Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 53, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 July 1911 — Page 3

Spending a Million A vr-tff V v--W!.!(iTON Ono million dolj. is a day Is the record that will , .finished throughout the United .-a as the expenditure for im- ; . r.c and maintaining public roads. N r bt foro In the history of the , tv haa there been such Interest : . improvement of'highways, and u tl legislatures of the states apiting millions of dollars for xi - rirK)so. the good ronds move- ; . has received Its greatest im-j.-i siuco the foundation of the re1 1 money that will be expended on '' roads of this country during tf.. ii xt six months will bo more t..v:. r hrforo In the same period or time. In 1901 the total expenditure it the conotruction and main- .!.:.:! k of roads and bridges In the I t ;ed States amounted to about $., i i.oiw, but the expenditure for !.! purpose In 1911 will aggregate atui,: $1 lo.550.000. Exclusive of Sun-:a-and legal holidays, the outlay for r ....' will amount to $1.000.000 a day .ring the present road building seah. :. This includes all moneys raised ty !o ai taxation, bond Issue, state .'iirm;nation and prlvato subscrlpt:. : Kvery state In the Union," said L i .n Waller Page, director of tho

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Number of Dope Fiends Is Increasing

A i HDIN'G to statistics collected y i-overnment rnvostlgators. wo ! - i.micg a nation or drug fiends. T lumber of persons addicted to grading and dobasing habit is I . m! at 4,000.000. and the evil Is c :. i.intlr growing. With the object c: -..rainn the country, the United ? s k i eminent has Issued a bul- !. r,. cautioning tho people against t . ( known as tho "habit-forming" -.winds. Tho experts employed ' :.- government are certain that r. v drug Ilends aro being created t: -v y. -ir through the Insidious patt dirine and tho soft drink that : : in a trace of tho narcotic agents v! . h finally form the terrible drug Kit,; There are 100 sanitaria t!rn :K.out tho country for the cure f : tt.-.x mind-wrecking habit and there i:t hundreds of graves being filled evtry year with unfortunate victims o.' th- drugs. NVr-r a day goos by that some Bii.rdT. death, defalcation or sulcldo Wause of tho drug falls to occur. T:r-d workers driven to tho ragged edw of human endurance learn to use opium or cocaine or other seductive Cr.ii and sooner or later they depart tt:s life by means of a rope, carbolic Midshipmen Being T.u: m midshipmen who recently graduated at the United States fiaal academy, and whom It Is pro-I-isM to crente ensigns as soon as I"1. b'.e. have in the last year of thi'ir course received special training to fit them peculiarly for a war with Japan A member of the class has lt the secret out. The hundreds of other middies will be similarly treated The members of tho graduating fltis during the Inst four months aTe been familiarized with the prinflf! natal b.ises, armaments, naval forces, und resources of Japan, and tlfy have In theory fought naval bafles with Japan. h could not he learned who had tfen the orders to Instruct the mid

Young " Hippo' 9 for the Capital Zoo

A FINE young female hippopotamus from Kast Africa is the latest nd4 ';'! to the national zoologln.; park in Washington. The hippopotamus Is atom to years old. welu'bs SIO 1'" r.dft. and is an exceptionally fine tefimen. The Interest in the new rrhal a almost as great as it was tveral year ago when former PresMnt RtioMveU received his famous nisifrnment of animals from Monellk H of Abygslnin. which he promptly turned over to the national zoo. The hippopotamus Is of tho species inhabits the rivers and lakes f Africa south of tho Soudan. She me rtirrct from East Africa, vln wrmarjy, and was not horn In capJJ't?. but In the jungle, on the bank ot eome teeming African stream. She "bout the biggest piece of live Bhr that has arrived In WashIh . ,n hom(! tln,e- EverT Preparaat. however, had been made for her mal, a Dcw cagQ Md UQk hayng

