Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 August 1913 — Page 7

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Uncle Sam Can Gauge Horsepower of Human Body

WASHINGTON. If you want to know your exact horsepower and the amount of energy you can generate under any given condition, call on Professor Langworthy at the chemistry bureau, department of agriculture, and ho can give you the answer. He can register your horsepower as easily as the engine manufacturer rates hi3 engines. To Professor Langworthy the human body is but a machine. He is the chief of division 'of nutritive investigations, and solves the problems of food values. Like any other engine, the human body has a maximum capacity of so many foot pounds of energy, and to generate this, a certain amount of fuel in the form of food is necessary. Doctor Langworthy makes it his business to And what food is adapted for the best results ifrom the majority. He described his unique department in his workshop, surrounded by an endless series of laboratory instruments, ovens, graduated scales and queer tubes ,and pipes where everything under the sun is concocted and cooked up, to see how many calories, how much nitrogen and how much energy it will give the human body when it's eaten.

Mingling Kis Politics With Virgil and Horace

ACCORDING to Arthur Krock, that bright luminary of a favorite Blue Grass paper, who loves to mingle his politics with the classic honey of Virgil and Horace, Representative McDermott of the stock yards district in Chicago is lacking in his appreciation of tho beauties of the d-3ad languages. Arthur, with a cigar one and one-half yards long, ina voice which would have soothed the raging brine, told this yarn in the press gallery. "Robert Gordon, who is now ser-geant-at-arms of the house," said Arthur, "studied Latin twenty years ago, when he was a schoolboy, and evidently he clings to a knowledge of it. "Two members of the house got into a wordy row a few days ago. They reached the point where they began to roar at one another. Mr. Gordon, sergeant-at-arms, sat nervously fingering the mace surmounted by the intoxicated eagle which is the symbol of his authority. " 'If I had my way he said to the atock j-ards statesman, 'I'd pitch them out nolens volens.'

"Jawbreakers" Cause Much Laughter in Senate

QlHlTROCHLOR 6f1Z.Ol, PAR. trRAMiLi n i I 1 WHEN Henry M. Rose, assistant secretary of the Senate, arrived at his office the other day he wore a harassed, hunted look. His mood was not lifted when Senator Gallinger entered with a hearty "Good morning" and an apparently radiant emile. Mr. Rose gritted his teeth and showed symptoms of apoplexy. This was the reason : Secretary Rose, acting as reading clerk, was struggling .thro ugh the first pages of the tariff bill the day before when Senator Gallinger arose. "We have now reached paragraph

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Old "Mammy" Is Entertained by Secretary McAdoo

FOLK who know William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, as an austere, dignified person would have been surprised the other afternoon to see him standing in the big reception room of his office in the treasury department engaged in an intimate conversation on childhood episodes with an old colored mammy. AZter it was over the secretary frankly confessed he just had enjoyed tho most pleasurable visit he'd had since he entered tho cabinet. The old mammy was Julia Gibson, mother of seventeen children and who still lives in the McAdoo homo town. She came to the treasury department to call on the secretary, and not only wau she received, but sho was entertained for raoro than an hour while a crush of business and visitors, as woll as treasury officials, waited. Incidentally the secretary is treasuring what he believes to be an invalu-

In the laboratory is a respiration calorimeter, a chamber in which Uncle Sam's scientists put subjects to measure the energy which the subject gives off while he is engaged in different tasks and while fed different diets of food. The calorimeter is a valuable instrument in many ways. It enables

