Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 April 1915 — Page 4

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The Lost Securities t. 3 Mary Gertrude Sheridan Copyright, 1015, djt V. G. Chapman) "If I onlv hada gun!" sighed old Rufus Thwaite drearily. "What would you do with it if you had. grandfather?' inquired little Ned Rogers. Ned was a neighbor's hoy and no relation whatever to his aged companion. Everybody in the neighborhood called Mr. Thwaite grandfather, however. They were in fact more friendly and indulgent than those who had a right to do so. "I'd go to war," replied the old man -with vehemence. "I was a soldier once in Wales. I belonged to the English army. Look here," and the rheumatic patriot sprang to his feet with unaccustomed agility, picked up a long stick and went through dimly remembered tactics of the past. It would have been ludicrous had it not been sad. For ten years his married granddaughter, and her husband and their family had simply tolerated their aged relative as a helpless, witless old man. They felt bitter towards him because he had lost several thousand dollars in securities, which constituted his sole resources, and which they expected to inherit. One day in the long ago Mr. Thwaite had gone to the city to see the sights. He was missing for three days and then the Allertons received word that he was in a hospital, having been run down by a street car. They had brought him home to find that he had suffered a broken arm and almost a total lapse of memory. They Polishing Up the Rusted Old Musket. could not find his precious securities. Ho had not even a list of what they were. They decided that he must have taken Ihem to the city with him and lost them. He coulQ not remember. Then they began to neglect him. They put him in a small dark bedroom over the kitchen, made him take his meals there, and, lonely and cold though he might be, never invited him into the better part of the house. For about a month the old man had become greatly interested in the war. Every afternoon after school Ned Rogers brought the morning newspaper from home, and he and the old man would go up to the wretched room and he would read to him for an hour, all war news. "See here, Ned," spoke Mr. Thwaite just now, "I feel it my duty to go back to my old home and offer my services to the army." "Why. Mr. Thwaite." exclaimed Ned, "you're too old! Bs-sides, that stiff arm of yours. And how Avould you ever get there?" "I'd try it, anyhow," replied Mr. Thwaite a dreamy expression in his eyes. "I'ai pretty miserable here, Ned. The folks don't care for me. Now there was my other daughter, Xora. She's Mrs. Milton and lives fifty miles from here. She invited me to live with them, but I knew they were too poor. Besides, Esther here ?ct lots of money from me when I had iL All I have now is a little mortgage. When I cnllect the interest, twenty dollars every six months, they take most of it away from me. Pve got a dollar of the last payment left Say,' exclaimed the speaker with sudden animation, "I've thought of a great scheme." "What is that, grandfather?" i. -quired Ned curiously: "Well. up in the old attic -it backs on the kitchen roof is my old gun and knapsack. I asked them once to let me have them, but they only laughed at me and wouldn't even let me go up to the attic to get them my self. Say. you could." "Oh, I would not dare!" declared Ned. "Why not?" It isn't stealing They're mine. You can get up on tne kitchen roof when they aren't -watching. There's no sash to that attio window. You can't miss the gun

and knapsack. I'll give you the dollar to do it." It took some persuasion to induco Ned to follow out the suggestion of the old man. The bright silver dollar was a powerful argument, however. Two nights later'Mr. Thwaite had his coveted accouterments and Ned had the dollar in his pocket. The old man spent one entire night polishing up the rusted old musket He begged powder and caps from a neighbor. The old knapsack was nearly falling to pieces. He tied it up stoutly. "I'll fix that when I get to Nora's," he decided. "I'm going to stop there to bid her good-by." The following day he stole away from the house and the village and headed for the settlement where che Miltons lived. It was a long, hard tramp for the old man. Sturdily, however, he pursued his way, the knapsack strapped across his bent shoulder, the heavy musket carried proudly. He had no money, but kind-hearted housewives gave him what he wanted to eat. Twice he slept in a haystack. He was looked upon with pity as a homeless wanderer. He was pretty glad when one morning from inquiries he found that it was only three miles to the little farm where the Miltons lived. Half the distance accomplished, he was so tired out that he climbed a fence and lay down in a straw heap to rest. He was soon asleep. One hour later a young man driving a horse attached to an old farm wagon went slowly past the spot. Suddenly bang! 1 He had some difficulty In quieting down the startled horse. Then he looked towards the spot where a puff of smoke had shown. An old man was picking himself up from the ground. It was Mr. Thwaite. He had gone to sleep. His dream had been full of war and warriors. Awakening confused, he had taken a scarecrow near by for "the enemy," had fired, the gun had kicked and over he went. It did not take Mr. Milton long to discover the identity of the old man. He welcomed him to their humble home. Its comfort soon put all warlike , ideas out of the head of the delighted old veteran.

