Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 21, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 February 1916 — Page 2

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By Edna D. Toonstock

(Copyright, 191G. by W. G. Chapman.)

John Bryan was "moving his office" that is, what there was of it to move. It was a forlorn, disheartening job. For five years he had maintained fair space and respectable furniture and fixtures. Now bad luck and poor business had been his lot. He had lost his grip and was compelled to step down the line to a very poor position indeed. He owed five months' rent and had honorably turned over to the building his entire office possessions all except the clumsy tied-up bundle he carried in his arms. This contained his account books, legal papers and a few desk utensils.

John was depressed and abstracted. He did not notice that a veiled lady and a small child had alighted from a handsome limousine at the curb. He ran right into the little one, felt the contact, drew back, with the child unharmed, but his precious bundle fell from his arms and its contents scattered wide on the sidewalk. "I am so stupid!" he faltered in apologetic tones to the lady, but she proceeded to assist him in gathering up the load he had dropped. She came to a card photograph in a metal case. There was a quiver to her voice as she handed it to him. "Tho glass is broken," she said. "Ah, but the picture is intact!" exclaimed John in a tone of deep thankfulness. "I prize it very highly, madam,

and I shall not forget your kindness to a stranger." Then, with a courtly bow that was

44 1 Have Come to See You on Business." natural to him, for he was a gentleman, every inch of him, he passed on. The lady hastened to the curb. She motioned the chauffeur to bend towards her. "That man," she said rapidly "who dropped the papors." "Yes, ma'am, I see him," was the ready response. "Follow him, see where he goes, learn something about his circumstances, if you can." She went into the storo she had started for, bought her juvenile companion some comfits and returned to await the return of her messenger. "Madam," reported the latter, "the gentleman you direcr.ed me about is a älr. John Bryan. He took his traps to a little desk in a big barn of an office let out to poor brokers and tho like. It seems he did a good business once,

but lost his grip and ho has little left. I learned, though, that he is respectable, of good habits and all that, and honest as the day is long." "Poor soul," murmured tho veiled lady and there was a faint suggestion of a sob in her tone. "And I had almost forgotten ! How strange that we should meet again in this odd way! Ho Is tho same patient, tender, truehearted. If I had never left him. how

much misery might have been spared

me.

you think me very ungrateful, but my duty calls me.. I cannot so with the family to California, as you havs arranged." Then she told this real friend what impelled her o turn aside from ease and luxury, all for a lonely, friendless man who had once been her loyal mentor and guide. Mrs. Delville listened with interest and sympathy. The little one would grieve for her, she and her husband would sorely miss her. but she guessed the true emotion that underlay Alice Worth's strange impulse and tried only to be helpful.

It was the next day that John Bryan sat at his desk, trying to believe that he was still a man of business and that the flood of fortune would some

day turn his way. He was wrltine out

cards to place in the rack over his

desk, describing the various pieces of property he had for sale, when a lady

entered tne oince and sank to the

chair at the side of the desk. She was veiled. John instantly recognized her as his kindly helper of the day previous. "I have come to see you on business, Mr. Bryan," she began at once and a vague far-away expression came into his eyes. What chord of memory was touched? Why did a nameless thrill pervade his being? Before he could realize these strange emotions, the lady held him in a trance of sheer stupefaction as she proceeded: "I wish to go into business. I am a competent stenographer and something of a business woman. I hear you spoken of as a man of sterling integrity. Would you consider me as a partner if I will invest some capital against your business capacity?" "A partner?" gasped the astonished John Bryan in a lost tone. "There is nothing to make a partnership of." "I think differently," spoke his visitor promptly. "I have investigated and believe that, with yonr prestige and record and a little co-operation, you can regain the business you so well understand. A Mr. Delville, a wealthy gentleman, will place the care of a large property in our hands."

