Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 November 1912 — Page 3

National Museum Is WASHINGTON, Mrs. Julian James of Washington has recently deposited in the United States National Museum the collection of Colonel Theodorus Bailey Myers, a noted connoisseur of New York, which has come down through inheritance and been added to by his son, the late Lieutenant Commander T. B. Myers-Mason of the United States navy. The collection consists of more than 500 objects which the museum authorities have classified under the headings of ceramics, ethnology, archaeology, technology and graphic arts. This collection contains a splendid series of oriental weapons, consisting of Japanese armor, bows, spears, pistols and guns; Chineso swords and spears of superb metal work; wonderful ancient Hindu armor, inlaid with gold and silver, and many implements of warfare from India; Turkish and North African weapons and domestic implements, and many similar objects from Korea and the East Indies. It is also rich In Japanese and Chinese fabrics, embroidery and lacquers. Especially attractive to those interested in the -history of the develop

Capitol's Pied Piper Has a Two-Year Contract

THE proudest boast of Prof. Louis Hirsch, is that he is "rough on jrats." Uno III ci ally, he is known as the "Pied Piper of Washington," ever since he signed a contract with the igovernment to rid the capitol and other federal buildings at Washington of rats, mice, roaches, and other vermlr, and to keep the buildings permanently iSo rid. Prof. Hirsch his title is not merely assumed for business glamor, for he is a graduate of a German university and speaks several languages fluently and to perfectionhas a two years contract with the government, as well as a contract to supply his chemicals to the various departments. The professor has a simple method of his own for geting rid of rats. He doe3 not let them die in their holes or in the building. He leads them out, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and induces them to die outside their hiding places. He first attracts the attention of the rats by giving them something they like, s soon as a few find the choice food, they communicate the fact to the whole rat colony. Then he gives them some more, to jmake sure they have all got a bite of the appetizing dainty. The next step is to feed them the accustomed bait Must Kill Rats to Get THE government experts, after studying 1,000,000 serum Inoculations end 100,000 plague deaths in India, announce their conclusions as follows in regard to combating that disease in America: The eradication of rats Is the all-important thing. Inoculation of human beings conifers a certain degree of immunity against plague for a few months only toy reducing the chance of contracting the infection and still further reducing the chances of deaths therefrom. Inoculation is not eradication. ' Situations demanding the Inoculation of the people in mass may again he encountered in some countries, but could hardly arise in American communlties. Even In groups of people fwho have been Intimately expc ed to .plague infection Inoculation is of doubtful applicability. In such a case Washington Is Very Fond WASHINGTON is tremendously folfd of eagles and lions, both alive and iin effigy. The eagles may bo found perched on flagstaffs, fence posts and :ofilcial doors and on the macos of the liouse and the senate. Xo lamppost Is truly complete unless surmounted by a ibronze eagle. Note the great array -of them in the avenue of the presidents, commonly called Sixteenth street. :- As for the Hons, four In bronze frighten you as you try to gaze upon ithe spot where some day a great fltatue of General Grant will ctand. .They ar3 grand animals from the point of view of fine art Congressman Mc,Call almost bows to them. ! They also guard that great depository of fine arts, the main door of the Corcoran Art gallery. However, they pern asleep.

