Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 November 1910 — Page 7

NDIANA HAPPENINGS Ncwiy Notca of Interest from the Capital and All Around the State.

STATE MERCHANTS Plans for Entertaining the State Retail Association. COMMERCIAL CLUB'S PROGRAM D. Ward King of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture Has Accepted an Invitation to Address the Federated Clubs. Indianapolis. With Ralph D. Clark, rrt.?tl.nr of the Indiana Retail Merchant. ;iKitodatlon. merchants and ..tvr ti.ismi'SH men of Anderson were In c i t' n nce on details for tho annual meet n of the Indiana association, to be li'ti t'fro January 17 to 19. Mr i lark thought there would be an .I- i'tiatice of several hundred inorrhai.'x H'fau30 Mr. Clark has hocn j.r. si.l- :.r for three years, and also Is so.rH.irv of tho Indiana association's Cr in .rano. compnny, tho business n.tti will jul-i In making the meeting in t! 1 1 sl lent's homo city one of ha n.rH notable for Hcvcrul years. Mr t'mrk lb preparing tho program if gp a'rf'TS. V 1! Campbell, secretary of the Ind.ac.i F' .Crated Commercial Clubs, fas vi.t.1 that D. Ward King of the MIr. .;ri Mate board of agriculture, an I wi 'H known as a road specialist, ra. nriH-pt od an Invitation to addresB i.o ff.', rated clubs during tho annual mt'P'n.K of tho organization here, on n.n l.. r 1C and 17. GifTord Pinchot ha; r. itifloil Mr. Campbell that confiic'üif! engagements will prevent him from attending the meeting unless ho a-i rearrange his dates. Former V: J't-M.Ient Fairbanks, who has acnn l-.vltntlon, will speak on In Indiana." It. G. McClure i :i:iimiis will speak on the F' 'f ir-i- of mrnmorclal clubs in In::.it. i not In r speaker Is J. J. BerryM ; ' f Ins Moines, la., one of the lead- '.' s ii's In tho commission form of v. n:.l' l al government. It t- und r.-tood that the federation i'x annual meeting, give conf Htiitlon to tho commission ' Bov. riiment and will discuss Hon of lending Its support to : i fore the next session of the ült. r i :a:i t!.. ., a Iii' Rf at uro for the commission plan r c M. and towns. Committee Lists Named. I 1 probable no Important changes In th- Mnto laws regarding dependent rhi. inn will bo recommended by the board of state charities to the genrai nwmbly. Sonio changes, however oro discussed at tho meeting of Niard In tho statehouse. A re- ' . : tho work of the board for tho i i.tr'pr t tiding Septomber 30 was con- :.! at tho meeting. rv . rnnr Marshall has appointed tht- flowing standing committees of - ' ..rl for the IIbciI year ending s i -r 30, ion; r' and Reformatory Institutions ' r. hit C. Brown, John II. Holli- ' W. II. Eichhorn. ;i ' in for tho Insane Rev. Fran"'1! :nik. Mary A. Spink, M. D., aMl H EW-hhoro. "I'lons for Defectives, Soldiers' "i :nd Soldiers' and Sailors' OrT ' v. iU.nn -John II. Holllday, Rev. Frr,,,,;. h lJftVlsk nn(J Enfma Loo r i 'i rU!lrv Institutions W. II. Elchrnf'' Ktnmn Leo Elnm and Dcmar11 ' Brown. S'i'iMtm nnd Publications Rev. H Ottvlak and Mary A. Spink. x"'"inR-nomarchUB C. Brown and K " I -e Elam. -Ü iron--John H. Holllday and a Spink. M. D. p"Pj's In High Schools. Tf Ugh school enrollment In nil rr" k'i schools of tho stato has In-v-1,v 0,254 slnce the opening of ' 1 Bchool year, according to -ompitod by Robert j. Alcy, .,' " 'iriutendont of public lnstrut- ' " In his forthcoming ant ort nr m i . . um prenier gain, "" wa shown In 1908-1909 over r , .... Ai. II U"K school year. Al"y coslders the gain a re- ... nno nncl believes It will con- " 'vra years. "It Indicates," Thi,!?; ,,rovh,,nB for vaitnp. f ,chll,lren are taking adXT " tllP IvMonB made." . , "nrolI'nont ln the R-0lcs In tho fchools showed a top.r,, 'V'T' f f,'S13 ,,,,rlnK "'o mo IK from 1907-1908 to 190S-1909 ",.,r,r.1Wn" 1'C90 wh,, t,mt Mf0f ,0 1009.1910 was 4.153. m,( '. 8nI1 -Mr- Aloy. "does not ;-n .1,1 th,h,ren ' 8pI,o1' (Jr t ton have shown for several "wu nre fewer and fewer "'tarn J' Rtntp Th,s- ,n ny no" accost,, for the decrease."

