Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1910 — Page 2

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NEIGHBORS.

«»w Think* That Wiahea ■omctlme* Come True. Mrs. Enderby let her sewing drop unheeded into her lap with a happy little airh of contentment. All the rest of the long-June morning stretched before her in lovely profusion, hers to ■pend as she chose, for Bobs was packed off to his nap, Katle-in-tbe-Kltchen was wrestling stoutly with domestic problems, and Mr. Enderby had gone to town, not to return until the midnight train. "And I can have dinner any time I like," she chanted happily to herself, not that she was dilatory by nature, or that her husband fretted unduly at delays. She was merely thankful for an unaccustomed sense of security. “Oh, my lovely, long, leisurely day!” she added, letting her eyes sweep to the distant, low-ranging mountains, purple in the morning glow. Her {Aince wandered to the large white house at her own hilltop; then the brightness of her look faded a little, and a worried frqyn crossed her foreheal. “The new people are moving in today," she said, half aloud. “Will they be anything like the Babbitts, I wonder? I hope”—she rocked restlessly—“l mean, I wish if there are fairies one would come this very minute and give me three wishes. I’d lump them all in one, and wish for a real, truly neighbor to drop right down here this minute. No, not to drop down,” she added, sinking back in her chair as she remembered Mrs. Babbitt’s wide circumference. “She’d shake the porch to pieces. But I mean a woman my own age, a friend I could ‘neighbor,’ ” she went on, half aloud, for, like Alice in Wonderland, she had a habit of selfconversation. “Mrs. Babbitt would never let me do anything for her, yet she lavished her possessions on me. She never understood that sometimes It’s blessed to receive, too.” Her cheeks flushed uncomfortably as she remembered how her simple gift of cinnamon roses had been returned by a glorious bunch of Jacqueminots, how her cake had been patronized, and ■he herself urged “not to overdo with just one servant, my dear,” and, worst of all, how Mrs. Babbitt never, never ran out of supplies and forgot to order them at the last minute. Mts. Enderby bent over her seam again, and longed for a fairy more than ever. AM at once there was a swishing of ■ilk skirts, and she looked up to see a young woman, quite out of breath and very pretty, who held out a bowl beseechingly. “Will you lend me some coffee?” ■he pleaded. “I’m Mrs. Coolidge, your new next-door neighbor, you know. We’re moving, and I forgot to order any—Mr. Coolidge says I always do—and I knew from the nice look of your house you’d let me have some. No, Til just wait here and look at your lovely view. I believe It’s better than ours.” Mrs. Enderby returned with a bowlful of coffee, a heartful of happiness, too, to find her guest bending lovingly over the old-fashioned roses. “May I cut some?” she asked, half timidly. * *<Oh, will you, really?” cried Mrs. Coolidge. "I love them so. They grew all round my home when I was a child, and now all of ours are such grand, formal flowers. When her neighbor had disappeared up the long drive, her arms full of coffee and roses, Mrs. Enderby took’up her sewing again with another happy ■lgh. “And to think there are people who don’t believe in fairies!” she said.

"LET’S PRETEND.”

How * Prime Minister Fooled Empreaa Catharine of Russia, “Let’s pretend” la & delightful game In which adults are as prone as children to engage. The wise heads of the Treasury Department at Washington, In passing upon a question of tariff classification, recently determined that a doll is not a toy. With like official Ingenuity, the British government conaiders Ascensioh Island as a vessel of war, and as such is governed by the Admiralty; and the express companies long pretended that a typewriter orated is an agricultural implement, but that, tln-cased, it is a musical instrument The Czar of Russia, on a recent visit to the King of Italy, carried to the royal children a magnificent toy, consisting of a model Russian village populated by dolls dressed fn Russian clothes. The doors and windows of the houses open and shut; the shops are •quipped with counters and goods; the schools have desks and pupils; the barracks accommodate artillery, infantry and cavalry. The Czar personally helped the little prince and princesses set up the village;; and the fun of the thing and the satisfaction of the royal parents did not a little to bring about the present good feeling between the Russian and Italian courts, so long at . enmity. Did. the royal toy village recall to Nicholas the little game played on his ancestress, Catherine the Great, by her prime minister? During one of Sher journeys Potemkin arranged a series «f tableaux by which smiling cities and Tillages appeared at stated intervals. Houses and shops were made of petnt•d canvas, and dancers appropriately dressed played the part of a contented peasantry living happily among their fields. • The Imperial cortege having rotted on, the village with its Inhabit® was whipped up. hurried by roundabout roads sad set down a few stiles farther on, to confirm the opin-

