Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1911 — Page 2

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

City of Winnipeg Owns Its Utilities

WINNIPEG, Man.—Before the close of the present year this city will be looked upon as the greatest exponent of public ownership on the American continent Its investment in public utilities is now more than $30,000,000. It is nearly a quarter of a century since the city council laid the foundation of municipal ownership by buying out the Winnipeg Water Works company and establishing a municipal plant So successful did the venture prove that when the city decided to lay asphalt pavements some years later It was decided to Install a municipal asphalt plant and the many miles of pavement in this city have been laid by it Trouble with the Winnipeg Electric company, which controls the street railway franchise, gas, electric light and power franchise, resulted tn the city voting $3,000,000 for a municipal power plant. Dut on the Winnipeg river, 65 miles from the city, a plant

Seeking Wives for Titled Noblemen

NEW YORK.—American heiresses who may be pining for alliances with Austria’s titled youth need pine no longer. The way is open to them, and the method of acquiring a prince or a count of either the Bohemian or Tyrolean variety is so simple that it Is within reach of all. There is no mystery about it Miss Yrma Bleyer of Vienna has arrived here to arrange it all. “We tn Vienna know,” says the pretty matchmaker, “that in the United States there are many daughters of millionaires who have had every possible luxury showered upon them since their birth, but who long for what has afways seemed to them unattainable, namely, pride of family and social position. I can give them both. "I have on my list two princes, brothers, one twenty-three and the other twenty-five years. Both are officers in the Austrian army, and their regiment is stationed at Vienna. Their family is of ancient lineage and they own two castles in Bohemia. Each has a fortune of $3,000,000. A condition which must be met in the cases of both my princes, should I find wives for them, is that the American girls must bring them fortunes equal to their own.

Whistle Takes Place of Curfew Bell

KANSAS CITY, Kan. —Curfew must ring in Kansas, and its sounding must be hpeded. The W. C. T. U. has determined that 100 little attention is paid to the curfew law, particularly in Kansas City, Kan., and asked the city commissioners to see that it is enforced, in this city, where the sounding of a steam whistle on the packing plant takes the place of the old-time bell, it is alleged that it is no longer “the curfew whistle," but is generally spoken of as "the nine o’clock whistle," from the fact that it sounds at that hour in the evening. Ten years ago the W. C. T. U. took np the matter of the boys’ remaining out late at night and determined to put a stop to it They secured the adoption by most of the city councils of the Shin flower state of ordinances similar to the New England curfew laws. In this city, which was far too large for any bell to be heard in every

State Is to Have Egg-Laying Contest

Mountain grove, mo.— An egg laying contest to begin September 1 and last one year is being arranged by the Missouri Agricultural college and will be held at the state poultry experiment station here. It will Im the first contest of its kind held in America and will no doubt attract much attention among breeders of fine poultry. Australia and New Zealand have similar contests and plans for something of this sort are under way both in Philadelphia and tn San Francisco, but the first in the field with a definite arrangement is Missouri. Entries will be limited to fifty, and the first 50 breeders to make entries will furnish the hens. Each owner is limited to six hens, with the privilege of substituting a hen for one that becomes sick or injured. Fifty pens will be built, exactly alike, and each pen of hens will have the same food and treatment Managers of the contest have made a rule so that each pen with its en

is now nearing completion. The near completion of this plant and the prospects that the city would build its own street railway system, led the Winnipeg Electric company to sell out to the city. The purchase price la $18,000,000. Winnipeg’s telephone system is also conducted under public ownership, for it is a portion of the system extending all over the province and owned by the Manitoba government In this city there are over 17,000 telephones, the rates being $24 a year for residences and S4B for office phones. Winnipeg owns its stone quarries in the vicinity of the city, and there, under a staff of civic employes, mines the products for paving the macadam streets and the crushed stone for many purposes. A force of city employes also collects the garbage and refuse and takes It to the civic incinerators for destruction, and when a Winnipeger dies he can be buried, if he so wills, in the municipal cemetery, for the city owns a large plot of land on the western outskirts of the city, in which its dead have been buried for many years. Thirty years ago Winnipeg was a fur post Now it is one of the most rapidly growing cities on the contW nent and is the largest wheat market in the world.

