Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 October 1915 — Page 2

The Point of View

By FRANK FILSON L (Copyright, by W 0. Chapman.) I That devil of a German aviator how I admired him' The little wretch? I could not have found it in my heart to kill him. even if I had been able to do so. Once, indeed, when bis Taube lost its balance in the vortex caused by a bursting shrapnel. I could have winged him Hut before I had my automatic to tuy ye he had executed the most grace ful maneuver imaginable, dipping sheer for five hundred yards, to that I could not believe but that he had sustained a mortal wound, and theu soaring in spirals back to the hostile lines. We had exchanged salutations, dip ping the little French and Herman flags at our bows. We knew each oth er intimately in the air I had long stnee resolved to take him prisoner If it wer possible not to slay him. Hut this girl, this Hclgian girl who stood before me what was I to dt? The little devil of a Hoches had been making love to her' His exploits terrified her! She wanted him safe, a prisoner in the French camp, if nec essary. but where he could return to her after the war. At first I smiled at her with pity "Mademoiselle." I said, do you not know that they are all philanderers, those Germans I'ndoubtedly the little lieutenant has a wife awaiting him at home, perhaps a child -two children " I was continuing in that strain when she flew out at me like a wildrat It is not so. and 1 can prove it'' she stormed ' How. then, can you prove it. mademoiselle1" I demanded. I know that he is a sincl man. be cause he told me so himself." she an swered. I shrugged my shoulders. What was I to do IWo was this girl, who He Had Opened on Me With a QuickFirer. I loved him. and she was pleading at my feet now. Ah. monsieur le lieutenant, you must save him,' she begged, weeping. "Consider how perilous is the live of an aviator, monsieur. Some day he will fall and he killed. And everybody says that it Is you whom he singles out to do battle in the clouds. Help me. monsieur. Make him a prisoner ' She extracted some sort of a promise from me But it was more easily said than done. Three days passed before I saw him again Then one fine morning I perceived him. when I was aloft. He was coming straight as an arrow to ward me and there was no mistaking that unswerving flight I dashed toward him. I During our months of enmity we had established a sort of code. Thus, when he sighted me. the German would rise vertically, dip. and rise again. For my part. I would lescribe the arc of a circle. H was much the flourish that duelists make before they thniBt So. seeing the signal. I turned and began to make my swift glide from south through west to north, calculating that this would bring me fare to face with him. How quickly I was undeceived The German bad risen above me. and. from that heipht. let fall a bomb. I heard it biasing past my wings, and . saw the little cloud sj white smoke rise underneath where It struck Enraged by this breach of convention. I covered him with my automatic, and fired. Naturally. 1 did not hit him That one hardly experts to do. However, it struck me as strange, even then, that He did not make his customary reply. What seemed more singular was that the Herman. Instead of en deavoring to ris. above nie. wheeled as If to retreat then, returning, came at me as if he meant to collide with me. An instant later bang. bang. hang, bang' lie had opened '-n me with a quirk flrer it was. in fact, a Maxim which he had mounted on ins ma chine. My blood boiled at tMs unfair dla ftolital contrivance. He bad given

