Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 January 1913 — Page 6

Supreme Court's' Little Suits Make Big Problems

THEir LITTLE SOTS 4rE iß)!t!7 ASHINGTON. From small beginiff nings have arisen some of the jinost perplexing questions to be passled upon by the Supreme court this tfall and winter. Thomas W. McComb had splendid Illick duk hunting in Tinicum township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, year or so ago. Probably to his surprise that day's outing will bring 2iim to the Supreme court. He was ,prosecuted for using an; automatic igun in the hunt. In defense he attacked the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania law against the use of that type of weapon. Mathias Schmidiufer, a Chicago baker, is said to have made his loaves of bread a trifle to small one day and -was fined $100 for violating a city ordinance regulating the size of loaves. He will aslr the Supreme court to declare the ordinance a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Conatltution of the Uuited States. A burn on the back of Anne Sweeney of the District of Columbia forms

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Postmaster General Hitchcock a Night Worker

IT took one man, from a western city, nearly a week to find out something about Frank H. Hitchcock, the postmaster-general, that many Washingtonians acquainted with the inner workings of tho postofSce department knew. This man went day after day at 0 o'clock in the morning to Mr. Hitchcock's office and waited patiently to ee the postmaster-general. He began to have set ideas about the postmaster-general and what he considered the necessity of making cabinet officers do more work, or at least maintain some sort of regular office hours. On the night of the fifth day the man dropped into the postoffice building. He did not know just why, but he thought he might get some "tip" from the watchman. The only person in sight was the elevator man. "I want to see Mr. Hitchcock," he tsaid. "Can you " "Have you an appointment with him?" interrupted the elevator man, with his hand on the lever ready to ;start the car. The visitor had a brilliant idea. "Yes' he quickly replied. "All right," the elevator operator

9 Society Formed at Capital to Study Spanish

TtfE ONE GREAT and we MusrWfc A SOCIETY I IY VYILÜ MAKE C-VEKY BODY A VIC6 FOR the purpose of promoting the international study of the Spanish language and literature there has just been organized here a society to be known as the Spanish-American Athenaeum. At its first meeting, held a few nights ago, the speakers Included Senor Riano, Spanish minister here: John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American union; Rev. Dr. Charles Y. Currier, specialist on Spanish-American literature, and Mme. Blanche de Baralt of Cuba. The Spanish minister and all the I,-. in-American ministers here were .-.nde honprary vice-presidents of the Some Good Things Left THERE are in the entire government sn ice an army of more than 400,UOu men and women. Of these more than 300.000 are protected by the civil eervice, some by law and some by executive order. Of the remaining 100.000 or so only 10,5S2 are direct presidential appointees. The remainder are appointed by the heads of departments, but will, of course, be subject to removal by the incoming administration. Of the 1G.5S2 direct presidential appointments, 9,949 must be confirmed by the senate. . In addition to this large army of office holders and government employees, ail under the executive branch of the government, there are more than 1,000 appointments under tho control .of congress. Part of these the Democrats now have, but they will gain more through the. control of the Unitjed States senate. President Wilson's available patronagfc disbursements will be much larg-

the basis of another suit. On its outcome will depend whether physicians are liable for burns by X-rays in photographing patients. Over the meaning of the word "auction" comes a case from the Hawaiian islands. Arrests were made there for the alleged violation of a law requiring a license for sales at auction. The sales In question were made to retail fish dealers. The point is raised whether this was an auction, and if so, if there is a distinction between "public" and "private" auctions. Whether the government must pay for the forage for two horses for the late Maj. Nathaniel H. McLean of Cincinnati and for two servants is involved in another case. The point arises as a result of his reinstateir vut in the array. The horses and servants were employed after he retired from the army and before he was reinstated by congress. The shipment of a wedding ring by Edward H. Croninger, a Cincinnati jeweler, to Atlanta, Ga., by the Adams Express, precipitated a case which will determine whether express companies, since the passage of the Hepburn rate law, may limit their liabilities for loss of articles. Whether the back of a bay window may form a "party wall" is the basis of a dispute between Lewis B. Smoot and the Hoyl heirs of the District of Columbia, to come before the court for decision.

