Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 December 1910 — Page 2

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JASPER INDIANA However the moon cm come back all right every time. The problem of making It rain It no more vexatious than that of making It stop. "It la nn author's privilege to be Inaccurate," says a noted writer. Privilege? It's a habit. After the surgeons take a man and make him over they regard him as worth talking about. Ohio man killed while on his way to return a borrowed umbrella. Probably Insane, anyhow. The feminine airship has materialized. It may be depended upon to have Its wings on straight. A woman doctor advises polygamy as a cure for our social evils. Is the lady married, may we ask? Paris will have o train Its river to stay out in the country if It Insists on acting so foolishly in town. According to a Harvard professor, it Is not a cat's nature to kill a mouse. Unnatural brutes, cats! The sky pilot Is no longer a theory, but a visible fact: visible, at least, until he vanishes In the blue dome. A Chicago young man has spent over $300.000 In two years. This high-flying record, however, was made without a barograph. As Illustrating the dangers of getting up too early In the morning, a New York man was run over by a milk wagon. It Is true that a man has flown from the deck of a ship to the shore, but the day of the aeroplane lifeboat Is not yet In sight. The horse may have to go in order to satisfy a school of prophets, but the hay and oats crop are still largo and In good demand. Aviators, like other experimenters, are learning by their mistakes, but in their case the trouble is the mistakes are such costly ones. Chlcagoans are threatened with a coal shortage. Not to be able to buy fuel will be a highly unsatisfactory way of saving money. Columbus did after all bring upon this once happy country the peachbasket hat. He led up to 1L He made It possible here. A sea-going ship went to the rescue of an airship, and It is now the turn of an airship to repay the effort. Turn about is fair play. An Austrian specialist has found a form of Idiocy that Is Infectious. You may have noticed yourself how Infectious Ib the pun-making habit The typewriting championship has Just been decided In New York again. This Is the first time it has been decided since day before yesterday. Silly to get an injunction to keep a woman from going to a ball. Keeping her dross from getting home In time wouid be Infinitely more effective. The prophets were right Two months ago they predicted that the hobble Eklrt would not hold favor In the shape It had then. It Is now growIng worse. That an Insane asylum Inmate who won a prize for magazine poetry should not occasion surprise or even lmuBement, considering most magatine poetry. The aviation fashions will probably soon appear. The public may be devoutly thankful If feminine admirers of the bird men do not take to wearing biplanes and Antoinettes for headrear. A New York husband has asked the Supreme Court to affirm the binding nature of the wife's marriage promise to "obey." This Is a dangerous precedent, for a wife may retaliate by asking a legal enforcement of the htyband's promise to "endow with all his worldly goods." Stealing a red-hot stove has long figured as "the limit" of predatory daring. If not an Impossible feat Dot Bomethlng closely akin to It Is reported from Hoboken, N. J., where a man Is under arrest charged with having carried off a stove in which a fire was burning. And to make the affair seem "bolder the stove was taken from a police Btatlon. In discussing the relative merits of new stylo and old style cooking those whd cling to the latter Bhould remember that they formed their opinion of It when they were blessed "with old-style appetites. A Now York minister declares that drinking Is decreasing among men, but Increasing among women. This Jatter chnrge periodically breaks out but Its Injustlco to women as a general thing has too Arm a hold on the public n.fnd for the charge to b soTlouely entertained.

