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COURIER
BEN ED. DO AHE, Publisher
JASPEft
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Also Hotland has cooties she would
liko to get rid of.
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-Even the influenza isn't what It used
to be before the war.
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Aw, but just wait till the orators
get started at celebrating it!
A peace-celebrating republic is no
place for anybody with nerves.
More regular pigs are now needed
and fewer of the human variety.
Four years of warfare make the
business of peacemaking an intricate
matter.
The ending of the war is not at all
like what Wilhelm had arranged to
hae it.
A new broom sweeps clean. It ought
to sweep twice as clean the price is
now $2.
Influenza is on the wane, election's
over, and the war has ended it's a
dull world.
Are you preparing to plan a peace
garden next spring? " Don't give up a
good habit.
Davy .Tones must be wondering at
the absence of new arrivals in the form
of sunken ships.
Looking back, it's funny to recall
how many schemes were advanced to
stop the U-boats.
Germany is now frantically plead
ing that It be not done unto her as
she did unto others.
Continue to save the Crult pits the
dominant doctors may decide to make
civilians wear gas masks.
Where is the fellow who, a few
months ago, was talking about German
efficiency lud Invincibility?
The Charlotte Observer slogans'The
Hog to the Front!" But it is alluding
to pork and not to profiteers.
There mny be nothing In a name,
but Atlantic ports are now to get
thdirs -back in news dispatched.
One would like, to have taken the
news of Sedan to ex-Empress Eugenie
and watched her old eyes Foarkle!
Though the fighting has censed, the
work-or-fight order has lost noneof its
force for everybody in this busy world.
The kaiser started the war like a
raging lion seeking whom he might de
vour, and he ended it with running ofC
like a scared rabbity
Europe never saw so much royal
junk at one time since the king indus
try grew out of the infant stage a. long
time ago.
Having laid down his rifle, Uncle
Sam will now engage in feeding a lot
of little hungry republics out of his
great spoon.
The French Academy of Science has
elected Foch to membership, which is
the proper thing to do. If he isn't a
scientist, who is?
Russia Stops Paying Indemnity to
Germany. -News dispatch. And there
is no sign in the sky that she will ever
resume the payments.
Xou can tell by the kind of shoes a
girl wears whether she has made up
her mind to do a noble part In shaping
the future of mankind.
The little German children wlh
grow up and become pürents of other
children, and will teach them that war
is brutal and dangerous.
The boys are to be brought home as
rapidly as possible, which is all that
could be expected, but not soon enough
for us folks who are hungry and anx
ious to se them.
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-"t (. , uut ucvLure -April 1 snail
be in Paris," is n remark generally
credited to Field Marshal von Binden
burg about the time Foch spread the
tacks along the short road to the
French capital.
The most severe brutalities and cru
elties in Russia, a writer declares, are
those directed against newspaper men.
Perhaps some Red with a name con
taining 15 or 20 scrambled letters saw
his name misspelled.
"It will be for the good of Ger
many," was what Mr. Bohenzollern
said when he found himself "up
against it," so he couldn't move. But
between ourselves ihat wasn't the rea
son he pushed himself off.
Bindenburg, Ludendorfr, Mackensen,
TIrpitz and a lot more of them are
not nearly such great fellows as they
thought themselves to be.
Use of paper underwear is suggested
to relieve cloth shortage. So? Then
newspapers should be printed on cloth
to relieve the paper shortage., ,!
The Influenza germ Is so small that
It cannot be seen with a microscope.
And yet people have been trying to
shut It out by the coarse meshes of t
"flu mask."
Prepared by die U. S.
On the farm the poultry keeper can greatly reduce the work of caring
for the fowls and at the same time give them the opportunity to pick the
most of their living by distributing them on the land. In the city back yard
the birds could not, under any circumstances, pick any considerable part of
the feed they require. Practically everything must be supplied them, hence
any negligence on the prt of the keeper affects results more unfavorably than
when the hens are under farm conditions.
Yet there is nothing difficult in the care of a small flock if each of the
things necessary to do is done at the right time in the right way, and this
system Involves nothing too hard for a child, or beyond the ingenuity of an
adult who cannot look after the fowls as closely as the child whose time is
divided between home and school.
Hens of the medium-sized breeds Plymouth. Boqfcs,.Wyaudottes, Ithode
Island Keds and Orpicgtons are best suited to back-yard conditions. Large
hens kept In close confinement are likely to get too fat to lay well. Small,
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Intensive Poultry Culture on a City Lot.
nervous hens are apt to develop such vices as egg-eating and feather eating.
