Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bmj Day Except Sunday. JBEAtf k CUBIC, PrtHrtwtT" RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Smoking Isn't Pittsburg’s worst liablt Tits menus of meatless meals Increase in number, but not In popularity. China proposes to have the biggest «rmy In the world, and, consequently, also the greatest yellow peril. The story that a girl contracted leprosy from hair Imported from Europe may be false. Teh hair certainly was. A New York servant girl has left $6,000 to the family by which she was employed for 82 years. Paste this In your kitchen. Twenty girls lost their lives In a Chicago factory fire, and the building Inspectors are now very busy looking over the place. A Massachusetts woman can speak 64 languages, yet so profound a student must have but limited - time for exercising her conversational powers. Professor Lowell can logically reply that the people who don’t believe Mars Is inhabited have never succeeded In furnishing convincing proof that It Isn’t A<mong those who will take the crusade against the hatpin seriously is the man who has had the sight of one eye destroyed and wants to save the ether one. Food was recently found In an Egyptian tomb wheer It had been burled for 8,000 years. Thus an honor is rudely snatched from New Jersey’s oold storage warehouses.

As to Confederate money, if you have some which a playful uncle gave you in your youth, look it over. A Confederate half dollar sold the other day for |3,700 In real money. Street beggars in Philadelphia complain that the big strike in that city has almost ruined their business. After all, it seems that something .may now and then be said in favor of a big strike. One of the professors says a laborer who received 8 cents a day in the year 1300 was more fortunate than the workman of the present time who receives from $2.50 to $6 a day. The professor has evidently .been sent out by his wife to do the marketing for Bunday. The new president of Brazil Is Marshal Hermes Fonseca, formerly minister of war. He was nominated by a proclamation signed by a hundred and seventy-five members of the national congress, and not In a convention. Presidential nominations used to be made in this country by a “caucus” of congressmen. When the corn produced on tin rocky and infertile soil of New England can take the first prize at a national corn show in Denver, where It competes with the corn from the great west, no farmer should be discouraged by his acres. If he uses proper fertilizers along with some degree of in telligence, he can almost make figs grow on thistles. Slavery had other sides than that which was presented in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." In Texas the other day there was a gathering of more than sixty former Blaves and their descendants at the home of the aged man and his wife who used to own them. It was a Joyful reunion, accompanied by a great feast for all and a night of dancing; and the great distance which many traveled In order to accept the invitation was proof of their loyal attachment to the beloved “ole massa,” and of the happy condition of things on that particular plantation, and certainly many others, before the war.

After every war there Is a lingering trail of claims, national and individual. to be adjusted. The commission constituted by act of Congress in 1901 to sit upon the claims of American citizens arising out of the war with Spain has now practically completed its work. More than five hundred cases were heard, involving the taking of an almost unprecedented amount of testimony in Cuba and at Madrid. The total of the claims presented exceeded sixty-one milion dollars, but the final awards are only about one and one-third millions. This sum is paid to the successful claimants from the treasury of the United States, although in all cases the grievance of the claimants, nearly all of whom lived In Cuba, was against the Spanish government.

So many people suffer from sleeplessness and other real or Imaginary affections of what we call our nerves; and so many who think they suffer also think they find relief in a certain cycle of hypnotic drugs, that the permanent effect of these drugs on health is a matter of even more popular than medical interest. The drugs in question are derived from the byproducts of gas-making and oil refining, coke burning and the like. Science has utilized these unpleasant mineral smells as It has utilized the animal smells of the packing houses. These compounds are grouped together for the chemist by the fact that they approach the highly complex formulas of organic chemistry and for the vulgar world of apothecaries and patients

by the fact that the names of most of them end in al. They differ from the opiates or narcotics formerly used to produce sleep In their direct effect upon the brain and nerves through the circulation. This effect is produced through an influence upon heart action against excess of which medical men warn patients and which observing patients are able to detect." This effect varies in different preparations and in different patients, according to their condition and susceptibility, all the way from a slight depression of vitality to complete heart failure and stoppage of life. Some drugs seem to affect one person in this way and some another, but few persons are Immune to all of them. It appears that medical men in the East are proceeding from individual warnings in relation to the use of these drugs to an organized campaign against any resort to them except on a physician’s order and tinder his direction. They resemble other remedies in the respect that injurious results follow their abuse. Whether these results are so uniform and certain as to make it necessary to pay a doctor’s bill every time one takes a dose appears Btill to be a matter of dispute.

