Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1910 — Page 3

Topics the Times

Chocolate is served to the ladies in the churches of Mexico. Ecuador's last cocoa crop was worth 14,383,497, and the cocoa there Is only in its infancy. One of the newest milking machines Incudes ~a pulsating vacuum pump, driven by an electric motor. Germany annually imports from Chile about half a million tons of saltpeter, valued at 123,000,000, for fertilizing purposes. Prison rations of England give 81.4 ounces of food daily to the prisoner doing hard labor, but only 46.8 ounces In the case of a prisoner doing light labor.

Mrs. T. F. Beal, a rural mail carrier of the Burbank district In California, goes over her twenty-flve-mlle route in an automobile which she has bought with her own earnings. A good authority on horses says that the gray will live the longest, and that the roans come next in order. Blacks seldom live to be over twenty, and creams rarely live more than ten or fifteen years. Consul Felix S. S. Johnson, of Bergen, reports that on September 30, 1909, the population of Norway was 2,363,511. The number of births for the third quarter of 1909 was 10,195, against 9,660 and 8,299 for the same periods in 1908 and 1907. Miss I. L. Moorman is the president of the Negro Women’s Business League of New York City. The league is soon to hold a meeting in the hope of forming a national organization of colored women in the interest of votes for women. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Mrs. Ella H. Crossett are among the speakers scheduled for the meeting. Kaffir women will not pronounce their husband’s' names, or even use words which contain the emphatic syllable of those names. One old woman, being taught to say tlfe Lord’s prayer, changed the word for “come” in “Thy kingdom come,’’ to something that made nonsense, and It proved that the proper “come” word wad the main syllable of her husband’s name. A part of the historic palace of the doges is being made ready for the duke of Abruzzi, who has been appointed director general of the Third naval division, with headquarters at Venice. The Venice newspapers extend to him a welcome as the defender of the “Queen of the Sea,” made worthy by his own exploits to rank with the Venetian naval heroes. He “will begin a series of lectures on his Himalayan explorations at Easter. “I wish I had been born a man; it is the one regret of my life,” declared Mrs. Lillian Duncanson, president of the Political Equality League, before the members of the literary round table of the Chicago Culture Club recently. “I am tired of being a woman, of having to beg for better conditions, of being told *to put on a pretty gown and smile in order to influence some alderman to see things in the light he should see them as women see them.”—Chicago Tribune. You have heard of dogs who are very clever at minding sheep, but did you ever hear of one who helped to keep order in school? A teacher in Washington has a black cocker spaniel who goes every day with her to her school in a part of the town where there are so many people that there is no room for them to keep dogs in their homes. Hector loves the school children, and they love him, and when he barks at them to make them stop whispering, they obey. When they spell d-o-g he wags his tail.—Century Path. Two reasons are ascribed by French scientists for the floods that nearly overwhelmed Paris. One is the wholesale cutting down of trees in the Ardennes, . the Vosges, Burgundy apd along the affluents of the Seine. The other is the comet visitations. The theory of the noted astronomer, M. Deslandres, is that the cathodic rays of the sun, penetrating the gaseous tails of colnets, are turned into Xrays, notorious condensers of vapors. He holds that when the tall of a comet becomes entangled in the earth’s atmosphere serious floods may result.

TRICKS OF PICKPOCKETS.

Schemes of Light-Fingered Gentry for Getting Valuable*. “We had the usual run of pickpocket cases during the holiday season,” said a Philadelphia detective. “A retrospective glance over the experiences we have had shows that the crooks are holding their own in the matter of originality of device and cleverness of ideas, f “One of the most striking things about the tricks of the pickpocket is their absurd simplicity. The man who takes every precaution to guard against theft leaves himself open to robbery because of the apparently innocent action that precedes the purloining of his pocketbook or scarfpin. For instance, who would see in the very natural action of a man who folds his arms in a crowd anything apspicious? A hundred men willi do it and there will be nothing more in the action than a natural desire to atBume a restful attitude while listening to a street speaker or standing in a crowded car. But the hundred and first mag is a creak, and mark how simple ip the manner in which he works. "All the time the crook has his arms folded,” continues the sleuth, according to the Philadelphia Record, “the hand nearest the victim is creeping out, under cover of the folded arm. and the

