Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1910 — Page 3

"The Way of the Cross Leads Home"

way of the cross leads home! It must be so else W ((■) v why thls lon^n g after CalwKjz vary, “as the hart panteth after the waterbrook," as heart of man for the Spirit of God. ' This was the experience of FrankUn, "one of the rarest men of atl histor.” He was always a man who loved his fellow-men. He could not help but believe that there was a God. He believed to the depth of his being that this God the Father was ever guiding and directing the destinies of men, writes Rev. Frank N. Rlale, D. D., in Christian Work and Endeavor. As his years ripened he found himself turning to heaven for constant guidance, for man is soon without hope when he is without prayer. Here are his words, summing up all: “I have lived a long time (eighty* one years), and the longer I live the more convincing proof I see of this truth, that God governs the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, Is it probable that an- empire can rise without his aid? Except the Lord build the house, we labor in vain. I firmly believe this, and also believe that without his concurring aid we shall proceed in the political building no better than the builder of Babel, and we shall become a reproach and byword to all future ages. And what is worse, mankind may, hereafter, from this unfortunate Instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance and war and conquest I therefore beg leave to move that, henceforth, prayers, Imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held In this assembly (the convention of 1789) every morning before we proceed to business.” Franklin’s Last Moments. Large as the vision of this great man was, it seemingly was not large enough to catch the glorious vision of the divinity of our Lord. Once he said: “Athough I think Jesus is the greatest man that ever lived, I somehow cannot feel he Is the Son of God." Still there was something tugging at his heart that made him feel these very words may have framed out of his life far more than they framed in, for during his last earth moments there is recorded of him some most significant words: The experience of George Eliot, as all know, was almost a counterpart, a parallel, of this rift of soul. When she wrote the book that took men nearest into the heavenly places, In that beautiful character of Dina Morris, constantly did she have before her on her desk, as she wrote, the crucifix. Bigger than the mind, ever is the heart. However much Calvary is crowded down It will creep up, and be like a well of water—that is, the well of life. To show that all this was not a fetish, so much as a most vital fact, this genius of Romola said, that of all the books in the world nothing was to be compared to Thomas a Kempls’ “Imitations of Jesus.” This was her constant companion which she pored over and formed as the manna of heaven to her heart. The great “unexplored remainder,” the great unconscious “plus” of life, Is only brought to light by Calvary and the cross. What Makes Calvary Sublime. Just what It all means can perhaps be no better expressed than In a little homely Incident of lon| years back. Two of the simplest men of toll were passing along the highway past a Catholic burying ground. They both began to wonder what the letters "I. H. S." were that they saw everywhere. After long discussion, In their humble reasoning, they came to the conclusion that they stood for "I Have Sinned." To settle the matter to their satisfaction, they came to my dear old father, the minister of the little parish. They told him what they had concluded the letters stood for, and asked him if it was not so. My father smiled, and then told them, of course, that they were the first letters of the Latin words, which meant “Jesus the Savior of Men." After a little, yet mbst thoughtful pause, one Of the men answered: "But, Mr. Minister, It is only because I have sinned that Jesus came as the Savior of the world." My father said that then and there he realized the whole story of redemption. as never before —that because there was the universal sense of sin Calvary came to meet this universal need. That Is what makes “Calvary sublime,” That is why the whole world will ever love to sing: In the cross of Christ I glory. Towering o’er the wrecks of tlm< All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime.

The Song of the Soul.

There is a song of the soul which not the lips but the life may sing. The faculties of the mind and heart may form a choir for the high praise of God* Thus may “all that is within us bless his holy name." Reason with its majestic bass, love with full-voiced soprano, and conscience with cleartoned tenor shoifld be led by will in the worship of God. There is a true rythm of the life, a muslo of the heart that the soul may know, a secret heaven in the breast, where already the choirs of glory have begun their han monies. —- . It takes more than church tain ta make a fair church.

