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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
Gsieht as she Fire.

When Crewe Hall was burning IT,
late Lord Crewe, father of the pres
ent earl, displayed humorou,
cquanimity which st. James Bud
get deems worthy of preservation in
print.
When the historic mansion. with
Its works of art, rare manuscripts,
armor and other treasures, was
blazing away Lord Crewe ordered q
footman to place a table on the
lawn and bring him an inkstand and
some telegraph forms. He then sat
down and composedly wrote this
telegram TO Street, the Royal acad-
emician:
Dear Street-Crewe is burning
Come and build it up again"
To his sister he sent another mes
sage by wire:
"You always used to say this was
s cold house. You wouldn't say so
z you could see it now"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23

From the dark kitchen there en-
anated a series of thumps and angry
exclamations. Jones was looking
for the cat.
"Pa" called the son from the
stairway.
"Go to bed and let me aloney
blurted Jones. "I've just barked
my shins."
"Pa.." insisted Tommy after 9
moments silence.
"Well, what is Il? Didn't l tell
you to keep quietf"
q d;dn't hear your shins
bark"
And tie ncst moment Tommy
was being pursued BY an angry sirs
with q hard hairbrush. - Chicago
News
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
The MANAGER Wae CveA

The crowd swayed sswsrt the
manager of the open air show.
"What did you mean by advertis.
in thet tight rope walker?" cried
the spokesman.
Gust what I said," replied the
unabashed manager.
"But the rope was laid on tn
ground" cried the spokesman, Can
your fraud of rope walker just
walked on it step or twol Do you
call that tight rope walking?"
"Certainly!" shouted the man
ager. "The man was tight, wasn't
be ?"--Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
The Clever Weaver Bird.

An interesting bird is the "weav-
err" 1t seems to be fond of max
ing enormous nests merely for the
purpose of exercise in the art OF
construction. Supply these birds
with strings and strawS and they
will use them Up rapidly, and their
fabric is woven with 4 pcr'ectness
that is astonishing. In some coun-
tries it Is tie custom of the weaver
birds to colonize and build one big
flat topped platform, two or three
yards across. which is SO admirably
put together as to shed the rain as
well as any roof could do. Under
this roof they make individual pock-
ct shaped nests, bringing up under
this unique structure a large and
interesting family of little weavers.
There is another bird, called the
"tailor," which, instead of weaving
It's nest, incloses it in bic leaves and
stitches the latter together with
plant fbers, just as one would sew .
piece Of cloth.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
GOLDEN NEEDLES.
They Were Used When GaIIants In
Fra-ce Did Fancy Work.

Fra1ce Did Fancy Work.
During the old regime in France
about which SO much glamour re.
mains to u.s. the very men who were
living and making the history of the
empire of Louis passed their leisure
time in a way that seems to US o1
today utterly ridiculous. In all the
fancy work on which ladies employ
ed themselves the men seem to have
taken part.s
Poinsinetsin one of his comedies
represents a young marquis enter.
ing a room@here two fair damsels
are embroidering. One is working
a piece of dress trimming, the other
Marty founce. The beau examines
the embroidery with the eye of a
connoisseur, points out here and
there the specially good touches and
is too polite to notice any defects
He takes little gold tube out O:
the pocket of his richly decorated
waistcoat aad selects dainty gold
needle He goes to the frame at
which Cidalise is working and fin
ishes the flower which she had be-
gun. From her he moves to the
sofa and, seizing one end of the
founce, assists Ismene, to whom he
pays special attention, to complete
her task.
At this time it was the custom of
the ladies Invariably to carry their
workbags with them to the evening
receptions, in which they had not
only their embroidery materials, but
the last novel, the popular songs,
their patch boxes and rouge pots.
Gentlemen also carried deftly en-
broidered little bags into company,
which held ga whole arsenal of cut
lery and fancy articles, such
boxes Of different shapes filled W
lozenges, bonbons, snuff and scent.
At another period the fashion Of
the day was to cut out drawings
from books and pamphlets and to
paste them on screens, lamp shades,
boxes and vases. The skill in this
was to so arrange the drawings or
parts of different drawings as to
produce a curious or amusing ef-
feet. Then there came a season
when all the rage was for charades
and riddles, which gave peculiarly
good opportunity to exercise tie
light and rapid Wit so conspicuous
in the French. Every evening the
drawing rooms we're converted into
impromptu charades. Some lady
would suggest a word or phrase, ana
forthwith it would be converted into
the subject of sprightly little play
Many Of The word games now cur
rent with US in America had theii
origin in the necessity the French
salons were under in the last cen.
tury to divert themselves. In some
OF the salons the fashion Of keep
ing a daily chronicle of news, which
was too often a mere chronicle Of
scandal, was adopted. Nine. Dou.
blot de Persan issued bulletins
which she called "nouvelles Ia
main." In her apartments two reg
listers were kept, one of the authcn-
tic news received here and there by
her guests, the other Of floating ru.
mors and on dts, and from these
the budget of her chronicle Was
made up and circulated throughout
France.--Applcton's Magazine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
oats of the First Agreement Among
New Ycrk's Brokers.

