Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1910 — Page 2

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The way of the transgressor to hard, but It Isn't lonesome. PootbaU Is to he reformed again, hut will It stay reformed? \t ... ■== Wise Is the man who buys a return ticket when he wanden from his own fireside. ; Reports from Africa tell of a lion with broken teeth. He tried to bits Roosevelt. . And the Grim Reaper oontlnuee to pile up bis score of awful touchdowns at football. Mme. has gone to a sanitarium to get her nerves repaired. We said nerves, not nerve. The late John S. Kennedy must have been fortunate as well as shrewd. The muckrakers never found him. How we would have welcomed “skycycle’’ fifteen years ago. We needed rhymes for “bicycle” so much. Professor Shaler Mathews’ general Criticism of the modern minister to that he ’'inserts religion surreptitiously Into his sermons.” Emperor William’s wife has made him promise he will never make an aaosnt in a flying machine. That kind of wife Is worth having. The luckiest woman lives in 8t Louis. She thought she was marrying a count, but since the ceremony has discovered that be Is a cook. A Texas man was thrown into Jail for calling a policeman an encyclopedia. There are same things that Texas policemen simply will not stand. A Knoxville, Tenn., paper has an nrtlcle on "The Pleasure of Work,” There is an editor who does not need any of the Rockefeller hookworm millln. The Standard Oil gets a chunk of unpleasant legal lore Just In time to aav# R from being distanced by the sugar trust In the great unpopularity contest. A man In St. Louis who gave a-wom-an his seat In a street car fell out of the car window. Perhaps she thanked him politely for the seat, and the sudden shock made him lose his balance. The California Judge, who sentenced • reckless antolst to ten years In prison for running over and killing a man, la to be commended. If anything will make these thoughtless ehaps more careful It Is treatment of this kind. Lake county. Illinois, after paying out a bounty of one thousand dollars a year on dead crows, has found the chief result to be an astonishing increese in the numbers and voracity •f the cut-worms, and has decided to stop encouraging the slaughter. It is doubtful whether, if the truth were known, there is any bird whatever which does not do the farmer moro good than harm.

Usually when one government sever* diplomatic relations with another It Indicates that trouhie L* brewing, but tho case of Panama Is an exception. It has called home all Its for«lgn envoys, except the one at Washington, and frankly admits that they an a luxury which it cannot afford. The desire of the little republic to be economical will be respected, and as practically all nations have nixed Its independence, its status wil\ not" be affected by Its action. It is a bad pre-eminence which distinguishes the United States in the matter of homicide. In no other highly civilized country is murder so frequent ; Italy alone shows a higher proportion of crimes of violence to the total population. Ten thousand persons every year are murdered in the United States. Germany, with twothirds the population of this country, has about five hundred homicides annually. The United Kingdom has about the same number. For these theta, criminologists have various explanations to ofTer, which would require much spece even to eummarlxe. It seems clear, however, that one great cause Is the failure adequately to punish crime. To resort once more to comparisons, about four-fifths of the murders committed In Germany are followed by convictions American statistics are not full and trustworthy, hat the convictions are put by some as low as one and s half per cent of the crimes. They are almost certainly less than five per cent Part of this astonishing difference Is due to tha greater efficiency of the foreign police; part to the sentimentallty which leads American Juries to acquit confessed murderers on all sorts of plsas; part to the readiness of judges to set convictions aside on legal technicalities. Public sentiment, too. Is unaccountably lax. Murder Is not regarded with the horror which it ought to arouse. It is excused on various irrelevant and Insufficient grounds. The murderer is often treated more like a hero than a felon. Me cell to fragrant wtth the floepere which siHy women offer him. peek, private revenge flourishes. The

