Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN • 4 'S. - *- Every Day E»cayt Sunday. ICALEY & CLARK, P«h»sher J' RENSSELAER, ♦ • INDIANA.

▲ groucn is a man who has forgottan that he was ever a hoy; Aviation, like all great movements, vis lms a victim now and then. It will please the little ones to know that a Chicago judge has decided that children are a necessity. There are men who can speak seven languages who are utter failures when It oomes to setting up a stove. That new anesthetic should be a good thing to have administered when sue Is having a picture taken.

If you are writing or editing a cornerstone MCMX must be used, otherwise 1910 is easier to figure out. Score something for the Antl-Ncftse Society. Fashion notes states that socks will be quieter this year. A Chicago poet declares that large ears are a sign of dissipation. Thought it was the nose that gave a fellow away. The new King of Belgium, starts in with a salary of only $660,000, but that gives him an incentive to do his best and earn a raise. A Kansas City paper refers to Ethel Barrymore as "Mamma Colt.” Alas! Think how soon she will be sailed "Grandma.” A letter written by John Keats, the foet, was sold in New York a few lays ago for $2,500. Need it be added that Keats is a dead poet? A magazine prints a chart showing that the divorce rate in Japan is much *ver twice that of the United States. But alimony in Japan is really ridiculously cheap. An Oklahoma bandit passed unscathed through years of experience as an umpire, meeting death at last while engaged In the simple pastime at robbing a bank. *T ask for love, spontaneous and free,” sings a lady poet. She should not be blamed. Love that has to be coaxed and put on an allowance isn’t worth singing songs about. Lack of sofas is blamed for a decrease in the number of marriages in some parts of the country. Furniture dealers might exhibit patriotism by making special rates on sofas to men who have more than three daughters each. It is planned to hold a great exhibition in London in 1911 to show graphically W’hat the Christian religion has accomplished since the publication of the King James translation of the Bible three hundred years ago. All the Christian countries of the world are expected to send exhibits. Some Ingenious Englishman has invented a clock, the movement of which m caused by the activity of a minute loantlty of radium, and the inventor ‘Ainks it will run ten thousand years without winding. If “grandfather’s ilock,” famous in song, which stopped short on a certain sad occasion, had Veen equipped with a radium escapesent, it would hardly have got fairly going during its first century. It is a sign of the irony that rules the progress of human knowledge that the heredity theory should come sharply to the front just when the theory . at environment has begun to shape practical life so extensively. Social welfare is nowadays a science and an art; and the sole working hypothesis that underlies it is that men are very largely what their surroundings make them, and that when we Improve environment we improve the individual, society, and the race.

Six hundred dollars a year for the rest of his life is offered by the Canadian government to every citizen who will pay to it S6O a year from the age of 20 to the age of 60; that is, an investment of will yield 6 per cent interest on $12,000 from the time a man reaches 60 till he dies. This offer, as well as many others of smaller amounts, is made in accordance wtth the new government annuity law passed last year. The plan has been in force only a few months, but the superintendent of annuities is quoted as well pleased with the prospect for business. This is a form of government insurance which appeals mere to the self-respecting workman than the old-age pension plan which the mother country ha* adopted. Spinal anesthesia, that is. Insensibility to pain produced by the injection of a drug into the spinal tract, lias been receiving considerable attention lately from the activity of Doctor Jonnesco, a Roumanian surgeon, in using stovaine and strychnia for that purpose. These drugs, in connection, produce local insensibility to pain •without destroying consciousness. The Roumanian surgeon has been using them In London and in New York, to exhibit their effects, for the benefit of the medical profession. The medical papers do not agree on the safety or success of the anesthetic in all cases. Itt hope that further study may rs-

move tfco present objections. spinal anesthesia, however, is' supposed to have been used first by Dr. J. L. Corning, an American surgeon, in 1885. Doctor Coming experimented on rabbits and dogs with injections of cocaine In the spinal tract. Later ha tried it on a man with such success that for two hours after the injection the patient had no feeling in his legs. But cocaine and kindred drugs have a depressing efTect on the heart. The Roumanian surgeon uses strychnia to counteract this effect.