a Day on Roads

T'nlted States office of public roads, in telling of tho results of tho great campaign for good ronds. "seems nt last to bo thoroughly arousod to the benefits derived from lnvestmeuts In Improved highways." In California tho state has Issuud $18.000.000 In bonds with which to ! build a system of stnto highways. This work will begin during tho present reason. In the state of Connecticut about $2.50000 will bo expended this ynr out of tho stnto treasury for trunk line and stato aid roads. Of the J5.000.000 bond Issuo recently authorized In Maryland more than ? 1.250,000 will be available this year for trunk line and state aid roads. Massachusetts will expend from stato revenues over $1.000.000 for tho construction and maintenance of state roads. It is expected that at least tü.000.000 will bo expended on stateaid roads and on trunk line systems In tbo state of New York. In addition to $7.000.000 alroady raised by local taxation. In 1910. thirty counties In Ohio voted $2,500.000 in bonds to bo expended, this year. Ohio will also expend about $500,000 from tho stato revenues for road Improvement. In Pennsylvania, the state-aid appropriation will probably amount to over $1.000.000, and a $50.000.000 bond issue Is being considered. Various counties In Tennessee will expend $1.500.000 from bond Issues. In Virglnlo, $2.500,000 has been authorized by various counties, to be expended this year, while over $250,000 has been appropriated In the state of Wisconsin, in accordance with the state aid system. acid or a leap from a bridge. So- ! ciety girls In search of a new sensation take up the habit and drift down ! to the under world. Tho drug evil j spreads its ravages in all classes of - life. ! The bureau of chemistry, under t! e direction of its chief. Dr. H. V Wiley, which made a far-reaching in vestigatiou of the drug habit, was appalled by the results of its inquiry. It found that the amount of opium being imported Into the United Slate3 has doubled within the last generation. It discovered that hundreds of preparations for the cure of headaches and the relief of pain that are being sold every day were filled with alluring, enslaving agents that creato the drug user's lotos land. It found that over 150.000 ounces of cocaine were being consumed annually by tho drug users of the country. Trained for Japan shipmen what to do In case of a war with Japan, and the greatest possible secrecy has been maintained while the teaching was going on. In many of the places and Instructions the name of Japan was not mentioned at nil, and the author of them simply said, "the navy of the strongest Asiatic power." It was fuJther stated by tho Informer that ho understood tho S5 graduating cadets at West Point, N. Y.. had received the same Instructions as to land fighting that the midshipmen had In naval warfare. Tho member of the class :pon promlso that his name should not bo revealed, said: "We have boon taught what to do In a moment's notice in case of war with Japan. Of course some of the papers, and. in fact, a majority of them, did not mention Japan. They said 'at island empire or 'an Asiatic nation or something like that Wo have. In theory, fought a war on both sldos of the continent namely: on b'tn the Pacific and Atlantic oceans." Jill stay HfcKt IF THEY CWE been Installed In one of the wings of tho lior. house. Miss Hippo has tho best accommodations at tho zoo. Zoologically speaking, her apartment corresponds to a room and prlvato bath In a hotel. Tho cage is divided in half, ono part consisting of a big tank and the other a dry concrete surface amply largo for her to move nbout without crowding agnlnst walls or bars. Although weighing nearly S30 pounds, she Is regarded as something of an Infant at cresent and therefore does not require or receive as great a quantity of food as a full-grown anluiaL

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15 A FftMOUS JURIST Personal Characteristics of John Marshall Harlan.

