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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-06-18

heroine of "The Diamond From the
Sky" the Flying "a continued photo
play, just before the fight of the lat
ter to Richmond to avoid arrest.
Shortly before the meeting of the
two lovers, Esther" had rescued Ar
thur" from the river, where he had
nearly drowned after being hurled
with his auto into the water from a
precipice. In Richmond, he tells her.
he will make a man of himself, and
some day return and marry her. -
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-06-18

The great speech-makers just now
are The CoURIER's advertisers.
They are talking from the band
ct and. Read them.
The COURIER advertisers are let.
ting down the price bars into tie
Geld of bargains.
Evening star., 1915-11-28

try that we gave away racklessely our
natural resources. Millions of acres
were presented to railroads. Water
rights were handed out freely to those
who asked. Street car franchises were
distributed lavishly and without re-
straining clauses. School lands in city
centers were sold cheap, afterward ris-
ing to fabulous values, to enrich the
spectators.
A Berlin magazine cites the case of
the village of Wolzig. The town owned
a magnificent lake from which 1t drew
considerable revenue "On the OPP
posite shore lies an estate that belonged
to a family of millionaire farmers.
The owner Of the estate liked the lake
and bought it of the community for
the low price of 2.40O marks Then he
rented out the fishing privilege for
5000 marks year. Netghboring In
habitants whose land reaches to the
shore are not allowed to go boat riding
or to bathe in the lake. They cannot
even buy fish at retail from the tenant
since he sends his entire supply to the
Berlin markets"
We are awakening to the truth that
there can be no common prosperity
without communal consciousness.
The state cannot thrive under condi-
tions of free fight and devil take the
hindmost. 1t can bring general well
fare to it's people only when they learn
that the high word that should govern
human activities is not competition but
cooperation.
Evening star., 1915-11-28

F0 HERE Is noticeable inclination
on the part of large numbers OF
q the American nation to turn
back to consideration OF the
inhabitants of this part OF the "orio
before the coming of the whites. 4here
seems always TO have been consldeI
able degree of interest in the matter
of the money of the Indians, the early
Europeans perhaps being more Interested
in that than in the language, customs ana
Ja bits of the natives whom they found
here And it is curious that the In
dian word for rnoney--wampum en-
dures. and a great many persons know
the significance of that word who
know nothing else about Indians. All
Indian money was not called wampum.
There being different languages among
the Indians they had different words
for the medium of exchange, and it
may be that the words which are pre-
served are not the words the Indians
used, but the Indian words as they
sounded to the generality of the white
people. Wampum seems to have been
New England Indian money, while Ind'ah
money in the south was called roe
noke,' and in the parts of the country
where the Dutch were predominant
this form of money was called sea
wan"
Historians do not seem to have deter
mined the question beyond the possi-
bility Of being reopened whether In
dian shell money was currency in the
Potomac country. 1t is clear that that
form OF Indian money called wampurn
was legal tender in New England, for
Connecticut received wanpum for taxes
in 1881 at the rate of four to the penny
and in 1910 Massachusetts adopted the
Connecticut standard OF white wam-
pun to pass current at four to the
penny and blue wampum to be legal
tender at the rate of two to the penny
There are records which show that il
was In current circulation with silver
in parts OF New York ar late as 1904
and one of the reasons II passed away
was that there being no restriction on
making il. the white people began TO
manufacture il or coin it. and IL is
said that some thrifty Dutch began to
turn out the various forms of wampum
by machinery. Wampum made by the
New England Indians was used by In
dians in the great lake region, and per-
haps il was known to the Indians still
farther 10 the west. Indians of the
Pacific coast made money from mussel
shells.
Several authors. notably W. r. Weed
en- and C. l.. Norton, have written in
the years gone by learned treatises on
Indian Money a Factor in New
England Civilization" and THE Last
Wampum Coinage" Wampum consist
ed of cylindrical beads made from
shells. The shell of the New England
clam called "quahang" was used in the
making of the more valuable wampum.
Evening star., 1915-11-28
0utgroWn.

z BERRY WALL. his top hat pushed
A1' back and his hands on the knob
of his stick. regarded from the window
of 5th- avenue club the endless pro-
cession of beautiful girls moving grace
fully up and down in the golden sun
shine of cold, still, windiess October
afternoon
The beautiful girls all wore frocks of
the latest fashion-quaint, rather high
wasted frocks with very short skirts
that revealed the excellent At of their
white-topped or gray-topped or brown
topped boots of patent leather.
AS half dozen girls passed in un-
usually short skirts a young man said
to Mr.. Wall
How nice they look in their new fall
dresses, eh?'
Yes" Mr.. Wall agreed. "Ycs, they
look very nice. They seem TO have
grown lot, too, don't they?"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Shakespeareana.

