Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — Page 2

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

PIONEERING STILL COMPARATIVELY HARD.

Forty years ago the United States saw the great movement to the west. Everywhere in the Mississippi valley country the resident saw the white praitie schooner drifting, as, if with some vast tide wind, “Kansas, or Bust"—any other place westward, “or bust” —was the motto painted upon the weather beaten white canvas of the wagons. Within the last .year or more history has

been repeating itself in a great measure. With the price of the round trip ticket and money for meals in his pockets, the young man to-day may cover in hours a territory which required weeks and months in the early Many of these young men have been doing this; more of them will follow. The old westerner of to-day decries the degenerating of the we'st as he found it. It is lacking in most of those old hardships and privations which required all his manhood to withstand when he was pathfinder in the wilderness. Sharp as present day comparisons may be between the city and the new west, the old westerner looks upon it as child’s play—dilettante, effeminate. He has forgotten thta his hardships are half a century behind him now. He overlooks the fact that the desert upon which lie settled has been blossoming for these many j;ears. But blossoming as it may have been, civilized as the newer west to-day is, that young man from the centers of city life will find crude flowering of the wilderness compared with the diversions and ease of the city which he has left so far behind him. He will need all his fortitude and spirit of his fathers.

FARMER OWNS NATION.

The farmer, not the money king of Wall street, is the real owner of the United States. The glean of his fields is another Aladdin story, only instead of rubbing a lamp lie has simply scraped the ground. Our cereal crops last year were worth $3,000,090,000, which is sufficient to pay for all the tools,"implements and machinery of the whole of American industry. While this sum

seems nuge as it stands alone, you have only to go back a few years in the story of our agriculture to see the miracle of steady increase that has been achieved. Eleven years ago the value of all our farm products for a stngle year was reckoned at $4,417,000,000. You have already seen how that figure was doubled by 1909. During these years the sum total that the soil has yielded the farmers is $70,000,000,000. The advance is so steady and sure that you can almost calculate upon it year by year. Compare this record with the ebb and flow of warnings in steel or any other industry, and you will realize as never before how agriculture keeps the even tenor of

TOOK THE GUARD’S PLACE,

Dr. Byles Shouldered a Gun and Kept Himnelf from Eseaping. One of the most famous of the old Puritan divines was Dr. MaSher Byles, who was born in Boston, in 1706 and who was the first pastor of the Hollis Street Congregational church, to which he ministered for more than 40 years. Dr. Byles was famous as a humorist and wit, and innumerable anecdotes are related of his clever quips and retorts. He was a zealous Tory and warmly advocated the cause of “the mother country" Against the colonies. In November, 1777, he was arrested as a Tory, tried, convicted and sentenced to be confined on board a guard ship and sent to England with his family within 40 days. The sentence was afterward commuted by the board of war to confinement in his own house, a guard being placed over him with instructions not to permit him to leave his residence for a moment under any circumstances. On Thanksgiving morning, observing that the sentinel, who, like many of the colonial soldiers, was a simple rustic, had disappeared and that Dr. Byles himself was pacing up and down before his own door with a musket on his shoulder, the neighbors crossed the street to inquire the cause of this singular spectacle. ‘ You see,” said Dr. Byles, “I begged mv guard to let me go out to procure some cider with which myself and family might celebrate Thanksgiving day, but he would not permit me to stir. I argued the point with him, and he has now gone to get the cider for me on condition that f keep guard over myself during his absence.”

The Languages of Paradise.

Every language has its admirers: In “Lucile - ’ the author, “Owen Meredith,” maintained that when he heard French spoken as he approved he “found himself quietly falling in love.” Edward Hutton is another instance of thjs lingual fascination. In stating his preference in his enchanting “Cities of Spain,” he recalls an interesting medieval legend. He says: And as I listened to the splendid ■yllables of the Castilian tongue that rang eloquently through the twilight. I remembered the saying of that old Spanish doctor of whom James Howell tells us in his “Instructions for Forraine Travell," to wit, that Spanish, Italian and French, these three daughters of the Latin language, were spoken in Paradise: that God Almighty created the world in Spanish, the Tempter persuaded Eve in Italian, and Adam begged pardon in French.

