Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — Page 3

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Do Tber Kin He at Home? Do they min me at home —do they y miss me? c ■’/ h "rwould be an assurance most dear, To know that this moment some loved "* one • Were saying, “I wish he was here;” To feel that the group at the fireside Were thinking of me as I roam. Oh, yes, ’twould be Joy beyorid'measure To know that they miss’d me at home. - ■ : ■■■'■■ --. When twilight approaches the season That is ever sacred to song, Does someone repeat my name over, And sigh that I tarry so ltjng? And Ur there a chord In the-music -miss’d when my tioice Is away? And a chord In each heart that awaketh . Regret, at my wearisome stay? t Do they set me a chair near the tabic, When evening’s home pleasures are nigh, When the candles are lit In the parlor. And the stars In the calm, azure sky? And when the "good nights” are repeated, .c, ‘ And all lay them down to their sleep. Do they think of the absent and waft me A whisper’d “good night” while they weep? v- v Do they miss me at home—do they mips me At morning, at noon, or at night? And lingers one gloomy shade round them That only my presence can light? Are joys less invitingly welcome, And pleasures less hale than before, Because one Is miss’d from the circle. Because 1 am with them no more?

THE EARTH AS A MOON.

® BP World mlt Appears to Venae and Our Own Moon. w ® could be transported to the planet Venus a peculiar set of views could be obtained of our earth- which would enable us to see ourselves, to some extent, at least, as others see us. Venus is about the same size as the earth, is somewhat closer to the sun and has more atmosphere than the earth. When thtf earth and Venus are nearest together they are, of course, on the same side of the sun, and in conpeQuence of this the earth does not Bee more than a very small part of the Venus illuminated, but Venus, on the other hand, sees all of one side of the earth , illuminated, and consequently is able to she has something that takes the place of a moon anyhow, for the earth to Venus at this time looks very large and bright, almost as much bo as our moon does to us. If we could see all the illuminated Burface of Venus on these occasions we should have quite a distinct second moon. When we do see all of her illuminated surface she is on the opposite side of the sun from us and consequently at an enormous distance, yet she is so brilliant as to keep us from seeing her Burface distinctly. But to our own moon we appear in the best light as a moon. A full earth as seen from the moon, according to Prof. Todd and other astronomers, is a very inspiring sight on the moon’s surface. It can at once be seen why this is necessarily true. The earth is several times larger than the moon and would appear in the heavens as a disk about fourteen times the size of the moon. It would shine with probably a variable light, due to the shifting clouds on the earth,- though the light, of course, is reflected from the sun, and the reflecting is done in part by the upper Burface of the clouds. The outlines of the continents of the earth appear very clearly tq the moon as if they were formed of papier mache on a globe. Cities of comparatively large size could be made out with ease in cade people were there to make them out. The intensity of the reflected earth light would be as much as fourteen moons and would enable the Selenites, if such they are, to read or work in comparative daylight.—St. Louis * Republic.

POSTOFFICE MASCOT DOG.

Had Headquarter! at Albany, but Now Poaea In Waahtnvton. Inclosed in a large glass case in the gallery of the dead-letter department of the Washington postoffice Is the stuffed body of an unattractive mongrel dog, whose history can but Interest every one, especially those who appreciate the wisdom and fidelity-of these almost human animals. “Owney,” the railway postal clerks’ mascot,” la the name by which this dog was known during Its very, eventful career, proofs of which may be seen In the hundreds of tags and med< als that are- to the collar and lVmesg A paiieh fdmoit-cover the body and the spuce around him. During thA winter of 1886, this dog, a half-breed fox terrier, blind in one eye, cold, starving, made bis way Into the postoffice at Albany, N. Y. The clerks took pity on hit forlorn condition and arranged to feed and house him. He became devotedly attached to bis uniformed friends, and one day followed a mall wagon to the station, where he boarded s mall ear, in which his presence ups unnoticed until after tho train started. Eventually *he re turned on another‘train to Albany. „ Having once learned the trick, he made frequent trips to different points, turning up again in coarse of time at the borne office. His travels became so extensive that, the, Albany clerks provided blm with a fine collar bearing the Inscription, “Owney, Albany P. 0., K- Y.” At the next postoffice he vis-