-■ 'Mv 1 ' ' 1111 uncertainty of pualphment according to law la one of the causes of smother national scandal, the lynching party. Americans sadly need the tohlc Of a prompter, more unflinching administration of the criminal law, and the birth of a saner and more wholesome attitude toward the worst of crimes. The queetlon, frequently agitated, concerning .the wisdom of capital punishment is lees urgent than the question whether murder shall be punished at all. ' , James J. Hill li moved by the present conditions In this country to remark that "history shows that the high coat of living to the beginning of every national decline,” and to advise economy on the part of the nation and of Individuals. We know of no subject that Interests the people more than that of high prices, whether they are studying thß lessons of history or ■ot- Senator Aldrich and his monetary commission, debates over the Constitution, politics and problems to which excited statesmen are giving much attention may he overlooked la the home, but the demands of grocers and butchers are discussed dally by housewives. They , argue with one another that such times were never known. Veterans whose experience goes back to tho civil war assert that, all things considered, existing conditions are the worst yet. They express their opinions frankly to tha grocers and butchers, who take refuge In the only course that Is open to them. Like politicians under fire, they pass the charges along and tell of the exactions of the wholesalers. They mourn with their customers, and are free to admit that such things should not be. But they want to know what they can do. There are the prices stacked up against them, and does any reasonable woman believe that they should sell at a loss? All this testimony to the facts is on the side of Mr. Hill, but we Imagine that the purchasing agents of the family would have little sympathy with his hints concerning economy. Tho high prices, they might say, resulted In a forced economy. They were compelled to economize in order to live. They bought less and still could not save. They were not alarmed by visions of the national decline, but had Berlous objections to a decline in the standard of living. Mr. Hill, who, we are Informed, Is a student of htotory, should desert his books and call a convention of these experts. They will supply him with a mass of market quotations that will be an Invaluable treasury of Information; but he had better not mention extravagance in the call. That is adding Insult to Injury,, and they have no. liking for the word, anyway.

Wit of the Youngsters

It had been raining all day, and finally little Lola asked: "Mamma, when God gets all the Juice squeezed out of b cloud what does he do with It?” Small Elmer was playing witli his mother's opera glasses. Happening to look at her through the big end, he exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, you are so far away you look like a distant relative!” It was little Eva’s first day at school, and upon heT return home she was asked how she liked her teacher. “Oh, I like her, all right,” replied Eva, "hut I don’t think she knofis so very much. She don’t do anything but ask questions.” Tommy, aged 6, had asked his mother for a second piece of pie at dinner. “When I was your size,” said his father, reprovingly, “my mother allowed me to have only one piece of pie.” “Say, papa,” rejoined the little fellow, “aren’t you glad you board with us now?"

Man of Many Limbi.

The old colonel * was spinning off yarns of the civil war, and in the heat of reminiscent patriotism his memory became Somewhat tangled. "Ah, gentlemen,” he related seriously, shall never target the charge at Chlckamauga. It was there that I lost my leg.” Ten minutes later the old colonel was relating an Incident of Gettysburg. "And when we dlmbed Little Round Top the bullets were whistling on all ■ides. It was there that I lost my leg.” And thirty minutes later through a misty haze of smoke: Fines, gentlemen. Seven Pines! Ah, that was the battle. One of my legs was shot from under me an—” r But just then a timid little boy looked up and asked, shyly: "Grandpa, were—were you a centipede In those days 7”

An Odd Little By-Product.

It was believed that every conceivable saving had been effected lu the disposition of by-products of the pecking house industry; but not long ego It was found that tbe hair In the ears of steers is of a quality that permits it to be used in the manufacture of “camel’s hair” brushes. So now hair Is removed from the ears of steers, tp the end that art may flourish as well as the packing boose Industry.

Don't lot your troubles blind you to the fact that your neighbors sympathy is two-thirds curiosity. Don't worry as to who will carry on your work when you die; the man wUI turn up all right

RECIPE FOR LONG LIFE.

