Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1910 — Page 2

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

DOES THE DECALOGUE NEED ENLARGING?

Those who most wrong us are the men who W'reck railroads and banks, thereby wiping out the fortunes of thousands; great corporations which monopolize the necessaries of life, raising prices and making it harder for the poor to live; politicians who levy extravagant taxes and squander them without public benefit; diplomats who plunge nations into war without due cause, etc These evils were un-

known when the decalogue was framed and ancient morality fixed. The people had not then gone to governing themselves, to voting franchises and undertaking great public works Immorality was private, as also morality. Only rulers could be immoral on a large scale, and they were few and thought to be incapable of wrong, so that immorality was practiced and confined to the common people. Morality is a larger subject than hitherto. Hence, I •ay, the new morality cannot be formulated in the old precepts and prohibitions. As men have new forms of business and conduct them with injury to their fellows, they must work out new ways of avoiding this injury. Morality is as varied as the vices operate, and the ways Of doing good as countless as the ways of causing injury. In learning a new method of achievement we should learn what new vice is involved in it.

WHY OUR PAST LIVES ARE FORGOTTEN.

No question is more often heard when reincarnation is spoken of than: ‘ If I were here beforte, why do I not remember it?" Many people cannot remember learning to read, yet the fact that they can read proves the learning. Incidents ol childhood and youth have faded tioni our memory, yet they have left traces on opr character. Fever patients have been known to use in delirium a lan-

guage known in childhood and forgotten in maturity. Much of our subconsciousness consists of these submerged experiences, memories thrown .into the background but recoverable, ---— : ;1 When a philosophy or a science is quickly grasped and applied, when an art Is mastered without study, nfemory is there in power, though past facts of learning are forgotten; as Plato said, it is When we feel intimate with a stranger on first meeting, memory is there, the spirit's recognition of a friend of ages past; when we shrink back with strong repulsion from another stranger, memory is there, the spirit's recognition of an ancient foe. Not until pleasure and pain, however, have been seen in the light of eternity can the crowding memories of the past be safely confronted; when they thus been seen, then those memories calm the emotions of the present, and that which would otherwise have crushed becomes a support and consolation. Goethe rejoiced that on his return to earth life he would be washed

BARBERA WHO BECAME FAMOUS.

Hiarh Rank Attained by Many Wleldcra of Strop and Haior. Perhaps the best known of all barbers who have attained fame were" Arkwright, the improver of the spinning jenny, who was said to have turned to mechanics when the wigmaking trade fell off, and Jeremy Taylor, who was brought up in hi 3 father's shaving shop at Cambridge, says London Tit-Bits. Edward Sugden, afterward made Baron St. Leonard, was the son of a hair cutter in a shop in -Lincoln's lan, London. Once when Sugden was addressing a crowd in the interest of his candidacy for parliament a man called out to know what soap cost and how lather was made. “I am particularly obliged to that gentleman,*’ Sir Edward is reported .0 have said, “for reminding me of .my lowly origin. It is true that I am a barber's son and that I myself was once a barber. If the gentleman who so politely reminded me of these facts had been a barber he would have continued to remain one till the end of his life.” Charles Abbott, Baron Tenterden, was also a barber’s son, and it is related how, when he was made a peer of England, hp took his own son to a little Westminster shop and bade him remember it was there that his grandfather had been accustomed to shave Ipthers for a penny. William Falconer, the poet, was a poor barber In Edinburg until ..his poem, “The Shipwreck,” brought hi.ni renown and incidentally a commission in the royal navy. Craggs, associated with the South sea bubble, was a barber turned promoter. He became enormously wealthy, but when the South sea crash came his fortune dwindled and in despair he committed suicide. Giovanni Belzoni of Padua was a barber with .a varied and interesting history. Bel*oni set up a shop in' England, but so<jn tuund more profit in posing at Sadler’s Wells as the “Patagonian Samson.” Being of thrifty temperament, Belzoni accumulated quite a fortune. He achieved lasting fame as the discoverer of interesting relics in thd tombs of Egypt and as a traveler.

What Canada Buys FroM U. S.

In the ten years 1900 to 1909 inclusive, Canada's purchases of the United States grew from $109,208,000 to $182,690.000, an increase of $73,482,000 The increase jvas chiefly- in metals and minerals, fruits, furs, fibres, gutta percha goods, hats and caps, boots and shoes, oils, paper and paper goods, provisions, seeds, settler s effects, tobacco and its manufactures, and wood and its manufactures in the same ten years Canadian exports to the United States grew from $60,000,000 to $91,000,000, a gain of $31,000,000. Of the ga(n $23,000,000 was in metals and minerals and wood and its manufae- ~ , It takes a chiid to make a wise man feel ’lice an ignorant fool.

