Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1910 — Page 2

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Tha teat trust didn’t order Uu roast ft la setting. ▲ weather prophet la pretty wall satisfied If he comes close to hitting tha bull's-eye. The wife of the trading stamp king has been given an absolute divorce, without trading stamps. Perhaps Dr. Cook has taken the broad ground that it Is useless to argue after one has the money. How large Is Nicaragua? Placed on a map of Texas it would occupy about as much relative space as a bean on a biscuit Irving Fisher, professor of political economy at Tale, says the gold market Is glutted. Have you turned away any gold this morning? Carrie Nation says she has declined two offers of marriage within the past month, which shows that she Is not necessarily severe on all men. Peary thinks Roosevelt would be a good man to send out for the purpose of discovering the south pole. No, the former President has too many friends. The price of diamonds is advancing. We understand that this Is due to the fact that so many farmers are refusing to have any but diamondstudded automobiles. Flint, MJch., Is now on the map In large letters. Its postal receipts show a larger increase than any other city In the United States, Its closest competitor being Seattle. A Jury has decided that after a traveler has paid his hotel bill the landlord cannot be held responsible for baggage that may have been stolen. Don’t pay till you are ready to depart. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, has attained a height of 4,000 feet with his aeroplane. Why this eagerness to go so high? The damage would probably be just as great if one fell a mere 2,000 feet Speaking from experience, a Chicago drummer, who has been oh the road for twenty-two years, says anybody can sell goods everybody wants, but it tskes a real salesman to dispose of something that everybody ought to want More than 7,000 people residing upon a Paris street have petitioned that Its name be changed. Since the sixteenth century it has been known as the Rue des Mauvais-Garcons Bad Boys* « d tip name no longer fits, or fltg too well, ls~not made plain in the petition. « « - -■=* Carefui search of the Prussian archives fails to produce any proof that Frederick the Great ever presented to George Washington a sword with a complimentary inscription concerning the eldest general in the world and the greatest. The tradition is a venerable one—almost as venerable and apparently as untrustworthy as that of the famous hatchet.

The rapid tendency of the times at the present period Is toward centralisation of power in all forms of political, commercial and social life. How long this tendency will maintain is a question. In former epochs there has been manifested the same force among mankind, inevitably followed by dissolution, dispersion, division and then, again, the renewal of the power of centralization. Boston has lately held an exhibition devoted to the future—a display of what the city is now and what it is hoped to marke it in 1915. One of the most notable portions of it was contributed by the churches. Catholics, Protestants and Jews worked together in the production of it, and those who question the vitality of the Christian religion .in present times found therein an answer to their queries. The exhibit included a model of the tent system of treating tuberculosis, maintained by Emmanuel Church, the Salvation Army rescue work, the looms of the Morgan Memorial, methods of relieving conditions in the slums, the history of the development of charities and educational work carried on by churches. The most vigorous critics of the churches, unfortunately, do not attend church services, and therefore do not know how eminently practical is a great deal of the work which religious organizations are now doing. Will the Bird-Man drive the birds from their kingdom of the air? It is reported from France that wherever the aeroplane soared, there occurred an exodus of feathered life. Wild ducks, discovering the huge Bird-Men, manifested terror and disappeared from the region. The possibility that wild fowl will grow accustomed to aeroplanes as do horses to motorcars, may he dismissed. They do not grow accustomed to eagles and hawks. Nor will they see aeroplanes every day, as bones do motorcars, since wild fowl cron the temperate zone only in their annual migrations. Nor can it be expected that bird-intelligence ever will learn that aeroplanes and airships are machines. Whale and shark fight boats on the surface of the water, and if submersible* become numerous, perhaps there will be more encounters in the deepa Nothing whatever has suf-

