Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 March 1915 — Page 7

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When the President Meets the Correspondents

W ASH1NGTON. Although it has been

71 no social affairs at the White House this winter, one form of social affair will continue to maintain its hold within the White House precincts. Every Tuesday morning at ten o'clock Presi

its creation. When some correspondent, a little bolder than his brethren, asks a point-blank question demanding a direct answer on some matter concerning which the correspondents are tiptoe, the president is likely to laugh and to tell a story in answer, the story always having some kind of a moral intended to point up the fact that it is not always wise to answer questions until the mind has been fully made up as to what the answer should be. When President Wilson meets the newspaper men in conference he stands behind a desk in his circular oifice room while his visitors form three-quarters of a circle about him, Questions are fired at him all along, or, rather, all around, the line. He parries some of them, answers more of them directly and turns some of them away, as has been said, with astory. Ordinarily about thirty correspondents are present at this Tuesday morning gathering. They are all men, save one, a clever newspaper woman, Mrs. George F. Richards, who is the correspondent of some New England papers. Mrs. Richards is the only woman who holds membership in the press galleries of the two houses of congress. Her husband, who died some time ago, was a member of the gallery. After his death she took up his work and has followed it ever since.

Hard to Keep Visitor's Elbows Off the Railings THERE is an unwritten law that the guest in the gallery of the house or the senate shall not put his elbows, his hat, coat, gloves, guide book, muff, or fan on the railing of the gallery. Indeed, if he but lets his fingers rest ever so lightly on the balcony, as he leans for

ward to listen to the debate, the patient, vigilant doorkeeper comes creeping down the aisle and taps him on the shoulder. Invariably the guest so accosted has an awful sensation of being called to account for some mystery in the past, or all but faints under the certain knowledge that there has been an accident in which someone near and dear to him has been killed He al

ways turns crimson or white, and looks up with a jerk-. "Sit back, please," is all the doorkeeper says; or "Please take your elbows - off the railing;" or, "No coats allowed to hang over the balcony." Not long ago some one of the doorkeepers, well up in the advantages of labor-saving devices, had cards printed with instructions to guests to keep everything, themselves included, off the railing of the gallery. The cards have been pasted to the capping of the gallery railing of the senate, and on the broad mahogany look like place cards at a banquet. But they do not entirely serve the purpose for which they were intended.. Only the other day one was intensely amused watching the patient, vigilant doorkeepers of the senate gallery creep down the aisles and ask people to take their elbows off the cards, and read what was written thereon. As yet no cards have been placed around the gallery of the house. Perhaps it cannot be done, because, whereas the railing of the senate gallery is mahogany, that in the house is marble, and it is possible the cards cannot be ade to stick in. the usual process of pasting.

Rare Collection of Fans in the National Museum 1 N THE National museum is a small but rare collection of fans loaned by the late Mrs. James W. Pinchot, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and other women WQli-known in Washington and New York society. In this collection are excellent examples of different periods

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standing for Republique Francaise, Phrygian caps on the figures and the costumes of the revolutionists. While in the time of Louis XVI, the period immediately preceding, fans were elabo rately decorated with shepherds and shepherdesses and all the exquisite detail which characterized the court of Marie Antoinette. There are several beautiful fans of the Louis XVI period, with wonderfully carved ivory and pearl sticks, and painted with fascinatingly foolish and well-bred looking shepherds and shepherdesses, disporting themselves under impossible trees and reading love sonnets, while seated on uncomfortable, sloping mounds of green. Some of these fans have dainty verses to milady's eyebrows or retrousse nose interwoven with the design. This mock pastoral style was inherited from the Louis XV period, and was soon superseded by elegant and equally absurd-looking ladies and gentlemen, dressed in the costumes of the court. The bouffant skirts and towering head dresses brought into vogue by the ill-fated Marie Antoinette were painted on the parchment leaf, and the sticks, often of tortoise shell, gilt and replete in carving, became the fashion.

