Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1911 — Page 3

Professional Cards DB. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ABB BTXBGEON Night and day calls given prompt at tuition. Residence phone, lit. Offlo phone, 17?. Bsnsselaer, Znd. DB. L M. WASHBUBN. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Makes a specialty of Diseases of tb< Byes. Over Both Brothers. DB. F. A. TUBFLEB. . OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building. Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office-*—2. rings on 300, rest • dence—3 rings on 300. Successfully treats both acute ant chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures * specialty. DB. E. If. LOT Successor to Dr. W. W. HartselL HOMEOPATHIST Office—Frame building on Cullen street east of court house. OPFZCB PHONE 89 Residence College Avenue, Phone ltt Bonsselaor, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL, K. D. Physician and Surgeon ■peetal attention to diseases of arouses and low grades of fever. Office in Williams block. Opposite Court House. Telephone, office and residence, 442. ABTHUB H. HOPKINS LAW, LOin ABB BBAX NBTATE Doans on farms and city property, personal security and chattel mortgage Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance Office over Chicago Bargain Store. 'g. r. Zrwtß ~ B©. truin' IB WIN A IB WIN UW, BBAX BSTATE ABB INSUB AMOS. S per oent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. FBANK FOLTZ Lawyer Practices la AH Courts Telephone No. It B. P. HONAN AROSIR A* LAW Daw, Doans, Abstracts. Insurance and Real Estate, will practice In all the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. H. L. BROWN latest methods In Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Office oner Dcrsh s Drug Btora L O. O. F. Building. Phone IKS 300 A. BVNLAT, Lawyer. .. Practice In all courts. • KsnsirCollection department. Notary in the office. a Turt |npd

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SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT EGGS.

How to Candle and Grade Them and Information About Various Classifications. * ' -•»> Not long ago it was stated that the eggs in Indiana were not bought according to quality, but at a flat rate of so much per dozen. However, when these eggs are received by the buyer he is compelled to go over them and select the best eggs for his trade. The method used for this selection of eggs is called "candling” or “testing.” The “egg candle” or “tester” is made of wood or metal and, as a rule, is kept in a dark room. A light, Inside the tester shines through an opening, in front of which an egg is held by the candler. By a quick movement of the hand, the condition of the contents of the egg is quickly noted and the egg is placed in its proper class. A good candler works repidly and will test a large number of eggs in a day. Eggs are sometimes graded as follows: Extras—Weight 28 to 26 ounces, naturally and absolutely clean, fresh and sound, same color. A grade seldom used. First—Weight 26 to 24 ounces, sound, fresh and reasonably clean. Seconds—Shrunken, stale, washed, stained and dirty. Checks—Cracked, not leaking. Rots—lncubator, blood rings, dead ( germs, and decomposed eggs. All eggs should be bought and sola on this grading system so that an egg will bring what it Is worth. When the candler tests the eggs he bases his judgment on the following indications: Fresh—Opaque, appearing almost entirely free of any contents, sometimes dim outlines of yolk visible, air cell very small. Stale—Outline of yolk very visible, sometimes muddy In appearance, air cell very large. Developed Germ —Dark spot visible, from which radiate light ‘colored blood vessels. f . : .[ Dead Germ—Dark spot attached to shell, or red ring of blood, visible. Rotten—Muddy or very dark in appearance. yolk and white mixed, air cell large and sometimes movable. . Cracked—White lines showing irregularly In shell. Testing as above suggested will aid one in determining absolutely the -quality of the eggs, not only for marketing, but for incubation. The farmer

should demand that his eggs be bought upon the test. The buyer should cooperate with farmers and meet such demand by buying “loss off.” Recent changes in the pure food law make it unlawful to sell or offer for sale eggs which are putrid, decomposed, rotten or unfit for food. The only way to obey this law is to sell eggs upon the grade.—A G. Phillips, Associated Prof, of Poultry Husband.

March Was Slightly Warmer Than Normal for 40 Years.

