Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Every Day Except Sunday. HEALEY & CIAHK, PabUshers. REN-SELAER, - INDIANA.

After finishing Mr. Zelaya, fate preb ably will begin at the other end of the alphabet again. , It will be a feather In the cap of Secretary Knox If he can bring about a safe and sane Nicaragua. The fellow who was weighed in the balance and found wanting must have neglected to drop a cent In the slot What’s In a name? The Indian desperado chased to his death by three armed posses was called "Willie Boy." • ■ ■ i ■ Wouldn’t It be horrible If Germany should, while England Is without a budget, decide to lay down a few more DreadnoughtsT . - .... Doubtless It Is the Influence of International marriages manifesting Itself 'ln the unexpected spunk of the British House of Lords. G. Bernard Shaw says If he came to America people would drop everything else and rush to look at him. What Is that old story about the fly on the wheel? The Kaiser read hls own message to the Reichstag. Perhaps this habit is the reason why European documents of this character are so much shorter than they are here. The new Chinese minister to this country brings sixty-seven servants with him. Astute man. Had he made It fifty-seven he would have been In a pickle with the paragraphers. Ton can’t work and worry at the same time, concludes the Atchison Globe philosopher. Men can’t, but women can pile disaster on disaster, while cleaning up after the children or doing their hair.

Those so-called craters on the moon may be merely the marks of bumps received In collisions with other orbs, but that theory does not seem to explain the presence of a tall cone in the center of so mfrny of thenv Because he married a show girl a New York man has been disinherited by his father, who intended to leave to him about (3,000.000. The disinherited young husband thinks he will be able to live on love, but the show girl salth not Football Is a game for men, no 7 doubt but let us suppose the girls were all to decide It to be too brutal to watch and were to refuse every invitation to attend the matches. How long would the game last do you think? Through one season? Dolls have a human element In them which make It most unlikely that they will ever be supplanted permanently in the affections of children by the “Teddy Bear” or "Billy Possum” or "Kermlt Lion." Such toys have their day, as novelties do with older people, bat the Eskimo dolls, which have been highly popular since the discovery of the north pole, indicate a return to Hie simple, old-fashioned doll which little mothers have played with for countless generations. • There is no doubt that modern industrial development tends irresistibly to large corporate organizations and to affiliations which will reduce the' friction' Of competition where powerful interests are liable to come into conflict with destructive effect. But the working of such a system cannot be safely left to the will of those who devise and direct its operation. It must be Bubject to regulation, to requlieuients and* prohibitions of law, at once effective and enforclble. The adjustment of jegulatjon has not kept pace with the development, and they must somehow be brought into harmony by adaptation to secure the benefit of development without an abuse of the power that accompanies it ,pr the sacrifice of rights and interests that fall in its way.

John Stewart Kennedy's magnificent bequests to religion, education and philanthropy place him at once in the front rank of princely benefactors. Hit thirty millions compare favorably with the outpourings even of a Rockefeller or a Carnegie, especially when we take Into account the charities of his lifetime. Mr. Kennedy gave quietly while he was alive, and probably kept back his final vast gifts because It la Impossible to give away such a fortune and do It quietly. Therehy. It Is true, he lost the chance of seeing his name In the newspapers every day and playing the much-quoted oracle on every conceivable topic of the times. We do not say that a taste for such things Is reprehensible. Possibly a man does well to bestow his benefaction while he Is still on the spot to see that the right use Is made of them. But it Is Impossible not to admire the older traditions which looked upon charity as a business Involving only the giver and the taker and not the reporter and the camera man as well. There are still . many more examples of the old type among us than the world suspects. The death of a Kennedy or a Jpanes reminds us of the fact. Often hay, not an obstreperous cow, started the great Chicago fire. Mrs. OXaary'a momentous milking fc* a

