Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 July 1911 — Page 7

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WuiNOTON Ono million dolors a day la tho record thnt will t, , u.'Mishcd throughout tho United ,m.,'.s as tho expenditure for imJimv na and maintaining public roads. v r l t furo In tho hlßtory of tho .,, r has there been such Interest in . improvement of highways, and V': fie legislatures of tho states npjr. i:i.tinB millions of dollars for tl.i jurposo, 1110 Eod i1b move r..(.:' lias received Ha floatest Im1 (.!.. h1uo tho foundation of tho rej'.tihc. The money thnt will be expended on tho ronds of this country during tli,' tit'xt six months will bo moro t!.;m ver before In the same period of time, in 1901 tho total expenditure tnr the construction and maintaining of roads and bridges In tho 1'nited States nmounted to about $vi i)üo,ooo. but tho expendituro for this purpose in 1911 will aggregate abo-it $1 10,550,000. Excluslveof Sunda) c and legal holidays, tho outlay for rr.a.ls will amount to $1,000,000 a day during tho present road building scann,. This includes all moneys raised by local taxation, bond issue, state appropriation and private subscriptl'T.P Kvery state in tho Union," said Logan Waller Pago, director of tho

United States ofllco of public roads. In telling of tho results of tho great campaign for good roads, "seems at last to be thoroughly aroused to the bennllts derived from investments In Improved highways." In California the stato has Issued $18.000,000 In bonds with which to build a system of state highways. This work will begin during tho present season. In the atato of Connecticut nhout ?2.500.r.90 will bo expended this year out of tho stato treasury for trunk line and state nld roads. Of tho $5,000.000 bond lssuo recently authorized in .Maryland moro than $1.250,000 will bo available this year for trunk lino and state aid roads. Massachusetts will expend from stato revenuos over $1.000,000 for tho construction and maintenance of stato roads. It Is expected that at loast $5,000.000 will be expended on stateaid roads and on trunk lino systems in tho stato of Now York, In addition to $7,000.000 nlrcady raised by local taxation. In 1910. thirty counties In

Ohio voted $2,500.000 in bonds to bo expended this year. Ohio will also oxpond about $500,000 from the state

revenues for road Improvement. In Pennsylvania, the state-aid appropria

tion will nrobnbly amount to ovr

$1,000.000. nnd a $50.000,000 bond is

sue Is helm: considered. Vnrlous

counties in Tennessee will expend $1,500.000 from bond Issues. In Virglnlo, $2.500.000 has been authorized by various counties, to bo expended

this year, while over $250,000

been appropriated In the Wisconsin, in accordance state aid system.

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Personal Characteristics of John Marshall Harlan.

Venerable Kentucklan Who Recently Celebrated the 78th Anniversary of His Birth Has Had a Brilliant Career.

Washington. Tho dlssontlng opinions which Justice Harlan, of tho Supremo court, rendored In tho construing of tho Sherman law In tho Standard Oil and Tobacco cases havebrought this votoran jurist promlnontly before tho public. The justice was 78 years old tho other day nnd Is still Btrong and rugged, with every mental faculty unimpaired. Ho has been on tho Supremo court more than a third of a century. During 33 years and 0

months ho has absented himself from the bench less than 20 days. Ho waB born In Boyle county, Kentucky, June 1, 1S33. President Hayes appointed him November 29, 1877. Twenty years ago Justice Harlan purchased n half of n city block on a hill overlooking Washington, and there built n fine, old-fashioned, rambling homo of brick, with wldo porches. When ho took possession an unobstructed view of the city below nnd the absenco of noise and the commotion of city life made tho spot ideal for tho homo of a Justice. Although ho Is In tho midst or tho city today, ho manages to keep about the house the atmosphere of tho country. The trees which he planted In the side, front and rear yards have grown to maturity. A great hodgo

AGED WOMAN CLOTH WEAVER

Mrs. Hodgdon at 75 Says Che Could Not Live Without Sound of Loomn. Saco. Mo. Sftvo ono, tho only American in a vast room among thouBand of thoso who upoak no word of

' English ml whoro tho stridor of ma

chinery dins her ears from daylight to dark, Mrs. Melissa Hodgdon, at Boventy-tlvo, tho oldest weaver of cloth In America, has Just comploted hor llfty-llfth yoar of work In tho cotton mill of tho York Manufacturing company horo. Although Mrs. Hodgdon has outlived all but ono of tho many thou-

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Number of Dope Fiends Is Increasing

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ORDING to statistics collected t.y government mvcstlgators. we

