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3iagpEf "Weefcty oufttf.;' Vol. 52. Jasi-es, Indiana, Friday, February 4, 1910. No 18. 3 Lnt i L 1 I ; 'Mi r FOE A SHORT Time yon can buy an Overcoat or Raincoat at Cost Price. I have determined not to carry over any of these coats and wi'J sell at actual cost price. Come and see these Bargains. W- J. KUEBLER, CLOTHIER, JASPER, INDIANA. EL'EÜTBICITY. Why It la Difficult For the Layman t Understand What It U. "What is electricity ?" is a favor- ! ite query with people who desire to get a rise" out of a scientific man. And when he fails to answer it in the same simple fashion that he might treat the question "What is a biscuit?" the questioner cries out: "Aha! You profes3 to know all about electricity. Whv, you can't even tell what it is!' Xow, to "tell what a thing is" that is, to define it is to state its relations with something more fa miliar. The particular familiar thing that the questioner is think ing of in this case is ordinary mat ter. Heat has been explained to him as a vibration of material par- ucies. Jjgnt, ne has been told, is aov'avc motion in the ether, and he , understands the ether to be a kind of matter or a substance resem bling matter in some particulars. i It is not to be denied that no such simple general relationship ,can be stated between electricity and matter. But, this beincr so. it would be just as correct to ray that we do not know what matter is as ! that we do not know what electrici ty is. As a matter of fact, we do! not know what matter is, and tha latest plausible theory of it builds it up on an electric basis, so that on tliis theory the idea of electricity is more fundamental than that of matter. Unfortunately our senses have been evolved by contact with matter and are trained to detect only matter. Electricity they know VILLAINY AND NERVES. Have Made Nero Faddist. Tha Rest Cure Might a Harmless Many overwrought villains of the East, if they were alive now, would e subjected to a rest cure, which, though it could not turn them into zood men, might make their vil winy les3 irrational and dangerous. The worst tyrants of the middle iges and the renaissance, the worst Roman emperors, seem to us incom prehensible monsters of iniquity, men who did evil for the love of it. We should understand them better if we considered how likely their way of living was to disorder their nerve3. No doubt Nero, even if he had been brought up in the most modern way, taught from a child to take an interest in nature and to eat only the most wholesome things, would never have been a very useful or pleasant person. But he might have been a harmless faddist or an innocent if A DIAMOND STORY. Dispose Tha Way a Russian Princess of Mtr Jewels. A f.w. u-r ao Ludi Xissen, a weil knn wholesale dealer of the Maiden lane district, was in the office of n l.wtnoad merchant in London when a stranvur came in and ofieit'i! an uniit-iutflv beautiful nngli.-hmau to tone for did n't c;:rf j.i Hut thought iw :n. was not wihiii learned v .,t where it h: said he rtvn- man, who ? .1 n t .ir wj Imve her name disc. -el i .c .-Vm- mn was firm. If he eouUI not leara the hi would not buy. Xteen Hut he until he ;e and "Uv man 1, a wo lle would see the the matter over undistinguished minor As it was, he was the master of the world, with no one to prevent him from eating and drinking what he chose or from taking whatever other unwholesome pleasure he was inclined to. Xo doubt he exceeded in everything and suffered from ex- owners nn.e The ftrantw said woman und talk with her. The next h lie ramie lak and took Mr. : eti to tie woman's home. She licd in a l::tnUurne apartment in one of the rouet fash ionable quarter of the city. It turned out Ibat she was a Ru&sian princess who. with her husband and her daughter, bad been driven from Huv.u for having taken part in a nihilist movement Of all their large property they had saved treme irritability in consequence T. f , ... " . 1 11 . . I f I t-.