Washington's Most Used Church IViay Be Restored THERE has been some talk of ''restoring" old St. John's church, on Lafayette square. The structure as it shows today is not quite as when built about one hundred years ago. It seems that it did not then, as now, have the pillared portico in front. The church is not

much in the way of architecture, and it is a great pity that it was not beautifully designed, for the Wren churches were still the fashion when it was built. It has since become famous as the president's church, though not all presidents have worshipped there, the church being Episcopalian. But it has had many famous worshippers. Us services, because of the historic

character of the church, are always ture of a large congregation. There is difficulty at times in filling the pews, as they are owned outright, after the fashion of 100 years ago. The church is fashionable for many things, and especially for weddings And funerals, and particularly of these latter for generals and admirals, the final last rites for whom are most frequently said in Washington. So it is no surprise, in going by the church, which is neighbor to the White House, to see uwnings proclaiming a wedding or lines of sailors from the navy yard or soldiers afoot or on horseback stationed upon the streets by the church. No other church in1 Washington seems so much used.

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definitely decided that there shall beJ dent Wilson receives the newspaper men and while "information business" is supposed to be the basis of procedure the gathering in a sense is a social one. President Wilson has a sense of humor. Somebody has said that it is the Scotch sense of humor which man ifests itself foggily at times, but it is 4 humor nevertheless, and the president seems to enjoy bearing his share in in the art and style of fan decoration, which, in different countries, seemed to adapt itself to the exigencies of the period in which they were used, largely depicting the dress and tastes of the people, unless the subject was allegorical or mythological For example, during the revolution in France, the decorations were republican in idea, such as figures of Liberty, triangles, the letters "R. F.,"

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POULTRY HOUSE SITE

Convenience Is Main Thing to Be Considered. Locate the Structure So That the Strong Winds Will Be at Its Back, With Windows in Front Drainage of Importance. The builder of a farm poultry house should carefully consider the available sites, and put it where the fowls will do best, and where it will be easiest to look after them. Convenience is the main thing to be regarded on a farm where there is much work to be done other than taking care of the chickeos. Put the house or houses close enough to the residence that it will be easy to look after the inmates. At the same time, all natural adVantages of location should be considered. If there is a sheltering hill near enough to be used as a windbreak, place the house so the strong winds from the west, northwest and north will be fended off by the higher ground. Set the house so the wind will be at its back, and this means, in most localities, that the doors and the greater number of windows should be on the south, the southeast or the southwest. Where there is a windbreak of trees or even of buildings, take advantage of thm if the site is suitable other wise, x'hese windbreaks will make a lot of difference in stormy, blustery weather. There are many cold days when the birds could very well stay outside if they were protected from high winds. Another thing to be watched is the problem of drainage. Damp, low ground, no matter how well the hen house will be sheltered, is not suitable for a chicken shelter. There should he slone downward from the build ing to make certain that it will not be damp and clammy on the inside. Thorough drainage should be as sured even if it is necessary to lay a few rods of tiling. Where a sandy and naturally well drained site can be chosen, the drainage will take care of itself if nothing is done to hinder it. Never build a house in a hollow as it will be just about impossible to keep the chickens healthy in such a structure. The building itself can be adapted to the pocketbook of the builder. Where the climate is not unreasonably cold in winter, unreasonable from the standpoint of poultry management, the house may be built very cheaply. It must turn the rain, shut oüt drafts and be dry under foot, hut it need not be heavy, built of expensive material or very permanent in character. In fixing on the site for the house care should be taken not to get the building or any part of it where it will be shadoved by any other building or by a dense clump of trees. The sunlight should strike the building all Well-Protected Poultry House. day long. In summer it should shine in at the east windows at sunrise. It should reach to the back of the building in winter when the sun is low at noon. The windows should be arranged to take every advantage of the sunlight all day long. There is no germ killer like sunlight and it is far cheaper than anything that will ever be placed on the market. IMPROVE OLD APPLE TREES Carefully Remove All Dead and Cross Branches Scrubbing the Bark Destroys Many Insects. All dead and cross branches should be removed. Make a clean cut close to the branch, cover the wound with grafting wax or shellac varnish. Scrape the dead bark and moss off the larger limbs and then scrub them with warm water and soft soap, using a stiff brush. This scrubbing will cleanse the bark and kill many worms and their larvae. Select a mild day for this work. Such methods require considerable judgment in their application, but with proper care they are successful. Old apple trees given the above treatment will gradually in crease the yield and quality of their fruit. It will take several years of careful culture to bring the trees into full bearing, but it will pay hand Bomely. See to Ventilation. Is the barn well ventilated? Lack of fresh air means possible tuberculo sis In your dairy herd.