THE PAPER BAG.

Way a Good Manx Women Object to Carrxtns Them. "You will laugh at me," the doctor’s wife said, whimsically—lt was after the committee meeting, and the members, with the aid of crumpets and tea, had dismissed business and were discussing their Ideals of luxury—"but none of the things you have mentioned stir me at all—not even tiled bathroom for second maids. Like Wordsworth's sea and winds, they move me not —at least, not j/ef. My very top peak of luxury in my present plane of existence would be never to carry another paper bag as long as I live!” "But, my dear Mrs. Chase,” one of the guests remonstrated, when the ripple of laughter had subsided, “a paper bag is nothing but—a paper bag!” The doctor’s wife flashed about, her eyes remonstrant. & "You never were more mistaken In your life!” she declared. “A paper bag Is a hundred other things. I don’t mean a little, inoffensive paper bag with a bit of ribbon or lace —though if I had my way I’d never carry those, either—but the paper bag with a few little cakes—too few to order sent — or dry goods, or a hat —oh, that is far the worst of all, a hat In one of those bags printed on both sides, so that eh that runs may read and know that you get your hats at Sternberg’s and trim them yourself. “A paper bag like that means stores that you hate and a cheap grade of goods, and getting jammed in crowds, and having to w’atch for bargains, and rush through your work to get downtt>wn early enough to get them —all for the saving of a few cents. Tt means that you never feel welldressed, because you never are welldressed; that you have to do things you never were made to do; above all, that when you are carrying the biggest and noisest paper bag you meet Mrs. Judeg Andrews just coming out of oGrdon’s, or Mrs. Montgomery just getting into her auto, and they Insist upon stopping to speak. ‘Such a beautiful day! It would be a crime not to eb enjoying it, wouldn’t it?’ Now, tell me, If you can, of any remedy for that!" There numerous ones offered with laughing commiseration. Not a woman there failed to appreciate the picture. Finally one who had listened in silence offered her crumb of philosophy: “After all, Mrs. Chase, don’t you think we all—even Mrs. Judge Andrews, if we only knew It—have some sort of paper bag to carry? And thing,” with a laughing glance about the interested circle, “what an absorbing topic f©conversation they offer! And, after all, there’s a whole lot in the air with which one carries one’s paper bag!” "If that isn’t Kate Armstrong!” one of the others retorted, as they began to rise and put on wraps.—Youth’s Companion.

The Geese Were Duck’s.

The following little incident took place awhile ago at a Northwestern station in Yorkshire: Some geese had strayed on the railway and were observed by a traveler, who, fearing that they might be run over, said to one of the porters on the platform: “Who owns the geese, my man?” “Them’s Duck’s,” .the porter replied. Again the question was asked, with the same reply. Somewhat annoyed, the traveler called the station master and told him the story, stating that he full well knew the difference between geese and ducks. > The station master laughingly replied: ‘The man Is quite right. Those geese are Duck’s. They belong to Mr. John Duck, the farmer." —London TitBits.

The Best She Could Do.

"We’ve got to cut down our expenses," said Woodby. "We are living in a style that makes everybody think my income must be twice as big as it is." "Well,” his wife replied, “what more do you want, seeing that there is no chance for you to double your income?”—Chicago Record-Herald.

The Curious Pair.

Mrs. Rubba—l wonder why that woman keeps watching me so? Mr. Rubba —Perhaps she's trying to find out why you are staring at her. —Philadelphia Press. Many a woman is honest about her father being a private in the Civil war until she meets some woman whohe father was a captain; Then she elevates her father to a generalship.

Out where the crystal waters cool Sweep 'round the bank of the deepest pool, After the hours of work or school, You’ll find the country boy. —• — •—Detroit Times.

