Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1910 — Page 2

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

INDUSTRIALISM NEEDED AS TEACHER.

Industrial education promises better living, and improved chances of earning a living, through employment in manufacturing Industries mostly, for, although the land turns out raw materials from mine, farm and forest, and transportation and commerce relate to both finished and unfinished products, yet complete industrial activity is dependent upon factories in operation, so that It is

reaii> <.ue factory which opens or closes the circuit of modern business. „ Small, exchangeable traveling exhibits, with simple descriptive matter, are the elements of a system proposed, such as can be fitted up at light expense by specific industries, as required, to show what each kind of factory needs, and to direct teachers and students alike into locally profitable channels, in accord with fashion, demand, expediency. Permanent museums and libraries do much for the intellectual life, but the contention herein is that little exhibits of industrial crude and finished products, which could be passed around from school to school, would do more to fit boys for wage-earning, an this is what industrial education proposes to do for boys. No amount of argument can disprove the facts of evolution which show the dependence of a sound mind upon a sound body, and we have accumulated statistics enough during fifty years past to prove that healthful, continuous occupation is a means of salvation for young and old, poor or rich. “The world is always tormented with difficulties waiting to be solved,'* and a list of small improvements and Inventions, to say nothing of the greater ones, needed in American factories would serve to humble the jingo patriot some. MIND AS AN AGENT OF HEALING.

Everybody is interested in the idea that the mind Is an agent of healing. Some embrace it, other laugh it to scorn. It has inspired the practice of shameful quackery upon credulous subjects so that the history of the application of mental influence to healing would be a good account of the crediility of men's minds throughout many centuries. It is easy enough for a physician to admin-

ister medicine in a spoon, or a stimulant through a hypodermic needle. But how can he dispense the mental Influence of which we are thinking? He must put his confidence in some fundamental laws which govern the action of the human mind. The law which I want to mention first is that which is expressed in the tendency of every idea, thought, emo-

VOICE OF ENGLISH WOMAN BEST.

“Catbird” Tones of Americana Due to linH<e in Speaking. — The devil hath not in all his quiver’s choice An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. —Byron. Surely the women who screech out their conversations in a high catbird voice have never been brought to a realization of how excellent a thing is a soft voice in a woman, the Denver Republican says. The English women are conceded to have much lovelier voices than the American women, and it is only because the English women take time to enunciate clearly, speak gently, in soft, low tones. The American tfomen have just as musical voices as their English sisters, but the American woman seems to be in such mad haste to get it said and said first that no thought is given as to how it is being said. Children always have beautiful voices— A child’s voice never gets on one’s nerves. It is only later in life that the voice loses its sweetness. How often a pretty face loses its charm the moment the owner speaks, and. on the other hand, a most unattractive woman will, when speaking, be irresistible owing to the beauty of her voice. A certain gentleman gives as his opinion that women as they grow older become victims of the nagging habit and the querulous tones develop in consequence.. If this is true, it is time woman cultivated the happy habit instead and thereby add to her charms the wondrous fascination of a voice “ever soft, gentle and low.”

Used the Wrong Gender.

A Frenchman with an imperfect knowledge of English was once called upon for an after dinner speech. He Btruggled along manfully for a few minutes, managing to turn one or two good phrases. Finally he excused himself from further effort by saying: “I will no longer cockroach on your time.” An Englishman sitting next to him at the table remarked: “Your speech was dooced clever, bah Jove! But you used the wrong word at the close, don’t you know? You should have said: ‘I will no longer hencroach upon your time.’ ” “I see,” said the Frenchman. “I used the wrong gender."

Proof.

“What makes you so sure that they are friends of yours?” “I once visited them without notice and found a framed portrait of myseif on their parlor"' table.” —Houston Post.

Swapping Yarns.

“I started farming on a capital of fl.” “I started on a package of free seeds gent me by a Congressman.”—Louis▼fte Courier-Journal. • A French writer predicts that in the course of one hundred years very few persons will live., in the cities. Cities will be used only for business purposes. J ° It takes the average man a lifetime to discover that he is of even less importaae* than the hole in a doughnut.

By C. Edward Fuller.

By Robert M. Gault.

