Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1910 — Page 3

Topics of the times

Spanish Is the official language ot twenty-two nations or states. The average life of a tradesman is About two-thirds that of a farmer. The city of Durban. South Africa, "will spend $1,000,000 for electric lights ■and railways. An English agricultural society is raising a fund with which to exterminate the sparrow. Nearly every, foreign automobile builder now casts all the cylinders of his engines in a solid piece. Gas lamps are made on the lines of the electric lamp, and the deceit is so cleverly perpetrated that few suspect the difference. The fur seal will not breed in captivity. This does not apply to the hair seals, which are those so readily trained,for exhibition purposes, '-iA schooner built in Amesbury, Mass., in 1805 and used In the war of 1812 as a privateer, still is in active service in the Maine coasting trade. A French scientist has figured that It would take a 350,000,000 candle power lamp to signal Mars, and even at that the Martians would have to use telescopes magnifying ten thousand times to see it. The first carbon filaments made by Thomas Edisbn for his new incandescent la.tftp were made from thread dipped in lampblack and tar and carbonized at high temperatures. Thi3 lamp was successful enough to warrant further Investigation. An ozone generator has been installed in the Chicago public library which will generate ten thousand cubic feet of air a minute. This system not only keeps pure air In the large reading room, but acts as an automatic deodorizer and disinfectant. Inventive minds have been trying for a long time to hit upon some process by which old newspapers could be reduced to a pulp and the ink extracted, and the pulp made into printing paper again. But the extraction of the ink has hitherto been unaccomplished. Ft ran Germany, however, ocimes the news that the paper pulp is treated with alkaline solutions so as to cause a change in the greasy part of the ink so that It ceases to hold the lampblack or other pigments, and they are easily extracted from the fiber by making an emulsion of the pulp with gelatinous silica. Writing from Berlin, the correspondent of the London Daily Express refers to the prominence attained by the Jews In Germany. “Among the Roman Catholics,’’ he says, "thirteen per ten thousand, and among the Protestants 25 per ten thousand receive a university education, but among the Jews no fewer than 160 per ten thousand receive academic training. More than half the doctors and lawyers in Berlin are Jewß, and the same numerical predominance can be aoticed in most great German cities. The Jews predominate also as university professors, as teachers, as journalists, as artists and architects—in short, in all professions.” Recent studies indicate that hitherto unrecognized associations may exist among certain sets of stars, involving not only common motions in a particular direction, but similarity of physical condition. Dr. LudendorfT says that most of the principal stars in Ursa Major, the Great Bear, including tivej of those forming the well known “dipper,” constitute a definite system traveling among parallel lines in space. Ejnar Hartzsprung corroborates this, and adds a number of other conspicuous! stars, including Sirius, Beta Aurigae and Alpha Coronae, to the system. It is remarkable that of the fifteen stars included in the supposed system, no fewer than nine are double. Queensland lies in an artesian basin, “the largest known in the world,” for It covers''over half a million square miles, and its discovery and the drilling of wells have wOrked wonders in the vast areas of this western Australian country. Mosquitoes are so bad that sleepers have to build fires to keep them ofT. It seems that some of the bored wells fill large lagoons and run into shallow trenches over miles of the country. Some of these wells spurt out water at a temperature as high as 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and some only 60 degrees. Some are good for watering stock, some for irrigation and some" nave so much alkali and mineral'as to be useless, but are said to cure all manner of diseases.

NO WORRY IN DENMARK.

