Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — Page 2

THE AMERICAN HOME

; Mr. WUUtm A. Radford will answer questions and gfv*. advice FREE OF OOST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expertenoe as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he la, without doubt, the highest authority tm all these subjects Address all Inquiries to William A. Radford. No. 171 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only endow two-cent stamp for reply. "A, The Unit important work in building S* the excavations for the foundation walls. All complete plans specify that trenches should be left with natural bottoms, level and smooth for the reception of walls, piers, etc. Not long ago a. workman In digging a trench for a center wall In a large city block misread the directions and got the excavation a foot deeper than the specifications called for. The contractor called the owner's attention to it, as an honest man should, and offered to build the wall from the bottom up If the owner would pay the bare cost of the extra material, but this the owner refused to do. The contractor thereupon dumped In loose earth, the only thing he could do, and brought the bottom up to the depth required fay the specifications. The building was completed and accepted by the owner. After a lapse of six months the center wall settled to crack the plaster on every wall in the house clear to the third story. It was a block of fiats ocupied by aix families. Three of the families moved out because they thought the building was unsafe to live in. This led to a lawsuit between the owner and the contractor. The contractor was able to prove that he went to the owner and offered to fill in from the

bottom with masonry Instead of dumping In earth. The court decided in far ▼or of the contractor. This incident Is mentioned merely to call attention to the importance of showing a little common sense In the different parts of the building, from the foundation to the roof. It la not always best to stick bard and fast to every provision of the contract, especially when some accident arises that calls for the exercise of judgment. Of course a man does not want to be run over by anyone. Every one in business finds out early in life that he most stand up for his rights or have them taken away from him. The old Bible admonition which instructed every man to accept a whack on both cheeks will not work in this country as society Is organised at present One thing the owner needs to have an eye on is the excavation for foundation and drains. The workmen are not interested In the little details the

Floor Plan

eame as the owner, and the health of ftke workmen and their families la not ■at stake afterward, as the escape of a Uttle'sewer (as here and there will not mean anything to them. You intake a solid "contract and the contractor may live up to It, but you hare mo guarantee that he will do so. and ■you cannot get at the underground de--1 tails after the trenches are filled. So the only way to know that a job Is done right Is to Inspect it as the work jgbea along. Of course you can hire in man to do this, and you can usually depend on such a man, especially if Ihe Is a stranger and does not know itbs contractor. I prefer to have an iMspector who Is a stranger in the neighborhood, a man who Is personally | not acquainted with any man on the jjbb. I am not n pessimist and have

SIf2A.RADFORD ir. EDITOR

not lost faith in humanity, but there are so many details, vital details, about the building of a house that not one of them can be overlooked with safety. . 1 : Now, here is the design of a house that is a most pleasing one for a young couple Just starting out It has' fouz rooms and a The width is twen-ty-four feet six Igehes and the length la thlrty-alx feet Jp hai the aspect of cosiness and neatness and appeals to the artistic sense. This house will cost very little and when it la completed it. will look so neat that all your friends will be talking about it There la a little porch where«you can sit out evenings and this opens directly into the dining room. The living room is In the front and immediately back la the bedroom. This house should be built on a large lot and if it is so constructed there will be abuqdant opportunity for the display of shrubbery that will enhance the appearance of the place.

HAS GOOD CENSUS SYSTEM

Methods Employed by Austria Make the Work a Model for World 6tudy. The fall returns of the census of Austria, taken In December, 1910, are expected to be published about May of the present year. The population of Vienna is already computed, the city numbering, on December 31 last, 2,004,291, civilians and 28,543 military, a total of 2,039,834. This ia a gain over the census of 1900 of 355,427 civilians and a decrease of 79 mlll-

