Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 September 1915 — Page 3

:c:::M

Si

The Way of Man With Maid

-I i

s I

I

2Jy George Elmer Cobb

(Copyright 1915, by Tv. G. Chapman.) "New neighbors, Ezra," announced (Mrs. Perkins. "That so? Hope we don't lose them !as quick as we did the last ones." 'Maybe that was our own fault," '.submitted bis wife. "They sort of -perked up with their stiff city ways and it nettled me. You was down with that spell of rheumatism most

x)f ftie time and Waiden was away at school. It's lonesome and dismal to ;see the place next door vacant all the hile. Besides, every new family we jwin to stay helps thfc town. Let us try and make this new family stay." "Who are they?" inquired Mr. Perjkins. Their name is Purtelle father, mother, young lady." "Just match us, don't they?" sugjgested Mr. Perkins. "Well, you're the moving spirit, Janet, and me and the jboy 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 iniquiriea that had resulted in the glean

ing 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 wife 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 ireal nice people." "I don't doubt it, if you say so, :Janet," observed her husband. "And they will be good neighbors." "You said a young lady in 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

I I I K. 1 II I

II l

Surreptitiously Placed in the Nests.

'the fc kindness you can. Above all, do everything in your power to set them in love with the country life. Now, Ned, do spare enough time from your athletics and fishing to pay some attention to those gootl people." "Mother, mine," responded Ned with sunshiny alacrity, "I'll do just that thing, and as to the llshing why, I'll have this Miss Miss " "Miss Edna Purtelle." "Yes, Edna a member of tho Anglers club insido of a week!" "Don't bo too forward, Ned," warned his mother. That evening two big vans loaded with furniture arrived, and nearly all night long tholr drivers were putting up shades, laying down rugs and getting tho houso generally in order.

U was not until after dusk tho next icvenij:s that two members of tho P urteil! family, mother and daughter, arrived. Nod was away fishing at the Urn, but his mother informed him of the circumstances upon hit; return. Tho father must bo detained in town on business," surmised Mrs. Perkins, "for ho 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 tho two residences, moved towards iL As ho tiptoed to look over, an eager, curious faced girl likewise tiptoed, with tiny feet resting on tho insido stringer. Sha lifted to him a rosebud ision of beauty. You was peeping, T was peeping oil, dear!" exclaimed tho little maiden breathlas&ly, jumping down in confusion. "Then wo 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 then audaciously: "I am the boy next door, little girl." Edna pouted charmingly. She was pluck.ng at a rambler rose vine that eovrad the fence, reached over it and

drooped 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 ros.es 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 looking 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 imp.orted 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 enthusiast.

"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 ho was so obliging so so anxious to please me, that 1 led him on because why, because," acknowledged tho blushing maid, "I I loved him."

BLACK SHEEP ARE REQUIRED

Provisions for Army Uniform Cloth : In Case of War Searching for - - Good Domestic Dye.

Capital Is Threatened With a Deiuge of "Nuts" WASHINGTON. There is danger of an invasion of the national capital by "nuts" would-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. Washington patent attorneys admit it is en

tirely possible that the city will be overrun with "nuts" with alleged wonderful 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 hoard will encounter both species while it

seeks inventions which might aid the United States in time of warfare is regarded as certain. The prospects are, however, that the visionaries, the -nuts," will outnumber hy far the genuine inventors who come here for fame, money or the consciousness of rendering a public service. Joseph A. Steinmetz, president of the Pennsylvania Aero club, first voiced apprehension that the naval board would encourage the pilgrimage to Washington of men with hopeless schemes. t J H. Brickenstein of this city, president of the Patent Law association, says Mr. Steinmetz is right about it and Washington probably will be overrun with impractical ones whose discoveries and inventions will not stand scrutiny. t "Many men with impractical schemes come to Washington as it is," said Mr. Brickenstein. "Every patent attorney encounters well-meaning but misguided fellows who believe they have solved some problem like perpetual motion. Probably 50 per 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 in the selection of a natural mottled brown fox cloth for the army is the shortage otblack or brown sheep, says the Army and Navy Journal. In the experiments conducted in the quartermaster corps under the direction of Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe it has developed that it will require 70 per cent of brown or black wool for the cloth under consideration. A less proportion 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 Regular army, there will be no shortage of black wool, but in the event of war it would be necessary to use dyes in producing the cloth for the uniform of a large army. To provide for this contingency, General Sharpe is now conducting investigations to determine whether a domestic dye can be secured for coloring ninth. Unless this can be done the

position of the Avar department will

not be improved by adopting the new

cloth.

The European war has called attention of the war department co the fact

that the present cloth uniforms can

not be produced without the use of

German dye-stuffs. This fact is re sponsible for the effort that is now be

ing made to secure a cloth that

can be produced without the importa

tion of any 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.

INDIANS IN UNITED STATES Hvw the Red Man It "Turning Dsftat Into Triumph" Increasing AttiHlance Shown at School.

No longer can it be said that th only good Indian is a dead Indian. That statement, born of ignorance of the real character of the Indian, ia now definitely eliminated from the liit of epigrams by a report of the census bureau on the present Indian population in the United States. While the report shows a much lower rate of growth for the Indian population than for the white, an incroaiing mixture cf white blood, and deCreasing vitality of full-blood Indiani, indicating a tendency to disappear altogether, it also shows increasing attendance at school and decreasing illiteracy, an increase in the percentage of the self-supporting and a decrease 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 manufacturers, bankers. United States officials, me

chanical engineers, locomotive engi

neers, telegraph operators, actors, artists, clergymen, college professors,

physicians, surgeons and lawyers. The

Indian has turned defeat into triumph.