Venerable Ker.tucklan Who Recently Celebrated the 78th Anniversary of His Birth Has Had a Brilliant Career. Washington. Tho dissenting opinions which Justice Harlan, of tho Supreme court, rendered In tho construing of tho Sherman law In tho Standard Oil and Tobacco cases havo brought this veteran jurist prominently beforo tho public. The justice was 78 years old tho other day and Is still strong and rugged, with every mental faculty unimpaired. Ho has been on the Supremo court more than a third of a century. During 33 years and 6 months ho has abgonted himself from tho 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 Justlco Harlan purchased a half of a city block on a hill overlooking Washington, and there built a fine, old-fashioned, rambling homo of brick, with wide porches. When ho took possession an unobstructed view of the city below and tho absence of noise and the commotion of city life made the spot Jc'eal for the homo of a justice. f Although he Is In tho midst of tho city today, ho manages to keep about tho house the atmosphere of tho cotin try. The trees which ho planted in the side, front and rear yards huva grown to maturity. A great hedga circles the grounds, and In pplto of the evidences of the city on all sides, the privacy of a country home Is maintained. A southerner by birth and education. Justice Harlan keeps about his home the hospitable southern ntmosphero. A colored butler Invites the visitor Into a largo reception hall. The walls are covered with portraits of Jurists or makers of tho constitution, Washington. Hamilton. Jefferson, Murshall and a score of tbe fathers of tho republic. Here and there are scattered portraits of tho Harlan family. A life-size bust of Justico Harlan is In the hall. A winding, broad staircase leads to tho study. Tho walls aro completely covered with yellow and red-bound tomes. There aro a few big, comfortable chairs and a large desk In tho center. Here the Kentucky expounder of Hlackstone does his real work and thinking. Here tho opinions are written. Justice Harlan Is a 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, the little that remains. Is white. Tho top of his head Is bald; there is a little hair on each side. Ills head Is unusually large, and Is narrower at the front than the rear. His ears arc big. When he stnllos which Is often the Jurlat cmltB a sort of chuckle and ßhows a few very few teeth. Ho Is an Inveterate tobacco chewer. He and Chief Justice White frequently exchange "plugs." Juiitlco Harlan rises early and breakfasts with his family. His secretary meets him In the study nt nbout 9 o'clock and takes tho day's dictation. The judge boards n 14th street electric car between 10 and 11 In tho morning. When tho car reaches 1 Uli and New York avenue a colored newsboy who has served him for years, hops on the car nnd gives him three or four of tho morning papers. Without spectacles, Justlco Harlnn proceeds to rend tho day's news. When he ranches the Capitolabout three and n half miles from his home ho tosses the papers away. Ho lunches In hid office and takos tho home-bound car nt about 4:30 in tho afternoon. An hour's work In tho study finishes the day's work, nnd if the weather Is good, he spends the twilight on tho porches about his house. He goes but llttlo Into society, save when his position demands It. He nttends tho N'ew York Avenue Presbyterian church. He may be found any Sunday morning In tho Sunday school room explaining to his clasi tho day's üospel.

AGED WOMAN CLOTH WEAVER

Mrs, Hodgdon at 75 Says She Could Not Live Without Sound of Looms. Saro, Mo. Save ono, tho only American In a vutt room among thousands of thoso who speak no word of ISngllsh and whore the stridor of machinery dins her oara from daylight to dark, Mrs. Melissa Hodgdon, at Koventy-fivo, tho oldest wenvor ot cloth In America, has just completed her fifty-fifth year of work In tho cotton mill of tho York Manufacturing company hero. Although Mrs. Hodgdon has outlived all but ono of tho many thouMrs. Amelisca Hodgdon. sands who have worked In the York mills since 1S5G, and has oven scon tho original owners of the great concern pass into tlieir graves, she is still ai capable a worker as tho average young French girl of nineteen, and her fingers will comb out a "pickout" or tuend a thread or throw in a new shuttle with all the deftness and precision of the loom Itself. Mrs. Hodgdon has seen the cotton business change from a struggling little Industry, hampered by poor machinery and even by a dearth of cotton caused by the Civil war, to perils, ps the greatest activity ot New England, and one of tho greatest In ho United States. When sho began her work the cotton loom waB little different from tho hand loom which h id been In use since antiquity. At that time there wore many hand 1. uns nil in use. Mrs. Hodgdon t iv sh d"s not remember whether s-1. ever used a hand loom, but says sho knew weavers In Canada who wire then using them. ANCiENT CHEST OF DRAWERS School Teacher to Receive Heirloom in Form of Old-Fashioncd Article cf Furniture. South Paris, Mo. Being next In line of family descendants. Frank Farrar, a native of this place, now a school teacher in Dallas, Tex., Is to receive a valuable heirloom In tho form of i chest of drawers, an oldfashioned, seldom-seen article of furniture. Tho old relic, hand-mado 1C0 years old, Is seven feet high nnd has eight largo drawers and three small ones. Four boards which make tho sides are each 30 inches long by 27 Inches wide and 7 of an Inch thick of solid mahogany. There are 3S foot of this rare wood used In the finished Chest Is 10 Years Old. form, all of which Is of nn Inch thick. The chest was built for David Bemls, whoso son brought the caso to Paris with him In 179G. Oklahoma Indians. Muskogee, Okla. There nro many Indians In the West prominent in public life. Charles D. Carter of tho Fourth congressional district of Oklahoma, la a Chickasaw Indian, with soma Cherokee blood. Carter was born nnd brought up among the Indians, was educated In nn Indian school and h?a been associated with Indians all his life. , Senator Owen of Oklahoma Is n quarter breed; W. A. Durand, spoakor of tho Oklahoma house of represent atlvos. Is a Chickasaw, and Benjamin V. Harrison, secretary of state of Oklnhomn, Is a. Choctaw, born and educated In tho Choctaw nation. In tho eastern half of Oklahoma. In proportion to tho population, more Indians aro holding stato, district, county and municipal ofllccfl than white people, and they aro equally successful, which demonstrates conclusively that they aro competent for self govornment. Governor Cruco of Oklnhoina, while not an Indian, Is married Into tho race, his wlftj. now dead, having been nn Indian.