the government to recommend certain diets as being of the greatest use to men and women in different occupations, and it enables them to recommend a combination of foods that are cheap, but at the same time sustaining. The apparatus itself is six and a half feet square and of the same height. There is a window in the side to permit light for reading or studying, a couch, to permit the subject to lie down; a pipe through which air enters, and another through which it is expelled. The expelled air is caught and its components analyyzed, for part of the food you eat is expelled with every breath. The heat given off by the subject's body is weighed and measured and then carried off through a brass pipe that has a current of cold water runnlng through it. The heat-absorbing power of the pipe is enhanced by a series of copper diskn that are sol dered to it. The method is merely the reverse of that practiced in bringing heat into a room by the hot-water method. In one, the cold water carries it away; in the other the hot water brings it in. The exact amount of heat expelled from the subject's body is measured by the flow of cold water, one calorie of heat being necessary to raise one kilogram of water one degree centigrade. OUT " 'You'd do what?' said McDennott, whose native tongue is that of McCarey's Indians, near Sixty-third and Halstead streets, Chicago. "Mr. McDennott sought out a friend: " 'That sergeant-at-arms is a Dago,, he complained. "The Chicago man explained the situation. The friend, unable to reconcile Mr. McDermott's memory of what Gordon had said with any language he had ever studied, asked Mr. Gordon about it. Then the friend went to McDermott and explained: " 'He said he would throw them out nolens volens, which is Arabic for head over heels " 24," said the senator gravely. "While the secretary had been doing rery well I hope he will read this clearly and distinctly." "Coal tar products known as anidlne oil and salts and various other articles," began Mr. Rose, blandly and halted. "I protest," said Senator Gallinger. "He is not reading the complete paragraph." Mr. Rose appealed to Vice-President Marshall, but the latter was obdurate, Pitching his voice so it reached for outside the senate chamber and with an agonized expression on his face, Mr. Rose called off the various items. "Toluidine, xylidin, cumidin, binitrotoluol." he chanted. "Binitrobenzol, benzidin, tolidin, dianisidin, naphtylamin, diphenylamin, benzaldehyde, benzyl chloride, nitrobenzol and riitrotoluol, naphtylaminsulfoaclds " At this point the gravity of the senate gaye way and members joined the galleries in a burst of laughter. able memento of Aunt Julia's visit. Sho left with him an old-fashioned brown daguerreotype of his mother and father that Aunt Julia and her mother had preserved for perhaps half a century. It was to present this gift that Aunt Julia called. Her mother was the "mammy" of the secretary during his babyhood and childhood. Aunt Julia departed with a picture of the building autographed and with a message from the secretary telling of the joy her visit caused.

LET MUCH HEAT GO TO WASTE

Philippin Cooking Methods Not Llki ly to Bt Copitd by Ecoonmicil American Housewives. Roast pig as prepared by the Philippine woman may posaibly uite well (to the natives) as if it were prepared in the most modern electric range or flreless cooker, but the cooking operationi are a great contrast to those of the kitchens of our country. The proceis cannot be considered ai embodying the principles of localized application of heat, which it so effectually employed in our modern electric and gas cooking, for in this case m'ost of the energy goes into heating up a half acre lot, and a very little into the pig. TURN TO THE MODERN STEPS Writer Thinks Nevada Indians Badly Advioed In Forsaking Tribal Dance for Turkey Trot. The once noble red man has suffered much at the hands of his paleface conqueror. He has exchanged his hunting grounds for reservations, he has traded the warpath for the trail around the bases. In place of the forest primeval he now inhabits the circus tent. He has bartered a continent for firewater and trousers. As if this were not enough, the tragic news comes from Nevada that he has sounded still another depth of imomlnv. Abandoning his tribal dances, he has taken up the turkey trot. Before this revelation all the old illusions as to the dignity and selfrespect of the American Indian fell with a crash. Not even the most perfervid admirer of Hiawatha's people can picture them in the mazes of the trot without a shudder. A turkeytrotting Indian deserves no greater respect than a turkey-trotting paleface clerk. Why the red man should seek to change the ghost dance for the trot, the snake dance for the bunny hug or the fire dance for the grizzly bear is a mystery. While the Indian's ancient gyrations may be a trifle more dignified than the latest menagerie movements, they are only slightly less barbaric than the dances which now hold the floor in polite circles. The difference in savage energy is hardly worth the substitution. With Terpsichore gone mad, we may look for an early retaliation by the dansant paleface for the raid which the Indian has made upon his dances. The snake dance and the warwhoop will be taken, in turn, and made a part of the turkey trotter's repertoire. Even at this late date Lo, the poor Indian, oan't make a trade without getting the worst of it. New York Evening Sun. Fifty Years a Mission Worker. The Rev. David Thompson, D. I.. of the Presbyterian mission In Japan recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in that country as a mission worker. He assisted in organizing the first Protestant church in Tokyo, and for years served as interpreter to the United States legation. During his connection with the latter office he translated, among other documents, the original Japanese penal code and code of criminal procedure, which were published in the United States in 1881. Dr. Thompson has also mad many other translations on various topics. Now, at the age of seventyeight, he is still active in the cause of religion, taking part in the general work of the Japanese church. Welcome the College Farmer. When a young fellow has finished a agricultural college course and return. to take up his work on the old farm, give him the right hand of fellowship. More than one bright young man has been discouraged and sent away from the farm by some relative or family friend interfering with his business and leading the old folks to believe that he was going wrong. Though he may not tell you so, in words, the young fellow has come home with the Intention of making the old farm the best place on earth. Such a young man needs encouragement Tf you can't give htm a few kind words, keep J your mouth closed. Don't discourage the boy's Initiative. Give him a show to work out his ideas. Philadelphia Farm Journal. Site of the Garden of Eden. About 3,000 men are at work on the region between Babylon and Bagdad, which Sir William Willcocks thinks was the site of the Garden of Eden. At present it is an arid desert, but the Turkish government seems determined to do for it what Anglo-Egypt" has done for the lower Nile. Sir John Jackson is to perform feats on the Euphrates by building barrages, so as to suffuse the arid regions with the fertilizing waters of the river. At first a district of 600,000 acres will be irrigated, at a cost of $7,500,000 after which the value of the land, now practically nil, will be at least $50,000,000. When entirely irrigated Sir William Willcocks estimates that this resuscitated Garden of Eden will have acquired a value of $190,000,000. Young Churchman.

