Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 November 1918 — Page 2

Letter to a Country Mouse From Her City Cousin

Dear Mouse : Well, here I am right

exactly like a molecule. Lonesome? Well, I should say so. Why is it that Commerce. Abroad they are the actucity crowds make one feel so unnecessary? When you stroll out into the al operating force of many businesses, country, surrounded with the chickens, pigs, sheep, goats and cows and and it may be expected that a like conpigeons and thousands and thousands of tiny folks that go to make up the dition will more and more come to crowded country life, you feel that man is indeed lord of creation. But when prevail in the United States. The you stroll out in the city and meet these same folk, just because they have women of Great Britain have made a put on human shape, you feel quite small and inferior and abashed. For they splendid record in the industrial world, are all here, Mouse, dear, every single one even to Greedy and Grunty, my and there is no doubt they will likeprize Berkshires. I lunched at the next table to them today. The only wise here if the emergency requires, marked difference was that there was no pen around them and Greedy wore This state of tilings is usually presentbeautiful diamonds. Grunty made just as much fuss about his food. You ed as an outgrowth of the war, and would have thought Washington put on the sugar restrictions with no other not a few women are quite frankly purpose than to annoy him, and as he guzzled and grunted and grumbled, holding their present places as a patrihis fat jowls, red and shaking, as he tried to stuff, and complain to high otic duty rather than as the result of heaven at the same time about how terrible the food situation really was, a personal desire. Very little study, I was tempted to yell "Sewey" anil drive him and Greedy back to their pen. however, is required to reach the conI don't believe he knows or cares to know that if he and his fat companion elusion that in many cases there will had not been exceptions, America could never have shipped 86,000,000 pouhds be tendency and disposition to broadof beef products during the one month of March to our hungry allies over en the scope of women's employment yonder. It means nothing to them that before we entered the war we ex- after the end of the war, and, if deported to the allies 50,000,000 pounds of pork a month. When we entered the sired by the employers, to accept them war this had increased to 125,000,000 pounds, and In March of this year the as permanent factors in places hereamount of pork exported to the allies amounted to 308,000,000 pounds, which is tof ore held exclusively by men. more than six times the normal and 50 per cent greater than any other month The final outcome with reference to during the last seven years. This is what "porkless days" have done. So the industrial status of women will, it's back to the pen with Greedy and Grunty ! however, depend primarily upon the The old Dominecker rooster had two pullets to lunch at the table just degree of efliciency they are able to noTf tn min, nnd he was shaklmr his red wattles, flapping Iiis wings, scratch- develop. If there are, as often alleged,

ing straw and showing off generally. He was sixty, and a grandfather, if he was a day, and the girls could not have been over twenty-two and pretty as pictures. One was a stenographer and the other a bookkeeper in the same big office building where Daddy Dominecker heads a loan business, and believe me, food conservation meant nothing in their young lives, so long as daddy paid the bill. They ate straight through the menu card. I don't see How they do it and keep their shape for that they were easy to look at

goes without saying. They were built along leghorn lines, and in spite ot their years had gained much knowledge of barn-yard tactics. I had to admire their system. Two good-looking young aviators were just across from them, one of them would engross Dominecker's attention while the other flirted

with the soldiers. Then they would change about, and their team work was so perfect that poor old rooster paid the check, which would have bought

two five-dollar War Savings stamps and chuckled as he paid it: then strutted off

to smile "good-by" at the soldiers and make a date to meet them in the moonlight I hope, for youth should call to youth. Mouse, what is It that blinds a man of sixty and a woman of forty to the fact that when they act Kittenish they never fool anybody but themselves, and the world laughs at

kittenish they never fool anybody but themselves them and not with them?

If the po ole rooster hadn't crowed so loud Ho migrht'or passed for younf? in tho barn-yard crowd, j But, ho drapped his wings and stepped so high Pat tho pullets all laugh as he passes by. And ho ain't by hisself in dat. No, honey, ho ain't by hisself In dat.