Problem of Coat of lilvlng Settled There Long Ago, A little neck of land In the Baltic sea, about the size of Maryland, supports an agricultural population equal to that of kebraska and the two Dakotas. Yet an American fanner would pass by the soil and climate of Denmark as being unsuited for agriculture. The problem of the cost of living, which means the elimination of waste, was an Issue in Denmark when Daniel Boone was hunting buffalo in Kentucky, writes Milo Hastings. So the Danes, realizing that society left to itself becomes a game where one man draws a chalk mark on the sidewalk and charges the rest of the crowd for the privilege of walking across, took early measures for the establishment of co-operative marketing of farm produce. The Danish oon«nwier. goes no t worry about the food trust or middlemen, for the creameries, eggeries and packing houses are co-operative, and

if tne price of food is too high the farmer is the only one to blame. Under tliifl regime Danish food exports have grown from practically nothing forty years ago, until now the little country sends to England every year nearly a hundred mlllloh dollars worth of butter, eggs and bacon. That a country more densely populated than New England should export large quantities of foodstuffs la a condition hardly conceivable to the American who realizes that if railroad connections west of Buffalo were shut off we would have bread riots from Portland, Me., to Jacksonville, Fla. Another good thing In Denmark is the custom of taxing and selling land by the “Hartkorn,” which is a unit of productivity rather than of area. This productivity of the land is reappraised every five years, and is the basis of all legal and popular estimates of land value. Such a custom should interest a public that for two generations has accepted a homestead law which places 160 acres of Florida celery land (sufficient to support the members of the United States Senate and their familes) upon a par with a quarter section in eastern Colorado, where a goat would require a motorcycle to glean a living.

MEETING A RHINOCEROS.

It was an adventurous afternoon that Lieut. Col. J. H. Patterson describes in his book, “In the Grip of the Nyika,” and there was a useful lesson to be learned from the experience. It Is never well to go down a precipitous, narrow track into a bush-covered ravine in wild country In Africa without first assuring oneself by much stone throwing and hallooing that there is no dangerous beast lurking at the bottom. In the following incident no such precaution was taken. I was mounted, as usual, on Aladdin, and accompanied by my two Masai. Abbudi and Mellauw. I saw plenty of game in all directions, and on my way passed quite close by and watched a cow rhino with its little baby, a few days old, beside it. The young one looked very much like a pig. Soon afterward my progress was barred by a deep ravine with very steep sides. As it would have been impossible to take a horse down where I struck it, I walked along the edge for some distance till at last I found an animal path, which we could just manage to follow to the bottom, although it was somewhat precipitous and narrow. Mellauw went down first, I followed, and last of all came Abbudi leading Aladdin. The ravine was a wide one—• at least thirty yards across at the bottom—nnd was covered with dense bush. When we got down Mellouw was Just about to force his way through this undergrowth when he suddenly stopped and whispered to me, “Bwana, sow!” —"Master a rhino!’* “I asked under my breath, “Wapi?” —“Where?” and he replied in a frightened undertone, “Hapa, karibu sana” —“Here, just beside us.” There was mot room enough tp turn Aladdin, so I signaled to Abbudi to back him up the side of the ravine, while Mellauw and I quickly scrambled to what safety we could secure behind a tree. Here we waited for the expected charge of the now disturbed and suspicious brute. I held my rifle ready, and we hardly dared breathe while we listened to its angry snorts and watched Abbudi and Aladdin slowly making their way backward toward the summit. Very luckily for us, the wind was blowing strongly from the rhino in our direction. Had it been the reverse, the beast would undoubtedly have scented us and charged while we were all in the narrow path, and might possibly have killed or maimed all of us, as there was no way of escape. As it was, the creature stood undecided for a few moments, sniffing and snorting loudly; and then, not being able to make us out, it crashed off out of the ravine in the opposite direction. I wa‘B hugely relieved and pleased to see Its broad back show now and again through the scrub as the animal swiftly made its way up the far bank of the nullah and disappeared into the bush.

Woman’s Athletic Progress.

A time is foreseen by Harvard's physical director when women as a result of their, devotion to athletics will overtake man in physical development. By grace of tennis, golf, horseback riding, swimming and through gymnasium training young women who have leisure for such pursuits have greatly improved their physique within a generation. Yet the progress made, Dr. Sargent thinks, is only the beginning. Fashion, freedom from worry and other causes are ail helping a development which will eventually make woman man’s physical equal if not his superior. It is not to be forgotten that woman is fast becoming man's equal in business and politics as well as his partner in athletic sports, and that she rpay be expected to assume her share of the cares and worries from which she is now free and which retard physical growth. There are other considerations. It has not been shown that a girlhod given to strenuous athletics is conducive to good looks in middle life or that an uncorseted outdoor existence fosters the desired symmetry of outline in the matron. Fashion may yet interpose objections. It is not impossible that a regulation of feminine college sports in the interest of scholarship and class standing may be enforced as the result of masculine agitation for an equality of the sexes in sport.—New York World-

