Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1910 — Page 3

FORMER DEADLY FOES MEET AS FRIENDS

Portsmouth, the great British naval base, witnessed some highly Interesting incidents recently when Japanese Russian and English naval officers and seamen fraternized with the utmost good will. A Russian squadron neaded by the battleship Cesarevitch and the Japanese cruiser Ikoma were in harbor at the same time and the men whose countries not long ago were engaged In a fierce conflict, mingled In the most friendly way at dinners, motor rides and other entertainments provided by their hosts, the British.

LADY BOOTBLACK IN SPOKANE

Madame Holland Working Up Business That May Surpass That of Men Competitors. Spokane, Wash.—With a winsome smile and a twinkle of the eyes that would do Justice to the leading lady of a high-class opera, Madame Holland, Spokane’s only woman bootblack, who has a stand in the lobby of the Columbia building, is working op a business which is likely to surpass that of male competitors. Why have I taken up the business of a bootblack? Why, most assuredly to make money,” said Mme. Holland, •as she deftly applied the polish and brushes. "No, Mme. Holland is not my true name, the only thing true about It being that I am a madam, as I was married once, and after my husband died 1 was left to make my own way in the world,” continued the girl with the brushes. "I was a retoucher of photographs, but my eyes failed me and for a while I was afraid I might be blind. J. was in California at the time, and, really, I was at a 16ss what to do. 1 looked atyout there for several days and observing a young woman shining shoes in one of the leading blocks in San Francisco the idea came to me like a flash why could 1 not do the same. Of course, I thought of my folks at home and I knew if they realized 1 was doing anything like that they would feel badly. Consequently I decided to go to a city where I was not known, where I could take a name and never give my real identity away. “When I first applied for the stand in this building the agent asked if I was joking. Not so, I told him. It is a real serious matter with me and I mean what I say. 1 have showed that I meant what I said by buying this equipment, and, although I have been here less than two weeks, I think the agent and others who thought me Joking have seen their mistake. "My shoulders and hands troubled me at first when I started It, but they are getting used to it now and I like my work more and more. I was born in the South, educated in the public schools, was a graduate of a high-, school in a large southern town and my people travel in the best of society. I do not feel that I have lowered my social position in the least by becoming a woman bootblack. Every cent 1 earn is got honestly, and for that reason I am content. “Many prominent men of the country started out as bootblacks, ancl if woman suffrage wins out who knows but I will be elected the first woman president of the United States or become a great leader of finance,” laugh-1 ingly said the madame. I

NEW COINS CAUSE TROUBLE

George V. Is Not Pleased With Effigies on Money of His Father’s Reign. London. —New coinage* for King George’s reign is causing serious trouble. He has twice rejected designs submitted to him as too closely resembling those of his father, which he never liked, because they looked more like French than English coins. He is determined to have bis effigy thoroughly English. Bertram Mackennal, an Australian sculptor, who is designing the dies, having been largely trained in France, finds it difficult to free himself wholly from the influence of French art Another difficulty has cropped out In connection with India, where the uncrowned head of Edward VII. made the natives believe he was not the king of all. Then, again, Hong-Kong declares that the sovereign, with the aroup of St. George slaying the dragon is taken by Britain’s Chinese subjects as an insult to them, the dragon being emblematic of the Chinese empir e -

New Spectrogram of Mara.

Flagstaff, Ariz.—More water vapor - t he atmosphere of Mars has been by the astronomers atLowobservatory. A spectrogram by ailnher has been measured by Very lth his nef comparator ahd includes striking proof of the presence of wa ter vapor and of oxygen in tb- atmosphere of Mars ( than shown In previous plates.

