Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 September 1916 — Page 6

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& i j n.. ifTrkD. Drrvitrnrr ...of. (Copyright, 191t?, by W. 3. Chapman.) Kuby Wardell was madly jealous of her husband and he never suspected the fact. Certainly he was handsome, chatty, accommodating, but all of his impulses wero o the friendly and humane order and he Idolized his wife solely as the apple of his eye. He had noticed the first gloss of sweetness and perfect happiness somewhat dissipated after the first six months of married life, but he attributed the growing pettlshness of Kuby to loneliness, ennui, the absence of close girlhood friends. Arnold was away a good deal of his time, being a, traveling salesman. He felt sorry for Kuby on this account. As to Kuby, she continued to hear what terrible flirts these knights of the road were, most of them, her informants assured her, like the sailor who has a sweetheart In every port. If Arnold had understood his wife and her concealed suspicions better, he would never have telegraphed her cne summer afternoon: "Man away for two days. Expect a big order. Will be delayed forty-eight hours." These facts were true. Arnold was acting under a strictly business impetus and house instructions. kHe had fwo days to loaf in. The village was crude, hot, dusty, a dead old town. The noxt morning he resolved upon a hike down an inviting-looking country road. The primitive struck him from the start of his jaunt. The farms wore ancient, the people homespun and gawky. At some doorsteps he saw old women with distaff and spinning wheelrHe "Why, What Does This Wean?" neared a ruined old mill patched with moss, a fit setting for a picture of a far past century. There was a little grove near it. The place was deliciously quiet and cool. Arnold sat down under a spreading oak and fell asleep. He awoke to the sound of conversation near by. Getting to his feet he made out beyond, a bright pretty maiden of about eighteen and a slouchy, but honest-faced country bumpkin a trifle older. Near by was ak'een-faced 'business-appearing young man, obviously city bred. Leaning against a tree was a tripod and camera. The yomig man was speaking : 'It will never do." "What do you want me to do?" demanded the bumpkin in a fretful tone, "squeeze her to death?" "Not at all be the natural lover. Don't smack ner, kiss her daintily. Don't grab her as if she were a stack of wheat. Be expressive, my young friend." "Say," spouted the bumpkin, "you want a love scene? Well, here it is true to nature, isn't it, Nellie?" "Yes," nodded the blushing girl. "That's the way Hiram has always made love." The young man looked troubled. He stood musing. 'Piually he observed: "I've offered our youug friend here a thousand dollars to let me catch a good rural movie, winding up by burning down tills worthless old rattletrap of a mill. That's all right, I can make the fire scene thrilling enough, but I've got to have half a reel j)f genuine sentiment preceding the sensational delioumeiit. Wish I had one of the regular troupe here. You won't do at all. The audience would simply laugh." "There's Lem Powers," observed the girl shyly. "He knows how to play love." "How do you know?" roared the aroused Hiram. "lie studied in an elocutloa school." "Yes, Td like to see Lern making love to you. Oh, yes," snorted Hiram. "Can I help you out?" abruptly Inquired Arnold, coming Into view. All hands stared at his pleasant smiling face, the girl particularly, the movie man with interest, Hiram dubiously. Said the latter: "Just piny tkisses, mind you !" "Oh, surely," areedArnold accom

modatingly. "I've ot a little time to spare. What's the program, Mr. Movie?" The young man addressed outlined 'two sc6n.es. Arnold icted them out to perfection and Miss Nellie Bliss was cute and original, if a triile awkward. There was a final scene where Arnold Jumped from a window in the blazing mill. The movie man settled with Hiram, the atter and Nellie, Invited Arnold to dinner and the episode passed pleasantly. Hiram gob Arnold's city adltUps& f, "Going to call on you when Nellie and I g on our wedding tower," he declared. "It's just like picking that thousand dollars out of the road, selling that wreck of a mill." Arnold returned home and forgot all about the incident. Three months later Mrs. Wardell invited a lady friend to a new movie, advertised as "Rural Love." Mrs. Wardell gasped, her friend stared in grim silence as the film progressed. It was the mill comedy that Arnold had played in, now on the verge of being turned into a positive tragedy. Arnold Wardell reached home that evening to find Kuby with her hat and wraps on, her trunk in the hallway and no supper ready. "Why, what does this mean?" he asked in wonderment. "It means that have been to see 'Rural Love' and that you are a villian !" "W-what?" fairly shouted Arnold."" "And I'm going home to mother. A nice scandal you've made. Oh-oh-oh !" and the hysterical Ruby flounced out through the open front doorway. Arnold snatched up his hat to follow her. As he stepped upon the porch he caught a hint of a new .element ox mystery in the scene unde play.

