Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Every Day Except Sunday. HEALEY & CLARK, Fabllshers. —' -h >■••••—.7;--_• f-v RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

No man ever yet got sunstroke from "keeping the snow off the walks. After this strenuous winter is over let Medicine Hat be sent to the cleaners. ■ _2 How about pemmican? Can't it be utilized for the purpose of reducing the cost of living? ■■ . Lots of men would go back to the soli if they had farms to go to and automobiles to take them. Count Boni is asking the Pope to grant him a divorce and it is supposed that he has found a new victim. Raymond Duncan, the Hoplite, says clothes cause immorality. The bills for them are frequently productive of crimes. Mr. Rockefeller is a source of light second only to the sun, yet interviewers complain that they find him anything but Illuminating. _ r _ The restriction of the sale of artificial diamonds Is likely to interfere with the brlliancy of some of the musical comedy productions. A Jerseyman won’t permit any flying over his property. This may go for aviators, but who is going to make the mosquitoes observe it? Bibles have gone up in price, a New Tork publishing house announces/ It will soon be so that we cannot afford to keep but eight of the commandments. A man is seeking a divorce because his wife has not spoken to him for five years. Walt. Perhaps he has reason to believe she intends to break her long silence. The author of a popular song has been compelled to apply for admission to a New Jersey poorhouse. His fate coud not have been harder if he had written real poetry. We are glad to be able to report that if this country gets into a tariff war with Germany it will become more' difficult than it is at present to secure harmonicas and concertinas.

We should like to know what a slmoleon Is. —Charleston News and Courier. A slmoleon is a meg, a plunk, a bone, a case, a buck, and —you don’t know what a slmoleon is? Suffering Spondullx! What appalling ignorance! Eveybody knows that doctors give less medicine than they used to. Nevertheless, It Is a little surprising to learn that the cost of medicine per patient In the Massachusetts General Hospital Is less than one-third what it was fifteen years ago, although the price of most drugs has risen in that time. The “biggest” comes along with increasing frequency, especially In the engines of war. The largest and most powerful gun ever made for the United States navy was tested the other day. It Is fifty-three -feet long, has a four-teen-lnch bore, and weighs sixty-three tons. Each discharge costs 1500, and its shell, which weighs fourteen hundred pounds, is expected to pierce battle-ship armor eleven inches thick at a distance of fourteen miles. Scenery is a crop the value of which to the acre no one has yet' figured out. Considering the ease with which the crop is harvested, the return is tremendously high. The value of the summer resort business of New England has lately been given as between fifty and sixty million dollars a year, which is much greater than the annual output of all the silver mines in the country. It is evident that “scenery” does “pay.” The trouble is that not every soil can produce it, not even with irrigation. . Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt has decided to drive his coach between London and Brighton again during the coming season. “I intend to drive myself,” Mr. Vanderbilt explains, “except Saturdays and Mondays, when my friend Vanderhorst Koch will be the whip. We earnestly hope Vanderbilt Koch will prove an efficient whip. It would be distressing if Mr. Vanderbilt were compelled to do the driving every day and thus be robbed of the week-end rest that gentleman coachdriving seems to make so necessary. For generations Xmerica has been busily seizing upon the opportunities provided It by nature to increase its wealth. Nature has been free-handed, and so has man. Extravagance has become the characteristic of the age. But there are clear signs that a change must come. Economy is necessary. The Harvard professor who says that our trbuble with food prices is not so much that of “the high cost of living” as “the cost of high living” speaks the truth. His proposed diet •of mush, cocoa and a few other cheap and wholesome foods may not be very attractive as a permanent thing, but even a limited use of it would mean great saving. The lecturer who talked at the University of Wisconsin on "The Grocery Bill, and How to Keep" ft Down” was in touch with the spirit of the future. Economy is needed in the preparation of foods as well as in

their selection. In the last two or three years the tireless cooker has come into slight use, and this is in a way surprising, considering the hard fate which befell Edward Atkinson’s Aladdin oven when he introduced it with high hopes for the economies which would result from it In steam-heated flats people can cook many kinds of food by merely placing them on the radiators, but most people scorn the economy. All that must be changed. Economy in consumption Is bound to proceed as the reverse side of that economy In the productive use of our farming resources which James J. Hill so persistently and so wisely advocates.