ion of the empress that Russia was a land of ideal prosperity. Oftep, however, the “let’s pretead” of one generation is the accepted fact of to-morrow. Santa Claus driving his reindeer and hitching them to the tallest chimney on the roof Is not far removed from the veritable airship tying up at its elevated station; and children as well as their elders know that when schemes are well laid in advance, even “just pretending” circumstances are apt to fit in with them.—Youth’s Companion.

NURSE IN WILDEST AFRICA.

Girl Who Began Service in Kimberly Thirty Yean Ago. Sister Bessie Smythe, the pioneer nurse of wildest Africa, will i-eturn to England some time this year, and it is supposed she will have a remarkable tale to tell of her wanderings, the New York Sun’s correspondent says. It is nearly thirty years since she began her career at Kimberly and was graduated in her profession. She was then a bright young Irish girl, keen, adventurous and hardy. Id 1898, when a severe smallpox epidemic broke out in the Transvaal,, it was she who took charge of the lazarette in Pretoria. She organized the wards and trained awkward Kaffirs as orderly boys. For four months she lived in that camp and saw the danger through. Then came the war. She was in the fighting line at Kimberly and Boshof, and later she was put in Charge of a hospital. When the war ended she took charge of the government hospital at Mombassa, and after this set off unarmed and only attended by occasional carriers picked up on the way, through northwest Rhodesia, across a corner of the Congo Free State and along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, till she came to the Victoria Nyanza, which she crossed In an Arab dhow. Everywhere she helped the savages and found them grateful and helpful in return. The year 1906 saw Sister Bessie on the Gold coast, which she left after the hospital closed for Liberia and San Thome, after which she found herself at the scene of the Cape colonial whale fisheries. Here she became counsellor and friend of the Norse fishermen. A whaling ship recentlylanded her at Capetown. A woman who saw Her on her arrival at that city describes her thus: “Khaki clad from head to foot, her whole demeanor speaks of readiness and service. A strong, sweet face, framed in soft gray hair, gazes at you with the most understanding eyes you could meet —gray, Irish eyes, which •winkle with sudden burner as readily as they moisten with pitiful tears.”

Defending the Pumpkin.

Mrs. Anne Royall, who wrote “Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States,” 1826, declared New England to be “the soil of human excellence.” In Boston, she declared, “the human mind has reached perfection.” Sarah Harvey Porter, in her account of this energetic woman, says that all New England pleased Mrs. Royall. She even defended the New England pumpkin pie. As to pumpkin-eating, she writes, they do make pumpkin pies in the fall; but they have plenty of everything else. Let those who have traveled there say if their tables do not abound, and they are able to furnish them. But why is a pumpkin worse than any other vegetable, pray? It is not from necessity that the Yankees eat pumpkins, but from choice. Why may not a pumpkin be as good as a cymlin or a sweet potato or an opossum? Pumpkin pies are fully as palatable as potato pies. Although I never eat either. I have tasted them, and I see no difference. The cost is the same, I believe. Perhaps it would be better for other people to try the pumpkins, if their land would bring them. It may be owing to this article of food that the Yankees excel and are taking the lead in everything.

Two Kinds of Oil.

He was anxious to purchase a birthday gift for his wife, and, as he liked pictures and the wall were rather bare, he soon hit upon the form which his present should take. “Where shall I find something really nice in oils for the dining room?” he asked of an assistant at the co-opera-tive stores. "On the third floor,” began the assistant; then he paused and looked doubtfully at the inquirer. “Did you mean a painting or something in the sardine Mne?” he asked.—Tit-Bits.

Long Wait for Frogs.