"There is one of my clients of whom I can -speak freely because he has returned to Austria after a visit to this country, during which he made jour-' neys to several American cities, including St. Louis, Chicago and Cleveland. I refer to Count Hugo Christalnigg. His family estate is at Ystereln, Austria, and he has a fine castle there. “Count Chrlstalnlgg, who Is about thirty, visited America on a furlough of two months and returned to Austria about six weeks ago after meeting several heiresses. Two of them he found to be impossible. One was very pretty of face, but so fat that her fortune of many millions possessed no attraction for the count. Another partook of fried potatoes with her fingers, which may or may not be good form here, but which Is abhorrent to a wellbred Austrian. But he has hopes of finding one that will be possible.”

section, a grave question arose as to how the boys were to know when to “make it home.” After some discussion the packing houses solved the problem by agreeing to blow the whistle at nine o'clock. All was well, and when - the loud blast of the big steam siren, which can be heard forty miles on a clear day, sounded at nine o’clock the boys scampered home. If they did not the policeman took them to the station and they were warned “never again to be oat after curfew." The women were satisfied and all went well. But the boys grew up and neglected to impress on their younger brothers a dread of the curfew. The brothers did not scamper home at the flbund, and the people began to think little of it. Meantime the housewives had become accustomed to regulate their clocks by the sound, and at nine o’clock they went to see if the timepiece lost or gained. The habit spread, and one by one the men grew accustomed to regulate their watches by the whistle. Now every night the watch of each man who works in the city comes out of his pocket almost by force of habit at tne first sound of the whistle.

tries will be designated by number. The owner and the management will know who owns the hens, but no one else will have this Information, unless the owner cares to give it out. This is done to protect an owner in case his bens make an indifferent showing. There will be a number of prizes offered for the best showing at the end of each month, also special prizes for the best showing made by representatives of different breeds. For the result of the year’s contest there will be other valuable prizes and owners who capture one of these will find It worth much to their business, for reports of the contest will be pub lished in newspapers, magazines an poultry journals all over the country

Ribbon Designs

WE seem to be developing more and more, a fancy for flower forms made of ribbon, for all occasions where ribbon is an accessory of decoration. We may have borrowed the original idea from the French, but America boasts the most original and prolific designer of ribbon garnitures. Ora Lue, of New York, has recently discovered for the hostesses off that opulent city, a new world in the possibilities of ribbons and for 'decorative purposes. Dinner tables and drawing rooms of the coming season promise to blossom with unfading flower forms that charm both by their beauty and ingenuity. These forms, used in conjunction with asparagus ferns, smilax and other lasting foliage, make the hostess think twice, when choosing decorations for any social function. The same ribbon serves for many occasions and forms and it is said even its color may be changed. Four designs are given here to be used' at a June wedding where the

GOOD IDEAS IN ETON SUIT

In Heavy Blue Serge, Costume for Young Girl Called Forth' Much Admiration. Such a pretty little Eton suit for a young girl was seen the other day.- It was a heavy blue serge, in the dark reglation shade. The skirt was made quite plain, coming slightly higher than the normal waist line to give the continuous line so becoming to the feminine figure. It was the little jacket, however, which was novel and unusual. It had a deep sailor collar in back, In pointed revers in the front. This collar was of natural colored pongee, edged first with a paint line of brilliant coral silk and below that with a wide black silk braid. Two huge buttons fastened It at the side, yhile the almost long sleeves were finished with turn-back cuffs which carried out the same trimming idea expressed on the collar.

Tiniest Pearis Liked.

