Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 December 1912 — Page 3

iNavy to Test Battleships WASHINGTON. Corrugated battleships will be the subject of tests this winter by Naval Constructor David W. Taylor, on duty in the bureau of construction and repair, in the naval testing tank at the Washington 'ard. Four vessels for the merchant service hcive been built in England on this plan. Two outward curves, 23 inches deep, run the length of the ships between the load line and the bilge. Between the convex' curves is a concave surface of equal depth. This partial application of the tube principle greatly increases the strength of the hull. So much .strength is added that the stringer Iplates may be dispensed with. This 'increases the space available for bulk icargo. In addition, however, it is said that the corrugated hull saves fuel and lessens the effect of waves on the steadiness of the ship. English reports indicate that a corrugated hull will ss.ve 16 per cent in 'fuel over the cost of driving a smooth hull of equal displacement. Two models, of equal weight and dimensions, Postal Deposit Savings POSTMASTER General Frank H. Hitchcock made public the other iday the latest available figures showing that the deposits in postal savings depositories have now reached the sum of $28,000,000. The system was inaugurated January 3, 1911, but most of the deposits have been made within the last year. The deposits represent 290,000 individuals, making an average of $86 per depositor. The system is now operated in 12,773 postoffices, in every one of the forty-eight states, including 644 branch postoffices. According to the figures compiled by the controller of the currency the total amount of the deposits in the savings banks of the country in 1911 was $4,212,5S3,59S. This amount was deposited in 1,884 banks by 9,794,647 individual depositors, and the average isavings bank account for each depositor was $430.09. Comparison of these statistics shows that the average amount held by each savings bank depositor was about e times the average amount he! ' , each postal savings bank depositor. According to the report of the con troller of the currency, the postal sav

Army Officers on Detached Duty to Be Removed

IT is now estimated at the war department that more than 50 per cent, of all army officers now on detached service will have to be removed from their present posts at once, owing to legislation by congress (during the last session. This means 'that more than half of the officers now serving as military attaches at American legation and embassies abroad, as instructors in the military academy t West Point, as instructors in the .Army Service schools, as instructors of state militia organizations and as Instructors in various military academies in foreign military schools will be ordered back tö their regiments. The law, as one officer put it is "'excessively mandatory," Inasmuch as Spanish Minister Rejoices IT was stated in an authetic quarter the other day that the Spanish minister, Senor Don Juan Riano, has 50 suits of clothes and a correspondingly large number of accessories. Spacious and perfectly equipped quarters sxe required to accommodate this wardrobe, and in selecting the new legation special attention was paid to this feature. The present legation, in New Hampshire avenue, has commodious dressing rooms and closets for each suite, but such an outfit as Senor Riano's in order to be easily handled and accessible has to have a room to itself, 'and. if possible, one built for the purpose. The garments are classified, and :that they may be easily found an inventory is fastened on the door. According to the most advanced authorities "wet" and "dry" rooms are necessary for the complete wardrobe. The wet" room removes the creases and -tfiVes the place of sponging; the "dry" jroom hardens the costume Jnthe lines I" has taken. Whether Senor Riano'a new home is

