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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04

methods. THE growing OF these
crops until within a few years could
not have been ranked as agriculture.
but should have been described az
highway robbery OF the soil. AS re-
suit the average production per acre OF
these crops has fallen to a minimum.
Farming, for one thing, must be
made more attractive. II should be
made more profitable. This will be
done as our farmers learn more thor
oughly the principles Of intensive culu-
walton and get a knowledge OF the
methods Of feeding the soil and OF the
rotation of crops.
ITO this end l have been preaching
for the past thirty years the gospel OF
the sugar beet.
1.-The production OF the sugar beet
requires the highest style OF intensive
culture that scienR has been able TO
suggest. The principles OF feeding the
sugar crops, the methods OF culture
and handling, the attention and skill
OF the workers. are such az TO create In
every field and factory devoted TO
sugar culture an agricultural expert.
ment station Of the highest type. The
soil and climatic conditions In the great
er part OF the United States are thor.
oughly> favorable to beet culture, and
America is the greatest sugar market
In the world.
I'm the case OF the sugar beet the
crops which are grown in rotation with
II yield very much larger returns than
when the old fashioned system Of agri-
culture prevailed. The reflex action OF
this influence becomes a benefit to
American agriculture the value or
which it would be difficult to measure
In dollars and cents.
wherever the sugar beet is 'culti-
waited the farmers are all prosperous,
no matter what kind OF other crops
they raise The beet generally I'm
proves the productiveness OF the soil IN
all kinds OF agriculture. Ii causes the
employment OF more labor and indi-
hectly benefits commerce and transpor-
tation and produces In every commu-
nifty conditions OF prosperity in agri-
culture which IL would be difficult to
bring about in any other way.
The culture OF the beet brings into
the neighborhood the large sugar fac
tory using fuel and other raw mate
rial. with its complement OF laborers
and experts. thus giving a better and
more profitable market 70 the surround
ing farmers for all their products.
while there has been a general tend
encv toward the reduction OF tariff du-
lies. this tendency has not reached In
many eases tie extent OF the abolition
Of import duties altogether. In any
changes Of t.. sort let as much as pos
the farmer In view
sible be SaF.4
Of the great Importance OF domestic
sugar production 10 the prosperity or
the American farmer IL tariff adjust
ments are 10 be made. | believe thai
this should lie the last rather than the
first point Ut which 10 remove the Gus
toms duty.
"One OF the best things about sugar
beet culture from the point OF view OF
agricultural improvement Is that II fits
IN so perfectly with dairying and stock
growing IL Is. OF course. one OF the
elementary facts OF practical dairying
that the rearing and keeping OF live
stock afford the easiest. cheapest and
cost natural means OF improytns IL
oprttliu OF the coll"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04

Every up.to- date Dubois coun-
ty farmer should have his OWL
printed letter heads and envel-
opes with the name of his farm
home printed thereon, especially
the envelopes with the return ad-
dress We can print you 100 of
each for $3.50 on good material.
Give us yoIlr order.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
FRIDAY, MAY a, 1917.
PuFtue EXPOSES Fake Tree AGENTS

l. is stated by Professor c q
Woodbury., Chic n horticulture
at the Purdue Experiment Stat
ion, that the Horticultural De-
partInent has received informa-
ton to the effect that tree pedd-
lers and nursery agents opera
ting IN various southern Indiana
counties are representing them.
selves as agents Of Purdue Uni
versity mas no agents or repre-
sentatives on the road selling
trees, shrubs, spray materials or
horticultural wares of any kind
whatsoever. Anyone represent
ing himself as representing Pur-
due University ia the way above
mentioned may be set down "a
q fake and swindler.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
9gBoIS CO TELEPHONE CO

We know of number of families who
are regular readers of the Courier hut
are rot subscribers, they borrow the pa
Der from their neighbose. We are gla 1
to know that the Courier is thus ~,
ciated, but why not subscrlo Fe
price is small and we would ciate
having these names on orr N i'inglist.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
Nailsd 60 q Upose's Eoc.

