Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN • t*»nr D«r Bxcapt Saadajr. lEALEY k CLARK, Nhllihert! RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

The high coat of living seems to He getting used to it. The most popular book in the home of the workingman is his bank book. Does housekeeping come under the head of arts and crafts, or is it Just work? The aute Is said to promote appendicitis, bnt this will not deter those who can scrape up the price. A Boston doctor gives it as his opinion that women can never become really artistic. Another trouble hunter. Don't condemn John D. until you have heard what his plan for abolishing poverty la It worked In his own Toung Mr. Knox is quoted as saying: “I shall go to work, if necessary, to support my wife." Isn’t he .a noble young hero? A man in Detroit gave the censustaker his occupation as "the wood business.” He provides family trees for eewly-rich automobile manufacturers. • Queen Wilhelmlna, It is said, borrows spoons and napkins from the neighbors. Naturally she Is regarded by her people as a wonderful woman. An Ohio woman declares that piano playing makes the hens lay. But even the piano has its limitations in the poultry yard. It cannot be used as an incubator. It is said the average man eats 1,000 pounds of food a year. Nobody has figured what the average boy eats, lvi 1 it must be considerably more than 1,000 pounds. "Now they propose to hatch chickens by eleotricity.” We are slowly approaching the time when man will have nothlhg to do but touch a button here and there. Down in Connecticut recently a woman died because a fortune had been left to her. People who are waiting for rich uncles to pass away will agree that her action was wholly unjustifiable. t There is in Kansas City a man who wants 120,000 damages because the gossip of his neighbors caused his wife to leave him. Some of the neighbors complain that there are men who are totally devoid of appreciation. The Boston Globe has found that a 15-cent plate of beans contains as much nutritive value as $1.87 Ms worth of porterhouse steak. We earnestly hope the report is an unbiased one. If It came from any other place than Bostgn we should not doubt. A dispatch from New Orleans says the demand for babies In that city is much greater than the supply. One carload of Infants recently arrived from New Yori, but the babies were adopted so quickly and there Were so many calls for more that another carload will be forwarded. Save your babies. New Orleans may want them. Korea is making some progress in civilization. Twenty-five years ago it had no trade with the United States. The secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions recently traveled in that country in a railroad car made in Delaware, drawn by a locomotive made in Philadelphia, oyer railß made In Pittsburg, fastened to ties made of Oregon lumber, with spikes forged in New York. After 4 his Journey he had for his dinner Chicago beef, Pittsburg pickles and Minnesota flour. Along with many other discoveries of greater or less Importance, scientific men have proved the law that the rapidity of the heart beat is in inverse ratio to an animal's size. Thus In man it is about seventy-two to the minute, whereas in the elephant it is only thirty, and in the horse forty. The dog’s pulse, on the other hand, counts about ninety beats to the minute, and the rabbit’s over one hundred and fifty. Most remarkable of all, the heart pulsations of a little mouse have recently been counted and recorded by an ingenious machine, and found to number nearly seven hundred every minute. In his annual report the Adjutant General of the Army bewails desertions as the greatest peril to the army. Nearly 5,000 American soldiers deserted last year. In Europe desertions are rare. Ha attributes the wholesale desertions to a defect of public opinion, which practically consents to them and affects to see nothing more in them than the breach of a civil contract for service. Citizens look upon the deserter with complacency and manage to aid him to escape punishment “in the comparatively rare event of his falling into the hands of the military authorities.’’ The quotation probably comes nearer giving the key to the situation than do the complaints against the public. Desertions will multiply in proportion to the immunity obtainable through the fitting of the military authorities to exert themselves. Burglary would flourish also if the citizenry did not tax Itself soundly for the machinery to make " burglary a hazardous business. When •be military Authorities realhc^gthat

