Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bwnr P«T Excftt Sunday. BEAUEY k CURK. Piblirtcrt. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA.

The taster a man runs in debt tbs more he gets behind. The man who pays cash accumulates no wrinkles on his brow. Nearly all the interesting things women writers say are about the men. > The people who are contented are merely those who don't know any better. x "The way of the transgressor Is hard." It ought to be, after all the travel that has passed over it. In England a dog used to guide a blind person will soon be about the only thing exempt from taxation. It hardly seems possible, tiut some old folks say they can remember when butchers used to give away liver. The bachelor has much to be thankful for, even if it’s only the fact that it's a long time between leap years. Some men have a system for making money. Mr. Rockefeller is going to adopt one for the purpose of giving his away. Some people work on the principle that wheiKbuslnesß is good there is no need to hustle, and when it is bad there is no use. v .. Of course you read what happened to the Chicago man who hoorayed because his wife had gone to the country. Moral: Don’t talk too much.

James A. Patten, when he was interviewed in New York on the cost of living, said the American people were too extravagant Save your soup bones. “Is the cackle an integral part of the hen’s productivity?” asks a Boston paper. Not necessarily. Close observers may have noted that the rooster of the flock does the most cackling. Edison says that in another 200 years there will be no needy, but all will live in luxury. There is great comfort in this, as after another thirty of forty years more most of us will have nothing to do but wait. We are complaining of the increased cost of living, but in Canada they are finding it even more expensive to die, the cost of burial Haying increased 60 per cent. If this state of things prevails here, we will be in a dilemma. The number of medical Students has been diminishing during the last ten years. Higher requirements for graduation and the opening of new fields of scientific research have contributed to drawing men away from the profession. Among the reasons also must 1m reckoned the general advance In popular medical education, which tends toward preventing people from needing doctors.

A prominent Jewish merchant of New York declares that when he came to this country from Europe years ago it was for purposes of business, and that he has devoted himself to business with success. But now, he says, Jews of another type are coming—Jews more interested in things of the mind and ideals; thinkers and students. The reports of all the colleges and other institutions of learning bear him out. The schools are filled with eager learners of Jewish blood, who keep in the forefront of their classes. The old traditions of the race seem to be reviving on the new soil of a free country. A Jersey justice once sapiently said that a boy wasn't worth, in money, more than sl. Judge Wheeler of Bridgeport has just refused to accept a verdict of S3OO damages for a boy's death as insufficient. The law is always interesting, but its administration is not always consistent. Drome, an airship; droming, the act ts flying in an airship; dromer, one who dromes. These are candidates for admission to the dictionary. They have already been adopted into newspaper Englsh, and one hears them occasionally in conversation. They come from the Greek word meaning to run, xnd are abbreviated from an older form, aerodrome, which has been in use several years. It is to be hoped Jiat hippodrome and dromedary, which have been droming a long time, will not object.

James J. Hill, who is a highly talented railroad man and a moderately accomplished sociologist, has been telling Minnesota hardware men about the foolish extravagance of the American people—how they have rushed to the eities, bought automobiles and spent money right and left with a free hand! In the main Mr. Hill is rfgit. There is no question that most’people—by tar tbe most—have gradually acquired aabits of which have not been wise, wholesome and conceive to final well-being. We eat and •rink too much for either stomach or purse. We would be stronger and longer-lived if we were simpler and more abstain {bus We would probably be much handsomer, too. if we could make up our minds to doff some of the foolish and exaggerated fashions which now claim general obedience all the ws? town to tbe innocent little shopgirl, We would last longer and in the end go farther If we could get rid of some of the prevailing passion for speed. Mr.. Hill calls attention to the tact that for the present year 400,000

