Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1910 — Page 2

TWO WIVES OF EUROPEAN RULERS

The Queen of Spain and the wife of President Fallieres of the French Republic in the president’s carriage at the occasion of the king and queen’s visit at Rambouillet, near Paris.

TRUTH IN DAILIES

Novelist Says Sticking to Facts Is Best Policy. Daily Newspapers, Richard Whiteing States, Prevents Apathy, Aids Literature and Helps the Poor. London.—Richard Whiteing, veteran of Fleet street and author of “No. 6 John Street,” who celebrated recently his seventieth birthday anniversary, has given to an Interviewer some of his latest ideas about journalism. Mr. Whiteing sprang into fame at sixty. His well-known novel did it. Prior to “No. 5 John Street,” he was a hardworking leader writer on a, London morning paper. With his big body and big head, his white hair and his brilliant, penetrating brown eyes, he Is one of the most picturesque and most magnetic men of letters in the metropolis. “I often think,” he said, "when I see the order that reigns in our streets what it means to keep these people quiet. A good many of them suffer much. But the fact that the press is there, watching over them as a sort of poor man’s friend in the big sense, helps them enormously. The fact that there is always some one who will represent you and your cause aright, as Hamlet puts it, is a great calming and tranquilizing influence. “The so-called ‘lower class' is beginning to feel much the equal of the classes above, chiefly because there is no longer any monopoly of how the world wags. Travel, history, politics, art, literature—the daily half-penny manual is a sort of daily manual of all of them. Some foolish people have said that daily Journalism is killing literature in its highest forms. I say,

2 BOOZERS, 1 DRINKWATER

New York City Directory, Recently Issued, Records Many Other Freak Names. New York. —One of the six best sellers, the city directory, is out again. The entertaining little volume contains two Laffs and one Tear. The original Mr. Smith has 3,318 relatives this year. Brown runs second with 1,600, and poor Jones has only 850. Temperance people may be glad there are only i Drinkers, 1 Booz, 2 Boozers and 1 Drinkwine. Mr. Pickle may be included, but Mr. Drinkwater balances the account. Looking closer we find 30 Beers, 10 Schnapps and 16 Seltzers. There are 9 Batts. Passing on to the next cage one sees 2 Beans in front of 8 Bears, 24 Beavers <&nd 4 Mules. Near them are 130 Cranes. 4 Ravens, 15 Robins, 9 Ratts and 80 Fishes. They are surrounded by numerous Hoggs, Goats, Plggs and Wolfs, one Rabbit and a Cow. The latter is a policeman, which is appropriate, as policemen in slang are “bulls.’* There is just one Catt. There are five times as many Wilds as Wooleys. Out of 11 names there are 4 Losers, 6 Winners and 1 Even.

Snake Crawled Into Hose

During Tumult at Fire In Cincinnati Reptile Took Refuge In iFire pargtus. Cincinnati. —Capt. “Billy” Thompson and fire crew 39 were seated in the engine bouse at Clarion avenue and Montgomery road, Evanston, when a succession of yells came from the cellar, where Pipeman William Geh; 'ugpr was fixing up a hose nozzle. The firemen rushed downstair! and found Gehringer pointing to an immense black snake that had coiled in one corner and, as it had no _ieans of escape, evidently meant to fight. Captain Thompson and Lieutenant Perry Doyle put an end to the snake’s ‘<ife with clubs. .... When measured it was found that the serpent was a few inches over five feet in length. Captain Thompson says that the company went out to a email fire in a foundry oo Northside avenue a few days ago and, after the blaze was extinguished, the hose was unwound and laid for some minutes in tho high grass and weeds adjoining the building before it was placed la Ilia vtxoc . *

To the contrary, .'that the daily paper provides a sort of first course in literature, and I am an immense admirer of the clear, incisive style adopted by the half-penny press. “It stimulates curiosity, and when once you have done that in any human being you have started him on the right road. The one deadly thing is apathy. The cow in the field has no note of interrogation. The savage might see an aeroplane and not wonder. You can lead a man from the curbstone to the stars when you have once made him curious. A newspaper forces a man to be curious. “The dear old truth! That's all we want. The truth is so beautiful, so amazingly interesting, so much more wonderful than fiction! Therefore I say that, quite apart from morality, it is policy for a paper to tell the truth. It is policy in much the same way for a paper to keep Itself pure, because the mass of the people are essentially serious. Life hits most of them very hard, and hard hitting does not make a frivolous generation.”

