Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — Page 3

> PROFIT AND LOSS. YOUNG man of wealth married a chorus gtrl In New York a few years ago. Shortly afterward he enlisted In the navy. mmmmmrn From a callow youth with little common sense and less knowledge of the hard facts of life he has returned home, strongly i muscled, manly, cheerful and in perfect

control of himself and the spirit of temptation. He has ceased, however, to be fond of his wife. She is now engaged in suing his for a half milllonsdollars, charging them with weaning away her husbaud'B affections. Were the lady in the case demanding for the loss creathre- she knew as husband the suit were ridiculous. He may have .been worth, many times a half million dollars in property, but worth not five cents in person. The man is a different fellow' altogether now, in the state of his heart as well as his mind. In sheer point of possibilities of value himself ami to the world he is not to be weighed against sordid gold. Unhappily, the courts have no other standard by which to measure the price of affections < and the object of affection except money. The chorus girl wife -must Beek such balm as is available. If It is true that the young man is all they say he is, radiant of health, sober, proud of hig service and eager to assume a permanent place as a worker, who can blame the wife for lamenting her loss? li the courts can’-t do more they might give sole possession to the memory of the youth to whom she was married. • The parents would surrender that with enthusiasm.— Toledo Blade. - '

is woman “Economically wobthlessp”

ROFESSOR Patten of the University of j I Pennsylvania, an original and progressive I thinker, declares that one of the four maJor causes of the increased cost of living is the “ new Btatus of -women.” Civilization and mechanical progress, he says, > have deprived women of their former

share in bread winning, and they are “left with their hands, idle." “Let women take up their share of the work, and the pressure on the resources of the family will be equalized,” concludes Professor Patten. Let us see. The next census- will probably show that* about 7,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations, in spite of our “ttvilization.” It will not show how many millions work longer hours than any factory or office employe, in kitchens, nurseries, tenements, flats, farmhouses, without getting any “wages” at all, but we know that the wife of the laborer, the mechanic, the clerk, the small shopkeeper, the struggling farmer, the young professional man, does not sit with her hands idle. Is not the woman who cooks and washes, cleans, sews, brings up children, doing her share of the work of the family? Is she economically worthless? The number 61 idle women is very small in this country, and this number the majority devote themselves

QUEER STORIES

Diamonds . are almost perfectly transparent to X-rays. A Violet Cross League has been formed In Paris with the object of suppressing swearing. The great North Sea fishing ground known as the Dogger Bank, is estimated to yield an annual Income of 13,000 a square mile. ' There is an inmate'in the Colchester workhouse, England, who Is 96. years of age, one who js 92, twenty-one between 80 and 90 and fifty-three between 70 and 80. - A Jock of Napoleon’s hair, cut by his servant on May 31, 1811, at the Hotel de Lorz', Brussels, was sold recently for $4 at Stevens’ auction rooms, Covent Garden, London. The average speed of a homing pigeon in calm weather is 1,210 yards a minute. With a strong wind in tho direction of flight, some pigeons have made 1,980 yards, or more than a mile £ minute. The University Qf Cincinnati, through Dean Herman Schneider, has originated a plan of co-operative industrial education, whereby a student studies one week in the university and then works one week in shop or factory. The Rev. T. G. Wyatt, vicar of Hay. wards Heath, England, has promised to present half a the price of a pair of boots, to every member of the local company of the Church Lads’ Brigade who joins tfie territorials. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae, composed of more.than five thousand members in various cities, is about to test the law of heredity by an Investigation of its own membership and antecedents for three generations or more. ‘Certain negro characters gre* of a highly evolved type,” said Professor Arthur Keith in- a Hunterian lecture at, the' Royal College of Surgeons in London, “and I have a suspicion that some of the negroes of the Congo Free State had an old civilization which flourished whan Britons were in a primitive state.'*

RICH WOMAN DIES LIKE PAUPER

Kliiubrth llnjn’ Death «n New Jersey Knrni IlfTemll SIOO,OOO. Professing abject poverty before the world and living less 1 expensively than her poorest neighbors. Mies Elizabeth' Hays, aged 86, died suddenly last night

Editorials

Opinion* of Great Papers on important Subjects.

