The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-04-01
WLlAINy AND NERVES.
The Ress Cure Might Have Made Nero
Harmless Faddist.

wv Hi'ubHl VI. AIMS OF tnf
past, II they were alive now, would
be subjected to re cure, which
though IT could not turn them into
good men, might make their vii
lalny less irrational and dangerous.
The worst tyrants OF the middle
ages and the renaissance, the worst
Roman emperors, seem to US incom-
prehenslble monsters Of iniouity.
men who did evil for the love of II.
We should understand them better
II we considered how likely their
way OF living was TO disorder their
nerves. No doubt Nero, even If he
had been brought up in the most
modern way, taught from child to
take an interest in nature and to
eat only the most wholesome things,
would never have been a very useful
or pleasant person. But he might
have been harmless faddist or an
innocent if undistinguished minor
Soet.
AS it was, he was the master of
the world, with no one to prevent
him from eating and drinking what
he chose or from taking whatever
other unwholesome pleasure he was
inclined to No doubt he exceeded
in everything and suffered from ex-
treme irritability in consequence.
Unfortunately he could indulge his
rritability without restraint. II
when he felt cross Of morning he
ordered a senator to die, the sens-
tor did die, and he heard no more
OF it. Moreover, there was always
fear to work upon tyrant's nerves,
and some emperors became tyrants
because Of that fear. Domitisn was
= martyr to it, though q good nan
Of business. II he were q stock
broker of today no doubt he would
worry himself incessantly about the
state Of the markets, and every one
would pity him for his nervousness.
AS he was a Roman emperor, we
think of him as a sinister villain,
Who killed men for the pleasure Of
L.
We often hear talk Of that terri
Die taedium vitae from which Ro-
nan mobiles suffered. We should
all it nerves now, and our doctors
would prescribe a strict diet and a
'ourse of golf or gardening for it.
3ut the Roman noble did not know
low to treat it. He made a feast
nd drank deep and fast and crown
d himself with flowers and the
ext morning must have felt it
Torse than ever. But since he was
Roman noble he is a romantic fig ,
re to US and not a mere sufferer !
rom our modern disease Of over
train.-London Times 4,
How sen'inoles Bury Their Dead.
Seminoles bury their dead on top
I the ground after wrapping them
l blankets. but always leave the top
I the head exposed. They build a t
en- over the body and usually chink C
with earth. When his squsw dies /
lie husband wears his shirt until it q
'ts off, which is not strikingly dis I
nctive. When the husband dies b
lie squaw doesn't comb her hair for y
Tree months. Little reverence is d
lown for the dead. When Tom t
iger's grave was robbed and his ]
ones taken for exhibition the out o
v over the desecration was almost il
holly newspaper affair. The
.arest settlers we're unalarmed and
e Indians Indifferent. - Coller's
'sekly. "
Butter r,.s. Hirds. m
In South America is ~ he found o.
bird from which a species Of but N
r can be obtained. This animal tr
known as the "oil Bird" and one
its favor,e haInts is the island q,
Trinidad. 1t breeds in rocky pl
YES on the mainland, laying its m
gs in a nest constructed Of mud. ds
he young birds are extraordinari-
fat, and the fat, having been pa
elted down in clay pots, produces 1t,
KIM Of butter, says London Tit
Is. This butter is used by the 81
tives. The caves inhabited by Ia
ESQ oil birds are usually accessible In
ly from the sea, and the hunting sp
these feathered creatures fire. vt
emily affords exciting sport to Ga
: adventurous in spirit
The Bird Of Death.
New Guinea is the abode of the v;s
st wonderful feathered creature 40
,wn 10 the student OF ornitholo-