Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 March 1915 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER 1EN ED, DOANE, Publlthtr.

JASPER INDIANA Loafers In business and the profcsIons aro going out of fashion. The last thing an aoro would think of demanding would ho a salute. Barbers aro frank to Hay they havo no sympathy with the movement "safety first." Let us bo thankful that most of the horrors In the moving pictures never really happen. It is usually the caso that men and women with empty Uvea also carry empty heads. The idea of calling ;zed basebail a trust, when it ruins itself to encourage competition! One trouble with r.ny so called "earthquake belt" is that it is as changeable as woman's waist line. A census of the idle would show about C8 per cent of the soapbox orators looking the other way for a job. A headline says: "Six Killed While Singing Which shows there are some things that won't be endured forever. A woman may call a man who pays her compliments a flatterer, but she likes to believe him, :ust the same. Judging from some exhibitions of prehistoric pottery, not a few of the ancients were afllicted with in awful thirst "A 14-inch gun speaks all languages' says the Philadelphia Ledger. Yep; always shooting off its mouth. Woman's waist line is to be restored by fashion. However, no one is bold enough to predict where it will be. Professor Taft says profanity is conducive to low golf scores, and there are other equally good reasons for not swearing. When an aviator announces his intention of sailing around the oarth he is liable to wind up by starting ! through it. Still, it might be argued in behalf of subways that passengers are seldom killed by aut Mies while stepping on or off ca Berlin dc ing diamoi at half pr. interest in it is laid, are offerAmerican merchants oociety will renew its war. A plea for a reduction in alimony because of the war has been sternly rejected. Why? Has not the war affected everything else? To be without work and to be hungry is a situation whose miseries no man can fully comprehend until he has had the experience. The man who skates on thin ice is in no worse predicament than the married man who lets his wife linger before a jewelry window. The man who never does a lick of work .sometimes snores as loudly as the toiler who is coo tired to keep his mouth closed when he goes to bed. Fewer Boston school children are -wearing glasses, according to a census just taken. But they will continue to wear them in the funnj papers. Sensible whales should observe the "safety first" rule and stay on this side of the Atlantic, where there is no danger of being mistaken for submarines. William Allen White says, "We need more dreamers on the farm." Still, a dreamer is at a decided disadvantage in a pasture lot where there is also a vicious bull. It costs $20.70 for three minutes' conversation between New York and San Francisco and $G.75 each additional minute. Talk is certainly not cheap when it's transcontinental. We do not accept the statement that the Russians are stupid. Any people who can learn how to pronounce those names within the limitations of a lifetime are bound to be brilliant mentally. A California grafter has been ordered to confine his reading to the Bible for a month. If like punishment is to be given all of their grafters, large outside contributions of Bibles will be essential. Earthquakes may be good for the liver, as a noted physician says, but most people prefer to give theirs a mild jolting in a motor car. Anyhow, when the geological survey says the world is 100,000,000 years old it puts it up hard to those who have to prove that it isn't. A statistician says the railways havs wasted more than two billions in costly terminals Can he produce a tingle city willing to admit that its station is too good?

