Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Brsry Day Except Sunday. - IEAIEY k CURK, PibHfiers. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Van la nature's nobleat work, but Ae la often easily worked. Some beef la corned and much Bore scorned in these days of the boycott. * ■ ■ ■ ■= Tbs world will never have a very good opinion of a man who loafs In a barber shop. Ones mors It is reported that Mene11k la dead. He must have aa many lives aa a cat Professor Munsterberg says that lr. this country the woman la the bead of the house. Let's admit it and save trouble. There la a tendency to-day to discuss fanning as a "serious proposition.” Few farmers have found it humorous. A New York actress has been argsstod on a charge of stealing diatnonds. But possibly her press agent can prove an alibi. An expedition of Frenchmen has returned from the antractic regions. They deny Indignantly that they discovered any poles. Mr. Roosevelt rode a camel in Egypt He could have bidden two at once, of course, had he desired to startle the natives. J. Pierpont Morgan goes in for old mastsVs, etc., without counting the cost but It Is too much to believe that he Intends buying a nobleman for a son-in-law. Ex-Vice President Fairbanks says war with Japan is Impossible. ExBecretary Shaw says it is inevitable. It would be hard to find a better chance for an argument. A New York preacher is afraid It will goon be possible for people to secure divorces merely by telephoning to Reno for them. A lot of other people are busy wondering why he is afruid. J A Missouri man Is advertising for a wife with "a good, wholesome smile.” Ladies who answer the advertisement Should be warned that It will be absolutely necessary for them to show him the smile. It Is probable that as soon as the Egyptians get time to think It over thoroughly they will discover that they knew it all along, but did not have the courage to acknowledge it to themselves. The subjects of King George of Greece recently greeted him with a storm of "xitos.” It should be explained that a “sito” is not at all like a machete or a boomerang. The constitution Is to be revised, and their storm of “zitos" Indicated that they were glad. “Preventive astronomy” Is the apt term that has been applied to the work of certain Chinese officials who are educating the people in regard to Halley’s comet. To counteract superstition In this way shows that a knowledge of astronomy may be put to a highly practical use. Now it develops it was an office boy who sold stock short and wrecked the Hocking pool. This recalls the New Jersey’s Senator’s historic maid who mailed compromising stock letters which the Senator had resolved to destroy, but had inadvertently left on the library table where letters were nsually put for the maid to mall. These mistakes of underlings will happen In the most carefully regulated Camilles and offices. Hopkinson Smith, who laments the disappearance of amenity and gentleness from the life of New York, has Incidentally furnished a definition of a “gentleman” which may interest many aho know one perfectly well when tfiey lee him, but would perhaps be put to It to describe his essential qualities In words. Mr. Smith says that a gentloman Is clean, honest, courteous to women, kind to children, respectful to old age, considerate to the poor, and sympathetic toward the “under dog.” With the slight amendment that he should be courteous to other men as well as to women, this seems satisfactory.

▲ correspondent of the New York Times finds new evidence of American extravagance and wastefulness In the articles which American families throw away. He calls attention to the fact that a junk-dealer In New York pays the city more than seventeen hundred dollars a week for the privilege of taking what he pleases from the refuse •oows before they are towed to sea; and that although Be thus pays nearly ninety thousand dollars a year, he receives three hundred and fifty thousand for the Junk which he rescues from the dump. The correspondent's charge may be true, but his illustration does not prove It. The value of old tin cana waste paper and the other things which oome from the garbage heaps Is due to quantity and propinquity. There are millions of the cans, and in such a quantity they are salable. The few cans an average family collects are not worth the space they occupy- ' n-u. ,i : s In accounting for the high cost of Wring PwfiMor LaugUin of the Unlyersitjr at Chicago mentioned several