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me no warning Glancing down. I saw a drop of blood splash from my sleeve. The arm of the coat was rent. The wings of my monoplane were rul tiled with bullets. My escape had been a miraculous one. The impetus of his attack had cartied him past me. I mounted at once Ho mounted also. 1 had slightly the .il vantage t.f speed I flew immedi airly above him and dropped a bomb lio eluded it almost by a miracle. An instant later we were flying side by side. I firing my automatic, ami ho endeavoring to es.ap.- me It was his purpose to pour another broadside from the Maxim mounted to point forward ou t ie chassis 1 saw that, and I realized that bis greater speed would enable him to have me at a disadvantage I rose. We both rose, and now it was clear that my only chance of overcoming him was to get above him The monoplane would climb faster. Would It rhmb higher1 That had never been tested. 1 rose until the earth curved underneath like the round of a ball. As I ascended the Taube seemed to drop away from m Soon it was like a little speck far below I began to circle, waiting the chance to drop a bomb I meant to make sure of my aim this time. My purpose was forgotten. My antagonist had ceased to have personality for me. bo was sim ply an em my aviator whom It was my duty to kill. I wa'ched him through my binoculars a he grew larger. He was almost Immediately beneath me 1 would let the bomb fall when there was no longer danger of trissing him. Suddenly, to my dismay, the deadly rattle ot the machine gun began again. I had not suspected that it was capable of b?ing fired vertically upward. The bullets hissed around me like angry bees. One lashed my face. One tore my tunic A moment, and 1 was swooping downward. I had him at the disadvantage, but not on the direct line the bomb must traverse. I dived like a hawk. 1 shot past him with terrific velocity, and at the same time opened fire with my automatic again 1 swooped back on my ellipse, loading as I flew. Hut a spurt of fire from the Taube showed me that I had pierced his tank. The fire leaped upward in a dozen tongues. In a moment the biplane was fiercely burning Against the glare of the flames the head and crouching body of the German were silhouetted like a fiends 1 saw him touch his rudder, and the biplane swooped toward earth As it fell tt blazed up more fiercely. The entire hinder part was now a glowing cinder Each moment 1 expected to see the Taube buckle and go swooping earthward, to fall, an incinerated mass, beneath. He had a wonderful head, that German In spite of the hell of flames tnt surrounded him and raged above him he dived like a bird, alighting with only the forepart of the machine, as gently as a bird alights, and sprang gracefully to the ground. There he awaited me with bis fists clenched. You see, he was armed only with 3 Maxim, for he had never anticipated this calamity, and ne could not remove his gun from the burning wreckage at his side. Hut he held up his hands reluctantly when 1 covered him with my pistol. "Monsieur, there is no man in any army to whom I would sooner surrender thau you. ' he said I marched him toward our distant trenches. We had alighted In a barren region between the lines, but nearer our own forces. "Courage, comrade." I said to him. "1 have sought to make you a prisoner for the sake of one who awaits you.'" Eh" he inquired, looking at me with sharp scrutiny. "For the sake of year love, mon sleur, 1 said. Would you believe It? The girl had watched the entire combat from the half-ruined farmhouse in which she lived. And at this precise moment I saw her coming toward us across the flats It was impossible to mistake the gait of youth, the lightness and Joy that seemed to animate her. She saw us and broke into a run. In a few moments she was at our side. Embrace each other, then, my children. I said softly. "Monsieur le lieutenant, I trust you implicitly. I am well aware that you will not abuse ray confidence. ' The girl clung to him. but to my dismay there was no love on her face only fury. Now will you pay me for that pair of chickens you stole!" she screamed at him. shaking him "Hut what does this mean?" 1 demanded angrily Ho took two chickens from my yard three weeks ago and promised

to come back and pay for them!" cried the girl, a veritable virago. I flung h.-r a piece of silver ' There take that!" I said disgustedly. "How the deuce could 1 come nacg when the Fre nc hmen were in possession?'" grumbled the lieutenant, looking at the girl, nevertheless with something of admiration "II I all one to me," she answered. What I have, I pay for What any one has from me, he pays for, too ' The prisoner and I went on in si lence. Presently he turned to me with a smile. 'What a wife she would make!" ne murmured. "I shall certainly remem ber this place after the war. One does not often find a hausfrau of such economical virtues. '

CARING FOR THE RAM

Head of Average Farm Flock Receives Little Attention. Should Be Given fcvery Opportunity to Keep Strong and Healthy Before Breeding Seascn Begins Give Abundance of Water. I sually. the ram which heads tho average farm flock receives very little care from the time be is turned out to pasture in the spring until the advent of the breeding season in tfte fail. Then, about the only thing whic h Is done is to turn nun in with theewes and allow mating to occur at random Perhaps this is the sort of care and management which results In many barren ew es and weak iambs. Tne mating season is naturally one of severe strain on the nm and he should be given every possible opportun iry to keep strong and healthy. This means that he ought to have the proper kind of care, even before the hr. . .ling season begins. Of course, if the pasture is plentiful, there is not any need of feeding anvthirig else during the early part of the grazing season. Howe ver, as the hot weather comes and the grass becomes less abundant and less succulent. It may be advisable to feed other roughage or perhaps a little grain. I socially during the month Just preceding the mating season should the ram get the isjsjl of feed and care, for experience has slmwa that the ram First Prize Winner Hampshire Ram. which is gaining in condition at the opening cf the breeding season will gut more and stronger lambs than the ram (risk b is in poor flesh. Oats is one of the best grains for use at this time. In addition to providing plenty of pasture, and a small amount of grain during the late summer, the ram should have an abundance of water. Th" usual practice in pasturing the ram during the summer months is to place him in a small paddock or an orchard, where there is no natural water supply. Under such conditions it is necessary to supply water by artificial means. And when the water Is supplied a little salt may be given once each week. USES FOR MANURE SPREADER Time and Labor Saved by Distributing fertilizer Vehicle Cn be Used as a Common Wagon. I'sing the manure spreader for distributing fertilizer is another of those cases of saving time and labor over the old method of hand scattering A preader can be as quickly and easily loaded as a common wagon while the time required to unload is about onefourth that of unloading by hand. He sides, the driver has a c nance to rest while unloading the spreader, consequently he can load the spreader again quicker and c asier than where he tires himself in unloading by haml. This saving in time and work enables one to do from two to three times more hauling, which of course reduces the cost accordingly. Hut the greatest profit in connection with the work of the spreader is that of economy in the use of the manure. When distributed by the apnader it will cover two or three times as much land as when scatt. t'-I by hand, for all lumps and hard pieces will be torn into fine particles and distributed evenly over the ground. FHOPER FEED FOR THE COLT Fejih Pasture Grass Is Excellent Supplement With Oil Meal. Bran, Corn, Oats and Alfalfa. ome farmers believe that a colt wTl make up as a horse the growth that It does not make as a colt As a matter of fact a colt or any other young animal that is not kept growing is very likely never to become as large and strong as it would have been had it thrived while young. The colt should receive the proper ki'id of feed ar.d he fed HI", orally. The iMi should be nutritious and palatable Among the best colt feeds is fr-sjj pasture grass. This should be sup plemented with oil meal. corn, oats, bran and alfalfa or clover hay. Where It is possible to do so the colts should be kept In the stable away from flies during the dav. given all the alfalfa or clover hay th y will eat and one poind of the following grain mixture to each 100 pounds ol colts Six pounds of oats or corn, three pounds of bran and one pound of oil meal Ohio Hulletin. Place to Pick Seed. Out in the field la the plae e to pick out vour sed potatoes Get them from he mils that have the finest potatoes a; J the (ewest lltue ones.

