Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 December 1916 — Page 2

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WITH M'GRAWS AID MERKLr LIVED DOWN FAMOUS MISCUE

Giants" Former First Baseman Became Great Player in Spite of the Jeers of the Fans.

In the recent trade which sent Fred Merkle, veteran first baseman of the Giants, to the Brooklyn club in exchange for Catcher Lew McCarthy, nothing stands out more prominently than the perseverance of John McGraw. manager of the Giants, fn ranking: a ball player of Merkle after the latter had made his famous bonehead

play of September 23, 1908. It was on fhat fatal day that Merkle failed to "touch second." Kcrkle, hooted and hissed by the fans, derided by sport writers and twitted by rival players, but all the time patted on the back by John McGmw. has held his head up all these eight years and has proved to the world that he is a real ball player in spite of his lapse of memory which gave Chicago the National league ciraumpJoiiship. McG raw's faith In his

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Modish Collar:.

A triangular shaped collar of blue and white dotted muslin has a shirred ruüle of dark blue

taffeta. Such a collar of white g tulle is edged with a white tnf- j feta ruffle. A stock and long jabot of A cream-colored net is finished j with hemstitching and lace in- g serüon. A large double cape collar of white batiste is narrowly ruf-

fled with picot-edged white net. g A large collar and cuff set is s

of cream hemstitched handkerchief linen. Another collar extending low In the hack and short in front is of hemstitched and tucked georgette crepe. A large round collar of handkerchief linen is deeply scalloped and buttonholed on the edge with dots embroidered at intervals.

BeauUul Falls Destroyed

To Obtain Power That

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soles of leather. Quite a deep exten-

on in his effort to live down the mis m 1 1 J

cue. Ana luerKie aia it. The work of this first sacker has been a prominent feature of every one of McGraw's drives pennantward. Merkle has been a heavy, consistent batter and a heady, dependable fielder in nearly every emergency. His slips have been no more than players considered wonderful have made, but they have come at a time when they stood out. No one ever has taken the trouble to proclaim his brilliant feats under the same pressure, so he has been called a "bonehead." Merkle has slipped in his hitting this year, but the averages, for the long number of years he has been a major

leaguer, show he has batted consistently around the .oOO mark. Last year he hit just one point below that mark, and his fielding average was .9S9. Pretty fair for a man called a bonehead by the critical pi.blic.

Ten thousand feet up in the Sierras

not far from Los Angeles, is beautiful

Silver Lake and the romantic Silver Lake Falls, said to be one of the, most picturesque spots in southern California. By the end of this year the falls will be no more and the waters of the lake will be generating eiectriqeurrerit, which will be distributed over hundreds of miles of territory. For a long period the lake was the subject of litigation, the city of Los Angeles claiming the right to its undeveloped power, but finally the title was held to be vested in a private coloration. Now that private corporation, the Nevada-California Power communis huilding a 10,000-horse-power hy

dro-electric plant, which will be in operation next year, and the construction of this plant has resulted in the destruction of Sliver Lake Falls. In place of the falls the water will drop more than 2.000 feet through great pipes to turn the turbines which will generate the electric power. Gigantic dams, 30-inch pipes of sreel

and great turbines and generators are being constructed. The site of , the plant is 5G miles from a railroad' and the company spent over .$40,000 in construction of a road over which caterpillar tractors, each drawing three wagons, could transport material for the plant. It takes a week for each wagon train to make the round trip. The plant will cost about $1,000.0($ " 'x Fashion's Fancies.

, Work Basket and Tray Paper rope is put to many uses, and any number of Christmas novelties are made of it. It is bought in bundles at the paper dealer's and woven over wire, andjt may be had in several colors and white.

In the picture a work basket made of of the snoe-tree is covered with yellow

brown rope is shown with its lid re- satin ril)bon shirred over it. The rib-

moved. After the basket has been brm is tlVfl !n n smnli now at the heel

LAW'S HEAVY HAND

BROUGHT ABOUT DOWNFALL OF, MAORI "PROPHET."

Slave Who Had Made Hi Way to a Throne, and Who Claimed Divine Power, Now a Prisoner in New Zealand Jail.