faatom—excessive duties on raw material, desertion .of the farms by youth, abuse of combination, lack of organisation among consumers, and flagrant extravagance, public and private. The censure of those who live ®p to their incotrie, or beyond It, who apo the rich and give no thought to old age or emergency, was not too severe In Professor JLaughlln’s able leoture. And nothing Is more wholeacme than his hope of “a new aristocracy—the aristocracy of the simple Ufe”—the aristocracy of men and women who “pay less homage to gold and more to the virtues of honesty and right living.” The gospel of the simple life has lent Itself to satire and parody. It has encouraged fads and posing, insincere and costly experiments. But It will survive ridicule and perversion. Extravagance Is folly, and simplicity does not mean the giving up of such comforts as are necessary to cleanliness, to beauty, to economy of effort. The talk of "back to nature” is not all as rational as it might be, but there Is a vital element of truth In it. It Is, indeed, evidence of a healthy reaction against congestion, “whirl” and waste. As a writer in the Atlantic points out, the same forces which have produced the cost of living problem will aid In Its solution. “It seems Inevitable ” ai~ lHr says, “that there should develop some general conversion of material into mental wants, and a partial substitution of culture for wealth as a measure of the value of the individual.” In fact, even the automobiles, clubs and mechanical pleasures may contribute to the revival of slmpllcty and love of nature. Suburban and rural life has profited by the advance of machinery, and the trolley has caused a counter-drift to the open and free spaces. Never was there more interest among men of affairs than now in country homes, outings, rural surroundings. Professor Laughlin’s aristocracy” Is perhaps already in process of creation.

AMBERGRIS TREASURE.

Stoi> of a $30,000 Limp and Some* thing About the Substance. The story of how a Manchester (N. H.) painter found In the St. Lawrence river a lump of grayish substance weighing thirty-eight pounds, and how he has discovered that the solid fatty stuff Is ambergis and Is worth $30,000, recalls the nearest thing to romance that ever entered Into the lives of Gloucester and New’ Bedford whalers, In the old days when American whalers dared every sea. It was like a lottery. Once In a lifetime you might chance on the decaying body of a whale, giving off an awful smell, and Inside that whale would be a fortune enough so that you would never have to go to sea again. Charles Reade, as far as we remember, Is the only writer to Introduce ambergis Into fiction. In “Love Me Little, Love Me Long” David tells Miss Fountain how “the skipper stuffed their noses and ears with cotton Bteeped In aromatic vinegar, and they lighted short pipes and broached the brig upon the putrescent monster and grappled to It; and the skipper Jumped on It and drove his spade (sharp steel) in behind the whale’s side fins.”

It is a matter of record that not far from (he Windward Islands a Yankee skipper In one of the best old whaling years did cut out of a whale ISO pounds of ambergis, which was sold for £SOO. The price quoted for many years was $6 an ounce. Ambergis Is often found floating on the sea, particularly off the coast of Brazil and of Madagascar. The Bahamas send more than any other source to market The stuff Is a secretion of the sperm whale which dies of the disease producing the perfume matter. Chemists find it hard to account for the fact that the smell of the dead whale Is so horrible when the substance taken out is valuable only as a source of sweet smells. —Brooklyn Eagle.

Not a Parallel Case.

Jokes on the doctor are tempting If the doctor suffers no injustice from them. He 1b usually a good, as well as a good-natured target for assorted witticisms. A writer In the Argonaut has recently related a variation of an old Jest, the victim of which Ib the medical man. Among the patients In a certain hospital there was one disposed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. “Cheer-,np, old man!" admonished the youthful Intern attached to the ward wherein the patient lay. "Your symptoms are Identical with those of my own case four years ago. I was Just as Bick as you are. Look at me now!" The patient ran his eye over the physician’s stalwart frame. "What doctor did you haver* he finally asked, feebly.

A Boomerang.

One of the officials of the Midland railway, coming from Glenwood Springs yesterday, was telling a young woman on the train how wonderfully productive Colorado’s Irrigated ground la "Really,” he explained, “It’s so rich that girls who walk on It have big feet It Just simply makes their feet grow.” * “Huh," was the young woman’s rejoinder, “some of the Colorado men must have been going around walking on their heads.”—Denver Post

The Bounce Diplomatic.

“I can’t get along with that cook." "But have you tried diplomacy, my dear?” TSrtl To-day I handed the minx her passports.”—Louisville Courier Journal. And money in slss the root of m » l, f a family tree.

THOMAS R. WALSH.

