Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1910 — THE PAPER BAG. [ARTICLE]

THE PAPER BAG.

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.

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.