With Corrugated Hulls

constructed hre, one with a corrugated and the, other with a plain hull. Each will be attached to the traveling crane which spans the experimental tank at the Washington navy yard, and the resistance of the models to the water when pulled at a given rate of speed will be accurately registered on the delicate gauges attached to the crane. If the corrugated hull presents less resistance to the water the fact will be instantly indicated on the gauges. No vessel of this type has yet been constructed in this country. The first corrugated vessel was built in England in 1909. Capt G. S. Macllwaine of the British navy, recently asked the admiralty to make a test of corrugated ships. He spent a month on the Baltic in a ship in which the ordinary stiff bilge keel is replaced by a keel bearing deep horizontal corrugations. His observations convince him that the corrugated ship is vastly superior to the ordinary type in strength, stability, speed and carrying capacity. Captain Macllwaine claimed that the idea of the corrugated ship was worked out by Arthur H. Haver, a naval architect. The seventh vessel of the kind to come into existence is now being built for Norway. The British officer says that a corrugated vessel is carried about twenty per cent, further with the same amount of coal than a plain ship of similar dimensions. This in i a warship means either increase in effective range or increase of armor, armament, etc. Show Average of $86 fen iris ings bank of the United Kingdom in 1910 held $112,668,566, out of a grand total of $1,076,265,509 in private and postal savings banks. In round numbers the postal savings deposits in the United States are about one-half of one per cent, of the combined deposits in postal depositories and savings banks, while in the United Kingdom the postal savings constitute about iy2 per cent, of the combined deposits in private and postal savings banks. In France, according to the latest available figures, the postal savings in 1909 aggregated $316,456,866, or an average of about $57 for each depositor. Postmaster General Hitchcok's figures show that 7,357 banks have qualiJ fied to receive postal savings funds. it requires that any officer responsible for a failure to obey it to the full shall forfeit his pay and allowances. Consequently every officer who has not served at least two of the last six years in command of troops will have to return to his regiment before December 15. It has also been found by the law officers of the war department that about a third more of the officers on detached service will have to be removed within six months. A large number of officers on detached duty in Washington are caught pretty severely by this order. It is said that there are officers who have not been with their commands for years, as they have had pull enough to keep them in easy jobs here in Washington, where they can do their stunts and not half try, and fill in the rest of the time doing society acts. Washington society without its army and navy officers is mighty slow. There has always been feminine influence to keep plenty of the young men on detached duty in Washington. Of course, this order of congress is obligatory. in Fifty Suits, Etc. proviaeu wild, an tnese comiorts is not known, but that every means has been adopted to keep the minister the "best dressed man in town," as he was considered in Paris when cojinected with the Spanish embassay there, is certain. And it may be mentioned in this connection that as much care is exercised in the selection and proper preservation of the so-called "acces sories" as in the actual suits. These "accessories" include many articles of personal adornment little known tc the ordinary man, but are considered absolutely necessary in mind of the Spanish Don. Of course, under thte head, may be considered first, the very latest in hats, gloves and ties. . a . ii .

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SCRAP BOOK HARD TIMES IN JAPAN. The semi-official Japan Times gives a pitiful account of the miseries throughout the country caused by the increased cost of commodities. Masses of people, always on , the border line of starvation, have been forced over the ilne by the elasticity of prices and the rigidity of pay. "The laboring men cannot support their families with the scanty wages they get. The little storekeepers find it impossible to balance their ledgers with the credit ahead of the debit, and are universally discouraged by dull business. At homes their wives need money and their children are simply crying aloud from starvation. The hard-pressed and miserable husbands go out in the morning to search for work, and many of them never return again at night. The results are similar to thos. in other countries. Crime has vastly increased; so has suicide; and the country is rent by labor quarrels and strikes. In the arsenals alone there are 20,000 men clamoring for increased pay. Argonaut. MEREDITH'S POETRY. There is no doubt that into the poems went the most of Meredith's "message" and, however we disLke the wrord, Meredith most emphatically had a message. There is little in the novels to compare with the downright doctrine of the poems; it is in them that his words have most conspicuously the zeal of the man who dare not cease from believing that the labors of his brain are meant for the good of his kind. One may assume that the pregnant and earnest teaching which Meredith packed (somewhat tightly packed) into his poetry is pretty well known to the cultivated nowadays. Be strong! is his favorite word; whatever other virtues may be desirable, the prime necessity for a man, if he is to profit by life, and still more if life is to profit by him, is strength spiritual strength. And it is from Mother Earth man is to draw his strength; from whole-hearted and loving acceptance of earth. Lascelles Abercrombie. COUNTRY GIRL'S CHARM. Every girl has her own particular charm, but certainly the country girl possesses some extra specially beguiling ones. To begin with, she is so much younger than her town sister for all that the years may declare differently. So infinitely fresher in mind, as she is rosier in complexion and brighter of eyes. Amusements that have ceased ,to be amusements to the town dweller fill her with keenest enjoyment. Perhaps It is in delicious and frankly displayed joy of life that the country girl . most excels. Her tongue may be less ready, her general appearance less smart than if she had grown among brick walls and shop windows, but the country girl's bright face takes all hearts by storm and the gentle friendliness that is the inevitable result of country neighborliness makes friends for her wherever she goes. x MODEST HERO. Israel Greenberg, seven years old, was playing on the string piece of pier 21, East river, New York, when he tripped and fell into the water. A woman who saw him fall ran for help. and the first person she met was a neatly dressed man who had come off one of the New Haven boats. The man dropped his valise, ran to the spot, and dived into the water. He swam to the boy, and, grabbing him, managed to get him aboard a sand barge. Patrolman Meyers found the man and the boy on the barge, and asked the man his name. "You don't want my name," said the man. "That isn't necessary. Ju3t show me a place where I can change my clothes. That is all I want." The policeman called an ambulance, and the boy was removed to the Hudson Street hospital. Then Meyers led the rescuer to a seaman's lodginghouse. LIGHT LIKE THAT OF DAY. Patents have just been taken out in Berlin for using marble instead of glass in lamps, which has the effect of making the illumination scarcely distinguishable from daylight Innumerable experiments have been made with tinted and patterned types of glass with the idea of producing this effect, but all have been failures. Aa a last recourse a sheet of white marble was planed down until it was semi-transparent, and then different intensities of light were shown from behind. The result was exactly what so many hundreds of experiments had failed to produce. Developing this discovery Oie patentees have fitted lights to the cornice of a room with such success that k is difficult to prove that it is artificially lighted.