A tourist, while traveling through Arizona, noticed the dry, dusty appearance of the country. “Doesn’t it ever rain around here?” he asked one of the natives. “Rain?" The native spat. "Rain? Why, say, partner, there"s bullfrogs in this yere town over five years old that hain’t learnt to swim yet” Then the native spat again.

Naming Him.

BUI —See that dog getting away -with those -bones. Jill—What would you call him, a pointer? “No, an ultimate consumer.”—Tonkers Statesman. __

Unconquerable Suspicion.

"Bllggjns says his -wort is aa good as his bond.” “Well,” answered the sinister person, “that’s a good argument for not taking his bond.” A man never knows how many relatives a woman has until after he marrles her. A lawyer’s wife may be his hardest trlgjr-

TRUMPET CALLS.

Kam's Hem Sound* a Warnin* Mata to the Unredeemed.

Betting, upsetting and forgetting. The Ilfs of love cannot be lived until we cease the love of our lives. Christ’s two great commandments are great enough for two worlds. The things we scatter, not those we gather, make our lasting wealth. There is no Christian character apart from, conformity to Christ. In the question of the .Son is the solution of the question of our sin. It takes more than sharp, scratchy angles to make a rugged character. Learn to speak so that one sentence will mean, as much as two did before. The shortest cut to being a grand fizzle is to start out to be a “good fellow.” There are many ways to please a man besides doing him an outright favor. The coolest person in a controversy is the one most likely to be in the right. The best way to rise in the arms of faith is to put your arms about the fallen. No man can know his Father who is unwilling to be known amongst his brothers. Scratch a self-made man around the pocketbook and you will soon see the real man. In whipping sin around the stump, be careful that you do not hit your own back. the man who learns to moderate his desires will have the least trouble satisfying them. A really living faith makes itself known in even the middle of the load of hay a man sells. Some people seem to think that they will be allowed to withdraw their support when the church debt is paid. What the preacher says from the pulpit is half of it. What his congregation thinks in the pew is the other half. It is qlways easier and more profitable to follow the highway, whether in religion, morals, or politics, than the many by-ways. Fools rush after pleasures and suffer the pain of folly. Wise men study to avoid the eVils and partake of the pleasures of wisdom. We cannot dream ourselves into a character, but we can dream about the character we wish to get into while we are building ft up.

BROTHERS OF CHARTERHOUSE

Inmates of Famous Scliool—Tercr'*tenary to Be Celebrated. The tercentenary of the Cha. jerhouse school is shortly to be commemorated, and graduates all over the world, to the number of 6,000, have been asked to send in their Views on the subject. The governors of Charterhouse have included many of the famous men of their day. Beaconsfield, Gladstone, Lord John Russell, Palmerston, Pitt and Walpole have been some prime ministers who have been connected with the school. Gen. Monk was a governor, as was Lord Anson, the circumnavigator, though perhaps the most famous governor of all was Oliver Cromwell. Today there are only sixty-five brothers or pensioners at Charterhouse, those brothers immortalized by Thackeray. These pensioners are gentlemen who have lost their incomes, and they are provided for by the bequest left by a notable soldier of Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Sutton, master of ordnance in the North. The money is derived from land in Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and Essex, but owing to the great depreciar tion in land that has taken place of late the money suffices only for sixtyfive pensioners instead of eighty. The pensioners are called brothers, and they have their rooms, food and attendance free, and are given >175 a year in addition. The great qualification is that the applicant must have been a gentleman in the full sense of the ward, says the New York Sun’s London correspondent The foundation is eligible to gentlemen who have reached the age of 60, and are either unmarried or are widowers. Maddison Morton, who wrote “Box and Cox,”- was a brother, and it is recorded a former Lord Mayor of London came to accept the benefits of Sutton’s bequest.

His Reluctance Appreciated.

There are persons who like to pose before the camera, there are those who do not like to, but may be persuaded, and there are those who will not anyway. Of the last class was the eminent but uncomely person referred te by the Washington Star. "Did you tell that photographer yon didn’t want your picture takenf he was asked. "YA,” he answered. “Did he take offense?” “No. He said he didn’t blame me.”

