Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1910 — Page 3

THE METROPOLIS OF TWH WORLS IN 1960

WILL THE WORLD’S METROPOLIS OF THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE THIS? From the Chicago Sunday Tribune. Adapted from a drawing in the New York Tribune.

BRIDLE FOR

How Shrew» of Old England Were Tamed—Talk of Reviving Cuxtom. Women in England who developed a habit of spiteful gossiping or perpetual scolding used to be liable to be

BRIDLE FOR GOSSIES.

collector or curios has just extracted from his museum a specimen of this «)ld instrument of torture and offered It for sale, as a hint to the authorities. It is a steel structure, shaped very much like the muzzle sometimes worn hy a vicious horse. Strong bands, ■worn round the head, are fastened and locked on the back of the neck, effectually closing the wearer’s mouth But the opportunity has passed. The government has been criticized too much for forcibly feeding Birmingham suffragettes to adopt this Instrument of torture so close to an election. The collector has had his joke, but his financial gain was only a few dollars, for a private buyer purchased the gossip’s Bridle to impress his household with the humanity of his domestic administration, compared with the methods of his forefathers. He considers it a bargain; also a valuable object lesson when curtain lectures are impending.—Exchange.

MEXICO TO SAVE FAMOUS TREE.

“El Arbol’’ to Be Surrounded with Water to Prevent Its Loaa. El Arbol de la Noche Triste, the old ahuehuete tree under which Hernando Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, Is said to have sat and wept on the night of his defeat by the Aztecs, will be saved from death in a novel manner. For some time the sentimentalists In Mexico have been at their wits’ end how to save the tree, which for some years has shown evidence of rapid decay, a City of Mexico correspondent of the New York Herald says. Many methods have been suggested, but all so far have failed to meet the approval of those interested. At one time It was proposed to cut the old tree down and l>lant one of the sprigs in Its place. This plan was rejected on the ground that the young tree would merely usurp the proud position Its parent occupies in the Mexican mind, and that for this reason it could never be El Arbol de la Noche Triste —the tree of the sorrowful night. Recently it was proposed to graft, a healthy shoot of the old tree on its own root. This, however, would place in jeopardy the*llttle vitality the old trunk has and for this reason met also with general opposition. Things went as far as the appointment of a special commission of agilcultural experts by the government. This body has discovered that the

muzzled by legal authority. Just now, when suffragettes are disturbing that land, the idea is revived by sorely troubled men, whose efforts to restrain these aggressive women have failed dismally. Realizing that the moment was opportune for a favorable sale, a Lohdon

way to save the tree now is to surround it by a smalLlake and thus restore the ground on which the tree stands tp its original condition. It must be borne in mind that the species of cedar to which the tree belongs is essentially a wet-ground product', as its name in Mexican, ahuehuete, “old-man-of-the-water,” Implies. In the days of Cortez the tree mu it have stood near the shore of Lake Texcoco. 'Since then the waters of this lake have steadily receded through various causes, and for many years now the tree has stood on ground as dry as cinders. By surrounding the tree with water it is hoped new shoots will rise, and that thus the tree will perpetuate itself without the interference of .man. The trunk of El Arbol de la Noche Triste is little more than a shell, the core having decayed many years ago.

PHILANTHROPIST PEARSONS.

Daniel K. Pearsons, who says that the joy of giving is the most satisfying joy that a human being can know, has given away more than 14,000,000. Forty-seven colleges in twenty-four States have been the recipients of his bounty. His boast is that he will glva

DANIEL K. PEARSONS.

away his entire fortune before he dies. Dr. Pearsons was born in Bradford, Vt., April 14, 1820, and grew up among the granite hills in poverty. He became a school teacher and then a physician, but not being able to make money rapidly In the East he moved ,to Ogle County, 111., where he engaged in farming. In 1860, at the age of 40, he came with his wife, whp was Miss Marietta Chapin of Massachusetts, to Chicago.. He had >5,000 in cash and began business as a real estate dealer. His first commission was to sell 14,000 acres in Champaign County. He went out among the farmers of the State and when he found one dissatisfied, induced him to move. .He made it a rule never to misrepresent his properties, and the result was that in a few years he gained a tremendous'following throughout the Mid-

