Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1911 — Page 3

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

GEN. GRANT AT COLD HARBOR Gon. Lee's Victory Added Fresh Levrets to Southern Leader's Brow > and Gave New Hope. General Grant and his leglane of the Second, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth corps and a -portion of Sheridan’s cavalry, after having literally tramped through blood in the Wilderness, at Laurel HUI, Spottsylvania and North Anna, on the way to Richmond, began to concentrate at Cold Harbor, a few miles from Richmond, June 1, 1864, writes Lieut Col. J. A. Watrous in the Chicago Record-Herald. There was a sharp fight that day, and for nine days that devoted army, whose losses from May IB approximated 40,000 killed, wounded and prisoners, was constantly under musketry and cannon firing, engaged In several of the most bitterly con- , tested actions of the campaign from Culpepper and Appomattox. At Cold Harbor General “Baldy" Smith’s corps, the Eighteenth, joined ;the Army of the Potomac and took part tn those memorable battles which threatened Richmond so greatly that President Davis, other high officials and many citizens were prepared tc .flee at an hour’s notice, trains having been kept in waiting to convey them out of the reach of the northern army. There Was warfare in all of its savagery at Cold Harbor. Both armies fully realized the importance of every move. General Lee and his men felt that they must fight as never before to save the capital of the Confederacy and Generals Grant and Meade and their followers realized the need of a successful issue of the Cold Harbor engagements. General Grant's army was at a great disadvantage throughout the Cold Harbor campaign. June 2, at short time , 'before sundown. General Lee concentrated a large force on the Union right, and made a fierce attack upon General Burnside’s Ninth corps. The Ninth corps was driven back and swung partially in the rear of the Fifth and Second corps. Reinforce ments, hurried to the aid of the Ninth, succeeded in repulsing the onslaught iand in driving back the victorious Confederates to the position they held 'before the attack was made. That battle did not end until dark. All along both lines, Union and Confederate, trenches, not unlike graves, had been dug for protection. Scores of men who exposed themselves in the performance es duty or through curl-

Battle Didn't End Until Dark.

oslty were killed and fell Into these grave-like trenches. The movement of the troops from ithe right and left of Hancock's Second corps to supporting distance of that peerless soldier’s position gave warning that a desperate assault was soon to be made. The whole army was jfn waiting, and expected to partlciipate. The battle came with a mighty clash, and a charge as heroic as Pickett’s at Gettysburg. Within a short space of time there fell on June 3, 1864, at Cold Harbor, 17,000 men, killed or wounded. It was a disastrous Union defeat The. result was well calculated to dishearten the splendid army that had fought so many times and suffered so frequently without much gain for its cause. But, strange to say, as well as fortunate to say, It did not lose confidence; it was still hopeful, it was still as determined as was its unyielding, hopeful, confident commander, the silent Grant. Just before the army left Cold Har>bor there took place, out of range of rifles but not of cannon, a meeting and .a parting that was pathetic. One June 11,1864, the Iron Brigade began to dissolve. The three years of the Second Wisconsin had expired, and they were relieved from the battle line and sent jhome for mustering out It weuld have been natural for the men of the Second to be overjoyed at permission to go home after three years of such work as they had done. But there were faces as sad among the little iparty as tt marched away as were found among those of the Sixth and ißeventb Wisconsin, Nineteenth Indiana and Twenty-fourth Michigan, who soberly watched them until /they disappeared over the MIL

IN DEFENSE OF KISS

Healthy Couples May Indulge In It Without Fear. .