educated Angers of the thief ate feeling tlieir way toward the stud in the shirt front of the man who is pressed against him in the crowd or are creeping into his Inside pocket, in search of his wallet.. .Try it for yourself and see hot? easy it is to reach ont with the fingers of the hand that is. folded under) the arm and what a complete concealment Is afforded Dy the coat Sleeve that covers those fingers. * A man who is entirely without suspicion of his neighbor in the crowd would never think of watching the folded arms. The action of itself disarms suspicion because until it is explained it seems impossible for a man to use his hands for stealing while he stands is that position. The simplicity of the thing, as I have said, is its strongest point. «• “Another clever means of concealing the movements of the hand is to use an open newspaper. Nothing is more natural in a crowded car than for a man to open out his newspaper and have considerable difficulty in getting the page doubled under. There Is scarcely room for the blanket Wet ol the modern daily to be turned when men and women are standing huddled together in a crowded car. No one would even glance at a man who turns the page of his paper, drops one page down and gets the next page by doubling the paper over his hand. Every other man you see standing in a car during the rush hours is wrestling with hi 3 newspaper in this fashion and no one is onto the trick of the crook, who, while turning his paperi and seemingly absorbed in the continued article that he is following to another page, has an exceedingly active hand at work beneath the outspread sheet. The paper is thrust almost In the face of the man sitting beneath the crook. In the few seconds that it rests on the Adam’s apple of the victim the hand beneath the paper has snatched the scarfpin or twisted out the diamond from the shirt front.

“The cleverness of it amounts to jugglery. It actually is jugglery, for in no other way could a diamond be torn from its setting without the owner knowing of its loss. It Is done by means of a pair of pliers, made especially for the purpose. The pliers grasp the diamond and q dexterous turn of the hand extracts it from the setting. It doesn’t take long for one of our skilled operators to accomplish this. All 'the time the newspaper hides the hand and the more crowded the car the easier it is for the operation.”

RUSSIA’S CREDIT.

Not Once Has That Natloa Failed to Sleet Obligation*. In no period of Russia’s history has her credit suffered prolonged impairment, and not once has she failed to meet her obligations to the full satisfaction of her creditors. As a consequence of so honorable a record, and by reason of the untold resources of the empire In forests, minerals and agricultural produce, Russian securities command a ready market to-day at good prices in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and England. Even the diplomatic defeat which the Imperial government suffered in the recent Balkan settlement had no adverse effect upon the market estimate of the empire’s credit. Such confidence would unquestionably be misplaced but for one fundamental consideration, namely, that, despite the lingering economic backwardness of the Russian state and people, the resources of the nation as a whole—not alone in the gross output of agriculture, Industry and trade, but In the taxpaying abilities of the people—are steadily Increasing.

A thing that, most of us do not realize is that the population of Russia is actually growing s at a rate (1% per cent a year) not equaled in any important country on the globe.' Another thing is that not even in France does so large a population belong to the landowning class, providing a necessary condition for the agricultural prosperity of the coming generations. Since 1877 the amount of-ara-ble land held by the nobility has diminished by a third; yet the price of land has risen in every part of the empire. In 1888 the total of savings banks deposits was 60,000,000 rubles; at the beginning of 1908 it was 1,000,000,000. In fifteen years the consumption of tea, tobacco, brandy, petroleum and cottons has increased by froan 20 to 30 per cent and the per capita consumption of sugar has been exactly doubled. These are a few casual considerations. which tend to relieve the blackness of the picture presented by Russia’s financial condition to-day,, because they indicate that, slowly, painfully, the great Russian people is coming to its own. With increased ability to pay taxes, and with ultimate control over the public purse these same Russian people may yet be aible to solve the vexing problem of the balance sheet with which the bureaucrats have so vainly wrestled.—F. A. Ogg, in Review of Reviews. ,

Unusual

“Don’t you like the book?" “No. I think the heroine is a most impossible creature.” “Is that so?" “Yes. She doesn’t appear to have a single ‘gown of some simple material that enhanced rather than hid her graceful figure!”

