Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 52, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 October 1912 — Page 7

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HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

(Scientists Believe There Is a Reason for Bugs

"HUSBAND FAIR" BIG EVENT

R!ly the Ceremony of the Year In Quaint Belgian Village of Eceussinei.

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WASHINGTON. Secretary Wilson is looking for bedbugs in his official and not his private capacity. Mr. "Wilson wants all the bedbugs he can get, and furthermore he is wilHng to pay a fair price for them. This is not a hobby with Tama Jim. In fact, he has no intention of ever coming in personal contact with 'the unpopular bipeds or quadrupeds or centipedes, whichever class they

happen to belong to. Mr. Wilson wants as many of this species of the "bug family as he can buy at a nickel

apiece for purely experimental pur -poses. On the old Lewis farm, near Vien

ma, a few miles from Washington,

the department of agriculture main

tains an experimental farm. Every

class of bugs that have any part what

soever in farm life are being studied

by the department's scientists.

In the railroad station at Vienna

this sign was posted:

"WANTED Bedbusrs. Five cents

will be paid for each .bedbug dellv

ered at the office of the experimental

farm of the department of agriculture."

The farmers of Vienna intend to

call at the farm and make sure that accommodations have ,been made for

the safekeeping of the bugs.

Some of Uncle Sam's scientists be

lieve there is a reason for bedbugs and if they manage to substantiate

this theory they intend to put them

to work at a more gratuitous task

than that upon which they are generally engaged.

There is a theory that most self-

respecting species of bugs will have no dealings with bedbugs in fact.

they will not live In the same neighborhood. This theory is based upon two assumptions. The first is that bedbugs are scrappers and beat up and kill anything else that happens to cross their way in bugdom. Now the department of agriculture's scientists have about decided which bugs do the most damage to fruit trees. These experiments have been carried on at the Lewis farms for many months. The most deadly bugs, as far as fruit is concerned, have been segregated in boxes and bottles. The bedbugs are to be introduced to these select fruit killers and then the scientists are going to see what happens. If the bedbugs carry off the honors Uncle Sam may try to induce them to leave their present abodes for fruit orchards.

fAh, It Was a Sad Day for "Count" Perreard

JEAN PERREARD, true son of Paris, he of the Cae de Perreard, was disconsolate the other day. It was the Sabbath and also the ananniversary of the fall of the Bastile. And for the first time in years the "count," as he is familiarly known, failed to observe the day. The count's celebrations have been notable events in Washington for years, but the count let the day pass quietly because it fell on a Sunday. Everything about the Chateau de Perreard was normal, except that from a window breezed the tricolor of La Belle France. Stilled were the clinking glasses, because it was the Sabbath day. The hearty chanting of "The Marseilles," as only the count could chant it, was not wafted out into Thirteenth street from the' chateau windows as in the past. In fanciful retrospection the count recalled the celebrations of yesteryear and his friends missed them. The bon vivants of the town, who call Perreard the count, recalled the trips down the river as his guests and how he used to chant the cabaret

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Petersburg. Hundreds of gallons of fine whisky were destroyed here when revenue officials raided three places where it was alleged liquor had been sold illegally. More than -a dray load of demijohns and barrels containing whisky were taken to the public square and their contents were dumped into the gutter. Petersburg is a "dry" town and the raid was a surprise, as the owners had not taken the precaution to hide the liquor. The places raided had no liquor licenses, and a number of men, who have been intoxicated recently, swore they had bought whisky from

the proprietors of the places. City Marshal Whitney broke in the heads of the demijohns and barrels at the

direction of the revenue officers. Hartford City. "Dump" Botts, an amateur prize fighter of Montpelier, was arrested there on a white slave charge preferred by T. J. Hillyard of Chicago, an agent of the United States department of justice, and has been taken to Toledo, O., where he will be arraigned in the federal court. Botts is alleged to have procured Marguerite Schuyler, eighteen years old, of Celina, O., for immoral purposes. Wabash. Durbin Crill, thirty-four years old, a farmer, was instantly killed "at his home near North Manchester when he was thrown from

a horse. Crill had mounted the animal

to demonstrate to a prospective purchaser Hhat the horse was sound of wind ana was just bringing the animal to a scop when he was thrown and his skull crushed. The widow and one child survive. Elwood. Fifty-two years old and the mother of twenty-six children, Mary Ann Tucker has applied for a divorce from Samuel Tucker, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment She was married thirty-five years ago and had borne seven children before she was twenty-one. Five sets of twins were born to the parents, but only seven of the twenty-six children are now living.