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His Belongings

If ownership of something Is essential for a man, It Is for a boy as well. It Is necessary In a man because God has put him In the midst of things that are to bo owned, has given him a desire for possession and has distinctly told him to subduo and use them. So a boy must begin to havo things of his own, for ho needs training in that, as well as In his memory or reasoning or power of speech. Through his memory, ho owns much; through laying up something, ho Is providing for tho future and increasing his present enjoyments and opportunities. Ono can own only what ho can know and use. Tho vagrant has nothing to enjoy; tho very rich own very llttlo 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. But 6otno men aro llko an arrow 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. He must havo his own comb and brush, toys, books, clothes and articles of usefulness. His pockets show his passion for possession, a blind desire, working without the power of selection, nnd tho result Is an aggregation of things entirely useless, except to n boy knife, tops, marbles, beanshooters, beeswax, bullets, buckles, lead, scrap Iron, slings, strings, fishing hooks, fishing lines, fishing worms, chewing gum, licorice, candy, pills. Thero la an ago when he Is more actlvo In such enterprises, but ho is doing tho same thing ho does when he amasses wealth. He has a trading age, from about eleven to fifteen, when he will trade any thing he has for any thing any other boy has cats and dogs and pigeons nnd toys and any of tho things he carries In his pockets. He must not only possess things, but take care of them aa woll. The penalty for not having what he can call his own Is that he never has anything to give to others, is thriftless, solflsh. begging, borrowing and tempted to stal what he would like to havo. Possessions menn power and thrift is preparation for peace. He cannot take caro of his own things unless ho has a place for them which is his own. That Is one of the reasons why a boy should have a room, and a trunk, and tho equipment with which he can take caro of his things. That Is not the only reason

His Own Man

Every boy looks forward, with special delight, to the time when ho will be his own man, as he likes to phrase It, at least, as we boys used to express it. By that, he means tho tlmo when he can do as ho wishes, as tho grown folks do, and not bo responsible to anyone but himself; when he can quit going to school and running on errands, If ho wishes. If he does not know It at first, ho has to learn that he does not become his own roan by simply passing out from under the control of his parents, but by coming under tho control of his own higher nature his Judgment nnd will and consclonce. When ho reaches the ago for taking himself out of tho hnnds of his parents, Just as they onco reached a similar age, ho must havo been so trained In tho mastery of himself that ho Is ready for tho new responsibility. And. un- ! luss he has been given little tasks In I self direction all along, and more and j more, us ho got used to It, ho will I have too big a job on his hands nil at once. Tho best thing his father and mother over do for him Is to teach him to get along without them, while , they tako their place besldo him as companions nnd friends. Many n boy Is, In fact, wiser than his parents nnd Is so recognized beforo ho Is old enough to bo free from tbo law of obedience, but It Is not a good thing to let hlra know that they think him wiser. Beforo ho is really his own man two things are necessary. Ho must reject any other master and must secure po.V-lvo and personal control over ovory power of his body and mind. Three rivals will dispute his right. Ono rival Is some strong personality In tho form of a boy who appeals to b.s weakness or even his good traits. If that toy controls him, ho Is not his own man. Another rival 13 public sentiment, in tho form of tho bunch or gang with which he gooa. A boy will htilp mako laws for tho crowd without feeling tho need of any discipline for hlmaelf, and yet ho Is not his own man as long ns : c allows them to dominate his privato life. 171a other rival Is found on tho Inside, among the passions and Impulses and fancies which aro likely to tako the reins of govornment In hand any minute. A hot temper Is one of thoso rivals. When he Is controlled by temper or Jealously or envy, when he lets any vulgar passion run away with him, that becomes his master. Tho effect of this Is to weaken his will, confuso his Judgment and dull bis conscience. When a boy becomes his own man

