Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

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.