Mouse, I have a nice juicy bit of scandal that I would write you, but I TT- KnrxT nnrninsc vmi nrt about loavint: your letters about, and this is en-

know now careless you are about leaving

years, so I will postpone it. In the meantime, know that in the midst of all the exciting sounds and sights the heady experience of nibbling this strong

city's cheese I think of you and love irront srmces in which you are moving, SAVE PITS AND SHELLS in Making Gas Masks w Boyj and Girls Can important War Work By th& U. S. Department of Arrlculture. Tho war department has requested the boys' and girls' clubs of the country to help collect fru1 pits and nutshells, the carbon in Ich is used in making gas masks. V ests have been suggested among the million club members by the United States department of agriculture and the state department colleges, which conduct the club work, to see which member, which club, which district, and which state can deliver the largest amount of material in the shortest time. Each member should try to furnish at least 200 peach pits, or seven pounds of shellsenough material for one mask. Since more and better carbon is secured from tho pits of peaches, prunes and plums than from other sources, boys and girls should make it their special business to see that every home in their communities saves the pits of these fruits. They should also visit community and commercial can neries, hotels, restaurants and baker ies. In addition, seeds should be col lected from dates and olives, and shell and whole nuts be saved from hickory nuts, butter nuts, English and native walnuts and hazelnuts. The material may be delivered to the local Red Cross headquarters, which are acting as central stations for collecting and shipping. a. r .. t-9 Words of Wise Men 5 Choose the just man. The partial man may not always be partial to you, but the just man is always just. The great man expects everything of himself; the small man expects everything of others. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Denied a right to serve in the army, 100 Colorado Indians are doing their bit by working on the highways. They are building modem roads over the trails blazed by their forefathers.

The Largest Cities. The cities with more than 2,000,000 Inhabitants by latest census are New rJTork, 5,737,402; London, 4,522,00-1; iParis, 2,888,000 ; Tokio, 2,1SG,000 ; Chljcaso, 2,165,000; Berlin, 2,071,000; lYlennt, 2,031,000.

in the midst of things and feeling

. .. gone a Ions way on the third, and to net his hat and coat, leaving them ' - brother John or Mollie of the tender you. so, dear, out or tne peace ana send a quieting homey letter to ME. American Farmers Should Follow Scotland's Plan to Eliminate Food-Eating RatS The cannv Scots of West Pertheh! m fUsMrt- nro Hvin? im to their reputation. They have organized in an active campaign to exterminate rats and save the food and property which they waste. They have demonstrated that it is cheaper to kill than to feed rats. According to a report from the American consul at Dundee, which has just been received by the United States department of agrlculHiro 5. rnmrmifm in oviorminntn ruts in the district mentioned, for which $1,470.41 was appropriated, ,vniMri lust year in the Killing of 100,000 rats. The board of agriculture appropriated S4SG.G5 for the campaign. It is said that one rat in the course of 12 months caused damage estimated at $2.43, and as there were approximately two rats to the acre, the amount of damage done was equivalent to the average amount of rent paid by the tenants of West Perthshire. The campaign has been so successful and the people so pleased with the results that community co-operation to exterminate rats is to be continued another year, according to the report. American farmers, who have long suffered losses from these food raiders, should follow the example set by this district and organize community campaigns to get rid of rats. In many sections of this country where similar campaigns have been conducted results always have been gratifying. Three National Forests Recently Added to the List Complying With Weeks Law The president has proclaimed the establishment of three new forests, the final step in carrying out the purpose of the Weeks law. The first, observes a writer in Outlook, is the White Mountain National forest. Its area of nearly 400,000 acres protects the watersheds of the Androscoggin, Saco, Connecticut and Ammonoosuc rivers. This watershed region has also long been famous as an important recreation ground. As its name implies, the Shenandoah National forest is on the watershed of the Shenandoah river, but it also protects a portion of the Potomac and James river watersheds. Its area is about 1G5.000 acres. On this area, and still intact, aro the trench systems constructed during the Civil war under Stonewall Jackson's supervision. The White Mountain National forest lies mostly in New Hampshire, but laps over into Maine; the Shenandoah forest lies mostly in Virginia, but laps over into West Virginia. The Natural Bridge National forest, however, is wholly in Virginia. Its area is about 100,000 acres. The forest protects a part of the James river watershed.