X5i A.M (giYeJS NOBODY N Ll C a WILL BOTHER

said, as they shot up to the fifth floor. ' I suppose you know where his office is?" "You bet I do." There he found several clerks working busily. His request to see the postmaster-general was taken in a most matter of fact way, and in two minutes he saw Mr. Hitchcock, completed his business and left for home on the midnight train. The explanation is that Mr. Hitchcock does much of his important work at night, away from the usual interruption of visitors and routine matters which would bother him in the daytime. He does not always have clerks with him at night; often he will drop in unexpectedly and all alone will peg away at some puzzling matter until nearly dawn. organization and among those who already have signified their willingness to become corresponding members are the Princess Teresa of Bavaria, Sir Clements Markham, K. C. B.; Senor Quesada, former minister here from Cuba; Senor Rafael Altimira, Spain; Senor Jose T. Medina, Chile; Senor J. Lafone Quevedo, Argentina, and Dr. Rafael Villavicencio, president of the National Academy of History of Venezuela. The society purposes to have frequent meetings, when there will be lectures and discussions on literary, historical and scientific subjects, and will issue a journal both in English and Spanish. While the headquarters will be here, the organization will be international in character and membership. Honorary members will be chosen from time to time from people who have attained distinction in literary, scientific or historical work in connection with Spain and the SpanishAmerican republics. for the Hungry Ones JOBS FOf yoo.ooo DEMO CRATS er than the list which Grover Cleveland had at his disposal when he entered office in 1SS4, after the Democrats had been out in the cold for "28 long years. In the sixteen years that havo elapsed since Cleveland retired, the Democrats who were appointed to office by him have almost entirely been eliminated, except in offices and posts under the civil service, where many appointed under the Cleveland administration are still holding on. Some of these Cleveland appointees are now filling the highest places in the class ified service.

J ooooooooooooooo I 8 DAIRY

AGE FOR BREEDING HEIFERS Opinions on Constantly Recurring Question Differ Considerably Develop Long Milkers. The age at which' to breed the heifers is a constantly recurring question. Opinions differ considerably on this poiont. and unfortunately experience as related by breeders is not uniform by any means, writes E. E. Kaufman in The Town and Country Journal. The writer has always tried to make his opinions conform to the experience and observation, but in the A Weil-Bred Animal. case of breeding-heifers his views have always been backed up by both experience and observation. "When the heifer is bred to drop the first calf at the age of two years, and in nearly all instances this can be done, the habit of giving milk is early stimulated, besides the young cow is more tractabie, and thus more readily brought under the environment of her new condition. "With the first calf dropped at the age of two years it is better to delay the breeding of the second calf for six or eight months, but keep milking her for a year at least, in order to develop the trait of long and persis tent milking. After the second calf she can be bred regularly every year. If properly fed and handled there is really no danger of stunting the growth or undermining the constitution by early breeding. For the dairy cow should begin giving milk as early in life as possible, and the habit, of persistent milking be thoroughly in stilled in the animal. A heifer bred to calve at 2y2 or 3 years of age will be more difficult to handle, and consequently not give down her milk so readily, thus bringing about a tendency to shorten the milking period when all efforts should be in the line of a long period of lactation. Breed the heifers young, 14 to 15 months, except, possibly, in special cases. SUCCESS DEPENDS ON FEED Cows Must Be Given Both Protein and Carbonaceous Rations In Order to Do Weil. Success in milk and butter dairying depends largely on the feed of the cow in properly balanced rations. Cows must have both protein and carbonaceous foods to do wrell, and these can readily be selected in due proportion. The protein foods are alfalfa, clover, cowpea hay, bran, cornmeal, cottonseed meal and soy beans. The carbonaceous foods are corn and cornmeal, corn silage, timothy hay, corn fodder, carrots, sugar beets and other beets. A good balanced ration may be made of alfalfa or clover hay, silage, corn or cornmeal. These , can be fed in balanced quantity, and the dairyman will very soon see the quantity required after feeding a short time. Thirty-five to forty pounds of corn per day, according to the size of the cow, are enough. STRAINER FOR A MILK PAIL Cheesecloth Placed Over Opening Prevents Dirt of Any Kind From V Getting Into Milk. " Even though a milker may be careful, small particles of dirt, hairs, etc., will fall into the milk pail. It is true that the milk is strained afterward, but a large percentage of the dirt dissolves and passes through the strainer along with the milk, writes W. A. Jaquythe of Richmond, Cal., in the Popular Mechanics. The best Strainer on Pail. plan to prevent this dirt from falling Into the milk 1 to put a piece of cheesecloth over the pail opening, securing it there by slipping an open wire ring, A, over the rim. The milk will rtadily pas through tho cloth without spatttring .

