Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Page 3

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

CARTER IS A FIGHTING MAN lA. Boy in cr.ll War. Am* Com•hander Won Recognition for CarX% *>!•*• Message Under Fire. - .. The official army record of Mai. l Gen. William H. Carter, who was picked by President Taft to command the army division'assembled at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., gives him the unique distinction among the major" generals of the army of never having served as a volunteer. That record does General Carter an injustice, how* ever, for before he was thirteen years old he joined the Army of the Cumberland as a volunteer and won recognition for gallantry in action by carrying a message across the front of the line of fire. The recognition for that hazardous undertaking came to him in 1868, when he was old enough to take it, In the form of an appointment to West Point. But because he was only a schoolboy and not enlisted in the army, General Carter is denied official record of his service in the Civil war. -A General Carter was bom in Tennessee and lived there until he joined the army. When the opportunity came to see a little of war, young Carter slipped out of school one day and marched off with the Army of the Cumberland. He was too young for a soldier, but he did, the best he could by carrying messages for the officers and grabbing a musket whenever he could and peppering away at the Confederates. f ■ ■ rr-=-' ■ The taste of fighting that he had there gave him a desire to follow a military life and when his gallantry in action was brought to the notice of the war department he immediately was offered an appointment to West Point. He was graduated in 1873, served for a time in the Eighth infantry and then transferred to the

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;cavalry, which was more to his liking. He joined the Sixth, which was {then stationed In Arizona. There he had plenty of opportunity to show that fearlessness which had won him a commission, and that he was fully equal to the occaSlon Is attested by the fact that he wears a medal of honor bestowed by congress for a heroic exploit in the Apache campaign, where Gen. Leonard Wood, then a young army surgeon, won similar recognition. In a light on CiMou creek the soldiers, leaving several badly wounded men on the ground behind them, had been driven along to a place of shelter by the Apaches. No sooner were the troops safely lodged than voluif tears were called to bring In the wounded men. Lieutenant Carter was one of those who volunteered, and In the face of a galling fire from the Indians, who were protected behind the rocks on the hillside, he went forth with two companions, and one by one brought in the wounded. Not long after the Cl bleu creek light the White Mountain Apaches, who were supposedly friendly, left the reservation and took to the warpath. Fort Apache, an Isolated post, was out off by ths Indians, and for a week the members of the garrison, of whom Carter was one, fought heroically to hold off the swarming foe. Death was the least thing feared. There were women in the garrison, and this leaves nothing to be said in further explanation of the horrors that would follow capture. During ths siege Lieutenant Carter bore hli share of the vigil and the' lighting. For a week the command managed to hold off the Apaehes, and then aid came and the troops .were relieved. The arduous service which. Captain Carter had gone through In the field brought him a staff appointment In 1897, when hte jvaa appointed major and assistant adjutant general. He served In the adjutant general's department until 1908, when he Was appointed a brigadier general In the regular army. Two years before that he had been appointed a brigadier general of volunteers and tn the Philippine insurrection he saw his share of the fighting hi the field. Since then he has served on command of various departments of the army.

