Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 55, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 August 1913 — Page 2

CARBOLIC ACID TOO STRONG NEW LANGUAGE HAS EVOLVED HOW TRACED f WAb AVERTED Signs of Ancient Sogdian Race Found In Central Asia Presented to Paris Sorbonne. But Then, as His Partner Said, the Dead Man "Never Did Have No Constitution." Americans in the Philippine Hav Departed in Large Measure From Familiar Tongue. Farmer Saw His Predictions Varlfie If Train Had Only Come Through His Land Sideways.

GRAMMAR OF LOST LANGUAG

Autos for the Cabinet a WASHINGTON. The requisition of Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson for three automobiles, two for personal add one for departmental use, has brought up the subject of tho private uso of government conveyances. The demand for automobiles by the secretary of labor la based on the claim that "it is just as cheap now to purchase, maintain and operate a motorcar as it is a horse and wagon or buggy." The government provides four or Ave automobiles for the president, one for the vice-president, one for tho speaker of the house and one for the public printer, and carriages and homes for the members of the cabinet and their assistants. Cabinet members have two-horse cartages and their assistants single horse coupes. The White House cars cost from 14,600 to 6,000. Ex-Speaker Joseph G. Cannon rode In a large, hand&ome $6,000 car, but Speaker Champ Clark has declined to use an automobile

Cabinet Officers Are Patrons of Lunch Rooms

ttCjOME of the members of the cab0 inet have solved the problem of reducing the cost of living to figures mithin their incomes," said Col. Richard Ryan of Denver the other day. "In my trips to Washington in the last 20 years I have observed that I can get a pretty good quality of buttermilk at some of the dairy lunchrooms, but I was somewhat surprised recently to find at my elbow in one of these lunoh rooms the secretary of tho treasury, Mr. McAdoo, and two days ago I stood shoulder to shoulder with Secretary of War Garrison. . "I wonder if tho people of Washiugton know that the milk and pie lunch room is peculiarly a Washington institution and that a former secretary of the treasury, more than any otlxer person, was responsible for its popularity? In the seventies, the late Frank Ward opened the first of these lunch rooms in the Corcoran building on Fifteenth street. It was not a big success at first, but ono day John sShermau, secretary of the treasury in Health Service Warns BEWARE the public cigar Clipper! Such was the warning sent out the other day by tho public health service of the United States. "This," read the statement, referring to tho automatic clipper of the cigar shop, "would seem to be a very effective, method of bringing about the Interchange of mouth secretions and possibly the spread of infection." When eminent authorities coincide so co incidentally, not only in thought but in the expression thereof, the rest of us a.j;e bound to pause in our mad career and give ear fco enlightenment. We must give the go-by to the handy little snipper on tho tobacconist's

Just Smiled, Shook Hands and Let Them

THERE is no doubt that George Uhler, supervising inspector general of the steamboat inspection service, department of commorce, closely resem bles In appearance William Howard Taft, now a professor at Yale and formerly president of the United States. Ge11er.1l Uhler, as tho genial super vising inspector genoral is called, fre-, quently found It embarrassing during j tho Taffc. rogimo to visit any of the executive depart m en U. No sooner would ho enter tho building than the messengers of ebony huo would turn white and in their salaams almost knock their heads on the floor. With the -m'tgolng of Mr. Taft and the incoming of Mr. Wilson, General Uhler believed he would find relief from that embarrassment, the wearing, against his will, of another man's mantle. Not so! Everybody knew Professor Taft recently would bo In town in attendance on a commission meeting of which he vai a member and that he stayed over Sunday. That Sunday, having nothing better to do. General Uhler got on a street car for the wharves to look over one of tho Norfolk steamers. A few block further RapreMMtativ Frederick C.

