Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 December 1912 — Page 7

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Worked as Tailor by Day and Burglar by Night making smoke house safe

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jp HICAGO. In the daytime Joe

Graeber. thirty vears nld nndnr.

w m m - - f 1 vvA aized and agile, sat cross-legged in

nis little tailor shop at Twenty-sixth

ntrcei ana ss orth western avenuo, and stitched with industry. He worked hard and was acquiring the reputation 0 ! 1 t

uuing an nonest and v.hrifty trades1-

JXIU.I1. 1 But at night Joe Graeber, the tailor, became another man. The deft needle

worjc was dropped and forgotten and

auntwau ana quite as skilfully, Joe - ....

wieioea tne "jimmy." In the daytime Joe's needle went in and out cease

lessly. Joe himself went "in and out" as industriously at night, the police

aa, ana quite as silently. Graeber himself says tailoring paid about as "well as burglar work and at neither Iii

coma ne pay nls rent.

The sharp, frostv crack nf nm.

think that might have been ice under loot, and again might have been glass

breaking, attracted the attention oi Patrolmen Stevens and Muse, in North.

western avenue, near Twnt.v.nnvpnfh

street, about 2 o'clock in the morn in sr.

Just across from where they stood

were two stores, and between them

was a narrow nassasre. Thcv wnfphoH

silently in the shadow of a bulldine-.

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ana aid not have to watch long. The

sound was repeated, and after a mo

ment s silence a shadow that seemed

a part of the wall of the buildine sen-

arated itself from the entrance of the

aarK passage.

"Here, you un with vonr hand

I'll shoot," commanded Stevens. The

snadow melted back into the passage

ana Decame a noise of runnine. A

second sharper command brought Joe

jraeDer, tne tailor, to a halt.

You know me, boys, don't vou.

boys?" he said. "You scared me so I

ran

Stevens and Muse looked with sur

prise Into Graeber's face. They both knew him and said so. But thev

couldn't understand whv the h

tailor should be just, where Graeber

was. Under the circumstances, how

ever, he was searched, and a verv

good jimmy" and a patent glass cut

ter were lound in his pockets.

Graeber confessed. He said he tried

to pay rent tailoring and couldn't so

ne tooK to burglar work at night.

Danger of Burning Building. Elim

inated oy use of Old Stove Connected by Pipe Outside. Tf . X & WOODWORTH.) It is often the case when mnldinsr a

Are in the smoke house that the fire will burn up too high and catch the

meat, sometimes the flames catching tho house, and as a nnn?omifnrP

buildings may be destroyed. Oftentimes the heat is such fhnf fho

meat is partially cooked or heated to such an extent that it sweats and soon loses its flavor, becoming strong and

Clinging Gown Nearly Costs This Man His Life

ATLANTA, GA. Form fitting feminine fashions and you all know what they mean a six cylinder automobile and a stranger in our midst Irom the country were the dramatis personae in a fall curtain nnnnnr thnf

telectrifled pedestrians on the White-

man viaduct at the luncheon hour. The iplay turned out humorously, and it. is

fprobably that all the cast are living

i-uappny ever artorward. Just the raamc, the gentleman from the country ,gazed for a moment over the brink

or eternity. It all happened at the crest of the

moon halt in business. At the Alabama street end of the viaduct the

itnrong was thick and busy.

There came along, with the grace of

i uouiva and clad almost as snugly -as one, a member of the feminine population of Atlanta adorned in the extreme fashion of today as it applies to the softer sex. You understand about those tight skirts, of course. s. Well, the young woman had on a tight skirt, and then some. It was as though she were poured into it above and below meridian, torsb and all. This vision was nearing Alabama street when across the viaduct strode a sturdy specimen of the best yeomanry that Georgia produces. He had half way negotiated the streets, congested at best, when The

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Vision crossed his horizon. As though hit by the buck ague, he came to a dead stop in his tracks something like a pointer comes to a full stop and points game. He was enthralled. Swat! Swish! Crash! He was plastered against one of the plate glass windows of a viaduct clothing store. A six cylinder machine, going at really a moderate gait had lunged into him. Bystanders who had witnessed the play dashed quickly to his

He "beat them to it." Swiftlv h

scrambled to his feet. With one jump he recovered his hat: with a light

ning stroke he pulled down his coat, which had covered his head in tmncif

He wasn't hurt, a bit. But scared! Before kindly help reached his side one long, continuous strenlr cnnl-n

his disappearance down toward union

station.