CALLS CAT MENACE

Says Germs Thrive Upon Them and That Fetlne Is More Dangerous Plaything for Small ChiWnji* * Than Red-Hot Poker. *T- Chicago.—Dr. Qbarles B. Reed, writing to the weekly bulletin of the Chisago health department, declares animal pets, particularly the cat, a menace to health. “The principal obstacle to a, general and truthful realization of the dangers connected with the domestic pet,” he sayß, "is found to be the; sentimentalists who are unwilling to_ admit that anything on which theif affections are centered can become in any degree a menace, “The womag who refuses to give ber child a red-hot poker as a toy has no hesitancy in putting into its arms the more dangerous because more insidious plaything—the family cat “Under normal conditions the germs of nearly all the epidemic and local diseases thrive upon the family cat Even where the cat is not Bubject to the disease, it easily spreads the contagion. In the case of diphtheria,'the ■at not only has the disease, but also carries it upon the mucous membranes and in the fur. Influenza is spread broadcast by fur and feet, and Hawlett recently has shown that as & distributor of the bubonic plague, the cat vies.in virulence with the jmnipresent rat. / - "Ringworm and tapeworm are spread in the same way, and pus terms' find easy lodgment in the :hick hair from which the stroking sand quickly conveys them to the luman body. The germs of typhoid ind tuberculosis are similarly distribited. “It will be urged by the cat fancier hat the cat is of value to man, since t keeps the rats reduced to livable ionditions. We are not . disposed to llspute this possibility, but in our spinion the good rat catcher is exxemely rare, so rare that it is a mater of pride and boast when one is bund. /j- ---“ Both cats and rats are undeniable nenaces to human life, and of two svils, why choose them both. The government scientists declare that :he cockroach preys upon and destroys the bedbug, but no one hesitates on this account to destroy as many cockroaches as possible. “These accusations all are valid against the family, oat, but in much sreater force against the midnight prowler, whd devotes himself unrestrainedly to the collection of germs, the reproduction of his kind and to making the night hideous with his noises.” The proper ventilation, lighting and cleanliness of the picture shows and smaller theaters is a new problem the health department has taken up. The sanitary bureau inspectors have found cases where large air intakes in front were tightly closed up inside, or the heating coils in the ducts far too small. ' ? A thorough blowing out of the house between each act has been recommended as a simple, effective and nearly inexpensive sanitary measure. The health situation in Chicago shows little change in either mortality or morbidity figures over last week.

Inducement to Marry.

Milton, Del. —Unable to keep enough operatives in Its big factory because the young men of the town persist in marrying them, the Milton Shirt & Overall company turned Its misfortune to profit, and now is offering tHb inducement of a speedy marriage to those who will work in the factory. Girls from the country and even some frojp town, who have not yet found husbands, answered the call, and about twenty new operatives entered the factory to learn the work.

EASY TO CUT OWN HAIR

London County Council Member Advocates Unique Plan to Even Matters - With Grasping Barbers, * London. —British barbers very many of whom are not Britons—are trying to introduce the custom of charging double prices for hair cutting to men who shave themselves. Many are the protests Which are appearing in the correspondence columns of the newspapers, and Walter Reynolds,of the London county council Is one of the most vigorous In denouncing the attempt “They will very ebon pay the penalty of their follyhe said to an Interviewer. “For my part, not only do I shave myself, hot I have cut my own hair for 88 yean. Any man can learn to cut his own hair with a little practice, and any barber who would undertake to teach men all that Is necessary for them to know pbout hair cutting, charging half a dollar for Instruction, would make a fortune. “A pair of long scissors costs half a dollar and a long comb with ahort teeth can be bought tor about ten cenpi. AH that Is then required Is a triple dressing glass. Ido not cut my hair at regular Intervals. I Just trim It whenevsr It looks untidy and am therefor# always able to keep It unlMI L- ' ‘1 began cutting my own hair, because. In 1889, when I happened to be tn Paris with my wife, a barber gave me a French crop and I came back to

SLAYERS OF A BRITISH OFFICIAL

LONDON.— it has now been officially confirmed that Noel Williamson, assistant political officer at Sadiya, Lakhimpur, with Dr. Gregorson and a party of coolies, was murdered on the ABsam border by Abon, while on a friendly mission. After he had been killed, his coolies, who had been enticed into a house, were also attacked, and only one or two escaped. The Abora are a turbulent people, whose name means “independent,” and who describe themselves “as tigers; and two cannot dwell in one den.”

DIFFER ON GIRL'S EXERCISE

Harvard and Amherst Experts Engage In Controversy Over Woman's Muscles—Tough aa Men. Cambridge, Mass.—A controversy between Dudley A. Sargent, Harvard’s famous strength expert, and Prof. John M. Tyler of Amherst college, as to whether grammar school girls should have physical exercise, waa a feature of a recent session of the American Physical Education association, held at the Girls’ Normal school. Professor Tyler said too much exercise was being prescribed in the schools and colleges for adolescent girls. “Women always are and constitutionally ought to be tougher than men," he continued, “yet there is a high death rate among girls from fourteen to eighteen.*’ “The day for heavy exercises for women has not gone by, M said Doctor Sargent, following. "It has just come in. When your little girl begins to climb fences and trees you don’t want to tell her not to do heavy work; that 1b what she should be doing. Women have just as many muscles as men, and there is no reason why they should not use them. We are stlU afflicted with the Impression that it Is not ladylike to exercise.”

