Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bwrjr Oay Except Sunday. HEALEY & CLARK, Pvtaiisbers. rr,' :■*, :.m. r i RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Now stovaine shows symptoms of •eveloplng a Peary-Cook controversy. A Boston paper states that food Is abundant That, however, makes no difference In the price. . ============= A board of health in Tennessee has •Mtotdden kissing. Weil, who wants to kiss a board of health? . " " 1 ''- ' = \ When shoes advance materially in price It is, good form to make them last longer by Judicious cobbling. Patti earned 14,000,000 with her ▼©ice. This appears to be a magnificent vindication of the farewell tour; If Christopher (Columbus could discover America again now, he would he almost as much astonished as he was before, ’ : Little Evelyn recently went up to the asylum and quarreled with Harry, after which she gracefully returned to the obscurity that becomes her so well. An Atlanta young man has been lined |5.75 for stealing a kiss. The Jury do doubt had reason to believe that the kiss which was stolen had been marked down from $6. / 1 ■" ’ 1 11 = Congress is again in session, hut the people of this country have no Immediate cause for fear. It Is generally anderstood that Congress will not do orach during ths present session. ▲ New York heiress has publicly deaied that she is to be married to King Manuel of Portugal. The King will doubtless be glad to be thus relieved at the necessity of doing any denying. Figures compiled at West Point ■how that it takes tip,ooo to make 1 •econd lieutenant But how could we have inaugural processions without the to tore second lieutenants from West Point? A Poughkeepsie? N. Y., man drown«d himself because the lady who kept Mo favorite boarding-house went out at business. He probably felt sure that fas could never find another place where prunes would not be served •very evening.

Nearly every catastrophe shows forth anew the capacity for heroism that exMs In plain, every-day men. After Cha terrible mine disaster in Cherry, ni„ the first Bix bodies taken out were tbone of volunteer rescuers, many of whom were not even employed in the mines. If there is any doubt of the pen-dulum-like movement of educational theory, listen to Doctor Shanklln, the newly inaugurated president of Wesleyan, as he refers to the advanced elective system as a “scrap-heap educational fad.” A few years ago would any college president have ventured to put it so strongly T Voting Is getting to be more and more generally regarded as a very serious business. The citizen who Uegleats to discharge his entire duty in the matter of attendance upon the primary and the general elections receives frequent and insistent reminder from his friends or from his party organization as 'to what is expected of him. An election is getting to be less and less the chief concern of a "gang,” and more and more a matter for the conscience and intelligent initiative of the individual voter. The president of Bryn Mawr College for Women upsets some opinions generally, although it is to be hoped erroneously, entertained concerning college women and marriage. She dentes that the college girl knows too much to be willing to do housework, or that bar training unfits "her in any way to be mistress of a home. On the contrary, she says, the college girl graduate makes the best wife in the world; her average health is better, her wages when she works are higher, and the average number of children* bora of mothers who are college graduates Is slightly greater than the number born at non-college mothers. Finally, ahe declares, they are somewhat taller in Stature, and marry stronger men, and, aa a rule, choose their husbands more Tests by members of the United States Geological Survey have demonstrated the fact that a gallon of denatured alcohol can be made to do the same amount of work in an engine as a gallon pf gasoline. The alcohol, moreover, makes no smoke, and is lees likely to yield disagreeable Odors; but the lower cost of gasoline makes it at present the cheaper fuel. The testa are interesting chiefly because the time will probably come before long when Improved processes both of agriculture and of manufacture will greatly lower the price of alcohol. One reason why Germany uses alcohol so extensively as a motor fuel Is the ability of the Germans to make alcohol cheaply from potatoes, and the feet that they can raise four hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre. pp|— * . W - William Cameron Forbes, who was Philippines recently, is the fifth to oocupy the poet since the organization of

civil government in 1901. Ths first was Mr. Taft, and his successors were Luke E. Wright, Henry C. Ide, and James P. Smith, who lately retired. The new governor general has been a member of the Philippine commission since 1904, and has been occupied with public Improvements and with the preservation of order. The islands are orderly now, save for an occasional outbreak of one of the savage tribes; and public improvements ace under way that will elevate the social and industrial condition of the people. Highways have been built where there were merely trails, and when all the contractors have completed the work on which they are engaged there will be a thousand miles of railroad in the islands. A water and sewer system has been built for Manila, and that city is now the only one in the Orient which has modern sanitary improvements generally Installed throughout its limits. Free schools are maintained, In which half a million children receive instruction in the English language and in other subjects. It is said that more native Filipinos now speak English than Spanish, although Spanish was the official language for two hundred and fifty years. The new Payne-Aldrich tariff law permits the free entry into the United States of large quantities of sugar, cigars and manufactured tobacco, and on rice only requires the payment of duty on the full amount of imports. The law was intended to improve the business of the islands, and will probably be successful in Us purpose. The government is evidently attempting in good faith to do its duty toward the dependent races that have come under its care in the Orient i

MUSKRATS CAUSE OF PEARLS.

