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MacfarIand Satisfied.

In reference to this report Commissioner
Macfarland said yesterday that no more
thorough work of the kind was ever done.
and the Commissioners could do nothing
but accept such a statement from such
men. He directed attention 10 the SKATE
ment IN which the committee summed UP
their observations.
we deem it our duty TO report that. in
our judgment very satisfactory results
are being obtained under. very adverse
circumstances We found conditions at
the hospital such as TO reflect credit on
the institution
Dr. D. Percy Hickling visiting physi-
clan to the Washington Asylum Hospital.
said that the charge that patients were
sent from that institution to st. Euz-
abeth's was without foundation.
Do Not Treat Some Patients.
"On some occasions" said he, I'VE have
exercised our lawful prerogative by. send
ing patients to the Government Asylum
for the Insane Immediately after they
have been sent to US, but in those cases.
we have made no practice of treating
them. nor can they be rightfully consid-
cred patients at our institution
In fact, We have no obligation to re-
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Ferry Service TO Alexandria.
steamer Lackawsnna sveTy HOUR and A HALF
a. n. to p u. daliy and Sunday. FARE =
EACH ~
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October 5. 1907. Remember the aAtc.
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RACING CARDS FOR TODAY.
GrHvesend.

SECOND kACE-Handicapi one and one-eis
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FOURTH RACE-Hsndjcap: about six furiongs.
SIXTH RACE-Nlaidcn thresyeaF-olds and ~
= -

also eligible
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Tore

SECOND RAtE-BTUCk Puoes 500 al
-.-r- III DC I'D on -n--L H-rL-nc-
The San Francisco call., 1907-01-13