HINTS ABOUT WINTER DAIRY

Feed Liberally of Best Hay Obtainable Little Can Be Expected of an Uncomfortable Cow. Got to have a good warm harn, in the first nlace. Can't expect to get the most out of a shivering, uncom fortable cow. Start right by building a warm ham. Then have the cows come in fresh in late fall of the year. Cows that have been milked all summer long are not worth fussing with through the cold winter months. They have done their work. Their milk is now scanty in quantity and their cream hard to churn, because they have been giving milk so long. Begin with fresh cows. Make up your mind to feed well. The cows cannot get grass now. You must make up to them as nearly as you can for this lack. Feed liberal allowances of the best hay you can get. Never say or even think that any kind of hay will make good milk. It Will not i Give allopathic doses of ground feed. Got to do it, to make a balanced raLady Elgin V and Her Nine-Month-Old Calf. tion. And by the wTay, this subject of a balanced ration is one that every man must study for himself. He knows his cows better than anybody else does. He can prescribe for them more intelligently than a man can at a distance. Study is the farmer's salvation. Finally, keep just as accurate an account with your cows as if they were your summer boarders from the city and you wanted to know whether it paid or not. Weigh the milk, weigh the butter, weigh the feed, estimate the cost, set down the amount your products bring in, figure up the cost of making and subtract. Be a business man and you will make it pay. SILAGE GAINING IN FAVOR Becoming More Popular for Feeding Cattle and in Some Sections It Is Almost a Necessity. Silage for feeding cattle is becoming more popular every year and throughout many sections has become almost a necessity. There may be some districts in which roughage can be more cheaply supplied in the form of hay; but even then something succulent, in the form of silage or roots, is almost essential for the best results. I know of no better combination than clover hay and good corn silage. The one seems to be the exact complement of the other. Both' are very palatable to cattle and should be fed separately for the sake of variety. A bunch of cattle getting a good feed night and morning of cut straw and silage, mixed 12 hours before feeding, and all the long clover hay they will eat at noon, is about as well off for roughage as is possible. I do not know of any other ration on which cattle can be kept so full all the time without putting them off their feed. In the early part of the season very little grain should be fed and the allowance gradually increased from week to week. Many farmers wasto a good deal of grain by overfeeding in the early part of the winter. It is an easy matter to ruin the digestion of a steer by feeding too much corn for any considerable length of time. A mixture of grains will always give better results than any single variety fed alone. If cottonseed meal and molasses are to be fed it is a good practice to keep them for a finishing ration. BUG WORRIES PEAR GROWERS False Tarnished Plant insect Does Much Damage to Fruit Preventive Treatment is Found. Recent injuries to young pears in many western New York orchards are due to the work of false tarnished plant bugs. By their attacks the pears become weakened and dwarfed and drop early, or if they hang on the tree3 to maturity are scarred and deformed so as to be unmarketable. The damage in a few cases has extended to three-fourths of the crop; but such instances are comparatively few, as the pest has not yet become widely spread in noticeably destructive numbers. Pear growers should be on the watch for it, however, and adopt repressive measures at first sign of its appearance, for the period during which in jury can be prevented is short. Full details of the investigations 'which identified the pest, and of the preventive treatment found successful, are given in Bulletin No. 36S of the New York Agricultural Experiment station at Geneva. Orchardists and others interested can secure the bulletin by a post-card request. Less Work and More Money. Are we learning that there is a good deal more profit with less woik to be made raising 75 bushels of corn on ten acres than 35 bushels on 100 acres?

