Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1912 — Page 3

National Museum Is Given Very Rare Collection

OLD CITY OF TANGIER

Second Only to Damascus in Its Antiquity.

SAVING LIFE ON THE COASTS Most Improved Methods and Apparatus Are in Use Along the Seaboard of the United States.

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 10 by his son, the late Lieutenant Commander T. B. Myers-Mason of

the United States navy. The collection consists of more than 600 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; Chinese sword3 and spears of superb metal work; wonderful ancient Hindu armor, Inlaid with gold and silver, and many implements of warfare from India; Turkish and Korth African weapons and domestic implements, an1 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 tho develop

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 lifetime. 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 wer obtained during his residence in those countries. In the group of Japanese articles is a 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 tho same building.

Cosmopolitan in the Extreme Are the Crowded Thoroughfares of the Moroccan Capital Market Place Especially Is Worth a Vrsit.

Capitol's Pied Piper Has a Two-Year Contract

THE proudest boast of Prof. Louis Hirsch, is that ho is "rough on irats." Unofficially, he is known as the "Pied Piper of Washington," ever since he signed a contract with the government to rid tbe cipitol and other federal buildings at "Washington of rats, mice, roaches, and other vermir, and to keep the buildings permanently so 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 perfection has a two years contract with the government, as well as

a contract to supply his chemicals to tthe various departments. The professor has a simple method of his own for geting rid of rats. He does 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. As soon as a few find the choice food, they communicate the fact to tho whole rat colony. Then he gives them some more, to make nure they have all got a bite of the appetizing dainty. The next step la to feed them tho accustomed bait

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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."

Tangier, Morocco. Damascus is said to be the oldest inhabited city in the wrorld, 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 tho Moorish capital, there is a great hubbub. Native boatmen fight and squabble among themselves as to who shall get themost 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 yqurself bundled into a corner of the boat and the Moorish boatmen pull for the 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 is 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 the 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,"

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 187G. 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 vesselB 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

STATE HAPPENINGS

RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS

ITEMS FROM ALL 0VE3 INDIANA. V

U. S. MAY ACT IN VOTE ROW

Federal Government Will Take Hand in Terre Haute Registration Conspiracy If Proper Evidence Is Furnished.

Must Kill Rats to Get Rid of Plague Danger

THE government experts, after studying 1,000,000 serum inoculations and 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 confers a certain degree of immunity against plague for a few months only "by reducing the chance of contracting the Infection and still further reducing the chances of deaths therefrom. Inoculation is noc eradication. Situations demanding the inoculation of the people in mass may again be encountered in some countries, but could hardly arise in American communities. Even in groups of people who have been intimately exposed to plague infection inoculation is of 'doubtful applicability. In such a case

it would be preferable to resort to the more rapid means of pass Ivo immunization by the use of anti-plague serum either alone or in connection with inoculation. Workers in plague laboratories and hospitals, rat catchers, fu-

mlgators, etc., should be inoculated at least once every six months. The uso of anti-plague serum for the immunization of a whole commu

nity 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 im

munity. The government's conclusions indicate that if the country is to be kept free from plague next summer, the work of rat extermination must be 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 repeated injections, first of dead and then of living plague bacilli.

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 was eventually displaced by a more

commodious structure and improved methods and apparatus. The present equipment of the station is in sharp contrast with that when 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 surf's 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 ago would have been greeted with roars of ridicule. The crafts of the present time are almost incapable of 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.

Indianapolis, Oct 22. -The federal government will take & 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, according to United States Attorney Charles W. Miller, before whom Spencer F. Ball and Dr. It. M. Hollings worth, 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 qualified voter from registering and thus preventing him. from casting his vote, this Is a violation of federal lav, 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.

Indiana Brevities

Engines Crash at Curve. Petersburg, Oct. 22. North-bound passenger train No. 308 on the E. & 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 the 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. Spadl 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.

