Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — Page 2

HTMH Or PEACE. These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world has known shall rlaa, With flame of freedom In their souls And light of knowledge in their eyes They shall be gentle, brave and strong. Not to spoil human blood, but dare All that may plant man’s lordship Arm On earth and Are and sea and air.. Nation with nation, land with land, Unarmed shall live as comrades freei In every heart and brain shall throb The pulse of one fraternity. New art shall bloom, of loftier mold. And mightier music thrill the skies; And wvery life shall be a song When all the earth 1b paradise. There shall be no more sin nor shame. And wrath and wrong shall fettered lie: For man shall be at one with God In bonds of firm necessity. -J. A. Symonds.

IT WAS HER FAULT

On general principles Reynolds disapproves of young women. It has been Ills experience In the brief Intervals he has wasted from business dallying With society—Reynolds calls It dallying when he makes a formal call and discusses the political situation with the girl’s father—that all young women are dangerously designing creatures with an pye to matrimony and a lasso ready for him. His wariness dates from the time he was 21 and went walking In the moonlight with a young woman of 29. He had been sufficiently weak-minded to kiss her and the only reason she did not sue him for breach of promise was that he have enough money to make it worth her while. Then the Mordaunt girl’s mother and father had openly pursued him with din-

“YOU WASTE YOUR BREATH BOOM ING MISS ADAMS.”

B*r Invitations and week-end parties till In self-defense he took a trip to th* east, narrowly escaping ensnaretliar^, Besides being rather distinguished looking, Reynolds by this time wag an official of a concern known from the Atlantic to the Pacific and financially was far too attractive to be permitted to go to waste as he was from a feminine point of view. Possibly if he had been let alone Reynolds would have married and settled down like other men, but this natural caution was intensified by these episodes. The result was that at 40 he was cheerfully called a woman hater. The Fosters had known Reynolds for years and conversant with all his Ideas, peculiarities and convictions, so it irritated him, on going down to the Foster country place for a week, thatt ,, Leff" Foster should talk about Miss Adams all the way. It eeemed that Miss Ada.ms was to bo there, too. After twenty minutes of It Reynolds rebelled. “See here!” he exploded. “You waste your breath booming Miss Adams to me! I don’t care if she Is

“I THINK YOU HAVE BEEN SO SENSIBLE."

All kinds of a beauty. You know me! What's the use?" “I'll bet you like her," Insisted the BB&bashed Foster. Reynolds growled disgustedly. When he met her his manner was icy beyond comparison, for he thought that she plight as well know at once where he stood. It was not till the Close of dinner that It dawned on him that Miss Adams was Just as happy as though he were hanging upon her •rery word. He surveyed her hostllely. She certainly was Yemarkably pretty; but his heart beat no faster. He had seen pretty girls before and they were always worse than the plain ones because they were so conceited. It Was odd, though, that she almost Ignored his presence. No do\jbt it was Just a trick. Later in the evening Reynolds deliberately talked to her and she was •weetly Interested and rather Intelligent, but she did not exert herself. This further convinced him that it was A trick to lure him on. The next day they went for a walk and he took occasion to launch out on his views about the place of women in the world. “I think you are quite right,, Mr. Reynolds." said Miss Adams. “They do interfere with a man’s work when he Is engaged on big enterprises. I think you have been so sensible not Marrying. See what you have aciiom-

pllshed! You have made so much of yourself!" ’’Do you-think so?” Reynolds asked somewhat vaguely. Her Instant appreciation of the wisdom of his remarks somewhat upset him. It was not what he was used to. From that time on Reynolds grew worse. And every conversational atrocity he perpetrated Miss Adams agreed with him, regarding him with her blue eyes wisely, head on one side. You put things so clearly," she said. Why, it’s a wonder any man ever marries!" “Oh, I don’t mean that!” Reynolds protested. He wanted to be fair to his antagonist, and anyway he had never met a girl with a clearer sense of Justice. "I’m speaking Just for myself. Of course I’ve filled up my life with

my work and such things and wouldn’t know what to do with a wife, but I can readily see how any other man might easily fall a victim —to you, for instance!” “Now, I call that kind of you, Mr Reynolds!” said Miss Adams. By the end of the week Reynolds made an alarming decision. Miss Adams’ frankness, her lack of coquetry, her indifference to him, appealed to him with a weird sort of fascination. Just because she seemed to think it was right for him to remain unmarried he perversely wanted to convince her that she was wrong. How could he do it better than by marrying her? Reynolds was so dazed by his conflicting emotions that he proposed without realizing what he was doing sufficiently to be alarmed for himself. “Why, Mr. Reynold!” Miss Adams gasped. “I am surprised—and sorry! You see, I’m engaged to another man. I never dreamed—knowing you had no fondness for girls. I'm sure I didn’t try to lead you on. did I?” No,” admitted the saddened Reynolds, “you didn’t.”

