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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

There are both good and bad repu
tatiOns. a bad reputation to have is
one that is So good that you are
afraid TO lose 1t for another. 1t is 2
bad thing for a man TO have reputa
ton which Is like a plaster cast which
ne dare not break, and from which he
cannot escape. Many men are trying
to live within the repute they won -
years ago. afraid to lose a reputa
ton which probably fitted them then
but which is a misfit now. No man
ever loses his reputation; he simply
gets another one, says Dearborn In
dependent. 1t ought TO be a better
one. In any case, reputation is only
the projection on the public magma
ton OF picture which may be true
or false. The real likeness is found
In character.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Curiositles Of PopuIous Isle.

A remarkable case of overpopulation
Is that of the island of Bukara, in
Victoria Nyanza, described by II. L.
Duke in the Cornhill Magazine.
This island, with an area of SO square
miles, much Of which is bare granite.
though isolated from the rest OF the
world. supports a population Of 49,
600. The small garden plots are care
fully marked off and rights of own
ership are rigidly observed. Trees are
valued more than the land on which
they grow. In some cases one man
owns the trees and another the ground.
A man must not steal his neighbor's
leaves. sticks and rubbish. A father
may even divide a tree among his chill
dren. allotting certain branches TO
each.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

mysterious Chinese servant appeared
in the doorway.
You called. Excellent One?"
Shattered Homes nodded.
"A man is at the door," he explained.
HE is partly bald. squlnts, and Is
very fond of dogs. Show him inr
a minute later the man so minutely
described by the great detective
rushed into the room.
You are the famous Shattered
Honest You must find her. You will
find herl" he cried.
Shattered Homes wiped his fountain
pen upon his favOrite black cat.
"But tell me who she Isl" he
ordered.
II want her back" sobbed the visI-
tor. "She is my mother-in-law
Shattered Homes went 10 the teIe-
phone.
"HaHoai want O033, please. Is
that Dottyville asylum Good Has
one Of your patients eScapedi
thought so! Send a cab round 10 the
house Of Shattered Homes. will your"
Then the great detective went out
to lunch.-IOndon Tit-Bits.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

costly but she is pretty good old
bossy after all. and while she may
have no place in the economy of the
near-laborleSs ages which may just
possibly lie far, far ahead, she does
fit wonderfully well into this one with
which ordinary mortals have to estab-
lish fruitful contact if they get any
where. Sometime, men may carry a
weeks food around In vestpOcket con
tainers for all we know, but for the
present the vitamines OF milk am
butter, Obtainable nowhere else, come
in pretty handy.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
MARY ELLEN NOT IMPRESSED
Gorgeous Coat Not Such a Wonderful
Possession. In the Sight of One
Small Girl.

Mrs. Blanks sister gave Mrs. Blank
a red leather motor coat trimmed with
gray fur and silver buttons. and lined
with corduroy, and Mrs. Blank feels
she must wear Ii. However. she has
not acquired sufficient courage to ap.
pear In it outside the car. Ii is
perfectly gorgeous coat. but red leath-
er is a bit startling. you know. and
Mrs. Blank is properly mode
She was coming down the stairs re-
Gently, buttOning the new coat pre-
paratory TO going out. when she saw
the neighbor's child staring amazedIy
at her, simply dey0uring the brilliant
wrap with her eyes. Mrs. Blank be-
came slightly self-conscious under
the persistent gaze. and said hurried
ly. haven't you seen my new coat
before, Mary Ellen?
Nom"
what do you think OF II. dear7"
sit kinda looks like you got IL for
Christmas, and couldn't take Ii back.
Indianapolis News.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
-nbscr,0,ion - o. Per Year.
FRIDAY APRIL %, 1921.
WE AVOID SUNLIGHT.

One feature struck me in the
schools. and it also struck me in the
hotels and in private houses, and that
Is the avoidance OF sunlight, writes
Arthur +. Shipley in Outlook. A we'll
conducted window i'm America must
have lace curtains drawn across ii,
and two blinds, one brown and one
green, pulled half way down. Even
I'm the great country houses, whore no
one could look In, and no one look
out without seeing spacious lawns and
flower beds, the curtains are closed
and the blinds are drawn half way
down. Living I'm them is like living
In the house OF an owper who is half
dead The electric light is all the
time turned on full. Even in the no
tells, IL you leave your room for half
an hour, having raised your blinds,
you will find them carefully drawn
down again on returning. The large
number OF fOlks-clerks in Offices,
workers I'm factories. attendants on
elevators, bellboys and hotel clerks
who live their life in artificial light
form a large percentage of the popu-
lation, and this absence OF outdoor
life may account to some extent for
the palljd and sallow complexion OF
those who have to endure it, 1t GER
tainly cannot be healthful.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Cat Followed Mistress.

