Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Bvry Pay E»c«pt fajpur. HEALEY k CLARK, Publishers. ■g-- .. O--^,., RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Who was It started the rumor tha -aprlng was gentle? The three wives of the Grand Vizier el Morocco poisoned him. It was unanimous. ~~ ' ' It Is a pity that the white plague continues to stalk abroad when there Is so much fresh air at large. Having led the world *l* a tout around the globe, our navy la now proposing to lead in development at home. i ' 'lncendiaries tried to burn down an engine -house in a New York suburb. This was certainly adding Insult to injury, Acetylene torches for use In densi fog have been supplied to the Parisian police stations. It would seem that the London police would need them more. A six-year-old girl in Brooklyn has two beads. It must be something of a- strain on her lungs when she gets into an animated conversation with herself.

An automobile scorcher at Yonkers has been fined SSO and compelled to furnish bonds that he will not drive a car for a year. This is something like punishment. An Ohio authority says that drunkenness is an evidence of Insanity. It Is quite generally agreed now that It Is a disease, but we still continue to treat It legally as a crime. Sad is the lot of the man who by putting forth extraordinary efforts gets his boy to agree "to a safe and sane Fourth of July only,to become a victim to the foolishness of football. The new census Is expected to show that 6,000,000 people live in New York. Judging from the things that happen at some New York weddings, a large percentage of the 5,000,000 must be fools. A Holy Roller prophet somewhere in the east predicted that the end of the world would come recently. We have watched the news dispatches carefully, and are able to, state in the most positive manner that the end didn't come. The Carnegie Steel Company has Issued orders to its thirty-five thousand men that henceforth there will be no more Sunday work, except in the case of emergencies. The officers of the company recognize the wisdom of i a day of rest Harry Thaw’s mother says his Income never exceeded $30,000 a year. It should be remembered, however, that living was not as expensive when he was up and doing as it is now. In those days $30,000 a year was enough to enable one to get along without n;uch skimping.

There are signs that that venerable Institution, the roller-towel. Is disappearing from common use. The Individual towel, like the Individual drinking cup, is taking the place of the older pnd less hygienic device. Eugene Field’s anecdote of the rollertowel in the printing office, which grew so hard with ink and silicates that it gave out a musical note when hit, will be hereafter a matter not so much of humor as of history. So, after all. It isn’t worry, it isn’t decadent gastric juice, It isn’t the “gobble and git” counter, it isn’t wornout stomach linings that force men to give up mince pie and the midnight lunch. It’s the enemy of his youth and his old age, the appendix. One may guess that henceforth there wfll be no closed season for appendices. The knights of the scalpel will hunt them early and late, for when a man grows too old to contract appendicitis he can always develop a case of “appendial gastralgla.” Various societies interested in preventing cruelty to animals are urging merchants who are large owners of work horses not to sell any animal the price of which at auction would be ten than fifty dollars. Within the last ten years horses have risen enormously in price, and a flfty-dollar animal to-day usually means one that has been worked out and worn out, and ought to be put painlessly to death rather than sold. It is encouraging to learn that man’y merchants take this view of the matter, and are following the practice recommended by the societies. One cannot help wishing, however, that homes might be found for some of the old horses, where, in the country, they might pass their last days with only light work and in comfort. An Improvement In general business conditions, both material and mpral, Is indicated by the advance in wakes which la announced by leading eastern railroads. The Pennsylvania has Increased the pay rool of Its lesser employes to the extent of $7,000,000, and the Philadelphia and Reading to the extent of $1,400,000. Some 235,000 men benefit by the change. The acknowledged Increase In the cost of living provides the chief reason for the advance, and the great expansion of tha volume of business, due to wid<> spread prosperity, provides the means. A gratifying feature of the advance fk that It la voluntary. Without con-

troversy or coercion, a handsome tribute has been paid to expediency and Justice. We trust the day la near when a step of thia nature will no longer provoke comment by reason of Its rarity. . Every such example counts, and these examples, as they multiply, will operate with a cumulative force. The example set by the railroads is likely to be followed, on even a bigger scale, Sy Ihe United States Sleel Corporation. An advance at the same rate as that granted by the railroads, 6 per cent, is anticipated. It would mean to the corporation an Increased pay roll of more than $9,000,000. But the ensuing advantages, social and economical, will be worth the money.