"Speaking of the severe floods in France, Germany and Switzerland," said the amateur scientist, "I can tell you the reason for their occurrence. It is the succession of terrible earthquake shocks, beginning several years ago with Mont Pelee In the West Indies, and including the destructive quakes of San Francisco and Italy. These explosions throw up clouds of dust which reach Into the upper stratum of the atmosphere, the fine partides remaining up for years. These particles cause congelation of moisture and Induce heavy rains, which are liable to fall upon any portion of the earth’s surface.’’ This theory Is perhaps as good as another. It is certain that rains and snows have fallen In unusually liberal quantities In many parts of the world in the past five or six years. Severe floods have occurred in widely separated localities and at widely varying Intervals. If will be found that In our own country the banks of lakes and river courses have run unusually full. The stage of water has averaged higher. It will be remembered that some ten years ago drouth conditions were prevalent and wide-spread. The change is on the whole beneficial, although considerable damage has been done by floods. But the beneficent effect of abundance of moisture on crops has more than compensated. Perhaps this Is an answer to the question, Why are earthquakes? The ways of nature are mysterious and past finding out. When conditions recede from the normal, as in the case of long-continued drouth, she has to do something Violent to restore the equilibrium. And in the perturbations somebody Is bound to get hurt. The same Is true in all intellectual and moral and political movements. It seems to be alaw of the universe that no progress can be obtained without some disturbance and more or less suffering. The human race is obliged to pay a certain price for whatever good it gets. Agitation, whether In the material or spiritual world, is symptomatic of progress, and if we would enjoy Its benefits we must manfully endure its hard knocks.

POSTOFFICE SECBETS.

They Are Revealed at Denver In Effort to Improve Conditions. The use of private letter boxes of the Denver post office by young girls and women has been restricted by the raising of rents from $1 to $2 in each case. Most of the women have used these boxes to ply their trades along lines that require secrecy. Scores of schoolgirls have been using them to conduct a clandestine correspondence, which in many cases has led to their downfall. It was learned that one girl would rent a box and then permit a number of schoolgirls of her own age to have mail addressed there under fictitious names. Business men and professional men tried in vain to rent boxes, but because they had been engaged by women or girls could not engage them. Girls have been known to come to the offices with notes pretending to be signed by their mothers, engaging boxes for them, while as a matter of fact it was part of a plot hatched by schoolgirls of impressionable age. All sorts of methods were devised to get rid of them, and all having proven failures, the raise in the rents of the boxes was hit upon The revised list starting out on the new year shows that many of those who had rented boxes for several years past were miffing from the rolls. Federal officers believe that it was fright in a good many cases, the renters fearing a general movement against them, the first step being the raise in rents.

American Women.

A favorite fling of the French at the English has always been that the latter are a nation of shopkeepers. An Englishwoman has called Americans “a nation of housekeepers.” During a visit to this country she was struck by the fact that so many American women of means and refinement either "do their own work” or actively superintend the domestic arrangements, taking a pride in this duty. Our friend was surprised to learn that “an American woman will spend the forenoon in cooking or dusting or cleaning, then dress herself like a duchess and sally forth to the meeting of a fashionable club where she is to read a learned paper, like as not, or else call a carriage and make a round of social calls. And her standing does not seem to be implied in the least by the fact that during part of the day she has done the work of a menial nor has it affected her own personal attractiveness.” No other woman has done so much as the American to emphazise the dignity of labor. —Housekeeper. We heard a woman say to-day: “I have my faults, but I am ap good as any woman who chews gum on the streets.” L_ kick about, he buys a gold brick.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR

Cold Weather Skin Trouble*. It is natural that persons with delicate, thin skins should suffer more or less discomfort in the winter; and when to a delicate skin is added a poor general circulation, the suffering may become a serious matter.