Nora wrote to her sister about his arrival. Esther wrote back: "Keep him and welcome good riddance to bad rubbish!" The old army musket was placed across the antlers of a deer in the dining room. The old knapsack Mr. Thwaite unpacked one day, preparatory to burning the rubbish. Nora had not worried her grand father by telling him of a mortgage on the little home. She was thinking of this sadly when the old man came rushing excitedly into her presence. "I've found them!" he shouted hilari ously "Found what?" inquired the startled Nora. "The lost securities in my knapsack. They must have been there all these years and I never remembered it. This time you shall have them, dear little girl! Just give me a home for the few years of life left to me and take the securities for your pay.' "We need no pay for dutifully caring for you and loving you, dear grandpa," replied Nora, but the old man was set in his notions and the heavy burden of debt was soon thereafter lifted from the happy household. . PRINCE PAGED FOR A COP And Troubetzkoy Responds, and the End Is That a Fine of Two Dollars Is Imposed. It sounded like a subway guard calling Fourteenth street or Bowling Green you can't tell the difference as a bellhop stalked majestically through the Hotel Plaza paging Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, says the New York Press. The name Troubetzkoy bothered the diminutive page, but he managed to articulate the "prince" all right. It so happened that Prince Troubetzkoy, who is a sculptor with a studio in 2i West Fifty-ninth street, was the only prince in the Plaza at the time, and, giving himself the benefit of the doubt, he responded to the call. "There's a gentleman outside wants to see you," the boy told him. Accompanied by the princess, he went downstairs where at the door he saw Patrolman Cunningham of the East Fifty-ninth street station. Cunningham asked the prince if he was Prince Troubetzkoy, and the prince admitted that he was. He was promptly served with a summons to appear in court for violating an ordinance by leaving his automobile unattended in front of the hotel. The prince expressed regret. The aldermen hadn't notified him they had passed such an ordinance. He was too busy to appear when his case came up in the Yorkville police court the other day, and sent Guy S. Switz,er, superintendent of an automobile company, to represent him. A plea of guilty was entered, and, Switzer paid a two-dollar fine. The Artist. The whole function of the artist in the world is to be a seeing and a feeling creature; to be an instrument of such tenderness and sensitiveness that no shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying to the spirit which has been given him, shall either be left unrecorded or fadt from the book of record. R us kin.

