Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPDfiOCAN Bvary Day Except Sunday. HEALEY k CLARK, Pibllsbers. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

A noiseless cannon? Th« next thins ■will be a uniform without sold braid. The coming race Is likely to be one between some comet and a Ilyins maA Washington boy baby Is said to he In greet danger of Inheriting SIOO,MO.OOO. , The Indications are that the Englishman still loves a lord, but not m fervently as he used to. A fortune awaits the man who can Invent an alarm flock that will have a pleasant sound at 4:30 a. m. «- Germany Is agitating the question of abolishing prison stripes. Has Germany been sending any bankers to Sail? With a last effort to be impartial a Dew York woman willed fIO,OOO to her Aag and a silmlar amount to her husband. A Cleveland paper is trying to trace the relation between poetry and insanity. We care for our insane, but neglect the poets. m ! , In Denmark every egg that is sold must bear a stamp showing just when It was laid. People have time to watch the nests over there. There are still a few old-fashioned mothers in the country. One of them broke her hand while Bpanklng a 10-year-old boy the other day. A Kansas City judge has Advised all women out there to carry revolvers for their own’protection. The innocent bystander will, therefore, take notice. The wife of an English baron has •loped with a young man who possesses no title. A lot of American heiresses will regard this as decidedly careless. Caroline Bartlett Crane says dairy oows should be bathed all over every day and wiped dry with Turkish towels. They should also be provided with napkins while eating bran mash. . The man who claims that the extravagance of American women is responsible for the high cost of living probably forgets that he wouldn’t wear socks and mittens knitted by hlsowife If she were willing to furnish them. A New Hampshire fanner claims to have a hen that lays three eggs at one sitting. We are compelled, owing to the fact that he is not "rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” to doubt the truth of the New Hampshire man’s statement. A suggestion comes from New York that hockey ought to be reformed. As It is now played the game is said to be brutal and a mere excuse for the development of rowdyism. One of the best things we know about hockey is that nobody Is compelled to play it •gainst his will. Norway has for the first time elected a woman to the Storthing, its national parliamentary body. The woman who gets this distinction is a teacher In the public schools. She Is elected as a deputy, or alternate, and has a vote only in the absence of the regular member from her district. Nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars were given last year, in large sums, for educational and philanthropic purposes In America. It la estimated that the total of such gifts In the last seventeen years Will reach more than a billion dollars. Yet there Is need for more, and the small sums given by the persons of moderate means are as welcome as the millions of the weatlhy. Anthropologists have long held that the shape of the head was an infallible Indication of race, far more trustworthy evidence than that offered by language, complexion or national customs. Now an inquiry made under the direction of a professor from Colombia University seems to demonstrate that It takes only one generation for the ''cephalic Index” of Immigrant peoples to show a marked change. Children of long-headed Sicilians and those of round-headed Russian Jews present an almost Identical intermediate head form. This fact, If verified, makes it appear that many of the most pronounced variations of race are superficial, and point to the development sooner than was at first thought possible of a homogeneous “American” racial type. The new administration building of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, which has recently been completed at a cost of $220,000, gives little suggestion of the magnitude of the work carried on under the auspices of tbs Institution. It will be recalled that Andrew Carnegie save $10,000,000 a few yean ago to endow the Institution for assisting In investigations in any department of science literature or art, and to cooperate to this end with governments, universities, colleges, technical school s, learned societies and individuals. The fond la In the hands •f a group of representative men as trustees. They have made appropriations for investigations in anthropology. archeology, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, economics and socl-