By Austin Bierbower.

By Annie Besant.

A vessel designed to operate both on the high seas and on inland rivers has been invented and is just now being brought to perfection by John F. Cahill, a well-known St. Louisan, and plans for the construction of a pioneer boat after Mr. Cahill s models are expected to mature at an early date. Extiaordinary light draft, combined with lage tonnage, seaworthiness, safety and speed, are claimed for the new boat by its inventor, and that it possesses these qualities is vouched for by some notable authorities on shipping construction. Coming, as it does, at a time when inland waterways traffic is a subject attracting national attention, the invention is ’one of exceptional interest With such a vessel placed in commission, Mr. Cahill promises freight and passenger traffic from St. Louis, or other inland cities of the larger streams, to interior points on the great rivers of South America, or elsewhere, without the necessity of a transfer of cargo or passengers at deepwater ports. For more than twenty years Mr. Cahill has devoted himself to the perfection of this type of vessel, and during that time lias spent a small fortune in experimenting, improving and perfecting his idea.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

RULING A SAVAGE TRIBE.

The author of "Heroes of Modern ■Crusades," the Rev. Edward Gilliat, M. A;, at one time master of Harrow School, says in his most interesting book that he had a few years ago the privilege of meeting the king of the Quiah country, Tetty Agamasong, at Harrow. The Quiah king had been educated at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, and was able to lecture to the Harrovians in good English, n his lecture he told a quaint story which brings one nearer to the weird lives of the Quiahs, a small agricultural and trading trlde of inoffensive character on the west coast of Africa. “In my country,” said the king, “we have nb prisons; therefore if a culprit is brought to me I must chop off something—an ear or two, a hand or a foot—and he goes home a sadder and a wiser man. Just before 1 left for England a chief came to my hut, bringing a prisoner. " What has he done, friend?’ I ask--od - ■: r .:'j ' ■ ■ . " ‘He is a dangerous wMteh, O King; he can turn himself into an alligator.’ “ Pooh! nonsense! I don’t beueve that old-fashioned stuff.’ ; “ ’Oh; but we saw him do it, down ov the big river.’ ■ : ‘lndeed! Well, tell ate all about it. You saw .him yburse£f? r ~

clean of his memories, and lesser men may be content with the wisdom which starts each new rife on its way, enriched with the results but unburdened with the recollections of its past.

DREAMER ALONE UNDERSTANDS LIFE.

It is said by travelers that the inert, brutish folk of parts uncivilized chant their work songs in order to dissipate their lethargy. They find it almost as hard to begin to work as it is for us to cease. Yet even at this early point in their industrial evolution they evidently are possessed by the same notion of the desirability of labor that burdens us and eggs U 3 on to toilsome and marvelous achieve

ment. It is hard to furnish evidence sfor things unseen to our crass minds. And if anyone can do it, these lotus eaters can. For them work is a joke and dreaming a fine art. The only things they take seriously are "Arabian Nights” and castles in the air. We insist upon being alert, energetic, wide awake to opportunity, which, we declare grimly, knocks but once at our door and then leaves us to that sorriest of fates, indigent obscurity. And we forget the happy family where blissfully dreams the ragged slumberer. We say the Lord helps those who help themselves. But the waiter on Providence knows how the manna falls from heaven on those that are without bread. All the heart that is dried out of our gilded mechanisms of existence the slumberer and lotus eater keeps breathing and pure. While we are gaining the whole world he knows that somehow he is saving his soul.

GIRLS’ EXTRAVAGANCE HINDERS MARRIAGE.

The mefl who made this country—Bo per cent of them —began their married life without a dollar. They began in an humble way, worked together, saved, reached up and grew up, and if the four millions of women in America who are now bread-winners became bread makers, and married for love of worthy jnen, and began their married life as our fathers and "mothers began, there would be few

bachelors, and fewer women compelled to work outside of their own homes. Our young women "won’t do housework." The majority of men on sala.ies paid them cannot keep a servant; besides, there are not servants enough to meet the demand, and the result is that we are rapidly becoming a nation of boarding houses and hotels, crowded with people who ought to be in modest homes of their own, and, like our parents, realize the dreams of their youth by working add rising together. What we need now is several million sensible women who realize that the mightiest institution on earth is the home, and who, instead of aping the vulgar rich and the silly -p.oor, will revive the old-fashioned virtues of thrift and domestic economy.

INVENTS A NOVEL CRAFT.