COLT RAISED BY HAND

Cows' Milk May. Be. Substituted if Attendant Is Patient. : Be Careful to Keep Bottle and Nipple Scrupulously Clean Foal Should Be Adequately Fed at All Times to Develop. (By A. S. ALEXANDER, D. V. S.) In case the mare dies or has no milk the foal may be raised on cows' milk, if the attendant conducts the work patiently and intelligently. Choose the milk of a cow that has recently calved, preferably one which gives milk low in butter-fat, for mares' milk while rich in sugar, is poor in fat. Sweeten the milk with molasses or sugar and dilute with warm water. Give a little of this prepared milk at short intervals from a scalded nursing bottle and large rubber nipple. Be careful to keep the bottle and nipple scrupulously clean. Add an ounce of lime water to each pint of the prepared milk and allow half a cupful once an hour at first. As the foal grows, gradually increase the amount of milk fed and lengthen the intervals between meals. In a few days food may be given six time-j a day and, later, four times daily. The foal will soon learn to drink from a pail, if allowed to suck the attendant's fingers at first. Until the bowels move freely, give rectal injections night and morning. If the foal scours at any time give two to four tablespoonfuls of a mixture of sweet oil and pure castor oil shaken up in milk, and stop feeding milk for two or three meals, allowing Mare and Colt. sweetened warm water and lime water instead. Let the foal lick oatmeal as soon as it will eat and gradually increase the amount and add wheat bran. In five or six weeks some sweet skim milk may be given and the amount gradually increased daily until, in three months or so, it may be given fi'eely three times a day in place of new milk. The foal at this age also will be eating freely of grass, grain and bran. At all times supply pure cold drinking water. Let the foal run out in a lot or grass paddock for exercise. Accustom it to be handled daily. Feed small quantities of nutritious food often, keeping all food vessels clean, and the foal should thrive and develop well. Remember that a colt should at all times be adequately fed so as to develop it perfectly. Practically half of the full weight of a horse is gained during the first 12 months of its life. If stunted during this period the colt never develops properly; it therefore pays to feed generously. CAREFUL IN LOCATING BEES Not Safe to Fasten Horse or Cow in Place Where Little Insects Pass for Water Supply. A beekeeper not long since chained a valuable cow in line between a large apiary and a stream of water where the bees flew in great numbers for water. At night when she went for the cow she found that the bees had stung the cow to death. It is never safe to fasten a horse or cow where bees would pass in force, as the horse or cow might switch its tail as a bee went by and provoke it to use its sting, when all the bees would unite in the attack, and as the animal could not flee from the attacking party, it would almost surely be stung fatally. This fact must always be remembere,d in locating an apiary near a street or road. In case an animal is severely stung, the best remedy is to cver the suffering brute with blankets wet in cold Water. If a person or animal is attacked, it is well to hasten into a barn or other building as the insects will often hesitate to follow into the building, especially if it is somewhat dark. SHOULD DEMAND CLEAN CARS Up to the Shipper to Be on he Safe Side Hog Cholera Spread by Railroad Trains. It is up to the shipper to be on the safe side and use only clean cars for shipping hogs, according to Dr. B. A. Beach of the Wisconsin college of agriculture. Unsanitary stock cars are responsible for spreading much hog cholera. Cases are on record where cholera has been brought into a community simply by cars carrying cholera infection passing through on the railroad. Causes of infertility. Over-feeding, espeoially of corn, and lack of exercise for the breeders, are perhaps the most common causes of infertility. This we have noticed especially with regard to birds that are shown a great deal, being confined to the show crops for weeks, fed highly on whole grains, with insufficient green teed und bulky matter.

