Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bwry Pay Bxerpt SawUy. ‘"bEAIEY k CLARK, PiblUhertT" RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

li house cleaning a sport or a feost1f bogs gat much dearer the newly Vtefe su) adopt them as household ▲ pessimist Is a person who believes the leaning tower of Pisa is going to «*IL * China has 250,000,000 people. This Is an estimate. There are too many to eeunt. Surely the professor had a bad ear ter music who killed himself because the baby cried. After looking through a seed catar legos one is led to wonder why anybody eats meat. Mr. Carnegie found 93,000,000 that he didn’t know he had. That sort of thing doesn’t happen to many men. Herewith the wild animals of Africa are confronted with the necessity of beginning afresh and restocking the Jungles. - South Dakota divorces are held by English courts to be worthless. It was fortunate that Rene had become available before this awful blow fell. Prof. Hllprecht has rendered an important service in discovering further evidence that the deluge took place substantially as described by Moses. Any proposition to “retire’* Mr. Roosevelt on a pension should be communicated to him with extreme caution—preferably by long distance telephone.

Dr. Wiley says: ’ln fifty years the world will be run by wind, water and alcohol.” The addition of water and aloohol will tend to take some of the ■train off Congress. A Harvard botanist declares that Leif Erickson was never near Boston, that he got no farther south than Labrador. All history must be in loubt Did Eliza cross the ice? One of the scientists announces that the germs in a dish of Ice eream outnumber the germs in a kiss three to one. Still, a good deal may depend upon the ice cream and the kiss. A psychologist is experimenting with the hope of determining beyond question whether monkeys are mentally superior to men. Even if they are no monkey can ever be elected President l The details of the latest Kansas City "high society” scandal, “endurin’ ” and after the event plainly show that, while money may still contrive to ■take the mare go, it has not yet removed the difficulty of making silk purses out of porcins materials. Another fashion note: The value of the wings taken by Japanese poachers sn the protected islands of Lays&n and UsUnsky, near .Hawaii, and captured by the United -States revenue service, reaches one hundred and twelve thousand dollare. They cost the lives of three hundred thousand terns, petrels and albatrosses.

Persons at whose houses the mall Is delivered once or more a day may inswer the bell as Quickly as they can; tevertheless, the aggregate time which the letter carrier loses by having to wait for the door to be opened is considerable. The Post Office Department Iguree It as averaging thirty seconds tor each call, and as representing a less to the government of tour hundred thousand dollars a year. For this reason the post office apropriation bill provides that after June SO, 1911, carriers shall not deliver mail at any house not provided with a suitable Stall box accessible from the outside. How the government encourages gambling in land homesteading is shown by the Belle Fourche irrigation project in South Dakota. Here are only 10,000 acres, rendered very valuable and immediately productive by irrigation, forty acres of which with water rights cost only 91,200, payable in ten yearly Installments. Tet all claims have not been taken. Per contra, when a like amount of an Indian reservation in Idaho was opened under the gambling plan last year in Idaho, there were ten claimants for •very tract, and each claimant spent enough to pay two years' Installments on a real irrigated farm, while only one in ten got anything at all, and what he got was not so valuable per acre. It is the gambling feature of the Indian reservation openings which attracts, and not a home-making opportunity on a sensible business basis. Life holds many pleasant surprises tor even those whose fate is not the most fortunate. That fact was discovered by a Michigan woman the other day, who began a search for her brother and sisters. They had all been put in an orphan asylum on the death of their parents, and had been adopted by families in different parts of the state. In the Course of her search, the woman learned that a little girl with whom she used to .play when she was small, and of whom she was very fond, was her own sister. Her fosterparents had moved to t£e town in which the family dwelt that had adopted the sister, and they lived sl4e by •Ida Whether the funnies knew the

girls were sisters does not appear, but the girls were unaware of the And new comes the delightful knowledge that these childhood friends were sisters, aad had known each ether tor years—how delightful only these who have vainly longed for intimate association with their own kin can understand.