Washington Is Very Fond of Eagles and Lions

WASHINGTON is tremendously fond of eagles and lions, both alive and 5n effigy. The eagles may be found perched on flagstaffs, fence posts and oificial doors and on the maces of the ;liouse and the senate. No lamppost is truly complete unless surmounted by a Sbronze eagle. Note the great array of them In the avenue of the presidents, commonly called Sixteenth street. As for the lions, four in bronze frighten you as you try to gaze upon (the spot where some day a great statue of General Grant will stand. They are grand animals from the point of view of fine art. Congressman Metall almost bows to them. ' They also guard that great depository of fine arts, the main door of the Corcoran Art gallery. However, they seem asleep.

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 wrho 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.

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.

Girl KHIed 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. Johnson 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.

Gary. All Gary helped to mk memorable the public funeral for "Billy0 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 Uig cortege, but every department of tho steel mills was closed as far as possible so that the employes who have bought paper from the sunny-faced newsboy at th corner might attend. It is planned that the memory of Billy Rugh shall last as long as the city of Gary. Mayor T. E. Knotts has. issued two proclamations, one calling for subscriptions to tho 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.Tlie boiler at tho 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 the

loss of Stephen Dolato, whoso general store at Qtis 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 nine hundred 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 havo 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, threo 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, O., for $610. The check was pronounced bogus by the Bellefontaine bank.

GIVES FIGURES ON MURDERS Nine Out of Every 100,000 Chicagoans 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 homicides 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.

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 hfs season here, Introducing a new thriller when 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 minute she refused to take the risk.

Then one cannot enter or leave the great Connecticut bridge without tho 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 havo taken the cuo to guard themselves in this manner, huge lions arresting attention before viilton may enter the portal. ...

Has Transparent Back. Fayette City, Pa. A baby girl with a transparent back, born to Mrs. Hen ry L. Hobots, in Alienport, last week, is exciting the interest of physicians. By placing the child on its stomach the movement of the lungs and the pulsations of tho heart may bo observed. The baby apparently Is in good health and is perfectly normal except for the open-faco back.

Joke Returns Thief to Cell. Philadelphia, Pa. Because George Wflson 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. Ho locked a keeper in his own cell and walked to. freedom. Arriving here, he called on two young women in the evening, then, returned at 3 o'clock in the morning and robbed their home. He was arrested when he went to the house at breakfast time and tiied to comfort them in their loss.

Police Arrest Auto Tester. Anderson, Oct. 22. Elmer Lacer, an

Indianapolis automobile tester, evi

j dently had not heard that the lid is

cn here so far as speeding Is concerned, as he passed through the prin

cipal 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 Tip: pecanoe 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.

Tries Ten Times to Kill Self. Newark, N. J. Miss Emily B. Sherman is in the hospital here suffering from self-inflicted injuries in her tenth attempt to commit suicide.

Auto Fractures Lad's Skuil. Fort Wayne, Oct. 22. An eight-yaar-ald son of Henry Eberswin is dying at A local hospital from a fractured skull, sustained when he was struck 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 wax not heli by tht poiict.

Terre Haute. Joseph Fetters, known as "the Taylorsvllle slugger," who Is alleged to have driven people from the registration booths, has been indicted for assault with in- -tent to kill James C. Leasure. Tho latter had started mandamus proceedings to have his name placed on the 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 Tor $50 for his timely action in stopping hi train when the Noel auto engine went "dead" on a crossing near Niles, Mich., just In front or a passenger train, September 22. 1 Darlington. Darlington's $30,000 high Echool building was gutted by fire shortly. Tho 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. Leighty of St Joe, DeKalb county, former member of congress fro(m this district, died unexpectedly in a hospital In this city. South Bend. Four men were hurt, one probably fatally, when, the cable broke and an elevator dropped fifty feet In the plant of th South Bend Perfection Biscuit company. Nearly threo thousand pounds of dough fell on the men when the elevator reached tho bottom. Morris Slmcox, age seventeen, who was running the elevator, was Internally Injured and is not expected to live. Law rence Welborn, Frank Kollar and Jo seph Graft received serious cuts mät fractures.