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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
Marvp ~ccci7o.

A Maryland man recently mar
ried of Lis fourth daughter, the
ceremonies toIch:ng whose wedding
were given much attention by the
SOCIETY eGtors" OF the country pa
pers in that region.
A week or two after the wedding
Q friend who had been north fol
some time met the father, to whom
he made some jocular reference in
regard to the recent "event." 81
see by one paper" said he, "that
Mary's wedding well nigh beggareo
description"
"Well," said the old man, 81 dom
know about that, but / do know il
we'll nigh beggared me"-Lppir-
eott's.
'You wouldn't tnirx tnat fellow was
Gorth S1.O0O,0O0. would your
"Gracious. noi'
"Well. he t"-Philadelphia Presa
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
JollYinn the Parents.

why did you chuck that bab,
under the chin?" asked the man.
~It is such an u~lv little sinner"
"That Is why | chuckcd him.
said the woman. 81 wanted to make
his parents fee! lappN ! always
pet the ugly babies. Pretty babies
get so much coddiing from stran-
gers that their parents take it as q
matter of course. 1t is he father:
and mothers of homely babies who
appreciate attention. Didn't yor
notice how pleased that coupi'
looked? don't suppose anybody
ever petted that baby before excep'
themselves. They'll think q lo'
more of the youngster after this. -
New York Press.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
THE ATTIC INSTINCT.


The attic instinct hangs on sur
prisingly, and an observing eye can
tell how many years a person has
lived in the city by merely glancing
under her ted. If there are three
hat boxes one will contain letters,
one scraps of ribbons and laces-if
it's a man it's newspaper clippings
and one anything from broken
lock to old road maps. If, besides
these, there ares bundles of maya
zines and piles of newspapers, not
to mention a bicycle seat and q
green umbrella that one might use
in private theatricals-if all these
things have been placed under the
bed against the protests OF the fam
lily, if they are patiently moved
every cleaning day and clung to
through moving, then their own.
ers have the attic instinct to such an
extent that there is not the slight
est hope of their ever being cured
They will think from an attic point
Of view for the rest of their lives
and their family might as well be
come resigned.
When people are willing to make
themselves edisagreeable over a bi'
of string and absolutely objections
bic on the subject of stray pieces oi
brown paper they should not be &C
cused of having bad dispositions
nor should they be suspected Of do
ing it to annoy one. They ar
merely suffering from the attic In
stinct and cannot help themselves.
Their characters were formed ant
have now hardened for scheme o
life where certain things were al
vsys kept in the cellar, others il
tn wood shed, others In the pantr,
md the cupboard on the first floor
still others in the closets On tn
next Aoor, and everything and any
thing that overfowed from any o
these places Was just taken up Z
the attic. And now these poor dea
souls live with cellar, three storie
and an attic still lodged In thei
minds, and, though they will j,
time disappear, like all unnecessar
members-seventh toe, tails, an ap
pendi1-in the meantime they ar
having trouble with them, they ar
suffering and fighting for them, an
II takes a serious operation to re
move so much as one scrap book
The owner thinks he may like t
read it over in his old age.-Hal
peTs Weekly.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
4 CROOKED BOUNDARY.
Cause OF the Peculiar Lines That pi-
vide Two States.

