Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1910 — Page 3
CITY LIFE CAUSES RACE SUICIDE.
NE cause of the rapid extinction of the city population lies in the very mixture of so many races. There is a biological law that hybrids, do not tend to reproduce their kind. The fecundity of quch a mixed population is appreciably lower than that of a pure race. Lapouge found that in
2
those regions of France where the brachycephalic Alpine race has preserved a comparative -purity the birth rate is much higher than in the districts where the race is greatly mixed with Teutonic blood. In the latter regions the birth rate is actually decreasing. It is evident that the lower classes, living under less favorable conditions than the well-to-do, are more subject to rapid extinction. But the higher classes are not exempt from this iron law. Various causes are mentioned for this fact. Marriages are contacted much later in life among the wealthy, and, as a rule, they have fewer children; the intellectual life, seems to be unfavorable to the fecundity of women. Race suicide is more common among the higher classes. *lt is hardly necessary to mention that families of an extremely healthy stock, and living under the more favorable conditions, are able to continue their existence a much longer time. The remarkable vitality of the British aristocracy is due to their athletic habits, and to the fact that they spend the greater part of the year on their, in the country. Ammon holds that- the aristocratic classes of the Continent "have favorable prospects to,perpetuate their family names only if they live on estates and devote themselves to agriculture and the chase.” —Popular Sci-' ence Monthly. “ -v — A DISEASE THAT BAFFLES SCIENCE.
w
HILE science is confident of baffling cere-bro-spinal meningitis and is attacking resolutely infantile paralysis, the insidious plague of pellagra had resisted all its efforts for generations. " This is no new disease, as many have thought. It is not even new in the Übited
" States, though medicine has been slow to recognize It for' what Jt is. Though the external symptom of it is the "rough skin" described by its name in Italian, it is an obscure disease of the nervous system, lingering for years of suffering without the relief of death and causing mental disorders that are diagnosed by the general name of Insanity where the disease itself is pot understood. In Italy, where the -plague has been under observation for more than a generation, all its stages and symptoms are recognized, but it may appear in other countries and spread for many years, being called' eczema at one time and insanity at another, without any recognition of the connection. That Is now believed-to be true of the United States. Though the disease is fully developed only in some parts of the South, it is now considered certain that many cases .of mysterious insanity in asylums of 1111-
Legal Information
At any time before a bid at an auction Is accepted, the bidder is held, In Anderson vs. Wisconsin C. R. Co. (Minn.), 120 N. W. 39, 20 L. R. A. (-N. S.) 1133, to have the right to. withdraw his offer to purchase, or the owner his offer to sell. The violation by a railroad company of a statute forbidding the obstruction of street crossings in cities is held, In Houren vs. Chicago, M„ & St. P. R. R. Co., 236. 111. 520, 86 N. E. 611, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1110, to be negligence, as matter of law, as against the owner of a house destroyed by fire, because of a failure of the fire department, whose progress was- interfered with by the obstruction, to reach It In time to extinguish the Are. Where a resident of Idaho goes Into the state of Washington and makes a partial payment upon a Washington contract after Its maturity and before such contract Is barred by the statute if limitations of that state, upon his return to Idaho the contract is held in Sterret vs. Sweeney, 15 Idaho, 416, 98 Pac. 418, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 963, to follow him as made and to be enforceable under the laws of that state, and it is held that the statute of limitations of Id£ho continues to run upon his re-entry Into that state after such payment. „ A person who enters upon grounds lawfully In possession of boys giving a free picnic, notice having been given In advance that later in the day a basebalj game would be played to which admission would be charged, and who, when the game was about to commence, refused to pay the fee or go out, and was thereupon taken by the arm by ja citizen, one of the assembled patrons, acting In behalf of tpe boys, though without special authority, and led In the direction of the gate, always with the privilege of paying and staying, and the alternative of not paying and going, and who, before reaching the gate, did pay and thereafter stay. Is held. In Crossett vs. Campbell, 122 La. 659, So. 141. 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 967,"t0 be thereby afforded, as against such Citizen, <no ground for an action in damages for false Imprisonment, since the restraint imposed was not total, and was imposed merely as a meansOT his ejectment untli he elected to , pay the lawfully charged fpe, and was therefore the result of his voluntary persistence in aw unlawful act.
