Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 August 1915 — Page 7

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The Way of Man With Maid

35y George Elmer Cobb

(Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) "New neighbors, Ezra," announced (Mrs. Perkins. "That so? Hope we don't lose them las quick as we did the last ones."

"Maybe that was our own fault, submitted his wife. "They sort of .perked up with their stiff city ways and it nettled me. You was down with that spell of rheumatism most of ftie time and Waiden was away at school. It's lonesome and dismal to see the place next door vacant all the while. Besides, every new family we win to stay helps the town. Let us try and make this new family stay." "Who are they?" inquired Mr. Perkins. Their name is Purtelle father, mother, young lady." "Just match us, don't they?" suggested Mr. Perkins. "Well, you're the moving spirit, Janet, and me and the Iboy will follow the leader." Ned Perkins and his father humbly took heed to quite a lecture that evening. Mrs. Perkins showed that she not only had studied out a plan as to the treatment of their prospective neighbors, but had pursued certain in

quiries that had resulted in the gleaning of a good deal of information regarding them. "They never lived in a country town before, I understand," said Mrs. Perkins. "Mr. Purtelle has just retired from business and his -ife has worn herself out with her social duties, fussing for company, I suppose that means. The girl is just out of school. She is in love with flowers, chickens, everything that grows and runs. They are real nice people." "I don't doubt it, T - say so, Janet," observed her d. "And they will be good ne "You said a young l?.d m the family, eh?" remarked Ned thoughtfully. "Yes, and you be good to .her them, "Ned," warned his mother. "I will, to her them," pledged Ned, with a broad smile. "Now the city people are slow to get acquainted with," went on Mrs. Perkins. "Don't intrude yourself. Be pleasant, but dignified. Show them all

Surreptitiously Placed in the Nests.

the kindness you can. Above all, do every thing in your power to set them in love with the country lite. Now, Ned. do spare enough time from your athletics and fishing to pay some attention to these good people." "Mother, mine," responded Ned with sunshiny alacrity, "I'll do just that thing, and a? to the fishing why, I'll jhave this ' -Miss "

-telle." member of the Ante of a week!" forward, Ned," warned

drobped in great fragrant clusters over into the next yard. "Oh, dear," she gasped, "I musn't do that!" "Why not?" he inquired. "They're your roses." "Not at all," declared Ned unblushingly. "The law on partition fences out here in the country, is that half of it belongs to each adjoining tenant and all that hangs over it" "Then I can pick all the roses I want?" "Why, certainly, and come over and get as many more from our side." "Oh, I couldn't do that without asking mother," demurred Edna, and ran into the house. Ned was charmed. More than that, he was smitten. He managed to be at

his post in the garden immediately after breakfast. He observed Edna look

ing wistfully towards the cherry trees at the back of the Perkins house. "I never saw cherries grow before," she said wistfully. "Why don't you get a basket and pick some?" he insinuated, "in your own orchard?" "Our orchard?" "Why, yes. That strip back of you is free to you. Lot law out in the country, you know?" Edna regarded him keenly and suspiciously, but her face was an innocent blank. The audacious fellow did not explain to Edna that it was a continuation of the Perkins lot that went around the new neighbor's domain. She went wild with delight as he got a stepladder, held the basket and let her pick the ripe, bursting globes

in "her orchard." In fact, up till nearly noon they were together and Ned

forgot all about his fishing. Later that day a coop of chickens arrived. Edna called over the fence to know if Ned couldn't come over and get the new arrivals into the chicken house. This led to an introduction to Mrs. Purtelle, who showed herself well pleased with the young man. "And when will there be some eggs? When do the chickens lay most?" fluttered Edna. "Why well, night times mostly," reported Ned unflinchingly. "Then there will be some fresh eggs for breakfast in the morning!" cried Edna delightedly There were, notwithstanding that Ned had discovered that the imported brood consisted mostly of roosters. In the morning with a scream of wild joy Edna discovered nearly two dozen eggs, surreptitiously placed in the nests before daylight by the obliging Ned. Again a day of rare companionship,

Cupid forging the chains closer and closer as the sunny hours went by. Then Edna was full of the theme of the little chicks. A "setting" was duly provided for by Ned.