-. l,. turning a nation of drug fiends. T!.- i.iimbor of persons addicted to tl ,s !gradlng and debasing habit is j.l.t. Ml at 4.000.000. and the evil Is t .n-tantly growing. With the object of warning the country, tho United Sta"s irovernment has Issued a bulletin, cautioning tho people against v,hat Ih known as tho "habit-forming" (f-nuounils. Tho experts employed by t!if government are certain that rw drug fiends are being created ewrv year through the insidious patent mt dicino and the soft drink that ntam a trace of the narcotic agents vtfcirh finally form the terrlblo drug habit. There nro 100 sanitaria throughout tho country for tho cure of this mlnd-.wrecklng habit and there are hundreds of graves being filled every year with unfortunato victims of the drugs. Never a day goes by that some murder, death, defalcation or suicide because of tho drug falls to occur. Tired workers driven to tho ragged edge of human endurance learn to uso opium or cocaine or other seductive dries and sooner or la,ter they depart this life by means of a rope, carbolic

acid or a leap from a bridge. Society girls in search of a new sensation take up the habit and drift down to tho under world. The drug evil spreads Its ravages In all classes of life. The bureau of chemistry, under the direction of Its chief. Dr. H. W. Wiley, which made a far-reaching investigation of the drug habit, was appalled by tho results of Its Inquiry. It found that the amount of opium being imported into tho United Statos has doubled within the last genera

tion. It discovered thnt hundreds oi , preparations for the cure of head- j

aches and the reller or pain mai are being sold every day were filled with alluring, enslaving agents that create the drug userls lotos land. It found that over 150.000 ounces of cocalno wore being consumed annually by tho drug users of tho country.

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Mrs. Amclissa Hodgdon. sands who have worked In tho York mills since I860, and has oven seen the original owners of tho great concern pass Into their graves, she Is still ns capable a worker as the aver

age young French girl of nineteen,

and her fingers will comb-out a "pick-

out" or mend n thread or throw in a

new shuttle with all the deftnoss and precision of the loom Itself.

Mrs. Hodgdon has seen the cotton

business chango from a, struggling 'lit

tle Industry, hampered by poor machlnery and oven by a dearth of cotton caused by the Civil war, to perhf.ps tho greatest activity of New

England, and one of tho greatest in

the V nl ted States. When sho began her work the cotton loom was little different from the hand loom which

had been in uso since antiquity. At that time there were many hand looms still in use. Mrs. Hodgdon

says she does not remember whother sh ever used a hand loom, hut nays she knew weavers In Canada who stro then using them.

Midshipmen Being Trained for Japan

circles the grounds, and In spite of the evidences of the city on all sides, the privacy of a country homo 13 maintained.

ANCIENT CHEST OF DRAWERS H, School Teacher to Receive Heirloom in Form of Old-Fashioned Article of Furniture. South Paris, Me. Being noxt in lino of family descendants, Frank Farrar, n native of this place, now a school teacher In Dallas, Tox., Is to rcceivo a valuablo heirloom In tho form of a chest of drawers, an oldfashioned, seldom-seen articlo of furniture. Tho old relic, hand-made 1C0 years old. Is sevon feet high and has eight large drawers and three small ones. Four boards which mako the

sides ore each 30 inches long by 27

If ownership of something Is esBentlal for a man, It Is for u boy as well. It la necessary In a man because God has put him In tho midst of thlng3 that are to be ownod. has given him a desire for possession and has distinctly told Ulm to subdue and U30

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So a boy must begin to have things

of hjs own. for he needs training In that, ns well as In his memory or reasoning or power of speech. Through his memory, ho owns much; through

laying up something, ho la providing for tho future nnd Increasing his present enjoyments and opportunities. Ono enn own only what ho can know and uso. The vagrant has noth

ing to enjoy; tho very rich own very little of what they have, because they cannot enter Into It, Just as a man

can havo great supplies of food, but only assimilate ono meal at a time. Dut somo men nro like an nrrow go

through lifo and accumulate nothing. A boy must gratify that desire, secure that discipline and feel that responsibility, by owning and caring for and managing something. Ho must havo his own comb nnd brush, toys, books, clothes and articles of usefulness. His pockets show his passion

for possession, a blind desire, work

ing without tho power of selection,

and tho result is an aggregation of things entirely useless, except to a

boy knife, tops, marbles, bean

Bhooters. beeswax, bullets, buckles,

lead, scrap Iron, slings, strings, fish

lng hooks, fishing lines, fishing worms,

chewing gum. licorice, candy, pills-

There Is an ago when ho Is more active In such enterprises, but he Is doing tho same thing ho docs when

he amasses wealth. He has a trading

ago, from about eleven to fifteen, when ho will trade any thing ho has for any thing any other boy has cats and dogs and pigeons and toy3 and

any of tho things he carries in his

pockets.