NANTUCKET ISLAND

Once Center of Tremendous Whaling Industry. Now Figures Chiefly as Summer Rtort Peoplt Have Reicued Many From Shipwreck Seek $100,000 for Erection of Hospital. New York. Nantucket, the little island that offers tho last glimpse of land to those on ships sailing fromj the principal American ports and that is the first signal welcome to incoming European vessels, is making an effort to obtain $100,000 with which to endow a hospital suitable to its needs. An appeal has been sent out to the generous people of America, particularly to those who have some sort of sentimental attachment to this picturesque dot in the wave-tossed waters of the Atlantic. Once the center of a tremendous industry based on the catching of whales Nantucket now figures chiefly as a community engaged for a brief season each year in catching summer boarders, but it knows no closed season for the rescue of persons on ships wrecked in the troubled waters outside its haven. There have been ter rible wrecks recorded as happening in the vicinity and daring work by life savers since the first hardy pioneers settled on the island two and a half centuries ago. Isle de Nantochyte you will find the spelling on an outline map of early days. The island is almost crescentshaped, about 15 miles long and about two and a half miles' wide, and has a coast line of 80 miles. It belongs to Massachusetts, but is separated from Cape Cod penincula by 28 miles of water. The village of Nantucket is on the north shore of the island, almost midway east and west, but it was not always there. The original site was on the west end of the island at a point now known as Maddequet harbor. In 1672 the settlers moved to the present site, which then was called Wescoe. The next year, by order of Governor Francis Lovelace, it was named Sherburne, and it was not until 1895 that the present name was adopted by the village. Although Nantucket island is dotted with handsome summer villas its surface presented few attractions to Typical Fisherman's Cottage. the pioneers. The soil is sandy, with a few low hills and fresh water ponds, and there were not many trees. From 1700 to the War of the Rev olution Nantucket was famouB as a whaling port. For a time it held first rank and in 1726 shore whaling reached its highest mark of 86 whales having been taken that year. Some years later whaling fleets were sent out to distant points off Newfoundland, the West Indies, Cape Verde islands, and even to Brazil, and the business was one of large gain desDite the danzer from French and Spanish privateers. In 1775 the Nantucket fleet numbered 150, and the population then was nearly 6,000, and all save a meager ten per cent, of them were Quakers. By 1785 the fleet had been shattered. 134 ships having been destroyed or captured during the War of the Revolution. LONG HEAD IS BUSINESS ONE Shape More Important, This Writer Says, Than Size borne Noted Examples. London. A writer in an Indian paper states that heads have changed remarkably during the last quarter of a century, owing to the advancement of education, which is materially affecting business men and women Dy developing the mental powers. The person who will hold the reins of command in the future will be the long headed individual, who is fasc surpassing his wide headed brother. The shape of the head is or greater importance than its size, ana tne nest literary type of head vanes from to 23 inches, but up to 24 Inches may be found men of powerful intellects. Heads that succeed in Dusiness and in manufacture and mechanism are usually large, wide about the ears and forward, with a broad, though not always a high forehead. Heads that succeed in educational, literary, scientific, analytical and ar tlstic pursuits are generally long, pro portionately narrow and high, with a good development forward of the ears. Sir Thomas Lipton, H. Gordon Selfridge and Sir Joseph Lyons are among the men who possess heads which may be accounted somewhat ideal types of the class of business men who will lead in the future. Will Have Policewomen. Oshkosh, Wis. Following the lead of several other cities this city soon will have police women. The new of ficers will attend public dance halls, bathing beaches and juvenile court case.