flood to modify the routes of the birds in their migrations south and north. Traps and guns have not changed those flights. They continue, until the species is exterminated. But will not aerial navies, when they become numerous, chase the songsters and the wild fowl from the sky? As observed, the appearances of the aeroplanes alarm bird-life as nothing else done by man ever did. If a duck, hit by shot, drops from the flock, that is an accident of life, the duck intelligence considers. But the advent of a creature with the wings of a dragon the duck holds to be a supernatural and devilish event. Will our skies be depopulated by flying machines? Is man to have the kingdom of the air 'to himself, as he has that of the land? Our grandmothers could have related the biography of every garment they habitually wore. From the stockings knitted by their own hands to the homespun from their own looms, or the silk gown made up by the visiting seamstress, each piece of clothing had Its own domestic history. Today all that is changed. Scarcely any farmer’s wife could give account of her various garments. Where were her stockings woven or her corsets stitched? In what garret were the buttons sewed on her percale wrapper? In what great Tactory was her shirtwaist cut out? In what distant city was the machinery which shaped her shoes? What New York tailor determined the lines of her serviceable ready-made suit? These questions and a score of similar ones would be posers for the average woman the country over. Since women have escaped responsibility for the making pf many of the family garments, they have ceased to be Interested workers on those garments. These , have become mere impersonal “hands,” and their weariness or hunger or cold, their Insufficient wages or unhealthful conditions, are too remote for the imagination to deal with. But the conscientious woman Is beginning to realize that her own ease must not be purchased by indifference to another’s pain. She must find new ways to establish the personal sympathy between worker and buyer which ought to be one of the most fundamental and helpful of human relations. Unless she does so, some truth-telling poet will fling out another scathing arraignment which, like Hood’s “Song of the Shirt,” shall rouse the reader to the misery of the underpaid and overworked, by the toil of whose fingers we to-day are comfortably clothed.

PHONOGRAPHIC CASH REGISTER

SAYS “THANK YOU.”

A cash register that announces the amount of a sale in human voice, as well as registering the figures, has been devised by a Minnesota inventor. When the keys are touched for a sale of, say, |1.65, certain phonographlo reproducers are released and the machine sings out, “One-six-flve.” Such expressions as “Thank you,” or "I think you will find these goods satisfactory,” may be added to the announcement of the sale.—Popular Mechanics.

A Hard Worker.

The eccentric proprietor of a large newspaper In London had a way of appearing In the composing and press rooms at the most unexpected times, and as his visits often resulted In a general shakeup of the working forces of the paper they were awaited with fear and trembling by the employes. One time one of the pressmen, an excellent workman, who had been there many years, but was sometimes guilty of a lapse of sobriety, had a black eye and was in a quandary as to what excuse he should offer if the proprietor noticed It. By a sudden inspiration he seized an ink roller and daubed some ink on his face, quite covering the discoloration. Presently the governor came in and, with the foremap, went through the room, commenting on every detail and looking very 6harply at every workman. When about to leave he suddenly pointed to the Inky pressman and said, "What Is that man's name?” The man quaked In his shoes until he heard the governor continue slowly: “I want you to give that man 6 shillings a week more wages. He Is the only man In the room who looks as If he toad been working.”—London Telegraph.

Poorer by Comparison.

Bacon —I see there is about 75 per cent more gold money In the world now than there was ten years ago. Egbert—Well, I haven’t got any more than I ha 3 then, and It makes me feel so much poorer.—Yonkers Statesman. A marriage may surprise every ons else on earth, but the marriage was never pulled off that was a surprise to the woman next door.

Science AND Invention

Alum, according to Adele M. Field, is a perfect preventive of the ravages of moths among woolens. While living In ChiDa she gave this method of protecting clothing a thorough test. The articles should be soaked In a saturated solution of alum for several hours. The fabric is not injured and the colors are not changed. The alum does not evaporate, and the articles thus treated remain moth-proof for years. It is suggested that a pound of crude alum in four quarts of water would make an effective solution for employment by manufacturers of woolen cloth, rugs and carpets. The debt of Industry to science has often, and very properly, been proclaimed; but now the reverse is announced. The National Electric Lamp Association has established at Cleveland a physical laboratory, which the director, Dr. E. P. Hyde, declares has for its object the development of science rather than the improvement of an industrial commodity. In this respect it differs from the many laboratories that have in recent years been established in connection with large manufacturing concerns. Among the objects of research will be the laws of radiation and the radiant properties of matter, and the effects of light and its attendant phenomena on the eye, the skin, and microscopic organisms. A corps of investigators is being formed. A female alligator four and a half feet long, species Alligator Mlsslsslppiensis, was recently captured in central Oklahoma, in a bayou of the South Canadian River. H. H. Lane, of the University of Oklahoma, believes that the animal had traveled up the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Canadian, and thence to Ihe point where it was found, a distance of some 350 or 400 miles west of the ArkansasOklahoma State line. The Canadian River is not navigable, and during most of the year is only a small meandering creek In a wide valley. The alligator had been in the neighborhood at least three years before Its capture. Its skeleton is now in the university museum, where the lone traveler is also commemorated by a life-like model. There are three black fox farms near Atherton, Prince Edward’s Island, where these animals are raised for their skins. These farms contain twenty, twenty-five and thirty foxes respectively. The skins are sold in London at prices ranging from SSOO to SI,BOO each, according to quality. The fur is used for ornamenting the cloaks of royalty, as it is the only fur to which gold will cling. One farm is on an island, another in a rough, broken woods country, where the animals are confined by heavy woven-wire netting. The wire Is set in the ground two or three feet, in order to keep the foxes from burrowing under, and is about eight feet high above ground, with a curve inwardly at thq top of each post of another three or four feet of wire, sh order to keep them from climbing over the fence. They sleep in the open the year round, in hollow trees and in hollow logs. They are fed principally on oats and milk and bread and milk, with a small quantity of cooked meat once a day at noon, the amount of meat being lessened during the summer. These animals are very wild, and no one can get near—them except the keeper and he only when he brings them food.