"You daring hussy ! Oh, this is too much !" tit '.Tni' not a hussy. I'm MrjfcHiram Briggs and Vvp come to seeour ood, kind friend who helped usmake a thousand dollars, and4since then Uncle JareÜ has given us tf arm, ,nti we're the happiest people-in the world. Oh, Mr. Wardell ! we told you '-we, would 'call, but mayb.e you, don't wanMp see US" ....... $i "And, say, what do you think they've got .that whqlö' mül business fnthe movies.; We sawit today,"' added Hiram. "And you look just as nice and handsome as you did the day you helped us out!" cried Nellie. "Oh!" exclaimed Arnold suddenly, enlightened. "And you saw the movie, Ruby, and fancied I was a villain?" "You?" cried' Nellie. "Oh, no, indeed ! You are the best gentleman in the world, and we like and respect you, and we want you to come down to the new farm and spend a month's vacation with us and your wife," added Nellie, but a trifle dubiously. Mrs. Wardell, however, began to see the light. She got the whole story. Within the hour she became transformed into a model hostess. "It's all right, Arnold," she told her husband, after their guests were gone, "but that movie so reminded me of how you used to be." "I'm just the same as ever," declared Arnold. "Don't you think you have changed a trifle?" "Yes, I do. I was foolishly jealous," frankly confessed Ruby. "I won't be again, dear." "As to the old times," observed Arnold, a merry twinkle in 'his eye and opening his arms expansively, "suppose we adopt the old-time love-making as a regular thing." She nestled in his arms complacently. "Ah, this is something like it !" jubilated Arnold, as their lips met. "In 'Rural Love' they were only mock kisses, you know !" Mouse a; ginecr. A field mouse which had fallen into a hole dug to receive a telegraph pole displayed great ingenuity and perseverance in effecting its escape. The first hour or so he ran round the bottom of the hole trying to find some means of escape, but could not climb out. Then he settled down to business. He began steadily and systematically to dig a spiral groove, round and round the inner surface of the hole, with a uniformly ascending grade. He worked night and day, and as he got farther from the bottom he dug little pockets where he could either lie or sit and rest. The telegraph workers, who had noticed his plight and were curious to know how he would escape, supplied the little engineer with food. At the end of two weeks the mouse struck a rock. This puzzled him. For nearly a day he tried to get under, around, or over the obstruction, but without success,. With unflinching patience he reversed the spiral, and went on tunneling his way in the opposite direction. At the end of four weeks he reached the top, and probably sped away to enjoy his well-earned freedom. His escape was not observed. Hearing Men at Work. Nowadays, the manager of a machine shop or factory can know how much work is being done at benches by mechanics or by power driven machines or tools by meaus of micro-, phones or telephone transmitters connected with the working apparatus. By becoming ".familiar with the vibrations of the different machines he can tell at any given moment just how fast Pat is working the lathe, or how Industriously Mike is operating the' milling machine on one of his blue Mondays. In addition to this he can tell at a single turn of the switch if the ma chines are running at normal speed and , smoothly and properly, t as. they should. ' . JJL