New Brunswick reader sends the
Montreal Herald an account of a very
faithful cat. when a very small girl"
she writes. II was given a tortoiseShell
kitten. of which ] made a very great
pet and which grew to miss me when
| went out of the house. Last year I
eft my old home for q home of my
own and as the cat was now more
than twenty years old, ] left il In the
old home as did not think she would
fancy change. But one day ! was
surprised TO see puss leap In at the
open window. Purring jOyously she
Jumped up into my lap to be petted
as usual Then she crawled under
the stove and took up her abode with
u.s."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Planting OF black-walnut trees as
memorials to soldiers is recommended
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. 1t is pointed out that
the black walnut played valiant part
in the World war. The wood was
used for gunstocks and airplane pro
pellers, and the nut-shells contributed
carbon for gas masks, while the ker-
nels were used In many delicacies for
the boys i'm the trenches. Demand
for the wood for war purposes de
pleted the number Of fine old trees
and this method is suggested for fill
ing their places.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Speak the kind words, they are
needed so" run the words of an old
hymn. Every day we let opportuni-
ties pass when we might have spoken
that much-needed kind word. To our
families, our friends and to passing
acquaintance, the cheerful words are
stepping stones on the hills Of life.
Neighborly deeds and appreciative
THANK youS" are OF more benefit to
the living than roses on the graves
Of the dead.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Queer Coincidence

Peculiar condolences were revealed
at a TOnbridge tEngland) inquest on
a boy sixteen years old who was killed
from a stray shot from a rifle range
at local fair. Thirteen years ago a
lad OF sixteen was killed on the same
spot In exactly the same manner, and
the doctor who was called to him was
the medical witness in the present
inquiry. He produced in court the
bullet which he took from the other
dead lad l3 years ago.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

.rlper;.ed The whole enterprise.
"B:rgo," said Madge. for goodness
sake don't follow me everywhere.
Can't you understand ] want 10 be
slore sCEetimeS?"
B.Ego seemed 20 understand that he
was Icing scolded, and rolled on his
lack, penitential legs waving In The
air. Madge was touched.
You know, BngO." she was heard
TO say, cOnfdentiaily, Il am always
being watched, and 1t is so trying
there's the nurse and the governess,
and If l escape them, there's always
my Guardian Angel"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

A dog bite enabled a man 10 win
a race at Fleet. Hampshire. England.
The competitors were taking part In
seven-mile walking race when one
Of them was bitten by dog. He was
told that symptoms OF dog-madness
had broken out in the district and 50
he redOubled his efforts TO get TO the
winning post. where he knew he would
find a doctor 10 attend to his injury.
He won the race by a good hundred
yards.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Optimism is the note of the day.
Yes, the promise of the future! But
that promise will only be enjoyed by
the new America-the America that
has all the old energy Supplements
by a new willingness and ability {.
work, born of the baptism Of blood
and pain and tears received during
the recent trial by war, says Boston
Transcript Work more, waste less
that way leads to an optimism which
Is sane and sure of realization.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
New Kind of Tombstone.

What he calls new and improved
tombstone" has been invented by an
Oklahoma man. \ life-sized figure of
the dead person is made of galvan-
lied iron, the lower part filled with
cement 10 make heavy base. The
body is hollow and in It is placed
an urn containing the ashes of the
deceased. 1t will be noticed that this
tombstone" can only be used I'm the
case of dead persons who have been
cremated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
AMERICAS GIFT TO WORLD.

1t may be, as Meredith Nicholson
has suggested, that Americas gift TO
the world will not be an artistic gift
at all, but an ethical one Each cOun-
try seems, like each person, TO have
some peculiar gift TO give TO humani-
ty. England gives poetry To the
wOrld-there has never been in any
other country such a procession OF
poets as have passed through England
in the last 600 years-and Germany
gives great music 10 ii. What is the
gift that America will give? | am in
tereSted in Meredith NichOlSOn's Opin-
ion that the gift may be a higher
standard Of justice. a greater range
of freedom, remarks st. John Ervine
In Century Magazine, though contem-
porary life in the United States hard
ly cOnvinces me that his opinion is
sound. In any event, America must
her gift to the world is 10 he nobler
ethic than the world now possesses.
then she cannot fail also to give the
world a noble literature. All great
writing is fundamentally the ex-
preston of a powerful Individuality.
One expects to find the greatest ltera-
ture in that country where individual
ity has the freest play. Is that coun-
try America?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