Editorals
Opinion* of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
UNCLE HIRAM TO HIS NEPHEW.
Showing Him Juat How He Can Get a Square Deal<- * “If we fail, Henry,” said Uncle Hiram to his hopeful young nephew, “you may be sure that we owe it as a rule not to our limitations or to lack of opportunities, but to our lack of thoroughness, to our not using such talents as we have to the best advantage. It is an old, old story, Henry, but however old a story may be it still remains new to those who hear it for the first time, and are not new hearers coming into hearing all the time, to whom everything, the world, is new? And now let me say this again for your benefit. “When I see the window cleaner falling to get down into the corners to dig out there, failing to make a perfect job of his work, I know not only that he lacks inspiration, I know that he lacks the two simple essentials of application and- thoroughness; he lacks the two for getting on in the world at all. As he grows l older he will wonder why he doesn’t get ahead faster, and when dull times come he will wonder why he is laid off while other men are kept at work, ’and then, unless happily light should come to him, He’ll get sdur and discontented and in his own way cynical ; he’ll think that everything in-the order of things is wrong, that he isn’t getting a fair deal, when the fact is that every man is bls own dealer. * "As it is-about the window cleaner so it is with every one of ns in what-' ever we may have to do. We all of us think we ean do big things when, as we say, ‘we get a chance’; but the truth is that unless we can do a little think well we can’t do a big thing well and we never get a chance. Big things are made up of little things. If a man-or boy'couldn’t sweep a sidewalk clean nobody would-think of hiring him to sweep a city. “Don’t think you’ve got a mean job and slight ilt till you can get something better; no matter what your work may be, magnify it and dignify it by application and thoroughness. It is the only way to get on, and In that way you’ll be sure to get on. There’s nothing the matter with the deal, Henry. Every man can have a square deal if he Whnts it hard enough, for every man can (leal for himself if he will.” “You;” everyone is saying in manner and thought,to a new widower, ’‘will soon get mw Ut’’,, , t ’• "" V- ■■ No boy was ever heard to say at the table, “Thia is my full meat”
nols and other States are due to it. Within the last year or two there has been great energy in searching ouCand dealing with these scattered cases, as well as in combating it where it abounds, especially in South Carolina. The cause of it is known to be a specific poison generated, like ptomaines in animal decay, in moldy corn. That is why it has been so abundant in Italy, where the food of the poor is polenta, made out of the cheapest corn meal. But the nature and operation of the poison,, or poisons, because different effects suggest a germ infection as well as a nerve poison, are absolutely unknown, and science can do nothing but try to prevent. Italian physicians rejoice that pellagra has been recognized here, because they say that the Americans will solve the mystery. That is flattering, when their own reputation is considered. —Minneapolis ’Tribune. COLLEGES AND WOMEN.
HE head of Bryn Mawr Colllege is a profound, sincere and brilliant woman. Recently she has taken up the charge that the college-trained woman is unfitted for domestic life. Her inquiries have convinced •her that 30 per cent of college women do their own housework; that, though they
2
marry later in life,/they marry more wisely; that they have an average of three and six-tenths children, as against the non-college women’s three and five-tenths. Said the Spectator of 200 years ago: “As our English women excel those of all nations in beauty, they should endeavor to outshine them in all other accotoplishments-proper to the sex, and to distinguish themselves as tender mothers and faithful wives rather than as furious partisans. Female virtues are of. a domestic turn.”' Nobody doubts that the horne and the smal 1 child’s care wljl always fall to the woman. She is the mote' - directly.responsible for the succeeding generation. What Is receiving heavy blows at present is the traditional and stereotyped idea that knowledge and Intellectual training are less suitable to these high tasks'than are frivolity and Ignorance.— Weekly. ■ ■ ; FARMERS MAKE HIGH PRICES.