A Hungarian blacksmith recently
,ent as present to the emperor OF
Austria horseshoe, pair of pinch
Ts, a file and a knife, all In
yeniously nailed to goose's egg
Without the egg being broken. The
Emperor sent in return his photo
raph. a gold medal AMI 20 ducaaa
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
The Country Paper.
When the evenin' shade is fallin
At the end o. day

When the evenin' shade IS fallin
At the end o. day
An q Teller rests from labor
Smokin' at her pipe o clay,
The nothil' does hin 80 much
goot,
+, ortunc II - down
As The little country paper
From his OF home townl
1t amt a thing Of beauty
An its print amt always clear
But it straight ns our his temper
When a feller's s.. ling mean.
1t takes the wrinkles of his face
An crushes off the frown,
The Ii tie country paper
From his cid nom town.
It tells of all the parties
An the balls at Punkin Row :
Bout who spent Sunday
With who's cir, and how the
crops'll grow
And it keeps a fellow posted
Bout who's up-or down
That little country paper
From the old home town.
Now | like to read the dailies
An the story papers, too
An at Zines a al er novel
An some other trash, don't you
But when | want some readin
rhat'll brush away a frown-
I war { the little paper
From the OF home town,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
Market Report

New Potatoes in town at Toe
per pound. $500 per bushel.
Lots of flour at &c. a pound.
$500 per barrel.
Any amount of Wheat at So. Is
per bushel,
Sugar II &C. per pound.
If anybody thinks the People
of Dubois county are not paying
war tax look at above figures.
Small wonder they hate the
Kaiser who started the war.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
The Right Nay to Pe3cUed In Wash
ins Delicate China.

A big woode filed with
warm, nol nc: soapsuds, to
WHICH . few co,- i household am
r.ol 'e. lie oeeh added, should be
o:ey.7e2 nd eac' 49, of china
@rS-.e@ separs..,ll II :nis, rsing =
<o1nre g oid Gan1el tcz plain
plates. sc, anc cot eru-5. Ia
painters brush e best) Toy elab-
a2ateiy Ornamental, articles.
Rinse !, acathe- Tooden bowl Of
dean s,e,., wase-- sn3 Cry Nth lin
an clotls E,o,Se o,GSments may
be wash II - Inc way, but
should be aaeL polished with
'hsmois lea, .er. Some people con-
ioe. ) -ub with rag On which
there i tne asst suspicion of par
ATTN .,iF~s re nice APP earance.
Glass chou ne .xssted in warm
vater that ~ little a. .nnnia Ia
t.. tut no pap, and tnen 1insed in
quite cold vGte:. Crit glass should
he washed wirh = S-gsh, or # elxb-
orately cut md yery dirty it is
rather a good plan not 70 wash it
a al, but brush paste % whiting
al water veil into it, allowing it to
u on thoroughly, then removing
=. WITH Z clean brush ond finally
polishing with an cid six handksr-
chief.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
EMMY WEHLEN READY
FOR RED CROSS DUTY.
Metro Star VIII Aid Wounded With
Services aud Money.

Emmy Wehlen, Metro Star, is
prepared to go to the front as Red
Cross Nurse having completed a
course of special training In adj
dition to this the actress, who is
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04

"Do II Now" Subscribe for the Jasper
Weekly Courier. Don't put OF Tor tor
aorsow,& hat you can do to lay.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04

The Courier Reaches Buyers
Are You In It?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
The GOSPEL OF
The SUGAR BEET
Dr.. Harvey W Wiley breaches
Il to Farmers.
A WONDERFUL TRANSFORMER.
-Wherever the Sugar Beet IL Cuitivst-
ed" DR.. Wiley Declares, "the Farm
ers Are All Prospsrous"-Amsries
Fully Fifty Years Behind Europe.