Ten Pittsburg men, all of them millionaire* have died within the last few weeks. Nearly all of them were what is known as "self-made men,” who started in a humble walk of life and by their own efforts managed to get on to the great highway —or great white way—of wealth, and all of them were? actively engaged in increasing their great wealth up to the time of their death, which came suddenly, and in most cases was untimely. Twenty-five others, whose wealth ranged from SIOO,OOO to $500,000, aIBO died suddenly within about the same period. These men had succeeded. They had got out of life what they started in to get, but with growing possessions desire had also grown, and they kept on striving for -more v running their physical machinery at high speed until it broke down under the strain, at a time when it should have been giving its greatest service to the world —not in piling up of a greater individual fortune, but in making the world a better place as the result of successful experiment. And all <arer this nervous country of ours thousands of men are following the same program. They are succeeding marvelously; they are piling up wealth for themselves—and their heirs. Some of them are not doing it in the nicest manner, and others are doing it in a manner that is not nice at all, to speak of it most charitably. But they are succeeding, and success with them is the end that Justifies the means. And then there are others who are succeeding by perfectly legitimate methods, as far as commercial ethics are concerned, but, nevertheless, they are committing physiological crimes because they are wrecking themselves in their efforts, and are as certain as the Pittsburgers mentioned to pass on to their end long before they have enjoyed that period of life which under normal conditions they would have a right to expect. The making of much money should not be the sole end of man. There are a good many things in life that are more important. Besldes. whatever may be his success, there comes a time when a man should cease from such vigorous efforts. To him who has run the machinery very hard it c’omes sooner than to him who has worked more leisurely. It is not easy to say when this time comes, because it varies widely with different individuals, but if a man will look back over what he has done as compared with what the average man has done, he can get some idea perhaps of the limit of his activity. If he has succeeded greatly, well and good; if he has succeeded somewhat, well enough; but when the time comps it must be recognized or —It will merely be a question of probating his will.

Wit of the Youngsters

"Papa.” said small Johnny, “if you and I were the same size, would you say and do the things to me that make me fighting mad?” Teacher —Name the three persona] pronouns, Bobby. Bobby—He, she and it. Teacher —To what do they apply? Bobby—Husband, wife and baby. Mamma—But didn’t your conscience tell you that you were doing wrong? Little Howard —Yes; but papa told me I shouldn’t believe all I was told. "Now, Elmer,” said the teacher to a small pupil, “the eyes enable us to see Can you tell me what the nose is for?" "Yes, ma’am,” replied Elmer. “It’s foi eyeglasses to roost on.”

Hazing.

Hazing is au indefinite and Inexplicable something. When we are called before the faculty we deny the existence of the word. We call it gentle horseplay. Nevertheless hazing, whatever it is, fills its place in man's life. The wonderful state of sophomorehood would be lost if not for it. What would be come of our great Military academy at West Point if it were not for has ing? There are three great periods ol hazing in man's life —first the green apple period, then the college period and finally the married period, which, we are told. Is one continuous round of hazing on both sides. Hazing 4s an educational and desirable experience for those wishing to become slaveholders, superintendents of gangs, divorce seekers and fathers of large families. What is the greatest press agent of this age? Hating. Look at the free advertising different colleges receive every year. Hazing is also very helpful to those wishing to test the strength of baseball dubs, fence pickets and bricks.— Rutgers Targum.

Tommy’s Share.

“Well. Tpnuny, what par* of the chicken will you have?" "Why, paw, you know I always take the back when there's company.”—St. Louis Republic.

REMINISCENCES OF THAT CHERRY TREE.

WASHINGTON.

First in peace, in war the leader, Ever firm for country’s right; Bringing all to naught but justice, -Reconciling truth with might. Using every power in mercy, Aiding men to live like men; Richly sowing seed that flourished, * Yielding love of countrymen. Though his life was one of struggle, Weighted, fraught with toil and care— Every year revealed a triumph None else gained but all should share. True to God. to right, to nation, Yet by dauntless will, Service/rare to each he rendered Enemy to evil still. Custom long has usurped mem’Ty Onejand all fond tribute pay, Now, k) freedom’s fearless champion Dearer with each new-born day.

CLAUDIA M. FERRIN.

Washington as Husband.