myth, as much so as Wllllim Tell and the apple, as Cleopatra and he? fascination. And another* great dlsilluaioplzer has appeared, one who dissolves the fables In corrosive sublimate quite as conclusively as does Guglielmo Ferrero or any German higher critic. The new historian Is "Big Jim” O’Leary, stock Jyards politician and gambling king, son of the Mrs. O’Leary of famous memory, and by virtue of his sonship heir to her knowledge of exactly how the Chicago fire did start. He has felt moved In the Interest of truth and of vindicating hls parent in human history to attest the facta in the case and to exonerate the blameless bovine. Mrs. O’Leary, her aoh avers, believed In the big stick In the upbringing of her progeny, and tolerated no antics In her cattle. If little Jim, who Is now "Big Jim,” wasn’t tucked la bed by 8 o’clock, he caught it sound and hard. Nor did the disciplined bo vines In the O’Leary barn dare flick a tall In tho milker’s eyes or kick over a lamp lighting the lacteal operation. Neither Mrs. O’Leary’s children nor her cows ventured to misbehave. It was green hay In the loft, over whose antics the lady could exercise no control, that by spontaneous combustion kindled the historic conflagration. All the little O’Learys were In their trundle beds, the cowa were locked in the barn, Mrs. O’Leary herself was sleeping like the just, when the green h%y developed Are that, before it was quenched, had burned three-fourths of Chicago over. The cow is cleared and the widow justified. Thus evaporates another fake In the interests of prosaic truth and the higher verities. Barbara Fritchie never wagged her "old gray head" above the "rebel horde” In Frederlcktown. Sherman never rode the twenty miles a-down the Shenandoah to save the day. But we had hopes that Mrs. O’Leary and her cow werd real figures upon the historic stage. These hopes are now shattered Irremediably.

FIRST SCHOOL-DAY IN ALSACE

A glimpse of the strenuous and sustained battle against ignorance fought by the pioneer teachers of the Old World in the days preceding the French Revolution is given by Rev. E. Gllliat, in a recent book, "Heroes of Modern Crusades." It seems almost incredible that conditions so hopeless should need to have been righted in times so-near to ours. — 7— ~ -—— When Monsieur Stouber undertook the pastorate of Ban de la Roche, a territory In the Vosges which belonged to Protestant noblemen, as feudal lords of the soil,, he found the people very wild and Ignorant. When he first went there he visited the only school. A number. of children were gathered together in a miserable cottage. As he entered he heard an appalling noise of scuffling, quarreling and shouting. “Silence, children, silence!” he cried. "Where is your master T" One of the children pointed to a little old man who was lying on a bed in the corner of the room. “Are you the master of the school?” asked the pastor, in some dismay. "Yes, I be the master, sir—l be.” •'Humph! But don't you teach the children anything?” "No! I don't teach the children nothing—for a good reason.” “It must be a very good reason indeed. What is it, my friend?” “Well, I don’t know nothing myseH. sir, so how am I to teach?” “But. my good friend, why did they send you here, then?'! "§«»pause. sir, I be too old to take care of the pigs.”

Logical Gardening?.

A lady -who had never owned a garden at last had the opportunity to -have one, in *hlch she could do just as she wished. Accordingly, a careful study of the seed catalogues was in order. Her husband one day, says the Louisville Times, came home to find her poring over its "profusely illustrated” pages. She had a long list of seeds written on a sheet of paper. "This is a list, my dear,” she said, “that I want you to buy for me tomorrow at the seed man’s.” Her husband looked at the list. Then he laughed. “You want these flowers to bloom this summer, don’t you?" he asked. "Yes, of course." /’Well, those you have put down it liere don’t bloom till the second summer.” “Oh, that’s all right.” said his easily. "I am making up my list from a last year’s catalogue.”

Trusting the Dog's Judgment.

Friend —What on earth are you doing to that painting of yours? Dauber —Can’t you see? I’m rubbing a piece of raw meat over the r&bbtt in the foreground. Mrs. Alshoddle will be here to-day, and when she sees her pet dog smell of that rabbit she'll buy it.—Judge.

Snappy.