tary. In 1890 the civilian Inhabitants numbered 1,341,897. It is to be noted, however, that In 1904 the city in-' eluded as the twenty-firßt beslrk (ward) the district of Florldsdorf, 314. Deducting this figure from the total of 1900 it la evident that Vienna’s rate of increase for the same area is considerably less for the decade 19001910 than for the decade 1890-1900. The military garrison here has remained about the same for the last ten years. The method of taking the census in Austria Is Interesting. The great diversity of race and speech In this country and the influence of this diversity on political questions makes it important to have accurate statistics thereof. The census roturns therefore Include religion, race and usual language spoken In the family. The information is collected In a practical way. Sheets calling for all details as to the buildings thenuelves, such aa the ownership, rent paid, number of occupants, number of windows, exposure of same, etc., and all details as to the occupants therein and their relation to one' another, were left at every house in the middle of December to be filled in. Early In January, on a fixed day, these sheets were called for by a census reviser who certified the returns. This placed In the hands of the authorities complete and accurate returns with the minimum of labor to the collectors and the minimum of lnconvenlenoe to the Inhabitants, excepting that, as the sheets pass from hand to hand, publicity *s given to details which It might be wished to conceal. The Japanese government detailed certain of its own civil employes to study Austrian methods of - census enumeration. Teachers from the Austrian public schools were employed as census agents and the schools were cloeed for two days to permit their absence.

Had Seen Enough of Those.

The trust magnate detained by a washout, sought the village news stand. "What have you got to read here?" he Inquired. “Well,’’ replied’the proprietor, “we have the popular magasines and— ’’ “Give me one of the unpopular mag asines. If you have any,” Interrupted the trust magnate, with a scowl.

Careful.

“If you are so afraid he won’t propose to you again why did you refuse him the first time be proposed?" “He was steering tbe auto we were la when he proposed.” “But what had that to do with it?" “Everything. I accepted a proposal once while out in a canoe, and I was nearly drowned. I don’t take any mars

WALLACE O. K., SAYS PHRENOLOGIST

Dr. Simeon Squeers a phrenologist of Hot Springs, examined Bob Wallace’s head recently. The brain specialist pronounced the manager of the Browns one of the most normal minded men he had ever examined. He did not know his man when he made his diagnosis. Wallace’s head is abnormally developed on the left side. This is as It should be, Dr. Squeers declares. The left lobe of the brain governs the right side of the body, the right lobe the left side. It Is natural, asserted Dr. Squeers, that a man should be right-handed, right footed, right eyed, that the right side should be larger and stronger than the left. Left-handed people are, there-

FOGEL NOW APPROVES DEAL

President Fogel of Philadelphia National League Team Finally Agrees With Manager Dooin. That deal which came near disrupting the cabinet which holds the destinies of the Phillies is satisfactory now to all concerned. Manager Dooin, who pulled off the deal without the sanction and without the approval of President Horace Fogel, and who threatened to resign

Manager Dooin.

unless it was permitted to stand, continues to congratulate himself. President Fogel has finally come around. He has made no positive or direct statement, however. During a practice game with Birmingham President Baugh of Birmingham remarked to President Fogel: “You people certainly got the better of that Cincinnati deal.” He was watching Ewing smoke them across, and Lobert running the “Yea. Yea." This from FtogeL And he immediately changed the subject i

Manager -Wallace of St. Louis Browns.

fore, in maijny cases a bit abnormaL This is especially noticeable in lefthanded pitchers. Most of the “bugs,’* “nuts,” etc., in baseball have been lefthanded pitchers. Waddell is a lurid case in point. Tom Ramsey, the great left-hander of the early days, was also supremely erratic. “Lady” Baldwin, Phil Knell, Bert Jones, Harry Bailee, "Crasy” Schmidt and lek Altrock, all celebrated lefthanders, have been more or less famed for erratic behavior. Evpn Theodore Breitenstein, one of the steadiest of the southpaws, was in his youth wild as a March hare. Eddie Plank and Doc White seem to be the wisest and steadiest of the leftside loopers.