Ropes of pearls with tasseled ends were much seen a few seasons ago, but it was thought the fashion would be fleeting. It has, however, proved permanent so far, and has brought along with it the revival of an old plan for making use of the tiniest pearls. There is a fashionable demand for threaded pearl bracelets and other jewelry of strung pearls, devised after the fashion in which children thread beads. The effect is light And graceful and the ornaments are popular among young women. Annie Douglas Graham, fiancee of Jay Gould, has many of the trinkets in her wedding outfit for the hair, throat, wrist and corsage.

Immense Wrist Bags.

'New wrist bags ot black velvet carried at Nice, by smart women are ot an immense size—really larger than anything of the sort ever seen before. Walking, they would seem a real burden; sitting in one’s carriage, laid on the lap. they are highly ornamental. Flat, and mounted with velvet-covered fittings, they are susupended from a chain of fine cut steel; so slender, it seems quite Inadequate to their size; cut steel is woven into the velvet in a deep border and old Gothic designs, trimming both sides alike.—Vogue.

Starching Linens.

For linen articles, table linen, dresser scarfs, or sheer linen waists add a tablespoonful of starch to two gallons water, and they will iron with a stiffness like new; remember always to Iron linen on wrong side first. Wash Starch vessel in hot suds, never cold water; use pieces old underwear with a few buttons ou to save finger nails from bruise*

color scheme is white and green. The rosette, made of white messaline, is shown mounted with smilax and asparagus fern. The effect is delightful. Narrow ribbons are used as well as wide ones and innumerable graceful forms seem to lie asleep in the brain of this ingenious man. Let a whisper reach them that they are needed and they rush to his fingertips. Many- professional women, milliners and others, are taking up this work of ribbon for decoration and it may prove a new profitable accomplishment for them. Ribbons will not supplant natural flowers entirely, but they will bring about a new order of things. Fewer blossoms will be used and greater effectiveness given to those that so appear. We shall be spared the little hurt that lurks in the drooping fading flower because those that are used will be placed in vases while ribbons and foliage will make a marvelous background for them.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

BLOUSE.

A dressy little blouse Is this, that might be made in any soft material. Lace is used for the yoke, edged with a band of silk, to which the material is gathered; two tucks are taken over each shoulder. The sleeves are small puffs set to lace cuffs, headed by bands of silk. Materials required: 1% yard 41 Inches wide, % yard silk 22 inches wide, % yard lace, H dozen buttons.

Practical Novelties.

A most convenient collar box covered with cretonne is of octagonal shape and has a groove in a little inside flap for holding the elusive but, tons, which can be easily slid In and out Among the most useful and attractive of the numerous bags shown are those of tapestry woven in pictures. Some of these are for carrying slippers, fan or opera glasses. One particularly well adapted to the latter purpose is made of a three-tach wide strip of tapestry interlined with stiffening. Thia continuous strip forms the sides and bottom of the bag, the front and back of which are ot plain fabric which is gathered at the top with a cord. A new voluminous darning bag ot cretonne has applied pockets and a needle case on the outside. A particularly dainty and unique fancy bag is in the form of a Chinese lantern.

Old Novelty Revived.

Some of the shops are displaying black overseam kid gloves having the stitching, Paris points and welts tn white. These goods are an old novelty revived and are selling to some extent Silk gloves are beginning to occupy a prominent place in the fashion, the demand for silks opening up much earlier than usual. As with the leather goods, black and white form the bulk of the silk glove sales.

