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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
ALL QUAINT AND PRETTY
Clothes OF Partisan Children Have
About Reached the Limit in
Sartcrial Perfection.

rhe frocks worn by children are the
quaintest little creations imaginable of
velours de laine in brilliant tones or
quaint old-time colorings. One pretty.
dark-haired child of six wears a prim
little cloak of dark red velours de laine
trimmed with two-inch bands of black
velvet in standing collar. cuffs and
band on the bottom of the coat. The
hat is Of black velvet i'm the form of
small beret with peak. and there
ere white stockings and black VAR
nished shoes; nothing more delicious
" naive than this little costume has
been seen In Paris this season
Very odd Is chlld's hat made of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
PRETTY, SIMPLE HAT

beige wooden yarn sewed round and
round. one wooden thread against an
other. onto a small round shape. IL
is worn with little knitted manteau
OF the same color. Paquin makes a
small black velvet fez which is
trimmed with two small ostrich
plumes-one black and one antique
red-which are sewed to the side of the
fez directly in the back. Another
Paquin model Is In the form of n beret
of black velvet with tassel dropping
over the ear.
Cheruit makes small round shape
covered with heavy blue creme en-
broidered In an all-over pattern with
blue silk thread of a very slightly
lighter shade. A narrow ribbon Of
some bright color encircles the base
Of the crown. These hats appear in
different shades of blue. beige and yell
low. BY contrast. small hat of rich
red velvet Is embroidered with blue
From Vogue.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
la&&E&&I2t.SAAS
Crochet Hat.

tenth stitch, or as may be required TO
fit smoothly over the crown of the
shape.
For the first row of the brim, in
crease at every fifth stitch, then at
discretion until the outer edge is
reached; work one row without any in
crease, after which decrease at about
the same proportion as the increases
were made for width of brim, taking
care to leave 1t just large enough 10
be stretched over the outer edge.
Stitch the crochet smoothly and even
Iy over the shape; turn the hat upside
down and work a double crochet
through both threads of every alternate
stitch of the last row and fasten off.
Put in the head lining and trim with
ruche of ribbon or according TO taste.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
College Chair Helps Room.

The colors of your alma mater,
either high school or college, or the
colors of a fraternity or other society
may be repeated in the Windsor
straight-back chair or rocker for the
bedroom. One may buy the implanted
chair and enamel it in the selected
colors, or have the work done in the
upholstery shop. This is particular
ly attractive article for the mans den,
the bulk of the chair being in the dark
er color, and the rungs and Stats of the
back in the lighter shade. When the
shades are delicate the girls room will
not be the worse for a college chair.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
MANURE AS A TOP DRESSING
IL Greatly Stimulates Growth Of Wheat
and Assists to Prevent
Winter Killing.
(By M. +. MILLER. Missouri College OF
Ar

by NJ F. MILLER. Missouri College OF
Agricultural
Every year sees greater number or
Missouri farmers using manure as "a
top dressing on wheat. There Is con-
siderable evidence TO show where
wheat Is grown In n rotation, manure
can very often be applied TO better adj
vantage as 10 n top dressing on this
crop than as an application before
corn. There are two principal advan-
tages of this practice. The first one Is
that IL greatly stimulates the growth
of the wheat and helps 10 prevent win
ter killing with resulting increase in
yield. The second one is that since
clover and grass are usually sown with
the wheat and since manure aids very
greatly In securing stand OF these
crops when used as top dressing with
the wheat. this alone may be sufficient
reason for Its application. As n mat
ter OF fact the top dressing OF wheat
with manure almost insures stand OF
clover or grass on land which IL at all
suited 10 these crops. The land may
be too sour or too wet 10 grow clover.
Much land in Missouri is too sour. II
it is only slightly sour. the manure
greatly aids in getting a clover stand.
II IL Is very sour, lime is usually es-
sential In addition.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05

board shade, although it is by no means
pretty, but ii can be made quite decOra-
tive by covering it with cotton voile Of
some pretty pattern.
y small design should be selected.
Cover the shade plainly with the wolfe,
then make little frill to stand up
round top; care should be taken that
the hole in the cardboard is large
enough to prevent the wolfe touching
the hot lamp chimney; finish the lower
edge of shade with a frill put on with
an outstanding heading.
This is only one way of covering the
shades, but many others will suggest
themselves 10 those who are DESTROYS
of making inexpensive shades that will
be pretty by daylight as we'll as an
effective screen at night.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05