4n the midst of_a fortune iq gold and currency, estimated-at more than SIOO,000, which for fifty years she had been secreting about her old farmhouse. Miss Hays’ financial status was discovered to-day when the heirs and her executor, Counsellor Reginald Branch, made a brief Bearch of the house prior to a complete examination promised to-morrow morning, says a Burlington (N. J.) Correspondent of the New York World. Bed and table linen yielded $lO and S2O bank notes by* the scores. Bed springs, old coffee pots, several old purses ants" other receptacles were found to contain hundreds of dollars. An old family Bible was almost completely leaved with S2O gold notes, some of them bearing dates of issue shortly after the civil war. The book stood on a parlor Stable. In a cupboard among ods and ends of every description was a little pasteboard box. The investigators were about to -toss it aside, when a jingle of coin drew their attention and they raised tho lid to discover the box filled with gold coins, mostly eagles and double eagles, amounting to nearly SBOO. Old salt bags and leather wallet&Jilled with gold were picked up from an odd as-* sortment of trash. In different receptacles nearly a thousand old coins of copper, nickel, silver, gold and alloys, and minted in a dozen different countries in the last two centuries, were discovered. They were $n no order and were mixed in with the modern money of all denominations. Rolls of bank notes, all of big denomination, were stuffed between the mattresses and mixed in with them were quantities of civil war “shinplasters.” It is said the searchers could not pick up a book without finding money between the Leaves. Linen dropped to the floor, disclosing $lO notes between the folds. Many of the old bank notes bearing early dates yere almost crumpled to dust when found and it will take an expert to decipher their value. To-night the late home of Miss Hays, a fifteen-room farm house, in a sad condition for lack of repairs, is watched by armed guards to prevent any attempt to seek the hidden wealth it still contains.

Palereon Woman Who Owned Them I* Charred With Arnault, Too. In her efforts to prove to Edward Mills, a hardware dealer, that a rat trap ihe had sold to her was useless, Mrs. Lucy Thompson of Hazel stret caused two panics, one on a ifolley car and the other In the shopping dietrict, and will have to answer a charge of assault and battery. The rats in Mrs. Tomkins’ home had

to charitable and reform work, to the cultivation of letters and art, to the propaganda of political and moral causes. Sending them into offices and factories would scarcely benefit true civilization. Man does not live by bread alone, and have not foreign observers extolled American women for their successful pursuit of culture and idealism? Even froni' an economic point of view, the women who do not toil are not worthless. Morals and aesthetics and culture have their economic value to society.—Chicago Record-Herald. -

SICKNESS AND EATING.

are actually committing a crime against your stomach when you eat while sufferr iug from acute disease. I defy ..any stuN— —, dent or scientist to disprove* this state? ment. you suffer from acute fcjSgjifca disease, pneumonia, fevers, etc., the principal object of which is simply the cleans-

ing of the blood, every particle of food you take into your stomach retards recovery. As a result of careful experimentation hygienists find that a typhoid fever patient will lose weight and strength faster when being fed than when no food Is glyen. In other words, he will lose less- "itrength and recover far more quiskly when no food is given. When the digestive organs do not require food and you persist inputting food into the are poisoning yourself and adding to the disease. If these statements do not impress you as being reliable, a little experimenting on your own account will soon prove their truth. What is needed in disease is to give the human body, that marvelous mystery that each every one of us possesses, a chance* to cleanse itself; a chance to eliminate the poisons that are clogging functional activity. There is no need of fear, no need of anyone dying or an acute ailment unless vitality has been very greatly retarded through dissipation, through prolonged use of alcohol or sotne other similar cause.—Physical Culture. .> ; i