CAUGHT MANY FLIES

Ancient Mexican Industry Ruined by Modern Improvements. B!nce Days of Aztec Lords Small Band of Natives Supplied Canaries and Other Pet Birds With Delicacy. Mexico City.—When the government of Mexico decided to drhln Lake Texcoco, just east of the city, in order to lessen the danger of floods during the rainy season and also to get at the rich soda deposits in the bed of the lake it sounded the doom of one of the queerest and most ancient Industries in the new world, that of catching flies for market. Since the days of the Aztec lords of Mexico a small band pf natives has made a comfortable living out of the business of supplying the canaries and other pet birds and fine poultry of the United States aqd Mexico with the delicacy of dry, salted flies. Now the lake is drying up, the flies have disappeared, the birds are to go hungry and the fly catchers have abandoned their pleasant vocation for the drudgery of digging soda from the bottom of a smelly lake. Catching flies for market on the shores of Lake Texcoco has been a profitable industry since the days of the Aztecs. Until recent years the annual production of dried insects was fneasured in tons and until thlß year was sufficient to afford a means of livelihood to a small colony of native fly catchers. These market flies are a llttlp smaller thap the ordinary house fly. Preserved in the natural salts they were found to be an excellent food for caged birds and chickens and hundreds of sacks were shipped annually to bird dealers in the United States and Germany. The fnsects are caught in nets as they swarm near the lake’s surface, killed by drowning in the water and immediately spread out on sheets to dry. After this simple curing process they are sacked up and are then ready for market. Some are used in this city and the republic, but the excellent demand which has grown up for them in other countries within the last few years has greatly increased the price and lessened the local demand. During the year 1909 more than SIO,OOO worth were shipped to Europe alone. The profession of fly catching and fly preserving has been handed down from father to son in a few families

PEST KILLING JERSEY TREES

State Authorities Must Act Quick to Save Elms and Chestnuts, Bays Forester. Trenton, N. J.—Alfred E. Gaskill, state forester, said the other day that the chestnut trees in New Jersey are suffering from a fatal disease, due to Infection by tße elm leaf beetle and, while he admits nothing can be done with the malady, he says all efforts possible should be made to rid the state of the insect. He predicts New Jersey will be treeless unless the state and municipal authorities and the residents in general combine by next spring in an extraordinary effort to drive out the elm leaf beetle. The forester added: "This is the last time for the people of New Jersey who want their elms to stand to get at the work of saving them. I mean Just what I say. The last call is out, for unless something Is done next May and in the first two weeks of June it will be too late to stop the elm' leaf beetle from finishing his work. I have Just returned from a long trip, in which time I went into this question very carefully. Where the trees have been intelligently sprayed, the beetle has been destroyed. It is possible to destroy this pest, but the people must get at it. “I do not believe this is the work entirely of the individual, but of the municipality. It would cost very little for the municipality to do it, and it is all Important now. The time to act has arrived. The warning was sent out from Connecticut and Massachusetts, but nothing has been done ex-

who have held a monopoly on the Industry since the days of Netzahualcoyotl, when that monarch signed a treaty with the Casique Chimalpopoca of Tenochtitlan whereby a number of Tencans received a concession to gather flies in the former’s realm to feed the sacred quetzals in the great teacalli.

SPRAY TO CHECK PARALYSIS

Doctor Tells of Method to Reduce Peril to Children From Dread Disease. Hartford, Conn. —The state board of health has announced that anterior poliomyelitis dr infantile paralysis is contagious and difficult to cure, a throat spray of some antiseptic solution being the most effective preventive. Dr. Townsend, secretary of the state board, said that up to the present 18 cases have been reported to the state board of health. Thirteen were in Meriden and three in Suffleld. In his opinion, the disease in the Suffleld cases can be traced to Springfield, Mass., where there was almost an epidemic of the disease. Dr. Townsend said the most effective way to prevent the spread of disease was absolute quarantine. He gave Its as his opinion that the frequent cleansing of the throat with antiseptic solution would, perhaps, prevent the disease from taking hold of a person to an extent that might be dangerous. The disease was communicable through the nasal organs and the throat, and if the throat was kept in an antiseptic condition the danger of catching the disease' was reduced to a minimum.

Wasps to Cure Disease,

Paris. —M. Roubaud has asserted, according to a paper read at the Academy of Science, to have fbund a means of exterminating the deadly sleeping sickness microbe. He has discovered in Dahomey a member of the wasp family whose appetite is apparently only satisfied with the bacilli of sleeping sickness. It is suggested that the wasp be introduced into the zone infected by the disease.

Helen Gould Gets Degree,

New York. —The degree of doctor of laws has been conferred on Helen Gould by the College of Girls at Constantinople. This institution, which is under the "-control of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, has for years been befriended by Miss Gould.

cepting in a few municipalities. In Newark and Orange, the shade tree commissions have done much good work, but elsewhere in the northern part of the state the elm, our best shade tree, has been doomed. “Regarding the chestnuts, the fatal disease in them Is fast causing them to disappear. The work must be done next spring, or it will be too late.”