Brussels, Belgium. The tenth annual "husband fair" of the quaint little village of Eceussines, situated a few miles from the Belgian capital, was held recently. Just about a decade ago the maidens of the town resolved to take active steps to remedy the serious falling off in the number of eligible young bachelors. Believing in the well-known "feed the wretch" principle, they organized a breakfast, consisting chiefly of those dainty little cakes for which the Belgians are noted, washed down with delicious coffee and fresh cream. All the girls of

the town club together to pay the cost

of the breakfast, the excursions, and

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PEOPLE IN THE CLOUDS.

While the Esperanto congrew im in session at Krakau recently the news -was received of the death at Konstanz of Dr. Martin Schleyer, who about thirty years ago gave to the world the form of a "universal language," which he called Volapufc The word was derived from the two English words "world" and "speak." Tht language, with its 1,300 "root words," was studied diligently by many peo

ple, some of whom predicted It speedy universal adoption. But thii did not deter Dr. Zamenhof from proceeding with his work in the same direction, which he Anally published over the name Dr. Esperanto. Commenting on the work of the two men, a writer in the Berlin Post says, in conclusion: "Schleyer died at eightyone; his language died before him.

Zamenhof is still alive, and his Ian-

Bolivia has taken a most unique gUage is known as Esperanto."

songs of dear old Paris. And all remembered how the count used to say, when asked how he would celebrate the independence day of France: "Oh, eet will be ze grande time." The continental Sunday has about as much chance in Washington as the count would have had in the Marathon, and so ' the only way the head of the house of Perreard could observe the day was to sip a little green stuff, as it filtered through a loaf of sugar. But all the time the tricolor floated in the breeze from the casement of the cafe. The count could not have a public party, and so he had none. It was a bad day for France. And the count was very, very sad.

Agricultural Department an Aid to Housewives

NO branch of-the United States government comes so near to the life of the people as the department of agriculture, which deals with the cotton and other fibers of which our clothes are made, the flocks and herds we raise, the crops we produce, the food we eat and the timber of which our houses are built. The closeness of the relation between the department and the people is in great measure due t.o the fact that the use which is müde of agricultural products receives as much attention as their production, and the great bulk of these products is used in the home. Commenting 'on this phase of the department's work Secretary Wilson said:

Laporte. Prosecutor Smith prepared papers for the arrest of Albert Liebig. a Michigan City man who killed a fellow workman, Joe Syposki, in a joke when he used a compressed air pump on his body, turning on seventy pounds of pressure. The victim died later in terrible torture, his body having been torn muscle from muscle. Gary. William Rugh, a crippled newsboy of Gary, has oifere'd his limb in order to save the life of Ethel Smith, who was burned in a motorcycle accident. Skin grafting is necessary if Miss Smith is to live,

and at least forty persons must give cuticle. Rugh will permit his useless leg to be amputated. Madison. Carmel United Presbyterian church celebrated Its centennial anniversary at Hanover.

Several former pastors were present and many former members from various cities. Laporte. For the first time in the industrial history of Laporte, labor troubles are threatened. Fifty men walked out of the Rumely plant. A threatened cut in wages ia

believed to be responsible for the trouble. Booneville. William Matthews, a prominent business man and manager of the Booneville canning factory, died from injuries resulting from the explosion of a gasoline tank which caught fire from a lantern. He was a well-known Mason. Indianapolis. Two youths were killed and three others severely

"Commercial Industries were long ago studied by scientific methods, since it was found that gaining knowledge by experience was much more costly than gaining it by systematic study. It is only lately that we have ; come to realize that it is equally profitable to study the housekeepers' problems. "Fifty years ago few such questions had been taken to the laboratory and few schools gave instruction in such subjects. Today very many men and women of scientific training have taken the home problem to the laboratory and are finding ways of helping the housekeeper to solve her problems satisfactorily. "The department of agriculture has studied many questions which relate to the use of agricultural products on

the farm and in the home, but per- I crushed in a pile of lumber whicD

LIKED THE SLIDE.

