Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 42, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 June 1917 — Page 2

SPORTING WÜRÜ

SOME HURLERS NOT AS DANGEROUS AS THEY SEEM Plank, for Instance, Says Cobb, Seems to Have Eye Glued to Runner, But Cannot Stop Thefts. Because a pitcher appears to be looking at first base all the time, you need not think that he is in position to throw over there. Eddie Plank, for example, seems to have his eye glued to the runner on the initial station but he cannot throw there unless he just lobs the ball and he is therefore an easy man to get a lead on. Some other men who do not seem to be paying much attention to the runner really are watching him out of the corner of their eyes. Caldwell, Bender, Coombs, Walsh and Shawkey are examples of right-hand pitchers who are hard to run bases against. Walter Johnson is a tough one, toq, because he gets the ball away so fast and throws with so much speed that the catcher is ready to peg before you are anywhere near second base, says Ty Cobb, in the American Boy. Never slide headfirst. It is dangerous to you, because the man covering the bag is likely to step on you or Jump for the ball and come down on your hand. Also, a headfirst slider is A ' A' -J .t.-ft xftft .vX v i Eddie Plank. not feared by the basemen and they may block you off rather roughly if they get a chance. Kid Elberfeld, then with New York, cured me of sliding headfirst in about the first game I ever played against him. I went into second on my stomach and he came down on my head and sat there. It jarred me up so badly that I immediately made up my mind I would learn to slide feefcflrst and I didn't rest until I had acquired at least the rudiments of the accomplishment. Let the umpires alone when close decisions are called against you on the bases. It doesn't get you anything always to be kicking and if you persist, it may cause the umpires to turn against you and give you the worst of It. Any umpire who is at all competent calls plays the way he sees them. He may be wrong, but even if he is, the decision, once made, must stand I Mother's I Cook Book I Bo strong! It matters not how deop intrenched the wrong. How hard the buttlo goes, the day, how long, Faint not, fight oo. Tomorrow comes the j song! Common But Nourishing Foods. When one buys hamburger steak propared at the market for the usual customer, made from all sorts of bits of meat and not always the kind one enjoys eating, it seems n more economical way to use the tougher portions of steaks for hamburger and do the grinding and mixing at home. A small tough end of steak will with a bit of suet or salt pprk and a half cupful of cooked oatmeal, well seasoned with a dash of garlic, a pinch of cloves, a grating of nutmeg and plenty of salt und pepper to season, made into cakes, be a most satisfying and tasty bit of meat, and one also has the satisfaction of knowing how it is prepared and that it has cost loss than If bought in the market. t Cornmcal Mush. Take one cupful of cornmcal, four cupfuls of Hour, a teaspoonful of salt and cook in a double boiler after bringing to a brisk boll. Add the cornmcal to the boiling water very slowly, then place In the double boiler and cook three hours. Ioir Into a bread pan and let It stand to mold. Cut In thin hIIcos and fry In a little hot fat, browning the mush on both sides. Corn Cakes. Take a cupful of canned corn, half n tea.spoonful of salt, one cupful of (flour, three-fourths of a cupful of milk, ihulf a tablespoon ful of sugar, one tablespoonful of baking powder and two well -beaten eggs. To the corn add the milk, sugar and oggg well heaton. Mix and ift salt, Hour and baking

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ALL OUR HOUSES TODAY ARE OF GLASS

By CHARLES G. SHAW, Professor of Philosophy of New York University. The man in the glass house is not supposed to throw' stones. If he breaks windows in other houses, -what will happen to Iiis fragile dwelling when the other man retaliates ? At the same time, criticism is a necessary part of human life, just as acid is an element of food or the bitter taste an ingredient fn the flavor of coffee. But the glass house is not only fragile but transparent. "You criticize your neighbor and yonr neighbor begins to look into and through your edifice. Judge and you will be judged. Your house of glass throws your life open to the world. You see something awry when you peer into the glaslT windows of the other's house, but he sees more that is questionable in you. ' Your glass house shields you from neither, missiles nor criticism. To live in a glass house must be uncomfortable, since glass is not the proper material to use in constructing a comfortable dwelling. ISTo one would think of calling it a home. Light conies through the roof and floor, wall and wall. In the glass house you have no privacy. You can see in all directions, but you can be seen from all directions, too. If the glass of your house were adamant you would find your vitrified dwelling uncomfortable. It could be no place for the human soul. Nevertheless, whole cities are now being built of glass houses. The house may look as though it were made of brick or concrete, but in reality it is a dwelling of glass, where no private life is possible. iSTo. man liveth to himself alone. But if it is bad to live in seclusion, it is not much better to live in lack of seclusion. The need of contemporary life is to find some new form of seclusion. We must live together and eat together and travel together, but we may be able to find some new way of nourishing the private inner life. This new seclusion you must find, lest your life be all publicr and miscellaneous. A man's house is his castle, a place of defense. In your glass castle you must find the new seclusion.