ETIQUETTE OF THE PERSIANS

They Observe Customs Strictly and Their 1 Pressures, Though Limited, •?- Are Usually Refined. The pleasures of the Persians are In the main refined. They havfe not many kinds of recreation. Conversation is one of their chief enjoyments. Although a large proportion of them can neither read nor write I think we must call .them an intellectual people. They are natural linguists and since their country is inhabited by many different races they are obliged to speak several different languages. It is not uncommon to find a man who scarcely knows his right hand from his left who can speak two or three languages fluently; to this number a man of any education whatever would add two or three more. There Is no caste among any of the races found in Persia. A son of Naslr-I-Din Shah’s butler became his prime minister; a peasant girl once became the first favorite of this same king's anderun because she lifted her veil as the king was passing through her native village and her beauty appealed to the royal fancy. But while there is no caste the Persians are in some ways.great sticklers for etiquette. The Zl-i-Sultan, the oldest and the most capable son of Nasir-l-Dln, could not succeed his father on the throne because his mother was not of royal birth. All social functions, moreover, are attended with the most rigid ceremonies and woe to the person who attempts to overstep the bounds which custom has prescribed for his rank. Some barbarous and some absurd customs of earlier times are passing away. One amusing custom of former years is now "almost If not Entirely abandoned. It was once a capital offence for a man to remain in any street through which the foyal"harem was passing. Outriders loudly announced the approach of the ladles and the men hurried down side streets, into shops or houses, or into any other place of safety that they could find. Any man so unfortunate as not to be able to make his escape turned his face to the wall. An eccentric European several years ago met the royal harem unexpectedly in the street; turned his face to the wall, like a native, and as each carriage passed, deliberately bowed backward. This greatly amused the ladles and they told the shah of it. Npw Nasir-i-Din never lost an opportunity to get what amusement there is to be got out of life, so he sent for this man, made him repeat his salutes and, after laughing heartily, gave him a handsome present.—Mary A. Col, quhoun in Los Angeles Times.

Counting Our Hours.

“To count no hours but unclouded ones,” and forget all others, is one way, we are told, of scaling the heights of happiness. To those who knoyv but little of the darker sides of life, and who are as yet Inclined to value their blessings more as rights than as privileges, the advice seems easy to follow, and their only wonder is that it is not more generally heeded. There are many persons, however, to whom an unclouded hour marks some great event in life, and to whom those hours coipe so seldom that to count them in the final results would be to make but a sorry showing. The hours that pass so slowly for some, weighted as they are with cares and responsibilities and sorrow, rush by with amazing speed for others. The hours of all the days of all the years bring their own messages to each one of us. At no time have they ever brought the same message to all. They may duplicate their tidings to many persons, whether those tdings be of joy of sorrow, but never at any one time do the hours mean the same thing for all of God’s people. Either there is joy for thousands and sorrow for millions, or sorrow for thousands and joy for millions, while to countless others the same periods of time are of no special import.

Rain.

The soft thud and patter of rain upon the roof are as musical to the imaginative listener as is any symphony. Monotonous dipping on thickleaved trees soothes one’s weariness, and makes the Importunities of life seem easily resisted. One can be lulled to fair visions during a transient spring shower, and gain the sense of sharing the destiny of nature. But, sometimes, the storm brings moods far from serene when it sweeps along with a kind of fury. Heavy douds make noon as dark as night, the air is thick and ominous, rain pours in sheets of gray that gusts of wind shake into fine mist Trees bow tn the ground under the rush of the whirlwind, and thunder reverberates continually, while often a sharp flash of lightning gives a sudden golden tint to the heavy rain and shows the blackness of the sky. There Is something startling and fearful in the tumult of the storm; it Is as if the laws of nature had broken loose and left the titanic elements to have full swing. Still it is beautiful, a picture in chiaroscuro, illuminated by the unearthly flame of lightning. There is a wild and awful sublimity in the tremendous power, which has wrought such darkness and floods of water, such breathless silence and responding crash and whirl. —Atlantic Monthly.

In Training.

"Why all this marathon exerciser' “It’S a matter of conscience,’’ replied the real estate broker. "I have advertised some houses as only ten minutes’ walk from the station and I want to make good.”

