Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bvwy D*y Bicaot Sunday. IEAIIY k CLARK, PrtHthers. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA

Innocent men and bluffers court lnvustlcatioa. But how can 1910 be a banner rear. It It ends In naught? Sarah Bernhardt has Joined the great majority. She tried to write a play and (ailed. Erery town has them, bat the best way to get even with the knockers is to make good. One trouble with opportunity is that K knocks at a man's door when he hasn’t any money to invest. Latest is the "auto knee.” As the cure does not call for any expensive surgical operation the lad will soon run out. It is generally admitted now that the coat of living is higher than it used to be. But this doesn’t help to pay grocers' bills. The railroads are to despatch trains by telephone. Think of "central” talking to her beau while two trains are approaching, head on! Authorities on the subject say that drugs are not bringing nearly as much money as they did ten years ago. Neither are mules. Not much of either of them sold. Already some of the people of Belgium are beginnings to refer to their new king as Albert the Good. Here’s hoping that Albert will do his best to Uve up to it. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is in a sanatorium suffering from nervous trouble. Bhe probably fears that she may be asked to live in one of Mr. Edison’s poured houses. -, - # "In live years from now,” says an eminent physician, "it will not be respectable to be ill.” Does ne think all the vermiform appendices will have been removed in the meantime? - One of the astronomers succeeded reesntly in obtaining a fine photograph of the rings of Saturn. The photograph fails to show that there are inscriptions of any kind on the rings. In view of the conspicuous and important additions to the world'B stock of knowledge during the last year, Dr. Eliot may feel Justified in adding an Inch or an inch and halt to his Five Feet of Books.

Andrew Carnegie Is credited with having expressed a willingness to give 130,000,000 tor the purpose of establishing permanent peace in Central America. It ought to be possible with g fund of that size to furnish a pretty fair police force for Central America. “In what respect," says the Pittsburg Dispatch, "is the world better off for the pole having been reached?" The question comes unexpectedly, but If an answer is demanded Immediately, we believe Dr. Cook is about SBO,OOO better off than he was before Peary discovered the pole. A new hotel called the Taft House Is to be built across the street from the Yale campus in New Haven. Fame, according to Byron, used to consist in being killed in battle and having your name spelled wrong in the gazette. Nowadays it seems to consist in being elected to the presidency and having a hotel or a cigar named after Ton. The report that Kermit’ Roosevelt has killed, a bongo has stirred natural history to the depths. It appears that the bongo is almost a fabled animal. The bongo is a relative of the bushbuck, is a 3 large as a polo pony and twice as Intelligent. It appears that the bongo has a hide as beautiful as that of the zebra, and is quite as careful of it. He lives in the deep forest, emerging only at a presidential election or some such overwhelming event. The demise of this one appears to be due to the fact that he came out in an off year, excited, no doubt, by the conflicting reports about the north pole.

Darius Ogden Mills, who has recently ended his earthly career full of years and honors, was a man of large affairs, broad sympathies and diverse interests, but by the majority of men he will long be remembered chiefly by the unique “hotels" he was far-sighted and humane enough to found. "The Mills Hotels” exemplify philanthropy of the healthiest and best kind. They have served as models for other cities and other generous men of means, and Bo industrial community of any Blze can afford to remain Ignorant of the principles upon which they were founded or of the methods of administration which have assured their success. A Mills Hotel is an institution at which ''a poor man who is seeking employment can be warm, comfortable, ieTf-~ respecting for a very small expenditure per day. It Is not a charitable Institution, since it yields a modest return on the capital invested—about 4 per cent. It helps me» to preserve Heir dignity, to escape the 01th." physical and moral, and the degradation of some of the notorious lodging houses While getting acquainted in a strange •Mgr and obtaining work. Such phlian-

thropy elevates instead of pauperising, and society cannot have too much of It. Here is another important subject for the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate. In the Chicago stock yards recently hogs brought prices which were practically the highest Since the civil war. To make matters worse, the supply in the west was said to be 40 per cent less than it was a year ago. This will sadden the frugal housewife. When beef went up she has fallen back on fresh pork, bam or bacon. If they, too, are to get beyond her reach she will have to resign herself to a vegetarian life. If hogs shall remain scarce and dear the American export trade in hog products, of which lard is not the least Important, would suffer. The foreign demand for them would decline as the prices advanced. The Englishman would go elsewhere for the bacon he now buys of the United States. For the sake of the domestic consumer and the foreign trade Secretary Wilson ’ should find out why hogs are scarce and prescribe a .remedy. There ought to a profit in raising them at present prices, even if corn does cost so much more than It used to. That is a sufficient explanation of an advance in the price of hogs, but not of a declining supply in the face of an Increasing population and demand. Burely the secretary of agriculture, who is so much concerned over the higher cost of living, wiirpay solemn attention to one of the ways of bettering matters. That is the replenishment of the American pig pens. Fill them with plump porkers, and ham and bacon will not be the luxuries they bid fair to become.

