Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 May 1918 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER BEN CD. DOANE, Publisher JASPER - - - - INDIANA

Fewer pet dogs are dying from fatty degeneration these days. Roses will not help to win the war as much as will beans and potatoes. Leave It to the theorists and the qnlbhlers and we shall build no ships at all. The war will chansre Uic spendthrift, and put the accent on the last syllable. Germany's paper clothes may be nil right except when one wants to strike a match. We're not a brutal people, but we ought to get a little rougher with German spies. Jf you spot a German sympathizer you know he has no place in America. Report him. Again the American hen Is doing her duty. For the present there is no fear of eggless days. This surely Is a costly war. Food will win It, and we know what the price of food is. Intensified fighting and simplified eating will go u long way toward winning the war. Postpone partisanship until the warIh won. And let the White House set the example. In a little while the tan and freckle temperaments will again clash on the sunny beaches. The pen may bo mightier than the sword, but the sword has a way of getting there first. Wo don't know just what will win the war, but one thing wo do know Is, conversation won't, Maybe the Icemen figure that by raising their prices they can get the con sumer so hot he will take Ice at any price. Turtle eggs are indeed savory and nutritious, but the trouble is in finding thp nct. The turtle should bo taught ' to cackle. A certain retarding Inlluence lies in the fact that an effort to get rid of vtu hum 1 Hkolv to devolon more of the game. Some people have an Idea that If the rest of the people would save onethird of the sugar tlu-re'll be that much more for them. Doves of peace are eliminated from calculation at a time when attention Is largely centored on the production of common poultry. It becomes clearer all the time that there are no neutrals anywhere on earth, though some people and some nations think there are. And after the medical reserve olllrors get back to their private practice following the war, it will not; hurt business any to lie a colonel Instead oC a mere doctor. rjpntM-nl Porshlnir Is a man who thinks everything he says." observes one of the correspondents. But not a man who says everything he thinks. It might be impolitic. No doubt the scarcity of soap meets with hearty approval from Germany's little boys; for boys are alike the world over when it comes to ablution of the ears and neck. Next to a raid on London in which women and children are killed by bombs, a raid on Paris with a record r ttiritc-ni'iminntn slmiirMnr will cause JL, IHvllwl'l iiji4in.v 1 1 the most gratification in Berlin. It is reported that the German birth rate has decreased 50 per cent in the last two years. It's mighty wise of those German babies to refuse to be born. It is easier to garden with a soft pencil and a pad of paper than with the spade, hoe and rake, but the easy kind brings few vegetables to the table. The lowly hen Is sometimes regarded as a pretty foolish bird, but she knows how to reduce the price of ess. and that is a lot more than some of the government's price investiga tors know. The government is urging that more Deonle keep bees. The bee Is domesti cated, productive of revenue, minds her own affairs, doesn't scratch up the neighbor's garden and knows enough to come home at night. What has become of the old-fash-toned America that could sing "We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too?" Secretary Baker saw a hundred American aviators In the air at one time. By next fall he ought to be able to see a thousand or more. For the benefit of the Inexperienced It might be well to mention that there should be a substantial partition between the patriotic garden and tha

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Rhinoceros Does Not Take Kindly to Pneumonia

NEW YORK. Pneumonia Is prevalent in the rxew lorK z.ooiogicai parK m tli0 Rronv Tr is nartietilarlv prevalent in the trreat Indian rhinoceros.

