Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Every Day Except Sunday. MEALEY fc CIAkK, P B blhher»r RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Th* new Sultan of Turkey must be • good man. He Is never mentioned. As th* price of shoes goes upward At meets scarcely anything worth mentioning coming down. It takes a bold bandit to wreck a train. but it requires a cunning financier to wreck a railroad system. A French scientist claims to have discovered a substitute for beef. Wonder if there are any bones in it? Gold has been discovered In the Congo country. Belgium may as well get ready to turn the Congo over to England. It is said that one Columbia University professor sings in eleven languages. Otherwise his habits are above reproach. The Seine fell five feet in one day, tent that’s nothing. We have heard of men who fell seven stories in less than four seconds. Dr. Wiley says that the only way to tell a fresh egg is to watch the hen lay It Still there s another way almost as sure. Try to eat it Miss Marjorie Gould is going to marry a Philadelphian. This is a more severe blow to the English lords than the Liberals have thus far been able to hand them. Boston theosophists think that young Bidis, Harvard’s mathematical prodigy, la a reincarnation of Pythagoras. Why not go right back to Adam, who was . the original multiplier? City consumers have decided that the farmer is their friend, and the cold storage manipulator their worst enemy. Look at the present prices of butter, eggs, apples, meat, potatoes, etc., etc., etc., etc., they say. The official who wisely refused to accept two months’ salary because he had been out of the city and had not attended to the duties of his position, will never make a politician If he lives 100 years.

King Edward has given orders that Lady Constance Richardson, formerly a dourt favorite, must never again appear before him. Lady Constance has recently been dancing in her bare feet. This is another serious blow to art. Being optimistic we refuse to believ* that the experience of the New York man whose wife refuses to live with him because he had his beard shaved oft will cause other men who have been clinging to whiskers to sacrifice them. The English radicals propose, if they are returned to power, to provide a scheme of insurance against unemployment Dusty Rhodes, Weary Willie, Sauntering Sim, Itinerant Ike may be expectec} to at once become conservatives. The electric fan, which adds much to summer comfort, is far from useless in the winter. Shopkeepers have found that the circulation of air which It creates is the simplest and cheapest way to keep their show windows free from frost An electric fan used to treat* a forced draft in a furnace decreases materially the time necessary to heat the house in the morning, and in winter even more than in summer It may prove a useful adjunct to ventilation. The story of the widow’s cruse of oil Is almost outdone by the experience •f Northwestern University. In 1853 the university bought a tract of land In Evanston, 111., for a campus, and paid twenty-five thousand dollars for it. Several hundred thousand dollars' worth of land haV& been sold from the tract, and the amount left is worth two and a half million dollars. The same year it invested eight thousand dollars in Chicago real estate, and the plot of ground is now worth about two millions. Although the total amount of gifts received has been,, only three millions, the assets of the university now amount to nine millions. If we can only have our souls attuned to the higher things of life and rise above what is sordid and commonplace there will be no difficulty in shuffling off much of what is vulgarly troubling. We will not have to worry about how many of the things which now hold us down to animal planes. A teacher of the better life told her students in New York that physical weariness could be put off until we would divest ourselves of all unnecessary garments, in one’s room, of course, and rest the tips of the fingers on the top of the head, imagining as we do so that that place is the lower end of a cord by which angels ire swinging ub to and fro. It is only among the coarsest organisms, she said, that food or sleep at regular interval* was necessary. A finely attuned parson can easily work eighteen hours without food and be none th* worse for it. This will settle th* cost of food without the aid of congressional commissions. Get yourself Mtfrly attuned and let the trust go In the day of the great metaphysical skeptic, David Hume, psychology, especially the new psychology, was not invented. Nevertheless the Scotchman stated with Asarvsteu lucidity seme