TOADS.

This Is about toads. Just totds. So, if you aren't interested in toads, don't care anything about the advancement or uplift of toads, you really may as well skip the paragraph. Toads have been accused of ability to poison infants with their breath, to cause cows to go dry, to carry valuable jewels inside their head, and to cause warts on the hands of naughty little boys. Moreover, no toad can ever hope to take a prize in a beauty show. But scientists of the United States agricultural department have shown that the toad is no gem carrier, doesn't poison infants, cause warts or harm cattle. On the other hand, each toad is worth $19.44 a year as an efficient and patient destroyer of noxious bugs and insects. The toad, in fact, is an epicure in bug eating. As such he should be encouraged in all gardens, farms and woodland groves. He is an amiable, but independent, animal, so the use of the term "toadying" is slanderous in respect to him. To deprive a toad of life is to encourage flies and other pests. What is needed is a society for the protection and patronage of toads. Perhaps in time, by eugenic, methods, a handsomer race of toads might be evolved. CLOVES. Gloves, which are used to good advantage in preserving fruits, are the flower-buds of a tree that usually attains a height of between 20 and 40 feet, with a beautiful pyramidal head of foliage. The leaves are large, of an oblong shape, and evergreen. The flowers are small, but very abundant The leaves, flowers and bark of the clove tree possess a strong aromatic perfume. The ripe fruit of this tree is shaped like a small olive. It is sometimes dried and used by the natives, as are also the broken fruit stalks, but the flower-buds are the most valuable part of the tree. They are gathered at the proper season, and dried in the sun. The tree is a native of the Spice islands, but is also cultivated in Sumatra, and some other parts of the West Indies. The oil of cloves is useful in medicine, being often added to tonic mixtures. POETRY AND THE CHILD. Read poetry to the child. Read easy, simple . verse, read nonsense verse, read real poems, read sometimes such poems as "Thanatopsis" and bits of "Paradise Lost." Of course the child will not understand the thought, but he will enjoy the sound, and he will unconsciously learn the words. Poetry was never meant to be read to one's self, but always to be read aloud or recited. It is harder than prose. The order of the words is often unlike our everyday speech, and the words themselves are frequently different. Here especially, children need help. If they find it they learn to love poetry, and there are few things that so sweeten life as a genuine love for poetry, for its beauties and for the helpful lines thatv come to one's mind in hard places. Home Progress Magazine: ENGLAND'S NATIONAL AIR. According to Professor Cambouroglon of Athens the tune of, "God Save the King" is one of the oldest we have. Six years ago the professor discovered, among the manuscripts in the National Library of Gree'ce, the words and music of an anthem composed in 1457 in honor of Emperor Constantine Paleologos. The anthem opens with the line, "Long may our sovereign reign," repeated three times. The musical notation is -of an obsolete type and )iad to be transposed by an expert in ancient music. It was then found that the tune of the fifteenth century anthem is almost identical with that of "God Save the King." London Chronicle. CONVICTS KEEP THEIR NAMES. No more ridiculous statement appeared in the press than that a man in prison is known by his number and not by his name. The numbers are serial, explains the Outlook; those at Sing Sing are now over 60,000 and those at Auburn over 31,000 and those at Clinton over 10,000. Imagine how cumbersome it would be to employ such numbers as names. The guards would be candidates for a madhouse if such a task were theirs. John Jones remains John Jones throughout his prison experience and only knows he has a number when he has business with the adminisiratiou officers, when the number is used, in addition to the name, as a further means of identification. CARVED WITH POCKETKNIFE. A clever carved model of the capitoi at Washington, D. C, has been made by Prof. George F. Sayres of Stokesville, The carving is of wood and . 'djjjjtiy pBcetknife, not even a carpenter's square being used on it. The carving consists of more than thousand pieces. The wood used is poplar, white pine and white walnut The height of the building is ten inches to the crest of the Liberty statue. The structure is two feet long and about eight inches wide. The grounds contain 141 trees, maue of felt of different shades of green, which rupply a beautiful and artistic setting for the work. Brunette Age. "They say that blondes are dying out" "I thought we'd gotten by the dark ages."

