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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24
The Color Of Flames.

Many people have noticed with
much interest the many tinted bars
and bands that rise in the shape Of
"forked tongues of flame" from
wood burning in a fire. These va
ned hues are the result OF combus-
ton from the different elements Of
the fuel. The light blue is from
the hydrogen and the white from
the carbon. The violet Is from the
manganese, the rcd from the mag
nesia and the yellow from the soda,
which are constituent parts Of the
wood.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24

Make weak solution Of soap
and warm water. Rub plenty OF
soft soap into the leather and let
it soak for two hours, then rub il
till quite clean. Afterward rinse
il well in weak solution Of warm
water, soda and yellow soap. After
rinsing wiring il well in a rough
towel, dry quickly and pull about
till quite soft. 1t will then be be-,
Ter than most new feathers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24

They we're country people pure
and simple, but they had read the
papers and thought they were edu-
Gated up to all the Improvements of
a city. When they went to Wash
ington they went through the navy
and saw the models Of
our ships Of war. Pointing to a
companion ladder hanging over the
side of one of the boats, she asked
her better half what it was.
"0h, that's the fire escape" re-
piled the acknowledgements
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24
He Cot the Girl.

lie had gone to ask her father for
her hand in marriage.
"Well, sir, what is it?" snapped
out the old man. Remember, | am
a man of few words"
Il don't care if you are a man of
only one word If it's the right one"
replied the sutton.
He got the girl.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-11-24
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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1911-01-05
Toleps Mieren=@ - cine
@erthd1Gbmnq.

8. McGonnell, Catherine Ctr, 81
mira, g. g., i9reibt: uSSb6 m0dte met
ne Mnerfenm1ng fir 6as pielfa6 @u=
te ous0riiden, 6aS i'd 6ur6 6oleD's
Mieren=&eilmittel erbielt, meldes ib
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tboten Sic Mrbeit in mirfiamIter @eiie
uno bemteien mir iber alien 3meifel,
6aB es sic 5uperlGiigite Mteren=Meoi=
gin lit, sic i@ lie genommen babe."
Molitor Drug 60.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1911-01-05
Cine 5%nperlGnige @niten-M ebi5in.

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freun0. 5olep'S @onep ans Sar fiiut
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sic GrfGltung ouf. Sd babe es itets
als EN- 5uperlaliiges 9uitenmittel &C.
fun0en. Molitor Drug 60.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1911-01-05
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sebt mad benz 8ee @ipe

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60.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

to develop a suitable nautical machine
that will be entirely satisfactory and TO
demonstrate the entire practicability Of
the aeroplane for ship use"
Europe Far Ahead.
Americans, hearing of the flights Of the
army aeroplanes now and then through
the medium OF the newspapers. have
come to think Of aeroplanes for use in
war in numbers of two or three. The few
experiments conducted in this country
and the many in Europe have proved the
practicability of numerous aeroplanes in
times of war, especially for Teconnoiter-
ing purposes, and although more than
$500 monoplanes or biplanes could be pur-
chased at the price of the Dreadnought
Florida, which has just been built, the
United States navy and army together
cannot boast a dozen machines.
The French military authorities have
more than 100 aeroplanes in actual use,
and with the orders to be filled their
equipment will exceed $50 monoplanes
and biplanes of various manufacture be-
fore the end of the year. The expert
ments of French military aviators, for
the most part secret. have proved con-
clusively the value of aeroplanes used in
connection with an army. 1t is the opin-
ion of NJ. BerteauX, the minister of war
that the aeropiane has become the most
admirable of modern engines of war"
Among the French army engineers who
are devoting themselves to aeronautics
are some of the most famous airmen of
the day, for instance, Latham and Lieut..
Conneau, better known to the general
public as Beaumont. Although especially
enthusiastic over aeroplanes, the French
authorities have not been blind to the
uses of the dirigible. With the eleven
new dirigibles that are being delivered
this year. France will have twenty at its
command before next January, while the
United States does not even have enough
to talk about
Germany Now Active.
The German war office, realizing that
they must try to keep up to the French
dirigibles, supplemented their excellent
fleet of dirigibles by laying in a supply
of heavier -than-air machines, with the
result that Germany now has about
seventy-five, for which army officers have
been trained in secret. Before the end OF
the present year it is estimated that Ger
many will be in possession of at least 100
for actual military service.
Not to be outdone by the French and
Germans, Russia has already begun the
expenditure of 100000 in securing a
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