A Brief Lore Story.

The Syrian pairol halted before the open window of the khan's captive, a girl from the -hills. “A message from my lord, the khan," said he, saluting, and laid npon the edge of the lattice a spray of almond, ’/--pThe girl ripped off the delicate blossoms and handed back the barren twigs. “The answer," she said

By John A. Howland.

By Isaac F. Marcosson.

THE OLD-TIME REVIVAL. > “You young folks back there, weth your hearts so light, your feet so gay— ’’ —Minneapolis Journal.

FRENCH MAID OF ALL WORK.

Multifarious Duties of Bonne on a Salary- of fio a Month. In Paris the post of servant is not an easy one; this is, of course, judging the household to be one of ordinary means, with one maid or two at the very most. An average French family having an income between 12,000 and 15,000 francs a year (which is considered comfortable here) will employ one maid. She is known as a bonne a tout faire, maid of all work, and the care of the entire household falls to her. Blanche Alder Van Buren, writing in the Woman Beautiful, says she rises at about 6 o'clock, cledhs the boots, brushes skirts and coats and prepares the traditional French breakfast of coffee and rolls. She then takes the little ones to school, as no children of good family go out alone. Upon her return madame perhaps has straightened the bedrooms and is ready to go out to market with the maid. Sometimes the bonne does the buying alone, especially when she has been with the family some time or has gained the confidence of her mistress. When luncheon is.safely on its way the mistress keeps an eye on its progress while the bonne goes for the children. Luncheon is the first important meal in the French home and consists of an egg or meat dish, a salad, a vegetable and dessert of cheese or fruit, always ending wth coffee. If . the children are not allowed to drink this they are canard (duck), which is a lump of sqfear dipped in coffee. In the afternoon, when all is quiet, the bonne dresses neatly and settles down to do the mending for the entire family and to be ready to answer the doorbell. Soon it is time to bring the little ones home from school, after which she must prepare the evening meal. Many families give the maid her leisure after dinner, but this (s a re-

its prosperous way, unmindful of panic or depression. Why? Simply because land is stable, dnd, given proper methods of farming, the more you take out of it the more valuable it. becomes. It cannot be moved away; it is, in truth, the very foundation of the nation’s material welfare. It would take $24,000,000,000 to buy our farm lands, and their value is real and not watered, save by irrigation.—Munsey’s.

UNPROGRESSIVE AMERICA.

We of this big republic complacently affirm the glory of our national achievements, and are not without temptation to acclaim them as proof of superior craft and judgment. But herein do we forget that we are on record as having cast our vote against every move that has contributed to the present century’s development. We raised our voices in contemptuous protest against the first pro-

jected railways. Had the locomotive awaited its signal from the people, it would not yet have started. When the electric telegraph was shown to us we brushed it aside as a toy, and laugh*d its inventor to scorn when he offered to sell us his rights for a few thousand dollars. We put into jail as an impostor the first man that brought anthracite coal to market. We broke to pieces Howe’s sewing machine as an invention calculated to ruin the working classes; and we did the same thing to the harvester and the binder. We scorned the typewriter as a plaything. We gathered together in mass meetings of indignation at the first proposal to install electric trolley lines, and when Dr. Bell told us he had invented an instrument by means of which we might talk to one another across the town we responded with accustomed ridicule, and only the reckless among us contributed to its being.—The Atlantic,

EXCUSES FOR ADVERSITY.