Ho must not only possess things

but take care of them as well. The penalty for not having what ho can

call his own is that he never has

anything to glvo to others, is thrift

less, selfish, begging, borrowing and

tempted to steal what he would like

to havo. Possessions mean power

and thrift is preparation for peace

Ho cannot take care of his own

things unless he has a placo for them

which Is his own. That la one of tho reasons why a boy should have a room, and a trunk, and tho equipment with which ho can take care of his things. That Is not the only reason

ho should havo a Boparate room, butt

that Is enough.

What has been said about all of this

appllos especially to hl3 money. As

ho 13 expected to make money nnd possess It and uso It In the future, ho must begin It, as a boy, and learn to do It In tho right way, so as to avoid.

the wrong way later. Tho very sarao principles that he Is to observe then

are to bo acted upon now, both be

cause thoy aro right and becauso ho

will not act on them, as a man, un

less ho learns to act on them now.

Often ho can earn money without!

weakening his senso of obligation to serve his parents or the family. I recall, with tho greatest pleasure, tho.

money my cousin and I made for our

selves and saved for his father, by

gathorlng up tho npples, that would, othcrwlso havo gone to waste In his

father's orchard, and selling them oni

tho streets of Petersburg and giving away what wo failed to bcII. Wo

turned one-half tho gross receipts over to tho owner of tho orchard and divided tho otlior half between us-

But it Is a question, oven today.

whether wo found moro pleasuro la tho money wo rnado or In tho way wo

made It.

How shall he tako care of It? Ho

will bo apt to got rid of It fast enough. That was an exceptional boy, who swallowed tho five dollar- gold piece,,

and thoy applied tho Btomach pump to recover it. His Hebrew father com

plained bitterly at the boy's cupidity, for all ho could get back was $2.50. But as to tho allowance: It must bo given In such a way as to keep him responsible to bis parents. As It comes regularly, It cultivates in him ordor and system. A pocket book, to keep It in, ministers to his pleasure, makes him orderly and enables him to savo it more easily. An account book to set down receipts and expenditures in, trains him In tho virtue of accuracy. Reports to his father each weok, keep alive the sonso of responsibility to authority, even for his own things. Requiring him to save a part of each week's allowance enables him to accumulate and encourages thrift, A smnll reward for additional savings will still further teach him the value of money. A rigid refusal to allow him to spend it. In Injurious ways, may prevent spendthrift habits. Putting as much as possible every six

months In a savings bank, tha will pay hrm Interest, gives him nn Idea of business. Meeting somo of his personal expenses with his own money will teach him forethought and self-denial.

His Own Man

A southerner by birth and educa

tlon, Justice Harlan keeps about his , inches wide and 7 of an Inch thick of

home the hospitable southern atmos- , eolItl mahogany. There are 3S feet of

TIIK I'M midshipmen who recently graduated at the United States unal academy, and whom it is pro- !"! m1 to creato ensigns as soon as I opinio, havo In tho Inst year of tlxlr tnurso received special training to nt them peculiarly for a, war with Japan, a member of the class has let the secret out. Tho hundreds of othor middles will be similarly treated. Tho members of tho graduating class during the last four months have beon familiarized with the principal navnl baser,, armaments, nnval forces, and resources of Japan, nnd 1hey havo tn theory fought naval battles with Japan. It could not be learned who had given the orders to Instruct the mid

shipmen what to do In case of a war with Japan, and the greatest possible secrecy has been maintained whllo tho teaching was going on. In many of the places and Instructions the name of Japan was not mentioned at all. and tho author of them simply said, "the navy of tho strongest Asiatic power." It was further stated by tho Informer that ho understood tho 85 graduating cadets at West Point, N. Y., had received the samo instructions as to land fighting thnt the midshipmen had in naval warfare. Tho member of the class -:pon promise that his namo should, not bo revealed, said: "We havo been taught what to do In a moment's notice In enso of war with Japan. Of courso somo of the papers, and. In fact, a mnjorlty of them, did not mention Jnpan. They said 'an. Island empire or 'an Asiatic nation, or something llko that. Wo have, In theory, fought a war on both sldos of the continent nnmcly: on b'Uh tho Pacific nnd Atlantic cceanB."