John Bryan was trembling all over with mingled sensations of hope, excitement and self-depreciation. "I must be honest with you," he spoke. "I was only successful while I had an assistant, a most estimable and capable young lady. That is her picture," and John pointed to the same photograph in a frame over his desk which the veiled lady picked up from

among his scattered papers on the pavement on the day previous. "I keep it near me," he added in a low tone, "for she is closer to my heart than any other woman in the world." There was a flutter of the veil. As the visitor again spoke, the accents of her voice betrayed intense emotion. "Will you draw up a memorandum of

the partnership agreement, Mr. Bry

an?" she said.

He took up his pen and drew a blank sheet of paper towards him in a dazed,

mechanical way.

"The name, please?" he questioned.

bhe lifted her veil Alice Worth!

For a moment he stared unbelievingly

at ner. Then the truth overwhelmed

mm. Tne tears started, his face

dropped into his arms across the desk before him and he sobbed as if his

heart would break. Her gentle hand

caressed the silvered head.

"Blind! Blind!" she murmured "he does not even yet guess that my

poor tired heart is famishing for the

love of a true, loyal man!"

But the scales fell from the eyes of

John Bryan as the days went on tinfl

business cares were assuaged by that

sweet companionship. And then, amid hope and success, love flamed forth

gloriously, and so they were married.

President's Attempt to Put World Into Two Camps WASHINGTON When it came time for the president to arrange for the customary dinners to the diplomatic corps this winter, Mr. Wilson and his social, military and diplomatic assistants found themselves up against a

hard proposition, due to the European

TBSorfE

in mm two

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war. From the first it was evident that two dinners must be given, and so the president undertook to divide the diplomatic world of Washington into two camps, each of which would be harmonious. First, he put in camp No. 1 the entente powers, and in camp No. 2 the central powers. So far, so good. Then, closing his ears to the whisperings of those who professed to know the sen

timent of the neutral countries, Mr. Wilson took the little blue-covered diplomatic book issued by the state department and placed in camp No. 1 the first neutral representative on the list The next he put in the second camp, and alternating thus, he had the world divided into camps, with the United States standing between. It was an ingenious though simple plan, and seemed to give assurance of peace at the festive board. But on second thought the chief executive gave it up and adopted another. The belligerent leaders of each camp were

leit as iney were, out along with each of these groups the representatives of all the neutral countries were invited. So peace reigned anyhow, and the lucky neutrals had two dinners instead of one.

Why the Bite of a Mosquito Causes Malaria.

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Scientists Have Definitely Ascertained Cause of the Disease Only Preventive Is Complete Extermination cf the Pest.

Little Incident in a Street Car in Washington A FAT, wabbly woman, overburdened with what you might literally call a game bag filled with trophies of the day's bargain hunt, entered a crovded car. No man showed symptoms of chivalry, and as a fat, wabbly

woman aangimg at a strap makes a

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somewhat distressing show of herself, a young woman arose and gave up her seat. This act of courtesy aroused no belated gallantry in the man passengers, each of whom read his paper or looked bluntly satisfied and uncaring, as, of course, he had a right to do if he wished. After a bit a man boarded the car, saw the girl, cordially shook her free

hand and said to her in the voice of

one who owns the world and all there is in it: "If you want to hear me speak here's your chance. Come up to the capitol with me now for luncheon. Mary will be there." "Thank you, not this time, senator. We have a tea on hand for the

afternoon. Try to look in on us "

Our home men ar not toadies,, but there are alwavs excentinns. And

they happened to be in the car. Every newspaper lost its lure for the reader masked behind its pages. Every stolid passenger who had ienored

the mere everyday woman who had given them an object lesson in unselfishness became simultaneously solicitous to place his share of the car at the disposal of the booming-toned senator and his friend.

Neither paid any attention, thanks be: and that was all there was to

it except that

It was anly another proof of a now generally accented fact that vounsr

women who go out in the world to battle for right of way are acquiring a

protective tenüerness for all who are old and helpless a nrotentivft tPndr.

ness which men are throwing aside, and which selfish, home-pampered

women ana girls never did have, and never will.