KINGDOM OF SIAM.

Some of the Leading Feature* of the Baniern Monarchy. ' ' Already our trade with Siam has reached nearly $500,000 yearly, fourfifths of which Is in exports thereto. The population is about 6,000,000, classified as Siamese, 2,000,000; Laos, 2,000,000; Chinese, 1,000,000; Malays, 1,000,000. This Is exclusive of the people living in that part of the country which was recently ceded to Great Brtain for addition to its Malay States possessions. Siam is an Independent kingdom, with a present area of 183,000 square miles. Its integrity is guaranteed under an Anglo-French agreement executed in 1896. The minerals of the country are gold, which is extensively diffused and of tolerable purity; abundant tin, iron, copper and lead, and wrought on a large scale by the Chinese, especially the two first; zinq and antimony are also found, as well as sapphires, the oriental ruby and the orinetal topaz. The chief vegetable porducts are rice and maize, the usual tropical farinaceous roots, sweet potatoes, cocoa and areca palms. Cocoa oil is extensively exported. Siam is the most celebrated country in the east for the abundance and quality of its fruits — the mango, pomegranate, guava and pineapple, for instance. Sugar cane is extensively cultivated. Black pepper, tobacco and cotton of several sorts are largely produced. Excellent teak timber abounds in the forests of upper Siam and is used for the building of junks and temples, besides being exported, together with sappan wood. The country has a most extensive trade, both inland and coastwise, as well as a foreign trade of $30,000,000 a year, about equally divided between exports and imports. Rice is the leading export. The foreign trade is chiefly with Hongkong, British India, Great Britain, the United States, Germany and France. The imports are principally textiles, iron and steel goods, earthen and glass ware, hardware and cutlery, opium and sugar. More than 500 foreign ships enter the port of Bangkok annually. The Siamese are temperate and abstemious, by no revengeful, obedient to the laws, and Btrongly attached by their domestic ties. The government of Siam is that of a hereditary, absolute monarchy; but the king can nominate a successor other than his eldest son. The ministers of foreign affairs, state, interior. Justice, war, finance, public instruction and public works form an advisory cabinet. There is also a legislative council,. whose duty it is to revise, amend and complete the legislation of the country. Since 1851 the kings of Slam have been men of enlightenment. The present king, Chulalongkorn, vitlted Europe in 1897 and 19087 British and other machinery of various kinds has been introduced of recent years. Europeans are employed in various capacities, and many young Siamese are sent to Europe to make personal acquaintance with western civilization.

TABLE FORKS FOR TURKEY.

Soldiery to Be Famished Implement That May Inspire Mutiny. Salih Pasha, the boss of the Turkish war department, has just placed an order with a German manufacturer for 1,260,000 table forks for the use of the Ottoman army. At present the fork is an implement rarely honored by the Moslem high private, the Balti-

THE COUNTRY BOY.

more Sun says. Like the sturdy burgher of Switzerland, the earthling of Sweden and the honest peasant of New Mexico, he employs the knife, for ail gustatory purposes. His favorite blade comes from Damascus and is dull along one edge and ground to razor keenness along the other. With that one knife he slays his horned cattle, shaves himself, opens his mail and derricks his food. We have no doubt whatever tlia" when those German forks are issued to the Turkish soldiers and they ure ordered to use them there will be mutinies in all the barracks, followed 0y the usual massacres of Armenians. Our sympathy goes out, not alone to the Armenians, but also to the soldiers. The eating fork is a dangerous and useless instrument. Foppishness, true enough, has invested it with a certain glamour, but what have-sim-ple Moslems, or any other honest folk, i-o do with foppishness? We always envy and respect, indeed, that man who is strong enough to eat boldly with the knife in the face of social ostracism and fastidious sneers. It was not until the seventeenth century that the table fork began to drive out the protean rapier of the ancients. William Shakespeare, when he went to dine at the Devil tavern, employed but two weapons at table—the spoon and the knife. The fork would have provoked his snickers. The immense battery of fantastic fish forks salad forks, prune forks, stew forks and goulash forks which burdens the modern dinner table and tortures the untutored diner—at sight of that preposterous armory of cutlery we would have roared.

