Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 48, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 August 1918 — Page 3

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INDIANA STATE NEWS

Indianapolis. The Indiana state commissioners of the state by Gilbert board of pardons has recommended tö H. Hendren, state examiner of the Governor Goodrich that paroles be state board of , accounts. Wartime granted three life-term murder prison- conditions and the embargo on the ers In Indiana's penal institutions. It hauling of crushed stone and gravel, also has recommended a pardon for a practically has stopped the construeparoled "lifer." In the strongest re- tion of roads. Funds amounting to port sent to the governor in many more than $5,000,000, which will posterius the pardon board, following Its sibly reach $7,000,000 In the opinion June session, has recommended two of Mr. Hendren, have been raised by pardons, eighteen paroles and four bond issues and are standing Idle. The commutations of sentences. Govern- counties are drawing 2, per cent interor Goodrich has approved the recom- est from banks and are paying 4ft per mendations. The three life prisoners, cent on the bonds. A large part of for whom parole is recommended, are this money can be used for the reason Itufus Warren, convicted as a party to that the specific material named In killing a policeman in Madison county; the specifications is not available on George Stroud, sentenced to prison for account of government shipping orlifo from Madison county, and who ders. The three-mile law does not pro-

saved the life of a guard at the Mlchl-

gan City prison some time ago when "J-ne communication of Mr. uenuren, another prisoner sought to kill the which has the approval of Governor guard, and John Fenninger, sentenced Goodrich, Otto L. lauss, auditor of from Tanderburg county December 1, state, and M. E. Foley, chairman of 1902, for life for murder. Oscar Sav- the state council of defense, grants age, sentenced from Knox county in permission for the substitution of maaÖlO for life for murder, will obtain terials, if it is done in the manner sugrelease under a commutation of sen- gested by Mr. Hendren. To avoid legal fence recommended by the board, the complication a new estimate will be sentence being two to twenty-one made, but It must be made by the enyears, glneer and viewers who made the original estimate and with the aproval of Kokomo. Working men of the city the present COUnty commissioners and in a mass meeting adopted resolutions countv nttornev Th6 price of the sub.

ueciaring mat -various ministries in stitute material will be based on the the city of Kokomo are employing prlce of the lllllterial nt the time that women in large numbers under pretext üie contract for tne construction of that here is a shortage of male labor, the roftd was et The new nud the when it is known that the only reason ol1 Specificntions'must De sent to the for such employment is obtain cheap ofilce of Mn Hen(lren to ue inspected labor. We deem it a disgrace to the by a member of the engineering facfair name of Kokomo that women be ulty of Purdue university, delegated by forced Into Industries because their preSident E Stone husbands and fathers have failed to Lafayette. en thousand men livobtaln work at fair wages at the same ing jn cities ln Indinna hnve enrolled plants and a good many have been to wopk on fftrms thls smnmei either forced to leave town to find employ- spending a day or two at a time in ment at decent Wages. We call upon the fleldg or their evenings ftfter 0fthe patriotic manufacturers of the city fice or factory hours ftCCOrding to an to desist from the employment of estimtlt0 mftde bv w. B. Brumfiel, women in their factories on men's state avm Iielp SDecIalist for the dework at a wage lower than that asked partment of agriculture, whose headby men, and that idle men be given quarters af5 at Purdue university preference. ' here. Where men cannot devote a Indianapolis. Alleged maladjust- wnole lar tner are urSed t0 sPend the mentsnnd discrimination against In- evenings helping harvest. Hundreds dlana shippers, existing under the new of men, who have been unable to get freight tariffs effective June 25, were away for a full day, have enlisted discussed at a conference of the Pub- in tne "snock troops," to go out in the lie Service commission. It was brought evenings, after the heat of the day and out that there had been a heavy in- shock r'e. wheat or oats. A good excrease in switching charges, that niple of this work has been atBoonthere was an increase of 100 per cent vIllc where forty business men have ln short hauls of milk and cream, and shocked on an average of sixty to that there had been flat increases in eighty acres of wheat and other grain hauling of some commodities, such as ops in an evening, permitting the brick and gravel, regardless of what farmers to ail day. Here is how the old rate had been. To protest the business, factory men and others against these unjust features of the nnve enrolled in a few cities: One present freight rates, John W. McCar- thousand, six hundred Evansville and die and Edwin Corr of the commission - Vernon, the men for service in and O. P. Gothlin, a rate expert em- both counties; Noblesville, 300; Munployed by the commission, will go to cio, 350 : Logansport, 575 ; Laporte, Washington July 7 . 300; Bluffton, 150; Huntington, 500, 0 ' " and Crawfordsville, 350. .Dozens of Indianapolis. County school super- other counties have large numbers enlntendents have been Instructed by rolled, giving Mr. Brumfiel the basis Horace Ellis, state superintendent of for his estimate. instruction, to discontinue using school Indianapolis Indiana is on a strict money to pay teachers engaged ln ag- sugar ration. In addition to stateri cultural instruction In the summer ments of quantities of sugar on 'hand, vacation. Mr. Ellis has received an dealers and manufacturers using or opinion adverse to this practice from handling this commodity, are required Ele Stansbury, attorney peneral, who to give detailed information concern-

