Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — Page 2

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN •’ Every Day Except Sunday. " Pabiis htnT RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Poorly cooked food often drive* mat to drink and women to suicide. “An Indiana man wants a divorce because his wife chews tobacco." Fine tut or plug? When It comes to keeping out of the penitentiary women are more successful than men. Buy your own home in the country, and become a perennial Instead of a hardy annual. Paris has a "ham and iron” fair, though ham and diamonds would be a more appropriate combination. A pastor says he wants to go to heaven by the quickest route. He is not, however, in a hurry to start. A Western man has the distinction of having survived the professional treatment of twenty-six physicians. It Is evident that the Grand Vizier of Morocco isn’t popular among his wives. Three of them tried to poison him.

A man was found wandering about Chicago In a dazed condition with $7,000 In his pocket. That’s enough to daze anybody. Everybody counts In a census. One doesn't have to be a baseball pitcher or a banker to have his name recorded In Uncle Sam’s big book. A celebrated oculist says that people seldom see things as they are. Particularly Is this true when they look at get-rlch-quick schemes. Legumlnotherapy, this alleged new science of rutabagas and things, can never hope to be popular unless It changes Its name to something easier. * " -■ It *eems to be the consensus of opinion among public men that Governor Hughes would make an excellent Supreme Court Justice in spite of his whiskers. According to a Chicago Judge, a woman has a right to bounce a rolling pin off her husband’s head. Does the same ruling apply in the case of a stove poker. A New England woman detective Is to marry a millionaire. Perhaps he think* In view of the attack* on wealth, now the fashion, that a detective will come handy in the family

The girls who take the domestic science courses at the Kansas Agricultural College have to make themselves a complete outfit, from underclothing to a silk dress, before they can take a degree. Most of their grandmothers had to do their own dressmaking without getting a diploma for doing it. But whether taught at home or In school, it is a useful thing for young women to learn—and It “1b fascinating work besides. Some Interesting statistics about the migratory habits of a porti<& of the human race have been collected by a great city gas company. It was found, for example, that in the course of thirty-two months 132 families moved into and out of one tenement building. During the same period a single apartment sheltered Twenty-five different families. Surely the philosophy of Poor Richard must be at fault, for in these cases “three removes” could not have been “as bad as a fire.” Artemus Ward said that a comic paper was no worse for having a joke In it now and then, and his words have ever since been quoted as embodying the gospel of wit and humor. The great form of American mirth is tne Joke. "It is to laugh —that’s our creed in a sentence. Misplaced capitals, awkward spelling, impossible grammar, Infinite incongruity of situation, endless word-play, grctesquery of action and character, heightened by pictures funny, these are the things that make us laugh. 'We are quick to catch the point of a cartoon, t 6 enjoy the exaggeration of a caricature. But to smile at the mockserious. to be amused by satire, Is a refinement as yet beyond us. Probably half in jest, Anthony J. Drexel, multi-millionaire of Philadelphia, expressed his consternation over the cost of a breakfast at one of New York’s splurge hotels. He ordered two eggs and a cup of coffee and the bill was $1.75. "A man’s wages for a day," he remarked—“not for me,” he added; “but for many just as good a man.” Of course, the many Just-as-good men don’t pay that price for eggs. They can buy a dozen for what Mr. Drexel paid for his coffee, and they can drink coffee a week on what Mr. Drexel paid for one of his eggs. Nevertheless, the price Mr. Drexel pays has its Influence upon what the common man pays. Under the cold storage system the great companies can hold-up the supply of eggs, and then, if they can sell the fresh eggs In New York to absurd hotels for a anonstrous price, they will add sometiling to the price the common man pays for storage eggs. The rich people of to-day have a chance to make a dent upon the price of living by assuming the virtue, if they have it not, of demanding their money’s worth, •nd refusing to give away their atone/ simply because it comes easy.