A WELCOME LOSS.

Grateful beneficiaries are always more or less embarrassing. Henry W. Lucy—for many years connected with the English periodical, Punch —tells, in "Sixty Years in the Wilderness,” of an Irishman who told his father such a piteous tale of want that for some time the Lucy household furnished the man with substantial breakfasts. Deeirious of showing his gratitude, the man gave them a goat. The author, then a lad of 10, finally disposed of theunwelcome visitor. * If he had given us a white elephant It would scarcely have been more embarrassing. There was a strip of garden at the back of the house, and here the goat was installed with a rope around Its neck attached to a stake driven Into the ground. It was late spring time, and the garden looked quite pretty as we tenderly bade the goat good night, placing a cabbage within convenient distance should the animal wake In the night and feel hungry. The early riser, looking out upon the garden the following morning, beheld a painful sight. The prim grass plot was torn up as if a troop qf cavalry had galloped across it. Flower beds ..ere ravaged. Nothing but a wrack of stem and leaf was left behind. Billy, as we‘ fondly called our gueet, had pulled up the stake and passed a pleasant night with the'panßles, wallflowers, white rock, and other cherished flowers. Evidently this wouldn’t do. Beneath the staircase leading to the kitchen theVe was a closet. It was predestined for Billy. But you may bring a goat to the top of a staircase; you can’t be sure he will descend. We ingenionsly overcame the difficulty by one walking

There every day he will take his swim, Sun beating down soon tans his skin, Just in the clothes nature gave to him And the other country boys.

backward down the staircase, holding a carrot at reasonable distance from Billy’s nose. When the goat completed the descent the carrot was thrown into the closet, the goat made haste to follow, we shut and latched the door, and once more were able to breathe freely. An hour later the household was disturbed by piercing shrieks. One of the girls, going upstairs, came upon Billy on the second landing. The beast had butted open the door below the kitchen staircase, and with instinctive hereditary habit climbed the heights beyond. The next morning I volunteered to take the animal out to feed in a field close by. We got there all right, I desperately holding on to the rope round the goat’s neck. Billy evidently appreciated the grass, ate heartily, and, probably cheered by the meal, began ambling round me in distinctly unpleasant fashion. After treading a few measures, the creature bolted. I fell flat on the grass, hoping that my weight, if it did not bring the goat to a halt, would at least hamper it. Billy took no more notice of me than if I’d been a feather. After dragging me along for what seemed a mile, tearing my pinafore to shreds, scratching my hands and knees, the beast . threatened me with worse fate when he reached the highroad. I was constrained to let go the rope. Billy, kicking up in access of delight, speedily disappeared round the turn of the road, and, like ships posted up at Lloyds’, has “not since been heard of.”

Motoring Causes Baldness.

It is apparent from what Dr. C. J White, dermatologist at the Massachusetts general hospital, says that women must either cut down the number of auto trips or run the awful chances of becoming bald, the Boston correspondent of the New York World says. The noted authority says motoring is bad for the hair. Usually women neglect to. properly cover their heads, with the result that they are compelled to take too many shampoos,” Dr, White said to-day, W ashing the hair and scalp once a month is often enough for a skin which is normal. A shampoo every other day or so, or even once a week, will produce baldness, and after a person reaches 25 or 30 years of age it is impossible to cure abnormal falling out of hair.” The problem is that if women want to go motoring they must completely cover the hair, but that keeps out the air and produces baldness, if they permit the dust to get on the scalp and then submit to the wicked shampoo they will also lope their hair. The only safe way is to reduce the number of auto trips. „

He breathed bis vow, yet still she regarded him Vith disdain. "It Is from my heart of hearts!” he protested. “Where did you go to school that you breathe from your heart of hearts rather than from your diaphragm?” she demanded severely.—Puck.

Pork Is so dear we cannot buy, And there we have mo lie penned; No critters of the pen and sty We eat, on our small stipend. —Boston Transcript. What has become of the old-fash-ioned dago, who traveled about the country with a bear?