die West. His commissions sometimes amounted to $3,000 a week. Living economically he soon amassed a fortune. In 1875 he Was elected aiderman from the First Ward. The city’s finances were at a low ebb and repudiation of bonds was seriously considered. Dr. Pearsons went to New York and appeared before the Chicago bondholders’ meeting, offered to pledge his personal fortune to the redemption t>f the bonds and saved the credit of the city. Mrs. Pearsons died recently and since then Dr. Pearsons has lived quietly at Hinsdale looking after the colleges in which he is Interested through his gifts. At 90 years of age he is still young and vigorous. He says he intends to live until he is 100. —Chicago Record-Herald,

Forbidden by Uncle Sam.

Fiercest of all the wild orgies of the aborigines of North America is the fiesta which culminates in the fire dance of the Saboba Indians, a small tribe living close to the Sierra Madre range of mountains, which walls off the seacoast of California from the desert. Up to last year, when the Indian bureau of the United States government finally forbade the holding of these fiestas, the Sabobas had gathered every year at the base of old Mount San Jacinto to sing, dance and gamble, and finally to throw themselves into a pit of fiery coals, roll over and over oh the burning bed, and then dance with bare feet on the red hot floor of the pit.

Lieut. Shackleton as Talker.

People whom Lieutenant Shackleton casually meets must be a trial to him with their trivial questions, but he has a merry wit. He was explaining how the penguins set up nest keeping. Mr. Penguin would feed his wife as she sat on the eggs. He brought her prawns and the like, carrying them in his gullet into which she dipped her beak. “Are the birds monogamlc?” asked the naturalist present. “That we could not determine,” replied the Great Iceman. “We frequently saw a male penguin feed another bird’s wife, but we could not say whether his motives were absolutely disinterested.”

Those Dear Men.

“Ah, me valet tells me I’m going to a wedding to-morrow. Miss Williamson’s to be married to some fellah, you know, but I ca,wn’t think of his confounded name.” “Why, old man, you’re to marry her yourself." “By Jove- so I am. What a memory you’ve got, deah boy!”—Pick-Me-Up.

A Preliminary Step.

“Why in emigrating to America have you planned to leave your youngest son behind?” “Oh, I guess he’ll follow later. He has just, been appointed cashier in a Berlin bank.”—Meggendorfar Blaetter.

The Limit.

“Is that a dry-town?” “I should say so! It is that dry that when they have opera they won’t stand for a singer with liquid notes.” —Baltimore American. ' :

RELIC OF FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Knife of the Guillotine tTaed In Execution of ilarle Antoinette. The knife of the guillotine used at the execution of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette has been discovered In the museum of a private collector in Brussels, the London Globe says. This gruesome relic seems well authenticated. From a note by M. Gustave Babin the Illustration it seems that M. Dubois, director des Halles de Btuxelles, acquired it by purchase in 1843 from Mme. Roch, Widow of the executor des hautes oeuvres. Up to this time Mme. Roch declared that it had never passed out of her possession. The late M. Deibler claimed it, but as he would not pay the widpw refused to accede to his request. He complained to the minister of justice, With the result that the widow was desired to take the blade to the archives. But as the state seemed to emulate M. Delbler’s parsimony the widow stuck to her grim souvenir and sold it to M. Dubois. The humorous side of this relic follows, but we must first complete the title. M. Roch received the knife from his predecessor, M. Hemdereich, who himself had obtained it from Henri Sanson, the last descendant of the dynasty of this name. Now, Henri Sanson was the grandson of the executioner of the hapless king and queen. He was dismissed from his high office on account of a scandal. The executioner, suffering from the “res augusta,” had to raise a loan and his fertility of idea succeeded where most men would have failed, and, to tell the truth, he pawned the guillotine. And, adds a Paris contemporary, which relates the story: “La Veuve chez la Tante; cette recontre parut intolerable.” As an Instance of morbid humor this is “facile prlnceps." The recent sale by auction of the guillotine can only be classed “proxime accessit.”

SHOUT METER SERMONS.