takes the attitude that although fed-1 eral nrcesslty is apparent for the conservation of food products, no such necessity should break down the statutes of the state. The attorney j general is of the opinion that public ! schools can be maintained only when ! they are open to all pupils, and this I would not be the case If faculties for Instruction were afforded children on farms and in gardens. Gary. An unknown person entered the home of John Forsgren In Tolleston and attacked his wife, Myrtle, and his three-year-old son with an ax. Mrs. Forsgren is dead of her Injuries and a new-born son also Is dead. The older boy Is ln a critical condition. A neighbor found the mother and child and reported the discovery to the police. A man about forty years old, with a kaiser mustache, was seen to leave the Forsgren house. Lafayette. More than S00 wheat fields of pure varieties, free from disease and weeds, havo been located in every county ln the state and will be used for seed purposes this fall. These fields were located and inspected by represntatlves of the urdue department of agricultural extension United States department of agriculture, and county and emergency agents and wheat committees. This Is the first step In the 1010 wheat production campaign. Terre Haute. With the end of the fiscal year, collections of internal revenue from the seventh Internal revenue district totaled $21,5So,15'i.52, the largest collection of any year in the history of the ofilce. Collections during the montlr of June this year were the largest of any month ln the history of the ofllde, a total of $3,739,Bloomlngton. Eight collectors from the state tax bqard have been sent to this county to collect delinquent taxes amounting to many thousands of dollars from more than 5,000 persons. County Treasurer lt. L. Walker says there are many persons in the county who havo -been delinquent In their taxes more than 25 years. Kokomo. Thrashermen of this county have officially agreed upon a charge of 4 cents a bushel for oats, 7 cents for wheat and 0 cents for rye, acting under the food administration.

Indianapolis. Between $5,000,000 nntl $7,000,000 of funds held in counties throughout the state for the

construction of roads jind bridges, under the three-mile road law, were re leased for the building of roads through a communication sent out to all county attorneys, auditors and vide for the substitution of material. ing their requirements, and sunject themselves to still further radical restrictions in the consumption of sugar for the months of July, August and September. J. E. Larger, head o? the sugar division in the office of Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, has prepared a sup plementary classification that will re quire all distribution hereafter (except that for household consumption) to be on a certificate basis. Franklin. Johnson county's quota of $410,000 worth af War Savings certificates for 1018 was bought and paid for in cash. Additional pledges Indicate that the sales for the year will reach $500,000 or more. Ninety per cent of the families in the county are holders of Savings stamps. A. B. Well, postmaster at Franklin, lias been advised that this county Is the first in the nation actually to sell Its quota, and have the money In hand. The pledge card system, which has been adopted by the National War Savings committee at Washington, was organized, and tills plan was largely responsible for the raising of the quota. Indianapolis. Deep concern for the corn crop- in Indiana, which was frosted Juhe 23, especially In the northern section and extending as far south as Indianapolis, was expressed during a conference between M. E. Foley, chairman of the state council of defense, and T. A. Coleman, head of the agricultural extension department of Purdue university. Mr. Fole who has visited a number of northern Indiana counties, said the situation was desperate and that immediate steps would have to be taken if the farmers of the section affected were to grow enough feed to last them through the coming winter. Indianapolis. A list of all registered veterinarians In the state with their post office addresses m i3 being published by Br. L. E Northrop, state veterinarian, for circulation among the farmers and breeders of the state. Merorn.- The enrollment, of 100,000 members was the goal decided upon by the members of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana, who have been In attendance, at the suffrage school at Merom. The quota was fixed at 4 per cent of each county, the apportionment for Marion county being about 11,000 members. This Is to Includq both men and women.