So Says Harvard Expert on Bacteria , —Moreover, Kissing Is of Ineac- timable Value In Domestic and Social Life. ■ Dr. A. M. Worthington, professor tn the Harvard Medical school and an expert on bacteria, says there is no reason “why healthy and well-inten-tioned couples should not ‘Visa to their hearts* content’’ These are cheerful words. After the long series of boding prophecies from the germahlacs they breathe restfully upon the spirit They lift the weight of a great apprehension from millions. However, they will probably have slight effect on the annual output of kisses. As little as the boding prophecies have had. Kissing is hardly affected by scientific opinion. People kept at it right along, careless of the gulf that was said to be opening at their feet Now that the gulf is filled, they will not decrease their efforts. What is the secret of the extraordinary hold on popular affection that the kiss has unquestionably secured? We think this question is usually only half answered. The pleasure of the kiss is dwelt on. But its downright usefulness is not mentioned. And yet none of all the devices which are familiar to our society has less reason to Shrink from a strict utilitarian judgment than the kiss. It renders value received in good hard service on many an occasion. It is frequently the only thing that can be successfully employed under certain circumstances. A husband returns from his office, his club or perhaps a short journey. His wife wants to know whether he has been violating his New Tear’s resolution not to drink. To ask him -means coldness, perhaps a quarrel. What does she do? She kisses him, and thus learns everything. A young- wife shows a tendency to ask her husband a lot of embarrassing questions. For the life of him be cannot frame an answer that suits him. He hasn't done anything wrong, of course. But it is one of .those cases where almost any statement seems suspicious. What does he do under those circumstances? Kisses her. That is sufficient answer for a young wife. It is hardly necessary to remind the ladies how useful the kiss is for ’ social purposes where other ladles are concerned; how expressive the manner of its giving and its temperature to the recipient and others present So used, it becomes a symbol of everything from friendship to Corsican stilettoes. It is really indispensable.—Chicago Record-Herald.

Supply of Gasoline.

Gasoline Is practically a by-prod-uct of petroleum, which was formerly allowed to escape because it was too light a fluid for illuminative purpose. Some wells produce a crude oil which is exceptionally rich in this substance. There would appear to be no reason to fear that the supply will fall short, since developments disclose more and larger petroleum deposits continually. It might not be safe to say that the supply is unlimited, but there is no special reason for claiming that there will be any shortage in the production for many years to come. Science attempts no ejaculation of the quantity of petroleum in the earth, nor has it settled the question whether it is of organic derivation or not Opinion seems to incline towards a belief in a relationship between the oil and huge reservoirs of magmatic waters underlying large portions of the crust of the earth, in which case it is possible that incalcuably great quantities of it have still to be considered and worked. Prices are controlled mainly by the Standard Oil company, and are considered to be at least highly remunerative. It is unlikely they will be materially advanced unless some cataclysm should overtake the whole petroleum industry.

Marjorie's Decision.

Three little girls were playing. The mother of one came into the room and engaged the children in conversation. “Marian, what are you going to be when you grow, up?" she asked. “I am going to be a famous singer,** she replied. “And you, Susie, what are you going to be?” ; “O, I am going to write stories when I grow up,’’ she answered. “And what is Marjorie to be?" continued the mother. Marjorie, aged five, thought seriously a moment and then said: “Well, I am not sure, but I think I’ll be a widow.” —Chicago Journal.

Doctor's Error of Value.

"It took a doctor and a mistaken diagnosis to get me out of the hardware business thirty-five years ago,” said K. D. Bishop of Cleveland, one day this week. “I was In business with John Huntington and hard work ran me down pretty well. And I didn’t know how to get out "It was then a physician told me that I had consumption and that I’d be a goner inside of a year if I didn’t hike to Colorado. On that representation John let mp out and that was all I needed. For, having no consumption, I needed no Colorado cure, nor any other cure,

WEST POINT NOW RUN BY ELECTRICITY

"GUARD MOUNT" AT WEST POINT

FIFTY miles north of New York City stands the great military academy of the United States, West Point. If it had been demanded by its founders that an exquisitely beautiful and peaceful location should be secured for this, nothing more perfect could have been obtained than the remarkable promontory on which this training school for warriors has been placed. The scenery on every side is charming. Glorious indeed are the glimpses which one gains here of the Hudson’s winding shores, to which history, poetry and legend give undying interest. Blue in the sun, fi'ecked with light shadows from the passing clouds, or dark and wrathful ’neath a storm, this river is a constant source of pleasure and fascination. Paths of ideal beauty , wind, about these hillsides, sun-sheltered by the trees and rendered cool and fragrant by the breezes from the moving stream. Old Rhenish castles, it is true, do not remind us here of feudal times, but history has left some traces •even on these banks which stir the heart of an American patriot During the war of. the revolution West Point was one of our most important military posts, from which our troops were sent out to their various battlefields. But it x is the preparation of the cadets’ food that this article has to deal.

The process of preparation of food for a large number of people is always interesting, but especially so when it is prepared under military discipline and almost entirely by electricity, as is the case at the military academy. The kitchen at West Point is always scrupulously clean, and is inspected with even more care than the other departments of the academy, for the officers in- charge know full well that the proper kind of food cooked carefully plays no small part in the mental and physical training of young men. “A place for everything and everything in its place,’* is the motto of West Point’s chef, and those who work under his direction must follow the same rule or be discharged. Military discipline is everywhere in evidence, and there is none of that bustle and searching for things at the last minute when meals are to be served so often found at our institutions. Every man has his duties and he must perform them at a certain time without interfering with the work of anyone else. Almost everything is prepared by electricity, but man must be present to touch the lever at the proper moment Meals are served promptly and do not vary five minutes during the entire year. The cadets study by schedule, and the chef plays his part when he has the meals on the minute.