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number of reservists recalled during the year for training has risen of late at the rate of 30,000 a year and w'ill continue to rise until the plan is in full operation. Thus there are and hereafter will be more than a million men under arms at one time or another each The year 1907 is the last for which complete statistics of recruiting have been published. The recruits examined numbered 1,189,845, among whom there were 532,000 of the age of 20 who were examined for the first time. In all 435,933 were incorporated in the armed forces, including 212,661 in the active army and 10,374 in the navy. About one-half of the army recruits were 20 and the remainder 21 or 22. There were only two one-hun-dredths of 1 per cent of illiterates. Voluntary engagements numbered 53,900 fcr the aymy and 3,839 for the navy. “Germany leads the world in aeronautics,” says a writer, “and the last year has only confirmed her supremacy in the air. Her aerial fleet consists of twelve dirigibles, systems Zeppelin, Parseval and Gross, while there are fifteen other dirigibles in private hands susceptible of being requisitioned. The German plan Is to act by methods of registration and subsidy; to prepare, as for the navy, the establishments and the means for rapid construction and to aim in particular at increased speed so as to obtain relative independence of the weather. The successful’ trial of the Gross 111., which made over 37 miles an hour on her trial trip on Dec. 31, is a case in point. 7 . “In many other directions there has been steady progress in preparing the army for war. The officers at the war school have been increased from 400 to 480. A census of motor carriages has shown that there aro 41,727 of all classes available for requisition, and during the maneuvers of last year great use was made of them and also of motor cyclists, who will probably be formed into special corps. Mobile field kitchens have given good results and will soon be in general use. Wireless stations are being erected at various places. The latest census of horses shows that Germany possesses 4,345,000 horses of all sorts, including 3,500,000 four-year-olds and upward. “It will be with young and highly trained men, aged from 21 to 27, that the first great blow’ will be struck in case of war, and all attention has been concentrated upon making the first echelon of the army as perfect as human effort.,can compass. The record of the last year show’s that from almost every point of view the German army continues to receive constant accessions of material and moral strength.”

FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL

Rlffht on the Job When the Boarding Houne Went Into Decline. When the boarding house died What’s that? You didn’t know the boarding house was dead? Oh, didn't you? Well, you know, at any rate, that it had gone into a decline. Didn’t your landlady often tell you that the boarding house business was not w’hat it used to be? Didn’t she explain that the reason she had to keep asking you for the money you owed her was that she didn't seem able to rept the parlor suite and’the second-floor front, and she didn't know how she ever was going to pay her next month’s rent? Such a nice gentleman, too, it was that had had the parlor suite last! .He had been there, for six veara and—— * Well, anyhow, the boartling hofuse. business is dead, in the big citids at least. It died a lingering, painful death, says William Johnson in Harper's Weekly. but it left an heir, a vigorous, flourishing heir—the family apartment hotel. Be not deceived by the imposing array of taxicabs that stands in front

tion, etc., td express Itself In some form of movement. Do you know that you cannot think of a word without starting to say It? A great many people cannot hear a vocal solo without themselves incipiently singing with the actual performer. That Is why so many people have a tired feeling in the throat after listening for several hours to a chorus. Then again many a person on the bleachers finds himself preparing to strike the ball when he is especially eager for a three bagger. When we have a pleasurable feeling it is not our toes but the corners of our mouths that turn up. At the thought of food it is not tears but saliva that begins to flow; it is not perspiration but. gastric juice that is formed in increased quantities. This is a principle that can be absolutely depended upon; every thought and feeling is expressed by some kind of movment, and appropriate movement at that. THE NEW ERA IN ANCIENT CHINA.

The power of the prince regent of China, Tsai Feng, is almost, if not quite, as aboslute •as was that of the great empress dowager. In a set of laws governing the regency, issued by the grand secretariat, appears the following: “The ordinances and ceremonies of the regent are of the most august character, and an imperial edict should be requested setting a time and designating officials to

make the announcement at the temple of ancestors. The prince regent, also, should reverently receive his commission and seal before the sacrificial table of the great empress dowager. • • » The government of the nation, military and civil, the dismissal and appointment of officials and their promotion and degradation are all left to the determination and decision of the prince regent" The power of the new empress dowager of China, widow of Kuang Hsu, will probably prove to be a negligible quantity. She is not an empress mother, and could therefore never hope to take the place left vacant by her predecessor, even if she had the personal strength and mentality of that great woman. The only mention that has been made of her since the death of the emperor was in one of the laws governing the regency, in which the regent is given permission to consult with her if he should ever have occasion to do so. But it ii added: “Others shall not arrogate this privilege to themselves and ask- instructions of the empress dowager, nor shall they presume to transmit - the same on their own authority.’’ This effectually annuls any power she might have hoped to wield and makes of her a mere relict living, out her useless life in the narrow confines of the palace and awaiting her turn to “take the fairy ride and ascend to the far country.”—Everybody’s Magazine.