INDIANA I BREVITIE5

i Kokomo. Judge Purdum saved Nora Huntsberger, convicted of operating a "blind tiger," from jail wnen ne suspended a sentence of 30 days. The woman was fined $50 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, it being charged that she was seliing more tDan five uar reis of beer a day to foreign residents of the city. Delphi. E. J. Zimmerman, alias Porter, who was arrested in Laporte while, it is alleged, he was attempting to cash a forged check, was brought to this city by Sheriff Hopejoy and Harry Sharp, who holds a check for $4S, given him by Zimmerman December 23. Mr. Sharp accompanied Zimmerman. Bloomington. A special venire of 50 names was drawn by the jury commissioners, out of which it is expected to get a jury to try the state case against John Stewart for the murder of John Ridley, a hotel chef, last November. Judge Robert W. Miers held the indictment good. It charges murder in the first degree. Indianapolis. Twelve persons wen injured, two of them seriously, in a head-on collision between two street cars on the South Meridian street line. A dense fog prevented each motorman from seeing the other car approaching on the stretch of single track until too late to avert a collision on the slippery rails. The forward platforms of the cars were smashed. Indianapolis. President W. D. Foss of the National Paint, Oil and Varnish association gave an interesting address before members of the Indianapolis Paint, Oil and Varnish club in the Florentine room at the Glaypool hotel. Mr. Foss talked of the trade conditions throughout the country and commended the local organization for its effort toward making ' business conditions better in Indiana. He also approved of the action of the chamber of commerce in its "Buy It Now" campaign. Mr. Fos& said that Indianapolis ranks among the leaders In the twenty-six clubs which are affiliated with the national association. Fort Wayne. Sawing through bars 2 inches thick in the hospital ward at the county jail, Emory Yocum, awaiting trial on a charge of neglecting his children, and Leonard Benward, waiting to be sent to an insane asylum, escaped from the jail and have not yet been caught. Their escape was discovered when they did not appear for breakfast. The saw with which they cut through the bars was found, but the sheriff and the deputies are at a loss to know how the instrument was smuggled into the jail. This is the first time that any prisoners have escaped from the ..jail since 1908. Indianapolis. Edward Conroy, aged sixty-one, an inmate of the Ohio state penitentiary , for 25 years, and James Hatton, thirty-one, who served five years in the government prison at Leavenworth, successfully pleaded with Federal Judge Anderson for leniency for Ed Myers, a young man who was caught with them in robbing the post office at Avilla, Ind., last June. "Prison never did us any good," said Conroy, "and it wont do Myers any good either. Hatton and I were alone to blame for this robbery. Give us our medicine, but let Myers off easy." The court sentenced Conroy and Hat ton to four years imprisonment and Myers for only two years. Terre Haute. Thomas P. Phillips, a bellboy in a local hotel, was found guilty of pandering in the circuit court. A short time later John Howlet, an accomplice, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve two years in prison and was fined $300. Sentence was suspended during good behavior. Phillips has not been sentenced. The charges grew out of an attempt of the two men to place Anna Taylor, nineteen years old, of Washington, Ind., and Josephine Shields, seveteen, of Vincennes, in a disorderly resort. The girls testified against PJiillips and Howlet. Parents of the Shields girl will take her home, while Judge Eli H. Reidman has given the Taylor girl a home at his house in Terre Haute. Bloomington. A conference on scientific education will be held at Indiana university April 15 and 16. A number of authorities on educational measurements have been invited to attend the sessions, among whom are A. S. Courtis of Detroit and L. S. Ayres of the Russell Sage foundation. Mr. Courtis has done much work in educational measurements. He is at the head of the department of educational research of the Detroit public schools. He is on the program for two lectures and will hold a conference on measuring school products. L. S. Ayres has been active in writing educational topics and in making school surveys. Mr. Ayres will lecture on school surveys and related topics and will also conduct a round table discussion with other educators. Spencer. While Charles Murphy, a prominent business man here. was ponsning ms snoigun, me weapon was accidentally discharged and Mrs. Murphy was instantly killed. The charge entered her left shoulder, piercing her body. Mrs. Murphy was thirty-eight years old. Franklin. Rev. William Waggener, age eighty-three, a retired minister, died at the home of his son, Ebert Waggener. south of Franklin. Reverend Waggener is survived by two sons, Ebert of thi3 county, and Hnnnibal of Indianapolis, and a step tA'ifihter, Mrs. James Watson.