New Topic at Capital

of any kind. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall uses a government machine. In addition to the touring cars at the White House, Uncle Sam provides an electric runabout for Mrs. Wilson and the Misses Wilson. Every year, when the appropriation bills come in, there is an extended debate over the "misuse" of the government vehicles by army and navy officers and others connected with the various departments. It is annually charged that government automobiles and horses and carriages and army mules are used for private calls. It is alleged that army officers and others attend social functions at the expense of the government. Sometimes, when there is a dance at one of the big hotels, visitors from Fort Myer come over in a wagon behind army mules. Several years ago in an effort to stop the promiscuous use of government teams, Uncle Sam had all of his vehicles marked, and ttiat did not prove a success. The old practice continues. The wives of cabinet members are entitled to the use of government vehicles for shopping or calling. With the horses and carriages goes a liveried driver. The request of Mr. Wilson, coming as it does from the most modest department of the government, has caused much comment about Washington. President Hayes' camnet, happened to notice the lunch room and went in to investigate. He drank a mug of milk and ate a sandwich and returned to his office. Thereafter ho became a regular customer. It didn't take long till it was noised about among the treasury clerks that the secretary was a patron of the Ward lunch room and the business boomed. "Frank Ward has been dead many years. He was killed by a trolley car on Georgia avenue, but the dairy lunch so modestly started by him in Washington, I think in 1879, is now to be found in every city and good sized village in the United States. Against Cigar Clipper counter, so far as concerns the use for which it is intended. The neat and prompt contrivance will still be of some use. In its everready self-cocking, hair-trigger way, it can still snip slices off inquiring fingers, as of yore. It will still subservo the useful purpose of chopping superfluous matches into small bits a favorite pastime in tho temperance pool room of our misspent youth. But we must ignore, avoid, eschew, shun, evade, elude and otherwise escape it and its peril. Be advised and chaw off your cigars, unless you carry a pocket clipper or a jackknife. Or and this is considered very knowing you may squeeze the tip of a good ten-center between your thumbs until the wrapper bursts. But on no account insert in the socket of the public clipper any filthy weed you intend putting to your lips. For whatever may be your ideas on the subject of interchanging mouth secretions you surely don't wish to be promiscuous about it. Go Stevens of Minnesota got on the car and nodded to the inspector general. Then Representative Daniel A. Driscoll of New York got aboard. He, too, nodded. In the meantime Mr. Uhler had been the focal center of a good many pair of eyes on the car, presumably sightseers in particular. As Messrs. Stevens and Driscoll got off the car they stopped and shook hands wrth General Uhler and said a few words. Close on their heels a couple w.th a Washington guidebook in their possession timidly stopped, shook hands and said how pleased they were to meet him. Then the procession of handshakers became continuous. General Uhler didn't want to hurt the feelinga of any of them so he just smiled, shook hands aad lot 'cm 0.

R. Gauthiot, the French savant, has presented to the Paris Sorbonne the first grammar of the Sogdian language, which was lost to the world ofie ..thpusand years ago. The Sogdians are supposed to have been a powerful and highly cultured race, inhabiting Central Asia, where now there is merely a sandy desert. Their language, it is declared, shows that they were the parents of all the present European and Indo-European races, though the method of writing this language resembles Semitic rather than Arabic. "Hie land which the Sogdians inhab-' ited formed a link between Siberia on the north, China on the east, Tibet and India on the south and Irania and Persia on the west. Before the development .of sea commerce the caravans disseminating the riches of the orient all passed through Sogdia, the last vestiges of which are supposed to have been destroyed by the Mongols in the eleventh century. Within a decade travelers and explorers have found traces of great cities buried in the sand, with Buddhist art workers of considerable beauty and at least two libraries of manuscripts, while remains: of canals indicate that the Sogdians well understood irrigation. Although the modern Persians are believed to huve descended directly from the Sogdians, whose language is supposed to have disappeared during the Mohammedan renaissance in the eighth century, only one miserable tribe dwelling in a rocky valley in central Asia, namely, the Yagnobis. is thought to preserve some characteristics of the lost race, whose re-discovery is expected to clear up many problems in history. Professor Gauthiot hopes to depart soon to study the Yagnobis among their native cliffs.

Western Medicines in China. In China, western ideas are going ahead. A proof of this is that the European medicine chest has been adopted. Dr. Wu Lien Teh (still known at Cambridge, where he took his degrees, as "G. L. Tuck"), the director of the plague prevention service organized by the Chinese govern ment, recently came to England U read a paper at the International Medical Congress on his work in North China. "I wish the use of j Chinese medicines was dying out as "but the people are saturated with old-fashioned ideas, and it will take some time to eradicate them. Still." he added, "western treatment is making headway, especially in surgery, and there are a great many European trained doctors now practicing among the Chinese. The general stage of medicine in China is about comparI able to what it was in Europe 50 or 60 years ago. A significant sign of progress is that the old-fashioned physicians are coming to our service and asking western trained men to give them lectures and advice, while the people themselves are taking an interest in health subjects." Killed, by Runaway BaflooTf: A runaway airship caused the death of a German sentry at Schneidemuehl, Germany, ü few days ago. The airship a military dirigible bal-. loon, Schuette-Lanz was torn from her moorings in a wild squall and wrecked. She carried up in her cordage two sentries, one of whom was killed by falling G00 feet, and the other severely injured by a jump of 30 feet. Neither crew nor pilot was on board the aircraft, which was at anchor on the military parade ground, her mooring chains buried 6V2 feet in the earth, when a gust caused her to break away. The sentries tried to hold her down and were lifted into the air. One loosened his hold soon after leaving earth, but the other held fast until exhausted, and was thCM hurled to the ground aud killed. The dirigible landed an hour - later some miles away. Carnegie and French Reporters. The rich Carnegie was recently for several days in Paris. On arrival a legion of reporters came to ask his impressions of his journey. Very courteously he received them, and in course of conversation remarked: "What an interesting profession is yours. You study daily life in all ita diverse manifestations. How greatly do I regret, gentlemen, that I did not myself become a journalist." To this ! one of the reporters replied: "Be as sured. Monsieur Carnegie, that we regret still more that we did not become multi-millionaires." Le Cri de Paris. Sacrilegious Thief Foiled. A disappointed burglar who broke Into the parish church at Sunnybrow, a Durham (Eng.) mining village, and found he was unable to force open the safe, left a message for the vicar to the effect that the next time he paid an early morning call he hoped he would find the safe open. An entrance had been effected by breaking a window. A torn surplice was found stained with blood, suggesting that the visitor had been as clumsy in getting through the window as he was in his attempt to rifle the safe. Reforesting Norway. Tree planting societies have been started in Norway to cover the mountain sides and untiliable areas of th country with forests as they were centuries ago. The annual report shows that last year 144 societies planted 2,276,000 tree.

