fleeing bird in full cry. while tho
hunters follow after at top speed.
prepared to throw the bola if or
portunity offers.
The bola. consisting Of two or
three heavy balls Of lcad or stone
attached to a thong six or eight
feet long, serves to hamper the
movements Of the bird. for the
balls twine about the part which
the bo.a strikes regardless Of
whether it be the legs, neck or
wings This permits the dogs and
hunters to overhaul and dispatch
the bird.
At the approach Of danger the
rhea will often crouch fat upon the
ground with neck outstretched un-
ier the gas., remaining motionless
until the dogs have passed. Rhisa
.tratcgem Is often success frl when
-he wind Is biowisg against fhe
cent. but when the contrary is the
'ase the DOGS soon discover the hid
NJ bird. In this case. doubtless
'ewildercl by the sudden failure Of
+ artlcss ruse, it makes no attempt
{ escape
The chase Of the rhea. which
extends over a distance
4 five or six miles. IS a thrilling
ne. 1t has for the rider all the ex-
itement of a horse race. with tie
dded satisfaction Of knowing that
he winning OF the race viii result
J a welcome addition 10 the larder.
Tie wing Of the rhea have a flavor !
ot unlike that Of turkey, and If I
ne . not aver.e to the taste Of {
orsefcsh the meat " the thigh l. /
cry satisfactory. The rhca Is one
the main food supplies on Pat
yonian hunting trip.-New YORK
ribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
II Didn't Matter.

Among the visitors to an art ex-
hibition in Edinburgh we're two old
ladies from the country. They ex-
amined with great interest the
statue Of a young Greek. under
meath which were Inscribed the
words. Executed IN Terra Gotta" "
"Where is Terra Gotta 2" asked
the elder Of the two. turning 10 her
companion
II haven't the least idea" replied
the other.
"Ah. well." observed tho first
speaker as they passed on. 1T does
not much matter. The poor man
who wa executed l. not the less 70
be pitied. wherever it may e.
London Mail.
"1Tc said | affected him like cid
wine"
81 suppose that was a delicate
way OF intimsting that you improve
With age." ".-PhilsdelDhis Press
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
WI LAINy AND NERVES.
u. rest Cure Might Have Made Nero
q HARMLESS Faddist.

'rr oycrwrought villains Of the
,.f they we're alive now, woulc
subjected to a rest cure, which
.horglI il could not turn them into
oa mcu. might make their vii
irrational and dangerous
Nc Nort tYrants of the middle
W.. AMI the renaissance, the worst
Roman cnperors, seem to us incom-
nl,n1be monsters of iniquitv
va uho aid evil for the love Of il.
ne ,h0uld understand them better
Il ue considered how likely their
vat of living was to disorder their
rerges SO doubt Nero, even if he
MA been brought up in the most
modern way. taught from child to
..c an interest In nature and to
ntony the most wholesome things,
a8uld never have been a very useful
II pe nt person. But he might
Dave Uean a harmless faddist or an
Innocent ii undistinguished minor
oct
As u was. he was the master OF
'a world. with no one to prevent
lm from eating and drinking what
chose Oh from taking Whatever
thor nwaolesome pleasure he aas
lined "a No doubt he exceeded
ID cgerthlng and suffered from ex-
i-cme Trltability in consequence.
Unfortunately he could indulge his
-r.tablit1 without restraint. If
chen he ielt cross Of morning he
ordered senator to die. the sena-
i0r d'l die. and he heard no more
M IT, Moreover, there was always
ner to vorS upon a tyrant's nerves.
fni some cnDcrors became tvrants
because at that fear. Domitian was
o MARTYR % it, though good nan |
4 business If he we're stock |
broker ~ today no doubt he would |
'orry .m.elf incessantly about the |
state ot tlc markets, and every one i
would r.y him for his nervousness.
A. be was Roman emperor, we
{ nk of Him as a sinister villain.
vlo Killed men for the pleasure Of
We often hear talk Of that terri
''c iasllm vitae from which Ro-
rob.a. suffered. We should
F.. nerves now. and our doctors
11.i ''-e- ribe strict diet and a |
arsc ot r,lf or gardening for it. !
.af ilc Roman noble did not know
ow NJ trent it, He made feast
q drank dccp and fast and crown \
I himself with flowers and the {
aN morning must have felt it
.o'sn t.-n ever But since he was :
lio an noble he is a romantic fig
'e q 2, and not mere sufferer '
'om OUT modern disease of over
.ia.n.- London Times.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
Childhood Up TO Date.