TWO OF TURNER'S CUSTOMERS

The great artist. Turner, is said to have been peculiar in his way of selling his pictures. At times nothing could Induce him to part with one of them, and at other times he would receive a customer with the greatest affability of voice and manner, and readily settle upon the sum to be paid for one of his treasures. On one oocaslon, when he was offered one thousand pounds apiece for some old sketch-books, he turned them over leaf by leaf before the eyes of the would-be purchaser, saying, ‘‘Well, would you really like to have them?” Then, Just as the man proceeded to take possession of the books, Turner, with a tantalizing “I dare say you would!" suddenly thrust them Into a drawer and turned the key in the lock, leaving the customer dumb with Indignation. On another oocaslon a rich manufacturer of Birmingham managed to secure an entrance into the artist's house, after considerable parley with the disagreeable janltress whom Turner employed. He hurried up-stairs to the gallery. In a moment Turner dashed out upon him with anything but a hospitable air. The visitor bowed politely and Introduced himself, saying he had come to buy some pictures. "Don’t want to sell," said the artist, 'gruffly. "Have you ever seen our Birmingham pictures, Mr. Turner?" Inquired the visitor, blandly. "Never heard of ’em,” returned the artist. The manufacturer now took an attractive package of crisp Birmingham bank-notes from his wallet. -—"Mere paper,” said Turner, contemptuously. "To be bartered for mere canvas,” retorted the visitor, ealmly, waving his hand in the direction of some paintings. This ready wit and tone of cool depreciation had the effect of putting the erratie artist in a good humor at once. He changed his manner immediately, and not long after his visitor departed, having bought several fine paintings, and leaving the comfortable sum of five thousand pounds behind him.

Astronomical.

Some curious and interesting astronomical phenomena are recorded in the old Chinese annals which go back to a great antiquity. In 687 B. C. a night is mentioned without clouds and without stars. This may perhaps refer to a total eclipse of the sun, but if so the eclipse is not mentioned in the Chinese list of eclipses. Jn the year 141 B. C. it is stated that the sun and moon appeared of a deep red color during five days, a phenomenon which caused great terror among the people. In 74 B. C. it is related that a star as large as the moon appeared and was followed in its motion by several stars of ordinary size. This probably refers to an unusually large bolide, or fire ball. In 38 B. C. a fall of meteoric stones is recorded.

Early Stinging Methods.

JBacon—This paper says’ that bees were unknown to the Indians. Egbert —So I believe. When the Indians were ‘stung’ in olden days they used to attribute it to a trader."— Yonkers Statesman.

A Tintinnabulating Tenor.

Country Opera Direct or— What do you think of our tenor? Stranger—ls I were you I’d hire him out as an imitator of a phonograph.— FUeaendeYßaettcr." r-: —— r

A Limited Brother.

"What does you think of bein’ up on : “It’s all right. I reckon, but you runs a turrlble risk of gittln’ diszy.”—Atlantia Constitution. ~

QUAINT COLONIAL TOWN

Many Interesting Structures In Castville, Va. f One es the Oldest Settlements. COURTHOUSE BUILT m 1654. First Edifice Cost 7,000 Founds es Tobacco—The Taylor House and the Masonio Hall. There is a certain quiet charm and tinge of beautiful romance about the old scenes and old things in Eastville, Va,, one of the oldest settled portions of the original colonies, the Detroit Free Press says. The earliest settlement on the eastern shore of Virginia was made by Capt. Thomas Ancient Savage at the foot of Savage's—Neck, near this place, on a grant from the Indian king of the Accomacks, called the "laughing king." This grant included the present site of Eastville. In the old clerk’s office, erected in 1719, there are records going back to 1632, and unbroken to the present day, forming the oldest continuous records in this country. From these one finds that the first courthouse was erected by Col. William Waters in 1654 at a cost of 7,000 pounds of tobacco. The next one was erected in 1688 by .oseph Godwin, and lh 1781. it was rebuilt in brick by Capt. John Marshall at a cost of 60,000 pounds of tobacco. The old building has therefore a long and interesting history. The other building, however, has been allowed to stand, and is now a venerable object of antiquity in the midst ‘ cha. 30 and decay. In this quaint and unpretentious structure were heard some of the most noted cases of colonial times. It was 20 by 80 feet, one story high, with loft for the Jury. \ Godwin’s tavern existed for many years, but in 1750 the Taylor house was built to supersede the other, ap'd it still is doing service as the -town hotel. Another quaint old structure Is the old Masonic hall, built ji/st after the revolution and used by that order for about a hundred years. In 1861 a body of northern troops entered i( and was charged. The old clerk's office was erected in 1719 and the debtor’s prison some ;’ears later. It is situated back fro® the street and contains many Interesting articles, the old clerk’s desk, the attorney’s table and other furniture of the old courthouse and the cases filled with old court papers, going back to the year 1700 and earlier. These furnishings are of solid walnut and did service for some jtwo hundred years. The building is of brick, of a quaint design, but well built and well preserved. At the door is the measuring post at which negro slaves were stood and measured before being auctioned. The debtors’ prison adjoins the criminal Jail and also Is queer look'ng. In it those who were unable to pay their debts were confined until they could make good with their creditors. They were limited to certain bounds, which were declared by the Justices.