2
N OMAHA banker says that the farmers in the West are holding their corn for better prices. A Lincoln (Neb.) grain man reported that at one of his country elevators he offered two farmers 85 cents for corn, and they replied that (hey would bring in 10,000 bushels when the price got up to
sl. We do not blame the farmers; they are entitled to all they can get for their produce. But what becomes of the story in the muck-raking papers that the high prices of farm products are paused by combinations of wholesalers and retailers and that the farmers do not get any benefit? Tell that to the marines, but not to the farmers. —Leslie’s Weekly.
BRITISH CAPITAL IS SLOW.
Her Haste In Church Buildin* Contrasted with Her Brid*e Makin*. London’s slowness in building bridges across the Thames as compared with her readiness to build churches and taverns was a favorite theme of the writers of the eighteenth century. At a time when her, population was well over 1,000,000 and her homes lay for miles on each side of the river she was apparently well content with her one London bridge, says ■the London Chronicle. At last, in 1734, Westminster was seized with the desire to have a bridge of her own. Application was made to parliament for pbwers, only th encounter the fiercest opposition frpm the city, the 40,000 watermen, the inhabitants of Southwark, and the West country bargemen, all of whom Implored the commons to protect them against this new>nemy. The result was that the bridge was not built till 1750. Blackfriars, at first "called Pitt’s bridge, was finished in 1769, at- a cost of £260,000, defrayed by tolls. Waterloo was opened, as its name would convey, on the first anniversary of the famous battle “with great pomp by the prince regent in person, accompanied by his royal brother, the duke of York, the duke of Wellington and a long train of persons of the first distinction.” Then came Vauxhall bridge and Southwark bridge, neither' of which, like Waterloo, brought much grist to the mill of their enterprising builders. What they lost in cash, however, they gained in credit from the foreigner. The proposed St. Paul’s bridge is to cost five or six times as much as any of the existing bridges. Of all the bridges that have not been built surely the-qne from Charing Cross to Waterloo is'the most important. The full tide of London flows at Charing Cross. But the vehicle that would cross the river thence must make the detour to Westminster or to Wellington street. Even the foot passenger has only the clamber up the stairs and the elbowed rush along a gangway bridge. We are still a long way from abolishing the Thames as a dividing line, though we have abolished <t as a means of communicatien. _
Early Maine Match Factory.
Bath had a match factory sixty years ago, when every one thought there was a fortune to be made in Jheir manufacture. Miss Jane Show of Bath has some of the matches manufactured in the Bath shop. They are of pine, shorter than the matches of the present day, and hand dipped.--Khnushoc Jowresl
THRASHING THE CUCUMBER.