A jolly little English bulldog, first interferred with, and then boosted the shooVthe-chutes game of some boys in an amusement park of St. Louis on the. Fourth of July by its determination to join the gang. The boys, thinking one trip would bo sufficient to warrant retirement, gave him &

Street of Eceussines.

the ball which terminates the eventful day's proceedings.

At nine o'clock in the morning

sprightly young bachelors arrive

from all parts of the kingdom by train

and proceed direct to the town hall,

where they sign their names in the

"Golden Book", of the "Girls' Marriage

Society." Half an hour later they are

served with breakfast by the young la

dies, who are headed by their own

elected "presidente." The ice now being to some . extent broken, the young men and maidens set off to

visit the quarries and the fine old church of which the inhabitants are justly proud. Naturally the young ladies lead the way, but they often cast furtive glances at the crowds of young men who follow with great docility. At half-past eleven a visit is made to the old fifteenth century castle, which affords excellent opportunities for bringing the young people a little closer together. At noon everybody goes to lunch the men to restaurants and the irls to their homes. The latter tell their anxious parents about the morniijg's happenings. Lunch must be finished by halfpast one, as this is the time fixed for the official reception of the bachelors by the young ladies. The "presidente" makes a speech in which she offers a hearty welcome to the young men, and extols the charms of married life with the wife of one's choice.- A blare of trumpets signals the end of her discourse, and dancing now begins in every available open space, or in the town hall if the weather is unfavorable. The young couples sort themselves out, and a number of engagements, followed by"happy marriages, forms a fitting conclusion to the picturesque "Husband Fair" of Ecaus-sines.

way among the South American coun

tries of observing its national birthday. It proposes to celebrate by opening a railway which will give it a short line across the coast range of

the Andes down to the ocean. Bo

livia's July 4th, that is, its indepen

dence day, comes on August 6th, and

this is the day set for opening the railroad which connects the capital La Paz with Arica on the Pacific.

Bolivia itself is one of the most In

teresting countries in the world. It

sometimes has been called the im

prisoned country because it had no

coast line. Its great table land or plateau sustains more than 1,000,000 inhabitants at an altitude of nearly two

miles. There is no part of the world where so large a number of people find the means of subsistence at such

an elevation. Tibet, as is well known, start Dut after s first slide, It wag-

has very few inhabitants. Christian ge(j tke merriest kind of a tall and

Herald. made a bee-line for the ladder, which

it tried to mount for the next trip. The

VALUABLE FIND OF OAK. next hour was spent hi carrying the

dog to the top of the chute and then

A rich fiind of black oak has just ranging themselves alongside for the

been made on a farm near Hull, Eng- cheering, as he slid past

LUNATIC AS DOCTOR.

land. The farm recently changed hands, and the new owners decided to clear away a wood which stood upon

it. In excavating to remove tree roots While a prominent specialist was

the workmen discovered several absent from the consulting room in trunks of black bog oak, and further Berlin the other day, a lunatic maninvestigations revealed hundreds of aged to obtain admission, and posed trunks of oak under the ground. They as the doctor to the many patients were in splendid condition, and had who called, giving them prescriptions evidently been buried a century or and advice. There appeared to bo more. It is customary to bury oak in nothing unusual in his manner until & order to turn it black and thus in- iady was a constant patient crease its value. Evidently that had asked him if he was acting as substibeen done in this case, but the death tute during the holidays. The imor removal of the proprietor of the postor laughed, and told her to take farm caused it to be forgotten, and it peppermint lozenges for her lung lay undisturbed, and other trees were trouble. The woman raised the planted on the top of it. So great is alarm, and the madman was taken the quantity and so compactly Is it into custody. Considerable anxiety is buried that explosives are being used felt for the other patients, for whom

to loosen it. The value of the oak Is he may have prescribed poison. All

believed to be considerable.

the pharmacists have been advised of

the affair.