The preparation of the food for the mess is one of West Point’s most interesting features and has been commented on most favorably by army officers from all parts of the world. Lord Kitchener during his recent visit spoke in the most complimentary terms of the men in charge of the mess after he had made a thorough inspection of the mysteries of the electric kitchen. Several Japanese officials have been likewise interested, as was Prince Tsai Toa, the uncle of the Chinese emperor, who recently came to this country to study army methods.

All the bread used at West Point is baked by electricity and mixed by the same power. The whole baking from start to finish is completed without the hands of the baker touching it at all except to push the pans into the open. The great wooden bowl in which the dough is mixed has several funnels leading to it —one comes from the flow department, another from the yeast, and still another contains water. By touching a lever the funnel is made to open and as much of each of the ingredients as is required goes into the mixer. Another lever sets the machine in motion and the dough is mixed. The loaves are then cut by the same power and fall from the cutting machine into the baking pan in regular order. The cutter may be set for any size and is frequently used for rolls, a thousand of which are baked each day," together with more than one hundred loaves of bread. Once a week fifty cinnamon cakes are made —these, too, by electricity. All the eggs used in cooking are beaten by electricity and one hun-

dred eggs are soon brought to the regulation lightness without the least labor to the cook, who merely presses' a button starting the eggbeater, and then goes off to attend to something else. The housewife who labors an hour to bring eggs to the proper lightness for sponge cake can more readily appreciate the labor-saving qualities of the electric eggbeater than anyone else. It is no uncommon thing .for a hundred eggs to be, beaten in this manner, for egg custard is one of the favorite deserts of the cadets. The electric potato peeler is the greatest labor-saving device in the kitchen and is the invention of an army officer. About five barrels of potatoes are used daily, and the whole amount can be peeled in half an hour. A bushel of, potatoes are .put into the machine at a time,’ the lever Ts" fur Add; which sets the knives going, and inside of five minutes the whole bushel of potatoes, perfectly pared without the least waste, falls into a tub. The Chinese prince was so delighted with this useful apparatus that several bushels of potatoes were peeled for his amusement. There is also an electric apparatus for cutting potatoes into various shapes. Nearly two hundred gallons of milk is sterilized every morning by the electric sterilizer, for the surgeons at West Point are determined to be sure that the milk used by the cadets shall be free from bacteria. The absence of unclean dishes about the kitchen is refreshing, for it is an ironclad rule that each pan or dish must be washed Immediately after use. The dishes are placed in a large wire basket, the inevitable button is pressed, which' causes the' bucket to sink into scalding water, where it revolves for a few minutes, and the dishes are thoroughly washed: Another lever lifts them to trays, where they are turned out to dry. The dishes used at dinner by between 400 and 500 cadets can be washed and put away by two persons in this manner in half an hour. Uncle Sam is an economical housekeeper and Insists that there shall be no waste. Indeed, the average housekeeper would be surprised to learn how economical the chef at West Point is in his work, as it shows by the accounts which are turned it to the quartermaster each day. All the silver used in the mess hall is polished by electricity, and it is remarkable how easily the most elaborately chased pieces are cleaned and how the brush reaches the tiny corners and cleans in a few minutes a piece of silver which would require hours of handwork. The kitchen range is a model of cleanliness; in fact, the whole atmosphere of the kitchen suggests cleanliness and well-cooked, daintily served food. The chef knows the appetites of the cadets, and does his best to please them in his menu. The bill of fare varies each day, and there is little complaint about the food. Those in authority realize that boys who are growing and who have as much exercise as a cadet require plenty of food and of the most nourishing quality. Special dishes are prepared for the athletes who are in training, and certain articles of food are tabooed, especially pastry.

Memories of English Writers.