of the laws or fallacies to which the * human mind Is subject, and he showed how upon those fallacies, the superstitions which affright the human imagination are based. Here, for instance, are thousands casually connecting the terrible floods in France with the por- I tent of the comet, although the scien- I fists affirm that the two things are in I no way related. A little of Hume’s . philosophy may.. serve to dispel the frantic fear of the woes the comet will occasion to our planet, even if it does not bump into us at last. -The things that happen in any one instant of time are multltudious. If the human perception Were to be aware of 1 per cent of all the occurrences, the sensatory nerves would be shattered and our brains would go mad. Fortunately we perceive mainly that to which our attention is called, and the phenomena which are inconsequential to us, are not registered by our perception. Therefrom arises the frequent fallacy. Out of a million happenings the mind picks two which It chances to note, and if both are unusual the mind assumes that the two are dependent, the one upon the other. A comet flames into our skies, Paris is drowned in floods. The coincidence must have a meaning, it is not mere chance. Hence the conflict is responsible for the floods. Hume says it is a law of the mind to note the one cofncidence and to disregard the thousand non-colncidences. In a universe wherein a million things are happening at once. It would be passing strange if coincidences did not occur. In fact, they must occur. But coincidence is not cause and effect. If the comet Is responsible for floods in France, it is responsible for the birth of a baby in a Pullman car. A comet roamed the heavens those Ides of March on which great Julius fell, and the superstitious Romans saw in the flaming visitor the departing soul of Caesar. That comet was as truly the soul of Caesar as this comet of ours Is cause of the Seine’s inundations. Comets, as well as planets, suns and all the heavenly host, have other business than materlaizing great men’s souls or bursting Parisian sewers. Life has existed on this planet millions of years. In all that time this sphere has revolved and rotated regularly and never been malignly Influenced by forces out of the void of space. Life’s troubles here have all proceeded from forces within the aerial envelop. The heat and light and electricity that have reached this globe through the etherhave been entirely beneficent. Therefore the probability that Earth will continue unmolested Antil she cools amounts fb" mathematical certainty. Besides, the astronomers assure us that collision with a comet would not scorch the hair of a single creature. t

SIMPLY A MATTER OF CLOTHES.

Involution in the Progress from Flu Leaf to Worth Creation. Would any man, bachelor or benedict—if the latter may be so dignified —have the full significance of evolution brought home to him—rightly appreciate the meaning of human progress? Let him with me meditate a moment upon this awful fact, says Harry Cowell in Smart Set: Laboriously, my brother, have we come, every painful step by the way, from a fig leaf to a creation by Worth! A creation by "Worth contains—ah, my poor brother, what does it not contain? Behold in a creation by Worth all there is of beauty and wonder in the world, and learn by heart how far we have traveled toward perfection. ’Tis, my word for it, a by no means inexpensive education. The man who holds that ther* is nothing in dress, that dress doesn’t amount to anything, must have either a very small imagination or a very large bank account, or both, or else be in that state of blissful ignorance possible only to single blessedness. That dress makes the man. want of it the savage, is untrue. But that Worth makes the woman, want of Worth the fright, is undeniable. And yet that dress, with its concomitant art of concealing art. is the mother of much ugliness, goes without my saying it. Would that, with my saying it, the ugliness might go! A fool and his money are soon parted for clothes for himself; a wise man and his money sooner for clothes for his wife. A wise man’s time being more than money, he knows better than to spend his time in vainly trying to save his money from the thousand and one deft hands that go to the making of the modern woman, whose glory is the work of others.

Who Was Wanted?

It is the custom of many business houses to tell each prospective employe very explicitly exactly what is and what is not expected of him before he takes his new place. Sometimes these directions are printed even in the advertising for help, as in the following instance, taken from a London newspaper: We will pay—so ran the advertise-ment-good wages to first class, live stenographers who will allow our business to come before their sweethearts, theaters and pleasure parties; our hours are from 9 a. m. till 6 p. m., but sometimes we work later; clockwatchers are useless to us.

Maras’ Canais.

Bill—l see a wise astronomer is telling the people that he has noticed some disturbance on Mars. Jill—Perhaps it’s one of thofee canal mules kicking again.—Yonkers Statesman.

Too Fair to Suit.

Hank Btubbs—Ev-rybiyidy orter lay up somethin’ fur a rainy day. Big* Miller—l s’pos* thet’s the roar son they’* so much kickin’ over th* drought—Boston Herald.