MflSL EDDY AI ESI

BOSTON SERVICE AT BIER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LEADER ATTENDED DY 120. ONLY PINK ROSES ON CASKET Relatives, Members of Household and Officials of Church Make up Company of Mourners Body Placed In Vault at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Boston. Dec. .After services attended by her family, relatives, the members of her household, otncials of tho Christian Science church, and publishing rociety, and her penonal stu dents jesidlng in Greater Uoston. about 120 persons In all, tho body of Mary Baker Eddy was placed In the receiving vault at Mount Auburn ceav eterv. Funeral services at tne cnestnut Hill home were simple and were conducted with quiet dignity. Long before the time for the services to begin the holders of cards of admission began to :rrlve. Judge Clifford P. Smith, first re?.der of the mother church, conducted the services. Only Pink Roses on the Coffin. A great hall divides the house. At the left are two parlors and In the rear parlor In the bay window was the coffin of massive bronze, contain ing the body of Mrs. Eddy. Upon the coffin, which was closed. Mrs. Eddy's on and her grandchildren and her adopted son having seon the wellknown face, was a bunch of pink roses from the members of the household. This was tho only floral offering to be seen. In the rear of the hall Judge Smith was stationoJ. Those Invited to tho services were in the hall, the front parlor and the library, to the right of the entrance. Grouped 'bn the second floor at the head of a wide staircase were Mrs. Eddy's family, her other relatives and members of her household. Tho furniture had been removed from the room where the coffin sat. The old rose draperies harmonized with the wall decorations, and the soft light of day illuminated the surroundings. Judge Smith Acts as Reader. Judge Smith began the services by the reading of a lesson sermon correlative passages from "Sclenco and Health, With Key to the Soriotures." The poem by Mrs. Eddy. "Mother's Evening Prayer," was they read by Mrs. Carol Hoyt Powers, second reader of the mother church. This concluded the bervlces and the coffin was then carried out of the door to the porte cochere, where the hearse was In waiting and the Journey to Mount Auburn Cemetery was begun. The honorary pallbearers were: John L. Hates of Boston, Edward P. Dates of Syracuse, N. Y.; Arthur Brisbane of New York; Judge Charles R. Corning of Concord. N. H.; Frederick Dixon of London, Samuel J. Elder of Boston. Mayor Charles E. Hatfield nf Newton. Mass.; William B. Johnson or Boston, Alfred Metcalf of Boston and George S. Streeter of Concord, N. H. The active pallbearers were Bliss Knapp, William Farlow. James A. Neale, Lewis C. Strang, the Rev. William P. McKenzie. Thomas W. Hatten of Boston, John C. Lathrop of New Yerfc and George H. KInter of Chicago. Reads Twenty-Third Psalm. There was no se -vice at the i jcelvIng vault other than the read.ng of the XXIII. Psalm by Judge Smith nnd last verse In Jude: "To the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever." given as a benediction. The coffln was then taken within by the pallbearers, the vault was sealed and there a guard will be maintained until a mausoleum has been built on the plots chosen for the final resting place of the body. The management of the cemetery closed tho gates before the arrival of the carriages and excluded from the ground all who were not of the funeral party. Church Gets Bulk of Estate. According to the terms of the will of Mrs. Eddy, whlcb have been learned, the Christian Science church, the srturce from which it came, will get the major portion of her estate. Including the value of copyrights, which Is about $1,500,000. "Pleasant View," the splendid estate at Concord. N. H.. where Mrs. Eddy made her homo before coming to Chestnut Hill. Is to be sold. The administrator of the estate Is ex-CongreBsman Henry M. Baker of Bow, N. H. He was the favorite relative of Mrs. Eddy. But all he get under the terms of the will is a keepsake. Members of Mrs. L'ddy's household are remembered In bequests which range from 11,000 to $10.000. Not a dollar la left to George W. Glover &nd Dr. E. J. Foster Eddy, respectlvely the son and adopted son of Mrs. Eddy. They were the leaders In the famous "next friends" suit which had a sequel In each receiving a large amount of money from Mrs. Eddy CASADAY, PL0WMAKER, DEAD South Bed Millionaire, Who Rose from Laborer, Succumbs In West In His Sixty-Sixth Year. South Bond, Ind., Dec. 12. William L. Caanday. millionaire plow manufacturer and Inventor of South Bend, died suddenly at hlB winter home, Ocean Park, near Los Angeles, Cal. Death was caused by heart disease. Mr. Casaday was sixty-six years old and one of the most prominent manufacturers in the middle west. He rose .from a laborer to be one of the wealthiest men In Iadlaaa.

DcüuulNS mASsaCRE 100 CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA A - n AI,. IVU. ".. TnrLrlat, Hi".

