Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — Page 3

HOW TO KEEP ENEMIES

™* ART A 3 PRACTICED BY AMAp Vi zoN INDIANS. ts Enemies Are Embalmed, ly Decorated and Then Usid 'urposes of Adornment—. Srlely Souvenirs Bold. lan traveler reports from the )f Brasil the discovery of an cal collection of much value, lief object of lhte'rest is an i head of the tribe of the vows—a trophy of war. this day a custom of the In* the upper basin of the Amato the heads of enemies for ose of embalming, adorning, srving them. ad In question Is very ornate, being ornamented with long streamers 01 bright feathers attached to the hair, while the eye sockets are'filled, in default of glass, with the teeth of a Jarge semi-aquatic rodent native to the region. - from the mouth depend a- number of heavy cords. These, however, are not meant for beautlflers. They are merely Intended to keep the Ups quite rigid and motionless, with the canny object of defeating" any desire of the late departed spirit to utter curses and revilings in the abode of his conqueror. It has long been, known that the South American Indians possess secret and ’jealously guarded processes of embalming. Among certain tribes of Ecuador human heads are so mummified that they are reduced to the size of a man’s fist, without the features or the expression being noticeably al-. Wed. The hair retains its length and character, but the skin and bones shrink without losing their relative position and symmetry. • Flften years ago It was possible to get these little mummified heads in the Interior, and even at Quito, where colporteurs offered them frequently to tourists at the doors of the hotels. "I bought a pair of them for a. hundred francs or so,” writes V. Porbin in La Nature. It Is now, however. Impossible to obtain them, and all on account of the' sudden development of commercial acumen on the part of the simple savage. Business, Indeed, became so very brisk as the prices on these objets de vertu advanced that the government became uneasy in regard to the matter. Investigations were set on foot by the police and by the missionaries which resulted in a shocking discovery. The faot Is that the demand having outrun the supply, the cupldlt/ of the Indians of the eastern province was so stimulated that, having noprisoners of war, they were arranging: ambuscades for each other, merely to obtain heads to embalm for the market. The archbisEop of Quito promptly excommunicated the enterprising merchants who dealt in these grisly aoikr venire, and the authorities forbade their Sale under heavy penalties, whereupon the simple savage returned to less profitable employment and abandoned modern methods of cutthroat commerce.

Teach Flirtation at School.

A merry little dame was sitting at; a party. "Girls learn such a lot of unnecessary subjects at school," she grumbled. "I wonder they are never taught flirtation. Just look at that bunch of them over there. * They are simply dying to have a try with those boys, but as they don’t know how to begin, they cling together like bathers afraid of the first plunge. It is sad to reflect that many women are born with a fear of man only equalled by a desire for kip society. They never grow used to him, and discover how harmless he is, until they are too old for him to appreciate them properly. Man is a shy creature, and shy creatures never imagine others may be* as shy themselves. So these poor little hearts beat in uncongenial solitude; marriage, like other adventures, being for the bold. I really think a little training might be useful.”

Choosing One’s Fiction.

Fine fiction, like fine friendship, is a personal affair. Tour friend is not to be of another’s choosing. He is yours to elect; yours to have and to hold, or to lore and lose, as the inner laws decree. Whether he be of your social or Intellectual caste is a secondary matter; he must be of your soul’s kin—or you must believe that he is till you learn betters—and his quality to you is as individual as your taste in fruit or wines, in sunsets or marine painting.—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Century.

Caught Again.

"Johs,” said the wife sweetly, “do you know what day this is?” "Of course,” said hubby, pretending to have remembered all the time; “it’s the anniversary of our wedding day, dear." "Ho such thing!” frigidly answered the wife. “It’s the day you promised to nail the leg on that old kitchen table.” """" /

A Futile Scheme.

•I always have a quarrel with my husband in order to get him to buy a ne tr suit of clothes. He never thinks he cs n afford it.” "1 should think lie would learn after * while that it Is useless to try la that way to get yon to quit spending ®uch for dress.”