HAVE IT IN FOR SCHWAB.

OFFICIALISM IN GERMANY.

"Whenever the name of Charles M.

Schwab is mentioned, even the mild

est-mannered man in the foreign con

haps none of them has a closer 're

lation to the household than the nutrition investigations of the office of experiment stations, which have to do with the use of agricultural products as human foods and whose object is to help the housewife in her efforts to provide good living at reasonable cost, without undue labor.'1

Turkey

Trot New? Danced 500 Years in Borneo

r' WILL be news to many doubtless that the much-criticised "turkey trot" has been danced to the rain god of a savage tribe in the north of Borneo for more than five hundred years. Several young women of one of Washington's exclusive circles were astounded when Prof. Edward Davidon, a Washington dancing master, made this statement to them during a lecture on the history of dancing. Professor Davidson said that the "trot" is one of the holy of holies in the religion of the savage Muruts. When there comes a prolonged dry spell these head-hunting natives perform the trot day in and day out until the great rain god has heard their prayers. The professor visited the north, of the island several years ago. ,lie says he saw them dance around (the image of the god an entire night. "During the latter part of the lelghteenth century the turkey trot ifa& introduced into the dancing schools of Italy and Portugal, and soon everybody was doing it. In the firit part of the nineteenth century t gradually died out

"The clergy of Italy, Spain and Portugal made a loud outcry against the 'heathen dance,' but the physical culturlsts and dancing masters favored It on the ground that it was good exercise. In the fashionable dancing schools of Rome it was all the rage for a short time Traces of the turkey trot can be seen in the folk dances of Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and France. "In 1SSS an Italian named Giovanni Casini introduced the dance to San Francisco. For a time it was not appreciated much outside of Barbary Coast circles. Then it came to New York and certain prominent dancing masters introduced it into the Four Hundred."

shifted in a box car here. The five

had beer mployed by a circus and

had boaided the car at Charleston, 111. While in the yards here the car was hit by a switch engine with such force that the lumber was shifted on to them. . New Albany. Joseph Brocketts, hge thirty-five, of Ford, Ky., died at the City hospital from injuries received by a fall from the new Kenlucky and Indiana bridge. He fell 165 Ceet. With his back, neck and ribs broken and skull fractured Brocketts lived 45 minutes after the accident. Lafayette. Joseph Lantisa, twenty years old. employed In the road department of the Wabash railroad, fell from a handcar here and was crushed beneath the wheels. His neck was broken and he Is lying in an unconscious condition in St. Elizabeth hospital. The young man's father, Andrew Lantisa, was present when the accident happened Shelbyville. A jury in superior court here returned a verdict of $700 against the Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction company on account of the death of Mrs. Mary Cartmel, in January, 1910. Her son Thomas sued the company ?or $10,000 as administrator of her estate. Mrs. Cartmel and her husband, Samuel, were killed by the Greensburg express at Waldron, while they were driving to church in a buggy. The son has also lued the traction company for $30,000 for the death of his father.

It is estimated that an eighth of the male Germans whom the census re-

tingent in Pekin breaks into strings turns as independently earning a livof abuse," says a letter from there, ing are either permanent officials of "The steel man, on the first day he state or municipal employes. The was in the Chinese capital, went from Volkspartel leader, Dr. Frederich his hotel to the Temple of Heaven Naumann, some years ago estimated and back in a rickshaw. The coolie's the state and municipal officials alone legitimate tariff was ten cents, but at 1,200,000. But these 1,200,000 were Schwab, with a flourish, handed him all "officials" in the strict sense; and $5 and walked away. Never again did did not include 500,000 state railway he come out of the hotel without it employes who are only workers; and being necessary to call the reserves also excluded the vast majority of muof the Chinese police force to quell nicipal employes who are not "offlthe disturbance created by the efforts cials." The "official" staff of the of one hundred rickshaw men to se- state railways number about 36,000; cure him as a passenger. Moreover, the "official" post and telegraph emit was not until several months later ployes 320,000; the school teach ara

that the other foreigners were able to 1S3,000.

convince the coolies that the rate set

SELF-SUPPORT FOR BLIND

Main Rrhnnl to Pav Them for

Work at Trades Will Make Brooms and Weave Rugs.

by Mr. Schwab was not a standard."

working VALUABLE RING RECOVEREIX

YESTERDAY.