ho should have a separate room, butt that Is enough. What has been said about all of this' applies especially to his money. As. he Is expected to make money and! possess It and use it in the future, ho must begin it, as a boy, and learn to do It in the right way, so as to avoid tho wrong vte.y later. The very samo principles that ho Is to observe then aro to bo acted upon now, both because they aro right and becauso ho

will not act on them, as a man, unless he learns to act on them now. Often ho can earn money without! weakening his sense of obligation to sorvo his parents or tho family. I re call, with tho greatest pleasure, the money my cousin and I made for our-i selves and saved for his father, br gathering up tho apples, that would! otherwise have gone to waste In his. father's orchard, and selling them on' tho streets of Petersburg and giving away what wo failed to sell. Wo turned one-half tho gross receipts over to tho owner of tho orchard and divided tho other half between us. But It Is a question, even today, whether wo found more pleasuro In tho money we made or In the way wo made It. How shall ho take caro of It? Ho will bo apt to get rid of It fast enough. That was an exceptional boy, who swallowed the five dollar gold plece, and they applied tho stomach pump to' recover It. His Hebrew father complained bitterly at tho 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 his parents. As it comes regularly, it cultivates In him order and system. A pocket book, to keep It In, ministers to his pleasure, makes hlra orderly and enables him; to Bavo It more easily. An account book to set down receipts and expenditures in, .trains him In tho vlrtuo of accuracy. Reports to his father each week, keep alive tho sense 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 small reward for additional Bavlngs will still further teach him tho value of money. A rigid refusal tu allow him to spend It, In Injurious ways, may prevent spendthrift habits. Putting as much aa possible every sir months in a savings bank, tha will pay hrm Interest, gives him an Idea of business. . Meeting some of bis personal expenses with his own money will teach him forethought and selfdenial. he has to take In hand a great many different things that belong to him and Insist on being with him all tbo time. He has to tako chargo of his imagination, and tht Is no easy task. Now a, boy naturally prefers to control others rather than himself. Thinking ho is right, bo is not apt to slnglo himself out for special disciplinary treatment, nnd ho usually regards enforced obedience to thoso who Insist on being over him ns all tho discipline ho needs, which means that tho task of acquiring self control muct beset by another. Boys will form laws and by-laws for their clubs, but they do not aim at discipline In the interest of self control. And he has another drawback. Ho Is In a state of unstable equilibrium and ho must learn himself, as new traits como out. Then ho seems to drop everything elso to get acquainted with the latest comer among his attributes; while ho is doing that, something unexpected is likely to tako place. Tho result is turmoil and seeming defeat. But he mounts again, and is in the saddle Thus ho learns. A good test of self control Is ability; to fix nnd bold one's attention to a given rantter as long as ho wishes. Tho old story Is In point, on tho reverso side, about tho man who grew rich by telling how to turn eggs Into gold. His formula was simple. Tho. money was collected In advance and would bo refunded if tho formula was faithfully tried without tho promised results. Take tho yolks of a dozen eggs, hold them over the flro one minute without once thinking of the word Hippopotamus. If a boy cannot bo his own man without having control of himself then ho must be ranstor of his body. That means to conserve his strength and prevent all spoliation of it Ho must be able to handlo that body aa tho driver his horse. It moans that he koeps his powers nt the highest degree of olllclency. He Is not his own ranstor If ho does not keep a clean body. Ho will know how to relax and rost. Ho must know himself nnd bo on the alert when thoso curious and rapid chemical changes tako place In tho body and require instant readjustment. Ho must control his muscles. Ho must keep his Imagination clean. Ho must fix his eyes on tho truest goal. Ho must acquire this through Imitation of an attractlvo example and woall know where ho ought to find that example. Others must havo thought It out for him and led blm into bis kingship over himsslf.