they have something to do in the matter and do it, they will have less to complain of regarding the public. Accomplished cooks, men who know that they practice not the least of the arts, have long been accustomed to name their most savory inventions for eminent persons In other walks of life. They mean to pay a delicate compliment, to offer a generous tribute from genius to genius. But such compliments are not always welcome. A young opera singer, who Is so much admired In Boston that the hotel chefs have begun to name thetr soups and souffles in her honor, thinks so. She has consulted lawyers', applied for an Injunction, and had herself effaced from the bills of fare. The proceeding has enlivened the courtß and animated the news columns of the daily papers because of Its novelty. Famous persons, when they have not been flattered by such attentions, have usually suffered them stoically. In some cases, too, the cook has actually given the celebrity a wider Immortality than he could have won by himself. Many a man has ( ordered a filet Chateaubriand who'never heard of "Atala" or “The Genius of Christianity." Long and distinguished as was Count Nesselrode’s career, his pudding is known where his diplomacy is forgotten. The Father of his Country himself has to stand sponsor for a pic by no means worthy of his solid and substantial virtues. And a prima donna more famous than the Boston singer lends the honey of her'name to the delicious “peche Melba," and Is not ashamed of it. Men have even permitted cigars to be named for them without Inquiring too closely into their quality. Mr. Blaine, although he never used tobacco, did not talk of Injunctions when such an honor was thrust upon him, however little he may have liked It. The picture of the poet Bryant was long familiar on tho lids of certaip flat boxes of red cedar, but he was dead when the honor was thrust upon him, and could not protest. A public career has its penalties as well as Its prizes.

FREAK LEGISLATORS ACTIVE.

Price* of Necessities Have x 0 Kffect on LavvmaklnK Plants. The soaring cost of the necessities o? life has had no effect, thus far, in limiting the output of our lawmaking plants, ColMer’s remarks. They are grinding out new rules and limitations, clever or stupid, predatory or comic, to the full capacity of the mills. The production of statutory jokes has been even larger than usual this season. A delegate to the Maryland Legislature from FrostSurg (suggestive name!) has Introduced a bill to make It unlawful for a woman to wear a hat more than ten inches in diameter Von the streets or in other public places,” or In “any theater or concert hall In the state when a performance Is In progress.* The penalty for violation of the'rure Is to be three months’ Imprisonment of a fine of SIOO. He got what he deserved when a lady Journalist, working for one evening chronicle of crime, replied by Interviewing herself on what is likely to happen when women legislators are In office a few years from now and can "come ba,ck.'’ The authority quotes herself as saying that they will prohibit any man under 60 from wearing a frock coat, and arrest and try for felony any maJe who appears on the streets in a silk hat., The wearing of a "green kelley,’ 'or of a "moss-colored plush head "covering,” will be deemed a capital offense, and "the wearing of red by blonde men with ashen complexions be forbidden by statute.” Even before this rebuke had been spread another lawmaker was rushing Into print with a law to limit the length of hatpins. Dr. Felix Adler has been contending that lawyers have far too large a representation in our system of government as compared with that given to men of other trades and professions. Another class that has too much representation Is the self-advertisers. With a working knowledge of what constitutes a are making comic statutes as fast as allowed by the speed limit for dictation to a stenographer.

Wit of the Youngsters

Teacher—Tommy, what does the letter “A" stand for? Tommy—Apple, for one thing. Teacher—That’s right Now, Johnny, what does ”B” stand for? Johnny—Baked apple. "Wliat state do we live in?” asked the teacher of the primary geography class. And little Elmer, thinking of his Sunday school catechism, promptly replied: “In a state of sin and misery.” The mother had frequently told her children that it was throng to waste scraps of food. One evening she said: “Ralph, my son, what good deed have you done to-day?” ”1 ate that piece of pie left from dinner, so It wouldn’t be wasted,” answered Ralph.

Duhlin’s Red Haired Club.

The Red Haired Club of Dublin, which flourished years ago, was a society which barred out all whose hirsute covering was not of the most pronounced auburn. In order no one could gain admission-by false pretenses U was required at the initiation of each member that the applicant wash his hair and Whiskers in hot soda and water. This effectually took out any “dye” that had been used. When people invite you to see them, and say they will have a Dutch lunch, it means you are not to expect much. A colored man never smiles f&lntly-

