Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 58, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 March 1916 — Page 3

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Why Owners of Gotham Apartment Houses Rave miEW YORK. "The average tenant in an apartment house," said a real IN estato man when a prospective tenant kicked on the high rentals, "thinks that the owner has nothing to do but to wait and grow fat in purse from his revenues from the rent checks each

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Carving at Copan, Honduras,

Mystery to Scientists.

Evidently Intended to Represent Elephant, But Strange Thing It Where the Sculptor Could Have Got His Model.

month, and he hasn't a care on his

mind. But let me tell you the landlord who makes his expenses on rfv nowadays is lucky. In many

i i" v - -j )t cases it all goes out, and more, too. I know of a million-dollar apartment

house that suffered from a plague of red ants so persistently that it could not keep its tenants, and its value as an investment was seriously impaired

until a good deal of money had been

enent in finding a remedy for the

pests. There is a number of big hrick apartment houses whose walls

ahnvp. the P.iehth floor let in the beating rainstorms as if they were sieves.

"The red-ant house,' as it used to be known locally, is one of the finest

in tho city. The cheapest apartment is $2,000 a year, and the most expen

sive is well, only the well-to-do can afford to live there ana enjoy me every modern luxury that it furnishes. A short time after it was opened the red ants appeared little bits cf things, not much larger than pinheads, but there were millions of them. They got into the tenants' sugar, and those who tasted their morning coffee inadvertently learned that they had an acid flavor. They crawled over the damask sheets at night, and the tenants learned that they could bite. "Things camo to such a pass that not only the occupants, but the agents and owners of the property were frantic. Leases began to be canceled, and the lino of moving vans in front of the place was tho sight of the neighborhood. Every known remedy for their extermination was tried. Finally a German came along with a chemical preparation, and in a chort time the public was freed of the red ants. But it was many years before the landlords of the property caught up with the losses." Wanted the Front Door Key of New York Hotel NEW YORK. Henry Lightman, who hails from Jarbridge, Nev., and whose previous metropolitan experience was all garnered in Goldfield, will take back to his home bailiwick some big city adventures that will make the boys

there gasp. Mr. Lightman has been sojourning, or, to be more explicit, starting out from the McAlpin hotel. He arrived here at the invitation of capitalists to converse on the subject of a tungsten mine in which he has a major interest. His expenses were being paid a fact which Mr. Lightman dwelt on the other night when he approached Robert Dunlop, the assistant manager oi. the hotel. "Pardner," ho said, "you're conith this 'ere ranch around

here, ain't ye?" On being assured that Mr. Dunlop was, Mr. Lightman drew

him to one side. wnii h'r this a-wav " he explained. "I'm out tonight with a friend

twc, with me" referring to Mr. Jacob Giffold of Goldfield, also here on

matters of mining "and we may be out late. So if you'll just get me a

key to your front dcor we'll let it go at that. Mr TinTiinn lauched weakly.

"Pretty good," he said, believing that the obvious answer, and he strolled

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"Hey, wait a minute!" yelled Mr. Lightman. "'About that key?: We are

trrnn' tn stjiv nut late, iind

Mr Dunlop, realizing that he meant it, assured him that the hotel kept open ail night. Mr. Lightman, thus assured, went on his way with Mr. Giffold They returned at four o'clock in the morning in company with a taxicab and a newly found friend. That day Mr. Lightman was around the foyer

bright and early. He caught sight of Mr. Dunlop. "Uaw fin vnn Hkfi the town?"

"Me?" asked Mr. Lightman. "I like it. Say" and then he told him of

his wild, wild night.

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Where did the prehistoric inhabitants of Central America get their idea of an elephant as modeled In an elab-orately-carved idol at Copan? For there never were any elephants in America. Dr. G. Elliott Smith of the University of Manchester, England, writes to Nature that this is certainly a picture of an Indidn elephant. "It is equally clear," writes Professor Smith, "that the sculptor of the monument was not familiar with the actual animal, for, according to Doctors Maudslay and Seler, he has mistaken the eye for the nostril, and Ihe auditory meatus for the eye, and represented the tusk (note its relation to the lower lip) and the ventral surface

of the trunk in a conventionalized

manner, without any adequate realiza

tion of the true nature of the features

he was modeling.