TREATING HOGS WITH SERUM

Produces Immunity of Sufficient Duration to Allow Mtnpie Time for Cleaning Up the Yards. illy J II 51 NO K It Y. Missouri Kxpe-rl-MM Hutlon The veterinary department of the M tiiin agricultural experiment station bus been recommending an t us' lug the serum alone treatment Tb" question is often heard, "Why the scrum alone treatment?" The serum alone treatment properly administered has for its object tho control and eventually tho absolute eradication of hug cholera. It makes It possible in a large measure to do away with vac- I cination with its attending cost and trouble. The serum alone treatment is a safe method to use and is sim- i pie. It can be handled with good re- J Bult by the careful Inexperienced man. Tnero are none of the bad after , I - suits such as sometimes follow other treatments. s rum alone can ncttner start new outbreaks of cholera nor bring the infection on your noninfected farm. When administered under proper conditions it produces an immunity of sufficient duration to allow amplo time for cleaning up and disinfe cting the yards and in this way destroying the infection before the hogs outgrow the immunity. I'nder ordinary conditions this is of far greater importance than simply protecting hogs irem the cholera for a varying period of time and not making any attempt to avoid harboring the germs. The germs, whether in the litter about the pens or in the virus of the double treatment, will cause the disease to Jet velop If cholera is to be controlled it is necessary to destroy the germs. . The use of the serum alone is to protect the hogs until the germs can be destroyed by cleaning up, ourning and disinfecting. PROTECT STOCK FROM FLIES Fine Spray ot Kerosene Oil Is ftec tive in Keeping insects Off Animals Other Remedies. Sometimes a fine fpray of pure kerosene is very effective in knocking off flies. This spray should not be heavy enough to penetrate the hair, or it will blister the skin. Anotbei spray is made bv the use of ordinarv coal tar dip or creosote two parts, mineral oil four parts, water ten oarts Tnis is usually put on with a brush or a sponge. Of the mixtures classed as "repellents. "' the follow ing is supposed to be ve ry good : One gallon fish or whale oil; one pint coal oil; two ounces crude carbolic acid. A little melted resin is supposed to make these mixtures stick to the hair a little better. Another remedy Bugpested is ten parts !:iril or axle grease to one part of pine tar Such mixtures are usually disagreeable to apply and the bad odor is generally a greater nuisance than the presence of the flics The principal advantage of light sprays is that they drive the flies away during milking time. These have to be applied every day and do not keep the flies off very long. The repellent mixtures are usually applied twice a week and will keep flies off from two to four days. PASTURE FENCE ON WHEELS Interesting Solution Offered by Illinois Farmer to Problem cf Caring for Spirited Horse. A portable pasture fence, made out of the framework of set pieces of fire- ; works, is the interesting solution offere ! ) an Illinois farmer to the problem of caring for a spirited horse which runs itself out in a large meadTT A. 11 ir.-y i 1 J-U1IBHI Ji Excellent for Nervous Hcrse ow. The little pasture is 1 by ?0 feet and the fence is mounted on wneeis. One man can m ve it easily. The horse seems quite contented, and when one piece is grazed sufficiently, the fence is moved to a fresh piece. Popular Mechanics. BALANCED RATION FOR EGGS Satisfactory Peed Is Made of Corn, Wheat. Oats, Alfalfa. Beef Scraps and Linseed Meal. The following rition is fairly well balanced for egg production One hindred and fifty pounds each of c racked corn and cracked wheat. 20 pounds each of wheat bran, mil d tigs, cnrnmeal. ground oats and gluten meal. r?0 pounds beer scraps, five pounds eac h of alfalfa meal and old process linseed-oll meal. For hens having free range of th farm, a very simple ration is made of equal parts cracked corn and rrarked wheat, and a dish of oeef scraps to which they cau help themselves. Good Land Wasted. Ot after the old briers and weeds along the lino fence. Why not use tnn old mower that has been superseded by a new one. It would he interesting to know Just what proportion of good land in this country is allowed to go j to waste along line tencea,