overcome any lingering fears he may
nave or you or of the room.
Another time he may be wheedled
INTO mounting your shoulder. This
trick is readily taught by pinning a
lettuce leaf TO the sleeve of coat or
gown.
A simple trick which most birds learn
readily is that of kissing the master
or mistress. Place between your lips
seed or some edible which the pet
especially likes and let 1t remove the
morsel with its bill. 1t will learn after
little practice to come to your shoul-
der and 10 kiss you
A clever little canary called Tiddly-
Wlnks was trained to feed his master
with hempseed before beginning on his
own breakfast This is an interest
ing little stunt which other intelli-
gent birds could readily pick up Two
or three of the hemp seeds for the
master were placed in the seed cup
with the canary food.
When he placed the cup in the cage
the owner would say, ''Tiddlywinks,
master wants his breakfast" The lit
tie creature would Immediately 1nd
one of the hemp seeds. and bring 1t to
the door of the cage, which was opened.
Flying to the finger held out for him
TO perch upon Tiddly would shell the
seed and place the kernel between the
owners lips. This was repeated untll
the supply of hemp was exhausted,
after which the clever pet returned to
enjoy his own meal.
Some very pretty tricks OF the more
unusual order are performed by birds
belonging to Miss Virginia Pope, the
bird doctor. A charming one IS climb
ing q ladder.
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I some parts of England, especially
in the south, the fruit yield is
plentiful, while in the northern part
it is said that apples. pears and
plums are a failure. In the neighbor-
hood of which Hull is the center enough
apples for local consumption are not
grown even in good years, and the
market has TO be supplied largely from
abroad This gives American export
ers an excellent opportunity to mar
ket their surplus product. But there
arc rivals in the field.
Canada is making earnest efforts
to get control of the fruit market
in England, and it is necessary to
impress upon American exporters
again that the Canadian Government
is aiding the movement to its best
ability. 1t has made very strict reg
ulations for the grading Of all apples
shipped and has imposed heavy fines
on violations of these rules.
For instance. Canadian barrel
branded Fancy" which is new
graile is required to contain sound,
well-grown fruit of one variety. with
all small, imperfect and marked fruit
carefully eliminated. NO. /" grade
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For this, coax the bird to hop first
on one finger, then to hop from a fin
ger of the left hand, we will say, to
one on the~right Then raise the hands
one above the other, so that in hop
ping from the index finger of the left
to that of the right hand, or vice versa,
the suggestion of climbing ladder Will
be given.
Lift one hand over the other several
times. When the pet has learned to
enjoy this frolic, as he will in a short
time, try a real ladder of dollhouse sizs.
In the ladder trick a tiny bell can
be fastened to the top round. Birds
having a keen sense of fun love to
play with the jingling bells. They viii
cheerfully mount the ladder for the
amusement of ringing one, having once
discovered what it is there for.
There are many tricks which two,
three or several birds can take part
in together. For example, if the lad
der is poised across the back Of a tiny
chair or something else of the same
kind two birds will immensely enjoy
a seesaw game. They learn naturally
to balance and manage the seesaw as
cleverly as boys or girls.
Another trick is balancing on ball;
while three birds can have jolly good
times riding in and drawing a cart.
One pet plays horse, being harnessed
to the miniature cart with narrow rib
bon. Two birds ride in the cart. hold
ing the ribbons in their bills. The driv-
ing party will sometimes wend its way
quite a little distance Gas bird dis
tances go) around the room before the
feathered steed is tired or the excur-
sion party wishes to dismount.
Wnen your pet has become thor
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consists OF 80 per cent of perfect fruit,
and ''No. 2" grade must have so per
cent of fruit free from defects that
cause material waste The success
which has so far attended the efforts
of the Canadian Government in this
line has encouraged II to make reg
uIations still more strict in respect
to the picking of fruit and the pen
alties still more severe for the ship
ment of barrels graded wrongly. Now
it is believed that only apples prop
erly graded are received in England
from Canada.
If the American farmers expect 10
retain the hold they have on the Eng
lish market they will 4.ave to be
as careful in grading their apples as
arc the Canadians. otherwise they will
soon lose their market in this cOun-
try. They have lost r part of it al
ready by bad grading. and the same
defective methods viii lose them more
1t is reported that Il steamship SER
vice for the expectation of American
apples exclusively is about to be es-
tablished between Boston. London and
Hull. the vessels sailing semi monthly
and having a capacity OF 10000 barrels
each.
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THE bright birds learn to perform
simple tricks as readily as a
puppy or a kitten, says a writer
in St. Nicholas.
1t is a common mistake to think that
pets can be taught only when hungry,
and to commence birds training by
depriving it Of breakfast, dinner or
supper is a most unhappy beginning.
To take a bird in your hand, don't
open the cage and grab for 1t at ran
dom. This excites the tiny creature
and teaches it to dread your arrival.
First take out the top perch, slip one
hand inside Of the cage and follow the
bird outside the cage with the other.
When caught hold it very, very
gently between the hands. and lightly.
for birds cannot endure squeezing or
any kind of. pressure Allow it to set
tie it's feet comfortably on one of your
fingers, talking to 1t in low. coax
ing tone, and after a few minutes re-
turn it to the cage.
Some little treat should be given as
you put il back, such as a leaf of let
tuce, a bit of apple or fig Fruits and
green tidbits are the candy of the bird
world Repeat this every morning for
a short time.
Next teach the little fellow to hop
on your hand Of its own free will.
You can easily tempt him into doing
this by placing a leaf of lettuce or
some other dainty of which he is fond
on your palm and holding your hand
just outside the open door of thu cage.
1he coveted 1aorsel viii help him to
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ough1y accustomed to a little gentle
handling he will probably have learned
to lie on his back, either in the palm
of your hand or anywhere he is placed.
This, also, is the foundation of more
than one merry game. Thus he may
be willing to lie on his back holding 4
wee marble in his claws.
If the little fellow is particularly
good about sitting still. make for it
tiny fools cap and ruff of white pa
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A British Soldiers Cruelty