FEEDING THE HEAVY MILKER

Large Producers More Than Balance Added Cost, According to Theory of Prof. F, W. Woll. Some people are apt to claim that great milkers require feeding the cost of which more than balances the added value of their produce. Those who have this notion should consider the statement made by Prof. F. W. Woll in his address before the Western Guernsey Cattle Breeders' association, who brought up the following figures: At the Close of the Wisconsin cow competition, the Holstein cow, Caroline Paul Parthenia, was accorded the honor of being the largest producer of butter fat. The feed eaten during the year by this cow at market prices was valued at $129.50, while the feed eaten by the lowest producer waB $48.32, but as Mr. Woll says: "The production of butter Jtat and skim milk at fair values wouldt bring for the poorest cow $68.24 and for the best cow $23.24. If we subtract the cost of the feed from the value of the products, we get what may he termed net returns, amounting to $9.92 for the low producer and $154.44 for the record cow. This, therefore, Is the situation: The best cow produced over 300 per cent, more butter fat than the poorest cow; her feed cost 168 per cent, more, but she gave 675 per cent, larger returns." MACHINE AND HAND MILKING Flow of Milk Not Appreciably Decreased by Use of Modern Devices Cheaper and Cleaner. From experiments with milking machines conducted for nine years by the agricultural experiment farm of New South Wales, it was found that the flow of milk is not appreciably decreased when machine milking is substitutetd for hand milking, except in isolated cases, and that the period of lactation is, not shortened or subsequent periods of lactation adversely affected in any way. Cows that had been milked by machine continuously for five years apparently did not de X o- J Metal Pail Rest. crease in the annual yield of milk. The percentage of solids in the milk remained the same as with hand milking, and the cows were no more subject to udder troubles. Machine milking was much cheaper and clean er when the machines were properly cared for and run by a capable operator. The illustration shows a metal frame on which milk pails can be placed while in the stable to keep them out of the dirt. Quality Not Accidental. Quality in a cow is not usually accidental, but is produced by care in selection, feeding and general management. Uniformly certain results being obtained by this plan, it looks as if it were more profitable, as well as preferable, to raise your cows. If one is going to raise the heifer calves haphazard, he may just as well go to the market and buy "sight unseen." But the man whe remembers rmd appreciates ancestry, feed, training and development, may reasonably anticipate a satisfactory pregeny .from a good, capable cow and a thor oughbred sire of the breed you want. Poor cows are never clean. Use vaseline for sore teats. No dairy was ever too clean. Pet the heifer calf and raise a gentle cow. Slow ripening of cream produces a bitter flavor. Many a common cow can be made good with more food. Properly managed, dairying brings in a constant income. With calves, too low a temperature of feed causes scours. The cow that gives much milk must have plenty to drink. The best way to keep cows clean is to use plenty cf bedding. A coat of whitewash will do much to brighten up the cow stable. A poor milker is one of the surest means of diminishing a milk flow. The churnability of cream depends largely on its being ripened evenly. System in the dairy should supersede all other matters on the farm. What a feeling of satisfaction and security a silo full of green feed inspires. Nearly every herd can be made to double its production by selection and care. Vitality is. a very important characteristic in the dairy cow or any other farm animal. The surest and about the only way to get hold of a good dairy cow these days is to raise her. A cold fall rain doesn't help the milk-giving qualities of the cow ex posed to such weather. It is not expecting too much for a family cow to produce 300 pounds oC butter fat in a year. The average cow must produce 150 pound! of butter fat a year to pay ex penses. All abort that Is clt ar profit.