Raiain* Ve*e*able for Seed Under New Conditions Profltable. In western Kansas and eastern Colorado, says the Star of Kansas City, where most vine crops grow to perfection on the Irrigated lands, hundreds of acres of cucumbers, cantaloupes and Watermelons are reserved for seed by seed companies and by farmers who grow them for the seed houses. It is a common sight from October to Dec. 1 to see the seed thrashers in the fields of cucumbers and melons thrashing them foiTthelr seed. The growing of cucumbers for seed is considered very profitable, and often the owners clear from SIOO to $l5O an acre, as the seed brings $1 to $2 a pound. While the cucumbers might be sold to canning factories, many farmers prefer to let them remain for the qeed, as the expense of gathering la not so great, the income an acxe being about as much. The thrashing costs a reasonable amount. The cucumbers are grow* in rows six feet apart both ways, and the seeds are planted the last of April or the first of May. After the plants come through the ground ""they are hoed and irrigated, the furrows for the water running lengthwise with the rows and close to the hills. A cultivator is usefl to stir the soil and keep it mellow until the vines are running well between the rows, Wien the cultivation ceases. The are left to grow until the latter part of September, when they are gathered and piled for thrashing. About five rows of cucumbers are piled together. The cucumber thrasher is built on a wagonlike frame, supported by great wide wheels and drawn by-two horses. At the rear of the machine is stationed a little two-horse gasoline engine which operates the machinery of the thrasher. Just in. front of the engine is the crusher that looks like a common cider mill. It contains two iron rollers, moving together and crushing the cucumbers as they pass between. Against the crusher sits the framework containing the seeder. The cucumbers pass from the crusher into this large cylindrical seeder, whidh sits horizontally; The outer surface of the seeder is a wire netting with meshes large enough to permit the seed to drop through into the vat below, but retaining the crushed cucumbers. The front end of the cylinder being lower than the rear, the cucumbers are rolled slowly forward by its revolutions until they drop out at the horses’ heels. _ When the vat beneath the cylinder is filled with seed a seed box is drawn on a low - sled to the opening at the side of the machine, and the sewb are allowed ’to run out a spout into it The thrashing proceeds and the seed is hauled away to a place where it is thoroughly washed from all foreign matter and spread out on screening wire enclosed in frames to dry.
TITLES AT HER FEET.
Mrs. Astor’s Friends Makin* Matrimonial Plana for Her. Until Mrs. Eva Willing Astor really goes to the altar a second time gossip will be busy engaging her now to one man, again to another, for that is the penalty- of being young, rich, beautiful and almost free. While it will be several months yet before her interlocutory decree of divorce becomes final and operative, yet her friends have already begun planning for her future in a matrimonial way. Her friend, Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, in--Bists"that Lord Curzon of will be the man of Mrs. Astor’s choice; the ■ talk of London clubs favors Captain the Honorable Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby, second son of the Earl of Bessborough, and several others have been mentioned over fashionable tea tables. Mrs. Astor is preserving a discreet silence, which some construe as eloquent, for she denies nothing, at the same time confirms no more. A marriage with Lord Curzon would be a most desirable alliance from every point of view. In the first place, their ages would be suitable, and his position would insure her the place in British society that she has long coveted. He is a widower with two children. His wife, who died several years ago, was Miss Mary Leiter, a daughter of Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter. She was a stater of the Countess of Suffolk, Mrs. Colin Campbell, and of Joseph Leiter. On the other hand, Capt. Ponsonby, who has also been most attentive to her, is much younger than Mrs. Astor, only 28 years of age. He is very handsome and comes of an ancient taftiliy.—New York World.
Misconstrued
’’lt’s a lovely morning,” ventured the young man who had bought a necktie. The girl waiting on him did not deny it. —• “Most becoming way you have of dressing your hair.” / ••Sir!” - “How do you manage to keep your hands so beautifully white? I should think that in handling goods” •Take your necktie and skip,” said the girl. “I had the floor manager lead a fresh guy out by the ear yesterday.” ‘That was all rot I read about paying attention to the tired shop girl at this season,” mutteted the customer as he hurriedly withdrew.—-Philadelphia Ledger. - When a rogue gives a man an even break, he regards himself as very virtuous. i The inan who always thinks he la always all right, is nearly always all wrong.
PEERAGE ROMANCE.