But to this day he somehow considers it her fault.—Chicago News.

Greatest Gold Country.

The largest gold-producing country is the Transvaal, where the output increased from $8,000,000 in 1889 to $133,000,000 in 1907. The Increase In the production of the Transvaal mines made during the year 1907 almost equaled the entire production of the gold fields In Alaskd. In round figures, the world's production of gold from the discovery of America in 1492 to 1880 was about $6,300,000,000. The entire world’s supply of gold could not have been in excess* of $6,500,000,000. The last thirty years has doubled this supply, and „If the present production Is maintained for another generation, it will double again, the National Magazine says. As gold has long been the world-wide standard of vglue, these statistics certainly suggest that the Increase in the production vitally affect prices. Our dollar can never have greater purchasing power than the exchangeable value of the gold that te te It The statement that we see everywhere in the papers that all prices are going up is a truth that could as .well be expressed In these words, "the exchangeable value of gold bullion is shrinking." Notice to the public: A newspaper reporter on the street is not looking for Jokes.

GOOD ROADS

13,000 and a Skeptic. Down In Sumter County there is a farmer $3,000 richer because of a specific good roads movement he couldn’t see his way clear to aid. If that is not argument and conversion In one breath, one would not know where to turn for either. This particular farmer, as reported by our correspondent at Amerlcus, has always been skeptical concerning the value of good roads or the dividends from road Improvement. He has persistently been endeavoring to dispose of his 300 acres at S3O. But highway facilities were; lacking, and there were no purchasers. A short time ago, a roadway was projected which should pass by his pl&ce and link It to civilization. Fanners contiguous, realizing the Immense value of the improvement, gave freely of their land for a right of way. So Joined was this man to his that he refused to cede even a small atrip of that land he had tried to sell and couldn’t. The road-building proceeded regardless of his declination. A few days after It was completed he was offered S4O an acre for the entire tract, which, previously, he could not sell at S3O. So that, In the face es his lack of enterprise, the good roads irfovement brought $3,000 "velvet” to his door-step and also a clinching good roads argument which should leave the doubter everywhere not a leg to stand upon. What has happened In Sumter, so far as marvelous enhancement of values Is concerned, has been. Is being, and will be duplicated In every county in Georgia. To-day in Georgia are hundreds of farms lagging in valuation because of incomplete or absent road facilities. There are more hundreds of potential farms, waiting to be tickled Into abundant harvests by dividend-makers for Georgia as soon as enterprise has blazed a trafl to their boundaries. If, in every Georgia county, the initiative developed in Sumter should be commensurately duplicated, the Impetus, to Individual and collective wealth would not easily lend itself to estimate. —Atlanta Constitutionlll Good Country Roads. Nothing could confer so many substantial benefits on the United States as a comprehensive system of good country roads. It would be of greater value than the Improvement of the waterways. It would help both the farmers and the city people. Therefore any proposition which looks to endowing the country with good roads Is entitled, if not to acceptance, at all events to a respectful hearing. There is a bill before Congress to appropriate $500,000 to be expended—“by the secretary of agriculture in cooperation with the postmaster general In improving the condition of the roads over which rural delivery Is or hereafter may be established to be selected by them for the purpose of ascertaining. the possible increase in the territory which could be served by one carrier and the possible increase In the number of delivery days each year, the amount required for proper maintenance In excess of local expenditure for rural delivery routes and the relative saving to the government in the maintenance of rural delivery routes by reason of such improvements, and also the relative saving in the cost of the transportation of agricultural and other products from the farms or other points of production to the usual market place by reason of such improvements.” There is a proviso to the effect that the state or county shall spend as much money as the government does for the improvement of the rural route or routes selected. We know already that better roads would lessen the cost of transporting produce to market and the cost of the rural delivery service. An estimate of the respective gain to producers and the government can be made without spending half a million dollars, The bill is a move in the direction of putting half the cost of making good roads on the national government. How many millions it would spend from first to last if It. were to embark on thi3 policy Is beyond calculation. To give Instruction in the art of road building such as the department of agriculture has been giving is one thing. To share with road districts, townships, or counties the cost of construction of roads which would be local. not national, works is another thing. Doubtless there are many rural districts which could be coaxed into the building of better roads by federal grants in aid. An Alabama senator, forgetful of President Jackson’s veto of the bill extending federal aid to the Maysville turnpike road, is strongly in favor of the proposition that the national government shall assume in part a duty which has belonged exclusively to the states. StSte aid In the building of good country roads is legitimate. It should be resorted to Instead of calling upon the general government. Which has about all the burdens it can carry.— Chicago Tribune.