and there is no use wrangling about it. Most kicks are made to cover up the player who has been called out anyway. The athlete tries to make the umpire the "goat" in order that the fellow lwho has failed to go through with art attempted steal or some other play can present an "alibi" for falling down. Patriotism in the Kitchen. "Each housewife who dons her national uniform, the kitchen apron, and starts in with the proper determination to do her bit toward the great food conservation campaign is as much a patriot as the man who runs a plow or carries a gun," said Miss Bab Bell of the Missouri College of Agriculture recently in discussing the housekeeper's part in the war. "However, most housewives are becoming alarmed and confused at the numerous warnings on all sides 'eliminate waste,' 'substitute inexpensive foods for expensive ones,' 'use left overs.' If the women representing the 20,000,000 homes of this country are to accomplish anything they must stop talking and begin work now in a sane and systematic manner," said Miss Bell. "The first logical step for every housewife is to make a thorough study of food values. For the last In years home economics specialists have been preaching food values but very little attention was given this subject until recent years. Now when we stand face to face with the present great food powder. Combine mixtures and drop by spoonfuls into hot buttered muffin rings set in a buttered baking pan. Bake until firm. Serve with roast beef. Simple Meals. For an ordinary family dinner, the nutritious part of the meal is composed of a meat or a substitute, a starchy vegetable and a green one. Our housewives all over the land are warned of the shortage of food and those who have the interests of the many at heart are willing to live simply, cutting down the main meal of the day to three courses and having them of good wholesome nutritious food. No small group of women can accomplish much, but when all are willing the Results cannot be measured. Another Hamburg Steak. Take one pound of beef, one cupful of bread crumbs, one-fourth of an onion, chopped tine, one-half of a teaspoonful of salt and pepper to taste. If the crumbs are very dry add a little sweet milk, make Into balls and cook in a well-buttered, hot frying pan. A Rumor Cure. A rumor cure has been found by an official in that part of Kent which Is peculiarly liable to Gorman activities. People have brought to this official all sorts of stories and conjectures of mysterious lights and acts of espionage by perfectly Inuoctmt people, and a groat deal of time was wasted In Investigating them. Finally the man hit on a cure. 10 very person who came to him with any story was given paper and pencil and requested to "put It in writing. If you please, and sign It." In most cases the Imparter of secret Information would balk at this, and so none hut stories with some truth were brought to the official. This custom "caught on" In the town, and now wherever anyone tells a particularly tall story, ho or she Is quietly handed a piece of paper and pencil.

Facts in Figures Honolulu has 2,500 registered automobiles. Los Angeles has 2,857 industrial concerns, employing 27,261 persons. San Francisco has 3,249 industrial plants, employing 47,026 persons. One county in Pennsylvania has 12,000 acres of undeveloped coal lands. Hawaii contains 11,000 United Statos soldiers and 2,000 National Guardsmen. Lippincott mansion site, Philadelphia, bought for $2,500,000 in lOlfj, sold a few days ago for $4,500,000.

