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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
GIRL KIDNAPPED BY
MYSTERIOUS WOMEN
Dressed in Black and Heavily
Yelled They Enter School,
room and Grab Child.

Minneapolis. Minn.-Entering With.
out knocking into the Richfield school.
room just before recess time. two tnll
women dressed in deep black and
heavily yelled. kidnapped from the room
Blanche Barker, eleven years old
while the teacher and the excited chill
dren looked on In astonishment
The two black-clad women appeared
suddenly I'm the schoolroom just as the
children were rising from their seats
for the recess period. Their long wells
completely hid their faces. Looking
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
THE DEPTHS.

The genius boob is limited 10 no age
or race or profession. And the wife
who seeks a divorce from her actor
husband. saying he told her You are
old and faded, while l am young and
good-lOoking. All the pretty women
fall for me because l am a cayeman,"
will have the sympathy not of all wcm-
EN- only, but Of all men who lay claim
TO sense Of decency, says Milwaukee
Journal. For such man, men feel the
combined contempt that they have for
the ''piker' and the cad. They would
not wish on the most senseless little
fool the i'll fortune OF falling for him.
He would not be worth mentioning ex-
cept that sometimes 1t is worth while
to point out that the conceit of such a
man gets him nowhere, that the ele-
mental decency of the race does agree
in stamping some specimens OF human
kind as fit only for the companionship
Of certain of the lower animals.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
ehrank Back Frightened.

quickly about the room, they spied lit
tie Blanche sitting back In corner.
They hurried toward her.
Blanche, come with u.s." command
ed the older and taller woman.
The little girl shrank BACK, fright
ened.
mo, no; 1 don't know you." she
cried.
Then the little schoolma'am inter
vened. Leave the child alone" she
ordered. "She doesn't know you. You
mustn't take her"
The tall woman turned in fury, ac-
cOrding to Miss Thayer.
Keep your nose out of this" she
commanded, sharply. "This is our af-
fair, not yours"
Without another word. the two wom-
en- made for the child. took her be-
tween them and started for the door.
But the school teacher, highly indig-
nant. stood In the way. She seized
the little girl and attempted to hold
her back. But the two women were
too strong for her. Some Of the chill
dren, excited by the struggle, started
TO cry.
The school teacher, despairing OF re-
taining the child turned her attention
to the older woman. She seized her
black veil. lifted IL. and gazed full into
her face.
Jerking the veil down. the woman
turned back to the child. rushed with
the other woman out the door. put the
screaming child into waiting tour
ing car and the three drove off behind
the crippled driver, down Thirty-fOurth
avenue south. toward the open ccun-
try.
Deputy sheriffs under Sheriff Earle
Brown and the city police secured the
city and surrounding country, but
found no trace of them.
Little Blanche Barker is the ward Of
Mrs. f. NJ. Chandler OF Minneapolis.
For six years previous TO coming to
live with Mrs. Chandler she lived In
San Francisco, Cal, with Mrs. Bertha
Barker.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Perhaps no more unique memorial
was erected To Abraham Lincoln than
when John Finn of Decorah, Ia, went
into the woods and found a blackberry
shoot, which he transplanted in front
of his home, following the assassina-
tion of the President The tree has been
nominated for place In the hall of
fame for trees with Il history which Is
being compiled by the American For
estry association ST Washington. That
tree teaches a powerful lesson as to
what could be done toward correcting
the forestry situation In this country.
Fifty-five years seems a long time to
look ahead, but John Finn can span the
years and span them quickly. There
stands the tree, towering lesson and
a warning. America must wake up
and have forest crops just as the coun-
try has wheat and corn coming every
year, says Paterson IN. J.) Press
Guardian. The way 10 do that is TO
have an intelligent national forest pol
icy.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

1t Is said British ex-Service men are
finding IL hard to secure jobs. So
short is the memory of a grateful pub
lie that forgets the time when it hailed
every service man as hero, says Bal.
timore American. Perhaps instead OF
honoring the private soldier by buryins
one of them in Westminster abbey, the
rank and file would be better satisfied
to have recognition given the living In
the way of adequate employment.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

AS women now have full suffrage,
the matter OF jury duty is becoming
prominent one. Women in several
places who have been called TO serve
on juries have sought as an excuse
that they had TO prepare their hus-
bands dinners. And courts, being but
men, have found in this common mas,
cufine interest a genuine subject of ex-
ctse from this unpleasant duty. For
any court will readily recognize that u
woman who can cook a good dinner is
too precious TO be wasted on mere
court routine.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