LEGAL INFORMATION

In State v. Finch}. 103 Pacific Reporter, 505, a prosecution for murder. It was assigned as error that the trial court allowed a photograph of deceased to be shown to the physician who performed the autopsy, for the purpose of proving by him the Identity of the body op which the autopsy was performed; he not being acquainted with deceased. The photograph was proven to be a correct likeness of deceased In health and strength, and apparently not of a character to excite or inflame the Jury. The Oregon Supreme *Court ruled that there was no errbr in thus using it. How is the receiver of an Insolvent corporation to learn the names of the owners of stock .upon which assessments have been made when the stock has been transferred by Insolvent holders to other persons who have failed to have the transactions accorded on the corporate beoks? A situation of this character Is shown Ih Huey v. Brown, 171 Federal Reporter, 641, where the receiver applied for an order of discovery against stock brokers through whom" the transfer was accomplished. Respondents demurred to the bill, their demurcer was overruled, and they appealed to the Circuit Court or Appeals. Tfiat tribunal upheld the decision of the lower court, following the similar case of Kurtz v. Brown, 152 Fed. 372, 81 C. C. A. 498, thus deciding, In effect, that respondents might be compelled to give the names and addresses of their customers in Instances of this kind. A very important decision on the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission was handed down recently by the United States Circuit court for the Northern District of Illinois in the case of Chicago, R. I. & p. Ry Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission and Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. vs. Same, 171 Federal Reporter, 680. The bill In one case was to restrain the enforcement ot certain rates prescribed by the commerce commission on freight from tne 'Atlantic seaboard to Missouri river points, and the other involved rates from Chicago jnd St. Louis to Denver. At the time of the orders complained of the through rate from the Atlantic coast to Missouri river points was $1.47 per hundred pounds; the rate from the seaboard to the Mississippi river being 87 cents per hundred pounds, and from the Missippi river to the Missouri river 60 cents per hundred pounds, thus making an aggregate equal to the through rate from the seaboard. The rate prescribed by the order of the commerce commission was $1.38 per hundred pounds frqm the seaboard to Missouri river points, while the intermediate rates from the seaboard to the Mississippi river points, and frflm there on to the Missouri river, were left the same as before existing. The tendency of this , readjustment would be, of course, to benefit manufacturers along the Atlantic coast and those at the Missouri river points at the expense of others, established at intermediate places, who, If compelled to transport their raw material from the sea coast and then ship their finished products on west, would be compelled to pay the sum of the two rates, or $1.47, per hundredweight, as against the $1.33 exacted of their competitors having their establishments at the termini to which the through rate of $1.38 per hundred would apply. The court says, In substance, that the exercise of such a power by the commerce commission would place it In a position where It could thus establish zones of trade tributary to others, and holds that no tributary to others, and holds that nosuch pGwer exists, and that the order complained of is invalid. The legal questions involved In regard to the rates from Chicago and St. Louis to Denver were identical wtih those in the other case.

WORLD’S ONLY EMPEROR.

Mmjr Lay Claim to Title, bat Only to Wilhelm Doea It Belong. If any one of the original Caesars awoke to-day and heard diplomatists talk, about caar, kaiser, imperator, empereur, mikado, etc., he would be sorely perplexed. In his day there was only one emperor. Theoretically, so is there only one to-day—direct heir to Julius himself. And that emperor is none other than William of Hohenzollern, the Scrapbook says. The title of emperor, it is true, has become the badge of every new dynasty. We now have “the egiperor of Bulgaria.” But there was no imaginary grounds necessary for applying the title to*the ruler of the German dmpfre. German kings had been emperors—Roman emperors —for centuries. So Kaiser Wilhelm is to-day. He is not emperor of Germany; there is no such personage. He is the German emperor. When the sovereigns of Russia assumed the imperial title, K was meant to assert tor themselves a claim, hoW* ever shadowy, to represent the emperors of the bast. They were the greatest—indeed, the only independent —princes of the eastern faith, and they claimed a kind of roundabout descent from some of the Byzantine dynasties. But still, throughout the century, the Roman emperor and German king was still “the emperor,” the Russian claimant was merely emperor with a qualification. It is only since 1804 that the title nas been taken up by any one who has chosen. But one at leagt of those who took it up in 1804- had a very distinct meaning in taking it up. When the elder Bonaparte called him■elf ''Emperor of the French,” when