War Has Given Women Chance To Show What They Can Do in Various Industrial Avenues

After many years spent in demanding access to various employments on the same basis as men, women are now being offered an unprecedented chance to show what they can do in industry, states a writer in New York Journal of large and increasing classes of women who desire permanent industrial opportunity on the same basis with men, their time to "make good" is now at hand and will probably not soon come again. That there are many who realize the situation no one can doubt. It is equaiiy near, uuwuvur, mat mure are many others who thus far are showing traits which not only disqualify them from competition with men, II.. -.1 . l. . .. 1. but will render them unacceptable in any capacity as soon as men are again avauauie as employees, ut uiesu inuis the most serious probably are the lack of professional pride in work, the fallure to regard it as a permanent occuPotion, and as such to be studied and perfected, and the tendency to lack of responsibility. Time may correct these traits and develop the women of the country into an efficient, well-disciplined body of industrial workers. It will be neces sary that they train and educate them selves for their tasks and recognize that retention of the new place already assigned them will be dependent entlroly on tte merit they are able to show. - - ricUmiWI muitJS Ul nUSSId Said to Afford the World's Most Profitable Dredging The most profitable dredging in tho world can be done on the platinum nlacors of Russia, says the S,m Francisco Chronicle. The value of the metal recovered is often equivalent - . 1 r Lf AU1 uöiuiuui yaiuu, ui yi'au.u to $5 a cubic yard. When one rememers that the gravels of the California gold-dredging fields yielded only about 10 cents to 15 cents a cubic yard on average, and nevertheless paid well, the possible profits of platinum dredgng become apparent, Before tmi war there were about 25 dredges at work in the Urals, operatmS 'o-unrus oi me xime ol eucu , working season of about 150 days, and j averaging 500 cubic yards a dredge a I .1 ii it j i rt 1. 1. uay. uius woriiini: a lüim ol uuuul 1,200,000 cubic yards of material a year, and recovering annually 70,000 to 100,000 ounces of platinum. There is only one first-class dredge In operation in the Urals. They are mostly of antiquated design and of poor construction. First-class dredges working in material of similar characteristics dig several times as much gravel a day in other countries with similar climate. Working costs in the Ural regions are twice those in Montana, which has a similar climate, but where the auriferous gravel is much harder to dredge. FOR POULTRY GROWERS Don't forget that the hen is under unnatural conditions during the winter, and that summer is ideal weather for egg production. Try to imitate this condition as nearly as possible. Do everything within your power to make the bird comfortable." Don't merely house her ; give her a home and care for her. One reason why many poultry keepers fail to get eggs is because they fail to interest their birds. By that is meant they fail to give them sufficient litter on the floor and to feed them their grain in this, so as to keep them working for it all day. Keep their minds as well as their bodies engaged, and the hens will be happy, contented and will produce more eggs. The ideal method for feeding is to give them a little feed frequently in the litter, to keep them constantly alert and active. The feeding of a little stimulant, such as onion tops or occasionally a feed of hot, wet mash, or a change to some sprouted oats, fresh, green-cut bone, or in fact anything that the bird relishes, acts as an appetizer, and not only is effective in producing more egg but, also actually develops the interest of the caretaker or feeder to the point that he will give his birds other care. Know the individuals in your flock and try to satisfy their needs. Remember, they are under artificial conditions during the i winter.

TRAPS ARE GOOD

RAT DESTROYERS Most Reliable for General Use Is Inexpensive Snap or Guillotine Device AVOID SHEET METAL BASES They May Be Placed in Great Variety

of Favorable Places Around Farm riod the greatest amount of food maSmall Breeds of Dogs Are terial can be obtained and the best Most Valuable quality of silage made.