Accurate, Though Ungrammatical

"What’s a “An old man with a lot of money that he doesn’t see why he should give to a lot of relatives who have never earned it?’ Some people’s morals are like their best clothes—worn only on special o* casiop*

Life is a dream te which death to the Awakening. 1 It is just as easy to borrow sunshine as trouble. A gloomy religion has no place in a sunshiny church. There are three kinds of sins—-be-

Topics of the Times

Rain falls on the eastern coast of Ireland about 207 days in the year. Boiled alligator flesh tastes very much like veal. It is much eaten 'ln India. London, in monetary value, is worth two and a half times as much as Paris. There are more medical schools and more physicians have received their education in Philadelphia than in any other city in the United States. Irishman (after waiting at the theater entrance for a long time on a cold night)—Shure, it’s myself wad sooner walk fifty miles than shtand five!—Punch. Information of all kinds regarding possible landing places for aerial craft is to be Issued in the form of a handbook by the Aerial League, Regent street, London. A German student preparing to be a doctor needs about $3,500 during the five years involved in medical training. At an English university the cost would be about $5,000.. Recent statistics of the German army show that neurasthenia is three and a half times as prevalent among the soldiers as it was a decade ago, while hysteria cases are twice as numerous. A French scientist has invented an apparatus for sterilizing water which passes in it in spiral tubes around a long mercury lamp, to utilize the bactericidal properties of the violet and ultra-violet rays.' From New Guinea comes a new orchid shaped like a cradle and found in a recent orchid hunting expedition in the island. The flower has a white margin, with reddish chocolate markings and a yellow lip. As a means to reduce the smoke evil the municipal authorities of Glasgow will hold an exhibition of gas heating, lighting and cooking appliances and appliances for the use of various sorts of smokeless fuel. Seventy-five per cent of the farmers of the United States plant their crops according to the moon’s phases, but scientific Investigation shows that potatoes planted in the “dark” of the moon are no better than others. A proposition Is on foot to establish in the ancient city of Palos, from which Columbus sailed to discover the new world, a permanent agricultural and industrial exposition to increase the friendly and commercial relations between the nations of America and Spain. " The value of machine guns was first exemplified in the Franco-Prussian war, the Boer war in South Africa confirmed the conclusions of the tacticians, and the Russo-Japanese war proved the correctness of their views. Since then all European nations have made machine batteries an essential part of their organization. Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner of charities for the state of Oklahoma, found the conditions so bad in the sanatorium for the insane at Norman, where state patients are kept under contract, that she forced the removal of the superintendent by the president of the sanatorium board. Miss Barnard is serving her first term as commissioner of charities. Dogs of all breeds at this year’s Birmingham show numbered more than 25,000. Great Danes were much the strongest section. Bloodhounds made a strong show, several having been sent from kennels of titled Englishwomen. Princess Toussoun, judge of the Pekinese spaniels, keeps her score of pedi greed pets and their puppies in elaborately furnished kennels, which cost her about $3,000 a year. Mrs. Emma Erskine Hahn of Stamford, Conn., president of the new Town and Country League, is planning a farm school for boys-modejed after the farm school for girls conducted by the Countess of Warwick, in England. Mrs. Hahn proposes to obtain a farm within one hundred miles of New York and to conduct it on the cottage plan, with house mothers In charge of each cottage, so that the boys will get as much home life and influence as possible. The age limits for the boys will be 7 and 14 years.

MODERN HERO WORSHIP.

It Seems to Be Drifting Away from the Old-Time Ideals. The world seems to be seeking for nerw heroes to worship. Apparently, in the rush of events of the last decades of the preceding century and the first of the present, there have been presented numerous temptations to drift away from the ideals of those who have passed the meridian of life. We may not ignore, at any time, the Cincinnati Enquirer says, the tendency of the average mind, as we observe and study it, to admiration of characters possessed of strange and startling phases. We may have been taught In our childhood that the Ilves of great men should serve to remind us of the possibilities of sublimity In our own and that we should exert ourselves In that direction. But to-day many of us are at a loss to know who are the /'really “great” in achievement. ’’ Those of the older school wer taught to respect and even admire men and women whose pedal impressioiis upon the "sands of time” have told of devotion to their fellows; of permanence in literature making for our improvement; of philanthropy of a kind that some of their fellows might be relieved of some of the burdeqs of Introspective study and anxious thought for the future; of those great in Inventions that resulted in vast improvements for the world,and for the Indi-