AROUND THE BASES

Fred Clarke will again be a playing manager. Nebraska solons have passed the Sunday optional baseball bill. Ted Easterly has finally won his spurs in the contest for right field hopors. * “Bill” Foxen seems slated for better things than bench wanning this season. Joe Jackson, the slugging outfielder of the Naps, is said to be weak on the base lines. Manager Clarke of Pittsburg favors walking and running upstairs to strengthen the legs. Walter Johnson’s uncle has signed to pitch for a California team, but he is only 19 years old. A great many fans are wondering how 15 American and National clubs waived on Harry Stelnfeldt. Southern league baseball teams do not welcome the majors with open arms, as was their wont a few yean ago. Japanese students at lowa university have organised a rooters’ club to welcome the visiting baseball team. Octavio Carvjal, a Mexican, may be one of Cornell’s varsity pitchers. He worked well last year for the Ithaca college nine. _ Chicago is promised a hockey league for next winter. Baseball fans could wish for nothing better as a cold weather sport The Giants are to be barred from playing In Atlanta, Ga., on spring training trips hereafter because of the row there recently. Although Frank Chance may seem unnecessarily severe at times, a fourtime pennant-winning team speaks well for the success of his policy. There are five giant ballplayers on the Cleveland Naps for 1911. Cy Falk enberg, the elongated pitcher, Is the tallest. He Is six feet five inches In height. Red Corrldon, the youngster with the Browns last fall, and Pat t)*Connor, the catcher recruit, have been released by tbe Pirates to the Kansas City Blues. Ed Walsh has turned bard and is writing verses. Doc White will have to look to his laurels or he may be robbed of a part of bis glory In. the world of poetry and song. Connie Mack keeps a score of every game and files the record away each day so that when a player comes to signing a contract and asks for more money Connie can show him just what he has been able to do on every occasion he went to the plate.

LYNCH “DOPES OUT” SEASON

National league has figured out that the race for the pennant this year will be the closest and most keenly con- “ Any one of six clubs has a good chance to win this year. Rarely have the teams presented a more even front While St Louis and Boston do not seem to be as strong as the other clubs, still, you never can tell what a crowd of young players will do, and Tenney may surprise the baseball world this season. '"As for the other six dubs, it is Just about an even thing. New Yorks look good and are stronger than at this time last year. Those who think the days of the Chicagos are over may have cause to change their opinion before the season closes. They, are no weaker than last year, in my opinion. It was because the Athletics were so much faster than Chicago that the world’s series resulted as it did. “The team is well supplied with youngsters. Take the purchase of Shean; that was a good stroke of business. Evers may last a whole season and may not laßt a week: Mr. Morphy has a second baseman to step right in there. If that happens, you are likely to hear people begin to talk of Chicago luck and how fortunate it was that Sttfean wa# around. No luck about It was planned beforehand.

“A letter reached me the other day from the Pittsburg camp saying that Leach, Clarke and Wagner, the big trio, were never in better condition, and that Adams and Camnitz were putting them over in great form. The men are playing together, and the old fighting spirit is there. I tell you that Chicago would not have had such an easy time winning a pennant last year had they not got the jump in the early months. It will be different this spring, unless all signs go wrong. “Both Philadelphia and Cincinnati were strengthened by'the trade made last fall. It does a player a lot of good to be shifted around. It puts more life in him, and many times a man who has played only average ball with a team gets in with a lot of hustling youngsters and becomes a. star. “The fans like to see new faces, too, and applause is as sweet to a player’s

President Thomas Lynch.

ears as it is to an actor’s. When a man steals second base and Is heartily cheered, he wants to steal third right away. Both the Phillies and the Reds will be factors in the pennant race this year. Neither can Brooklyn be counted out. Prom all reports Mr. Ebberta has secured some youngsters who will give a good account of themselves this season. “Every season in baseball seems to be greater than the one immediately preceding. Ido not think that this season will prove an exception, and look for the biggest year and one of the closest races in the history of the game.” ■ ■

INSURE WHITE SOX PLAYERS

President Comiskey of Chicago Protects Himself Against Accidents and Illness. President Comiskey of the White Sox is not taking any chances of injury to his star ball players. Men like Ed. Walsh, Harry Lord, Pat Dougherty, Jimmy Callahan, Matty Mclntyre, Tex Janes, Bill Lange, Amby McConnell, Roily Zeider, RUly Sullivan, Doc White and a few others who are main spokes In his baseball machine have been Insured by the Old Roman against sickness or injury. Ever since the injuries to Sullivan and Blackburns, Comiskey has been considering a plan to protect his baseball interests. A St Louis insurance company entered the field much after the Lloyd fashion and took a chance The Insurance covers accidents, Illness or death. Every player who will be a member of the team has been Insured. The policies call for ft,MO in case of death by accident In case the player is unable to play for a week owing to sickness President Ooariskey will be paid MS a week.

Ministers Form Bail Club.

A baseball team composed of clergymen Is Grand. Juncton’s (Colo.) latest acquisition. The nine is made np of pastors of various churches here and includes some former college stars. The ministers practice six days in the week—and have issued a challenge to any team In the state made up of nsn bora of one profession.

