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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
VARIOUS FARM RECIPES.

= Potato Scab Prevention Soak
. the uncut seed two hours .n "A So
: luton of formalin. one pint 10
9 thirty gallons Of water.
. Oat Smut.-Put the seed in
. heap on barn floor and sprinkle
. with one pint formalin IN CITY
: gallons water. Use Is many Sai-
. Ions IF solution rs there are
: bushels OF grain 10 treat Shovel
. the grain over while sprinkling.
then cover the pile with heavy
. blankets and leave overnight.
) Bean WeevilS Put the beans
in 4 tight bin or vessel. an the
) top set dish containing small
quantity bisulphide OF carbon.
) Cover and leave several h,birS.
The fumes are heavier than air
and sink down. penetrating lie
beans and killing all breathing Z
} insects. The biSulphide fumes are
Very infiammable. ~ do not
bring light near them.
Bordeaux Mixture. Copper
sulphatc. five pounds: lime. five !
pounds; water. fifty gallons. Put
the copper sulpiIate in bag and
suspend in Vessel of water un-
Ill dissolved: add the Slaked lime Z
in creamy solution and then :
water 10 make fifty gallons. &
This is standard strength for :
work on dormant trees. For use Q
on foliage ii must De diluted ac- :
cording 10 sensitiveness of the :
plants. If desired strong. stock .
solutions of the copper and lime .
may be made To be mixed and o
watered as needed.-Rural New =
Yorker. Q
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for good posts is proving that catalpa
as farm crop is big payer
1t is doubtful if any other known
wood will last as long in the ground
for fenceposts, telephone poles or rail
road ties. Many farms in Indiana,
where catalpa SpecioSa is native. are
fenced with catalpa posts which have
outliyed the men who set them and
are yet in good condition. Catalpa
crossties in railroad beds have lasted
thirty-five years SO far and are still in
use
In st. Louis during the worlds fair
furniture made of catalpa was shown
1t was IS solid and fine looking as any
ever made from any wood \ section
of railway passenger coach. seats
and all, also made Of catalpa, was in
the same exhibit
No other known wood has lasted
twice rs long set in the ground as it
took to grow the wood in the first
place.
Catalpa would undoubtedly have
wider acquaintance except for the linz
tied amount Of il that has been found
native in the country. 1t grows pure
only from pure seed. and that is hard
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
USING. MAIL ORDER MONEY
FOR TOWN IMPROVEMENT.
Formerly Sent Abroad, Now Kept at
Home Increasing Business For
Local Merchant.

There is a hustling and progressive
little town in the middle west that is
quickly growing into a city, but the
story Of the beginning of its boom is
known to few people 1t started one
day when resident of the town was
discussing local matters with the sta
ton master while waiting for his train.
Il understand" he remarked. that
Jones, the dry good merchant is not
doing business enough to pay for the
oats his horses eat and that Brown.
the hardware dealer. is also on the
verge of failure"
Yes, its fact replied the station
master. TOO bad isn't it,"
We'll, in a way it is, OF course. but
1t must be their own fault. Antiquat
ed business methods are probably the
cause of it"
That's where you make Il big mis-
take promptly returned the station
master. Il happen to know Brown
aud Jones very well. and | tell Won
they are Il couple of mighty up to date
business men. Would You care to
know the real facts in the case"
We'll. I'm not particularly interested
in these fellows and their affairs" was
the reply. but
That's just it." broke in the station
master
why, how do you mean"
Il mean that instead of sending TO
the mail order houses or picking mn in
the city anything you need in the hard
ware, clothing or dry goods line if is
your duty to give the home merchants
a chance for that trade Of course YOU
are not expected to pay a dollar for
you can get out OF town for
% or 10 cents. but you'll find in the
long run that you can do as we'll if
not better here at home and lust think
what it means TO the local merchantr'
Il don't know about that" replied
the other
well. III give You a little proof Of
1t. went on the station master. Il
happened to be talking to Brown. the
hardware merchant, the other day !
when your boy came along on new !
and we stopped him and look |
ed the machine over"
Il got the wheel through a mail or
Ter house for $780," said the resi-
lent proudly.
Yes, that's what the boy told us.
md after he had gone Browne took me
alto his store and showed me identi-
ally the same wheel for So"
You don't tell me. Well. why
DOESN'T he advertise that he has such
Simply because the people here.
Who patronize the mail order houses
lmost exclusively, don't give him your
rade. and consequently he hasn't the
money to do it."
We'll, there's a good deal of sound
ense in what YOU say" said the resi-
ent after little thought. I'll bring
his matter up nj the club tonight and
go what the others think OF it,
\ few months later the merchants in
hat town were doing more business
han they had in years. and ii wasn't
'ng before Improvements in other di-
ections were coming thick and fast.
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THE SOUTH'S VETERANS