Prince Won’t Marry Sister.

San Francisco. —The crown prince of Siam is adding gray hairs to the head of his royal father, King Chulalongkorn, and has set the country by the ears in refusing to marry his sister. According to Rev. Will C. Dodd, a Presbyterian missionary, all Siam is agog over the prince’s announcement. From time immemorial, the missionary says, it has been the Siamese custom for the crown prince to wed his sister, or if he has none, then a half sister, the daughter of one of his father’s numerous wives. The crown prince, though, has asserted his independence by publicly declaring he intends to have but one wife, and that one of his own choosing.

Squirrels Rout Many Birds

Seven of Them Hold Trees Against Thousands of Pugnacious English Sparrows. Glen Ridge, N. J. —A three-day battle between English sparrows and red squirrels ended the other day when a flock of the birds, estimated at several thousand, with a great twittering forsook the lofty double row of trees in Midland avenue, and took up a new home in the woodland between Glen Ridge and Montclair. The sparrows had become a public nuisance in Midland avenue, where the tre|s arch overhead and give a tropical look to the street. The birds came there in such numbers sleep grew to be almost an unattainable luxury on the part of the human residents of the vicinity. For the last four weeks nightly pyrotechnic bombs were fired off in the foliage. A number of birds were killed, but the flock soon got so they Would not even 87 away while the bombs were going off. Edward Bartelow of Green Pond, who was a visitor at one of the Midland avenue houses, trapped seven red squirrels near his home and brought tnem to Glen Ridge. He distributed

He is of the opinion that the snake, frightened by the tumult attending the fire, crawled into the hose and was carried to the engine house, where it crawled out when the hose was hung in the chute to dry.

Ten Different Margarets.

Chicago.—“ This must be Margaret's day visiting,” said Clerk Ernest Reul of the Congress hotel the other night, as he assigned the tenth woman of the Margaret to a room, “and they are from many sections of the country.” These arrivals were: Miss Margaret Stickley, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Miss Margaret Moeser, Cincinnati, 0.; Miss Margaret Shields, Louisville, Ky.; Miss Margaret Whitted, Shreveport, La.; Miss Margaret Baldwin, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Miss Margaret Prest, St. Paul, Minn.; Miss Margaret Cayo, Mobile, Ala.; Miss Margaret Casey. Memphis, Tenn.; Miss Margaret Sale. St. Louis, Mo.; Miss Margaret Mus-, grave. Little Rock. Ark.

DISEASE AT SCHOOL

Chicago Health Department Tells of Germs in Sweets. City Bureau Issues Timely Advice to Children to Swap Pencils or Marbles, But Not to Trade Apples or Delicacies. * Chicago.—After a series of “healthgrams” directed to the adults of Chicago, the health department has turned its attention to instructing the school children in ways of avoiding disease. The weekly bulletin of the department. was called "schoolgrams" and contained much pertinent though pithy advice for the youngsters of the city. Don’t swap candy, chewing gum or apples;’’ “skidoo from the boy or girl with the sore throat,” “keep that pencil out of your are some of the bits of advice offered In language that every schoolboy or girl can understand. Some of the “schoolgrams” are as follows: “Let the first lesson be—how to keep well. "You’ll be brighter, learn more and keep in better health if your teacher will beep the windows of the schoolroom open. Bad air makes a sluggish brain. “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you—meaning: carry disease germs to school and cause sickness and perhaps death among your playmates. If you have a contagious disease at home keep en* tirely away from all other children. Stay at home if you have a sore throat. "A ’little sore throat’ in one little child may, cause a big lot of trouble for many other children. Many ‘little sore throats’ are In reality diphtheria. “Wash the drinking cup thoroughly before putting It to your mouth. The child which used it Just before you may have left the germs of disease on it. Wash the germs off. “Keep that pencil out of your mouth. It may have scarlet fever, diphtheria or typhoid fever germs on it. “Swapping gum, swapping apples and swapping candy are about the dirtiest things—and the most danger* ous things—that a child can do. Don’t, be that dirty. “Keep your hands clean. Soap is your good friend—dirt is your worst enemy. “Eat very little candy—treat your stomach well and you’ll live longer. “Never buy candy or fruit at an open stand on the s.tjeet. Flies have left all kinds of dirt on it and dirt from the streets has been blown upon it. “When you play, play out of doors—but never play in dusty places. “Don’t run to school—especially just after eating. Start in time so that you will not have to run. "Be well and you’ll be happy—even in school.”