Flash-Lighting in the Jungle.

In British East Africa flash-light photography is full of adventure. The possibilities are unlimited and the conditions most favorable. A. R. Dugmore, in an interesting article in Collier’s, describes some of the adventures which befall the photographer in the Jungle. One cannot tell what animal will come within reach of the camera. It may be a lowly Jackal, a mighty, snorting rhinoceros, an exquisitely beautiful zebra, or a stealthy, silent-footed lion; but whatever it happens to be, it is game for the photographic bag. One morning, while we were taking a nap after being up all night with flash-light work, we were aroused by the magic word, "Simba!” which is Swahili for lion. The porters, while gathering wood, had seen a lion about a mile from Camp, and off we started with nearly the whole outfit followlhg. I carried my rifle, while the camerabearer followed close behind with my camera ready for use. It was hot long before something was seen to move in the papyrus not more than eight or ten yards in front of me, and out rushed a lion cub right into the midst of the men. A more ferocious little beast I have never seen. We decided to use it for a lure for the old lions, and with this idea we bound its feet I was keeping a sharp outlook, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing my first wild lion. Not one, but the pair, attracted evidently by the cries of the young one, came within three hundred yards. A finer Bight I have seldom seen than those two big tawny creatures. For a minute or so they watched us, then turned and disappeared; Incidentally, I may add, bo did most ot the men, tall treee-toclng coristaerggr the favored retreats. Believing that the lions would return, we selected a tree with large .horizontal, branches —from—whieh- —T hoped "to be able to use the camera, and there we proposed to stay. All day we stayed in the tree, but nothing further occurred, and we decided to spehd part of the night there. We. Sat in our uncomfortable perch in a state of gnat excitement, and we

heard, toon after nightfall, something approaching through the high grass. Nearer and nearer it came. I thought if I could get down to a lower branch I might be able to see better, and as noiselessly as possible I got down to within about six feet of the ground. Just as I reached this place they passed directly under me, but the darkness was so Intense I could see nothing. We heard them continue their way W the bed of the stream, stopping once to drink at a pool, and that was the last we heard of the lions. About 10 o'clock the moon rose, and as we were too tired to stay any longer in our uncomfortable position, we started for camp, and it was not a particularly pleasant walk, as every bush assumed the form of a lion to our overwrought imagination. We were thoroughly glad to reach camp In safety and get a good night’s sleep.

Intelligence of the Fox.

The intelligence of the fox is often shown by the way he refuses to be headed when he has made upr~htg mind as to the safe course to take, says the London Globe. The West Somerset have an excellent fixture at Kilve, but It has one drawback—the sea is not far off, and foxes naturally often make for the cliffs, a secure refuge. A fox can be easily headed at times, but that is nearly always when to be seen would betray him to his enemies the hounds and give them an advantage; but when, if he makes his point, the advantage is on his side, then nothing will turn him. To return to the West Somerset at Kilve; they found a fox, and the whipper-in, seeing that the fox meant to go ta the cliffs if possible, started to head him off. The ground was open, and for hall a mila the whipperin and fox were taking parallel lines, the fox clearly meaning to Slip by and find a refuge In the cliffs. The man turned the fox away at last, but in a short time the hounds lost him, and I believe he got back after all. Again the master ranged up some of the field to prevent another fox going .back into a certain covert. In vain whips were rattled against saddle flaps; the fpx went right through the watchers and made his point It Is a thing I have often noticed both with stag or fox, that the quarry seems to distinguish between real and false dangers.

Easily Obtained.

