Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Evry Day B»cop< Bandar. " lEAItY fc CLARK, Pibllsberi. RENSSELAER. - - tNDIANA.

Oanada seems to be getting a better neighbor all the time. Occasionally a comet butte Into view hithout first sending in its card. Commander Peary wants the Stars MU Stripes planted on the South Pole, t* to a patriotic idea. Ne matter what he says almost e> •ry man yearns for the time when he bo rich enough to do as he pleas* Somebody has presented another modal to the Wright Brothers. Up to lan. >5, ultimo, the brothers had -wo •all kegs full of "medals. Trust in Providence is beautiful and blessed. but if you jump into holes With your eyes open and think Providence will pull you out you are a sacker. One of the professors says woman’s ■esses are less acute than those of man. He probably bases his decision on the fact that a woman can get along all winter with low shoes. What a lucky thing it would be if a good constitutional lawyer could occasionally be induced to examine a bill before the Legislature wasted time and oratory in passing it A. burglar stole diamonds worth 8800,000 from a' woman's room in a New York hotel. We shall probably hear, now, how he overlooked 880,000,•00,000 in eash which was lying on the dresser. It appears that it was Rowland Hill who invented the adhesive postage ■tamp, but to our glory be it said it was an American government contractor who Invented the non-adhesive postage stamp. Dr. Felix Adler states that Amerl«ans are maniacs for work. It isn’t so much wealth they desire as work, he thinks. Possibly this accounts for the existence of the Sons of Rest Society. It Is the natural reaction. If the mean man’s championship is ■till open to challenge, the Brooklyn, dairyman who was convicted the other day of selling adulterated milk to an orphan asylum certainly has claims upon the title that are worth considering. An observant Frenchman who has been visiting in New York makes the just comment that Americans do not know how to economise in little things. "Saving five dollars may appeal to them, but saving five cents—no! We believe in France that saving five cents makes it possible for us to save five dollars; and this has made France a rich country.”

A suggestion for household economy was given in a scientific lecture recently, when a professor of physics said that the ordinary stove used in most kitchens wastes in a day enough heat to keep food hot for a month. Anything that will cool the kitchen in rammer or warm it in winter, whether er not it cooks the meals, will be welcomed by the cooks themselves. "Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!” wrote Thomas Campbell' a century ago. The appeal was heeded, andthe great beech which stood near Ardwall House, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was not cut down. Now, however, it teas blown down, and another of the famous trees which have inspired poetry, or been glorified by tradition, is gone. The elm which suggested to George P. Morris his poem of similar sentiment was probably cut down years ago. Helen continues to retain its popularity as a name for girls. Not long ago it was voted the favorite name by the students of a men's college and It has been discovered, as the result of a canvass of the names of the students in Smith College, that mor* than a hundred of the total of 1,600 bear that name. Mary, with lees than ninety. Domes next Margaret, Ruth, Florence and Elizabeth follow in the same or- • AUO fcUUU UIU-lO3UIUUCU lV names have fortunately displaced the fancy names of a generation or so •go. Per million of population, the number of felonious homicides In 1909 was as follows: In Canada, 3; Germany, f; England, 11; France, 13; Belgium’ the most criminal country in Europe* 15; in the United States, 129. Owing to lax enforcement of law, and the mistaken policy of giving the criminal top may chances for escaping the penalty of his crime, only one out of sev-enty-four murderers in the United States Is convicted. Political and personal influence and the maudlin sentiment that regards crime as disease and a murderer as a sick man to be cured. Instead of a dangerous beast to be exterminated, permit the average mankiller in America to escape with seven years in prison. Crime is crime. The murderer is a murderer. The sooner American prisons cease to ba jhwyint sanitariums for mental abnormals and become institutions for punishment of criminals by hard work and rlgld discipline the better for our national reputation. It is easy to draw' a historical contrast between the past and present position of women tn the body politic «nd society. Our sisters who are die-