ited the clerks attached to his collar a metal tag bearing the name of that office. ’ This attracted the attention of all the clerks whom Owney visited, and tags of all kinds, metal, paper, leather and doth, bearing the names of places he visited, were added. On his periodical returns to Albany these were detached and preserved. Owney contln* ued to travel from one place to another tor eleven years, always using the mill cars, looking upon every man who wore the postal uniform as his friend. At times he was assisted in his selection of a route by the clerks, who from one end of the oountry to the other knew him and always gave him a hearty welcome and a tag to prove where he had been. Prom New York to California, north south, he gathered these tokens of interest, and many are the curious kinds. From ’’the western mining regions are chunks .of silver fudely molded qnd inscribed, and there are original/devices in leather and the bark of trees and scraps of cloth. During this time he also followed the mail pouches on board ocean-going steamers and visited many points in Canada, Europe and Asia, as well as, other parts of the world. The Mikado of Japan presented him with a silver medal having the Japanese national coat of arms This , medal occupies a conspicuous place in Owney’s glass case. Owney met a sad and untimely fate, at Toledo, Ohio, in 1897. He had'been chained to a post in the basement of the postofflee to await the arrival of a\ photographer who was to take his picHe became impatient at this'unusual restraint, which he could not understand, and made noisy and desperate efforts to release hlmßelf, and when a -clerk tried forcible means to quiet him he showed the first sign of temper he was ever known to display, and sprung at him* and hit his hand. The clerk spread the report that the dog had gone mad. Thereupon the postmaster summoned a policeman, who ended with a bullet the career of this most remarkable animal. The news at once reached Owney’s home office In Albany, where It caused much grief, and a demand was made for the lifeless body in order to have it preserved.

The Inheritance Tax.

An Inheritance tax is an assessment laid upon the male heirs of property, either by distribution or descent. Sometimes this assessment is confined to collateral heirs, when It Is called collateral inheritance tax. The raising of public fun<|s in this way has been sanctioned by legislation from the beginning of’Romanvlaw, and in England and in other countries is a large and steady source of revenue, although such taxes have been stigmatized by eertain economists as “death duties.” During _ihe„ClsK JWar._taxea_of—thia_ kind were made part of the internal revenue system of the United States, but abolished soon after the struggle ended. The rate and method of assessment vary In different countries and In different States of the Union. In the United States lineal collateral and succession inheritance taxes have been Instituted in several States as a source of domestic revenue. Inheritance laws have in the United States occasioned much discussion and litigation. but their justice and utility have been testified to by experience and the decision of the law courts. The leading economists of the present and other periods have seen the scientific propriety, even necessity, Of such legal and have noted the uniformity with which they deal with all classes of the financial community.

Dignifying Her Guests.

'VQne suspects the “first lady of the State” who figures in the little story belqw of a rebuke tempered with humor. While Thomas Chittenden, the first Governor of Vermont, was discharging the functions of an executive he was waited upon one day, in an official capacity, by several gentlemen from Albany, New York. The visitors were of the well-to-do class, and were accompanied by their wives. At noon the hostess summoned the workmen from the fields and seated them at table with her fashionable visitors. When the ladies had retired from the dining-room to an apartment by themselves, one of them said to her hostess: “You do not usually have your hired laborers sit down at the first table, do you?” ' “Why, yes, madam,” Mrs. Chittenden replied, simply, “we have thus far done so, but are now thinking of making a different arrangement. The Governor and myself have been talking the matter over a little lately, and have come to the conclusion that the men, who do nearly all the hard work, ought to have the first table, and that he and I, who do bo little, should bo content with the second. But in compliment to you,” the lady concluded, “1 yiought 1 would ‘have you sit down' them to-day, at the first table.”

Don't Mention It.

The politest man In Boston collided violently with another map on the street. The second man was angry. "My dear sir,” said the polite one, with a bow, “I-don’t "know which of as is to blame for this encounter. If I ran Into you, I beg your pardon; if you ran into me, don’t mention it.”— Success. Magnaine. 11

A Tender Spot.

"I acknowledge, your honor,” said the prisoner, “that I punched this man in a moment of Indignation.”’ “I wouldn’t have minded the moment of Indignation so much,” put in the complainant, “had he not alio punched me in the face."—Baltimore American.

