Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 May 1914 — Page 1

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VrOL. Jasper, Indiana. Iuiday, may 8, 1914, No. 29.

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THE COLORADO DESERT.

Mf Round Carricj und the Way Mlrages Cents et d G. Talk sbottl irlrvtetfl telephones I i b ' d 0 i rt ges science one kcttcj i ll.ul line. According to t.:. tluil neck of sand at ! iin dispense ! Vita any rind i f 1 lephoae, with or vithant irin . : I led si up to s certain distance Tv i 'i a mile apart can carry on a conversation in an ordinary! tone of v' b, ! rticolarty if there! happen to L a miall hill behind! each, writes Harvey Hall Kessler irii the Travel Mt( I ina, The prevail-; lag Alienee is .o uiu-umj mat, n uffht be called deafening. J'erliaps, alter all, trio weirdest, an.orif many strange features of the desert If the mirage. We have Camped perhaps and gone to bed early in the evening with tlie thermometer registering not far below tl hundred mark. We awake, h' ering with cold beneath our blankets, and look toward the cn-t. There 15 the slightest suggestion of light in the sky there, which n we witch grews slowly in ßtrength. A greyi h ban marks the horizon's ed' whi h stands out more sharply at one point, from which broad, pa'e ra; I er. cp up and out high above in the sky. These again, slowly fade as a point of brilliant light appeal! at their base. This point grows to a half circle, then breaks and runs alor,T the sky line in I I urging, golden lake. Upon the shores of this luke cities spring up, towers, spires and, solid blocks. These fade into fields and forests and farming scenes Cards of golden grain, cattlo standing in green alfalfa, srwets of water. The mountains near the edge of the lake separate from their ba-es and float upward, topple over end stand on their be Ads, their un wieldy feet in air. Soon our lake begins to ontract and collect into a big round ball of, datziing brilliance bung just above j the horizon, l.irms and forest d'--apicnr. The mountains, as though eba-hed at being caught iu such an: uncecmly attitude by the broad light of day, quickly resume their normal position, while ail the stark landscape stiffens into unstirring endurance f the ctri-h li 'lit and b'azing heat of the de ert sun. The mirage is gone like a bubble. Only the gray deal rt remain. A Circus Morst in Hattia. Colonel Charles Marshall, who was aid-de-camp to General Kobert E. Leo and who went through the battles of the war with his chief told the following amusing story of his experience With a new horse: His old horse had be-n shot from ander him in the fght of the previous day, and he h;id taken potses lion of an animal that seemed to suit the work. In the battle a few hours later he was riding rOM a field in which there were numeroue tump-. Suddenly the performance opened. The guns roared, and the air was filled with smoke and noi. c. Before CVonol Marshall knew what was happening tho horse had his four feet on one of the stump and was gayly dancing in a circle. In the meantime the firing was increasing, and the situation was anything but comfortable. But the horse kept on as if he were enjoying it. "It was-not until afterward, said Colonel Marshall, "that I found the Lorse had belonged to a circus and bad been trained to do this act amid tbe'firing of cannon." Alpy ,lnn"a ('it the srsei e.d frm Lo'k hive 1 i .iv. (Jem -o, I cent milk Um " ids 1 eowet The bentH I . i Hroiiud aud nlb Win.: n t i Uee.r el.or'r, but ron uiuatal Wan i ilfWa.irrs do like a Ml 9" green st uOVHIUetcb,

RAISING ALFALFA IN ILLINOIS

Charles Ynr.ney M McT.ean cointy, (,-. the Cooi-k s. Hain a Place, baa i Bot: e rem. -ii kahle results with alfalfa. Ho got a ' od tnd on six acres by tweaking rh trowi tho last of July. I divklriR It tlir times, harrowing and cro harrow Ihr two or three times, Aral :ur t.-. in' a. wing 20 pound - per an of seed broadcast, bnrrowlng It In and rolling the ground. This was in 190. The alfalfa grew ab-at four lathee high thai fall and was not rut. In i:m 7. It yielded about two tons pgr -irre, but in addition K,0 pigs In 1 !'iJi, the dig returns began Three eattlaa of hay returned 2'i Ions per ario, but In addition lf0 pigs Wert pi pared OS thin alfalfa from the tlmo of tha lit -t rutting until Deoemter The pigs weie boic-t when Second Cutting they weighed 45, 60 and 60 pouuds. and when tbey were weighed In the middle of Deeember they averaged 125 pounds. Counting a gain of 75 pounds per head aud allc ing $100.00 for about 200 bushels or corn fed to the hogs, and flgurii g the pork at 6 cents per pound, t i hogs returned $462.00; the 1 vas worth $195.00. total $657.00 f - six acres or $109.00 per acre. i .ary to the results In many other i as this pasturing did not hurt the alfalfa and was repeated without harm the next yesr. In 1900. this piece of alfalfa yielded 3 tons per acre In three cuttings and pastured 83 hogs from the time 1 the alfalfa nas four Inches high In the spring until August 14. when w head were Bold, and from then till 1 frost It pastered the remaining 1

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Map showing where alfalfa Is grown in United States today. Note the comparative areas grown east and west of the Mississippi river. The total area grown Is about equal to the area of New Jersey.