IL is said there are 200000,00O
brown rats in the country and each
destroys 50 worth of food year. AS
worthless as rats are, there are peO-
pie who consume more and produce
less than the rats even. When ii
comes 10 enumerating the drones of
the world, it's no use to classify them
unless you wish to establish their
varying degrees of worthlessness.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Every now and then some European
statesman modestly rises and suggests
the possibility that the United States
may cancel the debt owing to it by
the European nation which that states
man represents. And at such times
every American citizen feels distinct
sensation as of someone pulling gent
ly but firmly on his lower extremities.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Many large business establishments
today will not hire a new employee
until he has submitted to a more or
less thorough physical examination TO
determine his fitness for the duties he
will be called upon to perform. This
requirement has seemed harsh TO
some, but it really Is as much in the
interest of the prospective employee
as Of his employer, says Pittsburgh
Chronicle. The examination frequent
ly dlsclOses hitherto unsuspected de-
fects that may be remedied, thus con
tributing TO his efficiency. This scheme
has also been extended with good re-
suits to industrial concerns and it has
played its part in the widespread
safety first" movement.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

A husband is asking a divorce be-
cause the wife made him wash the
dishes while she danced with her
lover. If husband cannot wash the
dishes, what is the use of having one
about the place? A well-trained nus
band doesn't get peevish at being re-
quired TO clean up the kitchen while
says Los Angeles Times \ school
for husbands is needed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

This much / do not understand"
Said Hezelsiah Bings
ct don't know why a friendly hand
Unto another clings
With such a sense OF confidence
When things are going wrong,
And makes the universe immense
A realm of smiles and song.
IT don't know why the roses bloom.
Nor why the snowfiakes fall:
Nor why the stars dispel the gloom
And yet love them all
And life. though wisdom's way is grand
Seems sweetest for the things
I cannot hope TO understand"
Said HeZekiah Blngs.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

A living monkeys gland was grated
on Il Paris actor, seventy-four years
of age. and the surgeon remarked /:
I'm a few months you will be forty
three instead of seventy-four." AT
that rate, by the time the actor is one
hundred, he ought TO be in great de-
mand for child parts.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Shower of Red Rain and Sand.

Following a strong southerly gale OF
wind red rain fell on Mentone and the
districts. the Botanical
gardens being covered with red sand.
Ii Is believed that this sand was
borne by the wind from the Riviera.
A similar phenomenon has not oc.
CURED for GO years.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Coughing Restored Speech

After being dumb for SO years a
woman living In Christina Maeford.
England, coughed back her speech.
The woman who Is sixty-one years
old has been bed-ridden for 40 years.
Three weeks ago. during recovery
from serious attack of bronchitis,
her voice was restored while coughing.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Amusing Mixed Metaphors

Rather a curious case Of mixed
metaphors appeared in a Middle West
ern newspaper recently: "ln closing,
she asked that the hinges OF their
friendship never grow rusty, but al
ways be links IN the golden chain
OF fellowship"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

ter OF q house
which shelters
also the hero. a
mischievous pup
py answering 10
the name of Bin
60.
Madge ran N.
70 lie garden on
a secret mission.
The devoted Bin
On followed and
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

There are deposits totalng nearly
S4,OO0000.O0O in New York city banks
Our notion is that some of that money
ought To quit gambling and get out
I'm the provinces and work, says Hous-
ton Post. Gambling may change mon
ey from one hand to another. but it
has never created rs much value as
a grain IF corn possesses.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
II some group of reformers to which

II some group of reformers to which
e do not belong would like TO put
the screws to us i'm retaliation for the
way we have reformed them, we
would be obliged if they would lay a
heavy hand on the chewing gum habit
or penalize the excessive consumption
of corned beef and cabbage OH more
than four days n week.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Suspicion arises that the ex-kaiser's
wood chopping was only in keeping
with the ordinary politicians desire &c
represent himself as a horny handed
son Of toll.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

The first authentic japanese censu:
shows a population OF 77,O05,510. ar
announcement that may relieve the
anxiety of good many eastern PEG
pie who had the idea that there were
AZ least 100,000,OO0 japanese in Cali
fornia.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

An authority says depreciation In the
value of ones automobile may be
claimed as income tax exemption. The
best way of calculating the deprecia-
ton, probably. Is to forget the sudden
and great appreciation of a 1918
model that Is rammed by a truck when
the truck driver is In the wrong.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
French pespise el,ekberrIes.

The whole blackberry crop is al
lowed to go to waste In France be-
cause the peasants will not eat the
fruit. Some declare the berries are
poisonous, while others hare been told
that the crown OF thorns was woven
of brambles and that therefore the
bush should be held sacred.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

An triangular is reported to have
reached this country with its hands
over its eyes and weeping over the
death OF It's mate on the way across
the ocean. OR il may be that oranE-
utans just now are bringing over their
own press agents.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Testimony OF eminent attorneys con
corning the value of the services OF
receivers and attorneys in receiver
ship cases would suggest that another
way 10 help reduce the high cost of
living is TO reduce the high cost of
recelyerShips.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Pine Trees Peculiar Growth.