he was very near calling himself “Emperor of the Gauls,” he perhaps did nojt remember “the Empire of the Gauls,” which had been proclaimed so long before by Civflls. But hp certainly meant to proclaim himself as something mpre than a mere local king of France. He meant to set himself up as the successor of the Frankish emperors In the dominion of the. west. He openly gave himself out as the successor of Charlemagne, not as the successor of Louis le Grand. The strange confusion of history does not matter; the object was to go back to the. days when the common ruler of Gaul and Germany was also the Roman Caesar. Then came the assumption of the Imperial title by the sovereign of Austria as the Emperor of Austria. It seems to be commonly thought that when, In 1806, Francis 11. laid aside the titles of Roman emperor and German king and went on reigning as "Emperor of Austria,” he took up this last title for the first time. This would have been intelligible. The motive for taking the new title could have been only to place himself distinctly as an Austrian and not as a Roman or German prince, on a level with the new emperor of the French.

THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE.

An American woman who travels much abroad tells this story of an eld-, erly gentlewoman who could surely have qualified for membership in Clement Shorter’s proposed “Jane Austin Sisterhood.” “We met her,” says the lady, “at a pension in Florence, where she- was nominally,, chaperoning her two nieces, energetic, robust American girls, who were determinedly and unrelentingly sightseeing. "The little old lady had long' ago given up the attempt to keep up with them, and used/to sit all day long in the dreaky pension parlor, rending several-weeks”old papers from home. She never went out alone, for the narrow, crooked streets confused her hopelessly, and she was in 'constant terror ot getting lost. “Several times we persuaded her to go with us; but she ttas a sensitive little old lady, afraid of troubling people, and worried so constantly lest she might be a burden to us that she was hardly able to enjoy the trips. So we reluctantly left her tef her own devices, and went to Fiesole for a few days. “When we returned to Florence the first person ,we met at of the pension was the little old lady. She had evidently just come In, for her outdoor things were still on, and there was a rosy color in her efteeks. She greeted us warmly; and -when I asked her in great surprise If she had been out alone, she drew me over to, a corner of the hall and answered happily, while she fumbled sbmething In her bag; ‘ 'Yes, my dear, every day since you have been gone I have taken a walk all by myself.’ Then, taking a huge piece of white chalk from her bag, she held It up triumphantly. “ ‘See,’ she whispered, proudly. ‘I make a little white cros"s with this on every third house, so I can go all arcund alone and find my way back quite easily”

RIGHTS OF FIANCEES.

German Decides That 'Woman May See Sights Unescorted. The law courts of Gottingen have just delivered a weighty decision affecting the rights and liberties of fiancees. . Some weeks ago a young Berlin architect had a visit from his betrothed, a Gottingen lady. She stayed in the capital over the week end, and the architect escorted his sweetheart back to the station, where, as he fondly he saw her in the train safely bound for Gottingen. *lt appears, however, that the lady ■was reluctant to tear herself away "from the joys of the metropolis, the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail says. Sirenlike, Berlin beckoned by back, and at the second station she left the train and returned to the city, where she stayed till the next morning. „ Some kind friend imparted intelligence of this to the architect and added that his fiancee had been seen unescorted In the Friedrichstrasse. The architect at once wrote to Jjis sweetheart, demanding explanations. Receiving no reply, he broke <ftT the engagement and instituted proceedings for a return of his presents and the money he had spent during his betrothal, Including cab fares, railway tickets from Gottingen to Berlin, and the lady's board while she was here. Her explanation of her conduct was that she was tired to the point of ennui of the Intellectual life of Gottingen, and sighed for the renowned midnight revels of Berlin. The courts decided that she had done nothing to justify her lover breaking off the engagement and dismissed the action, adding Hhat there was no proof that the lady’s escapade refleeted in the least upon her character. Breach of promise cases are unknown to German law, so the Gottingen lady cannot mend her broken heart With coin Qf the realm.

Diplomacy.

The wife of a man who came home late insisted upon a reason. “When I go out without you,” he said, "I do not enjoy myself half as much, and It takes me twlpe as lonjj,” —-Success Magazine. / A mother can have the most terrible voice when she says to her Daby when it is actipg naughty. “WHAT did mother TELL you.’

BIG DEMAND FOR PEANUTS.

