Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 March 1915 — Page 2

HAPPENINGS in the

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Pittsburgh Firemen Have Trouble With "Varmints" PITTSBURGH. North side firemen are having their troubles with river crabs. leeches, rats and other such pests. The rats are especially bold

and pestiferous about old Allegheny city hali, the engine houses and patrol stations. The fire alarm office on the

"and left the most tempting of poisoned oaits for nim but he actually laughs at our attempts to catch or poison him. Pinkerton, who has the night turn here, says the rats gambol all around him nightly. He says an old rat brought her whole litter of young into the operating room last night and put the litter through a regular .gymnastic turn." The firemen at No. 43 engine house say they can't keep an egg overnight there because of the raids of the rats. The firemen say the rats carry the eggs off to their nests without breaking them. They kept watch over a basket of eggs set on a high shelf one night and saw an old gray rodent steal an egg from the basket, carry the egg to the edge of the shelf in its front legs, then drop on its back to the floor in such a manner as not to break the egg, and scamper away on three legs to its hole, deftly holding it3 plunder with one front paw One night recently when the firemen of No. 4G engine company reached the Hack residence fire in Sherman avenue they found they could get no water through one of the nozzles, although there was nothing wrong with the water supply. Unscrewing the nozzle from the hose they found a huge river crab in the nozzle. Operator Heer had an experience with a denizen of the North sido water .supply that gave him quite a fright. He was taking a bath in the fire alarm bathroom. When he was completing his bath a leech, four inches in length and hungry looking, came wiggling through the water at him. Heer gavo -a yell and leaped from the tub as though a tarantula were after him.

St. Louis Dog Objects to Q T. LOUIS. When a dog his lived his d living on sausage and discipline and desplto the passing brewery yachts, It is neatly cropped musical cars bo as sailed with Tipporary." This is 11 tiiHtratc-d by the fact that Dick Goeppnor of this city, who burst into the . wrong song at noon In tho presence of his bulldog Stein, was entorod at St. Luke's hospital beforo lunch time had elapsed. Although Stein had not been seen harking in front of the bulletin boards or growling over any late dopo from the eastern theater of war, It appears

that deep In his soul ho has been harboring tho instincts of a dachshund. Mr. Goeppner, who is tho owner of the Park hotel at Salem, had no hint, of tho dog's military leanings and j had always considered him a perfectly harmless and reasonably neutral Boston bull. Tho attack, tho revelation, and the quiet ride to tho hospital happoned . 30 quickly that Mr. Gooppnor oven now Is not sure that tho dog has established himself as a faithful and untrammolod supporter of tho kaiser. Mo Is of tho belief Unit If Stein Is to support tho German principle In tho futuro jt will bo necessary to wear a suit oi armor while slipping him his meals. It was just after twelve o'clock when Mr. Gooppnor, with his foot; proppod up on a steamer chair on the porch of his hotel, puff od a cigar slowly and then In a powerful Imrytono sang: "It's a long way to Tipporary; It's a long way to g-oup-ow-fpl-lpstk-pu-t-r ' Neighbors rushed to his auslstanco, romovod tho cigar from his windpipe and dragged Stein to tho back yard.

Salt Did Not Make Miss Connelly's Money Grow NEW YORK. Hocauso salt sprlnklod on a $2 bill failed to make it grow to gront riches, Margaret Connelly, a maid employed in the homo of Mrs. William Strauss, on Eaat Seventy-fourth street, pursued an alleged fortune toller In Fifth avenue until ho was

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The maid related that, after she told him she nad only a $2 bill, the "fortune teller" graciously took it, put it in an envelope and called for a salt cellar. He sprinkled the bill liberally with tho salt and then handing the shaker to Maggie, ordered her to shut her eyes and shake salt on her money, while he solemnly intoned, "Abraca.dabra boobissimuy fondoo." Having completed this magic formula, he ordered the maid to open her 'eyes while he was sealing the envelope. He handed it to her and she could feel the crackling paper and tho scratchy salt inside. The fortune teller Hold her to put the envolope under lier pillow that night, and when she opened it in the morning sho would find that she was wealthy. Well, she was wealthy, in experience, for the envelope, on examination -the usxt day, was found to contain tissue paper and starch grains, tho for tune teller having switched the envelopes while Maggie's eyes were shut.

