Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 45, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 August 1915 — Page 3
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OKTAL AFFAIB5 Songbirds That Spend the Summer in Washington WASHINGTON. Certain varieties of songbirds come 4;o Washington for the summer months only, and at present numbers of these visitors can 0 seen in tho city parks, in the grounds of the capitol, White House or agricultural department. They are
The warblers are a 'busy little group that frequent the Virginia side of tho Potomac from Rosslyn to Chain bridge. They are small birds with thin voices that are not especially musical, although one or two varieties have some really fine singers. The thrush family contains some of the sweetest singers, and with many bird lovers they are the favorite songsters. The wood thrush, which is larger than the other varief es, is a bright brown in color, with large dark 'spots on its creamy breast. It is found in most woods around Washington, and generally sings at sunset, early in the morning or on a cloudy day. Its song is clear and thrilling, while its call-note is a soft "whit, whit." Another interesting group are the vireos, dainty little birds whose coloring harmonizes so well -with the leaves around which they live that they are often passed by unnoticed. They have sweet voices and build little basket nests suspended from forked twigs. The Smithsonian grounds are a favorite place for the orioles, both the Baltimore and orchard. The tanagers are the most brilliant of all the colony. The scarlet tana!ger, as its name implies, is a seven-inch bird with bright flaming body and jet black wings. He mostly keeps well outside the city limits, as his bright coloring is a sure mark for his enemies.
'District of Columbia 125 Years Old This Year THE district of Columbia was established as the seat of the government of the United States by congress 125 years ago July 16, 1790. The requisite area for the District was offered to congress by the states of Maryland and
Virginia, and originally was a square, tho sides of which were about ten miles each. After the war was over it was deemed advisable to look about for a permanent residence of congress. The articles of confederation left congress free to moot where it would. There were shortly many competitors. Of the 13 states which at that time fringed tho Atlantic, tho central point was in Maryland and Virginia. Early
in 17S3 New York tendered Kingston; t in May, Maryland urged the choice of Annapolis; in June, New Jersey offered a district below tho falls of the Delaware. Virginia, having Georgetown for its object, invited Maryland to join in a cession of equal portions of territory lying together on tho Potomac, leaving congress to fix its residence on either side. During the summer, congress appointed a committee to consider what jurisdiction it should oxerciso in its abiding place. Things drifted on for some time, and finally, partly in deference to Washington's judgment, the Potomac country was selected. By an act of March 30, 1791, Washington was authorized to select the site and mark the boundaries, and this he did early in the year, tho corner stone of the Federal territory being laid on April 15. Maj. Pierre Charles VEnfant, a French engineer, who had served in the Continental army, was chosen to lay out the town, and though dismissed in ! March, 3792, he drew up a plan which was adopted by the commissioners in 'charge, and in accordance with this Andrew Ellicott laid out the city.
Album of Escaped Federal Convicts Is Prepared SOMEWHERE beyond the reach of the long fingers of the law a scattered, furtive company of criminals are "hiding out" today. They are men who have escaped from federal prisons during the past six years. Some of them may have died in their self-sought
cials throughout the country are anxious to learn their whereabouts. This is why a small volume containing th photographs of the escaped criminals, jtheir descriptions, details of the crimes for which they are wanted and facts iconcerning their escapes has just been prepared for publication. These escaped convict albums will be distributed broadcast throughout the country. One of tho most interesting features of the album, aside from the fact I that each page of it will contain the record of crime or tragedy, is the fact i that it emphasizes, perhaps, more than anything else has ever done, the ! comparative infrequency of escapes from federal penitentiaries and jails. ! There are approximately only 150 convicts at large today who have won their ways clear of federal prisons without the formality of discharge or pardon.