Young "Hippo" for the Capital Zoo

A FINK young female hippopotamus from Mast Africa Is the lntoat ndditlon to the national zoological park in Washington. The hippopotamus Is nhout two years old. weighs 830 pounds, nnd Is nn exceptionally fine nierinien. The Interest in the new arrival was almost ns great as It wns several years ngo when former President Hoosovclt received his famous Pot'slKnmeiit of animals from Monollk 11 of Abyssinia, which ho promptly turned over to the national 7.00. The hippopotamus Is of tho species which Inhabits tho rivers and lakes of Africa south of tho Soudnn. She panic direct from I2nst Africa, via Oertnany, and wns not born in captivity, hut In tho Jungle, on tho bank of some, teeming Afrlcnn Btrcam. She ws about the biggest plcco of live "freight" thnt has arrived In Washngton In Borne time. Kvery prepnra "or., however, hnd boon mndo for hor "rival, a new cage and tank having

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been Installed In ono of tho wings of tho Hon house. Miss Hippo has tho best nccommodntlons nt the zoo. Zoologically speaking, her apartment corresponds to a room and private bath In a hotel. The cage Is divided in half, ono part consisting of a big tank and tho other a dry concrete surfneo nmply lnrgo for her to move nhout without crowding ngalnst walls or bars. Although weighing nearly S30 pounds, she Is regarded as something of nn lnfnnt at present and therefore does not require or receive ns great a quantity of food as a (uU grown anlmaL

phcre. A colored butler Invites tho visitor Into a large reception hall. Tho walls are covered with portraits of Jurists or makers of tho constitution, Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Marshall and a score of the fathers of

tho republic. Hero and there nro J scattered portraits of the Harlan family. A llfe-slzo bust of Justlco Harlan Is in the hnll. A winding, broad staircase lends to tho study. The walls aro completely covered with yellow and red-bound tomes. There are a few big. comfortable chairs and a large desk in tho conter. Horo the Kentucky expounder of Bteckstone does his real work and thinking. Here the opinions are written. Justlco Hnrlan is n big man physically. Over six feet in height, his figure is erect and his step is elastic. When he walks he leans a trifle forward and takes long steps. His hair, tho little that remains. Is white. Tho top of his bend Is bnld; there Is a little hair on each side. His head Is unusually largo, and Is nnrrower at tho front than the rear. Ills cars aro big. When he smiles which is often the Jurlat emits a sort of chuckle nnd show 8 a few very few tooth. Ho Is an lnveternto tobacco chewor. He and Chief Justice White frequently exchange "plugs." Juntico Harlan rises early and breakfasts with his family. His secretary meets him in tho study nt about 9 o'clock nnd takes the day's dictation. The judge boards a 11 th street electric car between 10 nnd 11 In the morning. When the car reaches 1 1th

nnd Now York avenue a colored newsbov who has served him for years.

hops on tho car nnd gives him throe or four of tho morning pnpors. Without spectnclcs, Justice Harlan proceedn to read tho day's nows. When he roaches tho Capitol about three nnd a half miles from his homo ho tosses tho papers away. Ho lunches In his ofilco nnd takes tho homo-bound car at about -1:30 In the afternoon. An hour's work in tho study finishes the dny's work, nnd if the wenther is good, ho spends tho twilight on the porches nhout his house. Ho goes but little Into society, savo when his position demands It. Ho nttends tho New York Avenue Presbyterian church. Ho may be found nnj Sundny morning In the Sundayschool room explaining to his das tho day's Gospel.

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Chest Is 160 Years Old. form, all of which is 7 of nn Inch thick. The chest wns built for David Bcmls, whoso son brought tho caso to Paris with him In 17DC.

Oklahoma Indians. .Muskogee, Okla. There are many Indians In the West prominent In public lifo. Charles D. Carter of tho Fourth congressional district of Oklahoma, is a Chickasaw Indian, with somo Cherokee blood. Carter was born nnd brought up among tho Indlnns. was educated In an Indian school nnd has been associated with Iudlnnu nil his life. Senator Owen of Oklahoma Is a quarter brood; W. A. Durand, speaker or the Oklahoma house of representatives. Is a Chickasaw, nnd Benjamin F. Harrison, secrotary of state of Oklahoma, Is a Choctaw, born nnd educated In tho Choctaw nation. In tho eastern half of Oklahoma, in proportion to tho population, moro Indiana aro holding state, district, county nnd municipal oAlces than white people and thoy aro equnlly nuccessful, which demonstrates conclusively that thoy nro competent for self government. Governor Cruce of Oklnhoma, whllo not an Indlau, 1b married Into tho race, hla wife, now dead, having been an Indian.