STDRIES

AMCRIC

Mrs. Brown Bear Resented Spouse's Playfulness

SAN FRANCISCO. Grim tragedy hangs over Bear Hollow in the ravine at the camp tragedy symbolized by a weeping spouse who grieves before the latest golden Star to be added to the honor roll of Great Lakes. From the time of their enrollment as rookies

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rosy hues of dawn reached over and gave busie a bear hug. Her eyes fluttering open, Susie reciprocated by walloping John playfully in the jaw. This bit of tenderness resulted in John biting Susie on the left hind foot, a display of affection which led Susie to claw two yards of fur off John's spinal "column. John was quite willing to let it go at that for the time being. But the love of a woman, once-aroused, is a dangerous thing, especially that of a cave-lady. "Somebody had better hurry and rescue Johnnie Bear!" shouted a recruit, rushing into Ensign Sharpe's office a few minutes later. "Susie's got him down and Is bltfng and tearing the hide off'n him." Members of the guard flashed into Bear Hollow but it was too late. Even as they appeared, lohn rolled out from Susie's claws and lay with glassy eyes staring in(,o the blue heavens. He was dead. A post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that a blood vessel had been ruptured by the excltemeac. Dumfounded by the result of the unleashing of her affections, Susie was overcome by grief. Last night it was thought she may follow her mate to bear heaven.

Mystefy of Intoxicated Cows Is Now Explained TROPICO, CAL. The cows thought it was a perfectly delightful tasting weed. So they ate and ate and ate and so on. But when the chemists analyzed the milk produced by a certain Tropico dairy company recently, and ordered the proprietor arrested as a

bootlegger, things began to happen. i-urst oi an, xropico is ary Düne dry. It turned as arid as a sandhill several months ago. And liquor held by the police, taken in confiscation raids, had no place in the Tropico jail. The court ordered it destroyed. Accordingly, the officers of the law took keg after keg of it, knocked out the heads of the barrels, and let the contents of barrels and bottles run

down the gutters. However, it chanced that the .gutters in Tropico are level affairs, and if there is enough liquid a good part of it usually runs "every which way." And it so happened that a large quantity of rich yellow liquor settled on the ground where a Tropico dairyman had pastured his cows. And several weeks later the unsuspecting bovines chewed down a number of the tall weeds that so suddenly had sprung up in the pasture. And also that is why the mill; fioldby the Tropico dairy had such a faintly satisfying odor, and taste. Careful investigation of the milk revealed a certain small percentage of alcohol, it is said. The dumfounded cow owner so valiantly protested his innocence of any bootlegging scheme that an investigation of the feed, df the cows subsequently was made, resulting in the discovery of the mysterious booze weed. For want of a better name, residents of Tropico have named the weed "Intoxico." The cows have been taken out of the field where the weed was discovered and a careful watch of its growth is being recorded.

"Sweethearts' Evening" Proves Great Attraction NEW YORK. From now on every evening will be "sweethearts-' evening" .at the new Enlisted Men's club, in the Broadway Congregational tabernacle, at Fifty-sixth street and Broadway. This announcement wras made by Capt. William R. Fearn, who has

duration of the war. "What I like best is to talk to a pretty girl," said one khaki-clad young man. "That is what all we fellows like best,, only some of us haven't nerve enough to speak it out," he added in confiding to Captain Fearn. The club is open from eleven o'clock in the morning to eleven o'clock at night, and at all times there are older women and men on hand who, in addition to trying to make it pleasant for the soldiers and seamen, will serve as chaperons. There are four shower baths, and last Saturday 40 men used them. The army men take to water more than the navy men. There are several tables of billiards, and these can be used at any time except during Sunday services. There is a large library. There are 40 small green tables with white tops and green chairs about them. Here, Paris style, meals are served. Dinner is 30 cents and luncheon 25 cents. Religion Is tabooed, so that Jews and Catholics .will feel as welcome as Protestants. '

Peevish Parrot Makes Trouble for Its Owner PHILADELPHIA. There is a parrot on the third floor, back, of an apartment house that has displayed, according to testimony in the police court, some evidence of being a music critic. The bird does not hesitate fo remonstrate in no mild language when

vocal selections of neighboring tenants displease. Mrs. Pauline Michaelson, owner of the bird, acted as defendant in a summons case. K. S. Jasper, tenant in the first floor front, was the complainant. He charged that Mrs. Michaelson was responsible for the parrot's annoying attitude. Mrs. Michaelson said that the bird only remonstrated when vocal selections rendered by Mr. Jasper as

he awakes each morning are wafted through the alrshaft window. Mr. Jasper told the magistrate that he did not trille with music, and he could hardly recall when the last note was uttered by his lips. The magistrate knows that no parrot, no matter how innocent he may appear tripping about his cage, Is limited in its vocabulary. TakiHg all phases of the case Into consideration and resting his judicial head on his arm on the desk, he meditated for a while and finally announced that a parrot with an unlimited vocabulary should not be limited to the confines of a cage and he believed that it would improve the disposition of the parrot if It were allowed the freedom of the Miehnelson home. The magistrate directed Mrs. Michaelson fo release the bird If she wished to preserve the peace of the apartments. She consented.