He has played the game according to

the rules laid down by civilization

and has won.

mm m m m m xv i

What He Meant. Many years ago there was an American missionary located among the Indians in tho far West who was of a

hospitable turn of mind. He always kept hard cider on tho premises. If any one of his widely scattered Hock of Indians chanced to call upon him, he would bring thorn forth a jug of it. One day a strango ndian called one whom he had never seen before evidently an unconverted heathen, so far as Christianity was concerned but convortod to tho consumption of alcoholic boveragos. 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 tire 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 replied: "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 Bethlenem stocks in the battle for ascendancy, the popularization of the modern dances goes upward and onward

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

have been enveloped in the iad ana now practically every residential section has one of these retreats where youthful couples may dance while awaiting the preparation of their perspiration-producing prescription. It has even traveled downtown All of these places have either highly polished wooden or tile floors, which make excellent gliding surfaces. The music comes from a victrola or, if adjoining a cafe or a hotel or exclusive apartment house, the music is rur-

nished by the regular orchestra. The formula is simply to order the drink and, while the dispenser is drawing, shaking or shoveling, according to what the order might be, the couple glides off in a two-step, 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. Tho riri iitP.lv 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 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 handsome collection, in which he takes a lively interest and constant pleasure. 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, ho cannot be identified as one who "wears" a stick from choice or

habit. Ho does not oven carry one of

- his ebony sticks to church, but takes -z, $ t: J the greater pleasuro in what his col

lection of canes means tho variety, intrinsic valun and more intimate association. Joseph P. Tumulty, secrotary to tho president, is never seen without his neat blackthorn, any more than Franklin Lane, secretary of the interior, can bo found upon tho street without his malacca. Tho secretary of stato doubtless has walking sticks, but no ono remembers sooing him "wear0 ono on any occasion 'whatever. s Both the assistant secretary of stato, Mr. Osborne, and the third assistant secretary of stato, Mr. Phillips, have sticks, but not "the habit," while tho second assistant secretary, Mr. Adeo, is identified with no other concomitant than his bicycle, with which ho has toured tho highways and byways of Europo overy summer for many years, until tho war made it impossible. Tho secretary of tho treasury wears a slrra, snakewood stick, a gift from ono of his sons at Christmas, and it is not unusual to moot Secrotary McAdoo on the street with Comptroller of tho Currency Wifliams, both of them swinging their sticks as vigorously as they walk only with a difference. Secrotary 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

CHEAP TO HUNT IN ENGLAND Game Preserves Net in Demand as in

Normal Years Men Are Engaged

in Branches of Army.

Fiery Cross Was Participator in Great

Tea Races of '60s Outlived All Her Contemporaries.

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 heen wrecked

in the previous year.

Basil 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

I860, 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. Besides remaining in the forefront of the

racing for years longer than any other

vessel, she outlived all her contempo

raries."

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 1871 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 he 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 professional men, such as doctors and engineers, whose means extend to a

'shoot" in ordinary times, are now en

gaged 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 Chron

icle.

One Man's Value.

In the multitude of legislatures

founded by Englishmen and their de

scendants in various parts of the

world the hereditary principle has

found no place. In former times in

England tho house of lords stood for a great fact. The magnates of whom

it was composed possessed much pow

er, to which fortunately the constitu

tion 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 tho

frank acceptance of democratic prin

ciples.

Wo have to reconcile old forms with

modem sentiment and habit of thought. Everywhere the theory that one man is as good as another is recognized as lying at the baso of modern constitutional systems.

Distinctly Personal. In a certain town in the south of Scotland there dwelt a policeman with unusually large feet. One night, after ho 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 ho 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 o1 your auld butes to mak' rabbit-hoot wl'"

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 ?n 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 .11 number, each 16 inches wide and GO feet long, with several landings and platforms. As a part of the cost of the

work the 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 tho finish of "General" Coxey's army occurred there. Although millions of feet have passed up and down their historic surfaces, the contractor statea that for material purpoiea thoy are good for a century mora.

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. Klingen fold and Arthur H. Iiibusch, have patented No. 1,140,599, a machine for breaking in shoes in which there is an endless belt traveling over a suitable baso and leglike levers have suitable foot portions to receive the shoes and are operated to move 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.

Solid 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 bo 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 3onp, etc.

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 $3,549,799,400; the value of silver at 11,709,517,600.

Convenient Lock. A lock that can be locked from one

side without a key by the simple turn of the door handle, and that when so

locked cannot be opened from tho

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 apart

ments as bathrooms, private offices

or doctors consulting rooms, in which

the certainty of absolute privacy is desired without tjio 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 tho

tongue which fastens the door. A tumbler falls into placo when the han

dle on the insido of tho door is turned.

When it has fallen the door is locked

so far as the outside handlo is con

cerned, for tho latter handlo cannot

move tho tumbler and this is in such

position that the bolt cannot move

back until tho tumbler has boon turned

out of tho way, which can be done only from tho inside.

Everybody Wants a Minister. If all tho 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 tho country that a minister of aviation is essential, and now wo are told of the urgency to set up a ministry of thrift. So far tho country has contended itself with establishing only tho ministry of munitions. London Globe.

Bomb Tactics. .During a recent air raid on the northeast coast a workshop was bo 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 wai. When the scare was over and the men returned, they found him tili there, fast asleep. Correspondence of the London Outlook.

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 soapa. and a South American refinery ia making preparation! to product it on a large scale.