Much may be done to reduce this suffering to a minimum, in the case of persons who are not obliged to expose themselves to the elements in all weather, and even those who are much 'exjx>sed may help their condition by observing a few simple rules. The greatest annoyance in damp, cold countries—in England, especially —is the chilblain. In most parts of America the very cold weather is also dry, and this particular horror does not flourish. The hands and feet are the parts1 most generally affected by chilblain, which is a sort of miniature frost-bite. The intolerable itching which is associated with It Is one of the most trying symptoms. It often Leads to such vigorous scratching that the skin is broken, and ulceration results. But with the warm and dry American domicile there need not be great fear of this particular form of skin trouble.

Some persons always develop skin troubles In a prolonged spell-of very qold weather, and all very delicate skins will suffer from harsh and biting cold winds. Persons who are subject to any form of eczema are especially liable to an attack In cold weather. There are many simple precautions which no one of ordinary intelligence should neglect. Take, for example, the simplest form of all cold weather skin bothers—chapped hands. Many persons will say, “My hands always chap dreadfully in cold weather,” and if cross-examined these same' people seem to regard the chapping as an inevitable condition from which there is no escape. Let such persons try the following simple treatment: Never wash the hands in very cold or very hot water. Use a simple, pure, superfatted soap, dry very thoroughly, and apply some emollient—the old-fash-ioned glycerin and rose water will often work as well as anything. In some cases it will be better not to use soap in any form and to substitute oatmeal. The hands should always be well covered when in the open air. If to this is added proper exercise, in order that the circulation may be good, there will be no chapped hands. The same rules apply to the face and to the skin generally—thorough protection by the clothing, care in bathing, with the use of an emollient all the time, and a good general circulation. —Youth’s Companion.

HEIGHT OF WAVES.

Average 20 Feet, Although «Tops ping Sea*” of GO Are Known. Measurements and estimates from mariners and observers at sea indicate that the average height of su, the waves running in a gale in the open ocean is about twenty feet, but the height of theindividual waves is often found to vary in the proportion of one to two, says the Scientific American, and there is, in fact, in a fairly regular sea a not inconsiderable range of size among the waves. In any statement that we may make as to the size of waves in a gale on the ocean we should not neglect the mention of the larger waves that occur at fairly frequent intervals. These, which may be termed the ordinary maximum waves, are perhaps what seamen really refer to when they state the size of the waves met with during a storm at sea. “About forty feet” is a common estimate of the height of the larger waves in a severe gale on the North Atlantic, and this estimate is really not incompatible with a recorded average of a little more than twenty feet. It is difficult to say what may be the greatest height of the solitary or nearly solitary waves that are from time to time reported by mariners. The casual combination of the numerous independent undulations running on the sea presumably sometimes produces two or three succeeding ridges or two or three neighboring domes of water of considerably greater dimensions than those of the, ordinary maximum waves of a storm. Although these large cumulative waves may be frequently produced, yet they will be comparatively seldom observed, because so small a fraction of the ocean’s surface is at one time under observation. There are seemingly reliable accounts of cases in which these “topping seas” have reached the height of sixty feet.

ANCIENT COPPER MINE.

Deposit* Fonnd hy Phoenician* Near Gibraltar 3,000 Years Ago. The most ancient copper mine in the world is the Rio Tinto, in Spain. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians found just beyond Gibraltar extensive deposits of copper ore, says the New York Times. Copper was one of the most desired metals of those days, and the Phoenicians, skillful artificers, set to extracting it. When their sea trade was usurped by Carthaginians several centuries later ore from the mine was carried _to the various ancien t trading ports. When Carthage fell, the