LORD MAYOR GIVES LONDONERS FINE SHOW

L o w N ae°th o ro^H,. LOrd , M^ y ° r ’ s pro^ e8 ® ion thlß year was one of the most picturesque seen in a long time, and parade were mln vis *7 if hu ? dred ® of of spectators who lined the route. Prominent In the exact. y ° the leading eharacters from Shakespeare, the costuming being elaborate, and historically

BREED DRAGONFLY

Mosquitoes’ Most Deadly and Unrelenting Foe. Experiments Being Made at Bronx Park to Determine Advisability of Raising Insects to Destroy Little Singing Pests. New York.—" Some experiments are being made at Bronx park to determine whether It would be a good investment for the government to breed dragon flies to destroy mosquitoes,” said a tall, elderly man who sat in a boat on the Little Bronx river at One Hundred and Eighty-flfth street and Boston road the other day. He was William Conroy, an employe of the zoological department of Harvard, and is spending his vacation in and about New York and Jersey City taking notes on the mosquito. “Not everyone knows,” he said, “that the dragon fly is the worst natural enemy that the mosquito has. Both of them are born in the water, and both wriggle arounfl in the spud |md oose till the time comes fer them to emerge. Then they come obt on the stock of a dry trffSn the hot sun and split their skin down the back and emerge from it with wings, “The dragon fly has a wonderful lower jaw that shoots out like an arm and can grab almost anything that comes its way, but what it likes better than anything else is a mosquito. “A few years ago I was out on the plains of Wyoming at a rather high altitude and near some wet land where mosquitoes simply seemed to eat us alive. Late in the afternoon they came swarming around us as the sun sank, and made life a torment I was with a troop of United States soldiers, and we had camped for the night and

GIRL LIVES AMONG PUEBLOS

English Student Writes Home of Interesting Experiences Jn Hew Mexico. London. —Miss Frierre-Marreco, who holds a research fellowship to Somerville College, Oxford, an adventurous young woman who is deeply interested in the study of anthropology and who has taken the unconventional course of living with the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, with a view to getting first-hand information in her pursuit of knowledge, has been writing to her friends in Oxford giving interesting details of her life among the Indians. ' -i. She tells how the Indians have christened her "Ta Yopovi,” or "Flower of the Sedge.” She lives by herself In a little house of wood and canvas, doing practically all her own housework. "The Indians treat her with every courtesy and friendliness. She findß an obstacle to her purpose, however, in their reticence on all matters relating to themselves. "The people are extremely proud and sensitive,” she writes, “and very much on an equality witlr white people, in their own estimation, at least. There is an obvious determination to frustrate the inquisition of white people. In some places it is veiled under forms of politeness; in others it takes the form of open hostility.” She further tells that she succeeded best with the old ’women, whom she Induced to teach her something about Indian medicine.

Chickens In a “Shower.”

Stamford, Conn. The “chicken shower” is the latest Connecticut novelty In ministerial donation parties. Seventy members of the Torrlrigford Congregational church called on their new pastor, Rev. W. E. Page, ibe other night, each person carrying a live chicken. The flock will stock the peetor’s hencoop to overflowing.

built a fire to smoke the mosquitoes away, but it did little good. While we sat there slapping at the pests there came a sudden dispersing of them. In a second’s time almost there wasn’t one of them in sight We all noticed it. Then, darting from side to Side and flying around the camp, came the dragon flies, six or eight of them, with their big, shining bodies and tremulous gauze wings making a pretty picture In the afternoon haze. “An old Indian guide who was in the party was the first to point out the dragon flies and tell us that the mosquitoes had been afraid of them. A little after the dragon flies bad gone and back came the mosquitoes. Then after a little the flies came back, a dozen of them this time, stretched out across the plain in line of battle IB feet apart and each one advancing and darting from side to side in quick dashes. Every dash meant a mosquito killed and eaten, and it was no wonder that the mosquitoes fled. “A few years ago the question was seriously taken up at the Museum of Natural History and at the Smithsonian in Washington of whether it‘ would not pay to breed dragon flies, or devil’s darning needles, as the grandmothers üßed to call them, to rid the country of mosquitoes. The investigations were called off for some Reason and never pursued, —ii"l a lady out in Cambridge who breedß a lot of dragon fljes in an aquarium on her back porch every summer Just to keep the mosquitoes away. After breeding they hnn g around the porch all summer close to the water, where they were hatched, and she never has to use screens. While I sat there on the porch under the honeysuckle one evening I counted 16 dragon flies on the walls or vines—but never a mosquito.”