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French Remains the Menu Language of Washington FRENCH will remain the language of Washington menu cards. No matter how strong the offensive of the New York hotel chefs becomes to have the French of the bills of fare supplanted by English, the lines of French on menu cards bid fair to hold firm in

the capital. This is the opinion of August F. Moeller, maitre d'hotel of the New Willard. "We have decided to be strictly neutral," said Moeller, with a twinkle in his eye and a decidedly Teutonic accent when questioned as to the proposed obviation of the French from the bill of fare. "Why, it would be just the same as asking the average English-speaking

connoisseur to change his language," continued the maitre d'hotel. "There are many persons, those persons who are accustomed to eating at hotels and cafes, who would not know how to order their meals If the French on the menu ca'rd was supplanted by English." "Will thf.re be a change from the old order which might interfere with the gastronomic environs of Washington's gourmets?" "Jamais, jamais," which in the words of the language attacked means. "Never, never."

inventor ' Proposes National Emblem of 13 Balls j; A SHINGTON. At last the'number of 13 is to be shown to the world in its W true light. All this argument about it being unlucky is "bosh," according to R. S. Gibson, who Is organizing a class of students in Washington to figure out an invention worth $100,000. The

was printed these words, "What means these stones." "That picture," he said, "shows you what you will find in the cells of the human body, and in all the planets and the stars. "Take 12 perfect spheres of equal size and group them around a thirteenth so they will all touch, and you have a perfect symmetrical group. That is a discovery of my own, and I believe it can be worked out to be worth some money." The inventor's idea is that if he can get several people to study his discovery, one of them is likely to get the idea that will be worth the $100,000. "The principle of the 13 idea is basic," Gibson said. "Christ and the 12 apostles, 12 jurymen and a judge and the 13 original states are a few examples. "I have written President Wilson, Bryan, Roosevelt and others, trying to get them to adopt that cluster as a national emblem. It stands for the original states and at the same time is a perfect symmetrical group."

Our Soldiers May Look ALL existing records concerning the and even suits of armor worn by being closely studied by the ordnance effort to find the best kind of protec tion for American soldiers in trench warfare. And the office of the chief of ordnance is getting to look like the showroom of the royal armorer in the days of Richard Coeur de Lion. Since the European armies began to adopt steel heimets and breastplates as protection against the hailstorms of gun bullets, a crop of inventors has

sprung up throughout the United States intent on improving the devices which warriors of bygone days resorted to when cross-bows and battle axes were used on. the field of war. The other day, for example, the bureau had before it a working model of a coat of armor Invented by an American. Its pattern was adopted from a type favored by the ancient Samurairof Japan. The breastplate was formed of a V:Shajped shell of quarter-inch steel with a padded lining. A mask of simifar design with opening for the eyes was intended to be used to protect the face and head. Shoulder plates and epaulets of the same material completed the equipment. All known designs of helmets are likewise being studied in order to provide bullet-defying headgear for the men. Besides the designs in use at present in Europe the solid-piece types used by the British and Germans and the sectional type used by the Frenchdesigns similar to those used by' the Crusaders with neck-pieces and vizors are also being studied. The bureau is also at wgrk on various types of hand grenades, although as far back as 190S the army experts had devised a grenade which, it is thought, is as good as, if not better, than the kind in use in Europe.

Crab Supply of the Capital Gity Is Diminishing WASHINGTON is famed as a "great place for crabs." Well may this be true, for the city lies within short distance of the principal crab fisheries of the Atlantic coast those in Chesapeake bay. But the city's reputat tion in this one line is in jeopardy.