March was slightly warmer this year than normal, according to the monthly meteorological summary issued by Verne H. Church, Indiana director of the United States weather bureau. The normal temperature for the -month was 40.7 degrees, 1.1 degree above the average normal temperature of 39.6 for March during the last forty-one years. The highest temperature was recorded March 21, when the mercury reached 71 degrees, and the lowest temperature recorded was 12 degrees above zero, on March 16. The greatest daily range was 34 degrees, March 9. The total precipitation for the month was 2.89 inches and thS greatest precipitation for twenty-four hours was .88 inch on March 7. The precipitation for the month was 1.12 inches below normal. There were eleven clear days, eleven partly cloudy and nine elpudy days during the month. The prevailing direction of the wind was south and th.i total movement for the month was 8,867 miles, the average hourly velocity being 11.9. The maximum velocity for a period of five minutes was recorded March 27th, when the wind moved at a pace of forty-two miles an hour, Thunderstorms were re* corded on March 22d. The reports for the first three months of the year show the period to have been warmer with less precipitation than the average for the period during past years. The average daily temperature for the first three months of the year was 3.7 above the normal and average daily deficiency of precipitation fo 1 : the period was 2.75 inches.

Casa county’s insane population is a problem. The county has thirtynine more than its quota of inmates at the northern Indiana hospital in Logansport. Four insane persons are in the jail, and the county infirmary is crowded. .... i 11«

DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. Charles Netcher of Chicago Is acting manager and owner with her children of a department store employing some 3,000 persons. ■ Miss Fay Kellogg Is one of the most prominent architects In/ the United States. She Is a Brooklyn girl and studied at Pratt Institute. She then entered the employ of an architect In order to learn, the business. Lady Juliet Duff, the tall and handsome daughter of the Marchioness of Rlpon, has taken a gigantic task of charity on her shoulders—that of raising 3800,000 for the London Charing Cross hospital, which because of its heavy debts Is practically closed. Miss Ruby Sia Is looked upon as the leading woman of the Chinese Christian Students’ association In North America. Miss Sia is a student of the Baltimore Woman’s college and editor of the Chinese Students' Monthly, the organ of the Chinese students’ alliance. Baroness Hengelmuller, wife of the ambassador from Austria-Hungary to the United has been designated by fimperor Franz Josef of Austria to be an imperial royal lady of the palace, which gives her the highest possible rank and privilege at the court.

Sporting Notes.

Joe Choynski has been appointed boxing instructor of Pittsburg’s new 31,500,000 amateur athletic club. Nat J. Cartmell, former Intercollegiate champion sprinter. Is planning a trip to South Africa and Australia. Yale Is going in for big, beefy football men as oarsmen. Weight accounts for Harvard’s three straight victories, say New Haven’s athletic sharps. Charles Rigler, of Tom Lynch’s staff of National league umpires, has been engaged to coach the baseball team of the University of Virginia, where Rigler Is a second year law man. Owen Moran is a thrifty fighter. He owns a row of houses isl London. “I l cau Whip Wolgast,” barks Owen. “In 1898 I made him look like a sucker in a ten round fight In New York.”

Pert Personals.

Every day or two Pierpont Morgan saves another bank and puts it In his pocket.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. William Waldorf Astor probably won’t feel so lonely now that Abe Hummel has followed his example and become a British subject.—Springfield Union. One thing we have always liked about Dr. Cook Is that he didn’t pretend, as soon as he got caught, that the wicked newspapers had misquoted him.—Ohio State Journal. Through becoming an honorary member of the chamber of commerce Dr. Carnegie Is saved SSO a year. No nse in talking, that man simply cannot die poor.—New York Herald.

Aviation.

England’s giant aviator, Thomas Sopwith, who Is twenty-two years old and six feet three inches tall, Is coming to the United States next spring. Plans for new aviation grounds on Long Island are announced by the Hempstead Plains Aviation company. The new field is Intended to take the place of the popular Mineola flying grounds. Orville Wright does not believe that speed is immediately essential with the aeroplane and urges that more attention be given to the Improvement of control of the machine when in flight and increasing the weight carrying capacity of aeroplanes per horsepower.

Town Topics.

New York has raised her assessment and Is now allowed by law to go into debt $80,000,000 more. Will she! Watch her. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. New Yprk Is bragging on a lowered death rate, bnt Chicago can console itself with the time worn statement that everything Is bigger In Chicago.— Louisville Courier-Journal. We observe that East St. Louis counts on 200,000 people by 1920. In that case she would better be looking for the east end site of a trolley car tunnel under the Mississippi.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Aerial Flights.

Airship history seems to be made of breaking records one day and breaking necks the next—Milwaukee Journal. There are twenty-six licensed aviators in America. We hope each of them may live to see his license expire.—Chicago Record-Herald. Reckless men can kill themselves at aeroplaning, but the time when careful men can use the new machines with little greater danger than one rides behind a horse Is coming and may not be many years delayed.—Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Wireless Whispers.