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POSSIBILITY OF LONG LIFE V Ditcovtrie Mads by Scientists Ttnd Always to Stay tht Advanct of the Grim Reaper. Trees live to be thousands of yero old, crocodiles live to be hundreds and, some fish livo to be 150. Why, then, should human life be so brief? If there were no fatal or wearing diseases, and men and women took life as easy as a tortoise or a cypress, what effect would their changed habits have on their length of days? Metchnikoff, who sent thousands to the buttermilk counter by his saying that a certain element in that drink destroyed some of the germs which hasten old age, seems to think that there is not in human beings a natural or inherent tendency to decay. But Metchnikoff would not have tho scientist aim simply at multiplication of years; the great aim should be not to prolong the age o certain individ uals for the sake of making a great showing, but to increase the general length of life to be expected by men and women of thirty years, so that, instead of dying at or before sixtyfive years, they may live to be 100

and live in the enjoyment of their faculties. It would profit us but litle if we should live to be as old as Methuselah, if we had to suffer like Job, espe cially when so few of us have Job's patience. The present obstacles to the realiza tion of the happy, long-lived race of men and women are said to be the wearing out of the teeth, too great waste of the nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord, the hardening of the arteries, the failure of the gland cells of kidney and liver and the breaking down of certain muscular cells. To arrest the decay thus caused is the problem that is now engaging the attention of the advanced special ist. Already the scientist has taken a long stride toward the accomplishment of that purpose. H(e has discovered some of the poisons which, when taken into the human system, injure the sensitive tissues. All specialists agree that science will yet discover feasible means of vanquishing disease and preventing accidents to the tissues of sensitive organs. mom ALL KINDS OF FRUIT Production of California County Is Unique and Its Boast May Well Be Proud. One county in California boasts a great variety of fruit products. Large quantities of fine apples, apricots, plums, pears, peaches, nectarines, prunes, oranges, lemons, limes, pomelos, grapes, pomegranates, olives, al monds, walnuts, berries and melons grow here. Besides these fruits are grown corn and other cereals, alfalfa and all the vegetables, so that the fruit products of the whole world are found In this one county. The raisin The State of California produces 75 pep Cent of the Grapes Grown In the United States. grape was first grown here, and the seedless sultana is largely produced, as are the table grapes of many wellknown varieties. Seems to Prove Scholars Theory The introduction of reindeer in Alaska has not yet m any degree jus tified the predictions of those san guine persons who declared that it would speedily add much to the meat supply of the United States, especially on the Pacific coast. However, the eivilizinsr and stimulating effect of the posseSsion of these animals upon the naturally intelligent and adaptable Eskimos has been well worth while. It recalls the theories of those schold Dnn08ophers who have held th t th difference between Europe nH hnrieinal America, in the ad vancement of human life, was due cnieny to the fact that the former h d services of the horse, which tne American Indians lacked until the whlte men brought that fine animal. b t me with it to subdue and slay the natives. Optimist's Epitaph. The Carlsbad invalid has ordinarily a surDrisingly robust appearance. He looks strong scoffers say he has to hQf to live through the rigors of the cure A Berious tribute has already been Dajd to the virtues of Carlsbad waters, so it may be permissible to quote the anecdotes- of the light-mind-Gd There is an apocryphal legend of an epitaph in a Carlsbad churchyard: I was well. I hoped to be better. Here I am! Harrison Rhodes, in Harper's Magazine for August. No Need to Worry Yet. Tb earth in time will drv un and become as dry and dismal as the moon. At least this Is what scientists for the past twenty-five years have been declaring. And now, present day scientists say "wo should worry." And should we? Certainly not; for tho wise men also tell us that this is not likely to occur for more millions of years than we can count.