Nobody knows how prevalent a disease to Dick Richards, the nurse in attend ance, until he has a suffering rhinoc eros on his hands. Other victims are Tddy, an Alaskan brown bear, and Louisa, a Himalayan black bear. All three have been taken to the Isolation ward of the hospital pro vided for such contingencies and strict precautions are being taken to guaiu uatiiau luruici aprcuu ui uiu (3 ejnuvimc. mvary KtjeiJei. uries u thermometer with which to take the I J . t T1 1 t temperature of his charges. The giraffe's keeper carries a stepladder also, of thermometers. Teddy and Louisa are doing as well

Indian rhinoceros is very low indeed. As soon as he was stricken Dick Richards ran out and got a dozen porous plasters to put on the small of his back, and when he returned the great Indian rhinoceros was lying flat on

his back, denting the pillow with his horn and shaking the building with his breathing. It took Dick and a force of assistants with crowbars a good half hour to persuade the Invalid to roll over, and when he did it took another fifteen

minutes to discover where the small of found It was evident that the supply of

had to rush out and get a couple of dozen more, and while he was gone the

rhinoceros rolled over on hist back again. Yesterday, however, the plasters think there must be something wrong right somehow. So Dick hustled out for

wrap his patient in. In the whole park he could find only three dozen towels, and the lot of them scarcely would make a handkerchief for the great Indian rhinoceros. The ever resourceful nurse obtained a dozen tablecloths, however, and succeeded in giving his patient the first Turkish bath he ever experienced.

Dick hopes the tablecloths did the trick, but the great Indian rhinoceros undoubtedly Is one of the sickest rhinoceroses that ever lay fiat on its back

and played that It was a steam piano. Draft Boards Find Ways Ci H JCA( J O. Although a majority or service by submitting sad stories . . . . .. - ents, more than a few classical excuses (were YOU AiYPPTtrnOJ

The youth did so. "Can you hear this?" asked the physician, in a low tone. No response. "Can you hear me now?" This was spoken In an ordinary volcfr. No response.

"Now. nut your hand over your left The order was promptly obeyed ; the

submitted to the rest of the examination.

A sweet youtiK woman, employed in

caught several slackers who were clever enough to foil the medical examiners. One instance, which was reported by a member of the local board, concerned a

vountr man who insisted he was deaf the examiners. As he left the medical

Hashed at him caused him to forget war and home and country. "Were you accepted?" the young woman asked in a very low tone. "Naw: the.v turned me down, and gee, I wanted to "

"Don't worry, my friend, wo made

said a drawling voice behind the slacker.

The youth whirled and faced the mered, but finally began to grin. "That's number six for ine," said

'Seem Unabie to Get "Hang" of Daylight Saving

BALTIMOUMi There is In this city hang of the "daylight saving" plan. with a keen enough brain, and there is understand the "daylight saving scheme is largely duo to an argumentative disposition. But, however that may be, there is something to what he says. There is going to 'be a lot of topsy-turvy business resulting from the double-quick of the clocks, unless people really do what they are being told to do: "Set your clock forward an hour and forget it. The trouble Is some of these birds are determined not to forget It.

There will be the sporty fellow, who, thinking to slip one over on the government, will look at his watch, note that the hands register 1 o'clock, and will exclaim : 'It's only midnight, boyswe've got another hour yet." An Intelligent-looking man was heard to say: "I'm not going to be mixed up about this time business I'm going to carry two watches, one in my left vest pocket and one In my right vest pocket. When I want to do anything I'll look at the one in ray right pocket, but when I want to really know what time It is, I'll look at the other one." Meets Her Baby Under Exceptional Circumstances DETROIT. This introduces you. to William Anderson. William is thirteen months old and he met his mother, Mrs. Hazel Anderson, for the first time Friday. It was au unconventional sort of meeting, too, because William was in his

day. She said that she was a nervous wreck before her. baby was born, through treatment alleged to have been accorded her by her husband. She was in the hospital for several weeks after William came. The baby was placed in the home of her husband's mother. Now Mrs. Anderson always has yearned for her baby. She told Judge Webster so. The Judge gave her a decree and the custody of the child. But despite these legal aids she couldn't get possession of William until Deputy John O'Brien stepped In the breach. "I didn't want to dress him." said the perspiring O'Brien. "I was afraid to take time. That's why he's only got those night things on." "Bless hi precious heart," said Mrs. Auderson.