Wrong Method.

The Soaring Pig.

LEGAL INFORMATION

• Are the sureties on the bond of a policeman liable for an assault committed by him? This was the question discussed by the Texas Court of Civil Appeals in United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. vs. Jasper, 120 Southwestern Reporter, 1145. Judgment by default for the amount of the bond was rendered by the court below. There was no allegation or proof of any ordinance of the city authorizing suits by individuals upon such bonds, and no showing that the bond was execut'd for the benefit of Individuals injured. The Appellate Court held that, in view of these facts, no liability on the part of the surety company was shown, and the judgment against it was reversed. A book agent sold a set of Voltaire’s works, representing them to contain fine reading matter fit for anyone to read. On a more thorough inspection the purchaser declared the books of a licent.imjs, lascivious and lewd character, no€ fit to be read in any family, and refused payment on the ground that the consideration of the contract was immoral. In St. Hubert Guild vs. Quinn, 118 New York Supplement, 682, the New York Supreme Court thought It no part of the duty of tribunals to exercise a censorship over literary productions. It is clear that no contract for the sale of a book can be declared illegal unless it violates the criminal law. That some of the passages, judged by the standard of our day, mar rather than enhance the value of these books can be conceded without condemning the sale as illegal. Courts will take the same knowledge as the community at large of matters of literature, and cannot fail to recognize that the genius of Voltaire has enriched many fields of knowledge. The rule against the sale of immoral publications cannot be invoked against those works which been generally recognized as literary classics.

In 1634 the parcel of land known as Boston Common was dedicated and set apart "for the the common use of the inhabitants of Boston as a training field and cow pasture.” In 1906 the Legislature passed an act authorizing the Boston Transit Commission to construct a tunnel under a portion of it. In Codman vs. Crocker, 89 Northeastern Reporter, 177, it was alleged that this would constitute a diversion of the property from the use intended by the dedicators, and that, even if this were not true, no right to make the subway could be acquired without a vote of the inhabitants of Boston. Both of these contentions were decided against complainants by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the bill dismissed. It was shown that notwithstanding the express use indicated by the original instrument of dedication, conditions had materially changed in the vicinity during the nearly three centuries that have passed since that time, and that the property is how not needed nor used for a cow pasture nor as a training ground in the sense originally contemplated. The opinion indicates a belief on the part of the court that it is not necessary that the land should be used for the specific things indicated in the original dedication, but that a use which is reasonably in accord therewith, as modified by changed conditions and circumstances, will not constitute a diversion. As against the contention of necessity for a vote by the citizens of Boston, it is held that, notwithstanding the legal title is in the city, it holdß it only as an agency of government, representing the people and subject to the control of the Legislature. The Legislature having granted a right not in violation of the original dedication, the grant is valid.

The Gentility of Baseball.

I have seen a quiet little Sunday afternoon game in which every man on either side told every man on his own and the other side just what he thought of his character. One captain, says Ellis Parker Butler in Success Magazine, began by telling his pitcher what he thought of him, and ordered him off the field, and the pitcher remarked that if he had a catcher whp knew how to catch a ball once every week or so he would be able to use some speed. This seemed to displease the catcher, and he remarked in no gentle tones about the pitcher’s general ability and the shortsightedness of a captain who would have such a man on his nine. .This gave pleasure to the opposing nine and they showed it by appropriately guying remarks, and were taken to task by the nine men of the other side. The two hundred spectators who gathered to see the ball game then told both nines what they thought of them, and were given to understand that not a man on either side cared a faded IJg f° r —• An hour later the umpire went home, or in the direction of home, but the two captains were still discharging their men. I have seen one stout catcher discharged eight times in one seven-inning game, during which period he resigned four times of his own accord.

The Social Criterion.

Jones Is a nobody. He speaks to everybody. His wife is a somebody. She speaks to nobody.—Puck. WLen a woman enjoys having company to meals, it means she likes the martyrdom that attends the backbone' of the chicken. What has become of the old-fash* ioned woman who wouldn’t wear any jewelry that was not solid gold?