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HAPPENINGS INDIANA Gary. Police of Gary, Hobart and Miller are working on what they believe is another case of murder, which has come to light by the discovery of the body of a man about thirty years old, in the sand dunes east of Miller. The body was found by Gustave Kimmel of Willow Creek, a section foreman, who was .burning grass on railroad property. When the ground was cleared the body was revealed. Although the victim had been dead three months, employes of the sand company say that the body was placed on the spot where it was found the past week. Indianapolis. A dispatch from Washington says that the follow lng Indiana postmaster nomination!:' were sent to the senate: Roachdale, A. G. Coffman; South Whitley, Clem D. Foster; Albany, Elmer Fergu son; Greenfield, Ora Meyers; Lyons, James Gastlnan; Arcadia, W. G. Pettijohn; Cicero, Shad Young; Importe, Phineas 0. Small; Rushviile, Charles A. Prazee; Sheridan, Howard H. Newby; Shirley, Leonard R Moore. Brazil? The magnificent country home of Lewis McNutt at tire Idlewilde Farm, south of this city, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss of 5,000 on the house and $2,000' on the furniture. The fire was started by Jesse Smith and B. R. Norfolk, tinners, who upset a coal lamp- in a closet. -Mr. McNutt was inGosport at the time. Laporta Charles Bennison ot Michigan City, aged twenty-one years, while riding a motor cycle to his home crashed into tht rear of a wagon and was killed. The body was brought to this city. A small piece of steel became lodged in his eye, and it is supposed that this so blinded him that he was unable to see the vehicle just ahead. Hi skull was crushed. Valparaiso. Following the robberies of Grand Trunk: merchandise cars, two burglaries of local ticket offices and an unsuccessful attempt to burn the telegraph pflice at this place passengers arriving here from Chicago reported they had been victims of a sneak thief or pickpocket. They asserted their losses amounted to $175 In cash, $75 worth of tickets, three watches and other jewelry. Columbus. A fire started by cigar stub thrown in the grass along a roadside swept a forty-acre orchard, destroying most ot the trees. The orchard was on land owned by the heirs of the late Terrell' Newsom, near Clifford. The fire was stopped by the snow. Had the fire continued immense damage would have resulted. Michigan City. Miss Ethel Rodman, sixteen years old, teav.ing a boarding house where she was em ployed, committed suicide by jumping Into the harbor from a bridge. She attended a dance, and told girl friends that she intended to drown herself, but her companions thought her remarks idle talk. It is believed that she was subject to spells of mental aberration. Shelby ville. Death came to Walter Pike, nineteen years old neai his home west of here. He had gone to the rural route box, some distance from the house, and bled tc death in the road from hemorrhage of the lungs. He had been in failing health, but his death came almost without warning, as neither he nor his parents suspected that he was suffering from tuberculosis or that his condition was dangerous. Wabash. Bert Jackson,, aged! thir ty-five, an inmate of a county infirmary here, died from, fright dm to the sudden death of two other in mates. Jackson has long had a mor tal fear of a corpse, and on the occa sion of a death at the institution went in hiding, where he remained until after the funeral, doing without food during the interval. The two deaths with in an hour caused him to immediately pass away. Newcastle. The Henry county committee of the Prohibition par ty met here and elected Rev. C. F. Holaday of Newcastle chairman for two years. Everett Worth was chosen secretary and John C. Cook treasurer. The committee passed a reso lution declaring against the change of the name of the Prohibition party. Vlncennes.- unn scnantz. a traveling salesman of Hamilton, Ohio. was. arrested here. He is said to be wanted at Eldorado, 111., on charges of defrauding a bank, and at Liberty, on forgery charges. Sher iff Line of Liberty arrived for the prisoner. Mitchell. Fire here destroyed the flour mill and contents owned by TT O. Graves. The blaze start ed in the engine room on one of the lower floors. The mill contained twenty-five tons of bran, 800 bushels of wheat, 1,400 bushels of corn and some flour. The insurance is $6,000 and tho loss $10,000. This makes tha second mill of the kind to burn here in three years. By the use of the city chemical engine and the work of a number of man nearby buildings wert tared.