them over the trees, and the combat at once began. The red squirrel roba nests and eats both old and young birds, and the attacks of these little tree climbers on the sparrows could be plainly heard by the householders. When the squirrels were placed on the trees the birds had to fight for their lives or get away. The eyes were picked out of several squirrels before the birds gave up and moved.

FROG INTERRUPTS A LESSON

Jumps Inside Woman Pupil’s Bathing Suit and Causes Commotion— Finally Removed. New York.—lt is written in the philosophy of Capt. James Fitzgerald, instructor at Piasa Pool, that th£re is always a way—that is, nearly always. But there was no way that he could suggest when a bullfrog jumped Inside of a woman’s bathing suit. Captain Fitzgerald was giving a swimming lesson when a hullfrog sat in a crevice at the edge of the pool and watched the proceedings with interest. "One, two, three,” chanted Captain Fitzgerald, and just as he said “three,” a boy running by on the brink of the pool, startled the frog and he leaped wildly into the pool. The woman pupil wore a low-cu* bathing suit, a trifle loose at the neck The frog landed inside and Voth tried to get out. While Fitzgerald hesitated and stammered, another woman swan; to the one in need of help, reached inside of her bathing suit and caught the frog and withdrew it and thereby earned the gratitude of the woman—and the frog.

FORM SOCIETY TO AID HORSE

Wealthy New Yorkers to Secure Bet. ter Treatment for Sick Animals —Educate Drivers. New York.—The Horse Aid society, which bqpes to obtain better treatment for sick and disabled horses and to educate drivers and horse owners in the more humane treatment -* 9! their animals, has beOn incorporated here. Its organizers, all wealthy New Yorkers, will build throughout Greater New York model stables, drinking troughs, veterinary hospitals and other means of taking care of and promoting the comfort of the horse* and will also establish “real: farm*’' and veterinary service for sick, core lame and broken-down horses.

WHERE HISTORY-MAKING BATTLE WAS FOUGHT

SISTORIC associations cling about many places along the lower part of the Walloomsac valley Tn the region of Walloomsac and North Hoosick (the St. Croix of Revolutionary and despite the lapse of time many evt—v-- dences still remain to recall the battle fought there 133 years ago—a battle which has been described as fought by New Hampshire militia upon New York soil and named for Vermont—the battle of Bennington. True, the site of the old St. Croix bridge, destroyed by the retreating militiamen to check the advance of