Romans took possession and worked the Rio Tinto for centuries. Then came Goths, and later Moors, digging more gold out of the Iberian mountain side. When Ferdinand and Isabella drove the Moors out of Spain the crown took possession of the Rio Tinto mine; and leased It from time to time to adventurers from various countries of Europe; in the seventeenth century It was leased to a Swede and later to a Frenchman; In the eighteenth century to a company of Englishmen. During the French invasion the mine was abandoned to be reopened by the crown about 100 years ago. In 1873 English bankers offered a good round price, and the Spanish government turned the property over to them; a public company was formed and the shares offered investors. The yearly output was enormously_ increased, and since the English took possession some $30,000,000 worth of copper has been mined. In 1906 and 1907 dividends of $10,000,000 were declared, the largest ever paid by any copper mine in the world. The steam shovel has added generations to the life of Rio Tinto. As the property has been entered deeper and deeper the ore has become poorer—rich ores were all extracted years ago. Six years since, when the owners were puzzling over mining the low-grade ore at a profit, along came an American with an idea. A few steam shovels, he showed, would do the work of thousands of Spanish miners, and even though the miners were paid only 6 cents a day steam shovels would save much money. The English timidly sent to the states for two shovels; now American shovels are grunting and snorting all over Rio Tinto, within sight of the old slag piles of the Romans, Carthaginians and Phoenicians.

KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED.

But Did Not Know Exactly How to Ask for. It. "Next to a street car, perhaps, the best place to study humanity is a public library,” said a young librarian of the Drexel Institute, according to the Philadelphia Record. “Librarians have to be mind readers, bureaus of information and depository of family secrets all in one. One day last week a rather nice-looking woman came to me and said: “Will you give me a nice book on hygiene?’ Thinking I was going to aid a soul struggling after light I fished out the best authority I could find on that subject. She took It to one of the side tables, and I saw her scanning page after page, studying the index with deep frowns on her face, but looking altogether despairing. "By-and-by, she came to me and said: ‘This won’t do, I am afraid. Have you got a book on dermatology?’ ‘Dermatology?’ I repeated. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘A book that tells all about the face.’

"From some of the dark, unexplored recesses I did bring out a book that dealt wtih facial massage, facial blemishes and kindred subjects. ‘This won’t do at all,’ she said, after she had pored over it in the same manner as she had pored over the hygiene. “ ‘What on earth are you looking for anyhow?’ I ventured to question at last. ‘Why,’ she said, ‘I—I am just looking for a recipe for cold cream.’ ’’

STORY OF INK STAIN.

One Caused by Archibald Forbes Attributed to Napoleon’s Rage. Pens and furniture used in the signing of famous treaties and documents recall Archibald Forbes’ experience after Sedan, the London Chronicle says. After witnessing Napoleon’s interview with Bismark at a wayside cottage and his Subsequent surrender, Forbes and a fellow war correspondent slept at the chateau which the fallen emperor had occupied the night before. The bedroom was just as Napoleon had left it and by the bed the open book with which he had read himself to sleep. It was Lytton’s "Last of the Barons.” Sitting at the ..adjoining writing table Forbes wrote his dispatches, while his companion gnawed at a hath bone, their sole remainder of food. Irate at the little eating it furnished, he flung it across the room and upset the Inkstand into which Forbes was dipping. ♦ ♦ * When Forbes revisited the chateau a month or so later the ink stain was pointed out as caused by Napoleon’s rage on learning the German terms of peace.

From the Sent of the Scornful.

Jack and Joey at the menagerie watched the lion eat sugar from the trainer’s hand with equal Interest but differing inference. “Oh!" gasped Joey, round-eyed. “Pooh!” said Jack. “I could do that.” “What! You?” “Of course! QuQe as well as that old lion.”

Bather’s Warning.

Landlady (to lodger)—Are you in the bath, sir? Voice (between the splashes)—Yes. What d’you want? Landlady—l forgot to tell you I had it fresh-painted inside last night, sir, and it won’t be dry for two or three days!—Punch.

A Dreary Failure.