Paying the Doctor.

Some American doctors are in favor of the contract system for medical service, but they are still a long way from the Chinese scheme of stopping

the doctor’s salary when the patient falls ill. The writer knows a New Yorker who says that If ever he is threatened with an operation he will ask the surgeon what It Is going to cost. Then he will hand him the amount at once with the assurance that the fee goes whether the operation comes off or doesn’t. He reasons that the doctor will then have no possible temptation if it comes to a toss up whether to operate or take a chance.—New York Press. ,/

“BANKER OF THE WORLD.”

Money Contained In “Lons StockInn” Earn* Title fop ('ranee. M. Jules Roche, who is so high an authority on financial matters, and who has so often raised his voice against the Increasing dimensions of suocesive budgets, contributes to the Figaro a remarkable article entitled, "Fifty Milliards of Debts,” the Paris correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch eays. He begins by saying: ”1 was extremely grieved to give pain to my excellent friend, M. Georges Cochery (the minister of France), by stating that under the reign of the radical-socialist majority, which has wielded absolute power from 1906 to 1910, the following increases have occurred, and are shown by the official documents and the financial laws of 1906 and 1910: “On the expenses of the budget: $100,600,000. “On the debts of the state: $1,010,800,000. “On France’s total debt: $1,096,000,000. “Lastly, I have to add that this total debt of our sweet and patient country amounts to-day to more than $10,027,000,000. These are, unfortunately, material facts, on which everyone is free to comment as he pleases, but which are what they are according to the accounts of M. Cochery himself, and those of his colleague, the minister of the Interior, who is the severe guardian of the communes and the departments.” But all the same, there is a bright side to this rather somber picture of France’s financial condition, as the following facts will testify. A pamphlet from the pen of an anonymous writer has Just come out, which gives some eloquent figures. It is entitled, “Quartre Ana de Republldue. 19061910,” and In one very noteworthy chapter it is asserted that France has for several years past become the banker of the world. “The total revenue of the capital possessed by the French has been estimated at $4,400,000,000, and is increasing every year by more than $400,000,000. The amount of the savings bank deposits, which was $23,000,000 in 1878, rose on Jan. 1, 1903, to more than four times this sum, distributed among 12,847,599 bank books. “The stock of gold, which Is an element of defense of primary Importance in the event of an armed conflict, has exceeded in 1910 the ‘figure of $1,200,000,000, which is far higher than the total of the monetary stocks of several great nations- of Europe combined. “The goM kept at the Bank of France alone represented more than $600,000,000 on March 24,. 1910, and the silver $175,000,000. The French rentes are nearly at par, and the credit of no other nation, England excepted, can rival that of our country.” With a view to ascertaining the accuracy of this statement, the Matiq has referred the question to the ministry of finance, and has been assured that, as the officials put it, “the figures given for the savings banks and our monetary stock are strictly exact, and are in conformity with our own statistics.” The ministry also furnish the following instructive figures as to the total deposits in the savings banks in 1869, the year before the war with Germany broke out, in 1880, in 1890, in 1900 and 1908. In 1869 these deposits amounted to $142,200,000; in 1889 to $256,000,000. In 1890 they had risen to $582,400,000; in 1900 to $652,800,000; and in 1908 to $900,000,000. So the treasure contained in the national “Bas de Laine,” or long stocking, has sextupled in forty years.

DIDN’T GET IT RIGHT.

He Thought He was a Student ol Human Nature, but He Waao't. "On this trip in,” said the car conductor about 11:30 o’clock at night, “we’ll begin to pick up the beaus. They commence leaving their ladyloves about 11 o’clock. I've seen so many of them get on the car that I’ve got so I can tell who has said a loving good-by and who has had a scrap with her. It’s in the way they pay their fare.” The car stopped, and a young man stepped aboard. "There’s one,” continued the conductor. “I’ll get his fare and then come back and tell you how I think he got along with his lady-love.” The fare was collected, and the conductor returned to the man with whom he had been talking. “They had a fight," he said. “I’d almost bet she told him to go and never return. Oh, I’m a student of human nature, you bet you!” Just then another fellow boarded the car. He sat down by the “beau.” Why, hello, John!” the new passenger said. "How are the wife and babies?” “All well but the youngest girl,” was the reply. “I’m going down to the drug store now to get her some cough medicine.” The conductor went to the other end of the car and stayed th<*»e as much as he could.—Denver Post.