GIVES STARS' HEAT

Radiation Pyrometer I Most Remarkable invention. Can Measure the He.it of Plants Millions ot Miles Away Has Most Dehnte Battery Ever Constructed. It may not mean much to you to bs told a machine has been invented that can measure the heat of the stars millions of miles away, but when the proposition is given in terms of fatnil iar things one. in a measure, appreciates the marvel of the coutrlvance Suppose a Herman soldier thinking himself shielded from observation, struck a match to light his pipe, but that a three foot reflector, on a moun tain II miles away caught his image with the little flamm I'ght -then, with a marvelous Instrument, would the observer be able to tell exactly the heat of the flame. Heat-Measuring Inatrument. Sirius, the 'celestial furnace.' being 40 times hotter than the sun. and having an atmosphere of glowing hydrogen, is so far away that its stupendous heat cannot affect any known thing save the magical meter of W W Coblentz of the I nited States bureau of standards, who demonstrated hi? invention at the l.ick observatory. Mount Hamilton. OsL It is called a radiation pyrometer and the thermo-eleetric battery used is. perhaps, the most delicate ever constructed Mr. Coblentz measured the heat that reaches the earth from 112 celestial bodies, including IM stars. If even Sirius were as near to the earth as the sun. our poor little planet would shrivel up in the heat, a glowing-hot sphere, which would finally dissolve into the dust of ashes. The vital part of the instrument Is a thermal battery made by joining two wires of different metals either platl nuni and silver or bismuth and sllvei and covering the Junction with a heat absorhing surface painted with lampblack The wire used is so fine that It can scarcely be seen without the aid of a reading glass and the absorbing sur face g about the size of a pinhead This battery is inclosed in a glass cell with a window of fluorite A vac uum-is maintained in the cell, and It is pla ed in a telescope so that the light of the star to be observed is fo ctissed upon the fluorite window The tiny !attery. or thermocouple, is connec ted with a taneent galvanometer, which is Inclosed in an armor of soft Swedish iron to protect It from etr.ineous magnetic influences. Thus the amount of current generated In the thermocouple b the heat f the star is measured by the galvanometer Within the galvanometer a mirror smaller than a pinhead is sus pended upon a fine thread of spun quartz. Some distance in front of the window in the galvanometer a scale is set up with a strong light u; n it This scale Is reflected in the little mirror, which is observed through a micro scope. There is a tiny dot upon one side of the face of the mirror The genera tion of current in the thermocouple causes the quartz thread to twist, turning the mirror from side to side, and this deflection is measured uion the reflected Image of the scale. Now. as we know cr at leasl as wc have been taught to believe - heat Is a mode of motion So Is sound Which prompts Mark Telfair to ask In this connection: "If we may detect and measure heat from sources millions of miles away, why may we not. by the aid of such wizards as Edison and Bell, be placed in possession of an instru ment as wonderful as the radiation pyrometer which would transmit to us the sounds from the planets which may have tremendous human sctlvl ties'" And who can deny that thero are not other Inhabited spheres?' Oh. Shucks Tomillx 1 thought you was a sultoi for the hand of Miss Gotrox? Hojnx I was, hut I didn't, Tomdlx Didn't what? llojax Didn't suit her. Usual Thing. His Wife I got into an awful Jam at that bargain sale today. Her Husband Is that so? His Wife -Yes: all the money was sejueezed out of my purse. Rather Indefinite. "At aboit what age does a man usually begin to get bald?' asked the tea her. "What kind of a man married or single V cjue ried the bright pupil Oof! Oofl Oronns What motive had your son for becoming a railway engineer? Grina A locomotive, 1 presuma.

