Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 December 1916 — Page 6

We Woman By H. M EGBERT (Copyright, I'JIG. by W. G. Chapman.) "That man, Miss Banks," said LadySylvia, "is our district governor, John Garner. It is a remarkable achievement of mine to have induced him to come to ray party, because he is a confirmed woman-hater." Doris Bankn surveyed Mr. Carner thoughtfully. She had never encountered the species in her native Massachusetts. She was accompanying her father on his visit to Singapore, where he had accepted charge of a big local water works plant. She was fascinated by the strange sights, by the tropic life, the spectacle of the handful of English men and women living ever upon the crater of native disaffection. "He was jilted once," added Sylvia. "It was years ago, I think. He is thirty-seven now. 'We know all the men's ages in Singapore. But they don't know ours," she added, smiling. Doris learned more about John Carner during the ensuing days. He was the administrator the most feared by the natives. On him devolved the responsibility of the administration of a province a little larger than New Jersey, and ten times as populous. Doris was alternately interested and piqued by his indifference to her. She had met hira several times, and once he had ridden a little way with her, but he hardly spoke to her; and it was evident that she was, to him, a child. "I congratulate you on your conquest, dear," said Lady Sylvia to Doris Came Forward With a Rush. one day. "I hear that the misanthropic John Carner has oeen riding with you." "We happened to meet. I dont like him," said Doris, shrugging her shoulders. "He is a comfortable sort of man, though, isn't he!" said Lady Sylvia. "In what way?" "I mean, the sort of man a woman likes to have about her in time of danger. And you know times are very critical here. Although we pretend not to be afraid, we are really frightened out of our wits with all this talk of a native uprising. But now for John Carner : I believe you have made more impression on him than you imagine What a joke it would be to win the woman-hater's heart." "A joke for a time, till it was won, perhaps," said Doris. "I'd love to see him feeding out of your hand, my dear," said Lady Sylvia. "It would repay some of us women for what we have suffered from his indifference to our attractions." "Do you mean that?" "I certainly do. But it isn't possible." "It is possible," said Doris, remembering John earner's face of patronizing approval. "And I'll do it." She did it. How, is a woman's secret, but in three weeks' time John Carner was "eating out of her hand." His infatuation was the talk of Singapore. They rode together, they (lanced for John Carner had come out of his shell, and it was pathetic to see the man trying to regain his lost youth at Doris' feet. And at last came the looked-for evening when he asked Doris to be his wife. It was at the governor's ball. Doris listened, while her heart was alternately elated at her conquest and bowed down under the sense of guilt. When he had finished she raised her head, looked into his eyes, and laughed. "But I don't love you, Mr. Carner," she answered, and it was less the refusal than the jeering tone that stung John Carner to the quick. The look that he turned on her then was not patronizing, but it made Doris feel more humiliated than she had ever felt in her life before. It stung her as her words had stung him. Without a single word he turned and left her. Doris never forgot Singapore had become unbearable to her. She felt outraged, she felt, as if she wanted to sink tinder the kindly earth and be hidden there forever.