A Smoke House Stove.

unfit for table use. This mav he. nil

overcome by the use nf an nid CfrQ

one that is hardly fit for use. in fho

house for heating purposes.

MaKe a hole that will acnnmmndaro

the size of pipe you haüoen to have.

near the floor of the meat house: set

tne stove hve or six feet from the house, that there may be used three ioints of pipe. This will permit the smoke to cool sufficiently, which will give the meat a fine flavor. It would be better to spend two or

tnree dollars for a stove than to run a great risk in building a fire in the smoke house.

NARROW ROADS ARE FAVORED

Agitation to Cut Width to Thirty Fact Hat Been Taken Up in Kansas Easier to Care For. The agitation which wn hon,n i

iowa two years ago to cut down the width of country roads, allowing the unused strips of land along each side of the highway to revert to the adjacent property owner, has now been taken up in Kansas, where the state highway engineer is advocating a plan similar to that advocated in Iowa by Governor Carroll, says the Iowa HomeStead. The argument both in Iowa

ttuu in Kanena ia, v.. t

io .lilx i uy narrowing the highways to thirty feet, and maintaining the entire width as a highway and drainage system, the wall of weeds upon each side, of the roadway would be dispensed with and a great waste of land would be minimized. The Kansas highway engineer has figured that a sixty-foot

iuauway taKes 14.55 acres from two sides of each section of land, or twenty-nine acres from each section if there is a road on all four sides. By abandoning thirty feet of each rnnn

that is now sixty, feet wide, three and two-thirds acres ould revert to the owner of each quarter section, thus materially adding to the farm income. The situation in Kansas is considerably akin to that in Iowa

portion (from one-third to one-half) of the land allotted to a highway being used as an actual roadway. Those who are back of the movement in both of the states believe that better results will be obtained by narrowing the road and keeping the narrower channel in better repair, while at the same tim adding thousands of acres of rich farm land to the state's aggregate. Whether the agitation bears fruit or not it

can hardly fail to be of value in furthering the cause of good roads by increasing public interest in the subject.

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RELICS OF SAVAGES

Objects to Be Found in Pennsylvania University ExhibitArts Are of New Zealander Canoes and Implements of War Wero Once Used by Cannibal Ancestors of Civilized People.

DEVICE FOR WEIGHING GRAIN

Arranged to Work Automatically, Registering Total Weight of Grain Passing Through.

Ancient Egyptians Used Our Up-To-Date Styles

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Inspired probably by the recent highly successful fashion show of 1912, in which was displayed the very latest progress of sartorial art, from double decked coiffures to diamond heeled slippers, Professor A. L. Kroeber, curator of the Museum of Anthropology at the afliliated colleges, arranged an ex

hibition of fashion in retrospect, with considerable emphasis on what they were wearing in Egypt and such places in the fall of 1912 B. C. The exhibition was thrown open to the public, and the weary husband who thinks his wife looks queer in "her new French togs that cost none l)ut husbands know how much should go out thatway. With Kipling, he likely will say:

We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes that ranged India's prehistoric day." Professor Kroeber and his assistant, E. W. Jifford who gives the lecture! are of the opinion the change is less than slight, and they have proceeded with a delicate sense of irony to contrast some of the new styles with the old. There is a plaster cast of an Egyption lass wearing one of those gowns that begin to hobble right at the neck and never vary all the way down, except as nature asserts itself. This effect is popular, also, in 1912.

The women of Crete were wearing corsets about the sam timo f.

thousand years &so. They have such a corset in the museum, and if ivQ

like one of a pair of nuttees worn hv

a stout cavalry officer. One whole glass case is labeled: "Secrets of Beauty, Past and Pres-

cut. Inside there is a quite modern "layout" of rouge, powder and mirror, and alongside lie the implements 'with which some dusky Cleopatra touched herself up to win an Antony's praise and admiration.

WHERE GOOD ROADS BENEFIT

Case Cited Where it Cost Farmer Much Time and Money to Deliver Small Load of Apples.