I MW rSWJ ' H .Wir,.. w . . rlson In . .evenge for the blaying of a uhier, Constantinople. Dec 10. A tolegram from Jerusalem stateH that Bedouins have mnssucred tho Turkish garmou at Kernk. a town In the Turkish vilayet of Syria, und killed more than 1Ü0 Christian Inhabitants of tho place In revengo for tho execution of u Bedouin chiui. The Bedouins, tho dispatch adds, now hold the fortress, in tho vicinity of which there has been dosultory fighting between tho tribesmen nud tho government troops for tho last year and a half. Kerak. formerly tho capital of Moab. has a population of S.000, of whom 6.000 are Moslems. Tho town is tho last on the road from Damascus to Mecca, where Christiaus may reside. It stands on the mountains of Moab and may be seen from Jerusalem. 50 miles away. There are no American missionaries there, the only missionary station being that of tho British Church Missionary Socloty for Africa and tho East. This is a branch of tho organization at Es Ealt. and is composed of one missionary, his wife and one native wcrker. JURY ACQUITS MENL0 MOORE Indiana Theatrical Manager Freed In Trial and Is Carried From Court by Friends. Vlncennes. Ind., Dec. 10. "Not guilty" was the verdict of the Jury In the ense of Menlo Moore, manager of a circuit of theaters, who was charged with murder In tho killing of Charles E. Gibson, a wealthy operator in tho Indiana-Illinois oil fields. When the verdict was read the crowd In the courtroom broke into a cheer, and men rushed to the platform and carried Moore from the courtroom. The court made no effort to stop the demonstration. The trial had been in progress for about ten days, and was one of the most sensational ever held in southern Indiana. Moore shot Gibson on the railway station platform here several months ago. Gibson's conduct toward Mrs. Moore was given as the cause of the tragedy. USE CAT CARCASS FOR FOOD Crew of Bark Mantanzas Suffer Great Hardships Ship Given Up for Lost. Philadelphia, Dec. 9. The bark Mantanzas. hailing from Brunswick. Me, 35 days overdue, arrived here after having been given up for lost even by her owners. The crew of 11 men suffered terrible hardships, once having been driven to the extremity of butchering the ships' cat and using the carcass for food. Five times vessels were spoken during the voyage nnd each time the Mantanzas was supplied with provisions but each time the bark was within hailing distance of the Delaware breakwater and It was thought one day's provisions would suffice. The bark was driven out to sea five times. SHIP SINKS; 39 ARE LOST British Steamer Blackburn Is Rammed by Steamship Rook Many Escape in Lifeboats, London. Dec. 9. The British steamship Hook rammed and sank the British steamer Blackburn off SherIngham and 39 persons are reported to be missing. Many of the passengers nnd crew of the Blackburn had narrow escapes. The Blackburn went down so swiftly that practically all on board were forced to Jump. There were 50 aboard the lost steamer. Seventeen landed at Yarmouth in the Blackburn's boats. The captain of tho steamer was among them. There were 29 passengers and 27 officers and crew. ITALY TO HAVE CHARLTON United States Decides to Surrender Self-Confessed Wife Murderer for Extradition. Washington. Dec. 10. Tho state department has decided that Italy Is entitled to the extradition of Porter Chnrlton which was demanded on a chnrge of murder and who confessed to the murder of his wife near Lake Como. Italy. It Is held by tho, department that the treaty under which Italy made the detnund must be Interpreted literally until It shall havo been abrogated. U. S. LOSES COAL TRUST SUIT Court Dismisses Action to Dissolve Anthracite Combine, But Holds Temple Company Illegal. Philadelphia, Dec. 9. The United States circuit court here dismissed the suit filed by the government to dissolve the anthracite coal trust, but declared the Temple Iron company to be a combination In violation of the Sherman anti-trust law and thereforo Illegal. Makes Treating a Crime. Tacoma, Wash., Doc. 9. An nntltreating ordlnancojwas adopted by the city commission. It mnkoa the buying of an Intoxicating drink for another person a misdemeanor. It will uo Into effect within ten days.

REVISITING IT

, "And YtqUi Yicre Vft was the old swimm () m MacVEAGH SAYS RED TAPE MUST BE CUT WHERE IT CLOGS GOVERNMENT BUSINESS. ASKS FOR $687,414,860.81 Annual Report Ridicules Assertion That Country Could Save $300,000.000 a Year Bank System, He Says, Is Breeder of Panics. Washington, Dec. 9. Currency reform; extension of tho scope of the national banking laws. If there are no ! immediate general changes In tho monetnry Bystem; civil servlco retirements; a customs servlco free from practical politics; business-like methods In the dally transactions of the government and abolition of red tapo wherever It clogs the wheels of the government's business are among tho recommendations In the annual report of Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, presented to congress. Expenses of government In the fiscal year 1912, for which this session of congress 1b asked to appropriate, are estimated at $030,494,013.12. The estimated expenditures of the Panama canal are given as $66,920,847.69. making a total of $687.414,800.81. Tho estimates represent net savings of about $18,000,000 in the executive departments, compared with the appropriations for the curront fiscal year. Secretary MacVeagh expresses tho hope that the monetary question will come Into congress detached from sectional or political considerations. Calls It Panic-Breeder. "Our system can fairly be called a paulc-breedlng system," he snys, "whereas every other great national banking and currency system Is paulcpreventing. As long as we continue under our present system we aro 1 ruble to panics, and the devastations of panics reach Republicans and Democrats, and all parts of the country nl'.k Panics are no longer necessary and no longer respectable. It is for the government to say whether we shall hove them In the future. It is n mere matter of choice. "We have no system of reserves; our banking system destroys them. It concentrates in New York what are pretended to be reserves and then forces the New York banks to lend and abolish them. Our system, lastend of building up a reserve, destroys It as fast as it Inclines to accumulate." In connection with his criticism of the money system, one of the secretary's most important recommendations concerns future Issues of Panamn bonds, of which $290,000,000 were authorized by the tariff act The secretary renews the recommendations he made last year for legislation to tax tho new bonds at 1V4 per cent if used by national banks for circulation and Intimates, as announced in news dispatches a few days ago, that It might be preferable to Issue the new securities for Investment purposes only at a rate of 3 per cent. Favors a Circulation Tax. As a check against the uso of the bonds as the basis for a further Inflation of the national-bonk currency Mr. MacVeagh suggests that a circulation tax of even 2 per cent, would have the effect of making them unprofitable for hanks to uso for such a purpose and at tho same tlmo would make them attractive to Investors without injuring the 2 per cent, bonds, of which moro thnn $700.000,000 are outstanding. Another meanß of accomplishing the same end. the secretary suggests, would be for congress to authorize an Issue of J50.000.000 or $100,000,000 of the bonds at 3 per cent, without the alrculntlon provision. CHOLERA ROW IN FUNCHAL Famine Threatens. Island and Portugal Sends Gunboat With Troops and Supplies. Lisbon, Dec. 10 Advices from Fundial state that the situation growing out of tho cholera opldomlc Is serious throughout Mndclra. Cholera riots occur daiy. Tho food supply Is running short nnd the Portugue30 gunboat Zaire wns sent to the IslaVd carrying' troops and medicines.