The bad tendencies mentioned do not prohibit the keeping of large and small
breeds In small back yards, but make it necessary for the keeper to use
extraordinary care to keep them in good condition and productive. White
and light-colored varieties are not desirable for small back yards, because
their plumage soils too easily.
As a rule it Is most satisfactory to buy hens of a local poultry keeper
or dealer in live poultry. Desirable small flocks are frequently offered by
people who are obliged by change of work or of residence to sell their poul
try. Dealers in live poultry everywhere sort out from their general receipts
the hens that show good breeding and quality to sell to back-yard poultry
keepers.
For the back-yard flock kept to produce eggs only it is not necessary to
have hens of extra good standard quality. What breeders of standard poul
try call choice utility hens are as goof as any for egg production and cost
but little more than ordinary mongrels, liens of this grade in the medium
sized breeds are usually a little under standard weights, and have superficial
faults as unsoundness of color, or irregularity of markings or of the shape
of the comb which in no way affect their laying capacity but make them
unfit for exhibition and undesirable for breeding purposes.
When buying hens In person, particular attention should be given to the
general conditionwhether the bird seems vigorous and lively and to the
appearance of the comb and the condition of the feet. Healthy hens have
bright red combs and bright eyes. A slight paleness of the comb is simply
an indication that the hen is not laying at the time; but a bird whose comb
has either n yellowish or a bluish cast should be rejected, for these are symp
toms of Internal disorders. The skin and scales of legs and toes should be
smooth, and the soles of the feet soft and free from corns.
HOW TO CLASSIFY
" N A SOLDIER
Hat Cord Designates Branch
of Service
A military man can immediately tell
to what division a soldier belongs by
glancing at the cord on his hat, but
to the average citizen the color of the
hat cord denotes little or nothing. It
is an interesting feature to be familiar
with, especially now when so many
soldiers are seen all over the country,
and any one who takes the trouble to
learn the following list will be reward
ed by being able to satisfy his own
curiosity respecting tiny soldier he
happens to see without having to ask
questions :
A cord of light blue signifies that
the wearer belongs to the infantry;
red denotes artillery; yellow, cavalry;
buff, quartermaster's corps; red and
white, engineer's corps; orange and
white, signal corps; red and black,
ordnance ; black and white, field clerk ;
maroon and white, medical corps;
black and gold, officers; silver and
black, adjutant general's clerk; green,
instructor home guards, and green and
white, home guards.
As the Earth's Human Race
Advances It Also Develops
Man has been on the earth perhaps
some twenty odd thousand years, and
it is only the last 3,000 that we are
much concerned with. To suppose
that a modern Englishman must nec
essarily be at a higher stage of mental
development than an ancient Greek is
almost the same mistake as to argue
that Browning must be a better poet
than Wordsworth because he came
later. If the soul, or the brain, of
man is developing, it is not developing
so fast or so steadily as all that.
Organization of the Red Star.
An organization to do for animals
in the army what the Hed Cross does
for human beings was organized on
the invitation or suggestion of the war
department in June, 1916. It is called
the Red Star, and its headquarters
art at 2S7 State street, Albany, N. Y.
Rail
Department of Agricufot
Printing of Fabrics by
Peruvians Similar to the
Method Still Being Used
The ancients of Peru, by a curious
coincidence for there could not possi
bly have been any intercourse with
their contemporaries in India and
Egypt seem to have used much the
same kind of processes in printing
their designs upon the fabrics they
manufactured. Both Herodotus and
Pliny, among early historians, accord
ing to a United States commerce
report, have told us about the cloths
of vegetable fiber made by the an
cients; but in all likelihood the fab
rics of the Peruvians were of even a
more remote date. In some respects
the methods of today bear strong re
semblance to the older practice. The
chief difference consists in the pat
terns now being engraved upon copper
rollers and several colors being print
ed at one time. Just as today the
coloring matter of dyes is not affixed
by merely printing it on the material,
but is secured by means of a sub
stance known as mordant, so did the
Peruvians make use of a property
which caused the dye to adhere and
to withstand a test of thousands of
years' wear and tear. Experts have
declared that in the direction of tech
nical and artistic value the designs
in question have no equal. They
must undoubtedly have been wholly
original, and could have owed their
inception to no outside influences.
Japanese Woman One of
the Greatest Financiers
Mm e. Yone Suzuki, the wealth
iest woman in Japan made more than
$100,000,000 in American money since
the war began. Her war brides have
been copper, rubber, and sugar ven
tures. In a financial operation now
known as the Formosan sugar deal,
a transaction involving sugar, cam
phor, real estate and many other
things, she made 50,000,000 in one
fell swoop. She is not a shareholder
In a corporation. She is the corpora
tion. Since her husband's death she
has been solely responsible for her
business. But she is just a modest
little woman, who received in a cul
tured Japanese household the pre-
j scribed education of the old school
she was trained to arrange flowers,
serve tea,- rea childrea and please a
I husband. World OntlocX.