To Whitney Warren, well-known
American architect who has given
himself whOle-heartedly TO the cause
Of the allies, comes the flattering offer
of the task of restoring the beautiful
buildings of the University of Louvain,
which were destroyed III 1914. If he
accepts the appointment he can doubt
less find many rich Americans who
would like TO contribute to this great
work OF reconstruction
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Every locality in America has more
or less definitely defined nicknames
that residents give strangers when ad-
dressing them. In Philadelphia, for
instance, strangers are addressed
Mack" A Philadelphian wishing to
ask the time from some one he didn't
know would say: what time is it,
Mack" Out in Seattle the common
name for a stranger is "Bo." This is
probably due TO the influence Of the L.
w. w. Lumberjacks, mine workers and
blanket stifrs" all 90 by the familiar
name of "Bo." The extensive use of
this term has gradually been adopted
by the more polite strata OF society in
that section and is now considered good
form. In Denver they have the breezy
Western bill" In Chicago II Is
Jack" in the army Buddy" In
Louisville IL is Colonel" of course. In
Boston IL is "Nelghbor."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Italian Salad.

Take four sardines. three large po-
tatoes. three hard-coOked eggs, half
a cupful OF cooked lima beans. Slice
the potatoes, skin and bone the sar-
with the potatoes. Put the yolks OF
two of the eggs into a bowl, add a
pinch of mustard, salt and oil enough
70 make smooth cream, add one
third as much vinegar as oil. Pour
this dressing over the salad and add
the shredded whites. Garnish with
the whole egg cut in pieces and a few
stoned olives. Serve well chilled.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

In laborer's attlfe. but whose brain
wears the clothing OF college pro
fessor.
He can remember SlenklewicZ's s
story OF the feasts of Nero centuries
ago in "Quo Vadls." the wandering OF
Ulysses from the shores OF IlIum, and
the campaign of Douglas against
that patrolman found him wandering
and sent him TO the hospital.
"He must have been a college pro-
fessor." said Or. William c. Henske,
who examined him for two and q half
hours.
This nameleSs toy OF chance lives In
the days OF the Caesars, the Medici
and the CalhOuns. but he can't tell
where he was an hour before he was
brought 10 the hospital.
He speaks English and French. His
conversation is of the finest. HIS
clothing of the poorest. His hands are
callOused and his fingernails worn.
showing that he has worked hard re-
Gently.
He speaks In the gentle voice OF the
classroom. He remembers having
seen the Bridge OF Signs. the EifTel
Tower In Paris. the Palace OF Music
ir. Berlin. Inter den Linden and parts
Of Australia. Why he was there and
what he was doing and when he can't
remember.
Doctor Henske found him conversant
with algebra and geometry. The physi-
clan worked out problems. II they
were correct. the mystery man said
SO. II they were wrong he knew.
Physicians are making q study OF
the man. with hope OF restoring his
faculties.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
~eAck-ssAr DRIVING" ON TRIAL.

A good many wives. in these days
when not to own an automobile is a
sign e. hopeless Indulgence, will read
with sympathetic interest of the
ground upon which Chicago sister
seeks a legal separation, says Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph. She
habitually drives their car in u "reck-
less and willfully malicious manner
thereby endangering their lives" To
her mild remonstrances he is accused
of replying: What's the difference?
Our lives are not worth anything, any
way. No doubt the husbands friends
will claim he is the victim of what is
known as "back-seat driving" or the
giving of constant Instructions TO the
man at the wheel, which have been
known to exert a directly contrary ef-
feet from that intended. There have
been husbands who have been brought
TO the point of desperation by the re-
iterated admonition from the rear seat
TO drive slowly, or watch this corner
or look out for this hill," or take
care, there's dangerous curve just
ahead" In cases OF excessive irrita-
ton long continued they have been
known TO disregard the wifely instruc-
tions and proceed TO the opposite ex-
treme, replacing ordinary prudence
with sudden but perhaps justifiable
recklessness.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
ROMANCE DELAYED At YEARS
Couple Estranged IN Childhood by
Lovers Quarrel, Wed in life's
Twilight.

COnnersvilie, Ind.-After being sep
aratcd AZ years, when their sweetheart
romance OF youth was severed by a
lovers quarrel, Paul A. Feist. sixty
six, and Catherine Morgan, sixty-four.
were married here. Both are natives
OF Columbia township. Fayette county.
When their youthful engagement
was broken. Feist went West. was
married and became prosperous
farmer In Nebraska. His fiancee later
was married.
When Feist's wife died FIVE years
ago, 10 years after the deas'. of Mrs.
Morgan's husband. they beg. - % cnr-
respond. Five weeks ago heist ca,
to Connersville and the reconciliation
and marriage resulted.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