the maniacs. Naturally, people COM
planned to me. If you'll back your
mayor, justice of the peace. and chief
Of police, said. he will get into ac-
tion.'
II put out notices limited the speed of
automobiles to fifteen miles an hourI I
was liberal. The speed might have been
reduced to three miles. 1t all lay in me.
BE LIBERAL. my father once told me.
and you'll have no trouble in dealing
with men, The notices being posted. I
ordered John. the constable, to neck the
first galoot who broke the regulations.
John stretched big rope across the
road and brought In FIVE students from
the Rochester University who had a
great deal more money than brains.
They had said sAh. there to me as they
went roaring past my place, I sitting
on the front porch. che-tns ray and
looking wise.
$50 John brought them into tile. court
room I'd built nd dining my house.
When they. called RE Judge laughed
to myself knowing less about law than
a Polsnd-china pig Knows about high So
cIcty In New York After nning the
driver OF the ,nachIne $50 and getting
the cash on the apot J Nnt John dowa
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
New Yorker, Whose Candidacy Was Re-
garded as Joke, Has Impressed
All With His Ideas.

father, agriculture from his mother, and
dentistry from a doctor. He has been
Doc" Akin ever since. Between times
he went out West. Il don't know a
damned thing about politics. he con-
fessed. but i can go to Chicago, Omaha
or Kansas City and pick out a load OF
bulls or hogs and not get the worst stock
in the pens, either"
By and by Ethan Akin paid the debt OF
nature. He owed some money, but he
left nearly a million dollars worth Of
property. BY his will Theron became the
estates executor. Thereupon Theron
abandoned dentistry. He spent fifteen
years settling his fathers business. In
the meantime he read magazines and
newspapers. His front yard contains ten
acres.9
Wears OveraIIs and a Dock Leaf.
II permit no man." he declared, ito
prune my trees or monkey with my
shrubs. l grow my own vegetables-do
the work myself. The evening before
came to Washington, to be sworn in as
a member of the House of Representa-
tives, / milked my COW. I am a plain
man. If you were to come my way, you
would probably find me sitting on the
front porch, wearing patched overalls on
chewing tobacco and reading the woolen
schedule of the tariff law.
"And I'd invite you to stay for din
ner, and you'd say that Mrs. Akin is a
damned good cook. I want everybody to
stay for dinner, and 1 want everybody
to invite me to dinner. If I am not
invited, 1 regard it as a personal insult.
Once invited, however, 1 go my way.
1 never eat a meal with anybody, not
even a blood relation. I'd drive ten
can pay for what 1 get and be inde-
pendent. But 1 want the courtesy of an
invitation every time"
Ink and type are inadequate materials
for picture of Doc Akin, as friends
and neighbors invariably call him. His
photographs represent him as a hard,
sharp man. He is all of that when he
goes on the warpath. If the occasion
demands 1t, he can look as fierce as a
wildcat Likewise, he can roar like a
cannon. Ordinarily, however, Doc Akin
is a genial man. He Is tall. raw-bonea
and big-handed, and his face is lean and
a little wrinkled, but his gray eyes are
kindly, and his whole countenance Is
filled with expression. Rarely laughing,
except when he shouts at some incident
he thinks particularly amusing, he smiles
most of the time as he vigorously gesucu-
lates and energetically converses.
Explains Peculiaritfes of speech.
Il may fall into errors of grammar and
syntax." he said. but know better. I
have lived my life among strong-worded
men and have acquired their habits Of
speech. Telio. Doe. some one viii ask.
how's your tobaccog Which transl0ted.
n,caus that I am invited 10 give him a
chew OF my plug or out Of my pouch. Ny
lie has been spent among familiar and
honest people and am damned glad
OF H.,
Even 80. Doc Akin has the sifs Of Ian
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