Cranks From Everywhere
WASHINGTON has been declared the mecca for cranks. Stowed away in corners of their diseased minds are wonderfully fantastic schemes which they hope to carry out with the aid of the president. For the majority of these monomaniacs that is tho
scientific name for them have a keen desire to see the chief representative of the United States. There are many different varieties of cranks. Most of them are harmless and imagine themselves people of importance. They assume dignified postures in front of the White House .and haughtily demand that tho policeman on guard present their cards and respects to the president. Still others, cranks of the inventive
tarn of mind, have just invented flying yachts or engineless autos, and wish to have President Wilson put his stamp of approval on them. There are a few dangerous cranks. Frank Holt, who placed a bomb fn tho capitol, shot J. P. .Morgan, threatened to dynamite several big ocean liners and committed suicido in jail, was of this latter class. These monomaniacs labor under the delusion that they have "received orders from on high" to perform a certain "task for the benefit of mankind." Whatever crimes they commit they believe are wise acts which will aid humanity. In order to safeguard the high officials of this country, the chief targets for these individuals of strange hallucinations, and the residents of Washington against any acts of violence which they might commit, squads of
unuormeu pouce ana plain-clothes men the cranks who arrive in tho city from matured and ready to put in action.
recognized both by their tuneful songs and by their vivid coloring. The summer birds have bright reds, yellows, green and blues in their coats, in marked contrast to the sober grays and browns of those which fly about during the drearier months of the year. The warblers, thrushes, vireos, tanagers, swallows and orioles make up this summer colony which settles in the heart of the city and in its many beautiful suburbs beyond.
obscurity. Others may have made perilous going to some strange port where extradition is an unknown menace. Yet, whether they are alive or dead, and whether they are in a zone of safety or skulking in some underworld dive from which they could be dragged forth to pay the penalty for their offenses, the superintendent of prisons in the department of justice and countless sheriffs and prison offi Flock to the Capital 1 HAVE M IMPORTANT ENCAGEflENT VVTH TH' PRESIDENT HE NEEW MY ADVICE - are on the alert day and night for time to time with their weird plots
MADE POPULAR BY THE WAR
Newspaper Reader Calla Attention to . the Extensive Use of the Wold "Mobilize." He was a talkative fellow, and there was no denying him. "Now, that," he said, slapping hia open newspaper, "is one funny thing come out of the war. Here!" he exclaimed, and held up the page, pointing to an advertisement which read: "Straw Hats Mobilized in Our Window Tomorrow." "Of course," he continued, "the newspaper reporter and the ad writer can't report a wedding or proclaim a bargain sale these days without employing the lingo of the military writer. The joke," he proceeded, "is in the popular usage of this here word 'mobilize,' lately come into everybody's mouth. When a number of things of any sort are got together into a bunch these days they are humorously said to be mobilize "But," he remarked, "when a man has a mobile face it is not because his face is assembled. Doesn't anybody remember," he asked, ,fwhat the word mobilize meant before the war? Well, it means just the same today, and its meaning does not alter as a military term. The process of putting an army upon a war footing," he said, raising his finger, "is called mobilization. That is, together with certain other activities, the men actually in uniform and in barracks are supplemented by the reserves, and the army is turned from an incomplete and, so to say, stationary condition, into a complete conft dion in which it is loosed from all lcf al ties which hinder action. It is, in s" Drt, rendered mobile. "I overheard the other day," he want on, "a remark which gave me light on the cause, very probably, of the popular misconception of this lately greatly abused word. One fellow says to another, 'The Italians have mob-ilized,' pronouncing the first syllable as though it were the word mob. And there you are, the popular fancy, army, mob, grotesque notion!" POSSIBLY ADVICE WAS GOOD As Things Were Farmers' Word Might Have Seemed to Contain Germs of Wisdom. Jeptha Wade, a widely known Cleveland man, has a winter home at Thomasville, Ga. One of his sons is an amateur balloonist, and occasionally makes an ascent from Thomasville. If the family fail to hear promptly from him, they set forth in a motor car and search until they find him. One day, when the roads were slippery with mud, the car skidded and slid part way down a bank. It brought up without damage against a large tree. Mr. Wade could not get it back on the road, and appealed for help to a farmer plowing in the field below. The farmer hitched his team to the front axle, and soon pulled the car out of trouble. Mr. Wade looked back and said, "That tree saved us from a bad accident; if it had not been there, we should have turned over and been, badly hurt." "Yes, suh," drawled the farmer, "that cert'nly is a useful tree! This morning a young feller in a balloon got stuck