FFETE eastern cities that sneer at the tan- 4 I || booted, slouch-hatted westerner are being ! committed by their undertakers to new bJmmSrn extravagances which, to the humble eye of the plainsman, are not exactly m good tagte. Blue, pink and lavender coffins are the very latest in art funerals. The trail-

ing arbutus or winding creeper may bedeck the pall.' Artist and upholsterer outrival each the other, with gilding' and gauds to adorn the narrow house of humanityls cast-off clay. •»«. The march to the tomb borrows trappings from the circus, attd the pompous ceremonies with which our dead are to be recommitted to earth’s embrace seem to mock the quiet of God’s acre. This should not be. The door of the tomb 1b no place for display. The dignity of death forbids it. Every finer instinct protests at exploitation attempt to restore extravagance in funerals will not succeed. —Chicago Journal.

RATS CAUSE TWO PANICS.

NO FUNERAL DISPLAY. * — . lb

made a trap a picnic ground for several days, growing fat on the cheese in it without injury to a Paterson (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Tribune says. From a hiding place in the corner of the room she watched three well-fed fats hop into the trap. The rats were having their customary feast when Mrs. Tomkins placed a bag over the trap and kept the rats prisoners, when she started with her captives on a Main street car -for the shopping district to interview the hardware man. The car had gone but a short distance when a dozen women screamed and jumped almost simultaneously on the seats of the car, while others rushed for the door. One of the rats had escaped from the bag-covered trap. The motorman, with the assistance of a switch bar, drove the rat to the street and the car resumed, its journey. When Mrs. Tomkins ultimately reached the shopping district the jostling crowd caused.her to loosen her hold on the bag and the remaining rate escaped to the sidewalk. For a few minutes there was pandemonium among the woman shoppers,'but a traf. lie officer succeeded after some difficulty in restoring order. Mrs. .Tomkins was disappointed at the loss of the rats, but still determined. Going into the hardware store she hunted up the proprietor and hurled the rat trap at his head. As a’ result of this last maneuver Constable Lee from Justice Botbyl’s court served a warrant on her, charging assault and battery. ' ?

Retraction with a Sting.

Senator Murphy Foster, at a dinner in Washington, said of a certain retraction: “It was a retraction without value. It recalls the Nola Chucky scandal. » “Dean Washington, in the heat of a revival, shouted from the pulpit of the Nola Chucky chapel: I see befo’ me ten chicken thieves, Includin’ -that thas Calhoun Clay.’ “Calhoun Clay at once rose and left the churth. He was very angry. He brought several powerful Influences to bear and the deacon promised to apologize. "So, at the following revival, -the old man said. \ ‘VI deßl No retract mah last night’s remark, namely—l see befo’ me ten chicken thieves, Includin’ Calhoun Clay. What I should have said, dear brethren and cistern, was—-I see before me nine chicken thieves, not Includin' Calhoun Clay.’” _ ; ... A man learns to respect the rights of others because his own are trampled on so much. Don’t tell a lie, unless you are wilb ing to eat It

SYSTEM OF A DINING CAR.

Every lack of Space In Ita Little Kitchen Is Economised. The kitchen of -a dining car is a striking example of what can be done in economizing space. Every inch is used. \ Water tanks are suspended from the ceiling. One wall is lined with the hig range and heating ovens, while on the other are storage boxes, receptacles for pans, pots and other utensils, and a row of cupboards up under the ceiling. At one end* between the kitchen and the dining car proper, is a littte pantry which serves as a sort of vestibule. That is where the waiters place their orders and receive dishes. Every separate article of food and equipment has its place, says the WomHome Companion. Every corner and nooK inf the car has a particular function. The silver is in one place, the milk and cheese in another, the ihcat in another, and so on through the list. Everything perishable is kept in a refrigerator. While the car is in action the conductor from his position between the dining room and kitchen keeps his eyes upon the ten tables and endeavors to see that none of the diners is neglected. For all the supplies on the car he is held 'to strict account. On his trip sheet, as it is called, is put a list of everything taken on the car when it starts out. -A record of all articles sold is entered upon the sheet, and when the car comes home again all that has'not been sold must be on The equipment of a dining car conforms to standards, just as do locomotives, trucks, rails and ties. Dishes are made according to established patterns, each piece of china having the company’s qjpnogram upon it. The same is true of the linen, silver, menu holders—everything. Thus a loss can be easily traced. The waiters are allowed S2O a month for breakage. All damage in excess of that, though, they to pay for, and the cost is divided among them equally.