history, literature, mathemUcs, mnteor> ology, paleonotology. phonetics, physics, psychology, zoology and other subjects. The Washington headquarters are occupied by the executive offices of the institution, but the research work Is conducted In all parts of the world, wherever a man is engaged on an investigation of importance and needs money to carry it on. R. T. Crane, a wealthy and wellknown Chicago captain of industry, not only feels, like a certain village worthy, that there are lots of lunkheads In college, but believes that the college may spoil good raw material and produce lunkheads in defiance of the original plans and gifts of Mother Nature. The indictment is so thorough that It condemns both hallpwed traditions and the practices of’ our own day. Educational reformers who have sneered at the old academic Idea are left far In the rear. All the time spent In the higher Institutions of learning is wasted. While the college boy is throwing away precious years, the fortunate youth who la denied the former’s opportunities, so-called, is acquiring the best kind of learning in his bredtlwlnning work and Is laying up capital for the future. Let It be admitted that there is truth In the picture. Many a college graduate who has failed to make a financial success of life has cried out In bitterness of spirit that his education. Is worthless and that he should have gone Into business earlier. There are even men of professional training who would cousin both the college and. the professional school to the bottomless pit when they measure themselves by dollars and centa. But it la also a fact that there are very succeasful business .men who lament their lack of a college 'training. We have here a very complex question of values. There are other measures In addition to the dollar. And there are college graduates who have acquired great Riches In business and who have never found the college education a handicap. There are men who believe that it has a value of Its own and that It has actually helped them to get on in the world. These are statements of facts that lend themselves to pages of Interpretation and argument. But passing from Individual cases, the ail Important fact Is that the experience of the world leaves very little encouragement for Mr. Crane’s crusade. The higher education responds so well to the needs, aspirations and ambitions of many men an<j women that before It can be destroyed humanity will have to be made over. The crusade will not stand' Mr. Crane’? because It Is futile and, therefore, not a good business proposition..

IN THE 5-CENT THEATERS.

Peeullnr Characteristics of Many of tiro 'Motton-Plotixre People. —— After having seen some hundreds of moving picture shows a New Yorker has reformed, says the New York Press, and now possesses a hazy notion of what he has seen and the following convictions: The funniest thing in the world la a fall down stairs qr into water. All men who get iifto financial trouble are fat and elderly. All professors and scientists are thin and foolish-looking. All acts of heroism are performed in the summer. It'would be asking too much from hero and heroine to take a plunge into icy water and run around In cold weather. Servants are never kept for other than comedy purposes. When you see people In evening clothes look out for some dark deed or villainy. Except in “society” pictures, tall hats are made to be sat upqn. Valuables In detective pictures- always are concealed in the most conspicuous and accessible places. Country boys are always skinny, bent, Bhambllng and semi-imbecile. Country girls are always plump and pretty, a A drunk is as surely good for a laugh as Vulcan's game leg used to be among the gods on Olympus. School readers are the source of most of the novel and stirring tales depicted. ft Is perfectly proper to maltreat a fat lady. Of course, there are other minor points that are strictly observed, but the above are the leading ones. If they are followed carefully you have the typical moving picture.—New York Presa

Doctor's Fault.

‘"Judge—l am led to understand you stole the watch of the doctor who had Just written a prescription for you at the free dispensary. What have you to say to this charge? Prisoner—Well, your honor, I found myself in a desperate quandary. His prescription said "a spoonful every hour,” and I had no timepiece.—Fliegende Blatter.

The Reliable Dish.

Now. let our hopes anew be fired. The frugal mind this comfort gleans: No wicked trust has yet donsplred To raise the cost of pork and bean*. —Washington Star.

Had One Spotted.

"Do you know anythin* about crude rubber?" “There’* one in the Turkish bath establishment that I patronise.”—Houston Post There being no Indians or bandits or perilous adventures these days, It Is easy for any man to tell his wife he is Brave, and make It good. We may be pessimistic, but we will never believe that a fortune can be made from ten hens In town.

PARIS A CITY OF FLOODS

Forty-six Serious Risings of the Seiaq Chronicled Since tho - 1733. • THE 810 INUNDATION OP Many Times the lie de La Cite, Ytlrfhplace of French Metropolis, Has Been Submerged. j.