By exercising sufficient good will, it is possible to believe thaU every adversify 'has its appointed use. The reviving breath of spring has no meaning in a land where winter is a myth. Health, which in Its abundance is hardly held at a pin’s fee, when It has once been lost will be diligently sought after at earth’s furthest ends. Bread and meat, common to the point p.f being despised.

to the starving become prizes of rarest luster. What is so precious to the aged man as those golden hours which fn his youth he flung away like grass?' The joy that is vouchsafed to-day may be magnified in retrospect by future adversity, and should be the more eagerly enjoyed on that account. In like manner present disasters will be the better borne by considering that they may serve to heighten the pleasure of comforts that are on the way.

YESTERDAYS.

By Clifford Howard.

By Willard Dillman.

cent innovation. In certain families the maid is still required to remain in the evening to light chance guests down the stairs, for the house lights usually are extinguished at 10:30, and the invisible janitress pulls a cord near her bed to let the people in or out after that hour. This is tradition —and when a mistress allows her maid entire freedom after dark she is departing from an old custom. The maid in France works hard and is allowed very limited leisure; she is supposed to have every other Sunday afternoon and that is all. For her services she receives the extraordinary sum of 45 or 50 francs ($9 or $10) a month, besides her home, of course.

Why She Couldn’t Accept.

Telephone operators who plug wrong numbers or get the wires crossed sometimes are responsible for very embarrassing situations, as was exemplified by a broker in this city the other morning. The broker caled up his home number and said to the person on the other end of the wire: “Hello, dear. Is that you?” “Yes,” replied a sweet toned voice. “Well, I’ve been thinking about you all morning. I want you to come downtown and meet -me for lunch, and we'll go to a show this afternoon.” “Well, that would be very nice,” replied the person on the other end, “and L should dearly love to do so, but my husband is homeland I'm afraid he’d object. Don’t you think you’ve got the wrong number?”—Philadelphia Times.

As Good as Refused.

“And she refused you?” “Practically. She said she would marry me as soon as I settled down and went to work at something worth while.”—Chicago Record-Herald. The most disgusting liar is the loafer who claims to be as good &a an industrious man

BRITAIN WANTS $150,000 WARSHIP OF THE AIR.

The British government is negotiating for the purchase of the great dirigible balloon named the Clement-Bayard 11., constructed in France. The price is between $125,000 and $150,000. Preliminary to the possible closing of negotiations the balloon will be tested in an attempt to crr,is the British channel and land at Wormwood Serubbs, in England. The British Parliamentary aerial defense committee has an option on the giant craft designed for war purposes. France, it is said, will buy a similar ship named the Clement-Bayard lll.—lllustrated London News.

POPULAR SCIENCE

Afier six years’ contest Peter Cooper Hewitt has been awarded patents for his mercury vapor electric lamp. The patents have been in dispute almost since the date when they were first applied for, in 1901. The battleship Indiana has undergone some lests of the “ship brake,” with which she has been equipped. It was found that the vessel could be brought to a stop within the distance of her own length without injurious shock or strain. — Construction work will shortly begin on another of those stupendous buildings which are called a city of towers. The new structure, which is to be built at ihe northwest corner of Wall and Nassau streets, will extend 539 feet above the street level, making it the third tallest office building in the world. The Society of Illuminaiiirg Engineers in England has lately discussed the question of the best means of avoiding glare from artificial lights. It is beginning to be recognized that the recent introduction of intensely dazzling points of light raises problems in the solution-.of which the oculist must take a hand. Two Berlin professors urged in a communication to the society the “advisability of imitating daylight.” The quality of daylight is iis diffusion, whereby the eye is saved from injury. It has been estimated that the diffused daylight from a clear sky is about 60 per cent of the direct sunlight. It is pointed out that the injurious eye effects of artificial lights are not confined to 'the light centers, but arise also from the glare reflected 'from the surface of shining paper and other bright objects. A device which manufactures breathable air, when required, for miners caught in mine accidents, has recently been invented by Clarence Hall, government expert at Pittsburg. A double tank contains, in one compartment, sodium peroxid, and in the other water. A cock that can be opened at will connects the two. The combination of the chemical and water creates a flow of oxygen, and enough of the raw material is carried in the apparatus to supply one man’s demand for about thirty minutes. A nose and mouth piece are furnished to cover the face. The purpose of the device is to provide men with a port able supply of oxygen that will enable them to live long enough to make efforts in their own behalf after an accident. A man can travel “ far in thirty minutes, if .he can breathe freely and knows his ground. It is expected that the invention will be the means of many otherwise impossible escapes. W. H. S. Jones contends that malaria played a considerable part in bringing about the decline of the ancient Greeks, and also exercised a powerful influence upon Roman history and life. He thinks it doubtful if was malarious in early times. In the fifth century B. C. malaria fell like a blight upon Attica, and, be be-