•‘Yes, my life is a failure.” “Oh, Henry, how sad! Why should you say that?” "I spend all my time making money enough to buy food and clothes, and the food disagrees with me and my clothes don’t fit.” “I have the automobile fever,” said a man to-day, "but fear I will die of it” (Chart. —Can’t buy one.)

DANGEROUS THINGS TO HANDLE.

Article* or Dally Vae Which May Bo a Peril to Human Life. , . ..Thousands of. people are handling certain articles dally without any Idea of their dangerous nature. The ordinary soda water siphon, for instance, Is a bomb, and an exceedingly powerful one to boot, charged, as It frequently Is, up to a pressure of between 130 and 160 pounds. A child who dropped one of these dangerous ; contrivances in the street the other day was almost as shockingly mangled by the resultant explosion as was M. von Plehve, the assassinated Russian Minister of the Interior, by the dynamite bomb thrown by the Anarchist Porzonef. The large celluloid combs, again, which ladies are so fond nowadays of wearing in their hair, will, if accidentally brought into contact with a naked light, burst into flame of explosive violence. Nor is this tb be greatly wondered at, seeing that one of the ingredients to celluloid is guncotton, while another is camphor, than which is no more Inflammable substance known te chemists. lodide of nitrogen, for instance, which is frequently prescribed in combination. with other drugs, is a highly explosive chemical, and accidents have happened over and over again through its incautious handling by persons ignorant of its dangerous properties. Ticture of iron and diluted aqua regia, again, a mixture often prescribed as a tonic, gives oft an explosive gas’ which has been known to shatter the Wrongest vessels. Chloride of potash lozenges are highly dangerous if accidentally brought into contact with an unlighted phosphorus match. Chloral hydrate and sal volatile, the favorite nerve tonic, become, under certain conditions, as deadly as dynamite. The spontaneous explosive combustion of a box of oxide of silver pills has ere now caused fatal injury to their unfortunate possessor. Bicarbonate of potash, a common remedy for flatulence, will cause a dangerous explosion if accidentally mixed with subnitrate of bismuth. Ordinary spirits of wine is a substance possessing tremendous perils. A pint of it if suddenly ignited will produce the very same destructive effects as three or four pounds’ weight of gunpowder. This has been proved on many different occasions. Once at the Royal Surrey County Hospital a clergyman rashly threw a small quantity on to a “snapdragon” dish, around which a number of choir boys were gathered. The resultant explosion killed one unfortunate lad and severely injured several others. — Pearson’s Weekly.

The Story of a Turtle’s Meal.

A butterfly hunter tells the following story of swamp life: • “In the water right between my feet was a spotted turtle that had just captured an appetizing but by no means dainty morsel. This was a terrapinlikp bug that was more than a mouthful. His body was already out oft sight, but clawlike legs protruded from both sides of that isoceles triangle which a turtle’s mouth makes when it is closed and waved a frantic farewell to the passing underwater world. The turtle was a long time in masticating his terrapin, but it was a happy time. His whole body blinked contentedly, and he waved his fore legs with a caressing outpush, a motion exactly like that of a child at the breast. Then he wagged his head solemnly from side to side, as a wise turtle might who feels that such good lunches are put up by fate only for the knowing ones of this watery world, and pushed himself halfway under the roots of a tussock for a nap.”

Little Willie Knew.

Little Willie, the son of a Germantown woman, was playing one day with the girl next door when the latter exclaimed: "Don’t you hear your mother calling you? That’s three times she’s done so. Aren’t you going in?” "Not yet,” responded Willie imperturbably. “Won’t she whip you?" demanded the little girl, awed. “Naw!” exclaimed Willie in disgust. She ain’t goin’ to whip nobody! She’s got company. So, when I go in, she’ll just say, ‘The poor little man has been so deaf since he’s had the measles!’” —Lippincott’s.

No Words Waited.