A Spanish Dancer’s Son Claims Broad British Estates. The claim to the Sackville peerage .and estates made by Ernest Henri Jean Baptiste Sackville-West, was recently mentioned in the Probate Court, London, before the president, on a summons by which the petitioner asked that the action should be tried before a jury. Harold Morris appeared for the petitioner; Mr. Pilcher represented the attorney general; Eldon Bankes, K. C., and Ralph Bankes were for other persons cited, relatives of the late Lord* Sackville. The petitioner, it may be explained, was born aft Arcachon, in France, on June 24, 1869, received an English education, and is married. He is claiming the title Baron Sackville of Knole, in Kent, and the estates of Sevenoaks, which comprise about 8,600 acres, the rental being £7,000 a year, and there are valuable heirlooms. _ The claim is based upon a romantic story. The claimant is the son of a beautiful Spanish dancer, Josefa Duran de Ortega, professionally known as Peplta, who was celebrated on the continent in the sixties of the last century; and shd, according to the petitioner’s story, was secretly married to Sackville-West, secretary of the British legation at Madrid, who became afterward first secretary of the British embassy' in Paris, and then British minister plenipotentiary at Washington, and died as Lord Sackville in Septemhber, 1908, aged 81, at Knole park. Resistance to the claim raises the issue that the petitioner ; ls illegitimate; that Lord Sackville never married Senorita Duran, who was really the wife of Juan Ontonio Gabriel de Oliva, a leading Madrid dancing master. One of the defendants, who appears as the heir presumptive, is Edward Lionel Sackville-West, son of tie late Lord Sackville’s younger brother, and formerly major in the West Kent Imperial yeomanry. ' ' < This romantic and important suit has been before the public in preliminary stages for twelve years, and will soon reach trial.
THE FIRST CHOICE.
It Was Ri*ht, Too, Because the Bravest Are the Tenderest. Some years 'ago the excursion steamer returning from Alaska to Seattle dislocated its propeller in a dreary portion of the inner passage and came to a forced stop. For two days the vessel’s engineers and machinists labored to repair the break, but without success. Two of the boats were manned and dispatched for aid to Victoria, 300 miles away. In the meantime it was discovered that the ship’s stores were not abundant. Alarm bred in the minds of the pessimistic passengers, and the contagion spread. Starvation might assail the vessel before help arrived. A former California .official took it on himself to reassure his timid companions, but his effort was not perfectly adapted to raise drooping spirits. In fact, his closing sentences but added to the gloom. “Let us be brave,” he said. “If the worst comes and that dread necessity which in such misadventures has met others must be faced by us,-let us remember that it is good to die that our friends may live. The one or more that may be sacrificed will be consoled by that thought” There was a moment’s silence, awful in its intensity, then a cheerful volte was heard. "You should be taken first, Governor Booth. You know the bravest are the tenderest." And even the terror-stricken smiled once more.. —San Francisco Argonaut
AMONG MOUNTAIN WHITES.
Happy Widow—One Wko’ll Be Date on Judgment Day. , -A home missionary under the auspices of the American Missionary Society, tells the following tale of an old woman encountered during her ’work among the mountain whites of Saluda, N. C. She found the old lady enjoying a comfortable pipe in front of her little fireplace. She greeted the visitors cordially, and upon their departure pressed them to call again. "You’ll always find me right here, 1 ’ said she, “unless I go off for a visit. Now my husband’s dead I’m going to enjoy myself.” The same domestic atmosphere seemed to pervade the reply of another, whom the missionary asked if she didn’t know there was a day of judgment coining. “Why, no,” said the old lady. “I hadn’t heard o’ that. Won’t there be more than one day?" U “No, my friend; only one day,” was replied. "Well, then,” she mused, "I don’t reckon I can get to go, for we’ve only got one mole, and John always has to go everywhere first".
Inconvenient.
“You never come to my at-home days any more.” "We have a new cook." 4 "And you ean’t trust her?" "No, It isn’t that; your- at-home days are her days out.”—Houston Poet ■ Notice what a short time a piece of candy lasts with, a boy? Happine« lasts the grown people just about that long. - Notwithstanding the high cost of Ilw Ing, there are still men who 'keep two dOgfl.