Wo Don’t Grow Enough nt Homo and Buy in Foreign Und>. Bo the people of this country like peanuts? Well, If consumption is an indication of taste we should unhesitatingly decide that Americans are fond of them. For Instance, the figures show that last year we imported from Japan alone very nearly 5,000,000 pounds of the nuts. We also received some from Spain, though we have not the figures, and probably some from 4>ther European countries. These figures of foreign receipts, it must be remembered are merely given to- show that the demand foif the little nbts is greater than the home product can sugply. In the southern United States peanut growing is a recognized industry, the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser says. In some of them It is an Important one, and In Virginia and the Carollnas It Is almost a dominating industry. In fact the devptkm of Vlrginlans and Carolinians to the culture —-and consumption, by the way—of the palatable and desirable groundpea Is among their distinguishing characteristics. Many Jokes and pert paragraphs are written about peanut growing-in those states, but_when we get down to solid facts we are bound to feel that there’B much more than a joke In it. “Take It altogether,” remarks a contemporary, “the American consumption of the product reaches a very considerable figure. Its good service as fogji has come to be generally recognized only of comparatively recent times, butj.now we are wise enough to put it to a variety of food uses. Some question has been raised as to the practicability of relying upon the Japanese peanut, with the possibility of deterioration on the long journey over. But of that country’s exportation last year we took nearly four-fifths.” There Is no good .reason why we Americans should feel In any degree dependent on the Japanese for our supply of this food. If they can ue -brought to us In sound and wholesome condition there’s nothing wrong in their Importation, Just as we import muoh other foodstuffs from for,eign lands. At the same time, ourown people can raise all that Is needed at home and much more, if they desire. The general knowledge of their value is becoming universal, and as that knowledge increases we may expect production to keep up with the demand. As a matter of fact, the peanut has about ceased to be used to express smallness and Insignificance, for it has ■ grown out of - that by a long way.

AN UNLUCKY AERONAUT.

A little incident which, thanks to the delightful way in which it is told, is not wholly depressing, in spite of its tragic side, is quoted by Alfred E. Pease, from a letter of his Quaker great-grandfather, Edward Pease. As an Illustration of' the old gentleman’s caution of expression and description, as well as his sensitiveness as regards responsibility, the extract is worth preserving. It deals with a balloon ascension. It is to ascend from my small Herd next to my garden, so that you Could have seen It very nicely, and the gentleman who goes up with it. I did not much like to let him have my field for the purpose, and told him I must have time to consider of It, before I could give him leave,'as he •might fall down and break his neck, and then I should be ready /o consider some of the blame would rest on me. He Bald.he had .been up one hundred and fourteen times, and did not fear. ~ 1 wished him to look for another place, and would give him half a sovereign to have nothing to do it. As he could pitch on no other spot, and finding It, would be a great ■'disappointment to him and the townspeople, I reluctantly gave leave, telling him I would not take any pay for the use of the field, should he be killed by falllhg from a very great height, as a gentleman at Newcastle once did, 1 would be clear of It. The gentleman I have Just named was to hold down the balloon nntlj it it was ready to be let off, and being busy cracking nuts, he tied the string round his arm, so when it went up he was entangled In the string, and when so high as to be almost out Of sight his arm got loose/and he dropped down, feet foremost, Into a garden, but foil with so much force he sunk up to the knegs in the earth and was quite dead.

A Spider Superstition.

There is an old superstition in Englnaff that if a spider settles on one’s clothes It is a sign that he 'will shortly receive money. “When a spider Is found upon our clothes,” says an old writer, “we used to-say, ’Some money Is coming .toward us.’ The moral Is this: Such who Imitate the Industry of that contemptible creature may, by God’s blessipg, weave themselves Into wealth and procure a plentiful estate."

The Worst He Knew.

An excited woman rushed up to the* office of a transatlantic stea'nfbhip line, pushed her yay past a dozen others and said to the clerk at the booking window, “Young man, I want to get to New York in the worst way.” He looked at her for a moment and then said very politely, "The steerage tickets are sold at the other window, madam.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. Mqney continues to be the greatest hair vigor, as any woman with twenty or thirty dollars invested in hair can tell you. “If he divides it, he’ll take It ALL*" we overheard a man say to-day.

