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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
INT EFsESTING REdDING
a GOOD MENT
Jasper Courier.

THE JASPER COURIER
stands for the best things in life,
in the town and country homes.
1t advocates improvements, bet
ter roads, better schools. better
churches, and the greatest politi-
cal freedom and honesty in pub
lie affairs. The COURIER has not
and does not hesitate to assail
men or methods that stand in the
way of the greatest good to the
greatest number Every progress
sive family in the county should
be a subscriber. Yours is needed
now. Send it in. Do it now.
Subscription p:1ce $500 per year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
COPS FIND GUN cHEcKRooM
Discover Station Where the Gunner
Of Ncw York Park Their
Artillery.

New York.-The checking business.
which has made rapid strides with the
opening OF checkroOms for babies and
parking stations for fiappers' corsets.
has been broadened again.
The police announced here that they
had discovered checking station FOR
pistols. where members Of the under
world may park iseir artillery when
they have few hours Of leisure.
Most of the city's gun wielders ap-
parently were on the crime path, how
ever, as the parking station had only
TWO pistols on its shelves.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
To Stop Coughing At Night.

Sum ner bronchial cough keeps not
only the sufferer but other members of
the family awake. Aired Barker,
1901 Avondale ST., E. Liverpool, o.,
writes: 81 consider it my duty to
write and tell the results of Foley's
Honey and Tar, which l used for my
boy who had been suffering from a
bronchial cough for z or 8 weeks
FoIey's Honey and Tar has done him
wonderful good, and l shall always
recommend it." 1t soothes and heals
Sold by Rose Mehringer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
A Primitive System.

"Of the estimated population of a
million, fewer than 1000 are Euro
peans. The most noted of the native
peoples are the Fanti, whose women
of light brown skin are pretty. Their
fayorite perfume is distilled from the
eXcrement of snakes Shark flesh. sun
dried. is a favorite edible. Among
them. as among many primitive fight
ing peoples. mothers are held in high
esteem. Property is inherited by the
oldest son of the oldest sister Land
is held in communal fashion, the
possession Of a gold stool being the
badge of chiefs authority to the
lands over which he holds sway. Areas
are assigned To families. but they re-
vert To the community upon the hold
er's death.
Trees. plants animals. snakes and
insects are found in amazing variety.
Here, as in many other verdant trOp-
ical regions. flowers are not nearly So
abundant The animate curiosity of
the Gold Coast is the driyer-ant, which
also constitutes its worst pest. The
driver-ants constitute the standing
army Of the insect world
"A crack regiment of driver-ants,
Solemnly says the Oxford survey Of
the English empire. marches in close
formation. perhaps II abreast. fora
ing line some two inches wide. the
soldiers being distributed along HE
tanks and al regular intervals
amongst the workers. o. much the
same plan Us that laid down for a
:r3tish column In thick country. The
orce travels nj the double, and gen
orally AT Gight. taking as straight a
inc rs possible and selecting all avail
Ihle cover. an advance party having
ilready prepared the way. These in
ects> construct tunnels i'm exposed
pots. perhaps 80 feet In length. with
height and breadth which may he
- much IS one inch. and provided
with airshafts. Every animal makes
way for them. for they will attack
Irything In their path, even fire, their
system OF communication enabling
them To send reinforceInents TO any
threatened point"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
Doc Saves Lives in
Blaze Started by Cat

New YOrk.-A one-eyed An
CORA cat played the role OF viii
lain. and a small fox TERROR that
OF hero, in fire here which
damaged the exclusive gown
shop Of Tape. Inc, in West
Fifty-seventh street, just off
Fifth avenue.
The cat was blamed by Her
man z. Tape. proprietor. as the
link which caused the fire.
while the unnamed terrier was
credited with saving many OF the
100 young women employees
from suffocating. by barking a
prompt alarm. The cat paid with
her life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23