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can. become in a rhinoceros, according and the ostrich man carries a basket as could be expected, but the great his back was. When the spot was porous plasters was inadequate. Dick were in place, but Dick and the patient with them. They didn't seem to draw some towels to dip in hot water to to Deal With Slackers siacKcrs navo sought to cvaue military of physical ailments or helpless depend . . 1.1- .1 nil.. . have boon heard by local boards and medical examiners. The following little system caught more than one would-be evader: A youth alleging defective hear ing was taken Into an examining room. "My hearing Is pretty bad," he told the .medical officer. "That so? Lot's see," said the doc tor, as he stepped close to the young man. "Put your hand over sour right ear," said the doctor, loudly. ear," said the doctor, In n faint voice, candidate "saw the light" and meekly one of the Detroit draft board olllces, and who evaded the tests and tricks of room the smile which the demure miss a little mistake and you're accepted," medical oiiicer. He blushed and stam the girl in the case. a man who swears he can't get the He is a perfectly Intelligent fellow, a strong opinion that his inability to I CAN'T FIGGED out THIS eke ViDAYLIGHT SMI 1 nightie and John O'Brien, a deputy sheriff, had charge of the Introduction. It was at the county building. Mrs. Anderson snatched the baby In an eager embrfi.ee. She cried over htm a bit as women will, and William cooed and gurgled and seemed to understand just what it was all about. Then Mrs. Anderson told how It happened that she hadn't seen her own baby until after his first birth

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RIGHT CARE FOR

CABBAGE FIELDS Plant Sanitation Will Prevent Many of injurious Diseases of This Plant. CROP ROTATION IS FAVORED Seed Bed Is Often Source of Infection and Greatest Pains Should Be Taken to Insure Healthy Planta Use Lime Freely. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Cabbage diseases which have been known to destroy practically entire crops are preventable in the main by simple methods of plant sanitation. Crop rotation is one of the chief foes of these diseases. Rotations should be practiced, avoiding crops which belong to the cabbage family, such as cauliflower, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and, kale. Keep down mustard and weeds which harbor cabbage pests. Drainage water and refuse from diseased cabbage fields may carry Infection, as will stable manure with which diseased ma terial has been mingled. The seed bed Is often a source of infection, and the greatest pains, therefore, should be taken to insure healthy plants. Locate the seed bed on new ground if pos sible, or sterilize by steam the soil that Is used. Disinfect all cabbage seed be fore planting to prevent black-rot and black-leg. Clubroot Is avoided by the free use of lime and by setting healthy plants. How Diseases Are Spread. Fungous and bacterial diseases are carried from one place to another by various means, such as Insects, Infected seed, transplanting from an Infected seed bed to the field, drainage water, cabbage refuse and stable manure, farm animals and tools, and wind. In view of these facts the chief aim of the farmer should be to pre- t vent, If possible, the Introduction and distribution of destructive, diseases on his farm. In order to accomplish this, several precautions should bo observed, of which the more Important are the disinfection of seed, the location and care of the seed bed, and crop rotation. To disinfect seed, use one ounce of formaldehyde (40 per cent) to two gallons of water, or one teaspoouful to a teacupful of water. Soak the seed for 20 minutes In this solution, dip In clear water to wash olt the formaldehyde, and then spread In thin layers to dry.stlrrlng If needed. To "Disinfect Soil. To avoid danger of spreading the disease to uonlnfectcd fields by means of the plants from the seed bed, the following recommendations are made for disinfecting the soil in which the plants aro grown: Sterilization by mrMum of drain tile laid In the bottom .-'Hi YS moms er V )' jr. . .. RcJt of Cabbage Plant Infected With Root-Knot. of the bens, through which steam Is passed; by means of an Inverted pan under which steam Is admitted; or by drenching the soil with a formalin solution consisting of 1 to 100, or 1 to 200 solution of formaldehyde. Crop rotation Is an essential practice whether or not it is necessary in the control of any plant maladies. There are numerous fungous diseases which appear year after year on the same field. Some of them, such as clubroot of cabbage, are strictly soil parasites and cannot be controlled by any fungicide. About the only method left to get rid of the organisms is to starve them out, and this can be done only by a well-planned system of crop ro tation. For ordinary practice, a rota tion of four or five years Is sufficient to reduce greatly the loss from most parasites. Deep and frequeut cultlva tion by means of which the organisms are exposed to air and sunshine as sists in exterminating them. ENCOURAGE BOYS AND GIRLS Little Money Required and Current Expenditure May Be Reduced by Using Wastes.