The United Confederate Veterans
hold their annual reunion 1t Macon.
Ca. May 4. :. o under orders issued
by Lieutenant General c. Irvine Wal
ker. commander. The United Sons OF
Veterans also hold their annual con-
vention at Macon. the dates being
May 4. and .. The sons propose TO
place the war records of all Confed-
crate veterans now living in the or
ganization's headquarters at Memphis.
incidentally the sons are collecting
data intended for new history Of the
south's part in the civil war.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10

Ihls Is the season of state conven-
lions. Those of recent date are as fol-
lows: The so called lilly white" wing
of the Republican party in South Car
DINA, at Columbia. opening May 4:
the Delaware Republican state conven-
ton to select national convention dele
gates at Dover the same date. the Ne
vada Republican state convention at
Fallon and the Washington Democrat
lie convention at Walla Walla. May 6.
and the Pennsylvania Democratic state
convention at Harrisburg. May Z.
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Sun Spots and Wheat Rust.
sessssseeeosssssssseessss

DR.. e. Stuart eager Of the Brook
lyn botanic garden calls attention
in Science to the discovery by G. y.
Sahasrabudhe of the College of Agri-
culture at p00na, India, that the dis
ease Of wheat rust closely follows the
changes in sun spots. The pest is
least severe when the sun spot area is
smallest, and the rust recurs in cycles
of eleven years at the season of the
greatest solar outbursts. The rust
fungus, OF course, fiourishes best i'm
damp and muggy weather.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
DID YOU EVER THINK OF
GROWING A CROP OF WOOD?
1t Not Think of Ii Now and Consider
the Catalpa as a Paying Invest
ment on a Five Acre Lot.

a subscriber writes to the Kansas
Farmer that he desires 10 plant some
fast growing timber that will make
durable posts. He asks if catalpa spe-
ciosa, the genuine kind. is such wood
and states that if it is he Will plant ii
extensively.
Some farmers in Kansas have plant
ed their fields to catalpa and are de-
pending on the timber to make them
money. And every grove so planted
OF sufficient age -four and five years
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
With the Short Story Writers
A Case OF Brazen Audacity
By CHARLES B. LEWIS

When the trial i'm the higher court
came on the crew of the freight train
and the station agent were put on the
stand. Each set out TO be positive. but
each ended by doubling. The testi.
mony of the station agent was a fair
sample:
Mr. Jones. you were acquainted with
Henry Day."
Yes, sir"
what sort Of nose had he:"
Nose: Why, straight nose. sir"
Sure Of this?'
Yes, sir
THAT will do"
The prisoner in the box had n Roman
nose. Did Day have that sort of nose?
one haif the village said yes. the other
half no. The Widow Martin was deter
Hlned to be positive this time. She not
only believed in what she was going tn
swear 10. but hundred different peo-
pie lad encouraged her in her convic-
uon. This was the way she came 10
grief:
You think it was about midnight
when you awoke:''
Yes. sir"
Well what did you see?''
/ saw the prisoner at the foot Of
the bed and called out"
Did you know who it was before
you heard his voice?'
NO sir
We'll, what did he saw"
lie said. i want that money or I'll
murder you"
You were greatly frightenedY"
Yes. sir
And yet. frightened as you were.
You recognized his voice?"
Yes. sir
Wei, let US see if there is any sIm.
llarity. Prisoner, you will cal cut tho
words used by the man i'm the bed
ROOM
ihe prisoner complied. seeming TO
put himself in the others place and
bis words Knocked the bottom out az
he prosecution. The Widow Martin
seemed stupefied a. she looked M
him.
sON o"tdA it4dt lulS Is the VOICE
you heard in your bedroom. DO youY-
asked the lawyer
II can't say"
vi the two men who had been posi-.
i've at the preliminary examination
'ne backed square down. while thu
'ther was full OF doubts. When tha
'ase was closed and the jury went
'ut eight were doubtful and the other
our not very positive. and the result
vas verdict OF mot guilty." Bailey
in town for couple or
weeks. meeting everybody as n strap-
Ter and wandering around 10 see tha
lights. and then went quietly away. IN
e seen no more. Was he Bailey or
Day?
l have told you how they failea
D prove he was anybody but Bailey
nd yet he was Day Years afterwarI
interviewed him In "A South Carolina
all for two days before he was 70 be
ried Tor burglary. and he acknowL
deed his identity.
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Timely Agricultural Topics