Dietary of Capt. Diamond, Now of California, Who Ha* Reached 113th Year. r SELDOM INDULGES IN MEAT. ttah and Eggs Sometimes on BUI of Bare, Bat Never White BreadNo Use for Stimulants. J- * William E. Maxcy, of Gardiner, Me., is a pronounced vegetarian,., and his life Is guided in,psrrfby another spirit in the says a Gardiner (Me.) dispatch In the New York Telegram. Captain Goddard E. D. Diamond of Oakland, Cal., a native of Plymouth, Mass., and a one-time resident of Maine, now 113 years old. Is one of the dominating factors in his dietary schedule. Captain Diamond was <born in Plymouth In 1796. In the first year of his life his father removed from Plymouth to what is now Oxford county in Maine. In that heavily timbered country he grew up to manhood, assisting his father to fell trees, clear the land and till the earth for a living until he returned from the war of 1812. “When I was 10 years old,” said Captain Diamond, ‘‘l was lying on a bridge spanning a brook running through our farm, looking at tke little fish sporting in the waters beneath me. “Suddenly there came a stroke upon my back like the slap of the open palm of a hoy’s hand. I saw no one and no tracks were visible. While looking around a* crash like the breaking of timbers came from ,thgl direction of the bridge, and I discovered that the ice gorge had broken loose and carried with it every timber of the bridge on which I had been reelining. The stroke on my back like the hand of a boy was a great mystery to me. I am sure that no material handrslapped me upon the back.

"Many years ago I was present at the wrecking of two ships, the first in the early ’4os, when I was a passenger on the brig Mohegan, running from New Orleans to New York City. Tbe ship foundered at the mouth of the Roanoke river, but-no lives were lost The second wreck was that of the steamer Swallow, plying between Albany and New York City on the North river. “I had a presentiment that something was going to happen. All the passengers had gone to their berths. While standing alone on the deck two women came from their berths dressed only in sleeping robes. of them took me by an arm, for what reason I never knew, unless they suspected me of suicidal intentions. I declined their familiarity and they stepped back, but as they afterward told me, each one seized my coat tall corners. While so standing the steamer struck a rock, broke in two pieces and all the stern sunk instantly. T was pitched forward into the water and the two women with me, holding on to my coat tails. I swam direct to shore and the two women landed with me. They told me they could not swim, but they observed my motions and Imitated me as nearly as they could by strokes and kicks. The DAgident occurred near Athens and we were taken to the hotel and provided with dry clothes. "I never saw the women after reaching the hotel.l am not a spiritualist and hold no theory about the restraining hand of the two women.” Capt. Diamond says he has largely avoided meats, seldom, it ever, using them, but occasionally some fish is included In his bill of fare. He has always avoided ice water and never drinks unboiled water unless it is distilled. He has eggs at Intervals, but never white bread. He is a strong believer In olive oil and he uses neither tea nor coffee. "At the age of 94 I weighed 226 pounds and was but 5 feet 7 lnf&es high, following which time I want into the hot climate of California for two successive summers, where I lived on fruits, nuts land melons and dropped to 142 pounds, since which time I have not gone above 160 pounda' I never use tobacco or liquors of any as none of these things contains food." i ,

THE BUNGALOW.

How (ke Boat ladlaa Croat 100 Haa Boca Adapted la This Conatrjr. Bungalow la an elastic word. The Idea Is old and it has been adapted to ♦his country within Mm laat few years. There has always been the cottage at the seashore or mountains and the colonial mansion bad been here before the days of the oldest Inhabitant. In the west they had shacks and in Italy they have the villa. India had to havfc something, so in the Bengalese district they created the bungalow. Now it Is here, but far different from the Bengalese affair. For tn East India the bungalow is of fHmsy construction, with thatched roof, verandas surrounding the house and with one room divided by a curtain. At first the bungalow was a cooling-off place, a garden house or a lodge. With the name end the idea American architects have somewhat changed things sad have shown East Indian people that in this country a bungalow