Farming practices In vogue upon q
great majority OF the cultivated tracts
In America are obsolete" declares DIR.
Harvey w. Wiley, former chief chem
I'm agriculture we are fully fifty,
years behind Europe, and the better
utilization OF our farm resources Is one
of the most important problems before
the country.
"Old fashioned, slipshod methods OF
producing wheat and cotton and corn
are still in vogue in over % per cent
OF the country devoted 10 these indus
tries" said DR.. Wiley, continuing bis
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
Dead Go the w0xza-

Humorist-Pve just written fftes2
Jokes on the man who doesn't advss-
dse
Poet-That's wrong. You shouidut
est about the deac---4 Cincinnati In
Qu1raS.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Dent Frazier of
Jefferson county, Miss, visited Mr..
and Mrs. d. A. O'Kelley this week
The dance given at the Masonic
Hall on Thursday night was a de-
lightful affair and was attended by
a number of out-of-town guests.
The Gazette has been requested
to announce that the Tensas Parish
Baptist Association will hold its an
nual election on Friday, July 18th.
Stockholders of the Bank of New
elton will remember the annual
meeting of stockholders to be held
at the banking house on Tuesday
next, June 18th. for the purpose of
electing officers for ensuing fiscal
year.
Cards are out for the marriage of
of Mr.. Joseph Balfour Miller to Miss
Katherine Elizabeth Grafton which
is to be celebrated at Trinity Church,
Natchez, at 6 o'clock, on Wednes-
day, June Goth. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby
William Grafton of that city, while
the groom, Mr. Miller, is native of
Tehsas and son of the late Mr.. H.
c. Miller of this parish. Both are
representatives of old and dis
tinguished families and are favorites
in the social circles of Adams county
and Tensas parish. The Gazette
joins the many friends of both the
bride and groom in extending
heartiest good wishes for long and
happy welded life.
Messrs. G. H. Clinton and T. NJ.
Wade, Jr., went to Baton Rouge last
Saturday to represent the, Farm Loan
Bank Association of Tensas at meet
ing to be held for the purpose Of try
ing to impress upon the Governor the
necessity of calling an extra session of
the Legislature to so amend the law
as to permit the Federal Farm Loan
Bank to operate in Louisiana. Dele
gates were there from all over the
State, representing 35 different Farm
Loan Associations. The meeting was
very enthusiastic, and while the most
convincing arguments were made
showing the benefits of five per cent
money'to Louisiana farmers, it failed
to impress the Governor sufficiently
to cause him to say whether or not he
will call an extra session. The Gov
ernOr will make a great mistake il he
stands i'm the way of the farmers of
Louisiana being able to get cheap
money before beginning Il another
yeSr.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
'NeWeHfOn Society Notes.
HUGO JERESL4W,

Miss Lena Triche is visiting rel
atives at Natchez.
Mr.. James A. Clinton of Natchel
visited friends here last Sunday.
Mr.. Ferdinand Preis of Water.
proof visited relatives here this week
Mrs. Jas. r. Lynch of Baton Rouge
is visiting her daughter Mrs. w. d.
Noble.
Mr.. S. ID. Farrar and family
motored down to St. Joseph Friday
evening.
Miss Abel LOmbardO and little
sisters spent Sunday at Waterproof
with relatives.
Mr.. Love, Mr.. DURHAM and Mr..
Bowman motored up from St. Jo-
seph for little visit to friends one
evening this week.
The butcher shop of Mr.. Julius
Solomon was entered on Tuesday
and some money was taken. No
clue to the robber has been found
as yet.
Mrs.A. N. Murdoch, post mistress
at Newellton, made a business trip
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
Correspondent.

to Washington City this week. She
also visited at Chattanooga, Tenn. ,
for several days.
The picture at ST. Joseph ON
Wednesday and. Thursday nights,
The Crisis, was seen by num-
Der from Newellton and vicinity and
enjoyed by everyone.
Mr.. Joe Smith returned this week
from New Orleans, where he went
to enlist ih Washington Artillery,
hut was unable to meet physical re-
qulrements in the rigidexaminatiOn.
Prof. T. c. Crowell, former prin-
cipal of the Newellton High School,
was visitor here this week. having
come to Newellton to register for
U. S. military service. His friends
were delighted to see him.
Quite number of our people at
tended the commencement exercises
of the st. Joseph High School and
were greatly pleased with the ad-
mirable manner in which same was
conducted, the entire program re-
flecting credit on both pupils and
teachers.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, a. they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There Is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining OF the Eu-
stachian Tube. When this tube IL in
famed you have q rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when IL is en-
tirely closed, Deafness is the result,
and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by Catarrh, which is moth
ing but an inf1amed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh )thst cannot be cured by HALLS
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY, & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Take HALLS Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
4 WARMING AGAINST SELLING HOGS