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"Daddy, take me home," she pleaded a few days later. "I am tired of Singapore." Henry Banks looked at his erratic daughter whimsically. "Why, my dear, I thought you were devoted to the place," he said. "Still, my work is almost finished, and the hot season will be here in a week or two. Suppose we sail in ten days' time?" "I don't want to wait ten days," sobbed Doris, and ran out of the room, leaving her father looking after her with that expression a man wears when he discovers that he has produced something totally unexpected. They had booked their passage on the vessel, but they were not destined to sail on it. For on the second night before it was scheduled to leave the native insurrection broke out. The full account of this has never yet been written. It was a time of confusion, of alarms and wild fears. Doris was awakened soon after midnight by her father, who came into her room fully dressed. She sat up in bed, to hear the distant shouts of the mutineers at the farther end of the town. There was a lurid glare in the sky. "I've just had a telephone message to drive to the residency," he said. "There is a riot in progress somewhere. Hurry up and dress. Our rickshaw is waiting for us. There won't be time to pack much." He did not tell her of the murders, the outrages, the fury of the fanatical soldiery as it had been recounted to him. And Doris was only mildly excited when, ten minutes later, with the yells of the mob ringing in her ears more loudly, she stepped into the rickshaw with her father. All their native servants had deserted them, except the faithful rickshaw boy. They set off wildly through the empty streets toward the residency. They were the last of the white inhabitants to have been aroused, for their villa was a considerable distance from the city limits. All went well until they were actually in sight of the residency, though the cries were now becoming alarming, and whole blocks of buildings were blazing furiously. Then, as they neared their destination, with savage cries a party of mutineers burst round the block. They , carried swords and torches, and they seemed bent on massacring everything in their path. They spied the rickshaw and rushed forward, screaming. Doris had a confused memory afterward of seeing their rickshaw boy fall, stabbed through the throat. She looked up in horror into the black faces with the wickedly gleaming eyes. She saw the naked swords. Then suddenly a horseman burst through their midst, waving a dripping sword. Doris, half fainting, saw the stern face of John Carner. Alone, upon his steed, he set himself against the score of mutineers. He clove his way to Doris' side. The mutineers had fallen back, but now they rallied. A score of shots rang out. The horse fell, shot to death, and John Carner went tumbling under it. He picked himself up, limping, seized the rickshaw in his arms, and set it up as a barricade in the doorway of a deserted house. He placed Doris beneath it, swinging her in his arms as lightly as if she was a feather. Then, sword in hand, he took his post before her, while her father, seizing a sword from a fallen mutineer, stood at his side. The natives had exhausted their ammunition in the first outbreak. But they came forward with a rush, a black, streaming body, shrieking maledictions. And Carner and Henry Banks played their part nobly. In this imminent danger Doris felt herself grow suddenly calm, as if she were a mere spectator at a play. She saw one of the men fall, pierced by her father's sword, though Henry Banks had never handled a sword in his life before. Then he was down, and Carner was bestride his body, fighting like a man possessed. The natives drew off and looked at him in awe. It seemed impossible that one man could achieve so much. But from their outskirts a little man ran forward and fired a revolver" point-blank into earner's face. Carner, still clutching his sword, staggered and fell prostrate, and with wild yells the rebels rushed forward over his body. Then, as Doris closed her eyes and and awaited death, a bugle rang out, and into the thick of the crowd galloped a party of loyal horsemen, cutting, stabbing. The rebels broke and lied. Doris felt herself raised In somebody's arms and knew no more. She opened her eyes in bed in a strange room. She looked about her in bewilderment. Then she saw her father's familiar face beside her, swathed in bandages. And she began to remember. "Daddy, you are hurt?" she cried. "Only a cut across the cheek, my dear," said her father cheerfully. "Everything is ended now, and Singapore is as quiet as Philadelphia." "And and " "Thanks to Mr. Carner," he added. ""He is not killed?" the gfrl cried out fearfully. "He's getting on very nicely," answered her father. "And, Doris, we owe him everything." "I know," she answered. "I have been very unkind, daddy. I shall tell you when I have seen him." Perhaps Henry Banks had heard the rumors, for it is a father's task to hear more than he speaks. At any rate, he showed no great surprise when, a week later, they came to him with the news, Carner in bandages, too, and leaning on Doris' arm. But what Doriä said to him was their own happy secret.

People of Washington Advised Nio Eat Shark WASHINGTON. The fisheries commission advises the people of Washington to eat shark. This creature of the sea has now been introduced by the government as a new food, and according to reports of officials of the

a number of recipes for its preparation. Here is what the bureau of fisheries has to say about them : -"The bureau has been deferring the campaign for marketing the grayfish, pending the effort to obtain pack sufficiently large to supply the demand that will be created. While the quantity available this year will not be so large as was originally arranged for, owing to the late date that the packing began, in October, it is expected that the amount will suffice for a demonstration to both the public and the canners that the fish is destined to be an important food product."

interesting Fossils Found Near Washington FOSSIL shells and other fossil remains which abound in the region around Washington and have been found in the District of Columbia are more than mere curios which serve in some vague way to remind men of a past which is vast and remote, so long gone

that the human mind has difficulty in gathering or entertaining the conception. It is in the Arundel formation that some of the rich fossil finds have been made. The outcrops of the Arundel formation within Prince Georges county are confined to its northwestern, portion, between Washington and Laurel, but it is believed to underlie the greater portion of the country south and east of the Anacostia river.

Logs of lignite, usually in a horizontal position and greatly compressed, are found imbedded within the formation, and large stumps are discovered standing in the position in which they grow, with the roots and trunks fossilized by iron carbonate and iron sulphide. Seeds of plants are found near some of these beds. In places the clay is charged with lignite, when it is called "charcoal clay" or "charcoal ore." and in this "charcoal clay" fossil bones are found. Hatcher, the paleontologist, exploring near Muirkirk, between Washington and Laurel, found in this formation the remains of dinosaurs. There have been restored remains of the commonest cretaceous dinosaur of Prince Georges county, the animals being about 20 feet long. The animal remains in the Arundel formation include fossil turtles, crocodiles, dinosaurs', gastropods and many other strange things, but the dinosauria, of which a number of species have been recognized, greatly predominate. In the National museum, gathered in large cases, are thousands of fossil shells and fossil plants found in many parts of the United States, and scattered through that great collection are perhaps hundreds, certainly scores, of specimens that are valuable to the paleontologist and which were found in the region around Washington. Each is labeled and the Washingtonian is often coming upon a familiar place name which he never thought was of any scientific interest.