TO get. 1t grows in peculiar pods.
which makes it hard To get out \
man to make wages in gathering the
seed has TO sell the seed for $50 30
- a pound. But with the start made
and the big groves in recent years
planted seed will be more plentiful in
Il few years.
The picture shows hardy catalpa
planted for ornamentation and living
fencepOStS in Franklin county. q.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
ME postmaster at Clayton at the
time | write of and for two
years previously was a single


q time | write of and for two
il years previously was a single
man. thirtyfve years old.
named Henry Day. He made his home
with widow named Martin. who had
1 three children AS postmaster he was
! known 10 every man. woman and child
Tor five miles around. and you would
say that his identity could be proved
above any other mans. One morning
Day wls missing. and within an hour
the widow startled the community by
charging him with attempted assault
and robbery. Her statement was TO
the effect that She had been awakened
about midnight and found him in her
room. She had that day received $1,000
II cash. and he demanded the money.
When she cried ont he struck her with
a club. AMI during the few minutes
she was unconscious he secured the
money and fed
Did any enc doubt her story? Was
there the slightest reason to suspect
she could be mistaken: She had seen
him ana head his voice. SO also had
Frank ana Hattie as he left the house.
He had taken freight train which
passed the station ut | o'clock n. M.
and the station agent had even spoken
TO him. rs he was the only pasSen-
ger. the conductor and two brakemen
could fully identify him. Was there
ever Il palmer case:
1t was three weeks before Mr. Dav
was overhauled and brought back for
trial. He calmly denied that he was
Henry Day. He denied that he had
ever been in Clayton. Indeed he was
SO cool and nervy that the officers. who /
knew him as well as they knew their /
own children. began TO doubt if he /
were really the man before they start
ed back
The prisoner declared the officers mis-
taken. but made no objection to return
ing with them. There were 900 people
at the depot 10 see him. Every one
recognized him as Henry Day. Next
day he was arraigned before a justice
or the peace under that name. He de-
MED it and gave his name rs James
Bailey. His plea was mot guilty"
and he had tbs best lawyers i'm the
county. The doubt which the officers
brought back with them now began TO
bear fruit. When Mrs. Martin took
the stand she positively identified the
prisoner rs Day. On cross examination
she began To WAIVER. ore Of her chill
iren swore positively: another thought
So y clerk in the pOstofice was put
IN the stand to identify the prisoner.
lie was positive at first. but ended by
ioubting. Only two young persons out
IF thirty called TO the stand were posI-
i've. The defense claimed case os
mistaken identity. The prisoner de-
Jared his name 10 be James Bailey
Ind that he was born of American par-
'nts In Switzerland. He had come 10 ,
he United States as tourist and had
MY been In the country two weeks
when arrested. He had about 81 900 In ,
money, some OF which was English
'old.
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e. by Hallen.

states, and in 1908 be was a candidate
for governor of Illinois He aad re-
moved to Chicago in 1903.
When Colonel Lewis was after an
elective position in the northwest he
was famous for his ''pink whiskers,"
Of which he had roseate and flaming
abundance. One day an acquaintance
dropped into Il hotel and asked the
clerk:
Isn't that Jim Ham Lewis over there
reading that newspaper"
NO. replied the clerk; that's a fell
low who looks so like him that Lewis
opponents have hired him to sit around
I'm hotel Hobbies and create the impress
sion That he is Lewis"
Lewis coined the expression. IF YOU
can't praise me in the newspapers.
please roast me. but never leave my
name out altogether
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COMMERCE BOARD PIONEER

Appointed from Georgia by Presi-
dent Harrison in 1892. Judson G..
Clements recently entered upon his
twenty-first year as a member of the
interstate commerce commission. He
was reappointed by Presidents Cleve-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
Remedy For a Kicking Cow.

