Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN Every Day Eacapt Sooday. HEAttY & CLARK, PfibHsherfl?' RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Women who wear chantoclor hats •honld learn how to crow. Your perfectly equipped aeroplane will have water-tight compartments, Bins hip boots. Instead of the conquests of war, let us enter heart and soul into the effort to conquer disease.. When the cold storage warehouses turn loose eggs they are marked "dlrect from the country." In spite of the high cost of living somebody has had nerve enough to invent a new elixir of life. Every live newspaper knows that the Increase in the price of white paper has added a great deal to the cost of living. Also we concede that Edward Payt°u Weston is the sprightliest young Ban of 71 now running—or walking —at large. The college professor who insists that the dangers of kissing have been Immensely overrated is making a ktrong bid for popularity. According to an eminent entomologist, this is an age of bugs. The line M talk handed out by some college professors makes people think he is tight Oscar Kammerstein retires from the Speratlc field, but he does It with hon>r - The eastern papers state that he takes away “a sum considerably over 12,100,000!" An editor In a Kansas town sold out because he never received sympathy and encouragement. Sympathy Ud encouragement! Is this a euphemtom for wood on subscription? Colonel Roosevelt was compelled when he arrived at Brussels to wait gn hour for his frock coat. No man frver becomes great that the tailor can hot occasionally get him at a disadvantage. One of the ministers thinks churches ought to have press agents, the same as theaters have. But would It be proper for a church press agent to be M imaginative as the theatrical press kgent so often becomes? A Missouri judge has decided that it to criminal negligence to get close to a mule's heels. It is also the rankest kind of foolishness, unless the one who does it wishes to commit suicide and hates to jump Into cold water. A Chicago man has been fined $25 and costs because he sat for 11 hours on the front steps of the house In srhlch his adored one resided and would not stay away when her mother drove him off with a broom. The age of chivalry may be past, but romance continues occasionally to make a twobase hit Santo Domingo to realizing what it means to have Its custom houses In honest and capable hands. In the five rears of the American receivership the ecelpts have been about fourteen million dollars, or about twice as much as in the preceding five years. Nearly One-half of the fourteen millions has been paid on the government debt. Spelling reformers are not without a Sense of humor, else their task would be burdensome. Prof. Brander Matthews said, at a meeting of the reformers, “A friend recently told me that no self-respecting hen would lay an egg with one g, and that no selfrespecting cat would ever begin to purr with one r. I answered that, on the other hand, no self-respecting hen would ever stand on a leg with two g's, and that no self-respecting cat would allow any one to stroke Its fur with two r’s, and my argument squelched him." It Is now ten years since what has become known as the commission form of city government was devised at Galvesfbn, Texas, to meet a special emergency. The Idea spread, until now no fewer than sixty cities with a population of three million people, have adopted the plan In place of the old system of mayor, aidermen, councilmen and department heads. Most of the cities are in the west lowa has been especially hospitable to the innovation. In addition there are many other cities in all parts of the land which have made changes in their charters to embody certain features of the commission plan, as the single council, the recall, the absence of party designations on the ballot, and the referendum. Because he earned the title of the Peacemaker, the world shares the sorrow of England in the loss of her king. However the considered verdict of posterity may rank Edward VII in the long roll of £he British monarchy, the judgment of his own time has placed him high among statesmen, deeming his influence In world politics not only powerful but beneficent Certainly among his own people he had ‘won a personal affection and a personal confidence hardly, if at all, less remarkable than that enjoyed by Queen Victoria, and this although for many years his way of living'was not acceptable to a considerable class of bls subject* But from his tardy accession to jhe throne, his political

