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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
SPANISH ETIQUETTE.
Pelitcness TO Servants and Even the
Street Beaears.

From what we saw and from
what happened to US lde up q
page Of Spanish etiquette. II IS
probably Tot correct, h~i | offer il
as the result Of our e. periences.
Other people may have had differ
ent impressions. II you are OF the
female sex never wear a short skirt.
sailor or English walking hat un-
less YOU are willing TO have people
stare at you and sometimes clll
after YOU. II you have red hair dye
It or be prepared to be saluted US
"Rubia." Never bow to a man un.
less he lifts his hat first If you are
q man YOU may dress as an English
man, an operate tenor or a chorus
singer from Carmen without excit-
ing remar@. Never wear glasses.
If YOU are blind take dog on q
string. When you sit down at the
table or arise always bow and say,
"Buenas." This is imperative. You
may iostle people without apology,
but never speak TO any one without
saying your grace" be he noble,
friend or beg~ar. "Will your grace
DO me the favor to bring me my
coffee at . o'clock tomorrow y
would strike an American bellboy
with dismay But il is the literal
translation Of the Spanish request.
Never tell a bccgar to clear out, but
say that YOU have left your purse al
home and that you viii remember
him tomorrow or gently murmur
that God viii rovard him, whereat
he viii smile, thank YOU and depart.
These same bc-gars, who spring
up on every side. seem TO have a
code Of etiquette we could not faith
ON. After two or three DAYS there
were a few who begged only from
me, two or three others who be
sought Jean. Evidently we were
understood TO lie the patrons Of GER
tain beggars who out OF a crowd OF
mendicants were the only ones to
approach Us who would take their
dole with THANKS or If we said "to-
morrow" would smilingly back
away at once.
A trip into Spain ought to mean
more than sketches OF life as we
saw it in a single city. Yet it was
our pleasure to linCer on in Mad
rid, with the exception Of three
DAYS spent in Toledo and the Escu-
rial, for the whole of our two
months holiday, and to return di
rect to Paris without seeing any o.
the southern country, 50 beloved b
other tourists. So can any one wor
der that to Us Spain means Madrid
the city Of marvellous contrasts P
f. G. Allen in Outing
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

An odd form Of animal contest
used to be prscticed by Office clerks
in London some years ago. 1t was
known as grub racing, and nearly
every younger clerk had his stable
Of racers. These worms we're bred
in nuts or apples and carefully sta
bled between two walnut shells
They were selected by placing them
in the center of piece Of paper,
and the ore that proved most adept
in making a speedy bee line to the
edge Of the paper was matched
against lie pick of a rival stable
Some Of the fastest could not be in
duced to travel in a straight line.
In racing parlance. they bolted and
we're bad betting propositions. But
when two came together that show
ed a disposition TO run straight and
true the betting on the result was
lively enough to stir up the anti
gambling enthusiasts.-New York
Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
HIS Great weieh..

Nothing expresses better the i'm
portance Of a person-in his own Or
in the worlds eyes-than 10 state Z
in terms of his relationss0it the
physical world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. il will be
recalled, remarked that the axis Of
the earth sticks out in every mans
back yard. A bonmot Of not dis
similar kind is recorded of Wash
ington Irving.
The conversation was turned on
the pomposity Of certain Ameri-
can diplomatist.
"Ah. he is a great man." said
Irving. "and in his own estimation
a very great mana man Of great
weight Wen he goes TO the west
the eas; tips up!'
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
AN ALGERIAN STORY.
Ali and Mohammed Exchange Secrets
OF Their Trade.


