Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Country Aghast at Opium Consumption

Philadelphia, Pa.—The recent raids on opium smugglers made in New York and other cities'by federal officers are preliminary to a na-tion-wide crusade by the authorities in Washington to check the ravages of the opium habit. Government statistics reveal that more opium is consumed in this country per capita than in Chiba. Four hundred thousand pounds of crude opium are imported annually and the iraids show that vast quantities are smuggled. The population of the United States is 91,000,000. The annual consumption of opium in China In all forms is £600,000 pounds. China’s population ra more than four 'hundred million. One of the largest Importers of ■opium in the United States called the attention of the National Civic Federation to the frightful growth of the evil. “The figures speak for themselves,” he said in an address on the Isubject at a banquet of druggists in 'Philadelphia. “Unless an effective check is put on the opium evil it will sap the physical as well as the moral (Strength of the nation. “Germany, with a population of

Burials Cheap in This Arizona Town

PHOENIX, Ariz. —Come to Arizona to die and get buried cheaply. The Maricopa county board of supervisors has just closed a contract with a local undertaking firm whereby those who die in such circumstances as to necessitate burial by the county will be laid away decently at the expense of one mill per person. This includes an upholstered redwood coffin and full funeral service. Four firms bid for the county business. and none may be said to have Bought to exact an exorbitant stipend. The highest price asked per corpse was |4.25, while one firm offered to do the work for 10 cents each and another for one cent. The firm bidding one-tenth of a cent was the “lowtest responsible” bidder and got the business. It might be gathered from this that Maricopa county is such a healthy place that no one ever dies. But not only do persons die here, but they die by scores. , The county burial bill, even at one mill, will in the twelve months for

Gotham May Have Reached Its Growth

NEW YORK.—That New York City has nearly reached its maximum of growth and will find its supremacy as the biggest city and the most important commercial center in the western world threatened by competitors during the next thirty years is the belief of Walter Laidlaw, secretary of the New York Federation of Christian Organizations and a census expert of note. Dr. Laidlaw frankly sets aside as preposterous the commonly accepted estimates of the tremendous growth of the city in the next three decades and prophecies that in 1940 the population will not exceed 9,600,000. In a long report on “New York’s Future,” Dr. Laidlaw notes that the two greatest causes of the city’s rapid rise to pre-eminence were the build-

Threat to Sing Duet Wins Judgment

OMAHA, Neb. —In addition to musie “having charms to soothe the savage breast,” it has been discovered that it has the power to bring about m. verdict in the courts. This has,been 4emonstrated to Judge Sears’ division of the district court in this city. The case on trial was one wherein a wife was suing for $5,000 damages. The allegation being that a saloon !Jweper had sold liquor to the plain•tiffs husband until he had become a drunkard. H. C. Murphy cepresented the plaintiff and A. H. Murdock and A. C. Panacoast were attorneys for the defendant. The testimony had -been introduced, when Murphy announced that, instead of arguing the case, he would read the "Drunkard’s

about 60,000,000, consumes only 16,000 pounds, as against the 400,000 pounds actually accounted for in this country; in Italy, with a population of 33,000,000, the- consumption is about 6,000 pounds; in Austria-Hungary, whose combined population is nearly 50,000,000, the annual consumption does not exceed 4,000 pounds; Holland, with a population of 6,000,000, consumes 3,000 pounds annually. “In Europe there are 145,000,000 people who consume annually only about 30,000 pounds of the drug, while our population of 100,000,000, by import figures, consumes more’than ten times that amount, to say nothing of the vast quantity that is clandestinely brought Into the country.” President Taft urges immediate action to check the growth of the evil. There is now pending in both branches of congress a measure, known as the Cullom-Foster bill, to control the traffic *by subjecting it to heavy internal revenue taxes. The bill also provides for a practically prohibitive tax —$200 a pound—on smoking opium. The control of other forms, principally morphine, will be more difficult, it is conceded, although it is said that in that form the drug is most widely used. The highest medical authorities estimate that 50,000 pounds of opium should suffice for the medical needs of the United States yearly, and that fully 75 per cent of the 400,000 pounds Imported is manufactured into morphine.