True religion has to do with the actual conduct in daily life.—Rev. E. W. Smith, Presbyterian, Louisville. God’s plan of salvation is wonderful, the failure is on the part of the people alone. —Rev. Bowley Green, Baptist, OlneyvlUe. Ambition is natural to men; indeed there is little hope for advancement in life without it.—Rev. D. E. Marvin, Presbyterian; Brooklyn. The Bible is the best of all books; it passes as iron into the blood and gives vigor to the will.—Rev. W. C. Stinson, Reformed, New York City. The nation is assailed by a triple sin, consisting of divorce, homicide and the liquor traffic. —Rev. C. R. Hyde, Presbyterian, Little Rock. If you want your children to follow Christ, follow Him yourselves; if you want them to go to church, come with them. —Rev. M. D. Shutter, Presbyterian, Minneapolis. The study of the labor problem by the church is just as vital to the wellbeing of society as the study of missions and the temperance problem.— Rev. E. H. Delk, Lutheran, Philadelphia. Godliness has physical values. Christian men can outstrike, outrun, outthrow the world. The Christian physical constitution is the best in the world.—Rev. John Flagg, Presbyterian, New York City. The really great man is he who, in spite of his relation to carnality and sin, leaps beyond, or mounts the skies and rises above all fogginess and littleness. —Rev. T. A. Moffat, Congregational Ist, Newark. The bashful man is not girl-spoiled. Next to being a bad man or a fool, to be a girl-spoiled man is most detestable. Bashfulness is a proof of simplicity of character.—-Rev. J. I* Thompson, Christian, Kansas City. The majority of men judge other men by single acts. If they find a man guilty of lying once, they pronounce him a liar by nature, though he may have lied under a peculiar pressure of circumstances.—Rev. F. E. Washburn, Episcopalian, Newburg. Defeat and failure in business or life, in our ambitions or plans are results we never welcome. Yet there are many victories which are worse than defeats and many apparent failures which are victories.—Rev. F. L. Phalen, Unitarian, Worcester. The character of the family determines the character of the nation, and in the family the most potent factor Is the mother. God has so made the mother that the little child gathers from her the elements of its character. —Rev. H. G. Weston,. Baptist, Wayne.

A Modest Order.

A timber merchant was sitting in his office one day musing sadly over the general depression in the wood trade, says a writer in Pearson’s Weekly, when a quiet-looking young man entered. “Do you sell beech-wood?” asked the stranger. “Yes, sir,” said the merchant, rising with, alacrity and hoping devoutly to book a large order. “We can supply any quantity on the shortest notica, eithar tn the Ing nr ,tha plankZL “Oh, I don’t want so much as that,” said the youth. “I just want a bit for a fiddle-bridge.”

Unkind.

The Proud Mother—This boy do grow more like ’is father every day. The Neighbor—Do ’e, pore dear? And ’ave ydu tried everything?—Sketch.'

If the world was created 6,000 years ago and the story of the expulsion from Eden is not a myth, confirmatory evidence of that fact will be found by old-line Bible people in some of the things recently unearthed in Nubia. From very recent research it has been established that disease entered the world in the form of gout and tuberculosis not less than 6,000 years ago—either entered it at that time or had been there for an indeterminable time previously. Nearly sixty centuries have rolled away since the Nubians lived. in the Valley of the Nile and were victims of the intestinal concretions which seem to be the cause of appendicitis. Fortunately for archaeological science, the diggers took with them an anatomist or two, who knew a thing or so about their business, and turned over to their inspection the bodies that were unearthed from this ancient civilization which has been lying buried under the wash and sands of the Nile from a time which merges into the vanishing point of history, in these excavations were found evidences of a civilization from a date preceding the earliest known dynasties of Egyptian kings down to the Byzantine age. These people seem to Ijave lived undisturbed in the possession of their fertile fields and their well-built towns, probably under the protection of the kings of Egypt. In fact, a careful examination of their heads and faces showed that they were in reality Egyptians themselves. They did not belong to the aristocracy, but were rather the humble tillers of the soil—the farmers of that prehistoric time. They had a knowledge of copper, but they had not yet progressed sufficiently far in the metallic arts —in the period previous to say 1800 B. C. —to use that metal for instruments. The only utility they could find for copper was its use as ornaments for the person. For this purpose it was manufactured and sold

A FASCINATING OÇUPATION FOR GIRLS.