lieves, upon many other fertile districts of Greece. He ascribes the decadence of the Greeks before the triumph of Rome, in part, at least, to the ravages of malaria. As to Rome, Mr. Jones points out that some districts in Etruria and Latium were at' one time populous and prosperous, although now they are hardly habitable on account of malaria. Although Rome was marshy in the early period, it was well drained, and there is no reason to suppose that malaria was present. But in the first century B. C. Cicero and others speak of a shrine and altar on the Palatine Hill dedicated to the goddess Fever. While not regarding malaria as one of the causes of the downfall of the Roman empire. Mr. Jones holds that it greatly influenced the course of events.

THE AMERICAN ACCENT.

An English Writer Frees His AUnd on the Subject. “The American accent,” writes a contemporary correspondent, “is far less irritating than the cockney dialect, and it would be well for us if the former, which is at least musical, could be substituted for the cacophonous patois of our east end.” As a matter of fact, we think that the cockney accent has a certain number of real admirers, but what we wish to call to our readers’ minds particularly is that America has its cockney, so to speak, precisely as we have. People in Kentucky have a rather burrish way of speaking, and they loathe and detest the fruity twang which overwhelms New England. The westerner, again, is responsible for the dialect which was supplied on the English boards by stage Yankees. Whether you acquire the American accent or not depends on the length of time you remain in America. Englishmen who stay in New York for protracted periods preserve their native cadences intact. It is the man who pays a flying visit to the United States who '•comes back and always says "nop” for “no” and “yep” for “yes.” Once we met a man who had returned from a week’s stay in Boston. He said he had heard it was easy to acquire the twang and finally exclaimed, “Waal, stranger, I guess it may be dead easy for some, but not for Blank Z. Asterisk,” meaning himself. “Now, what’s your opinion? Am I right?”— London Globe.

Help!-lf Not Too Busy.

The courtesy which distinguishes a true gentleman is never forgotten, even in the face of dire peril. An instance in point is given by an antarctic explorer, Lieutenant Shackleton, and printed in the London Chronicle. The members of his party, he said, were invariably good humored and polite, but one scientific man attached to the expedition was especially conspicuous for this virtue. "Are you busy, Mawson ?" hp called out one night to another member-of the party, who was in the tent. "I am,” said Maw r son. "Very busy?” asked the professor. “Yes. Very busy.” “If you are not too busy, Mawson, I am down a crevasse.” The professor was found hanging down a crevasse by his four fingers, a position which he could not have occ\*.'«d for any length of time.