Captain Til Huston, the most important contractor in all SpanishAmerica, goes to New York as often as possible in the summer to see baseball games. In the winter he has arranged it so that American teams play in Cuba. His particular little playmate there is John J. McGraw. T traded so-and-so," said McGraw, "because his health is poor." "During the Spanish war," said Captain Huston, T was stationed at a hospital camp at Ybor City. Your statement recalls an incident I witnessed. Half a mile down the road, through a palmetto swamp, was a mule camp. The muleteers had been picked in the United States because they were the only things in the world that were tougher than an army mule. One day, as we lay under a tree, we saw a man galloping a big mule through theswamp. " 'Hurry, Doc this man gasped when he got to us, 'hurry. Me and another guy was lyin' under a wagon jus' now, takin' a drink now and then. An' we got hold of the wrong bottle, and we both took a pull at some carbolic acid that I'd been dressing a mule's shoulder with.' "The doctor filled him full of grease and emollients, and then tried to put him to bed. " 'Nix,' said he. 'I'm a busy man. I gotta get back to that camp and make them guys do their work.' "So away he rode, with the carbolic acid 'fuming and steaming inside him. In another half hour he came charging back through the swamp on his big mule. " 'Turn down that bed, doc,' he yelled. "I think I'll stick around a while. That other guy's lyin' under the wagon, deader'n h 1.' "'I should think you'd be scared,' said the doctor. "'Aw,' said the mule driver, 'he never did have no constitution!'"

MULE QUICK TO "CATCH ON" Veracious Owner Tells Story of How Accident Taught Animal His Abilities as Fish Catcher. A Connecticut farmer owns a mule which, he declares, catches fish. He learned the trick last winter while harvesting ice. The mule broke through a thin place on the Ice one day and the farmer and his gang of men had a hard time to rescue him, but despite the excitement they no.ticed that the nrule never gave a single bray for help. When the mule was finally landed it held in its jaws a fine pickerel 23 inches long. The farmer took the pickerel to town and placed it on exhibition. To prove the truth of his story he pointed out the tooth marks on the fish. He says that the mule frequently wades into the pond now and brings out a fish. To Clean Statuary. To clean statuary or ornaments of wrhite parian marble put a small tablespoonful of washing soda into a pail half full of tepid water. Soap yellows marble, and should not be used. Scrub gently with a nail brush, after which rinse twice. Wipe dry with a clean towel. Be sure the ornaments are perfectly dry before they are put back in their places, for If they are not, a moist ring at the baye of each may injure the table or mantel on which they stand. Took Prescription Literally. A German doctor was consulted by a very sick patient, and having called while the doctor was engaged, he wrote his prescription and threw it down to the sick man in haste, saying: "There, take that!" The patient took the prescription and left A few days after he returned to the doctor and reported himself well. "But," said he. "I found it hard -?o swallow, as I never swallowed paper before as a medicine; but I got ft down, and am well, thank God!" Biffer's Helpmeet. "Biffers has a jewel of a wife. Some people think she's frivolous. Biffers doesn't. He reads all his stories to her aud then abides by her decision." "But Isn't that trusting a good deal to her judgment?" "Yes, but it works out all right. The stories she condemns he sends to the publisher, and the stories she likes he throws away. It's all v.ery simple." Co-operation Needed. According to the testimony of an American author, the increasing predominance of women teachers In America is already cause for anxiety, and with good reason, for the good order of things in üchool, in the home, In the community, demands that men and women co-operate as equals, having like authority and like responsibility. Ellen Key in Atlantic-