"And when will the little darlings be ripe?" inquired the eager novice in rural ways. "Well." responded Ned slowly with cold devoted serenity, "with warm weather, by morning." "Oh, I shall be awake at daylight!" declared the excited enthusiasts "So will I!" vowed Ned, and was. At the weird hour of midnight he had substituted a new brood of their own for the setting. Mr. Purtelle arrived at the end of the week. He stared hard at Edna, as she introduced Ned, as if he were some old-time chum. Then there was a closer acquaintance of the members of the family all around. One day the truant pair came home consciously flustered. "I've asked her and I love her," Ned told Mr. Purtelle promptly. "Humph!" growled Mr. Purtelle,

good naturedly enough," and what about the false pretences of cherries, eggs and the like?" "Oh, that shows his kindly disposition, papa!" chirped in Edna. "I saw through the humbug of his 'lot law' and twelve hour chickens all the time, but he was so obliging so so anxious to please me, that I led him on because why, because," acknowledged the blushing maid, "I I loved him."

BLACK SHEEP ARE REQUIRED INDIANS IN UNITED STATES

Provisions for Army Uniform Cloth

in Case of War Searching for Good Domestic Dye?

Hw tht Red Man It "Turning Dtftat

Into Triumph" Increasing Attend

ance Shown at Schools.

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Capital Is Threatened With a Deluge of "Nuts"

wmy a sTTTTsjfyrnTM Th fro is danirer of an invasion of the national capital by

W "nut3" wouM-be inventors who have impossible schemes for getting rich and famous. Secretary Daniels' naval advisory board, composed of real scientists and inventors, promises to

be the cause of the invasion. Wash

ington patent attorneys admit it is en

tirely possible that the city will be

overrun with "nuts" with alleged won

derful inventions to offer the board.

A man who invents something that turns out well is a genius; the

fellow who dreams and invents the

things that never get by is a 'nut. That's the difference.

That the naval advisory board

will encounter both species while it

eooi.B ,-hq hioh mleht aid the United States in time of warfare is

regarded as certain. The prospects are, however, that the visionaries, the -nuts," will outnumber by far tho genuine inventors who come here for fame, ihn nnnsmmisness of rendering a public service.

Joseph A. Steinmetz, president of the Pennsylvania Aero club, first

voiced apprehension that the naval board would encourage tue pngnimis to Washington of men with hopeless schemes. J T-T ttrir.kfinst.ein of this city, president of the Patent Law association,

Rnvc Mr 'sfm'nmetz is rieht about it and Washington probably will be overrun

with impractical ones whose discoveries and inventions will not stand scrutiny. "Many men with impractical schemes come to Washington as it is," said tvTt. Pr?0n5fP1'n "f.vptv natent attorney encounters well-meaning but mis

guided fellows who believe they have solved some problem like perpetual oh -Prnhnhiv so Tifir cent of the supposed inventions brought to patent

attorneys here are either impractical, or the patent would be comparatively worthless if granted. These men are discouraged by reputable attorneys

from wasting their time and money.

One of- the difficulties to be met Jn

the selection of a natural mottlea

brown fox cloth for the army is the shortaaß of black or brown sheep, says

the Army and Navy Journal. In the

experiments conducted in the quarter

master corps under the direction of

Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe it has de

veloped that it will require 70 per cent

of brown or black wool for the cloth

under consideration. A less propor

tion of dark wool would produce too

light a color of cloth and would not

meet the requirements of the army.

In peace time, with the present

strength of the fegular army, there

will be no shortage of black wool, but

in the event of war it would be neces-

sary to use dyes in producing the

cloth for the uniform of a large army.

To provide for this contingency, Gen

eral Sharpe is now conducting mvi

tieations to determine whether a do

mestic dye can be secured for coloring

cloth. Unless this can be done the

position of the war department will

not be improved by adopting the new

cloth.

The European war has called atten

tion of the war department to the fact

that the present cloth uniforms can

not be produced without the use ol

rtorman dve-stuffs. This fact is re

sponsible for the effort that is now be-

cloth that

can be produced without the importa

tion nf nnv foreign material. Not un-

til the cloth can be found which can

be manufactured without the use of

such material will there be any change

in the uniform of the army.

No longer can it be said that the

only good Indian is a dead Indian. That statement, born of ignorance of

the real character of the Indian, in now definitely eliminated from the list

of epigrams by a report of the censua bureau on the present Indian popula

tion in the United States.

While the report shows a much low

er rate of growth for the Indian population than for tho white, an increaa-

ing mixture cf white blood, and decreasing vitality of full-blood Indiana,

indicating a tendency to disappear al

together, it also shows increasing at

tendance at school and decreasing il

literacy, an increase in the percent

age of the self-supporting and a de

crease in the number of reservation

Indians.