gifts, which had had up to that time small chance of employment, developed unexpectedly, and one who was hailed as another “Tailor King” was soon recognized as a master diplomat, perhaps the ablest of his day. In what diplomacy during the last decade has been built upon the statecraft of Edward must be left for history to de-, clare. In both Lansdowne, the Tory, and Grey, the -Liberal, the empire has had as foreign secretaries men of exceptional skill and experience. Yet there to little doubt to-day that to the king himself Is to be ascribed the chief credit for the almost uninterrupted series of successes achieved by England In the readjustment of her foreign relations during his brief reign of nine years. When Edward VII came to the throne England was In a position of "splendid” but disquieting Isolation. The Boer war had proved a staggering blow to her military prestige, and the figure of the German war lord towered threateningly over the world. There were many in those days who believed the sun of England's greatness was setting. There are few of that opinion to-day. The first stroke was the alliance with Japan, a step darkly received, but which powerfully strengthened England in the far east and discouraged any aggressive action which the revelations of her military weakness might have encouraged in that quarter. The alliance with France following the disaster to Russia in the Japanese conflict, compacts with Italy, Spain and Portugal, and a rapprochment with Russia, which has relieved the strain in the near east and on the Indian border, have succeeded one after the other, until England’s foreign relations are now a network of strands supporting her powerfully. She is no longer in splendid but perilous isolation. She is the first of world powers. These have been victories of peace and they have made for the peace of Europe. In all this King Edward was the protagonist. His diplomacy was the new diplomacy. It was straightforward though adroit. It expressed an enlightened, patriotic selfishness, of course, but It Included among Its alms not merely the welfare of his empire but the welfare, through peace, of christendom. Of King Edward’s part in domestic affairs less Is said. Yet it Is now known that he had much to do with the settlement of the great railroad strike; his Influence was for conciliation with the Irish; he urged peace with the Boers. Undoubtedly he gave a new prestige to monarchy In Great Britain. He proved to his people the uses of a wise king. Edward the Peacemaker is a noble title to take Into history.

One Woman’s Odd Industry.

One, of the most successful frog ranches in California is owned and managed by Miss Katherine Walsh, according to Herbert S. Warden of San Francisco, who is at the Arlington, the Washington Herald says. “Like a good many other people now living in the West, Miss Walsh was forced to leave her native state In the east because of ill health. Being told to live out of doors and forced by necessity to earn her own living, she decided to raise frogs for the market,and now she not only owns one of the most picturesque ranches in Contra Costa county, but supports in comfort her mother and the two children of the dead sister.’' “The net profit of Miss Walsh’s ftoggeries, I was told, was something like $2,000 last year. She sold 3,500 dozen frog legs in San Francisco and thit was the amount cleared. They were all shipped alive to the hotels and restaurants and the price received was from $1 to $8 per dozen. Of course the price of frog legs’, like that of every other variety of game, depends on the size and the season. “The native green frog of California is yery small,” continued Mr. Warden, “and, while the legs are delicious in taste, they bring much less money than when the native frog Is crossed with the large eastern frog. According to epicures, the very best frog for the table is the cross between the California and the Florida species. With carefully selected stock this cross produces exceptionally handsome frogs, and so deliciously flavored as to put to blush the finest Parisian product.”

A Lad of Mystery.

For a little while about the middle of the nineteenth century “that awful boy Jones” was the torment of Queen Victoria’s life, and his short career in public contains a mystery which would try the mettle of Sherlock Holmes. He was a barber’s apprentice who in some unexplained way discovered a passage into Buckingham palace, with which he alone was acquainted. When he was first found trespassing he was gently admonished and sent home. Soon after he was encountered again in the palace. He would not tell how he obtained access. Again he was sent home, and again he reappeared. Once he calmly admitted that he had been lodging In the palace for a fortnight. He had laid snug during the day, sleeping in the royal apartments, and at night had wandered from room to room, helping himself to the food left over from royal repasts. He had seen the queen repeatedly and Indeed had never been far from hr. The matter was conoid red so serious that the boy was summoned before a special meeting of the privy council. He refused to give any account of his secret Boon after he disappeared, and it is supposed thgt he was removed under state protection.— London Globe. When a man first joins a lodge he is very enthusiastic, but when the first assessment becomes due he begins 1 to take leas interest. * * |