Chicago is said to have at least 800 amateur wireless telegraph operators. An Invention which seems to solve the problem of insuring secrecy In wireless messages was recent!? exhibited In Paris by Professor Cerebotani of Rome. The Austrian government has or dere£ that all its ocean going passena Steamers most be fitted with wiretelegraphy apparatus. Austria.ls the first European state to make compulsory the adoption of this precaution.

Salt on the Bird’s Tail Story of a Mardi Gras Masquerade

By SAMUEL E. BRANT

"Who is the biggest fool you ever ftietr “Man or woman?" “Woman." “The girl I'm engaged to." “Well, I like that. What kind at wife do you expect her to make?’ “How should I know her qualifications for a wife? Marriage is a lottery. Other men may marry for qualifies-' tions, but we youngsters don’t pretend to forecast what a girl's going to be. And I don’t believe the old ones hit it any better than we." “What makes you set your fiancee down as a fool?” “I’ll tell you, but I must begin back a little way. She’s Madge Whitridge. only it should be Madge Wildfire instead. Not that she is so wild as she was. She’s been quieted down a bit by a certain little happening that came near resulting disastrously. She nearly caused my death.” “You don’t mean it! Not intentionally, I suppose." “Well, whether there was a spark of Intention in it I don’t know. You never can tell what a woman is going to do or why she does it. We can’t be sure she knows herself. If Madge had caused my death any prosecuting attorney might have made a very good case against, her of doing it with malice aforethought. And to tell the truth I’m not sure but she did." “And you’re going to marry her?’ “You bet—that is. If she doesn’t shake me for another fellow, though I don’t think she would do that now. She might have done it before this thing I’m going to tell you about happened; but, as I said, it sobered her, and she’s quite tame. That’s the time I chose for putting salt on the bird's tail. “There’s more appropriateness in this simile than you may imagine, as you’ll see in a moment. But for the incident. We ‘floor gliders,’ as one called our dancing club of young people—there was not one over twenty, and some of the girls weren’t over flfteen—concluded we’d celebrate the Mardl Gras with a masquerade ball. I’d been getting sweet on Madge—Wlldfire I may as well call her—and about the time the costumes were being arranged I was sitting up to her like a sick kitten to a warm brick. In fact, we arranged to have corresponding costumes for the ball. “This was after Rostand's play of ‘Chantecler’ came out, and everybody was talking about it. You know that the leading lady chicken in the play is the hen pheasant, the leading gentleman being the rooster chanticleer.. We concluded to get ourselves up as these two birds. I was a month arranging my outfit—l did it all myself, you know—but when I got it done it was a corker, I made the body of a rooster, which I strapped under my arms, with an elegant head and combin front and a fine display of cock’s tail behind, the tail being made of tissue pgper of different colors. You couldn’t have told it from the real thing. “I went to see Madge the afternoon before the ball. It so happened that we got to quarreling, and I went off in a huff. This was unfortunate, to say the least. We had spent a lot of time getting up our bird rigs and expected to make a lot of fun billing and cooing during the ball, and the worst of it was, now that we were in just the opposite condition from what we expected, we hadn’t time to get other rigs.” “What was the cause of the quarrel?:’

“We tried on our costumes In advance, and when she walked I told her she waddled like a duck. That made her mad, and she fired back, and we soon were In for it hot and heavy. “When the ball came off, Instead of walking about together, I strutting, she cuddling up bedide me, we were as far apart as possible and when we met glared at each other. After awhile I saw her sitting in a window with Ned Tucker. This made me all fired jealous as well as mad, and to show my spleen what did I do but go up near where they were sitting and whisk around with the intention- ' turning my back on Madge. I didn’t calculate how near my tail feathers were to them, but It seems they brushed their faces. This made Madge madder than ever. Ned bad just struck a match to light a cigarette. Madge jerked it out of his hand and held It under the tip of my tall. "In a second the whole of It was in flames. I tried to get the rooster part of me off, bnt it was tied on so well that I couldn’t do it. The flames ran from the tall to the wings and from the wings to the rest of the body. The whole roomful of people rushed toward me, scared out of their seven senses, every one crying, ‘Put him ontl’ Whether they meant to put out the flames or put me out to prevent my setting them all afire I don’t know. I was howling with the burns and with fear when a Roman senator took off his togs and wrapped It about me. “I was taken to a carriage and home. I wasn’t burned at all, bnt Just to punish the confounded girl that applied! the match I gave out that I might die. She was knocked clean out, and when I let np on her she wilted. Bhq had put a match to my tail; i put salt on hers and caught her.” "You mean she caught yon. There are lots of man who think they do the catching when they atq caught then* solvent