flake is destined to become only a luxurious delicacy? The bureau of fisheries has been moved to act to prevent such a tragedy. One of its crab experts is now down in the Chesapeake bay region making a thorough study of the causes of the decline of the crab output. He is going from crab fishery to crab fishery studying crab life at first hand from every angle. Generally speaking, it is thought that the chief cause of the decreased supply is due to the very extensive fishing which has been carried, on within the last few years around these shores. No attempt has ever been made to prepare for the future's output by such means of artificial propagation as .scientific fishermen now use in regard to that other valuable crustacean, the lobster. Winter as well as summer has seen an uninterrupted pursuit of the hardshelled crab ; such persistent "crabbing" could not be without the effect which it is now beginning to show. Chesapeake bay during the summer ninths is crowded with fishermen, . nets and crabs ; it provides an unexcelled field for the study of the Industry. Owing to the differences in the depths of the bay at different places, one can also observe the different methods followed by crab fishers. Familiar, indeed, to Wash intoni ans is the sportsman who spends a day at the beach, and, 'with his? string or ;handline baited with meat, entices the crabs into his , "waiting "dinner. But Iiis returns are nearly always negligible, two dozen "crabs 7being "considered a good day's catch. Not so is the luck of ihe professional fisherman, who fishes for crabs and not for pleasure. His method! Jcalculatedito. -hring a gronTeV return for a less expenditure of energy. " H ' ,(H ij rffH i . , . .

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new invention, when it is discovered, will be the result of a close study of a cluster of "stones" which he says he has discovered to be the basis of all nature. Gibson, who claims to be the inventor of the paper headrest for barber chairs, pointed to a chart on the wall of his room. The chart was a picture of 12 balls grouped around a single one in the center, and on the bottom Like the Knights of Old types of breastplates, shields, helmets, the knights of the middle ages, are bureau of the war department in an Season by season for the past ten years the crab supply has been slowly diminishing, and this year the dealers are noticing that the number of crabs sent to market is showing a marked decline. It is difficult to secure as many hard-shelled crabs as the trade demands, to say nothing of the softshelled ones, which are unusually scarce. Is it possible that the snowy crab-

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PROTECTION OF STOCK

How to Make Effectual Lightning Arrestor on Fenip. Effective Safety Device May Be Made By Lining Ordinary Fence Wire Place Ground Wires About Ten Rods Apart. (By J. BRTDGEMAN.) An astonishing number of stock are killed each season by lightning, and not a few human beings, and in almost every case the dead stock is found near a wire fence. There is no doubt but that a large portion of this stock and human life could be saved by grounding the wires of the fence, but as this calls for a large-sized, rather expensive wire or iron rod, it is seldom done. An effective safety device may be easily constructed as follows: Any ordinary smooth fence wire may be driven four or five feet deep in the hardest soil at either depth the wire is sure to be in damp, wet soil at all seasons of the year. Two 1 by 12-inch boards, four or five feet long, are shaped like a flight of steep steps (as shown in the accompanying illustration). The step-shaped notches should be about six inches in height ana one and one-half inches deep; in the top center of each step a small groove is cut (as shown by the darts leading to B). These should be one-fourth inch wide and about one-eighth of an inch deep so that when the two pieces are fastened together each step has a one-fourth-inch hole its entire length. The grooves should be as smooth and straight as possible, but can be cut with an ordinary pocketknife ii no other tool is at hand. Fasten the lower ends of the boards together with a small bolt (as shown in the left-hand figure) ; hold the top together with the left hand, set the dovitc where wanted and drop the Lightning Arrestor. wire in the top hole; drive down to the wood, lift the device and place the wire in the next hole, and so on until th last hole is reached. - In this manner a very small wire may be driven in the ground without bending, and only six inches of same is above the wood at one time. Splice tUe ground wire and connect same to each wire of the fence and you will have a first-class lightning arrestor. The distance apart these ground wires should be placed is a question the writer places them every eight or ten rods. OVERCOMING GARLIC IN MILK No Practical Method for Use on Dairy Farms Keep Cows Off Garlicky Pastures Is Best. What is the best way to remove the garlic taste in milk? This question has been asked. Though large milk establishments have mechanical processes for taking odors out of . milk and cream by means of an air blast, there is no practical method for use on dairy farms. An aerator would perhaps be of some slight advantage, but prevention is the best cure. Keeping the cows off garlicky pastures several hours before milking is the most effective means of overcoming the trouble. One of the best ways to kill wild garlic in pastures is to turn in sheep. They like the tops, and in a few years the garlic will disappear. PROTECT FOWLS FROM MITES Suffering Birds Cannot Do Well When Infected With Vermin Use Ointment and Powder. Lice and mites must be kept down, for suffering fowls and chicks cannot do well. Therefore, use plenty of mite-killing liquid and plenty of lice-killing ointment and powder and in that way protect your fowls and your profit. INSPECTION OF PEACH TREES October Is Good Month for Getting After Borers Paint the Wound With White Lead. October is a good month for worming the peach trees. Go over them carefully and get out the borers, paint the wounds with white lead and draw the dirt away from the roots so the weather may have a chance at the borers that were overlooked. COMPLETE RECORD OF FOWLS Numbered Leg Bands Enables Owner to Tell How Many Eggs Each Individual Hen Produces. Numbered leg bands on the legs of, the fowls will make it possible to keep a complete record of the eggs they lay, the kind of chickens they produce, etc. Thfse bands can be secured from poultry supply dealer