RELIGIOUS

Alphabetical Bible Characters. A fine contest for a Sunday .school class, contributed by a reader, with whom it is original: A is for A——, a Jewish high priest. B is a prophet who owned a queer beast, C was a Persian, great king o’er that land, D was a prophetess, noble and grand. E went from Babylon to his country forlorn, F the tree that shall grow for the thorn. , G had much cattle, one of Jacob’s twelve sons, H King of Tyre, so the chronicle runs. I was bom when his mother was old, J was once entered by spies that were bold. K A terrible earthquake swallowed up K, L a physician whom ’twas wise to obey. M was a leader who thrice struck the rocks, N the proud king, who ate grass like an ox. O was a giant with bedstead immense, P earned his living by making of tents. Q came from Arabia with camels and wealth, R was the water where a leper found health. * 8 sang in prison, and the doors were, then cleft, T was the place where a cloak Was once left. U being married, was in the king’s way, V was modest, In court could not stay. W was pronounced on people that sin, X is not found the Bible within. T is the time when seldom we tire, Z was a city that escaped rain of fire.

Ira Gethwmanfc « Within the shadow of the olive trees Alone the Master went, All bowed with sorrow’s weight of human woe. So weary and bespent. The blood drops of His agony revealed His anguish-laden heart, A holy ministrant of Heaven came down A blest strength to impart. While near the watchers, heavy-heart-ed, slept, The Master prayed, alone, Bending beneath the Father’s righteous law His will In all to own. Forth from the olive trees the Master came With victory calmly strong. To meet that awful hiss of traitorous love, And base betrayal wrong. i In our Gethsemanes the Master cpmsS^ And there with us abides, Till forth we come, all purified through Him, He knows, He saves. He guides. —S. Jean Walker. Success. The statue of Abraham Lincoln, erected at his birthplace in Hodgenvllle, Ky., was cast In duplicate, and the replica was erected on the grounds of the University of Wisconsin. On its bronze base It was planned to Inscribe the following words, “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” Before casting these words in bronze, an efTort was made to learn when and where Lincoln had uttered them. The sentence had been printed on wall cards and illuminated postals, and scattered -far and wide in connection with the approach of the Lincoln centenary, but the published works of Lincoln were searched in vain. President Roosevelt was among those who searched for it, and without avail. But if the sentiment did not find a place upon the monument, it has probably made a place for itself among the sayings of Lincoln, and may be much more nearly authentic than many of the stories attributed to him. It will be printed and reprinted and memorized, and no amount of declaration that it eannot be found among the works of Lincoln will be likely to stop its onward course. Happily, there is nothing greatly to be deplored in this fact, so far as it relates to this particular quotation. Lincoln might have said it. Jt sounds like his crisp and homely utterance, direct and concise, and it was true of him. He was not altogether master of his fate, and might have failed in some of his great undertakings, even had he done his best Yet there is a sphere within which success becomes obligatory. We may not say, ’Do right, thought the heavens fall,” without considering whether, if what we do is to destroy the heavens, onr conduct can be right. There are times when duty must be determined in the light of its probable success; when a thing will be right If it can be done, but will be very wrong, and will work vast harm, If undertaken feebly and permitted to fail midway. It is lamentable, therefore, that good people sometimes Inaugurate movements which have no probable chance of success, and the failure of which wrecks the fortunes and faith of others; and yet some of these enterprises, religious and otherwise, would have been a great blessing, had they been made to succeed. No man measured this problem more accurately than the Apostle Paul. He thought of himself as having entered a race, and that to win. He described himself as a gladiator, and as one who wasted no blows in beating the air. “So run, that ye may ob-