Paris has had so many floods that the scientists and expert watchers of the Seine have classified them and divided them in to three groups, according to the height of the water registered on the gauges, the New York Evening Post says. It was on this river at Paris that the wojrld’a first system for forecasting floods was worked out, in 1864, and It has been In use ever since, so the city authorities of Paris knew weeks before of the calamity that was In store for them. , Since the dally readings of the flow of the Seine at Paris and other points were begun, In 1732, there have been forty-six floods, counting the recent one. According to the classification by height, thirty-one of the6e were “ordinary,” twelve “extraordinary" and three "exceptional,”. the exceptional ones being those of 1740, 180.2 and 1910. In the century preceding 1732 there were five devastating inundations of the city, that of 1658 being thd worst on record, until the present time. There Is no record of what the Seine did previous to 1632, but the natural conditions have been the same since long before the history of Prance began, so the little lie de la Cite, which was the beginning of Paris, and on which the Cathedral of Notre Dame was consecrated In 1182, must have been many times submerged. When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, In 58-51 B. CT, the Parisll were a small tribe settled on the Island in’ the middle of the Seine, and they called it Lutetla. Constantius Chlorus, a Roman emperor, who had his residence there in the year 293, called It “his dear Lutetia,” which may have been the beginning of “that dear Paris.” Most of the structures demaged by the recent flood antedate the beginning of the flood records of Paris in 1649 by .many years, in some cases centuries. The Jardin des Plantes, which was the first institution to feel the efTects of the recent rising, is on the lower left bank of the Seine, near the entrance of the riVer within the city limits. Although a botanical garden, It includes a museum of natural history and zoological collection, chiefly famous for the bear pits. The Jardin des Plantes was founded in 1635 by Guy de la Brosse, physician to Louis XIII., and was originally nothing more than a collection of medicinal herbs. In 1793 the royal menagerie was transferred to It and in 1794 the library. Notre Dame, on the lie de la Cite, the famous walls of which have been washed by many floods, was founded In 1163 on the site of a church of the fourth century and was consecrated In 1182, but the nave was not completed until the thirteenth century. The foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander 111., at that time a refugee In France. In 1793 Notre Dame was converted into a temple ot reason. The sculptures were muHlated and the statue of the Virgin replaced, by one of Liberty. The orgies of which the church became the scene led to its being closed the following year. In 1795 it was restored to the Catholics. Floods of the Seine present a mixed character, owing to the torrential nature of Its tributaries, the Yonne and, the Marne, which, with their high floods, exercise a predominating Influence on the floods of Paris. As the torrents from the farthest parts of the basin take only three or four days to reach Paris, whereas the floods of the tranquil affluents only arrive four or five days later, a great flood at Paris Is rarely the result of a single fall of rain. Generally, a high flood Is caused by the arrival of a second torrent from the rapidly flowing tributaries, before the long-continued floods of the slower branches have time to subside.

Only., two unusually bigh floods threatened Paris between 1860 and 191 Q. They were In March, 1876, and in January, 1883, reaching 21.33 feet and 19.69 feet, respectively, though the floods of December, 1872, and 1882, were only a little lower, as they rose to 19.19 and 19.16 feet. These last two floods were the first of unugual height to which the system of predictions and.warnings was thoroughly and successfully applied. The protections of Paris have been Increased 'from time tp time by the raising of the quals along the river and by prolonging the outfall sewers so as to place their outlets beyond the town; and embankments have been built for many of the low-lying districts. The rebuilding, also, of old bridges with more ample waterways and the improvements in depth for navigation have generally Increased the discharging capacity of the river.

SCIENTIFIC BABY RAISING.

Sweeesa AMcsAbs Collcse-Brc4 Mother’s Method of Reerlaa Boy. “Scientific babies" are npt necessarily prodigies, neither are college women, as many writers have averred, not Qualified to be good mothers. The experience of Mm. William Noyes, a