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

m Nparly two hundred million peopls In India" are dependent on agriculture for their living. Seven years ago there were two thousand students in China, and in 1907 there were 175,852. In the last ten years 325,000 peopli have emigrated from England and become Canadian farmers. Boys over 14 years of age and gtrl» over 12 may m&rry in Scotland with out the consent of parents or guard lans. Twenty tons of ostrich feathers, valued at more than 8500,000, were recently carried by the Mauretania to New York. The Koh-i-noor . diamond .originally ■weighed feight hut by successive cuttings has been reduced to 106 karats. * Sanitary conditions in Berlin have eo improved in thirty years that the average life of a citizen is now nine years longer than it was then. It is tow 38. At the end of the last fiscal year In the United States 278 life-saving stations had been established, of which more than two hundred were on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, sixty-one on the coasts of the Qreat Lakes, seventeen on the Pacific coast and one on the Ohio River at Louisville, Ky. More than six hundred persons are numbered In the crews and there were 838 disasters in whi<jfa the service took an active part.

According to a section of the amphitheater in King Arthur’s round table field in Monmouthshire, England, ,has been partially exhumed. The Archaeological Society has made five excavations around the walls and the searchers found the main entrance, the sand which formed the bed of the arena, and a corner stone. From Inscriptions on the stone they trace the date of the theater back .to 110 A. D.. or eighteen hundred years. At the Court Theater at Darmstadt a Christmas play in five acts, entitled "Bonifacius,” was performed a few weeks a«o. The plot is laid In the Black Forest; the time the eighth century. The subject treated Is the conversion of the heathen by St. Boniface. The play was well received and It now becomes known that the author, on the bills as E. Mann, is the grand duke of Hesse, who is hailed by the German press as the latest recruit to the ranks of royal dramatists. The year 1909 will always be remembered a§ the year,ln which the effort to maintain finished steel prices collapsed, but in the light of |he history'since made it will be well to remember that the year is also conspicuoua as witnessing a healthy and reasonable reaction toward fair prices with an absolutely open market, but with a spirit of fairness and good will pervading the trade which never before existed under similar outward conditions.—lron Trade Review. } There is no incident of Christmas benevolence within our knowledge-of such far-reaching scope for future good as the gift of Henry Phipps to the University of Pennsylvania In furtherance of his plans for the study, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis. Mr. Phipps, who has now ex* pended 93,000,000 with a view to the extirpation of this most destructive of maladies, has made sure of the future effectiveness of bis object by putting its direction in charge of a capable Institution already organized to make the most competent; use of the weapons placed in its hands.—Philadelphia Record.

Nearly one million new farms have been created in the United States during the last ten years. In the last ten years the total number of farms has increased 18 per cent. In the oldeT States, from Ohio eastward, there has been going on for twenty years a tendency toward the amalgamation of farms distant from market into larger holdings. On the other hand, this section has witnessed the cutting up into smaller sizes of many farms nearer to market. There are now almost three times as many farms as in 1870, and an unprecedented increase in the value of farm lands and live stock.—American Agriculturist.

In India such surnames as these ajw frequent: Tilak (a caste mark on the forehead), Plyarl (beloved), Chh Kouri (six little shells), Longai (a clove), Kurbanl (sacrifice), Moti (pearl), Suraj (sun)% Kharg (sword), Bali (strong), Phul (flower), Bahadur (brave). There sometimes they give their children bad names so that evil spirits will pass them by and not harm them, thinking they are worthless—«s Bhikarl (beggar), Bhangl (scavanger), Chuha (rat), Gobar (cow dung). ■- I know a high caste family who lost several children infancy. When the fduryt wag born they called him Bhangl,v and bh* v lived. They attribute his'life to the' name they ghvir 1 him.—Muzaffarpur Christian Advocate. 1 Some people believe that the banana was the origugtl forbidden fruit of the garden of Eden. In any case, it is one of the curiosities of the vegetable l kingdom, being not a tree, a palm, a hush, a shrub, a vegetable o ran herb, but a herbaceous plant with the status of a tree. Although it sometimes attains a height of thirty -feet, there la no woody Ibe r In any pari of Its structure, and the bunches growing on the dwarf banana plant are often heavier than the stalk which supports them. No other plant gives puch a quantity of food to the acre as the banana; it 1 yields forty-four times more by weight than- the potato and 133 times more than wheat. Moreover, no insect will attack it, and It is always immune from disease of any kind.