SHEAR NO NSENSE

“Do you know many languages, Miss Flora?" “Oh, yes. Stamp, flowers, handkerchief and fan languages.” i “Doctor, is it absolutely necessary to operate on me? “N-no; but it’s customary.” Her Father —Blanche, why doesn’t Mr. Linger go home earlier? Blanche —l’m why, Dad! “So he has lost faith in deep breathing r’ “Yes; it wouldn't keep his hair from falling out.” Pa—But, young man, do you think you can make my little girl happy? Suitor—Do I? Say, I wish you could 'a seen her when I proposed. “What did your wife say when you stayed out so late last night?”' “I don't know. She hasn’t finished tellteg it to- me-yet.’—Detroit Free Press. Gentleman (hiring valet) —Then 1 understand you have some knowledge ol bartering. You’ve cut hair, off and on? Applicant—Off, sir, but-never on. Tommy’s Mother—Why aren’t you a good boy, like Willie Bjones? Tommy—Huh! It’s easy enough for him to be good; he’s sick most of the time. Teaeher—Didn’t Jimmy Green help jom. to do this sum? Willie —No’m. Teacher—Are you sure he didn’t? Willie—He didn’t help me; he did It all. ’’Did yea know thot Casey tuk out & thousand dollars loife insurance only the da-ay before he wuz kilt?” -•Sure! Casey wuz alwa-ays lucky.”Lite. —'You call them a well-matched coufie!” “I certainly do.” ’’Why, she is so short and he is so tall!” “He B very short with her.”—Houston - Post, e> Father—What! You want to marry ny daughter? Why,, sir, you can’t tupport her. I can hardly do it my»elf. Suitor —C-can’t we chip in together? Young Wise —This dish, dearest’, la »n original composition of my own. Husband—Well, I should rather, my pet, that you would cook after the old masters. Mrs. Caller —Do you know the woman next door well enough to speak to? Mrs. Subbubs—Well enough? I knew her too well to speak to —Satarday Sunset.

Mrs. Hutton —We are organizing a •piano cldb, Mr. Flatleigh. Will you join us? Flatleigh—With pleasure, Mrs. Hutton. What pianist do you propose to club flrsi? “What’s become of Jakes?” “He’s gone all to pieces.” “You don’t say 10 ! Nervous prostration?” “No; he looked for a gas leak with a lighted eandle.” —Baltimore American. Judge—Why did you burn your barn down, just after getting it insured? Farmer—Your honor, a poor man like me can’t afford to have a barn and insurance, too— Meggendorfer Bisetter. “Please contribute to our fund to lend a missionary to the cannibals. “I won’t —I’m a vegetarian and don’t lelieve in it. But I’ll send them some tereals, if you wish.” —Cleveland Leader. Hobbs-r-I guess the elevator is out »f order. What is that sign on the ioor? Dobbs —The elevator man must fce a bit of a wag. It says, “Please pardon me for not rising.”—Boston Transcript. “My good man,” said the kind old lady to the ex-convict who had called legging, “what were you in for?” “Robbing ihe guests in a hotel, mum.” “Ah! were you the proprietor or the lead waiter?” Fred—There seems to a lot more fuss made of Miss A’s singing than Miss K’s, and I am sure Miss K has ly far the richer voice. Jack—Ah, yes; but Miss A has by far the richer lather. —Boston Courier. “I see, my man, you have had many trials,” exclaimed a kind hearted old lady to a tramp, who had called upon ler for assistance. “Yes,” replied the tramp, “and the worst of ft there were so many convictions.” “Sir, I have no home,” began the leedy looking man, “and——” “No taxes to pay, no rent, no coal bills, 10 worry over the rise in milk prices! Permit me to congratulate you.” “I lave no job and ” “Lucky chap! No danger of being fired.” “But I am ieriou3. I have no money and " “No temptation to spend it foolishly in able-bodied beggars. Why, you’re * veritable child of fortune. Goodfay!”

Too Sick to Be Nursed.

The old maxim to the effect that if you are going to do a thing at all you should do it thoroughly, applies < with particular force to the case of aurslng. Tn that profession none but x professional or an experienced amateur has any right to meddle. The Washington Star tells a story to the joint. — ; —~ In a Cape Town hospital, after Uuneheon one day, an earl’s daughter iasteaed down the aisles of beds toward her favorite soldier, only to find lim asleep, with ttys scrawl pinned jn the counterpane: “Dere Lady Maude too ill to be ltirsed to-day most respectfully T. Adkins.” We know we can’t stop the comet, »nd we don’t believe we can kill the lies. There's no hope for a young maw who la too lazy to fall In love