SOME SMART SAYINGS

, LIFE AND PEOPLE. . - -j| — —— —•-—-—■ — o , .va! r •.* • ■jy • .... •. * * Remarks That WHi &£ Irving Bacheller has left behind "Eben Holden’’ and the school of “Keeping Up With Lizzie,” but has made. one. character, Socrates Potter, a shrewd but educated small - town lawyer, the philosopher ot “Keeping Up With LCzzipj" Here are some of his sayings: “The-landll soak up all the education you’ve got and yell for more. Its great need is education. We’ve pnt everything on the farm but brains.” “It costs money, big money an’ more, to produce a generation of in- ' • * A “Every spoilt woman stands for « fool man. Most o’ them need not* a master but a frank counsellor.’’ “The boys are concluding it’s cheaper to buy a piano-player than, to marry one; that canned prim a donnas are better than the home grown article; that women are more to be desired than playthings." “One day in the old time a couple of industrious Yankees were hard at work in a‘field. Suddenly one said to the other, 1 wisluL had ten thousand dollars,’ and the other asked, ‘What would j&ou do with it?’ The wisher answered, ‘What would I do with it? Why, you cussed fool, I’d set down —an’ without blamin’ myself.’ ” “I can get more fun out of one happy human soul than, out of all the dogs an’ horses in creation.” ... Y “Cares are like boils: it don’t do. to get rid of 'em too. quick. They’re often a great relief to the inside, of a man, an’ it’s better to have ’em on •the surface than way down in your marrow.” Y “-You’ve got to reach the women, somehow, you see, before you can improve the social conditions of a community. I love them, but many are overgrown children, doin’ . nothing with singular skill an’ determination an’ often with, appalling energy.” “If we must all he lawyers or bankers or brokers or graspin’ iniddleipen in order to live, let’s start a big asylum for the upright an’ give ’em a chance to die comfortably.” ‘One o’ these days the old earth ’ll be lopsided with the fruitfulness of America.” rY “Now, there’s Bill Warburton. I supposed he was a friend o’ mine, hut I caught him tryin’ to slip an automobile on me. There he was tryin’ to rob me o’ the use o’ my legs an’ about fifteen hundred a year for expenses, an’ build me Into * fat man with indigestion, an’ livei* complaint. I served an injunction on him.”

Women as Accountants.

Pour or five years ago I asked ,M. Magnan, who had just retired from the governorship of the Bahk of France, what he thought of the lady clerks and other employees there. He had a better opinion of them than of their brother employees. It greatly grieved him that he could not apply the principle of an equal wage for an equal task executed in a way that left nothing to be desired. He knew but very few cases of employees being guilty of levity or inattention or slothfulness in tbe discharge of their functions. They took pleasure in doing their best, apart from the hope of promotion. M. Magnan employed women exclusively as sorters of bank notes. They worked quickly and their fingers had an unerring touch In feeling the difference between a bad and a good note. The director of the sorting department (a man) never kfiew the discerning tact of a sorteress to be at fault. ♦A» accountants he thought the average woman better than the average man, both in quickness and accuracy in calculation. —Paris Letter to London Truth.

Bluffing a British Bore.

Arthur Cavlll, swimming instructor at the Multnomah Athletic club, Portland, sometimes comes through with a keenly caustic remark. Recently he sat with some friends at the Hellig, , Justin front of a.box in Which some near-society folk were having a theater party. A very talkative member of the box party was a nasal-toned young Englishman, whose raucous voice was almost continuously heard In a succession of inane small talk. Cavlll and his friends, just in front of the box, were having their nerves worn to a frazzle, but all endured the ordeal in silence until the foghorn tones were uplifted In an insistent inrltation to the cost of the party to visit bis sheep ranch and partake of the hospitality of the sheep camp. "I should be chawmed, dobtcbeknow,” the Englishman- was saying, “to have you 4rpp in any minute, but send me a word ahead, dontcheknow, and I'll kill the fatted calf." “That would be suicide,” said Cavlll, all too audibly, and throughout the rest of the play there was peace.— Portland Oregonian

What He Missed.

“Gracious!” exclaimed Mrs. Goodley. “Just listen to that clergyman! I’m positive he's swearing. Evidently he's missed his vocation.” r “No,” replied her husband; “I think it was bis traia.”—Stray Stories. ,