Housekeeper (to beggar) Your wife sick! Didn’t you tell me last week she was dead? Beggar—Yes.' mum, but I’ve married again.—Boston Transcript. - ■ 80 often we hear It said: "He is a good talker. He will make good.’” Is talk so necessary for success? A woman isn’t necessarily home l j because she is fond ot her n«wie

ADD WATER TO HR

Emulsion Invented by Which Two Pounds May Be Manufactured from One). - 1 -i -> is difucult of DETE CTION. I ' Takes an Expert to Locate the Adulteration—A Boom for Downtrodden Farmer. Dr. S. J. Cfumbine, secretary of the state board of health, and some of the pure food Inspectors have unearthed a new scheme whereby the down-trod-den farmer can double his money on butter, a Topeka (Kans.) correspondent of the Kansas City Tlibes Bays. A Kansas City firm Is selling a preparation that makes It possible to add 100 per cent of water to butter and still make such good butter that only experts can tell that it la watered stock. A pound of real butter, a pound of ordinary water and ten drops of this emulsion churned together make twd pounds of -butter. The emulsion appears something like glue. It Is sticky and rather thick, but transparent. It is harmless and has no deleterious effect except to add to the weight of the butter. Four ounces of the emulsion cost a quarter. A pound of butter in Topeka is worth 30 to 35 cents. A pound of water purchased from a distilling plant might cost 2 mills. The housewife who has all sorts of trouble making her allowances go a week could invest half a dollar In the crockery churn, put in a pound of butter, a pound of water and ten drops of this emulsion and produce 70 cents’ worth of butter. Any woman with a churn and the emulsion can cut her butter bills in two. Any one who knows how to work a churn can do this. The farmer who cannot raise enough cows and hogs and grain to buy a "motor car would not have much trouble doubling his income from the butter." "With ten pounds of water that did not cost a cent he could produce twenty pounds of butter. The firm that Is making the emulsion Is making the best play to the hotels. They show the hotel manager how the butter bills can be reduced fully one-half by the investment of a dollar. What Is more, the firm. Is able to prove Its contention. - -The wife of one of the Inspectors took some of the emulsion purchased by her husband, a pound of butter and a pound of water and turned out two pounds of butter recently. Samples were sent to half a dozen persona who are supposed to know first class butter and every one of them pronounced the watered butter to be extra high class. The emulsion makes It possible to whip water Into the butter and also makes it Impossible of detection except by an expert.

GIRL WHO NEVER GOT THERE.

It Tnoli a Severe Jolt to Accomplish Her Reform. Mrs. Kent was standing by the library table, pulling on her gloves and looking anxiously at Rose. “Are you writing to accept Mrs. Lange’s Invitation for the piazza tea?*’ she asked, at last. "I am,” answered Rose, with a final flourish. Then she patted the stamp in place with energetic little thumps, and handed the letter to her sister. "Just drop that as you go by the box, please.” “But,” urged Mrs. Kent, "it’s not only are you going to accept, but are you going to be on time? No, you needn t smile' fascinatingly at me. Rose. You know you never are anything but ‘the last, belated guest.' People are beginning to call you 'the girl who never got there,’ and I’m at the end of my apologies. Do be early!" she urged. “I should bo like to put the finishing touches to your pretty frock. I’n.' sure you can’t manage it yourself.” "Dear old Philippa!” said Rose, giving her a hug. "Still mothering me, although you’ve a baby of your own now. And how is my beloved 'Peaches?' I think I’ll have to start early so I can stop in and play with her for an hour or two.” "\ “Peaches,” answered her mother from the doorway, “is invited, too. 80 you’d better come early, you see. She’s the main attraction,” added Mrs. Kent, modestly, as she left the rom. After her sister had gone, Rose sank back in her chair and yawned. "Why are people always hurrying me?" she demanded, plaintively. “Now I always say, ‘We dine at 7, and please be late.’ It simplifies things so.” But somehow, when the day came, an easy chain of circumstances, duties that slipped quickly by, unconsciously hurried Rose forward, and she found herself dressed and ready with quarter of an hour to spare. “I’ll be in time,” she said, with a laugh. “I'll be the first person there, and I only trust my friends won’t faint from the suddenness of the shock.” Once started, Rose, for all her shillyshallying. was impetuous. Now, as she swung uf> the box-edged path, she though’t. “I’ll Jump out and grab Peaches when she comes. Won’t be surprised to see her aunty?” No hostess was waiting for her on th* long varan da. but beyond, among