Little Harriet had broken the i'd
Of the box in which her blocks had
come. Calling her to account for it,
her mother said:
"IIow did the box lid get
brokcn:"
Il satted down on il when
wasn't lookin"
"Oh, then you didn't mean to do
it:"
"No. | didn't"
"Thcn mother will excuse you
this time
"Muvver can save herself the
bower Of scusin' me-" replied .Har-
riet. I'll scuse m~self if | need
scusin'. That's my own play toy !
brcked. Chicago News.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09

Aunty- Willie. an angel brought your
mamma such nice new brother for
you last night Wouldn't you IKE e.
SEE the dear little habys
Willie--No; but I'd Ike to see the
sngeL-Punch
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09
The Prince Of CrumbIer.

"hcn Mr. Beeton asked il he did
many unreasonable people
XIV his summer boarders Farm
= Sos quickly assented.
TT an lots are never satisfied
'.al he said. "No matter
= ~ a9ne for EN- there'll always
IL e'aing wrong somewhere.
''"' i1st summer" he went on.
!. !. : S.oaming eye. "we had a man
'A.' was SO fond Of grumblin'
,b.'. v DAY he actually called for a
W. ,'0A after he'd had a glass Of
Youths Companion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-07-09

\ h. understand two OF your sIs
EbeI ". Joined the great majority.
n - II. One Of them married. .
moi ~ Jones and the other n man
brown Evening Mail.
81, YOU SIR. You're a narr
|oct -, 1, were a fighting man. m
|rn ~ down FOR that"
-sl, = you $40 can prove IT,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27
POSTAL CARD FAD.

From the Detroit News.
We common people do use few postal
cards annually Uncle Sam is just now
considering a contract for $3.50 ,0O0, 900 pos
tai cards to be sold during the next four
years-a matter of 9O,OO0,000 year. These
will cost the government $500. 900, and the
people will pay $360OO000O for them, which
this does not comprise the postal card
output We are annually buying from
Germany alone 700,OOO,00O postal cards, and,
also several millions from France any
other European nations. But Germany
has thus far had a cinch on the colored
postal card trade, for even American pub
fishers instead of doing their own print
ing and lithographing, have found it more
profitable to place orders direct with
German houses. However the new tariff
bill puts tax of a quarter of a cent
on the cheaper foreign qualities, and
higher rate on the more expensive and
artistic ones, in the expectation that the
business will hereafter be done by Amer
lean houses. 1t is safe to say that Amer
leans buy $500, 100000 postal cards a year
20 to rs for each man, woman and
child in the country. More than half of
those are of the picture variety. But sup
post Uncle Sam should invade the pic
ture postal field? What a howl would
go up from the picture postal card maxi
erS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27
VALUE OF CROPS IN 1909
From the Wall Street Journal.

4 IOlI llc WILL OlTtcL dOuTnd1
A careful analysis of the quantities and
prices of the principal crops of the coun-
try in advance of the December returns
of the department of agriculture, places
the entire gross income of the farms of
the country at $S,4S1, 100000 OF this grand
total IA cereal crops, together with to-
bacco, wool and other yields, contribute
$685., 100000 and several other groups of
farm products add $3,7S6,0OO,OOO more.
The corn crop alone. at the low esti-
mate of so cents bushel at the farm for
an indicated yield of 8,o300OO.00o bushels
contributes an income of $1.515, OOO, 600. Next
in order comes the cotton crop, valued
with cotton seed at s79O,O00,0 followed
by the hay crops, wheat and oats. These
results, compared with earlier years, are
very substantial proof of the great prog
ress which the country has made in its
agricultural wealth Compared, however,
with 1908, there is no great increase in the
aggregate for all crops combined. In
fact, there is a slight decrease from the
total estimated in this office of IS, 497, 0O0,-
900 a year ago. Where quantities are
larger prices are lower, and vice versa,
80 that the grand total comes out about
even with that of 1908.
AS compared with 80 years ago, the
principal crops have increased in value
from s2.213.000,OO0 in 1879 to $7,s4S. 100000 in
1908 The former estimate was that of the
census bureau and the latter by the de-
partment of agriculture. The increase in
these three decades was at the rate of 254
per cent.
For the period of 10 years, beginning
with 1899, the annual advance has been
steadily increasing. The addition to the
crop values, year by year for that pc
Rod, was 1913. 100. 900, or a total increment
of $S.1s1, 100000. How rapid this was is
shown by contrast with the 2o-year period
from 1879 to 1899, when an increase of
81, 60f 100000 was made in twice the length
of the latest decade
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27