E FOR SICK CHILD et California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother Realizes, after giving her children 'California. Syrup of Figs" that this is their ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant tasta and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels without griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit laxative," and in a few hours all Che foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. When its little system is full of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic remember, a good "inside cleaning" should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs" handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50 cent bottle . of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directbns for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Adv. GOD ALWAYS IN HUMANITY Impossible to Imagine the Time When He Will Withdraw His Presence From Us. So iong as there be in the human heart one fiber to vibrate at the sound of that which is true and just and honorable, so long as the instinctively pure soul prefers purity to life, so long as there be found friends of truth ready to sacrifice their peace in the cause of science, friends of righteousness to devote themselves to holy and useful works of mercy, womanly hearts to love whatever is good, beautiful and pure, artists to render it by sound and color and words of inspiration so long God will dwell within us. It could only be when egoism, meanness of soul, narrowness of mind, indifference to knowledge, contempt for human rights, forgetfulness of that which is great and noble, invaded the world it could only be then that God would be in humanity no more. But far from us be thoughts like these! Our aspirations, our sulferings, our very faults and temerities, are the proof that the ideal lives in us. Yes, human life is still something divine! Our apparent negations are often nothing more than the scruples of timid minds that fear to pass beyond the limits of their knowledge. They are a worthier homage to the Divinity than the hypocrital adoration of a spirit given over to routine. God is still within us, est Deus in nobis. Renan. She Concentrated in General. An editor of the Ohio State Journal went to see a vaudeville performer who does a dozen or more interesting stunts in an almost perfect way. Then he returned, the editor returned, to his sanctum and wrote an excellent little sermon for the young on the beauties of concentration. This recalls the story of the Chicago woman who told Author Arnold Benjiett that his famous chapter on "Concentration" had greatly aided her. "Why," she said, "I never knew what it was to concentrate before." The author was interested. "And on what have you concentrated, madam?" he asked. "Oh, on lots and lots of things," she replied. OUR NATIONAL DISEASE Caused by Coffee. Physicians know that drugs will not correct the evils caused by coffee and that the only remedy is to stop drinking it , An Arkansas doctor says: "I was a coffee drinker for many years and often thought that I could not do without it, but after years of suffering with our national malady, dyspepsia, I attributed it to the drinking of coffee, and after some thought, determined to use Postum for my morning drink. "I had the Postum made carefully according to directions on the pkg. and found it just suited my taste. "At first I used it only for breakfast, but I found myself getting so much better, that I had it at all meals, and I am pleased to say that 1 have been relieved of indigestion. I gained 19 pounds in 4 months and my general health is greatly improved, o "I must tell you of a young lady in Illinois. She had been in ill health for many years, the vital forces low, with but little pain. I wrote her of the good that Postum did me and advised her to try it. "At the end of the year, she wrot me that she had gained 40 pounds in weight and felt like herself again." Name given by Postum Co., Battl Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly, i 30c and 50c tins. The cost per cup of both kinds ii about the same. ttr There'i a Reason" for Pottum. told bv Groctri

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