Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — Page 8

THREE DIE IN RACING AUTOS

Xwb Cars Filled With Young Men Crash Into Side of FastMoving Train. I Bourbon, Ind. May 25. —Two racing Automobiles filled with young men (crashed into the side of a Pennsylvania train going- 50 miles an hour here, killing three persons instantly and injuring others. The automobiles were being raced Uown Main street at a terrific rate of ■Speed, and when they crashed into the train they were reduced ulnlost to splinters. Neal Bowman, nineteen; Glen Rose, nineteen, and Walter Shakes, twenty-two, were killed. All the young men were from well-known families.

FRENCH LINER SUNK; 45 DIE

Steamship Sontay Torpedoed While on Way to Marseilles From v ' Saloniki. Paris, May 25.—The French destroyer Boutefeu was mined and sunk in a naval engagement between Austrian and French, British and Italian naval craft. There were 42 survivors of the Boutefeu rescued. It is officially announced that the French liner Sontay, bound for Marseilles from Saloniki with 344 passengers, was torpedoed on April 14 with a loss of 45 lives. Captain Mages went down with the ship. The Sontay was a vessel of 7,247 tons.

Gratitude.

A bereaved widow thus thanks' ar insurance company for the prompt pay inent of her claim: “April 29th mj husband took out an accident policy and in less than a month he was ac cidentally drowned. I consider it t good investment.”

Caustic.

“I tell you,, hearing those star open singers on the phonograph is almosi as good as hearing them on the stage.’ “Far better. You can shut them of whenever you like on the phonograph.’

Words of Wisdom.

"A man should inure himself to vol untary labor and should not give uj to indulgence and pleasure, as they be get no good constitution of body noi knowledge of the mind.” —Socrates.

Financial Outlook.

Simpkins —“You are looking rathei delicate, old man.” Timkins —“Yes and I’m feeling rather delicate finan cially. It wouldn’t take much of 8 touch to break me.”

More Recruits.

“My stomach’s gone back on me. 1 can’t go to banquets any more.” “Cheei up, old chap. You’re only sixty-five You can still have a lot of fun danc ing.”

Test of Civilization.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size “cf cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. —Emerson.

What Is Genius?

L —Genius is a handsome name frequently given to hard-working men after they have finished a tough job.— The American Magazine.

Wind Carries Bacteria.

Tests made by Irish scientists have .shown that the wind will carry disease bacteria 200 feet and as high as 60 feet into the air.

Machine Sews Filled Bag.

A machine has Deen invented by a German that sews the open end or side of a filled bag and knots the thread automatically.

Good Nurse.

When »t comes to coddling imaginary wrongs. tl:e average man is a faithful nurse.- —Cincinnati Times-Star.

Though That May Help.

“Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart to joy.”—Euripides,

Handicapped.

“Ernest, were you looking through the keyhole last night at your sister iand me?” “Honest, I wasn’t. Mother was in the way.”

Not the Only One.

This buying plan of $5 down and $5 when they catch you keeps the housekeeper on the jump—Philadelphia Inquirer.

Sage Advice.

Save the todays and the tomorrows will take care of themselves. —Boston Transcript.

Glory in Success.

The more powerful an obstacle the more glory we have 'in overcoming it. —Mollere.

Don’t forget The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply Apartment when in need of correspondence cards, stationery, typewriter ribbons and papers, the better grade of lead pencils, ink erasQFS, BvC. j S • •.•11 ■ ■ * .•