automobiles have already been ordered! We do not know Just where he gets his figures, but accepting them we venture to say that at least threefourths of these purchasers would be better oft every way if they would permanently garage their "homicide wag ons," as Shorty Hayes calls them, and resolutely walk some miles every day. In these and other items of direct extravagance a vast lot of people have no defense, but must cry, “mea culpa,’’ and beseech the kindness of critics. But Mr. Hill did not mention the chief items of American extravagance. There arfe some bills which are not paid directly over the cbunter, but which are, nevertheless, paid and tremendously paid by the people! Take these for instance: A considerable bunch of assorted European noblemen who are related to us by marriage, and whose gambling debts and princely dissipatons are, in fact, paid for by the producers of America. Flocks of foreign owners of American securities who, through our always Incompetent financial system, have a mortgage cinch upon our chief properties and every year draw ou| of ow country immeasurable mtiney. The vast taxation indirectly levied upon people by preda tory monopolies through which a few are made to “flourish vilely great" while the masses are correspondingly depleted. And, finally, the grafter, the' inexpressible grafter! Ah, he is an extravagance indeed! In measuring his cost we must not reckon his personal stealings alone, but the ultimate effect of his pernicious example—how one grafter begets a whole brood ol grafters to follow him and multiply lar cenles on every hand for the people to pay for as certainly as they pay their grocer’s bills. As individuals the people cannot afford to be spendthrifts As a collective society they cannot afford to be robbed by misgovernments —and perhaps if the latter evil were promptly cured the former would not be found so great.

IS AN OLD-FASHIONED WIFE.

Mrs. Chamberlain, Cham and None and Huband’i Greatest Admirer, Now that “Joe” Chamberlain is before the public once more, his wife is in her element, a London correspondent of the Boston Globe says. Since the first day of her marriage Bhe has always been of opinion that her husband is the greatest man on earth, Mrs. Chamberlain is a revelation to the typical society woman. Since his iliness she has never been separated from her husband for a single day. His companion, chum, nurse, secretary, factotum, and, now that he is better, his inspirer, are roles which Mrs. Chaniberlain fills all the time. She is aware that he never is so happy as when he is before the public and she revels in any chance of gratifying his ambition, though the anxiety that he may overexcite himself is eternally with her. Her hands are more than full at the present endeavoring to keep “Joe" quiet, for, like an old war horse that wants to dash to the front at the smell of powder, so does the venerable statesman pine to be in the thick of the political fray. At a country house where the Chamberlains were staying some time ago a man who took Mrs. “Joe” into dinner tried the usual subjects of conversation with her. He began on the new plays. “I have not been inside a theater for nearly four years," she frankly acknowledged. Then he turned to books. "It’s ages since I read a novel," she said. “Mr. Chamberlain does not care for them. The books he likes deal with travel, science or history, and I have grown fond of them, too, because he Is.” "Afterward this man Bald to his hostess: “Talk of old-fashioned wives! Crickey! Mrs. Joe Chamberlain takes the cake. I thought there were none of her sort left. She Is almost enough to tempt a man into matrimony.” Sometimes at a wedding one gets a glimpse of Mrs. Chamberlain—almost the only festivity at which Bhe is ever seen. She wears always a lovely frock with Paris indelibly written, so to speak, in every fold of it. She looks slight and almost girlish and hes friends all know that if they want to curry favor with her they must talk about "him.”

Fishing-Time.

I cannot fix my mind to-day On what I have to do; A picture haunts my inner eye Of waters swift and blue. My fingers itch to cast a fly. The bells of memory chime And call me to the woods and fields, For this 1b fishing-time. I dream of. mossy stepping-stones In lazy amber brooks, Of grassy banks with blossoms bright And silent, shady nooks. Where I forget the world of toil And wash away its grime Intfcrystal depths of running streams That sing of fishing-time. I long to see the sunflsh play, The minnows' merry school. The trout beneath the shelving bank Or In his favorite pool. And all the stiver finny folk That throng the watery clime; So hand me out tfie old brown coat I keep for fishing-time. —Leslie's Weekly.

Muteal.

“Elmer,” said a mother to her strenuous little son, “I’m awfully tired of tbe noise yon make.” “And I'm getting awfully tired of the noise you make in trying to stop the noise I make, mamma,” rejoined the noisy chap.—Chicago News. Perhaps one reason the women are forging ahead of the men Is that the men spend so much time laughing at the manner in which a woman sharpens a pencil.