Farmer folk OF Chippewa county,
Michigan, are In an uprOar over the
remarkable miracle" rescue story
told by ID. X Brown. for three gen
erations local farmer and noted as
one of the most deyOut men In Mich
igan.
Brown recently became lost In the
wilderness near his home and as
serts he was rescued after the man
ner of the children of Israel OF Blbli-
cal times. by GOd-sent light which
appeared In answer tn his prayer
after darkness had settled and he had
given up hope of ever getting out OF
the forest alive.
The story is Endorsed by his wife
who Is also noted for her religious
faith and who led the searching par
ties. Other members OF the posse also
tell of seeing the flight"
Such credence Is given the story by
farmer folk that they have held II
religious revival To which farmers and
their families within radius of -
miles came.
Los. in Dense Swamp.
According To Mrs. Browns story, II
was Sunday morning and they were
bringing the cows home by driving
d. them in front Of buggy. An auto
mobile horn frightened the animals
into the bush.
Brown got out and started To round
them up. He did not reappear and
the posse was gathered by the
pastors son. who went To church.
held a short prayer and then brought
the men 10 the scene. The party
searched all day Sunday and at night
heavy thunder showers came up and
they had 10 quit until the next morn
ing. II stormed throughout the
night.
Here Brown takes up the nara
tive from the time he became lost
Might came. and found l was i'm
a thick swamp amidst spruce and ell
der trees. Then IL began To rain
fell in spring holes over my knees
and | got faint and tired II kept
raining
IL gave up all hope Of help and
then remembered the Thirty-third
Psalm. This poor man cried and the
Lord heard him and saved him our of
all his troubles caught sapling
10 hold myself erect i'm the Icy rain
and cried cut my PRAYER.
Il had hardly finished when no
ticed an opening i'm the dense under
brush. This opening appeared to open
the way toward a light. Ii was not
fire hut appeared 10 be more like the
northern lights.
Then noticed white object
which appeared like sea gulIs
wing. There was no head. body or
tail attached to these wings. hut the
light seemed Ia radiat, from this.
Follows the Light to > scuers
This object seemed 20 move and
slowly rose from the ground and cir
cled
For a long time | followed-more
than mile should Say-and then
came 10 thick brush. The light
passed over and into this and the
thick brush. soaking Wet began 10
burn. | stood beside Il warming and
drying myself | looked again and the
winged fire | had been following had
disappeared. but was sure that God
had led me 20 a spot where | would
be- found.
lust then voice az my elbow
said Why. Brown. what are YOU
doing out here - This time OF nightr
around the fire and there under
tent were six men who had ventured
into the forest IN search OF me-"
B~~ = 49,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
RICHEST AREA
IN THE WORLD
Geographers So Proclaim Gold
Coast Of Africa.
OIL IS ITS LATEST WEALTH

Golden Age Of Gold Coast Was in Days
Of FIourishino Slave Trade, and the
Oil Fields Promise Again to outbuy
Entire Product Of Gold Grains Win.
moved From Sands of Many Rivers
Of Region-Primitive Soviet Sys-
tenn Exists Among Natives of the
Coast
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
Reco mmends Chamberlain's Tablets

Recommends ChamberIain's Tablets
"Chamberlain's Tablets have been
used by my husband and myself off
and on for the past five years. When
my husband goes away from home
he always takes a bottle of them
along with him. Whenever / have
that heavy feeling after eating, or feel
dull and played out, take enc or two
of Chamberlain's Tablets and they fix
me up fine" writes Mrs. Newton Vree-
land, Minoa, y. Y. Take these tab
lets when troubled with constipation
or indigestion and they will do you
good.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23

London reports of oil pools and
gushers In the Gold Coast colony of
West Africa sustain the opinion OF
many geographers that this is the
richest area In the world for its size,
according 10 a bulletin from the Wash
ington Cd. c. headquarters of the
Natioral Geographic society.
columbus is believed to have done
some of his apprentice exploring along
the Gold Coast shores before he set
sail for America, and many an eman-
cipated slave of our southland could
find his family tree among the ma
tives of this British colony The gold
Ell age OF the Gold Coast, commercial
ly considered. was in the days of flour
ishing slave trade, and the oil fields
promise again TO outbuy the entire
product Of gold grains winnowed from
the sands of tie many rivers of this
region.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
A Forest Fairyland.