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sion is knitted at the back, which may be turned up about the ankles. These are appropriate slippers for men as well as women, and are decorated with small silk pompons. A pair of wooden shoe-trees makes

a most acceptable gift for either men

or women, in tne picture tne spring

Rua, Maori "prophet," polygamist and moonshiner, sometimes called the 44Maori emperor" although unjustifi-

of the tree and the toe is painted with ahiy, it appearshas been convicted gold paint. If the trees are to be Dy a jUry at Auckland, New Zealand,, given to a woman three tiny chiffon up0I1 certain counts, after a trial of. or ribbon roses may be set on the extraordinary length. Rua, his preshirred ribbon, but for a man this tensions to divine powers, his temple frivolous touch is omitted. aIlu stronghold in the wild and almost Everyone needs several pairs of shoe- inaccessible "King country" in northtrees, so they are always sure to orn rew Zealand; his fight with poplease those who receive them. They ncemen several months ago, in which may be made in sets of three or four seYeral men were killed or wounded;

pairs. his previous defiance of authority

all tliis constitutes one of the most interesting chapters in the history of New Zealand.

of the family is an institution that all ten years ago He set himself up as of them enjöy, and nothing can be bet- rt of Messiah in the Urewra dist o rct fnr h..hv trlct, which is near the Bay o

Something for the Baby

Feeding Chickens of All Ages.

By T. C. PATTERSON.

Fred Merkle. oiing first baseman is entirely rospon

jdhlf for the fact Umt Merkle still is

ü bis league bail player.

Not only has McGraw stuck to Mer

ode In spite of his failure to toucn isecond, but after the 1912 world's series -i'hen Ioston won from the Giants through Morklc's failure to catch an sx foul fly, McGraw ugain stood by nml Insisted Merkle was good enough lor him, Vans have howled and laughed lit Merkle for those two plays, but ajlumya McGraw has stood pat. Merklo has vindicated the judgment or hin former chief. When he perpetrated the first of his famous bad plays tic wns only a youngster and McGraw knew that censure probably would wreck whatever chance there was for Merkle to show any class as a first Jvmcjwan. So, instead of harsh words, Merkle waa given encouragement. At every d!p McGraw was" ready to pat the .youngster on the back and urge him

Much loss occurs yearly among little chicks on account of improper feeding, i. e. : (1) Overfeeding first week. Feed sparingly. (2) Lack of proper feeds at the start. Holled oats are good. (3) Impure water. Use clean water with charcoal and grit. (4) Overmoist mash. Feed it only crumbly moist after five days. (5) Lack of exercise. Allow them to carry an appetite. First Day. Yolk in body supplies food. Do not feed. First Week.

Hoiled egg cut tine, bread crumbs and oatmeal, equal parts. Feed in form

of mash on clean board all they will

eat in 20 minutes live times per day. f!ivi nur milk each forenoon and

water in the afternoon.

Keep tine grit or sand before them.

One to Five Weeks.

Kqual parts wheat bran, shorts, oat

meal and cornmeal.

Use a mash in hopper and give good

Many of the new hats are tilted at the baelt'. Earrings continue to have a strong vogue. Purple is in high favor. So are green and brown. Metal brocades are in favor for evening shoes. The last word in children's bonnets are the 1SG0 styles.

grade .of com'mercial chick feed in litter., s

Two pounds fine charcoal and one-

half pound fine salt should be added

to each 100 pounds mash.

Sour milk or water shoulu be , be

fore chicks at all times. i-v.-

Five Weeks to Maturity. One part ground oats. One part shorts. One part wheat bran. One part cornmeal. One-halt' part beef scraps. One-quarter part bonemcal. Use this as mash In hopper, and give In equnl parts cracked corn and wheat in litter, a II' they will clean up vn 30 minutes, twice each day. Fresh water

woven it is varnished with shellac. This is a gift every woman will love. A serving tray is made with a paper bottom covered with glass and sides and handles of brown paper rope woven over wire supports. A spray of yellow jonquils is pasted on the heavy cardboard bottom before the glass is placed over it. This is a good tray for almost any purpose.

than a bath basket. A pretty one is

pictured above. It is big enough to hold his outfit of clean clothes, and is fitted with all the things he needs for his bath and toilette. Pink-and-white paper rope is woven over wire to make this basket, but a ready-made willow or bamboo will answer the purpose. Pink satin ribbon is threaded through the sides and ties in a bow under the handle at one side.

Easily Made Lunch Set

A lunch or breakfast set of doilies is among the easily made gifts that will please every housewife. They are made of heavy printed cotton with floral patterns on white grounds or they may be cut from dainty patterns in flowered cretonne. Three or four sizes in circular pieces will serve to dress out the table prettily and they

include one large piece about IS inches Bags of pink satin ribbon are sewed

in diameter for the center of the table, about the basket on the inside to hold iMr,.rx ovrt cmnlhiv nlnpnc: hont hnhv'c tnllnttn n rtlelosj One of them

holds a soft sponge, another a box of

minion. This region, sometimes called the "King country," from old Maori usage, is a sort of government reservation. It is inhabited by the most primitive of the aboriginals of New Zealand. Itua was slave born, but he broke Maori tradition by assuming the prerogatives of a chief, and in addition he mixed with native superstition a smattering of Christian belief. He was glib and cunning, and before long he had a strong hold upon the minds of the untutored members of his race. At Maungapohutu, a native hamlet in the center of the "King country." he posed as a savior, and he was attended by a bodyguard. Here, al

though by birth a slave, and, therefore, entitled to but one wife, he took unto himself spouses variously estimated at from nine to fourteen, and he had built a circular temple of considerable ingenuity of design and construction, for the Maoris are good architects. In a cupola of this structure he professed to communicate with the Almighty, and below him customarily sat a dozen Maoris, called after the twelve apostles.