Recently my man went to the county seat to deliver 25 bushels of apples. The mud was so deep that the team was repeatedly stopped to wind on level stretches and on many hills a brake was not necessarv. writo n tt

Watts in the New England Homestead. The time required to make the round trip of 32 miles was 13 hours, not counting the time used feeding the team and in unloading. Much less time and scarcely any wear and tear of team, wagon and harness would have delivered 75 bushels on a macadam or a brick road bed. If man and team are worth $4 a day, and they are, then we lost $S earning capacity that day and worked very hard 13 hours (more than a day

and a half, hy eight-hour day system) to earn a day's wages. The gigantic

question is not, do good roads cost too much, but how much more do bad roads cost us? Let every farmer be a committee of one to figure on road profits and losses. The postofBce department and many others might well participate. The consumer of farm products is a sufferer also, as because of these ill-kept roads his supply comes inadequately at times, and again so as to demoralize tim mnrimt

w . U It is true that difficult transportation invariably means higher prices at the consumer's door.

The Scientific American in describing an automatic grain weigher, the invention of E. L. Adams of Edgar,

xNeo., says: This device is operated automatically by the weight of grain it receives. It comprises a hollow vessel with an inlet at one end and an outlet at the other, and comprising means by which grain can enter the vessel until its limit of capacity is reached. Means also provide for the automatic discharge of the grain, and it passes continuously into the receiving vessel

Philadelphia, Pa. The University of Pennsylvania museum is making a

opeumi euoru to secure as many collections and as much data from the islands of the South Pacific as is possible, and Director Gordon is sparing neither time nor money in securing additions to the present South Sea exhibit. The reason for this is that antiques and relics of the aborigines of that part of the world are extremely rare and can be obtaned nni f

the greatest difficulty and expense. When the South Sea islands were first discovered by Capt Cook, the na-

uves naa a well developed artistic sense and made manv hßfmHfui

things, but with the colonization of the islands by Europeans and the coming of western customs native arts at once became extinct. Fortunately, the early travelers brought to Europe numerous collections which have, for the most part, remained in private hands to the present day. Now, however, they are gradually finding their way to continental auction rooms, where they are publicly sold. The university museum is keeping a sharp lookout for such sales and has

an agent in JLondon, where most col lections are sold. He has snpcini in

structions to watch for th

botith Pacific collections and buy

mem ior the University of PennsyL

vania, tne cost not being considered. In the last few months he has se

cured some very valuable material and is now on the trail of more. At present there is on temporary exhibition in the museum a New Zealand collection which is one of the finest in existence, purchased by the museum's agent in London last June. It was a private collection, more than 100 years old. The agent heard of it in May and the opportunity was so unusual that Dr. Gordon himself went to London. After successfully bidding with representatives of some of the largest museums and private col-

HAPPENINGS IN

INDIANA

Hammond. Angered over some trivial matter, Frank Cravens, aged nineteen, son of Lincoln V. Cravens, an officer of the Indiana grand Masonic lodge and one of the bestknown lawyers in Indiana, shot and fatally wounded his stepmother, Mrs. Grace Cravens, and then turning a magazine gun on himself, fired twice into his own body. Mrs. Cravens died

ü-t öt. iuarys hospital a. few hours later. Young Cravens is in the same hospital and cannot recover. Two years ago, while working in the quarries at Hawthorne, 111., the young man fell under a train and lost his leg. H has since held that he was of no account in the world. Since the accident he was a student at the Lincoln and Jefferson law college here. A year ago his" father, a widower, married Mrs. Grace Green of Chicago, well known there as a charity worker. It is alleged that the ii .

idling Detween young Cravens and his stepmother became strained. He believed himself usurped in his father's affections by the stepmother, and doctors believe paranoia resulted.

Columbus. When David Mabe, a farmer near here, discovered that his barn was on fire, he rushed from bed, bareheaded and barefooted, to save his horses and muies. He saved his live stock, but is in a critical condition from severe burns on his head and feet The barn, with its other contents, was destroyed.

Bloomington. Heavily chained together and guarded by Sheriff James Browning and Prosecutor M. M. Louden, William Gatlin and George Goode, who broke jail here October 18 by drilling: out a section of the brick wall of the Monroe county jail, were returned from Henry, 111., where they robbed a store. They refused to return until requisition papers were obtained.

Laporte. After a search InRfinr-

a week, men working with ChiPf

of Police Meinke found the body of Carl Buncbarger, one of the men who went hunting and failed tn

return. The body was found in nhmit

twenty-five feet of water, where tho

boat in which the two men went out was found.