NNH LILLIAN DEAN HOWELLS, con-
wv graduated in Boston on his STRAIT
ford Shakespeare book, told a STRAIT
Shakespeare story.
''In Stratford." he said, during one of
the Shakespeare jubilees, an American
tourist approached an aged villager in
a smock and asked:
".Who is this chap, Shakespeare. any
way?'
He were a writer, sir
"'Oh. but there are lots of writers.
Why do you make such an Internal fuss
over this one. then? Wherever l turn
see Shakespeare hotels. Shakespeare
cakes. Shakespeare chocolates, Shake
speare shoes. What the deuce did he
write-magazine stories. attacks on the
government, shady novels?'
mo, sir: oh. no, sir said the aged
rillaser. i understand he writ for the
Bible, sir"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
When Indian She'll Money
Was Current i'm New England

or the wampum of the highest denomi-
nation. The purple spot in the clam
shell was used for this form of wam-
pun. This was called dark wampum'
or purple wampum or blue wampum
With the Indians the making of this
wampum was no ''get-rich quick
scheme because there was A good deal
of quite skillful labor required in the
making of the beads and each one rep
resented about 50 much human labor.
There was a white wampum, which
consisted of the same form of beads
turned from the shell core of whelks or
periwinkle. The shell beads were high
~ polished and through the cylindical-
shaped bit of shell a hole was drilled
lengthwise. BY means of this hole the
wampum was strung together either on
a string made from fiber or the sinew
of some animal.
The value of wampum In it's relation
to copper or silver coinage varied
slightly in the early days of New Eng
land. There was very early legal en-
actnent which made dark wampum re-
ceivable at three for a penny, and a
string" of wampum. which was also
called 'fathom'' of wampum, passed
current for r shiilings.
Evening star., 1915-11-28
A TWENTIETH CENTURY
PROBLEM.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright. 19l5.)

What can man own?
There are two extreme answers 10
this question. One group of thinkers
tend toward the view that the lndl-
yidual should be allowed to own as III
tie as possible. The state, the COM
munity should own: the people should
work for the state, all drawing wages.
In the direction of this opinion there
are convictions in varying degrees.
Sinele-taxers would have all land prac-
tically state owned, by making the tax
approximate the rental value. Many
believe that a limit should be set by
law to all fortunes. Others would pro-
hibit. or at Least regulate, inheritance;
governments, by the inheritance tax,
partly adopt this theory. In fact, all
taxes imply the right of the state to
limit private ownership. Tax is essen
TALLY confscation. Socialists insist
upon communal ownership to greater
or less extent.
Opposite to these more or less So
cialistic ideas are the opinions OF the
individualists, including most property
owners and those persons whose living
and prosperity depend upon property
owners They constantly resist all so
cialistic" tendencies
The latter group are in accord with
our Anglo-Saxon traits. 1t is bred in
our bone that government is to inter-
fere with private concerns as little as
possible. We don't want to be taken
care of by government, but to be let
alone. The state is merely the umpire
In the great competitive game OF get
,ting on.
The practical economic truth will be
found in neither one OF these extremes.
our people are not yet ready to turn
all property over to the state and go
to work for labor certificates. And,
on the other hand. we are realizing that
the desire for private property must
not go unchecked.
Modern politics is a continuous ex-
periment to find the golden mean.
In an earlier day we were so anx-
ious for the development" of the coun-
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Tongue in Cheek.