which the contract is made, run up into several dollars. This is due to the fact that Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa county, is a famed resort for tuberculosis victims. Behind the bid lies the reason. It is worth something for the undertaking firm to get its name in the local papers every time a pauper dies. At the same time, one can never tell by the appearance a living man presents what his estate will divulge. It has been demonstrated that not only do the undertakers who have the county contract not lose money, but actually make a good profit in addition to the advertising. It frequently happens that one case makes up for the losses on a whole year’s contract and leaves many other cases of supposed lndigents to create a handsome profit for the business. The contract at one mill per corpse means that the dead wagon must go for the body and remove it to the undertaking establishment. There it must be prepared for burial, the firm supplying all the essentials. It must then be transported to the cemetery and interred. There have been cases where undertakers have kept bodies for six months while they sought throughout the country for someone who would pay a fair expense bill for the funeral. In most of such cases they are ultimately successful.

ing of the Erie canal and the immense immigration, and he declares that there are now certain factors working against a continued increase. In the first place, Dr. Laidlaw sees a continuation in the decline in the share of New York in the foreign commerce of the nation. In the last thirty years it has fallen from 54.8 to 47.7. Canada is becoming an important competitor and other American ports are doing their best to overhaul the metropolis. Providence, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other ports are formidable rivals. The proposed intercoastal canal, the development of the Mississippi, the completion of the Panama Canal and the favorable positions of cities to the south of New York City to engage in trade with South America, all will tend to dwarf New York. Other factors are the decline of immigration, the diminishing export trade with Europe, the awakening of China and the increasing importance of Pacific commerce. The Pacific coast, the statistician thinks, is bound to run the East hard for its present supremacy.

Lament,” after which he would recite excerpts from Ten Nights In a Barroom,” thereafter letting the Jury decide without further argument. Murdock and Panacoast stated their willingness to submit the case without argument, but before doing so they Wanted permission to sing a duet. A settlement was reached by conference and a substantial judgment agreed upon in favor of the plaintiff. Murphy one year ago won an important suit by singing to the Jury after he had completed his argument He sang a few stanzas of a familiar old song. Without leaving the box the Jury returned a verdict for his client. Opposing attorneys appealed, alleging that Murphy in singing went outside the record, that his conduct was improper and that having a fine and well-trained voice, he took undue advantage of counsel on. the other side. The Supreme court held with Murphy, deciding that an attorney could talk or sing his arguments to the jury and that there was no statute against- such proceedings. '

HERE are three jabots that are new in lines, easy of construction and and chic in effect, three qualities that you cannot afford to ignore. The jabot, especially in this season of low revere, is almost a necessity, and in the delightful form pictured here it is a luxury. A new plisse is shown at the left. Sheer linen forms scallops on each side of a narrow strip of lace. Valenciennes edges the rounded sections. The same little shop on the Rtfe de la Paix is showing exquisite colored models of the same type. These are worn with colored suits. A pale lavender looks extremely well with any of the purple suits; white touched with hand embroidery in black looks stunning with the mixed suitings now so popular. Ecru lace is combined with these batiste forms, and frequently coinspots of linen thread are aplied to give the models a touch of distinction. In' the central jabot a deep cream tulle is finely pleated to form the straight strip down the front. Tiny black velvet buttons ornament this, and at each side a frill of the tulle (which, as you know, is a fine net) falls in soft fullness. ~ As a square finish the last jabot suggests a use for square motifs or straight lace. The ends give a step-

TRANSPARENT YOKE IS HERE

Takes the Place of Low Neck Dress and Is Welcomed Almost Unanimously. Except for actual evening dress, the low neck is not seen now. Fashion decrees instead—and good sense for once joins her —that the transparent yoke and high collar be worn instead. This yoke may be pleated or tucked, but more frequently it is perfectly plain, without a suggestion of niching or ornamentation of any kind. Of course the collar must be boned, but the bones are made as few- and as inconspicuous as possible, so that the yoke and the collar seem simply fitted closely, though not tightly - , to the figure. These yokes are usually of net, though chiffon and even tulle or maline are occasionally seen, particularly the first; and they are, nine times out of ten, dead white. If you have not the sort of skin that can stand pure white next to it, insert a tiny fold‘of ecru or flesh-colored chiffon under the top of your collar, but do not let it be apparent. This style is especially seen in dressy gowns in the darker colors—most of all in black. The color contrast is striking, and is usually most attractive and becoming. Although one »■would not think so, it looks especially well on middle-aged women who have not loßt their fresh complexions and whose hair is white or gray. Nothing could be more distinguished in appearance than a draped black silk gown, simply trimmed, with one of these white net yokes and collars, on a woman of this type. The collar is as high as can be borne with comfort (and as tight also), and is slightly pointed under the ears. In general, it has not even a line of black at the top, but is, as I have said, absolutely plain throughout.—Exchange.

