Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 February 1914 — Page 3

mSTflNOIPN CITY

RAISING BEEF CATTLE PR0PER attention to ewes

Decrease of Supply East of Missouri Is Vital Problem.

Severe Losses Result From Attempting to Handle Early Lambs Without Accommodations.

WATCHED PUPPY MAKE MEAL

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All New Yorkers, Evidently, long to the Class That Are Eternally "Ruining."

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Farmers of Corn Belt Have Been Peone to Look to West and Southwest far Feeders Situation Is Growing More Acute.

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One Goat and Thousands of Cats in the Pound WASHINGTON Statistics as to stray domestic animals and their disposition bv the District pound have com to light in the semi-annual report or

that institution to the health department For the greater part of the time oi ine collectors of the pound is taken up with dogs ana

cats. In the haif year just closed mere u impounded 2.42:: cats and 2,176 dogs, while of other animals there were only six cows, two horses, and one goat. It is provided by law that geese also must be taken into custody when found at large, but in the last half-year none was found Other animals required to be taken when It raying are bulls, mules, calves, sheep and hogs. For the latter three classes of animals, pound fees of one dollar are charged for redemption. For geese the charge is 50 cents, and for all other animals except cats, two dollars. Fees collected for the half year just completed amounted to $692. . Cats are collected only on request of those having them in charge and are taken to be painlessly

killed. They are not even confined for a short period, but put immediately in the pas chamber, where they are asphyxiated. Officials in charge of the activities of the pound are beginning the use of traps for catching cats, but these, too are placed on private property, and only on request. The traps are so constructed as to confine the cats In a ventilated box, and before they are ps4 the party making the request must sign an agreement carefully to rati h :hetrap, to notify the pound as soon as possible after the animal Is caught aLd in case of delav to feed the confined feline. Dogs, also after being kept 48 hours in order that ownerä may have an opportunity' to redeem them, are killed by the administration of charcoal pas heath is painless, experts say. and is accomplished in about half a minute. In the case of cats, death takes place after about a minute. Some dogs enter the pound as enforced boarders, being quarantined for suspected rabies. Eighteen dogs retained for examination were returned to their owners during the last half year. Of all the other animals collected during the period. 280 were redeemed by their owners, 86 were sold, and 4,209 w.-re turned over to the street cleaning department for disposal.

Stood Himself on Track and Did Ajax Act A CR was whizzing toward the green hills of Virginia, not so far away. The big suburban was crowded with men, women and bundles, and evervbodv was happy except one passenger who weighed, say, 210 pounds

and overv pound a jag. He was a noisy man, ano he wanted to fight. He was so set for a scrimmac4 that the motorman finally accommodated him by fitting him off the ear. Before the hero could gel back to his car and start it Mr. Milwaukee was on the track daring him to run him down. The scheme worked, and the 220 pounds worth of jag reeled aboard again. The motorman with the valuable assistance of 'ho conductor, put the jagman off the car eight distinct and dramatic times. And for eight distinct and dramatic times Mr. Milwaukee stood htmW on the track and did the Ajax act, and Then a small, anemic man who had also been m SfBOsJoOl in his attempt to make Milwaukee fa nous, and who was the roisterer's companion, took a udden virtuous zlitzaff notion to help out

the motorman in his good work by sitting on his friend alter he had been own d from ÜM t ar. You have, heard about that rhythmic lly on tho wheel ot an automobile. Well, sir. the two created such a rumpus that it attracted the attention of a piWlIilT who had beta reading his newspaper at the lower uid of the car. He was as heavy a man as Milwaukee, and. what weighed mOCO, he was as sober as that Judge we do our comparing by. One look out of the window was all M Deeded to send him to the rescue 'Hold on that's my brother; 1 11 settle him." And to did You bet he did! The words wore not out of h mouth before had ;umjod into the scone of action, flung brother Milwaukee flat on his bu k and was sitting aBtrido of him -like a temperance QatnbrlnuB straddling an intox cited cask. I , got him where he can't get up: start your ear. old man mi. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 ii it nriiMtod be invitation a nd the car. with its crowd of men,

women and v. mom; bundles, went wliiving toward the green

(By R. O. WEATirEP.STOXE.) We quite agree with the statement by a Chicago man who has kept in close touch with the cattle owners of the country for the past 20 years that decreasing beef cattle supplies on the farms east of the Missouri river is the most vital problem facing the live stock industry today, and one

which must be remedied by greater effort toward replenishment if the prosperity of the land owners is to be

The flock owner who breeds his ewes to lamb during the late winter and early spring months should provide favorable conditions at the right time. Severe losses result from attempting to handle early lambs without having adequate accommodations to provide comfort for the flock, writes L. J. Merideth in Hoirestead.