her at the hotel with my head almoßt shaved. J “The atrocious American club cut, which Is universal In the United States, Is often forced upon Englishmen. I mean the straight line, at the back with the skin shaved, below 1L ■ It Is ugly and It Is unhygienic, for the hair grows naturally down the neck to keep the sun off and avert chills. There Is always a risk of disease In the barber’s neckcloth and towels, even If the scissors are sterilized. “By cutting your own hair and shaving yourself you are keeping on the safe side all the time. Barbers also think too much of the tips and you are utterly at the mercy of the barber wbo thinks you win not tip him.”

Soda Watsr Quenches Fire.

Marietta, Pa.—Fire In tbs laboratory of Lebhart's drag store was extinguished with soda water and bird seed. The clerk hurried to the cellar, unloosed a soda tank charged with 260 pounds pressure, carried it to the first floor and turned on the fizz. While he was using the soda watsr another clerk grabbed packages of bird manna containing grit and threw It on the fire.

Fright Restores Faculties.

New York.-—Oscar Settner, deaf and dumb for two yean from the effects of a fall from the roof of bis home, had his faculties restored through fright at an approaching trolley oar.

DISASTER FOR ARDENT LOVER

New Yorker Attempted to Climb to Lady's Bower Via Dumbwaiter and Encounters Janitor. - New * York.—Love started George Pearce for the presence of bis adored one In a dumbwaiter the other day, but dropped him In Jail. Ernest Herter, janitor of No. 404 East Ninetyfirst street, operated the switch that threw Pearce off* the Cupid main line, booked for the apartments of Mrs. Bertha Klelnknecht, on the top floor, and put him on the Blackwell’s Island local. Magistrate Herbert, in the Hary. lem court sentenced Pearce after hearing Mrs. Klelnknecht. “Judge,” she said, “I got a letter In every mall from this fellow for a week. First In the mornings comes a lettergram by the telegraph, telling me he loves,me. Then some letters. The postman is worn out and there apt holes In the carpet to the door. “When evening comes and. the letter carrier has made his last trip then telegrams begin. Sometimes three before I could get to bed with the door bell cut off for the night And I don’t even know the man." “How did he get your name?” the magistrate asked. “Judge, he didn’t get my name,” answered Mrs. Klelnknecht “He addressed everything to “The Lady on the Top Floor,’ and he signed them all ’A Man With a Heart’ I wish he had lees heart and more sense.” Herter, the janitor, glared at Pearce, as he took the stand. ‘l’m near about crazy with that man,” Herter said. “I had to neglect my work to watch for him. If I left the dumbwaiter a minute be was In It ringing Mrs. Klelnknecht's bell and trying to call Ice’ with a foreign accent so she would pull him up. I’ve chased him out of the front door and the basement so often ( that neighbors have been around asking me It I am training for a Marathon. Today he ran up thehteps and I caught him on the roof.” _ “Your honor,” said Pearce, “my only crime Is loving too much. Could you but know the passion—” “Six months,” said the court

To Muster Million Men.

Berlin. —Germany will have under arms In connection with the field .maneuvers' this summer practically 1.000,000 men. In addition to the regular army strength of 622,000 men, over 366,000 reservists win be called to the colors, making a total effective of strength for the army of 977,698. Adding to these the men serving with the fleet, an armed force of considerably more than a million will be engaged in the gigantic war game,

Chewing Gum Famine.

Chicago.—A chewing gum famine is threatened in Chicago as a result of the strike of chewing scum makers, who want shorter hours and 1»> creased pay.