Contain Larvae Which Becomes Encysted In Body dt Clam. Muskrats cause pearls, according to Charles B. Wilson, an investigator of the United States Bureau of Fisheries Without muskrats, he says, there would he no baroque pearls, a Springfield (Mass.) dispatch to the New York World sayß. Wilson asserts pearls are merely cysts in shellfish, which have formed around a microscopic larva or worm that Is indigenous to the muskrat. The curious life cycle seems to be that from <the muskrat there are adult dlstomld worms. The eggs are discharged in such a manner as to reach the water, where they get lodgment In the shellfish. Hatching into larvse, they pass through the substance of the mullosk and find themselves a new home In the muscle of the back. Here some of them produce the irritation of the disease of which cysts are the symptom, and some of th«se cysts become the centers of pearls. What the shellfish does in covering the cysts is purely mechanical, its ordinary act when any substance gets into a position hurtful or annoying to the creature. Little fish that swim into the shelves of bdvalvea. or bits of dirt that get between the soft body of the animal and its shell, or articles Introduced intentionally by man, are covered with pearly shell, but all such objects are usually attached to the shell itself, and are not valuable. , The round pearls, which are more eommpdElally valuable than the baroques, Wilson says, are caused by a second species of the same family of worms thait, in their larval form, make their home in the mantle of the mollusk —in the thin part of the shellfish that surrounds the body, and which in the case of the oyster frills so nicely when the mollusk is cooked in a stew. The round pearls are made in the midst of the mantle, where there Is softness on every side and an organ capable of secreting pearls In Its every part. With the worm cyst established, the protecting material Is built around It with the greatest regularity, resulting In the pearl. The pearl larva spend only their childhood in the clam. In their adult form they Uve in some species of duck, but whether the domestic or wild duck has not yet been decided by the government investigators. They feel sure, though, that ducks cause the valuable pearls.

The Forests of the Niger.

The insects of Africa are expert dls ease carriers, and they come in such numbers on the Niger that one hardly dares to use one’s lamp or go too near a light of any sort at night. These forests on the Niger are deadly places for all their haunting attraction und take a big toll both of European and native life. Yet the first three days on the . Niger, with all Its mud and its smell and Its mangrove files and Its frogs and Its crlcKhts, are enough to. give the newcomer an Inkling of the drawing power, the fascination, of what is probably the most unhealthy country In the world. —W. B. Thompson in Blackwood’s.

Didn't Recognize It.

Excited Naturalllst—Are you aware, my dear sir, that this gate poet of yours la the femur of an Ornlthoselidar Fanner (apologetically)—l always thought It was something odd Ilka. It don’t match the other post nohow*— Punch.

Why Hasten!

Mr. Brown—l had a queer dream last night: I thought I saw another «nan running off with you. Mrs. Brown —And what did you sar to him? Mr. Brows —I asked him what he was running for? —Stray Stories.

Laconic.

"Hair's a tittle inclined to ” “Cut It!” interrupted the man who wanted to catch a train*—Puck.

EPOCH-MAKING INVENTION IN THE HISTORY OF LOCOMOTION.

ACTION PICTURE OF MONOBAIL CAB.

The capacities of the Brennan monorail, which were hinted at by the working model, increase with the- completion of the full size car, now operating at Gillingham, in Kept, England. The car Is forty feet long and ten feet wide. The photograph shows the car In actual operation, carrying a full complement of passengers. This picture, fresh from London, gives the*best description wfl have yet had of this wonderful new means of locomotion. When will it displace the two rails In our streets and on our railroads? The monorail was one of the great discoveries of the year *1909.

THAT CAME HOME TO HIM.