George Washington married Mrs. Martha Custis, widow of Daniel Parke Custls, January 6, 1759. The wooing was brief, but the married life long and happy; for Washington, unlike many of the world’s great men, made a most devoted and affectionate husband: Mrs. Washington was rather below medium height, but daintily formed, with a pleasing face and hazel eyes. She had a graceful dignity of manner that enabled her to fill creditably her exalted position as First Lady in the Land; but she was not an intellectual woman. One who knew her well described her as “not possessing much sense, though a perfect lady and remarkably well calculated for her position.” Her eccentricities of spelling were enough to raise the ghosts of every dead lexicographer in hades. “I carried my little patt witj* me,” Bhe writes to her sister, “and left Jackey at home for a trial to see how well I could stay without him though we wefe gon but wone fortnight I was qpite impatient to get home. If I at aney time heard the doggs barke or a noise out, I thought thaire was a person sent for me. I often imagined he was sick or some accident had happened to him so that I think it is impossible for me to leave him as long as Mr. Washington must stay when he comes down.”

Yet Washington was, apparently, well satisfied; for, even after so long a- period as six months had passed since his wedding day, he refused to wander from his wife’s side, and wrote from Mount Vernon: “I am now, I believe, fixed at this seat with an agreeable Consort for life.” And long after, when one of the great men of the-world, he wrote to her:

‘‘l should enjoy more real happiness in one month with you at home than I have the most distant prospect of finding abroad if my stay were to be seven times seven years.” His devotedness is best shown in the loving care he took of her all through their long married life. He not only assumed the entire management of her own large property, hut also that of her children, and gave to them the affection and care of a father. He even spared’her much of the details of sending for her own clothing; and such orders as the following may be seen in his own handwriting: “A salmon-col-ored Tabby of the enclose pattern, with satin flowers to be made in a sack"; 1 Cap, Handkerchief, Tucker and Muffles, to be made of Brussels lace or point, proper to wear with above neglee, to eost $20“; "1 pair black and T pair satin shoes, of the smallest”; and "1 black mask.” Again he writes to his London agent: “Mrs. Washington 6ends home a green sack' to get cleaned, or fresh dyed of the same color, made up into a handsome sack again would be her ’choice, if the cloth won’t afford that, then to he thrown into a genteel Night Gown.” There can be no question but what Washington had a happy home life, and made a loving and faithful husband. Washington the husband, the homemaker, as well as Washington the soldier, the statesman, the patriot, should be held up as a pattern for all youth to cut their qpming lives by. “

"Called" a Pompous Corporal.

It is told of Washington that upon ofie occasion he rode by a group of soldiers who evidently did not know

him. The men were engaged upon a difficult piece of work —‘that of trying to raise a heavy beam to the top oi some military fortifications. Tne corporal was shouting at the top of his voice, but otherwise doing nothing. “Why aren’t you helping them?” Washington asked quietly. “Every man counts.” - “Sir,” was the pompous answer, “you do not seem to recognize that I am the corporal.” “I beg your pardon, Mr. Corporal,” Washington replied, “but I find it difficult to recognize that fact.” Then, dismounting, he fell to helping th? men, and the beam was soon raised. “If you should need such assistance again,” he said to the corporal before leaving, “just call upon Washington, your commander in chief, and I shall be ready.”

Washington Family's Carryall.

The most interesting relic that oi recent years has been added to the historic collection at Mount Vernon wag. presented by Robert M. Bromfield of Philadelphia, and is the carryall used by Washington and —bis tor many years for light service. When he traveled abroad the father of his country commonly used a big English coach drawn by four horses and attended by negro postillions in a livery of scarlet and gold. It was an imposing spectacle, but for common use the carryall, drawn by two horses, was better, and it is a curious

vehicle. There is no dashboard, and the driver sits with his legs over the whiffltree, supported by a small foot rest. The passengers climbed through a door behind. The carriage is still in very good condition in spite of Its age, and demonstrates the excellent workmanship of those days. Its existence has been known for many years, but it took a long search to locate it, and it was finally found stored with other properties in the winter quarters of Forepaugh’s circus at Philadelphia. The identification was made complete, and the interesting relic was transferred to Mount Vernon and placed in the coach house which was built in 1733 and restored in 1894 by the ladies of the state of Michigan.

Found It Wise to Confess.

Bell—Even you men change your minds sometimes. Ben —Yes, I suppose that when George Washington commenced on the cherry tree he intended to lie about it

SHIBT WAIST IS THREATENED.