While the report shows that there

were 265,6S3 Indians in the United

States, exclusive of Alaska, in 1910,

an increase of 17,430, or 7 per cent over the number reported in 1S90, there are about 300,000 Indians in this

country at the present time. Among

them are to be found manufacturer!,

bankers, United States officials, me

chanical engineers, locomotive engi

neers, telegraph operators, actors,

artists, clergymen, college professors, physicians, surgeons and lawyers. The

Indian has fumed defeat into triumph.

He has played the game according to

the rules laid down by civilization

and has won.

"Miss F "Yes, i glers' clu "Don't

his moth' That owning two big vans loaded with furniture arrived, and nearly all night long their drivers were putting up shades, laying down rugs and getting the house generally in order. It was not until after dusk the next evening that two members of the Purtelie family, mother and daughter, ar

rived. Ned was away fishing at the time, but his mother informed him of the circti instances upon his return. "The father must be detained in town on business," surmised Mrs. Perkins, "for he did not come with them." Ned was up bright and early. He paced around the garden, and then hearing a swish beyond the fence, man high, that separated the two residences, moved towards it. As he tiptoed to look over, an eager, curious faced girl likewise tiptoed, with tiny feet resting on tho inside stringer. She lifted to him a rosebud vision of (beauty. "You was peeping, I was peeping 'Soli, dear!" exclaimed the little maiden breathlessly, jumping down in confu'sion. 1 "Then we must be interested in one another." suggested Ned. "Oh, I know!" fluttered Edna, "they told mo a boy lived next door." "Boy!" began Ned resentfully, and the;a audaciously: "1 am the boy next door, little girl." Edna pouted charmingly. She was plucking at a rambler rose vine that covsrtd the fence, reached over it and

What He Meant; Many years ago there was an American missionary located among the Indians in the far West who was of a hospitable turn of mind. He always kept hard cider on the premises. If any one of his widely scattered flock of Indians chanced to call upon him, he would bring them forth a jug of it. One day a strange Indian called one whom he had never seen before evidently an unconverted heathen, so far as Christianity was concerned but converted to the consumption of alcoholic beverages. He, as it turned

out, had been coached after the manner of a student at a university. His acquaintance with English was limited. He opened fire upon the astonished missionary thus: "Abraham, Jacob, Jonah, Job, Satan, Beelzebub," and then paused, evidently expecting a reply. "What on earth do you mean?" asked the missionary, he not having been- christened after any of them, drawing himself up in a dignified manner. The Indian pithily re

plied: "I mean cider."

Drug Store Glide Is the Latest in Washington

THE drug-store glide is here! During these torrid evenings, with the Fahrenheit thermometers vying with Bethlehem stocks in the battle for as

cendancy, the popularization of the modern dances goes upward ana onwara

with the speed of a Teutonic advance in the eastern theater of war. With the time of the evening ball and the dansant, either past or future, young Washington has adopted the soda-fountain cotillion, which is nothing more or less than a dance in the emporiums devoted to the disposition of confectioneries and sweet beverages. Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights led off, but other sections

now practically every residential section has one of these retreats where

youthful couples may dance while awaiting me prepuisuuu Tf hnc; ovfin traveled downtown.

All of these places have either highly polished wooden or tile floors, u,- .vn.iiof trUfiin surfaces. The music comes from a victrola or,

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if adjoining a cafe or a hotel or exclusive apartment nuus, tu uiud,

nished by the regular orchestra. rm, n,,,io ? o,-t,iv to nrrlM- the drink and, while the dispenser is

drawing, shaking or shoveling, according to what the order might be, the 1 i,Moe ne ir, twn-stATi. hesitation, fox trot or some other gyration.