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(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Boys and girls should be encouraged to start In the poultry business. It requires little money to invest, and the current expenditure may be reduced In part by utilizing farm and home waste?. If the project begins with a laying flock, the return begins early, especially by supplementing the food lupply of the home.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST INSECT CRIMINALS

Many Birds Carry on Active Warfare on Various Pests. Little Feathered Songsters Approximate Police Force as to Make Interesting Study Pewee Acts as Traffic Cop. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Maybe you have never thought of the birds as an organized police force. Maybe they have not but, under the marvelous and mysterious chief, the Balance of Nature, they approximate a police force so closely as to makt an interesting study. You see a great number of blackbirds grackles, mostly literally covering the ground in some particular place. There has been an outbreak of insect criminals that the regular forces were not able to quell and the reserves have been called out. You see a pewee, a kingbird or a great crested flycatcher sitting perOne of Policemen of Feathered Fam ily. fectly still and silent on a dead branch or a mulleu top or a bunch of leaves, then suddenly making a dart into the air, wheeling' and returning to his perch. That Is the traffic cop on duty at the crossing of busy Insect thoroughfares. You sec rather, you do not sec unless you are very keen-eyed and pa tient, but he is there none the less the yellow-billed or the black-billed cuckoo slipping silently, like a sleuth In gum shoos, from branch to branch and from tree to tree. He Is the plainclothes man, relentlessly hunting down the wily enemies of nature's social order. There are special policemen, watch officers and the like, for various special duties. The woodpecker, with the brown creeper and the nuthatch to holp him once In a while, stands puard over the tree trunks while the warbler and the vlreo do duty on the leaves and little limbs. But most interesting of all, perhaps, are the patrolmen of the air, tirelessly going their rounds, from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn, policing overy foot of "the space 'twixt the earth and the sky." At twilight, the night patrolmannighthawk and whip-poor-will-go on duty. Tn the gray dawn they are relieved by the day patrolmen swallow and swift. And these day patrolmen are of the greatest importance, not only In protecting man's property, but in making living conditions tolerable. If the mosquitoes, gnats and files that swallows and swifts consume were permitted to run riot, living would be Increasingly a thing of pain and sorrow. It follows, then, that swift and swallow, like all good policemen, are entitled to be kindly thought of by the people they protect. GREAT DEMAND FOR POPCORN Short Crop Last Year Has Almost Exhausted Reserve Supply in the United States. The enormous Increase in demand find a short cr.op last year has almost completely exhausted the reserve supply of popcorn in the United States, In previous years the reserve has always been maintained. In 1916 the popcorn raiser sold his 1915 crop. In 1915 he sold his 1914 crop, etc. But now that reserve is gone, and the 1917 crop Is on the 1918 market months before it would be marketed normally. And popcorn that usually brought two cents per pound In the field two years ago Is now bringing five and six cents. i and may double in price within the next year. The 1917 crop will be barely sufficient to supply the country's demand for this delicious confection until a new crop is harvested. But the price of corn In the field Is bound to- Increase materially. Until a few years ago the average man gave little thought to "the corn that pops." He looked upon popcorn as a business for street vendors. Here Is an opportunity that every farmer should investigate. The United States department of agriculture has issued several bulletins on the produc tion and marketing of popcorn. WriU for bulletin! numbers 202, 55t, 554