When young Mr. and Mrs. J. Macy Willets started off on their bridal tour their course lay through Sheffield and New Marlboro to Mepal Manor. As they neared their destination something- happened: "About one-quarter of a mile from the manor they were met by all of the employes on that estate and the estate of Mr. Howard filets, Mr. J. Macy Willets’ father. The employes unhitched the horses and drew the carriage and couple to the manor, where they will remain for two weeks fishing and riding." Sometimes we get this sort of thing out of the London Times, and sometimes out of such fiction as “Lady Gwendolyn’s Lover,” and sometimes out of the lighter part of a Drury Lane melodrama. And when we read carelessly of Sheffield and Marlboro and manor we unconsciously suply a "bold peasantry, their and assume the country under consideration to be old England, where the lowly are still only too happy to display a sympathetic interest In the affairs of the great. But If we do we are wrong. Mepal Manor is not In Yorkshire. It is In Massachusetts. The excerpt Is not from the London Times. It Is from the New York Herald. The young people mentioned have the run of a twenty-thou-sand-acre preserve owned by their parents. This sounds like Scotland, but It Is the Berkshire Hills. The same young people are great favorites with the workers on the "estate” and with other “villagers,” and they gave a reception at the “manor” and distributed "largess” among the loyal supernumeraries or "retainers” to the tune of a guinea - -or, rather, five dollars —apiece. This sounds like the midlands or the but, we repeat, It took place in the old Bay State—the State of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. We give the charming incident for what It may be worth. If England, as they tell us, Is becoming more like America, America, on the other hand, seems to be growing more like England. So goes the see-saw, and thus a general balance Is maintained. - ;

BERLIN MANNERS AND MORALS.

Illustration in llomnse of Fair Sex to Black Performer*. A curious scene occurred in Berlin when a troupe of Black Senegalese, who had been playing for months at a music hall in Unter den Linden, left the city the other day, a New York Sun correspondent says. The blacks had apparently conquered wholesale the hearts of feminine Berlin. At midday, as they prepared to drive to the railway station, a crowd of 1,500 persons, mostly women and young girls, gathered opposite the music hall. Eight policemen tried to keep order, but the women and girls broke through the cordon and manded angrily a last farewell from the blacks. Many of the women were pretty and well dressed, and when the scene was over they departed in taxicabs. The Senegalese, with complacent smiles on their broad faces, tenderly embraced and kissed their adorers, and to loud cries of “Come back soon!” drove away In droskys. The Berlin newspapers comment bitterly on what they call a “typical picture of Berlin manners and morals.” They recall the fact that a few months ago the government had to issue an appeal warning young girls of good society against carrying on amatory correspondence with half-educated negroes in the German colonies. The negroes’ huts, said the warning, were hung with photographs sent to them by foolish young girls, many of them still at Bchool.

Spanks Her Husband.

Among she many letters In the New York Herald, this appeared the other day: The writer, though a woman, has no sympathy and little patience with the demand made so loudly and persistently nowadays for woman suffrage. What women should Insist upon is the right to be the absolute ruler in the home. I have practiced this doctrine during the nine years of my married life, and with most excellent results. I have four children and I am obeyed and respected by them and enforce discipline by corporal punishment whenever I think It la needed. 1 also demand obedience in domesfrom my husband, and wh«?p he is naughty or disobedient I take him across my knee Just as I do my youngest boy. My husband Is older, larger and stronger than I am, but submits to my discipline without question, knowing it Is for his good. WIFE AND MOTHER. Brooklyn, April 11, 1910. Perfectly Regular. “The South Sea Islanders often exchange wives.” "Shocking!” “Not at all. They go through A regular form of divorce.” * —» - ■ -■]•£ ! The man who has day dreams never amounts to much.

—Minneapolis Journal.

ROSE.