permit hauling upon it, but if not he
cleans into pile in one corner of the
lot. His sheds are also paved and are
kept bedded with straw. He is still en-
thuSiastic over his paved feedlot,
claiming that he secures enough extra
gain each feeding season 10 pay for
the cost of paving. He usually feeds
from two to five loads of cattle each
winter. ''My cattle do just as well
one week as another" he says, while
those feeding in dirt lots complain
that it takes all the feed to keep even
during the times when their lots are
half knee deep in mud" AS we pro-
greSS we realize more and more that
the mud tax is heavy one, whether
1t be in the road, in our own dooryard
or in our feedlot.-Successfu Farm
ing.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
KEEP FEED YARD DRY
Cattle Cannot Thrive When Con-
fined in Muddy Lot.
Where Farmer Keeps Stock Comfort
able and Satisfied He Has Done
Much To Secure Gains From
Feed He Has Used.

Not all soil becomes deep with mud
during the winter season, but most
clay soil does, and a larger section of
the country Is not sand. There is n
saying that the best corn land is mud
when wet. 1t naturally follows that
the average feedlot is rather muddy
whenever there Is moisture enough 10
make Ii such.
1t is also safe bet that cattle are
not doing their best when confined
In muddy lot. We are learning
more and more that IL pays 10 get
away from the mud. both for our own
comfort and for the comfort of our
stock. for If you will make stock COM
Portable and satisfied you have done
much TO secure the gains that should
be secured from the feed that Is used.
Keeping out OF the mud means keep
Ing the stock comfortable and salts
fled.
Farmer and feeder living in one of
the best sections Of Illinois, four years
ago, tried the experiment Of paving n
portion OF his feedlot. He found the
paved portion Of his lot so satisfactory
that he was getting the material on the
ground to pave the rest of Ii.
lie keeps the manure cleaned up
from his paved yard, hauling direct TO
the field each week if the field will
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
Saw-Toothed Grain Beeut. adult:
b-Pupa; c-Larva.

particles of the food substance. From
five 10 seven generations Of this spe-
cies may be developed within n single
year, the number depending, as usual
upon the temperature and upon the
supply of food. The beetles infest al
most everything of a vegetable nature
used as human food, including pre-
served fruits and various cereals,
bread, nuts, seeds, red pepper. yeast,
spices, sugar, -four and also tobacco
and snuff. This beetle is generally dis
tributed in North America as well az
other countries, South America, Eu-
rope and Asia.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
PLACE FOR ALL IMPLEMENTS
Tools Should Be in Shed During VIM
ter Exposure to Elements
causes Rust and Decay.

From now on till next spring most
OF the implements Of cultivation will
not be used, nor will be planters. The
place for them, and for all implements
not in use every day, is under the shed.
Why? What does a man work for?
Implements cost money. Exposure TO
the elements causes them 10 rust, warp
and decay.
When they are gone more work
must be done TO get more money TO
buy more implements, when just lit
tie work and a little care at the right
time would have made them last n
year or two or three longer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05