N ANNUAL MEETING

Gives New Light on White Plague. According to statistics for tho past year Just completed by Dr. J. I'. Si monds of the pathological laboratory of tho state board of health, persons between tho ages of twenty-one and thirty are most susceptible to attar-ks of tuberculosin. Of tho 1,022 cases which came under the notice of the state board of health laBt year 401 persons between the ages given above were victims. Two hundred and two cases wore found among men nnd women between thirty-one and forty. Tho third critical period Is between forty-one and fifty years, and the fourth between the ages of sixteen and twenty years. Tho report shows also that tuberculosis Is mora common during the spring months. Tuberculosis Is more common among women than men. Fifty-four percent, of tho caseB exam'ned during tho last year were those of women nnd 4C per cent, were those of men. Based upon tho reports of 1,022 cases of tuberculosis, following tho examination of the sputum ln the pathological laboratory, 01 per cent, wore on men and women between the ages of twenty-one and forty, the productive period of life. Fourteen per cent, developed under the nge of twenty. Thirty-four per cent, of tho cases of tuberculosis during the last year developed from exposure to members of the patient's family or to tho patient's associates, who were affected. In 47 per cent, of the canes there was no known cause of infection and Doctor Slmonds explains that theee were patients who Inhaled tubercle bacilli in the dust of tho street, of lnterurban and street cars and of buildings, where careless consumptives have deposited their germ-laden sputum. Doctor Slmonds has prepnred a chart showing the relative chances of tho various members of the tuberculosis patient's family contracting the disease. The daughter's chances of contracting the dlseaso from the mother are twlco that of tho son. The sister's chances of contracting the disease from another nre a third greater than the chances of the brother.

Ruling on School Licenses. Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction, has made a ruling concernlg tho issuance of sixty-month licences for school teachers, which is expected to simplify the license question considerably. Under a former ruling an applicant for a sixty-month licenso was required to take two examinations, the first In tho common school branches and tho second In designated high school branches. Unless he successfully passed both examinations, no license was issued on either examination, no matter how good a grade was made on the examination in the common school branches. Under the new rule, the applicant will bo compelled to have a thirty-six-month common school license before ho may take tho examination In the high school subjects to entitle him to a sixty-month license, and any person holding such license may be examined for a sixty-month licenso at any time during tho licenso year in which the thlrty-six-raonth licenso was granted. In ail applications for sixty-month licenses, tho examinations In the common school and high school subjects must be taken ln the same examination year. Relief for Mad Dog Victims. Dr. J. N. Hurt;-, secretary of tho stato board of health, will attempt to have tho next session of tho general assembly reconsider a bill that failed to pass In the session of 1909, and that would provide relief by tho state for persons bitten by mad dogs. It is tho general plan of tho proposed law to Impose a special stato tax on all dogs ln the state, to be paid Into tho stato treasury, to constltuto a special fund which may be drawn on to establish and maintain a laboratory and Institute where persons bitten by rabid animals may be treated, without cost to themselves. The report of the pathological laboratory of tho Btato hoard, Just mado public, shows that 165 persons were bitten by mad dogs during the fiscal year ending September 30. Only one of these persons died from tho disease. The others were treated In Pasteur Institutes, cither at their own xpenso or at tho expense of tho townships, tho trustees advancing the money ln extreme cases, although there is no specific law by which tho township money may be used for that purpose. Tho laboratory report shows that the brains of 213 animals examined durln thi : ear contained rablea germs. Get Funds for Maintenance. All Btato Institutions, with the exception of the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane, have drawn from tho ttnte treasury the funds advanced by tho state board of flnanc for maintenance. The Central Hospital for tho Insane, the Indiana reformatory and the School for the Feeble Minded received $2,000 each. The Northern nnd Southern Hospltnls for tho Insane, tho Indiana prison and the Southeastern Hospital for the Insane each received 51,000; the Woman's prison. $100, nnd tho Indiana School for tho Deaf. $500.