Indiana News Tersely Told

Charles Sullenger, age slxty-nine, committed suicide ,by swallowing parts green at Oaktown. Lawrericeburg Presbyterian church is to receive SSOO as directed in the will of 1 Mrs. Mary Gross. Severe damage" was done in central Indiana bya storm of cyclonic proportion. Public service commission Is holding public hearing at Indianapolis in the coal-investigation Case. . Municipal produce business at Richmond is flourishing, carload lots being sold as fast as deliveries can be made at 25 per cent market prices. So many teachers of the state are enlisting that the teaching force of state next fall will consist almost wholly of women. Julietta post office has been suspended. Governor Goodrich has been advised that two coal mines in the state can be purchased for S2OO and produce 800 tons of coal a day. Huntington authorities are looking for the person- that tore down flag in the courthouse. Ferdinand Passenan is suing Ernest Rroessannade at Bicknell for $2,000 for alienating the affections of his wife. Presbyterian church, at Lawrenceburg gets SSOO from the will of Mrs. Mary Gross. Charles Sullenger. slxty-nine, of Oaktown, suicided by taking parts green. Daniel Bridgewater of Brazil has pleaded guilty to running a blind tiger. Harvey Hendrickson, twenty-four, of Bloomington, fell asleep and passed his station, and when aroused jumped from the train and was severely injured. Clem T. Kain, county auditor at Bluffton, has appointed P. S. Newhouse trustee of Union township. Caught under an overturned auto. C. Williamson and family of seven of Greencastle escaped serious injury. A Community club formed at Sharpsville. The 700 employees of the Standard Glass company at- Marian have raised a large flag over the plant. Boone Reid of Richmond sold 1,200 bushels of torn for $1.60 a bushel. Bloomington will be redistricted and two more districts added. F. B. Barnes, city recreation director of South Bend, has resigned to accept a similar position among the soldiers at Fort Riley, Kan. Home and contents and all outbuildings on farm of Harry Stage at Tipton burned. $5,000 loss. Hebron Heat, Light and Power company at Valparaiso declared defunct and its property sold to satisfy mechanics’ liens.

Attempt was made to assassinate Postmaster Charles Hatch of Fort Branch. Mayor John G. Harris of Bloomington has, been indicted for alleged illegal acts, Indiana State League of Postmasters will meet in annual convention at Muncie June 5-7. Richmond high-school students have raised a fund to care, for a French war orphan for two years. Mayor Bosse of Evansville has put fireworks on the Fourth of July under the ban. Sweetser Methodist church held a flag-raising. Cut-rate drug store war at Kokomo has ended with ati agreement that but three stores will remain open on Sunday. Bartholomew county has ended its Red Cross campaign with the addition of rearly 4,000 new members. The Advertisers’ club of Indianapolis has just pulled off a “Fun Festival'’ of two days in preparation to the annual- advertising convention at St. Louis. Bartholomew county is out after the mobilization camp to be established either in Indiana, Kentucky or Ohio. Eight tin boxes Of coin saved by the children stolen from the Evansville Bethel Evangelical church. A relay race between Y. M. C. A.’a of Vincennes and Evansville will take 1 place Memorial day. Harry Goodin, Carpenter, arrested at Brazil charged with thefts of plants from the Red Cross. ~

Charles Pavy, twenty-two, took poison at Madison after rejection by the army. Worden ' day at Huntington. the children’s special treat day, has been called off on account of the war. Richard MCller of Indianapolis appointed Elwood playground supervisor. <C. N. Vance elected superintendent of Sullivan schools with E. C. Snarr as principal of high school. Construction of Greencastle highschool building will be delayed owing to high cost of materials. Madison county commissioners have decided to postpone all extensive repairs. Mrs. Frank Ury of Marion is proud of the fact that three of her boys are in the army and a fourth has applied for enlistment. Strike of molders at Western Gas Construction company at Fort Wayne settled. At Terre Haute 40 freight handlers on strike for increased pay from 19 cents to 25 cents per hour. Plans for new city hall and fire department at Orleans accepted and blds asked, . Fire caused by tramp destroyed the SIO,OOO new barn on farm of W. A. McClure at Elwood.

