Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — Page 3

HAPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Many Americans Abroad This Season

LONDON.— The American season In London, Paris and Berlin Is the best since the three golden years preceding the panic of 1907. The hotels of all the capitals of Europe are thronged with well-to-do Americans, who are spending money with the traditional lavishness that pleases the hotelkeepers and shopkeepers everywhere. Europe has learned that not all Americans are millionaires, and so it is that less is heard each year of extortion and attempted extortion. American tourists, too, seem to have learned the ropes and they know lust where to So to get the most for their money. Comfortable new hotels that charge reasonable prices have been built in all the capitals of Europe within the last five years and in Paris, London, Berlin, Rome and Vienna, new hotels invariably have many baths, while some that appeal to the wealthier visitors have suites with baths that are as modernly luxurious as anything New York can offer. What with comfortable and reasonable priced hotels, with express trains with dining cars attached connecting all the capitals, Americans find traveling in Europe nowadays

Home for Drunkards’ Wives Is Closed

Kansas city, Kan.—The home founded by Carry Nation, the Kansas “joint smasher,” in this city as a refuge for drunkards’ wives, will probably be closed and the property Returned to Mrs. Nation. The reason is, there are not enough wives of drunkards in the largest city of Kansas to warrant the continued operation of a refuge for them. Mrs. Nation has requested of the Associated Charities, the organization which Is managing the home, that the property be deeded back to her. The home has accommodations for 40 women but there are no drunkards’ wives in it now. The Associated Charities is using it as a home for unfortunate and homeless women. About fifteen women now occupy the home. Peter W. Goebel, president of the board of directors of the Associated Charities, admits that the home is a failure as far as being a place for the

The Busy Money Changers of New York

NEW YORK.—Four big banks in the Wall street district of New York city resemble the great gold mines of the west in one striking feature. They have three eight-hour shifts of toilers, and the work never . stops. One set takes up the routine where the other leaves off. All night long, Sundays and holidays, a staff of men in each of these banks is busy opening thousands of letters, sorting and listing innumerable checks and drafts that represent fabulous sums of money, and getting them ready for the day force, which is the only one the public comes in contact with or ever hears about. If this work were not carried on incessantly, the banks would soon be overwhelmed with a mountainous accumulation of detail. Two shifts—the "scouting force,” as they call themselves —work \between five o’clock, in the afternoon and nine

Aged Ice Regarded Safe for Health

Philadelphia. —The Natural ice Association of America, including dealer! in natural Ice in Philadelphia, has begun a “campaign of education’’ to inform the public that aged ice is free from bacteria. Bacteria are the little wlgglera In water that get into the insides of peo pie and often give them typhoid, diphtheria and other diseases. A quart of water contains a million or two of these bacteria. Some of them, not all, are dangerous to health. But the natural ice men say—fend •they produce scientific argument to support their assertions—that although the bacteria are frozen into the fee when the water congeals, they are killed off bo rapidly that in 24

much more simple and comfortable than it was 15 -years ago. London holds itself rigidly * aloof from rivalry with the great cities of the continent.' It permits Berlin and Paris to boast of their attractions in order to lure the American tourist; for itself, it seems content to say: “Here I am, the greatest city in the world, with unrivaled museums and picture galleries, not to mention tailors and dressmakers. Come and see me ii you want to, but if you don’t want to —well, I dare say I’ll get along without :pu.” " Berlin and Paris now are in open competition. Berlin thinks it 1b a more fascinating city than Paris and it intimates that its night life is far and away more alluring than Paris’. Paris, despite the moderness of Berlin and its nocturnal brilliancy, continues to be the Mecca of Americans, men and women. The season, both in London and Paris, this year has been marred by almost constant rain. In London a cold rain fell daily for almost three weeks from the middle of June. The weather was so chilly that newly arrived Americans were compelled to wear heavy overcoats and wraps. Paris, too, has been rainy and cold, and shopkeepers and restaurant keepers complain bitterly of the effects of the cold upon their trade. ' Thanks to the American invasion with its train of gold, Parisians have reason to be fairly glad they are alive.