1 THE BOY THAT WAS f
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When the hair about the temples start
to show the signs of gray,
And a fellow realizes that he's wander
ing far away
From the pleasures of his boyhood and
his youth and never more
Will know the joy of laughter as he did
m years o yore,
Oh, it's then he starts to thinking of a
stubby little lad
With a face as brown as berries and &
soul supremely glad.
When a gray-haired dreamer wanders
down the lanes of memory
And forgets the living present for the
time of "used-to-be;"
He takes off his shoes and stockings, and
he throws his coat away,
And he's free from all restrictions save
the rules of manly play.
He may be in tattered garments, but
bareheaded in the sun.
He forgets his proud successes and the
riches he has won.
Oh, there's not a man that liveth but
would give his all to be
The stubby little fellow that in dream
land lie can see,
And the splendors that surround him and
the joys about him spread
Only seem to rise to haunt him with the
boyhood that .as lied.
When the hair about the temples starts
to show Time's silver stain,
Then the richest man's that living yearns
to be a boy again.
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press.
Thomas Jefferson Rodman
Said to Have Been Father
of Big Gun Used in Europe
Thomas Jefferson Hodman, the
American inventor and ordnance ex
port, who initiated the movement for
big guns which culminated in the giant
cannon used in Europe, was born 103
years ago in Salem, Ind., and after
graduating from West Point, entered
the ordnance department of the army.
He early devoted himself to experi
ments with guns and gunpowder. Hod
man's greatest triumph, notes a writer
in (ho Sacramento Union, was the in
vention of a method of casting guns
hollow and cooling them from the in
side, which worked a revolution in the
making of artillery.
The long and earnest study devoted
to the properties and manipulation of
cast iron, then regarded as the best
material for heavy ordnance, by Hod
man and other officers, enabled the
United States to produce guns then
admittedly the best In the world. In
1SG0 a cannon weighing 35 tons, the
largest in the world, was cast, but the
exigencies of the Civil war required
heavier and better artillery. In 1SG3
a 20-inch smooth bore, weighing near
ly 58 tons and throwing a solid shot
of 1,0S0 pounds, was cast. This great
gun attracted international attention,
and many years passed before it was
surpassed in size and effectiveness.
Hodman also introduced the use of
"mammoth" powder for the 15-inch
smooth-bore guns of his invention. Dur
ing the Civil war his guns were used
in both navy and army, and were of
great assistance in deciding the outt
come of the struggle. During the war
period Rodman had command of the
Water town arsenal.
THIS AND THAT
Now that it is all over we
have the added joy of knowing
that the right side triumphed.
A brunette never can under
stand what men see in blonde
hair to rave about.
It makes no difference how
rich a man is, he's either a good
fellow or he isn't.
Prejudice keeps many a man
away from a good friend.
Raising of Rabbits Grows
in Popularity as Cost of
Beef and Pork Increases
Since the price of meat has been
soaring, substitutes for beef and pork
have been in demand.
The most popular method of filling
out the menu without patronizing the
butcher is to raise rabbits, and hun
dreds of persons are now so engaged
with profit.
It is the consensus of opinion among
breeders, writes a correspondent, that
the Flemish giant rabbit is the best, its
meat closely resembling the taste of
chicken. Many persons who have
served Flemish rabbit have been com
plimented over their "lovely chicken
dinner."
The Belgian hare, which has many
followers, is not so toothsome by far.
The Flemish is bred for meat and
weight, while the Belgian is favored
for color, symmetry and small-sized
bones.
The weight of rabbits varies greatly.
The giant Flemish leads, specimens
being known to reach 22. pounds, al
though the average ranges from 15 to
19. Belgian hares, when a year old,
weigh about 12 pounds. The other
species are somewhat lighter.
Babbit hides bring 35 to 75 cents a
pound, although there are instances
where the white fur brings much high
er prices, according to quality and ap
pearance. Letters on Submarines.
The letters used on United States
submarines designate their type of
construction, and run through the al
phabet. Submarines of the earlier
types are designated by the first let
ters of the alphabet and those of later
type by letters further along. Indi
vidual submarines are designated by
numbers. Thus the designation N3
means a certain submarine of the N
type.