QUEER STORIES

The sun will.continue to give out Its present amount of heat for thirty million years. In spite of the cold, mosquitoes flourish and are an intolerable nuisance in Alaska. A year’s fishing in thl3 country amounts, in value of product, to about $64,000,000. The average animal death rate among all the armies Of the world Is nine in each thousand. To prevent explosions of coal dust in mines experiments are under way In Germany in which water is pumped into borings under pressure. . ■. It is not in the nostril that the sense of smell lies, but in the upper third of the nose. There the red lining of the nostril changes into brown, and becomes much more sensitive. Manhattan Congregational Church, New York, of which the Rev. Dr. Henry A. Stlmson is pastor, has been holding a series of “civic services,’’ these being addressed by publicists and experts in municipal development. The queen of Italy is one of the finest shots In Europe, not only in comparison with her own sex, but as against all comers. In her girlhood she was a great huntress, but *ce no longer hunts; she now has an unconquerable aversion to killing anything, and, though she still shoots, it is only at clay pigeons or some such mark. Vacant lot cultivation In Kansas City, Mo., is being done this season under the direction of the City Club. One nine-acre traot and several small* er lots have been set out in vegetables, the farming being done by needy persons. They are not taxed for soil, seeds or tools and the City Club has engaged a practical gardener to supervise the work. “No substance that refuses to dissolve in water has an odor,” says a writer. “For it is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, that appeals to the nose, and not simply a vibration of the air, as in the case of light and sound. The damper a thing is the more powerful the odor it gives off. A pleasant proof of this fact can be had by walking in a garden after rain.” Few people realize that for most diseases the-bed and it alone is the greatest, surest, quickest cure the world and ages of science have yet discovered or bestowed. People, as a rule, look upon going to bed for sickness as a necessary and unavoidable consequence of sickness, instead of looking upon It as they should, as being the very first and greatest part of the cure of the case. —New York Press.

MAYOR OF PORTO VELHO.

Unique Distinction Conferred Upon American In Heart of Bramtl. To be made the mayor of a foreign community while still retaining American cifcienship and to “get away with the goods” is something that does not fall to the lot of the average American. In Thomaston, L. 1., however, the „ New York Telegram says, “there is to-’day a live, up-to-dato American, enjoying his first visit home in 25 months, who is the mayor of a place some 10,000 miles away, in the very heart of South America. On the Booth liner Clement there arrived Thomas F." Murphy and four of hi 3 associates, Loftin E. White, “Joe” Gugenheim, W. Gerald Cooper and Fred Schmidt. The quintet have been in Brazil more than two years laying out a railroad route from Madeira Morrow among the headwaters of the Amazon, which is to stretch across the continent when it is completed. Times were a bit dull at Pprto Velho, so named for no reason in particular, for there was- no habitation there until the five Americans arrived on the spot io lay out their railroad. To while away some of their spare, time the Americans decided to hold an election. The native porters and laborers were given pieces of pasteboard and told to place them in the big box at the entrance of the white man’s camp when Gugenheim gave the signal. In the improvised ballot box the natives dropped their bits of pasteboard, each of which read as follows: “I vote for Thomas F. Murphy for Mayor of Porto Velho.” There was no question as to the unanimous vote and after Murphy’s election to office the five Americans proceeded to divide the rest of the municipal offices between the other four. According to the law of Brazil, however, the natives haying voted regularly and willingly, really elected Murphy to the office of mayor of hitherto unknown Porto Velho, and when the five Americans left there a month ago some Brail lan settlers were very much wrought up over the proposition of possibly never seeing their mayor again and over not being able to elect another man as their head because of the present lneumbent of the mayor’s office.

ONE MINUTE’S VIEW.