really to something. When the Idea was new In this country an architect when asked the difference l tween a I bungalow and a cottage said “about 15,000.” But that doesn’t mean you can’t get a bungalow for lesl than that amount. The bungalow, as built In thte country today, to a permanent structure, a home for all the year around, eptcept for those who have money enough to own one for summer use only. It la divided into as many rooms as taste and pocketbook direct, but usually it to a combination of reception hall, drawing room, library, dining room and living room. There to no suggestion of luxury In this type of architecture, and the furnishings, to be In harmony. Should suggest rest, ease afiod comfort. Straightback chairs, upholstery, onyx tables and gilt stools are as mudh out of place In the bungalow as a Steam piano In a flat. The type contributes to happiness and content, and builders say a cynic never selects the bungalow. Brides rave over them. So popular have they become that builders are putting them up and then offering them for sale for the purchasers of the ready-made. Some say this is the cheaper jdan, but the man who has built hds own will have so much satisfaction from having it as he wanted it that he won’t agree with this. In some cities shoddy affairs have been rushed up hy building companies, and these are likely to be gold bricks.— Atlanta Georgian.

TIGER AND SOME ORCHIDS.

Tourists from South America Bring Striped Brnnty pg a Pet. Bringing a South American tiger, two months old; two wild turkeys and about 3,600 orchild bulbs, George Freeman and John Murphy, both of Holyoke, Mass., returned yesterday on the Altai, of the Hamburg-Amerlcan line’s Atlas service, from a three months’ trip in Colombia and Venezuela, the New York Herald says. The tiger, about the size of a domestic cat, was imprisoned in a small wooden btfX, the top and front of which were open except for a wire screen. He was not very amiable when taken from the steamer yesterday morning, the members of the crew having amused themselves during the voyage by poking the litle fellow with sticks In order to make him take notice of them. The striped beauty did not like to be poked, and In his angler would push his claw through the wife netting In his endeavor to get at this amused ones. He did get one of them and scratched the" man, inflicting n painful gash. , Mr. Murphy said, however, the abl--mal was quite playful if handled right, and that he and Mr. Freeman had purchased the cub for a friend In Massachusetts who wanted something new for his children. While-they-were on the pier at Savevilla, Mr. Freeman laughingly remarked, tflo youngster 'broke the wire screen, and after running along the pier, jumped into the river. Two natives went Into the water. They succeeded in catching hold of a wire that was attached to the collar around the tiger’s neck and pulled him ashore. - Two Points of View. “Good morning, Jones!” “Good morning. Brown! Any news to-day?” “Why, yes. You know my brother who works at the bank? Well r he went to business the other day and found £I,OOO on the counter. And what do you think he did? Stole the money and tripped off to Canada. And when the news reached my father It broke the old man’s heart.” “That’s funny! You know, my brother works at a bank, too, and when he went to business the other morning he found £I,OOO. And what do you think be did?” “What—stole it?” “No; he took it straight to the manager’s office. And when the news rtwbed my father, do you know, K broke the old man’s heart!”—London Telegraph.

simply Fierce.

."My gracious!” said Unde Hiram, he had returned from the city, I m’e perfectly scandalous the way them people up there -waste money. There’s my son, Amoe. He married a city girl, you know. I warned him afcalnst ft, but It wasn't Any nee. He thought be knsw better then me and bis ma. A girl that's brought up In a big place where she don't get no idee of doin’ her own work ain’t no kind of a wife for any man to have. It made me Bick to see the way they waste money. And I~a<MT see how Amos manages to keep.it up. I s’ pose i’ll have ’em on my hands one of these days. No young man can earn enough to stand the expenses they have. Why, I wns with ’em only a little over a weak and they had beefsteak three times.”

Sad Winnings.

Maude —What's the matter, Mabel T Mabel (sobbing)—l had a bet with Fred on the’election. If I loet, I was to marry him. Maude —There, there, dear. Fred will not take advantage of the bet to force you to marry him. Mabel (Bohbtng)—That’s not It I I won. —Baltimore American.

When a man anj hi* wife are walttnc on a porch for the door to open, the man alwaya M ys to hla wife, "Now. don't let's ttay late.” How nice and isy a thing is when ron hear some o* tell about ft and , bow difficult It afterwards turns out I to be. 'f, 1

GREAT VALUE OF GIBRALTAR.