How to Color Purple.

To color purple, for 15 pounds of cotton take 4 pounds of logwood chips and boil them in two pails of water. Dissolve 1 pound of alum in a pall of hot water and add to the first solution. Put in the cotton and boil in the dye for one hour. Drain and hang to dry. To color yellow and green, for 5 pounds of cotton dissolve 8 ounces of sugar of lead in 4 quarts of warm water and dissolve 5 ounces of bichromate of potash in three quarts of warm water. Put the cotton cloth in the lead solution first, wring it out and put into the bichromate of potash solution. Repeat until the right shade is reached. To color green dip the yellow cloth after dyeing into a solution of bluing, making it as deep as liked.

Ribbons in Demand.

All the world is talking about the tremendous vogue for ribbons. It form? the piece de resistance on nearly all the fashionable toilet accessories. There are many novelties in moire, satin and velvet ribbons, the shot and reversible being perhaps the most in demand.

Jabot Designs

like effect. Insertion is used to trim the ends. Black velvet ribbon slipped through lace slides is the unexpected touch that the French so thoroughly appreciate and jiftroduce on the accessories. Why not make one of these for your blouse or shirtwaist? They fill in the gap at the front of a coat. They are certainly representative of little cost and great effect.

RENOVATING THE TULLE VEIL

Few Moments’ Care and Trouble Will Restore Adornment to Original Beauty. Tulle veils that have become limp may be renovated by pressing them with a warm iron, having first placed a handkerchief between the iron and the tulle. Lace veils and scarfs should be soaked in a strong lather of white soap and soft water and allowed t 6 simmer gently in a saucepan over a fire for about twenty minutes. The veils should be lifted out and squeezed tightly, but not rubbed, then rinsed out in bold water. The second lot of water should be faintly tinged with blue and have in it a small quantity of hot starch. Clear the veils of any particles of the starch by clapping well between the hands; then pin on a clean white cloth and allow to dry. In this manner they will look as fresh and clean as when new, and they may be washed any number of times. Veils should always be ironed with a handkerchief or piece of fine linen between, as they are much better and wear longer if they do not come in direct contact with the iron.

IN BLACK AND WHITE.

Truly this is a velvet season, and one sees it worked up into every sort of costume,' but none a*e* so perfectly beautiful as the 1 evening gowns. A stunning example is portrayed in the accompanying sketch, which shows a skirt of black panne velvet, wonderfully draped on sides and veiled with a white lace tunic. The bodice of white net and lace is trimmed with broad bands over shoulders and deep girdle of black velvet Joined to them In jumper fashion. / It is predicted that stripes will be worn a good deal this spring. Fancy Hercules and Titan braids are the elect this season.

HOUSEHOLD COMMANDMENTS.

1. . Make your household one harmonious whole, no matter how small the scale. ’L 2. Use only what you can comfortably affprd in good quality and ample •quantity. 3. Let your home appear bright and sunny. It is not easy to be unpleasant in a cheerful room. 4. Treat your, servants wisely and kindly, and it will be impossible for them to either impose or oppose. 5. Have time for everything, and be never in a hurry. 6. A certain formality is necessary to save everyday life from triviality, and freedom from looseness. 7. Do not “forget that “society” Is the death of home life, hospitality Its flower. « 8. Know how to talk and Tio* to listen, how to entertain and how to amuse.

WITH THE SAGES.

It is in the minor action of our daily life that our true character is revealed. —Lee. Every triumph of life leads back by various paths to earlier preparation.— Blake. Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. —Oliver W. Holmes. No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about ill-bred.—L. Whiting. There are persons who cover their own rudeness by calling their conduct honest bluntness.—Richardson. The man who lives simply and justly and honorably, whether rich or poor, is a good citizen. —Roosevelt. No action will be considered aa blameless unless the will was soi for by the will the act was dictated, — Seneca,

DYSPEPTIC PHILOSOPHY.