in detention two weeks ago, John and Susie Bear led an ideal life. John would nose out the choicest tidbits fn from his daily rations and slip them to Susie for dessert, and Susie in turn would lie for hours scratching John's back. But behind this lovely picture of conjugal bliss stalked the specter of death. Yesterday morning, it appears, John upon being awakened by the M4R-Ryao-oi5 7fyS$ -WE-B are CETTItiG UK -NON - ,2 rs 0, ISTTiPr charge of the club, after the first "sweethearts" evening, which was unanimously voted a great success by those present. Not only are sweethearts of army and navy men welcome, but wives, mothers, sisters and girl friends are urged to attend. Pilgrim Hall, the basement of the church, has been fitted up for the uniformed men, and it will be used for rest and recreation quarters for the

WHEN AGE ARRIVES w Rules That One Man Promises He Will Observe.

Of Course There Is a Proviso, but the World Would Be Sweeter if They Were Kept Generally in Mind. When I am old I will observe the following Items (perhaps) : I will not try to act nor dress nor talk so as to make people think I am younger than I am. I will not pretend to be young, nor bo angry when called old, nor ashamed df my age. I will not complain of being old. I will not continually remind people of my old age to secure their sympathy, or to hear them say I am not old after all, or do not seem so. I will not form the habit of indulging in reminiscences. ' I will be particularly careful not to repeat the same anecdotes over and over. I will not complain of the present and claim the past was much better. If I am deaf, weak-eyed, lame or otherwise afflicted I wTlll not advertise my infirmities, but avoid obtruding them upon the notice of others as much as possible. I will not talk of myself, my works, or my achievements, even of my mistakes, any more than is necessary. I will speak cheerfully or keep still. I will never indulge in cynicism, never sneer at youth, and I will try always to appreciate what younger folks do. I will be as little bored as I can, and never say I am bored, nor, if possible, act as if I were bored. I will not give advice unless it is asked, and not often then. I will not be irritable. I will not be a nuisance nor an encumbrance, so far as in me lies. I will hot be offended by neglect, but I will remember the words of the sage : "Those who come to see me do me honor; those who do not come to see me do me a favor." I will be as little disagreeable as possible, and will never use my natural disagreeableness as a means of getting my way. I will cultivate the friendship and companionship of young children, wjio alone understand old age. I will learn to love to be alone. As Ibsen says: "The freest soul is the soul that is alone." I shall try to show the wTorld that old age Is spiritual opportunity and not physical calamity. Forced to become a by-stander, I shall try to be a hopeful one. I shall try to sweeten like the pear Doctor Holmes describes that mellows and becomes full flavored befone it drops from the stem, and shall try not to sour and dry and rot. I shall conceive my life's triumph to be to grow7 triumphantly, victoriously old. In a word, I shall try to adjust myself to old age, as to all other facts of life. Life. Lucky Photographer. It is not always that things turn out so happily for the rash person who ventures to take snapshots on the east coast of England, as they did in the case of a young lady in the following story: She was seen photographing on a ioint of the coast, and was promptly approached by a special, who informed her of the enormity of her offense, took her name and address, and removed her camera. She heard nothing more of the matter for some time, but one morning she was amazed at receiving a check running into three figure, and a letter from headquarters informing her that her photographs were not only very good, but resulted In the capture of an enemy submarine. Confidence in the Cause. The champion optimist of America Is private B , now on active duty with bis regiment somewhere In France. The regiment, after a turn in the trenches, was whiling away its time in a rest camp, and the officers were seeking to get the men to use some of their spare minutes In the study of French. The men did not take very kindly to the idea, and one of the officers sought to chide them for their lack of interest." Private B cut him off with the following query: "What in h do I want to learn French for? They don't speak that in Berlin, do they?" Pickling Olives. A new method of pickling ripe olives which, it is claimed, will increase the capacities of the factories over 200 pqr cent has been discovered by the University of California. Heretofore it has taken 15 days to pickle ripe olives. By this new method It can be done in six days or less. The process 'is a result of four years of experiments. His Opinion. Willis What do you think of this plan of turning all the clocks ahead am hour each day? Gülls Just another foxy scheme of the bankers to make a man's notes come due sooner, I think. Judge, Some Satisfaction. "How did the shortage of gasoline affect you?" ' "Well,!' replied Mr. Chugglns, "It was a kind of comfort to know offhand exactly why the old machine .wouldn't run." Washington Star.