- unrommateiv ne coum indulge tns 0nlv their iiwris. KIip nnon ratability without restraint. If iiUje gafe nD(1 s!l0wed the Ameri. when he felt cross of a morning heirnn nnn of tw finut oniiHnn t ordered a senator to die. the sena tor did die, and he heard no more of iL Moreover, there was always fear to work upon a tyrant's nerves, and some emperors became tyrants because of that fear. Domitian was a martyr to it, though a good man of business. If he were a stock- diamonds he had over pecn. They were worth f OO.OflO or 300.000. "We sell them a few at a time," she explained, "just enough of them each year to give us c living. Perhaps yoi will wonder why we don't sell them all and live on the interest of the n oncv? But my spirit. a year. HI. Vlrm. oniy seconaaruy, through its action oroKer oi toaay no aouot ne would; husband has the gambler's upon matter the light or heat thatiorry himself inci5antly about the' Tho mrmov wonM nnt Insf it causes matter to give out, the at-. state of the mark.'t?, and every one So we puft from them piecemeal. stances to exert, and so on. To the ,man in the skeet, therefore, matter j is familiar, and he demands a etate jinent of the latter in terms of the (former, illogical though this may .be. After the scientist has stated i all this the reply comes back, "Yes, . l unacrsiana an tnat. and it ia k like a man who ha4 days." 's npln me, lady; but. knOWA1 tin TT man I MV. IUIUI ' i sot on." Philadelphia a,,'"T Uhat crnnti.1 rT7.l r'nt,innJr h,s filial ua. , rays suPcloua df- -i.ecende Blatter. CAMfnir Sinall, Childhood Up to Date. Little Harriet had broken the lid of the box in which her blocks had come. Calling her to account for it, ; her mother said: j "How did the box lid get; broken?" "I sattcd down on it when I wasn't lookin'." "Oh, then you didn't mean to do it?" "No, I didn't." "Then mother will excuse you this time." "Muvver can save herself the bovver of scusin' me," replied Har riet. 'Til scuse myself if I need scusin'. That's my own play toy I broked." Chicago News. It Didn't Matter. Amonjr the visitors to an art ex hibition in Edinburgh were two old ladies from the country. They ex amined with great interest the statue of a vountr Greek, under neath wliich were inscribed the words, "Executed In Terra Cotta." "Where is Terra Cotta?" asked the eldor of the two, turning to her companion. "I haven't the least idea," replied the other. "Ah, well," observed the first speaker aa they passed on. "it docs not much matter. The poor man who was executed is not the less to be pitied, wherever it uay be."--London "Mail. The Bird of Death. New Guinea is the abode of the most wonderful feathered creature known to the student of ornitholo gy the awful rpir n'doob, or "bird of death." The venom of this bird is more deadly than thatof any ser pent except the cobra. In fact, n antidote for the bite of the creature is known. A wound from its beak causes excruciating pains in every part of the body, loss of sight, speech and hearing, convulsion, lockjaw and certain death Just Some Badinage. Mr. Jigley The other day I saw quite an intercph'ng educated pig Miss Pert .Oh, of course 1 I suppose Mr. Jigley Don't say It I You were going to say you suppose T looked in the glass, weren't von ? Miss Pert Not at all ) :onsider you inter wted. Catholic e . rd rim. . . Going Too Far. "Yes," sighed the suburban maVmost clear, I am sure, but tell me, who had just moved in, "at the last then, what ia electricity anvway?" piace i au me premeai uiue gax- Another source of confusion to wou m pity mm ior rus nervousness. climate that then- are cnouch of As he was a lioman emperor, we them to keep us twenty years, and tliIlxk,.?,um al sJn,3t?r nIlaln;!l don't expect to live "longer than who killed men for the pleasure of .that" ..i.. Onc f those diamonds forms the We often hear talk of that tem-!centerpprc nf onc of thc raost val. ble taedmm vitae from which Ro-uabie ncc.kars in New York. A' man nomes suuereo. we snouid few oiors are nt to thi can it nerves now, and our doctors 1 .rnrv , i the country would prescribe a strict diet and a Fhoe at the opera t,,ere is never a den that ever neighbor's chickens scratched the roots up." "And did you kick?" asked his new acquaintance. "You bet! 1 got a big tomcat that soon made mincemeat of his chickens." "What then?" course of golf or gardening for it. But the Itoman noble did not know bloomed until my the lay mind is that scientific men oow treafc li- IIe mae a eost "elec- thing. do not always use the word tricity" to mean the same Ihe engineer often employs it to express the thing that the "theoret ical electrician calls "electric ener- To find the energy of electricity that is, its ability to do work it t-Tt. t 1 wny, tne next i new ne na i the electrician multiplies the quan bought a ferocious bulldog to watcli üty 0f electricity by the potential or tension under which it exists. for mv torn. "IPm! And did that end the trouble?" 