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COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF GERMANY' IS DECREED BY THE ALLIES. ENVOYS GIVE NOTES TO U. S. Britain and France Forced to Retaliate, Notices Assert Declare Emperor Substitutes indiscriminate Destruction for Regulated Capture. London, March 2. Premier Asquith announced in the house of commons that the government had decided to prevent commodities of any kind from reaching Germany or leaving that country. This means that no foodstuffs of any kind will be allowed to reach Germany. The embargo will also be extended to raw materials. This action was taken by the British government in retaliation for Germany's submarine warfare against English merchant ships. Now a "Bread War." England will now try to starve Germany into submission. It is believed that the embargo of the British government upon foodstuffs and raw materials will increase the activities of the German submarine in the "bread war" against England. In making the momentous announcement, Premier Asquith said: "There is no form of economic pressure which we do not consider ourselves entitled to assert under existing conditions." Calls It Piracy. Premier Asquith, in speaking of Germany's submarine war, declared: "Germany has taken a step without precedence in organizing a campaign of piracy and pillage. "This is not the time to talk peace. Those who do so are the victims of self-delusion. The allies will never sheath the sword till all objects wherefore they have gone to war have been achieved." Notes Served on U. S. Washington, March 2 The substance of the British and French notes is contained in the following statement given out by the state department: The department has received notes from the British and French ambassadors, in practically identical language, as follows: "Germany has declared that the English channel, the north and west coasts of France and waters around the British Isles are a war area and has officially notified that all enemy ships found in that area will be destroyed and that neutral ships may be exposed to danger. This is, in effect, a claim to the right to torpedo at sight, without regard to the safety of the crew or passengers, any merchant vessels under any flag. As it is not in the power of the German admiralty to maintain any surface craft in these waters, this attack can only he delivered by a submarine agency. "The law and custom of nations in regard to attacks on commerce have always presumed that the first duty of the captor of a merchant vessel is to bring it before a prize court, where it may be tried, where the regularity of the capture may be challenged and where neutrals may recover their cargoes. The sinking of prizes is in itself an inadequable act to be resorted to only in extraordinary circumstances and after provision has been made for the safety of all the crew or passengers. "If there are passengers on board the responsibility for discriminating between neutral and enemy vessels and between neutral and enemy cargo, obviously rests with the attackiug ship, whose duty it is to verify the status and character of the vessel and cargo and to preserve all papers before sinking or even capturing it. Indiscriminate Destruction. "It is upon this basis that all previous discussions of the law for regulating warfare at sea have proceeded. A German submarine, however, fulfills none of the obligations; she enjoys no local command of the waters in which she operates: she does not take her captures within the jurisdiction of a prize court; she carries no prize crew which she can put on board a prize. "The German declaration substitutes indiscriminate destruction for regulated capture. Germany is adopting these methods against peaceful traders and noncombatant crews with the avowed object of preventing commodities of all kinds, including food for the civil population, from reaching or leaving the British Isles or northern France. To Protect Lives. "Her opponents are therefore driven to frame retaliatory measures in order in their turn to prevent commodities of any kind from reaching or leaving Germany. These measures will, however, be enforced by the British and French governments without risk to neutral ships or to neutral or noncombatant life and in strict observrnce of the dictates of humanity. The British and French governments will therefore hold themselves free to detain'and to take into port ships carrying goods of presumed enemy destination, ownership or origin.' $1,800,000 Loan Floated by Russia. Petrograd. Feb 2G. The Russian government placed loans for Sl.SOÜ.UÜt for railroad building north of Arcb' angel to connect interior Russia with a port open the year round.