•allege graduate, with her atm Leonard, now 2 years old, disproves both these thoriea and furnishes a new line of thought In the raising of children sor 1 mothers of all classes, says Van Norden’s Magazine. U proves, too, that science is casting out and uprooting superstitious methods and Is leading the mother to forego her selfish pride for the Infant’s sake and that ultimately 'means a better and stronger citizenship. Leonard Noyes was not clad, to be-, gin with, In the filmy draperies with which mother* delight to clothe their children. He was never rocked or sung to sleep; he was never cuddled or shown off to an addilring company; and kissing waa left entirely out of his scheme of life. His mother had all the maternal instincts, but science declares that these manifestations of affection are harmful to an infant’s nervous organization and she banished them all—for the child’s sake. To begin with, Mrs. Noyes, before Leonard’s birth, made a layette so diffrent from fche ordinary one as to be revolutionary, being composed of loose, knitted cotton garments which would not interefere with either his circulation or his freedom of movement. His crib—not a cradle—was a plain wicker basket, light enough to be carried from one place to another and small enough to be placed on a window sill. Soon after the child’s birth the mother began to keep a record, similar to those kept by nurses, of his treatment and his behavior under it. She registered each or the natural functions,, and every rash or pimple, each cold or fever, each nap or spell of crying went down Into her book. At regular Intervals she entered his weight and measurements and made observations on his muscular and mental development. Convinced that too little rather than too much food would be of most benefit, she reduced his meals to six a day. Just enough and not too much, waa her motto. At 2 months Leonard weighed 12 pounds—one and a halfpounds above the average established by Dr. L. Emmett Holt, the famous child specialist. At 3 months he was two and seven-tenths pounds above the average. - S From the, first months he was systematically exercised, first by massage. Later, holding him by the feet, the mother began by letting him bend himself backward on her knee till his -head hung down to the floor and he supported his body by the muscles of •his feet and legs. When he began to take notice Mrs. Noyes fastened a wooden rod across his basket and he entertained himself by pulling himself up to a slitting position by its aid. The "average” babies observed aby Holt do not hofld up their heads until the third or fourth month. Leonard held up his in the third week. Holt’s babies do not laugh until the third or fourth month. Leonard laughed In his twelfth week. Holt’s babies do not reach for objects unUl the fifth to the seventh month. Leonard grabbed for a pair of scales in his fifteenth week. In his twentieth weak he began pulling himself up to the sitting position by the rod fastened across his basket; in his twenty-seventh to pull himself up to his feet and stand alone, In his thirty-third he began to walk. Everything that affected the health or demeanor of the boy was noted on a chart such as hospital nurses heep, and this record when consulted proved to be an infalliable guide in case of»a recurrence of the symptoms.

Bird’s Sense of Direction.

The migratory Instinct in birds is combined with another equally mysterious, that of the sense of direction. A gentleman engaged In scientific research work for the fishery board on board the government steamboat GoldSeeker recorded a very Interesting observation he made of this characteristic of migratory bird life. An oyster catcher that was being buffeted by a head wind in Its eastern flight across the North Sea toward the continental shores alighted on the boat. It took kindly to the attention paid to It so long-as the boat k%»t its easterly course, but when the course of the boat was altered a few points to the northward the bird immediately showed signs of uneasiness, and after an apparent consideration of its bearings flew into the darkness of the night on Its east bound course. alteration In the boat’s course was revealed to those who were watching the bird only when the compass was examined.—Scotsman.

Mining Cedar Trees.

An Industry, the like of which does not exist anywhere else In the world, furnishes scores of people in Cape May County, New Jersey, with remunerative employment, and has made comfortable fortunes for many citizens. It is the novel business of mining cedar treee—digging far beneath the surface Immense logs of sound and aromatic cedar. The fallen and submerged cedar forests of southern New Jersey- were discovered first beneath the DenniSTllle swamps seventy-five years ago, and 'have been a constant source of Interest to geologists and scientists generally ever since. There are standing nowhere at the present day such tenormous specimens of cedar as are found embedded In the deep mnek of the Dennlsville swamps.— Scientific American.

He Had It.

"I took Dolly Greenroom out to sup* per and she ordered thirteen courses." “Thirteen! Did any one have bad luck?" '.I. . v "I did. I had to pay for them.” 4. Most men claim to have a poor memory for dates, but ws notice sow of them forget when a note they hold comas due. 1

MILE RECORDS ON LAND.

