Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 October 1915 — Page 7

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Philadelphia Ghost Has Fondness for Jewels PHILADELPHIA. An old, ivy-covered mansion in Philadelphia, which for years ha? borne the reputation of being haunted, has once more come to the front as the council chamber for wanderers from tho realm of spirits. Miss H. Maybard White, an artist,

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mansion when an unprincipled !han't" robbed Miss White of $1,000 in jewels. Miss Barry insists she heard !the ghost walk, heard the swish of its garments. With chattering teeth, she .fell limp in a chair. A few minutes later the noises died away. When Miss White (arrived she made search and found that her jewels were missing. Miss Barry Us confident the noises she heard were not those of a human being. Pour times Miss White has been robbed and each time her heirlooms

and jewelry seemed to attract the eye of the burglar, whether he be a Vspook," as supposed, or a masked human robber. Years ago an unhappy girl, a bride of but a few months, shot herself as she sat in the spacious dining room of this house. She had been a "sacrifice upon the altar of love." Her parents had forced her into a loveless marriage with a rich man and she sought death for freedom. Now, tho story goes, just as the last stroke of twelve booms across a sleeping city, a tall, stately figure clothed in white, exhaling an icy breath, appears in the dining room.

Why New York City Has So Many Wealthy Waiters NEW YORK. This city is the greatest dining-out place in the world. Every diner has his favorite pla'ce to go, and above all, his favorite waiter. To the regular patron this model servitor is the paragon of all the virtues of waiterdom. Ho knows what you like

and how you like it and recommends some special dish to your jaded palate in such a confidential way that you can almost taste it before it's served. And while you are eating, this softvoiced, clever-smiling servitor is always sympathetic when you tell him any of your troubles. He laughs at your jokes, pets and pampers you. He is always right at your elbow to attend to the hundred little things you may need.

"The best dinner in the world," the diner will tell the waiter when through. Ho has lost his grouch and is ready to look at the world with a smile. The waiter knows the trick of reaching a man through his stomach. That is why you hear of so many rich waiters. All these favorite bill of fare jugglers have salted their little roll and every one of the well-known restaurants have from half a dozen to a dozen thrifty waiters who own choice real estate. Apropos of this an interesting story is told that happened at Delmonico's. Seven or eight financiers were dining there. During the course of the dinner the host told his friends about the difficulty he had experienced in securing a vacant lot which joined his house on one of the side streets off Central Park east. "I don't know who owns it," ho went on, "but I've offered the real estate broker $55,000 for it." "Beg pardon," whispered the old gray-haired waiter who had been serving them; "beg pardon, but I own the lot you refer to. My broker never told me about any such otfer, and if I can see you tomorrow I guess we can come to some agreement."

Des Wloines Experimenting With a Housing Plan DES MOINES. A practical demonstration to prove that individual apartments with modern plumbing, sanitary conveniences and absolute privacy for each family can be built to rent for from $8 to $12.50 per month and yet

being severely plain. One important feature of the property is the provision for the children. About S.000 square feet of ground in the center of the block will be used for a playground. The rent collectors are trained social workers and will volunteer to start the playground activities. The investment will reach nearly $60,000, which is represented by capital stock and a mortgage which pays 4.4 per cent a year. The investment will yield a gross income of 10.9 per cent per year to the association, and a net income, after deducting taxes, insurance, water rents, cost of collection of rents, social work, depreciation, etc., of 5.7 per cent. The Des Moines venture is a test case to prove that the unsanitary and bad housing conditions which prevail for the low-salaried workingman are

criminally unnecessary. It is voicing an unanswerable protest against the crowded tenement, the dilapidated and unsanitary house which is virtually the only kind offered to the man who must pay less than $15 a month rental. The association now owns or manages 353 dwellings, housing 2,500 people, and has never failed to pay 4 per cent a year to its stockholders.

Nothing Under Father Knickerbocker's New Dome Btew YORK.- If somebody said to Father Knickerbocker: "There's nothI ing under your dome," it wouldn't be slang and it wouldn't bo a lie. It would be the truth. This big and foolish city recently spent $16,000,000 on a 40-story municipal building. It cost

about twice as much per cubic foot as the handsomest private skyscrapers. Long after it was started, work on the higher Woohvorth building was begun: and long before it was anywhere near completed, the Woolworth building was humming and buzzing with busy clerks and stenographers, bank presidents and lawyers. Moreover, the municipal building isn't completed yet and apparently never will bo. The upper 15 stories

are an utter waste, abandoned to bats, rats and stray felines. Father Knick, indeed, has nothing under nis big, ugly dome with the gilt angel at the top' He can't ilnd the $50,000 to $90,000 it would cost to put this 15-story trifle Jn order. With the budget up to $212,000,000 no place can be found for this item, although there are several municipal oilices in private buildings in the neighborhood, for which the city is paying good rentals. Th la stories form tne tower above the larger main structure. They were originally intended tor the standard testing laboratory of the city. But the intelligent gentlemen who located the laboratory here forgot the wellknown fact that all high buildings vibrate and sway. The testers, when ehown their assigned quarters, simply laughed and asked for the cellar. They wouldn't have the cellar because the new subway was running through it.