Uncle Sam Propagating Dread Disease Germs DO YOU know that the government is carefully propagating the organisms that produce in the human system the most deadly and widespread diseases? Perhaps you don't but there is no cause for alarm. On the contrary, a visit to a germ-incubating establish

ished copper receptacles are stored glass tubes, and in the latter are the minute enemies of health so minute that billions of them are contained .in a vial a quarter of an eighth full of colored liquid. The doctor who shows you through the establishment handles the vials of death with as much nochalance as though they contained merely colored water. He explains that there are only two bottled diseases in the handling of which the most extreme care and precaution must be exercised. They are bubonic plague and glanders, the former of which is so elusive when once started in a single individual that the result of a careless handling might mean a local or even a national calamity, while the latter, if not so contagious, would moan certain death by a very loathsome process. Among the diseases here bottled up are Asiatic cholera, the widespread sleeping sickness of Africa, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever indeed, practically all the maladies that are causes! by the machinations of the tiny and mysterious creatures known as bacteria.

Mexican Girl Licensed as Wireless Operator MISS MAMA DOLORES ESTRADA, a Mexican girl, who has been residing in Washington for nearly a year, has been granted the first wireless operator's license of the first grade ever granted to a woman in this country. Miss Estrada is an expert telegrapher and "did her bit" in the Mexican revolution as a telegraph operator. She

saw many hardships in connection with the revolution, at one time being imprisoned for 22 days without anything to eat but mildewed bread. She served on the official staff of General Carranza and at one time was nearly captured by Villa, who had heard of her and wished tb have her with him. Wheti Villa invaded the Mexican capital, after his break with Carranza, he searched for Miss Estra

da, but could not find her hiding place, which was in a cellar in Chepnl tepee. t It was on the suggestion of Carranza that Miss Estrada came to this country, in order to learn English- She de; cided, however, that she might also learn wireless telegraphy at the same time, and, therefore, has studied it during her stay here. She is living with Mrs. S. T. Macauley at the Alabama apartments, but expects to return to Mexico, where her mother now is residing, i Miss Estrada suffered imprisonment when she was captured by the folVwers of Hueria, and was threatened with death. While in prison, however, forces opposing Huerta came upon the town, Mazapil, in the state of Zacatecas. and after a battle which Miss Estrada witnessed from a window in her coll, defeated the Huerta forces and subsequently rescued Miss Etrada.

bureau of fisheries who have eaten them, they are very palatable. This is known as the grayfish or dogfish, but better known as the former. It has been known for some time that the tilefish was good for food, but it is only recently that the grayfish has been introduced; and, despite its specie, it has met with popular favor wherever it has been placed on the market. The government has issued several pamphlets on this subject, zivinjr

ment will convince any person of the efforts being made by scientists to combat the disease pests of humanity. It is a somewhat impressive and not at all comfortable thought, on entering the room wherein the germ ovens, or incubators, as they are called, are kept, that there are greater potentialities for destroying human life here than if the apartment was filled wiui dynamite. In the neat pol JAY TO' XlUA - fERKO, MF hut

TO PRODUCE BABY BEEF

First Essential of Ticklish Business 'is Quality. Only Successful Vhen Stock, Farm ancTMan Behind Both Are Adapted to Risky Undertaking Feed Is Important. The production ' of baby beef" is a very ticklish business. It is successfully done only when stock, farm and the man behind both are all adapted to a very risky undertaking. The whole object is to turn twelve to sixteen month-old calves off as prime fat steers, weighing 1,000 to 1,400 pounds in much less time than required for general steer raising. The whole thing means quality animals to start with. It means offspring from strictly beef strains, like Shorthorn, Hereford, Angus or Galloway. Really no other breed need apply in the production of real baby beef, says a writer in Baltimore American. Both mothers and offspring must be abundantly fed so as to keep these young things steadily on the gain, eating to their full capacity, from birth to market. The calves must nurse their dams and be given an abundance of nutritious grain from the very start, both while on pasture and when in winter quarters. Concentrated feeds in addition to clover and alfalfa are I 1 ' Registered Shorthorns. absolutely necessary during the winter months. Long nursing on thedams or an abundance of milk or skim milk with grain is necessary. This all means that splendid, wellbred stock is to be used only. It means also that you have got to have ideal farm conditions, an abundance of the very best pasture and legume hays, silage and grain feeds. Can Be Done in East. There is no reason why baby beef cannot be made in the East, except that labor is expensive or that farms have not been farmed to produce highest quality legumes and other grasses for pasture. Besides this, the production of grain is more expensive as a rule in the East, thus contributing to high costs in making beef. You see the regular average pasture, with the regular average method of feeding, will not produce topnotch beby beef. I do not mean to say that we cannot reach a point where raising baby beef may not be profitable in the East; not that, but we have got to get ready for that sort of farming first. LABOR AND FERTILITY SAVED Excellent Farm Practice to Haul Manure Direct to Field Where It Is to Be Utilized. Farmers and scientists are pretty well agreed that under ordinary farm conditions the best place for manure after it leaves the barn is spread on the field where it is to be utilized. More and more farmers are building their barns now with a view to driving through the barn, loading the manure directly on to the wagon or spreader, and taking it out to the field each day. This is excellent farm practice. It saves labor and soil fertility. Study the capability of your soil. Keep the pigs growing all the time. Marketing is an art, and a specialty. What did your heaviest lamb weigh at birth? Keep the lambs growing; a stunted lamb never makes a good sheep. Plan the season's work during the winter months. It will pay you. Celery may be banked with earth or boards to cause it to bleach well. The manure spreader is not a passing fad. It is a labor-saver and has come to stay. m Get a standard breed and see the difference it makes in your poultry keeping experience. Clear the garden of all weeds and refuse. This material only harbors insects for next year's trouble. It is estimated that the man who ships 20 cars of grain containing 20 per cent of moisture pays freight on one car of excess water, uslng.,15 per cent moisture as a basis.