This Paul Cutters early manhood
was cast i'm trOublOus times. Soon after
his son. the first Nehemiah Cutter, was
horn. Paul Cutter was a witness OF the
Tsoston massacre. Filled with horror
and indignation at the sight OF il, he
xecaune one Of the arch traitors OF the
colony member OF the famous Com
1nittee Of Safety, he took TO the Boston
Tea party as naturally as a duck takes
10 water He missed the Battle OF
f,exineton, but he made up for IL at the
Eattlc of Bunker IIill. From thar
dearly-bOught British victory he ran a
fugitive with no place but the old home
at Arlington to rest his head. That
he managed to reach with whole
skin. His dismayed wife was at her
wits end to conceal him. The house
was likely 10 be searched at any mo-
mont and was invaded by British SOL
diers that night. But hours before the
soldiers arrived the resourceful patriots
had taken the drawers from an old
chest sawed off the facings, put the
hunted husband-soldier into the chest
and restored the facings. The Brit
sshers hunted the house over, but they
didn't pull out drawers in their search
Tor the man for whom their general
and offered a reward Of so pounds. AS
thc baf1ed soldiers were leaving the
house the frightened little nve-year-old
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and grandfathers had told of boarded
wealth.
"They are miserably poor" said the
new generation that watched the
brother and sister travel through their
youth together and down through the
years of middle life to old age and
the brink of the grave. And such, GER
tainly, did they appear to be. Neither
had married. They had lived out their
uneventfuI lives in the house in which
they were born, adding dollars TO the
wealth hidden there. where their
grandfather had placed hundreds and
theh father thousands. Denying them
selves every comfort, letting the world
sweep by them unobserved, they lived
the life of the eighteenth century in
the nineteenth and twentieth. Occa-
sionally stories about the old house be-
ing haunted and of wealth being con-
cealed there would be revived. but the
stories passed and were again forgot
ten, serving no further purpose than
to perpetuate the reputation Of the
place as the house Of mystery.
For two generations, at least since
the death of the crippled grandfather
of Nehemiah and Lucy Cutter, no per
son other than the few members OF the
family had entered the Cutter home
stead So when the brother and sister
failed to appear on the streets or in
their yard the neighbors hesitated long
before making Investigation. But
eventually investigation had to be
made and the feet Of strangers crossed
the threshold of the Cutter homestead.
There the brother and sister were
found in the midst Of the treasures
which they could not understand, cold
in death. There are, it is said, none to
inherit their boarded wealth, unless it
be some distant branch of their family.
too far removed to have for them the
sympathy of kin. With them died the
Cutter family at Arlington. 1t has
been said of drunkards that in two
generations the gentleman becomes
scrub At Arlington two generations
of miscrs brought extinction OF
family.
per and teach him to wear these for a
few minutes when told to do so.
One bird owned by Miss Pope had
the particularly cute trick Of burst
ing through the tissue paper of a cir
Gus hoop, made specially for his bird
ship. a few inches in diameter, while
another converted the swing of its cage
into a trapeze and would whiz through
the air heels over head like a circus
performer
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crannies of the haunted house at Ar
lington.
After the death of their parents
Nehemiah and Lucy Cutter continued
to add to the wealth that two genera
tions had accumulated. But unlike
their father and grandfather they did
not engage in trade. They did not
know how; it was not of their life or
experience. In a miserable way they
kept up q garden and sold garden
truck. Two generations had pointed
to the house of mystery and told of
enormous treasures that were con-
cealed there. But the generation that
knew Nehemiah and Lucy Cutter had
forgotten the stories that their. fathers
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son of the hiding American started %
crawl out from under the bed where
he had been hiding. A soldier saw
him and wantonly and cruelty pinned
the child's les TO the floor with his
baYOnet.
HOpclessly crippled burdened with
an offensive wound which never healed,
the victim OF the soldiers dendish cru
city lived for almost half a century
He Inherited the old Cutter homestead
at the death OF his father. but in his
pain and helplessncss he was burdened
with the haunting fear that he would
one DAY be reduced TO poverty. Grip
pied though he was. he married soon
after his fathers death and one son,
Robert was born TO him. To save for
himself and for his son became his
passion. In the shipping that in those
days-the beginning OF the nineteenth
centurv-plied out OF Boston. he was no
incOnsiderable partner And he saved.
saved, saved. Nor would he trust the
banks. His money was kept by him
closely to be counted and recounted and
gloated over Before his boy was 10
years old his wife died and the child
was made partner i'm his fathers hoard
ings The boy was taught to read and
write-and to count gold. The years
drifted rapidly away and the crippled
father died, leaving the son. scarcely
out OF his teens. close guardian of the
boarded treasure.
But long before the crippled miser $
death a new generation had grown up
in Arlington. The bayonet stab had
been forgotten and the miserly cripple
who lived alone with his son was
Stunned and despised. In loneliness
and-for All his boarded wealth-in
poverty he lived, and thus he finally
died.
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that which the running or fingers
through bags Of gold and bundles of
banknotes brings. They played no
games such as other children play;
went nowhere, saw nothing except the
gold. the very use of which they could
not understand, nor did they through
all the seventy-odd years of their un-
happy lives.
But their parents had taught them
to hoard. cleveriy to conceal gold and
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The Second Miser