A wise man said, Tell me what you
eat and | Will tell you what you are "
More and more In our modern civiliza-
tion, the people are realizing the i'm
portance of wholesome food properly
cooked. The science of cooking has a
prominent place In our public schools
and colleges, and we have pure food
laws. Our women young and old are
proud to say, II can cook good meal,
one you will really enjoy" That is as
IL should be. To the kitchen may be
traced many Of the successes or fail
ures OF life, says Thrift Magazine.
Many child has failed to make his
grades at school from lack Of strength
Of mind and body because so little in
telligence was practiced in the kitchen.
Many a man and boy have failed TO hold
their jobs because of poor food badly
cooked. A great deal is said about
economy in the kitchen. What Is true
kitchen economy? 1t Is 10 provide not
necessarily the expensive food, or the
cheapest food, but the purest and best
materials, and then TO properly cook
them.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
POISON TONGUES
WOULD RETRACT
Now Seek Forgiveness of Young
Townswoman Whom They
Had PiIIoried.
1T COMES TOO LATE
Even Ministers Apologize, but Mrs
Mcintyre Feels That She Must
Leave the Town Where She
Suffered So keenly.

New Castle. Pa.-Mrs. Ada McIn-
tyre, wife Of "Scotty" Mcintyre. q
steel worker, whom the town Of New
Castle Ostracized because she took a
motorcar ride with another man, is
leaving, in spite Of the fact that the
townspeople who pilloried her for her
act are willing TO forgive. The for
giveness comes after she had been con-
demned by everyone and ministers had
cenSured her for her act from the pu!-
pits.
Now the Mcintyre family, which in
cludes a twenty-months-old baby. is
moving.
"ScOtty" Mcintyre has been steel
worker here for % years. His wife,
the town now admits, committed no
grave error save TO accept the proffer
of a ride with another married wom-
an and two men. One of the men had
been drinking, the motor broke down,
and In quarrel one of the men was
killed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
MAKES HERSELF FIERY TORCH
California Woman saturates Clothes
With Gasoline and Applies
Match.

San Jose, Cal.-Turning herself into
a living torch by saturating her cloth
ing with gasoline and applying. a
match. Mrs. Joseph Martin ended her
life because she was in poor health
and despOndent. Her husband and
neighbors heard her screams of pa.nl
and succeeded in beating out the
flames, but not until she had been
fatally burned.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Ian OF MYSTERY
LOSES IDENTITY
Quotes Poets ard History, but
Cannot Remember His
Own Name.

st. LouIs.-Physicians at the city
hospital are puzzled at the plight of a
man about fifty years old whom they
call an intelligent genius" but who
knows not his name. birthplace. nor
his age.
He quotes Shakespeare and Homer,
knows the canals OF Venice, the
wharves OF Liverpool. the boulevards
Of Paris. and can prove the blnOmIal
theorem. Still. he does not know who
he Is or whence he came
Stranger than the mytholOgical mo
man" is the tale OF this man garbed
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

little house which the McIntyres were
preparing 10 leave They told the girl
wife they were sorry. sOrrier for them
selves than for her. even. They asked
her not TO leave the town, as the fam
ily was planning, brt to stay and be
good friends with her town.
One or two OF tie ministers said
they would like Go pray with her a
little She said she didn't mind; she
would be glad for help-sO long as the
minister who preached the vindictiye
sermon against her kept out of her
way. II he represented true goodness,
she did not want TO be good. Her hus-
band nodded approval.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Royal Soup.

This is another fireless cooker recipe.
Put cut-up fowl in cooker kettle,
full Of cold water. boil ten minutes,
then pack III cooker for six hours or
overnight. Remove the chicken and
to the stock add one dozen small
onions two diced carrots. one turnip
also diced. one cupful of peas, two
bay leaves, salt and pepper. Reheat
the radia or. bring soup to a boil and
repaCk. DO not strain, but serve with
grated cheese and buttered toast. The
chicken meat may be used for various
dishes laser.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Ten thousand acres Of fertile land
in India has been offered to the Meth
odist Episcopal church by the mahara-
jah of Bikanir on condition that the
missionaries teach the natives the
methods of American farmers. The
missionaries, of course. cannot be ex-
pected TO give information on how TO
get and hold farm labor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Tutti Frutti Salad.

Take one quarter of a pound of
figs, cut in small pieces, the same
amount of stoned and Quartered dates.
One-half cupful of canned strawber-
ries, the same of canned pineapple,
the Juice of one-half lemon. two table
spoonfuls of sugar and one-half cup
ful Of orange juice. Serve as dessert
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Money is TO be abolished I'm Russia
and working people are not TO be re-
Quired TO pay for the nccessaries OF
life. 1t is going 10 be an ideal kind OF
government while II lasts, Tut II won't
last long enough TO give its plan Of &C
tion 10 the world at large.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

IL is gratifying TO have the American
Legion protest against the use Of the
national flag for dolls dresses, and II
is 10 be hoped that other commercial
abuses of the stars AMI stripes will call
forth equally energetic opposition.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Wants Thief to Get
Rest of His Clarinet

San Diego.-"If you won't
send back my clarinet, let
me have your address so that
may send you the mouthpiece to
the same" reads a newspaper
advertisement inserted here by
W. c. Watt. sailor on a ship here.
His mOuthpieceless instrument
was stolen aboard ship.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Jail Brings Him Good Luck.