Richard Harding Davis, at a playwright’s dinner in New York, ridiculed the pretensions of certain snobbish American families to be descended from Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Richard Coeur de Lion and so forth. "You see,” said Mr. Davis, "proofs of such descent are very easily obtained. A herald, suitably remunerated, will trace a man back to the preAdamite kings, Just leaving a slight gap to indicate, you know, the flood. Once a millionaire trust president went to a herald for a coat of arms. He knew none of his ancestors, nor had he any means of tracing them. “’Oh, we’ll arrive at something yet,! the undiscouraged herald said. ‘Tell' me, now, if you have ever performed any signal or heroic feat on your own account.’ L . “ ‘Well,’ said the millionaire, *1 was once in Jail, and I escaped by sawing the bars of a fourth-story window.’ “ ‘And how did you get down from that great height?’ the herald asked. “ ‘Well, there was a lofty statue' of George Washington in front of the window, and I tied a rope to that, and slid down.’ “‘Good! * # cried the herald. ‘Lineally descended from George Washington! We’ll give you Washington’s arms, of course.’ ’’

A Mushroom Lover.

Senator Depew, at a dinner in New York, praised a turkey’s mushroom stuffing. "These mushrooms,” he concluded, “remind me of an incident that occurred while I was abroad in the autumn. You know how, on an English train, the passengers are locked in small compartments, and there is an emergency signal for them to pull in case the train must be stopped. Well, the signal was pulled one autumn day, and the train, with a great grinding of brakes, came to a sudden stop, and guards and conductor, pale with horror, ran up and down the carriages to see what terrible thing could have happened. They found, in a rearmost carriage, an old woman leaning far out of the window, waving her arms and her umbrella excitedly. " “What’s the matter, madam? Why did you Btop the train?’ they asked her. *’ ‘You fools,’ she answered, *why didn’t you stop before? We’ve Just passed two of the finest mushrooms I’ve seen this many a year.”

The Tempter.

"Yes, sir, I belongs to de army of de unemployed.” “Want a week’s work?*’ “No. I couldn’t desert from de army.” “Then Just pretend you’re on a furlough.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Hyprophobia in Germany.

Though hypdropnohla7 has been stamped out of Britain, it is still rampant In Germany, where every year over 2,500 dogs and cats afflicted with Wmrn q runii puls on fmtt the other men will say: “New, or cleaned up?” Frederick H. Weyerhaeuser, the lumber king, is a German and cam* to this country in 1852.

ITALIANS AND IRVING.

Memorial Presented by Ambaaaader In London to Drury Lane. “The critics were very severe—and In my judgment justly severe—toward the ‘Dante’ of Sardou; but the fact remains that Irving, at the decline of his life, felt the attraction of the Influence of Dante’s great personality. * * * Irving’s endeavor to impersonate on the English stage that powerful individuality turned his last thoughts toward Italy, and today it is those among her sons who are united to him by the brotherhood of art who offer this tribute to a man who has so highly contributed to show to mankind all the nobility and loftiness of his art.” Thus spoke the Italian ambassador in London, the Marquis of San Giuliano, at Drury Lane theater recently in unveiling the memorial to the late Sir Henry Irving presented by Signor Tommaso Salvlni and the leading members of the dramatic profession in Italy, says the London Chronicle. The memorial shows the effigy of Irving in bronze, enriched by a wreath of laurels, with a background of gray marble. The memorial has been placed on the wall at the head of the grand staircase. Around it yesterday were gathered many people well 1 known in the dramatic world. “You English artists,” said the ambassador in the course of his speech, "have greatly assisted me in my study of the English language. Frequenting the theaters and seeing your acting I have learned more of the English character, life, seeings and mode of thought than In reading many learned books —which I have tried to forget as much as possible.” “The English artisfs have given eloquent proofs of their sympathy with Italy by the homage they have paid to Salvlni, the magnificent benefit to the memory of Ristori, and the part they have always taken in our charitable works. When Italy was still divided, when Its independence and unity were still a goal and an Ideal, and to many people even a dream and a Utopia, Salvlni and Ristori were among the forces which contributed to our national deliverance. "Salvlni In 1849 acted In Rome, and at the same time fought in defense ot the cause of liberty. Once an alarm was raised during an interval. He went tp the ramparts and after the repulse of the attack resumed the performance. Of course that evening the curtain, after the interval, did not rise with the scrupulous punctuality of the English stage.”

Wanted a Pattern.