W SEEK WE POWERIFDEFEATEO

Railroad Commission Sees Supreme Test in Big Four Case. RECOMMENDATIONS IGNORED The Step Han Been Taken After a Careful Survey of the Situation, and Results May Be Laid Before General Assembly. Indianapolis Tho railroad commission of Indiana, which has taken steps to obtain nn order of court compelling H. F. Houghton, general superintendent of tho Hlg Four Railroad company, to supply the commission with data concorning nge, service record, etc., of telegraph operators employed b tho company ln tho state, will try to obtain a final ruling on the question before the general assembly convenes ln January. The step has been taken after a careful survey of the situation, and the result will probably be laid before the general assembly in order that that body may have official knowledge of the railroad company's action in combating tho will of the general assembly of 1907, which provided, by express order, that tho commission should investigate two fatal wrecks on the company's lines and make recommendations. As a result of the Investigation the commission recommended that the railroads of the state, particularly mentioning the Big Four, do not employ telegraph operators under twentyono years old. At the statehouse tho determination to take the matter into the sourts 13 looked on as a supremo test of the powers of the commission. If the commission loses In the courts It is probable that it will lay the ma.or before the general assembly, with its report on the lnterurban situation ln the state as proof that the commission needs moro authority in order to be effective as a protector of life and property placed In the care of steam and electric road companies. Mr. Houghton. . acting on the advice of counsel for the Big Four, declined to give tho commission the data asked for, on the ground that the commission had no right to ask for It. The commission contends that it has the right under the general powers conferred on it by tho general assembly to prevent practises by railroads that might prove disastrous to life or property. Basing its conclusions on wreck Investigations and the opinions of experts, the commission held that a boy of seventeen or eighteen years is not competent, mentally, carefully to handle train orders, and it asked the Big Four for information, the request being refused. Tho commission found, in Its Investigations of the Sandford and Fowler wrecks, that the disasters were largely due to inefficient telegraph operators. The recommendations at that time concerning tho employment of operators were not heeded by the Big Four, although this was not known until the commission investigated a Big Four wreck at Sand ford in April of this : oar. -.STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. w South Bend. School superintendents from nearly all of the largor cities of northern Indiana aro here attending the annual 'meeting of the Northern Indiana Superintendents' club. Among the questions to be discussed Is the exemption of teachers from examination. Acordlng to a recent construction placed upon the state school law regarding exemption of teachers, a large per cent, of tho licenses Issued to tenchers believed to be exempt arc invalid. South Bend Cities and towns In northern Indlann aro facing a coal famine, according to reports given out to the retail trnde In South Bend and Elkhart by Jobbers. The recent drop In the temperature brought on a brisk demand for fuel nud the bins of practically all the coal dealers In this part of the state wero soon depicted. Anthracite coal Is selling from $7.75 per ton for cash to $S.25 on credit. Soft coal averages $4.50 per ton. Fort Wayne. A sanity commission has been called to meet to decide tho case of B. T. Corkwell, tho motorman held responsible for the the KIngsInnd trolley wreck. Physicians say ho la insnno as a result of the wreck. Tho sheriff was here to serve a warrant on a manslaughter Indictment nnd found Corkwell Ftrappod .o a bed. Fort Wnyne. Workmen employed by the Fort Wayno & Wabash Valley Traction company began cutting down tho trees which obscure tho curve near KIngsInnd.. whero 40 people were killed about a month ago. Negotiations for fho purpose of removing tho timber on tho lund wore concluded.