VALUE OP SMALL ECONOMIES.

O THE high cost of living nowadays is add- [ 64 tU e i expense of shaves at barber shop, | shines at the bootblack stand and cigars at the tobacco store. Formerly these were “listed In the cost of high living, to which § few men aspired. Perhaps the housewife is entitled to her part of the blame for to- ■ J 1_ * ■ ..Li . • 1, I i 1 X ■ . m a a as

day’s high cost of living (not now regarded as high livlag), on account of her poor , management of household (IJcpenses or tad cookery, but the husband who buys Shaves, shines and cigars is hardly qualified to complain or pose as a model. A man in New York, who for thirty years shaved his own face, shined his own shoes and eschewed cigars, tells the Sun, of that city, that in that time he saved 82,500 through these economics. With this money he, three years ago, purchased for his adult boy the business of the hoy’s deceased employer and the son hss wholly repaid his father out of the business and is on the road to fortune!. This is the way the father figures his thirty years’ savings; Shaving, three times weekly, at 15c, 45c; a year, $22.50; thirty years $ 675 Shoes, three times weekly at 6c, 15c; a year, $7.50; thirty years ... * 225 Cigars, three a day (box price), 15c; a year, ssss|so; thirty years . 1,575 Therefore, when figuring the high cost of living, or the cost of high living, do not forget the shaves, the shines and the cigars. A great deal of money goes into these unnecessary luxuries, and they are not less wasteful than automobiles, which many thoughtless persons who buy shaves, shines and cigars foolishly imagine are the acme of extravagance. Also should be Included the cost of shampoo, massage and tip at the barber shop. Many men are throwing away fortunes evdry day, without stopping to figure their waste. And yet they think they are skimping along without enough to live ota constantly. A good many of them talk about extravagance of their wives, when they, poor things, are buying fewer luxuries than their lords and masters. —Portland Oregonian.

THE AMERICAN FARMER.

ppMMH F THE American farmer went out of busi--1:1 ness this year he oould clean up $30,000,000,000; he wquld have to sell his farm on credit, for there is not enough money In 5J55T1 the world to pay him half his price. He earns enough In seventeen days to buy out Standard Oil and In fifty days to wipe Car-

negle and the Steel Trust off the industrial map. One American harvest wofild buy Belgium, king and all; two would buy Italy,, three Austria-Hungary, and five would take Russia, fromthe Czar. .With the setting of every sun the money box of the American farmer bulges with new millions. Merely the crumbs that drop from the farmer’s table (otherwise, agricultural exports) have brought In enough of foreign

MARK TWAIN’S WATERMELON.

Story of One of tl»e Hnmortit’i ‘‘Mon- • keynhlnen” in Hannibal. “Going to Bermuda, is he? Well, 1 can tell him a plan that’ll beat that Let him come over here and climb up and down the old hills, chop holes to fish in Bear Creek and smoke some Old Fisherman cigars and he’ll forget he ain’t feeling peart." Thus spoke Joe Tisdale Sunday morning when told that his old friend and playmate Sam Clemens had gone to the southern islands for the benefit of his health, a Cannibal (Mo. )-= correspondent of the New York Sun says. Mr. Tisdale had been out walking since 7, without gloves, enjoying the keen wintry air, he safd. It was then 11, and everybody but Mt. Tisdale seemed to be wearing a heavy outer coat and thick gloves. He is a small man, a trifle bent, but active and vigorous as a school boy. There is only a few years’ difference between his age and Mr. Clemens’. “Are you the man who used to make those long three for a nickel stogies for Sam?” Mr. Tisdale was asked. “I made cigars, sir, not stogies,” replied the old’ gentleman with some indignation. “Began down there where Tom Foster kept drug store alongside the printing office. That was long be® fore the war—the big war, you know. I guess itawas in 1852. Sam came in there Sow and then and bought smokers; used to’ say they were the best he could get. He was a bit particular about what he smoked, even when a youngster." < ‘What did the people think of Sam in those days?”