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VAU, Lance Corporal F. W. Dobson of the ColdstreaYn Guards was recently decorated with the Victoria Cross by King George in recognition of his valiant conduct while underfire. AURORA, ILL, HAS THIRD GIRL SLAIN IN A YEAR Miss Emma Peterson Is Clubbed Like Hollander and Miller Girls; Near A. J. Hopkins' Home. Aurora, HI., Feb. 27. This city has another murder mystery in which a woman is the victim. It is the third case in 12 months in this city and the crime was committed in a manner apparently similar o that of the two previous murders of women, both of which remain a mystery. Two girls going home at 10:30 o'clock last night saw a dark object lying on the parking at the edge of the sidewalk near to former U. S. Senator A. J. Hopkins home. They bent down and saw a woman. The side of her face had been crushed in. The girls turned and fled down Lake street screaming. A policeman stopped them and learned the cause of alarm. He telephoned for an ambulance and hurried to the spot. She was placed in an ambulance and rushed to a hospital, but died on the way. At the hospital she was identified as Emma f'eterson, twenty-two years old. She had beea residing at the home of John Dooling, a wealthy retired wholesale grocer and liquor dealer. The spot where she lay is a half block from the Dooling residence. Sixty suspects were arrested by the policeFaced with three unsolved horrible murders of women, residents of Aurora were almost panic stricken last night. Windows and door? were locked and brave indeed was the woman or girl who ventured out without an escort DACiA HELD IN FRENCH PORT Questions Over the Former German Liner to Be Settled in Prize Court. Brest, France (via Paris), March 2. The American steamer Dacia, formerly a Hamburg-American liner, which was captured last week by a French cruiser and brought into this port, has been towed from the roadstead into the Brest naval harbor. New York, March 2. The American flag, which flew over the steamship Dacia, captured last week by a French cruiser and taken into Brest, has been hauled down and the American consul at Brest is sending the Dacia's crew back to New York city, according to cablegrams received here. WOMAN'S ASSAILANT TAKEN Negro Confesses He Attacked Aged lllinoisan Victim May DieLynching Is Feared. Chicago. March 1. Jesse Williams, the negro who criminally assaulted and robbed Mrs. Frances E. Schwartz in her home at Wheaton, was capturned at Aurora in company with a necro ex-convict, and made a confes sion admitting the robbery and as saulting the woman. Mrs. Schwartz, who is seventy-five years old. Is so dangerously ill that her recovery is deemed ooiiDtiui. önenir jonn Hesterman has sworn in a corps of deuuties to aid him when the negro is brought back to Wheaton to guard against lynching. WELSH WINS SECOND BATTLE Charlie White of Chicago Is No Match for Champion Bout Staged in Milwaukee. Ringside. Milwaukee, Wis.. Feb. 26. There was no doubt about who won the second of the White-Welsh seres of fox trots last night Champion Freddie outdanced the, Chicagoan irom siari 10 imisu, miu puea up a lead that was indisputable, after 30 minutes of stalling, clinching, holding and tapping Eight of the rounds were won by Welsh Mother of 21. Glens Falls, X. Y.. March 2. Mrs.. Frank Chenier. forty-two. has given birth to her twenty-first child. Twelve are living. Her husband is forty-nine.

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ttlU I Uli IUILULI1UL COMMERCE BODY'S REPORT ON L. & N.' GIVING MONEY TO OFFICIALS AND LEGISLATORS. CONTROLS HUNDRED ROADS Interstate Commerce Commission Un able to Give Exact Amount of Cash Which May Have Been Expended in Political and Publicity Work. Washington, Feb. 27. The interstate commerce commission sent to the senate its report on the investigation of the finances, rates and practices of the Louisville & Nashville and allied railroads. It charged the Louisville &. Nashville with acquiring competing lines and with carrying on for years at a cost of millions of dollars an elaborate political and publicity campaign to eliminate competition and influence public opinion. For Further L. & N. Quiz. In the report on the Louisville & Nashville, further inquiry, and if pos sible, inspection of the railroad's cor respondence, was said to be necessary. The report was written before the Supreme court handed down its opinion holding that the commission was with out power to force the company to sub mit its correspondence as well as its records and books to scrutiny. Qualifies One Charge. The commission qualifies its declara tion that the Louisville & Nashville has willfully restrained competition by pointing out that in some instances its energies were directed to meet the competition of other large systems. and passes over the question whether in all instances the course pursued was contrary to public interest. The recital of the alleged political activities of the roads concerned is accompanied by little