By Ada May Krecker.

By Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters.

“‘I did. We were hunting by the banks of' the river with our rifles when all at once we saw a big alligator lyina on a rock in the river. The witch man was lying asleep in a hammock som( fifty yards, away. O the dangerous creature he is! “ ‘Well, king, do not laugh with yout eyes like that, for I am speaking the truth. I put up my rifle to shoot the alligator, but to our great fear, as soon as I fired, this fellow rolled out of his hammock and fell on the ground, and rubbed his back, and swore he was hurt. “Now, O king, if this witch had not been inside the alligator, how could he have been hurt when I fired?” “Gentlemen,” concluded the king, “I see you are laughing with your eyes; but it Is very difficult'to rule over a people untaught and given over to superstition. “What did I do? WTiy, if I had left him free they would have killed him as soon as I had gone on my*ship/, so I saved his life by chopping off his left ear.”

Trying to Sate Time.

Bacon—ls that hen of yours industrious? ~ Egbert—Well, rather. She tried to do two days' work in one, to-day. “How so?" “She laid a double-yoljted egg." Yonkers Statesman. ,~- la the race for wealth the average man looms up among those who also ran. 'rii.TT* : ~

Science AND Invention

For the improvement of Blyth harbor, England, a specially constructed dredger has been employed which scoops up rocks of as much as twenty to thirty hundredweight each, and discharges them through chutes into a barge. The machine is furnished with a chain of buckets like an ordinary dredger, but the buckets are of a special shape, and the rims are re-en-forced with hard-steel cutting edges. The boulders are embedded in mud and sand, and more than 200 tons of such rock have been removed in an hour. The apparatus works with surprising ease and certainty. It has recently been discovered that the rare atmospheric gas neon readily becomes luminous under the influence of electric waves, and it is suggested that the property may afford a means of visually reading wireless telegraph messages. Prof. W. L. Dudley experimented with a tube of neon during an Atlantic voyage in July, and found that the gas glowed beautifully in response to the waves sent out from the wireless apparatus of the ship, but the received waveq .were apparently too weak to affect it sensibly. Further experiment may result in the discovery of a means of utilizing this property of neon as a detector of received signals. At present It is employed to measure the length of electric waves sent out. The length of those tested by Professor Dudley was about 800 feet. The Texas town of Rockwall, about twenty-five miles east of Dallas, derives its name from what appear to be the remains of immense walls of ruined masonry surrounding the town, but extending in many directions. Mr. Sidney Paige has recently studied these walls, and his conclusion is that they are natural formations, consisting of sandstone dikes, which under the influence of the weather and earth movements have been cracked and jointed ill such a way as to afford, in many-cases, a striking resemblance to artificial walls. The weathered sands, stained with iron oxide, between the joints have been mistaken for remains of mortar. The dikes rise out of a ■icb', black, waxy soil composed of original lime muds. They vary in thickness from an inch to two feet, and have been traced to a depth of fifty feet or more. Recent experiments by government experts have revealed an unexpected source of trouble in the process of sterilizing wood by the injection of preservative liquids. It is customary.;-to remove the bark from a stick of-tim-ber before it is subjected to creosoting, but it has been supposed that thin layers of the inner bark left unremoved would do no harm. Now it is found that such layers, no matter how thin, almost absolutely prevent the penetration of the liquid. In any case, the preservative usually fails to penetrate the center of the stick, hut forms an exterior antiseptic zone, which answers the purpose if there are no gaps in it. But if such gaps exist, owing to the presence of thin layers of bark, the teredo finds an entrance through them, and carries on its work of destruction in the interior of the timber supposed to have been protected.

SHOW NOAH’S GRAVE.

Natives About Ararat Connect litany Spots with History of Flood. The region of Moupt Ararat and the local traditions which still, keep alive the story of the ark having rested there were described the other evening in a lecture given in London before the Royal Geographical Society by Capt. Bertram Dickson, who made a series of journeys to the neighborhood while British military consul at Van, a London correspondent says. The country east of the Tigris, he said, was known to the ancient Assyrians as the mountains of Nairi and at other times the Niphates and the mountains at Urartu, from which comes the name Ararat. The Bible historian took the account of the ark resting on Ararat from the Chaldean legend, which m;».le it rest on th*e mountains of Urartu; while local traditions, Christian, moslem and yezidi (or devil worshipers) alike make its resting place Jebel Judi, a striking sheer rocky wall of 7,000 feet, which frown over Mesopotamia. , Common sense also suggested that with a subsiding flood in the plains a boat would more probably run aground on the high ridge at the edge of the plain rather than on a solitary peak miles from the plains, with many high ridges intervening. The lecturer thought himself that the local tradition had the greater element of truth. „There is a large ziarat (zijgurat or sanctuary) at the top of Jebel Judi, where every eve in A.ugust Is held a great fete, attended by thousands of energetic moslems, Christians and yezidi% who climb the steepest of trails for 7,000 feet in the terrific' summer’s heat to do homage to Noah. This mountain seems to have been held sacred at all times, and certainly it has a wonderful fascination about it, with Its high precipices and jagged, tangled erags watching over the vast Mesopotamian plain. The local villagers can show one the exact spot where Noah descended. While In oae Tillage. Hassana, they showed his grave and the vineyard where he 1b reputed to have Indulged overfreely In the juice of the grape, the ov ner declaring that the vines