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVES INDIANA. MOTHER OF NINE KILLED Mrs. Aaron Olson Is Burned to Death at Gary, and Her Daughter and a Neighbor Are Badly Injured. Gary, Dec. 11. Mrs. Aaron Olson, wife of a cement block manufacturer, was burned to death, and her nineteen-year-old daughter and Benjamin Schuster, a neighbor, twenty years old, were painfully injured in attempting to extinguish the flames. Mrs. Olson, who leaves nine children, was doing some cleaning with gasoline, when her clothing became ignited. Auto Men Join Fanciers. Richmond, Dec. 11. Announcement was made by the Richmond Poultry and Pet Stock association that the automobile manufacturers and agencies of this city will hold an automobile show in connecA;on with the poultry exhibit next year. The Coliseum will be used, the dates fixed being January 14 to 17. This will be the fifth annual poultry shov given by the association, and, differing from former exhibits, no admission fee will be charged. Entries laready made show there will be more than two thousand fowls exhibited. Alleges Damage by Water. Bedford, Dec. 11. John B.Evans, a farmer, has filed suit in the Lawrence county court against the Southern Indiana Power company, with general offices in Indianapolis, for three thousand dollars for damages alleged to have been sustained by him by water in "White river backing up on his farm, near Williams, where the power company has erected a large and extensive permanent dam. Several efforts to compromise the matter have been made without result. Suits by other farmers will follow. Physicians Meet Thursday. Martinsville, Dec. 11. The annual meeting of the Seventh Indiana Councilor District Medical association will meet in this city Thursday afternoon and evening. Twenty-one Indianapolis physicians are on the program. The district is composed of Hendricks, Johnson, Marion and Morgan counties and the officers are: President, Dr. C. A. White of Danville; secretary, Dr. Daniel W. Layman of Indianapolis: councilor, Dr. W. N. Wishard of Indianapolis. Says Wife Made Threats. Newcastle, Dec. 11. Charging that his wife threatened to pour hot lead in his ear and burn him with acid. James King, a factory foreman, has filed suit for divorce from Rennis King. The suit followed the annulment of a marriage of King and Mrs. Mollie King and his arrest on a charge of bigamy, made by Mrs. Rennis King, to whom he was first 'married. If he is successful in his divorce proceedings he will remarry his second wife. Shredder Blown to Pieces. Shelbyville, Dec. 11. John Loggans, north of here, lost his fodder shredding machine in an unusual manner. While in operation at the home of one of bis neighbors, it was blown to pieces by some dynamite that was fed into it in a bunch of fodder. The explosive was probably hidden in the fodder by some enemy. Two teams of horses that had drawn loads of fodder to the machine ran away, but their drivers escaped injury. Steps in Front of Engine. Elwood, Dec. 11. Webster E. Fox, sixty-two years old, was run down and fatally injured by a Lake Erie & Western switch engine in the yards here. Hearing a train approaching, he stepped off the main track on to the switch and directly in front of the engine. One arm was severed at the shoulder and he was internally injured. He has a tfife and four grown children. j Prominent Physician Dies. Noblesville. Dec. 11. Dr. J. A. Axline died at his home in this city of cancer, aged sixty-five years. He in survived by two sons, both business men of Noblesville. Prior to his location in this city twenty years ago. Doctor Axline practiced medicine at Rushville for twenty years. He has been prominently identified with the Indiana Medical association for many years. Richmond Joins Civic Union. Richmond, Dec. 11. A local branch of the Indiana Civic union has been formed here with the following officers: Sharon Jones, president; Charles E. Marlatt. vice-president: Prof. N. C. Heironimus, secretary and treasurer. Rev. B. D. Johnson, president of the state association, of Indianapolis was present and made an address. Show Eight Hundred Birds. Columbus, Dec 11. The seventh annual show by the American Poultry Breeders' and Fanciers' association of this city opened in the city hall with 800 birds on show. Earl Hemenway ot Iowa will judge the birds.