Alice Worth fell into a soulful reverie as the machine sped on. Her mind went back to five years previous, when she had become a stenographer in tho office of John Bryan. She recalled the gracious, helpful ways of her employer, his encouragement, his patience until she had become more of a partner than an assistant. She delighted in showing her gratitude for the business training he

nan given her. Her attention to details, her magnetic ways, her advice, carried tho business up on a wave of actual success. She had almost learned to love tho quiet earnest man who em ployed her, when a flashing, brilliant lover camo along. She left tho Bryan office and married him. Within a year, after spending all her savings, ho de

serted her, she secured a divorce and resumed her maiden name. Later her husband died and she began life all over again as a governess in a very wealthy family. She sought the mother of the little

one she cared for when she reached tho splendid mansion, where she was treated more as a relative than a hired companion. "Mrs. Delville," she said, "I am goIn to say something that will make

TESTS FOR HEART DISEASE

merman Physicians Have Evolved

Novel Method of Detecting Presence of Weakness.

There is a new way of diagnosing

neart disease. It was discovered in

Germany and is based upon the prin

ciple that extremely slight motion in the air will form similar changes in a

ourning flame.

Two small smoking gas flames are

used, and around these is turned a

wide paper tape. The 'flames cause

bands of soot to appear upon the sur

face of the tape.

Over the heart of the patient an in

strument somewhat similar to a tele-

phono transmitter is placed. This transmitter has a very sensitive

diaphragm. Its vibrations are dupli

cated by the diaphragm and transmit

ted by a tube to a gas chamber through which passes the gas for one

of the flames.

The slight flamings of the gas in response to the various vibrations result

in characteristic rings of smoke on the paper tape. From these abnormalities

in the heart-beat can be read. Time is recorded by the second flame, influ-

I enced similarly by vibrations from a

I tuning fork. The smoke rings vary in shape and position according to the character of vibration causing them,

and so help to simplify the diagnosis.

"Seasoning" Iron Castlnas.

In the manufacture of the higher

types of machinery care is taken to

lessen the cool.ng stress of iron cast

ings by annealing or some other

means, in order to make the iron

homogeneous and less liable to break

age or distortion. This process is

known as "seasoning." It has been

found in the case of ordinary test bars one inch square in section that there was a gain in strength of about

20 per cent, due to the shocks sus

tained during an hour in a tumbling barrel, as compared with companion

bars from tho same ladle not so

treated.

J LUCKY Ati

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Foreign Lotteries Worrying Postal Authorities

IwuitEAbE m tne number of government lotteries abroad, as the war drags itself out, is forcing United States postal

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given publicity in the United States in two ways, it is said at the post office department. Individual letters are written to American citizens in an effort to induce them to purchase tickets and news stories are circulated of fabulous sums won, Letters soliciting clients, if they fall into the department's hands, never reach their destinations. Some get through the 'department if on the outside they do not present suspicious appearance. All the snsnprfpri lpttorc

are diverted and opened. With news stories the department does not find it so easy to deal. The solicitor's office of the department holds that nnv-

news story advertising a lottery must be barred from tho mniic ttti

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departments ruling tins means any story giving publicity to a lottery. It

uues not nave to oe a paid advertisement.

Many news stories of European lotteries have been

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uuinuuueiiL says, wmcn approach closely a violation of the law A storv

Luuu iueiuiuns tne name ot a winner or winners nf n inttorv iG

a distinct violation. A story, too, that might be expected to attract such attention to a lottery that readers would investigate is held to be a violation.

Most of the lotteries being carried on in TCurnne now nm fnr

fits. Hospitals, the wounded, soldiers' denendents nnrl ftrhor

are aided.

What happens in your blood when a malaria mosquito bites you, and what

happens in a mosquito's blood when

it sucks that of a person who has ma

laria, is well illustrated in the ac

companying diagram, taken from "In

sects and Man," by C. A. Ealand, M.

A., formerly principal of th East Anglian College of Agriculture, just

published in America by the Century

company.

Let us suppose that a female mos

quito has just imbibed a drop of blood

from an infected man; along with the

blood, and in the blood corpuscles, several exceedingly minute reatures known as gametocytes pass into the

stomach of the insect. (See cut A.)