MAKES IT EASY TO PILOT AEROPLANE

Paris.—Captain Marconnet, one of the .French army officers wlfb is doing much to advance the science of aviation, has recently invented a device which enables a passenger on an aeroplane to guide the pilot, despite the difficulty ordinarily of the latter hearing anything that is said while the machine Is making a rapid flight It is a microphone, the mouth piece used by the passenger being attached to the flap of the pilot’s cap, and the mouthpiece for the pilot being placed on his left shoulder.

MUSIC CHARMS COW

Gives More Milk While Orchestra k Plays Classical Pieces. Lake Bluff Dairy Woman Tests Theory of Michigan Farmer and Finds Waltzes Are Most Soothing— Don’t Like Ragtime. Chicago.—Sad-eyed cows on the farm of Mrs*. Scott Durand in Lake Bluff the other day lost their remorseful feelings, became happy-faced, and gave more milk than they had been accustomed to, because the farm hands milked the 61 Jerseys and Holsteins to the sweet strains of the “Blue Danube” waltz and other selections rendered by an orchestra. Music-impregnated milk is a fact and not a theory, according to the North Shore society woman, who watched the cows being milked while nine musicians wafted sweet music over the farm. Milk taken from the “bossies,” while the orchestra sent forth soothing music, tasted better and had a more happy effect upon the drinkers than the milk served which had not. been “music impregnated,” according to those who went through the test. The unique test was made to prove the assertion of a Michigan farmer that cows give more milk while music Is being rendered. The music calmed the nerves of the cows and their udders let down all the milk in them. Soon after the milking had been finished, Mrs. Durand, who is known as the “Queen of Hostesses,” served the liquid to the musicians. “This experiment has been a perfect revelation to me,” said Mrs. Durand after Helen, Clarice, Flossie and No. 52, the first four " cows, had been milked to the music of the orchestra. Throwing her arms around Helen Mrs. Durand declared that she had never seen her cows stand so still and contentedly before.. “That’s perfectly lovely! Look at their eyes! The cows want more music,” she pleaded.

Incubator Dinner New Fad

Rhode Island Farmer Hits Upon Novel Scheme to Bake Beans While Wife Is In Town. Westerly, R. I. —A drummer who invaded the rural districts here a tew days ago with the latest brand of fireless cooker for the economy and comfort of the over-worked farmer’s wife has left town disgusted, with not a sale to his credit. He found the natives equipped with cookers which, they assert, are far ahead of so-called up-to-date ones. Walter Russeil Boss, a farmer on the post road, is the Moses of the kitchen. A few weeks ago his wife went to town to sj.end the day. Walter foraged his own breakfast and enough for the help. It was Saturday, and his better-half had left instructions to put the big pot of beans in early and let them bake all day. Walter had some hoeing to do and figured he couldn’t waste a day indoors, and he cudgeled his Yankee brain for an idea. It came. He took the pot of beans with the big/chunk of pork floating, on top out into the woodroom vhere the incubator stood. Turning up the lamp, he took off the weight on the thermostat and shoved in the pot of beans. Shouldering his hoe, he set out for the field. When Ms wife returned from, town she found the fire out in the kitchen stove and no beaus in sight. She prepared a cold supper and a warm welcome for Walter. Walter hastened to the woodroom, with the scolding wife at his heels. From the incubator he took a steaming hot pot of beans, browned and. savory and done to a turn. Afterward he took oat a dozen chickens, which the extreme heat bad hatched and sub-

Then the orchestra shifted from a classical selection to ragtime music. Suddenly the cows grew restive. "Horrors,” declared Mrs. Durand when the orchestra began to play the Cubanola Glide. “Stop it, my cows are cultured and abhor ragtime music as much as they do swearing.” Then the musicians started up a selection from “Tosca,” “I Live for Love and Music,” and to the amazement of Mrs. Durand and the milkers, the cows became quiet and contented again. j “Do you know I feel that my cows are the mothers of the hundreds of babies fed on Crab Tree farm milk,” said the society leader, who had invited the orchestra out to her farm to give a practical demonstration to prove if cows give more milk to the tunes of sweet music than otherwise. Mrs. Durand has been convinced of this fact and intends to equip her barn with several phonographs.