Gout* to Excbinsc with ifirntn Ml*hl Be Good Bargain for Britain. “For over 200 years, down to a very recent period,’’ said Irving S. Seymour of Liverpool, at the New Willard recently, according to Washington Herald, *“1116 rock of has been the synonym for impregnability, and Its possession has been thought to invest Great Britain with an absolute control over the entrance to the Mediterranean. , ", “It dominates one of the most frequented waters in the world,” continued Mr. Seymour, who to Interested in the export trade. ‘‘From every quarter of the horizon Which, is visible from its summit the steamship tracks con-, verge. Those coming from the east, from the ports of the Mediterranean, from China, India, Australia and the far Pacific, cross those which arrive there from-England and the United States, from France and Germany, from South America and western Africa, and every day throughout the year nearly 200 -vessels <}eflle between the columns of Hercules and pass In sight of the gigantic fortress which stands there on guard. , “Such being the case,’” added Mr. Seymour, “it to no wonder that Great Britain, with its vast commerce to protect and its distant colonies and dependencies to guard, should these last two centuries have held on to the place with such a tenacious grip, or that it should have spared nothing In its efforts to improve to the uttermost the natural advantages of the position and to make Gibraltar, in very fact, the key to the inland sea at whose entrance It is situated. The control of the "Mediterranean was never so important to Great Britain as it is today, jvhen the road to India and of the east, which used to lie around the Cape of Good Hope, has been diverted to the Suez canal. and the Red Sea, and to make sure of that control against whatever opposition may be encountered has been, and Is, the constant solicitude of the British government. Everything that is possible has been done, not only to render Gibraltar impregnable, but to develop Its full utility as a naval base. Yet a grave doubt has been raised as to Gibraltar’s strength, and there are those who declare that the trust which to placed in Gibraltar as a naval base might, if put to the test, be disappointed. Ceuta would be of much greater value to England than Gibraltar, and so good an authority as Sir Charles Dllke (has argued that if Spain be Induqpd to exchange Ceuta Gibraltar. It would be a good bargain for Great Britain.”

BUYING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

“krt Etolr Cecilia Sara—She Has Already Began to Look. 'This year,” , says Cecilia, according to (he New York Sun, “I am going to buy my Christmas presents early, earlier than ever. “I don’t know what will happen, but I am going to make a great effort to get through this year in time. I began weeks ago to make lists of the things that I want to give. My, I wish I could give everything I’d like to! And I know pretty well already what I want to get. I may have to revise these lists Bomewhat as we go along. I may discover that some of my folks or friends change their minds and express in their casual conversations, of which I take mental note, new preferences which I shall want to regard, bnt I have got now pretty good rough lists of what I want to buy, and I have already begun to look. I have done this now for two or three years, but I »m going to get through earlier than ever this year and avo'd the rush. ‘They tell me that in the old times people used to put off their Christmas buying till the last week before tbe holiday and the last day, and then all Join in one mad scrimmage, and l guess there must be many who do that now. I know there are, because I hear people say now distractedly when the crowded days come: ‘I don’t know what I’m going to get for John;’ bnt I know there are more and more people nowadays who. think these thlugß over in advance and make up their minds, and then go ahead anabuy the things, one or two at a time, and' get tbem into the bouse out of the i way. i * —.—: j "I know I do that I start weeks in advance and find the greater va-„ rlety and get what I want and things that haven’t been mussed.”

The Little Sister.

A wedding wu recently held in Topeka, eaya a Kansas City newspaper, which was one of the fashionable kind, and there were all sorts of preparations and frills. Among the features was a song by a baritone singer at considerable local renown, and just what he was to warWe was a matter of considerable discussion. A little sister, 6 years old, of the bride took much Interest In the program. “Sis,” she Bald, "I want to sing at your wedding.” “No, dear, you can't sing,” was the rejoinder. “But I can, and I want to,” She pleaded. "What would you sing?” her father asked her. “Jesus, Look with Mercy ” was her rejoinder, and the father hasn’t gotten <rrer it yet.