“They thought he was a darn fool.” f The response was made with such promptness that no one could doubt the old clgarmaker’s sincerity. “He was a joke, Sam was. I remember one time he got a big watermelon, the Lord knows how, but anyway be took it upstairs and laid it on bis stool near the window. I was coming around the corner and as I looked Up I noticed Bam spying up and down 0 Presently John Meredith comes Along And urhen. be free directly under the window Sam drops that big melon ' right square on John’s head. Gee, but it smashed him. 1 think John’s first Idas was that seme building had fallen. “John saw me grinning and came in my direction like howns going to take it out of me, but when he looked around the street end saw everybody weofclaughlng i gueee he thought it too big a Job to lick us all. Of course Sam wasn’t nowheJS jn plgbt, hut John found who did It and he never spoke to Bam from that day till they met years after at Pike’s Peak. ? ‘fin .talking about it Bam said be Studied a long while which would be the most fun, to eat the melon or drop n an somebody’s bead, and be flipped a nickel to find out which be ought to fie. The bead won.

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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.

“About twenty years after. Sam had left us he came back. I met him and told him when he wanted an old-time smoke to come around to my shop. I got up a box of the Old Fisherman, and when he and John Garth came in I made Sam a present of the box. “There were forty-six big cigars in It,- John Garth told me before he and Sam went to bed that night they smoked the entire contents of the box except two, which they saved for morning. I don’t guess there are many fellbws who could smoke like Sam. “That’s the way he did about everything he went at. It was no trouble if there was fun at the end of it. We never supposed he was training for a funny writer, though. If he’d have stayed in Hannibal and wrote all them pieces that’s made him a great man the people wouldn't have paid any attention to him. They’d Just say, ‘Oh, that’s some more of Sam’s XooL-nom.. sense,’ and let it go at that He sure showed good sense by getting out of Hannibal If he wanted to turn his monkey-shines into dollars.”

POLICE PROTECTION IN CITIES.

Atlantia City, Washington and St. Louts Have Greatest Amount. Tntefeitrng facts concerning the police In the 158 largest cities In the United States, each having a population of over 30,000 In 1907, are comprehensively assembled in the United States Census Bureau’s special annual report on the statistics of American cities for that year. The police protection afforded the Inhabitants of different cities Is indicated by showing the number of police per 10,000 inhabitants, per 1,000 acres of land area, and per 100 miles of improved streets. It is stated that the number of police to each unit increases with the size of the city. In cities of over 300,000 population the number of police per 10,000 inhabitants was 19.4, as compared with only 10.5 In cities of froar 30,000 to 503MMK population. .The. ciQes with, the greatest' protection, according to this unit of measure, were Atlantic City (36.1), Washington (28.4), 8t Louis (23.2) . and New York (21-5). The compensation of patrolmen was much larger in the cities of over 800,000 population than in the smaller cities. The average annual pay of patrolmen in cities of over, 300,000 population was highest in San Francisco (f 1,444 and New York (»1,328), and lowest in New Orleans ($780) and Buffalo ($900); in cities of from 100,000 to 300,000 population it was highest in Portland, Ore. ($1,200), and Newark ($1,174), and lowest in Grand Rapids, Mich. ($796), and 8L Paul ($868); in citiss of from 60,000 to 100,000 population it was highest In Oakland, Cal ($1,200), and Houston. Tex. ($1,141), and.., lowest in Kansas City, Kan. ($780); in cltiea of from SOjOOQ to 50,000 population it was hlgheft In Butte

money since 1892 to enable him, if ho wished, to settle the railroad problem once for all by buying every foot of railroad In the United States. Our new farmer, Instead of being an Ignorant hoemaa in a barnyard world, gets the news by daily mall oaf telephone; and Incidentally publishes 700 trade journals. Instead of being a moneyless peasant, he pays the Interest cm the mortgage with , the earnings of a weak. > The railroads, trolley, automobile and top buggy have transformed him -into a suburbanite. The business now swinging the whole nation ahead la not the traffic of the stock exchanges; hut the steafiy output of $20,000,000 a day from the Adds and barnyards. The American farmer has always been Just as intelligent and important as anyone elße in the republic. He put fourteen of his sons in the White Houser and did his full share of the working, fighting and thinking all the way down from George Washington to James Wilson.. He got no rebates, franchise, subsidies. The free land that was given him was worthless until he took it; ha has all along been more hindered than helped by medling of public officials. To-day forming is a race—an exciting rivalry between the different states. For years Illinois and lowa have run neck and neck In raising corn and oats. Minnesota carries the blue ribbon for wheat, with in ond place; California has shot to the front In barley; Texas and Louisiana are tied in rice, and New York holds the record for hay and potatoes.—American Review of Reyjews.