The virtues of abstlnnece are as open to the rich as to the poor. Where there Is a rapid growth In a country there is always a tendency to overestimate the population. This falls In with the plans of boomers and even gives pleasure to disinterested patriots. No doubt it is felt In Canada Just now, and the fever of It may have got Into the blood of Sydney Fisher, minister of agriculture, who predicts that the census of 1911 will show that the Dominion has 8,000,000 inhabitants. However this may be, there have been changes enough in the last ten years to make the development of Canada one of the most interesting studies of the time. During the latter part of the last century the growth of the country had been slow. The population, which was 4,324,810 in 1881, increased to 4,833,239 in 1891 and to 6,371,315 In 1901, making a small percentage for the twenty years. But though complete figures are lacking, it is certain that there has been an astonishing change since the beginning of the present century. The Province of Manitoba, which had a population of 255,211 in 1901, had increased to 365,688 in 1906, and in the same period Alberta had advanced from 72,841 to 185,412 and Saskatchewan from 91,460 to 257,763. In 1901 the number of people” from the United” States was placed at 127,899. The immigration from the United States alone in the year 1909 waß more than 90,000, and the current has been strong for several years. It is to be noted also that the newoomers from this country take capital with them, and the estimate of the Canadian immigration commissioner is" that these immigrants added to the wealth of western Canada at least $90,000,000. That the country will prove attractive from now on is highly probable, because It offers inviting farms to settlers, and Its fame as a wheat field is constantly increasing. The crop of last year was valued at $120,000,000, and each year sees a large increase in the acreage devoted to wheat cultivation.

PHYSICAL EXERCISE.

English Physician Says It la Not Good for Office Workers. A distinguished London physician, Dr. Alexander Bryce, has started a discussion by asserting that office workers should not take exerciss after their day’s work. He says: “The root reason Is that though head work Is not exercise In the sense that It develops the body, It most decidedly Is exercise In that It quickly Induces ‘fag* and physical lassitude. So It Is almost pathetic for a man to expect any good to come from taking more exercise when the exercise involved In the day’s work has already tired him out “One takes It that young people have had sufficient outdoor exercise to reasonably develop their frames before beginning office work. Scr when once they have started In the office In earnest it is much better for them to realize at once that their days of hard physical strain are over and done with, and that henceforth they must confine these efforts to week-ends and holidays. They can follow this advice calmly enough, for it does not mean at all that they are going to deteriorate suddenly Into wrecks. “The body and system easily attune themselves to circumstances, even to over-civilized and consequently rather unnatural circumstances, and indoor head workers will soon find that a very decent state of health can be maintained with little or no apparent exercise. “For all people diving under the undoubted inconvenience of earning a livelihood a most excellent rule of thumb In regard to this much misunderstood question -of work and exercise Is the following: Never try to mix the two, and stop exercising at once If you do not find that it gives you real enjoyment. “And I need only add,” he concluded, “that the rational way home after a day’s work in the office is by train, tram or omnibus, not walking, and that the proper time for real exercise Is when no thought of work need iff-* tervene for at least forty-eight hours after the exercise has stopped.”

Polyglot Dialect.

“How do you like my new Japanese dialect stories?” inquired the budding author of the eminent traveler. The latter smiled. "They read.” he answered, "like a combination of Chinese, Cingalese, .Bengalese, Javanese, Maltese and slangese. Aside from this they are pretty fair.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

He Was Short.

Chief of Detectives —Now give us a description of your missing cashier. How tall was he? Business Man—l don’t know how tall he was. What worries me Is that he was $25,000 short. —Philadelphia Record.

Forcing a Handicap.

Diogenes returned from his search for an honest man. “Given up the chase?” they inquired. “It becomes a matter of necessity," replied the philosopher. “Some one stole my lantern/’-^-Lippincott’s.

Might, Be Worse.

“My wife often says she could have married a better man.” “Cheer up. Some wives would threaten to get a divorce and do it."—Louisvilla Courier-Journal. ■

Making the World .Brighter.

Everybody quit heckling for forty* eight hours and see sow much bright er the world looks. —New York Herald, If a man could only unload his is perienee tor half It oast!

WOMAN AND THE LAND

Prominent Part She I* Now Taking in the Development of Oklahoma. HOW A GIRL GOT HER CLAIM. Miss Nannette Daisy’s Leap from Cowcatcher of an Engine When She “Located."