more than anywhere else, seems 10
have realized that eternal vigilance
is the price of drinks which can't be
found, which seems to have mounted
guard day and night to make VIOLA
tions of law impossible, which has met
every effort at obstruction and eva
sion with new statute, and which is
now coming down a home stretch
with a constitutional amendment in
one hand and a prohibitory statute
beside which constitutional prohibit
ton looks like 80 cents in the other
In setting forth the situation in this
state the st. Louis Times says it "has
feelings only of coincidence for eondi-
tions of this kind 1t seems to be al
most a slavish bond under which one
must endure because a mere majority
has set its heel and stamp upon traf
fic which is admitted to be an evil
if not properly conducted; but which,
il conducted under those restraints
which experience and education and
that higher law which man recognizes
as being the superior overpart. must
finally rule all of us
The vigor and intensity of the leg
islation enacted by the extra session
will excite wonder and surprise
throughout the country, for nothing
like it had occurred in any other state.
Not even Maine or Kansas had en-
acted statewide prohibition and then
had piled up ten statutes, including the
gigantic Fuller bill, and had topped
all these with a constitutional amend
ment proposition. When the Fuller
bill and the entire situation become
generally known, the country will
stand astonished over Alabama's UNI
called-for constitutional proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT.
ON the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the montgomery Advertiser.
The Advertiser is in constant receipt
of letters indorsing the movement to de-
feat the adoption of the constitutional
prohibition amendment. Two of these let
tiers are from members of the constitu-
tional convention of 1901 and both strong
and influential members Of that able
and patriotic body. They are both for
mer chancellors and well poised judicial
minded men. We refer to Hon. Jere N
Williams of Clayton, Barbour county, and
Hon. William Fl. Tayloe, Uniontown,
Perry county. They both write that they
would have signed the call published
Sunday morning If opportunity to do so
had presented itself. AS stated in The
Advertiser the work of getting out the
call and the signatures was done very
rapidly and there was not the time in
which to communicate with a great many
men all over the state who would have
swelled the list of signatures to thous-
sands instead of hundreds.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27
REGARDING Nearo Labor.

ALREADY there is talk of labor scarcity
in the Birmingham district, when the IN
dustrial revival is just getting in full
SWING" said an official of a great manu-
featuring company.
1.-THE large majority of our wage
earners hereabouts are not skilled work
men but common laborers. Good prices
are paid and the negroes are coming
from the different cotton sections of Ala
bama in large numbers to take the places
of white workmen who are being induced
by tempting premiums and railroad fare to
go north where men can get a glass or
two of beer every day without violating
any law. The rich can always have liquor
shipped by express to their homes, no
matter how severe or narrow the prohi-
bition acts may be. The poor man cannot
afford to buy in large quantities and
hence must depend upon the saloon or in
expensive locker club.
"eThe negro laborer is more hurt by the
use of liquor than the white man, but
he will manage to get whisky or some
thing that tastes like liquor and makes
his head feel like liquor, in any city or
mining camp in which MS lot may pe
cast. Look at it on all sides, prohibition
of the sort we are having now is going to
make it hard on the payrolls proposition.
During the jefferson county campaign in
1907 a pastor of one of the big churches
said in a pulpit discourse, They say that
prohibition will kill the district. Well,
then let's kill it! 1t struck me at the
time that any preacher who would talk
in that fiippant way was not entitled to
much consideration as counselor or
guide. Thousands of men are prohibition
lists because they think 1t right to be,
but a vast number are merely BAND
wagon prohibitionists. Alas, we nave
head too many who pandered to the
crowd they were in.
But reverting to the labor scarcity
problem, the negro is our standby, es-
pecially now, since foreigners will steer
clear of 1lsn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-27

Imprisonment. The first is that already
mentioned. which relates to the failure to
register. The second provides that no
motor cars shall be driven past passengers
on the public highway. or past a school
or a church at a rate exceeding eight
miles an hour; and that no automobile
shall be driven over a bridge or cause
way less than 20 feet in width at rate
exceeding four miles an hour. The third
provision is general In effect, providing
that the rate of speed of no automobile
shall exceed at any time while on the
public highway eight miles an hour Sec
ton 1926 provides that all machines must
be equipped with the proper appliances
for all possible elimination of 'nauseous
doors and odious noises The provision
embodied in section 1927 is to the effect
that the chauffeur of any automobile is
compelled by law to halt his car at the
request of drivers of teams or of cattle
and other domestic animals. That section
provides that the automobiles must be
brought to a stop when fractions horses
are encountered, and that the signal of
the driver or rider of the animal should
be the raising of a hand.
MANY people with whom I have come
in contact have expressed surprise that
such laws were existent. AS ignorance
of the law excuses no one, 1t would
seem that the owners of the unregistered
automobiles should no longer neglect hav-
ing their machines registered. The pro-
miscuous speeding and joy-riding' around
the city may be the source of the belief
of many that the criminal code has no
such provisions"