While preparing recently for their examinations, the young men of a Western university voted net to shave nntll after the on the ground that growing beards would serve to remove temptation to neglect their work for social diversions. About ths same time the newspapers told of the solemn decision of ths yonng ladle" in another institution to entorcs s social boycott against the male students who were wearing, or coaxing into existence, mustaches. Ths two Incidents illustrat# the present attitude of the social world toward Shaven and unshaven men. Not that a bearded man is ostracized by the world at large, whatever may be the esse in undergraduate circles, but that cleanshaven faces among men of all ages are now becoming the rule. It was not always thus. In ancient times the beard was the badge of manhood, the insignia of dignity and authority. This is still true in the Jewish race; and the strongest oath of the devout Mohammedan is “by the beard of the prophet" Note the long braided beards of the kings of Assyria Babylon, as indicated by the sculptured images which have survived. In those days slaves were compelled to be smooth-shaven, and the beardless youth was an object of scorn. In Greece and Rome the custom varied with the periods. Most of the great Romans of latsr times wers beardless. In the middle ages and In ths Elizabethan era beards wers generally worn, although occasionally a beardless monarch led a change in style which made ths barbers happy. In Great Britain and this country the beard was almost unknown in the eeventeenth and eighth eenth centuries. In the nineteenth century it came into general favor. Most of the yonng men of a college graduating class of ths fifties and sixties wore all • the beard they could raise. Then the young men took to the moustache, which is now far less common. When man accuses woman of being a creature of the arbitrary whims of fashion, she may well retort by pointing to hie beard—or to the place where it might be.

A SELF-TIPPING HAT.

MECHANISM OF THE HAT.

One of the most curious of all la-bor-saving devices is that for a selftipping hat. The Inventor, believing that even a Beau Brummel wastes much valuable energy in the frequent lifting of his hat, describes his invention as "a novel device for automatically effecting polite salutations by the elevation and rotation of the hat on the head of the saluting party, when said person bows to the person or persons saluted, the action of the hat being produced by mechanism therein and without the use of the hands in any manner.” The hat is provided in the crown .with a clock gearing which is set into action by a pendulum. When the man bows the pendulum swings and the spring gearing, being released thereby, raises and tips the hat.— Popular Mechanics.

Old Indian Wants Money.

Old John Smith, an Indian brave, ▼lctor In many battles, and possessor of several personally collected scalps, was here from his Mud Lake alotment In upper Cass county and was on his way to Interview Agent John Prater regarding his pine holdings, a dispatch from Walker, Mich., to the Detroit Free Press says. The red man is nearly 100 years of age. “Me die soon,” said the old buck; “happy hunting grounds In little while. Want money; no good after dead; heap good now," continued the wizened warrior as he loaded a ponderous pipe with kinnlcklnnic and trust the long stem between his toothless gums. The Indian is known as being one of the oldest Indians of his tribe. Notwithstanding his age he is able to get around with those of much younger years, and while bis face is wrinkled with the passing of many suns, there Is still the clear eye and certain litheness of limb which the well-preserved members of the tribe maintain until the Great Father calls him. John boasts of killing six Sioux Indians in the early days, the fight occurring at Portage Lake, seven miles from here. -

The Vested Interests.

"Yes, Mrs. Snoggs, I 'oped as 'ow they would get tariff reform and make the foreigner pay, as we’ve got one in our top-floor back and I ain’t ’ad nothlnk of him for six weeks now.” . The Tatter. -7 ; ■-- ——- Ton never hear of a man whose income does not exceed a dollar a day being operated on for appendicitis.