tain!’ as his fine word, that rang with the imperative of success. There is a sphere wU&in which we can succeed. The bad habits against which we hgve been struggling feebly can be conquered. “In the bright lexicon of youth” the word “fail” is unworthy. " Ten thousand men have tried, with pathetic ineffectiveness, to overcome their faults. They could have succeeded. GcJ helps him who helps himself. This need not discourage the man who has tried and hitherto has not succeeded. He has not failed so long as he still is impelled to strive; and to the brave and persistent fighter for the conquest of his own soul God gises the certain victory.—Youth’s Companion. The Whole Heart. Love is exacting. It is not content with gifts and formal service. ‘ Because it is love, it demands the heart. The question that divides humanity into two classes is Christ’s “Lovest thou Me?” Because He Is the greatest of lovers He says, ‘Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be My disciple.” Christ demands the whole heart, the whole man. List to His words: “He that loveth son or daughter 'more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he that taketh not his cross and foUoweth after Me, is not worthy of Me.” Love cannot be satisfied with anything lees than love. The test of love to Christ is obedience to Him: “He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me.” “If a man love Me he will keep My words.” “He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings.”

WORLD'S BIGGEST POSTOFFICE.

London’s Establishment Covers 17 Acres and Is Up to Date. In another week the splendid new building, which is to make the London general postofflee not only the largest but also the most modern and up-to-date in the world, is to be opened, a dispatch to the Pittsburg GazetteTimes says. The whole ground floor i 3 to be -open to the public for the transaction of any kind of business, while on the second floor will be magnificent private offices for the higher postal officials. Immediately behind this block is a covered yard giving access to a platform, at which the mail carts will draw up. After discharging the carts will make their way to another platform, where the outgoing mails will be loaded. There will be greater expedition in transacting business, as. owing to the circuitous route which carts have now to take, there being no straight processional way from discharging platform to loading platform, much time is wasted. At the rear of the covered yard is a huge building covering one and a half acres—all clear floor space, with _the exception of the supporting coludms, which are sixty feet apart. Hem the sorters are to come, and at nighl? time the spectacle will be witnessed of nearly 3,000 sorters being engaged at ena time on this one undivided level. The only furniture will be the usual sorting fittings. On this ground floor the London letters mostly will be dealt with, and on the first floor foreign and dolonihl mails will be sorted. Plenty of room has been left for additional postofflee business. The third floor will be used by the staff for cooking their meals. The kitchens have been fitted up on the most up-to-date principles, a steam boiling apparatus has been installed along with gas cooking stoves. Each man will have his own private locker. These three floors exhaust the accommodation of this rearmost building. The front block, to be used by the controller of the London postal service, has four floors. The three-story building has a fine flat roof, from which a splendid view of London, Including St. Paul’s may be obtained. It has occurred to the authorities that it would make an admirable roof garden, but it is not likely it will ever be applied to this purpose. Among the improvements that will help to facilitate business are nine or ten electric elevators, which will save time as compared with the hydraulic elevator now in use. London may now claim to have the largest postoffice in the world, not so grand as regards frontage as the Washington building, but very much larger, more than seventeen acres being under cover.

A Gift for George.

Mayme—Did you give the young man who has been calling on you for some time a birthday present? Edyth—Sure, George is rather chick-en-hearted, you know, so I gave him something appropriate. Mayme—What was It? Edyth —A scarf pin in the shape of a wishbone.

Extravagance.

Uncle Ezra—Time was when a farmer had everything he needed right on his own farm. Uhcle Eben—Right ye are, Ezra! But of late years, there ain't a month passes but my wife’s got to go to the store after something she can't make herself.

Sometimes Happens.

“Your mother looks much younger than she must be.” “Yes. That’s the reason she kept me In kid’s clothes till I was much older than I ought to have been."— Cleveland Leader.

A Cruel Program.

“If that unrestrained orator has his way,” said Senator Sorghum, "ths trusts will perish In fearful agony." “In what way?” "He’ll talk them to death.”—Washington Star.

RAM'S HORN BLASTS

Warning Note. Calling the Wicktl to Repentance.