The drink served, one-half is drunk, and then comes an informal intermission. During this hiatus another dance is engaged and when the glass is drained a parting whirl is enjoyed. The girl politely declines a second drink. But after a short walk the couple either returns to the original place or seeks out some similar establishment where the same courtesies are understood and extended. Some particularly shy and demure maidens were rather loath to accept the invitations of the management offered through signs which simply read "Dancing." But now it has become rather conventional and there is little hesitancy in joining the others on the floors. President Belongs to the Cane-Carrying Brigade 1 ALTHOUGH President Wilson does not call his fondness for walking sticks a fad, a hobby, or even a habit, the fact remains that he has a large and v,nr,,iCnTr.Q rniintioTi in which he takes sl lively interest and constant pleas-

ure. Whenever he walks he selects

a plain, stout stick from among the number and carries it after the manner of men who punctuate their steps as they tramp; but inasmuch as the president's chief exercise is golfing, and he always drives to and from the links, he cannot be identified as one who "wears" a stick from choice or habit. He does not even carry one of

fry his ebony sticks to church, but takes

lection of canes means the variety,

intrinsic value and more intimate association. Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the president, is never seen without his neat blackthorn, any more than Franklin Lane, secretary of the interior, can be found upon the street without his malacca. The secretary of state doubtless has walking sticks, but no one remem

bers seeing him ''wear" 'one on any occasion whatever. Both the assistant secretary of state, Mr. Osborne, and the third asGistant secretary of state, Mr. Phillips, have sticks, but not "the habit," while the second assistant secretary, Mr. Adee, is identified with no other concomitant than his bicycle, with which he has toured the highways and byways of Europe every summer for many years, until the war made it impossible. The secretary of the treasury wears a'slhn, snakewood stick, a gift from one of Iiis sons at Christmas, and it is not unusual to meet Secretary McAdoo on the street with Comptroller of the Currency Williams, both of them swinging their sticks as vigorously as they walk only with a difference. Secretary McAdoo holds his exactly at the top, in the" hollow of his hand, and brings it down to the pavement, tapping each step; Mr. Williams takes his stick half way between the crook and the end, and swings it hori

zontally.

GERMANS SINK FAMOUS BARK

Fiery Cross Was Participator in Great

Tea Races of '60s Outlived All Her Contemporaries.

CHEAP TO HUNT IN ENGLAND

Game Preserves Not in Demand as in

Normal Years Men Are Engaged in Branches of Army.

The Norwegian bark Fiery Cross,

recently sunk by a German submarine

off the Scilly isles, was the celebrated

China clipper that figured so prominently in the great tea races of the

'60s, says the New York Times. She

was built in 1860 to replace the old

Fiery Cross, which had been wrecked

in the previous year.

Easil Lubbock, in his fascinating

work on "The China Clippers," says:

"She was commanded on her maiden

voyage by Dallas, who had been so

successful with the first Fiery Cross.

Then Richard Robinson had her until 1866, and under these two famous

skippers she proved well-nigh invin

cible, receiving the premium for the first vessel in dock on no fewer than

four occasions, and being only 24

hours behind in 1S64 and 1S66. Be

sides remaining in the forefront of the racing for years longer than any other vessel, she outlived all her contemporaries." In the great tea race of 1S66, won by the Ariel, the Fiery Cross held the lead for a long time, and when in the Downs was obliged to anchor because of a gale that sprang up. In 1S71 she deserted the London trade for that of New York, and was afterward sold to the Norwegians.

Though grouse shootings, as was to

be expected, are not in such keen de

mand is in normal years, a good num

ber are being let at reduced prices. One fine Scottish estate, with grouse,

fishing, and a mansion, the value of which has formerly been reckoned at

2,500 for the season, has just been

let for 1,000.

"The effect of the war is this," said

James Dowell. "In mid-July of for-. mer years I should have only from

150 to 200 shootings on hand, now I can offer a choice of 900."

Most of the sportsmen this year

will be elderly; a good many have

taken "moors as usual," with a view

of giving a few days' sport from time to time to officers on short leave from

the front.

Not only arp thousands of wealthy

sportsmen serving with the forces, but

great numbers of prosperous profes

sional men, such as doctors and engi

neers, whose means extend to a "shoot" in ordinary times, are now engaged in special branches of the army. There will be no invasion of either American or continental sportsmen in recent years the latter have increased to a considerable extent. "I have not seen an American this year," said Mr. Dowel. London Chronicle.