DOUBLE DUTY

A Dairy Ration Has Two Main Uses— Life and Product. [National Crop Improvement Service,] A ration is divided into two parts: 1. r The part needed to maintain or t keep the animal alive. | 2. The part needed to make Stored up material lik? wool, fat, meat or milk. Milk is roughly in solids, one-third each casein (protein), fat and sugar, j The casein in milk can only be furnished by the protein in the food. The fat and sugar may be derived from either protein, fat or carbohydrates. . If a cow has the ability to give 50 ■ pounds of milk containing two pounds of casein, and only gets enough protein to make one pound of casein, then she will only give 25 pounds of | milk. • A balanced ration is one that has just the exact amount of protein, fat and carbohydrates that the cow needs. Just what this is we cannot ever say exactly, because the amounts : vary from week to w eek and no two cows are alike, nor are feeds alike. A practical ration is one that has sufficient protein and enough total i food to make the greatest amount of J milk w ithout the co.w losing weight. I A commercially successful ration is the'one that makes the most milk or profit, keeps the cow healthy and enables the use of the most roughage. | All the hay and ensilage .. cow can eat will keep her alive and make about 15 pounds of milk. Any more milk has to come from grain or grain [feed. i The farm can usually raise carbohydrates cheap in the form of hay and ! ensilage, and, outside of clover, peas, ‘ etc., protein can usually be bought cheaper than it can be raised. The average price of protein feeds with 20 per cent digestible protein was about $25 to $35 per ton before the war, but the prices are much i higher now, while hay (clover) with 5% per cent digestible protein has been rated at $lO per ton, so the protein feed at s4owould furnish protein about as clover at $lO.

DIFFERENT COWS, DIFFERENT FEEDS.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] No suggestions that we can offer nor any other formula that can be made can be followed to the letter as a druggist follows the prescription of a physician. Feeds vary in their nur tritive values, some being better than the average and some not as good, and cows vary in their ability to digest and transform nutriment. These conditions make it necessary for the feeder to use a good deal of judgment and not follow too blindly the suggestions of others. Any good stock feed is recommended as a base, to be supplemented by home-grown roughage.

CONCENTRATES FOR RATIONS

Taken From an Article by E. S. Savage, Professor of Animal Husbandry, New York College of Agriculture. (National Crop Improvement Service.] A good rule to follow in all rations is to have at least three plants represented in the ration. There are seven factors which should be considered: (1) Bulk, (2.) Digestibility, (3) Relation between the digestible protein and carbohydrates and fat, (4) Variety, (5) Suitability of the feeds to the animal and product, (6) Palatability, (7) Cost. As an example, choosing the cheapest feeds relatively, considering manurial values, suitability and all, we would recommend the following mixture of grains as suitable for dairy cows at present prices: 600 pounds distillers dried grains. 400 pounds gluten feed. 300 pounds wheat bran or brewers dried grains. 400 pounds hominy feed. 300 pounds cottonseed or oil' meal.

SALT FOR CATTLE.

(National Crop Improvement Service.] professor Henry says that a cow requires three-quarters of an ounce per day per 1000 lbs. of weight and six-tenths of an ounce per day per 20 lbs. milk. Therefore, a cow which weighs 1200 lbs. and gives 30 lbs. milk should have 1.8 ounce salt. It must be remembered, however, that salt is generally included in high-grade dairy feeds: It is well to give cows access to extra salt. They will take what their roughage demaiids.

THE PRICE OF FEED.

[National Crop Improvement Service.] Feed is handled on a smaller margin than coal, ton for ton. The retail feed dealer who buys in carload lots can sell as cheap as*the manufacturer can ih less-than-carload lots, the difference in freight rates being the dealer’s gross profit. In nearly every instance, a group of farmers can order their feed, through a dealer, in carloads and make a material saving. The difference in freight alone will show a good profit.

Take the chill off the drinking water in cold weather and cows will drink more and produce more. Don’t figure too fine on rations, Be liberal but don’t overfeed. You can kill all of your profit by feeding more than the cow can assimilate. (National Crop Improvement Service.] The human element in dairy feed is important. Two men may have the same equipment, pne make good money, the other fail,_while both are supposed to be feeding by the same system and the same tables. - Horse sense is good cow sense.