If you will look on the map Of
New England you will see two Gu
rious Irregularities in the dividing
line between Massachusetts, and
Connecticut. One of them is il
CRANKY township, a little north
west of Hartford and the other il
Enfield. township, on the Conncci i
cut river, south of Springfield. L
Is standing conundruin why, SC
long as the boundary is imaginary
they did not make it straight in
stead of crooked. But there5'
hangs a tale.
Those two little jogs on the ma
are monuments to human obstinac,
and to the persistency which is or
Of the chief traits of the I ankle
character. The ancestors Of th,
farmers who own those little spot.
Of ground preferred to live in Mas
sachusetts rather than in Connect
cut and fought for their preferenc-
until they had their way.
The controversy began in 171t
and continued for l12 years beforc
it was finally decided. In 1874 the
question was appealed to England
but the government was so mucf
engrossed in the Seven Years wa
that it was never brought to the at
tertion of the crown. Up to thC
outbreak of the Revolution bot
states continued to levy. taxes anC
send notices of fast days and elec
tions to the farmers who occupied
the land, and there Is no record o
how they avoided one or whethe,
they paid both. Later, however
they voted and paid taxes in Massa
chusetts only, Notwithstanding th'
protest of the county authorities IL
Connecticut. In 1898, after peac'
was restored, both states appointet
commissioners, but the dispute wa
carried on until 1904, when q com
promise was reached. There wer
several similar disputes between TIL
two states besides those which nov
appear upon the map. and an agree
ment was reached by which Massa
chusetts consented to surrender he
, claim to a strip of territory i
! Woodstock and Suffield township;
provided Connecticut would yiel
! her claims to the other tracts i
; dispute. No action, however, wa
! taken upon the report.
In 1910 the controversy was re
vived by some legal proceeding, an
another commission was appointed
, but if it ever reached conclusio
I there is no record to be found. l
1920 a third commission was IL
8 trusted with the settlement, an
: after two years they decided upo
, the present boundary line. whic
was adopted by The legislature q
; both states.-Exchange.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
A WARNING.
The Utter Uselessness of Taking 4
Course In German.

Course In German.
A customer during a trying on
asked her dressmaker, whose son
was at college, if he were pursuing
a general course or specializing IN
any particular branch. The answer
came promptly, through mouthful
of pins:
"Sanskrit, ma'am. He's specializ-
ing in Sanskrit. ] can't say but I'd
have preferred something a bit
more usual in the way of education
something more plain tailor made
for every day like Sanskrit's such
a fussy study"
Her criticism, if oddly worded,
was comprehensive and not unin-.
telligent Less reasonable and equal
ly unexpected were the remarks OF
an old farmer in a remote hill vii
lage upon the favorite studies OF his
son. He had always beer suspicious
of the higher education and was far
from pleased when his Joe, whom
he wished TO keep on the farm, oh
tanned a scholarship.
Languages may be all right for
folks that's born to 'em in foreign
parts" he declared recently, with
impressive dclibcration, "but a man
hat amt had better talk plain
| S 2nkep and do things.
TO see tbat boy Of mine sit down
Nai. q BOOK We cat read, saying
c er ords ye can't sense-jest put
.or, pa.tcr ,Huttcr, mutter, sputter,
- ttcr-uiiy, it makes me fair sick
| Ani for al he's been st ii most o
year, he can't make those Italians
on the highway understand three
words together lie owns himself
he can't"
at is Italian he is studying,
them" the listener murmured po
| itely.
"No, 'tain't; it's German" admit
ted the cid man in reluctant
! growl. "R1t a precious poor ex
cusc ! call hat, and so told him.
81 don't care if 'tain't their own
lingo, ,toc.' says r 1T oughter come
lore sicllt nighcr 10 it than jest
United Stfte+ talk. Squeezed al
up together the way folks be on the
map o EHrope, conrse they must get
used to each others talk enough te
make each other out
"'Bet yc my Sunday-go-to
meeting h4t,' | told him, If ye talk
ed reel German to those Italians
, they'd understand YEP.
"But lie can't All he can do 7
to set in corner with his book
putter puttcr;ng and sputter sput
tering.
! ''Don't We talk to me about col
leges! Joe's a warning."-Youth'
Companion.
Some t;Ae ago there lived gen
tleman of ipdo.ert habits who spent
his time visiting among his friends
After wearing out tbs welcome In
his own ncishborhood he thought
be would visit an old Quaker friend
! some twenty miles distant. On his
arrival he was cordially received BY
: the Quaker, who, thinking the Wis
ttor had taken much pains to come
so far to sec him, treated him with I
great deal of attention and polite
ness for several days. AS the Wis
. itor showed no signs Of leaving. th'
. Quaker became uneasy, but bore i
, with patience until the eighth day
q when he said TO him:
"Aly friend, l am afraid tLcc vii
never come again
Q ooh, yes l shall" said the visitor
r 'T have enjoyed my visit very mucl
n and shall certainly come again"
! But" said the Quaker, 'if the
I viii never leave how can thee con-
I again Y'--Philsdelphia Ledgel.
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How He Acquired Trouble.