"When you read that threee-fOurths
Of the colony is covered with thick
forests you get a very inadequate
idea of what you would see could you
look upon the amazing Businesses OF
Bombax trees. piercing the skyline at
100 feet, with cOlumnar trunks, free
from branches below the top quarter
length. The trees you know best are
like icebergs In that their bases. or
root systems, are under the surface
These foreign giants remind you of
your children's Christmas tree, but,
treSsed by what look to be huge tri-
angular supports. Should you dig be-
meath one of these buttresses you
would find tiny tendrils, such as those
which might nourish a sapling. In
the spaces between these buttresses
natives sometimes pitch primitive
tents.
The impression OF q forest Of tele-
phone poles is further conveyed by
great cables sagging from tree 10 tree.
These 'creepers' are popularity known
as monkeyrope. appropriately enough,
since many varieties Of monkeys are
to be found in these forests.
with the exception of the hori-
zontal network Of 'monkey-rope' these
thickets are vertical forests as truly
as New York has been called Yer
teal City They furnish a mute eX-
ample of inanimate objects valOrOus-
ly striving for their places In the sun
light
"Finally. SO fertile is the equatorial
soil, that nature is far from satisfied
with the plant life which cutters the
soil and cranes its foliage alOft 10 get
Il Speck of sunshine. but nOurishnent
is afforded a second crop of parasitic
plants. such rs the orchids which
grow from the branches of the Bonn
bax trees.
"The Gold Coast colony stretches
along some go miles of a harbOrlesS
coast. and extends back for about
half that distance to the border of
Ashanti.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23

4 lie COURIER advertisers are le /.
ting down the price lars into the
6sld Of bargains.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-23
IS RESCUED BY
G0D-SENT LIGHT
Michigan Farmers Stirred by
Miracle" Rescue.
MAN LOST III DENSE SWAMP

His Account Of How He Was Saved
Like the Children Of Israel, So I'M
pressed His Neighbors That They
Hold Countrywide Religious Re
Vival-When All Hope Had Gone
Mysterious Light Appeared and
Guided Man to Night Camp of Res
euing Party.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
Where America leads.

According TO a writer in the Chi
cago Sunday Tribune. the United
States leads the universe in: Libraries,
jaiIs. universities. blind pigs, news
papers. payroll robberies, automo-
biles, bank deposits. Bibles, profiteers,
sneak thieves, divorces, movies, bull
dogs. patent medicines, silk stockings,
labor unions, scented soap. safety ra-
zors. safes. safe-Alowers, lawyers, me-
chanical pianos, mahogany furniture,
diamonds. imitaEon diamonds, muir
ders. acquittals. cOntinuances, cleo
tions. laws, law-breakers, railroads.
freight rates. souvenir postal cards,
kilograms, billiard tables, opinions,
cabarets, peroxide, safety matches,
dark alleys, taxicabs. office-holders,
of Irish kings, delinquent
messenger boys, skyscrapers, bunko
steerers. pie, counterfeit money, prom
issory notes. collectors, vaudeville ac-
tors, horseshoe pins on soft shirts I'M
Ger. bow ties, patent leather shoes,
electric lights, watermelons. foreign
millionaires. Elks, BUSH
ness women. hcndbooks, radiators,
home made beer, and good guys.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
Rnnnalow "ofntment.v

The sweat" Of gas tanks is the
ointment of bungalows. A creosote
oil which condenses on the inside
walls of gas tanks and trickles down
is found to make an excellent shingle
stain oil. 1t penetrates rapidly and
dries quickly. and is an excellent sol
vent for stains and preservative FOR
the wood.
To the gas companies it is known as
holder oil. once almost a nuisance.
The color ranges from amber and ruby
to ebony. BY keeping it reasonably
light and clear gas companies are able
to sell it to jobbers and wholesalers
for from to 10 cents a gallon The
latter sell it to paiat and building ma
terial dealers for from 80 TO - cents
a gallon. Goodness knows, says the
New York World. for how much they
sell it To the public.
When painters learn to buy this oil
from the local gas company they
will find the cost of materials for
painting a shingle house only a small
fraction of that for clapboard houses.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
COLD IN HIGHEST ATTITUDES
Why Volume of Heat Decreases as
One Leaves the Immediate Sur
face of the Earth.

You would have thought that the
nearer you get to the sun, the warmer
the temperature becomes, wouldn't
you? But this is by no means the
case. for it is much colder closer 10
the sun when the latter is shining it's
brightest than 1t is on the earth.
This is proved by the fact that the
highest mountains, even in tropical
countries, are perpetually snow
capped. Were the air there even
of the same temperature as that of
the plains beneath, the snow would
soon disappear
You know. too, that the higher an
airman flies the more warmly clad he
must be if he is not to suffer from
cold.
The reason for this strange phe-
is that the rays of sunshine
pierce through the upper layers of
the atmosphere, which offer very little
resistance to them. The earth, on the
other hand. being more solid, cannot
be penetrated so easily. with the re-
suit that we get the full effect of the
warmth, both as the rays strike the
earth and as they rebound from 1t.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20