housing of drunkards’ wives. “That Is the ‘distressing’ condition that exists,” Mr. Goebel said. “There is no use in denying it. We cannot find drunkards’ wives to live there. “Mrs. Nation has asked that we return the home to her. The members of the hoard of directors differ as to whether or not this should be done. She has agreed to pay us for what repairs and improvements have been made at the home and at present the association needs the money that would be thus received for other branches of work. At our next meeting we will finally determine what stand to take concerning holding or releasing the property.” Mrs. Nation wishes the home returned to her so that It may he sold and the proceeds of its sale used in the construction of a home for boys which she is building in Oklahoma. In' 1902 she bought the property, which was the homestead of C. N. Simpson, one of the pioneers of Kansas. Mrs. Nation secured most of the $4,000, which she originally paid for the ‘property, from the sale of the small souvenir “Carrie* A. Nation hatchets” which she and her friends sold for 25 cents.

the next morning. Each bank has a big drawer in the general post office. Messengers clear this of its letters every hour all night long. Three thousand letters a day is the average mail of one of these large banks. Twothirds of it comes in during the night. These letters, in the case of one of the biggest of these banks, contain from 35,000 to 40,000 checks and drafts. At times these inclosureß represent as much as $30,000,000. Rarely does the total fall below $20,000,000. The letters are opened as fast as they are received, the checks are counted, and the totals verified with the footings of the lists. The letters are then stamped, which shows that they have been “proven in,” as the banks call it. After that are turned over to the clerks who send out the formal acknowledgments of the remittances they contain. The various checks are assorted according to the numbers of the books In Vtaich they are to be entered and otherwise; the sight drafts are grouped according to the routes of the bank’s messengers/and all is made ready for turning the flight’s accumulation over to the qiy force, so it may be handled by It as expeditiously as possible.

hour 90 per cent, of them are dead and within a few weeks the ice li sterile—absolutely free from bacterial life of any kind. One Philadelphia natural Ice dealer said recently: “Natural ice is cut in December, January and February. Seventy per cent, of It is used between June and September, when it is any where from sixteen to twenty weeks old, and when the bacteria are frozen in it, and have been without air, motion, warmth and food from four to five months." , - A paper recently sent out with the indorsement of the national body of natural ice dealers Bays; ’ “The buyer of Ice should really be as anxious to obtain, and the dealer in natural ice as quick to advertiiL. that he sells old ice, as the green grocer" is to seek trade on the strength of the freshness of his tomatoes or peas, and the butter and egg man on his new laid or freshly made products. Old io« is pure ice, sterile ice, free from bao teria harmful or helpful." ' »

LOVE STAYS YOUNG

WOMEN NEVER BECOME TOO OLD TO MARRY. Healthy Exercise and Activity of Mind Combine to Keep Woman Still Young When She Might Be Grandmother. Time was when, if a girl was hot married at 21, she was supposed to resign herself to the single life for the rest of her days. A little later on in the world’s history—indeed, within the memory of those living—it was thought that 25 was the utmost limit at which a woman’s despairing hopes could cling to matrimony. The early marriage is the exception now, not the rule; and there is much wonder and objection nowadays over the marriage of a girl of 17 as there would once have been over that of a woman of 70. In old days, royal princesses mar•ried at 17. In these days they marry at seven-and-twenty, or even much later. No doubt one reason lies in the fact that women no longer give up their youth as prematurely as they used to do. At five-and-twenty a woman once laid aside all feminine vanity, betook herself in hideous styles of dressing, and gave up all her activity and her interest in the outside world. Of course, she grew old at once.

Nowdays, healthy f exercise, activity of mind, and manifold interests combine to keep a woman still young at an age when she might be a grandmother. People are inclined to suppose that mercenary motives alone can account for the marriage of a woman advanced in life; but this is a great mistake. In many cases it is an old lover, long parted by time and circumstances, who makes his appearance again, and wins her at last, though he has waited so long to do it To him she never seems old—the old love casts over her a glamor still that makes her retain the charm and fascination of the days when he first courted her, and he is as proud of her as if she were still the girl he wooed in the long past days every one else has forgotten. Sometimes they have only met in later days. No reason, on that account, for younger people to fancy all sentiment and romance must needs be dead within them. There is much romance, sometimes, lingering under a faded exterior as under one in its first bloom, and there is absolutely no putting a date to the time when love taust needs cease to have any power Over the huipan heart. To the woman whose character is her chiefest charm, and 1 who possesses that strange, mysterious gift we call -fascination, there is really no putting any limit to the time when her chances of marriage are at an . end. Men find her as delightful a companion, as ready in her sympathy, as charming in her talk as when she was a girl; in fact, she is often far more so, because the experiences of life have mellowed her judgment and made her more interestd in others than in herself. Such a woman may be loved and wooed long after the woman whose only attraction was her pretty face has been neglected. How wise, then, for girls to cultivate the graces of mind and manner that really charm, no matter what nature has bestowed upon them in the way of outside attraction.