in it, and I had to h'ist him out." "Why, that was our son!" exclaimed both Mr. and Mrs. Wade excitedly. The farmer looked at them for a moment with a puzzled expression; then his face lighted up with a smile, and he said: "I reckon you folks would find life easier if you was to stay home more." -Youth's Companion. The Untrained Soldier. An interesting view of the status of the British army at the front is contained in a letter from a university man serving in France: "The battle of Neuve Chapelle found us here with a relatively enormous army. It resembled a physically perfect wrestler who didn't quite know how to wrestle. TÖ tell him how wTaS beyond the power of any man; that was an art that could only be learned by years ot maneuvers on a colossal scale, like the kaiser's maneuvers, and those or the powerful French army. No British general, however much he may have studied, has ever had so great a mass of men to deal with. To me the winder is not that we did so badly, but that wre did so remarkably well, in the circumstances. To place the blame on Kitchener for not providing sufficient high explosive shells is a criticism so highly fatuous that I should like to hustle its inventor along the thirty odd miles of British front, and then treat him to a dose of 'chlorine.' " London Observer. Hymn Books Rout Mad Dog. A mad dog broke up the services and put to flight the congregation in St. John's Episcopal church in West Hoboken. in the middle of the sermon the huge mongrel dashed through the open door and down the center aisle. The terrified congregation scrambled over seats, huddled in corners and tried to escape from the building. One little girl was bitten in the leg. She was hurried away by her parents. Then the dog made for the minister, Rev. Edward J. Cleveland, in the pulpit. Mr. Cleveland met the dog's" attack with a volley of liymn books, and managed to drive it into a vestry room back of the altar, where he locked it in. The church had been emptied by this time, and the services were not resumed. A policeman shot the dog In the church. New York American.
PRACTICAL STORAGE
Floor and Foundation of Storage Plant.
The storags of fruit on the farm is a problem which confronts many growers. The delay in getting fruit into storage after picking is the cause of much loss through rapid deterioration. The experiment station at Urbana, 111., undertook work along this line some time ago, and one of the experiments conducted on the farm of L. R. Bryant, near Princeton, has proved successful in every way. This storage room is in the north end of the basement of a barn, having inside dimensions of 7 feet high, 16 feet 7 inches wide, and 34 feet 1 inches long. The ice chamber is at the east end and occupies an additional width of 5 feet 8 inches. The floor foundation is made of six inches of gravel and cinders, on which is laid 2x4 inch scantling, a layer of tar paper, matched flooring, a layer of building paper, furring strips, another layer of building paper, and one-inch boards, the latter forming the surface of the floor. The east, north and west walls are constructed of 1 foot of brick outside, a layer of tar paper, 2x4 uprights 16 inches apart, building paper and a final inside layer of inch boards on joists, then a layer of paper, one inch South Wall. flooring, 1x2 inch furring strips, a layer of paper and the final inch boards. The south wall which separates the storage room from the rest of the basement is one inch boards, a layer of paper, then 2x4, another layer of paper and one inch boards. A warm air flue one foot square runs from the middle of the ceiling 30 feet to the roof above. A shaft 3 feet by 6 inches extends alcng the ceiling on the south side from near FURRING STRIP) V'Z" Ceiling Construction for VALUE OF MILK AS A FEED FOR CHICKS Tends to Prevent Mortality From All Causes Exercise Is of Much Importance. The following are the conclusions of Bulletin No. SO of the Storrs (Conn.) agricultural experiment station, entitled: "Chickens. Milk Feeding and Its Influence on Growth and Mortality. Comparative Study of the Value of Sweet Milk and Sour Milk." The feeding of milk to young chicks has a most favorable influence on the growth and on the lessening of mortality of the chicks. It tends to prevent mortality from all causes, and If fed soon enough and for a sufflcientJy long pericd, greatly reduces the death rate caused by baeillary white diarrhea. Sweet and sour milk are apparently of equal value in their relation to growth and mortality. Furthermore, different degrees of souring do not alter the results of milk feeding. The value at milk as a feed for chicks does not depend upon any acids that may be present, nor upon any particular types of micro-organisms, but upon one or moro of the natural constituents of the milk. When milk is supplied freely to chicks it becomes all the more important that they have abundant exercise. This applies more particularly to early-hatched chicks that are brooded, wholly or for the most part indoors. The feeding of sweet or sour milk to young chicks has in no instance been found to be in any way injurious to the chicks employed in our numerous experiments. Horse's Teeth in Condition. Have your horse's teeth in condition to properly masticate his food. A little dentistry once or twice a year will often save many dollars' worth of feed and frequently tho animal's life.