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HUMUS AND SOIL FERTILITY

Decayed Vegetable Watter Is Very Important Constituent In Rendering Soils Fertile. Humus is decayed vegetable matter in the soil and is a very important constituent in rendering soils fertile. There are a number of reasons for this, prominent among which are too following: First, the organic matter contains the essential plant food elements and as it decays these elements are changed t into forms available to plants. In other words, the plant food is put in condition to be used again. Second, as the organic matter decays certain acids are produced and these, acting upon the insoluble mineral constituents in the soil, dissolve and render them available to plants. Third many of the changes in the soil are brought about by bacterial action, and decaying organic matter furnishes food for the bacteria so they can grow and multiply and thus render more mineral plant food elements soluble in the soil water. Plants cannot take up- solid foods from the soil; before they can appropriate food it must firt be gotten in solution like sugar goes into solution when put into water. Then there are other ways in which humus benefits the soil. It renders the soil dark in color, and a dark soil absorbs more heat t .an a light colored one; that is of considerable advantage in the early spring. A soil filled with organic matter is also capable of holding more moisture than one that is deficient in this constituent. In a dry year this may mean the difference between a fair crop and a complete failure. These being facts, why don't we plow under more organic matter? Why don't we grow more clover or other legumes' which actually draw plant food nitrogen from the air and store it up in their tissues later to be converted into plant food in the soil? Every man should include one or more legumes in his rotation for soil building purposes and thus maintain the fertility of his farm. GREEN PEPPERS' IN FAVOR Varieties Are Numerous and Have Been Improved in Late Year's Magnum Dulce Is Largest. Green peppers can be grown on any good garden soil, hut should not be put out till the ground is warm. The varieties of peppers unlike the eggplant are numerous, and therefore have been greatly improved of late years. The upright sweet salad is a fine pepper. It is bright scarlet in color, mild and sweet. Magnum Dulce is by far the largest pepper in cultivation, and the most prolific; no other variety gives such large specimens. It. is very sweet and perfectly reliable. Ruby King is one of the standards and has for many years been deserving of first place among the varieties of peppers, but in many respects it is not . equal to the above described kinds. Chinese Giant is very large, but not as prolific as soms of the other large varieties. DRAFT EQUALIZER FOR PLOWS Inventor Provides Evener Connected at Point at One Side of Center of Load Drawn. The Scientific American illustrates and describes a draft equalizer invented by J. L. Klages of Rockford, la., as follows: The inventor provides a draft equalizer for plows and other loads in which the evener is connected at a point at one side of the center to the load to be drawn, and the draft devices are provided with flexible elements which pass over pulleys on the Draft Equalizer. ends of the evener, and one flexible element is connected with a swinging lever mounted on the evener at the side of the center opposite the point of attachment of the load, and the other flexible element passes around a pulley on the swinging lever and is connected with the load. BUILDING HOIST FOR SILOS Device Which Has Been Found Satisfactory for Number of Years Is Easily Constructed. A hoist which has been successfully operated for a number of years on two pit silos built close together, may be easily constructed. It consists of a frame work set upon the edge of the silo and firmly guyed in position. A length of hay carrier track leading to each silo is supported by a piece of 4 by G inch timber. These timbers are laid upon the two 2 by 8 inch cross pieces which are supported by two lS-foot lengths of telephone poles. As the rope unwinds from the drum, one carrier may be run out, tripped, and the box allowed to lower while the other box is drawn out. Pulleys keep the ropes up out of the wind and guide them as they wind on the drum.