shortage every woman sees the absolute necessity of having 'this knowledge. She sees that without it she is helpless to make the proper selections and the proper substitutions." Things That Are New. Using a gasoline engine for power, a machine has been invented by a New Jersey teacher that digs up gardens or small farms, manual labor being required only to guide it. A recently patented tent is; suspended from a tripod raid extended by a hammock that it contains, while a piece of canvas can be fastened under it to completely inclose its occupants. A Chicago inventor's hand signal light for automobilists is so arranged that when mounted on a man's finger the extending of his hand to warn following vehicles automatically switches on the current. The net weight of the contents of a container is given automatically by the aid of a new scale attachment that balances an empty container against the one in use and causes the weight of the latter to be omitted from the scale reading. To maintain even temperature in rooms a Tennessean has invented a cover for steam or hot water radiators that is equipped with automatically opened and closed shutters. An English inventor is experimenting with corrugated hulls for seagoing vessels, contending they are economical for fuel, htvo more cargo space and are stronger and less sensitive to wave motion than smooth-hulled craft. After several years of experiments an Austrian scientist claims to have found a perfect substitute for cotton in the über of the stinging nettle, which he says can be grown in sufficient quantity to supply the needs of Germany and Austria. To remind business men of engagements a cabinet has been invented with a pigeon hole for every 15 minutes, a memorandum placed in a hole completing an electric circuit that rings a bell and Hashes a light when the time for that hole arrives. Uses Auto in Evangelism. A Pacific coast evangelist is touring the country with his family In a two-and-one-half-ton motor truck, which ho has fitted v,j as his home. The vehicle attracts much attention because on Its light-colored body are painted numerous quotations from the Scriptures, says the Milwaukee Journal. At the rear of the car is an observation platform, from which steps lead down to the ground. It can be utilized as an outdoor pulpit. A door leads from the platform Into a room having window seats on either side, which serves as a living room. The remaining space la occupied by disappearing beds, a small kitchen, and cupboard that serves as a pantry.

,V.VS V.M 1 i Ti W A A ' f A f .. A The I Dotted "I 9 5 A A A i AX 1 U' By Florence L. Henderson ilJL ............................ ..V".W..,..... V C.. ... ... ............... ........... (Copyright. 1917, by W. G. Chapman.) Lura Branscombe was in the power of a human wolf and never suspected it. She was too artless and innocent to think ill of others and whenever a shadow of doubt crossed her mind it was speedily dispelled. Her evil genius was Isaac Wickham, but she knew him only as her legal guardian, and because her father had left him administrator of his large estate, while Wickham rather repelled her with his elfish, avaricious face, Lura experienced a certain sense of duty towards hin and was obedient to his direction as the legally appointed protector of her interests. In the olden daya Wickham had been a fairly honest and capable man. Bankruptcy had soured him. Then when Mr. Branscombe selected him to act as guardian for Lura, the whole nature of the man had changed. He now thought of but one thing to make all he could out of his appointment as administrator. He was stern, servile, exact, indulgent with his fair young ward, just as it occurred to his politic mind ke might best influence certain ends which he had in view. He had control of large liquid funds and a portion of these he had surreptitiously used to establish Purdue, a distant relative, named, in a loan-shark business which Wickham financed aud from which he was receiving an opulent revenue. "I've got to break it up!" muttered Wickham one morning, as he sat in the library of the handsome home of his client This Gwynn Bartlett is certainly favored by Lura. If they marry, my mission lure practically ends. I don't know how far they have gone in their lovemaking, but I must block further progress in that direction." The sordid, old moneymaker sat gnawing his mustache, his eyes restless, roving, holding a hateful, sehem"All You Have to Do Is to Win the Girl." ing glow. Then suddenly they scintillated keenly. He took up the receiver of the telephone on his desk. "Long distance," he ordered with a snappiness that bespoke urgency and resolve. "Maurice Wickham, Springfield," he called a minute later, and then "Hello ! this is Uncle Isaac. You got my letter? Why do you delay? You are imperiling my position and your own pospects. Come on at once. The girl has taken a fancy to a fellow we have got to sidetrack and you must try to win her before the impression gets too strong." Then something from the other end of the line, and th,eu : "Very good. I'll expect you Monday, and we'll start the campaign forthwith." What Isaac Wickham had done was entirely in accord with the impulses of his crafty nature. He had made up his mind to marry Lura to his precious nephew, Maurice. If he had known of the warm tenderness, which had grown up between Lura and Gwynn, perhaps he would have hesitated. His efforts to separate these two would be futile, for deep love was In their souls, though as yet unspoken. At that very hour In the garden of the Branscombe home, the harmonious twain were engaged in an earnest and mutually Interesting conversation. 'You must not he llscouraged, Gwynn," Lura was saying. "After your famous start don't let obstacles daunt you." "It Is a matter of money, as you see," replied Gwynn. "I am afraid I have been too venturesome. Foolishly I Invested all of my little capital In one enterprise. It Is sure to be profitable In the end, but I need the capital to margin my stock holdings and that I do not seem to have the power to secure." "Oh, dear! If I were only a year older," Ighed Lura, "and could do