"Educat,on.sY said the man who
had been sued for breach of prom
ise, as the root of all evil"
Glow so?" asked the man who
Had not been sued and consequent
ly could not reason from the same
premises.
"If l hadn't been able to write,
answered the defendant, what evi-
dence do you suppose they would
ks against me?" Still, he con.
Ct a after some argument that the
N II who can write and von't hal
some advantages over IT, nan who
doesn't write because car
Chicago Post
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27

'@The telephone has DESTROYED al
the privacy of society,"" said the so
ciety girl. at breaks in on every.
thing. Nothing is sacred to it. You
may be saying your prayers. The
telephone. Or in the midst of your
bath. The telephone. Or doing up
your back hair or, worse of ell, q
delightful man may be making love
to you, when killing, Killing, killing
The telephone breaks off the thread
Of his theme and he fails to resume
it"-New York Press
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
Stains on leath -r.

Stains from leather are remove
BY the use Of paraffin. 1t likewis,
gives a brilliant polish. To remov'
sugar and sirup stains wash th'
stained part With warm water with
out, soap, then rub with ammonia
diluted with warm water. Ii NO
washable, ~ diluted alcahoE
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27

We know of a number of families who
are regular readers of the Courier hut
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
|priseis small and We would appreciate
having these names or our mailing list,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
How He Won Her.

"The man marry" said the giri
IN the parlor scene, must be but q
little lower than the angels"
"Well, what's the matter with
ne2" queried the young man as he
dropped on his knees at her feet
sYou see, Pm a little lower thsr
sr,s Of them. Houston Post
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-27
STRIKE
WHILE
THE
IRONS
HOT!

Strike the people for
business while they're
in a buying mood. If
you want to strike
hardest, put a striking
ad in the JASPER CoU-
RIER and keep it there.
Keep on striking and
the, iron" YOU,
will never + cod.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14

officials of the Alaska division, bureau Of edu-
cation yesterday gave emphatic denial to a re-
Gently published statement that the reindeer in
Alaska are "deterioratng and diminishing They
declare that, on the contrary, the Alaskan rein
deer are constantly increasing in number and
improving in quality
The recently completed tabulation OF the re-
turns contained in the annual reports Of the
superintendent of the herds shows that there
we're June 30, 1918, 1926 reindeer in the 62
Alaskan herds, or net increase of % per cent
during the fiscal year This is considered a fair
rate OF increase, especially since nearly 5000
reindeer were killed for food and skins during
the year. Only 1853 Of the reindeer are owned
by the government; 5041 are owned by missions,
1884 by Laps and the remaining 3O532 are
owned by 1877 Eskimos and Indians whose income
from the reindeer industry during the fiscal year
was $66,966. The reindeer belonging to these
natives have an estimated value of S763.300
The government is planning to go out of the
reindeer business as fast as It train natives
for individual ownership, the policy being TO en-
courage independence and initiative among the
native population Distribution of reindeer Is
in charge of the United States school teachers,
and it is expected that the government will dis
pose OF all its reindeer within the next four years
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
HUGE SAVINGS OF ITALIANS
Investigation Shows Total Has More
Than Quadrupied in the Last
Thirty Years.

Rome.-Simon w. Straus, president
of the American Society for Thrift,
is studying methods of thrift used
in Italy.
He has been surprised to learn that
in the last thirty years savings in
Italy have more than quadrupled, hav-
ing risen from $26S. 100000 to $1,000
100000.
The chief means of inducing thrift
are the ordinary savings banks, which
number about 200, with nearly 3,00O,-
900 depositors, whose deposits total
500,000,000, and the post office say
ings banks, with an average OF 6,000,-
600 depositors, whose savings amount
to s450,000,000. The remainder OF
savings are held by cooperative go
cieties OF credit and by the savings
departments attached TO the state
pawnbrokers establishments.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
PRICE OF IRISH PARLIAMENT
Traffic Reveals Most Striking Gaze
Of Sale Of Honors by
Lord Castlereagh.