LIGHT SHED ON CHIME

Mysteries of Murders Are Often Revealed by Men’s De. sire to Talk. - -i ESCAPES ABE NOT FREQUENT. Detaction Even Where Dark Deed la Cunningly Planned by the Shrewd Perpetrator. One of the strangest features in all the long history of crime, commented upon by nearly all famous Investigators, to the fact that something the guilty person said or did was responsible for the verdict of guilty, says the Kansas City Star. Murders most carefully thought out, plots conceived in the mind of only one person, so shrewdly and cunningly devised that detection appeared Impossible, have been explained and their perpetrators punished through the operation of an irresistible impulse of conscience which leads men In trouble to talk. Few murderers have gone to their graves without telling some one, some-* where, the secret burden that bore down upon them always. Harry Hayward, a well-bred young fellow of Minneapolis, was convicted and put to death In 1895 for murders of which none would have suspected him had It not been for his unsought confidence to his brother Adry before the crimes tvere committed. Prado, the Paris murderer, put to death In 1888, was convicted by admissions made In moments of confidence. John Higgins of Adrian, Mich., wrote a romance describing the murder of Lafayette Ladd, and was convicted of the crime. Carlyle Harris, in New York, directed attention to himself by involuntarily exclaiming: “What will become of me?” when <told of the death of his unacknowledged wife, whom, as the trial and his subsequent admission proved, he had poisoned. Harris was a medical student. As In the cases of doctors who commit murder,- he might have been expected to so do the work that the cause of death would be "hard to trace, if not Impossible. But luck was against him, as well as his conscience. He gave his wife a box of pills, all of which, except one, were harmless sedatives. By chance alone the fatal pill was not taken until after all the others had been used —and she took it the night Harris called to see her. One of the courtliest and most scholarly scientists in Buenos Ayres in 1894 was Prof. Beaurlgard. He entertained extensively and his invitations were eagerly sought. His chef and butler were from Paris. Attention was drawn to the fact one day that many of his distinguished guests died soon after attending his dinners. After fifteen had died autopsies were ordered, and the discovery made that In every case death had been caused by yellow’ fever, typhoid or cholera. Some one remembered then that Beaurigard had boasted that he could kill a whole city full without being detected. Beaurigard was arrested. When his butler appeared against him he swallowed a drop of hydrocyanic acid which he had carried in a capsule in the hollow of one of his teeth and died. Suicide, In this case, was the only escape, and the suicide was con-* fesslon. After his death It became known that Beaurlgard had amused himself by giving his guests disease cultures, or germs frozen in water, which did not, of course, affect their vitality. When one gets down to the actual figures the world’s murder record Is appalling. Statistics are lacking for the period since 1906, but in the five years preceding that time 45,000 persons were murdered In the United States. With the difference In population considered, it is hardly fair to compare England and Wales with this country, but It is nevertheless noteworthy that in those two countries only 317 murders were recorded In 1905, against 8,760 in • the United States. Thinkers attribute this wholesale slaughter in America to laxity of the law and the innumerable loopholes through which accused persons find a way to liberty. The fear of punishment has never served to keep men—or women—from murder. Each man believes himself smart enough to leave no clew.

JAP QUICK AT FIGURES.

L'ain* *n Abacns, He Beat Bank Clerk with Addins Machine. At a meeting of the Tacoma chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks the other night a Japanese (Clerk, using a “saroban," “put it all over" a Tacoma bank clerk using a modern adding machine In casting up a long column of figures, according to the Ledger of that city. The Japanese, with his “saroban,’ did the arithmetical “stunt” in thirty seconds, while the bank clerk, with his modern adding machine, took fiftyfour seconds to obtain a total and afterward it was found the clerk or the modern adding machine had made an error, while the Japanese with his little abacus or “saroban” obtained the correct result the first time, in another test the Japanese might make an error, as did the bank clerk. However, it is significant that the Japanese did not err and that he obtained a correct result far more quickly, though he used an ancient arithmetical device. The Japanese that won the coiftest