At Rose Cottage, formerly occupying the site of the Southwest Town Hall, lived Thomae Binney, the hymn writer, and there he entertained Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe during her stay in London. At Rowbotham’s academy, hard by Rose Cottage, John Ruskin attended school. In other side streets off the Walworth road were born Michael Faraday and Emily Andrews, afterward Mrs. Coventry Patmore and the insplrer of “The Angel In the House." Within a stone’s throw of Camberwell Green are the birthplaces of Robert Browning and Professor Joqrett, while Denmark Hill must always be remembered as the lifelong home of Ruskin. Dulwich, too, as everyone knows, is full of famous memories. Byron is said to have attended a school In the neighborhood and Dulwich Woods were the favorite haunt of the youthful Browning.— PaU Mall Gazette.

Beauty of Cucumber.

As a quick annual climber the wild cucumber Is not surpassed, while Its dainty foliage and light blossoms give it an airy effect that is charming.

ODD ANIMAL FAMILIES

SOME STR A NOE ADAPTATIONS HAVE BEEN NOTED. Friendly Relations Often Formed Be* tween Cats and Dogs—Story of French Chicks That Had a Feline Foster Mother.

The cases in which cats and dogs have formed close relations are, at course, too numerous to mention. It really seems as if there were no animal friendship so strong and lasting as that between cats and dogs when once it is formed. It is well known that mother cats when deprived of their new-born progeny will adopt puppies, rabbits, monkeys or almost any other tender young creatures that may be handy. But there recently came to light a case for which there is ho such apparent explanation. A cat and a female fox terrier, which had brought into the world their progeny at about the same time, deliberately swapped their young, the cat taking the puppies to bring up and the dog the kittens. The exchange was satisfactory, and both litters were brought in good health to the weanable stage. Nobody knows what led to such abnormal conduct. A somewhat similar case is reported from Halle, Germany. A householder there having a female cat and a female dog with families of young, felt that his house was in danger of becoming a sort of Noah's ark, and took away and drowned all the kittens. The puppies found favor in his eyes. • Deprived of her little ones, the cat began to “spell” the female dog in taking care of the puppies. As soon as the mother dog left her nest the bereaved mother cat crawled into it and nursed the puppies. Nothing loath, the puppies took all that came to them, and throve prodigiously. The cat licked them and took care of them as she would have taken care of her own.

A certain cat, the story of whose career is vouched for by a cat club, adopted a-littesp-of young rabbits and nourished them well. This cat was, for that matter, very sociable and inclusive in her likings. One year her constant companion was a chicken. The two ate habitually out of the same dish and slept every night in the same inclosure. There is an authentic story of a male and a female cat in France that, lived on terms of perfect amity with all the animals on the place—dogs, chickens and what not It so happened that a hen which had a brood of seven chickens was killed accidentally. The cat, which some two weeks before had been deprived of her kittens, appeared to observe the predicament of the seven little chickens. She crawled into their-nest and the chickens, looking for warmth, nestled into her warm fur, peeping gratefully. The chickens, fed by their owner, throve perfectly, and every day the strange sight was presented of their following the mother-cat about the premises, as if expecting her to And them food after the manner of a ben.—New York Press. .

What Should Be Done With Parents.

It seems remarkable that with aboift sixteen thousand new criminal statutes recorded each year nothing has yet been done for the regulation of parents. Children are daily, nay, hourly, subjected to mortification because their parents commit some breach of modern etiquette or betray hopeless ignorance on some vital point, and this goes on day after day and year after year and nothing is done about tt Too much, of course, should not be expected of our modern parents; that they know nothing of geography is, for example, not necessarily to be laid to their discredit But that they are hopelessly ignorant of slang, that they sniff at cigarettes and. rouge and that they like to see plays where the villain meets his just due and virtue its reward, and that they wear shockingly old-fashioned clothes, are all 'matters for public as well as private concern. What are we to do with parents who never drink anything stronger than lemonade, leave their spoons in their coffee cups, refuse to sit in roof gardens until midnight and dislike to ride in a motor going more than thirty miled an hour? —Life.

Mating.

“This is the mating season," said a clergyman. "I shall add appreciably to my income by mating youths and maidens in this soft, brilliant weather.” He smiled. "I mated a girl yesterday," he said, "to a youth With a rather thick head. At the beginning of the ceremony I said to him: ** ’You are to repeat this after jne.’ "And then, prior to beginning the declaration, I whispered: " ’Take her right hand.’ " ’Take her right hand,* the stupid fellow bellowed, and everybody In the church laughed. "Afterward he couldn’t get the ring on the bride’s finger. ’“Wet It,’ I whispered. "And acting on my advice, he put her little white finger in his mouth, and, after lubricating It thoroughly, succeeded In making the ring slip on.”

Its Style.