Baltimore's Police Dogs Busy Catching Thieves BALTIMORE. Following tho lead of the great cities of Europe, Baltimore now has added dogs to its police force. They are two in number, tawny Airedale?, not especially beautiful, but well trained and, as they already have demonstrated, competent guar

dians of the poace. Btil.v and Rover, as they are naiiiccl. have been assigned to outlying posts and travel boat with uniformed men. They "sleuth" up dark alleys and in the shrubbery and have böon raught to eat only food given them t the police station in order to prevent their being poisoned. They Ii vi at the homes of the patrolmen with whom they work, and have

passes on the street cars, just like their human colleagues. The dogs were imported from England and cost, including transportation, $IS2. They were trained by Major Richardson of London, who trained the police dogs of Great Britain, Paris and Berlin. These dogs search out the underbrush, and do a turn around all of tho houses that are in the suburban section in search for night marauders. If any are found, or anything arouses their suspicion, they immediately attract the attention of the policemen with whom they are working, and a further investigation is made. One of the principal tricks to which they have been trained is the chasing and capture of persons running from the police. When a prisoner begins to run, the policeman turns the dog loose with a "Go get him," and the dog d?irts in and out between the legs of the runner and throws him to the ground. Then h tries to hold the man down' "until tb policeman arrives.

i uL )hmm third floor of old Allegheny city hall has a tribe of rats which the operators there declare are the boldest rodents they ever had dealings with. One old rat, the operators say, has a strong liking for soap and carries off every cake of that necessary article for cleanliness that is left in the bathroom. "We have set all sorts of traps for that rat," said Operator Heer, Singing of "Tipperary" whole life In Ton tonic surroundings, trying to keep his place in the sun, not essential to his welfare that his arrested. In Yorkvlllo polico court Maggie told Magistrate Breon that the accused, Robert Noble, had promised marvelous alchemy in transforming hör S2 bill into untold wealth by a magic process. Maggie said he offered to tell her fortune for 50 cents, and then asked her if she wished to bo wealthy. Maggio did, and the man then asked her for a $10 bill.

CEDAR RUST DISEASE

Trouble Is Very Abundant in Some Eastern Sections Orchards in Vicinity of Cedar Thickets Usually Suffer More Severely Than Those Which Are Situated Some Distance Away. The cedar rust of apples is more or less widespread in the eastern and central portions of the United States. It is reported from New Hampshire to North Carolina on the Atlantic seaboard and westward as far as Iowa and Nebraska. The disease is not found except In regions where both apples and red cedar grow. The red cedar is very abundant in some parts of the eastern states, and in those sections there is a great deal more of the disease than in any other portion. The principal reason for this lies in the fact, that, along with the abudance of cedar trees, the large commercial apple orchards contain many varieties which are particularly susceptible to the disease. Orchards in the vicinity of cedar thickets have usually suffered more severely than those which are situated at some distance. The injury ts more marked if the orchard is on the leeward side of the cedar thickets, where the spores of the disease may be continually borne in by prevailing winds, but all orchards of susceptible varieties of apples suffer more or less from the cedar rust. Two years ago, the financial loss to apple growers in the state of Virginia alone was estimated to be upwards of onehalf million dollars, and this did not take into account the loss due to weakness of tde trees and to impairing the vitality of the fruit buds for tho j following year, which would surely diminish each succeeding crop. The cedar trees in tho vicinity of apple orchards develop, during the winter and early spring, a large number of corky galls, which are commonly spoken of as cedar applos. Those A "Cedar Apple" In the Gelatinous Condition. It It Usual to Find This Condition After a Warm Spring Rain. Whon Thcoo Manses Begin to Dry öut They Set Free Millions of Sporldla Capable of Infecting Apple Foliage. galls contain tho winter spores and slowly mature during tho warm days of lato winter and early spring. Whon tho weather becomes warm enough and thoro is abundant moisture present, tho cedar apples thrust out many gelatinous tendrils. So long as tho golatlnous material is damp the spores do not escape to any extent, but, if bright, sunny days with brisk winds follow, tho watery tendrils ao dried and the spores aro blown away from the cedar apples. Tho wind, of courso, blows these spores where it lists, but only those which aro carried to apples trees Und conditions which aro suited to their germination and future development. How far these spores may bo carried has nevor been definitely deter mined. Our observations and studies go to show, however, that if an orchard Is one-half mile from the cedar, the amount of rust infection is usually not great enough to be a serious injury to the orchard. Any cedar trees which are cut after March first should bo burned, since they retain tho ability to cause infection for two months. THE PERIODS OF GESTATION Approximate Figures Given for Common Farm Animals Considerable Variation Is Likely. So many inquiries have been received relative to tho period of gestation for common farm animals that we . . A -i A. P give tue loiiowing onei statement. jl the approximate periods: Mares, 11 months; cow, 2S5 days; sheep, 5 months; goats, o months; sow, 4 months; dog, 63 days; cat, 50 days; rabbit, 30 days; squirrel, 2S days; rat, 2S days; turkey, incubation, 26 to 30 days; guinea-h&n, 25 to 26 days; geese, 27 to 33 days; ducks, 2-1 to 26 days; hen, 10 to 24 days; canary birds, 13 to 14 days. It must be remembered that the above figures are only approximate and that considerable variation will be experienced. For example, a record of 764 cows showed a shortest period of 220 days and a longest period of 313 days, with an average of 2S5 days. A record of 25 sows showed extremes of 109 and 123 days while a rec-' a il t J I oru ot anoinei ten sows suoweu periods varying from 101 to 116 days. Iie age, breed, condition, care and feed of animals affect the length of their period or gestation.