'Oh, no ! I borrowed a wolf from an animal trainer to kill the bull dog." RWar to the knife, eh? What was 'the next chapter in the bitter feud?" "There wa3 none. I heard that he was about' to purchase a tiger to kill my wolf, and as I couldn't af ford the price of an elephant to kill his tiger I thought it best to move." and drank deep and fast and crown ed himself with flowers and the next morning must have felt it worse than ever. But since he was a Honan noble he is a romantic fig ure to us and not a mere sufferer from our modern disease of over strain. London Times. R8;.:. sir! S.s He Yea. I know It! I seen to gj at everything backward. Pbtla dii!i-!:a Press. nipht when there arc not some of the jewels of the exiled princess on view. New York Tribune. A SQUARE DEAL. Buttermilk a L!fe Saver. A French medical man advises feople to drink buttermilk for long ifc. He say3 that the lactic acid dissolves every sort of earthy depos it in the blood But to thc engineer this product itself measures the thing that ho calls "electricity." The work that a pound of water may do bv falling a foot is one foot pound. The water is the same after A II Advertisers Are Treated falling as before, though its energy j Alike. is less. So to the electrician a Thp COURIER has but one rate quanmy oi eiecmcuy niw voiu to a advertisers and treats all is precisely the same as at one volt, advertisers in the same manner though the former able to do a and squarely. It frequently hujiedJ.tnes as 111X1011 ?rk- comes to us that we lose business This difference in meaning causes because the other papers make thousands of disputes among stu- concessions with respect to their dents. "Electricity is a form of rat. Wo nrw vnn nnr in hn energy," says one, "just like light mskd by newspapers which are - , , " , 'f'J' yranung you concession in ii is not energy at an, tnougn u that kind of a newsnanpr von may possess or convey energy." Une never know when you have nut mi Lint, is tnllnncr ntxiiit the plor- .oU,. 1 iUr. v , . ' 1 O IVUV lU LllVJ UUktUill. XUU lllil " vr 7 jtncuy oi uie pnysicai ana me omer. think vou are favored, but bo ? St. Louis BcDublic A Seller. your back hair or, worse of all, Tho telephone breaks off the thread of his theme and he fail to resume it'Nevr York Preaa. kind of a posit 01 cnaiKy mniier arouna uw Vhnt wonder thnt somr ixninle O.oo i nnnAnA . , . it i - - i 1 u .1 iibxouauci ia unit wiiuuv.icu joints or of poisonous waste m the are gtill content to regard the whole rightly when the rate is the - i ef Jfc4V- W V f V J WUJ 14 J IIA V A tilV, same conditions. vVhen a news paper offers you a cheap rate, you can easily bank on it that it is a cheap newspaper and is con scious of its own weakness and probably has a smaller circula tion than it is generally credited with. : The Courier wants all the ad vertising that its circulation de serves and expects to charge a fair price for the same. At present the Courier krowsthat it has much the largest circula tion in Dubois County and knows that commensurate with that circulation its rate is the lowest. If you want the most for your money, advertisein the Courier ! mm,, -i. - ., n I An advertisement hnrdenincr of the blood vessels which bring on old age. Butter milk is likely to postpone it ten or twenty years if freely drunk. A quart a day should be the mini mum, the maximum according to taate and opportunity. The Disturbing Telephone. "The telephone has destroyed all the privacy of society," said tho so ciety girl. "It breaks in on eTery thing. Nothing is sacred to it You may' be saying your prayera. The telephone. Or in the midst of your bath. Thc telephone. Or doing up "Waat ".IVb a dog Is that, tnj Mttr, Caa't mi tf does not sei goods, but it helps the seller to sell theai. Tirre, Not Space. Mr.. Frink was u truiting so d and r.:rfv questioned the oninions of other about matters concerning which tbM- were supposed to be in formed. Due ilav ehe came home with a r. v p:r of hoes under her arm. "Gnl tKm at Bribe's she explained, "a:-d täcy're the best I ever bought you." "What is so very good about them?" inquired her son, for whom the shoes were intended. "Why, the salesman eaid that you could walk farther in them than in any others without getting tired, and I said that you couldn't walk very far just now on account of your Knee, you know, and he said that he meant farther for the same distance. So I bought them, and here they are. Save the string, please." She did not notice the smile on her son's face as he undid the pack age, and he was spared the trouble of explaining. Youth's Compan ion. Willie! Wil'e His One Chance. Mo'.'tr- (eomin? swiftly) Why, Mnkiuff rv-r little aster I (doggedly) Aunt Frost- 'are nude inc. Aunt Frosifncc Why, Willie, I jaid if vou did trike her I vroald never kiss vou aain. Willie (still d.ed) Well, 1 'ouldn't let n c! ancc like that slip. ITa Weant Well. Harold-Will you take lay sett, UdJ -Ally Slopr, ..-j