in adding was once a clerk In a bank! at Osaka, Japan. He disclaims being' an expert in adding and says many Japanese are much faster on the "saroban” than he. The little old-fashioned adding machine used by the Japanese Is what we call an abacus. Years ago In our public school rooms the abacus used to hang on the wall and it was sometimes used In the study of arithmetic. It is not used much nowadays, though it would appear from the speed and accuracy of the Japanese that It Anight be employed with good results. The abacus In use In China Is known as the swan pan. The Chinese are also rapid calculators. The abacus is a very simple device when compared with the modern adding machine. It Is probable that It requiuts more practice and more arithmetical ability to get correct results from an Abacus than are required with the modern adding machine. The abacus is very ancient. It was used by the Egyptians and Greeks in a form similar to that now used in Japan, China, Arabia and Russia. The word is traced through the Greek to a word meaning ‘‘dust.’’ It is said that dust was spread upon a board and that numerals were inscribed in the dust. In early times the Greeks used such a board, and it is supposed that geonietry as well as arithmetic was taught with the use of that kind of an aba cue. Later an abacus was developed In which beads slid on wire or- in grooves, the heads having a value depending upon column. This was probably like the abacus now used in Japan and China. The word “calculate” Is traced to a Greek word meaning pebble. It Is supposed that pebbles were used In the early abacus. The victory of the Tacoma Japanese with his “saroban” over one of our bank clerks with a modern adding machine Is not an exceptional instance. A few months ago, when the Japanese commercial commissioners visited the United States, a contest was held in which a Japanese came out ahead in a calculation contest in which he used an abacus.

TRUSTED AID OF AGASSIZ.

Miss Clark, of Rare Ability, Has Mastered Secrets of Science. When Louis Agassiz, the great naturalist and scientist, was searching many years ago for keen young women to sort specimens for him at Harvard, he noticed among the dozen or more girls there one who seemed to show unusual interest in her work. Her name was Elizabeth H. Clarke, and she was destined to become one of the most efficient helpers of the late Prof. Alexander Agassiz, the son of the first distinguished Agassiz. A short time ago Prof. Agassiz died, and among his legacies was found one of $25,000 to Miss Clarke, who for thirty-seven years had been his private secretary in connection with his scientific Interests. It is the duty of any private secretary to lighten the cares of the person he is serving, but Miss Clarke did more than lighten Prof. Agassiz’s cares, for she anticipated his wishes, the Boston Globe says. His hopes, plans and aspirations she made her own and never did she fail him knowingly. No wonder that he gave such a woman $25,000, and in addition provided an annuity of SIO,OOO as long as she lives. Prof. Agassiz could go away on research trips and be absent for months and return, finding that everything had been done almost as well as if he-himself had been the directing genius. Indeed, at the time of his death he was abroad, leaving the carrying on of his work with his secretary. Prof. Agassiz had perfect confidence in Miss Clarke and their business relations were ideal. Miss Clarke’s executive ability made her work easy and she knows as much about the Agassiz museum as any living person. To her the history of most of the best specimens is known and she can tell what was gathered by Louis and what by Alexander Agassiz.

Emulating Their Husbands.

Not to be outdone by their husbands, each of whom has a chance to spread himself in an autobiography upon the pages of the Congressional Directory, the wives of senators and representatives who cpmpose the Congressional Club the busy getting up biographies of themselves, which will shortly be seen in print, says the Washington correspondent of the New York World. Here is one of the questions which have opened up lots of discussion: “Were the voters in your own family of the same political faith as your husband?" ’ , Answers show that many a politician’s home is a bouse divided against itself. It also shows that many of these feminine Insurrectors still believe that the ticket father voted was the right one. The most interesting answers are made to this question: "What could you do to make a living if you were throwh on your own' resources?” These answers developed that there are even successful inventors among congressmen’s wives. Successful teachers and talented musicians and artists abound. Many have hobbies which would, they believe, in time of stress net them a good income. Club members are taking much interest in the genealogical records. Several have found relationships hitherto unknown. It is expected that the biographies will be printed under the auspices of the Congressional Club next winter and that copies will be furnished to each member as the Congressional Directory is distributed. At ledst five new and destructive worms appear every year, making that much inore work for the farmer.