CANADA WEEK

N 0HI0A0G CANADIAN EXHIBITS AT LIVE STOCK AND LAND SHOWS CENTER OF ATTRACTION. The hats were doffed to Canada during the two weeks of the Land Show and the week of the Live Stock Show a. Chicago. Willing to display its goods, anxious to let tke people of the central states know what could be produced ob Canadian farm lands, tnd the quality of the article, Hon. Br. Roche, minister of the interior of Canada, directed that sufficient space b secured at the United; States Land Showv recently heldr to give some adequate idea of the field resources of western Canada. ThoseIn charge had splendid' location, and installed one of the most attractive grain and grass exhibits ever seen anywhere- Thousands, anxious to get back to the land," saw the exhibit, saw wheat that weighed 6S pounds to the measured bushel; oats that wTent 48 and barley that tipped the scalesat 55 pounds. The clover, the alfalfa, the wild pea vine and vetch, the rye grass, the red-top and many other suc culent and nutritious varieties of wild: grasses demanded andt deserved fronn their prominence and quality the at tention they received. The grain im the- straw, bright itL color, and carry ing heads that gave evidence of thetruth; of the statements o Mr. W. J. White of Ottawa. and his attendants, that the wTheat would average 28 to 35 bushels and over per acre, the oats 55 to 105 bushels, the flax 12 to 28 bushels, wrere strongly in, evidence;. and arranged with; artistic taste om the walls. The vegetable exhibit was surprise to the visitors. Potatoes,. turnips, cabbage in fact, all of it? proved' that not only in grains was-. western Canada prominent but in vegetables it could successfully compete with the world One of the- unique- and successful'. features of the exhibit was the suc cessful and systematic daily distribur tion of bread made from Canadian flour. It was a treat to those who got. it. Canadian butter, Canadian cheese and Canadian honey helped to com plete an exhibit that revealed in a. splendid way the great resources or a country in which so many Amer icans have made their home. A feature of the exhibit was thoplacards, announcing the several re cent successes of Canadian farm produce and live stock in strong competition with exhibits from othercountries. There was posted the Leager Wheeler championship prize for Marquis wheat grown at Rostnem in lftll, beating the world. Then. It Holmes of Cardston entered the com? petitive field at Lethbridge Dry Farm ing Congress, and won the wheat championship of 1912, beating Mr. Wheeler with the same variety oC wheat. Hill & Sons of Lloydminster,. Saskatchewan, in 1911, won the Colo rado silver trophy for best oats grown. competed for in a big competition atr Columbus, Ohio, in 1911. The produceof British Columbia at the New York. Land Show in 1911 carried oft the-world.'s-championship, for potatoes,, and Incidentally won a $1,000 silvertrophy, and then, but a few days ago, the same province carried off ihm world's prize for apples at the Hbrtircultural Show in London Bnglandi But that was not all. These Canadians who. hadt the termerity to state that comL was not the only feed fon finishing high-grade beef cattle, ers ter ed for the fat steer championship at the Live Stock Show in Chicago a polled Angusr "Glencarnock Victor-'" Nearly 300 entries were- in the field: "Glencarnock Victor" didnt know a?. kernel of com from a- Brazilian waiv nut. There- were Iowa, Illinois?,. Nebraska, Kansas Minnesota, Wiscon sin and their cora-fed axticlß. determined to win, bound to beat this, black animal from the north, and his "nothing but prainie- grass, oats, and barley feed," as. hia owner proudly statedvbut they didn't. Canada and McGregor & Sons,, with their "Glencar&ock Victor,'" won, and today the swelldom of Amer ica is eatiag of bis steaks and roasto the champion steer of the world. But once more the herd of cattle that won tke Sweepstakes at the same show was bred and owned by the owner of 'Glencarnock Victor, fed only on prairie grass, oats and barley, near Brandon,. Manitoba. Theroyal reception given to Mr. McGregor on his return to his home town was well deserved Omission muBt not be made of th wonderful and beautiful display ot apples made by British Columbia, occupying a full half section of , tha great Land Show. This was in personal charge of Mr. W. E. Scott, deputy minister of agriculture for that province, who was not only a host to those who visited the exhibit, but was also an encyclopedia of information regarding the resources of that country. With 200,000 Americans going to western Canada this year, it is pleasing to know that so many from this side of the line can participate in the honors coming to that new country. Advertisement. A little learning is not as dangerous as the big conceit that goes with it. Mrs. Wlnslow'M Sootklnjf Sjrup far Chlldrx teething', soften., the pums, reduces ian&m tiou, allays pln. cures wind colic. 25c r bottlcAfc. Help comes to those who are wlliUi to pay for it. Mr. Austin's Bg Pancake, delicicHW light cakea for breakfast, all grocra. Adv. Bachtlors art "women's rlghts,M ana wido wars ara women's lifts.