BITS FOR BOOkworms

Arthur Rackham’s new color book will have as its subject Wagner’s “Ring.” It is to be published in the autumn. There is to be a new biography of Dean Swift, this time written by a woman. This daring person wears the name of Sophie Smith. De Alva Stanwood Alexander is at work on a fourth volume of his “Political History of the State of New York.” His last volume ended with the election of Grover Cleveland as Governor In 1882. Pragmatism liaying been traced to Bergson, the work of that philosopher on "Time and Free Will: an Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness” Is now to be an English translation. John Ayscough, the author of “San Celestino.” has won favor in the Catholic .Church by this book. The pope sent him the apostolic benediction and created him Knight of the Sacred Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre, while his mother received the cross “Pro Ecclesia et rontifice” in gold. Doctors tell us that the “hair growing white in a single night” is a popular delusion. That it can do so In five years, however, is conclusively shown by two photographs in “The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley.” One shows the author in 1885 with coal black hair and the second in 1890 with pure white hair. The intervening five years were spent largely in Africa. A book on “The Court of William III,” by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Drew, will shortly be published in London. The authors have been able, in preparing it, to consult the correspondence of King William with Bentinck. the founder of the Portland family. This important correspondence is in possession of the Duke of Portland, and has only heretofore been drawn upon slightly by Macauley. Sir Oliver Lodge, writing of “The Responsibility of Authors” in the English Fortnightly, fears that the decision of the libraries in connection with the circulation of certain books will moan a ban upon all that is unconventional. Sir Oliver says in reference to the censorship of plays that “it has prevailed to stop some good work; it dees not avail to stop the foolish and the bad.” With some amusement Sir Oliver quotes the fact that all of Henry Fielding, that “Adam Bede,” “Jane Eyre” and Kingsley’s “Hypatia” would have been subjected to suppression by thb proposed literary censorship. His conclusion is “that it is best to permit things to be said that are seriously thought., and “that we are -not going at the beginning of the twentieth century to lose the birthright of liberty at the dictate of any three persons however estimable, well meaning or able they may be.”

MAKING “PHONY” ANTIQUES.

There I* ■ Large and Growing Buineaa In Indnatrial Forgery, From the very earliest times men have been occupied both in forging and in tampering with antiquities, and during recent years this branch of swindling has blossomed into a vast and flourishing industry, employing excellent artists and craftsmen, who would bg capable of creating works of their own, if encouraged. The London Globe says the art of "duffing,” as it is called, may be divided under two heads. First, there is forgery, which is an imitation of antiquity, i. e., something made In the true style of a former time. Second, there is counterfeiting, or the manufacture of something so like the genuine article as to deceive the person who thinks he is familiar with the original. No metal lends itself to forgeries so easily as gold, owing to the fact when it is pure it oxidizes little, even after the lapse of centuries, and takes 10 patina. It is, therefore, a favorite substance for the operations of swindlers. For some years past the forgery of gold objects has been increasing, and has extended to countries where "ruffing” was once hardly known. On all other metals, as well as on porcelain and wood, every kind of known patina can be produced in all respects identical to that of the action of time. Patina is the peculiar surface, texture or color produced on an article after a certain amount of exposure to the weather, or after burial beneath the ground, or gained through the action of time. The imitation of ancient glass and marbles, however, still defeats ..the forger. He can not chemically reproduce in glass the iridescence caused by long burial in the earth, while on marble he can simulate neither the growths nor Incrustations produced underground by the roots of trees and plants, nor the calcareous concretions formed by the influence of the soil. In this country the forger’s field embraces more especially china and earthenware, prints, plate, coins, seals, furniture, needlework, armor, weapons, missals, leather-jacks, horn books and flint implements. It is not 'generally realised of what comparatively recent origin is the passion for collecting several of the above objects, the denprand, of course, creating the apurlous supply. The specialised study of antique furniture, for example, is a very modern development. Prior t* the ’Bos the styles of Chippendale." Sheraton, etc., were rarely mentioned

in an auction catalogue, and unless the piece had a pedigree its size and material were of more importance than its artistic merit and significance. On the other hand, the rage for collecting certain articles ‘goes back a very long way. Of all tastes, that for pottery ar.d porcelain has been from time to time most prevalent. “Chinaearth” collecting was in fashion in the day of the Stuarts, and forgeries and counterfeits were rampant at the same period. Well-hidden secrets are furnished by the forgeries of pilgrims’ badges and Saxon and Norman seals, both of which have baffled the investigators for the last fifty years.

PROGRESS OF DUTCH RAILWAYS.