Fast living is fast binding to eternal toss. i God Is not glorified by sowing gloom. f ll ' r ’ : Gratitude turns the poorest board into a feast Genius is the child of aspiration and patience. The Christ side is always the bright side of things. To honor the dishonorable is to dishonor the office. The logic in the pulpit always waits for the life in the pews. Lust Is almost sure to carry a banner inscribed, “Liberty." The service ofUsin may seem sweet; but the wages of sin is— Folks who are expert at making excuses make nothing else. Brevity Is the soul of wit and experience the secret of wisdom. Some of us ought to enjoy the heavenly music after enduring earthly choirs. There are many things we can afford to forget when we remember that God never forgets. Some would have a sad time in glory if they had to listen to all their prayer meeting talks again. It is better to show people a dear path in the valley than the most marvelous clouds on the heights.

OFT-DISCUSSED SUBJECT.

American Hurry Provide* Material for Many Debate*. American hurry has long been a subject of discussion by writers who have deplorpd It or condemned it, without checking it. Now comes Dr, Henry Van Dyke, who explains it. Writing in the American Magazine, h< says: “The high stimulation of will pofvei In America has had the effect oi quickening the general pace of life to a rate that always astonishes and sometimes annoys the European visitor. The movement of things and people Is rapid, Incessant, bewildering. There is a rushing tide in the streets, a nervous tension in the air. Business is transacted with swift dispatch and close attention. The preliminary com pliments and courtesies are eliminated Whether you want to buy a paper ol pins or a thousand shares of stock, il is done quickly. I remember waiting an hour in the Ottoman Bank at’Damascus, once, to get a thousand francs on my letter of credit. The polite director gave me coffee and delightful talk. In ■ New York the transaction would not have taken five minutes but there would have been no cosset nor conversation. “The American moves rapidly, but fi you should infer from this that he li always in a hurry, you would make a mistake. His fundamental philosophy is that you must be quick sometime* if you do not wish to be hurried always. You must condense, you musi eliminate, you must save time on th« little things in order that you may have more time for the larger things He systematizes his correspondence, his office work, all the details of hh business, not for the sake of system, but for the sake of getting through with his work. In his office hangs a printed motto, ‘This is my busy day, 1 He does not arrive at the railway station 15 minutes before the departure of his train, because he has something else that he would rather do with those 15 minutes. He does not like to spend an hour in the barber shop, because h/fe wishes to get out to his country club in good time for a game of golf and a shower bath afterward. He likes to have a full life, in which one thing connects jrith another promptly and neatly, without unnecessary intervals. His characteristic attitude is not that of a man in a hurry, but that of a man concentrated on the thing in hand to save time.”

Changes in Religious Effort.

The real ground, therefore, of our superiority to our ancestors is not so much that they were all selfish, while only a few of us are, or even that they lacked zeal for human welfare, as that their altruism was misdirected, first to loving individuals rather than the mass, and then to laboring for their salvation from imaginary dangers in the next world, rather than from real trouble in this. We have, learned, first, to confine our efforts to this world, and, second, to work at wholesale rather than retail. —Ernest C. Richardson. in the Atlantic.

A Little Too Mach.

“A wife has a right to expect much of her husband,” remarked the philosophically inclined person musingly. “Yes, I suppose she has," replied the meek appearing man with wilted looking whiskers. “I suppose she has. but when she expects him to live up, steadily and without swerving, to the motto on her first husband’s tombstone, I somehow think she is expecting more than she really ought to expect from a common, everyday, earthly man.” There’s no hope for men who haven't sense enough to invent excuses. . , The bride Is given away at th® altar, and occasionally the groom is •old.

The nearest duty is the noblest one. Growth In grace means death to greed. A double lifegoes backward all the time. No gem has value without much grinding.

A GLIMPSE OF FAIRYLAND.