THE HOMEMAKER.

Man ’« Chivalry to the Feted Goddear of the Fireside. As we men frequently admit, it it our chivalrous regard for women which leads us to desire that she shall confine her wholly admirable energiei to making of our home and the keeping of our houses.' She is tendfei and frail, and so we urge that she shall not for a moment drop her role as the goddess of the household. There is nothing that so arouses our almosl sacred admiration as to see our own particular goddess with a dlshrag in one hand and a frying pan in the other. Let us never desert this high ideal of womanhood and its lofty purpose in life. Particularly let us not do so bo cause if a woman, does not keep the house it will not be kept. Would we men engineer and prepare 1,095 meals s in one year? Would we wash dishes 1,095 times, wipe them 1,095 times sdw, darn, mend, devote our lives tc a gray monotony of treadmill effort 1 Not on your life! Our chivalrous re gard for adored woman would not per mil it. And we would go crazy within six months if we tried. I know ol nothing thaCwe should cling to mbre closely than this chivalrous regard for our womankind. It saves the cost of many and many a hired girl. I have penned this little tribute tc man’s chivalrous regard for woman because anybody can see that it deserves it. Woman, the housekeepei (and nothing else), the fried goddess of the fireside, the queen of her domestic domain, with a stewpan for a tiara and a stove hook for a scepter, let us together pledge her, while w< register our chivalrous vow that we will keep her where she is unless we men need her as a stenographer oi something else, in which event oui chivalrous regard may stretch a few points.—California Monthly.

Idees of Abner Pease.

‘lt beats all holler how the world Will take a man’s idees An’ not give credit for the same,” Said Uncle Abner Pease. “Here I hev preached for forty year . Thet farmin’ life’s the best; Thet farmer folk are better off Than any uv the rest. “I’ve said it o’er an’ o’er agin, An’ told the reason why; I’ve pictured it'in glowin’ terms. An’ spread it fur an’ nigh. I’ve ’lowed the tillin’ uv the soil Wuz best fur all mankind: An“ ev’ry man around this town Says scratched his mind. ... : l_L4 S “An’ now the pollertlcian chaps. From Taft all down the line, Arq praisin' farmin' to the skies— Thet ol’ Idee uv mt|ie. Beats 'ill how hlg men uv the world Will steal a chap’s idees; Next one 1 git I’«n gertn’ to keep!” Says Uncle Abner Pease. —Boston Herald. ' - • m

Turbine Steamers.

In a turbine steamer the rhythmic thumping of the pistons disappears, and instead the engines give out a thin soprano song that rises or falls in key with thw speed, sometimes suggesting a continuous squeal from the struggling giants of steam striving to escape from their close confinement inside the big iron Jackets, which of themselves give no hint of power. Every church worker . occasionally says after teu lng how haid she works for her preacher: “My doctor says he can't , keep me well unless I give up my religion.” When a man becomes engaged, or buys a grand piano, he doesn’t want tbs papers to say anything about ft.

PAPER CAR WHEELS.