who has lived there just to show that she does not believe in ghosts, has never been able to keep colored help because they said they saw night prowlers gliding silently across shining floors. Persons whom she had there as guests have quickly gone home after hearing strange noises like the slow tramp of hundreds of persons and the wail of a child. Her latest guest, Miss Netty Barry, deserted the yield a reasonable profit to the builder is being made here. Tho Octavia Hill association, which has already wron renown in solving housing problems, has worked out the plan to the smallest detail and is building the model houses. Forty-five families will be provided for in the first block now under construction. Tho houses, which are of red brick, are simply finished, with sufficient trimming to keep them from I WONDER ) IF I AIN'T I C CT A I ITT-I f A J. Ill J.CI WSAK fllNDEg Y-JC . I. I 111

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HOW. TO HANDLE FRUIT

Care Must Be Exercised in Picking and Packing Apples. I Apples Are Very Easily Bruised, Thereby Presenting Unattractive Appearance Always Watch Markets in Selling. Few people realize the importance of handling apples with care while picking, packing and marketing. Apples are bruised very easily and especially those varieties having a tender flesh or skin. Bruises mean not only an unattractive appearance, but a real waste of fruit by having to cut out the bruised tissue. Probably the greatest damage from bruises, however, results from the fact that the bruises furnish an entrance for fungus or rot spores. These spores, or "fungus seeds." are as fine as dust and float in the air. If they happen to lodge on a bruised or broken spot on the apple, they take root and grow and spread through the apple, causing it to rot. Wrapping or covering tho apple may not always protect it, as? the spores may have lodged on the apple before it was picked. However, if the skin and flesh of the apple can be kept intact and not bruised or broken, there is not much danger of the. fungus or rot finding its way into the apple. To prevent bruising, apples should not be dropped or thrown into a bucket, box or barrel, and in pouring from one vessel to another care should be taken that the apples are as close as possible to the bottom of the vessel in which you are-placing them before the pouring begins, it a pail is used to pick in, it should be small enough to lower into the boxes and, even then, holding back the apples with the hands is a good idea, as it breaks the fall and lessens the bruising. No apple which falls from the tree should be allowed to go into the first grade apples First-class fruit in first-class shape will probably develop an inquiry for more of the same kind. There is almost as much in the selling of apples as in the growing. Convenient and Useful Packing Stand. Watch the markets and always have your fruit ready to sell when the prices are most favorable. It is folly to spend years in bringing up a good orchard and then allow the buyers to come in and take them at their own price. Of course it pays well to raise fancy apples if all the details of packing and selling are attended to, but it must be remembered that the bulk of the fruit consumed is of the standard variety. When apples are shipped from the orchard in bulk the packer makes a very nice profit in sorting and packing in clean boxes or barrels a thing the grower should do himself. Nest Eggs Help. The pullets do not need a nest egg as a pattern, but one or two dummies placed in the nest will show them where they ought to lay. Train the Cows. Cows can hear you call them to the stable a great deal better, if they know you have something good for them to eat after they get there. Hens Need Bulky Ration. Laying hens need a bulky ration, such as cut steamed clover or alfalfa meal. They should also have plenty of vegetables. Saving in Chicken Feed. Chicken feed has been rather high this year, and profits will be cut down 1 1 - 1 1 A. -1 coiisiueraujy, out u you win mix your own feed, you will find that you can ! save quite a neat sum. Synonymous Terms. When properly and intelligently done, keeping hogs ziA making money are synonymous terms. More depends upon the man than upon the hog. Success Depends on Attention. Tn n much errpntpr pyfpnt fimn a --. - kuuu 1 1 ; 1,- j folk realize, the success of the dairy depends upon the kind of attention given the cows. Look Ahead. Before you buy stock of any kind look ansae! and see whether or not you can feed it. If you cannot, you had better not invest. Mistake in Laying Tile. In laying drain, let's not make the mistake of puttiug down tile too small to carry the water off when at floodtide. To Cure Dandruff. A sulphur treatment, continued for many months, is elective in clearing the scalp of dandruff. To an ounce of sulphur add a quart of soft water and during intervals of several days agitate the mixture repeatedly. After the sulphur has settled to the bottom of the receptacle use the clear liquid. Saturate the head with it every morning, and in a few weeks every trace of the dandruff will have disappeared. Tho hair will become soft 'and glossy uid there will be no more trouble.