MEANEST WOMAN IS FOUND

Despicable Trick That Or* From Ltm Angeles Played on Her Kansas City Frtand. We often hear of tho meanest man, and his delinquencies are exposed to b scornful world with merciless severity, hut little Is said of the meanest woman, on the theory, presumably that the dear creatures are so sweet and ethereal that the quality of meanness does not abide In their composition, the Kansas City Journal says: But assuming, for the sake of argument, that an attractive woman could be mean, the meanest one has certainly been found in Kansas City, according to the following testimony: One day this week, so the story goes, a very pretty young woman gave a photograph of a rather good-looking young man to a negro maid at the Union depot. On the back was the following inscription: "To Evelyn— The best little girl in the world. May she always remain so. Fred.” The young woman also gave the maid a smaller picture of the same young man, bound in an attractive silver frame. “I’m going away to my home, out to Los Angeles,” she said, "and I don’t want to carry these pictures with me. I’ve written to my chum to come here and get them. I’ve been visiting her. He is ber husband and a dandy fellow.” Speaking of Adam laying the blame on Eve, here is a piece of pure, unadulterated meanness; if the revealed faots are not wholly misleading, that beats Adam and his tribe to thp present generation “all hollow.” The girl had accepted the young man’s attentions, likewise his bonbons, joy rides, thrilling whispers on the stairs and all the stolen sweets that go to make up the menu of forbidden fruits that relieve life’s dull inonotony and likewise play hob with domestic happiness. Not only had she accepted hie. advances, but the circumstantial evidence—though some people profess to doubt the validity of evidence of that sort —goes to show that she had not been wholly a passive quantity in the moods and tenses of the affair. And yet, when the fnn Is over - and the stolen fruits are sucked dry, she leaves a sour lemon in their place for the husband and wife to divide between them. There are a few mean men in this dreary old world, but one has yet to be found mean enough to stir up, through a sheer spirit of wantonness and malevolence, discord where peace and love reigned before. It takes a woman to win confidence and then put a bitter drop in another woman’s cup of happiness.

Biblical Mathematician.

An interesting problem In mathematics assumes the form of a tradition, connecting itself with the name of Josephus, the Jewish historian. After the Romans had captured Jotopst, so the story runs, Josephus and 40 others sought shelter In a cave. So afraid were they of falling Into the hands of the Romans that all of them excepting Josephus and one other man ’resolved to kill themselves. The wit of the historian began to work, devising a scheme to save himself and tills other man who was likemlnded with himself. He therefore proposed that they all stand in a semicircle, and that they put each other to death, killing every third man In regular order, and that the last surviving man should then commit suicide. This agreed upon, be was careful to place his likemlnded comrade In the -sixteenth place In the line and himself In place 81, with the result that the two were the last that were left, and by this means escaped death. It is a true problem, and the question was to know before the killing began which number In line the two friends should assume.

Echoes Toid Location of Icebergs.

Captain Anderson of the Scandtnav-lan-Amqjrlcan liner Kentucky, from Copenhagen said recently: “Life on the sea la being made easier not so much by science as by common sense. When the Kentucky was to the eastward of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, In a dense fog, the temperature began to drop and the atmosphere Indicated the presence of Icebergs. “We were at a loss to tall whether they were ahead, astern, or abeam. I thought of an experiment. I had the whistle blown, the sound waves struck the huge masses of floating loe, and by means of echoes we were able to tell the location of the icebergs, and steered to the southward, away from the drifting bergs.

Russia Versus New York.

The other day the New York papers carried a rather remarkable “story ” A Russian named Mark Selboff, wbo escaped from the convict mines In Siberia, announced that ho waa tired ot trying to gain a livelihood In Now York; that the competition was so great and the strain so hard that the mines of Siberia were preferable He had saved up bis scant savings until b# bad enough to got a ticket back to Russia, and ho was leaving to re-enter the mines. This Is certainly not a glowing tribute to the land of great freedom from a man wbo baa com* out of that which la pictured as the one ot deep gloom sad greet tribulation. > V

Young Grammarian.