RAISE BIG TOULOUSE GEESE

Fowls Can Be Fed Almost Entirely on Grass Not Subject to Disease Like Chickens. We raise the large Toulouse geese and find them very profitable. They can be raised almost entirely on grass and are not subject to disease, like chiokens. They commence to lay about the middle of February and will lay from twelve to fifteen eggs before wanting to set. They will lay three clutches of eggs if they are broken up when they want to set. One rr ander should be kept for every three nr trrnr er eese and if they have access Pair of Toulouse Geese. to a pond of water in the spring, almost every egg will be fertile. The sooner the eggs are set after they are laid the better they will hatch. We set the eggs under hens giving seven eggs to each hen. If tho weather is very dry we moisten tho eggs with lukewarm water about the middle of the hatch and again a day or two before they are due to hatch. Wo nearly always have good luck hatching tho eggs, says a writer in an exchange. , Wo givo tho goslings their first feed and water when they aro fortyeight hours old. Tho wafer should be kept beforo them all the time in something that they can drink out of easily, but can't get Into. Wo keep green feed such as lottuce, mustard or tender grass beforo them all tho time, and givo them bread moistened with milk, pot cheeso or wet corn meal, thrco times a day until they aro three weeks old. After this we givo them a good feed of wot corn meal every night and morning and all tho green foed they will eat until they aro about seven weeks' old. Then they aro turned out in tho pasture or in a rape patch and do not receive any moro grain until fall. The goslings do not need a pond of wator to swim In. PREPARING FOR DEAR EGGS Hatches From Which Early Pullets Arc Derived That Are Largest Money Producers for Farmer. Tf tho farmer wishes to honoflt by tho high prices that eggs aro certain to bring next fall and winter, ho should bogln to got ready for them Hay tho poultry specialists In tho department, The way to have ogga lato in tho your is to hatch pullets early, It is Um early hatches from which tho early pullets aro derived that aro tho largest monoy-malcors for the poultry producer. Tho early hutched cockerels can bo murkotod In almost any markot In America whon they attain a weight of throo-fourths of a pound and a pound to a pound and a half each, which they should roach at about six to ton wooks of ago, respectively, at a greater profit, to tho producer than at any other time of their lives Tho early hatched pullets, if properly grown, should begin to lay in tho fall at tho Umo when eggs aro scarce and high in price. Pullots must bo well matured be fore they will lay many eggs. Pullets that start to lay in the fall before cold weather sets in will, as a rule, lay all winter. It is tho early hatched pullets that produco eggs in the fall and early winter, when prices aro high. February, lUarch and April are tho months to do your hatching in order to secure early hatched pullets. Yearling and two-year-old liens do not lay many eggs in the fall, as they are molting at that time, and tho feed they consume goes not only to keep up the energy and life of the birds, but also to put on or grow a new coat of feathers. In properly matured pullets all surplus energy beyond that needed to meet the requirements of the body is available for the production of esss. Write the secretary of agriculture, Washington, D. C, for bulletins on poultry management. TESTING SEED BY INCUBATOR Tray Made of Light Wood, Filled With Sand, Will Prove Efficacious Keep Temperature Right. While not in use for hatching, the incubator may be used for testing seed by making a false tray of light wood which is filled with sand. The seed should be placed in the sand, covered and kept moist Keep the temperature up to, or above S5 degrees, and the seed will germinate in a short time. Even when it is in use for batching, seeds may be tested by placing them between damp cloths in a plate, setting the plate under the egg tray in what is known as the "chick nursery." Plants thus germinated in sand nay be transplanted to the hot bed, not only testing the seed for vitality, but utilizing those so tested.