Stop Killing of Elephants

Friends of Pachyderm in England and France Urge Reserves to Halt Extinction. London. —Whethei At be the outcome of Mr. Roosevelt’s recent hunting trip in Africa or not, a meeting held by the French society known as “The Friends of the Elephant,” at which it was decided to approach the French government with the object of securing better reserves for elephants in Africa, has had the effect of reviving some interest in the same matter among members of the sister society in London. Lieut. Col. John Henry Patterson, one of the most active members of the society, said in an interview: “In the United Kingdom this question lias been ably and zealously dealt with by the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire. “The objects of the association are to create a sound public opinion on the subject of the preservation of wild

sequently well baked. Walter said that the discovery of the usefulness of the Incubator more than repaid for the loss of the fowl. The news of his experiment has spread, until all the farmers’ wives now do their week-end baking in incubators.

Burglars Steal An Aeroplane.

Paris.—Some burglars b .recently stole an aeroplane at Venders. The local gendarmes are somewhat puzzled by the offense.

Traveling in Hobo's Guise

Wealthy Hungarian Land Owner Fears Robbery If He Appears to Be Prosperous. New York. —Wearing the garb of a tramp to give the impression that he is a poor man. Lajos Berrar, one of the wealthiest land owners of eastern Hungary, arrived here the other day on the last lap of a trip around the world. Although over sixty-five years old, Mr. Berrar has never been absent from his frontier home before,and he entertains the idea that America is filled with brigands, that only unceasing vigilance and the avoidance of External signs of prosperity can save him from being robbed before he gets back to Tizsafuchred, his native town. When he registered at a local hotel with bls two companions, both husky six-footers, he gave orders thaY he was not to be approached by any Strangers One of the two huskies is a nephew of the aged traveler, Michael Berrar, professor of chemistry in a school at Budapest. His other companion is an Italian who acts as interpreter. This

CLUB TO MAKE NEWSIES GOOD

Omaha Business Men Form Organization to Stop Swearing and Tobacco Using. Omaha, Neb—How to keep the 400 newsboys of this city from shooting craps, swearing, smoking and forgetting to wash their hands and faces at proper Intervals is a problem that has agitated the members of the Children’s Home society. At last It Is believed that a solution has been reached. An organisation for the welfare of the newsboys started eight years ago fell through, and since then the youngsters have been permitted to grow up and run wild. Now they are to be taken in hand and their condition bettered. Probation Officer Bernstein has Interested a number of business men of the city and a club has been organized, with E. W. Dickinson, capitalist; Rome Miller, proprietor of the largest hotel in the city; J. A. Cudahy, a packer; Rev. Father Burns, a pastor, who has always Interested himself in boys, and Judge Sutton of the juvenile court as trustees. The compilttee having immediate charge of the welfare of the boys is made up of Joe Carroll, Tony Costenzo, Tony Monlco and Sam Kalin, all of them were once newsboys, but now are prosperous business men. The following rules have been adopted by the committee to govern the actions of the boys: No smoking, chewing, gambling or jumping on street cars. Must have clean faces and hands. No going into saloons. Must be loyal to one another. Must be off the streets at eight o’clock at night* unless an extra Is out. No boy under eight years of age shall sell papers. Every boy under sixteen years of age shall attend one session of school dally. No foul or profane language. A large room has been rented near the business portion of the city. It has been equipped with a small library, tables on which games of many kinds can be played, tubs and shower baths. The club will be self-governed and officered by the boys, but over its affairs the committee of business men will have general supervision. It will cost the boys nothing to join the club. Each member is given a numbered badge for identification and as a certificate of character. If a complaint is filed against any boy, or if a boy becomes troublesome, a report is made to the juvenile court, when Judge Sutton will investigate and take the necessary action.

life, both at home and in the colonies and British dependencies; to further the formation of game reserves and sanctuaries, the selection of the most suitable places for these sanctuaries and the enforcing of suitable game laws and regulations. “The society devotes considerable attention to the preservation of elephants, and has sent many deputations on the subject to successive foreign and colonial secretaries. Elephant reserves at present exist in all our African colonies where those animals are found. In British Gambia no elephants are allowed to be killed, and it is hoped that similar sanctuary will, owing to the efforts of the French society, be extended to the elephants in the French West African possessions. “For the year ended March, 1908, 539 tons of ivory, worth $2,802,760, were imported into the United Kingdom alone. Taking the average t.usk to weigh 40 pounds (a very liberal estimate), this means the death of more than fifteen thousand elephants... The ivory was-practically all Africa#, the quantity from India being only of the value of $175,000 If this animal slaughter is allowed to continue we are, alas! already in sight of the extinction of the African elephant, but it is hoped that the efforts of the British and French societies will stir public opinion and prevent such a deplorable loss to the fauna of the world.”