Very Slow.

“In the morning,” declared Capt. Kidd, “you shall walk the plank.” “Haven’t you got a loop-the-loop device?" complained the captive. “I thought you pirates provided real thrills for prisoners.”—-Louisville Cou-rier-Journal. ''9 L * Commercial travelers of Australia are allowed certain liberties in the way of exemption from import duties.

TWO BEARS.

To deal with living grizzlies, admire, understand, and even lore them, and to be the first man to domesticate them, was the Jife history of James Capen Adams, writes W. H. Wright in the "Grizzly Bear.” The story of Adams’ career is told in a book entitled, “The Adventures of James Capen Adams, Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California.”

It was on Adams’ first expedition, somewhere in eastern Washington, that, having shot an old grizzly that was followed by two yearling cubs, and having; after many difficulties and repeated failures, captured the youngsters, he came into possession of “Lady Washington,” destined henceforth to .be his companion and servant. She was already old enough to resent' the restriction of her liberty, and it was not until he had supplemented kindness with discipline that she accepted her new position in the scheme of life.

“From that time to this,” Adams says, “she has always been with me; and often has she shared my dangers and privations, borne my burdens and partaken of my meals. The reader may be surprised to hear of a grizzly companion and friend, but Lady Washington has been both to me. He may hardly credit the accounts of my nestling up between her and the fire to keep both sides warm under the frosty skies of the mountains, but all this is true.” The details of her trailing, the gradual augmentation of her liberty, the way in which she came to follow him to the hunt, and finally to consent to bear the trophies of these joint expeditions back to camp makes fascinating reading, and Adams seems, naturally enough, to have valued her affection. But the following year her “nose was put out of joint.” During one of his hunts in the Yosemite Valley, in the spring of 1854, Adams located the winter quarters of a grizzly bear, from which the occupant had not yet emerged, and deciding, from the sounds that reached him in his careful reconnoitering, that the occupant was a female with young, he determined to watch for her appearance, kill her, and secure the cubs.

The adventure proved a thrilling one, and at the conclusion of It he found himself in possession of a grizzly bear so small and helpless that he succeeded in raising it only by Inducing a greyhound, that accompanied the party, and had a young family of her own at the time, to adopt it in lieu of two out of her three offspring. Thus “Ben Franklin” and his fosterbrother grew up in amity, and continued to be sworn allies through life. Ben, having never known the world under any other guise, accepted it frankly as he found it. He not only did not have to unlearn the habits of the savage, but seems never to have developed them, at least not toward his master. He was never chained, he slept for the most part in Adams’ company. and when at last the ultimate test of allegiance was unexpectedly presented to him, he took sides unhesitatingly with his adopted master against his own relations. Adams, while accompanied by Ben Franklin, was attacked by a wounded grizzly. Ben instantly joined in the fight, and although himself badly bitten, saved his master’s life.

A SHARK’S BITE.

Am Officer In the Philippines Loses t Piece of His LearJudge J. H. Stewart of Marion, Ga., has received a letter from his son, Lieut. James H. Stewart of ther Philippines constabulary, in which the lieutenant tells of being attacked and bitten by a shark, and that although his leg wound will heal, he will walk lame for the rest of his life. The letter contained a clipping from a Manila paper, as follows: .“Lieut. James H. Stewart, an excellent swimmer, entered the water for a-deep-water swim and when out about 100 meters noticed a shark swimming parallel with him. He at pnce turned for the shore and at the same time splashed water at the ‘man eater* for the purpose of frightening him off. For a while the big fin Of the fish followed at the same distance, but suddenly it disappeared, and from the rush of water around him Stewart knew that the fish was making a circle preparatory to diving. Stewart held his breath and stopped swimming. He began to tread water and look around him to await the attack he expected to be made. The shark arose under him and seized him by the calf of his leg and again dived to the depths below, dragging Stewart down. The teeth of the shark dug deep into the flesh, and for a time all the lieutenant’s struggles were in vain. With the water strangling him he fought for life against the big brute, striking It in th.e head with his other foot and with his fists. He finally with a supreme effort tore himself loose, leaving the muscles of his leg in the maw of the shark. Striking out with all his might he swam to the surface and headed for the shore. The shark, satisfied with its bite of flesh, did not follow him. On reaching shore he was in an exhausted condition. He tore up some of his clothes and bound up his injured leg as best he could to stay the flow of blood, and then made for town to seek such surgical assistance as plght be at hand ” ===-