vidual; of these who have directed ua in advancement in medicine and surgery, that the physical sufferings of their fellows may be more speedily and permanently alleviated; of warriors on the land and on the seas whose deeds have advanced freedom of thought and action in nations; of discoverers of countries, new. to the world in their time, to be benefited by -those advanced thinkers and martyrs, and of many other characters who have illuminated the world’s history. But does the average mind now turn to such characters for instruction and pleasure in the study of the so-called “great”? And if not, why not? No doubt all persons of all climes have legitimately acquired, by heredity, the disposition to look with profound admiration upon those physically superior to their fellows. .Not so many centuries ago the great robber in European wilds and fastnesses who could overcome his neighbor robber and thus inerease his holdings and prestige managed to boost himself or his descendants to what we have become accustomed to know hs royal or -imperial power. They were served by their fighting Intimates and vassals, who followed and admired them. We of to-day are descended from these masters or from their friends or vassals. We have not forgotten, down through the centuries to admire the power of the physical stroke and its results. The wars of the last three-fourths of a century no doubt produced men who may become heroes for the worship of the future, but very few of the great characters of those wars now linger In the memory. The great searchlight that will be thrown upon them 'by historians may serve to make them heroes for generations now unborn — perhaps. In the great advance in sciences heretofore almost undreamed of there are many brilliant characters exploiting the seemingly impossible. To them, perhaps, we may immediately turn for the focal points of our admiration; to that man of our navy, for instance, who recently caused himself to be shot through a torpedo tube from a submarine to demonstrate how thV lives of a crew of such a vessel may be saved in case of Imprisonment within the depths; to those men who are now risking their lives upon the Integrity of a single cog or fragile wing, thousands of feet above the earth, that we may advance our flight through the air without the aid of gas. And there are others, including some who have exerted the magic of their inventive genius to give us more intimate communication with each other through the vast reaches of our atmosphere without visible means between points of sending and reception.

BLACKSMITHING DECLINING.

One Effect in New York of the Spread of the Automobile. Blacksmithing is becoming a lost art in New York, especially in the branches of- horseshoeing and wagon repairing. This is owing to the way that automobiles for commercial and other purposes have been supplanting the horse in the last two years. Perhaps a generation from now the familiar sledges, anvils and bellows will be a feature of the collections In museums, says the New York Press. There were a lot of blacksmith shops scattered about on unimproved corners and inside lots all over the city as late as five years ago. One could hardly go Into any of the cross streets without hearing the pleasant ring of hammer and anvil and seeing a line of horses waiting to be shod or wagons ranged along the curb for repairs. All this Is changed now. The picturesque shops have all but disappeared. The blacksmiths, many of whom owned the land upon which their old shops stood, have put up substantial buildings and turned their attention exclusively to the repairs of automobiles. They have Installed expensive machinery for that purpose and make but comparatively small use of their old-time tools. They say that they have been forced Into this change because there are no longer enough horses to be shod or wagons to be repaired to enable them to continue profitably In their former line of work. The companies employing a large number of delivery wagons—such as the express, department store, commission house and trucking people—have been eliminating the horse more rapidly In the last two years than ever before. One of the express companies is said to have ordered 400 additional motor driven vehicles this month for Its use in this city. The employment of the horse among these large corporations has decreased more than twothlrds. Some idea of the encroachments of the automobile may be gathered from a few facts. Twelve years ago when the Dingley tariff bill was adopted the automobile was such an Insignificant commodity that it was tucked away in the schedule of “manufactured metal.” It was not Important enough for a separate Classification. There were not more than 1.200 cars then in use In the United States. There are nearly 300,000 now, and the 1910 crop is estimated at 250,000 more. There are about 100,000 professional chauffeurs. No one knows how large Is the army that is working In the shops making these motor cars—it has been estimated at 200,000 workmen. Many of them used to be workers in Iron— smiths who found a new occupation with the waning of the old one. A mule hitched to a buggy looks almost as unnatural as the picture on a magazine cover. Many a man’s life Is insured for several times its real.value. But kiss by any other name wouldn’t rhyme with bliss.