Distinctly Personal. In a certain town in the south of Scotland there dwelt a policeman with unusually large feet. One night, after he had retired to rest, he was disturbed by a noise at the back of his house, and on going out to ascertain the cause of it he found that his garden was overrun by a number of boys. Robert angrily demanded what they wanted, and received the following reply from one of .the urchins as he disappeared over the garden wall: "Oh, we're lukin' for ane o your

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John R. McLean Buys Front Steps of the Capitol JOHN R. M'LEAN has bought the front steps of the United States capitol, which are being removed to make way for new ones of granite. It is understood that the historic steps on which presidents have been inaugurated for a century past and which have

been the site of gatherings of notable character in the history of the country will become part of a sunken garden for Mr. McLean's country estate. The old steps are being removed by Arthur Cowsill of this city, who will replace them with granite. The steps to be removed are 35 in number, each 16 inches wide and 60 feet long, with several landings and platforms. As a part of the cost of the

work. t.he contractor figured on the historical value of the old steps and advertised them for sale as such. Upon the old steps President Lincoln made a famous inaugural speech; Presidents Garfield and McKinley, who were shot by assassins, took the oath of office there. Great demonstrations, such as the recent suffrage and temperance crusades, have culminated on the east steps, and the finish of "General" Coxey's army occurred there. Although millions of feet have passed up and down their historic surfaces, the contractor states that for material purpose they are good for a century mora.

One Man's Value. In the multitude of legislatures founded by Englishmen and their descendants in various parts of the world the hereditary principle has found no place. In former times in England the house of lords stood for a great fact. The magnates of whom it was composed possessed much power, to which fortunately the constitution gave legitimate expression. It has been the signal merit of the English constitution that it has been capable of modification so as to. keep abreast of the facts. In this twentieth century of ours Great Britain, like the United States, like Canada and like England's great colonies, can only be governed by the frank acceptance of democratic principles. We have to reconcile old forms with modern sentiment and habit of

thought. Everywhere the theory that one man is as good as another is recognized as lying at the base of modern constitutional systems.

Convenient Lock.

To Make All Shoes Comfortable. Everyone hates to break in a new shoe and doubtless with this idea in mind two Milwaukee inventors, Harry M. Klingenfeld and Arthur H. Inbuscji, have patented No. 1,140,599, a machine for breaking in shoes in which there is an endless belt traveling over a suitable base and leglike levers have suitable foot portions to receive the shoes and are operated to moye in simulation of a walking action upon the traveling platform so that the shoes may be actually broken in by a walking movement. Scientific American. '

A lock that can be locked from one side without a key by the ;uiple turn of the door handle, and th. when so locked cannot be opened from the other side of the door was patented recently by Anders Gustaf Anderson of New York. This lock is intended for use on the doors of such apartments as bathrooms, private ofiices or doctors' consulting rooms, in which the certainty of absolute privacy is desired without tjie use of a key. The bar on which the handles are turned turns a bar that presses against the two arms, of the bolt, thereby drawing this back with the tongue which fastens the door. A tumbler falls into place when the handle on the inside of the door is turned. When it has fallen the door is locked so far as the outside handle is concerned, for the latter handle cannot move the tumbler and this is in such position that the bolt cannot move back until the tumbler has been turned out of the way, which can be done only from the inside.

Soiid Alcohol Fuel. The raw fuel, solid alcohol, is a helpful means of enjoying hot beverages and meals when out of doors. Special small stoves are constructed, under which can be burned the small container of solid alcohol. This needs only to be lighted with a match and the flame is put out by placing the cover over the can. It is hot fuel and enables the outdoorer to cook a chop, eggs, or heat water for coffee, beef tea, canned soup, eic.

United States Gold and Silver. The value of all the gold produced In the United States from 1792 to January 1, 1914, is estimated by the United States geological survey at 53,549,799,400; the value of silver at $1709,517,600.

Everybody Wants a Minister. If all the suggestions of our contemporaries were to be adopted we should almost have one cabinet minister to every ten inhabitants of these isles. Within the last week or so one newspaper has advocated the establishment of a ministry of food, another has impressed on the country that a minister of aviation is essential, and now we are told of the urgency to set up a ministry of thrift. So far the country has contended itself with establishing only the ministry of munitions. London Globe.

Bomb Tactics. During a recent air raid on the northeast coast a workshop was so badly shaken by a bomb that all the dust on rafters, traveling cranes, etc., began to fall. A cry of "Gas!" was raised and a stampede began. But an old Irisman cried: "I'd rather be poisoned than run away from them fellows!" He wrapped his coat round his head and lay down where he was. When the scare was over and the men returned, they found him still there, fast asleep. Correspondence of the London Outlook.

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Soap From Grapes. Grape seeds, for which hitherto no use has been known, have been found to contain an oil which is especially valuable in the manufacture of soaps, and a South American refinery is making preparations to produce it on a larf scale.