Mohammed ben Mohammed YVES
marabout whose affairs were in a
most AouSishing condition. Pill
griims visited ms ancestors tomb by
hundreds, tcayine many and rich
oferings, anl Mohammed ben No
hammed grew fatter and wealthier
daily.
His servstor, Ali ben Ali, became
tired Of watcAing his masters III
creased wealth and bulk, vAiie ms
own pocket was as fiat Is bis t)dy
was thin. So one dark night he ST.
lently tyok lis departure. riding on
the back OF young ass belonging
to his master
After march Of about thirty
miles the ass had enough Of carry
ing Ali. 1t was young ass and
knew no better. So it went on
strike, lay down and forthwith died.
Thereupon Ali dug a hole and
put the ass in, piling a great noun
tain of stones over it. Then, sit
ting down beside the heap, he be-
gan to pray. A traveller passing in
quired by whose tomb he prayed SO
ferventlv. ali was filed with as
tonishment.
What, Had he never heard Of
the great saint Anar ben Amar
Qiterally San ass. the son Of an
ass")? All the people Of the coun-
try around came t.ere to pray
Tie traveller d.d not fail to men
ton the marabout Amar ben
Amar's tomb. and soon pilgrims
focked to it with offerings, and Ali
ben Ali grew fat and rich.
The faithful neglected Moham-
med ben Mohammed, who at last.
furious, abandoned his msrabout in
order to pay visit TO his rival.
Great was his astonishment when
he recognized his runaway servitor.
Taking him aside, be whispered /:
"Tell me the truth. Who is your
marabout 2"
''The ass ! stole from you. And
now tell ,me-who is your mara
bout?"
"The mother Of the ass you stole
from mew-"My Experiences In
Algeria" by Baroness de Boerio, In
Wide World Magazine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
The Manager Was Cute.

The crowd swayed toward the
manager Of the open air show.
"What did you mean by advertis-
in thet tight rope walker?" cried
the spokesman.
"Just what / said," replied the
unabashed manager.
"But the rope was laid on tn
sround," cried the spokesman, "an'
your fraud Of a rope walker just
walked on it a step or two! Do you
call that tight rope walkingf"
Certainly shouted the man
ager. The man was tight, wasn't
he "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

A stranger entered a church in
the middle of the sermon and seat
ed himself in the back pew. After
awhile he began to fidget. Leaning
over to the white haired man at his
side, evidently an old member of
the congregation, he whispered:
GLOW long has he been preach
ing?"
"Thirty or forty years, think, Z"
the old man answered. Il don't
know exactly"
IN stay them" decided the
stranger. 'sHe must be nearly
done" ."-Everybody's Magazine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
Delin1ue1t Tax List 1909.

si Of an. eld os rerrned delinquent for the non payment
,fzes tn 1899 AMI previous years together with taxes
for ,le comm yer lJl0 n Dup1s County Indiana
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

A maiden whose nrst nano was VIVA
was the only and beautiful child
or Mr.. Jack Rosa
And the sad story goes
That later she wed
Mr. Colt OF Nag's Head
And thus had her pretty name sp'nsA
--Bohaalan kaSns1uA
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
pste Of the First Agreement Among
Nav York's Brokers.


In the early part Of March, 1892,
the first notice was printed of the
opening Of a stock exchange office
Mt % Wall street by A. l.. Bleecker
& Sons, J. Pintard, McEyers & Bar
clay, Cortlandt & Terrers and Jaw
& Sutton. These several firms held
auctions of stock each day at noon,
selling in rotation to insure equal
opportunities for each other.
Some Of the broker specialists re-
sented such a restricted organiza-
ton, and on March 2l a meeting
was called Of the dissatisfied brokers
for purposes Of protection, and
committee was appointed TO pro-
vide a suitable room in which 10
assemble and to suggest such rules
and regulations for conducting
their business as the committee
deemed necessary. The final result
Of this meeting, says Moody's Mag
aZine, was the first signed agree
ment among dealers in securities,
the oldest record now in the ar
chives Of the New York Stock Ex-
change The agreement reads as
follows:
Eve, the Subscribers, Brokers
for the purchase and Sale Of Public
Stock, do hereby solemnly promise
and pledge ourselves to each other,
that we will not buy or sell from
this day, for any person whatsoever,
any kind Of Public Stock at less
rate than one-quarter per cent com
mission on the specie value, and
that we will give a preference 10
each other in our negotiations. In
Testimony Whereof we have set our
hands this 18th day Of May, at New
York. 1892"
This organization had no local
for conducting exchange
business. Like the curb brokers to-
day, transactions we're carried on in
the open air at a point between the
present numbers Of 6s and 20 Wall
street, under a famous old button
wood tree that stood there with
widespreading branches, which pro-
tected them from the suns rays and
inclement weather.
Business in those days was not
and there was en- air Of
leisure and quiet about the gather
ing. Securities we're not active
enough to employ all the time Of
the brokers, so between times bet
ting on the results of domestic and
foreign political controversies and
dealing in merchandise were in
cluded.
The first inside quarters of the
were secured in 1898.
when the Tontine coffee house, at
the northwest corner of Wall and
streets, was completed.
The old buttonwood tree was aban-
aoned, and the dignity Of the bro
kers' organization was elevated by
the change. The Tontine coffee
house was controlled by chartered
composed Of 203 subscrib-
srs at 500 each, organized as a
exchange.
The dealers in securities and the
we're al jumbled up to-
yether, and at times when trading
vas brisk there was wild excitement
and shouts that would have done
credit to a band OF Comanche In
lians. No constitution for a stock
was adopted until 1917,
when the New York stock and ex-
change board was formally organ
zed and a constitution adopted.
Prime was appointed
president and John Burson secre-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
Impatient.