The life Of the son was even more
wretched. The children of Arlington,
in whose games he had never joined,
who had never known him as a school
mate, forever avoided him. Long be-
fore the house in which he had lived,
in which he had been born, and in
which for three generations before him
his fathers had lived and died, had
been dubbed the haunted house OF
Arlington. There the lad lived with
the gold which his father had boarded,
and TO which the son, even in his
younger days, had added to enormous
ly. He took up the work where his
father had left of. To get money, TO
save it. to have IL under his eye, be-
came his administering mania. His lust
was satisfied to its fiji. Every venture
that he undertook yielded him enor-
nous gains. Craftily, he would venture
A dollar on an investment If he could
figure out that the returns would be
threefold. And seldom did his 5udg-
ment err. The thousands that his Grip
pied father had left him. he multiplied
into tens OF thousands-and as his
father had done before him, he con-
cealed about the house the money that
his craft brought. Thin-faced, trem-
bling of hand he lived only to increase
the treasure stores OF the house, which
two generations OF his neighbors had
Stunned as haunted.
That this man should marry seemed
unthinkable to the generation that had
grown up in Arlington with him. But
he did: woman whose instincts We're
in close sympathy with his own. To-
gether they continued to store away
gold and bonds and bundles of bank
notes They lived for nothing else,
not even the two children which were
born TO them-Nehemiah and Lucy Cut
Tor who aged and alone died misera bIv
in the old homestead several weeks
ago.
The two children, into whose youth
childhood never entered, were brought
up alone in the old haunted house.
amid the stores OF wealth which two
generations had accumulated. They
knew no other life. no pleasure beyond
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-11
Paid Penalty with Life.

Hammond IT. stephen Koric. Of
Whiting. died as he was being
carried up the steps leading into St
Margarets hospital as the result OF
three bullet wounds. inflicted by An
ton Sachur. a young man, on whose
wife Koric had been forcing his at
tentions Sachur, with his two-year
old babe. is a fugitive. Sachur had
Koric arrested for annoying his wife
Charges Of assault and battery were
preferred against him and he served
sentence in the county jail at
Crown Point Koric was released and
he Immediately. returned TO Whiting
When Sachur came from his work he
found Koric in his house Going to
his room he got a revolver. and as
Koric fed down the front steps
Sachur opened fire Koric fell on the
sidewalk and Sachur. running TO the
cradle and snatching up his child. dis.
appeared. stepping over Koric's body
in his fight
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-11
SUICIDE ENDS CAREER.
Wife Calls in Police to Expose Alleged
Theft

Chicago-After having. il is all
legged. stolen 81 300 from laundry
and found another woman whom he
told his wife he had married. Frank
Hornischer rrot and killed himself al
Madison and Dearborn streets before
a large crowd
Hornischer. several weeks ago. left
his wife and took up with his affinity,
who, he said. was known as Miss
Fffer" OF Knoxville, Wash
The wife received word that he
was at Hotel Morrison. and when
she met him. at his request. he told
her he had married the other woman
and was going away She told him to
go II he would be happier, and then
informed the proprietor OF the laundry
OF her husbands whereabouts. With
two detectives. the latter visited the
hotel Hornischer saw them coming
and ran. but haltt. at Dearborn and
Madison streets. where a crowd had
gathered Just as the officers were
about 10 reach him. Hornischer placed
a revolver to his temple and fired, tall.
ing dead His affinity" is believed TO
have gone 10 Kansas City. Mo.
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HOOSIER HAPPENINGS
Latest News of Interest from Various
Towns In Indiana
ANNUAL CORN SCHOOL.
Prizes 10 Be offered for Best Samples
az Purdue Exhibit