A Literary Yearning.

"I’d give a good bit to get hold of some of old Beadle’s novels,” said the man of forty-five. "I get so weary of the popular novels that are being ground out by the fiction factories that my soul fairly yearns for the good old stories I used to read when I was a boy. So keen has this longing become that I have been going around among the old book stores where sec-ond-hand periodicals are kept In the hope of picking up some of the Beadle’s dime and han-dime libraries. But my quest has been in vain. "I find that there are blood and thunder publications issued today, but they have nothing of the charm possessed by such writers as Col. Prentice Ingraham, Ned Buntline, Edward L. Wheeler, whose Deadwood Dick stories were classics, and Edward S. Ellis, who wasn’t ashamed to sign his stories for Beadle, in spite of the fact that he was also known in the educational field. "These men were artists In their way, and I am sure that many an old boy of my age shares my regret that their work shouldn’t be preserved,"

Proper Way to Kill Chicken.

The learned department of agriculture atj Washington is now issuing instructions as to the proper way to kill a chicken. You are first to grasp the chicken by the bony part of the skull, being careful not to touch the neck. Then you are to take a small sharp, knife and, having made a small cut on the right side of the roof of the chicken’s Inouth just where the bones of the skull meet, you are to stick the point of the knife right up through the chicken’s brain until it touches the skull midway between the eyes. This sounds very nice and humane, also somewhat leisurely; but it may he found necessary first to chloroform the chicken before it will submit quietly to the operation. Chickens are obitlnateand unreasonable creatures anyway and they may not realize that the knife Is a great improvement over ths U.

EXPLAINED TO FUNNY EDITOR

Enlightened by Woman Who Wants Monologue That Will Keep Her Talking Fifteen Minutes. “Are you the funny editor?*’ she asked, pausing for a moment in the doorway. “I want you to write a vaudeville sketch for me. I hope you’re going to be more sympathetic than you look, and that reminds me that of all the stony-hearted people I ever met in all my life a certain theatrical manager In this town—but I don’t suppose you care to hear about that, and I presume I ought to tell you at the start that I have been married. It was a very sad experience—and, really, it seems to me that anyone with the instincts of a gentleman would at least have given me a hearing, but when I offered to read a scene from Shakespeare he called for help, and, as I was saying, it was a very sad experience—I mean my married life. Why, he treated me as if I had been the merest scum of the street and didn’t even stop smoking 9 r ask me to Bit down when I went Into his office; but I suppose he must be bothered a great deal by all kinds of people who think they'can act. I had to leave him on account of his insane jealousy. If I merely spoke pleasantly to the postman he would fly into a passion, and almost the first thing he asked me was whether I’d be willing to wear tights, because he thought with my figure he might get me Into some company, no matter whether I had any talent or not—just think of that! I don’t believe we would ever have had any trouble if it hadn’t been for his mother. She was always throwing out sly hints and insinuating that I cared more for dress that I did for him, and all that, but it does seem to me that he might at least have taken his feet down from his desk, and oh, his language was something awful! I never was no insulted in all my life, but I suppose he had been used to dealing with a class of people who had to be talked to in that way. He might have seen by my appearance that I was used to Something different, and he looked me over as if I had Been merely a piece of furniture. His sister was partly to blame, too, and I can’t help feeling awfully thankful that we never had any children, for it’s such a pity when people who have little ones can’t live together. Do you think you could fix up a monologue thgt would keep me talking for about fifteen minutds?”

Don’t Kill Snakes and Toads.

The French town authorities post village bulletin boards, for public instruction. One of these reads “Hedgehog; live on mice, snailß and wireworms—do not kill a hedgehog. Toad: helps agriculture, killing twenty to thirty insects every hour—do not kill a toad. Cockchafer: deadly enemy to the farmer; lays one hundred eggs at a time —kill the cockchafer." It would be a good idea for our own government to post bulletins of this sort, instead of printing so many for circulation. In the south most of the snakes are of great value, and that is relatively true everywhere. The blue racer, a handsome fellow, is estimated to be worth ten dollars a year to destroy mice and gophers. The bull sndka and garter snake destipy Insects and rodents, without themselves hurting the garden. In my Clinton ground we have so long protected the garter snake that he suns himself on the compost piles without fearing us at all. Why not? Why carry a spite because a serpent is said to have tempted Eve? Was it not a fair match? Poisonoqs snakes are nearly as rare as those that talk.—E- D. Powell ia Outing.