Electric locomotive Make* tho Best. Auto Cornea, Next. For convenience in comparing speeds made on land by various vehicles as well as by horses and men the follbwing table of mile records has been prepared by a writer in the Metropolitan: 1 Electric locomotive, 27 seconds, 1903.' Automobile, 28% seconds, 1906. Steam locomotive, 32 seconds, 1893. ,Motor paced cycle, 1 minute 6 1-6 seconds, 1904. Bicycle, unpaced, 1 minute 49 2-5 seconds, 1904. Running horse, 1 minute 35% seconds, 1890. . Pacing horse, 1 minute 65 seconds, 1906. Trotting horse, 1 minute 68% seconds, 1905. Man skating, 2 minutes 36 seconds, .1896. Man running, 4 minutes 12% seconds, 1887.; Man walking, 6 minutes 23 seconds, 1890. It will be observed that the difference between the locomotive and the automobile Is trifling. For 100 miles the record of the steam locomotive Is much better than that of the autq. However, both the electric locomotive and the auto may be expected to show further improvement, aa their development Is incomplete, while their steam brother has attained about the limit. The horse racing and foot racing records added to the table were all made in recent years. Evidently we breed better and train better than ever before.

PRESENT OF SACK OF COFFEE.

In Brasil Set Aside for Child at Its Birth for Wedding Day. "We have a custom in the coffee raising countries,” said Ricardo G. Muller of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who Is interested ,ln coffee plantations in that country, according to the Washington Herald, “which is unknown in other parts of the world.* When a child Is born in the coffee country a sack of the best grain is set aside as part of the Inheritance to be received on attaining Its majority. "Usually the sack is the gift, from some close friend or relative, ans it is guarded as sacredly as if it were a gift of gold or bonds. No stress would Induce a Brazilian parent to use coffee which was made the birth gift of a child. “As a rule it is sealed with the private seal of the owner and bears a card giving all particulars about the variety of grain, its age on being sacked and the birth of the child to whom it is given, and other details, which are very interesting when the gift is due. > * “Generally the coffee is opened for the first time when the child marries. The coffee for the reception or marriage feast is made from the legacy, and according to precedent this must be the first time the sack is opened. After the coffee is made for the wedding feast the sack is carefully closed and sent to the new home of the young couple and should keep them in the staple for a year at least.”

Wealth of the Presidents.

Washington left an estate valued over SBOO,OOO, and was considered the wealthiest man In the country. John Adams died moderately well off, leaving about $75,000. Jefferson was so poor that if Congress had not bought his library at $20,000 he would have died a pauper. Madison was frugal and left about $150,000. Monroe died so poor that he was buried at the expense of his relatives. John Quincy Adams left about $66,000. Jackson died worth about SBO,OOO. t Van Buren left some $400,000. It is said tha{. he did not draw while In office, but at the expiration collected the entire SIOO,OOO. Polk left an estate of about $150,000. Taylor had saved something from his pay while in the army, and died worth $150,000. Tyler married a lady of wealth. Fillmore was always frugal, and added to his savings by marrying a lady of wealth, and was worth about $200,000. Pierce’s estate was valued at $50,000. Buchanan left $200,000. Lincoln about $75,000, and Johnson about $50,000. Grant was wealthy, but lost his fortune in the Grant-Ward failure. Hayes was frugal and added to his fortune. Garfield was only moderately well off. Harrison died worth $250,000. Cleveland was said to be worth about SIOO,OOO. McKinley was never a rich man. Roosevelt has never earned any money except In writing and politics, but he is a member of a wealthy family.

The Cost of Living.

She was having a little bite after the theater with the impecunious man who had gone with her on her pass,' “What sort of Welsh rarebit will you have?” asked _the waiter, “plain, with an egg In It, or-*-" “Thank the Lord yon stopped him at said rite. The impecunious man, who had turned qqite whlfie, came back to his natural color. “Thank the Lord you stoped him at the <me with an egg In it,” said he. “That’s oiily five emits more than the plain, they cun up to andollar apiece, these fancy Welsh rabbits. Didn’t you know that?*

Found Wanting.

“So he has lost faith in deep breathingr "Yes, it wouldn’t keep his hair from falling out."—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. ' As we understand It, there Is no such thing as a climate suitable for turkey 'raising. Don’t be a tall to some other man's ! kite.

LEFT AND RIGHT TELEPHONES.