DR. WILEY’S ADVICE.

Food Expert Sara We Have Mach to Learn from the French. Of late much has been written and Bald in regard to the economy of French cooks, and even Prof. H. W.

H. W. WILEY.

without doubt one of the greatest living food specialists. "If we are really In earnest about this matter of saving in the cost of living, we might take a few lessons from the French cooks who use up all the ‘left overs,’ ” says Dr. Wiley. “The average American cook throws away as mu,ch as he or she uses first hand. With the French chef the ’left Overs’ make more appetizing meals than the meats and vegetables do when cooked first time. They make the daintiest croquettes, stews, ragouts and sauces out of little bits of things that are tossed into the garbage pail by the American cook, and thereby save half their food bill. Nothing is wasted with the French chef, not even the bread crumbs, or the celery tops, or the apple peelings. Every last scrap of fat is saved for frying purposes, and Instead of buying the best and" most expensive cuts of meat, the French expert buys that which Is cheapest and by clever cooking makes it as tempting as the dearest'. Our cooks as a class under-estimate the value of me cheaper cuts of meat. These are Just as wholesome, just as nourishing as the higher-priced portions, and when prepared as they should be taste as well. “A 10-cent soup bone will give plen'y of meat flavor to half a bushel of potatoes. 801 llt with the pdfUoes, an.l after the potatoes are done, take them

Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, Department of Agriculture, has felt called upon to make a few remarks on the sub-, ject. Surely American housemothers should profit by advice which comes from so eminent a man and

out and make a gravy of the water ‘f you do not wish to use It as soup. In fact, you can make both soup and gravy enough for a big family from that 10-cent soup bone, and all that 1* needed to do it is a little flour tor thickening, pepper and salt, and; judgment on the part of the cook.

GAINS FROM “WHITE COAL.”

Switzerland’* Advantages Throngk Water Power Are Innumerable. The freeing of the little republic from dependence upon the coal fields of Germany, thei reduction in the operating costs of the state-owned railroads and the city-owned street railways, the placing of Switzerland in a position of industrial advantage, are not the greatest gains which are to follow the development of its water power, says Frederic C. Howe in the Outlook. Possibly these are but the spectacular exhibits of what a country can do when it consciously alms to use its resources for the benefit of the people. These gains do not include the dreams which men have of the life and civilization which are to follow frpm this revolution in light, power and possibly heat as well. They do not include the freedom from drudg-, ery, the opportunity for culture and enlightenment, the brightening of farm life, of the woman as well as the man. Nor do they suggest the possibilities of a cheap rapid transportation, by means of which the farmer may become a city dweller and the clerk and the mechanic obtain a country home and both remain in close contact with work. For the problem of energy is the production of civilization and, with its costs reduced to a minimum, there are no limits to the visions which men may have of the society of tomorrow. Compare this achievement of Switzerland with the prodigal waste of the resources of America. Niagara has been abandoned to private exploitation without compensation to the state or nation and with no idea of service to the people. Only profits have fattened and monopoly made that much more secure. The Susquehanna, upper Mississippi, the mountain streams of Colorado, Wyoming and the middle west, as well as of the entire Pacific slope, have been inclosed with fraudulent claims or confirmed by grants In perpetuity to the electric-power trust. There has been no reservation of control over prices, no right to purchase by the state and no appreciable gain to the community. We, too, could boycott coal and light tjie nation and fire its boilers with the water power with which nature has endowed us; but the sovereignty of the state and the well being of the people have been abandoned at the behests of the powerful interests whose demands have been voiced in Congress and the Legislatures of our states by those who were sent there to represent the community.

NOVEL HOUSE-MOVING.

FORTY KAFFIRS CARRY A HUT.