Plows Up $800 in Coin.

Newark, N. J.—Charles M. Webb, a farmer of Mount Freedom, is SBOO richer as the result of a few hours’ plowing. While turning over the ground he tame upon four remarkable old copper pennies. Two pieces were dated 1737. One of these has a horse’s head and plow on one side, the second haß a shield on one side and “Nova Caesarea” on the other. Another of Mr. Webb’s finds is a large copper cent of 1848, United States mintage. The fourth is an English copper piece of 1776. The coins are appraised by dealers at S2OO apiece.

Cured by Long Fast.

Denver.—Roland Moeller, a young civil engineer, who went 57 days without fcSod in order to cure stomach trouble and ft partial deafness induced by catarrh, has begun taking nourishment in the form or orange and plum Juices. He can hear without difficulty, but is weak. , When Moeller, whose father is a physician of Milwaukee, began his fast he weighed 148 pounds. Now ha weighs about 97% pounds.

NAMING THE BABY

ÜBUALLV IT IS A VERY SIMPLE . AFFAIR. Interest of the Relatives Made This Case More Difficult —Finally Solved by Drawing Name From Hat. Ordinarily there would have been no trouble in naming the baby. It is custom for fathers and mothers to decide years before that some of these days if a little boy blessed their home they’d call him Etheridge, and that if it should be a girl, her name should be Annie May. But in this case it was different, for there were so many people to satisfy. There was grandpa, for illustration. He was getting old, and his feelings might be hurt if he didn’t figure in the name-giving. Besides, he might leave his accumulated wealth to found a home for ex-cow punchers if displeased. And there was Aunt Lucy. Aunt Lucy had a vitriolic tongue for a certainty and had been using it vigorously for 37 years. It would never do to displease her. >, ‘ Father wanted to call the baby 'Sammy; mother wanted to name it Horace; sister Ella wanted it called Butler, after a boy she knew, up in Michigan, and brother, aged ten, wanted to call it Jeffries. It was an awful situation, especially as Uncle Bob was In town and had views of his own concerning names for boy babies. He thought father was nearer right than the others, but preferred the name Gladstone. It was a family conference that was filled with stickers. ,tt took four hours, and though the family sat at the table nobody ate any dinner. Everybody glared at everybody else and spoke little. Then some neighbors came in, and added to the merriment. Each had views. finally Uncle Bob, m desperation, suggested that the names be written on slips of paper and if any two were alike that should be the name. Then he privately took little Alice Perkins, a neighbor’s child, aside and promised her a box of chocolates if she’s write Gladstone on a piece of paper and drop it in the bowl designed for the purpose. Then the names were written and dropped into the bowl, and when the count was taken there were 11 slips of paper and 11 names represented. “Why didn’t you do as I told you?” demanded Uncle Bob Indignantly of the neighbor’s child. “I would, Mister Bob,” she said, “but I couldn’t spell Gladstone. You didn’t tell me. So I wrote Gladys—it’s lots prettier, anyway.”

The One to Pay.

Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, In a black gown, was one of the most beautiful women present at the recent marriage In London of the prime minister’s son and the Hon. Sylvia Charters, Lord Elcho’s daughter. The presence of this beautiful American woman at this political wedding recalls an anecdote illustrative of her wit in politics. When she was Lady Randolph Churchill she consented to electioneer for Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett in his first parliamentary campaign. Mr. Ash-mead-Bartlett was married to the Baroness Purdett Coutts, a very rich woman, who was nearly 40 years his senior. Lady Randolph, with her beauty and charms, did splendid work for the candidate. To a group of farmers she said one day: “Won’t you promise me to vote for Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett?” “My lady,” said a red-faced farmer with a chuckle, “we’ll all vote for him if every vote’ll be paid for with a kiss.” “Thank you very much,” said Lady Randolph. “Your offer is accepted. I’ll send for the Baroness BurdettCoutts at once.”.

Offended Dignity.