Since prices for hogs have gone sc
high, buyers have invaded every par
of the South and are purchasing al
the hogs they can get at prices sp.
proximating half the value of butcher
hogs on the market. Prices paid have
ranged from 6 cents to or cents q
pound and many of these hogs have
been subsequently sold at from IA to
IL cents.
Farmers have been advised to plant
an abundance of feed crops, and the
only successful way to market them is
to use them for finishing live stock. II
the stock is sold before the crops are
produced, it defeats the very. purpose
for which the crops were planted. A
60-pound pig at cents brings less
than $500. That same pig kept on
pasturage with just enough grain to
keep him in thrifty and growing con-
dition should easily finish off at around
200 pounds next winter or spring. At
the present prices he would bring e25
to $S5-the difference amounting to an
average OF say $25 represents the
farmers feed crops prepared for the
market. Now il he sells the pig before
he puts the feed into him and then
cannot sell the crop, the fault will
certainly rest with him.
1t is therefore thought desirable to
invite the attention of farmers to this
question and to advise them not to sell
any light, young hogs that should be
kept and finished in the fall or winter,
and also to avoid selling any brood
sows that may be needed for increasing
the number of hogs on the farm. 1t is
not economical to sell hogs until they
have reached satisfactory weight for
the slaughter house, or. say $50 pounds
as minimum. II it becomes necessary
to sell of part of the hog stock, the
owner should keep posted on the
markets and should probably insist on
getting for young hogs not less than
two-thirds of the top prices for finish
ed hogs, or, i'm other words, when the
top OF the market is 10 cents q pound,
hogs sold on the farm should bring
not less than 10 cents If they are at all
promising for the market in six to ten
1t certainly should be the aim of
every farmer to keep enough hogs to
supply his own meat for next year
and, il possible, have a surplus for
sale to his nsighbors.-G. E. Nesom,
Live Stock Extension Service, l.. 8.
.. ~. q. y. Press 0ullstiu,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08

Miss Pearl Bsragona was taken to
Natchez on Wednesday, 3Oth ult. for
operation for appendicitis, from which
she has been long sufferer. She was
accompanied by her father, Mr.. Sal
vador Baragona, and sister, Miss
Lena, and aunt, Miss Mary CYCLIC.
The operation was performed by DR..
Chas. Chamberlain on day of arrival
as the appendix was found to be 90
greatly involved that prompt work
was essential to the life of the patient.
We understand she is doing well and
will soon be able to return home,
which is indeed gratifying to her
friends, as Miss Pearl is a very bright
young lady and is universally popular
with our people.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08

without paying toll to it, in manhood
and in money. This spirit might de.
mand Canada from a defeated, navy
less England, and then our dream OF
peace on the north would be at an
end. We would live, as France has
lived for forty years, in haunting
terror.
"America speaks for the world in
fighting Germany.
"We fight with the world for an
honest world. in which nations keep
their word; for a world in which ma
tons do not live by swagger or by
threat; for a world in which men
think of the ways in which they can
conquer the common cruelties of ma
ture, instead of inventing more horri-
BILE cruelties to infiict upon the spirit
and body of man; for world i'm
which the ambition of the philosophy
of few shall not make miserable all
mankind; for a world in which the
man is held more precious than the
machine. the system or the state"
Secretary Baker in a statement to-
night said the country's young men
should rejoice for the opportunity
to them tomorrow to register
for war i'm defense of democracy.
"The opportunity which is offered
on registration day to the young men
of America is unparalleled in our
said the secretary. eve are
in this war to save the early funda-
mentals of political and personal lib
erty, not only for ourselves but for
future generations. Until complete
victory is won for these principles
there can be no holding back and no
turning back.
"We shall need all the energy and
all the resources at our command to
be exerted, not against the German
people nor with intolerance of a per-
'onal radical character, but with
'eoslute determination to devote to
he unselfish cause which we are de-
ending, all that we have to offer.
For these young men the day should
re one of rejoicing for the chance
which comes to them and one of Sc
ious responsibility because in this is.
ue is involved the very future of
.,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
TICK ERADICATION.