NOT GLAD TIME FOR WHALES

Resemblance to a Submarine Already Is Known to Have Meant Death to One. "In the North sea lived a whale." That was long ago. Olivette in Audran's long popular operetta told about the luckless end of that marine mammal in melodious fashion. That whale met a torpedo, and, mistaking it for another and undesirable-fish of strange shape, gave it battle with dire results. Now from the same region we have authentic information of a whale which was mistaken, not by another whale, but by a warship, for a submarine boat. The body of that whale has been cast up on the Dutch coast full of holes made by three-inch shells. Perhaps a whale resembles a submarine more closely than it resembles a torpedo. There are architectural differences, to be sure, which would be noted except in moments of extreme excitement. On and near the North sea today, however, there is a great deal of excitement, and this doubtless perfectly neutral creature has suffered in consequence of it. There is no evidence that this whale, like his predecessor, "loved to swagger and bully," or that "the ladies loved him so." Not being in comic opera, he,1 or she, presumably had no characteristics unusual to the whales of sober natural history. No record of the incident except the stranding of the mortal remnant exists. One who would describe the encounter must use his imagination. A Kipling or a Bullen might be moved to splendid utterance by contemplation of this tragedy, but in a daily newspaper we must stick to facts, and the ascertained facts in this case are scant. NOT THE DESIRED HAVEN Place Described Filled the Bill in Some Respects, But Also Had Its Disadvantages. "Well, brothers," said tho Jinbor visagod man, rising in their midst, "this is my first attendance, hut I am a Socialist almost by nature, and 1 think I can understand, from the previous speakers, what you want. In tho ilrst place, you want a realm where everyono has to be good by law." "Wo do, we do!" cried half a dozen long-haired young men in turned-down collars. The speaker continued. "Where food and clothing givo no trouble, and money does not exist." "That's it! That's what wo want." "Where everyone goes to worship on Sunday, and regular hours aro kept, week in, week out." "Yos, that's It." "Woll, I myself havo just come from such a place." "Where? What's It called?" "It's a place called prison," ho said, and rosu mod his soul. London TitBits. Solssons. Solsaons, whoso ruined cathedral now takes rank with Uolms, has a religious and a military history unparallolod among FYoneh towns. Moro than ono great abbey took root. In tho town, but tho groatest of all was that of St. Medard, whoso abbot, In tho thirteenth century, lorded It over 220 villages, with innumerable manors and vassals. St. Medard drew in 1530 over 300,000 pilgrims to tho famous shrine. One or two of tho early klnKS of franco aro burled in what remains of the crypt of tho old abbey. Every war that Franco has Buffered from1 has visited Soissons with intense severity, Backing imd bombardment following fast and following faster. A century ago, in ISM, tho town was twico captured by the allies and retaken by the French, to become, in the following year, a cockpit for tho contending armies. Worked Both Ways. A story is told by President Poincare of an old peasant who was very suporstitious. A neighbor said to him one day: "That potato you gave me to carry in my pocket as a cure for rheumatism has had a wonderful effect. I haven't had a twinge since you gavo it to me." "There!" exclaimed tho peasant, triumphantly, "I told you a potato car ried in the pocket was a cure for rheumatism, and, you wouldn't believe me." "Yes," tho other admitted, "and tho really strange thing is that it must have been exercising its influence on mo beforo you "gavo it to me, for I never had a twinge before I began carrying it." Crystal Palace. The Crystal palace, which is to be closed in order to provide quarters for 10,000 recruits, is not without other connection with the war. Had there been no Krupps, there might have been no war, and the palace helped to make the great gun firm famous. The Krupp establishment at Essen was quite a small affair until a two-ton ingot of cast steel shown by the enterprising Alfred Krupp at the great exhibition of 1S51 attracted shoals of orders, and led to almost fabulous prosperity. London Chronicle. Dread Year of the Tiger. The Year of the Tiger 1914 was so called in the Japaneso calendar forboded calamity in the prophecies of that people. The Japan Chronicle notes that the ancient superstition is confirmed by the European war, beside which the volcanic eruption at Kagoshima. was of trifling conasQuence.