~ GORGE H. STEGE, president of the
w Society for the Prevention of
Municipal Waste, says that he could
easily save New York S17,0GO,0o0 a
year.
ITO praise New Yorks economy"
said Mr.. Siege the other day. zone
would have to speak with the tongue
in the cheek-iike the girl at the
dance, you know.
"A fat man painted to a girl at the
dance: It's very kind of you to hesi-
tation with meme, the worst hesita-
TONER in the room"
Here he trod on her foot for the
eleventh time. and the girl answered
sweetiy:
"'Oh. how can you say so? Why.
you hardly seem to touch the floor"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
UNTR AIMED TROOPS ALWAYS
THIRSTY ON LONG MARCH

human system than most men think
and troops from hot and dry countries
march and campaign on a surprisingly
small amount. A writer telling of the
Beluchis, several regiments OF whom
are with the Indian contingent Of the
British army in France and Flanders.
has said of them:
Their most extraordinary physical
characteristic is the facility with
which. camel-like. they can for SO long
time go without drink in their burn
ing country-a draught of water once
in the twenty-four hours is sufficient
for them even on a journey. They
march with rapidity which it is i'm
possible to conceive, and will walk
faster than the best horse
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Neutral Spirit.

e61 S there something malicious about
even the fairest and kindest of
neutrals?" said Booth Harrington in
Indianapolis.
Does a neutral, in the very nature of
things. incline to rejoice little over a
warning sister nations misfortune? l
hope not.
II hope not, and yet. in thinking Of
neutrals. I can't help thinking Of two
boys who stood the other day and
watched an enormous safe being raised
up to the twenty sixth story of sky
scraper.
The boys watched the safe rise slow
ly. dangling at the end of it's wire rope,
and when it reached the twentieth
story the older lad turned away in dis
gust
"'Come on, Joe,' he said. We might
as well move on. They amt a-goin' to
let her drop
Evening star., 1915-11-28

houses must be shaded and every VIM
dow. must be provided with the thick
est of blinds. through which not one
ray of light must be allowed to pene-
trate. The result may be imagined. 1t
is next to impossible to distinguish the
coins in ones hand when buying a
paper from a newsboy at night, and
absolutely impossible to tell whether a
person approaching be man or woman.
to say nothing about recognizing a
friend.
All this is done to protect Londoners
from the aircraft of Count Zeppelin, for
which all of US who were here dur
ing the last air raid have now pro-
found respect-respect. that Is, for their
capacity for murder and destruction
but it is question if the remedy Is not
worse than the disease. For the num-
Der of street accidents owing to the
darkness is multiplying by leaps. and
more deaths and disablements resulting
from this cause in a week than would
be caused by regular Zeppelin raids
for the same period.
And we thought London was dark be-
Evening star., 1915-11-28

fore, 1t comes. to this: that if the
war, ever ends. and things become
normal again, we shall not know what
TO make oI brilliantly llgnted streets.
We shall have become like lot Of
moles and shall blink for a long time
to come on being deprived of the
opaque darkness that, by night. has
come to be our natural element. Mean
while it is proposed that all curbs shall
be whitewashed, particularly at street
corners, so as to minimize the number
of accidents that happen through pedes-
trians not knowing where the pave
ment ends and the roadway begins
Needless to say. theatergoing by night
has been deprived of so per cent OF its
pleasure. owing both to the darkness
and the uncomfortable feeling that a
Zeppelin bomb may come through the
roof at any moment. The writer was
told today that on the night after the
last big raid, the takings at two the
aters housing two of the biggest sue
cesses of the season dropped to the
extent of $3.50 a night, and never have
picked up since.
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Jolly 0ptimist.

II ORD READING. at a dinner given in
u his honor in New York by Joseph
II. Choate. was asked how tong the war
would last.
1T will last a great while or a little
while. according as you are an optimist
or a pessimist,' said Lord Reading.
Let me tell you trench story.
1.-TWO soldiers were smoking under a
tree somewhere in France.
This war will last a long time yet,"
said the first soldier. Our company has
planted rose bushes in front of our
trench
'Oh, you jolly optimists" said the
other We've planted acorns in front
of ours"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Too Up-to-Dat

HgISS ALICE II. CHITTENDEN, the
LVA well known anti-suffrage leader,
said at the Colony Club In New York:
When a young mother becomes too
scientific and up-to- date ahe appears
both cruel and silly.
"A caller said to a young mother of
this type:
Your baby has been crying for two
hours. Why don't you take II up or
something
Take II up said the young mother
All, you don't understand. There's cry
ing and crying, and the kind baby's
doing now is the very best hygienic,
lung expanding scientific, vocaI-chord- :
developing exercise in the world"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Compulsory.