Washington, D. G.
Tick eradication should be given an
important place among the measures
to be taken by southern communities
to meet existing conditions. An in
creased supply of meat is one of the
country's most urgent needs; and the
South cannot do its share toward
furnishing this increased meat supply
until the tick has been put out of the
way.
1t is proved every day in the South
that beef cattle that are being robbed
of blood by ticks will not grow or fat
ten properly and that miIch cows sub
ject to the same drain give only scan.
ty supplies of milk. They cannot eff
ficiently turn into food for soldiers and
civilians the hundreds of pounds of
grass, hay and grain which they con-
sumo. They are wasters-made so by
the ticks that feed on them.
These are animals that live in spite
of the cattle fever germs which ticks
inject with their bites. There is the
added loss to be charged against ticks
OF the cattle which die from fever;
and their number reaches into the
thousands.
Now that each pound of meat and
each glass of milk takes on an added
value among the nations resources,
more cattle must be raised and each
animal must be made to put on as
great a weight of meat or yield as
much milk, as is economically prac-
ticable. II this is to be accomplished
In the South the first step must be
drive against ticks. The methods
for getting rid of these expensive
pests are well known and are already
being made efficient use of in many
southern communities. Dipping watts
filled with solutions that will destroy
the ticks on cattle, and public interest
which will insist that all cattle be Dip
ped, are the essentials; and when
these have been acquired in COM
munity q new day for cattle pro.
duction is sure to dawn. Cattle that
have been freed from ticks and kept
free-as they may be at small cost
put on weight rapidly and make cat
tie raising among the abundant feed
supplies of the South truly profitable
8. Department of Ag-
riculture.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08
LIBERTY BONDS BY T.&P. employees.

Messrs. J. L. Lancaster and Pear
Wight, Receivers, of the Texas & Pa.
cific Railway, have addressed officers,
agents and employers to cooperate
with the United States Government
in disposing of the Liberty Bonds of
1917. ] quote the appeal as follows:
"In the present world wide war
in which our Country has become a
dominant factor, it will not be the
privilege Of all of us to serve the col
Ors, but each of US can and must as
sist in some way. We owe it to our
selves to face this obligation squarely.
"Vast sums will be needed tn prus-
ecute the war to successful termi-
nation and our Government is offer
ing an. opportunity to many of us to
render service by subscribing to the
Liberty Loan of 1917. OF the Com
pany's many thousand employees, at
least half of US can and are, therefore,
obligated to subscribe to this loan.
The bonds will be issued i'm demon
nations of 5000 up.
arrangements have been made with
the Whitney Central Trust & Savings
Bank of New Orleans whereby all en-
plOyes of the Texas 4 Pacific can sub
scribe for bond by the payment of
ten per cent down and the balance in
nine monthly installments of ten per
cent each, the bank to credit the ac-
counts interest at rate of three per
cent per annum on payments made.
"After completion, the bonds will
be forwarded to the original pur-
chasers. AS an aid, the Company will
make monthly deductions in it's pay
rolls for payments required as above.
at is urged that all employees, as a
matter of thrift, self denial, and above
all, patriotism, purchase one of the
bonds, even though it is of the small
er denominations"
The Texas & Pacific Railway has
shown disposition to do its bit in the
conduct of the Great War by offering
portions of its right Of way for the
use of section men in raising veg
paying them one half days
wages. each week. that this may be
ooked after. In addition orders have
been issued for the prompt handling
Of troops, supplies, munitions of war,
'tc., and the latest is all appeal to its
employees to purchase the Liberty
-Oan Bonds, and we believe is the
irst railroad in the United States to
make this appeal to its employees. If,
therefore,, you can publish this as
Jews item, sending me marked copy
# your publication, shall appreciate
very much indeed.
Yours very truly,
Geo. ID. Hunter,
Passenger Traffic Manager.