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milk. Give all they will

Chicks Well Hatched Are Half Raised. and grit should be before them at all ttmes. Free range should be provided. Fattening Ration. Two parts cornmeal. One part shorts. One part wheat bran.

Moisten, with sour cracked corn as grain.

eat. Clear water and grit should be provided at all times. Moulting Ration. Give half ration for two weeks or until birds are poor, then build them up rapidly. Balanced egg ration good.

Breeding Ration. Corn and wheat, equal parts, fed in litter night and morning, about a pint

' to ten hens. Mash given in balanced

egg ration given In afternoons. Free rangt, grit, oyster shell and fresh water should be provided at all times.

It was "sly grog" selling or moon-

taleum powder, a third takes care of shining which got the "prophet" into a piece of fine bland soap, and oppo- trouble. To make liquor on one's site this his tiny comb and soft brush premises without permission and then

nrn hohl hv hntuls of ribbon. Even a sen it to natives is against tne iaw,

teething ring finds a place In this equipment. Wide, soft satin ribbon, or gauze ribbon like the pink in the basket in color, Is tied in a generous bow to each side of the handle and the bows are joined by a length of It. They make a beautiful finish to the best of presents for baby.

Catchalls for Bedroom

(Copyright. 1916.) In youth so weak is man. Bo Ignorant and blind, that did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what he iHe would bo mine. I at hia own request 'One misfortune in being n young man good io look upon is that most of the young women upon

whom he easts an

admiring eye jump

to the c o n c 1 usion that he has fallen in love. Therefore his opportunity for forming sincere friendships with them is at an end. This. however, works for g o o d instead of ill. for it causes him to turn to a different type of girl the sensible kind for comradeship. While it is generally sup

posed it is man s prerogative to go forth and find a mate, ii Is not every girl he comes across tvho Ik willing to be led away to the altar without having a sayso In the ijiroceedings. No matter how intensely hc may fancy a maiden, unless she tancies him, the independent girl of today bids him look further. tin does not always find smooth sailing even after he has decided to launch Wä matrimonial craft. The worst 'blockade a young man usually finds .against his fancy straying where it will .trt in his own home. Ills home folks

feg

young girls

he mentions or looks at.

They drown his hopes concerning this

girl with a sneer and that one by snickers or laughs which are decidedly worse. It is a most difficult matter for his mother and sisters to discover anyone whom they consider quite good enough for that son. and brother, the pride and hope of the home. Their watchful care over him results

generally in cornering him into marrying a girl the family disapproves of taking the reins into his own hands, wedding the girl he is in love with, although she hasn't a penny, or drifting away from all desire for matrimony altogether for many years to come. As staid old bachelors, few men ever forget the young girl who first attracted their youthful fancy. The older

thev grow the more eager becomes

their again.

dren grow to manhood and woman-

xro always rttally interested in the hood.

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desire to look upon her face Many a man has crossed the

breadth of the world to visit the old home to gratify such a longing. If she is by that time comfortably wedded, with sturdy sons and fair daughters about her. he brushes away a tear that no one would believe he had tenderness of heart enough to shed, as he sighs over what might have been. If he finds her a spinster or a buxom widow well, haven't you heard of the men who have gone out into the world, made their fortunes and come back to wed the sweetheart of their youth? It would often be best, I think, to allow a young man's fancy to run its course which is love, ending In marriage. Men who wed late In life seldom have the joy of seeing their chll-

Some Things That Are New. A novel fan that resembles the familiar electric affair is driven by a hotair engine in its base, gas or denatured alcohol being the fuel used. A centrifugal pump directly connected with an electric motor that runs equally well either in or out of water has been invented by an Englishman.

The capacity of a clothesline is doubled by a new device that straddles the lino and provides two pieces of wire to which clothes can be fastened. A cheap imitation of tinfoil is made in Germany by coating paper with a mixture of finely-powdered metal and resin and subjecting it to friction.

A noiseless bowling alley is the invention of a Parisian, the clash of falling pins being silenced. Waterproof electric flashlights to be attached to life preservers for night use are a recent invention. Harness to suspend a basket from a fruit picker's shoulders and leave both hands free has been invented. A Frenchman has mounted a bicycle frame on a sled to drive it over ice or snow with an aerial propeller. Transoms can be raised and lowered like a window shade with a device an Oregon inventor has patented.

seven inches in diameter and six little ones three and one-half inches in width. The smaller sizes are for the plates, and cups and saucers. Some sets contain four doilies a little larger than the plate size for other dishes. All are finished with an edging crocheted of colored mercerized cotton. The edging may be made separately and sewed on afterward or it may be crocheted through the material. In any case a very narrow hem is to be turned down all around each doily before the edging is put on.