In the early part of March, 1892
the first notice was printed of the
opening of a stock exchange offic,
at % Wall street by A. L. Bleeckel
& Sons, j. Pintard, McEvers & Bar
clay, Cortlandt & Terriers and JAY
& Sutton. These several firms helC
auctions of stock each day at noon
selling in rotation to insure equa
opportunities for each other.
Some of the broker specialists re
sented such a restricted organiza
ton, and on March 21 meeting
was called of the dissatisfied broker;
for purposes of protection, and {
committee was appointed to pro
vide suitable room in which t.
assemble and to suggest such rule:
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:
Owe, 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 a less
rate than one-quarter per cent com
mission on the specie value, and
that we will give a preference tc
each other in our negotiations. In
Testimony Whereof we have set oul
hands this 18th day of May, at New
York, 1892"
This organization had no local
habitation for conducting exchange
business. Like the curb brokers to-
day, transactions were carried on in
the open air at a point between the
present numbers of 68 and 70 Wal
street, under a famous old button
wood tree that stood there Will
widespreading branches, which pro
tected them from the suns rays and
ordinarily inclement weather.
Business in thone days was not
rushing, and there vas an air OF
leisure and quiet alont the gather
ing. Securities ecrc not active
enough to emplov al the time oi
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
exchange were secured in 1898
when the Tontine coffee house, at
the northwest corner of Wall and
William streets, was completed.
The old buttonwood tree was aban-
doned, and the dignity OF the bro
kers' organization was elevated by
the change. The ,Tontine coffee
house was controlled by a chartered
company composed of 203 subscrib-
ers at $500 each, organized as a
merchants exchange.
The dealers in securities and the
merchants were all jumbled up to-
gether, and at times when trading
was brisk there was wild excitement
and shouts that would have done
credit to a band OF Comanche In
dians. No constitution for stock
exchange was adopted until 1917,
when the New York stock and ex-
change board was formally organ
lied and constitution adopted.
Nathaniel Prime was appointed
president and John Burson secre-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23

We know OF number OF families who
are regular readers OF the Courier but
are not subscribers, they borrow the pa
per from their neighbors. We are glad
to know that the Courier is thus appre-
ciated, but why not subscriber The
prieeis small and we would appreciate
naving these names on our mailing list,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
THE WAYS OF JAPAN.

AS one steps before the y

AS one steps before the
open doors of the reception TO,
Or into the court or the kitchen, q
the case may be, the host az
proaches and greets with low bow
followed by the hostess and usual 8
one or more of the maids, v!
kneeling, bend to the floor. =
salutations are returned, a word
exchanged perhaps about the roor
or the meal that Is to be prepare,
and the guest seats himself Oh t
low porch or platform that SUI
rounds the entrances and remove
his shoes or sandals, leaving ther
on the ground. If one wears til,
kIapanese cloth shoe and straw san
Ddal, as l did some of the time, tn,
feet are always washed in a wooder
basin of water brought by maid
who comes Gathering around tht
outside of the house on woodeT
Aogs to bring it and sets it dowr
before one on the ground. A little
towel is brought, too, unless one, a!
usual, has this most useful Of arti
cles about his person.
Then the guest steps in, in stock
ing feet or barefoot, and, precede.
by servant, passes through T.
open rooms, often between q doul
line of all the people of the hou
who are bowling to the floor. J.
enters the room allotted to him an
there seats himself cross legged 0;
a cushion on the matted floor b.
fore tiny charcoal fire in brazic
and rests-at least pretends to re
If he is a foreigner-until disregar
for ceremony gets the better of mr.
and he adopts an easier position
Presently comes a demure or smil
ing little maid, with rosy cheeks an,
fancifully colored silk kimono, VIII,
kneels outside and slides open tn
paper door, enters, kneels an,
closes it, brings tea things to tn
center of the room and, kneeline
pours out a wee cup of tea to IL
: guest or each of the guests. I'll
Zone, she bends her forehead to th-
(oor and patters out, opening an
closing the door, as before. II Il
quest is an honored one some dai
y, such as bean jelly or cakes
Ry dough rolled in pink o
Ieen powder, is brought with
tea. Then the guest steps out
the porch to wash, and as he DIR,
his face he looks at the little cuI
tured garden or Off to the distan
valley or forest or mountain or sea
Returning to his room, he j
most of tic time alone until tn,
coming of the meal or, i! it chance
to be afternoon or evening, unit
the announcement comes that 9Th
bath is ready enc is never entire
ly alone. Access 10 the room is al
ways free on several sides. and hos
visitor or servant may cofne in
any time. Cne becomes used
this and learns to Ike it in ~
ways. There is nothing hidden.
makes life simple and Informal al
more natural We found it Il di.
Advantage sometimes when we ha,
too many visitors whose curiosit,
got the better of them, but we al
ways took it in good part, finding i
= amusing rather than annoying
obert Van Week Anderson j.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
beeeci,;os1,nc Csnnon.