LOVE SINKS TO THE STOMACH.

Danish Wife Learna Pinochle and In a Good Entertainer. “After marriage love sinks to the stomach. ’there is no doubt of it, my friend. The old adage is right.” Here is a suffragist, a good suffragist, from Denmark, who has seen life and who knows. * "Three husbands have I had,” says she, according to the New York Evening Sun, “and of what I speak I am certain. My first was an Englishman —a race reputed difficult; my second was a Dutchman out of Holland, a good man, though Dutch; my third is a German, an ‘echt Deutscher.’ Yet' from all these three have I received never anything but respect; and for why? I have known my business as a wife. That is it in a fistful, yes. After marriage love sinhs to the stomach.” Mme. Volkman, the president of the Independent Woman’s Suffrage Club in Harlem, speaks with the conviction and authority of experience. “Let us come back to that duty of a wife. Evening comes. The good wife prepares for her husband an excellent repast, adorns herself within keeping of his means and from 6 to 10 o’clock of an evening is she her husband’s company. "Pinochle she must learn, also dominoes. If she has no taste for these things that does not signify. It is her duty. A man will stay in his home quite content evening after evening so that he can put between his teeth a good pipe and sit down at ease to pinochle. “I know what I say. Three husbands have I had and with each one it was the same. Now once a week there comes to my home a small club of my husband’s. Three friends and pinochle that makes for him his pleasure. That is my husband’s one outside diversion. Ten cents or so changes hands for a pastime and for one evening I am relieved. "Perhaps you ask: Is it not hard for an active woman of brains night after night to sit opposite her man and to play at pinochle? That is neither here nor there, my friend. Some sacrifice is necessary to all success. Only from a contented man will a wife get all what for she ask's. Only from many contented men will many wives receive that woman’s suffrage.”

NEW NAMES FOR INDIANS.

Yellow Robe Is William Y. Robe Under the Present Order. Major J. R. Eddy, agent jn charge of the northern Cheyenne Indian reservation in southeastern Montana, is in Helena, having accompanied a large number of witnesses who were to appear in the federal court. “One of the most exasperating problems of the Indian service at present is Indian nomenclature,” said Major Eddy the other day, according to an exchange. “The old-time cowboys are largely responsible for many of the startling cognomens by which the Indians are known. “The old-time puncher’s sense of humor was loud and pungent, to put it mildly, and the first name that popped into his head was bestowed upon the Indian that drifted into camp. The Indian was proud of his new appellative and adopted it with gusto. Then the other Indians became envious and the first time they met a white man they demanded an American name also. This was particularly true of the Sioux, who came more into contact with cowboys than the other tribes. “Perhaps this was all right years ago, but when these Indians became wards and their names got on the roster in the bureau at Washington it became intolerable and an effort has been made to change these names. The Indians object to it. They have a white name and not knowing its significance believe the department is striving to rob them of their birthright. - But the worst names have been changed and others are toned down. "At present the department is going to step further. Yellow Robe has now become William Y. Robe and Black Eagle is Frank B. Eagle. This is a preliminary step to a dissolution of the ward relationship, so that when the Indian becomes a full citizen he will not be singled out by reason of his name.” .

System in Saving.

“The only good plan for saving is to make it an invariable rule to deposit something each week or each month,” says a bank president. "Having thus put the money aside, it should be considered out of reach and on no account to be drawn upon except in case of sickness, loss of employment or death. It is surprising how money will pile up when such a system as this is followed. If every one who possesses any income at all would adopt the practice and stick to it, no matter how small the deposits might be, poverty would be well nigh abolished.”

Realistic

Baby Marjorie, who is a suburbanite, went shopping with her mother for. the first time. She had never been in an elevator before. In telling her thrilling adventures to her father she said: “We went into a little house, and the upstairs came down.”—Life.

Not Her.