TELLING HIS FORTUNE

AMATEUR SEERESS PICTURES MR. WINSCOMB’B FUTURE WIFE. Description Does Not Tally WlthOne - Given Hint a Week Ago by Another Lady and Coolness ■ Results. ... "Have you ever had your fortune told, Mr. Winscomb?” “Yes. A lady told my fortune only about a week ago.” “.What did she tell you was going to happen to you?" -~ "O, yes, really, I’m awfully interested. You know I tell fortunes—a little —myself. Suppose I tell yours and then you can ftecide whether there’s anything in it or not.* J “Very well. Go ahead.” “I shall have to look at your hand." “Here it is.” “Well, let me see. O, you have an awfully interesting hand. Yqu are going to live a long, long time.” “She told me the same thing.” “And you are going to be —not terribly rich—but fairly wealthy.” “The same thing she told me.” “You have a very strong will. Did the other lady tell you that?” - “Yes.” "And you possess artistic tastes and would have been a successful actor if you had gone upon the .stage.” “You’re getting it just about as she did.” - / “And —and —yes —you are going to be married within a year.” | “Exactly what she told me. Can you see anything about the lady’s personal appearance?” I "She will be about medium else,' with brownish hair 'and beautiful hazel eyes, and —and —” 1 “Go on.-Tjlease.” •*O, I —l-rdon’t believe I can see any morel" “Please look again. Do I know her now?” “Yes. You have known her for several weeks.” “Am I near her at present?" ~ “Yes—l—think so.” "Very near her?” “Why_ w hat do you mean by very near?” ‘ ■ *:: “It’s curious. My fortune as you tell it and as the other lady told IL i» the same up to a certain point. You see she Is rather tall and has blue eyes and lightish hair, so her description of my future wife was not the ■same as you describe her. And there’s another thing. She told me ‘I had known my future wife several months. You say several weeks. You see I’ve known the other lady a good deal longer than I’ve known you. By the way, what beautiful hazel eyes you have. They are hazel, aren’t they?" "Do you believe In fortune-telling?” “I’m afraid I’m a little skeptical still." “Dear me, how late it’s getting.” “You don’t call ten o’clock late, do you?” "Sometimes. But I don’t suppose I should if I were tall and had blue eyes and lightish hair.” When she had slammed the door behind him she switched off the porchlight, earnestly hoping he might lall down the front steps and break his collar-bone.

Realized His New Dignity.

John Barrett, director of the bureau of American republics, once spent a year in Washington trying to break into the consular service. He had no other employment during that time and toward the end of his tedious waft he got pretty short of money and was obliged to eat at the cheapest restaurants in town. One afternoon he was preparing to break a few crackers into five cents* worth of milk at one of those wait-on-yourself restaurants, when a friend came in. “Congratulations,” said the friend. “What on?" asked Barrett. “Why, haven’t you heard? You’ve been appointed consul to Slam!” Without saying a word, Barrett pushed aside his crackers and milk, arose and began to adjust his necktie and coat collar. ’'Well, you’re not going to let the appointment take your appetite, are you?” asked the friend. “Certainly not," replied Barrett, "but it would hardly be proper for the consul to Siam to eat in a place like this. I’m going over to the Willard.”

Small Estates In Jamaica.

In Jamaica 75 per cent of the 155, 051 landed properties are valued at less than |2OO each. Nearly all of these small holdings are owned by negroes who live chiefly on salt fish and on fruits and vegetables, especially yams grown by themselves. Being able to live in this manner with little exertion these peasant proprietors are averse to entering into contracts to labor by the year or even by the month. Hence, in spite of the fact that 95 per cent, of the 862,000 inhabitants of Jamaica are negroes (including mulattoes), it is necessary to employ East Indian coolies on the larger sugar and banana plantations, on which there must be a certain proportion of laborers who may be relied upon for steady work at all times.

A Wise Man.

Prospective Employer—Have you a grandmother? ' , “Prospective Office Boy—No, Sir. - ‘ Prospective Employer—l’ll hire you, but see that you have no addl tlons to the family during the baseball season. . <