Old Favorites

The Sons of Martha. Th* sons of Mary' seldom bother, for they have Inherited that good part. But the sons of Martha favor their mother of the careful soul and the troubled hedrt; And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord, her guest. Her sone must wait upon Mary’s sons, ■world without end, reprieve or rest • It is their care in all the ages to take the buffet and cushion the shock; It is their care that the gear engages; it is their care that the switches lock; It is their care that the wheels run truly; it is their care to embark and entrain, ——S - Tally, transport, and deliver duly the , sons of Mary by land and main. They say to the mountains, “Be ye removed.” They- say' to the lesser floods, "Run dry.” Under their rods are the rocks reproved—they are not afraid of that which is high. Then do the hilltops shake to the summit; then is the bed of the deep laid bare— That the sons of Mary may overcome it; pleasantly sleeping and unaware. They finger death at their glove’s end when they piece and repiece the living wires H* rears against the gates they tend; they feed him hungry behind their fires. » Early at dawn ere men see clear they stumble into his terrible stall. And hale him forth like a haltered steer, and goad and tend him till evenfall. To these from birth Is belief forbidden —from these till death is relief afar.— They are concerned with matters hidden—under the earthline their altars are— The secret fountains to follow up; waters withdrawn to restore -to the mouth. • Yea, and gather the floods as in a cup, and pour them again at a city’s drouth. They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the rivets work loose. They do not teach that His Pity allows them to leave their work whenever they choose. As in the thronged and lightened ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand, Wary and watchful all their days, that * their brethren’s days may be long in the land. Lift ye the stone or cleave the wood, to make a path more fair or flat, Lol it is black already with blood some sons of Martha spilled for that. Not as a ladder from earth to heaven, not as an altar to any creed, But simple service, simply given,’ to his own kind, In their common need. And the sons of Mary smile and are blessed—they know the Angels are on their side; •They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the mercies multiplied. 'They sit at the feet and they hear the Word; they know how truly the promise runs. They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and the Lord He lays It on Martha’s sons. —Rudyard Kipling.

FLOUR MADE OF SAWDUST.

Not Used In Breadmakln*, but for Dynamite and Other Thinks. Flour from sawdust is another step in the movement for the conservation of forest resources. The United States consul at Christiania, Norway, has sent to this government a suggestion along this line which may be of value to American lumbermen who are wrestling with the problem of sawdust waste. The flour in question is not the kind which goes into the making of light, fluffy biscuits, and the other kinds which are not light, or flaky pastry; but it is an Ingredient of dynamite, linoleum, xyolite, which, for the information of the man on the street, is a kind of artificial flooring, and other things. It is not put forward as a new discovery, for it has been in use for several years in Europe, and to a small extent in this country. The wood flour is ground in a cheap mill very similar to those which grind corn and rye. Pine and spruce sawdust is used in Europe, and after pass,ing through the stones and the bolting chest it is sacked or baled for shij>;ment. It is then worth sl2 to sl3 a ton. The flour has a number of uses, one of which is in the making of dynamite. It is the absorbent for the nitroglycerin, which is the explosive ingredient. Wood flour dynamite is inferior to that made with infusorial earth as the absorbent, but it serves ( many purposes and is cheaper. But dynamite is one of the smallest prospective uses for the product. Linoleum makers mix it with linseed oil and give body to their floor coverings. It is considered not quite equal to ground cork for this purpose, as it is less elastic; but it is cheaper and I meets requirements for medium grades. | The flour fills an important place in , th* manufacture <of xyolite, a kind of I artificial flooring, resembling wood in weight and stone in other respects, It is used for kitchen floors, and in hall*, 'corridors, cases, restaurants and public rooms. It is practically fireproof. .It is floor material in some of the Geriman war vessel* It is so used b»

cause It is not liable to take fir* or splinter if struck by shells. Many additional uses for wood flour Will probably be found. The amount of sawdust to be had in this country Is practically unlimited, and millmen will welcome any plan that will lessen the waste at the sawdust dump. Norway exports thousands of tons of this sawdust flout yearly, and the United States takes some of it. Germany is a large manufacturer also, and has been for years. England is an extensive buyer and much goes to France.