EXCELLENT TRADE IN WESTERN CANADA.

•Dtendld Crops, Bl* Price*, tai Prooperoaa Oatlook for th* Fatare. Throughout all of Canada, and especially in the western provinces of Canada, there is a buoyancy in every line of business that is fully warranted by every condition. The crops of the past year were what was expected, and the prices for grain of all kinds put the farmers in a class by themselves. Many of them are independent, and many, others have got well started on the road. The latest reports are that seeding is well under way In almost every district, and the prospects are that a vastly larger area than that under crop last year will be seeded early -this spring. In the Lethbridge district, In Southern Alberta, ■team and gasoline outfits, hundreds of them, are breaking up the prairie at a tremendous pace, but they work night and day. As soon as it becomes dark gangs are changed, a head light attached, and on, on through the night until -the first streak of dawn, these giant monsters with their seven or eight gangs of breaking plows, keep up the work. Then the more modest farmer is putting in the longest hours possible with his teams of horses or oxen. And what will the country be like in August, when these fields have become yellowed with the literally golden grain. There will be one vast expanse of wheat field. And there will be a market for it, because it is the best grain grown, and the demand will be everywhere. As previously intimated, business throughout Western Canada is sound and good. The grain production of 1909 has been the great factor in establishing the reputation of Western Canada, and It is worth talking about. It surpassed all previous records, both in regard to quality and quantity, and such an achievement was by no means easy. The limit has not been reached, and a large average increase may be expected during the next ten years. There will be odd seasons when a falling off will occur, and it is the falling off that causes alarms and panics in the commercial world. The plains have done their duty so far in the output of grain and it would bo reasonable to make occasional allowances for slowing up. The faster the rate of Increase is now, the- sharper will be the check when the production diminishes. But there are some unreasonable people who wonder why the growth of one year is not continued during the next, and at an even faster rate. These same unreasonable people are the ones who see flaws in the situation as soon as an indication Is given that the startling advances have not been maintained.

Soap Growws on Trees.

Side by side grow toe soap tree and the tallow tree. The soap tree yields a product from -which is manufactured the purest article of soap that is possible to be made. Indeed, the pulp of the berry is a natural soap, and will make a lather almost like the manufactured article. The soap berry tree is now creating widespread interest and tAe berries are being imported from Algiers and China. It will pay to plant the trees and look after their cultivation. The product of the tallow tree also enters into the making of soap, and the two together make a nice combination, and their cultivation should be looked after by those Interested in new industries. Besides soap, the soap berries make a very fine oil, and when the virtues of the tallow tree are fully known, it may also yield a fine and profitable oil. The young man who naw plants out a ten or twenty-acre orchard of these two trees may drop into an easy fortune.—Ocala (Fla.) Banner.

Somewhat Suspicious.

“Why do you refuse me an interview, Mr. Gotrox?, I only wanted to ask you how you earned your first $1,000.” “Excuse me, young man, I thought you wanted to know how I got my last million."— Louisville Courier-Jour-nal

ROSY COLOR

Produced by Pootum. "When a person rises from each meal with a ringing in the ears and a general sense of nervousness, It is a common habit to charge it to a deranged stomach. “I found it was caused from drinking coffee, which I never suspected for a long time, but found by leaving off coffee that the disagreeable feelings went away. “I was brought to think of the subject by .getting some Postum and this brought me out of trouble. “It la a most appetizing and invigorating beverage and has been of such great benefit to me that I naturally speak of It from time to time as opportunity offers. “A lady friend complained to me that she had tried Postum, but it did not taste good. In reply to my question she said she guessed she boiled it about ten minutes. I advised her to follow directions and know that she boiled it fifteen or twenty minutes, and. she would have something worth talking about A short time ago I beard one of her children say that they were drinking Postum now-a-days, so I judge she succeded in making it good, which is by no means a difficult task. ‘The son of one of my friends was formerly a pale lad, but since he has been drinking Postum, has a fine color. There is plenty of evidence that Postum actually does ‘make red blood,* an the famous trade-mark says.** Read “The Road to Wellville,” found in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.