BIG CROP ON ONE FARM

Kansas Grain Grower Who Bogan ag Years Ago With Little Except Hope. MADE $150,000 LAST YEAR. How Has 12,000 Acres of Land and Will Plant It All in WheatSowing and Heaping. The crop of wheat from one farm in Thomas county, Kansas, sold last year for 9150,000. That farm embraced 10,000 acres of land. This year 2,000 acres have been added to it and if the crop is as large and prices as good as last year the farm revenue should approximate closely 9200,000. And that, most any one will agree, is a pretty fair Income for any downtrodden farmer. But beginning with that kind of a statement is telling the Btory backward. To bring the real Kansas atmosphere Into a story one must never speak of the dollars first, the Kansas City Star says. They always come, of course, in Kansas stories, but at the last and plentifully. To tell it right, one must start the story back twentyfive years, in this case, to the conventional setting when & pair of thin, jaded, harness-scarred ponies draws Into the landscape and outlines against the setting sun a dilapidated covered wagon. Bronzed by the sun, and with that spring that ambition puts into the young, the driver, ‘‘Jim’’ Fike, springs from the seat to the ground. From under a canvas be swings two chubby babies to the thick carpet of buffalo grass and turns to give his arm to his wife. They are young and vigorous and at once begin the making, on that wide prairie, that which they have been planning for years—a home. There is the regulation routine, the location, the trip to the land office, the filing of homestead papers, the building of the sod shanty, the like of which dotted the prairies in thousands in those days; the breaking of virgin soil and the planting of the crops, and then—sometimes —the harvest. Through all the years of drought and hard times, through all the disappoint nients that come with the early settlement of a country, through the bountiful golden harvests, this man toiled on, working harder and harder, but always with the firm belief that the country was destined to be a great country of homes. Hope died In many a breast these trying times and many were those who wended their way hack to the old home because they lacked the brave heart to face the hardships. But “Jim” itayed. "Jim" he was to everyone who knew him in those days, and ‘‘Jim’’ he still is to every resident of Thomas county. "Jim” Fike is one of the largest and most successful wheat growers in America to-day. The average yield last year on his 10,000 acres was about fiften bushels sn acre. The price paid for the wheat, which was not sold in the usual way, but marketed in carload lots, was within a few cents of 91 a bushel. A large portion of it was shipped to the West, where millers were especially eager to obtain it. The Fike wheat farm does not all lie contiguous, being made up of a number of farms ranging from 320 to 2,400 acres In extent. Harvest usually begins about July 1, but last year harvest was late, and? 1 all over Thomas county the hum of the header did not begin until about July 15. To cut thta 10,000 acres of wheat in fifteen days requires intelligent and systematic handling of the small army required to complete the work before the wheat is ruined in the field. Seven big steam plows were used in the fall plowing for this season’s crop.

FINDING A COUNTRY HOME.

Some ot the Mistakes Which Mast Be Gnarded Against by Novice. It is easy to prove that an income df H,OOO in the country is worth $2,000 in the city, and that the difference is saved in the cost of living and in the fact ‘ that the home helps to support Itself. On the other hand, there are vexations, disadvantages and .even hardships Incident to rural life, and they cannot fairly be passed by, says Ralph D. Paine in Collier’s. Money is bound to be wasted in experiments, in bungling methods, and in learning how to do things right. The utmost vigilance la required to avoid spending what is saved on the one hand by going ahead too fast with improvements on the other. A dozen temptations to put more money into the place lie in ambush at every turn. Economy is fully as difficult as in the city. Isolation, lack of congenial society, and, maddening inability to find efficient servants —in fact, any kind at all —are Insistent factors of the problem. The Initial outlay is likely to be no more than half the ultimate cost. Tools' and equipment pile up bills to dismay the novice. Labor is lazy and untrustworthy. If there are children, and there ought to be children in every country home, their education must be considered. It still remains true, however, that to find and ' own and improve one’s own farm, however small and humble, is an achievement worth fighting for, whether it be for an all-the-year-home or not And few there be who have won this fight that would willingly return to the fiat in the city or the hired house in the suburbs with its fifty-foot