The first essential to success in, handling early lambs is a comfortable and well arranged sheep b?.m. It should be well lighted, dry and properly ventilated, and there must be plenty of pens and facilities for caring for each ewe as soon as she shows evidence of lambing. We have found it desirable to keep on hand an adequate supply of light partitions and mangers for constructing pens for the ewes as fast as needed. In this way the flock can have the run of the whole sheep barn or it can be quickly subdivided as the occasjpn may demand. It will be found very convenient to have a light manger that ran ho made fast to the corner of

each pen, so that roughage may be fed regularly without being trampled under foot and made unpalatable. Ewes should ha3 plenty of good, nutritious food during the winter, not only to maintain a good flesh condition, but to nourish the unborn lambs. Roughage alone is not enough. A light ration of grain should be fed regularly. A proper mixture of oats, barley, corn and peas will give good results. For roughage, clover or alfalfa hay and ensilage will furnish about the right proportions of bulk and succulence.

Excellent Beef Type.

EASY WAY TO LIFT BARRELS

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continued and, too, If the beef-eating

public is to secure its regular quota at

prices below prohibitive levels. The nation has in recent years drawn too heavily upon the source of fat beef output, without due regard to the future of the supply. Farmers of the corn belt have been prone to look to the west and southwest for their supplies of feeding cattle, not realizing that the increasing population is con

stantly calling for greater home production of fat beeves. Time has arrived when the west, a few years back the breeding ground for the corn belt feeders, is no longer able to supply feeding cattle to the farmers of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio except at almost fat steer prices. The situation is growing more acute each year. Within tho past two years the effect of home production of beef steers in the states of the middle west has been a relatively shorter supply of beef than consumptive capacity required, and the results have been higher average prices for fat steers than realized in thirty years

past. Hut Instead of general prosperity it has been prosperity for the few, because cattle ralöiug and feeding has declined.

Simple Device Shown In Illustration Herewith Will Be Found to Be Quite Convenient.

In New York there are several stores which have open-air checking of babies. The youngsters' carriages the youngsters within, are left on the sidewalk in charge oi husky uniformed men, while the mothers attend to their shopping. On a warm afternoon recently a baby about a year old sat in its carriage with a glass feeding bottle, awaiting the return of its mamma. The infant wasn't hungry and amused

itself by playing with the bottle. Put its hand slipped and the bottle fell to the sidewalk, smashing to bits. Just at this opportune moment a small black pup, with floppy ears and a long tail, came ambling along the street toward the store. He had a bit of black cotton around his neck as a collar, from which dragged a lengthy piece of pink cord. He spied the milk, which formed an attractive white pool in a hollow of the sidewalk. He sprang forward and in an instant a little pink tongue was lapping up the baby's luncheon. Baby had shown signs of crying when the bottle fell. But with the coming of the black pup the world became sunshiny again. The youngster

leant to the edge of the carriage and watched the pup with evident joy. now and then laughing aloud. Baby and the pup made so appealing a picture that three score men and women stopped to watch the progress of the meal. The dog's instinct kept him from touching the broken glass. He lapped up every atom of milk, to the laughter of the baby and the plaudits of the crowd. Then he sought the edge of the sidewalk to sit down and lick its mouth, whereupon sixty men and women went on about their business.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS

ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA.

THREE BLAMED FOR CRASH

Committee Appointed by Mayor of South Bend Finds Heavy Load Caused Collapse of StveiyHoner Block.