he was no match for him in physical
strength. AlphOnse was wiry, but
Jean was built like stunted giant.
The dogs seized the opportunity to
come 10 a standstill. The leaders
promptly coiled themselves up in the
snow, while the two men struggled in
: the sleigh.
Jean hurled Alphonse into the snow
and, before he could arise, flung him
self upon him again.
'So-you are going TO ESquimaux
and you think you will see Nanette
there" he sneered.
Alphonse said nothing, because this
was hardly time 10 talk He wished
he could get at his knife, but it was
in his belt and the leather sheath had
shifted around To the back.
Il am going TO kill YOU" said Jean
Petit. Il am going 10 kill you, and no.
body will know who did it. Your
bones will have been picked white by
the wolves long before the carrier
passes here on his way from Esquim-
aux"
Alphonse still said nothing, but he
could see murder In Jeans eyes and
smell his whisky-ladcn breath
After a few months l shall ask
Nanette 10 marry me-" continued
Jean. "She loved me before you came,
and she will love me again"
He whipped the knife out of his
belt. but AlphonSe, who had been
watching for that movement, flung
himself at him, and the two men wres-
tied in the deep snow. To and fro
they staggered. Jean was much
stronger than Alphonse. but the two
were fighting for one mans life, and
that mans desperation lent him new
strength. Finally Alphonse managed
10 shake of his ass. liant and leap
into the sled.
"Mush" he shouted q the leaders,
and as they rose he S. out of the
corner OF his eye, Jean rushing toward
him again.
But the sleigh started off. and Jean
was left behind. lie could not catch
the fugitive. with his feet dogs. Al
phonse turned and saw Jean sitting by
the roadside. looking at him.
Then 10 his horror Alphonse real
lied that enc Of the sacks of mail had
fallen out of the sled He saw IL
lying by the side of the trail He
knew that IL was safe enough. for Jean
Petit, though he was willing 10 take
the chances of murder. would not dare
10 touch the mail. But the loss of IL
meant the loss OF Alphonse's position.
Besides. there was the matter of duty
and Nanette.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
On the
Mail Route
+
BY II. M. EGBERT



Copyright. 1916. by w. q. Chapman.)
1t was seventeen miles by dog sled
10 Esquimaux Harbor, and Alpholse
had plenty of time TO cover IT, He an
ticipated no difficulty. and In any esent
none could exist. He was the mail
carrier, and II Is an axiom OF the serv-
Ice thai the mails have TO go through.
But Alphonse had another cause
for locking forward TO his arrival at
Esquimaux. There lived Nanette, his
sweetheart, who had pledged herself
To become engaged to him as soon as
he secured the contract. And he had
secured IL, and was on his way to
present the visible proof In the shape
Of his own presence.
He knew how bitterly his rival,
Jean Petit. had resented his winning
the girls love. Jean had been half
drunk ever since Alphonse secured the
mail contract, and Alphonse learned all
along the road of the threats that he
had made against him.
Alphonse was not thinking of them.
Nor was he thinking of Jean Petit.
All his thoughts We're concentrated
upon Nanette as the dogs swung over
the hill into the miles of stunted birch
wood that line the trail 10 within
seven miles of the terminus.
AS he did so a figure leaped out
from among the underground of the
preceding year, tall sticks OF aborted
seized him by the arms. Alphonse rec
ognized Jean. mad with drink, mad
TO the point of murder. He knew that
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
SAW-TO0THED GRAIN BEETLE
Insect Infests Almost Everything Of
Vegetable Nature, Such as Cereals,
Nuts and Seeds.
(By A. A. GIRAULTD

A minute, flattened, chocOlate-brown
beetle, with the margins of its thorax
roughened with toothlike projections.
If found abundant in groceries or other
edible substances, may be assumed to.
be the saw-tOOthed grain beetle. The
slender adult is not more than a tenth
of an inch long. The pupa is white,
and is occasionally inclcsed within
delicate cocoon composed largely of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
PROFITABLE FEED FOR HOGS
Nourishing Slop Made of Linseed Meal
Is Cheaper Than Bran-Has Big
FertiIizing Value.

Linseed meal makes a most nourisn-
ing and profitable slop for hogs Of all
ages. and it is cheaper than bran these
days; but don't feed X too freely. II
is concentrated stuff.
Every pound of IL fed on your farm
has a fertilizing value OF at least 20
per cent of its cost. aside from It's food
value
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
STOCK INJURE C0RNFIELDS
Best 20 Take Stalks OFF and Feed
Them TO Stock on Dry Land
Do Harm in Trampine.

Cattle will do much more harm
tramping around the cornfield when it
is wet in the fall of the year, eating
the stalks that are left there, than
all the good they will get from the
stalks.
Better take the stalks all off and
feed them where this injury will not
be done TO the soft earth.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
WATCH CLOSE FOR BlACKLEG
Disease May Be Prevented by Vaccine
Treatment-keep Sharp Lookout
for Its Appearance.