"Having converted the auditory

meatus hito an eye the sculptor had to deal 'with the auditory pinna, the meaning of which no doubt was a puzzle to him. He solved these difficulties by converting it into a geometrical pattern, which, however, he was careful to restrict to the area, occupied by the relatively small pinna that is distinctive of the Indian species of elephant. "The designer also lost his bearings when he came to deal with the turbaned rider of the elephant. No doubt in the original model the rider's leg was obscured by the pinna; but in the Copan sculpture he has lost his trunk also. "All these features go to prove quite conclusively that the sculpture represents an elephant's head, and that 'f. was not modeled from the real creature. ' In other words, the craftsman was copying an earlier model (presumably made by some immigrant from

! Asia) without understanding the

"points' of the elephant."

Professor Smith calls attention to

several other representations of the elephant in America that possess many strange details in common with the

earlier sculptured representations of

that animal in India. Alse that the

pre-Columbian Mexicans played the

complicated Indian game called pachisi, that some of the Aztec picture

writings are a series of scenes taken

from the Japanese Buddhist temple

scrolls. He calls ludicrous the attempt to identify these elephants with blue macaws, and he cites many remark

able coincidences between the attributes of Tlaloc, the Mexican elephant-

headed god of rain, thunder and light

ning, and those of the Hindu Indra, also god of rain, thunder and lightning.

His conclusion is that the Hindu

god Indra was adopted in Central

DOGS AND CATS UNDER FIRE

Domestic Anlrnajs Are Affected Differently by the Nolsis Inseparable to Warfare." Bombardments affect different ani mals in differnt ways. Dogs, as a rule, show -great distress when shells burst near them and howl piteously. On tho other hand, they have been known to dash along the front of a trench during infantry fife, barking and apparently enjoying the noise. Cats do not caro whether they are shelled or "machined" as long as they have a dry corner and food when they are hungry. There' have been instances of lost dogs and cats actually venturing into

the British trenches during an engagement. Some of them lived in cottages near , the firing line long since destroyed and clung to the remnants of their homes; others strayed a long distance. A nondescript dog, with an Armentieres address on his collar, turned up near Wytschaete early one morning, spent the day with a territorial battalion, disappeared at dusk, and was never seen again. A West-country yeomanry contingent was adopted in the thick of a fight near Fortuin in May by a black cat, which survived a bombardment

that killed many men, and has since

lived sumptuously in billets with an identification disk around its neck.

Regimental mascots appear to have the best time, for they stay in billets, live on the fat of the land, and are made much of by the local inhabitants.

The pampered terrier of a certain fa

mous regiment of foot guards sat on

the top of a transport wagon at the tail of the battalion and barked at all the civilian dogs he passed. jLondon Tit-Bits.

STATE NEWS

PLAN!

FOR WAR REVENUE

BIRDS NECESSARY TO LIFE Without Them, It Is Declared, the Human Race Would Be Unable to Exist.

Do you want to know the one thing that can be worse than the European war? John Davey, Big brother to the birds and tree physician, Kent, Ohio's arbiter of lawn and stream, has found out what it is. Mr. Davey tells an audience each night at the West side Y. M. C. A.: "Human life depends upon vegetation. We would all starve if vegetation ceased for a year. But vegetation depends upon the birds, who protect it from destruction by insects. "Human life, therefore, depends upon the birds. All insectivorous birds in this country are decreasing ten per cent each year. Unless we start at once to increase their num

ber, to protect them and kill their enemies, within a decade will occur

the disaster to humanity which I have spoken of a catastrophic horror more awful than the European war." Decrease in the insectivorous birds, said Mr. Davey, is due to destruction

of forests, depriving birds of retreats from storms and cold, and the enmity of the English sparrow, which, he said, increases almost as fast as the ton-measured progeny of the canker worm. New York World.

Topeka Invaded by an Army of Hungry Rabbits

rp OPEKA, KAN. Some time on a recent night Topeka was invaded by the

I most timid army ever gathered together an army maae urave uy uio i,n.r nn nrmv of rabbits. If it were not for the ordinance pro-

1 0 hibiting the discharge of firearms

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within the city limits, the Topeka townsite would be as good a hunting

cround as it was in the days when

the first log cabin stood on the bank

of the Kaw. There are rabbits in the

City park by the hundred, and a Topekan ventured the assertion that if

the snow and ice continued to cover

the ground the wolves and coyotes

would slink over the paved street also.

The presence of the rabbits, in numbers, was not discovered until

rioTT hnf thn Tiooinrl hark of the brush, niles in City park indicates that

hunger has driven tHeni in from the friendly hedge fences and weed patches. '

The brush was piled in City park last fall and left turougn tue winter, duuic of the bark is still green, and while it makes poor food it is better than starvation. The twigs and branches are peeled clean where the rabbits

hnvn hppn nt work and there are tracks around the piles by the million.