Given Very Rare Collection

ment of ordnance is the extensive collection of firearms, which contains dueling pistols, sporting guns, models of cannon and other examples of obsolete weapons which Commander Myers-Mason gathered during his life; time. In the collection are included many fine specimens of blue and polychrome Delft plates, as well as extremely valuable examples of Spanish blue and Hispano-Moresque copper-luster ware. The trousseau of an Equadorian Indian bride Is conspicuous among the ethnological collections. It Is made up of bracelets, necklaces, armlets and waistbands, decorated with a great variety of teeth, seeds, beetle wings and other objects of savage fashion. Many of the Korean objects were presented to Commander Myers-Mason by a prince of that country who visited America and was entertained by him. Others pertaining to the domestic life In China and Japan were obtained during his -residence in thosecountries. In the group of Japanese articles is IT unique set of miniature ceremonial furniture of , remarkable perfection as regards- finish and detail. It is said to have been made for the child of the mikado. The art objects are on exhibition in the west hall of the older museum building and form an important beginning for the collection on oriental art soon to be placed there. The firearms are being placed on exhibition in the same building. with a bountiful supply of effective poison larded upon it. The effect of the poison is to make the rat so warm inside that it rushes into the air and scarries around for water. It scurries until it drops dead. The rat-kiler's advice to amateurs at his art is: "Never tackle a rat in a closed room. Open a door or a window. The rat fears man more than it does a cat. A rat will not bite except in self-defense. Corner a rat, and if there is a door or a window it will jump for it; close all exits, and it will jump for you, but only as a last resort. There is no bite worse than that of a rat. It carries infection of the deadliest kind. If you were in bed and a rat should jump on it, all that is necessary for you to do is to raise your hand. The rat will run away, and will not return. But do not attempt to strike it." Rid of Plague Danger It would be preferable to resort to the more rapid means of passive immunization by the use of anti-plague serum either alone or in connection with inoculation. Workers in plague laboratories and hospitals, rat catchers, fumigators, etc., should be inoculated at least once every six months. The use of anti-plague serum for the Immunization of a whole community is altogether impracticable, because of its excessive cost, the limited supply available, the short duration of the immunity conferred, and the excessive discomfort and actual danger accompanying the repeated administration of serum at such intervals as would be necessary to maintain immunity. The government's conclusions indicate that if the country is to be kept free from plague next summer, the work of rat extermination must he carried on unceasingly, regardless of the cold weather. Inoculation consists in injecting into a person a solution of killed or attenuated living plague bacilli. Passive immunization consists in injecting into a person a solution of the blood of some animal (usually a horse) that has been itself immunized against plague by repoated injections, first of dead and then of living plague bacilli. of Eagles and Lions Then one cannot enter or leave the great Connecticut bridge without the assent of the huge lions In stone there. They bid you welcome "and speed you away. The Sixteenth street bridge is guarded in the same way. Some owners of private residences have taken the cue to guard them selves in this manner, huge lions ar resting attention before visitors mar enter the portals,

OLD CITY OF TANGIER

Second Only to Damascus in Its Antiquity. Cosmopolitan in the Extreme Are the Crowded Thoroughfares of the Moroccan Capital Market Place Especially is Worth a Vfsit. Tangier, Morocco. Damascus is said to be the oldest inhabited city in the world, and Tangier is generally acknowledged to be the second oldest. Tangier lies on the north coast of Morocco, facing the straits of Gibraltar, and is about thirty miles from the great fortress. A steamer plies between Gibraltar and Tangier. When the steamer arrives at the Moorish capital, there is a great hubbub. Native boatmen fight and squab--ble among themselves as to who shall get the most passengers. Being a stranger you would perhaps rather stay on board the steamer than trust yourself to, the dusky, howling mob. But there is no other way of getting ashore, and as the view of the town is limited from the deck of the steamer, you find yourself bundled into a corner of the boat and the Moorish boatmen pull for tho shore. As soon as you set foot on the landing stage, you are besieged by a crowd of guides. It is in vain you tell them their services are not required, and so in order to get peace you hire the services of a big lanky Arab. You need not follow him where he wants you to go, but as you have provided yourself with a guide book, you make your own plans. Tangier i3 a cosmopolitan city. Here, jostling together in the crowded thoroughfares, may be seen the stately Berber, with long white robes, Arabs from the desert, Soudanese with thick lips, and complexions black as Egypt's night; wild-looking Riffs from tho hills; Jews, Spaniards, Germans, Britishers and Europeans, bent on business or pleasure. The streets are very narrow, and the shops are very small, so small that the merchant can easily reach all round his store without rising from his seat on the floor. The Moors have a proverb which says "It is no use running if you can walk, and it is no use walking if you can stand, and it is no use standing if you can sit; it is no use sitting if you can lie down, no use lying if you can sleep," Finest Mosque In Tangier. and they live up to the proverb. One merchant we saw in a sandy store was lying sound asleep, covered with flies, his dirty feet stuck in a box of dates. No visitor to Tangier should miss seeing the "Soho" or market place, especially on a Thursday, as that is the busiest day of the-week. Long caravans of camels bring in the articles of trade from the interior, while donkeys and mules bring the products of the gardens and orchards. Passing through the main gate your ear is greeted with a loud "Balak! Balak!" which is Arabic for "look out," and a dusky Moor rushes past you with a shoulder of beef on his back. Roosters crowing, ducks quacking, chickens cackling, announce the poultry market at hand, where with much gibberish and noise they conduct their business. Next you pass into a large open space where all around on the ground are heaps of all kinds of fruit watermelons and pomegranates, oranges and grapes, prickly pears and peaches and many other kinds, for Morocco is a fruitful country. Moorish-women, with great broad sun-bonnets, attend to the fruit and keep the flies off. Nearby is the charcoal burner who has brought his load in from far out in the country. Here is an old woman sitting beside a bundle of sticks which she has probably carried on her back for five or six miles. Many of the Moorish women have a hard time of it. I have seen a mother, with a baby slung across her breast, trudging along the road with a great load of sticks on her back, which she was taking to the market to sell, to keep his lordship, her husband, in plenty. Has Transparent Back. Fayette City, Pa. A baby girl with a transparent back, born to Mrs. Henry L. Hobots, in Allenport, last week, is exciting the interest of physicians. By placing the child on its stomach the movement of the lungs and the pulsations of the heart may be observed. The baby apparently is in good health and is perfectly normal except for the open-face back.