TEACHING THE COLT TO LEAD

Accidents Not Likely to Happen if Ordinary Care Is Fo'llowcd Begin Training While Young. Some people are afraid to handle young colts, to halter them and lead them about for fear of hurting them in some way. It is true that the little fellows may get a scare that will cause them to be tangled up and hurt in some accident, but this is not very likely to occur where even ordinary carefulness is followed. On the other hand, we all know how hard a fullgrown animal is to accustom to, handling and harness. The chances; of ruining an older animal by acci-: dents in training are much greater than in handling the colt that is still running about alongside its mother. It takes a lot of time, breaking straps and rigging to make a quiet, well-behaved horse out of a four-year-old, or even a three-year-old that has been Belgian Colts, Two Years Old. Weighing 2,500 Pounds. left running unbroken. Circus animals are all trained while they are very young, at least their education is well begun at that time. We ought to remember, too, that a colt is like a child in some respects. He can learn but one thing at a time and he cannot be hurried too much or he will be bothered, frightened and unable to understand what you want him to do. Never let the colt break away from you while you are handling him. Don't start in to train him until you have good strong halters and bridles. Take care that you will always have the advantage of the colt, for whenever he gets the advantage of you all his previous training will amount to nothing. Using weak or defective rigging of any kind means taking a chance with trouble. SELL ALL SURPLUS POULTRY Cocks That Have Outlived Their Usefulness and Deformed Pullets Should Be Got Rid Of. There is no better time of the year than now to cull out your poultry flock and sell all surplus fowls. If more care were taken to keep only desirable and productive fowls in the poultry flock, the increase in the amount of eggs produced would be hard to estimate. Hens that are in their second season should be disposed of as soon as they stop laying, and before they drop into the molt. Now is the time of the year when good fat fowls bring good fat prices. Also all cocks that have outlived their usefulness should be got rid of. Even though not worth a great deal, it is better to sell them than to keep them through the winter. Keep only the very best of the old stock; hens that have been good-layers and cocks that you are sure are good stock getters, must all be kept. Besides the old fowls there are also some new ones to be got rid of. All the surplus young cocks and all the young pullets that are deformed, undersized or do not promise to be good layers are disposed of. Good signs of a good layer are a general alert appearance; they must be active, have bright eyes and a sharp head. If this weeding-out process should be strictly observed by all poultry farmers every year, the increase in egg production would be enormous. SPREAD OF CHOLERA GERMS Reason for Prevalence of Disease in Late Summer and Fall Is That Harvest Hands Are Careless. The reason that hog cholera is more prevalent in the latter part of the summer and fall is that farmers are exchanging work during harvesting and threshing and do not take precautions against carrying the germ that produces hog cholera from infected to clean premises. It is not a good plan to thresh in hog lots or allow hogs to run to straw stacks. If cholera exists in the neighborhood, some of the help may come from an infected farm and leave infection which will be pickedup by the pigs. Nebraska College of Agriculture. For Potato Bugs. A simple, practical method of controlling potato bugs in the home garden is to mix a tablespoonful of paris green with three quarts of flour and dust it on the plants early in the morning when the dew is on the foliage. Why He Needed a Week. Clerk "I'd like to get a week off, sir, to attend the wedding of a friend." Employer "A very dear friend, I should say, to make you want that much time." Clerk "Well, sir, after the ceremony she will bo my wife." Boston Transcript. Here's Another Idea. "Many a man talks 'bout the high cost of livinV said Uncle Eben, "when de real reason for his difficulty ii -da uncertainty of a craps game."

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HAD REAL IDEA OF ECONOMY Jap Explains How Family Was Enabled to Use One Fan Two or Three Generations. Among the Japanese economy is held to be a high virtue. Two old mi sers of Tokyo were one day discussing ways and means of saving. "I manage to make a fan last about twenty years' said one, "and this is my system: I don't wastefully open the whole fan and wave it carelessly. I open only one section at a time. That is good for about a year. Then I open the next, and so on until the fan is eventually used up." "Twenty years for a good fan!" exclaimed the other. "What sinful extravagance! In my family we use a fan for two or three generations, and this is how we do it: We open the whole fan, but we don't wear it out by waving it. Oh, no! We hold it still, like this, under our nose, and wave our face!" Everybody's. Warrior of Today. George Wharton Pepper said at a luncheon at the Pittsburgh training camp for officers: "The methods of warfare have changed enormously in the past year. The sword, for example, is no longer carried. The sword has quite disappeared from war. "A story comes from the Argonne about a French chasseur who took a German officer prisoner. The chasseur, a boy, a tyro, said to the officer: " 'Give up your sword.' " "But the officer shook his head and answered : " 1 have no sword to give up. But v on't my vitriol spray, my oil projector or my gas cylinder do as well.?' " CUTICURA SOAP BATHS Followed by a Little Ointment for Baby's Tender Skin. Trial Free, They afford infants and children great comfort, permit rest and sleep and point to speedy healment of eczemas, rashes, itchings, chafings and other sleep destroying skin troubles. Nothing better at any price for the nursery and toilet. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. Getting Even. "Tlie cook asked for a week off to get married, so I gave it to her." "1 don't think 1 would have done that. You can't spare her very well now." "I know I can't, but it was the only way I saw to ever get even with her." Constantinople was founded in 330 A. D.

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