Col. Frederick Baum and his detachment of British, Hessians and Indian allies, is now occupied by a modern iron structure, but just bilow it still stand the substantial foundation walls of the old mill, which housed part of the flour and stores the invaders came to seize, together with the old wooden flume and the wreckage of the mill dam; while on the highway just above them is the old story-and-a-half frame house occupied temporarily as headquarters by the enemy’s officers. It is nearly opposite the confluence of White Creek and the Walloomsac river, while a little farther up the valley, near the point now designated as “Battlefield Park,” is the hill upon which the invaders set the cannon which were subsequently captured by Gen. John Stark and his men. Scattered about elsewhere are the remains of redoubts and many other places which history or legend associates with the brief but decisive contest of August 16, 1777, which gave the first check to the invasion that ended in the battle of Saratoga. The well-preserved old Revolutionary house and the lands about it, located about a half-mile from the village of North Hoosick, on the road to Cambridge, are within the conveyance of 12,000 acres known as the Walloomsac Patent, dated June 15, 1739, in the thirteenth year of George ll.'s reign. In this patent “all trees of the diameter of 24 inches and upwards at 12 inches from the ground were esmepted” for masts for our Royal Navy, and also all such other trees as “may be fit to make planks, knees and other things necessary for the use of our said navy only.” The yearly rent of two shillings and sixpence for each hundred acres of the granted lands was to be paid at the

What a Queer Mummy Lid

A GOOD deal has been written lately about the ‘malignant mummy at the British museum —or, rather, the lid of the coffin that contained the mummy; for, of course, there is no mummy in this particular case. It is merely a lid that is reported to have brought so many personal disasters in its train. A well-known physician, who is interested in Egyptology, was asked his opinion concerning the strange case of the mummy of the priestess that has aroused so much curious interest. “I think,” he said, “that the mummy having been torn to pieces, the spirit of the priestess strives to remalb in contact with the only material thing that is left in touch with her, namely, the lid of the coffin. This is the opinion of most occultists. The spirit of the priestess has attached itself to the case, which is a sort of physical basis.” “But why so malignant,” this authority was asked, “as to bring about, according to reports, all sorts of disasters and accidents to persons at the present day?” “if,” he> explained, “it is true that the mummy was torn to pieces it was a fearful desecration, and quite enough to make the priestess furious. Some persons who try to get into communication with her by occult means say, also, she was very badly treated and put to death cruelly. Of this, however, I have no proof. “It has been said that the curse of Egypt never leaves a man after he has taken part in the violation of the chambers of the dead. It follows him to the’sacred spaces and comes forth upon him in the occult world. “I recall the case of a real mummy which was brought to England, in which a papyrus was,found, the substance of which was that the person who desecrated the mummy would be torn to pieces by a ferocious animal in a foreign land and would be deprived of burial. Some time afterward

custom house in the city of New York on Lady Day, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While the residence has been somewhat modernized by the building of a veranda and other minor changes, the structure retains many reminders of the perilous times.. The hand-hewn timbers are visible, and there is preserved the strong door which opened into the south end N of the house, against the casing of which a British officer stood when a Yankee from the hill on the south bank of White Creek picked him off with his gun. The door is in a good start of preservation, and on it is the massive old lock which in early days would have proven an obstruction to a person seeking to unlawfully enter the building, but to the modern house breaker it would be as a toy. The lock is ten inches long by five and a half inches wide and one and a half inches thick. The original brass key, six inches in length, is still in position to shoot the bolt. In the days "which tried men’s souls” the building was used as a postoffice, and an inn, before it became the headquarters for the British officers under Colonel Baum. In those days each inn and tavern keeper was required to enter into recognizance to the people of the state of New York in the sum of £SO, not to keep a disorderly house or suffer any. cock-fighting, gaming or playing with cards or dice, or keep any billiard table or other gaming table or shuffleboard within it. In regard to the selling of strong liquors, exceptions were made for the sale of metheglin, currant wine, cherry wine and cider made by the inn-keepers. At each tavern at least two spare beds, with good and sufficient sheeting and covering, were

one of the persons connected with it went to Africa to shoot elephants. He wounded a gigantic animal, that charged at him and literally tore him to pieces with its trunk and feet. The attendants fled in terror, and when they returned, only fragments of his body remained.” “And what would yo do,” he was asked, “with the coffin lid at the British museum that is supposed to have caused so much mischief?” “I would leave it,” he replied, “where it is. Beyond *a recent case of a young lady who made great fun of it, and thereafter met with a serious accident, the disasters that were reported to be so numerous on its first arrival at the museum have apparently ceased. If it is true that the spirit is earth-bound, and is attached to the case, it would only cause fur-

Private Executions.