Teacher —B»nnny, In the sentence, "I bare a book,” what ts the case of tha pronoun I? Sammy (promptly) Nominative Teachar—Next boy, tell me ts what ease to put tha noun “book.” Next Boy (thoughtfully)—Bookcaauf -Tit Bits ,

MONKEY WITH MEDAL

MAtCOT OF H. M. S. VIGILANT It DECORATED FOR SERVICE. % ■* ■•"'-I' •wjKgSSI i ... ■ Jenny, a Simian From the Andaman Islands, Went Through Abyssinian Campaign and Liked the Roar,Of Battle. Nearly every warship has had a pet aboard at one time or another, bah very few of these animals have ever attained the distinction accorded to Jenny, the mascot of H. M. S. Vigilant, who served through the Abyssinian campaign and was discharged with a service medal, suitably inscribed with her name and rating, suspended by a sliver chain about her hairy neck. Jenny was found In the Andaman islands, where no monkeys were supposed to exist, and she belonged to a new species. Her body was covered with long, light gray hair, much finer and Bllkler than the hair of the average simian; her head was unusually, broad between the ears, her eyes larger than others of her kind and’ her hands more like those of a human being. ' Jenny was about a year old when captured, and at first was very wild, but from Constant petting she quickly grew tame and took to life on the ocean wave like a duck to water. Every man aboard the ship, from Captain Brown down to the cook, took turns at educating Jenny, and as she was amazingly Intelligent IV never needed more than two or threq lessons to teach her what she must or must not do. She was permitted the run of the vessel, and never betrayed the trust reposed In her by an act of wanton mischief. Jenny showed a marked fondness for something to nurse and pet, and adopted a half-grown chicken as her baby, rocking it in her arms for hours at a time, much to the chicken’s disgust. When it died —probably from too much affection —Jenny moped and was Inconsolable. One of the sailors made a rag doll for her, but finding it was not alive she promptly threw it overboard. She had her own hammook slung with the men and turned in when they' did. She never was able to learn to lash her hammock, though she made many attempts to do so. She always was in her particular place at the mess tabls, ate with a fork and spoon, drank from a cup, and learned to like tea with milk and sugar. Her favorite dish was corn meal and molasses. She also relished a glass of grog and enjoyed a pipe, which she filled and lighted without assistance. Jenny showed no fear of firearms and kept her station on deck whan the batteries wars roaring. When the Vigilant reached England after a four years’ cruise and her crew was mustered out, Jenny was presented to the London zoo.

Jupiter's the Sky Thief.

The planet Jupiter has been found guilty, on both direct and circumstantial evidence, of stealing comets, says Prof. D. J. McAdajn, writing In Harper’s Weekly. There are some thirty comets whose orbits lie so close to Jupiter's that the homage which they seem to pay to him cannot be accidental. Rut Jupiter has been caught red-handed. In 1787, as s certain comet was passing Jupiter's orbit on Its 48-year period, Jupiter tried to steal It and succeeded in reducing Its period to one of five and a half years. But Jupiter cannot catch every comet which he attacks. In 1779 he tried again, and his greed spoiled his work. He pulledout the period of its orbit from five and a half to twenty-seven yean. In 1889 Jupiter pulled back the orbit to one of seven yean and spilt it Into five pieces. His next chance will arrive In 1981, when he may capture or destroy it

Literary Persons Inferior Penmen.

The handwriting of literary mm is supposed to hare improved during recent years, but thaw are still a few with a fondness for helroglyphlcs. At a meeting of the Methodist conference in Melbourne, Australia, the other day Rev. Dr. Fltchett, author of “Deeds That Won the Empire," and other popular works, handed up a resolution. The president looked at It, turned ft upside down and roundabout, and at length gave it np in despair. The clerk was equally unable to decipher It “I must ask Brother Fttchett ” said the presided!, “to be good enough to rewrite his resolution and try to make It readable. At present it resembles a doctor's prescription.”

Deep-Seated Notion About Reading.

The desire to make persona read la one of. the most curious obsessions of the American librarian. Where It does not take the pestiferous form of trying to browbeat people to read “useful” and “Instructive” books when they want amusing books, it becomes an attempt to turn reading for pleasure Into reading tor duty. It will apparently take generations to remove from the head* of many persons the de*|>~ seated notion that the reeding of a book (no matter how noble aa a work of literature) simply and purely .and absolutely for pleasure with no ulterior motive of pecuniary gain, increase of knowledge, education or culture, that such reading Is not a little sinful - *

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