“No, thank ye, sir,” she said, firmly, when after some*-special occasion Involving extra cooking a dollar was offered her. "I’m paid me wages, and that’s what’s cornin’ to me.” When the head of the house had recovered from the partial paralysis of his faculties, caused by so unprecedented an experience, Rose kindly explained further:' “Ye see, sir, I’ll be afther keepln’ a vow I’ve made —it’s for me indepindlnce. Whin ye accipt folks’ prisints, ye’re sure bound to thim aftherwards.” Having In their home a “character” —and in this title numerous quaint developments besides her steadfast refusal to accept gifts established her — was not the only distinction the employers of Rose enjoyed while she was with them. She could cook — ah, how ■he could cook! The only trouble was that, after having made other cooking flat, stale and unprofitable, her cooking came to an end. For In spite of entreaties—some tearful ones, too —and promises of Increasing pay and decreasing work, Rose left. She assured her mistress, In vivid metaphor, that she “had no kick coming” as regarded her; but after two years with her, she desired change. Doubtless change was “what was cornin’ to her,” and that ended the matter. The sense of justice so inextricably woven Into Rose's fiber operated in other ways than scorning tips. Within the confines of "me own wurruk” she resolutely remained —a thing that furnished her employers with endless entertainment but very little Inconvenience, owing to Rose’s generous conception of her duties. The winding of an old French four-teen-day clock In the dining-room had been among her duties, and never once under her regime did the old clock run down or stop. Saturday night, a week before her departure, Rose wound the clock when her mistress happened to he in the room. The operation seemed to take much less time than usual. “Why, Rose,” she said, “surely you haven’t finished winding the clock?” “I have that, ma’am.” “But you gave It only five turns, and It used to take me ten, at least, if not—" “Sure, It would that,” assented Rose. "But we’ll mebby be rememberin’, ma’am, that I’m lavin’ nlxt Saturday, an’ It’s not for me to be doin’ the new cook’s wurruk.” So departed Rose, “character” and incomparable cook, living evidence that, even In this day of the unemployed, a master of an art can command anything, in wages, In pliant employers and—alas!—ln “change” besides. —Youth’s Companion.

METHODS OF CHINESE DOCTOR.

Treatment Pere Ripa Underwent Was Severe, but Kflleaelona. This Is the Chinese medical treatment which a Roman Catholic priest, Pere Ripa, underwent, according to the London ‘Lancet: Having been thrown from his horse and left fainting In the street, he was carried Into a house where a doctor soon visited him. “He made me Bit up In bed, placing near me a large basin filled with water, in which he put a thick piece of ice to reduce It to freezing poinL Then stripping me to the waist, he made me stretch my neck over the basin while he continued to pour the water on my neck With a cup. The pain caused by those nerves which take their rise from the pla mater was so great and so insufferable that it seemed to me unequaled, but he said it Would stanch the blood and restore me to my senses, which was actually the case, for in a short time my sight became clear and my mlpd resumed its powers. He next bound my head with a band drawn tight by two men, who held the ends while he struck the Intermediate parts vigorously with a piece of wood, which shook my head Violently and gave me dreadful pain. This, he said, was to settle the brain, which, he supposed, had been dlsplac-

YESTERDAYS.

HIS FIRST CALL.

ed, and It Is true that after the operation my head felt more free. “A third operation was now performed, during which he made me, still stripped to the waist, walk In the open air supQorted by two persons and while thus walking he unexpectedly threw a basin of freezing water over my breast. As this caused me to draw my breath with great vehemence and as my chest had been Injured by the fall, it may easily be imagined what were .my sufferings under this affliction, but I was consoled by the information that if any rib had been dislocated this sudden and hard breathing would restore It to its natural position. The next proceeding was not less painful and extravagant. The operator made me sit on the ground and, assisted by two men, hold a cloth upon my mouth and nose till I was almost suffocated. ‘This,’ said the Chinese Aesculapius, ‘by causing a violent heaving of the chest will force back any rib that may have been dislocated.' The wound In my head not being deep, he healed it by stuffing it with burned cotton. He then ordered that I should continue to walk much, supported by two persons; that I should not sit long nor be allowed to sleep till 10 o’clock at night, at which time I should eat a little thin rice soup. He assured me that these walks In the open air while fasting would prevent the blood from settling upon the chest, where it might corrupt. These remedies, though barbarous and excruciating, cured me so completely that in seven days I was able to resume my journey.”

A BATTLE ROYAL.

Every reader of Kipling recalls the famous story of the fight between the mongoos and the cobra. An exciting account of another such contest is given by a writer In. the Ceylon Times. When the mongoos first caught sight of the cobra, It quietly smelled of the snake’s tail and then hung round, awaiting events with curiosity. But It had not long to wait, for the cobra spread Its hood, hissed out itß angry warning and prepared to strike from Its coil.