The breechloadlng cannon wer,
among the earliest used. We find
them on English and other ships az
early us the last quarter of the four
teenth century, and therefore much
before the time of the buccaneers
The cannon was n mere tube, bound
with heavy iron rings, and was load
ed by the insertion of the "gonnt
chamber" an iron pan containine
the charge. which fitted into anc
closed the breech. These guns were
very clumsy affairs in comparison
With the modern breech. oader, bu'
the principle was the same.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23

"You don't look like q man who hAl
tasted for three days"
Appearances is agin me. lady; but
sh. If you only knowed how many
pairs OF pants got on" Philadelphia
Press
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-01-23
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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08
AMMUNITION is TOO HIGH.

The politician now may rear and tear
And at the other party rip and swear.
He may backyard the other candidate
And shoot his mouth off at terrific rate.
He may call all his hearers liars.
Consign them all to hades' fires.
SANDER the flag. his country and his state;
Spit out venom. treason and foul hate.
But not one rot will at the traitor shoot,
Bust on his mug and SURROGATE the brute.
When formerly rots fell like the summer
rain
And smelled from California clear to
Maine.
Well. no: it's not because men are SO
good
They'd fire the eggs II they just could
But rots today are worth their weight In
gold.
And, like the girls. they never do grow
old.
In Philadelphia wholesome cake they
make.
In bad New Yawk In egg nog rots they
break,
While in Chicago the fair girls
Use them to paste their cute spit curls
c. NJ. BARNITZ.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08

When the small boy takes the
cake he thinks that he is receiving
only his just dessert
Habit may he second nature. but
il is seldom an Improvement on The
original.
knowledge is power until a man
reaches a point where he knows II
all,
There is small room for domestic
happiness in the head filled with
fashions.
hegsar will be satisfied with
half dollar. hut the insurance
CRATER wants the four quarters Of
the earth,
IL married woman is fairly good
looking, loves her husband and is
sensible. that is about all anyone
could reasonably expect,-Chicaeo
News,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08
HEN COMFORT FOR HEN PROFIT.

Zero cold storage was never meant
for live chickens, though some keep
them that way all winter and wonder
at the few eggs and cuss at the big
feed bills. The colder the house the
higher the feed bill Is a fact forgotten
by advocates of the extreme open front
for northern chimes.
We have seen fanciers fairly shovel
feed into their hens in winter and re-
ceive few eggs in return. for the hens
were converting the food intended for
eggs into fat for fuel to burn to keep
from freezing to death.
A hen lays up nothing for rainy day,
but II she has the chance like bruin
she will lay on fat for the wintry day.
Thus as cold weather approaches
her appetite increases and naturally
Graves those foods like corn that quick
~ turn to fat. and this is why We Of
ten find hens hog fat at the beginning
of winter and unfit to lay those top
notch winter eggs.
The practical poultryman considers
all this. He knows healthy produc-
tive hen must have certain proper
ton of fat. and he tries to keep them
at that normal point by feeding the
right proportion of carbohydrates and
protein. At the same time he so ar
ranges his poultry quarters that he
conserves the hens body heat at night
and keeps them exercising in comfort
in the day so that the blood circulation
kaanS them warm and healthy
Ventilati does not mean that man
must live In the open and freeze to
death.
Biddy originated in the tropics. Her
natural laying season is in balmy
spring. She is no arctic owl Bred
well. fed we'll and housed we'll. she
will do we'll. but not otherwise.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08
FEATHERS AND EoosHELLs.