"Folks gets all excited up over reading the newspapers, when half the time there isn’t any need of It,” remarked Capt. Abner Scott to William Hawkins, as he unfolded the paper to which he and Mr. Hawkins subscribed together. It was his turn for the “first reading.” The two men were seated comfortably on the bench on the sunny side of Captain Scott’s house. “Now, let’s see what there is going on in the world,” he continued, “and, William, you try and keep cool, no matter what I read out to ye. Recollect that whatever happens, we, sitting down here in Bayview can’t do anything about It.” / Mr. Hawkins, who realized that he had been much “worked up” over the account of a railroad disaster the day previous, accepted this advice meekly, only saying, “You know I’m not quite as ca’m as you are by nature, Abner.” “Now let’s see,” resumed Captain Scott, once more adjusting his spectacles carefully on his nose, “there’s been a destroying fire, out In a town In Arkansas, with consid’able loss o’ prop’ty, but no lives lost «s far as known. Now keep ca’m, William, if you can compass It.” “My land, what fearful things fires are!” ejaculated the excitable Mr. Hawkins. “There’s been a disturbance in Russia, and several have been arrested,” said -Captain Scott, holding the paper so that Mr. Hawkins, whose eyes were sharper than his, could not catch a glimpse of even Ahe headlines, and reading each Item through before he divulged its purport to his companion. “There have been tremendous storms In the south,” he announced, tranquilly, “and a heavy fall o’ snow In the west, and there’s been a great failure of a banking house In New York City.” “Congress seems to be pretty well mixed up, If I’m any Judgp,” went on, after perusing nearly* a column In silence, “and things look dark for the country If something- Isn’t done before long. Stocks seem to.be going down mostly, and times are getting harder every day. Terrible, Isn’t IJT’ "Why, William Hawkins,” gasped Captain Scott, a moment later, turning quickly on his friend, and grasping him by the shoulder, “what are we coifiing to, that’s what I’d like to know? What are we coming to?” "What’s happened?" asked Mr. Hawkins, trembling with excitement “Why," said Captain Scott, feebly, as he pointed to a short paragraph with his forefinger, “the bottom baa dropped out o’ lobsters!” Mr. Hawkins, who was a shoemaker, exercised great forbearance and made no reference to his friend’s vanished “ca’m.”—Youth’s Companion.

AMERICAN WAGE EARNERS.

Coselsaioß of a British Statistician After Investigation. A special commissioner of the London Statist, writing from New York, devotes the first of a series of letters to the savings of the people of the United States. "I have,” he says, "come to the conclusion that- the rate of wages in tM« country 1* much higher In proportion than In Great Britain, after taking Into account the purchasing power of the wages, and that after meeting all expenditures the wage earners aarh

year save a substantial average sum, which they place in savings banks, or which they use for the purchase of securities, houses, land, businesses, etc. In answer to my questions, my Informants have supplied me not only with the rate of wages they are earning, but also with the average sums they save from year to year, and a number of employers have confirmed the statements as to the large savings of their employes. There can be no doubt that the savings of the masses reach a great sum in the aggregate, and largely contribute to swell the savings of the nation. “It will be realized that the savings of a nation in which practically every one is able to save reach to a vast figure. An eminent American banker of International repute, with whom I discussed the question of America’s savings during my passage here, estimated the total savings of the United States at nearly a year. Since my arrival I have sought to form an Independent estimate, based upon a great variety of data, and I have come to the conclusion that the annual savings of this country are over £1,000,000,000, and that the amount Is growing steadily greater from year to year. This estimate tallies with the conclusions of the government officials, who calculated the wealth of the country in 1900 at about £18,000,000,000, and In 1904 at £22,000,000,000, an Increase In.four years of about £4,000,000,000, or an average of £1,000,000,000 per annum. The rate of interest Is greater than the average of the four years to 1904. “These large savings are mainly lavested in new houses and In new buildings of various kinds and descriptions. The population of the United States Is growing at the rate of about 1,400,000 per annum, and the mere housing of this additional population Involves the construction of over 300,000 new dwellings per annum. The progress of the United States Involves the construction of a great number of pew houses at the upper as well as .the lower end of the scale. Not only is there a natural Increase In the population of the wealthier classes, but tljere Is going on all the time a process of expansion and uplifting, a process which Is reflected In the vast number of expensive houses which are erected from year to year."

A Chronic Grumbler.

Charles Lamb tells’ of a chronic grumbler who always complained at wtulst because he had so few trumps. By some artifice his companions managed to fix the cards so that when he dealt he got the whole thirteen, hoping to extent some expression of satieteotlon, but he only looked mors wretohed than ever as he examined his hand. *_ "Well, Tom,” said Lamb, "haven't you trumps enough this timer’ "Yes,” grunted Tom, “but I’ve no Other gu-ds.”