FLYING JOB OF YOUNG MEN

Not Everyone of Proper Age Is Physically Fitted for Work—Airmen Face Many Perils. From leakage of petrol spray the pilot may become dizzy, and the exhaust gases from the engine—carbon monoxide and dioxide—may cause headache, drowsiness and malaise, says a writer in the Lancet, discussing diseases familiar to airmen/ The rarefied air at great elevations may induce the symptoms well known In balloonists, and Wells refers to a case t of frostbite in an airman who had been exposed to 34 degrees of frost at an elevation of' 15,000 feet. Psychasthenic symptoms —namely, 10£S of selfconfidence and the resulting mental worry (aerosthenia)—-are not uncommon, and prove that the victim has mistaken his sphere of activity-. ' Flying is undoubtedly the job of a young man under thirty years of age, and not every-young man is temperamentally or physically fitted to carry it through. Perfect eyesight is necessary to insure safe landing, correction with glasses being not without its dangers; perfect hearing is essential to detect the first indications of engine defect, and free movement of the joints of the lower limbs to control the steering gear. Fits and tendency to faint absolutely deter the aspirant from the air service. In one remarkable instance at Haslar an airman who fainted, with the result that the airplane dived nose downward 1,200 feet into a plowed field, escaped with such minor Injuries that he was at first extremely loath to give up this branch of the service.

WASHINGTON’S WILL POWER

Kept His Pugnacity in Subjection, but Occasionally He Allowed Passion to Have Sway. It is related of John Adams that when Stuart exhibited his portrait of General Washington, Mr. Adams went to see it. After gazing at it for several minutes he exclaimed, “That’s the portrait of a man who knew how to hold his tongue, which this old fool never did I” The portrait does indicate that the original could be reticent, but it also shows that he could control himself. The square, massive jaw, the full, broad-based nose, and the compressed lips express pugnacity and passion, such as require a strong will to keep them in subjection. Sometimes even Washington allowed his passion to have sway. When Glover’s Marblehead fishermen and Morgan’s Virginia riflemen were engaged in a rough and tumble fight, Washington leaped from his horse over the bars of the camp fence, dashed among the rioters, seized two brawny riflemen by the throat and, shaking them at arms’ length, subdued not only them, but the whole band. It was the victory due to commanding strength, presence and manner. The men saw that they must obey, and they obeyed. z

Appreciation of Authors.

That Americans are not without appreciation of their great authors—after the great authors are dead —was demonstrated at a sale in New York city, ■where a collectiomof 33 holograph letters of Nathaniel IBiwthorne, with engraved portraits, brought $2,000 from W. H. James. In the collection were letters to Hawthorne and his family from Emerson, Whittier, Bret Harte, Browning, Eugene Field and Irving. Two thousand dollars is a good, round price to pay for a few old letters, even if they were written by or to an author.of the repute of Hawthorne. It is easy to imagine what Hawthorne would have thought on the subject if he could have foreseen this transaction when he was writing juvenile classics like the “Tanglewood Tales” and “Grandfather’s Chair” for S. G. Goodrich, and receiving in remuneration sometimes no more than SSO a volume.

Irish English.

Many persons seem to to hear, rather, something to at in the soft Irish brogue. As a matter of fact, most of the words of the Irish “dialect” are not Irish at all, but the purest of English—English a trifle antiquated, it is true, but nevertheless the real thing. The ears of Milton, Dryden, Spencer and Chaucer would not have been surprised to an Irishman speak of “a rough say” or “a clane shirt.” At the court of good Queen Bess the cultured Englishman, carefully garnished his cbnversatidm with “goolde” rings and brave “swoordes” and bored his friends with accounts of the smart sayings of the “childre” at “boom.” This was the English originally imported into Ireland by the cultured Irish, and the Irish have found it good enough to preserve. —Chicago. Tribune.

Bacon as Bait.

“We find baiting our mouse trap with bacon is a great advantage over using cheese,” advises a woman known as a good housekeeper. “Not only does the cheese become dry in a few days, but after a mouse has once been caught with a piece of ' it you can seldom use it a second time, for it seems to retain the mouse scent and scares the rest of them away. “Bacon, on the other hand, remains savory and enticing to the end. Never has our mouse trap been so popular Since we first baited ours with bacon, about two months ago, we have not changed it once, and I am sure in that time more than twenty mice have been caught in the trap."