a. London.-For a cynical student Of
politics there is much entertainment
in the records of the sale of honors.
Take, for instance, the traffic that
brought about the legislative union
with Ireland.
No fewer than % Irish peerages
were given away by Lord Castlereagh;
19 Irish peers went up a step in the
hierarchy and five were rewarded
with English peerages. A million and
q half of good English money ($7,5OO,-
00O) went to honorable lords for the
purchase of rotten boroughs. In addi-
ton pensions and places were found
for clamorous claimants, as the price
for the destruction of the Irish parlia-
ment, while the average price given
for a vote to keep bargainers was $751;
900
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
NOW A GYMNASIUM
Old Church in Kansas City Has
Had Checkered Career.
Most Spectacular Occupations Have
Been by the Holy Rollers and a
Picture Show-Athletic Club
Now in Possession.

Kansas City.-The old brick church
at 1416 Oak street has had checkered
career during the last dozen years. Its
most spectacular occupations have
been by the Holy Rollers and by a
picture show. But now it is settling
down into an apparently permanent
career. 1t is gymnasium.
The athletic club of business col.
lege was organized last January. For
several years the college boys and
girls have taken hikes annually to one
of Kansas City's parks; and there is a
spring picnic. Usually baseball team
represents the college in a Kansas
City league. But this year the boys
grew more ambitious; they formed a
basket ball team, and it was so popu-
lar that they formed three more and
had league within the school. They
practised wherever they could find the
grounds-many of them belonged to
the Y. NJ. c. A. And then they discov-
cred this old church with an audito-
rum 50x35 feet without distractions.
The floor, ceiling and walls were bare.
The stained glass Of the big front win
dow had gone long ago-and most Of
the other windows were largely of
boards, too. There were no chande-
liers, no ornaments, to be damaged.
There was room that could be called
dressing room; another could be
made a lavatory
At very small expense the boys rent
ed the building, installed stove and
wash basin, had electric light wires
and few bulbs put in, nailed their
baskets at each end of the auditorium
and their gymnasium was estab-
lished.
The church gymnasium is not held
exclusively for the use of the business
college athletic club, however, There
are three teams of basket baH~blayers,
boys Of three different Kansas City
churches, that practise there.
And the broadcast feature of the
church gyms usefulness is now being
worked out. There are hundreds who
snooped around and watched the COZ
lege boys play, and wished they could
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
CLERGY. OBJECT TO PARSIFAL
Catholic PreIates Refuse to Attend
Performance of Opera Given In
Their Honor In Prague.

Berlin. - Higher Roman Catholic
clergy of Bohemia and Moravia nave
placed Wagner's opera, '.Parsifal," un-
der ban. While bishops from these
two countries were holding their re-
cent eucharistic congress at Prague,
Austria, the National tneater proposed
a gala performance of "Parsifal" in
honor of the whiting prelates. The
latter voted not to accept the invita-
ton on the ground that certain scenes
In the opera were immora. and often
sive to Roman Catholics.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14

PLENTY OF REINDEER IN ALASKA

W 7. Laps, chief of the Alaska division,
said:
"Pasturage is good in most parts of western
and northern Alaska but a few reindeer herds
are kept in the windswept regions along the
northwest coast, where the winter moss fire.
quently becomes coated with ice from alternate
freezing and thawing. This prevents the herd
from securing proper food, and results in under
sized deer Mosquitoes are also cause of stunt
ed growth. Herds at some distance from the
coast need to be kept well up on the mountain
slopes to avoid the mosquito pests
The greatest immediate menace to the wei
fare of the reindeer lies in the tundra fires, start
ed in the region OF the mining camps. There is
plenty of grass and foliage for the deer in sum
mer. but in winter it is the tundra that
furnishes forage and to destroy 1t is to deal a
body blow TO one of Alaskas most promising in
dustries"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
FOX HUNT "QUEERS" JOHN /.
He Shoots Trees, Weather Vane and
Auto Tire; But Gun Hits Back
Fox Scared.