Gold and Silver Table.

Nemlse Ventura of Porto Rico spent most of thirty years making a table out of silver and gold. He was a miner and conceived the idea of depositing the preclpus metals in the form of this table. The legs are of gold, the top Is of silver. Around the edge of the table are designs of ancient coins; the center part represents a map of the United States, all being outlined in silver. The table is 12 Inches in height, 16 inches long and 10 Inches wide. The maker estimates Its value at $60,000. He Is in New York city now, hoping to dispose of his prize, but he is so afraid that some one will steal It that he scarcely leaves It for a moment. He desires very much to witness the sights of New York, but says he will not run any risk of his' table getting away from him. This man has manifested great skill and industry and it is to be hoped his thirty years of labor will be rewarded with & generous purchaser. The world is full of gold and silver tables that so hold men down that they cannot get much time or opportunity to see anything else or do anything beside keeping thieves away from their fathered riches. —The Christian Herald.

Women Smokers.

The women smoker, far from being a result of a decadent ciivlizatlon is merely a survival of a rougher and harder life. Even today the women who live the hardest lives compatible with twentieth century civilization smoke incessantly. Go into any tramps' lodging house and you will find not only old and young women, but bits of girls scarcely in their teens puffing contentedly, not at'cigarettes;’but clay pipes, charged with black twist tobacco. It is part of the etiquette of the ’rood” for the men after they have vigorously puffed at their "dudeens” to hand them to the woman tramps who have no supply.—London Chronicle.

In the DEPTHS of HONDURAS

ROAD FROM TEGUCIGALPA TO THE COAST

HONDURAS is a particularly appropriate name for that coantry of hills and valleys. It Is said that Las Honduras (The Depths) is the name given the country by the Spanish Conquistadores In their march northward during their conquest of Central America- —probably so named for the difficulties encountered in making trail over the mountains.

Entering the republic on the Pacific or south side, we landed at Amapala, a well-protected port situated on El Tigre island in the Bay of Fonseca. There is only a short wharf at Amapala to accommodate vessels of light draught, so we were hustled into a canoe and rowed to the wharf by a native boatman. Here we were set upon by a throng of natives ranging from small boys to gray-haired men, every one of whom wished to carry our baggage to the hotel. After much bickering, one youth agreed to carry all our bundles, fifteen in number, from ihe wharf to the custom house and thence to the hotel for 2% pesos, the equivalent of one dollar In our coin, and the bargain was made. We found the hotel to be a twostory wooden structure, old, dirty and infested with rats, bedbugs and other vermin. In settling for our meals we were obliged to change some of our money for the coin of the country, and received two and one-half for one, one peso being worth approximately 40 cents United States coin. We next entered a gasoline launch for the trip to San Lorenzo, the mainland port of Honduras in the Bay of Fonseca. We wound our way through channels between the heavy everglades, twisting and turning until I wondered at our boatman’s being able to find the way at all. In places we entered lanes the trees would approach one another till only a few feet of water remained on either side of the boat, only to emerge Into open water again and'perhaps to be startled by the sudden rising of a flock of cranes or atgrets. Arriving at San Lorenzo, we found a flatboat unloading provisions and merchandise for the San Rosario mine at S&n Juancito, 120 miles away. These supplies were loaded upon heavy bull carts of crude construction; the wheels were of solid wood four inches in thickness and about three feet in diameter. The oxen were hooked to the pole of the cart by a curious wooden yoke which fits upon the heads of the beasts and is lashed there with buckskin thongs and rags. It is a very crude method of yoking oxen, butyls Invariable throughout Central America.