A Musical Limerick.

A brilliant composer named Brahms, When scarce but an Infant in abma. Said, “Not that I’d care to Compose a concerto. But musical liSe has Its chahms.’* —-Harvard Lampoon.

YOUNG FOLKS

Skip Saved by Dancing. The battleship Dominion was cautiously feeling her way toward Qaebec on the night of August 16, 1906, when the navigating officer, misled by a bush fire on land, took the wrong bearings and suddenly struck on a hidden reef with such force that the huge ship was shaken from stem to stern. Orders were at once given for the whole crew, officers as well as men, to assemble on desk with their kits in their hands, and all the 850 men were told to dance so as to keep the ship “alive,” and so prevent the Dominion’s keel from settling down on the ledge. At first the bluejackets whistled an accompaniment to keep the men in step till the captain ordered the ship’s band to play lively selections. The men danced with a will, stamping their feet and swaying their bodies, and doing all they could to rock the ship. In the end they succeeded, for finally, with the engines working full speed astern, the Dominion slowly gave way and backed again into deep water. The dancing* had saved the ship. A Bath-Tub Joke.

Clean and sweet from head to feet Is Jerry, but not his twin. “Now for the other!” says merry moth- ' er, * And quickly dips him in. Jim and Jerry, with lips of cherry, And eyes of the selfsame blue; Twins to a speckle, yes, even a freckle— i What can a mother do? They wink and wriggle and laugh and giggle— A joke on mother Is nice! “We played a joke”—’twas Jimmie who spoke—- “ And you’ve washed the same boy twice!" Hfatory Game. The following is a pleasant little game to play with your friends or with the grown folks. Try it with the lat*

EX-QUEEN OF HAWAII’S GIFT.

Liliuokalani Provides in Will tor the Orphans of the Islands. By the terms of a deed of trust; just executed Former Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands has provided for the endowment, after death, of orphan asylums for children of Hawaiian or part Hawaiian blood. The entire estate is valued at $200,000. The trusteeship of the large portion which will be devoted to this humanitarian object rests In W. O. Smith, A. S. Cleghorn and C. P. laukea. Though 71 years old, the former queen is said to be In excellent health, says an exchange. W. O. Smith, oddly enough. In view of his selection as a trustee, was a leader In the movement to bring about Lllluokalani’s dethronement. laukea, formerly a. sheriff in Honolulu, represented the Hawaiian government at the coronation of Czar Nicholas and the jubilee of Queen Vic* Wla. He was Lilluokalanl’s manager until her return from Washington last year, where she had gone to urge her claims against the United States government. *■ The trust deed stipulates that,,certain annuities are to be paid po a few former retainers and that relatives are to have the use of the real property. The Sprockets mortgage of $70,000 is aIBO to be paid. The entire residue of the estate, of wlhch she is to enjoy the benefit while she lives, will go to forward the asylum project. Liliuokalani is the great-grandniece of the celebrated Kaplolani, one of the first converts to Christianity at the time the American missionaries from Boston visited Hawaii, in 1820. The ex-queen was herself a - communicant In the Episcopal church. Reports putting her character In none too favorable a light gained wide circulation a few years ago. Her relations with Marshal Wilson, a Tahitian half-breed who enjoyed many of her royal favors, to his own enrichment, became notorious. Queen Liliuokalani made the latest of many visits to Washington last January as a claimant for $250,000. which represented, it was held, the vain* of lands passed to the United States. During hqr reign the qheen maintained the area of the crown lands was about 1,000,000 acres, and their values in excess of $12,000,000. A life Interest in the crown lands became vested in each monarch as successor to the trust, and it was a private income to be used as the monarch. saw fit. The income" from this source, when the government was overthrown, she placed at $65,000 a year. In addition to this the privy puree, amounting to $20,000 a -year, toured to "the occupant of the throne. These items formed the basis of her claim. It was her hope, after ineffectual appeals to Congress, that the conscience of the American people could be aroused. Her claim has had prominent supporters in this country, among them Senator Hoar oi Massachusetts,