His Medicine

I When Jenks got his new set of encyclopedias he was missed from the corner drug store for three nights, but on the fourth night he showed up, bought his accustomed cigar and took his usual seat on one of the roun<4 stools at the end of the soda fountain. It was noted that he was unusually silent and solemn and did not join at first In the discussion of the ordinary topics that were broached by the other members of the “club” touching upon current events, but when the subject of the war came up and some mention was made of the asphyxiating gas and the curtains of fire, Jenks brightened up aqd threw in the remark, rather casually: - “There’s nothing new about the use of liquid fire in the war. Greek fire was in use by the Greeks of Constanttnople throughout the middle ages. The Assyrian bas-reliefs also show that it was used long before the Christian era. It was said to be composed of quick sulphur, dregs of wine, Persian gum, baked salt, pitch, petroleum and other known combustibles —” The “bunch” eyed Jenks curiously, but refrained from comment. He had evidently opened up a jackpot and found them with nothing to draw to. Somebody switched the talk to brands of cigars and then to pipe smoking. “Give me a good old briar pipe,” said Jones. “But you can’t get them any more,” put in Jenks. “There isn’t one genuine briar root pipe in ten thousand nowadays. The pipe generally known as the briar root pipe is really made from the roots of the tree heath —the Erica arborea is the technical name for it. It is obtained on the hills of the Maremma and they ship it to Leghorn to be manufactured, and I want to tell you boys that it is some process even to prepare those roots for the pipe cutters. They soak them in a vat for twelve hours —that’s what gives them that yellowish brown color that we all appreciate so much in a good briar pipe.” “Sounds like a pipe to me,” muttered the doctor who officed upstairs, but the rest of the crowd lapsed into silence for a few moments and then began to talk about the new city charter. Jenks continued every night t<yspring new morsels of abstruse information on them, until finally, one night, after he had gone home, they met in executive session and took up Jenks’ case. “Where in the world is that guy digging up that high-browed stuff anyway?” growled Smith“Don’t you know?” said the drug clerk, “he’s just got a set of encyclopedias, some down and the balance later on, and he dopes up on it every night.” “Oh, that’s it, is it?” said the doctor. “Well, that reminds me. I’ve got an old book upstairs that I was looking over the other night. It is called ‘Facts, Fables and Fancies,’ a compilation of things not usually to be found in the encyclopedias. Let’s give Jenks a dose of his own medicine.” So, for a couple of nights longer they continued to listen to Jenks’ learned discourses, while they passed the book around and loaded for him. Then one night, when they had got to talking politics and somebody said something about Tammany Hall, the doctor, fixing his eye carelessly upon Jenks, interjected the remark: “The Tammany tiger never changes its spots. It is up to the same tricks now that it was in the days of the Locofocos.”

“Yes,” said Jones, the Locofocos were the first fellows that let in the light on that Tammany bunch. But New York was always a bear pit for . politics. You remember the- Goodies in DeWitt Clinton’s time—they came near splitting up the old Federalist party.” “Goodies? Locofocos? Where do you get that kind of talk?” asked Jenks, a little uneasy, apparently, after the words had been bandied back and forth. “What? Never heard of the Goodies? Or the Locofocos? Surprised at you, Jenks —a man of your reading. The Goodies was the name of a political sect that originated in New York about the year 1814. They got their name from a series of well-writ-ten articles attacking DeWitt Clinton and also the pacifists of the Federalist party, signed ‘Abimelech Coody’—-the articles were really written by Gulian C. Verplanck. DeWitt Clinton called the Goodies, a ‘hybrid sect, composed ot the spawn of Federalism and Jacobinism neither fish nor flesh, nor bird nor beast, mighty bitter language for those days.’ “And the Locofocos,” spoke up the doctbr—“But you surely know who the. Locofocos were? No? Well, the Locofocos were a political party that originated in 1835, at a stormy meeting in, Tammany Hall. They were the original ‘Eternal Rights’ party. During the uproar at the meeting the Tammany men turned out the lights cm them, but the' equal rights fellows had all provided themselves in advance with the new locofoco matches and candles, and so they just lit up and lit into the