There is a distinct revival in china painting among young girls in the east, and in addition to becoming expert in the art it is considered quite an essential part of the training to make a study of the best examples of old china to be found in museums and elsewhere, and from them gather inspiration for the decoration of modern pieces. In every department of art or industrial training nowadays the "home** idea is made prominent Girls are learning domestic economy and domestic science, and everywhere the predominant thought is the fitting of girls for the domestic side of life, and it may be because of this wave of firesidp sentiment that the decoration of table ware is so deservedly popular. To quotw one of the leading instructors, “There is, to my mind,” said she, “nothing more closely allied to domestic life than the hand decorating of china. It gives a girl a love for beautiful things for the home table and opens her eyes to the nicety of table appointments, and we all know that a well appointed table is usually the index to a successfully managed household. “To make collections of any sort is an admirable thing, but the collecting of rare china for girls is particularly so, for it not only gives the collector a special Interest in life, but she can never afterward pass by a bit of fine china, porcelain or pottery but she will glean enjoyment from it “The entire outfit, colors, brushes, oils and palette knives can be purchased for between $3.00 and $4.00, perhaps more, perhaps less. A course of ten lessons should make the average girl quite independent of a teacher, except, of course, when it came to some new and vexing problem; then she would doubtless require the advice of an instructor. In this art, as others, there is a great difference in girls, for some are quick with their hands while others are clumsy.”

RUBBISH BURNER.

Flames, Hot Ashes or Sparks Cannot Escape from it While In Use. There seems to be some urgent demand for a means of consuming the accumulation of paper boxes and slmi-

lar material which gather about an ordinary household. The bonfire is effective, but it is always attended with a considerable element of danger. Wire baskets which have been invented for the purpose reduce this danger very much, but it is said

for the*. newest d~evlce for thia purpose. which Is made of sheet metal and entirely inclosed, that sparks and flames cannot escape, and consequently no damage can be done from its use.

Title of “Esquire.”

Esquire dated back to the days when the Greeks, and Romans were in the heydey of their existence. The armor bearers who served as attendants of

extensively. For tools the Nubians of that date used stone, and very good and sharp-cutting tools they made of It, too. Flint lance-heads and flint knives were found fn abundance, but no trace of a copper tool was in evidence for some centuries. The next period ranges from 2800 B. C. to 1800 B. C., during which copper was discovered to be highly useful as a cutting metal and was manufactured accordingly. This was also the period of greatest change in the bodily characters of these people. The anatomists who made the .examinations declared that a new type of man had been imported among the people of the lower Nile and had mixed his blood with that of the people he found there before him. The secret of the perfect preservation of bodies for sixty centuries lies in the fact that the people, probably not able to afford the methods of embalming that were practiced by the “swell” Egyptians, just took their dead and thoroughly salted the bodies. One disease which seemed to have been prevalent to an extraordinary degree was rheumatic gout. Thousands of these people had suffered from gout and from rheumatism. Graves were found containing fifteen or twenty bodies, all members of the same family, and several generations of the same family. The anatomists were thereby enabled to trace peculiar anatomical resemblances from father to son, as well as evidences of transmitted disease. That this marvelous method of preserving the dead is not practicable generally to day is due to the fact that one of the essentials of the success of the method is the peculiarly dry atmosphere of Egypt and the unlimited quantities of perfectly dry sand in which to bury the bodies after they have been treated with.the salt or the solution' of salt which the ancient Nubians used.

REVIVAL OF CHINA PAINTING.

the knights by way of bodyguard we.e called esquires. Later, in England the king created esquises by placing collars about their necks and bestowing upon them pairs of silver spurs. The title has never lapsed in that country. There are now legally esquires by heritage, by creation, or by virtue of the holding of some office. In this country the title has co>me< into general use simply by but it must be admitted that it is a very flimsy excuse for its adoption. In England there is a disposition to use it as applying to men not engaged, in trade.

Spartan Self Denial.

When Mr. D„ known to be miserly, but not beyeved to be a miser, was approacheddellcatelFforicbhtribution to the organ fund, he shook his head courteously, but with an air of Charity,” he said, “is a pleasure one must do without.” To a man who does his business by means of checks, a >2O bill looks like a Tot of money.