’’Do you know her cool impudence Is like a condiment to the others’ conversation." "Yes; something of what you might call Chill sauce.”

WHAT IS A HUSBANDETTE?

We are Indebted to the undaunted! sisterhood matching on toward emancipation, and whole successwe can now scarcely doubt, for the hew worth "husbandette.” Compacted into that rather imposing-looking Word, wes may imagine some of the' asperity! that doesn’t otherwise get-itself pressed tn the caastic oratory thaC marks the meetings of the-more vanced battlers for the 'right .MWI against masculine oppression. We are tpld that a hust&ndette id ' “a married man who will neither fain low nor accompany his wife in her political flights, nor is he grilling to permit her to broaden mentally and politically. He prefers her to keep her ideas of freedom shut up in a tiny space: Also,” continues thin enlightener, “the husbandefte is'to the modern) woman what the kitchenette is to the modern apartment.” With this further explanation, we are rather more confused than if the architecturally domestic simile had not been subjoined to the description - that preceded it< t r,. To the grave and for thd most partunimaginative male rirfnd', “husbandette," from its very orthography,, would more readily suggest the deferential person united by the law and. by annexation and subjugation to the superior being who says: “I and Mr. Smith think thug and so.” The suffix “etta” in its English usage indicates something inchoate, not fully in possession of its powers and faculties, still nebular, perhaps, with potentialities that may er may * not find development according to the removal or nonrcanoval of hindrances natural or artificial. In this inanimate world* its meaning is clear enough. A wagonette is a little wagon, or a lighter one than the standard; a serviette a small napkin, pantalette an abbreviated trouser. It is for this reason of its implication of diminution that “kitchenette” means an abridged kitchen. Huabandette would thus by . extension, as the lexicographers say, be an abridged husband, which is as near as we can come to what We are driving at—St Louis Globe-Democrat. /

Tact That Made Friends.

There is on record a tale of a pineh , of snuff that turned enemies into friends. A well-known tobacco and snuff manufacturer’s son entered one of the crack English Cavalry regiments, to the great disgust of the aristocratic “gentlemen and officers” thereof. It was privately decided to make the intruder feel that he was not wanted in that exclusive unit of the service, and a neat plan was formed with that object As soon as the dessert was over and the wine was on the rounds, on the first night he appeared at mess his brother officers simultaneously took out their pocket handkerchiefs, and then ensued what was more like a sneezing competition than anything else. The one for whose benefit this little hint was intended looked around a moment in mild astonishment before taking in the lmpc<? of the display. Tjien he rose, dignified and calm, and with the politest air in the world, “Gentiemen,” he said, taking out a silver-mounted snuff box, “allow me to offer you a pinch of my father’s very best snuff.” From that moment all antagonism was at an end. *-•

Photographing the Sea Bottom.

In France experiments have been made that promise considerable success In submarine photography. A specially constructed camera was carried down by a diver to a depth of twenty-two or twenty-three feet, and, with an exposure of half an hour, negatives were obtained, which were fairly satisfactory. It was found that the best results were obtained by placing a blue glass In front of the lens. It is Intended to have Improved lenses specially eonstructed for underwater work in . France. Flashlight photographs of the sea bottom during a storm have been obtained. This light was furnished by an alcohol lamp fed by a reservwtr of oxygen. Magnesium powder was projected Into th< flame through a tube from the shore. It is thought that such flashlight photographs may be made at any depth to which a diver may descend.—Harper’s Weekly.

A Vain Precaution.

Lord Talbot De Malghlde was talking In New York about the thoroughness of the customs investigations. "The smuggler ” he said, “Is bound to be detected if he txtoa his little game In your metropolis. The smuggler’s precautions agalnjA detection at this admiral-managed-: port are as vain and ludicrous aatho ■precautions of the dreaming IriahwiSn. .-An Irishm*# JKow, once dreamed that be was vUftlng the late Queen Victoria. “ wjj ’’ ‘Will you have a drink?* the queen said to him. *1 will,’said the Irishman. A drop of Irish, av coorse, hot ¥y preference, your majesty.* "So the queen put on the kettle, but when the water Kboiled, the noise awoke the dreanwtU "’Holy Bt. Patrick!’ said he, 111 take it cold nett Hine!’ ”

Consolation.

Mrs. New gold (in the picture gab lery)—This. Aunt Bunice, Is a real’ old master. Aunt Eunice—Well, I shouldn’t care j If It was; it's just as good as some of the new ones.—Ltfn ’ • ’