satisfied with their lot may find some •omfort in comparing their own status with that of their grandmothers, gi sat grandmothers and remoter ancestors. The comfort will He not in rejoicing over the limitations of the women of the peat generations, but in the evidence afforded of the great progress made by the sex. But there is a closer and contemporary companion picture which conveys the same lesson. A To klo newspaper has recently questioned the Japanese commercial commissioners on their return from a tour of investigation in the United States as to what displeased them most among the conditions they encountered on their trip. Among the answers were the following: “Extreme respect paid to women." “Presumptuous attitude of women over men and the mingling of boys among girls in schools.” “Too much respect for women.” ”Unreasonable egotism on the part of women." “Too much pride on the part of women." “To salute any kind of woman.” “Unnatural gestures and phraseology of women in talking.” These replies were given by some of the most enlightened and progressive men of Japan. Japan has made great progress along many lines, but the notion of the inferiority of women still persists. Her chief duty among them is obedience—obedience to her father before marriage, to her husband after - marriage, and to her son If she is a widow. She must bow low before her masculine masters. She cannot walk beside her husband on terms of equality, but must follow humbly In the rear. She must carry his packages and perform all the little services which American gallantry prescribes as the part of the male. It is true that these customs, which from our standpoint would be called loutish, never prevailed In American or European society; nevertheless, the notion of the duty of obedience of women in essentials was almost as strong among our ancestors of even 200 years ago. In our modern social life the conditions are practically reversed. It is the man who must be obedient; and It may come to be the same In politics if the present trend continues.

MONKEY CAPTURES BURGLAB.

Pelts Him with Crockery and Grapple* with Him and Canae* Arrest. After a lengthy sojourn In Madagascar, M. Louis Charmot returned to Paris recently and took up his residence at 43 Rue de Sevigne, the Paris edition of the New York Herald says. He had brought with him, in addition to a number of curios and tapestries, a large monkey named Ernest, which he kept as a pet in his apartment. While M. Charmot was absent yesterday afternoon a burglar entered the apartment by means of a skeleton key. He was busy making a parcel of a number of objects of value, when the monkey Ernest, who had been hiding in a corner of the dining room, suddenly began to pelt him with a perfect hall of plates, cups, saucers, ash trays, an inkstand and other portable objects at hand. _The burglar first hesitated, and then made a dash at Ernest with a heavy cane. The monkey wisely beat a retreat and climbed on to the top of the buffet. The Intruder got a chair to reach the monkey and was about to strike when the monkey Jumped at him and, amid a terrible noise of breaking plates and overturned furniture, monkey and man fell together to the floor. The noise immediately attracted the neighbors and the burglar was quickly overpowered. He turned out to be an erstwhile convict named Georges Redel. Thanks to the monkey the burglar was caught, but the material damage done In the apartment is almost as great as if the burglar had quietly carried the goods away.

A Financial Joke.

"I want to go home quick, my wife has presented me with a fine boy,” said a waiter In the Case Martin last Saturday to the head waiter. "Sure thing! Beat it, quick! My, but you’re lucky,” replied the head waiter. It Is the rule at the Case Martin that when a son Is born in the family of any employe 3100 is given to the father and 350 for a girl. With his face wreathed in smiles, the waiter returned to the restaurant In the afternoon carrying a big baby boy. In the restaurant were John B. Martin and his brother, Louis, Mark A. Mayer and Julian Kauffman. These iour reared to the private office of the case, with the waiter and the baby, and set about celebrating. Wine was opened and glasses filled. Then while Louis Martin held the baby his brother John rose, and lifting the glass spoke solemn truths on the honor and responsibility of being the father of such a magnificent boy and gave the waiter a |IOO bill Mayer added a 3100 bill. The toast was drunk. The waiter and the baby departed. They had been gone only a few minutes when a little Frenchwoman excitedly entered. "Where is that waiter?" she demanded. “He has gone,” was the reply. “He said he only wanted to borrow my 4-months-old baby for a few minutes, and he has been gone an hour and a half. Oh, where is my baby?” She said the waiter had boarded with her a week and had borrowed the baby tp show a friend.—New York World. .--==-rr- -

Making Him Comfortable.

“But why do you put your friend's things in the dining-room?” “Oh, he is so used to restaurants that he won't enjoy his dinner unless ho can watch his hat and coat.** Every man has theories about rale tog a family—before he marries.