THE CURSE OF NOVELTY.

F ALL the fads that humanity gdopts, perI haps none Is more detrimental to modern I life than the unreasoning passion for the new, simply because it is new, and not beHfrUUJtjfll cause it is one whit better in any respect wJJ than that which is discarded to make way for the novelty. This restlessness, without

any basis of reason, without any sense of ponvlction, with no real feeling in. the matter except a eraving for something new and uncommon, is dangerous to the health of the individual and harmful to the community- - ' —, — —V The fearsome freaks which fashion annually invents to cater to this spirit among women illustrate in a homely way the tendency of the times. But fashion is not alone in its craving for the unknown. Art, literature, music, the play, law, business, every phase, of life is affected. Religion, morals and even the home do not escape. Everything seems to be in a constant state of transition. Everywhere and at all times turmoil and unrest exist Comfort, quiet, friends, the joy that comes of familiar friends, old books, surroundings that give one the comfortable sensation of arqti»lnt»n»nghip ,n these are lacking. The American nation is losing its sense of.location, its feeling of the permanence’ of conditions, the sense of home, which exists in of the carrier pigeon and the family eat. Those who hope to enjoy life to the full should have a care lest they mistake unrest for progress, and the temporary and superficial things of life for those that are abiding and real.—Chicago Journal

and Sacramento ($1,200), and lowest in Kalamazoo ($699) and Oshkosh ($709). ~-

COLDEST CITY ON EARTH.

How People Live In Winter la FarT theet Siberia. The coldest inhabited place in the world is undoubtedly Verkhoyansk, in northeastern Siberia, with a mean annual temperature of less than 8 degrees above zero, Fahrenheit, and a winter minimum of 85 below. Verkhoyansk is in north latitude 67 degrees, on the great arctic plain, scarcely more than 150 feet above the level of the sea. Probably there would be no town there if it were not necessary to Russian government purposes to have an administrative center for a region where many thrifty Yakuts, the fur-trading “Jews of Siberia.” carry on their operations. All its inhabitants, save a few offlcials and other Russians, are Yakuts, This does not prevent its being a place of some Importance, for the Yakuts are the most progressive people in northern Siberia, excelling the Russians 1 themselves in enterprise and adaptability to Siberian conditions of existence. The average temperature of the winter in Veryhoyansk Is 53 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit The rivers freeze to the bottom and the small trees have been known to snap and split from the force of the frost Yet, with all this, Verkhoyansk is, it is claimed, not a disagreeable place of residence, and is preferred by the Russian officials to many more southern and warmer posts. Its atmosphere in winter Is always clear, and for the little time that the sun is above the horizon its beams are unobstructed. The air is still, too; no blizzards or drifting snowstorms make life a burden to the inhabitants. The Siberian dress completes the comfort of the citizens of this arctic city. It consists of two suits of fur. an outer and an inner suit. The inner suit is wiMh fur side inward, the other fur side outward. With his hood down, and-Just though space left to see out of and to breathe through the VerkhArnnffkitr is vastly mom in a temperature of 80 below than many an American, in his cloth overcoat, in a temperature of 5 above sera The winter, indeed, is more enjoyable than the summer, which is hotter than might be expected. The average temperature of July in Verkhoyansk is 59 above aero, and very hot days are. now, uncommon. The earth becomes (ffeen and vegetation thrives, though m»ly the surface of the ground Is thawed. At Yakutsk, which is farther* south than Verkhoyansk, but not much warmer In winter, the mercury rises in July to 100 degrees.— Harper’s Weekly. If all the inventive genius wasted practical lines, an extension would have to be buHf’bif the patent office.