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FOR THIS WOMAN The Price She Paid for Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Which Brought Good Health. Danville, Va. "I have only spent tea dollars on your medicine and I feel o mucn better man x did irhen the doctor -was treating me, I don't suffer any bearing down pain at all now and I sleep well. I cannot say enough for Lydia E. PinVham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as they have done so much forme. I am enjoy ing good health now and owe it all to your remedies. I take pleasure in telling my friends and neighbors about them." Mrs. Mattib Haley, 501 Colquhono Street, Danville, Va. No woman suffering from any form of female troubles should lose hope until she has given Lydia E. Pinkh&m's Vegetable Compound a fair trial. This famous remedy, the medicinal ingredients of which are derived from native roots and herbs, has for forty years "proved to be a most valuable tonic and invigorator of the female organism. Women everywhere bear willing testimony to tho wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If you havo tho slightest doubt that. Lydia JO. Piiilchaiii's Vcsetahlo CoxnpouiulAvill help you, wita to Lydia E.PinlchamMedicincCo. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be opencdf read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS arc responsible they not only give relief CARTER'S they perma nentlycureCon ITTLE IVER Itipation. Mil lions use PILLS. them for Biliousness. Indigestion, Sick Headache, Sallow Skia. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL FRIOL Genuine must bear Signature WHY NOT TRY POPHAM'S ASTHMA MEDICINE GIvoh Prompt and PoiUllvo Kclltff In Ktwy Case Hohl by DruKfrltUM. Prlcoll.OO. Trial Puekiitfo by Mall lOo. WILLIAMS MFG. CO,, Props., Ctmtini, a m MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN Relieve VevcrishficH, Constiixu t Ion .CoHlrt und correct Uinorilcm of the Monmch and bowels. Usrt fa Mnlltt i ot 2f vtars. At nil Drurjrin Sc. Sample mnilcd l'KHIC nullum. AaurOPA A. S. OlHUlM, U Riy, W.Y E7f)P A 11 pui CT 1 Nnnil you Ifi whjtr)h)W V n r J I IVI fc- to (nrn inmioy In Nr tlmn, M. StniUKs, T-!U Tuylor Avunuo, Nttwport, Ky. Dliftiitunom? Yon noort not sutTor. Homl for Fit KB lUlCUniailSm: Kumplo -Klnu's California HtmumItMUl lttmiüdy, lfi'MJ,H10 Miri JU,,MlHuejxll,l. ÄfiFMT monoy Hollln onr now llnew iSiMid dl tno forsamplo und nrojK llUon. U. J. Jlu wiuun, Y2l i'ltiü, Ft Luuvonworth.KiL Really Wastinß Time. Plaintiffs Counsel My lord, unfortunately in this caso 1 am opposed by tho most unmitigated scoundrelDefendant's Counsel My learned friend is such a notorious perverter Judge Will counsel kindly confin thoir remarks to such matters as ar in- dispute?" When It Broke. Bill Did you ever try to stand on, au egg? JillOh, yes. "And what did you learn?" "That tho inside of tho egg wit stronger than the outside." Appropriate Place. "I hear an aviator's society I hTlng a meeting in this hotel." 40 'Yes, sir; in the sky parlor, sir." Uric Acid in Your Food Even dogs can eat too much meat Certainly, many people "dig their gravt with their , teeth " 3? ew get enough exercise to justify a meat diet, for moat brings uric acid. The kidneys try hard to gejrid of that poison, but often a backache, or some other slight symptom will show that the kidneys need help. The time-tried remedy, then, is Doan's Kidney Pills. An Indiana Case K. A. Pufh. 2111 South A St, Elwod, -Ind.. savs: "I had k Idnoy complalmt ana occasionally wm laid up In bed. My back ached bo m.verely. I had to t A around with a ca. -I also nad snarp pains In my gb&wldera and lolaa. I was treated by 'Mim relief until I tak Sfery" Doaa'i Kidney Pllf Two böxei rnadf a permanent cur." GM DMt'i at Aiy5ton.Hct lac D OAN'S ViTLV FOSTER-MIL! URN CO. BUFFALO. N.Y.

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