But What She Saw Would Take Halt an Hour to Tell. “Will you please tell us how the lady was dressed?’ said the attorney for the defense to a woman who was testifying in a police court proceeding. “Well, of course, I didn’t see for longer than a minute as she got up and walked out of the street car w« were bdth riding in, but she had on a wide gray fur hat turned up at one

aide and fastened with a rhinestone buckle, and she had a long white feather and a gray bird’s wing on the* hat and a narrow band of gold galloon' around It, and two large scarlet red velvet roses, and she had the hat fastened on with three hatpins, one of them with a red glass stone set around with California brilliants, and another was in the shape of a four-leaf clover and the third was a big gilt ball, and the hat drooped away over on the right side, and she had a black veil with white dots on it, and it was fastened with a gold arrow run through a rhinestone buckle at the back of the hat. Then she had on a tailored suit of mauve cloth with the Jaeket and front width of the dress all braided in silk braid of the same shade of the dress, and the other widths of the dress ahd three bias folds laid on one right above the other, and the six buttons covered with goods like the dress, and the. Jacket had a bias fold all around It and 14 buttons down the front and 3 on the pockets, and it had a wide rolling collar lined with satin a shade or two lighter than the dress and there was a narrow silk cord of white silk edging the collar and coming all down the front of the Jacket, which was a little more' than halffitting, and it sagged Just a trifle on ‘the left side and” “You say that you saw the lady but a mompnt?” “Yes, just for a moment as she was leaving tlfe car, but I noticed that she had on a gray squirrel skin muff and tippet and”— — “That will do, madam. Next witnes will please come forward.” —Puck.

“BIG BEN” LOSING TONE.

Voice of London’s Famous Bell Suffers from a Fracture. “Big Ben" is in disgrace. Every one in London knows “Big Ben,” and no stranger who comes to London can be long in town before he knows “Big Ben,” top, the big bell which, with his four little brothers, strikes the hours, quarters and half hours away up in the tower at the houses of parliament. When “Big Ben” and his four little brothers are having their periodical clean-up their deep-toned chimes are very much missed and the watches of Londoners get all out of time. ft is Wooding Starmer who has sounded the alarm about “Big Ben,” says a -London letter. Lecturing at the royal institution the other evening, he said that the lone the bell gave ouc was not as good as it should be. “Nothing but serious injury,” he said could result from the cutting of holes in the sound bowls, although It is said that the holes were cut to ascertain the extent of a crack. However, it is certain that the holes and the crack seriously mar the tone.” This came as a great surprise to many, for no one had ever heard ihat either “Big Ben” or any one of his four little brothers had a crack or holes punched in him. Messrs. F. Dent & Co. of the Strand, who have charge of the Westminster clock, confess that all is not well. “We quite agree,” said the manager of the flm, “with what Mr. Starmer has said regarding the hour bell, and we certainly think a new one should be cast in its place, but it would be a great job to take the bell down. “The history of ’Big Ben’ is a curious one," he continued. “ ‘Big Ben’ and the four quarters were cast about 1856. The first ‘Big Ben’ weighed about sixteen tons and was not a success and it was recast. The new one was not so heavy, weighing only thirteen and one-half tons. Within a year a crack or flaw developed near the mouih of the bell. The result was that the striking hammer could only be about half the weight necessary to bring out its full tone, no doubt on account of the risk of the crack going further. —r~ “The question of ihe bells was considered by an Influential committee at the time, assisted by Mr. Turle, the eminent organist of Westminster Abbey, and they approved the quality of the tone, so nothing has been done since.” The chimes of “Big Ben” are set at the following lines: “All through this hour, Lord, be my guide, And by Thy power no foot shall slide.”

He Sees Double.

His name isn’t really Guzzler, but it will answer the purpose, and it is descriptive. Guzzler has a habit of looking upon the wine when It Is red, frequently to the extent that he can see two bottles where only one exists. Now, Guzzler is married, and recently the stork paid a visit to his abode. Several days after the event two of his friends met, and the following conversation ensued: “Hello, old man! Hear about the doings over at-Guzzler’s?’’ “No. Another birthday party?" “Yes, in a way. Guzzler's wife has presented him with twins.” “How do you know?" “How do I know? Well, I ought to know- Guzzler told me himself.” “Well, I wouldn’t place too much dependence on it. You know Guzzler generally sees double! ’’-rNew York Times. - ‘ - ~~ •

Knew Her.

Bella —You spelled kiss with only one sin your letter. Beulah—Really, did I? Bella—Yes, you did, and I always thought that was one thing you never would want to make shorter.—Yonkers Statesman. » No matter what a woman thinks, she never will say a man 1b fooffsh sos buying an engagement ring that is be. yond his me ana.