Every bedroom needs some sort of receptacle to hold anything that is to be disposed of temporarily. Here are two bags conveniently open, inviting to an orderly disposition of small ar-

and when Kua was convicted of having done this he had to serve a jail sentence. Several indictments upon the same score were hanging over his head when he was released and returned to Maungapohatu, but upon his being summoned to answer to them he defied the authorities. Finally a strong force of police was sent to Maungapohatu. Rua and his henchmen put up a desperate fight. Two Maoris were killed, and a number were wounded in the rifle fire, and four policemen were wounded. Rua, after a resistance with teeth, fists and feet, was captured. Itua's trial occupied 47 days. He was convicted of resisting the police.

but was acquitted of having used se-

ticles. Either of them will serve the

purpose of a waste basket and one of fiitious laneruage. On two other counts

them the bag at the bottom of the tiie disagreed.

Slippers and Shoe Trees

Cozy bedroom slippers will make their many recipients happy and more comfortable this Christmas, as they have every Christmas for years without number. They are among the gifts that are always welcome, and every member of the family, old or young, counts upon a pair of them as among the bounties of Santa Claus. There are some new developments among knitted and crocheted slippers. A pair 'of beautiful ones shown in the picture is knitted of gray yarn and set on to soles padded with quilted satin in rose color. On the toe there is set a pretty knitted rose, and two roses like it are placed at each side of the heel, where an extension of the hont- nf the slinnpr turns down. At

the instep a bow of rose-coiorea sann pieiuie 1 u'6 coii.mj

rilihon is slipped tlirousli a Kmtreu

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Lake Geneva Water. For 20 years French euglneers have had in mind plans for bringing to Paris the inexhaustible water of the lake of Geneva, called also Lake Lenian, on the frontier of France and Switzerland. This project, which made considerable noise before the war, has since been rarely mentioned, and the reason therefor is said to be due to the discovery that the blue waters of the lake, so beautiful to look upon, are infested by worms which the Parisians, now that they have been instructed, will not willingly tolerate. If these worms can be successfully disposed of the greatest water-carrying scheme that Europe has ever known will follow. With this aqueduct of many leagues on the east and the tunnel under the straits of Dover on the west, also in contemplation, it appears that French enterprise is not wholly occupied by the war.

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A Limited Outlook. "Has your son made any plans for the future, uow that he has finished college?" "No' answered Mr. Grabcoln. "About all that boy has ever learned to do with any skill is to drive a motor car, and for the sake of the family pride, his mother won't let him be a chauffeur."

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slipper

This that

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may

alluringly pretty

be made in other

color combinations to suit it to older or, vounger wearers. second pair is knitted of light brown yarn and has eiderdown lined

man's room. They are both very easy to make. At the top, a bag, which may be of silk or cretonne, is made by gathering a square of the goods along the hem. A brass ring is sewed to the bag (formed by the gathering) at each corner. This bag is supported by a standard made of four rods of wood fastened by screws to a small circu

lar block of wood. The screws make the rods movable, so that the bag may be folded up and made to occupy a small space when not In use. The bag at the bottom of the picture is also made of a square. It is of printed Japanese cotton, lined with plain silkalene. When the two materials have been sewed together the four

points of the square are turned over

the smaller of two oval embroidery hoops, and the second hoop is placed over it. A Japanese tassel, on a silk cord, is placed at each side. The cords, caught between the hoops, form the hangers by which the bag is sus

pended from a hook or from any con

venient support. Japanese prints come

in designs of strong, bold colorings, and are artistic und attractive.

Swiss a Musical People. Music has always played an impor

tant part in the life of the Swiss peo

ple. The invention and development

of the bellows, its combination with the electric motor, the application, of

electric releasing apparatus, from which there was but one step to the

keyboard worked by electricity all these brought organ-building In Switzerland to a high degree of perfection, thus carrying its repute into foreign countries. Swiss organbuilders became world renowned. Since 1SG4 the oldest two Swiss firms engaged in making these Instruments have finished almost 1,000 organs with single, hydraulic, and bellows working.

Sound Advice Signaler at Telephone Hairships approaching from the beast! Voice at Phone What? "Hairships approaching from the beast 1" Well Meaning Friend (whispering) Try dropping yer haitches, Harthur ! London Opinion.

Preparedness. MI see there is no danger of Florida's going to the dogs." "How so?" "They have headed theftate $oy-, eminent there with C&tts,"