A GERMAN ARMY of 4,000,000 READY

By Eleanor F. Egan.

of the boarding house’s successor. Be not over impressed by the boy in buttons who opens the door for you in place of the slattern maid who used to come drying her hands to answer the boarding-house bell. Be not beguiled by the welcoming smile of the courteous, clerk who stands behind the near-mahogany desk, one artificial potted plant three paces to the left, and two pieces of imitation armor overhead. Get a week behind with your hotel bill and he will be as relentlessly on your trail as your last landlady was. The family apartment hotel is the boarding-house heir. It has come into its inheritance In Chicago, in Pittsburg. in Denver, in New Y’ork, in Seattle. in San Francisco, in all the larger cities. Hotel life is now the fashion. Everybody who can afford it, and most of those who cannot. Ilves in “hotels.” Those who don’t dare live in them yet because of the increased .expense want to. - When a l?oy wears a pair of new shoes without protest, it Is an indlcar tion that he is going away on the cars. - -z \ 7

BETTER TO WEAR OUT

Man Who Retires With Ample Fortune and Allows Himself to Rust Out.

ENTERS A LIFE OF MISERY.

uoses His Hold Upon the Social and Business World and Rapidly Goes Down Hill. The average young man makes up his mind that at 50 or GO years of age he will retire and take things easy for the rest of his days, says a writer in the Dundee Courier. The average young man makes a great mistake. It is far beter to wear out than to rust out. To the young man work is a drudge, a necessity to keep him alive. In middle age work is an accepted thing, and we are used to it, and feel rather the better for having occupation. In old age work is a necessity to keep the mind and body young. There is scarcely a more miserable spectacle than the man of 50 or 60 who has retired - with ample fortune. He loafs around the house. Goes from, one club to another. Gets lonely. Feels blue. He tries to kill time in the day looking forward to the meeting of his cronies in the evening. The cronies are busy in the daytime and they have engagements and pleasures in the evening, so that our retired friend seems to be in the way. He finds that the anticipation of retirement was a pleasure, and that the realizations is a keen disappointment. “There is nothing,” says Carnegie, “absolutely nothing in money beyond a competience.” When one has enough money to buy things for the home, for his family comfort and enjoyment, when he has sufficient income to take care of himself and family, surplus dollars do not mean much. The business man should prepare for his future so that if ill health overtakes him he may have the wherewith to surround himself with comforts, travel and the best of care. The man who enjoys pleasures of the home and friends, who trains up young blood to take hold of the business, who travels and enjoys himself as he goes along has the right idea. We .must learn to enjoy life now instead of waiting for to-morrow, for to-mor-row may never come. The man who cashes in, puts his money in bonds and retires from all work goes down hill quickly and feels he is of no use in the world. The farmer who moves in town to live on his income is a sorry individual unless he has a garden and chickens, or buys and sells farms, or occupies his time with work of some kind. The retired, non-forking farmer who has moved to town gets up in the morning, goes to see the train come in, whittles a stick, loafs at the hotel or store, goes to the next train, talks of his rheumatism, goes to bed at 8 o’clock, and the next day goes through the same rigmarole. Occupation is the plan of nature to keep man happy, so when you have all the money you need have some occupation or hobby to occupy your time. The man who retires from any active work is merely counting the days until he dies. When old age comes, and your body or brain won’t let you do or care for as much as you could in your younger days, then get lighter work or lighter cares. Keep busy, if it is only raising chickens or gardening, or studying astronomy or botany. Reep at it as long as you can. Die in the harness instead of fading slowly away. Cultivate the reading habit in your younger days that it may be 5a pleasant occupation when your 16gs and hands grow feeble with age. When you quit work or occupation of some sort then life has no beauty for you.

WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

There Are Four Reasona for Opposition to Pareela Post. What is the answer? There isn’t any one answer; but the parcels post is one of several answers. Collier’s says. Everybody knows now the old story. When John Wanamaker was postmaster-general, some one asked him why he didn’t have a parcels post like every other civilized country? He said there are four reasons: The first, is the Wells-Fargo Express Company, the second is the American Express Company, the third is the Adams Express Company, the fourth is the United States Express Company. Every once in a while our consuls in Europe write to our government telling how the parcels post works in Europe. In Senator Platt’s day (Senator Platt was once the president of the United States Express Company) he used to have such reports withdrawn from the public. Here is a recent one from H. S. Culver, United States consul at Cork, Ireland. This report was printed in the “Rural New Yorker”: “Farmers, merchants and manufacturers patronize extensively these means of communication between the markets and the isolated individual customer. The rates by parcels-post are 6 cents for- one pound or less. 8 cents from one to two pounds, and 2 cents additional for each pound up to eleven-—the weight limit of parcels The length of parcel allowed is three feet six Inches, and the greatest length and girth combined is six feet. For example, a parcel measuring three feet six inches in its longest dimension may measure two feet sir Inches in