Automatic Grain Weigher. at one end and is delivered at the oth er, being retained long enough to actuate the mechanism which controls the outlet, and to register the time the outlet mechanism is actuated in this way, so as to indicate the measure of the total quantity of grain passing through the weigher. A side view of the device is shown in the illustration.

FILLING GRANARY NOW EASY

Farmers Save Much Valuable Time by Using Portable Elevators in Storing Their Crops.

Farmers' nowadays are too busy and their time is too valuable to load corn into the granary by shovels. This work is now done by portable elevators with conveyors for delivering grain into the farthermost corner

Judge's New Domicile Keeps Things Sparkling

LEVELAND. O. Shocking! PerV fectly shocking! That's what is said of the home of George Baer, municipal judge, at 172S East One Hundred and Sixteenth street. And the house is shocking the judge admits it.

"Ecstatically speaking," Baer adds.

when tne judge's wife arose the oth

er mornirg and started to ply a comb through her locks a crackling sound arrested her. She dropped the comb

ana felt of her sleeve connection

There had been no rip, but when she

started to comb again tho crackling Tesulted. She touched the judge on the forehead to awaken him. A little spark jumped up more promptly than his honor. i "Herr- vour coffee, George," she aaid ' akfast, and as ho reached to t eir fingers touched and anot .le spark jumped from the con' int of their digits, -in and here's the real reawr too investigation startod by Baer when the judge was about to litre for downtown he and his wife

stood near the front door, "saluting" a large spark rose from the point where their noses touched. 'Twas a shocking kiss That was the last straw. "Not that the wife and I are not used to sparking," says Baer, telling of the incident, "but this is a new brand, and it isn't pleasant. I've gone to the telephone and elentnV

companies to see what the trouble is. The whole place seems to t- u-, J

with electricity.

"Only the other nicht: .Tnri

w O V- itXVibannon and his wife came mi

house and a spark rose when bo

I Shook hands. MnrA snarl r ...

.- " "UUl LQQ greeting of Mrs. McGannon and mr wife. Shocking? Well, it sure i."

Filling the Granary. of barn, crib or granary, and distributing ear corn or small grain at various places in the length of the building. The discharge spout can be placed at different points, and will discharge on either side of the conveyor. Handling Cabbage. Cabbage which is to be stored should be handled with care. When

tnrewn from the field into the wagonbox the heads are severely bruised, and this is likely to cause decay after storage. Some of the most careful growers use crates, baskets or tubs in which the heads are carefully plac

ed in me nein and these are hauled to the storage house, where they are emptied quickly and with ease Too much care cannot be exercised m the harvesting of all crops which are intended for storage.

Corn Plants. There will be a difference of results If the corn plants get all the plant food and moisture available or if they must shar with a host of weeda.

Good Roads & FarmfNoim

Early plowing makes bigger crops. By the day, did you ever hear of a road drag? A good time now to patch up around the farm buildings. If possible, put the celery away in slightly moist, clean sand. The toolhouse has become one of the important adjuncts to the modern farm. Only in rare cases do cutworms

bother crops that are planted on fall plowed land. Alfalfa under congenial surroundings or conditions is a business crop and no loafer. A coat of manure put on the garden this fall will give a good account of itself next June.

Hot bed sashes are usually three by six feet in dimensions, but smaller sizes may be used. Seed corn is an expensive luxury if placed where the birds, poultry, mice and rats can get it. It is quite common to sow hrir-

wheat, especially on poor land, as a green manure crop. A good time now to haul and spread manure on the vegetable garden so that winter rain pan dn fhoiv of

Gardens infested with cut worms may be helped by keeping the land free from vegetation all fall and burning all trash. Seed potatoes stored in the cellar should be kept in as light a place as possible. Light toughens the skins and retards sprouting. There would be more broom corn raised if the farmers generally understood how to cut, handle and cure this monev-mnlflnr.ftrnn

j The original cost of the machinerv

found on the scrap heap of many of our farms would set a young couple up in busihesi in yerjr comforUbl shape.

South Sea Island Granary. lectors in the world, Director Gordon secured it for the university.