A CERTAIN amateur aviator talked
~ recently about a flying trip with a
professional. when he fell 1000 feet into
the water without knowing it.
."I wasn't frightened he said with a
smile. II thought that our swift de-
scent was a piece of fancy flying. l am,
in fact, as ignorant of aviation as the
little boy was ignorant of history.
"Describe the Order of the Bath his
teacher asked this little boy.
ITS very ancient he answered 1T
goes back to the time when they didn't
take no baths except by order"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, November Is, 1918.
TN Whitehall, just outside the war
II office, few nights ago. British
staff officer. while crossing the
street. was knocked down by a
taxi and killed. The driver of
the cab. who declared that owing to
the almost pitch darkness of the street
resulting from the new regulations re-
garding lighting he never even saw the
officer, has been exonerated from blame.
No wonder, for since the latest dark
ening" order came into effect. the me-
tropolis by night has been plunged into
truly Egyptian gloom. Fully three
quarters of the street lamps are turned
off altogether, and the glass globes OF
the remainder are painted green most
of the way up. so that they emit only
the dimmest of illuminations.
Sky signs are forbidden, all lights in
Evening star., 1915-11-28
His Reserve.

THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE, the prison
authority. said the other day at a
luncheon in New York:
TT is only by getting into personal
contact with a prison that you can
find out the abuses. if any, existing
there.
This personal contact often brings
you discoveries as shocking as that
made by the slum visitor. She asked
little girl:
And so your father is working now
and getting $11 week. How nice,
And how much does he put away Sat
urday nighto'
Six beers and four whistles, ma am,
the little girl replied"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
A Golf Story.

A y ardent golf enthusiast recently
~ told-a golf story.
"A New Yorker and a Philadelphia
set out to have a round of golf at a
Georgia winter resort he said.
LAS the Philadelphian holed out al the
first green, the New Yorker asked care
lessly:
How many strokes did you take"
Nine said the Philadelphian.'
Then it's my hole said the New
Yorker. I only took eight
The Philadelphian made no comment
but at the second green, when the New
Yorker asked him again how many
strokes he had taken, he shook his
head and said, with knowing smile:
No, you don't. I understand the
rules of the game. my boy. It's my
turn to ask this time"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
The Little Matter.

A CERTAIN captain of industry, COM
plimented On an immense war con-
tract, said in New York:
"One beauty about these contracts is
their strict honesty. There are no
palms to grease.
1T wasn't always SO in war contracts.
In fact, they tell story about a war
contractor who once broke the silence
of his club reading room with a dread
full sigh.
whats the matter? brother con-
tractor asked.
ALAS. alas! said the first contractor;
I've just bought 100000 pairs of shoes
at 81 a pair and sold them to the army
for $6, and I'm afraid the loss will ruin
me-
Loss? Loss? said the other con-
tractor. What are you talking about
man? On 100000 pairs of shoes. with
a f1ve-dollar profit, how can there be
loss%
my dear fellow said the first con-
tractor. sadly, you forget the little
matter of commissions
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Drill Amenities.

MAYOR JOHN PURROY mitchell
4VN said at a.dinner in New York:
The memories of camp life are a
very pleasant thing to any soldier.
Even the little vivacities of camp life
seem in the retrospect pleasant enough.
Thus I often laugh about a banker
who was being drilled one day at
Plattsburgh by broker-sergeant.
"'What'll you give me- said the brok-
er-sergeant, an old Yale end, If l take
that hump off your back?
"Tll give you. the banker answered.
with tart laugh. something to make
your hair grow, sarge"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
The Wreck Tender.

FREDERICK PALMER, the war cor
respondent, said at his apartment at
the Brevoort in New York:
THE British censor is beyond me. He
is just about as absurd and illogical
as the wreck, tender.
"A man. visiting a wreck, said to
the tender:
What cargo did the poor old boat
carryg
"'Corfee, said the wreck tender
"Coffins? Did you say coffinsc asked
the man.
"'Corfins? Nah" said the tender.
'Corfee-what yer makes tea out Of"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
Deliver Us!

~ GEORGE W. PERKINS, in a Y. NJ. c.
VI A. address on temperance in Chi
cago, began:
"a corking time is a good time for
any young man, but may Heaven de-
liver us all from the kind of corking
time that means an uncorking one"
Evening star., 1915-11-28
East Grand Forks.