ter, and see if they remember as much of their American history as they should. The initials, or first letters of the words correspond with those of the character’s name. When you used this list, make a new one. Perilous Rider. Great Warrior. Always Loyal. Worthy Peacemaker Harbor Hunter. Exceptional Ally. Considered Crazy. k «, Before Foreigners. Religious Wanderer. Sailed Confidently. Unusually Successful General. Marching Suitor. The answers in this case would be: Paul Revere. George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. William Penn. ) Henrik Hudson. Ethan Allen. Christopher Columbus. Benjamin Franklin. « Roger Williams. Sebastian Cabot. Ulysses S. Grant. Miles Standish. The American Cattail. The cattail of the American swamps is almost exactly the same plant as the Egyptian bulrush. It is no longer used for making paper, as it once was, but from its root is prepared an astringent medicine, while its stems, when prepared dry, are excellent for the manufacture of mats, chair bottoms and the like. Old Bullfrog;. For playing this merry game one child is seated on the ground with his legs under him while the other players form a ring around him. They then pull him about and give him little pushes, and he must try to catch one without rising from the floor. The child who is caught takes the middle, while the frog joins the circle. Coin Under the Hut. One of the old customs which have never been changed in the launching of a new ship is that of placing a gold coin under the mainmast. This coin, which is not of any certain denomination, always Jtears the -date of the launching of the boat, and is claimed to bring good luck to the vessel and her crew.

who interested himself in her behalf without success. The ex-queen Is a woman of culture and marked personal charm. She has found refuge since her dethronement in reading, in the study of languages and in music.

CITY COMFORTS INCREASING.

Statistic* Relative to Batblnn Beacbea, Zoo*, and Play Ground*. It Is shown In the United States Census Bureau’s special annual report for 1907, now in press, relative to' the statistics of the 158 largest cities each having 6ver 30,000 population In 1907, -that from 1905 to 1907 the number of bathing beaches reported increased from 44 to 63; swimming pools, from 56 to 61; and all the year baths, from 15 to 78. The total bathing attendance increased from 19,158,562 in 1905 to 29,204,838 in 1907, an increase of 52.4 per cent. More than half of this attendance was reported from New York City, those ranking next in order being Philadelphia, Bdbton, Chicago and Milwaukee. New York has the largest acreage (278.5) devoted to zoological parks, followed In order by Washington (166.5) and Atlanta (140). In the number of mammals and birds that such parks contain, New York ranks first and Cincinnati second, while Washington ranks third in number of mammals and Philadelphia third in number of birds.

Playgrounds are maintained in 76 of the 158 cities included in the report, and the city appropriations for playgrounds increased from 1516,177 in 1906 to $741,912 in 1907. More than one-third of the amount was appropriated by New York, the cities next in order being Milwaukee, Washington and Pittsburg. Private contributions for playgrounds was greatest ip Washington. The total acreage devoted to playgrounds was greatest in Indianapolis, followed by New York, Boston and Baltimore. In New York most of the area devoted to playgrounds Was connected with public schools, while In the other H cities named most of the playground area was in city parks. l

Woman’s Point of View.

Husband—What! Three hundred and fifty dollars for that gown? My dear, how extravagant you are! Wife—No more than you. Didn’t you spend $75 for your last suit?— New York Press.