BELLS WITH A HISTOHY

Ancient Chimes Occupying the Belfry of St. Michael’s, Charles- • ton, S. C. Most famous in amebica. In 150 Years They Have Had Many Strenuous Experiences, But They Are Still on Duty. Replete in Its landmarks of other days, old Charleston is a South Carolina city to be begu tided more by evidence of what has been, rather than by what is, says Winifred 8. Haynet in the Atlanta Journal. Among its many remaining edifices of bygone days there are none which speaks mors eloquently of the cultured religious life of this gracious city than its msny interesting and beautiful oldtime churches, erected in many instances by the grandfathers and great grandfathers of the men and women who attend their services to-day. Tourists go to St. Michael's, opened for worship in 1752, the oldest unmodeled church In~the United States. Modeled after the church by Christopher Wren, in London, the resemblance, though not so pretentious, is quite marked. In the small, crowded churchyard adjoining sleeps the distinguished statesman, Robert Hayne, and few indeed are the crumbling stones which do not bear names of men and women whose lives meant •much in these proud colonial days of that old city. Within the church are many tablets too many, in fact, to read. One is shown the pew in which .Washington sat, and which has since been occupied by most of the city’s distinguished visitors—Robert E. Lee, the Princess Louise of England, and various of our Presidents. It is a pretty day, and if one has the courage for the climb, he may use his own pleasure about ascending through the belfry to the watch tower used during the revolution. From there an excellent view of the city may be had, and of the beautiful harbor, with little Fort Sumtefr a black dot, and the misty ocean stretching far beyond. The situation naturally reminds one of the Old North Church at Boston, with Its celebrated lanterns—“one if by land and two if by sea.” In the belfry are to be seen the chimes, which, in point of history at least, are the most famous in the United States. Originally Imported from England, they have crossed the Atlantic five, and in the case of one bell, seven times, to do duty for St Michael’s, nothing demonstrating to a greater extent the Charleston people’s regard for sentiment than the history of these chimes. Confiscated by the British in the days of the American revolution, during Sir Henry Clinton’s occupancy of the city, they were sent to England as trophies of war, where later they were purchased by a private citizen and returned to Charleston. In tho course of time one of them became cracked and was sent to London for repair. During the Civil War they were sent to Columbia, S. C., by the people of Charleston to be made into cannon |f needed. They were spared, however, but when Sherman burned Columbia they were ruined, until their molten metal was gathered up and again shipped to London, where they were remodeled in the original casts by the successors of the first firm. Up in their belfry home they still ring out in the glad refrain they have played, when possible, each Sunday morning for more than 150 years; for regardless of this sad old city’s innumberable calamities —its wars and Ores and floods, its disastrous storms and earthquakes—St. Michael’s chimes have continued to' “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow."

JAPAN TURNS TO BEEF.

New Poller Adopted In Order to Increase Stature of Ita People. It is rather startling after all that has been said and written regarding the rice and fish diet of the Japanese to learn that their government has established large farms with a view to obtaining sufficient cattle for slaughter, so that each day some flesh food may be distributed to their soldiers, says the Salt Lake Tribune. It has been heralded far and wide that the many reasons for the wonderful victories of the Japanese armies during the late war with Russia lay in the great stamina and endurance of the little yellow warriors, who heretofore had lived exclusively on fish and rice. So this new policy of the mikado’s advisors will cause much surprise and also considerable regret among the advocates of vegetarianism. This new measure is part of a plan which, so it is hoped by the authorities, will result in increasing the height of the race. The superior stature of the white races has been the envy of the natives ever since the invasion of the former into the islands, and much consideration has been given to means to lengthening their own bodies. So now a flesh diet la to be tried. A number of observations give color to the hope that it may prove effective. Thus the tribe or clan of wrestlers, who are of considerable importance in Japan and who there live almost apart from the rest of the people and whose diet consists largely of

meat, present individuals of a glgantte statute. Under the ancient regime the eating of flesh was regarded with great horror by the whole population. The nobles alone tasted at times the flesh of the’ wild boar, as a fitting end to an exciting hunt. But within the last twenty-five years the consumption of meat has spread among the people, until now In the streets of the cities booths are to be found In plain view, where for a small sum generous portions of boiling beef or of horseflesh can be bought Tho Europeans and the Americans who have lived in Jar pan for thirty years or so, or those who revisit that land after a long absence, testify that even now this partial Introduction of a meat diet has modified the physical appearance of the laboring classes. The men are less pale and more muscular. It appears also that their stature has been considerably increased, at least among the coolies and military. On the contrary, among the artisans and other workers of sedentary habits, who continue-to live on rice and vegetables, we find, as heretofore, many individuals of exceeding small stature.

WHITE IMMIGRANTS FOR HAWAII

Ruaaians and Portnxueae Be*innln* to Replace the Orientals. "Honolulu is encouraging to the utmost immigration of whites to the Islands,” said Antonio Perry, associate justice of the supreme court of Hawaii and former member of the board of education of the islands, according to the Los Angeles Herald. “The country is succeeding to a degree that is most satisfactory to the planters, for we find the white laborer is far superior to the Chinese and Japanese. The Russians have proved themselves especially adaptable to work on the plantations. Five hundred Russians arrived from Siberia four months ago' and more than 800 Portuguese were brought from the Azores islands at about that time. In fact, we have an agent, C. 4* Atkinson, recently secretary of the territory, who makes his headquarters in Siberia and before many years there will be great numbers of Russians settle permanently in the Islands. We are no longer threatened with the yellow peril. “The educational system of the Islands is second to none in the United States. Considerable attention is paid to the development and care of the youth. We have a juvenile court conducted in a similar manner as that of Colorado. The youths who are charged with wrongdoing are separated from the more hardened criminals before and after they are tried and until they begin the service of the sentence imposed upon them. “I am not much of a booster,” said Judge Perry, “but perhaps it would not be out of the way to say that Honolulu is flooded with visitors and as a consequence is building up a great tourist trade that in point of annual revenue is becoming an important figure with her. This trade, however, is greatly impaired because of lack of steamer accommodations, and the coastwise law passed by Congress, which prohibits carrying a passenger from one elty to another. The Philippines have had this law suspended. We are asking Congress to suspend the operation of this act for a limited time until ships can be built to carry tne trade.”