A girl should never throw kisses. When she does shb generally hits the wrong man. The question of whether or not life Is worth living is always suggested when we pay a doctor’s bill. The difference between a highwayman and a promoter is that a promoter hesitates to use a sandbag. The fellows who can’t keep their handß off money are not always so successful in keeping their hands off it. Nor does the acceptance of a story, in spite of some of the cheap magazines, necessarily imply a lack of merit The sins of the fathers may be visited upon the children, but the sins of the weather man are visited upon the present generation.

FRAGMENTS OF WISDOM.

Homely girls rush in under the mifr tletoe where peaches fear to tread. The hobble skirt is making quite a stir, considering the entire absence of bustle. The woman of doubtful reputation never gets the benefit of the doubt. — The Smart Set. When a woman holds a man in the hollow of her hand she can palm off any kind of talk on him. He surrenders when he is wrong is wise. He who surrenders when he is right—is married. But he, too, is wise.

RULE OF THREE.

Three things to respect: Honor, Country and Home. Three things to govern Temper, Tongue and Conduct. Three things to love; Courage, Gentleness and Affection. Three things to avoid: Cruelty, Arrogance and Ingratitude. Three things to delight In: Frankness, Freedom and Beauty. Three things to wish for: Health, Friends and a Cheerful Spirit

DROPPED BY THE WAY.

If all the bees were to hang around the hive the honey supply would indeed be scarce. We are all of us apt to conclude there is something wrong with the honest endeavor that doesn’t pay In dollars. No man or woman should become too much Interested in bad gossip concerning their neighbor, but pray that the worst things about thenjfelven wll’ not be found out.

AROUND CAMP THE FIRE

TO HONOR KANSAS SOLDIERS Grand Army Pest of Clay Center, Kan., Starts Movement to Build Suitable Monument. In Kansas, the state which furnished so many soldiers in the Civil war, very few'monuments have been built, and little has been done to leave memorials of the war and to serve as incentives to patriotism’ among the youth of the state. However, within recent weeks the Grand Army post of Clay Center, Phil Sheridan post, has started a movement to erect 1 in the court house square in Clay Center a monument to theif comrades, and the work is now well under way. It is planned to spend about $2,500 or more on the * monument. The foundation already has been put down and early in the spring the monument will be built, the

Monument at Clay Center.

nnvelling to take place next Memorial day. The monument is being built in, front of the Clay county court house,, within the court house square. It will stand to the south of the main walk leading away from the court house, in the same relative position in the square which is occupied by the cannon which was placed* in the square about 12 years ago by the Women’s Relief Corps of that city. This big cannon, which was given to the women by the United States government, is a big gun which did service in the war and was discarded by the government many years ago. It rests on a stone base and was placed at the north side of the court house walk In 1897.

TEST OF EMERGENCY RATION

General Grant Gives It Trial of Three Days and Makes Favorable Report to Department. During the recent three-day physical tests of army officers, MaJ. Gen. Frederick D. Grant, commanding the department of the east, tried out the new emergency ration. General Grant carried three packages, ono for each day, and returned with two of the packages unopened, having used but one on the entire ride. The general says he suffered no inconvenience whatever and found the ration sufficient in all respects. Outside of the ration, General Grant took hot coffee in the morning without sugar or milk, fold tea in the same way at noon, and hot water in the evening. Onethird of the ration was palatable and sufficient during the 72 hours, and he experienced no ill effects or craving for foods. The new emergency ration is composed of chocolate liquor, nucleo castln, malted milk, desslcated egg, sugar and cocoa butter. It is put up in eight-ounce, light bhie tin boxes. Each box contains three cakes, one cake being sufficient for a meal.

Would Draft Autos.

A plan to make all private automobiles available for military service In time of necessity was suggested by Major General Frederick Dent Grant in his annual report. “It seems to me," he says, “that it would be wise if the national government passed laws that would cause the registration of all automobiles capable of transporting four or more passengers, and that the owners of these machines be obliged legally to v transfer them, en demand, to the government for military uses, for a sum of money not greater than the original cost of the machine. “If this were done the government would have at hand and without cost to maintain, a means of transportation for the rapid movement of troops.”

Statue to War Chaplain Corby.

Where Chaplain Corby, 88th New Tork Infantry, stood on a rock and gave absolution to the Irish brigade before it went into the fight at tha wheatfleld at Gettysburg, ip July, 1888, a statue to him soon will be emottd. i