SAVING LIFE ON THE COASTS

Most Improved Methods ind Apparatus Are in Use Along the Seaboard of the United States. Cape May, N. J. Nestling in the shadow of the life-saving station here is a little frame structure hardly worthy of a second glance, yet once it was the object of interest in a throng which represented the nations of the world. This building was one of the features of the Centennial exposition held in the city of Philadelphia in 1876. At that time the government had just been thoroughly aroused to the necessity of maintaining a great system of guarding our shores with trained life-savers to give systematic assistance to vessels In distress, and in order to demonstrate the character of 'the work being done in this direction it was decided to make a practical exhibit at the Centennial exposition. A life-saving station of the most approved design, fully manned and equipped, was fitted Old Life-Saving Station. out and located on the edge of a lake, which was created for this purpose, and demonstrations of life-saving methods and devices were given there at frequent intervals to throngs of persons who had never seen such a thing before. At the close of the great show the life-saving station and its equipment was sent to Cape May, where it did yeoman service for many years, but it wras eventually displaced by a more commodious structure and improved methods and apparatus. The present equipment of the station is in sharp contrast with that wThen the Centennial station was the pride of the service. The boats were then light that they might be easily handled, but now they are heavy in order that they may withstand the surfs fury. They were then propelled by oars pulled by sturdy arms,' but the boats are now fitted with engines which will drive them through towering waves. And now the boats have holes in the bottoms to let the water out, and such a suggestion a generation ao would have been greeted with roars of ridicule. The crafts of the present time are almost incapable Qf being sunk. Buffeted by any sea, they will right themselves at once and empty themselves of water in a few seconds. The old Centennial life-saving station is resting on its old glories. It fulfills no purpose at present. Its roof shelters an old boat or two, which are not likely to be ever called into active service, and the house is never likely to resound with lively activities again. HAY BRINGS HIM $21,000 California Rancher Disposes of Small Crop of Some 1,600 Tons. Hanfoid, Cal. Sixten hundred tons of alfalfa hay, bailed and stacked in a pile 200 feet long and 30 feet high, have been sold by Nis Hansen, a rancher at Corcoran, Kings county, for $21,000. The stack is said to be the largest in the United States, and will be augmented by several hundred tons now being bailed. The entire output was grown in the 1,200 acre Hansen ranch in one cuting, and Hansen has about 2,000 tons yet to be stacked. The hay brought $13.25 a ton, was sold for winter delivery and will be shipped by the Los Angeles buyers to the big markets. GIVES FIGURES ON MURDERS Nine Out of Every 100,000 Chicagoana Slain In New York It's Seven. New York. Seven out of about every 100,000 New Yorkers are murdered, according to figures gathered by an insurance journal here. The rate of homicide per 100,000 of population for other cities is as fol lows: Chicago, 9.1; Washington, 9.1; San Francisco, 10.4; St. Louis, 15.5; Nashville, 35.2; Savannah, Ga., 37.8; Charleston, S. C, 42.3; Memphis, Tenn., 63.4. In England and Wales in 1909, with a population of 35,756.000, the percentage of homicides was only 0.8. Joke Returns Thief to Cell. Philadelphia, Pa. Because George Wilson loves a good joke he is-back in Tombs prison at New York, where he .was serving a term for burglary when he escaped more than a weeK ago. He locked a keeper in his own cell and walked to freedom. Arrlring here, he called on two young women in tho evening, then returned at 3 o'clock in the morning and robbed their home. Ho was arrested when he "went to the house at breakfast time and tiied to comfort them in their loss. Tries Ten Times to Kill Self. Newark; N. J. Miss Emily B. Sher man is In the hospital here suffer ing from self-inflicted injuries in her tenth attempt to commit suicide.