Bird* pad Orchid* Look Alik* Alms Brasilian Hallway. Thirty-four miles in three hours as a run for an express train strikes owe as queer, but that is the regular schedule between Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Santos. Incidentally the road descends 2,000 feet in those thirty-four miles. The time would be better but for the fact that a part of the distance is traversed by a cable which is deliberation Itself. It was originally planned to make the road all steam, but according to the American consul it Santos the route map submitted by the engineers looked too much like the ice after a figure skating contest. The stockholders protested and got the cable section. > “But no one save a man late for his home-bound steamer,” says a writer in the Travel Magazine, “is jus:ifled in complaining of the slowness of the trains, especially those of J.he cable division. You skirt on viaducts, cliffs that would be bare and forbidding in other latitudes, but which here lift in mile long walls of verdant tapestries. “You wind through gorges amid a reckless riot of tropical vegetation that casts a weird green light like that of an ice cavern and sets you planning to come back on foot the next day to explore at your leisure the leafy vistas opening to right and left and revealing tantalizing glimpses of their dewy depths. “You see a glint of color up on a limb of a gaunt pala tree, in the identical spot where a cluster of bright polished parasitic looking leaves leads you to believe there should be an orchid, and while you still hold it with your eye down it flutters with a mild scream. “You pelt a pack of cards at a bird perched a few feet from the track on a rotten stump and discover an instant later that you have dealt to a dummy in the form of a flower more splendid than you.ever dreamed flower could be. Then you become so absorbed in the classification of orchid birds and birds orchids that only the timely jerk your seat companion gives your coattails saves you from being guillotined by a half fallen bough that comes rat-a-tatting down along the car windows. "This short bit of composite railroad running down from Sao Paulc to Santos through scenery lovely enough to warrant its acquisition by a fairy syndicate for subdivision into Titania’s bowers Is the artery through which flows nearly the whole coffee output of Brazil, more than half of the world’s supply. This in the ’9o’» often amounted to over 10,000,000 bags a year, in excess of 25,000 bags a day.”

LADY OR THE WOMAN?

Controversy Thai I* Interesting, Even Thonffh Wholly Unavailing;.. The controversy which has arisen over the proposed designation of young women wage-earners as “young lady employes” Is further enlivened by the statement of a “prominent club woman" that she is “not a lady” and is only angered when called so. "The definition of lady,” as she understands it, “Is a female who has neither the brains to think with nor hands to work with." Every woman to her taste. But It is to be said that the indiscriminate application of the term “lady" to all of the sex, whether or not they come within the category of “women of refined or gentle manners, sentiments,” etc., is ill-advised. Curiously enough, the New York World remarks, the use of the word has been much more restricted in this country, where lady is a title of nobility, but where “lady detectives” and “lady bigamists” exist along with “lady mayoresses," and where “young ladies” advertise in the newspapers for positions as waitress or milliner. With us, on the contrary, the employment of the word becomes more and more limited. It baa even been erased from ferryboat cabins, and no doubt in time it will go from hotel parlors. “When Adam dolve and "Eve span. Who was then the gentleman?” And who Is the lady when both sexes labor side by side in the office or factory? The main thing is the development of self-respecting womanhood. It is only necessary to alter Wordsworth’s— A perfect woman, nobly planned. To warn, to comfort and command, to “a perfect lady,” etc., to realize the absurdity of the for “lady employes.”

His Beat Manners.

“You boy over In the corner!” Thus the brutal examiner to the most nervous looking pupil in the class. The hoy over in the corner shot up like a bolt “Answer this,” continued the examiner. “Do we eat the flesh of the whale?” “Y-y-yes. sir,” faltered the scholar. “And what,” pursued the examiner, “do we do with the bones?” “P-please, sir,” responded the nervous one, with chattering teeth, “we 1-leave ’em on the s-s-sides of our p-plates.”—Answers.

Woman.

Oh, woman, you are chorming. And poets long have sung Their sweetest verses to you In every written tongue; . But none of them has ever Told why It is that you Will always leave a street car .ot dne gnorW —Sucess Magazine.

That Would Do It.

Howell —Not a very brlliant fellow. Powell—No- If T were going to knock his brains out I shouldn’t need any club bigger than a toothpick.— Now York Press.