A Typical Rneceaafnl Irlihmaa, Who Made Millions Here. “The best thing about tom Walsh Is that he never forgot he was an Irishman,” is ths way a toastmaster once referred to the tact and graciousness of Thomas R. Walsh, whose spectacular career as a millionaire mine owner closed with his death in Washington. From a millwright fresh from Tipperary County with only SSO In his pocket, he won so many millions from his mines in the West that he was consulted in business matters by King Leopold, the recently deceased King of Belgium who was known as "the royal rake." The promoter’s personality is shown in the story he once told of how he was approached by Leopold. “The King edged up to the mining business,” he said, “and, after throwing a few bouquets at me about my shrewdness and ability and my buo

THOMAS F. WALSH.

cess, he casually mentioned that he himself was thinking of trying his hand at mfniiig In the Congo Free State. He said If he coura find some capable and shrewd American with successful mining experience, he w'ould like to have him take charge there. Of course, I knew be meant me and that I’d have to Invest in something I didn’t know anything about. So I told Leopold then that If I were to make any further Investments I would prefer my own State, where I know what things are.” But afterward Leopold came to Walsh again and they became Interested in some mining ventures In Colorado. Walsh made and lost a couple of fortunes before good luck finally stuck and made him one of the biggest figures in the mining world. His first SIO,OOO was made In Leadville, Colo., In the days when that town was rich and riotous and the bad men abounded. The height of mining romance was exemplified in his chance discovery of the Camp Bird mine In the San Juan basin for which he afterward refused an ofTer of $35,000,000 and which netted him more than a million a year for a long time. His social success at Newport and Washington was accomplished partly by his wife, who was Miss Carrie Read, and by his daughter Evelyn, who was married not so long ago to Edward McLean, son of John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. They were responsible for the lavisjj and 'wonderful entertainments given at his three houses in Connecticut, Denver and Washington. The residences themselves were furnished with the prodigality and richness of the royal palaces of Europe. And the hospitality dispensed therein was on a truly royal scale, commensurate with the enormous fortune—estimated at $60,000,000 —which Mr. Walsh had accumulated. Perhaps his greatest social achievement was that which began the Walshes’ social career in 1899, when he was appointed commissioner for Colorado to the Paris Exposition. He chartered a boat on the Seine, spent over a million in decorating it and then proceeded to give entertainments to the rich and gay Parisians. They accepted him at once and it was these series of entertainments that led to the Introduction of the family to the King of Belgium. After a period of this sort of pleasure, Walsh was glad to get back to his mining and farming—he was a farmer, too, and knew about all there was to be known about irrigation. It was for this knowledge that be was appointed a member of the American Academy for the Advancement of the Sciences, the Washington Academy of Science and the National Geographical Society. He was a good after dinner speaker and an enthusiastic clubman, having membership in the best clubs of Denver, Washington and New York. During his residence in Washington, where he moved after making hla fortune, Walsh helped to beautify the capital city as a member of the Board of Trade and he was also a member of other civic organizations In the various cities where he lived.

SCARCITY OF COMMON SENSE.

X* In, In Reality, About the Meet Uncommon quality on Earth. The only thing that has never become common Is common sense, it

remains rare when all other qualities can be picked up by the wayside. the dictionaries do not attempt to define It, so elusive is the trait, the New York Evening Sun says. Persons hazily say: "Common sense Is horse sense,” and vaguely feel that they have somehow failed to state fully its exact characteristics. A number of Instances can be cited where common sense was displayed, and quite a lot of persons claim distant relatives who were gqj> erally supposed to possess the quality. But this Is about as near to It as It Is possible to get. Geniuses are all over everything; one is obliged to step caretu 11 y to- avoid treadlag on them. Poets, politicians, reformers! men of mark —they block traffic; and as for playwrights and novelists and singers, it is as much as one can do to breathe, they so v clog the atmosphere. Only common sense is unusual, and by its skittishness prompts us to find it. It may have been killed out in ths large centers by the reigning passion for phraseology. A certain homeliness and succlntness Is a necessary accompaniment of common sense; a hdms truth crudely—a little rudely—expressed, with crumbs of Bubsoll cling ing to it A touch of nature, bluntly applied to artificial complications) sending them hurrying about theii business. This type of speech, which Is to say type of mind, perhaps exists In the quiet corners of the earth, parts where they nasally ejaculate, “No tomfoollshness around here.” Yel common sense is not a mental dialect. It is a rudimentary mode oi thought a simple vision, and we in ths big cities are barely acquainted with it because we find simplicity woefully dull. To speak simply, one must have something to say; and if one.depends upon the matter there are apt to be tiresomely long pauses betweemtalks. Consequently we console oursel^swith method, and though we' have nothing to say, we make a point of saying it excessively well. We adorn it until one cannot he quite sure that it does not under its charm of phrase mean something. At any rate, the form is too good to ever break it and brutally search its kernel. So common sense retains its rarity, and though one knows so little about it one has a strong feeling that there is a very slight possibility of its ever becoming really common.