fNnUga of laws. Ths ownsrshlp of land, aad plenty of It, creates a spirit of independence. It was ths "embattled farmers" who drove back the red-, coats from the redoubt on Bunker Hill. To-day the foreign immigrant is populating the abandoned farms of the Eastern States and gaining prosperity for himself and his children. The man who is tied to the city by his business or profession, yet who genuinely desires for himself and his family the peculiar kind of contentment, health and. self-reliance that are bred of country life, has the solution of the problem in his own hands. Let him first choose the region in which he wishes to live. Then let him lease a farm for a year, spend as much time on it as he can afford and learn all he can about making It productive. If he takes kindly to the experiment, let him go in quest of g farm of his own, buy it (and farms are sold on uncommonly easy terms of payment) and make up his mind to retire to it whenever circumstances will permit. Owning a country home is not a speculation. It is one of the soundest and sanest Investments in the world.

POPULAR SCIENCE

The Simplex system of driving concrete piles, which the British admiralty is trying at Rosyth, is the invention of an American, F. Shuman. A steel tube, having a loose point or a pair of binged jaws at the lower end, is first driven to the required depth. Then, as the tube is withdrawn, concrete is introduced, and this passes through the now opened lower end and fills up the hole made by the tube. The concrete is filled up to a level several feet above the finished bead ol the pile, in order to allotv for sinking as the tube is withdrawn. Th« plan has been successfully tried in many places. In an English review of the progress In aeronautics during 1909 the first place in the list of unsolved problems is given to that of obtaining a certain degree of automatic stability at slow speeds. It is recognized that the high velocity of flight required to enabl« the aeroplane simply to keep afloat must be lowered before the machinei can become truly useful and safe. An other question is that of the engine. In order to make this certain in operation, it is suggested that the weight must be still further reduced, so as to permit either of a duplication of parts, or the employment of two complete engines, each under normal conditions working at only a fraction of its full power. A remarkable phrotograph of half a dozen porpoises, playing under water, just ahead of the bow of a steamship traveling at the rate of 13 knots an hour, has been published by a cor respondent of Knowledge, C| H. Gale. The sea was calm and the photograph was made by leaning over the bow of the vessel. Mr. Gale calls attention to the singular fact that the porpoises, while easily maintaining their position ahead of the ship, showed no apparent effort or motion of body, tail or fin. Yet he thinks that they were not carried along by movement of the water in front of the vessel, because airbubbles were seen rushing from their backs, and the photograph shows ths effect of these bubbles by the whits streaks on the backs of the animals. Sometimes they rolled over sidewise, but always maintained their position. In a recent book about apts, Rev. H. C. McCook gives some surprising facta about the mound-making ants o| the Alleghenies. He has measured some mounds more than 30 feet in circumference, although rarely mors than three feet in height. But around these there are many new mounds, in course of construction, only a few inches in height. They are found in groups, one of which, near Hollidaysburg, Pa., contains 1,700 mounds within a space of 60 acres. Their total population is enormous, and each group of mounds appears to constitute a community—an insect kingdom or empire. In regard to their numbers, Doctor Fcrel is quoted as saying that these ant kingdoms have in all probability from 200,000,000 to 400,000,00 b inhabitants, “all forming a single community, and living together In active and friendly Intercourse.”*

Ruskin’s Grave.

Ten years ago John Ruskln passed peacefully away at Coniston. A grave in Westminster Abbey was immediate ly offered by the dean, but was refused out of respect for Ruskln’s frequently expressed wish that he might be buried wherever he chanced to die, says the Westminster Gazette. He wag Maid to rest in Coniston churchyard on Jan. 25. In poets’ corner there is a medallion of him by Onslow Ford, immediately above the bust of Sir Walter Scott. In his native Camberwell the master’s memory is perpetuated by the bestowal of his name upon the finely wooded park on Denmark hill, within a stone’s throw of his old home.

His Opportunity.

"How did you manage to go through every bouse on that block in broad daylight without being detected?” asked one burglar. "Very easily,” replied the other. "I selected a time when a moving van drove up to a vacant dwelling. I worked while the neighbors were hanging out of the front windows to criticise the furniture.” —Washington Star It’s easier to break away than it is to get back. Successful physicians are lucky guessers.