well, If that amt the limit
mused the postman as he came
down the steps Of private resi-
dence.
"Whats the trouble?" querieI
the passing citizen, who had over
heard the postman's noisy thought.
"Why," explained the man in
gray, "the woman in that house
saws il don't come along earlier
she'll get her letters from some 9TH
sr carrier. .'-Chicsgo Nova
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

"wlll You be good girl now that
rve bought you that pretty munT
"Yes. ma: but II you wants me TO be
n real angel just buy me boa and
fur lined coat TO go with it"-Nev
York World.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

NJ, III .
state of Indi ma Counts OF Dubois ; s.
We Commissioners in and for said
County and State, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true and correct
statement OF the Receipts and expend-
itnres ~ the County Funds for the cal
ande' y-ar ~ 0.
Witness our hands an seal this %
day OF January 1911.
Henry WEIR
JoHN b. LuEBBERs,
FRED ALLIES,
Commissioners Dubois Co., Ind. .
Attestei. NJ. A. SWEENEY
Auditor Dcbois Co. Ipd.
Per l.. 7. KoEREKR, Deputy Auditor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27

Do you fancy nice stationery
and neat printing? Like neat
clothing, it makes the man
and fixes him in the business
world as nothing else can. The
cost isn't much. See about it
at The Courier office where
hundreds are accommodated.
The paper used is always the
best and the inks the neatest.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-01-27
Commissioners Annual Report

Comrissi neis repo,t OF the condition
OF the County Funis 'or the cs'anter
. ear 1910;
RECEIPTS For YEAR 1910.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14

the Lincoln INebJ Y. VI. C. A.. one OF
the strongest associations IN the west
He has organized a class of eight
expert gymnaSts. and under Pinneo's
direction these men are conducting
the boys play Chautauqua week.
Three of his men are playground
experts All Of them have at some
time won donors in the field Of sport.
They are former gridiron heroes or
stars of the diamond or track.
The work they will do here will sim
ply be for week of sports for the
boys.
They will conduct hiking trips. bird
study expeditions, field meets, camp
ing picnicS and things of that sort.
There won't be a dull moment in 1t.
The boys are asked to get two
things-a Chautauqua season ticket
and an Indian suit.
The suit is good play suit and can
be worn for months.
You can buy these of the Seton In
dian girl day or two before the Chau-
tauqua or have it made.
1t costs a dollar. and that's a very
small price for it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
WHEN WILL IT ENDq

. GrOcerS and general merchants
out over the state are wondering
% just what extent the state
board of pharmacy is going to
enforce an old law that has been
dug up for the purpose Of prOhl-
biting the sale of poisonous fly
killers by grocers and others not
registered pharmacists. The or
der was made by the board under
a law enacted in 1887.
If the board follows up that
law it can be made to apply to
gasoline and kerosene. 1t prOhi
bites the sale of mineral oils. "
It would doubtless prohibit a gro
Ger from selling some forms of
bluing which are poisonous, also
ammonia, which is a household
necessity for breaking hard water
T. would prohibit the. sale of I've,
which is poisonous, also matches
which are highly poisonous, and
many other things of common
use sold by grOcers and general
merchants.
The law upon which the ruling
of the board is based says that nc
one but a registered pharmacist
shall sell arsenic and IFS prepa.
ratiOns," together with a long
list of other pOisOns. The board
of pharmacy holds that the poi
son fly-killers are included in the
list of preparations" of pOisOr
which may be lawfully handled O.
which may be lawfully handled Oh
ly by a registered pharmacist
The law also prohibits any one
but a registered pharmacies
from selling all patent medicines
or common household remedie!
except when there is no register
ed pharmacist within five miles
at is a little difficult TO set
wherein it is more dangerous tC
the public to allow a grocer OF q
general merchant to hand out {
package Of pink pills, corn medi
cine or cuticure than it is for 8
registered pharmacist to do thu
same thing" said a general mer
chant who is being pinched by
the order.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
SUPPLYING MODERN DEMANDS