URGES REFORM PLAN

IN WINTER

Wtvfecn these -trees TVty fa WW PROSECUTION OF CUSTOM FRAUDS ARE TO CONTINUE Wlckersham Tells Congress What the Government's Legal Department Has Been Doing. Washington, Doc. 12. Revealing that moro than $6,000,000 either has been collected by tho government or is Involved in Judgmont cases against firms or Individuals, for smuggling and undervaluation of Imports, the nnnunl report of Attorney General Wfckershaw, sent to congress todny, promises more customs frauds Indictments nnd a continuation of the stern Investigation which Is now in progress. There have already been fifty-eight convictions in the southern part of New York, says he, and at least a score more indictments will be found. In this same connection tho nttorney genernl asks congress to pass a lawforbidding revenue men from accepting perquisites from importers nnd another law granting Immunity to nccused persons who turn state's evidence and assist tho government In tho prosecution of others. It is also demanded that a heavier penalty bo placed upon the statute bcoks for Iraporting firms which refuse to show their books upon the request of the collector of any port in the United States. The present penalty Is n $100 fine. Mr. Wlckersham wants the salaries of the federal Judges raised and Intimates that the government could do better work In tho prosecution of trusts If higher fees wore paid its attorneys. He points out thnt corporations are noted for the big sums they pay their nttnrneys. POSTAL DEFICIT REDUCED Remarkably Good Showing Is Made In the Report of Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock. Washington. Dec. 12. According to the annual report of Postmaster General Hitchcock, Just made public, nn unprecedented reduction In the postal deficit has been made, without any curtailment of postal facilities. A year ago the fiscal records of tho postal servlco disclosed a deficit of seventeen and a half million dollars, the largest in the history of fho country. In the space of twelve months a reduction of eleven nud a half millions has been made In this deficit, tho excess of expenditures over receipts ns reported for the year ended June 30 last amounting to only $5,848,506.88. In view of tho constantly growing loss on second clnss mall, the report advlBcs the levying of higher rates In such n way that tho advance would be paid by tho magazines that carry large amounts of advertising. This plan, Mr. Hitchcock believes, would soon warrant 1-cent postago on first class mail. He again urges the Introduction of a limited parcel-post service on rural routos, advises that the entire postal servlco be taken out of politics and nil presidential poBtmnstors of all grades from the first to tho third be placed In the classified civil service. ROOSEVELT TO LOSE LAND Michigan Miser Wills the Colonel 1,000 Acres, But Later Changes His Mind. South Bond. Ind., Dec. 10. Theodore Roosevolt was presented with 1,000 ncrcB of valuablo timber land by a former admirer whoso will was probated In South Dend, but this man Just beforo his dent changed hl mind, and In a codicil ho bequeaths the entlro property to his brother. Tho testator was Charles W. Hall, who died at Benton Harbor, Mich., a year ago. after Jiving tho lifo of a miser. He left an cstato worth between $100,000 and $200,000. Tho original will bears tho dato of October 5. 1908, but tho testator, following tho presidential election thnt year, made a codicil taking back tho bequest to Mr. Roosevelt and giving It to his brother. Superior, Wis., Has 40,384. Washington, Dec. 10. According to , the otuciai count oi mo uurcau or uio census the populntlon of tho city of Superior, Wis., Is 40,384.