A Phrase Exempilfled.

"Been abroad, I hear. 1 * ’Yep." • ; "I v understand that living Is very cheap In Europe. How about itr’ ’.‘Can’t say. We only hit tha high places.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Evidence of Faith.

Mrs. BgoOks—Have you any faith In life Insurance? Mrs. Lynne—Yes, indeed; I’ve realised SIOO,OOO from two husbsndj* and they weren’t very good ones, either.— Judge. „ Too many men are given credit for being as good as their talk. ’

LONDON'S OLDEST NEWSBOY.

“Old Bn” m Familiar Fleur* on a Battling Tboroaglitare. , Eighty years of age, yet hearty, Ben Witherden, one of the familiar characters of London, claims to be the old- ; est “newsy” in. the world, Henri Che- . valier _ says in the Cincinnati En'quirer. I For forty years his pile of papers , have been arranged every morning in the Edgware road, just north of the Marble Arch corner of Hyde Park, and Witherden declares he feels fit for a centenarian record. ~ All sorts and conditions of men *afe among his customers. Lords and ladles, doctors and lawyers, nurses and policemen, all take a kindly interest in the' picturesque figure whose absence from the pavement would create a noticeable vacancy. No London "cop” would allow the old peddler of papers to suffer by undue competition along that stretch of sidewalk. But modern conditions are developing contrary to the desires of the anJlent “newsy.” When he-started selling papers there was no rush like there is now. If he served people with their papers by lunch time they were quite content. But nowadays If he doesn’t let them have their news before breakfast time there is no end of a row, and he soon would get passed up as a “has been.” But he doesn’t let them catch him like that. Summer and winter, rain, hall or shine, he is out at his work. Lots of good luck comes his way from time to time. A nearby shopkeeper gave him a chair and stores it tor him over night. Charitably disposed customers see that his clothes are warm and plentiful. The respectable silk hat he sports adorned the bead of some West End notable not so long ago. When it is wet tfie doorway behind him offers deep shelter, from which the proprietor refrains from driving him. Altogether “Old Bsn” is as merry a newsboy as the youngest member of that noisy tribe. Everything is noisier to-day than wlifan he first began to sell papers. Lumbering omnibuses and horsed vehicles were all the traffic that disturbed the route to the heights of Criqklewood and Hendon. Now Bnortlng motorbuses thunder along with loads of suburban residents from villas erected on the green fields. The world grows BWifter and more strenuous, while Old Ben Witherden would have it resume Its olden pace, more in keeping with his advancing years.

Do Not Seek Trouble.

One reason why so many fail, or plod along in mediocrity, says Orison Swett Marden in Success Magazine, Is because they see so many obstacles and difficulties. These loom up so threateningly that they lose heart to win. They see so many difficulties that they are in a discouraged condition much of the time, and this mental attitude Is fatal to achievement, for it makes the mind negative, noncreative. It is confidence and hope that callout the faculties and multiply their creative, producing power. The habit of dwelling on difficulties and magnifying them weakens the character and paralyzes the Initiative in such a way as to hinder one from ever daring to undertake great things. The man who sees the obstacles more clearly than anything else is not the man to attempt or do any great thing. The man who does things is thg man who sees the end and defies the obstacles. Napoleon did not see the Alps, which seemed Impassable to his generals; that Is, his confidence that he could take his army over these mountains Into Italy was so great that the dlffl-. culties which seemed overwhelming to, others had no power to discourage him. - I have never known a person who magnifies difficulties, who talks a great deal about obstacles, to do great things. It Is the man who persists In seeing his Ideal, who ignores the obstacles, absolutely refuses to see failure, who clings to- his confidence In victory, success, that wins out in whatever he undertakes.

When Music Does Not Charm.

I like to dine, as all men do, But I can eat without a band. To have to hear their “tootle-tool” And ’umpah!” while my food I chew Is more than I can stand. I 'want no bunch of tawdry Huns To help me through the bill of fare No group of girls whose technique stuns' Who puff and strain like evil ones, Need aid me with their blare. When I am struggling with ray bone, Or wrestling with a salad dire, I do not care for, I will own, Carueo on a gramophone Nor bursts of “magic fire.” ~T Won’t some one start an eating shop Where One can dine in peace and quiet?— .s Where Sousa won’t stick In one’s crop, Or Georgemcohan spoil one’s chop— Where orchestras wpn’t riot? ■—Chicago Tribune.

Suggested Hymn to Her.