the vines; there was the flutter of a child’s frock, the glimpse Of chubby bare arms and a fluffy golden, “It must be Peaches. Peaches In the dress I made her,” thought Rose. "But what Is she carrying? Oh!” The girt ran forward Just al~the lighted Chinese lantern fell and flamed against the muslin ruffles. Her long coat was off in ah Instant and flung around the struggling. Bcreaiqlng child. Another moment, and the veranda~~seeined crowded with excited people, but Just that one first little minute, and that only, had been enough to save Peaches. Rose lay awake that night a long, long while. Somehow. all would' not come straight in her mind. She seemed to see Peaches there, burning, burning, and no one to help her. "Suppose I hadn’t come early,’’ she thought, shuddering. "But I did.” Then a suspicion of her old whimsical an.ile curved her mouth. "I do hope it won’t seriously Inconvenience them," she said, aloud, "but really, people will have to stop calling me ‘the girl who never got there,’ because after this I’m going to be ‘the girl who is always on time.’ ’’ —Youth's Companion.

SEEING DOUBLE.

• —-t—: . * _• A well-known oculist of New York City tells a story of one of hls patients who proved rather more than a match for him. The patient was a quaint old fellow from one of the rural counties of the State, fifty years of age or more, who strolled leisurely Into the dootor’s office, and after taking an optical Inventory of the place, Including the doctor himself, remarked that he was afraid that hls eyes were "gltting a leetle out o’ kilter,” and he guessed the doctor had better "take a peek at them.” He was seated and, as a preliminary, was invited to look through a prism at a photograph. “Why, now,” said he, after squinting a while, "this Is curious. I Bee two photographs. What makes me see like that?” The doctor, who la something of a humorist and Inclined to be jocose with certain of hls patients, replied that this phenomenon was certainly very Interesting, and that while possibly it indicated some slight abnomallty, it yet had its compensating advantages. "With double vision you have a great advantage over me, for example,” he continued, smiling, “for you will be able to see twice as many beautiful things in the world as I can. You will have twice as many friends. Your family will be doubled. You will have twice as much real estate and two pocketbooks instead of one, and when ■you hitch up your horse to drive out, you will have a span.” The old fellow did not say much In reply, but seemed to be pondering It; and meantime the doctor completed hls examination, and having made the appropriate prescription, It came time to receive his fee, which in this case was ten dollars. Very slowly the old man, still pondering, drew forth a roll of bills, and carefully selecting a five, looked hard at It for some moments, then proffering It, said quietly, “Here’s your ten dollars, doctor.”

INTERESTING OLD DOCUMENT.

la 1828 School Board Referred to Railroads as “a Device of Satan." Alexander Wells, an old citizen of Wellsville, Ohio, has a copy of an interesting and novel document issued by the school board of the town of Lancaster, Ohio, in 1828, says the Illinois Central Employes’ Magazine. The questions of steam railroads was then in its incipient stage, and a club of young men had been formed for the purpose of discussing the points at issue. They desired the use of the schoolhouse ror purposes of debate. Thiß was looked upon by the members of the school board as an innovation bordering upon sacrilege, as indicated by the reply of the board to the request, which is the document in the possession of Mr. Wells. It reads as follows: , “Ysu are welcome to the use of the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that His intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, by steam, He would clearly have foretold it through His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell.” Such sentiments possibly reflected the feeling to some extent in the days of sixty-five years ago, but they sound strange at the present time, when the “device of Satan” is daily carrying people over the land at the rate of sixty or seventy miles an hour. The world has progressed somewhat since 1828.

Why He Cried.