Safer and Stronger, bat More Costly than Other Wheel*. We naturally think of , paper as 'Something lacking in strength and of a paper article as being fragile, so are somewhat alarmed wjien an encyclopedic friend remarks that the wheels of the car on which we are slipping along at the rate of a mile a minute are made of paper. This opportunity to be alarmed occurs, however, on only the best Of railways, as paper car wheels, though safer and longer lived than any others, are also more expensive. The principal advantage s( wheels made from this unpromising material is found iguthe fact that they are not injured by the violent vibrsif tions to which car wheels are subjected. The paper used in the manufacture of these wheels is known as calendered rye straw board, or thick paper. It is sent to the caf wheel shops in circular Bheets measuring twenty-two to forty v inches in diameter, and over each of these sheets is spread an even coating of flour paste. A dozen sheets are placed one on the other and the lot subjected to hydraulic pressure of 800 tons or more. After two hourß’ pressure these sheets, which have now become a sci:d block, .are kept for a week In a drying room at a temperature of 120 degrees, after which a number of blocks are pasted together, pressed and dried for a second week. A third combination of layers is then made, after which there is an entire month of drying. The final block contains 12fr to 160 sheets of the original paper and is four and one-half to five inches In thickness. All resemblance to paper has been lost, the block in weight, density and solidity approximating the finest grained heaviest metal. To complete the wheel there are required a steel tire, a cast iron huh, wrought iron plates to protect the paper on either side and two circles of bolts, one Bet passing through the flange of the tire, the other through the flange of the hub and both sets through the paper. The paper .blocks are turned ’ on a lathe, which also reams out the center hole for the hub. Two coats of paint are applied to keep out moisture. The various parts are next assembled, and the paper car wheel is complete. As may be readily understood, paper which has received the treatment described may be used for almost any ' purposp for which metal or wood is used if not too much exposed to dampness, and to all practical purposes it is fireproof.—Harper’s.

TOO DELIGHTFUL PARIS.

One of Senator Channcey Dcpeir’i After-Dinner Stories. Senator Depew, lamenting at a dinner ia. Washington the recent Paris flood, said, according to the Louisville Times: “How delightful Paris is! Almost too delightful for study. “A friend of mine sent his son to ParisHo study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Then, the following June—in time for the Grand Prix, you know—my friend went tver to Paris to see how his boy was getting on. “The boy said he was getting on famously. Father and son, after a delightful luncheon under a tree at Armenonvllle, went sightseeing: They crossed the Seine, looked at the Whistler and the Mac Monnles at the Luxembourg, then turned riverward again, to see a little of the Louvre. “As they drove in their taxcab down a quiet, old fashioned street near the Seine, the father’s Interest was excited by a fine, imposing building, with a spacious courtyard full of fragments of statuary, fine old bits of sjtone carving, casts and so on. “‘What place is that, my boy?’ he .inquired. “Really, '■father, I can’t tell you,’ said the young man. ‘l’m so busy at the Beaux Arts, you know, I get very little time for sightseeing.’ “So the father leaned forward and touAed the chauffeur’s arm. ‘“What place is that, my man?’ he asked. “ ‘The Ecole des Beaux Arts, monsieur!’ was the reply."

Reckless Speed.

Governor Hughes, at a dinner in Albany, speaking of a piece of legislation he disliked, said: “They are putting this piece of legislation through with reckless speed. They remind me of Peter Simpson. “Peter Simpson lived, on the eighth story of a tenement. Having arranged to move to the eighth story of Che tenement opposite, he decided that to carry his belongings down eight flights and then up eight flights was too slow and tedious a process for him. He, by the powers, would hurl them across. "So that Is what he did. From his own window he hurled through the air towards the opposite window frying pans, stools, pictures, chairs, and even a small table. “‘Go it, Pete!' the crowd shouted from below. And their delight was boundless when Simpson threw the cat, tied In a pillowcase, and Mrs. Simpson caught It deftly at the window across the way. “‘Go It!’ they cried again. “I understand that the baby was just being tied u$ la another pillowcase when a policeman interfered.’’ A woman who engages In two love affairs at the same time makes a mistake; she cannot enjoy either, and Is liable to get killed. A rabbit will fight over a love affair, r ' —v - As soon as a town man trades horses with a farmer, he begins screaming: "I want my money back!”