Forks. Main street is bleak and desert
ed waste The cattle from the range
Craze undisturbed among its shacks.
Here the skulking coyote may gnaw his
bone in peace and howl unmolested
through the night.
The "wickedest town in America is left
in the muck of it's own evil reputation.
For a decade East Grand Forks was
the first and last and only chance in
all that part of the world for the man
who craved the flowing bowl
1t is on the Minnesota side of the Mis-
souri, river. just across from Grand Forks,
which is in North Dakota. Nearby are
Fargo and Morehead. All are towns of
considerable Importance, all are dry as
bone, and all are populated by men who
have the fiercest kinds of fiery thirsts.
East Grand Forks came into being for
the sole purpose of relieving these thirsts.
and for years it has well served its bibu-
lous destiny. Here one could go and
click a glass and still another one and
stagger homeward at any hour he liked.
The suspender drummers and fruit tree
agents, working the dry country for their
firms, always looked forward to the big
night when they reached East Grand
Forks.
The hands on the harvesting outfits
that opened the threshing season in Okla
homa in June and worked their way
northward through the hot. dry country
used to lie awake nights and brag about
how they would whop it up when they
finally struck East Grand Forks.
But. alas, Their longings and their
boastings are now in vain. There's moth
ing doing this year. boys. The shutters
are up and the lushers all gone. Local
option carried at the last election in
Crookston county and East Grand Forks
is now as dry and abandoned as the
Sahara.
Evening star., 1915-11-28

New York's forest preserve contains
1,Sc5,0o0 acres and is valued at S30.-
OOO, 900,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-03
German

BERLIN. February tby wireless
to Sayville). The headquarters stafr
OF the German army to-day gave out
report on the progress OF the war
reading as follows:
I'm the western arena of the war
there have been artillery exchanges
nj several points. With this exccp-
ton. there is nothing important to
report. There have been no i'm
portant developments on the East
Prussian frontier.
In Poland. north OF the River
Nistula and near Lipno. We have had
encounters with dc;achments of
Russian cavalry South of the
Nistula our attacks continue to max,
progress.
Continuing. to-day's report saws
that the French war reports during
the past few days have contained
ErotesQue distortions OF the truth
10 the disadvantage OF the Germans.
rs we'll as what Is characterized as
free Inventions
The staff declines to 20 Into de-
tails In this regard. simply saving
that the value OF these French
statements Is apparent to any one
who will examine them in the light
OF German official reports"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-03

c5th, British aviators," says the Of
fetal observer made Il successful re-
connaissancc over section OF the
tude. they obtained much useful in
formation. and dropped ten bombs on
tho German trenches.
"On the right the British troops
gained n little ground. IN this same
quarter some successes were won by
snipers: the allied guns caused tho
evacuation OF n saphead by the enemy
In the night of tho eth some lost
ground was rcgained near Bethnne.
The following day passed quietly.
The hostile Smelling was less severe.
"On the morning OF the 2oth." the &c
count continues. the enemy made two
determined attacks upon the centre OF
our right line, between the La Bassee
Canal and tho Bethune Road The
Germans fell back, leaving fifty dead.
At the south they temporarily gained
possession of small portion of our
trenches. hut we Immediately counter
attacked with the bayonet. and every
man in the trench was killed.
'"rhc same thing happened close to
the l'ethune Road. where the Germans
gained another one of our trenches,
the fighting was over. the enemy's dead
estimated TO number 200. lay thick
all along the line. The allies casualties
were slight. This attack was costly
failure. resulting only in great waste
OF life.
. THE existing ignorance and credulity
OF the Germans about affairs In the
British empire is shown by the state
ment. generally believed. that 10000
Japanese troops have been sent to
maintain order in India. Grave doubts
are held as TO whether we will ever
set rid of thetg again.
The German soldiers appear to we'll
looked after. special care being taken
of their feet. The men are made to re-
move their boots and socks after get
ting wet and their feet are then rubbed
and busted over with some kind OF
powder. All the soldiers are inoculated
against typhoid and cholera.
Many now serving in the German
trenches were living In England before
the war. Some of them. when captured,
express an ardent desire to return
there. The other day deserter as
tonished our men by suddenly rushing
towards them unarmed. shouting Mach
London as he Jumped into our
trenches"