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HOUSE FOR APPLES BUILWHG PAFtH 1! BOARDS r;? TAR PArta Ground; the door to the ice chamber; th three supporting posts are next to this shaft. The door which opens into tho adjoining room is insulated the same as the south wall. There are two north windows each with three sashes of three 9x12 inch lights. The window on the west side has six lights 9x12 inches. On the outside of these are wooden shutters. The ice is put in through a similar window on the east side. On the floor of the ice chamber are t7-'i ' - mmm It kMtitm v - . r TAR PAPER" Building Paper' Construction of Walls. 2x16 joists 16 inches apart. Upon the top of these tin is nailed, slanting down three inches on each side. Below these tins another shallow Vshaped tin forms a gutter, which runs the water to the side of the chamber where a drain carriesit off. The ice rests on 2x2 slats nailed in 2x4 uprights. The ice chamber holds six tons, and requires replenishing from four to six times in the fall. More ice is needed again in the spring, though not so much as in the fall. Apples are placed in storage as soon as ripe, the outside temperature at this tine being around 70 degrees. The temperature in the storage mar run from 50 to 55 degrees at this time due to the high temperature outside and to the frequent opening of the door and temperature of the apples when picked. Later when the cool fall weather comes the temperature will register around 35 degrees. When the temperature outside falls below that in the storage the windows are opened. Should the temperature fall much below zero for any length of time in the winter, a stove is used to keep the storage at a reasonable temperature. For the season ice is needed, 20 tons is about the average required for the room described. IE I" BOARD Controlling Temperature. PUREBRED SHEEP BEST FOR MUTTON Animals of Medium Grade Lack Condition and Quality Necessary for Best Prices. Why are purebred sheep the best for mutton? Because both lambs and sheep of the medium grades lack the condition and quality necessary to bring the best prices on the market. Medium grade sheep as a rule have long, loosely coupled bodies with little spring of rib and rough outline and coarse and often paunchy. Animals of this class are not desirable and market buyers make the most of their bad points. A good thing to remember when lambing time comes on. A lamb that is so badly chilled it appears to be dead may be revived by pouring down its throat half a pint of warm milk into which a tablespoonful of gin has been poured. If there is no gin in the house dip the lamb in a tubful of warm water, dry it off with a rough cloth and place it near the stove. Get some warm milk into its stomach if possible and in a few minutes it will be as frisky as ever. Bees Valuable. A colony of 40,000 bees will require three weeks to produce fifty or more pounds of surplus honey. In some sections of perpetual bloom hives have been known to give as much as 500 pounds of honey. We have heard of one bee owner on the Pacific coast who had 6,000 hives, which produced 200,000 pounds of honey yearly, worth $40,000. Scarcity of Dairy Cows. The slaughter of dairy herds infected with foot-and-mouth disease has materially contributed to the scarcity of cows. A really good cow is now worth almost as much as an avtra horse.