These blood parasites are not all of

the same size, the smaller ones, known as microgametocytes, carry out male

functions, while the larger micro

gametocytes may be regarded as fe

males. These two forms of the same parasite pass through certain changes

(B and C), and eventually unite (D)

The single organism thus formed be

comes a wormlike, moving creature

called a vermiculus (E).

ine vermiculus Penetrates the

walls of the mosquito'- -tomach and passes to the external muscular lay

ers, where it rows rapidly and its

nucleus becomes much divided (F and

G) until it is merely sac fillec" with

many rodlike bodies l:nown as nporo-

zoites. The sac bursts and liberates

these sporozoites into the mosquito's

body cavity (H). About ten davs aft

er the meal of infected blood these

sporozoites are in the mosquito's sali

vary glands, ready to infect the first

human being the insect bites.

When the mosquito punctures the skin countless numbers of these min

ute sporozoites are injected into the

wound. They instantly attack the red

corpuscles of the blood, each entering

a corpuscle, where it quickly loses its elongate form and assumes that of a signet ring (J). This changes form

until it has divided up into a multi

tude of tiny organisms known as

merozoites (K and L).

The corpuscle is now dead or dying,

and it soon bursts, setting free the multitude of sporozoites into the blood stream. These again attack tho

healthy red corpuscles, and the proc

ess of destruction is repeated.

As the original sporozoites attack

the red corpuscles at the same mo

ment, and as their development takes

a certain time, usually about fortyeight hours, they are all liberated simultaneously. This process is re

peated over and over again in a

rhythmic cycle, and every time the red corpuscles burst and liberate the

j merozoites the chill that is so char

acteristic of malaria comes on. This usually takes place every forty-eight hours, the intervals being filled with more or less severe fever. If no mosquito comes along to suck the blood of the infected patient the germs of the malaria are finally destroyed by the antitoxins of the blood or by quinine, which effectively kills them unless they prove too numerous

WONDERFUL PROGRESS IN CANADA

It Is Over the Hill Splendid Bank Clearings, and the Crop Returns Reveal Vast Possibilities for the Future.

Uncle Sam Looks After the Health of the Oyster

DESIROUS that more of the hundred million inhabitants of this country Should realize their tneA fnrtnnn living 1. . . ,

0 i l nuns iicüi tu waters in wnicn OVSters grow better than anywhere else in the world, the federal government is doing all that it can to increase the

consumption of this cheapest of ani

mal foods.

For a generation the bureau nf

fisheries of the department of commerce has made a study of the oyster, and has revealed details of its life' history that have maJe possible its

propagation with increasing success

and to such an extent that its price

has remained practically the same for

25 years. More recently the bureau

of chemistry of the department of

agriculture and the public health service of the treasury department have been co-operating in a sanitary survev of the ovster hptf nf m10 am

coast, which has resulted in the closing of those found to be in any way polluted. Tho work of its various agencies has been so thorough that the government announces that oysters are more sanitarv nnrl hmt

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In the enforcement of sanitarv regulations conmin vct. ,i

o u; iJici UCUS LilU federal government has, of course, been restricted to nvstnr ontnWn in

state commerce, but by co-operation with various states the good effects of

uio iuuerui worK nave neon extended practically all over the country.

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and kill the patient. If a mosquito of the right species imbibes them the whole cycle is repeated and they are ready in about ten days to infect someone else. If, however, they be imbibed by a mosquito of the wrong species they quickly perish. Why they can develop and unite and again develop in the blood of only certain mosquitoes has never been explained satisfactorily. The mosquitoes of the sub-family Anopheles are the only ones that can carry malaria. Those of the genus Stegomyia are the carriers of yellow fever, the process of which is similar. New York World.

Modern Child's Idea. Little four-year-old Bettie had listened to mother's story of the Christ child. She had been deeply interested and when daddy came home she proceeded to relate the story to him in her own animated fashion. Mother called from another room: "Where did mother say the little Christ child was?' Bettie, annoyed at

the interruption, called back: "Oh, mother, he was out in the garage bein' borned."

"There are opportunities for investment in Canada now that may prove-

i attractive to American capital. Land prices in the west are low and waces

less than on this side of the line, and whatever the outcome of the war, tho future of the Dominion is assured as

one of prosperity in the development

of its vast resources." Chicago Tribune.

