Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1910 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Xiaok la a friend of the hustler. Spelling reformers continue to take simplified spelling seriously. George V gets up at 7 a. m. Almost any man would do this for three million a year. Gir Ernest Shackleton knows how to boom the South Pole. He reports signs of gold there. The new style of paper currency is cut to better advantage for such as hoard it away in stockings. There will always be enough good men out of jail to look after the banking business of the country. Three years in prison is the punishment given a man who stole a .ham. He should have a cell in bankers' row. y ■ . . ■ 1 ' The Stars and Stripes have been planted on ioj> of Mount McKinley, ‘marking the spot which Dr. Cook failed to reach. A St. Louis writer of great originality referred to Mr. Carnegie as “the Canny Scot," and the printer set it “the Candy Scot.” — A postniastership at Wheatfleld, Pa., awaits the patriot who loves his country better than he loves steak and chops. The job pays 18 cents a day. Mr. Burbank is said to have produced a chestnut tree that from a mere bush ten feet high produces chestnuts the year round. Ring the fecit? : ’ ----- ; "Anthracite is a luxury,” says the Philadelphia Press. It is more than, that. Mr. Baer has made it practically impossible for a good many people. Officials are trying to compel people who sell strawberries to quit putting ! 'the bottom of the box up near the middle. Life is becoming more and more burdensome for those who desire to graft.

The man who finds a substitute for rubber will confer a benefit on the world and make himself rich. Jhs present extraordinary demand for rubber has sent the price up from 84 cents to $2.60 a pound in two years. Naval vessels soon become obsolete In these times. The torpedo boat Winslow* only twelve years old, upon which Ensign Bagley was killed in 1898 the first American officer to lose JBs life in the war with Spain—is to be struck from the active list, and will soon go to the junk heap. A New York paper manufacturer •ays that his company gets old rope from all parts of the world, and that 80,000 tons of it were manufactured into paper in this country last year. This will surprise those-wfao had thought that the only use for old rope was In making campaign cigars. Under certain circumstances a woman may legally consume her husband's leg in the kitchen fire. So a Pennsylvania judge decided the other day. It should be understood, how®vcr, that the leg was a wooden one, and that the woman burned it to prevent her husband from going to a saloon. There is now judicial warrant for a man changing his name whenever he desires, provided he has "no criminal intent. The New York Court of Appeals cites in justification of its decision the well known fact that the men known as Voltaire, Moliere, Dante, Richelieu. Loyola, Erasmus hnd Linnaeus were not born- to those names, but assumed them at their pleasure. When women change their names—and they have judicial as well as religious warrant for the custom — it is at their pleasure, as well as- at the pleasure of the man who gives his name to them.

If It Is a commonplace that kings •leep uneasy o’ nights, it is no less trite, though true, that the days of some monarchs are not all cakes and ale, even when they are young. The new English king, w'hile not young, did not expect to be called to the throne for many years to come, and if report is true he dreaded particularly the duties of kingship. , He is said to be shy and tp have a dislike for public appearances. And, like his fellow monarch at Rome, he is never so interested, as when immersed in his collection of postage stamps. Then there is young Alfonso of Spain. He Is not much older than the average college senior. Had he his way he would spend the time rushing about the kingdom in his motor car or cruising about the coast in his yacht. But Instead of allowed to sweep about on an aeroplane, hefias to stay down to the dull level of the earth and puzzle his brain with intricacies •t state questions and court etiquette. Nor Is Manuel of Portugal any.better •ff. This young stripling, about old ntongh for a freshman, is passionately fond of the piano and falconry. But instead of being free to play the nocturnes of Chopin or to set his falcons in flight, he is as much a prisoner as they were when chained to his ■wrist, and, try as he may, he cannot nndnrstand the stupid figures of the NW which his ministers lay before

him. So being a king when you are young is not all it might be.

Thie year will be marked by a revision of the American Pharmacopoeia, which is made once in ten years. The occasion is, therefore, of peculiar Importance to those who are interested in raising the standard of purity of drugs. Tho Pharmacopoeia is a bulky volume containing a list and specifications of all ihe drugs In ordinary use. It is the joint work of a committee of the American Medical Association, a committee of the American Pharmaceutical Association and tire medical boards oi the army and navy. Since the government has never established any official standard of its own for measuring the purity of drugs, the Pharmacopoeia has been adopted as the only available authority, and such legislation as has been secured has been based upon the specifications there laid down. Some of these specifications—as, for example, that of sodium chlorid, or common salt are so high as to be commercially almost impossible. Others are so worded as to permit serious adulterations by the trade. Certain members of the American Medical Association have recommended the preparation of a restricted list, consisting of about three hundred drugs in common use and approved by the majority of medical practitioners; and that all other particles commonly carried in the medical stock of a pharmacist, and not of a proprietary nature, be included in a separate volume or department Pharmacopoeia. The effect of this plan would be greatly to extend the number of articles for which a standard of purity is established, and at the same time not to any special Ist of drugs shrdlu oin restrict the practising physician to any special list of drugs. "A bill has been Introduced” In Congress—unhappily that means lltile or nothing—so to amend the Pure Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, as to prevefit the sale of many preparations now on the market. The present law, so far as it refers to drugs, does little more than lay down' rules for labeling; and even they are lax.