After Fifty Yean’ Strnorale They Pay Only About 4 Per Cent. The railways of Holland seem to have a pretty hardscrabble time of it. Water competition—that of the canals and of the Rhine—has always been their bugbear. Even now, after fifty years of struggle for business, the railways carry only 10 per cent of Dutch freight. From Amsterdam alone there are not less than 150 lines of local steamers that go regularly to every port of the country, providing a daily service—or rather a nightly service—which enables them to deliver freight from almost anywhere in the country every morning. It is only when the canals and rivers freeze up in exceptionally severe winters, says Moody’s Magazine, or when in summer there is unusually lew water that the railroads get for a short time any considerable part of the traffic. Although the country is almost everywhere on a dead level, construction has been rather costly, on account of the great number of bridges required. For example, between Amsterdam and Rotterdam there are no less than eighty bridges, of which eight are swing bridges. Sometimes the bridges required to cross the numerous and intersecting canals are practically viaducts of a mile or two in length, and long stretches Of bridge work like that across Lake Pontchartrain, at New Orleans, or the trestles over Great Salt Lake or the approach to. Galveston are not infrequent. All the lines in the country are now operated by two companies, the Company for the Exploitation of the State Railways and the Dutch Iron Railway Company. The total length of all the lines is less than 1,600 miles, of which the State operates about 900 and the Iron Railway Company about 660, made up of 205 miles belonging to the State, 290 owned by ether companies and 165 miles of its own lines. There is considerable competition between the two companies, which, taken in connection with the sharp competition of the rivers and canals, insures a very good service. Each company pays a rental to the State for the lines belonging thereto which it operates, and each must share with the .State its profits over 5 per cent. The dividends during recent years have varied between 3 per cent and 5 per cent, which in face of the competition, the extremely low rate and the exceptional handicap under which the lines are worked, is highly creditable to the' management. In 1908 dividends were only 3 per cent. ‘ -

The Spanish Armada.

In 1588 Philip 11. of Spain fitted out a great naval armament, with a view of conquering the English with it. The fleet consisted of 131 greater and many smaller ships of war, and carried 19,000 marines and 8,000 sailors. The ships had scarcely quitted Lisbon when they were scattered by a storm and bad to be refitted. Advancing in the form of a half moon seven miles in extent, it came in sight, off Plymouth, of the English fleet, scarcely numbering 80 sail, and commanded by Lord Howard, who endeavored by dexterous seamanship, and the discharge of well directed volleys of shot at alternately long and short distances, to damage the vessels of the enemy. Some of these either fell into the hands of the English or were destroyed, Arriving off of Dunkirk the armada was becalmed and thrown into such confusion by the arrival in the fleet of eight fireships sent by the English admiral, that on the next morning Lord Howard was able to attack it on several sides. Though the Spanish bravely resisted their vessels were destroyed or fell into the hands of the English and the Dutch, and in consequence their commander resolved to abandon the enterprise, conceiving of the idea of taking his fleet around the northern coast of Great Britain. But a violent hurricane now broke out and the larger part of their ships were dashed upon the rocks and scattered in all directions. The armada is said to have lost in the open sea 72 large vessels exclusive of the smaller craft, and 10,185 men, while every family of distinction in Spain had to mourn the loss of one or more of lt3 members. Only about 50 vessels reached Spain on the return trip.

Rather Savory.

“The Japanese serve flowers as salads and make them . into various dishes. Sounds odd, doesn’t It?” “Oh. I don't know. Daffodlll pickles, crocustard, violettuce; it sounds rather appetizing to me.”—Louisville CourierJournal.

Desperate.

Heiress —But, father, that handsome foreign count says he will do something desperate and awful if I do not iparry him. Father (dryly)—He will. He will have to go to. work. —The Pittsburg Observer. i ■ Every man has a little sense. Accept that little at its true value, and be as charitable as possible with his follies.

BAILWAY RATES ON FREIGHT.