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wmu i pieasu wun au ins money tnat will soon be mine." "Even if that were so,4 1 would have too much pride and independence to accept money help from you, good friends as we are." There was deep concern and sympathy jn Lura's beautiful eyes. They brightened at a new thought. "Oh, Gwynn!" she said eagerly, T have thought it all out. Yon must go to Mr. Wickham. He is very good to me in some things and lets me have my own way mostly. Please let me speak to him about your business troubles. I am sure he' knows you are honest, he knows that I that is, that we are great friends. I will talk with him and let you know." It was the next morning at ten o'clock that Gwynn received the telephone message from Lura: "Come at once it's all arranged." Gwynn felt inspired at this unexpected avenue, out of his difficulties. He was certain that, with time given, say 90 days, he could turn himself. He had safe securities to give, and did not feel that the owner could lose. When he reached the Branscombe home Edna smiled encouragingly to him as te servant led him to the library. Wickham was awaiting him. He was bland, civil, and most friendly. He listened to Gwynn's story of his business complications with apparent great interest. There was nothing in his bearing or words to indicate that under the surface he was plotting the young man's ruin. "Your presentation looks all right, Mr. Bartlett," he spoke effusively. "I cannot myself advance you the money required, but I have a friend, a Mr. Purdue, who will be impressed favorably with your proposition on my say so. I have written a letter. You may read it." Gwynn's face flushed with emotion and gratitude as he perused a brief missive commending him warmly to Mr. James Purdue. "You have done me the favor of my life and I shall never forget it," declared Gwynn warmly, and as he left the room Lura, with shining eyes, beckoned him into the little reading room where she had been writing letters to some girl friends. "Oh, Mr. Wickham is indeed kind !" she exclaimed, as she read the letter. "Oh dear! how careless he Is. He hasn't dotted the T in his name." And daintily Lura supplied the missing dot with a pen and returned the letter to Gwynn, and warmed his heart with hopeful words showing her sincere solicitude for his welfare. Gwynn went at once to Purdue. He never suspected that the latter was a hired emissary of Isaac Wickham. Purdue read the letter. "Yes, indeed," he spoke promptly, "I will do anything for Mr. Wickham. You can have what financial assistance you need, on easy terms and on long time, if you choose," and Gwynn left the den of the schemer with the funds that were to enable him to save himself from business ruin. That evening there arrived at the Branscombe home the nephew Wickham had sent for. The twain were j seated in the library when Lura, inci dentally passing through the adjoining apartment, was halted by an alarming declaration which came to her hearing from the lips of her guardian. "It's all fixed, Maurice," he was saying. "I've got that bothersome Bartlett out of the way, or we'll have done soon. All you have to do is to win the girl." "And her fortune !" chuckled the conscienceless relative. "Precisely. You see, this Bartlett is in money difficulties. He came to me for assistance. I sent him to my ally, Purdue. When I write to Purdue introducing a client, if I don't dot the T in my name, he takes his cue, that I have no use for the individual L and to entangle him in a net from which he can't escape." Two hours later Gwynn Bartlett, seated in his office, was amazed at a visit from Lura. She was pale and flurried. "Oh, Gwynn!" she breathed wildly. "Mr. Wickham has tried to ruin you. I hope you haven't put yourself In the power of that Purdue," and she recited her recent discovery. Gwynn laughed joyously. "You dotted that T and it has saved me!" he cried. "This Purdue made a most equable arrangement with me and the money has already saved my business, but the scoundrels! Well, we have outwitted them." "I can never stay under the same roof with that wicked schemer," declared Lura gravely. And then and thre Gwynn Bartlett asked her to come to a new home, as his wife, and a week later Isaac Wickham knew the cause of his discomfl-turer-the dotted "I." At an Advantage. 'A singing man has a great advan tage!" "Jn what way?" "When he warbles he commands the greatest interest and yet he Isn't held responsible for a thing he happens to say. Fatwad't Independence. "Young Fatwad Is an absolute nincompoop, lie doesn't know enough to come in when it rains." "He doesn't need to. With all his money, he can afford a new umbrella every day In tho week and a man to carry It for him." Now He Knows. "Pop, what Is the social whirl?" asked the boy who Is bound to be wise some sweet day. "One a. m. at tho dress-suit stag affair," answered pop, who knew whereof he 'spoke.