composer is struggling with the English
language.
He laments the fact that he has not
been able to reply in English to the
praise of King George v. who attended
the first night Of "The Count of Luxem-
bourg'' at Daly's, where Herr Lehar
made his first bow as an orchestra
leader to an English-speaking audience.
From my father" said Franz Lehar,
Il undoubtedly inherited my love for
music. He was kapellmeister for a
regiment stationed at Komarom the
greatest fortress in Hungary, and there
was born in 1870. My mother was
Hungarian by birth. and at the time that
my father and she were married neither
could converse in the others language
an amusing situation.
KapelImeister at Twenty.
Il studied the violin in Prague at the
conservatory, where Kubelik later pur-
sued his studies. When I was twenty
years old tecame kapellmeister for a
Hungarian regiment. and had the dis
tinction of being the youngest at that
time in all Hungary. I wanted greatly
to devote part of each day to COM
position. but my other work did not
allow an opportunity for me to fulfill
my wish at first.
Finally, however, in 1896, I completed
my first opera, called "Tatjana,' which
was produced several times In 1902 the
regiment with which I was connected
removed from its station, and I went to
Vienna to live. Except for the time that
l spend during the summer at Bad
lschl, Mrs Lehar and / are in Vienna
most of the time at our home in Theo-
baldgasse. At Bad Ischl is a small sum-
mer theater. where the operettas and
musical comedies for which 1 compose
the music are given.
1T was after I had left my position
as kapellmeister that I had the oppor-
tunity to devote myself to composing, as
1 long had wished. and most of my
musical works have been composed since
1902 In that year Wiener Frauen' and
Der Rastelbindsr' were seen on the stage
Tor the first time, the people of Vienna
taking a particular liking to tn former.
In 1908 came Der Gottergasse,' followed
by Die Fuscheirat' the next year. Then
in 1906 came Die Lustige witwe,' or, as
you in the United States call it, The
Merry Widow for Franz Lehar does
know this much English. as the title of
his most famous work, in addition to the
words, Thank you"
Three New Operas Ready.
I'm 1906 appeared .Mitislau' and an op-
eretta foP children, Peter and Paul in
Schlaraffenland.' Two years later the
Viennese saw Der Mann nit den drei
Frauen' for the first time and started It
on the road to success. After a very
busy time for me Das Furstenkind,' Der
Graf Won Luxembourg and "Ziegeuner-
liebe' were produced in the season of
1so9-1o. OF these II has been arranged
that the people of New York will see
during the next season Das Fursten-
kind 'Zigeunerliebe.' and Der Mann nit
den drei Frauen.' In view Of the nego-
tiations of several American producers
for the American rights of The Count
OF Luxembourg I believe that it will
not be very long before 1t will be seen on
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

Presently men came to me, saying:
We knew your father. He built Akin,
selling lots sometimes on a down pay
ment of so cents, and treating the poor
generously. You cuss like him and act
like him, and we want you to be presi-
dent of the village
simultaneously, I was elected justice
of the peace. AS mayor. I was also the
de facfo chief of police. Well, say, Il
was simply a cipher In Akin. That was
in the year 1909. and had never wanted
a political office. But there is tide
In the affairs of men, and so forth.
Look up the. quotation and put IN the
rest.
"a fine macadamized road runs from
New York to Syracuse, Rochester. and
Buffalo. Automobilists were scorching
through Amsterdam and Akin at sixty
miles al, hour. They raced with the
limited trains on the New York Central
and kept The pace until they went into
the ditch. Chickens hiied the air. Moth
ers pulled the arms out Of the sockets
OF their small children. posa were going
around on crutches. Cows got 90 Wild
that the women couldn't milk them.
Nothing was doue y Angterdam 70 pinch
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
AMERICAN AVIATION EQUIPMENT
FOR MILITARY PURPOSES Is SMALL

fleet of machines and in training omcers
in France and at aviation schools estap-
lished in Russia II is estimated that by
the end of December 80 aeroplanes VIII
be available fo- use in connection Win
the Russian army. England is little bet
ter off than the United States, for she
has twelve aeroplanes with which her
army and navy may experiment Inc
admiralty, having consecrated itself 10
ships. does not desire to make any appro-
priations for aeroplanes. Only short
time ago the men in charge of the naval
airship at Barrow rugged UP the frame
work of an aeroplane on pivot so as to
instruct themselves in the art OF flying
and be in readiness to sail through the
air by the time the admiralty changes its
policy.
Invasion with AerOplanes.
European airmen marvel at the slow
ness of the United States government In
the matter of military aviation. They
point out how defenseless fortified cities
would be against number of aeroplanes
dropping bombs of high explosives. Not
long ago French military aviator
amused a number of Englishmen and
Americans by describing the effects of an
attack from the air by fleet of aero
planes flying the French flag over Lon
don or New York City. He insisted that
something more than mere imagination
was behind his description. Brooklyn
Bridge and the bridges over the East
River would be among the first things
to be destroyed here; the subways and
elevated tracks would soon be put out OF
working order; the fire department would
not be able to respond to all the alarms
sent in. and the inhabitants OF the city
who remained after several hours would
submit to. any terms to SECURE peace.
The prophetic eye of an Englishman
sees the following: THE attack upon
the Panama Canal will come from above,
from the air, through which now there
are sufficient weapons in readiness to
insure Its destruction, and in which, in
the few remaining years, there will be
even more powerful and more numerous
engines of destruction ready for its con-
troll awaiting opportunity. Dreadnoughts
and uper-Dreadnoughts will be helpless
and inert along the coast, while the key
to the situation will be applied inland
and overhead"
Whether the Secretary of War has
looked ahead and has seen the possible
destruction of New York and the canal
Is not known, but he has emphasized the
need of more aeroplanes, so that the
country my have a proper aeronautic
equipment in case of war.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20
BY JAMES b. MORROW.