' A (question for the grammarians: Does a wedding occur, take place* or Just happen? *To your notion, everybody except yourself, is impatient

Old Favorites

B r Cool SHoom'a Sbadr Hill. By cool Slloam’s shady rill A * How sweet the lily grows!, How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose! t . . - » '• v Lol such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod; Whose secret heart with influence sweet, -J, Is upward drawn to God! ' By cool Siloam's shady" rill The lily must decay; The rose that blooms beneath the hill Muet shortly fade away. And soon, too soon, the wintry hour Of man's maturer age Will shake the soul with sorrow’s pow- —; e*f —• ■rAnd stormy passion’s rage! O Thou, whose Infant feet were found Within the Father’s shrine! Whose years, with changeless virtue crowned, Were all alike divine. Dependent on Thy bounteous breath, We seek Thy grace alone, In childhood, manhood, age and death. To keep us still Thine ownl —Reginald Heber. Unheard .Melodies. Caged in the poet’s lonely heart. Love wastes unheard Its tenderest tone; The Soul that sings must dwell apart. Its inward melodies unknown. Deal gently with us, ye who read! Our largest hope is unfulfilled— The promise still outruns the deed— The toweV, but not the spire, we bUUd. Our whitest pearl We never find; Our ripest fruit we never reach; The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals In our speech. - These are my blossoms; If they wear One streak of morn or evening’s glow, Accept them; but to me more fair The buds of song that never blow. Wendell Holmes.

NOISE OP CITY’S STREEPS.

Subways Afford Some Relief from tbe Kar-Spllttln* bln. _ Horse transportation is but one factor in the total passing of the city. Cable and trolley cars rattling from slda to side, motors with their fiendish variety of whistles thread their way In and out; while the overhead trolley wires, like the strings of some huge, discordant violin, never eease their vibrations. Thoreau speaks of the sounding of the telegraph wires, ''that winter harmony of the open* road and .snow-clad field.” Grateful as that song may be In the quiet of the country, in the city the noise of the racked trolley wire above adds a peculiarly trying factor to the pounding from the rocking cars below, the Atlantic says. When corporate officials desire to economize on traction lines they not uncommonly equip- the service with poor rails and wheels. The rails toon wear away. The wheels assume the shape of polygons instead of circles, and, as they turn, strike flattened angles against the Irregularities of the Iron rail. This Is a particularly effective jnethod of adding to the total noise. Fortunately, there is one way of relief in sight. Few devices In transportation have done more for the quiet of tbe city than have the Increasing use of subways. Though the reverberation within the subways proper may be greatly increased, the relief on tho street is marked. Only in our greater cities and along main trunk lines, however, does the subway yet exist The elevated, so far as noise is concerned, gives practically little advantage over the -surface car save for ihe lntermlttence of stopping and starting and the absence of the sound of the bell.

Only One War He Coaid Get Even.

Frank Bertram, a well-known actor, tells the following story: "I was playing at Leicester during the fair week and in the market place there were several merry-go-rounds. "I noticed one melancholy individual, who, despite the fact that he wan apparently suffering greatly, persisted In riding on one of the merry-go-rounds. “Eventually I spoke to him and asked him If he liked It. “The man replied, ’No, I don’t like It a bit; the blessed thing makes me m "I then asked him why he persisted In riding, and his reply waß, “I can’t help It. The man who owns this round-about owes me money, and the only way I can get even is by taking it out in rides.”—London Dally' Telegraph.

She knew the Kind.

President and Mrs. Hadley were on a train bound for New York, where Yale’s president was to speak before a national convention. He made use of the hour and twenty minutes he spent in the train by rehearsing his speech in a-IOW voice, using his.hands to emphasize certain passage!. A kindly matron was sitting directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hftdley, and who had been watching and listening. leaned forward, and, tapping Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said feelingly: “You* have my sincere sympathy, my poof woman; I have one Jlst tike him at home.”—Ladies’ Home Jour- - oaL