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Crawfordsville. Residents of Mont
gomery county feel that they were
100 per cent loyal in war activities
that have been conducted in the last
two years. Tabulations show that a
total of $4,147,200.30 was either loaned
or contributed by them for work in
the conflict against Germany. In ad
dition, not fewer than 1,500 Montgom
ery county men entered the service of
their country in the war. Of this num
ber 1,050 were inducted into service
through the selective draft. In addi
tion more than 500 men from Wabash
college here, a large number of whom
are credited in other parts of the state
and nation, entered military service,
about half of them as officers. Liberty
loan subscriptions in the county to
taled $3,505,000.
Petersburg.- Arrangements are be
ing made for the installation of the
Dig new steel tipple at the Atlas No.
1 mines, north of this city. The struc
ture, which is to replace the big tip
pie destroyed recently by fire, is to
cost $150,000. will be DO feet high and
built to bundle 4.000 tons of coal a
day. Big wusheries also will be in
stalled. Workmen have begun work
on a wnshhouse that will accommo
date 450 miners. One hundred and
fifty new cars have been shipped to
the Atlas mine and switch room is be
ing made for (0 empty coal cars a day.
More than riOO.OOO will be spent in
improvements this winter and next
spring. t
Snlom. In order to facilitate the
movement of wounded soldiers to the
United States army hospital at West
Baden by motortrucks, and to provide
for a more rapid and convenient
method for handling supplies, Lieut.
William P. Ronnie of Washington, in
charge of the purchasing department
in the army quarternm ter's detach
ment, offers to provide specifications
for road building and men and trucks
for the work if county commissioners
along the road between West Baden
and New Albany will provide the
material.
Indianapolis. Further direction or
control over the ice industry lias been
abandoned by the United States food
administration, it was announced in
an official notice received from Wash
ington by Harry E. Barnard, federal
food administrator for Indiana. No
tice was addressed to the county food
administrators of the state, by Mr.
Barnard, withdrawing further respon
sibility In connection with the busi
ness, which in a large number Of
cases, has been assumed by the local
officials.
Indianapolis. Advocating the pas
sage of stringent sanitary laws and a
closer relationship for the enforce
ment of the sanitary laws, H. B. Barn
ard, Indiana food administrator, ad
dressed the opening session of the In
diana Manufacturers of Dairy Prod
ucts assembled in their annual con
vention here. Doctor Barnard told the
ice-cream manufacturers he has given
much thought to the standardizing of
the manufacture of creams and to tlm
most fair methods of selling the prod
uct. Indianapolis. Federal investigators
for the department of labor, in a bul
letin received here, declare that in
visiting nine mine and quarry states
they found children less than sixteen
years old employed only in Indiana.
They found 02 in the state. John
Ogllvie, acting head of the state mine
inspection department, in commenting
on the report, said that the Indiana
law permits persons as young as four
teen years old to work in the mines.
.Indianapolis. Indiana banks again
went "over the top" in subscribing for
treasury certificates for the fifth Lib
erty loan. The state's quota was $9,
260,000 of the certificates. At close of
business of the Seventh District Fed
eral Reserve bank GS counties of the
state in the district exceeded the allot
ment by several thousands of dollars
The allotment of the OS counties of
the state was about 2 per cent of the
banking resources.
Terre Haute. Erection of a big car
repair plant for the Pennsylvania
railroad lines in the east yards of this
city, is now under full headway and is
scheduled to be f completed within
three months. The new plant, wlflch
is to cost $250,000, will cover 25 acres
and will consist of 16 separate build
ings. Approximately 400 men will be
employed when the plant is completed.
Indianapolis. The federal food ad
ministration in Indiana has renewed
its efforts to have shippers avoid over
loading stock cars, particularly hog
cars, following a report received by it
from the Indianapolis stock yards.
The report said 154 hogs had been re
ceived dead at the stock yards because
of crowded and unfit cars.
Fort Wayne. rBecause of the falling
off in the number of cases handled by
the attorney for the poor of Allen
county since the state went dry, the
salary of that official has been re
duced from $70 to $50 a month.