Prevent blackleg with vaccine. Keep
a sharp lookout for the appearance OF
this disease in your herd or your
neighbors' herds and give the treat
ment quickly.
Your druggist can get the vaccins
If he does not carry IL In stock.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-01-05
BOTH PRETTY AND EFFECTIVE
Use Of Lampshade Such as This VIII
Add Much to Coziness Of
the Room.

When lights are shaded, Ii is we'll
TO see that the shades are both pretty
and effective. For this there is moth
ing more effective than green card
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21
MACEDONIAN To Be
NEW WAR CENTER
OFFENSIVE UNDER GENERAL
SARRAIL's FORCES SEEMS
TO EE NEAR.
LITTLE FIGHTING IN FRANCE
Russian Army and Navy Are Giving
More Evidence of Aggressive In
tent BY Increasing Activities
in Various Sectors.

New York. he massing OF entente
troops in Thessaly. south of the cen
ter of the line now held by General
Safrail's forces, taken in connection
with the withdrawal of British forces
on the extreme eastern wing, along
the lower reaches of the Struma river.
apparently is an indication that big
events are in the making In the Mace.
DOMAIN theater in an attempt to re-
take Serbia or at least that portion
of it as far as Nish, through which
runs the famous Berlin Constantine
pie railway.
Along the Nardar and Morava river
valleys. northward through Serbia.
undoubtedly would prove easier
ground over which to operate than
northward along the Struma and
through western Bulgaria to the juno
tion of the railway at Sofia. No inn
pedment is being placed in the way
of the troops that have been landed
in Thessaly and with the departure
of former King Constantine from the
country. the Greeks are said TO have
become more friendly to the entente
cause by placing their adherence in
the provisional government of Eliph-
therios Venizelos,
Although on the eastern wing the
| British have given up many villages
which they previously burned. they
are holding tightly to the bridgehead
position on the left bank of the river
Struma in the Lake Tahines Butkeve
section. northeast of Saloniki. That
the retirement of the British was vol
untary is indicated by the Bulgarian
official report which does not men,
ton any fighting There has. how
ever. already been some activity on
the part of the British in the Vardar-
Lake Dorian sector. but Sofia reports
that the attempt made by them TO ad
vance near Daulti was repulsed
East OF Arras, on the front in
France. the British troops have been
compelled to fall back from advanced
positions before an attack delivered
by the Germans, which was covered
by a heavy bombardment. Otherwiss
there has been no fighting anywhere
in France or Belgium, except by raid
ing parties and by the artillery wings
Of the opposing forces.
The Russian army and navy are Civ
ing more evidence of aggressive in
tent, by increasing activities in vari-
Gus sectors, notably Volhynia and Ga
lacia,
The Russian naval arm has been SO
/ largely in evidence in Baltic waters
that Berlin announces that il has
been found necessary to carry out ex-
+ tensive air raiding operations on Rus
sian bases in this area.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21
Thirteen Poung Cabbaae.

A single head of cabbage sufficient
to feed a company of soldiers was
presented to the Agricultural Depart
ment by c. Youngblood, 80 West
Eighteenth street, Argenta. 1t weighs
Is pounds, and is so large that num-
Der of leaves had to be cut off before
it could be placed in the largest con-
tainer in the display room It's value
at 10 cents a pound is $1.30, and Mr.
Youngblood has 5000 plants of the
same variety in his Argenta garden.
Several potatoes, each weighing one
pound, were presented by Mrs. J. G.
Martin. 1922 West Seventh street.
Mrs Martin gathered 10 bushels from
her home garden. the yield being at
the rate of $50 bushels per acre.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21
MAKING SURVEYS
FOR FIRE HAZARD
PROCLAMATION ISSUED AUTHOR.
lZING FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS
TO MAKE THE SURVEY.
EGO AGENTS WILL ACT
Fire Marshafs Department Has Earn
estly Requested That An lnspec-
ton of All Building and Factories
Be Made At This Time.
Little Rock