Garncßt That Hu Come to Hy Menaced by Manufacturer*. Let no one take fright at the threat of the New York shirt waist barons to put the shirt wale* out of fashion. The barons have a strike on their hands and wish to Alarm the strikers. • The latter are—skilled in the making of shirt waists, having devoted their lives to the art, and if shirt waists were abolished their strike would become purely academic and they would face starvation. But they refuse to tremble, because they know that the shirt waist has come to stay. Npt all the anathemas of aIL tbe fashion czars in creation can move it an inch, the Baltimore Sun says.

And no wonder. Was there ever a garment more sightly and ingenious then the shir ft waist? It gives a certain dashing grace to the! most obtuse figure. Its collision with the dark skirt beneath it gives the effect* of an orthodox waist, even when there is no waist there. It submits easily to the customary processes of renovation. It is cheap. It “goes well,” as the makers of robes et manteaux say, with any sort of skirt. It is cool. It« has both dignity and a touch of coquetry. Whether peek-a-boo or airtight, it satisfies the eye and soothes the mind. A woman in a freshly lauhdered shirt waist knows very well that she is doing deadly execution, and the thought elevates her.

For lovemaking the shirt waist has abundant advantages. Oldsters well remember how difficult it was, in the days before the waist, to encircle a pretty girl with easy nonchalance. The upper garments worn by the dear creatures at that time were full of pins and easily soiled. The young man, bleeding from a hundred wounds, would mutter harsh words, and the girl, thinking of the dry-cleaner’s bill, would faint. The shirt waist put an end to all those horrors. To-day one just grabs the girl and gives her a hearty hug. It Is not necessary to put on chamois skin gloves, for finger prints on shirt waists yield readily to household ammonia; and it'is not necessary to have a surgeon waiting outside, for shirt waists are held together by ropes, rivets and belting, and have no pins. And so one may now caress one’s love in comfort.

The shirt waist doomed, and by the simple ukase of a lot of New York business men? Pooh, pooh! Let them first prove their power by attempting a holy war upon chewing gum, the false frizz, or detachable cuffs.

MONARCH IN "THE CITY."

London’s Lord Mayor Is Only Next to Kina; Edward Himself. Within the limits of the/ city the lord mayor is a little sovereign. His only troops are 1,000 policemen, but no royal troops may enter the city without his permission. He receives the password of the Tower every three months, under the sign-manual of the king. But other things are more precious to him than this, for he is the recognized fountain-head of hospitality In the united kingdom. The city of London Is the only city in the world which royalty officially recognizes. The mayor of London recently received the Emperor of Germany, the President of France and many lesser potentates. The city of Berlin attempted to assume a similar distinction during the recent visit of King Edward to Germany.

Within the city the lord mayor takes precedence of all persons save the king, Frederic C. Howes says in Scribner’s. Even the Prince of Wales falls behind him on official occasions. Prior to the creation of the Thames conservancy board, in 1857, for the care and preservation of the shipping of London, the lord mayor rode to parliament immediately after his election in a splendid mediaeval barge, with tapestried canopies and banks of rowers, like an oriental prince. Since the control of the Thames has been taken away from the city, the barge has never been used. “The lord mayor’s show” is the greatest show of London. Following his election by the members of the guilds, the lord mayor and the aidermen proceed with great ceremony from the Mansion house,, along Fleet street and the Strand, to the courts of justice, where the lord mayor takes the oath of office. The lord mayor is clad in flfteenth-centliry apparel. He Is covered with official jewels. Accompanied with a retinue of sheriffs and aldermen, the show then proceeds to the Guildhall, where the lord mayor’s banquet takes jilace. The cost of the show and the banquet amounts to about $20,000, one-half of which is paid by the lord mayor, and the other half by the sheriff. As compensation for his services, the lord mayor receives an allowance of $50,000 a year.

Keep the Home Bright.

Fill your home with sunshine. Don’t kfeep all your brightness for strangers abroad and sterness and dullness for home eodfcumption. No child can grow up in rich development In an unhappy and gloomy home. Don’t drive your children to Beek their amusement away from home.

A Silly Warning.

Hardacre—“Waal, Marla, these city folks do things outrageously. Mrs. Hardacre—What is it now. Hi? - Mr. Hardacre—Waal, jest look what is painted on that pail up there—" Use for fire only.” Now, who in all creation could build a fire in a pail?—TitBits. We have noticed that new things get oat of ocder mighty easy. t ■ ■ -.