Where many barrels are to be lifted the following simple device will prove of great value: Including the sixinch hand grips, the handle is about two feet long. Just below the hand grip a metal hook an inch wide is fastened. This fits over the rim of

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Doesn't Believe in Taking Things Too Seriously T II KHK Is one man In congress who doesn't believe in taking things too t . , i . . . : i i. 1 1 1 u. n n 1 l ( ieo rk! la. ti v o u n k i i i ; 1 1 1

a seriously k -.- " - - with a brilliant sense of humor. Unlike some of his co-workers In congress he doesn't ti v I.) placate newspaper men Ho

makes friends -f them, hut doesi. t nesuaie u tell tales about them. Ont dal." said he recently "a young con-

I V 1 J npondent was In my otheo. Ho had Just visited liMMM JEf the star.- department to get news and apparently

no nous had b on forthcoming. So arter a whllo he had come up to congress and had dropped into IM j i , . to tala pbOl! line or ho to his editors Hi took ofT the receiver, got hl office and pretrod 10 du tate a story. "'Take this,' he said. 'Maa-ahump In tho event of an armed Intervention in Mexico got that? In the event of an armed intervention in Mexico ha-a-a-ah unim-m!' "There was a moment of painful silence. Then the man who was taking the illuminating article

evdeittlv began to protest against Ü I lelay. D the i vent of an armed intervention In M

IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN SEED Corn Crop of Country Has Been Increased Millions of Bushels by Good Seed Selection.

No farmor can get any one to take the same pains in grading his seed that he would himself. Some fanners claim that it does not pay to clean grain. The corn crop of this country has been Increased million! Oi buuheUl Df Intelligent soed selection. All oile r grain crops can be improved by grad lng tho sood. so that only good, plump, healthy grains, free from all foul weed needs may bo sown. Tho fanning mill, Judiciously used will do much to iucreaso tho yield of every small grain crop and assist in keeping our fields free from noxious weeds. It will take cockle out of wheat, buckthorn, plantain out of clover, in (act, it .in hn .nijusted so as to nan-

Lifting Barret.

tho barrel. At tho lower end of the handle is a wooden cross piece hollowed on tho inner side so as to flt tho curvature of tho barrel. If very heavy barrels are to be lifted the handle should be from six to twelve inches longer, so as to get extra leverage when luting.

Hunting the Wren. In the south of Ireland the custom of "hunting the wren" is practiced on St. Stephen's day, the day after Christmas. The wren-boye, also called Droleens, go from house to house demanding contributions and carrying with them one or more wrens in the midst of a holly bush decorated with bright ribbons. They chant monotonously a song, which begins: "The wren, the wren, the king of all birds. St Stephen's day was caught in the furze, Although he is little his family's great;

I pray you, good landlady, give us a

treat." One of the traditions connected with the killing of these little birds

is that a Danish army would have 1. en surprised and destroyed by Irish troops had not a wren given the alarm h necking at some (rumhs upon a drumhead, the remains of the sleeping drummer's supper, which roused him. and ho instantly beat to arms. This would account for the Irish hatred of the ron.

South Bend. Jan. IT. The ShiveiyHoner block, in South Michigan et, which collapsed on January :. killing four people and injuring half a dozen others, carried six times the load th original builder of the structure intended, according to the formal report made by the special investigating committee appointed by the mayor. A copy of the report was given to Chester R. Montgomery, prosecutor, and the matter will be taken up by the grand jury the first we. k m February. Repairs to the building, which had just been completed by the

Independent Five and Ten-Cent Store company, were held as wholly responsible for the accident. The committee found a brick w all had been remo i i from the first floor of the four story building and that the steel posts installed in place of the wall, so weakened the structure that a jar brought the collapse. The committee holds V. V. Schneider, architect, the toi pendent Five and Ten Cent Store company and Edward Solarek. contractor, responsible.

Score of Persons Poiscned. Vevay. Jan. 27. More than a score of people were poisoned here by eating head cheese which had been made in a new boiler. All of the guests at the Butler hotel were seriously affected. L. S. Cook, a traction line promoter of Anderson, was seriouslysick for several hours, as was Martin A. Madary, age eighty, of this city James S. Grisard of Cincinnati and Miss Katie CtetW of Past Enterprise were among those at the hoi el who became ill. Several families in different parts of the city became sud denly ill after eating of the head cheese, but all had recovered.

COLD FRAMES MORE POPULAR Great Many Gardeners Have Realized It Is Profitable to Grow Some Vegetables Under 8ash.