A person of persistent prominence In the development of Oklahoma is the woman homesteader. Blnce the first day of the opening of old Oklahoma to settlement in 1889, when Nannette Daisy Jumped from a cowcatcher of an engine on the first train that brought thousands of homeseekers into the territory and staked off a claim in “the promised land,” the woman homesteader has been occupying a front seat in Oklahoma’s march of progress. The instances are hot few where women have staked oft claims, superintended the cultivation for years and finally won the prize—a deed to a quarter section of land from Uncle Sam, says a Guthrie (Okla.) correspondent of the Arkansas Gazette. Leaping from the engine. Miss Daisy climbed a small embankment, made when the road was constructed, and hastily disengaging herself from a white underskirt, she pinned it to a neighboring blackjack bush and called to the other passengers as the train started ahead with renewed speed: “This is my homestead!” That tract of land, neat Waterloo and lying along the Santa Fe’s main line through this State, is still known as the Daisy farm. She made good on the claim, got a patent from the government and held the farm in her name until the time of her death in Chicago several years ago. She attained considerable prominence in Oklahoma politics in the early days and was a personal 'friend of many men who have since become wealthy and well known in political and business circles. Afterward she married a soldier, one of the men stationed at Fort Reno, and following his retirement from the service they moved to Chicago, where she died. It is estimated that more than 100 lone women held claims in Beaver County last winter, as a rule living in dugouts and waiting for the springtime in order to cultivate the land. It’s a plucky thing to do, but It’s a pluck that in practically every Instance brings success as well as health and freedom. After they have lived on their claims during the period specified by Uncle Sam they make application for final proof, the last thing necessary before obtaining deeds. J. S. Fischer, a United States land commissioner at Texhoma, says, as a rule, the women pick the choice tracts of land. In this connection it is Interesting to note that the United States commissioner at Tyrone, in Beaver County, is a woman —Mrs. Susan Healey. Many women homesteaders appear before her to file on claims and make final proofs. The woman at the head of a farm Is in almost every instance a specialist. In numerous cases they have been exceedingly successful in different lines of horticulture, agriculture and raising of live stock.

SHOT AT INQUISITIVE TOURIST.

Woman’s Story of Attempted Killing tn Monqae of Omar In Jeratalem. In a letter to a friend In this city, the Orange (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Sun says Mrs. Herbert Turrell tells the story of the attempted assassination on March 9 of Mrs. Moore in the mosque of Omar at Jerusalem, of which she was an eye witness. Mrs. Turrel says she is convinced that women have no business to enter sacred places where the country holds that they should not be admitted. She says that the fanatic who fired the pistol thought he was doing his duty. “We stopped at the golden gate opposite Solomon’s court," writes Mrs. Terrell. “to have sandals placed on our feet. We of the second party were as sembled just outside of the outer screen, when we heard a pistol shot, followed by four or five other shots In rapid secession. At first I thought It was a bomb; then I saw a flash and smoke. We rushed ot the right of the mosque In the oposite direction from the firing. "Following the report women shrieked and there was a rushing sound as of people running. Our guide told us he would see what the matter was. We crouched In the corner by a huge pillar, not knowing how soon an attack would be made upon, us. Our first thought was that there was an uprising of the Mohammedans. “The party which had preceded us was unquestionably invoked, as the shrieks of women plainly indicated. We were told that a crazy man had fired a pistol and that the women were frightened. We realized that there had been a tragedy, but. were willing to accept any kind of explanation. “The guide said the man had been firing blank cartridges and had been arrested. He then proceeded to tell the history of the mosque and we pretended to listefi to what he said. We passed out of a door Into a court and here we were horrified to see blood spots and a sheik was mopping blood from the floor. “Our guide insisted that it was a quarrel among the moslems and that nothing serious had happened. He led

u* across the court to the fountain o t purification. Just as we were about to enter the temple we heard a call that made our blood run cold. "Our guide hastened to see what was wanted and several sheiks beckoned to us to leave at once. We had our sandals removed by men, who hastened toward us for this purpose. Our guide told us that he was wanted and that he must leave us. He J tried to have us accept the services of a dragoman to conduct us from the mosq'ue. “Members of our party protested and he remained with us. The attitude of the sheiks, as though prepared for an attack, was not alluring, and I felt that at any moment we would be shot at Our guide finally took us to the Christian street, which led us to the Joppa gate. An empty carriage passed and several of our party took it and drove to the hotel. . "We learned the detafls of the shooting later. It appeared that a woman member of the party that had preceded ub in the mosque had been shot in the face. A priest in the mosque held the man, who was on the point of reloading his revolver and who was within twen-ty-five yards of our party. The carriage used to convey the injured woman; Miss Moore, from the mosque was the one in which Mrs. Anna L. Tichener, of Newark, and Mrs. Lebkkeucher, of East Orange, drove to the mosque.