Immune.

Farmer Grayneck—S’pose you are goin’ to git the automobile fever, Ezry, like everybody else? Fanner Hombeak—Nope! I’ve been vaccinated in the pocketbook and it took.—Puck. / | A New York dressmaker duns delinquent customers by sending them bunches of forget-me-nots. How a woman does enjoy being tired, if it Is from shopping!

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1622—The Indians massacred 349 of tlie Virginia colonists. 1638—The First Baptist Church was formed in Providence, R. L 1684—The Assembly of Pennsylvania imposed the first excise. 1691—C01. Henry Stoughter published his commission the Duke of York, appointing him Governor of the Province of New York. 1734—First party of Salzburgers reached Savannah, Ga., and met with a cordial reception. 1744—Louis XV. of France declared war against England. 1755 —Pennsylvania Assembly met in special session to arrange for cutting a road to Philadelphia for the use of Braddock’s army. 1765—The British Stamp Act became law. 1775 Georgia’s one delegate to the Continental Congress elected. 1776 Evacuation of Boston by the British. 1777 Col. John Bayard elected speaker of the Maryland Assembly. 1779 —Gen. Benedict Arnold resigned his commission in the American army. 1781—British repulsed the Americans at battle of Guilford, N. C. 1800—British ship Queen Charlotte destroyed by an explosion off Leg- - horn. 1802 —West Point Military Academy established. 1815—Napoleon joined by all the army after hid return from Elba. 1825—Pasturing of cows on Boston Common forbidden. 1833 —United States pension office established. 1836—Constitution of the Texas republic adopted. 1838—Sir Francis Bond Head resigned office as lieutenant governor of upper Canada. 1866—First public schools In Illinois established. 1856 —Railway train from Toronto to Hamilton plunged through draw- ' bridge in Desjardins canal, and v seventy lives lost. 1862 Gladstone presided at the presentation in London of a SIO,OOO testimonial to Charles Kean, the celebrated actor. 1863- under Clark captured Mount Sterling, Ky. 1875—Gov. Tilden of New York sent a message to the Legislature declaring the State canals 'to be mismanaged and the funds looted by contractors. 1877—George W. McCrary of lowa became Secretary of War. 1882 —Samuel Blatchford of New York appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1889 —Menelik IL, Emperor of Abyssinia, ascended the throne. 1892—The Standard OH trust dissolved by consent of the stockholders. 1894—A provincial plebiscite In Nova Scotia showed an overwhelming sentiment in favor of prohibition. 1897 Fleets of the allied powers began the blockade of Crete. 1898— Dominion House es Commons passed the Yukon Railway bill, for the construction of a railway to the Klondike. 1899 Queen Regent of Spain signed a treaty of peace with the United States. 1900— Canadian troops arrived at Cape Town to engage in war with the Boers. 1905—Hon. S. N. Parent, premier of v * Quebec, resigned. 1909—Congress of the United States convened in special session..,, _ General strike of telegraph, telephone and postal employes in -*■ Paris.

MANY ILLEGALLY MARRIED.

Court Decision Affects Hew Yorkers Who Wed Under 1& More than 3,000 couples in New York believe themselves to be married, but they are living as hustands and wives without the legal right to do so. This condition was brought to light by a decision in the Appellato division of the Supreme Court by Justice Nathan Miller. The ruling held that even the written consent of the parents authorizing a boy and girl under the legal marriageable age to wed does not make the wedding legal. About 70,000 marriage licenses are issued each year at the city hall, and of this number nearly 2 per cent are obtained by persons under the legal age on the written consent of their parents or guardians, or an average oO $1,400 each year.

Ocean Record Lowered.

Twenty-six minutes was cut jm the record time for the westward Atlantic liner Voyage when the Cuat.rder Mauretania reached New York frees Haunt's Rock in 4 days, 15 horrs and 26 minutes over the long courie.

Conductors Get More.

A committee l of the conductors employed by the Louisville and Nashville has received from the management an agreement to pay from 8 to 14 cent more wages during the next two years.