(From tho United States Department of the corn In short lengths, Tvith threeAgriculture.) fourths of an inch as the maximum No opportunity to kill rats should be length. In general, the finer the fodneglected on the ffirm. Traps, dogs, der is cut the more easily and more cats, and poisons may be useful. The compactly it can be packed and, in first need is traps and a knowledge of consequence, the better the quality of

now to use them. The most reliable traps for general use are the inexpensive snap, or guillotine, traps. Many efficient kinds are on the market, but the cheaper ones are rarely to be recommended for durability. Those that have sheet-metal bases are not desirable, as rats fear and avoid them. Snap traps should be set so that they will spring at a slight touch. They may be placed in rat runs, at rat burrows, behind boards leaned against the wall, and in a great variety of other favorable places. Dry oatmeal (rolled oats) is recommended as a bait for both rats and mice. Place n few grains on the trigger pan or under the trigger wire, with a few grains near the trap. Useful Wire Cage Trap. The wire-cage trap, if substantially made, is useful on the farm. Coarse bait is required, and may be hung from the top of the trap by a light wire. Set tho trap on a floor or on a board, lay a short board on top, and cover the whole with an old cloth or gunny sack, leaving only the trap entrance uncovered. The trap may be baited and left open for a night or two until rats learn to feed inside, after which a good catch may be expected. An excellent plan for using the cage trap is to bore a hole two or three inches in diameter n nrnnnr hoirrhf: In thft door of errannrv nr fond rnnm. Thr holo mnv be covered with a metal slide when the trap is not in use. Set the trap inBide the granary with its entrance fitted to the hole and cover and bait In the usual manner ; any rat entering the granary is caught. The same plan Is applicable to rat holes in other situations, and it has been used effectively between connecting rooms of cold störage warehouses. The small breeds of dogs, especially terriers, are valuable as rat killers or the farm. They are easily trained m A '. :1 Guillotine Trap With Wooden Base and Trigger Plate. and are always available when needed. Wherever rats are routed from nests , or labors these dogs are eager for the fray. When shocked or stacked grain is moved or thrashed they kill ; many rats. Sometimes a barrier, or fence, of light boards is placed about a stack, and dogs inside get all the rodents dislodged. In this way 500 or G00 rats have been destroyed from a single stack. Cats Destroy Mice. Cats are useful about farm buildings mainly because they kill mice. Sometimes they hunt and destroy rats but a cat that will kill an adult rat is rare. The chief objection to cats on a farm is their persistent destruction of song birds. A good cat is valuable when her killing propensities can be confined to rodent pests, but the majority of felines are worthless or actually injurious on the farm. Great caution should always be observed in the use of poisons, but there are situations on tlie farm in which poisons may be used safely and effectively. In the open fields poisoned grain may be scattered near rat burrows. In the poultry yard poisons may be exposed for rats inside darkened boxes. A small, rather shallow box containing the baits is set on the ground with a larger box inverted over

it. A hole in the larger box will admit often desirable to do this, provided it the rat to the food, while chickens will Is proved beyond question that the be safe. Strychnine is the safest poi- new variety Is better for that localson to use where poultry run, because ity. So-called "new" varieties, exhens are immune to small quantities travagantly advertised a. fancy prices. it this poisoa ffhould be disregarded coapletel.

VERY IMPORTANT TO FILL SILO PROPERLY

Cut Corn When Kernels Have Passed Milk Stage. Keeping of Silage Depends Upon Thoroughness Vith Which It Is Packed Fine Fodder Is Most Satisfactory. rrepare'brnfYes'Depart - Cut corn for silage when the kernels have passed the milk stage and are beginning to dent. At this pe-