A reader sends a description OF two
pine trees growing into each other on
farm at Poland. Ontario. They are
two distinct trees at the ground; at q
height OF ten feet they are separated
by hands breadth. and thence 10 the
top they are one tree
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
TOWER MADE OF TREE TRUNK
European Visitors Will Marvel at
Adornment Set Up on Grounds Of
the National Capital.

Part of the trunk of q California
redwood tree, 80 feet in diameter at
the base, has been shipped to Wash
ington and converted into a tower on
tie grounds of the Department of Ag-
riculture. 1t is provided with door
and an interior stairway and is sur
mounted by a circular roof with DOR
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Behold the Friend of the Editor,
coming In TO Pay for his Paper with
out being Sent for. He does this Every
Year and sends the Paper to his Two
Sons as well. The Friend of the Edi-
tor is Welcome to come in and Park
his Feet on our Persian Rug any ole
Day in the Year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Germany finds the American dough
boy several times as expensive as a
British, Belgian or French soldier in
the army of occupation in the Rhine
land. This ought 10 be a warning to
European nations not to draw Amer
ica into the next war over there.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Lord DunSany was fined 500 for
the unlawful possession OF arms.
which, he protested. were only fOwling
pieces. Still, a determined author
could bother a policeman a good deal,
even with a fowling piece
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

When the Queen OF England goes
into the shopping district, just like
anybody else. we wonder II she knows
how TO act when In the presence OF
His Royal Highness. the soda fountain
clerk.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

A bigamist has been sentenced TO
prison for from one to five years, but
a man with more than one wife prob.
ably doesn't mind a little thing like
being deprived OF his liberty.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

breakfast. Sud-
denly the cut
glass inkwell on
his desk CULVER
ed and danced.
and the great
detective gazed
earnestly into IL.
Then he pressed
an electric but
= n in the arm OF
his chair. and his
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Paris Pasteur Institute professors
have discovered a serum that will
calm mad dogs. II IL can be admin
istered while the pedestrian is on the
run. so much the better
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Consumptives who read about the
cure of their disease just announced
In Paris will do well not to abandon
diet and fresh air for the present.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Lenin is another OF those perma.
nent European politicians whose fu-
neral announcements are never Suff
ciently verified TO warrant anybody in
sending flowers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

There can be no objection 10 the
Eskimos taking up jazz. as they are
reported to have done. The one JUS
LITIGATION for jazz is that it sets one
in violent motion and keeps one warm.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

II Is going TO be very difficult to
make war unpopular unless people
can find a way TO mitigate the troubles
OF peace.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
Evidently Thought Horse Was chos.

Frightened by the sudden appear
ance in the darkness of a horse with
a white forehead, woman dropped
dead on the road near Matlock. Eng
land. AT the inquest a verdict or
death from heart disease" was re-
turned.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

The moving picture rights OF pop
ular new play are valued at Sl,569,912.
How do you suppose they figure it so
closet
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

For woman who has two hus-
bands amnesia may well be state of
bliss.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

Every town has a Good Ole Scout
who takes a Healthy Interest In Every
thing that's going on. Nothing es-
capes his Eagle Eye or Eager Ear and
he's a regular News Mine for the Edi-
tor. Were il not for the Volunteer
Reporter the Paper would not be So
Newsy sometimes. Here's TO you, ole
Scout
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

The talk by experts Of the dangers
from poison gas in the next war is
something besides hot air.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

A new dance Is called the cat step.
DO you dance on q back fencel
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
The -
Scrap Book
The
HARD TO ESCAPE THEM ALL
Really. Small Madee Had Enough to
Do TO Dodge Them. Without
Bingo Chipping In.

The heroine Of this story is a GER
tain mischievous Madge. small daugh-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
The -
Scrap Book
LITTLE CALL FOR DEDUCTION
Visitors Request Made All ThIngs
Clear TO the Mind Of the Non.
arch Of Detectives.

Shattered Homes was smoking his
fourth ounce Of strong tobacco since
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22
POOR WORK

Mrs. A.-Helen Is progressing by
leaps and bounds In her piano prac-
tice.
Mr.. Al thought she couldn't
make all that racket with her hands
alone
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-22

UngaIlant Bachelors PenaIIzed.
A bachelor declining a leap year
proposal Is liable to ine. according
TO q Scotch law Of 1888,
Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-03-30

:
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Hyder Alaska miner., 1921-03-30

" have the stosk and cen supply your wants.