“Why are you crying, Johnny?" “We was playing train, and I was the engine.” “Yes?” "And pa corned is and switched me.” —Judge.

A Though I Young Wife.

I know what I can do to keep these cigars for Alfred. I’ll put a little camphor in th* box.”—Browning’s Magazine. - And lots of peojie are too alow to maka fast friends

COST OF A SILK KIMONO.

Three 'Women and Fire Men M w x Vnlne on One In I.onlsvill®. It took five men and three Vomen it the custom house and the silk buyer of a. Louisville department store to fix the value of a kimono which arrived at the office of the surveyor of customs for appraisement, the Times of that city says. It Was a dainty silken thing, lavender In colob, which lay on the table of Cashier Thomas for two hours. The garment* was sent to the custom house by the postmaster at Somerset, Ky., who received it a fJw days ago through the mall from Japan. He did not send In the address of the owner. This was aggravating to the young woman experts called in. "I know every woman in Somerset,” one sold, "and I’d Just like to know who is going to wear that." For half an hour It puzzled Surveyor Taylor and two or three of hls men assistants to discover Just what the garment was. "It looks to me like the court gown of the queen of Zanzibar,” said Clay Miller, who measures steamboats and superintends the loading of merchandise at the custom house depot. "Don’t you know anything at all?" exclaimed one of the women clerks, pushing her way through the puzzled group. “Why, that’s a kimono.” "What In the thunder is a kimono?" Inquired Deputy Sam Barber. "They don’t have that kind of thing down In Bath County, where I came from.” Finally when the officials decided that there was nothing dangerous about the garment they started in fixing the value. It was estimated to be worth all the way from $1.50 to $l5O. The kimono was finally carried to a" department store, where-the silk buyer said it was worth sl4! Later, the kimono was bundled Into a box and started back to the Somerset postmaster with instructions to charge the owner $8.20 duty.

THE SELF-SMOKING PIPE.

An Intereatlnar Ipxperlmen t Tbat Is Easily Performed. After filling a decanter about twothirds full of water close It by means of a cork provided with two apertureß. Through one of these, pass a short pipe stem, affix a cork provided with two apertures. The apertures may be easily formed by means of a red-hot

SELF-SMOKING PIPE.

poker. The later aperture serves to fix the pipe. Flnally. wlth the other cork and a bent tube, form a siphon. After the latter has been primed and is once in operation it will tend to empty the decanter, and the vacuum formed will be Immediately filled by the external air flowing in through the pipe. It is then only necessary to light the latter in order to Bee it “smoke Itself” tranquilly as long as any water remains in the decanter. This experiment is very interesting and may easily be performed.—Scientific American.

A Future Argument.

If the adoption of aeroplanes means an end to war, it cannot, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, mean an end to some of those disputes which make life for some people a perpetual debating school. “Good gracious,” Bald Mrs. Ebbs, “Isn’t that your husband across the street there quarreling with the man on the opposite porch?” "Oh, they’re not really quarreling,” said the wife of the man in question. "They dispute that way every night. George fs a monopianist, and Mr. Btlggins is a biplanist.”

Terror of the Birds.

First Yokel—Wot about tbese yere hairy planes? Second Yokel—l’d Hke to see ’em all gormed! Last week we ’ad three chicken run over by them motors, and now the pigeons won’t dare fly about In case some hairyplane sh’ld cut ’em down. Life ain't wot it used ter be.” —M. A. P.

Took Thom In Too.

"The people on that farm are such warm-hearted, hoepHable folks. They will take anybody In." “I know thdy will. We boarded with them last summer."—Baltimore Amer. lean.

Front Rod to Worse.

Blobbs —Why don’t you consult a doctor about-your Insomnia? Slobbs — What! • And run up more bills? Why, It’s because of what I owe him now that I can’t sleep.—Tlt-Blts.

Not Aequainted with It.

"Pa, what's a sine qua non?" "Oh, pshaw, don't ask me! I ain’t had my automobile long enough to learn about all of these technical aaueea yet."—Chicago Record Herald.