Now began a most Interesting and deadly battle—of feint and counterfeint by the mongoos and strike and lightning-like recovery by Its adversary, which was also on the defensive, all the time watching for the opportunity to get In Its properly aimed bite. Time after time the mongoos squirmed slowly up to within reach of those terrible fangs—belly on ground—with every gray hair of its body erect with anger and excitement, its eyes glaring from its head, which, toy the way, he Invariably held sidewise during this approach and attack. The moment the cobra struck, In a flash back sprang the mongoos, and although often It appeared impossible that it could have escaped the dreaded fangs, not a scratch harmed It There It would be again, wearing the cobra out and pressing the advantage Inch by Inch. At last, with a growl and a sharp cry, the plucky little beast flew In, dodged the strike, and seized the snake behind the head, never for a moment getting under Its mouth. Right at the nape of the neck and head it scrunched with a loud cracking sound. The struggles and twisting and turning of the cobi*a availed nothing. Again and again the mongoos returned to the now writhing reptile and bit its head and body until It lay dying. Finally the mongoos ate three or four Inches of its mortal foe, carefully avoiding the fangs and poison glands. These I picked up toy a stick and found broken, with the venom sacks attached. Contrary to popular belief, I am of opinlton that the mongoos is not im mune from Bnake poison, else why should the creature so particularly avoid being bitten? It Is only by Its marvelous activity that it escapes the spring and darting strike of its deadly enemy, the cobra-de-capello. A man who Insists on having his own way a good deal, is always unfair.

ROYAL SPANISH NURSERY..

Queen Victoria Haa a Purely English Room, Simple and £fent. The royal Spanish nursery, where the little princes are being brought up, Is a most Interesting room, especially to Spaniards, for It Is entirely different from anything they had ever known before. It is a purely English nursery, such as the queen of Spain knew as a child; very simple, very neat and sweet and refreshing, with bright chintzes and white enameled furniture and an English nurse with a white frilled cap and apron. The children of any well-to-do merchant In London have as fine a nursery as this of the royal babies, one of whom will be king some day if he lives. At first the noble Spanish ladies were greatly shocked at this simple room and its fittings, the New York World says. They had been accustomed to gold and silk and real lace frills, with elaborate decorations of all sorts and much ornamentation about the beds and hangings, rare mgs on the floor, costly paintings on the walls and nurses done up in fantastic costumes of silk and lace; an(J so when they were ushered into the young queen’s nursery It astonished them. At first they said all manner of things against it, but they soon came to see the wisdom of such a nursery and now It has become the smart thing in Madrid to have everything English. And Spanish great ladles are taking another cue from their young and sensible queen—they are actually nursing their own babies instead of giving them over unnaturally to professional wet nurses, for Queen Victoria ol Spain Insisted on nursing her own babies, a thing that had never been done by a great lady of Spain beforo. This was another shock, but they gol over It and at once set about following the queen’s example, and now foi the first time there are natural mothers bringing up children in the Span lsh royal and noble houses.

HIS OWN COIN.

Knox Gave Root What Root Had Pasaed Out to Depew. Senator Depew told a little story on himself and Senator Root In a speech at a dinner In Washington to Mr. Rool by the New York Republican Congressional delegation. "When Root was secretary of state,” said Senator Depew, “I went over to see him and asked him If he couldn’t do something for me In the line ol consular appointments. He said: ‘Senator, I’m sorry. I would like to do something for New York, but’—and Mr. Root picked a paper from his desk —'I see that New York’s quota it now exceeded toy 14 per cent.’ "Well,” continued Senator Depew, "1 kept going to see Senator Root for s year. Every time I went to see Elm he would remind me that New York’s quota was exceeded by 14 per cent Finally I said, 'Mr. Secretary, I think you’re a great statesman, but your mathematics are Inclined to he automatic.’ "After awhile Mr. Knox became secretary of state,” Senator Depew said, when the laughter had subsided. "Senator Root went up to see him about consular appointments. Tm sorry,* said Mr. Knox, ’but’—and he turned to a document file—'l find that New York’s quota Is now exceeded by 14 per cent.’ ’’ —New York Sun.

Keeping Him at a Distance.

A pin holds Myrtle's belt In place, 3. Another holds her bodice— A doren bits of dainty lace Are pinned upon the goddess. Her hat Is held, as well you know, By lances long and pointed— I would not dare to hug her, tho*, 'Less I were trlple-jolnted. For jback of all her charms forsooth An air of danger hovers—• How sharper than W serpent’s tooth Are lots of things to lovers. —Buffalo News.

Never.