Talking to his four sons, Ethan Akin
would say: Don't tell, lie; don't act
a lie; don't look lie. Thus living, you
will not have collar boils on your con-
sciences or your memories. You will be
afraid OF nobody Perhaps you will lose
something temporarily, but in the long
run you will prosper, and your neighbors
will do anything you ask"
Whcnevct-Ethan Akin went to Iowa,
where he had 5000 acres of land, he
took one of the sons along for company
and also that he might teach him the
ways of the world and his own blunt phi
losophy. He swore more than was neces-
sary, passing the habit along to Theron,
who is now in Congress, and who, in
some respects, is the most interesting
and original character in Washington.
Ethan Akin was a lawyer. He pTac-
ticed in the city of New York, and was
acquainted with Horace Greeley, William
LLOYD Garrison, and Wendell Phillips.
Besides the four sons, he had two daugh-
tiers. He believed in the country and
wanted his children brought up amid the
beauties and virtues of nature. Further
more. he was thrifty person, as all men
have to be or ought to be If they have
large and hungry families.
old Conspicuous in his dress is a Ma
sonic watch charm, once the priced orna-
ment of Billy Rice, the negro minstrel
Theron and Billy were boys together.
Billy, dying at Hot Springs, said to his
nurse: Send that pointing toward the
charm, Ito Doc Akin, of Akin. He never
turned me down when / needed grub
stake"
Approves Red Hair and Freckles.
On holidays and Sundays, so Theron
told me, Ethan would walk UP the Hud-
son looking for a farm that suited his
purposes. So it came to pass that he
bought $50 acres of land several miles
from the edge, of Amsterdam. my
mother" Theron exclaimed with enthu-
siasm. his homely and angular face alight
with pride and affection, was strong
and sensible woman. She became in time
as good a farmer as any man in the
State of New York. She was red-headed
and freckled. All such persons can come
70 me and will ~e treated o. X. They
are great people,
Soldiers returning from the Mexican
war were given land grants by the ma
tional government. Ethan Akin, still
practicing in his old office, purchased a
number oe such warrants, and that Is
the way he came to own 5000 acres If
rich prairie in Iowa He also bought
land In the Adirondacks. After the civil
war he had a hard time with his taxes.
1--WE lived," Theron said 20 me, ION
buckwheat cakes. sorghum molasses, and
hog pork. My mother managed the farm
In the Mohawk Valley white father was
IN the West hustling for tax money
Nevertheless, Ethan held on. Theron
became slightly crippled In one OF his
legs. The other three boys moved 10
Iowa. bought cattle and raised corn.
Part OF the farm near Amsterdam was
sold for building lots. Theron remained
At home, learned business from his
The Washington herald., 1911-08-20

The recent and remarkable develop
ment of the aeroplane in Europe for mil
itary use has served to call attention to
the fact that the United States, of all
the great powers, has the poorest aerial
equipment for war purposes. The repu-
tation gained by our governments be-
ing the first to recognize officially the
heavier-than-air machine for military
purposes has been lost because of later
failure to take advantage of its oppor-
tunities. And this failure, along with the
governments one notable aerial achieve
ment, will be commemorated, now that
the aeroplane which the War Depart
ment first devoted to experimental flights
at Fort Myer in May, 1905. is to be sent
to its last resting place in the Smith
sonian Institution.
This consignment of the once famous
Wright machine to the junk pile leaves
the army with five machines for actual
use. They are as follows: Two Wright
machines, one at San Antonio. in charge
of Lieut.. B. D. Foulois, and the other at
the srmy's aviation school at College
Park, Md; one Burgess biplane at Col
lege Park, under the direction of Capt.
Chandler and Lieuts. Milling, Arnold, and
Kirkland, and two Curtiss machines at
College Park, in charge of Lieuts. p. w.
Beck and J. c. Walker. Stationed at the
aviation school last month were five off,
GERS and fifteen enlisted men of the Sig
nal Corps, under Capt. Charles De F.
Chandler.
Only Three for Navy.
The Navy Department is even worse
off than the army, for II owns but three
aeroplanes. One is a Wright and the
other two are Curtiss machines, of
which one is an eight-cylinder aeroplane
equipped with a hydroplane and capable
of arising from or alighting on either
land or water. THE latter machine" 4"
writes Capt. W. Irving Chambers, has
been the subject of considerable co-opera-
tive experiment for some time. The
three machines so far contracted FOR
by the navy have been accepted, but their
delivery is delayed until the completion
of the hangar at the new aerodrome on
Greensbury Point, Annapolis, Md. In
struction work with these machines, how
ever, continues both at Dayton, Ohio, and
Hammondsport. n. Y. 1t is anticipated
that the new hangar will be ready for
occupancy before the end of this month.
This years appropriation for the de-
velopment of aviation in the navy" con-
tinues Capt. Chambers, lis very small.
but it is hoped that it will be sufficient