BOOK ON IRISH FOLK MUSIC

Former Chief of Police Francis O’Neill of Chicago Has Rescued Old Melodies. Chicago.—No melodies are more tuneful than Irish melodies. No songs stir the heart more surely than Irish songs. No tune set the pulses leaping or the feet dancing more quickly than the dance music of Ireland. Who has not been moved to Josr or sorrow, smiles or tears by the lyric witchery of Tom Moore? The words of his songs were his own, but the music to which he set them was the' music of the Irish race. Irish folk music is a wonderful treasure house of quaint melody. It has been due to the indefatigable industry and antiquarian seal of former Chief of Police Francis O’Neill and other Chicago Irishmen that much of the ancient folk music oMreland has been rescued from oblivion. Captain O’Neill’s two former books, “The Dance Music of Ireland," were collections of music which resulted from his researches. Another volume has Just been published which is an outgrowth of his delvlngs in the music lore of his native land. He has called it “Irish Folk Music.” It sets out the history of the ancient tunes and is full of Interesting and gossipy information about them. Captain O’Neill is a native of West Cork, the glens of which, he says, are a storehouse of musical treasures unexpored by the great collectors of Irish melodies. Near the Castle Donovan. his grandfather, O’Mahoney Mar. or, as he was generally called, Clanacb Mor—bis clan title—kept open house for the wandering minstrels of his time. “Born and brought up in such a home amid an environment of traditional music and song." sava Cantain

WAR ON UNINVITED GUESTS

English Woman Asks Friends to Bring Cards of Invitation—Police Eject Undesirables. London. —The experiences of the London hostess, who has requested all guests invited to her dance at a London hotel to bring their cards of invitation in order to exclude uninvited guests, have been related. : The lady in question, a.very wellknown London hostess, has suffered such annoyance at the hands of uninvited guests that nowadays she never holds any large function without first taking strict precautions to render the presence of these undesirable persohs practically impossible. “Some time ago I had my eyes opened to this scandalous practice in a most unpleasant fashion,” she said. "I had occasion to give a dance at a London hotel, to which I invited 230 guests. I had very carefully checked these figures before the dance began, yet before it was halfway through the manager of the hotel informed me that there were already over 400 people in the rooms who claimed to be my guests. "Last year I heard of two ladies—no one seemed personally acquainted with them—who had attended uninvited practically every dance or function of the season. Consequently I have been driven to adopt precautions which, as truly pointed out a short time ago, had become absolutely neoessary for the exclusion of these people. . “So I have asked all guests invited to a dance I am giving at a hotel this week to bring their cards of invitation. "Th'e hotel management has promised to have three men at my disposal, whose duty it will be to take the name and address of every person who comes claiming to be my guest, but is without an invitation.”

O’Neill, “it was to be expected that my mother—-God rest her soul —would memorize much of the folk music of Munster, and naturally transmit it by her lilting and singing to her children, who.lnherited a keen ear, a retentive memory and an intense love of the haunting melodies of their race. Similarly gifted was our father, who, full of peace and content and occupying his accustomed chair beside the Bpacious fireplace, sang the old songs in English or Irish for his own pleasure or the entertainment of those who cared to listen.”

To Start Huge Crab Farm.

Norfolk, Va.—E. B. Elliott of Hampton, the largest crab dealer in the world, will have a crab farm in a basin that cost the government $500,000. It iB located at the Jamestown exposition grounds. It is Elliott’s intention to stock the farm with ci'abs during the summer so that there will always be a supply for the country during the winter. To prevent a “feast of the families” he proposes to cut off the claws of all crabs he puts into the basin. The government has not yet given its consent to Elliot’s plan, but probably will as the basin is perfectly useless at present.

Tramps’ Segregation Urged.