A short time ago the Canadian gov

ernment asked for private subscrip

tions to a loan of fifty million dollars. Less than a month was given for completion of the subscription. On No

vember 30th. the day upon which subscriptions were to cease, it was found

that 110 million of dollars had been subscribed or 60 million dollars mor

than the amount asked. If there wer

any so pessimistic as to imagine that Canada was passing through a period

of hard times the wonderful showing

of this subscription should put aside

all doubts of Canada's rapidly increas

ing prosperity.

The bank clearings of Winnipeg for

1915 were a billion and a half of dol

lars. Think of it. Then, in addition-

there were tho bank clearings of the

other cities throughout Western Can

ada. Reirina. Saskatoon and Mona

Jaw also show big increase in clearings. The Winnipeg statistics show

that the city has done the biggest financial, commercial and industrial business in its history in 1915. A

billion and a half are bic clearincs.

representing business on a per cap

ita basis of over $7,000 per head for every man, woman and child In the city, and has gone ahead of big man

ufacturing cities like Buffalo, and runs a close second to Detroit. It

has shown bigger bank clearings than

the middle west cities of Minneapolis

and Duluth, and has exceeded Los

Angeles, Seattle and other noted snip

ping centers. It is now side by side with the ten biggest cities in North

America in amount of bank clearings.

But because the war helped Canada

recover quickly from a natural eco

nomic depression it does not follow

that, at the end of the war, the coun

try must suffer a relapse, and straight

way return to a state of inactivity and

hard times.

A Winnipeg paper, with a well-

known reputation for conservatism in economic matters savs:

Canada's undeveloped fields should

prove a mighty factor after the war in

adjusting the country's business from one period to another. The staggering figures of this year's crop, showing increases in production of 50 per cent over last year, give a slight idea of the

future wealth stored in vast stretches

of prairie plain yet untouched by the

plow. The Northwest Grain-Dealers As

sociation on September 1 estimated that the wheat crop of the three Prairie Provinces would amount to 250.S00 000 bushels. On November 10 that estimate was increased to 307,230.000 bushels. The Dominion government on September 13 estimated the Western wheat crop at 275,772,200 bushels,

but on October 15 those figures were changed to 304.200.000 bushels. Monetary Returns for the Western Crop. And the amount of money which the west is receiving for its grain has not yet been wholly appreciated. Up to the 10th of December the Canadian west had received some 170 million dollars for 1S2 million bushels of its grain crop, of which 149 million bushels was wheat. The average price of No. 1 Northern wheat for September was 93 cents; for October 9S& cents, and for the first three weeks of November $1.03. On the 10th of December there was fully 120 million bushels of wheat to be marketed. This would leave about 30 million bushels for local consumption in the Prairie Provinces. Bradstreet says: "Confidence seems to have returned in Canada; grain crops are exceptionally large, prices pay the farmer, and the war-order Hne3 provide work and aid in circulating much money. Credit is more freely granted, and interior merchants are disposed to buy rather liberally." Advertisement.

Ideal Citizen. "He's an ideal citizen." "What is an ideal citizen?" "One who doesn't stop shoveling tho snow off his sidewalk two feet inside his line, for fear of going six inches

over.

RED, ROUGH, SORE HANDS ' May Be Soothed and Healed by U of Cuticura. Trial Free.

Maine Relic Recovered. One of the side plates of the battle

ship Maine, which had been imbedded

in the mud at the bottom of Havana

harbor since 1S9S. was recently

brought up by the anchor of the Amer

ican steamship Esperanta. Popular Mechanics Magazine.

Nothing so soothing and healing for red, rough and irritated hands as Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Soak hands on retiring in hot Cuticura soapsuds. Dry, and gently .noint hands

with Cuticura Ointment. A one-night treatment works wonders. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, DepL L, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. If a man does nothing he makes a mistake, and if ho attempts to do things his mistakes are many.

To keep clean and healthy take .Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulat liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. Dallas, Tex., 191G postal receipt! aggregated $1.132.210.77,