Frames are used much more largely in all parts of the country than a few yeaTS ago. notwithstanding tho fact that greenhouse construction has been more active. A great many gardeners have roaliiod that it pays to grow SOtlio vegetables undei .'.'' 'oM-l sash This makes It a good business proposition and when frames are used on a l.i r go c.ilo too much care cannot be kAevci .od in the j.r u ;ii Ion of the soil It should be line, fairly level and contain liberal amounts of sand and

humtts If to be used in the summer,

die ail kinds of grain aud weed seeds, tho cross-bars should ho easily reif you decide that it pays to sow ' moved so that w heel hoes or horse cul-

good seed and to keep your fields free from noxious weeds, then do not hesitate to Invest a few dollars In a fanning mill.

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K,'i n sentafive Howard always wonders what r-ad ihoso lines

OXiCO,' concluded the reporter,

will be sent into that couutry!

the editor :.aul when he

It Is No Longer a Joke to This Congressman

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v K.dllv Kimm a ticket for San FranoUeo' Here's the dollar.

members ot Hie house oi roprest nuiu ej hum- rwnmj iuiui

from Connecticut thai u in no longer a jokc

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to him U all came about 'brough a bill that Mr. UeillN introduced in the house by mpiest. The request was made by a man in his district named James Cowles 1 on before the parcel post was put into cxs-tence-Mr Cowles was advocating it, and so comitot. had the working of that system become. In his mind at h ast, that the amount of money red to carry a parcel from hago to Bl Paul would carry It from New York to San FraniSTim was Mr. Cowles belief in the feasibility to 4 M-heine that he extended it to apply to the railroads. Ho advoeaf d a tlat rate for freight J passenger transportation, and his flat rate was placed at ft This would take a passenger from Washington to Alexandria, across the Po

tomac river or from Washington to San Francisco. "By request." Mr. Roffly introduced a bill in the house to help Mr. Cowles tut his scheme into operation. That is as far as it has gone And that is the nason so many memoers are thrusting $1 bills in Mr. Keilly s direction and asking him for ticket. to San Francisco,

Preparation of Orchard. As the orchard Is to occupy the land for several years, tho work of thoroughly preparing the soil before planting is important Whether t ho planting Is to be done early or late In the season, there Is no time during the whole year so opportune for effective work with the

1 valors can be used without dlulculty, running from end-to end of the long frames. The sash should tit snugly on the ilde boards so that as little cold as posslblo will be admitted under the sash. Lettuce and radishes are especially desirable for frame culture.

Scabbies In Cattle. The requirements relating to dip for scabbies in cattle havo been that the tobacco dip should contain not less than Ave hundredths of one per it. of nicotine and 2 per cent, flow-

plow, subsoil plow and harrow as Just j ers of sulphur. Recently this ord r

after the tlrst good fall rain. At this jiaa Docn amended, permitting the use time the ttbootl is moist, not wet. ami the tobacco dip prepared from tolasting benefits result from stirring bacco and suitable tobacco products,

n:.d pulverizing the subsoil to a good provided It contains no less than sev

Hands That Make Beauty. The father of Saint (Jaudens, the sculptor, was a bootmaker and put the same enthusiasm into making a good boot that his Hon put Into model lng statuos IftlllOM are spent on paintings and sculptors, but Just as many millions are spent on other pro ductlons of the human hand and hrale

They may not be classed as works of art, re the) the beautiful randIcraft of men and women The products of the cabinet makers of the eighteenth century, the weaving of the Hindu men and women since the days of the Arabian Nights, the laces and tapestries worked by peasant girls, nuns or qu ms, the creations of the potter, the brasttniouger, the ironmonger, the silversmith, the gold Hmlth. the printer and the bookbinder were wrought by Joyful wankers, and millionaires compete with kings to possess them.

Two Tristate Farm Bodies Organize. Evansvllle. Jan. 27. Four associations, two tristate in their scope and two devoted to work in Vanderburg county, were organized here at last sessions of the first annual Tristate Farmers' institute The Vanderburg Comity Cow-Testing association was organized with Anton Höing pre !. nt. Otto M. Votkmann and Chris Volkmann vice-presidents, and C M McCutcheon. secretary and treasurer The follow in:- officers were elected for parent body, tue Tristate Farmers institute: William Stevens. Hoonvllle, president; K. McCullum. HemhTson. vice president ; John C Walleamev er. Brans v llle, secretary.

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Profitable Blackberry. The Early Harvest Mlaekberry was very profitable this year in many localities. It always did well for us. but that does not prove that it Of Of will for you. Along this lino a frien I of ours who la a large grower of all the small fruit, particularly raspbers. says: "Cumberland is an abso

lute failure with D

en hundredths of one per cent, of nicotine. The tobacco dip of tho new btrength need not contain the sulphur.