WIPED OUT BY SMALLPOX

Only One Survivor in a Russian Vlllage of 1,100 Inhabitants. Details of the wiping out of an entire Russian village by smallpox have just reached St. Petersburg, says a New York Press correspondent. The village is named Volskaya, and is situated in the Island of Sachalin. Until a few weeks ago Its population was 1,100. Sanitation, as la most Russian villages, was conspicuously absent, and when the disease first appeared a few months ago no one wan troubled about it. Smallpox In Russia is frequently called the "holy sickness,” and no attempt was made at vaccination. Sick and healthy children were habitually bathed together, that being: believed an efficacious treatment, and after the local priest died the bodies remained unburled. Thus the epidemic /aged unchecked and entire families, from grandfather to grandchild, were stricken. , Finally a sanitary commission was sent from the mainland, but could accomplish nothing. It has been decided to burn to the ground this “village of death,” as it Is popularly called. Of the 1,100 inhabitants only one remains, a man of 72, named Vasßilleff. The disease spared him, but he has become a maniac.

The Worst Ever.

“Is our new Congressman homely? Well, I should say! Did you ever see a photograph of him?” “Why, no, but I’ve seen caricatures of him.” "Oh, they flatter him; you should see one of his photographs.’’—Catholic Standard and Times.

Called Her Bluff.

“He’s a brute!” "What has 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.”—Houston Post.

A Personal Definition,

Penley (stuck for a word) —Let’s see! What Is that you call a man who marries more than one wife? Grump—An Idiot, I call him.—Booton Transcript. The world la becoming better. Only a few people now play the mandolin. It doesn’t hart a joke to erack Ik

DECEMBER AND MAY.

Matin* of thia Old u 4 the Tenn* X* New ■eoomin* the Fashion. What does it matter how old a man is or what the age of a woman h» if they wish to marry? What have years to do with love and that felicity that comes from the tying of the nuptial knot? Dr. Johnson’s wife was more than twenty years his senior, and Shakespeare’s spouse was old enough to be his mother. They were happy, and why should not those who follow their example In these days also find connubial joys? t It is getting to be the fashion nowadays, this mating of December and May, ths New York Telegraph sayK Recently a wealthy woman of Hartford made plans f rohraodnl taoin ford made plans for marrying a schoolboy at New Haven. She was about 70 and he about 20, and her children and grandchildren, when they learned about It, went to the courts, and said ■he was crazy. But the judges knew otherwise, and set her free and let her continue mistress of her own fortune. Then there was the lady of a noted American family who lived in her mansion on the Hudson. For 68 years she had lived alone, and then she married her hostler, aged 24. What of that? Shall a woman who has lived nearly threescore years and ten and still is an old maid continue so until her death? Mme. Francoise Mantaiselo, 57 years old, and Arthur Springer, 23 years old, have taken out a license to marry in this city. Speaking for the lady and himself. Master Springer made this statement: “It is no one’s business except ours If we marry.” The boy is right; he can mafry his step-grand-mother If he wishes, and not even ths law can say him nay. *