MEDICINE AND THE PRESS.

Pee* Deal • t DzjutUitkte Talk Akoat Mtmsapcr BleaSsn. One of the medical journals devotee a long and scornful article in Its current issue to the anatomical and pathological blunders of newspapers. Some of those blunders. It must be admitted, have no little richness of humor. A small western paper, for example, recently accused a man of dying of "pleurisy of the brain.” Another announced that a sick man, locality prominent, was recovering from a bad attack of staphlocous (staphylococcus?) A third paper, this time in the south, recorded a case of "petrification of the heart.” News of other hairraising marvels, of Incredible maladies and impossible crops up every day on all sides. It is to be lamented, of course, says the Baltimore Sun, that newspapers are not more accurate in their medical and chirurgical reports, but the fault, we believe, is not always theirs. Too often the doctors who laugh so loudly are to blame. Many of them still cling to the ancient hocus-pocus of the mediaeval leeches. Medicine, as It is practiced, is still marked by meaningless Incantations, absurd circumlocutions, unintelligible dog Latin. The young doctors like to roll sounding words upon their tongues that they may cause the vulgar to marvel, and too often they are never cured of the vice. Just observe the bull sties issued by the learned consultants while a great man lies dying. Vary often they are entirely incomprehensible, despite the fact that the information they ordinarily convey might be expressed very well in language easily understood by any layman. No; the newspapers are not always to blame for their medical errors and when they are their blunders do a great deal less harm than those of the doctors themselves. A newspaper never gouges out the wrong eye or cuts off the wrong leg. Its mistakes in diagnosis fill no graveyards. It may be Cqmic. but it is never homicidal.

AN INTELLIGENT REPTILE.

Do animals possess the power of logical Judgment, or, as we oftener say, reason? Naturalists — : and others —have long debated the question, and are still divided. A writer In Science, without committing himself on the point, tells what he saw on a country road in Georgia, and every reader will agree with him that it was remarkable. A commotion in the underbrush be* side the road attracted his attention. He investigated the cause, and saw a coachwhip snake about four feet long struggling with a lizard less than a foot long. They were not fighting; the snake was trying to eat the lizard. Occasionally the lizard would get *way, but the snake would at once give chase and recapture him. The snake invariably caught his prey by the body; he acted as if he knew that If he seized him by the tail the lizard would break off the tail and escape. Finally the lizard, escaping from the snake, darted up a tree; the snake followed. Here the four jointed legs of ths lizard gave him the advantage. After darting up the tree a short distance he paused and glanced backward. As often as the snake approached he would again dart forward, stop, and look backward; this happened several times. Then all of a sudden ths snake dropped to the ground. The lizard continued to gaze downward. Aboflt a foot from the tree on which the lizard was resting, head downward, there stood another tree. Spirally up this tree the snake climbed until it was a few inches above the level of the lizard# which was still gazing scrutlnlzingly downward. Quietly and quickly the snake extended the front of Its body, and with a sudden thrust of its head knocked the lizard to the ground, and before it had time to fecover from the unexpected bfciw the snake had dropped to the ground and recaptured it.

A Matter of Dates.

Going assiduously to galleries and exhibitions does not necessarily make an art critic of the amateur, nor does it always firmly fix his historical knowledge, as the following anecdote shows: A certain wealthy man has a remarkable collection of paintings that have recently attracted much attention. A short time ago the members of a club in his city asked to be allowed to inspect his treasures with their wives, their sisters, their cousins and their annts. Their request was granted. One man was looking at a picture which bore the inscription, “1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds—l 792,” the dates, of course, being those of the birth and death of the artist. “Ah,” he said to his companion, whom he evidently wished to Impress with his knowledge of art, “I know the original wbH. You see, it was painted in 1723, and this copy was made in 1792.” ..

Dear Money.