COME TO RESCUE OF BRUIN

Threatened With Extinction, Brother Bear Has Found That He Ha Some Friends. Since the "bear flag" days bruin has been an accepted symbolic representative of the Golden state. He occupies a place on its great seal, and, indeed, has become a sort of institution. When he is not working at his more dignified job he engages in picking up acorns, acting as scavenger around mountain camps and making an occasional raid upon farms in the hills. I He has come to be known, in private life, as a rather amiable and lazy fei- j low, if undisturbed, and indeed it may be claimed for him that he has a host of friends. But bruin, in the wild, has come close to the great divide. For many years he has made sport for the hunter during the summer, and for the trapper at all seasons. Nowadays there are not very many of him. Extinction is imminent. He is ab.out to go the way of mauy another distinguished brute. A Siskiyou county legislator has rushed to his relief with a bill prohibiting the killing of bears during the summer and eliminating at all seasons the trapping privilege. A like meas ure, it is said, is finding its way into numerous western legislatures, and is being supported rather than opposed by sportsmen. It is their hope that bruin will be able to maintain his place in the sun. Los Angeles Express. THEN HE WANTED HIM BADLY Sandy Realized the Need of Insurance When the "Fire Fiend" Got Down to Work. The following story, the chief actor in which is still alive, would seem to justify the term "canny" sometimes applied to the Scot. An old retired Fifeshire farmer was from time to time called on and advised to insure his house against fire by an agent who was familiarly known as" "Sandy." . The old man, however, met the agent's advances with "Na, na!" following by what he doubtless considered a clinching argument: "My hoose is no likely to gang on fire, mon!" The unexpected, however, happened, and the neighbors were astonished to see the old man, instead of trying to put out the fire, running up and down the village street, shouting: "Whaur's that man Sandy noo? Whaur's that insurance chap? It's terrible ye can never get a body when ye're needin- 'im!" Dry Prospects. One hundred years of continuous rainfall records have recently been completed in New Bedford, Mass., and serve to disprove thoroughly the com mon belief that the climate is not so good as it used to be. Only half as many dry periods occurred in the last fifty years as in the first fifty years; so that the records really are a warning for that section at least, to expect more dry periods in the next generation. The recent decades have been fortunate above the average, and conr sequently the next few decades are quite likely to pay the bill. The records were started in 1814 by Samuel Rodman, and continued by him until his death, in 1S76. His son then kept them until his death, in 1905. For more than ninety-one years the rainfall was carefully recorded for exactly the same spot in the same yard. The chief engineer of the state health de partment has now completed the hundred years of figures by obtaining the late records from another observer in New Bedford, taken a few miles from the Rodman place. The average annual rainfall was 46.45 inches; but in the first fifty years there were four very marked dry pe riods of two or three years each. In the last fifty years there were only two such dry periods. Saturday Eve ning Post. Elopes Vith Corset Form. After being placed under arrest byPrivate Policeman Mulvaney, a welldressed man, who early in the morning broke a showcase window in the store of S. Hyman, and removed a. corset form, broke away from the officer and escaped. The man, who was slightly elated, stopped in front of the window for some time, and, evidently impressed by the beautiful model on which was placed one of the latest corsets, decid ed he wanted the figure. He broke the window with his fist and lifted the manikin out. Cincinnati Dispatch to the New York Herald. Feeding the Poor. The public kitchen is an experimental New York institution backed by women of wealth and standing. The project is directed by the social welfare department of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. A profit of 3 per cent is to be taken. The first unit will be multiplied as occasion warrants. Food will be served on the spot and at homes, carried in containers of several compartments and heated by hot water. Gambling at Monte Carlo. A Monte Carlo dispatch says gambling is rampant again after four and a half months of enforced inactivity. There is no gold or silver shining on the green cloth; ivory checks have taken their places, but roulette and trente-et-quarante are going on at a few tables. The revival, however, has not sufficed to restore the season's usual animation to the town. The hotel! are nearly empty.

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The Truth Comes Out. Mother Do you go to church for the sermon or the singing? Pretty Daughter For the hims, of course. Always use Red Cross Ball Blue. Delights the laundress. At all good grocers. Adv. Quite Different. "One year ago a man could announce tnat he was going to Europe' without creating a ripple of excitement." "And now?" "If he makes that announcement everybody crowds around to have & look at him." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Ketcher'a Castorf Sure Preventive. He I w-w-w-wish L could fuf-fuf-find a w-w-way to keep from sta-sta-stam-menng. She I'll tell you how don't talk. The Classic Vogue. "Do you admire the classics?" inquired the student. "Well," replied the theatergoer, "I don't care much for it in literature, but it's all right in dancing:" A Different Matter. "Then you don't think I practice what I preach, eh?" queried- the minister, in talking with one of the deacons at a meeting. "No, sir, I don't," replied the deacon. "You've been preachin' on the subject of resignation for two years, an' ye haven't resigned yet.' Unfriendly .Tricks. "I thought you were a friend of his?" "I used to be." "And now?" "I had to give him up in. self-defense." "Why?" "To every life-insurance and book agent that asked him if he had any friends who might be interested in their propositions he insisted- on giving my name." New System. "When you get out of this penitentiary," said the warden, you'll be ablo to earn your own living and look the world in the face." "I hope so," answered the prisoner. 'But fl want you to promise me onething." "What is it?" "There's a lot of these people who don't want to see me get along. Don't you let them put up any schemes to get me fired out t)f here before my term is completed." There is no rainbow that looks as beautiful as the gold mine stock certificate just purchased. Books Food To make good use of knowledge, one needs a strong body and a clear brain largely a matter of right food. Grape-Nuts 1 FOOD contains proper nutriment for building body and brain for renewing the tissue cells that are exhausted daily by work and play. Grape-Nuts food is made from wheat and barley contains all their nutriment, including those vital mineral salts found under the outer coat, which are especially necessary for the daily upkeep of nerves and brain. ".There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts sold by Grocers everywhere