Members of the police department were matching stories the other day and the conversation turned on the amount of “nerve” some persons have, and what remarkable things they expect of the police department. “I remember one day I got a telephone call from a woman on Washington street that she wanted a policeman to come to her house right away,” said Desk Sergeant Caffrey of the First precinct. “I sent a policeman—never mind whp he was—and soon he came back loking as red as a beet “ ‘What do you suppose that woman wanted?’ he said, after he had recovered tys breath. “ ‘lt’s past me,’ I answered, ’what did she want?’ “ ‘Her little girl had gone to the store to buy some candy, and lost a nickel in the glass in front of a house, and she wanted me to find it so- her ’ he said. “‘And what did you tell her?* 1 asked the copper. “’Sergeant, what could I tell her: he asked. ‘I just turned around and walked away.’ ” —Newark Star.

Discouraged.

“Did any girl ever propose to your she asked. “Yefci One.” “Why didn’t you marry her?" “I would not think of marrying • girl who proposed to me.” Then she drew a deep sigh an* said no more.

SPECIMEN OF REAL GENIUS

California Farmer Adopts Unique Method of Fattening His Hogs—- ■ ..Birds Supply F^od. "Every time I go to southern California, said Richard C. Worthington, I see something that makes me open my eyes farther, and take off my hat to the progressiveness of those fellows out there. ‘But on' this last trip,” he continued, I witnessed a piece of enterprise which exceeds anything which 1 ever saw or heard of, or ever expected to see or hear of. “I was traveling in the country between San Francisco and Los Angeles one day, when I was impressed by the size of some hogs in a pigpen near the road. I was especially impressed because on my previous trips the razorback quality of the pork had caused me to comment. This time, however, the hogs were as big as barrels. “‘How did you do It?’ I asked the farmer, who was bending over the bars of the pig pen picking his teeth with a piece of straw. “‘Well, ye see it’s this here way, stranger,’ replied the agriculturist. ‘Them hawgs just clean run the fat all of of ’emselves diggin’ for acorns. They sort of had competition with them danged woodpeckers who’d gobble up the acorns and store ’em away in a hole in a fence post or rail, and there wouldn’t be anything left for the hawgs. I got to thinkin’ the matter over, and I calculated that it was up to me to sting them woodpeckers, so I rigged up sort of a birdhouse and filled the front of it all full with holes about the size of the holes them birds put their acorns in the fence. Then I built me a tong tube leadin’ down from them holes to the fedtiin’ trough, and bided my time till them birds got wise to the contrivance. I£ didn't take ’em long. Before a little while they was pilin’ acorns into them er holes as if they was getting ten cents an hour, and the acorns was a-runnin’ right down ♦*»<} pipe to the pigs’ mouth. ‘“That's the way I got them pigs nice and fat, mister. All they have to do now is to lay around by the trough and the birds feeds ’em. Purty good idea, ain’t it?’ ”

A Pertinent Commentary.

F. H. Elliott, the secretary of the American Automobile association, said at an automobile banquet in New York: “I like to see women run their own cars. I like to see women do all sorts of things, provided they have had the proper training and are proficient. There is no sight more agreeable than that of a healthy American girl, riding nqr horse, running her motor, driving her coach, with a skill and grace no man need be ashamed of. “But smoking and that sort of thing—oh, no, that doesn’t become the American girl. “An American girl drew up her touring car at a country inn. She got out with her friends. She took off her dust coat and goggles. She opened a gold cigarette case and put a cigarette between her rosy lips. “The old country waiter may have done it unconsciously, but, nevertheless, he offered a singularly good commentary on girls’ smoking when he brought a big, foul-smelling contrivance to the pretty automobilist, set if down at her feet, and said: “ ‘Spittoon, Miss?’ ’’

A Manche Harvest Custom.

An interesting ancient custom la observed in Manche at the harvest time. When the work is on the point of completion a sheaf of honor is made and decorated with flowers, which the farmer himself carries in procession, surrounded by the harvesters. Two of the party, under the pretext of sweeping the way, raise a cloud of dust. If in the progress the procession meets a stranger the girls offer him some corn from a pewter plate. If he accepts and makes them a small monetary present, the girls kiss him. But the principal ceremony is reserved for the repast, in which curds occupy a prominent place. When this part of the menu is reached the girls each choose one of the young harvestmen and endeavor to force him to take a spoonful. If the attempt is a success it is taken as an offer of marriage on the man’s part

Different Now, of Course.