LEQI8LATORS' PCRQUI9ITES. Spanish deptitics, somo of whom are agitating for a salary, already enjoy certain privileges. They are entitled to frank their letters and to travel on all the railways in Spnin free of charge. Unlike the French deputies, however, they have to pay for refrethments consumed in the chamber, the only article supplied gratuitously being barley sugar. Of tnis there is an unlimited 'upply, and lady visitors t tho chamber nr always presented with a packet of thit-delicacy, which serve to sweeten the debate. KEEP WATER ON REQISTEft. If you live in a honta where there it s f irnace always keep a vessel of water on the register and you will always bavs hot water and not hart to Ute an gts hi heating li

hops and 2r) pigs bought at that tlm It is estimated that th hoga whleh weighed "Ö or SO pounds la the spring made a gain of 7G pounds per head The ones sold In August averaged 182 pounds and those kept till later 225. ( Minting only 80 hogs and nothing for the pigs, they returned, after paying for the 250 bushels of corn fed. $420.00 to the credit of the alfalfa aliw; the hay was worth $273.00; toal $C93.00, or f 115.r0 per acre. 'i his alfalfa was not Injured by this extra hard treatment but some parts of It were frozen out labt winter, and this spring he Add was disked and rt -rdlKked and tho thin spots re si Hied, recusing a fair stand Wbilo many ciouht that alfalfa Is suited to Illinois, n I having examined tho evl-

y. wr 7srväa a fK.BBBBBBBBBBBBl of Alfalfa. dence, and many more hesitate to Htart this new delicate crop. Mr. Yanney and hundreds of others are getting splendid results from It. Coburn on Alfalfa. "Tho cultivation and feeding of nlfalfu mark the highest development of modern agriculture. Alfalfa is on of nature's choicest gifts to man; it Is the preserver .'d the conserver of the homestead. It does not fail from old age. It loves the sunshine, converting the sunbeams Into gold coin In the pockets of the thriftv husbandman. It Is the greatest mortgage lifter yet discovered." Alfalfa is most valuable In the Corn Delt. because the Corn U'lt has an abundance of starch and is short in protein. -STRANGE O TH3." Heforo Mr. Justice White took tho oath of chief justice he waa required to subscribe to the "oath of allegianco" required of all ex-CoufeöVr-ttes entering upon federal office. When Judge Buchanan presented himself in tho Tennessee supreme court a a member of that lody appointed by the governor a few days ago, ho waa called upon, under tho law of the state, to swear that ho had not engaged in a duel since th passage of the statute on the subject and that he would nut do so during his term of office. It is well that judges on the leneh be bound by sufficient formal obit gntions and pledges. At the sam timo such oaths as those mentioned were formulated for times far other thsn the present, and it might well fc abolish them. be

THE VOICE IN THE DARK. A Memory of Plckstt's Brigade and Night Attack. Some years after the civil war a gathering of veterans of both sides was exchanging reminiscence at a banquet given by the board of trade of New York, writes Mrs. La Salle Corbell Pickett in Lippineotft. The presiding officer Wat Colonel J. J. Phillips of the Ninth, Virginia regiment, Pickett's division. He was Freaking of night atta ks and recalled one in particular, not because of its startling nerron, but because of a peculiar circumstance, almost resulting in the compulsory disobedience of orders the obeying, as it were, of a higher command than t'- t of enrth. "The pr int of altafcs had been carefully lelet led," Püid Colonel Phillips, "the awaited dark nigh! had arrived, and my eonunard wt to fife when General lickett should signal the order, "There was thai An ' I t b able stillness, that ueird, aai bo a'cn'-e, that always ecttret ovci every thin t before :t f t. Vou felt that nowhere in the universe was there any voice or t tion. "Suddenly the nwc-me silence was broken bv the soni 1 of a deep,