“Hello*' Girl's Little Hint May ProVe of Value to Yoa In Pnture. “Right-handed people invariably put a telephone receiver up to their left ear and left-handed people to their ’“hello” girls. “We girls get to be psychologists In a small way by talking over the telephone every day. It is impossible to keep from sizing up> and classifying the people on the other end of the wire, simply oq a basis of what they say and hew they say It. There are almost as many ways of -.talking Into a telephone as there are Kinds of people who use the telephone. But It Is, nevertheless, rattier easy to classify them. One thing I have noticed is that the vast majority t f people, being right-handed, hold tho receiver in their left hand. The-left ear, by long distance, thus becomes more acute and well trained. Consequently, when for any reason, a man or woman takes the receiver In his «r her right hand, It Is comparatively easy to sense It at my end. The man Is apt to speak nervohsly and disjointedly, to talk too loud and to ask me to frequently repeat, showing that his ear—his wrong) ear —is not serving him with such fidelity and accuracy as his more accustomed left. I had great difficulty in hearing a woman once, and so I asked: ‘You are lefthanded, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ she gasped. ‘Then don’t hold' tie telephone quite so close to your mouth and put the receiver against your other ear.’ She did, and we were able to hear eaeh other perfectly.”

QUEER STORIES

In Spain the. old-style charcoal brazier is still in .use for heating purposes. Canadian housekeepers complain because general houseworkers want $9month instead of $6. On an average a man requires 1,600pounds of food per annum, a woman, 1,2Q0 pounds and a child 900 pounds. Just closed, the Yarmouth and: Lowestoft herring season has yielded. 800,000,000 herrings, which sold f0r.55,000,000. It is said that enough horse power goes to waste in the rivers and streams between Austin agd San Antonio, Tex.,, to run all the industries in the StateOwing to the rapidly growing population of Germany, especially in the Industrial cities and towns, and the relative scarcity of productive land,, the nation becomes each year more dependent upon foreign countries for its. food supply. Bagdad and Bassorah are excellent prospective markets for motor boats, and pleasure craft. The possible buyers, however, will pay no attention t<* catalogues, as they wish to sit in the boat itself, feel it go through the water and enjoy the noise made by the-' engine. In an outward-bound Boston car the other evening there was not a seat left. A woman entered and not & man noticed her standing, apparently. Finally one man rose from his seat and offered it to the woman. She thanked him, adding: "You are tha only gentleman in the car.” She was. startled by the answer, "Yer betcher, life I am, kiddo.” Dr. Jesson reports the astounding fact that out of a total of 100,00b> school children from the different German States, from 81 to 99 per cent were found to have diseased teeth and: that practically only 1 per cent haft normal, healthy mouths. The examinations of the teeth of the school children of the city <>f Berlin showed,, according to Dr. Ritter, that 90 per cent had defective dentures.

The Town of After Ten.

I wlsht I was as big as men, To see the Town of After Ten > I’ve heard it Is so bright and gay, It’s almost like another day. But to my bed I’m packed *olf straight. When that old clock strikes half-past eight! It’s awful hard to be a boy And never know the sort of Joy That grown-up people must have when They’re in the Town of After Ten. Pm sure I don't know what they do, For shops are closed, and too. Perhaps with burglars they go ’rounds And do not dare to' make a sound! Well, soon I’ll be a man, and then I’ll see the Town of After Ten! —Harper’s Magaslne.

Egyptian Embalming.

The modern efiibalmer Is still ignorant of the sqpret, that was so welE known to the men of ancient Egypt. The Wocess followed by the Egyptian, embalmers is known only lu part, themein part being still a mystery. As the cost of becoming a mummy, Herododtus and Diodorus tell of three model of embalming .prevalent In Egypt, the first very costly, answering to about $2,060 of our meueg; the second, S6O; the third within tho reach of all.” s

What, Indeed?

The girl wee very pretty. Leaning "her dimpled elbows*on the table, she 'said to the critic: "And what la your lecture to be \ about, professor?" T'ehall lecture on Keats," he replied. “Oh, professor," she gushed, “what, are keats?"—Tit-Bits.

Poor Opinion of Countrymen.

On| of the greet intellect*' of England hae stated that ndt above 50,000 - people In ell Britain can read end understand the ordinary London news- - paper.