“Civil service reform has given us a splendid army of civil servants. It wasn’t always bo.” The speaker. Mayor Whitlock of Toledo, smiled. “When I was writing ray first short stories,” he resumed, "we had civil servants of a different stamp. An elderly resident of my native Urbana, back in those days, sought out his congressman. “ ‘Congressman,’ he said, ‘1 supported you at the polls, and now I expect you to get my boy a good civil service Job.’ “ ‘All right, friend.’ the congressman answered. ‘What can your boy dor . ‘“Do?’ snorted the other. ‘What can he do? By crinus! man, if he could do anything, do you think I’d be bothering your ”

Feminine.

“What is Mrs. Green crying for?” “Mrs. Watson Bnubbed her in the street car?” “But Mrs. Green doesn’t speak to Mrs. Watson, anyhow.” “I know, but she’s crying because she didn’t see Mrs. Watson in time te snub her first.”

AROUND THE CAMP FIRE

WEE INCIDENT OF CIVIL WAR Young Soldier Crawls Along Burned Bridge at Night and Compels Enemy to Retreat. The bravest and coolest act that came under my observation during five years’ military service at the time of the Civil war, was that of Isaac B. Hardy, a soldier nineteen, years of age, who has been for. many years a resident of Santa Barbara. March 3, 1865, Gen. Sherman, on his march through the Carolinas, arrived' before Cheraw, on the great Pedee river. Here the Seventeenth corps,, with my regiment, the Sixty-fourth Rlinois, known as the Yates Sharpshooters, in the lead ns skirmishers, held the center, writes Brig. Gen. J. S. Reynolds in Los Angeles Times. I was ordered to immediately advance the skirmishers at a double quick through the town to the west, end of the only bridge there over the 1 river, and, if possible, prevent the I enemy from destroying it We reached the bridge after the exchange of many' shots with fleeing squads of the enemy’s cavalry, who had been guarding the roads leading into tm town,, but already the farther end of th«<

Isaac B. Hardy in 1865.

bridge was on fire, and many of the cavalry had to ride through the smoke and blaze to escape. The sharpshooters kept the enemy away from the bridge while our pioneers crossed over to the fire and extinguished it. Only a charred stringer was left of the burnt span connecting with the shore abutment. When the pioneers returned and the sharpshooters stopped firing, a line of infantry formed on the opposite bank of the river and commenced firing on our men. Then we were ordered to deploy the sharpshooters along our shore and drive the enemy from their position. Our rifles did good execution, and the enemy retired out of range. At dusk they again moved down to the river and a brisk fire was kept up from both sides till near midnight, when it slackened to only an occasional shot from either side. About 1 o’clock we heard the report of one of our Windsor rifles at or near the farther end of the bridge, and this report kept up as fast as a lively soldier could load and fire. . Our men recognized the gun and, as the enemy had commenced a brisk fire, our entire line opened fire on the opposite shore, avoiding sending their bullets too near the bridge. Here follows young Hardy’s modest narrative of his midnight trip into the enemy’s lines. “I walked over to about the middle of the bridge; then I crouched down and went forward very quietly, keeping in the shadow of the raiding, till I reached the end of the bridge. I could not see any one right near the, bridge, but I could plainly see thei enemy lined up at the water’s edge down the river, and I thought it would! be fine to get a flank fire on them. “I discovered a single stringer that connected the bridge with the land, and I crawled along this until E reached the abutment on the shore., Here I found a place to sit astride come cross-timbers, where, by leaning over to one side, I had a good view of the rebs, and they were not likely to see me. "As soon as I commenced firing at them they opened fire pretty lively on the bridge and at the abutment where I was, but the timbers protected: me. The place was much hotter than I expected, but I kept on firing at them as fast as I could. I could hear our sharpshooters’ bullets strike the bank. \ Tt was not long till they fell back to higher ground, and from there directed their fire across the road that led from the bridge. I still had a good range on them and kept on firing. They pretty soon moved back diagonally to the road, and stopped, firing. Then I could not see them, and! I got out on the road, and there they* were just disappearing into the darkness. I fired at them and they fired) hack at me. They were soon out off sight I guess that is the last we will] see of these Johnnies.”