have been passed from father to son ever since, f Capt. Dickson recounted some curious stories of the Inhabitants of these regions, particularly the Kurds. These people, he said, claim to be the descendants of Solomon by his concubines, and though nominally one race they are split up into numerous hostile clans, with little in common but their religion, their language and their love of a gun and cartridges.

LAST OF THE JACOBITES.

Theodore Napier Still Ready to Defend the Stuart Ca&ae. Here is a stanch supporter of the Scotch claims to the throne of Britain, who despite the fact that he is failing fast in health makes* an annual pilgrimage to* the tomb of Mary Queen of Scots. ■ T So firmly does King Edward and his line seem settled on the British throne that it is startling to find an ardent remnant of Scottish Jacobites declaring he is a base usurper. They still cling to the claims of the Stuarts, though over 200 years have passed since the last of that bad family of rulers fled from British soil. To them Mary Queen of Scots is the “martyr queen,” and their contention is that the lawful ruler of England is an obscure Mary, who, resident abroad, i 3 all unconscious of her phantom dignity. Most fiery of them all is Theodore Napier, a picturesque figure often to be seen in the streets of Edinburgh, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Every February, clad in highland garb, he journeys to Fortheringay castle, the scene of the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, to lay on the tomb of that queen of- romance a floral offering as a symbol of his fealty to the Stuarts. Ridicule or argument breaks upon him without effect. He proclaims himself a Jacobite of the Jacobites; though all else bow the knee to the English king, still will he refuse. Many Scotsmen declare there is no King Edward VII. of Scotland, for former Edwards did not rule the north ern half of Britain. But their objection is not pressed hard, and they are loyal enough to the house of .Guelph'. Not so this venerable Jacobite. Whenever there is a celebration of a Scottish national event, there he is to plead for the glorification of Scotland as distinct from England. At a recent dinner in Edinburgh, when the toast ol “The King” was proposed, he refused to join, and when remonstrances rained upon him, the hoary Scotsman leaped to his feet and challenged any “traitor to the Stuart cause” to meet him “with claymore, battle-ax or dirk," at the same time casting a gauntlet at their feet, in his best dramatic manner. Nowadays, when the highlands are overrun every day by English and American financial magnates, who sport themselves in kilt and bonnet, Scotsmen are loath to wear the garb of their forefathers. But Theodore Napier regards it as “the only wear." In no other costume would he consent to appear in -p«blie T lest he should be taken for*a mere Englishman, so inferior, in his opinion, to the men of brawn and bravery, reared on sound oatmeal, north of the Tweed.

MACHINE SMOKES CIGARS.

o —-—- The curious apparatus here illustrated is a cigarsmoking device used at the Department of Agriculture at Washington to test the burning qualities of cigars. The smoking is accomplished by allowing the water in the glass vessel at

the left to escape gradually through tubes. This movement of water creates a vacuum. —Popular Mechanics.

Camel a Delicate Beast.

Contrary to the widespread but erroneous opinion, the camel is a very delicate animal. A camel that has worked fifteen days in succession needs a month’s pasturage to recuperate. It is liable to a host of ailments and accidents. When a caravan crosses a sebkha, or dry salt lake, it is rare that some of the animals do not break a leg. If the fracture is in the upper part of the limb there is nothing for it but to slaughter the animal and retail its flesh as butcher’s meat. , If the lower part of the limb has been injured the bone is set and held in position by, means of splints made of palm branches, which are bound with small cords. If no complications ensue at the end of a month the fracture is reduced. When it Is a case of simple dislocation the Jarred part is cauterized with a redhot iron, tuen coated with clay and bandaged with a strip of cloth. Fifteen days afterward •the animal is generally cured.—Vulgarisation Scientifique.

It Depends!