Throughout the afternoon adult
MEMBERS of the Atwater family con
nection made futile efforts to secure
all the copies Of that weeks edition
OF the North End Daily OriOIe. 1t
could not be done.
1t was a trying time for "the fam
fly" Great-aunt Carrie said that she
had the worst afternoon of any of
EN-" because young Newland Saun-
GERS came to her house at two and did
Lot leave until five; all the time count
ing over. one by one. the hours he'd
spent with Julia since she was seven
teen and turned out, unfortunately,
10 be Beauty. Newland had not re-
gtrHined himself, Aunt Carrie said.
and long before he left she wished
JnIin had never been born-and as
for Herbert lllingsworrh Atwater,
Junior. the only thing TO do with him
was TO send him TO some strict mill
tary school.
Florence's father teIephoned TO her
mother from downtown NJ three. and
said that Mr.. George Plum and the
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
FORESTRY BUREAU
BILL is UNPOPULAR
Authors Invite Criticism and Ask All
Those Interested to File Con-
ructive Ideas.

Observation-Disclosures of the Mississl p
pi conservation commission who
framed the Bell-Ward bill. now pending
in the two branches of the legislature,
creating a state bureau OF forestry.
il is alleged, are frankly discouraged
over the prospects for the passage OF
their measure.
There seems to be a decided -hostil-
ity in both houses of the legislature
against the creation OF any new Of
fees or departments of government AT
this session, and thus far every bill in
troduced involving an increase of pub
lie expenditures has met with an adj
verse committee report.
The proposed state bureau Of fores-
try. in its present shape, makes posi-
BILE the creation of an unlimited num-
Der of offices, and the powers confer
red on the board ara well nigh limit
less. Unless it is radically amended
and modified, a conservative estimate
of the cost of enforcing its provisions
is placed at not less than half a mil
lion dollars per year
The authors Of the measure frankly
admit that the present form OF the
bill is open to criticism. and they have
invited all who are interested in legis-
lation of this character to file con
structive ideas. It has been decided
to defer committee hearings until
after al the Mississippi forestry con-
gress holds its annual session here on
the 14th of February. at which time
it is expected that those who are most
vitality interested in hte subject OF
conservation viii present their sugges-
lions in concrete form
Thus far the lumber manufacturing
interests have not manifested any IN
terest in the pending measure although
they Will be extend d an invitation TO
appear before the legislative commit
tees and state whatever objections
they may desire to. offer
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
GRIM WEST AFRICA
Country of Heat and Horror" to
White Man.
mense Wealth and Secrets Which
Defy Modern Science.

w. Alan Lethbridge. in his book.
West Africa" gives clear and in
teresting account of the West Coast
colonies as they are today. OF their
heat and horror" of their immense
wealth. and of their strange medical
problems. Wounds in the white man
will not heal there and no white child
may be born. Nor has the secret of
tropical fever been mastered. though
Sierra Leone is no longer the white
mans grave"
He has some grim stories to tell
one. which is new. of the haunted
castle at Elmina, where no one sleeps
without Il quaIm. II appears that a
party of three men and one woman
we're playing bridge very keenly in
he tropical night: "Of Il sudden the
lady put her hands To her eyes as
though dazzled. Asked If anything
were the matter she denied anything
wrong and continued playing. Then
again she clapped her hands TO her
eyes. gave an exclamation. and tainted
dead away" What she had seen she
could not or would not say. but the
tradition is that a headlesS woman
walks the castle.
Nor does Mr.. Lethbridge reject the
power of native magic. lie vOuches
for one strange story: That Mt Il point
in the Niger delta in hut near
store were a number OF native workers.
under medical supervision. Their
headman said it was no good place"
"One morning a KrOo hoy was re-
ported dead: n pOSt-mortem revealed
no apparent cause Of death. Next
morning two men had departed this
life and again poSt-mOrtemS revealed
nothing, on the third morning four
men were dead and there was some
thing like a panic"
All the men were at once removed
and a fresh batch brought up 10 be
placed in the same sinister house"
They, too. died in the same mysteri-
Gus way, and it was decided to burn
down the hut. Then something fell
to the ground and was seized by the
headman who rushed up to the doctor
shouting, Here be plenty bad thing,
sab Fit to kill all men, sab" He held
at arms length two human finger
bones which had been tied together
with a bit of native Irvine in the shape
of a rough cross"
When this iu-ju was disposed of the
deaths ceased. The Niger delta is not
n place for lonely white men TO take
walks in the cleaning, an instance is
mentioned of one "youngster" who did
so and 1.-TWO days later his mutilated
corpse was found waterlOgged in the
sinister mangrove swamp" Nor Is it
place to be buried in we are told that
in digging graves the water is reached
and the mournerS have to stand upon
the coffin to hold it down.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
Woman students IN Prussia.