For weeks the ordinary food supply for bunny has been covered by ice and snow. He has been driven from pillar to post by hunger, always keepw o enfn distance from the haunts of man. He has been chased by dogs

and shot at by men and boys when he was doing nothing worse than trying o mnr5pi nvnrinnked bv his thousands of brothers and sisters.

nf ihn Hm a fmallv came when his natural timidity, his fear of men and

nnri iWs. eavo wav before the torture of hunger; he took his nerve in

u:- nirnrtirniv snpnfclnff. and beat it for the paved streets where the

ilia iccuu, n,uj,.u... . or . wastefulness of man might have loft something with which bunny could

appease the gnawing in bis interior.

Philadelphia Woman Took Her Pet for a Ride

v WTTATYELPHIA. A woman rider in a Woodland avenue trolley car thö

r Hnv nrncmitnd about as ridiculous an appearance as possible and

knew that every other person in tho car was laughing at her, yet she did not

seem to care. She got aboard with a

big muff in her hand, which she held r

close up to her coat while she paid her fare. When she sat down sho appeared to be petting something in the muff. Suddenly a cat's head appeared out of the end of the muff and in a flash the cat had leaped to the floor of the car and. was heading for the large curved seat in the back. The woman started after him, calling, "Here, baby, como back to your i, " Tim nni tint nnnrociato

uaa nnHnnrinf- words and after makincr an attempt to get out the back

kliViSU ...Q " m MnHnv t under a seat, causincr an unusual commotion among a crowd oi

women.' The conductor brought up the rear of the parade, while the motor-

man stopped the car and sat laughing at the performance. All the peopie Mm fmnt nf the car were craninsr their necks to seo what "happened.

With tho conductors aid the woman finally got hold of her pet, admon-

iKhinfr the conductor in the meanwhile not to hurt her boy, wiiue eveouuuy

murwi XL-Uh iniiirhtcr. When the conductor told her she would have to get

off the car if it happened again rho became defiant, and he very wisely shut

.Mni Mdinc tn ndnnt a watchful waitinK policy. ouu

quieted down and -sat gently stroking her pet and casting disdainful glances

Woman Members of Southern Trust. For the first time in the history of the South women have been elected to sit with the directors of a bank to pass on weighty questions of finance and to pass on loans. Mrs. John Dibert and Mrs. Samuel Sneaths, both widows of southern bankers, have been made members of the directorate of the Interstate Trust and Banking company of New Orleans. Both women are

financially interested in the bank and have shown great ability in managing the estates left to them by their husbands. They are modest about their financial ability and do not consider the successful handling of these estates anything wonderful. Mrs. Dibert says that she simply followed the lines of conduct laid down by her husband.

The Elephant Carving at Copan, Hon

duras The Ancient Aztecs Evidently Copied it From an Asiatic Picture, Mistaking the Eye for a Nostril and the Meatus of the Ear for an Eye.

America with practically all the at

tributes assigned to him in his Asiatic home, and that the ancient Mexicans

got their idea of elephants from pic

tures of them brought from Asia long

before Columbus came from Europe.

By what channel those ancient

Americans received these things from

the old world remains one of the deep

est of the mysteries of history.

Facing Trouble at Once. The husband had attested. He was grouped in class 46 the veteran class, whose members are popularly known as "England's Last Hope." His wife went to communicate the gratifying news to the servant. "Well, ma'am," said the girl, "to my mind it's best to face things. Give

him up for dead right away." London

Answers. '

Chancellor of England. Sir Stanley Buckmaster will be bet

ter paid for his services than his predecessors under the Plantagenets,

when, according to Mr. J. B. Carters "History of English Legal Institutions," the chancellor "ranked as a humble personage. He apparently Re

sided in the palace and had a daily

allowance of five shillings, a simnel, two seasoned simnels, one sextary of

clear wine, one sextary of household wine, one large wax candle, and 40 pieces of candle. The money allow

ance was made only if he dined out;

if he dined at home he got three-and-

sixpence, with a slight variation in

the other commodities. ... He

kept the king's soul and the king's

seal." London Chronicle.

Artificial Coffee. It is said that an artificial coffee

has been invented by a Japanese, which has a large percentage of nour

ishment, the right flavor and low cost.

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acter at a glance?' "Exactly," replied the purist. "You must be pretty good at that sort of thing."

"Not at all. As soon as I heard him

cov 'Tnkft it from me.' I knew that

he had nothing particularly worth

while to offer."