Put halter on the cow with suffi-
cient rope 10 pass over Il beam or pole
overhead. Draw the COWS head I'D
pretty snug. which will hollow the
backbone In that shape she finds it
very difficult to lift her hind feet. and
she has no idea what it is that stops
her kicking, rs she does if her legs are
tied. -Hoard's Dairyman.
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SOUTHERN CONGRESS

A congress for the study of and dis
cussion of social problems peculiar to
the south will be held in Nashville.
Tenn, May 10. In issuing a call adj
dressed to the governors of sixteen
southern states Governor Hooper re-
cited the souths struggle through the
period of adversely Immediately fol-
lowing that which the civil war left in
its wake and its substantial develop
ment In recent years, the effect of
which neither of "hich conditions. the
governor declared. has conduced TO the
maintenance of the south's ideals of
government and society.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-05-10
WAR ANNIVERSARY

Fifty years ago May Yorktown, Va,
was evacuated by the Confederate force
under General Joseph E. Johnston, who
retreated toward Richmond The Fed
erals under General George r. McClel-
Ian Immediately occupied the abandon
ed works
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Are You a Glass Farmer?

There are special opportunities in
vegetable forcing near many of the
northern cities. Plenty of towns of
lo,UO0 or more population are not we'll
supplied with forced vegetables. Have
you an opportunity in glass farming?
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HiIPRECHT TEXTS

One OF the most interesting and inn
portant scientific missions undertaken
In long time was that Entrusted 10
Professor stephen Langdon. who holds
the chair OF Assyriology 10 Jesus col
'lece of Oxford and who has the distinc-
ton of being the only American ever
called 10 IN Oxford chair He left
London for Constantinople in an AT
tempt To translate the Nippur religious
texts discovered 10y Professor Hill
precht. which belong TO the University
OF Pennsylvania
Professor Langdon went at the re-
quest ~ the leading scholars of Europe
and AZ the special invitation of the
Turkish government The texts only
nominally belong 10 the University OF
Pennsylvania The Turkish government
has the first call on them
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BALLOON RACING

Balloons will star, from Kansas
City, Mo-, in the national elimination
races, Saturday, July 27. This is the
date set by the contest committee of
the Aero Club of America. Major
Samuel Reber is chairman OF the com
mittee Another balloon race is to
start at Kansas City. June IS, and this
one will be the intercollegiate contest
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- by Clinedinst

land. Mckinley and Roosevelt and on
Jan. IL. 1911, when ranking member
OF the commission. was made its chair
man. succeeding Martin a. Knapp.
who became presiding justice OF the
court OF commerce. 1t has been the
uniform policy OF the commission TO
choose its senior member as chairman
regardless Of his politics. Judge Glenn
ents is a Democrat. While I'm con-
gress he helped TO place the original
Interstate commerce commission law
on the statute books.
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THE NEXT CENSUS

II Will he impossible for the United
sttes census bureau 10 complete all of
the branchef of the decennlal census
work By June 30. the date fixed by law
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-24
Pathe's Weekly Review, No. 80


Los ANGELES, ,cAL.-clarenes OAR
row, counsel for the defense in the
MeNanrara trial, and the famous
leader addrsssss the crowds after
the Labor Day parade.
'sRRE HAUrr, iND.-Formsr Vice
President 'Fsirbanks speaks at the
a.nveiiins Of 4 tablet commemorate
ing the battle with the indians at
Old Fort Harrison in 1912.
VIEW YORK. n. x.--Murrsy scores in
the seventh ispino Of the second
game between the Giants and the
oodsersc-~ Scorer New York n;
Brooklyn 2.
= number Of sthsr interesting events
Der. -
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MAN A MECHANICAL MARVEL.