During the winter semester. 1920
1921. there were 6137 women study
ing in Prussian universities as against
$50 in the winter semester of 1908
1909. Medicine seems to Ire an es-
peciaIly attractive subject since the
war. The extension of general culture
was given as the main reason for study
II years ago There are now definite
goals of a professional nature. 1t is
interesting to note that the mechanics
and day laborers' classes are furnish
ing an ever-increasing number %
women students.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20

ardent vocalist, Clairdyce, two of the
suitors. had just left his office. They
had not called in company, however,
but coincidentally; and each had a
copy Of the North End Daily Ortole.
already somewhat worn with folding
and unfolding. Mr.. Clairdyce's cOndi-
ton was one Of desperate calm, Flor
ence's father said, but Mr.. Plum's agi-
tatiOn left him rather unpresentable
for the street, though he had finally
gone forth with his hair just as he
had rumpled it. and with his hat in
his hand. They wished the truth, they
said Was it true or was it not true?
Mr.. Atwater had told them that ne
feared Julia was indeed engaged,
though he knew nothing of her
fiance's previous marriage or mar
riages or OF the number of his
previous children. They had respond
ed that they cared nothing about that.
This man Crum's record was a matter
of Indifference to them. All they
wanted to know was whether JG.li4
was engaged or nOt-and she was.
The odd thing to me-" Mr.. At'Fater
continued, to his wife, lis where on
Ntti III AltiD tEL EOuIu nave SttS HIS STORY
about this Crum's being Il widower, or
divorced. and with all these children.
Do you know If Julia's written any OF
the family about these things and they
haven't told the rest of us?"
NO" said Mrs. Atwater. I'm sure
she hasn't. Every letter she's written
to any of US has passed all through
the family, and | know I've seen every
one of 'em. She's never said anything
about him at oil, except that he was "a
lawyer. I'm sure l can't imagine
where Herbert got his awful infOrma-
ton; never thought he was the kind
of boy 10 just make up unpleasant
things"
Florence, sitting quietly in a chair
nearby, with copy of Sesame and
Lilies" in her lap, listened to her
mothers side of this conversation
with an expression of impersonal in
terest; and if she could have realized
how completely her parents had for
gotten NATURALLY enOugh) the details
of their first rambling discussion of
Julia's engagement, she might have
felt as little alarm as she showed.
Well" said Mr.. Atwater, I'm glad
it isn't our branch of the family that's
responsible That's a comfort, any
how, especially as people are reading
copies of Herbert's manifesto all up
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
Veterinarians Meet.

Jacksonville program for the six
teenth annual convention 70 the Mis-.
sissippi state veterinary medical asso-
citation, which is to be held at Gulfport
Jan. 1924, has been received here. The
out-of-state speakers on the program
are: DIR. Elmer Lash of Washington,
on Eradication of tuberculosis; DR.
Adolph Eichlorn of Pearl River Coun-
". New York. on Review of Progress
Made in the Control of Infectious Dis
eases of Animals" DR. S. H. Woods
Of Berk ley, Cal, on Anthrax and It's
Control" DR.. J. A Barger. of Jackson,
is secretary of the organization.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1922-01-20
M0THERI MOVE
CHlLD'S BOWELS WITH
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP

Hurry, mother Even a sick child
loves the 'fruity" taste OF "CaIfornia
Fig Syrup" and it never fails to open
the bowels. A teaspoonful today may
prevent a sick child tomorrow. If con
stipated. bilious. feverish. fretful, has
cold, collie, or il stomach is sour.
tongue coated. breath bad. remember a
good cleansing of the little bowels Is
often all that is necessary.
Ask your druggist for genuine Cali
fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions
for babies and children OF all ages
printed on bottle Mother You must
say California or You may get an
imitation fig syrup. ADVERTISEMENT.