"What’s Idle curiosity?” Asked little Jimmie Pas; "The kind, my son,” his father sal& “A woman never has.” —Birmingham Age-Herald.

FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

The police force of London arrested last year more than 108,000 persons. Newfoundland Is without reptiles. No snake, frog, toad or lizard has ever been seen there. In many German factories the female employes are forbidden to wear corsets during working hours. , Ostrich feathers to the value of SB,690,000 have been exported from the Cape of Good Hope In one year. The proposed International exhibition at Bilboa, Spain, In 1912, Is now practically a certainty. It is to cost $1,280,000. Mme. Marie Kraus-Bolte has just celebrated at her home In New York her 50th anniversary In kindergarten work. She was a pupil of Frau Fahrenheit. The groom was attired in a dark business suit and wore pink begonias and plum blossoms, which made a very pleasing picture, as he stood between the bridesmaid and best man in the douMe door between the parlor and sitting room in the Amos home. — Cimarron (Kas.) Jacksonian. The minority who have square chins and big lower jaws say that we of ths receding chins have neither will nor strength of character, which is absurd, as any one may know who remembers that General Wolfe and Mr. Pitt had practically no chins at all, to say nothing of living soldiers and statesmen. To judge a man by his chin Is no les9 foolish than to Judge him by the humps of his skull.—London Spectator. Theodore Imback, of the state experiment station, has found a new pse for abandoned mines. He has produced In them mushrooms of the best grade, his experiment showing the abandoned mine to be an ideal place for mushroom culture. He is producing mushrooms of the best quality In an abandoned mine near the state farm here, having plants that yield from the one mine from $8 to $lO worth of mushrooms a day.—Baltimore Sun. After desperate efforts a traveler who had fallen into a river managed to reach the bank in safety. His wife, who had been a distressed onlooker, exclaimed as soon as her anxiety was relieved, "Ah, Thomas, ye should be verra thankful tae Providence for saving your life.” Thomas was somewhat aggrieved at what he deemed an unequal apportionment of the credit "Yess, yess,” he replied; "Providence wass very good, but I wass ferry clever, too, whatefer.” Saleswomen throughout the country have been sending congratulations to B. F. Hamilton of Saco, Me., who haa just attained Ais 91st- birthday. Mr. Hamilton was the first merchant to employ saleswomen, and the people of his town, men and women, boycotted his store in consequence. Many of the leading churchwomen called on him personally and remohstrated earnestly against what they called the sin of placing women in a position of such publicity as behind a counter for the purpose of selling goods. How closely famous artists can be Imitated by skillful artists was proved by an exhibition by Ruskln la 1875of a series of facsimiles of Turner’s pictures In the National gallery, London. The collection was accompanied by a characteristic note from Ruskin, In which he said, “I have given my best attention during upward of ten years to train a copyist to perfect fidelity In rendering the works of Turner, and have now succeeded In enabling him to produce facsimiles which I must sign with my own name to prevent their being sold for real Turners” Reptiles’ eggs are not very attractive objects. In the case of crocodiles and many kinds of tortoises they are pale colored or white, and resemble those of birds in shape. But the egg of the gopher tortoise is remarkable for Its complete roundness. It might well he mistaken for a golf ball. Many snake eggs are soft skinned, brown as *o color, and look for all the world like a number of new potatoes. The eggs of fishes are usually small, soft and Inconspicuous. The most remarkable . point about them Is the extraordinary number laid by the Individual. A single cod lays as many as nine million eggs. Answering our challenge as to. the most constantly misquoted line, a cor respondent Instances “He who runs may read,” which sounds very scriptural, but is In reality a mangled version of the verse In the Prophet Hahakkuk: “Write the vision and make It plain upon the table that he may run that readeth It.” Another blbical misquotation is the following: "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy bread," the real text In Genesis being, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” And when we pour "oil on the troubled waters” thousajnds search the Scriptures In valq for the metaphor.—London Qhronlcle. Prussia’s laws at one time Inflicted penalties for smoking, not only in railway earrlages, but In any public place. In 1840 the prohibition was so far relaxed as to allow cigar smoking hi the streets, provided the lighted end of the cigar was protected by a kind of wire cage, which was supposed to obviate the risk of fire from flying sparks. This was soon foupd to be an unworkable regulation, and, after endless petitions, the government allowed the smoking of naked cigars In public. But until 1848 any smoker retaining his pipe in his mouth when passing a sentry or an officer in uniform was liable to a term of imprisonment