Nora was a treasure of a servant, whose habit of speech was often indirect, but was frequently picturesque and unexpectedly expressive. One evening “the master” was sitting in the library when the doorbell rang. Nora answered it, and on her return through the hall “the master" inquired who it was. ‘ “It was a young man, sor,” replied Nora. * "Well, what did He want?" was the question. “Ob, he was just lookin’ for the wrong number, sor.” Lippincott’s Magazine.

Not Too Blind.

Angelina—Oh, dear! The diamond in my engagement ring has got a ffyw in it. Edwin—Take no notice, darling. Love should be blind, you know. Angelina—Yes, but it hasn’t got to be stone blind.

Effects of Lightning.

Lightning kills one-half of tMose it strikes, while a few of the survivors are rendered blind, deaf, dumb or pa> daily paralyzed.

AFTER FOURYEARS OF MISERY

Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Baltimore, Md. —“For four year® iny life was a misery to me. I suffered

given me, and I am recommending it to all my friends.”—Mrs. W. 8. Ford,. 2207 W. Franklin St., Baltimore, Md. The most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It has stood the test of years and to-day is more widely and successfully used than, any other female remedy. It has cured thousands of ipmen who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had failed. If you are suffering from any of thes» ailments, don’t give up hope until you have given Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound a trial. If you would like special advicewrite to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn. Mass., for it. She has guided thousands to health, free of charge.

They’re All Good.

Burne-Jones, the famous artist, mademany sketches for the children of his triend, J. Cornyns Carr. He oncelaughingly proposed to instruct the eldest boy in the principles of anatomy, and there and then made for him two beautiful drawings representing the anatomy of the good man and the good woman, in both of which theheart, magnificently large, winged and backed by spreading flames, is the central detail.

By special request he made irawlng, illustrating the anatomy of the bad man. On being met with the reproach that the third drawing showed nothing of the details of internal structure, he replied: “There are none. The bad man is juite hollow.”

On being challenged to illustrate the inatomy of the bad woman, he gravely replied: “My dear boy, she doesn’t exist.”

The Retort Erudite.

A famous scholar, whose hobby was the derivation of words, had occasion ’to store his furniture while proceeding to the continent in quest of the origin of the term “juggins. During his researches in Berlin he received from the warehouse company the following letter: "Sir—We have the lonor to inform you that the mattrass you sent to our store had the moth In it. Since the epidemic would expose the goods of other clients to injury, we have caused your mattrass to be destroyed.” The scholar replied: "Dear Sir— My mattress may, as you say, have had moth in it, but I am confident that it had an ‘e’ in it also.”—London King.

SHE QUIT.

But It Was a Hard Pull. It is hard to believe that coffee will put a person in such a condition as it did an Ohio woman. She tells her own story: “I did not believe coffee caused my trouble, and frequently said I liked it so well I would not, and could not quit drinking it, but I was a miserable sufferer from heart trouble and nervous prostration for four years. “I was scarcely able to be around, had no energy and did not care for anything. Was emaciated and had a constant pain around my heart until I thought I could not endure it. For months I never went to bed expecting to get up in the morning. I felt as though I was liable to die at any line. ."Frequently I had nervous chills and 'he least excitement would drive sleep away, and any little noise would upset me terribly. I was gradually getting worse Until finally one time it came over me and I asked myself what’s the use of being sick all the time and buying medicine so that I could indulge myself in coffee? "Bo I thought (I would see if I could quit drinking coffee and got some Postum to help me quit. I made it strictly according to directions and I want to tell you, that change was the greatest step in my life. It was easy to quit coffee because I had the Postum which I now like better than the old coffee. “One by one the old troubles left, until now I am in splendid health, nerves steady, heart all right and the pain all gone. Never have any more nervous chills, don’t take any medicine, can do all my housework and have done a great deal besides.” Read “The Road to Wellville,” pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full es human interest.

from irregularities, terrible dragging sensations, extreme nervousness, and that all: gone feeling in my stomach. I had given up hope of ever being well when I began totake Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable* Compound. Then I felt as though new life had been.