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QUELLS NEW ill

MARINES REBEL IN RIO JANEIRO AND ARE ALMOST ANNIHILATED. SEIZE A FORT IN THE BAY Only Surrender When 200 or More Are Killed and Wounded Senate Declares a Selge Scoutshlp Joins In Seditious Movement. Rio Jnnelro, Doc. 12. The soldiers of the marine corps quartered In lc fortress on Cobra iBland mutlnlod. captured their officers and sent them to the mainland. After n fiorce battlo In which the rebels lost more than 200 killed or woundod tho mutiny was quolled Tho mutlneors wore nenrly annihilated Sailors Aro 8ubdued. Tho Bcoutshlp Rio Grande do Sul Joined in tho rising, but tho mutinous sailors soon wore Bubduod by thoir officers and a pnrt of tho local garrt son thnt rotnalnod faithful. The seditious movement, it is be lleved. has now been completely throt tied, but tho sonnte, despite tho op position of Iluy Barbosa, tho former president of thnt body, voted to de clare a stato of Biege for 30 days Tho gunB of tho land batteries were trained on the Island, which lies in tho bay of Rio Janeiro, only a short distance from tho city and opposite tho marine nrsenal. Rebels Ask for Armistice. A heavy flro was directed ngaln tho rebels, and this continued with out cessation for, five hours. Then u whlto flag appenrod, and It was tMoved that tho rebels were ready tu surrender, but they nsked only for an nrmlstico, probably for the purposof romovlng the dend and Injured Two land batteries and two In al warships took part In tho bombard ment, and the artillery duel contin-x-.l with great violence for many hour Tho detonations of tho big gun . caused tho whole city to tremble Tho iBland proved a good target fi.r tho batteries and replied with a vig orous flro, employing oonshlorali shrapnel. Mnny persons wero killed along inshore and In ndjolning streets Rebels Climb Into Launches. Tho fight against the Rio Grande do Sul lusted threo hours, nnd nmnnithe killed was ono officer. Small bands of rebels climbed into launchr and drew near tho front of the Palncjo Cnttete, but they were forced to re tire. The government notified tho lenders of tho rising that the Island would be taken by assault If they did not stir render. In tho meantlmo President Fonsecn sent n message on the situation to the sennto, together with his views. While this was being discussed bv the senate, the chamber assemblc-d for the purpose of considering th situation and to awnlt the action f the senate. U. S. CENSUS IS 91,972,265 Including Dependencies and Terr, tories Count Is 101,000,000 Showing Big Gain. Washington. Dec. 12. Tin inhuh Hants of the United States number 93.402,151, according to tho figure compiled by tho census bureau Tin number Includes nil of the states, tn rltories. District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico nnd is rx elusive of the Philippine Islands. Tho Increase In the population of tho nation (luring tho last decade was 16145,521, or 20.9 per cent. In 1P90 tb. population wns 62.979.7CC. In the continental United States tfo population Is 91.972,206, nn Increase of 15.977.691, or 21 per cent, over 75,994,575 In 1900. The stars nnd Htrlpes float over 101,100,000 souls In the United States and insulnr possessions. This In eludes 7.635,426 In the Philippine Is lands ns enumerated In the census of 1903 and the estimates of the populn Hon In the Island of Guam, the Amer lean possessions In Samoa and per sons In the Pnnnma canal zone. ROOT WINS SIX-DAY RACE Veteran Bicycle Rider, With Partner Moran, Gets First Place by Great Spurt. Now York, Dec. 12. Eddie Root f the Root-Mornn toam, finished first n tho final dash that decided the six day bicycle race at Madison Squnp' Garden. His tlmo for tho mile was 3:50 1-6, and his distance for tho six dayB, 2,545 miles, 3 laps. Jncklo Clarke of tho Rutt-Clarke team finished second by hnlf n wheel By their victory Root nnd Moran d vldo $1,600, tho prize for first plac Tho record is 2,737 milos, 1 lap, mndu by MacFarland and Mornn In 190S Dives Five Stories and Lives. Pittsburg, . Pa., Dec. 12 -Petor Khrlsthoff Jumped from the fifth storv of tho Allegheny gonornl hospitnl In this city and escaped with slight lr Juries. Ho was Buffering from pneu monln, and oponed a window ami dived seventy feot to the aldownlk Police Chief Asked to Quit. MUwruUoo. Dec. 10. Mayor fimil Seidel hnB aßked for tho rcslgnntlon of Chlof of Police John T. Janssen on tho alleged ground thnt tho chief wi.i not work In harmony with tho city administration.