The Secret of It.

"Some of our statesmen deliver themselves of trivial platitudes with

an air of the utmost profundity."

"My friend," answered the student

of human nature, "were it not for the air of utmost profundity these states

men assume before an interviewer

their trivial platitudes would never

get into print."

Mere Politeness.

"Twobble is always being mention pH for snnifl kind of office. I

wonder why he never gets appointed

to one?"

"I suspect that's because Twob

ble's friends are the sort of people

who wish you well without stopping to see whether their wishes are car

ried out or not."

Peru. The Haag apartments here

were destroyed by fire with a loss of

S4,000. Fire from an instantaneous

heater is believed to have started tho

blaze.

Evansville. Charles Kaiser acci

dentally shot himself in the head

miian imnfiUnf nn nld revolver at

his home near here, and physicians do

not expect him to recover. Greensburg. By a majority of 173 Greensburg Is again wet teritory. The election was the hardestfought campaign between wets and drys this city has ever seen. Lafayette The Lafayette Mothers' club has decided to have a baby shpw at the vocational school here March 15-13, during the celebration of Baby week. Indianapolis. Evan B. Stotsenburg, attorney general, told the state board of tax commissioners that Pennsylvania railroad stock, owned by Indiana persons, was subject to taxation North Manchester. Four families are quarantined as tho result of an epidemic of scarlet fever that has broken out in tho schools. The North ward and Central buildings have been closed. Monti cello. A pageant and a historical play, both representing Monticello and White county history, will be features of Historical day, to be held here March 17, by the pupils

of the public schools.

Indianapolis State Treasurer Bitt-

ler received a check for $bzi.iö

as payment for . nearly fifty-five

acres of land reclaimed by the Indiana Steel company in Lake county. The land was reclaimed by the company making deposits of dirt along the lake front. Evansville. John H. Rosenberger, local manufacturer, has been notified of his appointment as one of the committee of five comprising the governing board of the Mississippi Valley Terminal league, a body devoted to bettering middle West river terminal facilities. Elkhart. Clarence C. Myers, age thirty, manager of an oleomargarine store owned by O. E. Files & Brother of Toledo, O., has been arrested, charged with embezzlement of $106. He has confessed, the police say, declaring he used the money to pay doctor bills and buy coal and other necessities. Bedford Samuel Robinson, eighteen, is in the county jail facing

a charge of first-degree murder. He shot and killed Frank Quackenbush, forty-five, superintendent of the Peerless auarry. Robinson had been

discharged, but the superintendent refused to pay him his wages until the regular pay day. This incensed the youth and caused him to return to the quarry with a shotgun and shoot the superintendent without warning. Indianapolis. If Evansville mothers want to sew underwear on the children and leave it there all winter they are at liberty to do so. This information was sent to Evansville by the state board of health in answer to a complaint from local

officials, who have been trying to stop the practice. Doctor Hurty of the

board says the state needs a child hy

giene law to meet such problems. Marion Clint Chaney, who was brought back here from Terre Haute on a charge of embezzle

ment, pleaded guilty before Judge J.

F. Paulus of having appropriated funds

of the Mississinewa Motorcycle com

pany. Chaney returned $65 to the club. Miss Fern Chaney, his sister,

assisted him in paying the money

Judge Paulus fined Chaney $50 and

suspended sentence of from two to

four years to the state reformatory.

TnrHmmnnlic: Four VOUthful autO

bandits who were foiled in an at

tempt to rob a South side grocery

recently were sentenced in criminal

court here to long terms. Ray Davis

goes to the state prison at Michigan

City and Victor Mabrey, Michael Hale

and Elisha Lamantress to the Jeffer-

sonville reformatory. The sentences are from five to fourteen years. Ben

Caldwell, the grocer, opened fire on the bandits when they entered his

place and ordered him to put up his

hands

Indianapolis. According to accusa

JnnQ nf fpdp.ral officers. Glenn

Murphy of Darlington took in ?4,

nnn in nine months on a slick

mail-order scheme he operated

through the Kokomo post office. Mur

phy was arrested at an automobile ro-

nair shop here, and is held under 51,-

000 bond to answer to tho charge or

nafnn- tho mnila to defraud. It is al-

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leged that he advertised for women

everywhere to make dust capB. Two

thousand replied. Then he sold them

a samnle for a quarter, and if they

wrote again he demanded $10 deposit

on the materials he promised to send

them. The officers have been looking

for him since last November, when he

left Kokomo.