H00SIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD i Lafayette. More than 6,000 people, representing forty-five counties in the state, were in attendance at the meeting of the Indiana Live Stock Breeders and Corn Growers associations at Tippecanoe County Stock farm, north of Battle Groundi. J. R. and J. W. VanAtta wera the hosts of the occasion and had everything in readiness for the reception of their guests. Eighteen hundred automobiles were parked on the VanAtta farm. The visitors were shown about the 1,000-acre farm and tho Herefords had been placed in the bor stalls and were arranged as for livestock show. The corngrowers spent the greater part of the morning visiting the neighborhood of the VanAtta farm and about noon returned to the bottom land, where a fine Hereford was in the process of roasting. At the call of dinner the big crowd gathered about the roped off space and were dealt of their portion of the roast. There was a grand parade and inspection of the farm after dinner, and the parade was headed by tho Battle Ground band. Logansport. Employes of the Pennsylvania & Vandalia railway shops in this city, representing more than 1,000 shopman, and supported by all the other railway employes of the city, began organizing a $50,000 stock company to establish a co-operative automobile transit service in opposition to the street car company. Behind the railroad men is the city council, which has agreed to give the company a franchise. The plan is to establish automobile bus lines on the streets where the street car lines operate and also to include routes on which the car lines do not operate. The stock is being taken by the railroad men at $100 a share and the committee reports more than a fourth of it subscribed. Peru. The board of commissioners having received a favorable decision from Judge Tiliett of the Miami circuit court, relative to the injunction Bult filed against the board by the Indiana Manufacturing company and Thomas McAllister to prevent the con struction of the bridge across the Wabash river at Broadway, have begun advertising for bids, to be opened September 9. The contention of the plaintiffs was that the river should be widened at Broadway and a longer bridge should be constructed to prevent floods in this city. The new bridge will be built higher and wider than the old one, and $40,000 has been appropriated for its construction. Marion The initiative and referendum, for conducting the affairs of the Green Bottle Blowers' association of the United States and Canada wTas voted down at the thirty-seventh annual convention in this city. The question of adopting the initiative and referendum came up in a resolution. Delegates said the question had been up in conventions the last six years, and some declared it was one of the greatest "time killers" they had to contend with. Those wrho favored the initiative and referendum held that by its use practically all of the membership of the G. B. B. A. would be enabled to have a voice in the affairs of the association. Bloomington. John Stlpp, aged seventy-three, the wealthiest farmer of Monroe county, fell dead of apoplexy in front of the courthouse when about to enter the building. About twenty-five years ago he became well known throughout the state because of some work of Reddy Austin, who fleeced him of $5,000 on an alleged stone quarry trade. Stipp never recovered his money, but played even with Austin. He followed Austin for years and had him in jail several times, until it is said he finally confessed that it had cost him more than he had obtained to keep out of the penitentiary. Evansville. After they had made numerous requests to have their street cleaned and failed to get any lesponse, women living along LinWood avenue formed themselves into a broom brigade and gave the street a good cleaning. It is said the Linwood women will now organize a street cleaning club, and that they will meet once a week to clean up Linwood avenue, in tho event that the board of public works fails. Evansville. Charges that A. E. Gore, Republican candidate for city judge, appropriated $1,000 in notes belonging to him were made here by William H. Roesner, who says the candidate gave the papers to Oscar Miedrich, Roesner's former partner, in return for an automobile used by Gore in electioneering in the spring primary. The Vanderburg County Bar association will take up this charge, as well as others preferred against the attorney, this week. Lafayette. Benjamin Chenoweth. aged twenty, lay at tho bottom of the Wabash river five minutes bofore he was pulled from the water by a tide pole. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors worked on him for an hour before they restored him to consciousness. Fort Wayne. Accidentally break lng open a wound in her limb, Margaret Ellen Baker, aged sixty-two, widow of Andrew Jackson Baker, bled to death before physicians could stop the flow of blood.