New York.—The Prison Association of New York, in its annual rejport for 1910, takes a strong stand fdr an industrial segregation of habitual tramps and vagrants. “Tramps and vagrants cost the state of New York $2,000,000 a year,” says the report “Why pay this price to an unproductive, class? New York may well precede other neighboring states in the establishment of a farm colony.”

JUST BECAUSE MAN PROPOSES

It Remains Only for Woman to Provo Herself Adaptable to Ctrcumetances. r 1 If a woman could have the same liberty of cholco In the acquiring of a husband as a man has In the selection of a wife, consider the change It would make in the marriage problem and In the divorce court. It by no means follows that because a man loves a woman she loves him. But he may be the only man who loves her, or he may be the only man who Is eligible, or the only man her people want her to marry, or any one of 100 onlles you can easily think of for your■elf. -.——4^;...And what then? There may be some unattainable man the woman really, does love, but what can she do? Almost nothing! She Is bound to choose from the men who com© t > her. True, she can stay single, and many women do so, and on this very account —that they never have happened to love the men who loved them. But to stay Single Is not a solution of the question, and it does not appeal to the majority of women. Nine times o.ut of ten the woman locks up in her heart the Ideal of a husband she has formed, or the preferences she has inherited or acquired, or the thought of the other man, and takes the man who wants to marry her, whether or not he Is the man she wants to marry. If she Is a woman of character she persuades herself and others that he Is the man she wants to marry. She lends herself to whatever form his wooing may take. If he is blond and bearded, though she prefer dark eyes and shaven face, yet you would never guess It from word of hers., She may have assured herself every day that she will marry only a man of dignity, but she will recant when her suitor proves a clown. She may adore spontaneous merriment and not only marry a straightlaced prude but swear that It Is the only kind of a man she can endure.— Margaretta M. Tuttle in Collier’s.

Population of Australia.

An advance estimate of the population of the commonwealth of Australia places the total number of people in the six states as 4,474,000, reports Consul General John P. Bray, Sidney. Allowing for what may be styled a normal increase during the months which must elapse before April 1, 1911, when the ten-year census will be taken, there should be at that date a total of 4,600,000. That would represent an increase during the decade of about 725,000,000, or 19- per cent. Taking the nine and three-fourths years to December 81, next, the federal statistician estimates that’ New South Wales will show an increase of 305,000, Victoria an increase of 127,000, West Australia of 97,000, Queensland of 94,000, South Australia of 61,000 and Tasmania of only 15,600. The estimates follow: New South Wales, 1,661,000; Victoria, 1,328,000; Queensland, 592,000; South Australia, 425,000; West Australia, 280,000; Tasmania, 188,000. It is calculated that West Australia has relatively gained 1.41 per cent, and Queensland 0.03 per cent., but Jthat Victoria had relatively lost 2.14 per cent., Tasmania 0.36 per oent., and South Australia 0.14 per cent

Country of Small Fortunes.

Equal distribution, liberty of work, the .responsibility which springs from It, the taste for thrift, which it engenders, the consciousness that each individual is the architect of his own fortune, have made France the country of small but numerous fortunes, says a writer in Moody’s Magazine. At the beginning of the last century the dividing up of landed property was t|ie chief manifestation of this division of wealth. The number of successions declarations has continued to grow. In 1906 there were declared 70 successions per 100 deaths of persons over twenty .years of age; 76 per 100 deceased persons Over thirty years of age; 84 per 100 deaths of persons over forty years. In 184 S there were 1,346,000 licensed traders And 1,842,500 In 1908. The latter figure includes the liberal professions. The number of licensed traders for commerce and industry amounted in 1908 to 1,720,000; that is to say, one license for every 23 Inhabitants.

Individuality.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own Image. Thus we have all a cure, of souls. Every man is the center of perpetual radiation like a luminous body; he is, as it were, a beacon which entices a ship upon the rocks, if it does not guide it into port. Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others; but there are priests of Baal, of Moloch, and of all the false gods. Such is the high importance of example.—Amiel’s Journal.

Helping Farmer's Wife.