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Doors of London Institution Opn Methodists of Every Country in tht World. A unique club has just been launched, in Londov. It is called th WMleyJ club, and its headquarters are in the; great Wesleyan Central hall near the houses of parliament, says the Christian Herald. It is th first club to be formed solely in connection with some religious body, and owes its inception to Sir Robert Perkes, who amon other things revolutionized the underground railways of London, organized the Million Guineas fund which tho Wesleyan Methodists raised some years ago, and made possible the erection, of the magnificent hail which houses the new club. The club is open to aU Methodists Wesleyan, Primitive, United and of both sexes and whether they come from England or other parts of the globe. Indeed, one of its aims is to make the hall even more of a gathering place than it has been for all members of the great Methodist family, numbers of whom come to London from ail parts of the earth and visit the hall. The visitors' book shows many names from New York, Philadelphia and other American cities, as well as those of callers from Australia, Africa and even from Asia. Politics will be barred in the Wesley club, and in the first line of members names prominent in all the British political parties appear. The club, in short, is intended to be a place where members of the Methodist body can indulge in that free-and-easy social intercourse which has been one of the good results of that outstanding Methodist characteristic brotherliness. MANY READY FOR THE JOB Advertisement That Might Seem Beyond Reason Evidently Found Considerable Readers. There is accumulating evidence that people read the advertising columns. The other night a man telephoned an advertisement for a man to drive a car to the coast, says the Phoenix (Afiz.) Republican. Though there is an easily recognizable difference between a car and a cow, it is not so distinguishable by telephone, and the young man in the office understood that the customer wanted a cow driven to Los Angeles. It did not occur to him that there was anything unusual in that means of transporting a cow so long a distance across the California desert. It struck the linotype operator that this was a little out of the ordinary, but the operator, having not yet taken out his annual city and county licenso to change advertising copy, followed It. Two days later the advertiser telephoned again, this time for emendation, correction and relief. He said that since the appearance of the advertisement thirty men had called on him to get the job of driving that cow. Many offered to back themselves with testimonials as to their proficiency in the art of handling cattle. Some offered to furnish guaranties that they Would land the cow in Los Angeles some time before Christmas. Women and Law. "In their passionate desire, for the public good," says Margaret Deland, the novelist, "women seem to have more heart and less head than men. They seem to be more single minded, but with all their earnestness there is a sentimentality, a lawlessness, an emotional shallowness, a lack of thoroughness in the way in which they approach public questions which, quite apart from the question of doubling the irresponsible vote, makes the matter of their exercising the suffrage alarming. "And in nothing is their shallowness more alarming than in their indifference to law. The most majestic thing humanity has evolved is surely the abstraction called law. "That the administration of law is defective is neither here nor there. Of course it is defective, but the idea itself, law itself, terrible and glorious, is the wonder of time. "That wre, poor 'agglutinations of dust,' as Stevenson calls us, that we should have evolved law surely shows us to be part of the Eternal Law that is named God." Certainly Some Voice. Here is a little story that was told by Congressman John EJ. Bakwer of California the other night, when the talk topic in the lobby of a hotel took a musical turn: Some time ago the guests at a reception were discussing the relative merits of several songsters, when one of the party turned to a man named Brown. "By the way. Brown' said he, "you are something of a singer, are you not?" "Not on Jour life!" was the emphatic response of Brown. "I never sang a note that somebody didn't threaten to send in a riot call. You are thinking of my brother." "Perhaps I am," was the thoughtful rejoinder of the other. "Has he a heavy bass voice?" "Yes," smiled Brown; "so derned heavy that it makes him bowlegged to carry It" Philadelphia Telegram. "Eugenic" Legislation Opposed. In an article in the Journal ot Heredity, Dr. W. C. Rucker, assistant surgeon-general of the United States health service, severely crltlclze existing and proposed measures for proriding sterilization of defectives and for a medical certificate prior to mar-