Where Hypnotism Failed.

When Daysey Mayme Appleton returned recently from a party where the influence of several minds over one had been the evening’s entertainment and told her mother how six girls, with their minds bent on one thought, had made a man stand on his head, another man at their silent command' had tried on a woman’s hat and another man had tried to eat water with a fork, it put a suggestion into Mrs. Lysander John Appletonibrain. That evening when Lysander John came home his wife and four daughters sat in a circle with their hands covering their faces and their heads bowed. To all his inquiries they said nothing, and at last, fearing they had gone mad, he sent for the doctor. “We concentrated our minds on the thought that Lysander John must give us $5 each, and Instead of that we have a doctor bill to “pay,” sobbed Mrs. Appleton, “and they said it would be particularly easy to work if the man’s mind was a blank.” —Atchison Globe.

QUEER STORIES

Paris has fifty thousand cases. The city of Winnipeg is literally built over a swamp. An aiderman of the city of London holds office for life. In London fresh fish during the Tudor period was a luxury for the rich, beyond the means of the poor. The loss from wear and tear and shipwreck of precious metals has been estimated at two tons of gold and one hundred tons of silver yearly. Counterfeiting is still a considerable Industry in Calabria. It is good form in Naples to bite all silver coin before accepting it in payment or in change. Mr. Justice Darling, referring to' illnesses contracted by kissing microbeladen Bibles, remarked: “It is my opinion that a large number of people who commit perjury are punished in no other way.”—London Opinion. Lord Sandwich, when minister of state, having passed twenty-four hours at a public gaming table, was so absorbed in play that he had no subsistence but a bit of beef between two slices of bread. Hence the origin of an article of food which has entered into the daily life of all of us.—London Opinion. Miss Sophie Wright has been declared New Orleans’ best citizen and her bust has been presented to the state of Louisiana by he? former pupils. She is the principal of the Home Institute, which she founded and for many years conducted without assistance as a night school for poor children. It was the first night school in New Orleans and is now one of the most flourishing institutions of its kind in this country. A device for signaling to military balloons at night has been fixed on the tower of the railway station at Spandau. It consists of a large horizontal wooden ring provided with thirtyeight electric incandescent lamps. Such lighthouses with Intermittent lights for aerial navigation are also to be erected at Nauen and Potsdam. Experiments have recently been made with the intermittent lights on the tower at Spandau.—Berlin Lokal-An-zeiger. When Edward Payson Weston isn’t traversing the continent on one of his long walks he spends much of his time daily in the office of a Broad street broker. Next to walking, stocks is his great hobby, and his knowledge of the way of Wall street is only second to that of the science of pedestrlanlsm. Mr. Weston has made practical use of his Wall street knowledge many times and It Is said- that he has been more than ordinarily successful.—New York Sun.

He Saw a Great Light.

Wrecks on the coast of Cornwall England, were once a source of revenue to the natives. A writer says that in the local dialect "the folks on tne coast talch their children to zay in their prayers night times, 'God bless father an’ mother an’ zend a ship ta shore vore .mornin’.” The Cornish folk were great smugglers, too. The Kev. R. S. Hawker had in his service as man of all work old Tristram Pentire, the last of the smugglers. One day he mad* to the vicar this nobble confession; “Well, sir, I do think, when I come to look back and to consider what lives we used to live —drunk all night and idle abed all day, cursing, swearing, fighting, gambling, lying and always prepared to shoot the gauger—l do really believe, sir, we surely was in sin!"

Poor Thing.

Patience—l feel awfully sorry for her. • • Patrice—;Why? “She’s getting hard of hearing/ and she does so like to hear her Self talk.” —Yonkers Statesman. What has become of the old-fash-ioned woman who wrapped a meat pudding in a rag, and put it over to bon? An old man, like an old hors*, will stand whipping.

HAD AN AUDIENCE OF 18.