Mrs. Anthony Hope, American wife of the well known English novelist, is as celebrated as her husband for her bon-mots. At a dinner in New York on her American visit, the young laiSy expressed her disapproval of mercenary marriages. “Never marry for money,” she said. “You can borrow cheaper.” A small boy's idea of an entertainment is any kind of a gathering where refreshments are served. Every man thinks he’s a superior fridge of human nattura ,;j

Beautiful Wall Coatings for Homes.

In line with the progress of all other things in these modern days is the beautiful, perfect and sanitary wall coatings for our homes. Alabastine is the name of a rich, soft and velvety preparation for the decoration of walla and ceilingß. It adheres to the walla of its own adhesive qualities. It is laexpensive, clean, artistic and so easily put on that any one can follow the printed directions on every package. Any shade or tint is easily produced. Alabastine is proof against Insects or disease germs so prevalent in wall paper. It does not rub off and flake like kalsomine. A complete color plan for the walls of the home and stencils t» help make the home beautiful, together with a book about home decorations and samples of color effects will all be sent free by the Alabastine Company, 482 Grandville avenue, Grand Rapids; Mich. This liberal offer to home decorator* deserves careful perusal.

Erskine's Puns.

A great wit of the Scottish bar was the Hon. Harry Ersklne, who was lord advocate. Though punning Is nqt, as \ rule, a high form of wit, with Er;kine it became a fine art. On one occasion he undertook to pun on the subject of his friend’s first sentence. His friend began, “The king”— Harry Intervened. “The king,” he said, “is no subject.” Again,' a Mr. Dunlop shallenged him to pun on his name. “Nothing easier?’ said Ersklne. “Lop off the last syllable and it Is done.”— London Standard.

DELAY IS DANGEROUS.

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A Scriptural Explanation.

When William Pengelly was a sailor boy, weather-bound on the coast of Devonshire, he had his earliest geological experience, and S. BaringGould, the author of “Cornish Characters and Strange Events,” says he was wont to relate it as printed below. I received my first lesson in geology at Lyme Regis very soon after I had entered my teens. A laborer, whom I was observing, accidentally broke a large stone of blue Has and thus disclosed a fine ammonite—the first fossil I had ever seen or heard of. “What’s that?” I exclaimed. “If you read your Bible you’d know what ’tis,” said the workman, somewhat scornfully. “I have'read my Bible. But what has that to do with it?” "In the Bible we're told there was once a flood that covered all the world. At that time all the rocks were mud, and the different things that were drowned were buried in it, and there’s a snake that was buried that way. There are lots of ’em, and other things besides, in the rocks and stones hereabouts.” “A snake! But where’s the head?” “You must read the Bible, I tell ’ee, and then you’ll find out why 'tis some of the snakes ain’t got no heads. We’re told there that the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head; that’s how ’tis.”

The Sane Way.

Mrs. Kicker —If you are going to another one of those banquets I don’t suppose you will know the number of the house when you get back. Mr. Kicker—Oh, yes, I will, t' unscrewed it from the door and am taking it with me. —Kansas City Journal

ABANDONED IT

For the Old Fashioned Coffee Wat Killing. “I always drank coffee with the rest of the family, for it seemed as if there was nothing for breakfast if we did not have it on the table. „ "I had been troubled some time with my heart, which did not feel right. This trouble grew worse steadily. “Sometimes it would beat fast am) at other times- very slowly, so that I would hardly be able to do work for an hour or two after breakfast, and if I walked up a hill, it gave me a severe pain. “I had no idea of what the trouble was until a friend suggested that perhaps it might be caused by coffee drinking. I tried leaving off the coffee and began drinking Postum. The change cams quickly. I am now glad to say that I am entirely well of the heart trouble and attribute the relief to leaving off coffee and the use of Postum. ‘A number of my friends have abandoned the old fashioned coffee and have taken up, with Postum, which, they are using steadily. There are some people that make Postum very weak and tasteless, but If it is boiled long enough, according to directions, it is a very delicious beverage. We have never used any of the old sash- 141 loned coffee since Postum was first started in our liouse." Read the little book. “The Read to. WeUville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A 1 new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full ot human interest. :., ; v ' -