Care of Small Fruits. Fruit of small size on berry bushes is not always chargeable to poor varieties, but is usually due to poor culture and no pruning. Currants are largoly borne on wood three or four irs old- Wood that is older than

Be knows his 1 this should be pruned out and enough

Sweart Swear off' Why, of course Wtv not from too many tilings, unless you are prott) sure that oii can't lice more than a week or so. Hut swear off from a few. If you are a pessimist, resolve that you will stop OS lng a chronic cynic and try to see the good ami ho peAri side in men and things around you; if you are an opt! mist resolve that you will temper otir lunacy with common sense; If ou are a rogue, resolve to be, like Hamlet, at least "indifferent honest;" if you are mean, to choke down some of the dog within you Hut. anyhoiv, hw ar, by whatever gods you worship, that you will be a man. no matter what the fates may bring.

Victorian Writers Were Much Alike Three of the greatest Victorian w rit ers would seem to havo borne a strik lng physical resemblance one to an other. Mr. Corny ns Carr tells how 1m

tu h. wa.i bv the likeness to

Tennyson of a sketch of Charisa widow, four sons and one daughter

Sheriff Takes Children. Hartford City. Jan. 27. Mrs. Fdna Randolph of Oblong. Ill . accompanied by her father. William Fdwards of Marion recovered her two children from Oru Hock, her divorced husband. in this it. Tho Hocks were divorced in r.u! in C.rant county and the court gave tho mother the children. Hoth have remarried Seven months ago Boefe apOaTOd at Marion, obtained

the children and took them to nkin horna He returned with them a wool ago, and the mother learning of their

pfOOOaOO in this city came with a court order and enlisted Sheriff Mills to aid her In recovering her son and daughter

Aged Woman Shoots Negro. Terre Haute, Jan. 27. Mrs. M. C. LnuRhend, an aged widow, shot and dangerously wounded Charles Hoyd. colored, as the man was entering a window at her home. The man was taken to a hospital, where it was said his wounds would prove fatal. Mrs. Tjiughead reported to the jollre that the man had forced an utratue to lo r room a short time oarller and had struck her in the face when she discovered him. She procured a revolver and Mopped out on ,i porch when she saw him acain crawling In a window. and tired Her nephew, who lives with her, vsas aroused and calb'd th police. Fall Downstairs Is Fatal. Lafaet'.'. .tan "J 7 As the result of injuries received by falling downstairs at his home, Marcus Hirsch, eighty seven years old, died. He wn born in (iet many and had been a resilient of Lafayette for M years. For many years he was in the commission business iu this city and retired ten years ago. He Is survived by the

business but lives in Marion county, young canes allowed to take their

located in the Hlack swamp region place. This may be done at any time

of Ohio. Soil makes the difference.

Good Storage Conditions. Tho conditions most favorable to good homo storage of vegetables In winter are protection from frost, cool enough to prevent rapid decay, moist enough to pfwTMl ?vre4Hive evaporation, but not moist enough to favor decay.

after tho fruit Is ripe. Keep the plants well cultivated and fertilize with barnyard manure.

HighClass Protein Feed. An acre of alfalfa will furnish more high-class protein feed than almost any other crop that is grown in the section where dairying Is followed to the best advantage

Dickens made after ueath by Millals, and the poet himself, when shown the drawing, exclaimed. "This is most extraordinary It is exactly like myselL" And Lady loroth N vlll. in her reminiscences, relates how a painting f Charles Dickens was cherished by ose who knew Drowning as a portrait of the poet.

Not So Bad. "I understand a certain polkica! boss has gone dow n in the dust of defeat." Quito so. but having already accumulated a considerable pile of the 'dust of victory.' he will probably toe able to buy himself a castle somewhere abroad."

Sunday School Record Broken. Hrail. Jan. 27 - More than 3.000 Persons were at the session of the Methodist Kplscopal Sunday school, making the largest attendance at any Bunday school in the history of th world, it Is said. The Methodist Sunday school here claims the largest membership In the world

Cleared of Murdering Father. Madison. Jan 27 In the case of Harold Crimes, eighteen years old. Indicted and tried for first degre murder for shooting his father. William Orin.es. last August, the Jory, a ter being out an hour, ret rnsd a rediet of not guilty