Great Editor—Send a man to”that execution tomorrow and tell him to keep it down to two columns. City Editor —No reporters are to be admitted. Great Editor—ls that so? Tell him to make it five columns. —New York Weekly.

Woman's Misfortune.

She —I don’t see why women shouldn’t make as good swimmers as men. \ He—Yes, but you see, a swimmer has to keep his mouth shut.

Well Named.

Clerk in Music Store—Here’s a very pretty piece; it’s called the, “Hobos’ March.” * * Ignorant Customer—What is it—classical? I ( Clerk —Oh, no; Jt's ragtime.

One Way.

"I think I’ll take a trip abroad. 1 want to write a volume of .travel.’’ “Why go abroad ? Just take a guide book and supply it with anecdotes.”

to be kept for guests, in accordance with the demands of the law. “Good and sufficient” stabling and provender had to be provided for four horses or cattle, and hay and pasturage in summer. No liquors were allowed to be sold to apprentices, servants and slaves. No innkeeper could collect a debt larger than ten shillings for liquors sold to travelers. In October, 1896, the old St. Croix (San Coik) grist mill, then owned by John G. Burke, was burned. On one of the timbers of the structure was to be seen the inscription: “A. D. 1776,” the suposed date of the erection of the building. It was in this mill, on the head of a barrel of flour, where this letter was written to General Burgoyne: “Sancoik, 14th August, 1777, 9 o’clock. Sir: I have the honor to inform your excellency that I arrived here at 8 o'clock in the morning, having had intelligence of a party of the enemy being in possession of a mill, which they abandoned at our approach, but, in their usual way, fired from the bushes and took their road to Bennington. A savage was slightly wounded; they broke down the bridge, which has retarded our march over an hour; they left in the mill about 78 barrels of very fine flour, 1,000 bushels of wheat, 20 barrels of salt, and about £ 1,0.00 worth of pearlash and potash. I have ordered 30 provincials and an officer to guard the provisions and the pass of the* bridge. By five prisoners taken here, they agree that from 1,500 to 1,800 are at Bennington, but are supposed to leave it on our approach. I will proceed so far today as to fall on the enemy early tomorrow, and make such dispositions as I may think necessary from the intelligence I may receive. People are flocking in hourly, but want to be armed. The savages cannot be controlled, and they ruin and take everything they please. I am your excel- 1 lency’s most humble servant, “F. BAUM. “P. S. —Beg Your Excellency to pardon the hurry of this letter, as it is written upon the head of a barrel.” The new steel bridge, known as the Dublin bridge, which spans White Creek near the old dam, was erected in October, 1903, to replace an old, covered, wooden structure.

ther trouble if the lid were now destroyed. It would be different, of course, if the mummy could be restored; but, as it is, I don’t think anything can be done. “I rather wonder, however, that the authorities at the museum have not removed it, for they do not like a number of persons who are inquiring into the occult going and staring at it. There was a very fine and rather curious scarabaeus which they y■emoved on the ground that they were not certain that it was genuine. It was in a glass case, and whenever I placed my lingers upon it I perceived a heating and tingling of the hands. Others found the same curious effect. I tried it several times with the same result, but I did not find the same effect with the other scarabael. Why it was I do not know.”

Ready for the storm. .

“I intend,” the poet wrote, “to continue to storm the citadel of your affections.” “Storm away,” she wrote back, “but I’ve Just succeeded in getting in out of the wet by becoming engaged to a dear old man who has $9,000,000.”

Could Understand.

“The czar’s expenses are enormous.” “Um.” “They are said to baffle the imagination.” “Oh, I don’t know. I spent $l5O on my vacation trip.”

Had Noticed Things.

Miss Flirty—l never allow a man to kiss me unless we are engaged. Miss Bright'—Dear me! Don’t you find so many engagements troublesome?

Rubbing It In.

Sapleigh—l— aw—have an awful cold In me head, doncher knew. Miss Caustique—Well, you ought to be glad there Is something in it.