Portland, Me. If the plan which

Millard W. Baldwin, the new head of

the Maine School for the Blind in this

city, is to put into operation when the next term of the school opens

proves a success there will be no blind person buried ,in a papuper's

grave or go to a hospital as a char

ity patient in the future.

This school is an industrial one,

where the blind are taught to make

brooms, cane chairs, weave rugs and other trades such as are adaptable

to the blind. In the past those who

went there have received no compen-

nnHrm for thir labor. They were

given their board and no more. By Mr. Baldwin's plan each man and woman will be paid on the piece system. At the end of each week his or her board will be deducted. In addition a certain per cent., according to the amount earned, will be taken out and deposited to the earner's credit in a savings bank. So long as the blind person remains in the school this money cannot be drawn from the bank by him or her, except by the approval of the trustees of the school. In this way a fund will be created for each pupil for use in later life. Another feature which will be introduced in the school by the new superintendent is that of reading the newspapers to them. A certain hour will be designated, when all will gather in the big hall of the school and Mr. Baldwin will read the important news of the day to them. Mr. Baldwin is a native of the State of New York and was for many years connected with the educational work of that state, both as a teacher and a supervisor of schools. For several years past he has been engaged in business in Maine, but was induced to

take his present position because of a lifelong interest in the work of teaching those afflicted with loss of

He who by the plow would thrive Himself must either hold or drive. Benjamin Franklin.

Under remarkable circumstanc&J a valuable gold ring, set with sapphires and pearls, belonging to a resident of Rochester, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, has been discovered after being missing for over four years. It is assumed that the ring must have been carted away with ashes, for while working on a near-by farm a bailiff found the ring in a field. Although It had been missing for such a lengthy period the ring was not in the least tarnished. The man who was working in the field with the bailiff happened to remember the loss of the ring.

HAS PET CHIMPANZEE.

TODAY. He who by the plow now thrives,

Rides a spring seat, and both holds Surgicaj instruments she will select

and use a stethoscope, ana sne is an

Capt. H. W. Long, British rcj-ai army medical corps, who has arrived at Plymouth on his way to London from Sierra Leone, has brought home with him a trained female chimpanzee, which he calls Lady Sassa, M. D. When she is given a case of

and drives.

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PRICE OF SUICIDE RISES.

adept at feeling the pulse. With the

thermometer she is equally at home and she always gives it the professional shake before using it. Dis-

a ;ccirmftrv in China writes thf nensing is also among her accom-

the price of opiums now higher than plishments. Lady Sassa whistles, but ever on accounf of the stringent does not talk.

measures taken by the government to suppress the cultivation of the poppy. "This rise in price," he says, "has one good feature. Raw opium is a poison, and when the crop is in hundreds of women utilize it as a means of ending their troubles. Now, however, the price iß so high that the rolls of opium contain only about three parts of opium to seven of leather waste. At least ten such rolls are needed to produce death, and each roll costs ten cash, or one cent. The price of suicide by opium is, therefore, ten cents, which is much more than most of those desiring death can possibly scrape together. In other words, suicide is now a luxury which only a few can afford."

WATERPROOFING COTTON. An easy method of waterprooMg cotton Is the formation of aluminum stearate in the fiber of the cloth, which may readily be done by Immersing it In a solution of aluminum sulphate in water (1 in 10), and without allowing 'to dry, passing throagh a solution of soap made from da and tallow or similar fat In hot water. Reaction between the aluminum sulphate and the soap produces aluminum stearate and sodium ulphata. The former is insoluble and remarma in the fiber, the latter is removed by

subsequently rinsing the fabric in ter.

tyeiight.