comment. The commission announces its inability to set forth all the money which the car riers may have expended in political and publicity work, but the items its investigators discovered, which it has placed in the report under the head of political contributions, run into the millions. In connection with the Tennessee Railroad association, formed by car riers in 1SS4 to combat adverse legisla tion in that state, the report is more specific in its allegations. Pay Officials and Legislators. "The various payments made on ac count of the Tennessee Railroad as sociation by the Nashville, Chatta nooga & St. Louis railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad com pany," says the report, "were to a large extent made to state officials and legislators of Tennessee, munici pal officers of Nashville, politicians. lobbyists and attorneys. "Investigation showed that payments made by the Nashville, Chatta nooga & St. Louis in this connection, aggregating over $20,000, could be definitely assigned to persons formerly or at present holding public office, but the total amount paid to such persons was no doubt much in excess of this sum." The names of those still "holding public office" were not revealed. Controls 100 Roads. The Louisville & Nashville, chiefly since 1880, according to the report, has acquired controlling interest in more than one hundred railroad companies or properties, one of the obvious pur poses of which has been to restrain competition. The report says the $16,000,000 shown in the cost of road accounts of the Louisville & Nashville does not represent actual construction costs. THREE WOMEN ARE KILLED Wife and Daughter of W. J. Dixon. Kokomo Contractor, Die When Train Strikes Auto. Kokomo, Ind., March 1. Two prominent young women were killed and one woman injured so badly that she died within two hours as a result of an automobile and Pennsylvania train coming together at a grade crossing two miles north of Kokomo. The dead are: Mary Louise Dixon, aged nineteen: daughter of Walter J. Dixon, contractor; killed instantly. Margaret Colley, aged eighteen, daughter of Howard Colley, electrical contractor; killed instantly. Mrs. Nellie L. Dixon, wife of Waltar J Dixon; died from injuries about body and head Mr. Dixon and another daughter, Frances, were in the front seat and were not injured. 3 SLAYERS ARE EXECUTED Murderers of Wcmen Die in the Electric Chair at Ossining. N. Y. Ossintng. N Y.. Feb. 27. In a triple execution in Sing Sing prise three riavers of women were put to death in "the electric chair The three men who paid the penalty for muider were Robert iane. Oscar Vogt and Vincenzn Campanelli Only 25 minutes and 10 seconds were consumed in puttins the three men to death All marched in to Jhe death chamber with beads erect and without falterir.g. Makes Food Out of Straw. Amsterdam. March I. The German -.- c rir nor ?rntps that Professor FrttH. I J V O-Zlk J'V " - - . ---ww I enthal of the Berlin university has discovered a means of converting straw into food it is likely to revolutionize th( food question

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Mrs. Menken is the fourth woman In the world to be decorated with the Order of Learning of the second degree by the shah of Persia. Mrs. Menken was honored as a result of a recent Persian fete given at her home in New York. RUSSIANS HAVE RESUMED THE OFFENSIVE IN POLAND Czar's Forces Recapture Przasnysz Austrian Advance in Galicia Is Checked. By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY. Petrograd, March 7. The German invasion of Poland north of the Vistula river appears to have been completely shattered. The Russians on the offensive along the entire front from the Niemen to the Vistula are dealing tremendous blows to the forces of Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Official reports received here record Russian successes in all sections. In some the Germans have been driven back 11 miles. In the Przasnysz region, where the troops of Grand Duke Nicholas have driven a wedge into the German center and are advancing toward the East Prussian frontier again, the Russians are capturing village after village, taking from five hundred to eight hundred prisoners in each. As a result of the fighting of the last five days, more than eighteen thousand prisoners have fallen into Russian hands. The Germans have also lost many guns. The Russian successes in the Przasnysz have, as was predicted, forced the retirement of the Germans before Oszowiec, according to the latest reports received here. Before Grodno the Germans are also weakening, and the Russians are making attacks upon their foes. The Grodno garrison is assisting in these operations. The Germans encountered enormous difficulties on entering Russian territory and they seem to be in -dire straits in some regions. Those taken prosoner say that several German corps have exhausted their ammunition. London, March 1. The Austrian advance in eastern Galicia has been checked and the Russians, driving back