Every boy looks forward, with special delight, to tho time when he will be hl3 own man, as ho likes to phrase It, at least, ns we boys used to express It. By that, he means tho time when he can do as he wishes, as the grown folks do, and not bo responsible to anyone but himself; when ho can quit going to school nnd running on errands, If he wishes. If ho does not know It nt first, ho has to learn that ho does not becomo his own man by simply passing out from under tho control of his parents,

1 but by coming under tho control of his own higher nature his Judgment ' and will and conscience. When ho

reaches the age for taking himself out

I of the hands of his parents, just as

they once reached a similar age, ho must havo beon so trained In tho mastery of himsolf thnt ho Is ready for tho now responsibility. And, unless ho hns boon given little tasks In Bolf direction nil along, and moro and more, as ho got used to It, ho will havo too big n Job on his hands all at once. Tho best thing his father and mother ever do for him Is to teach him to get alonf without them, while lhey tako their placo besldo him as companions and friends. Many a boy Is, in fact, wiser than his parents nnd Is so recognized beforo ho Is old enough to bo free from the Inw of obedience, but It Is not a good thing to let him know that they

think him wiser. Bororo ho Is really his own man two things nro ncces-

snry. Ho must reject nny omer mas-

tor and must secure po.vlvo and perEonal control over every power of his

body and mind. Three rivals will dis

pute hla right. Ono rival Is somo strong personality

In the form of a boy who appeals to his woakness or even his good traits.

If thnt boy controls him, he Is not hl3

own man. Another rival Is public sen

tlmont, In the form of tho bunch or

gnng with which ho goes. A boy will

help mako laws for tho crowd without

feeling the need of any discipline for

himself, nnd yet ho is not his own man

as long ns . o nllows them to dominate

his private life. Ills other rival 13 found on tho In side, among the passions nnd lm

pulses nnd fancies which nro llkoly to

take tho rclna of government in nana

nny minute. A hot tomper I3 ono of thoso rtvnla. When he Is controlled by temper or Jealously or envy, when

he lets nny vulgnr passion run awny

with him. that becomes his master,

Thn effect of this la to weaken his

will, confuso his Judgment nnd dull

Us conscience.

When a boy becomes his own man

he has to tako In hand a great many

different things that belong to him

and Insist on being with him all tho

tlms. Ho has to tako charge of his

Imagination, and th-t Is no easy task.

Now a boy naturally prefers to con

trol others rather than himself. Think

ing he Is right, he is not apt to slnglo himself out for special disciplinary treatment, nnd ho usually regards en

forced obedience to those who Insist on being over him ns nil the discip

line ho needs, which means thnt tho

task of acquiring self control niuct bo

set by another. Boys will form law3 and by-lnws for their clubs, but they do not aim at discipline in tho Interest of self control.

And ho hns nnother drawback. Ho

Is in a state of unstable equilibrium

and he must learn himself, as new

traits come out. Then he seems to

drop everything elso to get acquainted

with tho latest coiner among his attributes; while ho Is doing that, some

thing unexpected la likely to tako place. Tho result Is turmoil and

seeming defeat. But he mounts ngaln

and la In tho saddle Thus ho learns.

A good tost of self control Is ability;

to fix and hold one's nttention to a given matter as long as bo wishes. Tho old story is in point, on the re-

verso side, about tho man who grew

rich by telling how to turn eggs Into gold. His formula was Blmple. Tho

money was collected In advanco and would bo refunded If tho formula

was faithfully tried without tho promised results. Take tho j-olks of a dozen eggs, hold them over the flro ono minute without onco thinking of tho word nlppopotamus.

If a hoy cannot bo his own man

without having control of himself

then he must be mnster of his body. That means to consorvo his strength nnd prevent all Bpollntlon of It. Ho must bo nblo to handle thnt body as tho driver his horse. It means that he keeps his powers at the highest degree of efficiency. He is not his own master if ho does not keep n denn body. Ho will know how to relax and rest. Ho must know himself and bo on tho alert when thoso curious and rapid chemical chnnges tako placo In the body and require Instant readjustment. Ho rjust control his muscles. Ho must keep his Imnglnatlon clean. Ho .must fix his eyes on tho truest goal. Ho must acquire this through Imitation of nu nttractlvo example and wo all know where he ought to find that example Others must havo thcught It out for him nnd led biin Into bis kingship over himself.