TABULATING CENSUS RETURNS.

Mechanism of Machines Which Are Labor and Time Savers. The automatic machine is the most recent development in census tabulating machinery, and had it been perfected earlier much of the hand machines could have been dispensed with, though, in most cases where readings must be taken very frequently, the hand machines are almost, if not quite, as economical. Whether in the hand machine or in the’ automatic, the counters are operated by means of electrical contacts made through the punched holes, according to-E: Dana Durand in the American Review of Reviews. The machines are so wired that .facts can be counted in combination with one another. Thus it is possible to count at the same time facts with regard to age and marital condition, so as to show, for instance, on one counter the number of married persons from 21 to 25 years oj age, on another those from 25 to 30, and on others the number of single persons of these two age periods. Each machine, In fact, is provided with a large number of counters; as many as sixty counters will be used in certain "runs.” Even thus, however, it would be quite impossible to count all the manifold combinations of items at a single "run” of the card. Each card on the average must be passed through the tabulating machines five or six times. In other words, the work is equivalent to tabulating approximately 500,000 cards. Even the hand machines used at the present census are much more rapid than those of ten years ago. In 1900 the counters used consisted of dials, from each of which the results for each county or other unit of presentation had to be read by the eye and taken down on sheets of paper. The present machines are so arranged that the results on all the counters can be printed at the some time by merely pressing a button. This change absolutely prevents errors, which frequently arose in the reading of the dials, and also greatly economizes clerical labor.

The Price of Fame.

It was In the office of one of the big theater. A lot of actors were hanging arou'fia;*~s-' couple of journalists and a secretary or two. A young woman dropped In for a hasty greeting, and then paused a moment to speak to a very well-known actor whom she evidently met for the first time. The press agent’s .desk was open, and in a corner was a package of pictures of the celebrated actor. The latter looked them over, and as the young woman exclaimed that he should give her one he said, with an insinuating smile to the press agent: “Alas, they are not mine. They belong to Mr. Dash!” “I can’t give any away,” said the latter. “Each one costs me 20 cents.” “Surely that Is cheap!” the young lady suggested. The press agent Ignored her and turned to the actor. “Cheap? Do you think anybody would pay that much for you?” And the young lady laughed and went without her picture.

A Question of Terms.

Mrs. Bronson—My husband Is plain spoken; he calls a spade a Bpade. Mrs. Woodson—So does mine, but I must decline to repeat he calls the lawn mower. .... ; _ _ It’s a sign that a small boy has a good disposition if he doesn’t resent being told he looks like his father! Nearly every man wantß to lay oft every time he sees a flag, or hears a hand.

THACKERAY WAS BORED.

Amnilnf Incident of the Author 9 * Second Visit to Boston. During Thackeray’s' second visit to Boston, James T. Fields, his host, was asked to invite Thackeray to attend an evening meeting of a scientific club, which was to be held at of a distinguished member. I was, said Mr. Fields, very reluotant to ask him to be present, for I knew he was easily bored, and I was fearful that a prosy essay or geological paper might be presented and felt certain that should such be the case he would be exasperated with me, the innocent cause of his affliction. My worst fears were realized. I dared not look at Thackeray. I felt that his eye was upon me. My distress may be imagined when I saw him rise quite deliberately and make his exit very noiselessly into a small anteroom adjoining. The apartment was dimly lighted, but he knew that I knew he was there. ’ Then began a series of pantomimic feats impossible to describe. He threw an imaginary person—myself, of course—upon the floor and proceeded to stab him several times with a paper folder,'Which he caught iip for the purpose. After disposing of his victim in thia way he was not satisfied, for the dull lecture still went on in the other room, so he fired an imaginary revolver several times at an imaginary head. The whole thing was inimitably done. I hoped nobody saw it but myself. Years afterward a ponderous, fat witted young man put the question squarely to me: “What was the matter with Mr. Thackeray that night the club met at Mr.' ’s house?”