AMBER FROM THE BALTIC.

How the Searcher* Secure the Predona Gam from the Sea. The poor people who earn a precarious livelihood by gathering ambei on the shores of the Baltic Sea work only In the roughest weather. When the wind blows in from the sea, as It often does with terrific violence, tht bowlders are tossed and tumbled at the bottom, and great quantities of sea wrack are washed up on the beach. This is the harvest of the waders, the Stockholm Times says, for hidden in tho roots and branches of the seawood lumps of the precious gum may be found. In other parts of tne coast divers go crawling on the bottom of the sea for the lumps of amber hidden In seaweed and under rocks. It Is believed that once a great pine forest flourished here, where the great billows roll, and that amber Is the gum exuded from the trees, of which not a vestige remains. The fields are very variable. The largest piece known, weighing eighteen pounds. Is In the Royal museum In Berlin. The usual finds range from lumps as big as a man’s head to particles like grains of sand. The larger pieces are found Jammed In rocks or tangles of marine vegetation. Divers work from four to five hours a day In all seasons, except when the sea is blocked with- ice. The work is so arduous that they are bathed In perspiration even In the coldest weather. For all their grinding toll the natives, are happy in their way and Increase and multiply as In more favored regions of the earth.

NOW FOR THE “AIRWAYMAN.”

The most timid need not fear that the long-buried “knight of the road” will be resurrected to scour the heavens astraddle an aeroplane, for the ao companying illustration is only a fanciful sketch. But, regardless of the improbability of such “alrwaymen,” the idea is one that would add spies to the modern juvenile flction.-r-Popu-lar Mechanics.

The Mechanism.

“One critic claims that these spring poems are mechanical." “It naturally follows that a spring poem would be mechanical,” admitted the bard. “But they're easy to uncoil.” —Louisville Courier JournaL

After the Honeymoon.

"Pa, what’s the difference between idealism and realism?" "Idealism, my son. Is the contemplation of marriage; realism Is being married.”—Boston Transcript.

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REALITY OF BOREDOM.

Prom a Pretty Sishlns It Has Become Usrly and Oppressing. Boredom is not what it used to be. Its principal difference is that it is so much more .so. For a long time It did not exist at all. Then it made its entrance in the world fn the shape of vapors. Quite flimsy things they were, more or less artificially produced—in fact affected by a lot of people who did not feel them at all, but took them up because they were novel, becoming, and suited the reigning mode in clothes. But once boredom had made good Its entrance, how it did develop stubborn qualities! With a determination that It is shocking to look back upon it refused to go out or fashion, the New York Sun says. The instant people showed any signs of growing tired of it the wily parasite changed its form and tricked people into keeping it on. From vapors it became the blues,' and Sir Richard Burton wrote a book about it. When it had obtained this success there was naturally no keeping it in Its place. It grew appallingly. Its size is now unknown, but that just shows how big it is. From a pretty sighing indulgence harbored only by the smartest people, it has become heavy, real, ugly, clogging up every one’s path, and such Is Its present Insidious subtlety that one is nowadays bored with boYedom.* It does not care by -what roundabout way you put It so that you are undeniably bothered by it. You let It in under guises that even wary

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you could not penetrate. Sometimes you think it is your liver anc# sometimes you think it is your soul, and just as you find yourself paying serious attention to it you notice something a shade familiar about it, and lo and behold! it is nothing but that tiresome intruder, boredom. It is very unlikely that we will ever get rid of it. Born of nothing, it has by our encouragement taken on a horrid reality. It will have to be listed, but whether as an eighth deadly sin or » malady with attendant cures yet remains to be seen.

Saved by Fireflies.

The gigantic tropical fireflies which, swarm ia the forests and canebrakes 'of most of the low lying West Indian islands once proved the salvation of the city of San Domingo. A body of buccaneers, headed by the notorious Thomas Cavendish, had laid all their plans for a descent upon the place, intending to massacre the inhabitants and carry away all the treasure they conveniently could, and had actually put off their boats for that purpose. As they approached the land, however, rowing with muflled oars, they were greatly surprised to see an infinite number of moving lights in the woods which fringed the bayou up which they had to proceed, and, concluding that the Spaniards knew of < their apthey put about and regained their ship without attempting to land. A woman may point the finger of scorn at a man, but she pokes it In the eye of another woman.