Lafayette. Purdue university's an
nual corn school and stockmen's con
Vention will be held January IL To Is,
1908. and feature aside from the val
liable educational work involved will
be number of prizes that have been
offered in various competitions.
Prof G l. Christie. who is at the
head OF the crop extension work and
the corn school work. has received
word from Harvey Gray. a dealer in
garden seeds at Galveston. Ind. that
he will OFFER silver cup valued AT
sl25 for the best sample of yellow
corn submitted at the corn school. II
is expected that the corn show in con
nection with the school will be the
best in the history OF the school.
Other prizes have also been offered.
r. H. Scott. of Laporte county. has
notified Prof Christie that he Will
give a cup valued at s75 TO the In
diana Corn Growers association 10 be
used as the association sees fit. The
association has decided 10 present il
To the boy under 20 years OF age who
holds the highest grade in corn judg-
ing in the corn school to. be held in
January. Mr. Scott has also an
nounced that he will give eight schol
arships 10 Young men who desire 70
attend the short course in agricul
ture al Purdue
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-11
27t.1e4 +oqs Die Of Cholera.

Indianapolis ~ On the first day
OF March. 1907. there were 1876
542 hogs in the state OF Indiana.
despite the fact that during the year
Immediately preceding. 217,1s4 hogs
had died from cholera and other dis
eases During that year also. 4.34l,
G52 hogs were sold by the farmers OF
the state These are figures com
piled by Miss Mary A. Stubs, chief
Of the bureau of statistics. About the
same proportion OF sheep died during
the last year the number being 3d.
972 On March !. 1907. there We're
626994 sheep in the state. and the
total number sold last year was 524.-
sO7 There were more dairy cattle on
hand on March /, 1907. than beef cat
tie. the figures being 570.543 and AS
0l0 respectively A total OF 432,664
cattle was sold last year
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-11
OPEN AIR SANlToRluM.
Greene County Physicians Offer to
Treat the White Plague.

Jasonville The Greene County
Medical society has under considera
tion a proposition 10 establish In this
county in connection with the county
inirmary tent colony for the treat
ment of consumptiye patients. II Is
estimated that there are in Greene
county in excess of 300 persons In all
stages OF the white plague and of this
number so per cent. as they are
usually treated. die while under the
best known method of treatment. as
practiced out of doors. in colonies or
sanatoriums. the percentage is said
10 be nearly reversed
The society has passed a resolution
favoring the proposition. members ex
pressing Willingness TO do the pau
per practice and contribute the pro
ceeds TO the maintenance of such an
institution. The cost 10 the county
for the medical treatment OF the pau
per poor is nearly $500 annually.
In the discussion of the matter by
the society the legal status OF the
proposition was not understood and
the county attorney was ordered TO be
consulted as TO the law in the prem
iscs
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Girl scalped by Shaft.

Hammond - Miss Anna Vether,
a visitor at the Calumet pickle
works here, was literally scalped when
her hair became entangled in a swift.
~ revolving shaft With a party of
friends the young woman was making
a tour Of the plant. Before she was
aware Of her danger her hair was
quickly wound round the shafting and
she was lifted from the ground BE.
fore her companions could stop the
machinery the hair had been pulled
from her head. large pieces OF scalp
being torn away
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-10-11
Mennonite Guilty Of Assault.

Goshen.-David Smetzer. Men.
monte farmer. OF Olive town.
ship, was arraigned before Squire
Whiler, accused of assaulting Loretta
Humby, IL years old. whom he took
from an orphanage at West Liberty,
o., TO rear as one of his own child
rem. He comes from a district in
tensely religious, and his offense
caused great excitement in the com
munity, and he was expelled from the
church. Mr. Smetzer was remanded
under bond for grand jury action. He
says that il is the will Of God that
he should be punished
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eanishes Negro from State.

Princeton. Simpson. ne
gro. who has caused the police
trouble on numerous occasions. has
been banished to Illinois. Nevermore,
BY order OF Mayor Cushman. will
Simpson be allowed to set his foot
in Princeton. The state of Illinois was
not particularly mentioned by the city
officials as an asylum, but 1t is under
stood that Simpson. since he cannot
stay here. says he would prefer TO
live in that state