In a 1.4OO mile homing pigeon flight
from Denver to Pittsburgh. War
Horse and North Side Star. Pitts
burgh birds. beat the worlds record.
The time was days hours 46 min
utes = seconds. What miracle that
a pigeon can find its way home that
distance through the trackless waste OF
air!
Starving fowls down to get them
thin to mott and then feeding them
strong to make them feather fast and
lay is a method laid aside by those
who have tried it. 1t Is too strenuous
and too unnatural. The starvation
method is cruel and makes the flock
targets for disease. Fowls that are
kept in good condition do their mott
ing easily and on time.
Warden j. X. Codding Of the Kan
sas penitentiary has an extensive poul'
try plant inside the walls, the birds
being cared for by the convicts. 1t not
only brings a pleasant variety into the
daily monotonous routine. but insures
good chicken Christmas dinner for
the prisoners.
No poultry raiser can expect chicks
to mature well when they must con-
tend with old hens and ROSTERS for a
share of the feed. Small stock in such
environment seldom get enough feed
and are generally exposed to much filth
lice.
Twenty-Five horses died in a week at
SpringtieId, Kan, from eating smutty
corn. Smutty corn. green corn and
moldy corn are good knockouts for tur-
keys, ducks and chickens also.
The Louisville Courier-Journal is au-
thority for new snake story in which
hen was set on seven snake eggs,
Matched them out and raised them with
tender. loving care. What brand Of old
Kentucky bourbon does the editor Of
the Journal use. anyhow?
AS we travel through the country on
our institute lecture trips we are espe-
cially interested in the poultry part
of the landscape and notice that in most
Of the poultry houses the windows are
too high to make the interiors light and
warm from the sun.
When the poultry lecturer rises to
speak in farmers Institute there is
generally stir among the women Of
the audience. for they are the poultry
raisers of the nation and particularly
interested in poultry culture. We re-
ceived 100 written questions at an In
stitute plus the oral queries. and the
women asked most of them.
Miss May Irwin. the American ac-
tress. has gone into the poultry bust.
ness on her estate In the Thousand
Islands. where she specializes In Black
Orpingtons. She has been showing
some and taking all the bouquets as
usual
A neighbor has an old hen with a
brood half ducks and half chicks. At
feeding time the little quacks push
their scoop shovels so fast the chicks
have little chance at the grub. When
chicks are with turkeys the turkeys
get left
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08

those who like nice clothes and
those who are dead.
A woman without jealousy is n
fit subject for the undertaken.
Feminine beauty should appeal
to the heart rather than 10 the eye.
Smiles that SOW trough tears are
the silver Innings of the clouds,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-08
SunfIoWer Philosophy.

Even the barking dog stops &c
take bite when hungry.
1t requires an expert dentist 10
dent q soft hat properly.
No woman believes in saving
money by buying fewer clothes.
There are two classes of women
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-11-30

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reader, has arrived in Moscow, and is
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-11-30

cember 10, at Eggan's hall, Georg
Shaw Cook of Boston, will address
the public on Christian Science, hi
subject being, God is Good" TIL,
; lecture will be free to the public. Mr.
. Cook is member of the board of lee
tureship of the Mother Church, of the
; First Church of Christ, Scientist, Bos-
ton.
A subscription to the Start Mirror
would make the very best Xmas pres
ent we can think of.
At the beautiful country home of
Leander Perrel, two and a half miles
south of Moscow a group of about
twenty-five relatives gathered on
Thanksgiving day to partake of one
of those sumptuous dinners for which
the hostess is SO we'll known. After
dinner some time was spent in sing
ing, and all too soon in the opinions
of the guests, the time came to bid
goodbye to host and hostess with
wishes for many pleasant returns of
the day.
]. H. T. Smith, the new secretary
of the Northwest Live Stock show,
reached here from Pullman this morn
ing and is taking over.the office from
former Secretary W. L. Carlyle Mr. |
Smith will maintain the office here I'M |
til near the opening of the show when
he will go to Lewiston. Until he
leaves Moscow, w. L. Carlyle will aid
in the detail work, which has already
advanced splendidly under his direc-
ion. The new officers, member, and
guest buttons of the show reached
here today.
Jerome Day, a mining man of the
Occur d'Alenes, has started the cleo
ion of $4,000 summer home at Mica
'ay, on Occur d'Alene lake, says a
spokane paper. 1t is declared that
he structure will be among the most
laborate summer lodges of the north :
7est. G. F. White "a Spokane arch
-ect, is supervising the erection of
le building. Harry Day of Wallace,
J planning the erection of a home on
he lake early next year. He has pur- Y
nased location on Kidd island bay, I
n the west shore of the lake. +
The women of the Presbyterian
lurch are cordially invited to meet y
the home of Mrs. NJ E. Lewis on S
'ednesday afternoon for a farewell =
sit with Mrs. W. L. Carlyle, who with
e daughters will soon accompany W.
Carlyle to Oklahoma Mrs. Carlyle
S been closely identified with the
)rk of the Presbyterian church dur
3 her. stay in Moscow and has been
ry active in several departments of
igious work. She has been for two
ars past the president of the Ladies
/ Society and the Missionary So
ty. Her going will be a distinct
S to the organizations she has so
y directed.