To Spend $30,000,000.

Lisbon.—Two battleships, six protected cruisers, eighteen destroyers, and six submarines are to be built by the Portuguese government at an estimated cost of $30,000,000.

man said, explaining the older Mr. Berrar’s eccentric garb and customs: “Life on the frontier of Hungary is very primitive, as it lies next to the outposts of Turkey, and the folks there have strange ideas about the other parts of the world. Mr. Berrar has feared all- along that If he dressed in style he would be robbed. We have repeatedly begged him to buy new clothing and then visit the barber, but he clings to his old clothes » and ways, asserting that no one would rob a man who did not look prosperous. He has heard tales of robberies in America.’’

Dead Man Runs Automobile.

Portland, Me.—A dead man was the only occupant of a moving automobile for a short time the other day. While riding alone D. Winslow Hawkes, one of the best-known educators in Maine, died of heart trouble. His automobile ran along the curbing and stopped without being overturned.

A Corner in Ancestors

Cosmos Innes, the eminent authority on Scottish surnames, believes that Witherspoon is a name derived from a locality in Scotland. Variations of the name, found in records, are Wodderspoon, Wotherspoon, Weitherspoon, and Widderson seems to be a name rather closely related. If one go back to the old Gothic word vidus, perhaps we get at the origin of the name. From vidus comes the old German witu, and the AngloSaxon wudu—all these —vidus, witu, wudu, mean a grove. “With” is the Danish for grove, or forest, and Wither or Wyther was a tenant whose name is recorded in Domesday book. One who lived in or near a grove would be designated as Wyther or

Wither, or using the word wood for forest, wooder or wodder. Then again, in trying to find an origin for the first syllable of the name Witherspoon—wither is old German for army; or wit is a word meaning knowledge, from which we may have wither. As to the last part of the name—spoon—it may come from an old Roman word sponsus, meaning promised, or a bond. Still again, if we may theorize further, regarding the origin of the name —or the last syllable, in one of the stories of the day, “The Post Girl,”

Cowper is an old spelling of Cooper. Both the poet Cowper and Earl Cowper sprang from the Sussex family, who, in 1495, wrote themselves Cooper. Cooper Is a word derived from coop, something to keep, or hold things, whether wine in a cask, or a hen in her prison. A cooper, then, is one who makes coops. Coop, in turn, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word cepan or kepan. Variations of the surname Cooper are Coupare, Le Coupere, Cowper and Cuparius. The plain and unassuming name of John Cooper is quite “swell" —in appearance—when in its Italian masquerade—Giovanni Coperarlo. Who would not prefer being Coperario to Cooper? The Coopers have been seated in Great Britain almost since the beginning of that nation. Probably there never was a time when you couldn’t lay hand on a Cooper. They flourish in Berkshire, Gloucester, Dorset, Wiltshire, Surrey and Oxford. Of the landed gentry of Suffolk, the principal family seat is Wortlington House. Of the Oxford family, one Thomas Cooper was a colonel in Cromwell’s army. Markree Castle, Ireland, is another stronghold of the Coopers. Apropos to this franch of the family, it is just recently that the society columns of English newspapers' Ijave chronicled the wedding of a .daughter of Maj. Francis Cooper, R. F. A., of Markree Castle, to Mr. Frederick Wynn of Coed-y-Maen, Wales. We find a pilgrim in the person of Thomas Cooper, in Boston, 1675. He was only about 15 years old, and is said to have come from Somerset, or Gloucester, and to have been born in London. Three years later he was a passenger on board the “Pink Blese ing,” to New York.. Thomas was born with a roving disposition, for in 1692 he bought property on Casco bay, Maine, paying £ 100 for a mile of land. Probably all this while Boston was his home, for January 10, 1698, Mr. and Mrs. John Coleman gave the land for the Brattle street church, of which he was one of the principal originators This is the church called by Mather the Manifesto church. Thomas Cooper was a large land owner. One branch of the Coopers came from Holland, settling in New York, and the descendants in New Jersey. They spelled the name Kupos and Kuyper, but soon changed to Cooper. The author, James Fennimore Cooper, descended from James Cooper, of Stratford-on-Avon, who came to America, 1679, and made a home in Pennsylvania, dnd afterwards in New Jersey. The Coopers of Pennsylvania and Maryland number many writers and statesmen, and the same may be Kid of the family of Georgia.