How Cost of Shipping to the Pact** Coaat Him Been Besrolated. Originally the railway rates to the Pacific coast from eastern cities not on the Atlantic ocean were more than from New York City and other Atlantic popts. But the Bte&mship lines began “absorbing” the railway rates from cities such as Pittsburg and Buffalo, to the Atlantic, thus making rate by rail and water from these places the same as by water from New York. The railways met this competition by also making their rates from places 400 or 600 miles west of the Atlantic seaboard, Scribner’s says. The manufacturers and merchants at cities in the middle "west demanded the same rates to the Pacific coast as were given Pittsburg, Buffalo, etc., and the Atlantic seaboard. It was to the interest of the roads extending from the middle west to grant their demands. Wheli a manufacturer or jobber in Pittsburg shipped goods all-rail to the Pacific coast, the roads west of Chicago got only part of the rate. When a competing manufacturer or jobber m Chicago shipped them, the roads west of Chicago got all of the rate. Consequently in 1894 the rates to the Pacific coast were “blanketed”—that is, made the same—from all points in the United States east of the Missouri river. Corresponding changes seldom have been- made in the rates from the east or the middle west to points in the western interior. The rates to these places are not directly affected by Ihe water competition, and therefore on traffic moving to them the eastern lines commonly exact their usual local rates to the end of their rails, and the western roads from there on. The distance to Seattle, Wash., from St. Paul, Minn., is 1,900 miles; from Chicago, 2,300 miles, and from New York, 3,200 miles. But the first class rate to Seattle, whether from St. Paul, Chicago or New York, Is $3 per 100 pounds. The distance to Spokane, Wash., from St. Paul is 1,500 miles; from Chicago, 1,900 miles, and frola- New York, 2,800 miles; but the first class rate from St. Paul to Spokane is $3; from Chicago, $3.60, and from New York, $4.35.

TOO MITCH FOR MAGICIAN.

The test of one who claims supernatural powers is to make him perform his tricks under every-day conditions or with apparatus not his own. In such a trial at least one magician failed. He was touring the globe, and appearing before rulers of many Strange lands in all sorts of outlandish places. On one occasion, says a writer in the Philadelphia Record, his manager had arranged an exhibition for him before the ruler of a province In the Fiji Islands. In the crowd that saw the exhibition were many of the black and yellow slaves of the chieftain. All the spectators were amazed at the many strange manifestations of the black art that the magician performed, but no trick appealed so strongly to the assembled retinue and to the chieftain as that in which a white duck was made to appear with a black head and a black duck, after a moment's manipulation, with the head of the white duck. The trick had to be repeated, and then the chieftain engaged in a long whispered conversation with the interpreter. “What is desired?” queried the obliging trickplayer. The interpreter coughed apologetically, and then responded: “Respected sir, our honored sire wishes you to take two of his black slaves and put a yellow head on a black man and the black head on the body of a yellow servitor. Our honored Bire thinks it would be very funny.” “Tell his royal highness,” the conjuror replied, “that I might give a yellow man a black eye, but I would not like to attempt to make his entire head black.” - ... ——

A Model Platform.

One of the shortest political platforms ever written is that of Solomon P. Rodes. Solomon, according to ex-Vlce-Presldent Adlai E. Stevenson’s “Something of Men I Have Known,” was wont to say that he would rather "go tb the Missouri legislater than to be the Czar of Rooshy.” A convention which purposed to nominate him for this office was once held at the schoolhouse. The committee to draw up the resolutions adjourned for consultation to a log back of the building. When the committee finally returned, these resolutions, two in number, were presented to the assembly and adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm: (1) Resolv that in the declaration of independence and likewise in the constitution of the united states we recognize a able and well rltten document, and that we are tetotually opppae the repeal of airy one. of the afhresald instruments of riung. Resol v: (2) that in our fellow-townsman, Solomon P. Rodes, we view sn onest man and hereby annomlnate him for the legislator.

Flexible Statistics.

"What do those statistics of yours tend to prove?" "I don’t knoy," gpswered, the mathematical expert. "I’m Just getting up the figures far this man. I don’t know which side of the argument he intend* to use them for.?—Washington Star. There is a qutet pleasure in Baying, "He Is older than I.” But we don’t have that quiet pleasure much, lately; we'Vu been here so long.

COST OF lIVING IN 1851.