THE FAMILY DOCTOR

Why We Congh, Sneese and Sigh. One of the most interesting facts about the human body is its power of self-preservation—its power of evading or overcoming the thousand and one conditions which, unless corrected would be injurious or destructive. Among the most common of these acts of self-preservation are the cough, the sneeze and the sigh. Every one is familiar with these acts; yet few people ever ask themselves the cause, and fewer still could explain them. One of the simplest of the body’s devices for self-protection is the cough. The cough Is merely a blast of air propelled from the lungs in such a manner as to forcibly dislodge some foreign substance which has been drawn into the throat, the windpipe or the tubes leading to the lungs. The membranes lining these parts of the body are-very sensitive, and when a foreign matter comes In contact- with them, an alarm message is at once sent to the nervous “headquarters,” and the result Is the sudden, spasmodic expulsion of breath which is called a cough. Very often the cough is accompanied by the irritation of the accumulation of mucous on the surface mentioned. In this case, as In. the case of a foreign body, the cough is merely a means of expelling the matter. So, you see, a cough is merely one of nature’s methods of self-protection. The ordinary cough cure contains some drug which, by paralyzing the nerves, prevents the cough and allows the mucous to accumulate. Thus the cough medicine does only harm? The cure, for cough is to cough—to cough until the excessive deposit is removed. Meantime, of course, measures should be taken to prevent added deposits. A sneeze is exactly like a cough, save that the obstruction occurs in the nostrils, owing to the deposit of some irritant or foreign matter, and that the blast of air is thrown out through the nose instead of through the throat and mouth. Why do we sigh? When grieved or depressed, the tendency is to hold the breath. This means that the body suffers for oxygen; and the long, deep breath which we call a sigh is merely a means by which the body obtains for Itself the necessary amount of oxygen.—Dr. W. R. C. Latson, in Health-Culture.

Her One Anxiety.

Thrown from her luxurious motor car, the fair girl had lain insensible for many hours. Now, however, the operation was over, consciousness had returned and she spoke faintly in the darkened room. "Yvonne?” “Yes, mademoiselle.” The maid bent over her. "Yvonne, tell me Did I, or did 1 not, have on my t new silk stockings?”— Judge.

Bliss for Her.

Miss Sweet—Poor Belle's in trouble. She’s had proposals from two men and she* doesn’t know which to adeept. Miss Elder—Goodness merey! You don’t call that trouble.—Boston Transcript. ....

Fair Office Exchange.

Stenog—Oh, Frank, will you please sharpen my pencil? Clerk—Yes, If you’ll please sew on thia button. —Boston Herald. Sometimes fate sets a man up on a high pedestal for the purpose of gin Ing him a hard fan. * ; x •

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Rather Venomous.

A tenderfoot who visited the Yosem--te in the old days tuus related iris experience: The stage driver found out that he was. seriously afraid of snakes and immediately proceeded to makehis hair stand on end. '! Venomous reptiles? You bet. I don’t know what reptiles is, but them, snakes you can just bet your life is* venomous. Why, one day I was cornin’’ down here drivin’ a wagon when I catches sight of a snake in the brush* all ready l for a spring. My horses starts, an’ I whips ’em up fast to clear the snake, * don't you see, afore he* 1 could spring. He makes one clear spring, the snake does, an’ he misses the horses.” “That was lucky. But you—you—” “Lucky? You bet your life it was lucky. He missed the (horses, tho snake did, but he stuck his fangs clean through the wagon.” ■ “You don’t say!" “I do say, and maybe you don’t believe it, but it’s a fact. He stuck his fangs clean through that wagon, an' that wagon is swelled up so bad that we had to leave it by the wayside and take, the horses home.” '

Parka in New York.

The State of New York is very well supplied with parks. In his recent message Governor Hughes said: “The State’s total holdings in the Adirondack and Catskill mountains now amount to 1,641,523 acres, of which 52,549 acres were required during the. past year. The area of jhe proposed Adirondack Park is 3,313,564 acres, and that of the proposed Catskill Park 576,120 acres, making a total of 3,89,684 acres. When it is completed the Adirondack Park will be larger than the Yellowstone, which has 2,142,170 acres.

WHAT’S THE USE

Sticking; to a Habit When It Mean* Diecom tort f Old King Coffee knocks subjects out tolerably flat at times, and there is no possible doubt of what did it. A Mich, woman gives her experience: “I used to have liver trouble nearly all of the time and took medicine which relieved me only for a little while. Then every once in a while I would be suddenly doubled up with an awful agony in my stonfach. IJ seemed as though every time I took a breath I would die. No one could suffer any more and live. "Finally I got down so sick with catarrh of the stomach that I could not turn over in bed, and my stomach did not digest even milk. The doctor finally told me that if I did not give up drinking coffee I would surely die,, but I felt I could not give it up. “However, Husband brought home a package of Postum and it was mado strictly according to directions. It was the only thing that would stay on my stomach, and I soon got so I liked ft very much. “Gradually I began to get better, and week by week gained ip strength and health. Now I am in perfect condition and I am convinced that the whole cause of my trouble was coffeedrinking, and my getting better waa due to leaving off coffee and taking Postum. “A short time ago I tasted some coffee and found, to my astonishment, that I did not care anything about it. I never have to. take medicine any more. I hope you will use this letter for the benefit of those suffering from the poisonous effects of coffee." Read the little book, “The Road toWellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of’ human Interest, ■