Snvmmir Mavor John A Ross

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has established the "ruie oi turee

in dealing with habitual drunk

ards. The name of each defendant

who is found guilty the third time will

be sent to all saloon keepers in the

city, with instructions not to sell to

the man in the future. Tho nrst blac

list contained fourteen names.

IniriMiapolis. The pext meeting

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of thb committee namou uy uv-

ernor Ralston to study mental defectives of the state will meet at the

canitol March 17, it was announced.

The committee at present Is making a

tudy of conditions In other states.

So Wisely Distributed That Taxation Will Affect Farmers te a Degree PracticaHy Unnoticeable.

So many rumors have been

lated regarding war taxation tat Canada that tho statement m4 fcy Sir Thomas White, Canadian MialflUr of Finance, of the Government' yZans for raising war revenue should bm stf

en the widest circulation. Sir

made it clear that the revenue will

raised by taxing tho profits ot ii

porated companies whenever

profits exceed seven per cent, and profits of unincorporated firms or partnerships when the profits exceed Urn per cent. On all such exce proÄt these companies or firms will km W

contribute one-quarter to the Goi

mont Transportation com

banks, mining, milling, and other

panies will be subject to this taxattio. but life insurance companies, and companies with less than fifty tho4 dollars capitalization, and companies, firms, or individuals engaged In agriculture or stock raising, are exempt, and pay no part of this taxation. Tfc only other additional taxation proposed is an increase of fifty cemtm barrel in the customs duty on apple, and one-half cent a gallon In custom duty on certain kinds of oils. It will be noticed that this Uxatk is being applied in such a way that it does not affect farmers in the slight

est degree, except, perhaps, througk a

small increase in cost of apples

oil. The war revenue is to be paid

of the profits of the big firms and

panies with capital of over fifty thousand dollars, and even these are allowed seven per cent in some caaN. and ten per cent in others, of clear

profits before they have to pay part of this taxation. It will bo

that the whole policy is to place tba war expenditure taxation on those wfct have been making big profits and ara able to pay it, and to encourage rawing and stockraising by excraptia farmers and stock-raisers from the taxation. This ought to set at rest every rumor that the farmer or the farmar'a land Is being taxed to pay the coat aC the war. Advertisement.

As Johnnie Heard It.

Little Johnnie had been accui

to go to sleep during every

despite the scoldings of his mother. One Sunday morning she sent hi off to church and intimated ta him that if he went to sleep they woJ go into executive session in the woodshed on his arrival from churck. As a test of his being away she required that he tell her the preacfeer text when he went home. Johnnie's natural propensity ta sleep was offset by his fear as to what might happen in the woodshed, ao ha stayed awTake. He came back conscious of the fact that he was on the safe side, aa4 when his mother asked him what tfea text was he unblushingly accused ihm preacher of the following text: "Moaea was an oyster man and made oiatment for the shins of his people." The real text was: "Moses was an austere man and made atonement for

the sins of his people."

Her Pride Hurt. Your fashionable lriend seeaa ta

be threatened with palpitation of ihm

heart "

"Yes, she has just received a dread

ful shock."

"And what happened to fortua'

favorite?"

"She was sitting In an employiaent

office waiting for a chance to look at a cook when a haughty dame swept

up and offered her a job." LaaisvilJ

Courier-Journal.

THE FIRST TASTE

Learned to Drink Coffee When a Boy.

If parents realized the fact that cof

fee contains a drug-caffeine wkick

is especially harmful to children, ther

would doubtless hesitate before civinc

them coffee to drink.

"When I was a child In my mothar'a

arms and first began to nibble

at the table, mother used to gWe

sips of coffee. And so I contracted

the coffee habit early.

"I continued to use coffee until I waa

27, and when I got into office work I

began to have nervous spells.

daily after breakfast I was

ous I could scarcely attend to mr

respondence.

"At night, after having had

for supper, I could hardly sleef).

on rising in the morning would faet

weak and nervous.

"A friend persuaded me to try

tum.

"I can now get good sleep, asm

from nervousness and headackaa I

recommend Postum to all coffea drink

ers."

Name given by Postum Co., BaiUa

Creek, Mich.

Postum cömes In two forms: Postum Cereal the original farm

must be well boiled, 15c and 2Sc aack-

ages.

Instant Postum a soluble

dissolves quickly in a cup of

ter, and, with cream and sugar, afcefe

a delicious beverage instantly. 3kiJ

50c tins. Both forms are equally dellcioaa aad cost about the same per cua. "There's a Reason" for Foacam. toll by Grocarav

at tho other passengers.