Concordia, Kan.-Robert w. Patton's
penchant for living in jails has brought
him luck He will share half OF S6O,-
900 estate. Relatives located him
through an interview he gave when be
sought 10 obtain winter lodgings AZ
the jail here.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

A lady who bough, a pair of shoes
found q $500 diamond brooch IN
them. Maybe the high prices are to be
explained on the assumption that the
manufacturers have been lining shoes
with Jewels.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

During the summer fruit salads OF
various kinds should be freely used.
especially for the picnic lunch. There.
is such a variety of fruits that one
need not repeat.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Science is getting the better Of ordl-
nary tried human ingenuity. In the
government mint In Japan they use
the X-ray 10 find out II any OF the en-
ployees have attempted to smuggle
coins by swallowing them. And the
initiative faculty OF the Orientals
dental models
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Mrs. Mcintyre Under Bail.

Mrs. Mcintyre is under bail here as
a material witness in connection with
the death of J. c. Abraham, travelling
salesman, who was slain while driving
with Mrs. Mcintyre, Mrs. Harriet Olds
and her brother, Roy Phillips.
The people of New Castle, whose
sense of self-righteousness suddenly
rose to the fore and condemned Mrs
Mcintyre without hearing, are sorry
Even the ministers who condemned
her have gone 20 her and apolOgized.
1t happened this way: Miss Muir
chard, New Castles policewoman aud
probation officer after reading Mrs.
McIntyres published appeal for cIem-
ency from the Christian people Of the
community, went TO call on "Scotty"
and his wife. There she saw the spir-
Ii existing between the two and their
happiness together. She went out and
called on the ministers and explained
to them their mistake. She also had
a talk with the leaders of public SEN
timent.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

A divorced couple. finding IL impos-
sible TO locate separate apartments,
decided TO remarry and occupy the
old fiat. One instance In which two
could live cheaper than one.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
SQUADS en- Casserole.

Saute six squads fin two tablespoons
fuls Of butter without browning. then
cover with broth, add sprig of pars-
ley, bay leaf, and cook until nearly
tender; then add a dozen and "a half
Of button onions which have been par
boiled, two dozen potato balls and two
half-inch cubes of fried bacon. When
ready TO serve, remove the parsley and
stir in the yolks Of three eggs well
beaten and added TO half OF cupful
of cream; add a tablespoonful OF but
ter or bacon fat. Do not boil after
the eggs are added. Serve from the
casserole
One OF the incest ways 10 serve
squads is bOned and stuffed. then
roasted. 1t is not difficult process 10
bone few birds. The small leg bones
are left at the end for a more shapely
appearance. They may be bnoiled
without stufing if preferred, adding
bit Of celery or a piece of onion to-
season the inside of the bird.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Those who think the temperance Of

Those who think the temperance Of
of good sense among the young are un-
der an illusion. We hear ON excellent
authority that the high school girls who
most affect them apparently do not
know enough to take them of when
they go indoors
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Kisses Cats Foot
to Make Il Well

BOston.-A man named Fol-
som was arraigned for drunken
ness.
What was he doing 10 attract
attention. asked the judge.
why he had a cat and her
foot was in his mouth and they
thought he was biting her" said
the officer.
Darn foolishness." said the
prisoner wabbllng a little from
overnight effect behind the pen
rail. "'S my cat'n I was jest
kiSsin' It's injured paw TO make
II all well-pOre li1 thing"
Were you drunkT'
Mos likely-but | like my
cat"
First offense-discharg
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Spectators will have their hands
occupied to dispose of 100000 tons of
wheat after all needs have been sup
piled.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
notRerye6a&B
The test OF worth

The test OF worth
Is not the hold you have OF earth:
Lo there be gentlest souls. sea blown.
That know not any harbor known:
And IL may be the reason Is
They touch on fairer shores than this.
joaquin Miller.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

The potato crop is one OF the largest
on record. but no new low price rec.
ords are anticipated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28

Now that prices are coming back TO
normal, buying should come back to
normal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
Committee Is Appointed

After talking li,ings over commit
tee was appointed who went TO the
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-28
He Does Not Know Who He 10.

In laborer's attIfe. but whose brain
wears the clothing OF college pro