STATE

HAPPENINGS

RECORDED IN IE NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVE3 v INDIANA. U. S. MAY ACT IN VOTE ROW Federal Government Will Take Hand In Terre Haute Registration Conspiracy If Proper Evidence It Furnished. Indianapolis, Oct 22. The federal government will take a. hand in the Terre Haute row over the registration developments there, if evidence is brought to the government that there has been a conspiracy to prevent any citizen of the United States from exercising his right of suffrage, accord ing to United States Attorney Charles W. Miller, before whom Spencer F. Ball and Dr. R. M. Hollingsworth, representing the Nonpartisan Voters' league of that city, have appealed for federal interference with alleged plans for fraudulent voting in Terre Haute. Mr. Miller says that the federal statutes do not cover a case of padding a registration list, as is charged in Terre Haute, but that Is a matter of state law. If there has been any attempt to prevent a duly quali fied voter from registering and thus preventing him from casting his vote, this is a violation of federal law, said Mr. Miller. "If evidence that this has occurred is brought to me, there are going to be some arrests in Terre Haute," said Mr. Miller. Engines Crash at Curve. Petersburg, Oct. 22. North-bound passenger train No. 308 on the B. & I. road took a siding at Blackburn mine No. 1 and crashed head-on into extra freight No. 311, south-bound, hurling an empty flat car over the passenger engine. John Hartman, passenger engineer, leaped as the train took the siding, breaking his leg and suffering internal injuries. The fireman, name unknown, leaped down a steep embankment and was picked up unhurt within a few feet of White river. Three passengers were bruised, none seriously. The wreck occurred at a short curve. The freight crew had just taken the siding and tho passenger train came round the curve before the switch could be thrown back. The engines were demolished. Estranged Child Wins Suit. Laporte, Oct. 22. Though it was proven by the defense during the trial that she had never spoken -to her father in her life, Mrs. Maude L. Spadi of this city was awarded the estate of her father, Hiram Bement, by a jury in the St. Joseph county circuit court. The plaintiff alleged that undue influence had been brought to bear on her father by nieces and nephews with whom he had made his home. Mrs. Spadi was taken away from her father when one year old, going with the mother at the separation of the couple. The estate is worth $20,000. Girl Killed In Auto Upset. Merom, Oct. 22. Rosa Welsch, ten years old, was killed and four others seriously injured when the automobile bearing Morris Welsch and family of Fairbanks skidded and turned upside down on Merom Bluff Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Welsch and another child were rendered unconscious and Mrs. JohnEon was seriously Injured. Mr. Johnson, who was with the party, declared he was afraid to ride down the hill and was walking some distance behind the car when it turned. Takes Parent in Biplane. Fort Wayne, Oct. 22. Arthur Smith, a Fort Wayne youth, who has driven a Curtiss biplane during the summer months, closed his season here, introducing a new thriller wThen he took his father with him to an altitude of more than 1,000 feet. He carried a newspaper photographer in the air for fifteen minutes while pictures were taken of the crowds below. Smith had promised his mother a ride in his airship, but at the last mfnute she refused to take the risk. Police Arrest Auto Tester. Anderson, Oct. 22. Elmer Lacer, an Indianapolis automobile tester, evidently had not heard that the lid is on here so far as speeding is concerned, as he passed through the principal streets at sixty-five miles an hour, according to the speedometer on the police motorcycle, driven by Officer Meyer. Lacer furnished bond for his appearance in court Sixtieth Anniversary is Celebrated. Mulberry, Oct. 22. Israel Smith and his wife Lucinda, near Clapper, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage, which occurred in Tippecanoe county, Rev. O. Brown, a Lutheran minister, officiating. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, until their retirement and coming here to reside in 1882, was on a farm two miles west of Mulberry. Auto Fractures Lad's Skull. Fort Wayne, Oct. 22. An eight-ysar-jld son of Henry Eberswin is dying at x local hospital from a fractured skull, Sustained when he was Btruck by an automobile driven by E. K. Allen, a real ""estate broker, just as he was Jumping from a street car. The accident was apparently unavoidable and alien was not held by tht polic.