SATISFACTORY BIN FOR FEED

If Cover Is Snugly and Carefully Fitted Contents Are Sccurt From Dust and Mice. A handy and satisfactory bin for flour or feed of any kind am be made from a barrel, a few boards and a. piece of 2 by 4 as Illustrated herewith : The style and size of barrel used will depend largely upon the space where the bin is to be placed, writfts .Cleat hu srscr?s,-li HoLEp 7777771 Tl ri 1 I 1 1 He aw Wire 2CLEAJS Flog-? Revolving Feed Bin. . H. P. Gerber in Dakota Farmer. When not In use this bin can be pushed out of the way with a little pressure. If the cover is carefully fitted, thccontents of the bin are secure from dust and mice. A similar but smaller bin can be made by using a candy pail instead of a barrel or keg. PINK EYE QUITE INFECTIOUS; Disease Travels Through Herd of Cattle Rapidly, Apparently Irrespective of Age. (By W. P. SHULER, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater.) ' The true cause of pink eye in cattle is unknown. Its infectiousness cannot bo doubted. It travels through a herd rapidly, apparently irrespective of theage of the animals. The disease runs Its course in eight or twelve days and' may result m a satisfactory recovery or the animal may be partially or totally blind in one or both eyes as a result of the attack. Apparently animals do not become immune to this disease. It is manifest by a watery appearance of the eye, which later becomes more or less prurient and tho eyelids become gummed together. This attracts flies and is a very unsightly thing, as well as a torture to the affected an. mal. The treatment should be as follows: Segregate the affected animals by putting them if possible in a shady pen. Keep an abundant supply of pure, cool drinking water before them, and treat the eyes twice a day as follows: First wash off the lids and eyelashes with warm water and castilcsoap, then open the eye by catching up the upper lid with the thumb and first finger and roiling it back over thesecond finger. By means of a medicine dropper or cotton swab, wash the eye out with the following solution: Pyoktanin ten grains, boric acid four drams, lead acetate one dram, water sufficient to make eight ounces. ATTACHMENT FOR HAY RAKE Metal Plate Prevents Fine Hay From Working Out Between End Tooth and the Wheel. The attachment shown here provents fine hay from working out between the end tooth and the wheel. It consists merely of a metal plate Hay Rake. riveted to the flat, extra heavy, end tooth. This device is useful for raking the fine short second growth hay. Wisconsin Agriculturist TURNIPS REQUIRE RICH SOIL Vegetable Grows Best on Freshly Broken Land May Be Sown After Some Other Crop. Turnips require a rich soil, and grow best on freshly broken land. They may be sown broadcast after some other crop has been removed. They should grow rapidly in rich, sandy soil free from fresh manure.. About one ounce of seed will be required for 150 feet of drill, and two pounds to the acre, if in drills. EXHIBIT CHICKENS AT FAIRS Farmer May Not Win Prize, but He Will Learn Much About Poultry and Secret of Winning. Pick out some of your best purebred individuals and take them to your state and county fairs. Yon may not win a thing, but you will learn a lot about poultry and perhaps be able to' discover the secret of winning, so that your poultry will be in the Mue-rib-bon class next year.

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