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Witherspoon Family (Copyright by McClure .Syndicate,

we find the word spawer, meaning one who goes to the country, or to a summer resort. It seems that this is a word in use in some parts of England, particularly Yorkshire. It comes from the word Spa or Spaa, a town in Belgium, noted for its mineral springs, one of the oldest in Europe, and mentioned by Pliny. A spa then became a place of springs, and is thus used in some verses by Beaumont and Fletcher. We have imported the word, for we often see “Ballston Spa.” or “Saratoga Spa.” Spaw is an old spelling. Is it not possible that what it now “spoon” was once spa, or spaw, and Witherspoon was originally wuduspa, or witherspa—“a spring in a grove.” One who lived near such a locality was designed accordingly, and —well, enough said, the writer merely suggets that this is her theory. One immigrant ancestor, John Witherspoon, born in Scotland, came to South Carolina in 1734 on the ship Good Intent. Dr. John Witherspoon, "signer,” was a lineal descendant of John Knox, and through this line the lineage in traced to Robert the Bruce. A statue of John Witherspoon stands on Landsdowne drive, Fairmount park, Philadelphia, and there is a handsome, modern building bearing his name in the city. His grave is with those of the other presidents of Princeton, in Princeton cemetery. Witherspoon hall at the university, 19 named in his honor. Heitman’s “Officers of the American Revolution” gives the name of Maj. James Witherspoon, son of Rev. Johni of Princeton. He was killed at Germantown, October 4, 1777. Another James —Capt. James of South Carolina—received his commission from Gen. Marlon, April 4, 1782. Strongholds of the Witherspoons in South Carolina have been Wiliamsburg, Kingstree, Abbeville, Sumterville, and in North Carolina, Newbern, among other places. The family have been pioneers in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida. The coat-of-arms illustrated is blazoned: or, on a cross engrailed, between four crescents, gules, a mascle, argent. A hand holding a laurel wreath, proper (in natural coloring). Motto: Deo JuvantS—God helping, or assisting. The cross and crescents of the arms point to Crusader ancestry: "engrailed” denotes possession of land.

Cooper Family

Samuel, from the time of the stamp act, wrote the principal and the best political articles which treated of the subject. The first American-built railway locomotive, the “Tom Thumb," was the work of Peter Cooper, born 1791, in Philadelphia. The locomotive constructed from his own desigps, in 1830, ran 13 miles in 57 minutes on its trial trip. The first actoi to “star” in AmerIca was Thomas Abthorpe Cooper; bom in England, 1778. The coat-of-arms illustrated is blazoned argent, a chevron ermine, cotlsed gules, between three leaves vert. Crest, a cubit arm, erect, proper, holding up a chaplet, vert. No motto is given with this coat-armor, but th© Coopers have mottoes, and on© is Nil Magnum Nisi Bonum. Another is Tuum Est One coat-of-arms granted 1584, and borne by the Winchester Coopers, is: Tzure, a fess©, between three pelicans argent, ruining themselves, gules.

In Loudoun county, Virginia, live® Apollos Cooper, who was a lieutenant in the continental army, and killed at Brandywine. He had three children, and they were founders of the Tennessee branch of the family. Among marriage connections were the Pattersons and Lewises of Virginia and South Carolina. William Cooper, born 1720, and called the patriot, was for 49 years town clerk of Boston. His brother