THE FAMILY DOCTOR

Aathma. Among all physical Ills asthma Is perhaps the most irritating. It Is hard to endure, and terrible to observe. Its Victims die a thousand deaths as far as suffering is concerned, and yet are denied the dignity of having a fatal disease, for It is' one of the heartless axioms of experience that the asthmatic sufferer is quite as likely to die of old age as of his disease. It has been said that asthma is not a disease, but a state of body, and if its victims are able to extract any comfort from the knowledge that it Is nervous in its origin, they are entitled to that alleviation. Anyone looking on for the first time at a well pronounced asthmatic seizure Is convinced that he is watching a death scene, and no wonder, so terrifying are the symptoms. The patient fights piteously for breath, sometimes crouching for hours In one position, pallid, bathed In perspiration, and apparently in the final stages of suffocation; but curiously enough, with all the distress, the patient does not seem to feel any real alarm as to the outcome. The attack may pass off either rapidly or gradually, in many cases leaving no apparent after effect except a tense of great fatigue. Asthma being a disease with a nervous origin, it follows that there are as many theories about It and remedies for It as there are sufferers from it. With some persons the attacks are apparently a certain outcome of eating a certain kind of food, or breathing a certain kind of air, or reaching a certain day and month of the year. Many asthmatics claim the power of cheating their enemy up to a certain point by moving to some other locality when the tragic date draws near—the asthmatics living in the valleys may pass in transit their fellow sufferers who habitually live on the hills. Those who trace their attacks to digestive disturbances learn to avoid the Starchy foods, or the fat foods, or whatever food It is that upsets them. Some cannot live near a stable; others cannot be near a cretaln shrub or flower. Indeed, the specialties of these unfortunate people are without number. . The asthmatic, however, has two great sources of comfort. One is the reasonable hope of reaching a good old age: the other Is the fact that great help Is to be, found for him In a strictly hygienic mode of living. The better air he breathes, both day and night, the simpler his diet and the more wisely ordered his exercise, the fewer will be the number of his attacks.—Youth’s Companion.

Robbed of Their Trophles.

When the late Gen. Edward M. McCook was living near Pike’s Peak, he on one occasion presided at a dinner In honor of a famous Indian fighter. McCook, says the Washington Star, concluded his introduction of the Indian fighter with these words: I can find but one fault with the colonel’s methods. I allude to his wellknown custom of enlisting in his regiment only bald-headed men. To aggravate the Indians’ feelings so cruelly as that is carrying wgr too far.

Raw Sienna.

Raw sienna Is the natural earth near Sienna, Italy, and raw umber is an earth found near Umbria.

His Measure.

"Softlelgh Is a man who thoroughly believes In himself?” 7> “Gullible assl” —Boston Transcript.

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FIVE YEARS OF SUFFERING.

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Montreal and Quebec.

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The Prince and the Farmer.

The farmer’s kingdom is his farm, and he is the only king in it. The truth of this maxim was well illustrated by an incident, reported In M. A. P., which took place during some manoeuvers of the English cavalry division. A certain agriculturist was very angry to find a group of officers calmly sitting upon a half-cut stack of hay that he was carting away for chaff cutting purposes. He expressed his indignation at the sight, and ordered them off his land in language that was distinctly more vigorous than polite. One of the officers tried to arguewith him, and pointed out that one of those present happened to be Prince Arthur of Connaught and nephew of the king. The old farmer was frankly incredulous, and persisted in his orders. “Prince or no \rinc<*” he declared, "off he goes from my stack. Judging from the look of you, the next thing you will do with my stack will be te eat it!’ Prince Arthur hugely enjoyed the situation, and eventually ied the retreat that took place. It was in vain for the officers to offer the irate farmer any monetary compensation. “I’ll ‘prince’ the lot of you if I find! you here again. Be off and get something useful done— 1 you are paid enough for It!” was his parting shot as the officers rode away.

Prospective.

Lottie—Have you any engagement for to-morrow evening? Tottie—No, but I’m likely to havev. George is coming.

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