The quaint photograph heTe} reproduced was sent to the Wide World by a South African reader, who writes as follows: “This photograph was taken at Ginginhlovu, Zululand, and is a striking instance of the makeshifts one is compelled to fall back upon in the wilds. The house seen in the picture had to be moved about 200 yards, and, in default of any other means of transport, it was finally picked up bodily by a gang of forty Kaffirs, and, with much shouting and yelling, removed to its new site, where it is now used as an office by the local trader.”

The Beat Man.

Do you know how “the best man,” who plays so important a part In marriages that have any pretense to De fashionable, once upon a time in Sweden occupied a position that was useful as well as ornamental? In olden days the Swedish bridegroom found it desirable, in fact, to have several "best men” to defend him from the assaults of rivals and prevent them from carrying away his bride. The Scandinavian warrior of ancient times was far too lofty in hlB ideas to condescend to plead for a maiden’s hand. So he patiently waited until same other man who was more gallant had obtained the fair one’s consent. Then when all the details had been nicely arranged the proud warrior, with a body of well trained retainers, dashed down on the wedding party and, if strong enough, carried away the bride. The “best men” (and it was very essential that they should be the best men in those days) therefore became necessary fixtures to marriage ceremonies, and they were so well esteemed and their popularity became so permanent that that when the reason for their existence was In course of time removed they were still retained. —Pearson’s Weekly.

A Brute, Indeed.

“He’s a brute!” , "What’s he been doing now?” “I threatened to leave‘him, and he told me he would button my gown up the back If I would hurry.” One of the first telephone exchanges in this country was opened In New Haven in 1178.

BUENOS AYRES.

It Is Now the Fourth City In the Western Hemisphere. According to the census taken on October 22, 1909, the population of the qity of Buenos Ayres was 1,189,662, an increase sincp the census taken on September 18, 1904, of 238,771, or 514 per -cent, per annum. Buenos Ayres continues to be the largest Latin American city, the largest city south of the equator and the fourth city in the two Americas, being only exceeded by New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. If Buenos Ayres maintains the rate of increase of the period 1904-1909 for the next few years, it will contain 1,300,000 people on January 1, 1911, and 2,400 000 in 1924. As the Increase, however, is constantly growing greater, even larger figures may be expected, though a slowly increasing factor may slightly counterbalance this—the development of the city of Bahia Blanoa. Hitherto Buenos Ayres has been the only port of arrival for all the immigrants coming from Europe, who are just beginning to land at Bahia Blanca. This has been one of the main reasons why Buenos Ayres is so much larger than othe^.Argentine cities. Rosario, the next largest, having 174,000 — pie, or slightlv less than one-seventh of the population of the, capital, and why It is also the main -distributing and manufacturing centre. Every other country of settlement has bad at least two separate ports for the reception and distribution of immigrants, while Argentina has only had Buenos Ayres. Though the development of Bahia Blanca must of neeassity be gradual for several years to come, Its natural harbor and other advantages may in twenty or thirty years make it a most formidable rival to the capital, from which it has already wrested the right to 'be called the greatest wheat shipping port of South America.- '

THE UBIQUITOUS CENT.

No Other Denomination Has Undergone So Many Changes. The universal money of the people In this country is the cent. The child does his earliest business thinking' in terms of cents. The hobo holds up the passerby with the request for a few cents to relieve the pangs of hunger. It is the unit of coinage. On the other side of the continent, the contempt for it is rapidly being overcome, and the mints have to take a constantly Increasing demand for it into their reckonings. The appearance of the new Lincoln cent is one of the most interesting additions to. this coinage that has been produced. For practically the first time it substitutes the real for the ideal, or rather the fanciful, but it is evidently Tegarded as something of an experiment, since the proposed 150,000 will not go far towards supplying current needs. —— Perhaps no other monetary denomination has undergone so many changes of design. Since the republic was bom there have been almost annual changes In the character of the cent. Most of these have been trivial, though some have been radical. The cent of 1792 bore a bust of Liberty, with flowing hair, and the legend, " Liberty, Parent of‘Science and Industry.” The next year what was known as the “chain cent” was produced, showing on the reverse a chain with fifteen links. There were many imperfect, dies in those days, but the imperfections have not infrequently . made them more precious to coin collectors. A genuine 1799 cent has 'been among the pieces most prized by the numismatist since they early became very scarce. This was said to toe due to the enterprise of a Salem firm that secured several hundred thousand of them and sent them to the coast of Africa, where punched with holes they were hung as ornaments on the necks of the native®.—Boston Transcript.

Why They See Double.