BITS FOR BOOKWORMS

"An' Ideal Husband,” by the late Oscaj- Wilde, has been translated Into Russian and has been staged by She Moscow Imperial State Theater. Tho play has attained, an unusual succesa In Moscow, having been performed 2& times In the space of four months. The Mobcow theater is a “repertory"' playhouse, with 16 to 20 plays running each winter. A parchment recently discovered la the State archives of Munster has proved to be the manuscript of three • songs of Walter von der Vogel weide. together wtih the music and a fragment of a poem by another writer.- It had been used as a cover for a sixteenth century bill and is judged from the handwriting to belong to the middle of the _ fourteenth century. “Three Years Behind the Guns" is to be put. into embossed type for the blind. This la the story of the experiences of a runaway sailor lad. on the Olympia and it of this book that Admiral Dewey wrote the pub-" Ushers: "I can votich for many of the facts, and the' description of the battle of Manila Bay is one of the best I have ever seen published.” A curious", fact in connection with this book is that it was written by a woman who didn’t see the battle, but wrote the story as her runaway sailor soa told It to her. A naif correspondent of thp London Athenaeum writes a long letter to that Journal in the hope Of recovering his copy of the early poems of George Meredith, which he left at St- Goarhausen in 1857, "It so happens that I have had five copies of this notable little volume. At this moment I have my hand upon two copies of the book. One of them I lent to Meredith about the time of his second marriage. He. asked for the loan of it to read to his new wife during their honeymoon. When be gave It me back I was obliged have*tt bound.” * The new biography of tjhe French Republican, Gambetta, compiled by a. relative of his, M. P. Qheusi, hqs been published in England under the -title “Gambetta: Life and Letters." The work is largely made up of letters from the great tribune to his relatives and Intimate friends. dfc. Cyieusl, by a judicious choice of the: very voluminous correspondence left by Gambetta, and treasured by his own circle, now rapidly growing smaller and smaller, enables us to follow the patriot’s career from his entry Into the humble seminary at Cahors kept by priests until his sudden death. In a little book, "The Education of the Child,” Ellen Key attacks vlgorIn a little book, “The Education of tho Child,” Ellen Key attacks vigorously some common mistakes made by--parents. Ghe says: “A grown man would become lnsan* if joking Titans treated blip for a single day as a child 13 treated for a year. A.child should, be just as’courteously addressed as a grotfn person, in order that he may learn courtesy. A child should never be pushed Into notide, never compelled to endure caresses, never overwhelmed wtih kisses, which ordinarily torment him and are often the cause of sexual hyperaethesia. Nor should the child be forced to express regret In begging pardon and the like, which is excellent training for hypocrisy.”

A Careful Parent.

At a settlement located on the East Side in New York a mothers’ meeting is held Wednesday afternoons. There mothers of various nationalities, of greater or less familiarity with the English tongue, and in different degrees of assimilation to the Ideals of their new country, are served with tea and cakes, helped with their Bewlng, and- furnished with hints as to the proper up-bringing of their children—nints sometimes carried out on exraordinary lines. ' \ A worker from the settlement, paying calls in a populous tenement, oa reaching the two rooms occupied by a recently arrived Italian family found her ears assailed by childish howls of anguish. "Les-a, signorlna, me—l wheep An-gelo—hard-a!” explained the mother of the family, who for a month or so had bfcen a regular attend at the Wednesday afternoons. “I go on the meeting at-a your house—l not let-a my keeds say bad-a word, I breeng-a b> my keeds all-a right. Angelo seeng-a low eong-a—bad-a word In heeiq, vera J>adra word!- I wheep Angelo vera mooch.” .. And then the worker from the settlement found a serious task of explanation on her hands; for, probing tho matter, she discovered that the “low song-a” containing the "bad-a word," which had brought poor Angelo to grief, was none other than "Nearer My God, to TheA!”

Female Chantlelers.

Alas! That the women should crow over men, v They simply won’t do as they us’ter; They not only want to pose as the hen. But wear what belongs to the rooster, —Boston Herald. / ——— ~ - Keeping It Dark. Miss Kidder—S’sh! Carrie has dyed: her hair black. Don’t tell anybody. Mias ASkitt—ls it a secret? Miss Kidder—Yes. She wants to keep it dark. —Boston Globe. i ■ \ Look on the bright side: With meat where it is, there isn’t going to be any- ' left over for hash. * V •• •_ v