III ycu were TO take A four cylinder
engine your motor boat. or your tour
ing car. cover IL with dirt, bury il
some feet below the surface of the
earth. ard exhume 1t a month later.
how Efficient would il be afterward ?
Yet this Is done seemingly with i'm
punity by the Hindu fakirs to their
very own selves. DR.. Koerigberger a
physician in the Punjaub who doubted
these frequently repeated stories, de-
termined to make the most rigid tests
tn exclude all possible fraud. One of
the Brahmin fakirs allowed himself to
be buried b the doctor and his suspic-
ious COLLEAGUES in well-fastened and
sealed vault. The burial lasted such
long time-for forty days-that some
corn planted upon the soil above thc
vault sprouted into bloom before the
unhappy fellow was released. Then
the Hindu was freed. subjected by the
doctor to restoratives, and lived hap
PLY ever afterwards. Sir Henry Law
all CUSllsn SCltHllSt WHO tSSlS-
ted the German savant, substantiatcs
the whole account. The chest in which
the fakir was buried was firmly sealed
with clamps. and when the fellow was
brought out he was cold and apparent
~ lfeless.
The incontestable proof of the hu-
man mechanisms strength and ellie :.
iency under the worst possible con-
ditions is to be found ir the numerous
non fatal injuries and accidents to the
heart. A boy recently stabbed in a
street fray was left with. the dagger
run through the heart. He was taken
to the hospital and the heart was
stitched. He recovered. A man Of 65
suffering from paresis. passed hat
pin into his heart. He had some slight
of his heart beat for a
month and then fully recovered
Leonard Keen Hirshberg, NJ d., In
lIarper's Weekly.
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Hassard Short win jolr Larrette
Taylor In Peg o. Ny Heart"
Andrew Mack will be the stock stan
OF company in Oakland. Cali.
Julia Herne is to appear in vaude-
Vile N a sketch written by herself
Henry -. Irving Is. TO build thea
ter In London to bear his fathers
name.
Marie Tempest is in London with a
new play ca!!e1 art and Opportunity
Etienne Girardot is appearing in
francis Wilson's Bachelor Baby" IN
Canada
Adelaid Keim will remain as star OF
the stock company in Portland, ore.
for the season.
Ada Reeve, a leading English music
hall Coincidence. is to make an Ameri-
can vaudeville tour.
Mrs. Annie AGams. mother Of Maud
adams is playing a stock company In
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Robert Warwick has been engaged
for the east of Miss Princess" in
which Lima Abaranell is to star.
John +. Henshaw has written play
called "rhe Girl and the Clubman,'
which will be produced next spring.
Charles Frohmar's next musical pro.
duction will be The Marriage Mar
| ket." with Donald Brian as the star.
Edna Baker has been engaged foi
the leading feminine role in "Bachel.
ors and Benedicts," i'm which Ralph
Merz rs to star.
Leading Yiddish managers have
made arrangements for a string al
theaters in number of cities for Their
travelling companies.
Billie Burke will remain in New
York in Mind the Paint Girl" unit
Christmas. -'rhershe VIII begin a tour
of the principal cities.
Sarah Cowell lie Moyne has been en-.
gagged by the Shuberts for the role OF
the mother in The Five Frankfurters,
for which rehearsals have begun.
in the company to support Margaret
Wycherly in The Fight are Edward
Emery. Edwin Holland. Sydney Booth
William Mcvey and Anna Walker.
The Shuberts are negotiating with
Gladys Unger, author of the book OF
"Fhe Merry Countess" for two new
comic operas, the first Of which is t,
be finished Christmas.
Charles +. Nirdlinger, the adapter OF
The World and His Wife" end who's,
| Il.
ersham and Julia Opp. objects to tho
play being used by stock companies.
Charles 'rohman will produce IN
February comedy from the French
! called Primrose" which has been sue.
cesSul in Paris. rhe English actress
ing role.
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One Hoosier Happy.

"One of the unusua! things ] saw on
my vacation in northern Indiana was
contented farmer. said Annis Bark.
secretary to Mayor Shank, the other
day.
I'VE were going in an automobile OH
a fishing expedition north OF Bass
lake" Burk related. "and we stopped
to ASK farmer the road. He was sit
ting I'm his yard whiting. He gave
us the information. and just to let him
know we were friendly, | asked him
his opinion on politics.
That's something that don't wor-
ry me- the farmer said. Why should
worry about politics or anything
else" Here ! am, living on a good
farm, got a good barn and u wife that's
a good worker; why should | worry?
indianapolis Star.