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REFLECTION ON THE PEOPLE Great Englieh 8urBon Enprets-s Opinion as to the Prevalence of Fly Borne Diseases. Sir Frederic k Trev. , the la-. K Kd ward's famous surgeon, was in have presided at a meeting ( ltl the Mansion House m r. cently to inaugurate a natunni e.un paign against Bit, but was pre v. ah ! Ironi d ing And it was flies that were imamnble for his absence, if hu own piclons are correct, as hi ex -,. , in this letter, which was read at Lac meeting: "I am sorry I cannot attend the meeting. More than a mouth ago acquired - through flies. 1 suspe complaint in Alexandria whirl, got gradually worse, until now I laid up in bed Had I been a 1. 1 . to attend the meeting I should I liked to have laid stress upon ; gravity and importance of the subj. i "In South Africa during th. there were more casualties due i Hies than to bullets. In Fran. . presence of so many uuburied i makes the lly question a ve ry sari one In Alexandria, ow ing to tin- i number of cavalry horse Inns Bear the town, the trouble of tlies is coming really distressing. It Old wants a definite source of Infection to be introduced for an epidemic to ru rampant. "Fly borne diseases should c . as.- to exist. Its very existence is a ilis r. to the Intelligence of the people." "UNSUITED TO EACH OTHER" That Was Dickens' Confidence to a Fnena Concerning His Separatior From His Wife. Dickens and his wife. Catherine H -

Kartlu separated h mu'ual gg Item HI I in l5ft, the eldest son going with BIS mother and the other children with their father. The event called forth a good deal of Ill-natured comment at the time, with many stories that co ild be called scandal, but it is perhaps sufficient refutation of tfeaa that his children alwas had the great. -t affection for their father. Oirkens wrote to cue of Iii- tt lendl that he and Mrs. MsbMg had lived , together unhappily for many ,. ..r- ,t. "we are in all respects of c haracter aud temperament wonderfully unsuited to each other." He also wr "Nothing has. on many occa. stood between us and a separat) :i ! Mrs. Inckens' sister. Georgine I o garth." He said the peculiant;. fti her character has thrown all the care of the children on someone else The "peculiarity" referred to seems to have been nothing more than kggj ness and disinclination to care for tha house and children, which was provoking to her hiishund Hut. on the other hand. Dickens had the- f.c.ilts cf the literary temperam nt irritaliilu . sensitiveness and intolerance of dullI ness. He died June lT". 3a was ' not reconciled to his wife. Looking After Well Children On the basis that a physic i..:i ia do more for the general hel:h ot .i child if he takes the chil I under ÜM care while in good physical col dttioa rather than in sick ness. N has completed plans to keep its J 900 school children well. A disj. usary for the prevention of disease air. -well children is contemplated arrange mi :it will be put into effect when the public schools rep-:. : 1 embraces the most sweeping incisure s ever taken by the city auth.'i to get their powe r from the Military code. Back of the movement are the leading educators, social workers and philanthropists of the city. Th have pi elged their influence ar.d sun ' the board of education and health officers. The big thing is to see that the child cn enrolling for the first ; the public school, and thus coming for the first time under the care of the city, gets a thorough medical iv animation and that the pupil s 1 1 f Ital condition is n ade plain n. t I to the parents, but to the municipal authorities The Nation's Backbone. Once again the American farnvhas provenl himself the backbone of the nation, for while ousinees leaders hal been afraid to take steps t..w opening wile the channels of com merce the farmer seeded his la and Is row harvesting the great bread crop ever known. Through 1 I activities of American farmers I than 4'O.000.000 bushels of wh- at be sen to foreign countries this -son. This is based on the a " tion that we shall r.eed about noo bushels for domestic consumpt nn I about fcO.oOO.OOu bushels MM for seeding Although these- I are almost too large for cempreh n sion. they go to show what a migl''v factor the American farmer is in tl M world today. Kites Aid Germans. Most people are under the Imp'sion that the only aerial n.o hin ing us. d t. .i.iv t y the ar-.ii' 'h-' at war are aeroplanes and airs As a matter of fact, ordinary ! and kites are much to the fore is recognised by all the great powers that their uses are Invaluable During the last few years th. 1 mans have recognized the advant gained bv the use of man liftii.f nd a certain number of tli. tr soldiers have been trained to fly then i ' dav and ty night. It Is said th..' passenger of a Herman war kite is supplied with a camera cspable ol taK Ing phot. graphs under almost 9 conditions. .