DP HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD GETS HER FORTUNE Ms I Catherine Barker. Miss Barker, on coming of age, waa given possession of the estate left her by her father, the late John H. Barker of Michigan City. The estate has been estimated at $20,000,000. Greenfield. David Ellis, city treasurer, has a silver "bull's eye" English lever, No. 412, watch, made by Edward Manley, of London, In 1762. It is run by a chain. The watch was brought from England by the Dilly family in Revolutionary times and has been handed down from one generation to another. Hugh Dilly gave it to Mrs. Ed Hart and Mr. Hart left it to Ellis. Lawrenceburg. Victor Oberlin, for mer state representative, found a pearl while eating oysters. The pearl is smooth and white and nearly as large as a small bean. It weighs almost sixteen grains and its estimated value is $75. The landlord of the hotel made a diligent feearch through ten gallons of oysters, but was unable to discover any more pearls. Muncle. "This world is no place for a poor man," said Charles Stevens, age forty-two, a laborer, to his wife. Then he swallowed strychnine and died a few minutes later. Ho was despondent because he was out of work and his wife was forced to support the family by washing. Logansport. Elizabeth Clark-Lang, a bride of a day, shot and killed Mrs. Mary Copple at the threshold of the Copple home. The tragedy followed disparaging remarks made by the victim about the age and looks of the bride. Superintendent of Police Morris and State's Attorney Fansler, on examining Mrs. Lang, elicited from her the following statement: "Yes, I shot Mrs. Copple. I shot her down as her two little children stood beside her holding on to her skirts. I killed her because she said no man ought to marry me and that my husband would repent having married me." Crawford3ville. Paul Zachary, thirteen years old, was killed by a Big Four freight train In this city. The lad had been picking coal along the tracks and was attempting to crawl between two cars when the train started. He was badly mangled, several cars passing acros his body. Laporte.,,If I am given my liberty on parole or pardon, I will prove my innocence," was the appeal made by John Wilson, a life man in Michigan City, who wrote to Harry B. Darling, secretary of the state board of pardons. Wilson was sent to prison from Connersville, where a jury found him guilty of killing hit wife. Newcastle. Barks of a faithful dog led Mrs. Morris Thomas, daughter of John True, sixty-five years old, to locate the body of her father in a corn field near his home. The termer was shucking corn when ht was stricken with heart trouble. The dog, when he saw his master fall, alarmed the household. Noblesville. A telegram received from Maysville, Ky., gives information that Best Gault, th young farmer who on Hallowe'en night shot and seriously wounded Miss Mabel Dunn of this city, has been discharged. The srand jury, to which GauU was held, accepted his statement that h thought the coon huntins party of which Miis Dunn was a member was a crowd of marauders with evil intentions on his property. Iiis Dunn, whose life was despair for a while, is now at her hosie are a4 is piratically well.

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