A ragged Irishman was charged in a London court, a short- time ago with tendering a counterfeit shilling in payment for a penny loaf. '-~s Though forlorn in aspect, he was not destitute of that shrewdness which is characteristic of his countrymen. He stated that he was sent for the loaf by a person at a public house close by, who gave him the coin to pay for it, and that on discovering it was not good he bought the coin for three halfpence. The Magistrate—How came you to buy the shilling after you had discovered it was a bad one? The prisoner, with much apparent gravity, replied: “Sure, tfien, your honor, I bought it so that if I should happen to have a bad one offered to me I might know it by looking at the one I had with me.” There was a burst of laughter, and the rogue was dismissed with a caution.

Shiftless Neighbors.

"I want the Globe,” "'writes Mrs; Lysander John Appleton, "to suggest to its readers that they keep up the spirit of improvement around the house. I borrowed a stepladder of a neighbor recently, and it was broken. A lawn mower I borrowed of another was in such poor condition I couldn’t use it, and the washboiler I borrowed from another neighbor leaked so badly it put v out the fire. Don’t these people know that such signs of neglect speaks ill of them? I haven’t made any Jelly this summer because another neighbor’s preserving kettle is cracked. Really, I shall have to move out of the neighborhood unless my neighbors improve.’—Atchison Globe.

Notes of Women.

A French book on the evolution of the Englishwoman finds the woman’s club —which in England is a real club, not a body which holds monthly meetings—an excellent institution for both married and single. For the married woman it is her “own place, where her husband cannot worry her,” while for the unmarried It is a place where she need never be dull and where Bhe can properly entertain friends of both sexes.

Airship Bird Cages.

The canaries are having the benefit of the present craze for all things in the airship line. The latest bird cages are made in the shape of airships, to be hung in the window. And so pretty are they the wonder is the airship fashion in cages didn't become popular among canaries long ago.

Esprit de Corps.

Passenger (to motor bus conductor) —What’s all this crowd about Is it the motor-shew* ■—• ——*— Conductor —Yes, Sir; and the most successful show we’ve had so far.— TffncJt — —— _. A hammock In the winter time, or • sled In the summer, can make a tombstone appear gay and cheerful by comparison. i

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It Saves Them.

The American has the saving grace of humor. Seldom in the real pinch does it fail to come to the uppermost and he gets a good laugh out of what men born under other skies would construe as nothing else than a fight. The "head gent” of a t. t. t. show .playing at Holton recently handed out a warm one to the audience. There was so much going on in Holton that night that the theatrical business suffered, but the aforesaid “gent” seemed to think that the people did not appreciate the high-class histrionic art served up by the company. He frankly stated in a curtain speech that in his opinion |he plays presented were too refined for Holton. “But,” he added, "we will try to get down to your level by presenting ‘The Whole Dam Family,’ which does not contain a sensible line. I think this play will appeal to you.” “The audience,” says Frank Jarrell, in telHng the matter, ’lnstead of getting mad and lynching the actor, saw the funny side of the case and laughed long and loud at him. He didn’t say any more.”—Kansas City Journal

Seeds Planted in Eggshells.

Fill half an eggshei} with good rich earth, stick in a seed or two, stand the shell up in a box of earth, keep it warm and moist, and then, when you think you can trust the weather out of doors and the seeds have sprouted, you knock the shell oft and put the little ball of earth into Mother Earth, and there you are. Not a root has been disturbed, and if you choose a favorable time for transplanting there will not be a wilted leaf to retard the growing of the plant.

Painted Lips.

The “Personal Recollections of Sutherland Edwards,” English music critic, records that after the peace of 1815 it used to be the rule for every hussar to wear % black mustache, and those who had neither a black mustache nor a fair One which they could dye were required to paint the semblance of a black mustache on their upper lip.

INSOMNIA

I.eada to Madneaa, It Not Reaaedteg lit Time. “Experiments satisfied me, some K years ago,” writes a Topeka woman, “that coffee was the direct cause of the insomnia from which I suffered terribly, as well as the extreme nervousness and acute dyspepsia which made life a most painful thing for me. "I had been a coffee drinker since childhood, and did not like to think that the beverage was doing me all this harm. But it was, and the time came when I had to face the fact, and protect myself. I therefore gave up coffee abruptly and absolutely, and adopted Postum for my hot drink at mefcift. “I began to note improvement in my condition very soon after I took on Postum. The change proceeded gradually, but surely, and it was a matter of only a few weeks before I found myself entirely relieved—the nervousness passed away, my digestive apparatus wan restored to normal efflcieficy, and I began to sleep, restfully and peacefully: ——' ■" ■—- : "These happy .conditions have continued during all of the 5 years, and I am safe in saying that I owe them entirely to Postum, for when I began to drink it I ceased to use medicines.” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason." 1 ~~ _ Ever read the above letter? A new one appear* from time to time. They are genuine, tme, and full of human interest.