Seymour. Unusually warm weather
recently caused maple trees here to
bud and in a few places dandelions
are In bloom. One year ago the tem
perature here was lS1 degrees below
zero and train and traction service
was crippled badly because of snow
drifts. West Baden. Thirty soldiers were
discharged the past week from the
United States army hospital here, the
first to go home since the hospital
was establisked. They were returned
to the 'camt, where they 'originally
were mustered In, as they are now
Physically welL
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State
Washington, D. C.- An order prohib
iting the supplying of nntural gas to
consumers other than those in classes
one, two and three, has been issued by
the bureau of natural gas, fuel admin
istration, applicable to all companies
supplied by the Logan Katural Gas
company, which runs a pipe line from
West Virginia, supplying many com
munities In Indiana. The' order holds
until April 15. 1019, unless another or
der is issued in the meantime. It Is
the intention of the natural gas ba
reau to supply service first to the con
sumers in class one, next to consumers
in class two, and so on. If the supply
is not sufficient for all three classes,
the last class win be cut off. In any
event, domestic consumers will be the
first to be served. The order of the
fuel administration was sent to the
following Indiana concerns In addition
to the Logan Natural Gas company:
Richmond Light Heat and Power
company, Richmond; Lynn Gas com
pany, Lynn; Interstate Public Service
company, Newcastle; Central Indiana
Gas company, Noblesville and Tipton;
Middletown Gas company, Middle
town ; Selma Gas company, Selma.
Indianapolis. The necessity for a
complete overhauling of Indianas tax
system, including the problems of the
state, counties and municipalities, is
brought out by figures just compiled
by the state board of tax commission
ers. These figures show great dis
crepancies in the cost of government
in the different counties, townships.
towns and cities. It is pointed out
als'o that the heavier increases in gov
ernmental costs everywhere probably
have not yet been reached and It is
known that in some of the units In
the state tax rate increases, or similar
relief, already has been decided on.
For example, the city of Indianapolis
is shown as having the lowest tax rate
of any city in the state, yet increases
in cost of municipal operation cannot
be met during the coming year without
some very definite relief here, offi
cials have said. The elimination of
revenues from saloon licenses also has
been another factor In the rapidly
mounting municipal tax rates, and un
less some sort of solution to the diffi
culty comes, tax rates will be out of
all proportion to interest rates, as
they are now in many instances.
Hammond. Since Indiana went dry
and the penalties for Importing liquor
from Illinois have been rigidly en
forced, officials in this locality are
finding that drinkers arc manufactur
ing stupefying concoctions. Some Im
migrants are using rice and potato
liquor they make (hemelves. Drug
stores are being depleted of Jmnaica
ginger and hair oil stocks and bitters,
while patent medicines are sold in
enormous quantities. Police find men
unconscious from the cfTects and jail
are showing an alarming increase in
prisoners.
Monlieello. White county, txue to
nil of its traditions, has made a rec
ord in the world war just ended which
will be remembered by all of Its citi
zens with pride. In both the Civil
war and Spanish war White county
raised by far the greater number of
its troops by the volunteer system, and
such has been the case in the recent
conflict. When the first call for draft
ed men was made by the war depart
ment, White county was the only one
in Indiana which had exceeded its
quota by voluntary enlistments.
Terre Haute. Arrangements are be
ing made by the Citizens Independent
Telephone company here for taking
over the exchange plant of the Cen
tral Union Telephone company, ac
cording to H. A. Pritchett of the Citi
zen's company, following action in the
Marlon county superior court author
izing the receivers of the company to
make the sale. About six months will
be required to make adjustments. The
deal will involve more than a million
dollars. The telephone! companies
have about 15,000 subscribers.
Indianapolis. Four hundred and
seventy-three answers to the question'
"Will you re-employ the man who left
your establishment to enter the gov
ernment service?" sent to employers
some time ago, have been received by
the members of the local draft board
for division No. 7, and 42G of the env
ployers returned affirmative answers.
More than S00 forms bearing this
question were sent to Indianapolis
employers by the board and more than
50 per cent have been returned.
South Bend. Ele Stansbury of In
dianapolis, attorney general of In
diana, has filed suit in the St. Joseph
county circuit court here against iho
Standard National Life Insurance com
pany of tills city, alleging insolvency
and fraudulent conduct of business,
The complaint says that on Investlga
tion by the auditor of state It was
found that the company was unable
to meet Its obligations created by the
policies issued.
Indianapolis. The Nappanee Tele-,
phone company petitioned the pubHö
service commission to increase tele
phone rates 25 cents a month and to
discount this amount for prompt jmr
ment of bills. The Rochester Teli.
phone company petitioned for the es
tablishment of vacation rates. A peti
tion was filed to establish miners1
train service between Coalmont aa3
Jasonville.
Indianapolis. Influenza-pneumonia
during November, the second memtK
of the epidemic, caused the dentil .f
2,521 Boosters, according to official re
ports compiled by the state board of
health. During October them wr
3,201 victims in Indiana, or 770 more
than last month. The total number of
deaths caused directly bv the riiMM
up to December 1 is 5.702. The nor
mal Influenza-pneumonia death rU
for November is about 230. Indianap
olis had 124 fewer cloths f.
malady last month tfian in October
reporting 306 against a total of 4Kt
durinr the first month of the t'üibüi