The cutter should be adjusted to cut the Silase. Too much stress cannot be laid upon the necessity of thoroughly packing Cutting Fodder for Silo. the fodder iQ the gllo g0 as t0 exclude the ftir ftg much flg possiDle. Xt is tWs one mne that the keeplng Qf sll larffely depends. A device consisting of a jolnted pipe, 0r some varlatIon of itf attached to the top of (he Wower pl ig ftfc present in use for dIstributlng tiie cut corn fodder m tüe By the uge o thig distribu. tor it ig possiDie at the same time to Sf.ntf.pr thft cut rorn GVGnlv nnd at lhe gamo üme tramp it Without the - ... na if fcr .rv tn have at least one extra man in the silo to fork the material over so that It is evenly packed. Besides the saving of one man's labor, the distributor does away with the nuisance of having the loose material flying around, thus annoying the man in the Pilo, and also lessens the danger of being struck by some foreign object that may have passed through tho blower. Oftentimes tho corn foddor is so dry when it is cut that it is necessary to add water to make up for tho deficiency in moisture and provide for the proper packing of the silo. This water is most easily added to the blower when the corn is being cut, and it is also more thoroughly mixed with the cut material In this way. For the top layer of the silo it is good practice to use heavy green stalks from which the ears have been removed. This forms a heavy layer that packs well and at the same time contains a smaller amount of food material so that the minimum loss is sustained if it spoils. Various methods and materials have been used for covering the top of the silage to prevent its spoiling. None has given complete satisfaction, but the one mentioned above has given as good results as any, especially when the top layer was thoroughly wet down and lucked firmly by tramping. The best practice is to commence feeding as soon as the silo is filled, In which case there will be no loss of silage through decay. nATQ ppccppppn PflR POWI Q UM I O rnrnnLU run ruWLd In Nearly AH Parts of United States, Under Normal Conditions, ;orn Is Cheapest (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Under normal conditions corn is, in ! nearly all parts of the United States, the cheapest poultry feed. But at times like the present oats are to be . preferred. When corn is worth $1.50 : a bushel oats should be 75 cents and j barley $1.20 a bushel to give the same value for the money when fed to poultry, as corn. CHANGING VARIETY OF WHEAT Should Be Done Only for Purpose of Getting Better Kind for Certain Localities. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Changing the kind of wheat grown should be done only for the purpose of getting a proved better variety. It is

There was never n time when the saonnces and the help of women were more appreciated than at the present time. Women should learn war-nursing and nursing at home. There is no better way than to study the new edition of the "Common Sense Medical Adviser ' with chapters on First Aid, Bandaging, Anatomy, Hygiene, care, of the Sick, Diseases of Women, Mother and Babe, tho Marriage Relations to be had at some drug-stores or send 50c. to Publisher, 654 Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y. If a woman suffers from weak back, nervousness or dizziness if pains afflict her, the best tonic and corrective is one made up of native herbs and made without alcohol, which makes weak women strong and sick women well. It is the prescription of Dr. Pierce, used by him in active practice many years and now sold by almost every druggist in the land, in liquid or in tablets. Send Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 10c. for trial pkg. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are also beet for liver and bowel trouble. Laporte. Ind. "When Rppro&chlnr middle Ufo I Buffered severely. I had never beforo suffered with any sort of womanly tvenknesa an I was very much afraid that it would ro hard with me, but ono bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prcacnpinn rrimnletelv removed my pains and the critical I time passed so easily that I was scarcely conscious i of it. It is fifteen years Bincc I took that era i bottle of 'Favorite Prescription and I am just i strcne and well as can be and have never had th least sicn of weakness sinco. I think it the rnon I it P wl alirul wonderful medicine lor womcu hu tvuiuu " its uso by aU women at the critical time of We. J Mm. S. J. Baker, 915 Scott St. CARTER'S WW7M rri ITTLE IVER PILLS. For Constipation Carter's Little Liver Pills will set you right over night. Purely Vegetable Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Pric Carter's Iron Pills Will restore color to the faces of those who lack Iron in the blood, as most pale-faced people do. Cuticura Soap is Easy Shaving for Sensitive Skins The New Up-to-date Cuticura Method Consolation. He Mr. Cadby refused to recognlza me today. Thinks, I suppose, that I am not his equal. ShelUdicuious. Of course you are. Why, he's nothing but a conceited idiot. Boston Transcript. "Cold In the Head" Is an acuto attack of Naaal Catarrh. Persons who nro subject to frequent "colds in the head" will And that the uie ot HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will build up tho System, cleans the Bloot and render them less liable to colds. Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is taken Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. 5100.00 for any case of catarrh that HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will not F. J. Cheney & Co'., Toledo, Ohio. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Franklin. The silent partner in a firm always has a lot to say. mm - 7 j tS r . First Aid for Laundry Troubles If very "WRsh-day Is a day for th "Blues" the right blue Trill esnd thaau scuttling away Red Cross Ball Blue ii the secret of successful washing ; PureWliite, dazzling clothes that leaves the happy smile of satisfaction at th end of a day of hard work. S Cents. At Your Grocers' Children's Coughs may be checked xnd more Seriems conditions of the throat will k often avoided fey promptly rrivins: the child docc of PISO'S

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