Were Bicker, bat Moat ot Tbem Lower tban at Preseat. An old memorandum book. In which some Interesting prices are recorded, has just been brought to light by the Brooklyn Eagle. The prices afford a basis for comparison; and as one reads them one begins to believe what the >ld people say—that former times were indeed better than these. The woman who kept this account book paid, to be sure, hi 1861, three dollars and twenty-five cents to go from Westfield, Mass., to New York, and three dollars more te go from New York to Philadelphia, but she paid only twenty-eight cents a dozen for her washing—beautifully ironed and brought to her door—and ten dollars a month for her board, and It was good, too. She bad her daguerreotype taken, & single picture, and paid one dollar and a half for It. We can improve Oh that price now. She bought a pair of shoes for one dollar and twentyfive cents, and had a dress cut for thir-ty-seven and a half cents. The accounts bristle with half and quarter cents. Things cost sometimes a “Up,” sometimes a “levy.” The former was six and a quarter cents, the latter twelve and a half cents. She bought a pair of rubbers fbr eighty seven and a half cents, and wrote them down as "gums.” For her pew rent at church she paid sixty-six and two-thirds cents. Her gown was made of - “debagej” “delaine” and “mull,” and she paid one dollar and seventy-five cents for the fitting and making of one. She paid the exorbitant price of two dollars and twentyfive cents for a pair of congress gaiters. For teaching school elevenr weeks this woman received eighty-two dollars. She has a tooth drawn and pays twenty-five cents —this was before the days of anesthetics. We find an efitry, “wafers,” and we remember that there were no envelopes in those days, and that all letters were simply folded and then stuck together with red wafers. Perhaps you majr remember that your grandfather kept a box of them on his desk, close beside the sand-sprinkler with which he blotted his letters. What we call the cachou dates backa long way. This lady of the accounts was buying cachous in 185 i. They are small lozenges, with no other purpose, so far as is generally known, than to promote the fragrance of the breath. She burned In her lamp “fluid” —a highly inflammable oil which preceded the safer kerosene.

DESERT AS A RESORT.

Camping In California Oaala am Enjoyable am the Sen Sbore. A desert sounds like a strange plact in which to camp for pleasure, but Charles Francis Saunders and his wife spent several enjoyable weeks on one part of our great western desert. Mr. Saunders saysf "To the newcomer on the desert usually the first cause of surprise is the variety of its scenery. One har bitually thinks of it as a flat, ver< dureless, monotonous expanse. In reality our western deserts present within comparatively small areas the greatest diversity of topographymountain chains and foothills, valleys and aroyos (dry, of course, except for a few hours after some heavy storm in the mountains). Bandy flats and rolling plains bowlder-piled or dotted with green bushes set about in places like shrubbery in an artificial park. "Spring is the most enjoyable time ot the year for the desert camp—late April or May for the elevated Mojave region, March or even earlier for the more southern, low-lying Colorado desert of California. The mornings, evenings and nights are then superbcool and bracing and more of heaven than of earth; the mid-days are hot Id the sun and made for siestas in the shadow of great rocks or on the shady outside of a tent. The inside of the tent is usually unendurable during the middle of the day, the temperature there rising higher than in the full sunshine.” . Mr. Saunders’ German guide, “Dutch Jake,” has become so fond of the desert that, in taking leave of his “tenderfoot” friends at the end of their camping trip, he says: * “New York? Humph”—he says in his rough way—“ Yes, I has been in New York, unt made von fool of mine self. No, no, Mister, I takes my bunch of burrows, unt some beans and bacon in de saddle bags unt always vater in the canteen, unt I shtay in de desert. .It’s healt’y here unt dere ain’t nobody vot robs you, unt I knows places vere a man can find yet lots of mineral. Me for der desert, Mister; fcols shtays in New York.’’—Recreation Magazine.

As to Thermometers.

Neither the mercury or the alcohol thermometer is good .for measuring extreme temperatures because of their freezing and boiling points. Mercury freezes at 39 degrees centigrade, below zero. .gjcohol freezes at 130 degrees centigrade, below zero. They cannot be used in measuring high temperatures because. of their low boiling points.

He Got It.

Eva—As we strolled along he wagered a box of chocolates that 1 couldn't say the word "Men.”/ Belinda—And did you try? Eva—Yea, but he took the word from my very lips. A'good many people who speak respectfully of the dead forget it by the time the will goes to probate. About the only thing a man notices in new spring goods Ur negligee shirts.