A scientific writer has given his opinion why drunken men see double. In the first place, it Is essential that the “elevated” party must have two good eyes. No amount of liquor would make a one eyed roan see two half dollars where only one exists. When we wish to see distinctly we adjust the eyes by converging them more or less so that the image falls upon the sensitive point of the retina. If the object is too far off. to enatole us it<> get a distinct image in either eye Lie eyes are so constructed that they can bring the object nearer, or we can by contracting the eye muscles bring the retina nearer the lens, thus getting a clear sight of the object. Bbth eyes may be moved either upward or downward or tp the right .or to the left, but it is impossible to direct one of ithem upward and the other downward. If we converge the eyes so that the two images fall pn the sensitive point of the corresponding retinas we get in the brain a sharp image. If, from anv cause we are not able to move the eyeball® so as !to have this. Image fall squarely on the retina we see double. This seeing double can be caused by temporary or permanent paralysis of the muscles of the eyebal’s: For permanent paralysis there may he any one of several causes. Excessive use of alcohol or tobacco wi’l produce, temporary paralysis. Undethe influence of strong drink the controlling muscles of the eye, like others of the body, are not under command; hence some drunken men stammer,in their speech, others stagger in their walk and others see dou-ble-Philadelphia Inquirer.

ABOUT EARTH’S ENVELOPE.

Layers of Air—CoM and Galea of Hlsk Altitudes. I The new science of the air is the result of many hundred kite and sounding balloon flights made by day and by night in fair weather and foul, over land and sea, at all seasons of the year and from the equator to the arctic circle, an exchange says. Most, people know that the warm air surrounding the earth la only a thin, belt, but we dp not most of us know that at ten miles above the earth it would not only be bitterly cold, but the sun Vould appear quite different. The air is stratified In three more or less distinct layers. In the lowest we live. It extends about two miles and Is a region of turmoil, whimsical winds, cyclones dhd anticyclones. At two miles the freezing point Is reached and then there is a second stratum, extending upward for about another six miles. Here the air grows steads fly colder and drier, the lowest temperature recorded being 167 degrees below freezing point. Here the air moves In great planetary swirls produced by the spinning of the earth on» its axis, so that the wind always blows In the same easterly direction. The greater the height the mors furious is the blast of this relentless gale. After this layer comes the third or Isothermal stratum, discovered almost simultaneously by M. de Bort and Dr. Assmann. This is called ths permanent inversion stratum, becauss the temperature Increases with ths height reached. But the temperatures so far recorded in the second stratum are not high, being far below zeroFahrenheit, generally somewhere from 122 degrees to 140 degrees below it. Here the air no longer swirls In & planetary circle. The wind may blow in a direction contrary to that in ths second layer. And the air invariably is excessively dry. Where this third stratum ends no one knows. But it must be at more than eighteen miles above the earth, for sounding balloons have reached this height and have not found the end of the permanent Inversion layer of air. When the Influence of the upper regions of air upon> the lower is fully understood It may be possible to foretell the weather not merely for a day, but for a week.

AMERICAN SUBMARINE MINE.

OPERATED FROM SHORE.

The type of submarine mine planted by the United States Coast Artillery Corps for blowing up the vessels of the enemy In times of war is showa in this drawing. At the present time ships known as mine planters, with, detachments of troops on board, are busy planting such mines for practice purposes. The .drawing gives an excellent Idea of the mechanism of such, a mine and its manner of discharge by electric current from the Bhore. The>*‘ buoy rising above the surface' of tho water is used to mark the mines.— Popular Mechanics.

Lawyer’s Instinct.

A& barrister noted for absence of mlirP was once witnessing a representation of “Macbeth,” and on the witches replying to the Thane’s Inquiry that they were “doing a deed without a name,” catching the sound of the words, he started up, exclaiming, to the astonishment of the audience: “A deed without a name? Why, it’s void; it’s not worth sixpence.”—’TitBits.

Not Likely to Become General.

Of course it was the daughter of an American millionaire who appeared at London’s famous roller skating rink wearing a pair of heayily Jeweled skates! We should all be terribly disappointed If any other girl had thought of such a thing first! But the Idea Is not likely to be widely Imitated, even among the ultra Tich, which is also a comfort

Had Already Happened.

Fortune Teller—l can read that there Is to be a wreck In your home, and It will. be caused by a blonde woman. Patron —Oh, that has already occurred. Our new Swedish m&ld let the dumb waiter fall and broke all the dishes.

One Instance.

Father —You never heard of a man getting into trouble by following a gbod example. Son—Yes, sir; I have —the counter-feiter.—Tit-Blts. When he Is feeling tough, anyway, and the assessor raises his tax valuation, a man can be about the most disagreeable thing on earth. With most of your friends you treasure up things they do or say offend yon.