AZTECS' FEAST OF THE DEAD

Custom of Burning Up an Image of the Departed is Still Common Among Indians of California. The religion of the a.ncient Mexi cans seems to have been character ized throughout by a peculiar bloodthirstiness, involving constant human sacrifice. The feast of the dead was celebrated after this fashion: "They took a faggot of ocotl, which in Spain would be called pitch wood, and they dressed it up in blanket or dess. If the dead person had been a woman, they dressed the faggot in her petticoats and put it in front of cooking pots and other household utensils. If the dead person had been a chief and a valiant man, they dressed the faggot in a rich mantle and waistcloth and labret and gave it a handful of pitch wood. The labret was made of a piece of amber or crystal. This, which they were accustomed to wear when they drank or danced In their native ceremonies, hung down from a hole pierced through the lip. They seated the image on a sleeping mat and they put there much food and they invited the principal men there. Then they put fire to the pitch wood and everything which they had put there burned up." The custom of burning up an image, together with offerings for the dead, was not only found among the Aztecs but is also common among the Indians of California today. The Southern Workman. MANY GREAT MEN DIED POOR Burns' Last Hours Were Tortured With Thought of Paltry Debt He Could Not Pay. It was old Sam Johnson of dictionary fame was it not? who - once wore boots so full of holes that they freely admitted the pebbles! Burns died with hardly a copper in the house, his last hours tortured with the thought of a paltry debt he could not pay, while among the musical geniuses who have suffered most severely at the hands of Dame Fortune a conspicuous place must be accorded to Mozart and Hayden, both of whom at one period of their lives were on the verge of starvation. Though in their early manhood Wellington and Disraeli were both gravely handicapped by debt, neither of these great men ever suffered anything like the privations that President Lincoln. and President Garfield did. Most men can at least declare there were four walls around them when they were born into the world, but even this poor Lincoln hardly could boast. General Grant Is known in history, of course, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern armies in the Civil war and eventually as president of the United States, but it may not be equally widely known that, in spite of the great offices he so ably filled, he died with hardly a copper in his possession. One of War's Tragedies. The closing of Robert college is not the least of the small tragedies of the war. Founded in 1S63, it has for half a century steadily increased its influence over the life and thought of the near East. Although situated in Constantinople, it has drawn most of its students from neighboring countries Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Armenia While its consistent policy has been to leave politics strictly alone, not a little of the Liberal movement in the near East may be traced to its doors. It is asserted that Bulgaria won her independence through men educated at Robert college; and a number of the , 15 reek and Serbian high officials owe to it their early training. Even the Young Turk party, which brought about the revolution of some years ago and so nearly succeeded in its enterprise of liberalization, was largely Inspired by men trained there. Whether its work ! is now finally ended, hinges on the re sult of the war. Paper-Covered Novels. Paper-covered novels have lost none of their attractiveness through the half-century since they were written. The choice of titles is not their least alluring feature. Admirers of Ned Buntline, who did not like his title of "The White Cruiser" as being too colorless, might purchase It on account of its more mysterious alternative designation, or, "The Fate of the ün-heard-Of." Almost anybody would like to know the fate of the Unheardof. Most of the dime novels were published in square twelvemos, but this was an octavo, issued In New York In 1S53. They filled a want, If not a longfelt one. Their resurrection comes at a time most opportune, for these novels were In many cases the "literature of the trenches" during the Civil war, if the term can properly be applied to writings which were not literature and when trench warfare, In the modern term, was unknown. Exchange. Couldn't Go. "You say you are not going to the family reunion?" "What would I wear?" "Wear the clothes you have on." "Not to a family reunion. This hat I sneaked from Gousln Lucy, this dross I borrowed from Aunt Matilda,, and this coat belongs to Sister Jane." Slight Mistake. He You look at me as though you thought I might be a fool. She I beg your pardon. You can't be such a fool, after all. He What do you mean? She Your remark shows that you possess the ability to read one thoughts at a mere glance.