glnn. Eggs, fish, meat, fruit, vegetables, glass, crockery, liquids, butter, cheese, etc., may be transported by parcels-post.” If we had the parcels-post in this country the: farmer could ship one or five or ten pounds of butter, or a few dozen eggs, or a peck of potatoes, - or a basket of apples, to his individual customer in the city, and avoid the middleman. Fishermen In the north of Scotland send fresh fish to the London market this way. Also, If we had the parcels-post system in this country, the express companies would quickly reduce their rates and stop paying 800 per cent dividends.

Hugo and the Barber.

When Victor Hugo lived in Paris in the Palais Royal he used to be shaved by a barber named Brassier. A friend of the poet asked the barber one day if he was busy. “I hardly know which way to turn,” was the reply. "We have to dress the hair of thirty ladies for soirees and balls.” And M. Brassier showed the list to his friend. A few days after the friend returned and inquired about the thirty ladies. “Ah, monsieur,” said the barber, sadly, “I was not able to attend half the number, and I have lost many good customers through M. Victor Hugo.” It appears that the poet when about to be shaved was suddenly inspired and seized the first piece of paper he could find to write a poem. Hugo hastily left the shop with his unfinished verses, on the back of which were the names and addresses of the thirty ladies, many of whom waited in vain for their coiffeur.

Science AND Invention

The third municipal census of Buenos Ayres, now being compiled, is expected to give that city a population of at least 1,285,000. Brass may be given a color resembling pewter by boiling It in a cream of tartar solution containing a small amount of chloride of tin. New York is experimenting with street cars driven by electric motors which get their power from gas engines mounted below the floors of the cars. Though blessed with the most fertile soil and most favorable climate in the world, the United States produces less wheat per acre planted than England, Germany, or Holland. A model electric engine, built by Thomas Davenport, a poor blacksmith of Brandon, Vt., and operated on a small circular track in 1834, probably was the first electric railway in the world. 1 A bit of primeval yew forest about half a mile square is carefuly preserved In the Bavarian highlands of Germany, the tree, once widely distributed, having become almost extinct in Europe. The amount of fertilizing matter brought down by the River Nile from its source every year is estimated at 100,000,000 tons — enough to cover a road from the earth to the moon sixteen feet wide by two and one-half inches deep. The Bell Telephone Company is to adopt in New York the plan developed by independent companies in Buffalo of attaching pay-station telephonfe-box-es to street poles, after the model of police call-boxes. It is said that little inconvenience is caused by the roar of in the street, because the head of the operator can be introduced into the box so as practically to shut-out the extraneous noises. During 1908 Peru and Panama officially adopted the world system of standard time based on the meridian of Greenwich, and it is expected that ifi consonance with a resolution of the Pan-American Scientific Congress the Latin-American countries generally will adopt this system. It was the expressed wish of the congress that the new system should become effective from Jan. 1, 1910. Time signals upon this system are now sent out without cost by cable and wireless telegraphy throughout the American continent. The Whole globe is divided into hourly belts, starting from the meridian of Greenwich. The chairman of the chemistry section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Louis Kahlenberg, dwelt, at the recent Boston meeting, on the importance of recognizing that solutions are really chemical in character, and that there is no wide gulf separating the act of solution from ’other chemical phenomena. Benjamin Silliman, Sr., in 1837, regarded solutions as chemical compounds, and the chemical view predominated until 1887. Professor Kahlenberg thinks that the renewed study of solutions from the chemical point of view will greatly aid in getting a broader and more correct conception of the nature of chemical action itself, it will be of particular service in unraveling questions in physiology.

Funeral Baked Meats.

The Customer—Hi, waiter! What do you mean on the menu by “Brown Soup,” “Jonesed Eggs” and "Harrised Mutton?” The Waiter —Well, sir, you see, sir, we often give dishes names of our clients who die after bein' reg’lar cus’omers here. —The Sketch. Men are too willing to go to law. Remember that when a lawyer advises you to go to law. it is not hid funeral , A woman who tries to convince a man that he knows more than she does ia both clever and dangerous.