"We have now one of the finest ana most complete South Pacific collections in the whole wbrld." said nr

Gordon recently. "This is especially

true or tne .collection from New Zeal-

and, the largest of these islands. In-

aeea, so remarkable is this collection that the New Zealand museum at Wei-

nngton has asked us for casts of tho

relics and antiques we have lYom that

country, in the new wing of the mu

seum, wnicn will be completed next

spring, the bouth Pacific hall narH.

cularly that devoted to the iVTpnri

the aborigines of New Zealand will

dg the principal feature."

The New Zealand exhibit includes

many weapons, tools, clothing, utensils, musical instruments, feather

rooes and exceptionally beautiful spe-

cimens or weaving by the Maori worn.

en. The most valnahlp

i' " " JUHUOI.lJ of three preserved tattooed heads of Maori chieftains, which are of great

antiquity.

Vincennes. James Murnhv. thfTv

ty-eight years old. son nf n

- ... Ulli' honaire oil operator, was instant- , ly killed in an automobile accident ! Charles Tanquary and Samuel Whittaker, Vincennes saloon men, had ; tüeir arms and limbs broken, but will ! recover.

Michigan City. Prank Ron oh a

, Ernest Levlne, seven and six . years old, respectively, were instantly killed by a Michigan Central fast train. They stood on one of two parallel tracks throwing stones at a

ireignt when the passenger train from the opposite direction struck them. Decatur. Samuel Debolt, a farmer, was fatally injured, his head being crushed. He was innWno

into a corn shredder when the trac

tion engine backed unon him wi

skull was so badly crushed that sev

eral bones had to be remnvod a

year ago Mr. Debolt lost an arm that

as caught in a corn shredder.

Petersburg. Willie Liibs. snv. nf

William Liibs, a baker of this city, submitted to an oneration thnt

removed six inches of flesh from his hip that was grafted to his brother

Henry's hand, in order to save hie

hand from amputation. Henry's hand; was lacerated in a bread-mixint? ma

chine several days ago.

RETURNS HIS SON TO PRISON

California Ranchman Takes Offspring

tsacK to Jail When He Breaks His Parole.

San Quentln, Cal. D. W. Lamb, a

bhasta county ranchman, brought his son, who had broken parole, to the

state penitentiary here and turned him over to Warden Hoyle. ending a 300-

mne journey. The son. Prank Tnh

was sent to the penitentiary July 7, 1904, on a errand larcenv charere. TTn

was paroled April 17, 1907, and return-

ea to ms tatner's ranch, out later took to the road. Lamb was traced to Washington by the prison officials. He returned home recently out of funds, and his father immediately set out with him to the prison. "I would rather have my son behind the bars," said Lamb, "than to have Him at large through having broken a promise."

New Trick in Hanging Men. Atlanta, Ga. The next man who is legally hanged in Georgia may have the experience of dying with the knot adjusted under Iiis right jaw instead of against the jugular vein on the left. County officials are interested in th theory' that the knot, adjusted under the right part of the chin, is certain to produce immediate unconsciousness through the same process as the boxr's knockout blow on tho point ot the jaw.

Fort Wayne. Fifteen minnt

after he had gotten un from hpd

and searched the yard around his houso under the belief tbat he had heard burglars trying to break in, Nathaniel Kunkle, sixty-two years nid

of Huntertown, died. His death was due to heart disease.

Fort Wayne. More than one thnn.

sand Masons attended th i

v-. UAHquet which was the climax of thn

annual fall convocation of Rmffi.v.

Rite Masons, Valley of Fort Wayn'e. Eighty-five men received the degrees from the fifteenth to the eiehtPPnth

inclusive. Bloomington. William Gatlin and George Goode, wh broke out of jail here October IS by drilling through the wall, were captured at Henry, 111., after they had robbed a store there. Each was in jail here on larceny charges. Gatlin has broken out of jail here twice. The first time he went to Nashville, Tenn., and was captured after he had robbed aresidence of several hundred dollars worth of diamonds and othar jewelry. Vincennes. James Murphy, thirty-eight years old, an oil operator, was instantly killed when

bile, driven at hich soeed bv Thnma

Leach, okidded into n riitnii r

escaped unharmed. Charles Tanquary, an oil rnan and saloon keeper of VlnCennes. Suffered an arm and lor h-nL-

en, and Samuel Whitaker, tda partner, three broken ribs in the accident. The men were en route to Mount Carniel, 111., as witnesses in a law suit over oil land. Murphy was unmarried. His father. Michaal Murphy is

a millionaire oh operator of tat