HAVE THEIR OWN TROUBLES

By No Mtani an Easy Task for Stokers to Hit tht Furnaot Door When Ship Rolls. It was while I was being Initiated Into the technique of stoking by shoveling conl under the boilers that a change of course brought the swinging seas .dead abeam, and et tht ship rolling oven more dmnkenly than before, writes Lewis It. Freeman in Popular Mechanics Magazine. After falling to hit the "dark spote" and. "hollows' two or three times as I staggered to the roll, and once even missing the furnace door itself, one of the stokers, taking compassion, relieved me of the scoop and put the trouble right with a half-dozen quickly tossed shovelfuls. I was frankly glad to work over to where I could take a "half-nelson" round a bar by the starboard bunker. A heavy slam-banging from the opposite end of the boiler room Indicated that things were not going quite so smoothly there, and edging cautiously along, I was presently able to get some hint of the cause from the words of a volubly .cursing stoker who limped out to tell me that the "bllnkln skip 'as took charge." Rubbing a bruised shin and glowering balefully from a blackened eye which appeared to have been bumped against a boiler, he explained, In language more forceful than elegant, that some Impractical theorist had encournged them to experiment with wheels on the side of the skip, with the idea of making it easier to push about over the coal-cluttered deck. In the picturesque language of the sea, It had "taken charg " and so effectually that one swift, straight rush to starboard, followed by a "googly" progress back to port, put every man who, either by chance or intent, barred Its way, more or less hors de' combat. Straight down the one-in-three incline from the port to the starboard bunkers lolloped the juggernaut, dashing the protesting anatomies of the stokers to left and right as it .went Spitting blood and oaths indiscriminately, one man clung to It all the way, however, and he also it was who taking advantage of the tilt finally rendered It harmless by pushing It over on its side, where It was left wiggling impotently like an overturned turtle. Primroses. I was at the railroad station in London, England, when the ambulance train came, says a correspondent, and as the stretchers w?ere gently lifted out I idly picked up a damp little bunch of primroses and wood anemones which had fallen at my feet. A pair of quick eyes, slightly dimmed with pain, noticed. "They're mine, miss, If you don't mind must have fallen off of my blanket arms no -use at present, as you see." h I made the posy quite safe this time, near enough to his face for the fresh smell of the moss which still clung about the stalks to reach him. I wish that whoever had gathered and tied up all these little posies in some peaceful wroodland spot, and sent them with such care to Waterloo labeled, "For the Wounded," could have been standing by my side that night. Malaria Attacks Army. The Annales de Medicine says, on the authority of Delille and his co-. workers, "that the epidemic of malaria that has affected the armies operating In Macedonia tforms, If not the most important, at least one of the most important, epidemics known In history. Not since the armies of Xerxes were decimated by malaria in that 'same region has there been a situation comparable to that of these modern forces in the Macedonian valleys and marshes. The extreme gravity of the infection, the early and large proportion of pernicious ca es, the apparent failure of preventive doses of quinine, the prevalence of malignant tertian malaria and the frequency of hemoglobinuria were special features. Little Bread Winners. Before the war 250,000 British schoolchildren under fourteen years of age were working for wages out of school ; since the war the number 1ms largely increased. Here are a few Instances: A boy of ten working fortyseven and three-quarter hours a week in addition to attending school ; a boy of eleven years working two and a half Jiours before school, two and a half hours after school, and thirteen hours on Saturday; a boy of twelve working one hour before school, one hor at midday, four bours after school, and thirteen hours on Saturddy. Saving Ice. In response to a request by the food administration that the use of artificial Ice be reduced to a minimum, a large hotel of New York city has posted a notice In each room asking that guestsvuse ice sparingly. The result has been a reduction In the calls for ice water. Ammonia Is used In large quantities in making artificial ice and, because of the demand for this Important chemical In the manufacture of .explosives, a shortage has been created. Appropriate. Mr. Bacon Are you through with that bonnet you wore last winter, dear? "May I have It?" "I suppose so. But what -do you want It for? "I want to use It on the scare-crow I'm going to put out In th cornfield."