Our eyes have seen the glory of the shrinking suffragette, She Is Just shout-the scariest creature we have ever met. The men will flee before her when she starts to fight, you bet,” And let her go marching on. —Baltimore Bun. . The more intelligent a man Is, ths more pronounced his disposition to be folr. - - ■- No man explains another's mistakes )a tun same way he does his own.

"FRISKING" SHIP PASSENGERS.

One Old New York Inspector C«*> Smell Diamonds Biz Feet Away. Timothy J. Donohue,'the oldest inspector of customs in this city, is credited by his feHows with possessing a nose which can smell concealed diamonds and other jewels six feet away, the New York Press says. “Old Tim,” as he Is known, has more seizures of that sort to his credit on the records of the customs house than any other inspector employed there. His duty is. to wander aimlessly about the Bteamship piers and “frisk” incoming passengers. Many persons may not know what “frisk” means in customs house parlance. It la the art of stumbling or brushing agatogt a person so skillfully that the inspector can rub his hands over the pockets and person of the suspect and ascertain whether he has smuggled goods concealed in his clothes and at the same time prevent the suspect knowing he I* doing. In the thirty-five years or longer that Donohue has been at, it on the New York piers he has “frisked” thousands of Americans and foreigner* after they have landed and are awaiting to get their luggage through the bands of the other inspectors. If any incoming passengers standing on a transatlantic line pier sees a short, stout, gray-haired, gray-mustached man, quietly dressed, carrying aYsheap -umbrella tied in the middle with a string and stumbling about as if fresh from the backwoodß and looking for some one whom he cannot find, that is “Old Tim” Donohue. In his eager quest he bumps against everybody; seizes overcoats by the pockets, rub* his hands up and down passengers a* he trips over baggage, acts half soused, never apologizes and keep* right on. After the inspectors are through with a passenger whom he inspects he steps up and invites him to go to the office to be searched. It ia not often his suspicions are misdirected.

QUEER STORIES

This country has nine hundred trade journals. At the age of seventy years, a man has consumed ninety-five tons of food. The more familiar species of flying fish are denizens of the tropical oceans. Fresh water species, however, ara known. r There are about 170,000 oil produo lng wells In the United States, representing directly and indirectly an outlay of about $700,000,000. A young oak grows three feet In three years. In the same time an elm grows eight feet three inches, and a willow nine feet three inches. One Scotch casualty insurance company is offering policies to aviators, while another will extend all futura policies to cover the risks of aviation and ballooning. The study of foreign languages la making rapid progress in German schools. Most of the teachers are native born French and English. Thia work iq a powerful factor In Germany s progress as a poVver on International commerce. The wife of a Jersey man was ad*, vertlsing for a serving maid. Tha Jerseyman is an editor and his wlfa has learned the of cutting out unnecessary words. This la the way the .advertisement read: "Wanted, a white, semi-green maid-servant.”—New York Sun. / There is no such thing as a forest of mahogany. The mahogany treelives by and for itself alone. It stands solitary of Its species surrounded by the smaller trees and dense undergrowth of the tropical forest., rearing its head above its neighbors. Two trees to the acre are a liberal estimate. This one comes from Missouri, where one editor “showed” them why: "An evangelist asked all the men present who were honest and paid their debts to stand up. All ardsd but one. He said he was the local editor and couldn’t pay his debt! because the men standing were his delinquent subscribers.”—Atlanta Constitution. In the Russian campaign the personal baggage of Napoleon’s, brother, Jerome Bonaparte, who married Ellzar bath Patterson, of Baltimore, contained sixty pairs of boots, two hundred shirts and 818 pocket handkerchiefs. The transportation of his w&rdrobe entlre required several heavy wagons. While his whole campaigning kit stretched over half a mile. Thackeray was six feet two Inches In height, and Sir .H. W. Lucy says the grout novelist wore a 7%-lnch hat, beating Dickens and John Bright by a full halt inch. Mr. Gladstone’s hat Was of 7%-lnch measurement—-tbs same as Macaulay’s—while Beacons Held needed a full 7-inch. The hat of Daniel O’Connell, however, would huts beaten them all, measuring Inches by 10 Inches.

Vistas of Trouble.

**l may »» well tell yon," said thfr suffragette, "that the disturbances we are creating now are nothing pared to those we are prepared tecause.” - "That’s right,” answered the big. town boss, “it you raise all this row to Tott what will yon do when you get thewtllot and find Jt Isn't belnr counted?”—Washington Star. A stingy man is usually simply careful man. __