J

ohn Henry's

Wedding

By GEORGE Clara J. had said "yes," and the next evening I waded Into tho Vanvlvver mansion to draff Papa's and Mamma's consent away from them. So long as I played light comedy roles I knew I was a hot favorite with the old folks at homo, but when it came to doing a leading part and walking ofT with tho daughter, I began to get uneasy for fear they'd reach for the egg basket and hand me a few unripe scrambles. When I squeezed through tho portiere I found the old lady and gentleman very busy discussing their plans for a summer trip. "Where are you going to spend tho summer, John?" Inquired Father, giving me a linip paw, which I shook hurriedly and then handed back to him. Here was an opening a grand chance to butt In right at the go off. "Well, to tell you tho solemn, we haven't decided yet," I answered. "WE!" they both echoed. "Why, John, I thought you wore playing a lone hand?" said tho old gentleman. "I've always known you as a young man who could walk up and down Easy street without a guardian or a time-card. This Is the first time I over heard you Bpeak of a pull-back! Whence the WE?" "I always thought you were free to go and corao as you pleased, John," tho old lady put In. Here was my chance to climb tho family tree and knock down the fruit, but for some reason or other the blood seemed to rush to my voice, and I went backwards like a crab. Papa had fixed mo with his steelblue eyes, nnd I could see by mother's expression that she was beginning to eet me back as one of those doublelife leaders. My collar began to faint nnd my hands grew nervous and wanted tu fight each other. "The fact is, ladles and gentlemen er I mean Mr. Vanvlvver, and you, too. Mother er that Is " Then I grabbed a cat-fish grin and sat there till I us"d It all up. I was over tho edge. Say, this marriage business is Immenso after the whistle blows, but the preliminaries make me sick. "You seem to be a little to the bad this evening, John," said Father, and Mamma began to shuk her head, as though she had a mental tintype of me far out on the road to ruin, and walking fast I went at them ngaln. "As a matter of fact, I merely dropped around this evening to Inquire if you could that Is to say, If It Is possible for you to give me to give me your your er " Overboard again and not a life preserver ln sight. It was pitiful. "Most extraordinary attack of hesitation I ever knew you to have," said 'What I Want to 1 Father, while Mamma Blmply sat thoro 1 nnd focussed mo with her sad, reproachful lanternB. ' "Perhaps you need something to ' brace you up," suggested the old gentleman. I I needed a sanitarium and a corps ' of efficient physicians, but I didn't say so. At thnt moment I was doing a chump net never before equalled in tho history of the world. My eyes looked like a couple of vacant lotB and I had reversed grins, and was now using tho style most affected by a stuffed leopard. "Tho boy may be suffering from Incipient brain fever, or Is he in love?" whUpered the old lady. "Huh!" exclaimed Papa; "In love, eh? That's It. When's tho wcddlng7 who's the girl? Sorry to lose you, John, but the beat of friends must part ln the divorce court. Ha, ha!" That cackle went right through me and splashed on the wall behind mo. The old man was a fierce Joko pusher. "Come on now, John," he continued; "who Is she? Havo you told "larn? She'll be lonely, for you aro certainly tho best time killer she ever bad. Speak out; wo are your friend,

V. HOBART

even if you are going to pass us up." "It was good of you, John, to come to us with tho news first. Wasn't it, Absalom?" smiled the old lady. Father nodded his head vigorously, and there I sat with my mouth wide, open a regular Charlie Foollshface. 1 wanted to speak, but every word ln my body was back-pedalling. It was scandalous. If 1 had realized what it meant to go up against an unuspecting family council 1 certainly would have coaxed Clara J. to elope. Then I could have sent her beloved parents a postal card, breaking tho awful news thus: "May I have your daughter? Thanks. I have her now. Last tag, you're It." I began to recover consciousness slowly, and muttered, "You havo rae sized wrong. "What I want to ask you is may I M Just then Tacks rushed ln with n whoop. "Pop! Mom! What d'yo think? John Henry and Clara Jane aro going to get married!" "Greenwood cemetery no flowers!" I murmured, and waited for tho axe. After a painful pause I opened my eyes and said, "What's tho answer?" Papa and Mamma had risen and were giving nse the look-over with a eido-smlle I couldn't quite understand. "What'B the answer?" I rervted. prepared to duck and avoid a rubh of furniture to the head. Papa placed Mamma's arm gontly under his own nnd started away. At the door the old gentleman turned and said, "John, it's up to you!" Then they both chuckled and loft me flat If ever that boy Tack needs a friend I'm for tho Job, sure thing! Two or throe evenings lator I picked my way Into the house between double rows of messenger boys and dry goods deliverers; fell over about eight tons of packages, and. after divers perils by land nnd sea, finally drifted Into the parlor. There sat Marietta Dawson, telling Clara J. all she had over heard. Marietta was to be the maid of honor, but to hear her talk you'd think Bho was the leading lady. That girl had the busiest voice I ever heard. She certainly was a hard worker with tho gab. "Evening, ladles!" I said. Clara J. gave me a spectral sort of a smile and Marietta shook her back hair at me, then they clinched. "But I'm afraid, Marietta" Clara J. was at the bat "that I may not look well ln Ivory white. I do wish, Marietta, that I had chosen the other shade; and tho train, Marietta; don't you think two yards too long for me? Now do tell me! I'm sure It will be. Oh, Marietta, do you think that old lace will be as becoming as tho fresh tulle would have been?" Ask You Is, May I" "Nice evening!" I suggested, but they had forgotten I was In tho room. "Why, Clnra Jane!" gurgled tho girl with the spendthrift tongue, "you know that your old point will turn all the women green with envy. I'm euro nothing on earth could porsuade mo to think of n tulle veil when I had such perfectly exquisite laco. Now there wns Helen Duval you remember when Helen was married? Sho had ono of those " Then Marietta pulled the throttle wide open and took us to Helen's wedding and back again and all over the place. It was one of the longest and noisiest Journeys I ever made. "Got any wood for me to bbw?" I interrupted after a bit. I was tired of playing solitaire. "Pardon us," said Marietta, giving mo enough eye-ice to keep mo cutting for a month; "we are bo busy!" Then to Clara J., "what did you say, dear?" Clara J. grabbed her cue. "Really, now, Marietta, do you think that the sleeves nre clever? I think a frock with poor slcov'es Is an abomination." "Just think of being married in sleeves that wero not absolutely smart!" cried Marietta.