Fifteen years ago the American flag first floated over a Malay archipelago In the far Pacific. Spanish was tho current speech among tho upper classes there. The common people spoke a dozen different dialects unintelligible one to the other. We came, saw and possessed, and, shortly atfer the flag, boatloads of teachers arrived with the school books and pedagogy of the west. The teachers brought American literature with them. They brought American songs, American games, American ideas and American ideals and they brought the American man

ner of speech. Meanwhile a reflex action was quietly at work. Without realizing it the new-comers were being influenced by the new land and the new people. New methods of living were en forced on the Americans. Their rules of health did not always apply. Day after day they were surrounded by people observing strange customs, following a totally different moral code and speaking an unfamiliar tongue.' Gradually the customs became less strange, the moral code less different and the tongue less unfamiliar. While endeavoring to establish their ways and methods, the Americans uncon sciously were yielding to the ways and methods of the country. Many things of great value in the old order had no place in the new. In particular the old manner of speech often failed to convey the meaning intended. The Americans daily encountered things they had no names for. They met conditions which could not be aptly described in their own tongue. The Filipino obligingly furnished the name or expression from some one of his vernaculars and it passed into the cur rent speech of the American. Then certain officials, trades, articles of clothing and food that had names in English would be repeatedly referred to by the Filipinos in their own dialect when they talked with their teachers. Gradually the teachers came to use the same expressions. We have been a separate nation from England for over 100 years and our Americans have been in the Philippines only 15. Yet the language spoken by Americans differs more from United States English than does the English of London. American Review of Reviews. Plants Have Mother Principle. There is a mother principle alive in all nature which never dies. This is different from the mother instinct, the mother passion. The oak and the amoeba respond to the mother principle. It is a law of life; it is one of the constants of being. The mother instinct or passion, on the other hand, occurs only among the higher animals; occurs not sporadically quite, for it is common enough, yet while generally found, and while one of the strongest, most interesting, most beautiful of animal traits, it is at the same time the most individual and the least constant. This cow of my neighbor's that "I hear loving is an entirely gentle creature, ordinarily, but with a calf at her side she will pitch at anyone who ap proaches her. And there is no other cow of the herd who mourns so long wrhen her calf is taken away. ThQ mother in her is stronger, more enduring, than in any of the other 19 in the barn. In my own cow it is hardly more than blind principle, hardly advanced beyond the oak tree's feeling for its acorns, or the amoeba's for its divided self. Dallas Lore Sharp in the Atlantic Monthly. 'Siphon" Sisson. Thomas Upton Sisson, member of congress from the Fourth district of Alabama, is destined to go down in his tory as the siphon bottle statesman. Which is an unfortunate fate. When the California-Japanese im broglio was at height Mr. Sisson delivered an impassioned anti-Japanese speech on the floor of the house. "If we must have war," he declared, "or submit to this indignity, I am for war. 11 Later, in the tariff debate, Repre sentative Johnson of Washington, re proving him for this speech, called attention to the fact that Mr. Sisson had voted last year against a battleship program, and then he referred to the southerner as "the sizzling solon from the Mississippi, Mr. Sisson." If that doesn't sound like a siphon bottle, what does? The resemblance caught the fancy of the cloakroom congressional kidders, and they are ringing the changes on it whenever Mr. Sisson happens along. New Bed of Scallops. The demand for sea food is a persistent and an increasing one, so much so that in some lines the supply is threatening with extinction. This is particularly true of the lobster, whioh is every year becoming scarcer 'and consequently dearer, and even the succulent clam is not found in its former abundance in those haunts to which it once gave fame. But the scallop is a good substitute, and the report just made to the secretary of commerce that a bed of tho giant variety, thirty miles wide and extending from Rhode Island to the Virginia capes, has been found, is very reassuring. The common kind are plenty enough, but they are only half as large as the giant variety, and not accounted so great a delicacy. This new source of supply is regarded as practically inexhaustible, and it Is not likely to have an immediately lowering effect upon tha price of a hotel order.

In a Tennessee backwoods lived a farmer who, although he had never seen a railroad, yet had his opinion of them and the mischief which he understood they might cause. According to his notion, a train was as much to be dreaded as a cyclone it self Great, then, was his consterna tion upon learning that a right of way for a railroad was wanted, through his farm. He swore "by hickory" that no money could buy It Finally land enough for the purpose was condemned and the road built. The day the first train was to pass, the neighbors, knowing of the old fellow's opposition, persuaded him, nevertheless, to go with them to see it As the train disappeared, some one said: "You see, Bill, it didn't: hurt anything, after all." Bill was surprised, but hated to abandon his contention that a train would ruin things. "Wal, yaas," he said. "I reckon that ye mought say so. but ye see the gosh-durned thing come through here endways. Ef it hed come nideways, it would a busted the daylights outen of every cow in the place."

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