A VINDICTIVE KNIFE.

The Weapon Th>( Tried Several Timed to Kill Klplln*. My mind has flown back down the years to London and Into the large corner room on the second floor, Villiers street, Embankment Gardens. On the wall fronting the Thames hangs the most vicious looking knife I have ever seen. It is serpentine in shape, and its downward point is as sharp as % needle. “What a villainous weapon!” I said. “Yes,” replied Kipling, and I forgot the name he gave it or the section of India from which it came. “That / knife has tried to kill me several :lmes. It’s always on the watch. When I got it there was affixed to It, like a button on a foil, one joint of a man’s backbone. The knife had been run :nto the vertebrae, given a savage twist and brought away with it a piece of human framework.” As he spoke he approached the glit- ~ tering, snakelike knife. “Don’t touch it!” I cried. ‘Ton ought to keep it in -a locked box.” He didn’t touch it, so far as I saw, but as he raised his hand the knife dropped like a plummet and stood quivering in the floor within an inch of his boot. “Look at that!” he said and stood there without moving a muscle until I saw how nearly the sinister blade had come to Impaling his foot. —Robert Barr in London World.

FOR HIS FRIEND.

Many stories are told of the way In which a certain Parson Adams of Lunenburg, well known in the first half of the last century, attended to matters which he decided were in need of, summary treatment. On one or two occasions, at least, hia aibtion was not limited to his own parish. One amusing instance of this sort occurred oneSunday, when he exchanged pulpits with a friend who presided over a well-to-do but somewhat careless congregation in a neighboring town. This friend, who was one of the meekest and most long-suffering men imaginable, told Parson Adams, wlttfc much mortification, that there were one or two things about the church, which sadly needed attention, but that although he knew his parishioners meant well, these matters seemed to slip their minds from week to week. “The window behind the pulpit is sadly in want of repair," the gentleminister explained, “and so is the pulpit cushion, In which there Is a larga hole. I mention these matters so that you may be saved annoyance. I hav& learned to stand at one side to avoid the draft from the broken window,, and I refrain from bringing any forceto bear upon the pulpit cushion.” Parson Adams looked at his friend Indulgently, but made no rash promises, simply saying that he had no doubt he should get along all right. On mounting to the pulpit in his friend’s church the next day, however,, he proceeded to electrify the congregation by taking several handfuls of rags out of a piece-bag which he carried with him and deliberately stuffing, them Into the broken panes of the unsightly window. Then proceded calmly with theservice, but when he began his sermon it soon became evident that the pulpit cushion was by no means to be spared at his hands. In some way or other the largest hole in the cushion was worked round until it was well to ths front, and after that, each of three emphatic thumps from Parson Adams’ vigorous hands, as he expounded his Ideas, sent a shower of feathers floating down over the heads of the deacons and their families In the front pews. The next Sunday, when the gentleparson resumed his charge, there were no broken panes in the window behind him, and the pulpit cushion had a brave new cover.

Suspicious.

During a period of political agitation a stranger arrived in Magdeburg* where, on applying to the authorities* he obtained a permit or ticket of residence. He had not been long in the town before he became aware that his. steps were being dogged by a man in blue uniform. He bore it for days* but at last said to the spy: "Sir, do you wish to drive me mad? Why do you pursue me in this way?” “I am a detective, and my instructions are not to lose sight of you,’” was the quiet answer. "Why, what fault have the police to find with me?" shouted the stranger In the greatest excitement. “My passport 4s in order. Here is my ticket of residence. I am a citizen of Berlin. Why do you follow me about?’” * “It states in your passport,” waa the reply, “that you were going to reside here for pleasure. That looked suspicious, as it is the first time any one came to reside in Magdeburg for pleasure.”

A New Speeies.

“Ma,*” said clever Willie as he came home from school “my teacher in arithmetic lis a woman with a serpent’s tongue.” "Willie, hour can you speak so of Miss Smith?’’ remonstrated his mother.- - . ‘ - “Well,” retorted Willie, “you know she’s an adder.” —Baltimore American. When a woman calls with bundles In her arms, the children are so fascinated with wondering what is la them that they can’t ieavs the room.