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The best time tor exercise is about two hours after a meal. More than 70,000 men are employed on the fishing fleet of Canada. Of the 300,000 Insane persona tm Russia,. 270,000 are at liberty. The widow’s mourning cap dates back to the days of ancient Egypt. In England nearly $10,000,000 is invested at present in roller skating rinks. When it comet to' barley crops, Russia leads, with the United States second. Eighteen per cent of the entire area of France, or about 23,000,000 acres, is forest land. It is a curious fact that the Romans in the time of the Caesars experienced much trouble with high buildings. A law was passed restricting the height to 60 feet. The removal of a' coat of paint on a canvas in a church at Winkel, Germany brought to light a valuable painting by Jan van Eyck’s pupil, Petrus Christus. Experiments are being made in Cuba in manufacturing paper fram sugar cane fiber. The paper is high grade, and cheaper than it could be made from wood pulp. According to the mortgage record, Manhattan island goes Ik debt, on real estate security, to the amount of SBOO,000 each day, but the dally payments keep the total at a lower proportionate level than it has ever been before. Cancer continues to increase in Britain. There are annually some 80,000 fresh cases, t The death rate rises from year to year. Some observers have noted that this rise coincides with the equally steady rise ih the standard of comfort. The king of the Belgians, the king of Portugal and the czar of Bulgaria ate distantly related to the English royal family, and the queen of Hoi-' land is the nieceAf the duchess of Albany, and therefore first cousin of Princess Alexander of Teck. Only the emperor of Austria, the king of Italy, the king of Servla, and the prince of Montenegro are without family connection with King Edward. Miss Amy F. Ching of China has just entered Wellesley college and is going through a course that will equip her to become a teacher in her native land. Her friends point to her as a self-made girl. She supported herself while taking a course hi the normal school of Honolulu, for which she prepared herself while earning her own living in her native land, and from two years' work as a teacher she saved enough to take her through Oahu college, from which she was graduated last summer. x At the University of Upsala there is a sound-proof room". By building it on platforms of thick cement and by constructing its walls of many thicknesses of felt, cork, asbestos and other bad conductors of sound vibration all sounds from outside have been eliminated. The room is so quiet that the beating of one’s heart or the creaking of one’s muscles is at once heard on taking up a position within its closed doors , and windows, and the only defect of it as a laboratory for acoustic experiments is that ventilation is absent and no one can remain in it for more than an hour at a time. Early settlers in Australia learned from the blacks the legend of the “bunylp,” a fearsome creature supposed to dwell in the swamps and to terrify beholders from time to time. Many appearances of this jpysterious animal have been reported, but in no case was the evidence satisfactory or conclusive. The latest story of the “bum yip” comes from the Black swamp, near Stawell, 70 miles from Melbourne. The dtrector of the Melbourne zoo went up and succeeded in Viewing the animal through a powerful field glass-' He pronounced it to be an unhsually large seal. The zoo authorities hav« offered S6O for its capture.

With everybody floeklng to see mi#i Marie Lohr In pajamas, let us chronicle the recent history' of the bedroom drama. Barrie began it, I think, with the bedroom scene and the pajama dance of the Twin in “Peter Pan,” Then came Mira Lena Ashwell’s “Diana of Dobson's,” the pretty fourth act of “The Woman in the Case,” with Miss Ellis Jeffreys beneath the counterpane, and a farce called ‘The Boys,” in which several damsels more or less disrobed in front of an embarrassed stalls and pit. Cyril Maude sported the classiest of pajamas In ‘Toddles,” and now passes the same Idea—l do not say the same garments—over to the beautiful Miss Lohr., Meanwhile, "The Bad girl of the Family” breathlessly announces two great bedroom scenes at every performance.—London Opinion. London is now considering a scheme for the better drainage of its streets that was first propounded by Benjamin Franklin .160 years ago—the Idea of a single gutter in the middle of the thoroughfare. “Here let me remark.” he wrote parenthetically amid the interesting details of his projejct, “the convenience of having but one gutter, running down the middle of the street. Instead of two, one on each side, near the footway, for where all the rain that falls on a street runs from the sides and meets in the middle it forms there a current strong enough to wash away all the mud it meets with, but when divided into two channels it Is often too weak to cleanse either, and only makes the mud it finds more fluid, so that the * * • carriages and horses dash it upon the foot pav* meat * • * and sometimes splash K upon those who are walking.”