their opponents, have recaptured Stanislau and Kolomea. says the Evening News in a telegram from Hertza, Roumania GERMANS ADVANCE 4 MILES Capture Position in Vosges and Near Verdun Paris Claims 1,000 Surrendered. Berlin (wireless via Sayville). March 1. The following official report was received on Sunday from first headquarters of the army: "In the western theater the enemy's , attacks in Champagne continued, but ' all were repulsed. To the south of Malincourt and north of Verdun the Germans stormed several of the enemy's positions, driving him out. The Ger- ! mans made six officers and 250 men prisoners. "On the northern slopes of the Vosges the Germans, after considerable violent fighting, succeeded in dislodging the French from their positions. The Germans attacked the intrenched line from Verdinal to Bremeuil, to the east of Baronviller, thus pushing the enemy back. Paris, March 2. The afternoon statement issued on Saturday said: "In the Champagne district important progress was made. We carried two German works, one north of Perthes, the other north of Beausejour We made 200 prisoners. "The total number of German soldiers who have surrendered the last ten days amounts to more than one thousand." BECKER DENIED NEW TRIAL Supreme Court of New Ycrk Turns Down Application of Former Lieutenant of Police. New York, Feb 27. Supreme Court Justice Weeks denied the application for a new trial for former Lieutenant of Police Charles Becker, who is under sentence of death for the murder of Herman Rosenthal The application was based on an alleged affidrit by James Marshall, a negro, wbo testified at the second trial of Becker. In which he recanted bis testimony

FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR SICK CHILD "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver and bowels.

Every mother reali.'.GS, after giving her children "California Syrup of Figs1' that this is their ideal laxative, because they love Its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses tho 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 teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit laxative," and in a few hours all tho 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 tho store for a 50cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-upi printed on the bottle. Adv. I I Quality. Ancient Maiden Does this parrot swear much? Bird Dealer No, ma'am; but what swearin' he does is very loud and clear. Judge. IF BACK HURTS CLEAN KIDNEYS WITH SALTS Drink Lots of Water and Stop Eating Meat for a While If the Bladder Bothers You. Meat forms uric acid which excites and overworks the kidneys in their efforts to filter it from the system. Regular eaters of meat must flush tho kidneys occasionally. You must relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing all the acids, waste and poison, else you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the wTeather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the channels often get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids and flush off the body's urinous waste get about four ounces of Jad Saite from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water '"before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine and bladder disorders disappear. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys and st- p bladder irritation. Jad Salts is inexpensive; harmless and makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which millions of men and women take now and then, thus avoiding serious kidney and bladder diseases. Adv. Contrary Qualities. "He's a live one." "Yes, always dead in earnest." Baltimore American. Salzer'a White Bonanna Gat. Made C. J. Johnson of Lincoln Co., Minn., famous in growing 243 bushels from 2y2 bushels sown last spring. Can you beat that in 1915? Wont you try? This great Oat has taken more prizea and given bigger and larger yields t h r oughoiit the United Statt? thaa any Oat known. It's e n o rmously .prolific. Just tho Oat for Iowa, Minn., Wis.. HI, Ind., Mich., Ohio. NebPa., N. Y., Kansas and Missouri. We are America's headquarters for Alfalfa and Potatoes Timothy, Clovers and Farm Seeds. For 10c in Postage We gladly mail our Catalog and sample package of Ten Famous Farm Seeds, including Speltz, "The Cereal Wonder;" Rejuvenated White Bonanza Oats, "The Prize Winner;" Billion Dollar Grass; Teosinte, the Silo Filler, etc., etc. Or Send 12c And we will mail you our big Catalog and six generous packages of Early Cabbage, Carrot, Cucumber, Lettuce, Radish, Onion furnishing Jots and lots of juicy delicious Vegetables during the early Spring and Summer. Or send to John A. Salzcr Seed. Co., Box 710, La Crosse, Vis.j twenty cents and receive both above collections and their big catalog:. A bride will sometimes sweap up the aisle, but that is generally the sex ton's work. For genuine comfort and lasting pleasure use Red Cross Ball Blue on wash day. AH good grocers. Adv. Some coming events cast Üiaär shadows in all directions. "