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
Two bushels of olives give three gallons of oil. There are'more outbreaks of* fire in London Saturday than any other day. Plymouth (England) breakwater has 3,800,000 tons of stone, or as much as the great pyramid of Cheeps. Roast veal is the least digestif le of butcher’s meat. It takes'five a*d a half hours to digest. Roast goose takes two and a half hours. A piano stool that will accommodate but one person under ordinary circumstances, but which contains leaves which can be spread to hold two to play duets, has been invented by a Chicagoan. At nine Paganini was composing sonatas, while Malfe, the great Irish composer, it is claimed, wrote '‘Lover’s Mistake,” a song which was sung by the prime donna, Mme. Vestrls, in the drama "paul Pry.” Chung Ling, a priest of Buddha, well versed in all the mysterious knowledge that is sjscfeted in those mystic temples of the plains of China, is a student in the Franklin school night class for foreigners, Washington. Gertrude E. Curtis, of Bradford, Pa., is the first colored woman dentist. She passed the final examination in the College of Dental Surgery, in Philadelphia, with high honors, and Intends to begin active practice Without delay. She believes dentistry is one of the best professions, for women, and has encouraged several colored girls to take up the study. The coal market of the Argentine Republic, heretofore supplied almost exclusively from Great Britain, is to be Invaded by American coal mined in West Virginia and exported from Norfolk. The first cargo is being loaded in the British tramp steamer London Bridge, bound for Puerto la Plata. West Virginia coal, it is asserted, can be put in Argentine 36 cents cheaper than British coal. Writing from Calcutta, Consul Perry says that It. has been found that the Skin of the rat is well adapted to a variety of purposes such as the binding of books, the making of purses, gloves and other articles for use and adornment. It is stated that already the traffic in this commodity amounts to about $250,000 a year in Great Britain,* and advertisements have appeared for supplies of skins of the brown rat in lots of 100 to 10,000. Most members of the upper house possess more than one title, and not a few have a large number. The duke of Abercorn is holder of four Scotch, four Irish and two British peerages. The marquis of Lansdowne has on* Scotch, five Irish ’ and two British titles. Other'peers who are well equipped in this respect are the duke 4>f Norfolk (seven), the marquis of Breadalbane (eight), the duke of Portland (five), the duke of Devonshire (five) and the duke of Northumberland (six))—Westminster Gazette. The German diamond fields In south* west Africa are still yielding a goodly supply of extremely small but some reports indicate that the industry will be short-lived. Dr. KutzBuckeburg, after spending eighteen months in the neighborhood, explained the situation to the Cologne branch of the Deutsche Kolonial Gesellschaft, He said that the diamonds were superior In their form and brllliancyto those of the British South African mines, but that so far no stone had been found weighing more than a x single karat Reade’s, literary work was, Sir Robert Anderson remarks, a rare combination of genius and plodding. A brass scuttle which stood by the fireplace held the Illustrated and other papers which reached him week by week. From these he culled anything that took his fancy, and the cuttings were thrown into a companion scuttle, to be afterward Inserted in scrap books and duly indexed. Materials for bis novels and plgys were thus supplied or suggested. The accuracy of his descriptions ofevents and places was phenomenal.—Blackwood’s Magazine. At nineteen Charles XII., king of Sweden, with 10,000 troops, routed 50,000 Russians under Peter the Great, at Narva; George Washington was a major; "Carro del Cieolo” came from the Spanish pen of Calderon; Wilkie, the English painter, painted his “Pitlessle Fair,” containing 140 figures, regarded as one of the most complete canvases Of the period; Tennyson won the chancellors medal at Cambridge University for his poem, “Timbuctoo,” and Klopstock conceived and compoeed * good part of his "Messiah,’’ the great work which gave such impulse and impetus. to German literature and fired the genius of the Fatherland. ' Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Kentucky were the foremost founder states. New Yotk and Massachusetts have been strongly nourished by Europe’s money, culture and immigrants and plenty of good, hard sense to boot. Virginia lost out through pride and war, with her many bloody sacrifices. Malaria has most ruined Kentucky. Kentucky was our oldest, longest maintained frontier, settled up by first and second generations of English farmers knd a few Irish and Scotch and old revolutionary soldiers. Kentucky had more and harder Injun fighting than any other state, besides largely indulging fa the 1812-1815 and the Mexican and other wars.-—New York Press.