The Chautauqua is growing instl.
tuition. 10 he sure, 1t has had quite
a conservative growth, but u certain
and permanent one. That's what we
like in anything.
lOu may not have thought Of it, but
it is u fact that The ChautauQua IL
just coming into its own. We mean
that the Chautauqua is Just beginning
to be appreciated.
The Chautauqua is in the spirit of
this enlightened age. There are more
culture aud more attention given 10
splendid things than ever before.
There Is more interest in amusement
that Is high class. There Is u greater
demand Tor things that build up ratn-
er than tear down.
Business demands closer application
and less dissipation II demands more
elevaung paStimes and recreation. Ii
Is calling for things that make sharp
er, shrewder minds and a clearer IN.
derstandlng of what's going On. And
the Chautauqua is supplying that de-
mand. Ii is bringing to the platform
the greatest minds Of the age-the
richest talent the world possesses.
These things stimulate mind deyel.
0pment, a stronger grasp on the hard.
practical problems the busy man Is
confronting
There is less of brilliant and dazzling
oratOry and more Of good, common
sense among Chautauqua speakers
And these speakers are today wise,
lhrewd men Of the world who are ban
ding the everyday problems ably and
efficiently.
The work Of the ChautauQua Is meet.
Ing With the present demands for bet.
ter and Grger things In every enter.
prise
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
FACTS ABOUT STEEL TRUST

The restriction of competition
which il in violation of the law,
was the prime object of the or
ganizati0n Of the United States
Steel corporation, according to
information which has recently
come to light in Washington.
When formed, the steel trust had
property valued at $602,OOO,OOO.
But it was capitalized at 81, 1922
100000. Of the capital stock,
$20,OO0,0O0, or more than half
was water. Three partners of J.
P. Morgan advanced $2S,0O0,000
to finance the trust and received
stock worth $9O,5OO,O0O. The
average rate Of profit from 1901
to 1910 on the corporations actual
investment was II percent. Al
though this combine is in ex-
lstence IN plain violation of the
law, the Taft administration re-
fused OF prosecute it. The Taft
administration, however, cooper
sted with the steel trust by Civ
ing secrets Of our battleshipS to
foreign nations with the under
standing that in exchange for
these secrets the countries thus ia
vOred. would give a substantial
contract to the steel trust. The
man who permitted the exchange
Of vital government SeeretSin or
der that the Illegal trust could in
crease its dividends was Philande1
e Knox, now secretary of state.
Mr. Knox helped. organize the
steel trust and went from the po-
SitiOn of steel. trust attorney to
that Of United States Attorney
General.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
FIGHT ON HOPPERS CONTIN
UES.
Farmers in Many More Countie2
Forced 10 Wage War on. the
Pests.

The first report Of damage to
cops by gasshOppers came from
RawlinS county but since then re-
ports have come in rapidly from
from along the lines of the Santa
Fe. The ravageS of the graSshOp-
per in western Kansas have be-
c,me serious.
In Scott. Finney, Hamilton,
Grant and Stevens counties the
grasshOppers are doing great dam
age. especially to alfalfa. II. O.
Marsh of the government bureau
of entomology is conducting the
fight against the enemy of the
farmers and is assisting the rail
road company.
The method followed is to
spread poison over all the grass
and other vegetation along the
right of way. The poison is pre-
pared as follows:
Bran, 10 pounds, paris green,
four pounds, or white arsenic,
three pounds, salt, six pounds,
mOlasses four pounds.
To this sufficient water is adj
.ded to mOiSten. The graSshOppers
eat the preparation readily and
II causes death in a few minutes.
Tons of the preparation are be-
ing scattered by the railroad com
pany and many farmers are scat.
tering it also.
In some counties thousands
OF chickens are being turned out
IN alfalfa and they make short
work of the grasShOppers for a
while. One Scott county ranch.
man has purchased three hundred
turkeys and turned them loose on
his fields.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
THEY WANT TO KNOW.