Tammanyites, and that’s how they got their name. Rather curious, isn’t it?* Jenks looked Worried. Then, they rubbed it in. They talked about the "Blue light Federalists,” and the “Bucktails,” and the “Barnburners* and the “Amalgamationists,” and the “Featherheads” and other forgotten bits of American political lore that they felt certain the Britannica man had overlooked. Jenks went home early and spent several hours on a still hunt through the voluminous pages of his new purchase and the next morning, bright and early, he dropped in on his bookseller. “Say, I thought you told me that I could find anything I wanted in those books you sold me. I’ll give you a ten-dollar note if you’ll find a word in there about Coodies, or LocofoCos, or Bucktails, or Featherheads,” he said, with a disgusted look. “But my dear fellow,” said the bookman, “perhaps there ain’t no such animals.” —Kansas City Star.

Why We Are Ticklish.

Our strange ticklishness, curiously confined to special parts of the body, receives attention in a new book by Dr. George W. Crile and is pronounced a protective reaction which had its origin in the experiences of our progenitors while themselves still in the stage of fighting with teeth and claws. Qne type of tickle reflex is excited by a light running movement. This gives the sensation of a cnawling insect, with an irresistible impulse to rub the spot, affected and is believed to have developed when insects were a great peril —■ perhaps at the time of man’s gradual loss of hair. The second kind of tickle reflex is elicited by a certain heavy pressure about the ribs, the loins, the base of the neck and the soles of that feet. The pressure is like the penetrating contact of a toothlike body and the reaction is an explosion of energy - as laughter, with cries for mercy and vigorous resistance. The ticklish areas are points which formerly must have been especially exposed to attack by toothed and clawed beasts.

Paprika Chicken.

Clean and prepare fat chicken as for roasting; make a good stuffing of bread crumbs, chopped onion, herbs to season to taste, binding together with the yolks of two or three eggs. Stfiff the fowl with it; tie on the breast slices of salt pork and lemon, then wrap and tie the whole in stout waxed paper. Place in a casserole (or any tight-covered baking dish), add enough chicken or veal stock to cover it, and one clove, a whole onion and some chopped parsley. Put the lid on and cook in a hot oven an hour. Strain the sauce then, add one cupful of hot cream, the yolk of an egg, one tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoonful of minced parsley and sufficient paprika to give not only a delicate flavor, but to tinge it pink. When the chicken is quite done (cooking it with this sauce as much longer as necessary to make it tender) serve it with the sauce poured over it and bordered with hot boiled rice.

Delmonico Potatoes.

Reheat two cupfuls cold boiled potatoes, cut in dice, in one and one-* fourth cupfuls white sauce. * Put In, buttered baking dish, cover with buttered crumbs, add to potatoes one-half cupful grated mild cheese, arranging potatoes and cheese in alternate layers before covering with crumbs. White Sauce. —Two tablespoonfuls butter, one cupful milk, two tablespoonfuls flour, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, few grains pepper. Put butter in a saucepan, stir until melted and bubbling, and flour mixed with seasoning and stir until thoroughly blended. Pour on gradually milk, adding about one-third at a time, stirring until well mixed, then beating until smooth and glossy.

Game Increasing.

The gratifying announcenfent is made by wild game conservation societies in different parts of the United States that game is no longer decreasing. With the rapid clearing of forests and with too lax laws for the protection of birds and animals the country apparently faced, until a few years ago, the extermination of wild life. Reforestation and the setting apart of large forest reserves have helped in the work of conservation. The result will be more noticeable from year to year. In many sections of the country, too, laws have been passed supplementing the federal migratory bird pi-ovi-sitm, which insure valuable and timely protection.—Christian Science Monitor.

No Danger of Oyster Famine.

It is not likely that there will be ft famine in oysters. It has been shown, that the greater number of breeding oysters produce offspring from the first year, and that an oyster twelve er thirteen months old produces about 100,000 larvae. Some oysters twp years of age. contain 250,000, while older ones often contain 725,000 larvae.