“How do you pronounce s-t-I-n-g-y?” tlje teacher asked the young gentleman nearest the foot of the class. And the smart boy stood up and said It depended a great deal whether the word applied to a man or a bee.—London News. '

London.

The Romans built London about the year 50 A D., but London wall was not built until 30$ A. D.

SHEAR NO NSENSE

“She talks twice as much as the other girls I know.” “Yes, she has a double chin.” —Cleveland Leadier. “My husband was a yety high-strung person.” “Yes. I’ve heard he was hung on Pike’s Peak.”—Harper s Weekly. Sister —Well, Harry, how are you getting along with arithmetic? Harry —Oh, pretty well. We’re in dismal fractions now. “Mrs Jones has a new hat.” “Well, you look mightily pleased about it?” “You -Just ought to see how it looks on her.”—Houston Post. “What do you think? Mrs. Zizzel, whomever goes to church, has won the first 1 prize in the church lottery!"— Meggendorfer Blaetter. “They say Harold Coddington has brain fever.” “Impossible. Could an angleworm have water on the knee?”— Chicago Record Herald. Novice —They tell me that a man can’t go into politics and remain honest. Old Stager—Yes, he can. But It isn’t necessary.—Chicago Tribune. “Why. don’t you give your wife an allowance?” “I tried that once, and she spent it before I could borrow it . back.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. “What do you figure is the result of a college education?” “The young man learns to yell for the money, and the old man to whistle for it!”—Puck. Blobbs —Harduppe says he owes everything to his wife. Slobbs—Harduppe is a double distilled prevaricator. He owes $lO to me.—Philadelphia Record. Inquirer—Did Miss Howell’s voice fill the hall? Critic—Well, it filled the lobby. Nearly everybody went out there when she sang.—Huntington Herald. “Have you heard that poor Firmin is dead?” “No. He wasn’t ill long, surely.” “Ah, you see, medicine has made great progress lately.”—Bon VU vant. Ted —Isn’t Tom thinking rather sertously of getting married?' Ned—He couldn’t have thought very seriously about it, for he has gone and done' it.— Brooklyn Life.- '• “I wonder who the people are in that machine who look so haughty?” “Probably the poor relations of the owner, who is taking them for a spin.” —Buffalo Express. Wifey—You promised that if I would marry you my every wish would be gratified. Husband—Well, isn’t it? Wifey—No; I wish I hadn’t married you.—lllustrated Bits. “Sir, your son has just coined a college fraternity. These college fraternities ” “Never mind about breaking it gently. What hospital is he at?”— Louisville Courier-Jonrnal “My good man,” said the kind old lady, stopping before the prison ceil, “what are you in for?” “Robbin’ da guests in a hotel, mum.” “Ah, were you the proprietor or the head waiter?” Wifey—You were late last night. Hub—Beg your pardon, my dear. As I came in the front door the clock struck 11. Wise —But what time 'did you arrive at the head of the stairs?—Boston Transcript. “And why,” the teacher continued, “should we hold the aged in respect?” “ ’Cause it’s mostly th p old men that has all the money,” Tommy answered. And the teacher wasn’t able to offer any better reason. Bessie —I gave Charlie on Christmas a beautiful necktie of my own make. Tessle —Was he pleased? Bessie—lmmensely. He said Its beauty shall be for no other eyes but his own. Wasn’t that lovely of him? Jones—Green bought a second-hand automobile three weeks ago, and he has been arrested six times In it. Smith —For exceeding the speed limit? Jones —No; for obstructing the street. —Chicago Dally News. De Artist—You say you walk a great deal? De Actor —Yes. De Artist— When you are playing golf? De Actor —Sometimes when I am playing golf and sometimes when I am playing Hamlet. —Chicago Journal. “Old Moneybags is afraid that prince he bought for his daughter Is a bogus one.” “Why so?” “When it came to settling up he asked for the prince’s debts, and the fellow told him he hadn’t any.”—Baltimore American. “Your glasses,” she said, "have .made a great difference in your appearance.” “Do you think so?” he.asked. “Yes. You look so intelligent with them on.” “I can’t understand why Brown should have failed.” “Nor can I. I always thought he was doing finely. He often came to me for advice.” “Johnnie, if I gave you two cents and your father gave you three cents, how much would you have?” “Seven,” promptly replied Johnnie. “You can’t have understood me, Johnnie. Now listen, and I will repeat the question. If I give you two cents and your fatner gave you three, how much would you have?” “Seven,” said Johnnie again, and with some promptness. “l‘/n surprised At you, Johnnie,” said the teacher. “How on earth would you have seven T’ “I got two in my pockatt” said Johnnie. _ - .