JOLLY JOKER

Jp! ' “Did you ever hear Gadby say anything particular about me?” “No; he never was particular what he said about you.”—Stray Stories. “Good heavens! What is the matter?” “The people on the second story have gone away and left their autopiano playing.”—Fllegende Blaetter. Mistress —Anna, you’ve been wearing my patent leather shoes again. Anna —So sorry, ma’am, but I always mistake them for my rubbers. —Meggendorfer Blaetter. Willie—Ma, can’t I go out on the street for a little while? Tommy Jonea says there’s a comet to be seen. Moth-er-Well, yes; but don’t you go too near.—Boston Transcript. “Do you give your wife an allowance?” “Yes.” “How much do you allow her?” “Don’t you think it ia rather impertinent for you to ask what my salary is?”—Houston Post. “But why do you put yout friend’s things in the dining room?” “Oh, he is so used to restaurants that he won’t enjoy his dinner unless he can watch his hat and coat.”—Louisville CourierJournal. Motorist—As it is my fault that you were upset, I will make good your damage at once. How much do you want? Victim—How much does the gracious gentleman usually pay?—Fliegende Blaetter. Post Office Clerk—You’ve put two penny stamps on your letter. The postage is only one penny. Old Irishman —Sure, niver mind. My son’s in the post office, so it’ll all help towards his wages.—Tit-Bits. “Died in poverty!” cried the philosopher, scornfully. “Died in poverty, did he, an’ you expect me to sympathize? Gorstrooth, what is there in dying in poverty? I’ve got to live in it.” —Sporting Times. Hubby—l’m really quite proud of you. You’ve actually saved some money out of your allowance. Wife— Yes. It was so simple! I wish I had thought before to have things charged. —Chicago Daily News. Miss Sweet—lt is just the sort of engagement ring I preferred. None of my others were nearly so pretty. How thoughtful of you! George—Not at all, dear. This 1s the ring I have always used.—Kansas City Journal. “Yes, I was fined SSOO for putting coloring matter in artificial butter," “Well, didn’t you deserve it?” “Perhaps. But what made me mad was that the judge who imposed the fine had dyed whiskers.” —Cleveland Leader. “She’s going on the stage.” “Is that so? She can’t sing, and I never-saw her act.” “I know, but that’s all she can do. Her husband deserted her, and she never learned to work at anything before she married.”—Detroit Free Press. “Please, ma’am,” said the servant “there’s a poor man at the door with wooden legs.” “Why, Mary,” answered thejmistress, in a reproving tone, “what can we do with wooden legs? Tell him we don’t want any.”—Lippincott’s Magazine. “Well, here I am,” announced the fashionable physician in his breezy way. “And now what do you think is the matter wjth you?” “Doctor, I hardly know," murmured the fashionable patient. “What is new?” —Louisville Courier-Journal. “I am told that King Edward sends a daily message to his chef complimenting him on his dinner.” “Yes,” answered Mr. Crosslots, “we are all of one common humanity. Even a king has to go out of his way to jolly the cook.” —Washington Star. Visitor —It must be a gigantic task to run a great newspaper like yours. Editor—Not at all. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Dozens of my friends as well as perfect strangers come in here every day to tell me how to run it.—Chicago Tribune. Seymour—Why did you leave Flannigan’s boarding house? ■. Ashley— There was too much sleight-of-hand work going on. Seymour—Sleight-of-hand work? Ashley—-Yes; Mrs. Flannigan got the coffee and the tea from the same pot.—Chicago News. The Judge—Did you arrest this chauffeur for speeding? The Policeman—No, yer honor; I pulled 'im in fer obstructin’ th’ road; he was goln’ thirty miles an hour, an* he was complained about by them that was riding at th’ regular rate.—Chicago News. Dying Plumber (to son) —You’ll find I ain’t bin able to leave you much money, Bill; it’s all got to go to yer mother and sisters. But I've bequeathed you that there job at Mugley’s we’ve bin at such a time. Don't ’urry over it. Bill, and It’ll always keep you out of want, anyway.—Tit-Bits. “Honey, I can’t find a retraction of that story about your sister’s elopement with the Chinese cook after poisoning her husband and forging her father’s name to a $50,000 check! Where did you see it?” "It’s inside, my dear, next to the ‘Lost and Found’ column, and about the size of a pure food label.’’—Life. •‘John—John,” whispered Mrs. Gldgely, nudging her husband. “What is it?” he sleepily asked. “There’s a burglar in the house.” “What do you want me to d<A—get up and run the risk of being killed?" "No; but if you find in the morning that somebody ha# gone through your pockets, don’t blame me.”—Chicago Record-Herald.