Science AND Invention

Pure radliim never has been produced, the almost priceless metal always being In combination, either a chloride or a bromide. T ' k . The British government has organized a special department In connection with ,lts national physical laboratory for the investigation of problems of aerial construction and navigation. An automatic time signal sent out from the Hamburg observatory by telephone to all instruments connected with the system of that city has been heard as far as Copenhagen and Paris. In the spring of 1909 seventeen American robin redbreasts, male and female, after being confined for a time In a large aviary near Guildford, in Burred, England, were’ set at liberty. They built nests In the surrounding trees, and In a shdrt time there were some thirty, young robins added to the colony. Efforts are being made to retain them In the neighborhood during the winter, and it Is hoped that thus the American redbreast may become a permanent addition to the bird population of England.

The Electrician notes some Interesting facts about the ventilation of the great Simplon tunnel. The change from steam to electric traction has not altered the arrangements for ventilation. The two entrances, at Brigue, Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy, are covered, except at the moment when a train enters or leaves, by huge cloth icreens, —which are automatically raised and lowered by electricity. Two electric fans, n#arly 4 ten feet In diameter, and making 350 turns per minute, drive air Into the tunnel at Brigue at the rate of 1,000 liters per second, and a similar station at Iselle draws air from the tunnel. The airpressure on the screen at Brigue amounts to four kilograms per Bquare meter, while -on the screen at Iselle the pressure Is twelve kilograms per square meter. Max Bermann of Budapest has recently shown that the Bpark rays made by the Incandescent particles thrown off from iron and steel when put upon an emery wheel afford a means of testing the composition of tlje metals. Carbon steels, manganese Bteel, and steels containing tungsten and nickel, each give a characteristic spark, of different forms and colors, which are easily distinguishable. The form of the spark picture changes with the quantity of carbon. Even so slight a difference as .01 per cent of carbon, Mr. Bermann says, can be detected Id this manner. Pointed branching lines denote carbon steel; tool steel Bhowa the appearance of ’’blossom” on the branches; tungsten steel gives redstreaked rays and Bhining points, "with lltle balls thrown out of the formation,” and "an explosion appearance In the articulation” denotes the presence of molybdenum, vanadium or titanium.

COW IN A PARLOR.

It Toole Possession ot the Hons* When the Family Was Away. The placidity of the cow has been * proverb for all time. That she is endowed with a good bump of th* "curiosity that killed a cat’* a suburbanite learned to his sorrow one day this summer. Mr. Blank lives in the east end with his family of wife and five children, the Louisville Times says. They have a cow that is a pet, having been raised from babyhood and now furnishing all the lacteal fluid and hy-products used by the family. Not so long since, after Blank had come in town for the day, Mrs. Blank took the children and went for a day’s outing to a neighboring suburb, leaving the house (supposedly) carefully closed and the cow in her stable. But missing familiar forms and the sounds of domestic activity, she grew lonesome and managed to escape the inclosure and came into thO yard and proceeded to Investigate. She climbed the steps to the back porch, consumed three loaves of bread left by the baker's boy. She succeeded in getting the kitchen door open, where she devoured all but the granlteware part of a threepound crock of butter. Her appetite still unappeased, she also ate the fancy paper off the shelves, and In so doing pulled down all the tinware and scattered it about the floor. She could not work the combination on the. ioe-box, so moved on through the dining room Into th* fitting room. Mr. Blank had the day before purchased four new shirts at (1.6(1 each, and these had been sent home and were left in a bundle on the couch. She “considered" these, at* all but a few fragments, and went on her way. She wrecked chairs, and even a bed, and upset the contents of tables by pulling at and eating th* covers.

When the family came back late that evening an affectionate "moo” of welcome greeted them from the cow, her head thrust through the parlor window. Mr. Blank said it took ten men and a derrick to get the cow out of the houae, and the cost of repairing damages would purchase enough milk and butter for the family for a year, “sans care.” There’s a cow for sale; the’s no longer a big bit In the family. __ _ People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his stateMY*V tell hfm muck.