Philadelphia Preacher Concluded t* Save Stonacha First. “There are churches in various parts of the land whose pastors are breakAhg away from conventional ideas and I parish traditions and are doing work which may be the pioneering of a great new movement to come later,” says Hampton’s. “Many of these isolated cases are full of interest, as witness the Instance of Dr. Edward M. Frank, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent in Philadelphia. “The neighborhood of the Churth of the Advent was at one time fashionable, but the march of trade and the growth of the city changed it from a residence to a factory and tenement district. But for the fact that the church had an endowment from the estate of a long dead parishioner of wealth its doors would have been closed years ago. W’hen, in March, 1908, Dr. Frank became rector, he preached 1118 first sermon to an audience of eighteen. With the view of increasing his congregation Dr. Frank made a thorough canvass of the neighborhood, only to -find that his parish was composed of people who were struggling with a problem far more serious than his. For their problem was how to live decently on incomes wholly Inadequate for the purpose. **lt had been the intention of the young rector to conduct church work along lines that seemed adapted to the needs of the community, and at once it appeared to his practical mind that the most immediate need of the community was groceries, coal and other plain necessities at low prices. In December, 1908, the rector opened a cooperative store, in which groceries, coal and articles of clothing were sold at practically cost prices. Membership in the co-operative venture means a fee of only 25 cents, and to-day more than S2OO worth of groceries is delivered each week to members. “In May, 1909, Dr. Frank announced from the pulpit his Jntention of opening in the basement of the church a lunchroom, where girls working in near-by factories could buy a comfortable noonday meal for 5 cents. The first nodn three girls, wearing rather scared expressions, knocked at the basement door. The food offered them was good and the portions generous, and when the second noonday whistles shrieked the girls returned, bringing a group of friends. To-day the basement is thronged every noon hour. “Not content with helping his people to save money, Dr. Frank sought meahsTo help them~esm it. Simultaneously with the opening of the noonday lunchroom this original clergyman established in his parish a model factory for the manufacture of men’s clothing. A part of the product of the factory is reserved for sale to working people at low prices. The rest is sold to department stores at regular market rates.”

SQUAWS FOR HIRED GIRLS.

Carson City, Nev., Likes Them, Though They Are Not Dependable. Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is probably the only city in the country where the hired girl is a squaw. To the Carson City housewife every Indian man is Jim and every Indian woman is Sally. Neither Jim nor Sally can ever be depended on to work regularly, but as other help Is scarce and high priced the occasional services which they deign to render are always welcome, an exchange says. When Sally wants to work she always opens the kitchen door without the formality of a knock and says: “Mahaylle (woman), you want work done?” Or simply, “Me which means that she is hungry and wants to work for a meal. An eastern woman is apt to be frightened the first time this happens or the first time she looks up and sees a buck’s swarthy face pressed against the outside of the window, but she soon learns that Jim and Sally are quite tame. Sometimes Sally comes shivering to the door In winter with a baby under her blanket. She is “heap cold” and wants to toast herself and the queer littljs morsel of humanity on her back at the kitchen fire. Sometimes Sally will bring an armful of baskets to sell at the door, and then the eastern woma.n x rejoices exceedingly, for she knows that she can pick up for a few cents baskets that she would have to pay dollars for in the Carson stores. The housewife likes to get a Piute Sally to work for her if possible, for she is cleaner, more industrious and more adaptable than the Shoshone or Washoe Sallies. The remnants of these three tribes have their homes up in the high hills above Carson, where no one else wants the land. They come down to the city every day, but they never stay there over night. ■ i ■_—

Getting Worse.

"I see by the papers,” said he, "that Hhlley’s comet is now being seen with the* naked eye.” “Hiram,” she gasped, “I knew that there barefoot dance would lead to more indecencies.”—Detroit Free Press.

A Happy Disposition.

“In a little while beefsteak will be as expensive as quail on toast.” "Well,” answered Mr. Bliggins, "then we can eat quail without feeling reckless and extravagant.”—Washington Star. Some people are like a comet to this extent: They are in considerable of a hurry, although going nowhere in particular. We are optimist enough not to Insult a pleasant day by calling it a “weather breeder.”