After partaking of a breakfast of tortillas, honey, turtles' egg and chicken, we were informed that our beasts were waiting to take us to the capital, Tegucigalpa. We found awaiting us the poorest and scrawniest lot of stock that I have ever had the misfortune to encounter, and the saddles simply beggared description; some were discarded cavalry saddles of antique design, #me were old Spanish saddles and pome were simply pieces of stiff cowhide stretched over wooden frames. However, we mounted and set oat upon our way northward. The road lies over a succession of rolling hills covered with a beautiful growth of tropical verdure. Cattle and hogs of interior breeds were scattered through the country and paid no attention to us as we passed by. At irregular Intervals we passed native huts by the roadside, some built of vertical poles set upright a few inches apart, and thatched with palm leaves or "monkey tall,” a sort of thick jungle grass; others of adobe with red clay tile roofs. These huts of the poorer people have only the earth for floors, and the furniture seldom comprises more than actable and a chair or two. The poorer ones seldom see and money and the commodoties are exchanged by a system of barter. Hence we see a few scattered "milpas’’ or crops of com or sugar cane, seldom exceeding a couple of acres in extent, while underbred cattle and stock graze over leagues of as rich agricultural soil as is found anywhere la the world. We stopped at one or two .of the huts for a lunch, but the best to be had was a tortilla, a piece of curd, a banana or a plantain. The capital with its environs boasts

30,000 inhabitants, and is built along; the lines laid down by the Spanish occupants—narrow streets, adobe houses with thick walls, embrasured windows and heavily-barred doors. The Rio t Grande de Tegucigalpa flows tbroughl the city and divides 4 into two sections, the capital proper and Comyaguela, the poorer section. On the MgW , bank of the capital side and at onei end of the large concrete bridge which! spans the river, is situated the palace! of the president, a three-story frame; building, at every entrance to which is stationed an armed sentry solemnly pacing back and forth in the “goosq step’’ of the German army. On the! west side of the plaza is the American legation, a two-story frame butydingj the finest edifice in Honduras. Prom the capital we set out for thei department of Olancho and 1 * the placet! gold country. After leaving the city, we followed narrow trails, the only; roads. All travel and transportation is by beast. In Olancho the attitude of the people is as listless as elsewhere in tho republic, except' that the women are more industrious than the men, and la fact they support the men and children by their own efforts. Prom May to December all the streams are lined’ with camps of native families engaged in placer-gold washing. The women! are much more expert in this tban thej men, and do practically all ot the work.} Nearly every streak In Honduras! bears gold, though seldom Is it found! in sufficiently heavy deposits to justify! Americans in working it I There are legends of fabulously rich* placer deposits in Mosquitia, the farthest northeast of the departmentsof Honduras*, and I have seen many nuggets weighing from four to fifteen ounces, brought out by the This region, however, is an unexplored jungle, impassable for beast and nearly so for man. In the northwestern part of Honduras are some very rich placer mines worked by Americans, and a few ledge mines owned by foreigners. At Sani Juancito, seven leagues east of the capital, is the Rosario mine, owned and operated by New York and native) capitalists, and this is the richest! mine in the country. There are no industries worth tha mention in Honduras; the are «hy of investing, fearing the him stableneas of the government, and natives lack the capital wherewith to develop their natural resources. Concessions have been recently letl to American promoters for two ralV roads, and work has been already begum >on the road from Irlona, in tha department of Mosquitia, to tap the rich! rubber and mahogany lands of the interior. When these roads are completed, and an outlet is had for riclx rubber deposits, cattle and precious woods, there is no reason why Honduras should not become a prosperous republic, and a country world-famous for its agricultural and mineral products.

Take Notice, Please!

An instantaneous core for hiocoughs is to take one teaspoonful off common vinegar. For the earache, put ten drops off brandy into a teaspoon, warm over n candle until steaming hot, then din into it a small piece of cotton wool and place In the ear. Stained Hands. —Raw tomatoes effectually remove fruit and vegetable stains bom the hands. They answer exactly the same purpose as lemons, which are not always obtainable. When choosing a bouse, four points should be looked to particularly; (l)| The soil on which it is built, (2) the air to which one will be exposed, (3)> the water with which it is supplied (4) the condition of the drains. To prevent muslin draperies, children’s frocks, etc., from blazing, should they accidentally catch flyew dissolve a bit of alum in the water in which they are rinsed. They will then only smolder away. The alum >s nob at all Injurious to the muslin.

Says Uncle Eben.

“A man may be sumpin’ of a crank.* said Uncle Efben, “an’ not have much trouble if he’s willin’ to go ’long wtf de general machinery, ’stid o’ tryixT to t*um de other way.*

REX.