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CORNS STOP HURTING THEN LIFT OFF WITH FINGERS. Drop of magic! Doesn't hurt one bit! Apply a little Freezone on that touchy corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift vit off with the Sogers. No pain at all ! Try it ! Why wait? Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and callouses, without soreness or Irritation. Freezone is the much talked of ether discovery of the Cincinnati genius. Adv. To Use Bags of Banana Fiber. Sugar planters In the Hawaiian Islands are facing a shortage of mags used as containers for raw sugar. These hags have been imported from Calcutta. Recently machinery was sent to Honolulu from the state of Washington for the purpose of manufacturing the bags from fiber of banana tree trunks. Popular Science Monthly. A DAGGER IN THE BACK That's the woman's dread when ho gets up in tho morning to atart the day work. "Oh! how my back aches." GOL.D MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules taken today eases the backacho of tomorrowtaken every day ends tho backacho for all time. Don't dolay. What the u of sufüorlng? Besln takln GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules today and bo relieved tomorrow. Tako threo or four evory day and be permanently free from wrenching, distressing back pain. But be uro to get GOLD MEDAL. Sine im GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil has been tho National Remedy of Holland, tho Government of the Netherlands having granted a Hpeclal charter authorizing its preparation and sale. The housewife of Holland would almost as soon be without bread as she would without her "Real Dutch Drops," as sho quaintly calls GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. This Is the one roason why you will find the women and ohlldron of Holland so sturdy and robust. , , . GOLD MEDAL aro the pure, original Haarlem Oil Capsules imported direct from tho laboratories In Haarlem, Holland. But be sure to get GOLD MEDAL. Look for the name on every box. Sold by reliable druggists In scalod packages, three sizes. Money refunded If they do not help you. Accept only the GOLD MEDAL. All others are Imitations. Adv. Fair Enough. "Young lady, you are far too fresh for your sex." "Well, you know, we aro suppose! to have equal rights now. Whenever Yon Need a General Strcnuthcninir Tonic Tako tho Old Standard (SKUVK'8 TASTK&KSS chill TONIO. Ii contains woll known tonln proportion of QUIK1NI9 and I HON and Ik Very Valuable a.H a (ionoral HlronKthonliiK Tonic Von can fro I tho Kood clloot on t ho JJlood after tho ilrst few dosus. OOc Tf you Und It impossible to toll twins apart tell them together. NEUMONIA First call a physician. Then begin hot applications of ICKJSVAPORU Why Women Suffer BECAUSE you are a woman there is no need to suffer pain and annoyance which interfere with work, comfort and pleasure. When you suffer again try Piso's Tablet! a valuable, healing local application with astringent and tonic effects. Tho name Piso established over 50 years guarantees fair treatment. Money refunded if not satisfied. If you would be rid of Backaches, Headaches, Nervousness, Weariness as symptoms of the condition a trial will convince. F)ISOS TABLETS Sold Everywhere 60 Ccntm Sample Mailed Free addrema postcard THE PISO COMPANY 400 Piio Bids. Warren. Pa. THICK, SWOLLEN GLANDS that make a horse Wheeze, Roar, have Thick Wind or Choke-down, can be reduced with also other Bunches or Swellings. No blister, no hair gone, and horse kept at norlc Economical Only afew drops required at an application. $2.50 per botde delivered. !k3ll1rM. AtSO WIRE, JL, the antiseptic liniment for mankind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Swoüem Veins and Ulcers. $1.25 a botde at dealen or delivered. Book"Evidence" free. W.F.YOUNG, P. D. F., 318Tm 5U SfrlüffftM, Mm. WANTED Capable Honest Salespeople throughout Indlaua to represent us la a prorcd succegful oil investment, wlta Individual owm ership of your own Und. NO STOCK for b1. Mutual in control all having equal voice. Time tried and proved a blp winner or the lavestor. Full details, bank and biiHlnesa refer?cea oa application to HOOSIER-TEX. OIL LANDS CO Old rclliwt Dvllrflnfl, INDIANAPOLIS PATENTS Watioi K. ClMm, Pateat Uwr,WukiaftM, T). C Advlte aa4 feoeks a tr. EatM rfMuoa&ble. IDgiHwl iclcieac. Mmlrrl

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