The New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell appropriated money some time ago to the work of a domestic science course, a reading course for farmers’ wives being the first thing established. There are now 15,000 farmers’ wives taking the course of home study. Questions may be sent to the department and these are answered by specialists. A housekeeper’s conference has been organized, which meets during the fannenf convention each rear.

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

KEPT MISSOURI IN jfjNION Efforts to Have Connecticut Do Homage to Her BraVe Son Have Failed. - On the anniversary of the death of the greatest soldier ConheeticutT, ever produced, Brig. Gen. NatbatHeTr Lyon, who was killed at Wilson’s Crepit, so., rnany citizens are consider jHgwglit the state has done or may do to.-.honor his memory. The only rfal today is a monument which cost a few hundred dollars, In his cemetery lot in the town of Eastford. The last legislature granted |st)o. (not to exceed that sum) to be ext>ende<Hn improving the conditions-around, his last resting place. His native county of Windlfcafi,birthplace of men like Israel PutriauS. the KnowltOns, Galusha A. Grow, and others whose names are prominent in history, boasts of Nathaniel Lyon as one cf Its greatest sons, and yet none of Its memorial histories and none of the state histories, possibly barring one, that has to do with the Civil war, gives him more than passing notice. Lieut. Gen. Sherman said of him: “Gen. Lyon was the first man to the country that seized the whole question and took the Initiative and determined to strike a blow and not wait for a blow o be struck. . . His death Imposed on the nation a penalty numbered b 7 thousands and thousands of lives and millions and millions of dollars.” An old portrait of the general hangs in the adjutant general’s, office at the capltol, but If one looks for statue, bust or tablet, he looks In vain.' Year by year citizens have petitioned the legislature to establish a fitting memorial. Commissions have been appointed to consider. The last one, appointed by the governor a few years ago, was composed of Morgan G. Bulkeley (who found himself unable to serve); John E. Carpenter, David A. Baker and Col. Frank W. Cheney. The grave In the old country cemetery, beside those of his parents, is there by the peneral’s own choice, and there could be no thought of removing his remains. The commission having In charge the expenditure of the SSOO Is forming plage to acquire land adjacent to the grave.

The legislative commission of 1905, in its report to Gov. Woodruff, suggested SI,OOO for the care of the Lyon cemetery lot and a permanent memorial to be chosen by the sculpture commission at the capltol. The legislature cut down the appropriation asked for by one-half and Ignored, the suggestion for a memorial at the' canitoL At the outbreak of the Civil war Gen. Lyon was stationed at St. Louis in charge of the arsenal. From there, following his appointment as brigadier general, he conducted the campaign which saved Missouri from complete

Old House Where Gen. Lyon Was Born.

secession. He occupied Jefferson City, defeated the troops of the secessionist governor, occupied Bpringfleld, captured the rendezvous of the . Confederates in the state, scattered the border guerrillas and defeated, tbq-- Confederate forces gathering to: oppose him. The Confederates, reinforced by the coming of Sterling Price and his men from the south, moved on Springfield with a force much greater in numbers and armament than that of Lyon. The latter officer, however, risked battle rather than surrender what he had won, and met Price at the widely known battle of Wilson’s creek, where his forces were defeated and the leader killed. Price overran Missouri for a time, but was finally worsted and forced to fight atT'Westport, though be again outnumbered his Union opponents two to one. —■ ■

War Balloons for Italy.

The Italian chamber the other day unexpectedly voted the expenditure of 10,000,000 lire,for dirigible balloons for the army. The socialists and republicans deplored increased army expenditure as useless, war being practically impossible. They advocated disarmament The discussion arose during the absence of the minister of war. He was summoned from the senate and made an eloquent appeal, to the country’s national honor. The vote was then passed by a majority of 200. Wireless on English Dreadnoughts. The English Dreadnoughts -are being equipped with Improved wireless outfits that will enable them to receive and send messages long distances even under unfavorable'conditions. The new plant, a result of many experiments in the past year, is said tobe the finest in the worSC The operating room, located near the main bridge of the powerful fighters, has sound-proof walls. • ■ :*' V v > •t.