Indiana Brevities Gary. All Gary helped to make memorable the public funeral for "Billy" Rugh, the newsboy hero who sacrificed a leg and his life that a young woman might live. Not only civic bodies and fraternal societies followed the cortege, but every department of the steel mill was closed as far as possible so that the employes who have bought papers from the sunny-faced newsboy at the corner might attend. It is planned that the memory of Billy Rugh shall last as long as tho city of Gary. Mayor T. E. Knotts has issued two proclamations, one calling for subscriptions to the Rugh memorial fund, and the other asking the; citizens to attend the funeral. The funeral was held from the Hoover undertaking parlors. Then at the Methodist church Rev." Dr. J. M. Avan preached the service. Washington. The boiler at the plant of the Mutual Mining company, south of Cannelburg, let go, and as a result Hubert Haag, engineer, is dying at his home. The boiler had been giving some trouble of late, and the mine had been shut down for repairs. After these had been made the fires were started and within a few moments the explosion occurred. Haag was knocked about twenty feet and is suffering from many fractures about the head as well as internal Injuries. The mine buildings were practically demolished. Laporte. It was found that tho loss of Stephen Dolato, whose general store at Otis was robbed, will amount to about one thousand dollars. -The thieves carried away the safe on a hand car. Besides the cash, which was in the strong box, there were notes aggregating more than ninehundred dollars. Some of these were considered no good, but many others were worth face value. Bloodhounds, traced the men to New Durham, where it was found that they boarded an early morning train. There were two of them and the Chicago police have been notified to watch for them. Indianapolis. Three men charged with the murder of John and Charles McQuaid were arrested at Vernon and rushed to this city by automobile, as the sheriff of Jennings county feared the jail would not withstand an attack by a mob which had been planned, according to rumors which had reached the official. The men in custody are J. H. Clarke, James Tyler and Henry Romine. Shelbyville. Rosamond Sandefur, three years old, was pulled unconscious from a barrel of rainwater by her mother, Mrs. Ora Sandefur of Smithland. . The mother came just in time to save the child's life. The little one and some other small children were standing on a chair and throwing dirt into the barrel when the accident happened. Anderson. W. H. Kellison, alias Chuck Walker, a negro, whose residence is unknown, was arrested at the bank of the Anderson Trust company and charged with an attempt to pass a worthless check drawn on the Commercial Savings bank of Bellefontaine, 0., for $610. The check was pronounced bogus by the Bellefontaine bank. Terre Haute. Joseph Fetters, known as "the Taylorsvilie slugger," who is alleged to have driven people from the registration booths, has been indicted for assault with intent to kill James C. Leasure. The latter had started mandamus proceedings to have his name placed on tho registration list. Wabash. Charles Hayden of this city, engineer on the Big Four, received a letter from Joseph R. Noel, president of the Northwest State bank of Chicago, Inclosing a check for $50 for his timely action in stopping his train when tho Noel auto engine went "dead" on a crossing near Niles. Mich., just in front or a passenger train, September 22. Darlington. Darlington's $30,000 high school building was gutted by fire shortly. The pupils were called for the fire drill as soon as the flames were discovered near the roof and all gotten out safely, though they lost their books and wraps. It is supposed a defective flue was the cause. The loss is about $12,000. Elkhart. Mrs. David Willis, an invalid, aged fifty, was accident ally burned to death near Alma, Mich., during her husband's absence from their home. Fort Wayne. Jacob D. Lelghty of St, Joe, DeKalb county, former member of congress from this district, died unexpectedly in a hospital in this city. South Bend. Four men were hurt, one probably fatally, Tvhen the cable broke and an elevator dropped fifty feet in the plant of tht South Bend Perfection Biscuit com pany. Nearly three thousand pounds of dough fell on the men when th elevator reached the bottom. Morris Simcox, age seventeen, who was run ning the elevator, was internally injured and is not expected to lira. Law-v rence Welborn, Frank Kollar and Joseph Graff received seriouBcut uUt

fractures, j