| The, United States Senate will
nOtobe able to ignore the charge
made by the Wisconsin leg
ture Chat Isaac Stevenson, the
eldest man in the senate, pro-
cured his o election by bribery
'and corruption.
1t is charged that Stevenson
literally bought his way through
the popular primary. He adj
mits spending $111,OO0 in the
primary. lie received $3.50
vOtes1oabOut - per vote. The
Wisconsin legislature believes
he spent far more than $l1l,000.
The more influence a man or
newspaper had the more money
was paid. Some voters were
bought fOr a glass of beer. O
1t rs also charged that he cor
rupted the legislature that elect
ed him.
Stevenson seems to have gone
into the campaign with the de-
6herate intention of buying his
election. His c0urSp 5waS Steprpd
by shrewd attorneys
Mucho Of his money was han
died by a Milwaukee bank, not
as regular checking account,
but by an extraordinary system
sOf cashiers checks.
The Stevenson funds were not
deposited. but the money was
placed in an envelope and left in
the custody Of the banks paying
teller9.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14

President of the United States. A
few days ago Republican legis-
latOrS and Democratic legislators
joined in unreSewed prase of his
honest, his magnificent service to
the people. A few weeks ago thir-
ty Republican legislators and fiji
~ Democratic legislators passed
by unanimous vote the half dozen
great Wilson measures" that
crowned Wilson's administration
with a success and a fame mpar-
alleled in the Legislative history
of this or any other state.
The people of the West may
well ask, what manner of man is
this that has accomplished these
things in a State sunk to a low
level of degraded and corrupt pol
tiles. The True American makes
answer in a few words: Wood
row Wilson is a man of the peo-
pie. And their spokesman he is
honest and brave-nOt a drop of
coward blood flows in his veins.
His thought is mature. his pro
gram is definite. He believes in
the peoples cause with all faith.
He is ready to fight their battles
without fear.
But even that does not de-
scribe his tremendous power for
good, We get a glimpse of ii
when We repeat what the late
Chief Justice Fuller, of the Su,
preme Court of the United States
said of Samuel J. Tilden:
"Since the days of Jefferson
and Franklin, this country has
not had a statesman whose pen
could delineate SO accurately a
Principle, A Policy, A Line Of
Conduct" e..
"What the people need" con-
tinues the Chief Justice, is
somebody who can tell them with
emphasis what they themselves
think"
These words are as true Of
Woodrow Wilson today as they
were true of another great Dem.
Ocrat thirty yeas ago. 1t was
Woodrow Wilson's power tt
give voice in the thoughts ant
wishes Of the people of New Jer
Sey that has wrought such won.
derS of progress for the people
i themselves. The new pOlitica
era has dawned in New Jersey
a era of the common people
achieved through one who was
able to voice their will. The re
forms that have been set afoOt
the moral and civic progress thai
las Transformed, almost trans
l.gured this State, are all of tn,
common people They did no
know their own power unit
y oolrow Wilson spoke for them
And they will acclaim Wool
row Wilson as Decentralization
n. j., True American.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
ROAD PAID $4,000 IN 50 SUIT

1t cost the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company $26,O14.1O to
fight. a $9oclsim brought against
it by the Larabee' Mills Company
of Stafford: The. Kansas SUI
preNe Court allowed that amount
today as damages to the mill
company and the fees of attOr-
neyS in fighting the ease through
the Kansas and United States SUI
preme courts. The case dates
back four oyears when the Lar
abee company and the railroads
could not agree on the payment
OF demurrage charges on cars of
grain switched to the mill.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14

Chas GliSsmann was ont from
Kansas City this week visiting
his parents. 1t looks as though
Charles never would quit growing
He is connected with the Pinker-
ton detective agency in Kansas
City.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-07-14
An EXPERT ON PLAY.
Director Of Boys and Girls
Sports at ChaufauQua Old
Northwestern Man
HAS BEEN A FOOTBALL HERO
Trained a Class Of Young Men.
Now All Are Playground
Experts Stars
Among Them.

George NJ. Pinneo. the director Of
the boys play Chautaurua 7eek. Is
one of the best known athletes Of the
middle west.
He Is a Northwestern man and
graduate also of the Springfield
MassJ Training school,
He was the greatest football player
at Northwestern In his Deriod.
He has played against Yale and
Harvard and some of the largest
schools Of the east.
He entered Y. NJ. e. A. physical
work and is now physical director Of