full roice rolling or er the black j void 1 i! o tho billows i r I peat sea,' dirxdlv in line with dnx gtins. It wa" singing the- old hvrr.n, 'Jesus, Lover of Mv Be I.' "1 hare heard that grand old Bant! times i;i circumstances which intensified iti impressive-j ne5. ri n er had it nessea soj iocrun ei vier: it broke the still-nes-: in which v. e waited for the or der te fire. Just as it was given the- . through V. I night the won! : "t 'o t-r my defcnwlern had V :1 Xtto thaJow er thy wing. "Dandy! Aim! Rre to the left, boj 1 I tail "The ni were ahifi 1. the volley thai ' - 1 oot ' v.-d a-ide and that d naeli ; nvud was oercJ' with the fhadow of his wing." A Federal wterau who had been j tening le k up suddenly and said : 'I i nber lh.it ni .lit, colonel, a-' I thai m dnl -ht attack which car; " i ,rtv .f rrr l mradcs. I v ik ti i finger." Tl ' v n m sr 1 of silence, r of My Soul," lej ';cird as 1804 it had Bermuda Then r.n: on tl ri d t F -r. : J h cot M tl I mxt nib . eurfj n: r.l. of :i i m suit tanee. 1 ne BsTeasare I t tub tatu e' upon the Mated center of Ihe r;rth keeps it from getting hotter than it is, just as J Ml een keen water from boiling by an appropriately sudicicnt pressure. The fuct that thcro is stca'.-. in volcanic eruptions is tho leaka f of the interior pressure o.' 1 ll n the cr- rt h. The character of ma1 1 r in the center of the earth o- i'.i immcd...!e environment mui-i . u s.v thing like pumice stone spoagji porous, light becau.-e when t;ie earth's inti-rior matter is melted in the high temperatures that a.e there it dissolves, and the ' ntiderublo water in it that i through volcanic craters in stet Profcs or Ilallock, Orilmbil Tnirersity Ql9(fstn't rtitndshakev An Abt ) paper tells a Glad store story of the memorable Midlothian i r On one asjeaafoi there vn- i great handihakinf ardeal at Ihe w ; hw of Üia old gentlcmm.' railway carHafe, at-1 hi wa rlj ng tht w orst i I A stalwart young pieman who acio 1 Mr. Q! istone proved erjiui! o the occaioit. Crouchfng bcliind the great man and throating hit head under Mr C adst one's T verne j i ; e. the Eve eat h efBMl h r" d no larl. of ( "The lib I eegorous at hi terved one uhsu ' lu stroked his t'r'ge. "He i that," Coneu.cl another of the pol i. man's ictim, "üt did e notice bil dirty naila?"

TRICK SIWOTINQ.

The Way Some of the Stag Fsats Ar Mccomplishsd. Whan i ohaaBpiofl rifle shot fires bUndfoldi il at a wedding ring or a fienny held betwaaa his wife's hurrb II ' 1 r r seated back to her sh" . by meant of a mirror, at in apjJ o r; u her head or on a fork held h h r teeth, the danjer of uin-f a 1 ml ebviona. None, of co;ir e, ij needed. Tha explosion is enovgh. The apple is already pre ered, having hc'n cut into pieces and stuck together with an nah in ltlb lance, and a thread with a knot at the end, pulled through it from the "wings," so that it flies to bits when the gun is fired, is "how it U done." Generally the more dangerous a feat rpnears the more carefully is til dan CT ' HfTtJed nninst. In the "Wii; the thread is ofti d ' ü- '.ant's foot. When, eg i, the nah ia thot off a oiger whit! ' iftaiti is smoking a piei p ished by hit t . astage in the ci ng off the ash tt the . f firinc, A favoj I i:.n !e trick is the ihortin.' from --oTie distance at an orange bei 1 molatase ra !ti hand. Great 'v forthcoming when the l.uii t diopa ont on her eutting ojicii the f r ' .it. It is inserted by hand earlier in the evening. Another ponulai trick u that of tnufii.-: I !; ! candles. Half a dozen arc placed in front of a screen, in which a many small holes tre bored, one against each candle rick. At the moment of firing a confederate behind the screen fharplv blows out each candle with a pair of barlows. In most instancea where a ball or other object has to be broken on a living person's hetd blank cartridge is used tnd the effect produced by other means. A special wig with a spring concealed in it worked by a wire under the clothe is generally used, the confederate manipulating the spring simultaneously with the firing of the rifle. As the ball it of extremely thin glass, a mere touca suffices to shatter it In these exhibitions some of the rifle "experts" invite gentlemen from tho audience to testify that tho weapon is indeed loaded. The cartridge shown looks very well, but it is a shell of thin wax blackened to resemble a leaden bullet. It would not hurt a flv. London TitRita. Old (Jen:1 m I ! there nnytblng te tee on tho stkCf ddc? Forrvm in - N . Old Gentleman Is there an lna or anything? rerryninn No. Old Genlleuian-Tben what do peo- ( ' j to aeroHs for? cvmaa Tmipe ace. Sketch. il your boys msktna money f ; only tliroe. Two were abet by baron while he was hunting, aasV es run over by an automoblsk v all received pcudons, but my bey good for nothing." Fils PI ! -tr fir . iljrd. The c ffcirt t. prod pastors and shurch i lemheri I i rraatet effusirencas i:; w i ru ng btrangers to public services n y lead to overdoing hoapiti I i rious ways. One of tho v it. t vealed to s warm henrtei u pastor. Coming down I kiii pulpit after tho i I eniag s non, he found a stranger n of a fair haired Swede tnd, I et ing her with a cordial bandclstp, eaid: "I am very glad to see MC i want you to feel at home In te I'd like to become acquainted with ou. If youll give your adirs , lit call and see you." "Thank you," bhr replied, "hut I hare a fallow f CongregationaUst. . i

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