BIG truth in "loafer land

Job of Clearing Fields of Stumps Car Be Done on Days When Other Work Is Not Pressing. TSverybody hates a loafer around who consumes without giving anything in return. United States agricultural department, in naming stumpland "loafer land," has struck upon a big truth that every farmer should take into consideration. Men who have made careful study of the situation claim that every 12inch stump on your place wastes 100 square feet of land. At first tills statement may seem somewhat surprising and many fanners seem to feel that by pasturing their stump land there isno waste at all. This is poor figuring, says California Cultivator. In most stump fields there is an average of 150 stumps to the acre, some much larger than 12. inches. With an average of 150 stumps to the acre you are simply wasting 15,000 square feet of land to each1 acre, and as there are only 43,000 square feet to the acre, you are wasting one-third of your land. Suppose someone were to propose to you that of each 30-acre pasture you shut off ton acres for the pure joy of seeing it wasted. You would think him utterly absurd, but it is no more absurd than to continue letting your land lie in a stumpage. And after all it doesn't take long to clear off the stumps. The job can be done on the days when you can't work at anything else and by owning a good stump puller or being ready with dynamite you will find a surprising lot of "loafer land" converted to usefulness for the year's end. GOOD AS VEGETABLE MATTER Refuse Hay, Straw Litter, and Other Rubbish Can Be Utilized in Orchard and Garden. The value of refuse hay, straw litter and other rubbish for vegetable matter, on orchard and garden soil has hardly been realized. Much of this material goes to waste every year that might be used to enrich the garden and. orchard soil. Now is the time to apply such materials to the soil, as it will take some time for it to decay and be of use to the soil. By applying this fall and turning it under the soil will be revived and enriched and hence made ready for preparation and planting next spring. Most gardens could be made far more productive than they have been. To do this it will be necessary to begin on time. Humus is the greatest need in most instances, for without it little can be done in good preparation and ample cultivation. Barnyard manure is better than waste litter, straw, etc., but manure is generally scarce, not enough being available to improve the soil on most farms. To supplement manure all waste vegetable matter should be used., NOVEL ROTARY SPADING PLOW Farm Implement Recently Patented by California Inventor Has SelfScouring Arrangement. Such a rotary plow as shown here has been used in Germany for some time, though many details of construction were different. This plow is a Rotary Spading Plow. recent patent of a Sacramento (Cal.) man. The blades of this spading plow are cleared by means of the push rods, which have scraper plates mounted on them and are movable over the blades of the spades. Thus, the plow is made a self-scouring affair. Farming Business. TOAD IS GARDEN POLICEMAN Seventy-Seven Per Cent of His Diet Is Composed of Insects Should Be Welcome Guest. The toad is a garden policeman. Seventy-seven per cent of his diet is composed of insects and the remainder consists of spiders and worms of all kinds. The toad is in a position to capture his "dally bread" with his tongue. In this respect he is like some who get their living by talking. A toad should be a welcome guest in a garden or flower bed. WEED IS MOST UNDESIRABLE Keeping Ahead of Noxious Plant Requires Knowledge and Perseverance on Part of Farmer. A good deal has been said about weeds and all will agree that they are most undesirable. No one cares to grow them in crops and yet they grow. and that luxuriantly, If unrestrained. 1 Keeping ahead of the weeds requires j perseverance and a correct knowledge I of the best way to keep them down.