THE HOUSEHOLD

Creamed Crab Meat. Cut the crab meat into dice. To a pint of the meat allow two tablespoonfuls of butter. Melt this in the saucepan, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until, smooth, then sfir in a pint of milk, half cream, if you have it, season well with salt, paprika and pinch of nutmeg and stir to”a'smooth sauce. Now turn in the crab meat and a green pepper minced. Cook, stirring all the time, until very hot, then turn into a hot dish. Garnish with rings made of green peppers sliced crosswise. j White Cake Filling. Heat two-thirds of a cupful of milk in a granite saucepan, add a piece of butter the size of an egg and two cupfuls of sugar. Stir constantly. Let the mixture come to a boil and add two squares of chocolate and a pinch of salt and cook until the mixture forms a soft ball, when tried in cold water. Remove from the stove, allow to cool for a few minutes, and add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla. Stir until it begins to thicken, then spread on the “ cake layers or loaf. Salt Codfish, Boiled. Soak over night before using, changing water at least once. Place it on the back of the stove, never allow it to boil—just simmer, until soft enough to pick apart very fine with a fork. For codfish cakes, have the potatoes nicely mashed, with milk and a little butter, proportion of one cupful of fish to three of potatoes, a little pepper, red or black. Dip in egg or not, as you prefer, before frying brown. To be made in cakes of a thickness to please. Lamb Stew. Take the neck or breast of lamb, parboil and cut in pieces, then put on in cold water, enough to cover it, adding a large onion, cut fine, a large slice of bacon cut fine, black and red pepper and salt. After cooking until all bones can be extracted, add canned tomatoes and corn and half a pound of butter. Before serving add stale bread crumbs. — Serve jn a tureen. Ginger Drops. One-half cup sugar, one-half cu t > butter, one cup molasses, one cup boiling water, with two teaspoons soda dissolved in it, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger and cloves; two and one-half cups of flour, two eggs beaten well and added last thing. Don’t add .more flour because they may look thin. They are very dainty with but. the amount mentioned. Bake in gem. tins. Orange Marmalade Icing. One cup of granulated sugar, onequarter cup orange marmalade. Moisten this with boiling water until it is a thin paste, cook until it forms a soft ball in-cold water. Remove from fire and beat as you would fudge, until creamy. Spread on with warm knife. Sqnaah Fritters. To two cups of mashed, dry winter squash add one cup of milk, two wellbeaten eggs, one teaspoon of salt, a little pepper, and one heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Beat well, and drop by spoonfuls into hot butter or cooking oil, and fry. Baked Codfish. Soak fish a dozen hours, gently simmer until nearly done; remove bones and bruise fine; mixed mashed pota-. toes, two parts potato to one of fish. Place before fire or in oven until rich brown. Serve with egg sauce. Creamed Pineapple. Whip one-half pint of cream; dra’n one can of shreddeu pineapple and stir the pulp into the cream. Chill ani serve in sherbet cups. Hint* for the Housewife. Mix starch with soapy water and the linen will have a good gloss and be easy to iron. Graham bread and brown bread are both excellent for sandwich purposes and raisin bread, “with lots of raisins in it,’’ is a welcome change. A teaspoonful of lemon juice in a cupful of tepid water will remove all stains from nails and skin and loosen the cuticle better than a sharp instrument. Round jelly cake pans make excellent pot covers by turning upside down and placing in center a small x wooden knob, obtainable of any grocer. Two can be bought for 5 cents. New linen for working upon should be rubbed over with a dry cake of soap. This will render the fabric soft, so that drawing threads of embroidery upon it will be much facilitated. The objectionable and flying of the hot fat when eggs, hominy, apples and like things are dropped into it to fry may be prevented if a little flour is sifted into fat just before they are added. For those who find maple sirup be yond their means try this: Five cups.!., of light brown sugar, three to four cuds of granulated sugar, and abo”t one-quarter to one-half pound of maple sugar; add water and boil to consistency of sirup. While it is advisable to pack a water bag flat, occasionally there is necessity for rolling it. If so, it is well to lay a piece of cloth or paper over the bag first, then there will be no possible danger of the sides of the bag sticking together. -