Abington.-John L. Sullivan always
was a great marksman with his two
fists-as many would-be champion box
ers can and would attest-but he
needs considerable practise with a
gun before he becomes an expert.
John LIS" latest diversion is fox
hunting, but after one attempt, when
he shot a number of trees, weather
vane and an automobile tire, and sue
ceeded merely in frightening horribly
a young fox, he has declared Never
again"
The hunt was lin the vicinity of
Great Pound, the source of the Wey-
mouth water supply, and John l.. took
part in 1t only after long exhortation
by his friends. He was near Pond
Plain cemetery when a fox, pursued
by the hounds, broke from cover.
John L. braced himself and took
careful" aim. Far less familiar with
magazine guns than with boxing
gloves, however, he continued to press
on the trigger until all the bullets in
the magazine were discharged Their
discharge unsettled the big fellows
aim and his target became increas-
ingly general.
When the hunters reached the
scene, John L. had subsidized to a
bed of moss from the force Of the
guns kicks and well nigh every.
thing in the neighborhood except the
fox had been injured Then it was
that John L. retired from the list of
hunters-not to return
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
zazw EUQz0 Mn6 A41zzz:zzZa5 orzzy EN7a@

To have developed this fleet of As ships by
1920 it would have been necessary, beginning ID
1903, to make appropriations for two frstclass
ships each year and for three ships once in three
years always with the proper auxiliaries so
would the end have been accomplished by l92O
Later, the provision for ships having been maze
uuate the general board asked congress for as
many as four ships in year, as il has this year
This was not because it believed four ships nee
essary each year but because it wanted the
model feet by 1920 and former appropriations
had fallen behind Il
Secretary Daniels was the first head "Ss the
department who ever transmitted to congress the
recommendations of the general board together
with its arguments for the navy that it thought
should be developed.
In its recent recommendations to the secretary
of the navy the general board stated that 1t
realized that there was little hope of reaching
the ideal navy that it had planned Cor 1920 but
that 1t should be reached soon as possible
thereafter. Continuing. it said:
THE board does believe, however that this
result may be eventually attained by the adoption
by the government of definite naval policy and
the putting of it before congress and the people
clearly and succinctly. BY this method RESPONSE
bility for any rupture of our peaceful relations
with other nations due to our naval Weakness or
any national disaster in war due to the same
cause will be definitely fixed
The general board believes that the people,
with full understanding of the meaning and the
reasons for naval power, will instruct the egisa-
tive branch OF the government, and that that
branch, with the same understanding, Will pro-
vide the means By the adoption and advocacy
of clearly defined, definite policy, the depart
ment with whom the responsibility first rests
will have done its part and placed the RESPONSE
bity with the people and the legislative branch
of the government. If the people, having been
given the meaning and the reasons for naval
power fail to instruct congress- the responsibility
and the resulting material loss and national hu'
initiation rests with them, and If the congress,
having been instructed by the people fails to pro
vide the means, then the responsibility is theirs.
The recommendations Of the board have been
in pursuance of fixed and definite policy adopt
ed by the board for its guidance after mature
and deliberate consideration of all the elements
involved and after q careful estimate and fore
cast of the future as to what would be the naval
development of those foreign countries with
which a conflict might be possible, and what
should be our development to insure peace if
possible or superiority of force If war should be
forced upon US. Expressed in concrete words
the policy of the board has been>to provide the
nation with a feet equal superior to that OF
any probable enemy, a guarantOr OF peace
and its forecast was that feet of 4S batt!eShps,
with the attendant lesser units. and auXiiaTtes,
ready for action by 1920, would accomplish this
result
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-05-14
HAS ls-FooT TAIL FEATHERS
This Particular Rooster Is Completes
to Live in Very High,
Narrow Cage.

Tokyo. Japan.-"In Shinewara, on
the island of Shikoku, Japan, long be-
fore the theory Of evolution had been
heard of, the natives, undertook to
breed ROSTERS with one aim-the
lengthening of the tail feathers of the
ordinary barnyard cock BY patient
selection of breed of fowls (the hens
of which sometimes have tail feathers
eight inches long), continued through
a hundred years, the rooster which is
pictured here has tail feathers which
measure is feet in length. Naturally,
in breeding ROSTERS with such long
tails. It is necessary to confine them