Her voice Bcemed to have a high fever. "And the lines of the ekirt," Clar J. went on; "do you think they are good? You know a wedding dress should havo good lines, Marietta; good, sweeping HneB. Of course 1 know the design was good; but made up, Marietta, do you think it will be good mado up?" "When do you expect to get those glad garments cooked up?" I ventured; but all tho wires were down in my direction, and I got no answer. Clara J. took out her hammer and began to tap the bridesmaids, whllo Marietta held the anvil, so I got up sideways and went home. It was tho most cruel game of freeze-out I ever Bat In. All in good season the presents began to show up. One evening the minister, who was a friend of tho family, dropped in to see if they would Bult. Nearly everybody I know had sent ub n cut-glass decanter, and he made me rush out and sign tho pledge. With the exception of two or threeof those present, the wedding was the happiest affair of tho kind I ever attended. I was ono of the exceptions. When the fateful hour drew nigh

The Minister Made Me Rush Out and Sign the Pledge. my heart crawled up In my throat and refused to go beck home. I suppose it wanted to see tho show. As 1 stood near the chancel waiting for the bride to come and get me, I felt like a bottle of ketchup with tho cork out. It seemed to me that everybody in tho world was giving me the fish eye. 1 couldn't remember whether I should wear my hands ln my pockota or in my mouth, so I tried both styles. Presently 1 caught the eye of Sydney DeBrle, and he didn't do a thing but throw off a grin that nearly put mo out of the wedding business. Sydney was ono of the ushers, but he should havo been away back Bitting down at his work ln the soap factory. He was one of the Five Little Shines who used to drop ln on Clara J. of an evening and tease her with their talk. I don't know why I ever consented to let that human po-tato-Balad be an usher. He couldn't ush for sour pickles. All he could do was to put his face where I could see It and lot tired Nature do the rest. About this lime Billy DoVrles, my best man, began to wilt. I didn't dare look at him, but I knew that mentally he was yelling for Ice water. Outwardly he was very nervous, and he put ln his spare time trying to chew his necktie. Still, tho thought flashed over mo' that Billy, being n college graduate and a football survivor, showed wonderful self-control in confining himsolf to a conflict between his teeth and his necktie. i'b a wonder" he didn't give the minister the low tackle and try for a touchdown. Then the procession came down the aisle, and tho bell rang for the wind-up. Clara J. was a dream. I played an alarm clock. One of the bridesmaids got gabby and wanted to talk her way into tho main tent, but all around her were kind-hearted people, bo sho wasn't pinched. Pretty soon the minister sprung thnt old gag on me nbout the ring, nnd I suppose for a moment he thought ho had me, but I fooled him. 1 know it's customary for tho brldogroom to got bo rattled that he loses tho ring, so I wasn't taking any chances. The day before the wedding I bought eight rings, and when the battle wan raging I had them stored nway In every pocket and a spare ono In each Bhoc. No fumble on tho ring not for me! No matter in which direction I dipped I was sure to fish up a ring. I thlni. I'll get this idea patented. Tb n the minister made a few cracks at ub, but we called him every time, politely but firmly, and presently he handed ub a card and said we were duly elected members of the Married People's Union. Immediately thereafter wo all went home In a flock of hacks to take a fall out of ono of the finest wedding breakfasts that ever came off the griddle. For one llttlo moment Clara J. and I wero alono In the library. "Did I do all right?" she asked eag crly. "You! Tho limit!" I raid. "You looked llko a queen. But, wait! Stop tho wngon! Why, bless me, In tho excitement of a quick finish nobody had time to kiss tho brldo!" She put her faco very, very close to mine and said with tho Bweetcat of smlleB, "Once more, John, It seems to be up to you I" (Copyright by O. W. Dillingham Co.)