The Doctor —Mrs. Murphy, you must be at your husband’s side constantly, as you will need to hand him something every little while. Mrs. Murphy—Niver, doctor! Fur be it from me to hit a man whin he’s down.—Puck. When a man is applauded for doing or saying a smart thing, he tffes so hard to score again that he becomes a nuisance. The near-great man imagines he is the real thing.

HAS A CONFEDERATE PUZZIE.

D asm erreo type Charleston Curator Like to Know About. Every northerner who visits Charleston, S. C., should go to the museum of the Daughters of the Confederacy in the old Market hall on Meeting street, is the advice of a writer in the New York Sun. He may be just the one living man who can solve the mystery of the old daguerreotype that was lost In battle and recovered after forty years. The little old lady who to curator and guide about the museum hall hopes that before she dies some one from the north will look iat this faded daguerreotype and say, l, Yes, I know this man.” They have many quaint and sad relics <4f thg war, these daughters of a past generation of fighting men, the writer says. The exhibits stand in cases and hang from the walls of this one room, where the market commissioners of Charleston have held their meetings since first the. Market hall was built in 1841. After the curator has pointed out the confederate flag, which was reconstructed from a captured federal flag—“for silk was a difficult thing to find In those days” •—the original painting of the Interior of Fort Sumter after the long siege, the stars and buttons from General Lee’s coat, she leads her visitors to a case on a side wall and points out the daguerreotype. Then she puts her question: "Do you know this man?” The daguerreotype is round and cut to fit within the back of a watch case, wherein It was set. The portrait, still clear enough to be seen in its every line, is that of a young man in civilian dress—the dress of fifty years ago, with high, rolling stock, low cut waistcoat and frilled shirt front. The youthful face is bearded and the heavy hair waved up Into a dandy’s lock over the forehead. This portrait, backed In the gold watch case, was turned up from a battle field by a plowshare only two years ago. The place where it was thus uncovered was fallow land on Morris Island in Charleston harbor. This is the story the curator tells: It was in 1864, shortly before the evacuation of the crumbling Sumter by the confederates and during the time when the investing federal ships and marines were bending every effort to find a way to fight through to Charleston. A detachment of federal marines landed under cover of gunfire on Morris Island. A repelling force of confederates from Fort Moultrie landed at another point on the Island, crossed over and fell upon the federal marines. There was a hot engagement and in the end the union force was pushed to its boats and back to the blockade fleet. They did not have time even to bury their dead. The scene of this skirmish remained forgotten and untouched from the evacuation of Charleston down to the recent time when the plow was run over the land where the marines had tried to make their stand. Then bullets, cannon shot and belt clasps marked “U. S.” were turned up with human bones. Also this daguerreotype backed in the half of a gold ««tch case and almost undimmed by the long years of burial. “It —is a tittle mystery, this daguerreotype,” says the curator of the museum. “Some day it may be solved.”

Wit of the Youngsters

“Tommy,” queried the teacher, “can you tell me what an old settler is sometimes called?” “Yes, ma’am; a pioneer,” was the reply. “Now, Johnny,” said the teacher to another small pupil, “what is a pioneer?” “An old man who pays his debts.” The family next door had a new dog, and small Ethel was admiring it. “Be careful,” said the lady, “or he may bite you.” “Why should he bite me?” asked Ethel. “Because he doesn’t know you.” “Well,” queried the little miss, “why don’t you introduce us?” Walter, the 5-year-old son of a minister, had frequently been told by his father to say, “Get behind me, Satan,” when tempted to do wrong. One day the father suddenly asked: “Walter, what do you do when tempted to do wrong?” “Why," he replied. “I just think of you and say, ’Satan, go away back and sit down.’ ”

Queer Legal Oaths.

In Siberia, in the wild Ostayaks law courts, the natives swear by the newly severed head of a bear, which to Implored to subsequently rend and devour them should they perjure themselves, while in Assam the opposing witnesses lay hold of a chicken by its feet and retain each onehalf as the clerk of the court chops it in two. By undergoing this ceremony they are considered to be pledged to a like fate in the event of their swearing falsely.—Chicago Journal.

Not Worth While.

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