Little ROCK
Coy. Brough issued proclamation
authorizing more than 200 fire insur-
anee agents to make fire hazard sur
veys in this state. Tile proclamation
follows:
"Whereas, the federal government
requests the cooperation of all the
agencies of the several states in prop
erly modifying all the commonwealth
and safeguarding their property ana
industrial interests against attacks
either by alien enemies or traitors;
and
whereas, it is essential that I'M
usual precautions should be taken 10
prevent the destruction by fire of food
stuffs, lumber yards. mills, factories
granaries, elevators. cold storage
plants. cotton seed oil mills and all
Wholesale and retail grocery stocks
and all places where our resources
are manufactured or stored; and.
Whereas. the national government
is vitality interested III this conserva-
tion of these resources and has urged
the cooperation of the state and its
loyal citizen in insuring adequate pro
lection; and,
"Vshereas, the said fire marshafs
depart ment has earnestly requested
that an inspection of the above char
aeter of buildings and factories he
made at this time in the State of Ark
ansas.
"Now. therefore, I, Charles II.
Brough. governor of the State of Ark
ansas. by the constitution and laws Of
said state and acting in my official ca
pacity in conjunction with the insur-
ance commissioner and state fire mar
shals office do hereby declare that
fire prevention at this time is an I'M
minent and urgent necessity, and ap-
preciating the patriotic offer of repre-
sentative insurance men of the state,
who without compensation and acting
from purely patriotic and unselfiah
motives, have rendered their services
to the state, governor the national de-
Tense council, insurance commission,
er and state fire marshal, ] hereby au-
thor7e these gentlemen to inspect the
fire hazards of the state and report
their finding TO the state fire marshal,
and | hereby call upon all the loyal
citizens of the State of Arkansas 70
take unusual care to protect their
property against fire hazard, and to
cooperate with these gentlemen and
with the state fire marshars depar:-
ment in the vital matter of protec-
ton against carelessness. negligence,
mechanism and any wanton destruc-
ton of property by fire"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21
Race Case in Supreme Court.

a case in which the Kentucky Mill
tary Institute of Lyndon, Ky. sued
Ed Cohen of Heber Springs for St94
fer alleged balance due on the tuition
of his son. Gerome E. Cohen. and IN
which Cohen filed an answer and
cross-complaint against the school fo-
damages and secured a judgment for
S275 and costs. was appealed from
Cleburne Circuit Court and filed in
the Supreme Court. Cohen alleged
that teachers and employees OF the
school failed to give his son proper
training and that they treated him
with contempt on account of his birth
and Jewish religion. which compelled
him to remove his son from the
school.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21
GETS Check For $4s, os2,14.

Attorney General John D. Arbuckle.
r. 3. Wilson OF Monticello and Ham
ilton Moses. private secretary 10 the
governor who had acted as special
attorneys for the state in the SUIT
against the Union Sand and Material
Company Of Memphis, returned with
the company's check of S49,0S214. In
settlement for the original Judgment
OF s39.450 obtained in the Desha Cir
cult Court. later affirmed by the Ark
ansas Supreme Court, for sand and
gravel tax taken from the Arkansas
side of the Mississippi river, $3.50 in.
terest on the judgment, S7,1751S
gravel tax and s59696 sand tax taken
by consent since the institution of IL
tieation from August /. 1916. to July
l, 1917.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-21

About 200 members OF the coast ar
ttllery and engineers corps in train
ing at Fort Logan H Roots left for
special training at Fortress Monroe
and Ieavenworth.
Organization of the first of the new
units for the Arkansas National Guard
was begun when Lloyd England, ad-
jutant general, authorized DR.. A. II.
Cook of Hot Springs to recruit an am
bulance company.
Announcement of plans for the or
ganization of other units will be made
in the immediate future. Cen Eng
land also announced the appointment
of DR. W. p. Baker as major of ord
nance of the administrative staff. DR..
Baker is a graduate of West Point and
former army officer, having seen ac-
tive service in the Spanish-American
war
Orders were issued directing First
Lieut. w G. Eberle of Fort Smith, an
officer in the Second Arkansas Infan-
Try Medical Corps, two noneommis-
stoned officers and two privates of the
medical corps to prepare to be mus
tered into the federal service to take
three months training at medical
training camp
The noncommissioned officers are
Sergeants J. B. Watkins and Joe Cald-
well, both of Little Rock and privates
are Frank Brown and Charles Brown.
both of Benton.
The new Third Ark>asas Infantry
is ready for federal inspection prepar
atory to federal recognition. and Cape.
A. w. Lane, L. S. A, stated that he
will begin the inspection soon.