Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1911 — Page 3

RARKS IN WHISPERS

'Dog of Pedigreed Stock Does Everything but Talk. •> Scotland Yard Chief Has Clever Canine Which Does Work'of Servant and Protects Master From AiJ Annoying Intruders. . London.—Superintendent Frank Forest, chief of the criminal department of Scctland Yard, believes he (possesses one of the cleverest dogs in 'England. He la a sheep dog, named Teddy, who is 8 years old, weighs 65 pounds and comes from fine pedigreed Somersetshire stock. Teddy has been with Mr.' Forest since puppyhood. Every morning Teddy meets the letter carrier and takes the mail for the entire household and carries it to Mr. Forest’s bed. Next he goes to the library, stands on a chair, gets the superintendent’s gold spectacles and takes them to the bed. When the superintendent finished reading his mail he has but to say, “Teddy, I •link I will fcet up,” and the, dog immediately brings his slippers. The dog is so intelligent that it only required a few minutes of Instruction to teach him to bark in whimpers when he wanted anything inside the house. But it is as a police dog that Teddy especially excels. Every night before the superintendent retire#%e saysA

“Teddy, is everything all right in the house?" The dog goes in and out of every room and returns to his master, reporting conditions to be all right by wagging his taiL If anything doesn’t exactly suit him he pulls his master’s coat and leads him to the place that has not satisfied him. Teddy is very strict on conventional introductions. He seems to instinctively realize that his master leads a danger-beset life, and Teddy is constantly on guard against attack. No matter to whom- the superintendent is talking, the dog lies between his legs, alert and ready. He takes nothing on trust until he is told by his masted that everything is all right Anyone who tries to pat the dog is repulsed with bared fangs and growls until the superintendent says: “Teddy, this is a friend of mine.” Then the dog permits himself to be handled. At Scotland Yard Teddy knows every room in the building and manifests his wishes to enter any particular one by standing on his rear legs and shaking the door handle with his front paws until he is admitted. It is more difficult for a stranger to approach the superintendent’s home in Hempstead that to gain access to Buckingham palace. The superintendent says Tedy can da everything but talk.

BRIDAL COUPLE OVER ROOFS

Newly Married Man Frustrates Plan of Crowd of Overzealous Friends to Kidnap His Bride. Philadelphia.—J. Harry Stroud, Jr., of 503 North Sixty-third street resorted to strenuous methods to lead his bride of an hour away safely from a crowd of overzealous friends. Stroud was married at 8 o’clock to Miss Edna Cleaver by the Rev. Eugene Stillman of the Columbia Methodist Episoopal church. The young man is also a member of a lodge and after the ceremony several of his colleagues in the fraternity made preparations to kidnap the bride. Stroud, however, was up to the occasion, and suspecting a send-off that neither he nor his wife were particularly willing to enjoy, he assisted the young woman to the third story. Helping her through a trap door in the roof, Stroud and his bride then made their way over the roofs and leaping into a waiting automobile, were on a tylp bound for New York before the conspirators on the lower floor were aware of what had transpired.

RAISING MINK FOR MARKET

William C. Gates Abandons Trade as Carpenter and Embarks In Unique Enterprise In Idaho. Spokane, Wash. —Successfully raising mink In captivity, a feat that so far has baffled the foremost experts in the employ of the federal government and scores of others attracted to the industry by the enormous profits, or for scientific reasons, has been accomplished by William C. Gates, formerly a carpenter, who abandoned that calling in January, 1910, to devote his entire attention to a fur farm in the forest wilds on the north fork of the Coeur d’Alene river in nohthern Idaho, about 100 miles east of Spokane , Gates’ fqr farm consists of a small tract of timbered land on a hill, where he has cages of sheet iron and wire netting. The iron is used to prevent burrowing. Eventually, when he raises enough Gates hopes to take a claim oif the river and increase the capacity of his ranch. With this increased space he estimates he can raise from 4,000 to 6,000 animals a year. _ "So-called authorities will tell yon that mink cannot be raised under the! protection of captivity.’* Oates said as he exhibited 19 healthy full-grown mink and four litters of domesticated mink kittens, "but because 7 some col-lege-bred men failed to raise them in'a university park is no reason for saying the thing is impossible. After

TO BE MADE IMPERIAL POTENTATE

JOHN FRANK TREAT of Fargo, N. D., is to be made imperial potentate of the Order of the Mystic Shrine at the Imperial council of that organization next week in Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Treat is now deputy imperial potentate and will represent El Zagal Temple of Fargo at the council

DISTURBS MURDER TRIAL

Girl Brings Legless Chicken to Court to Prove That Bister Has White Blood In Veins. New York.—The cackling of a hen disturbed a murder trial in the county court at Jersey City. Judfee Carey Interrupted the case to ascertain who was responsible for the presence of the fowl, and ordered it removed from the room. Carmela Accordina of Danesviile, Pa., the witness on the stand, admitted she owned* the hen, which she had carried from home with the expectation of convincing the court and jury that the life of her brother, Antonio Accordina, could have been saved bad her sister shown as much interest in her brother as the witness had in the hen. She explained that on the morning of February 18, the same morning that her brother was found with a fractured skull dying in the hallway of 413 Jefferson street, Hoboken, she had discovered the hen with its claws fast in ice. She melted the ice with hot water, and cared for the hen. It lost its legs, but she attends to it, and it lays eggs the same as other hens. did you bring it to court?” inquired the judge. “To show that I had red blood in my veins and my sister has white blood in her veins.” Her sister, Antonetta, eloped from Danesviile with Rosario Ginamello. The murdered man found them in the Hoboken tenement house and went there to persuade his 6 sister to return home. Ha was found dying in the hallway of the house and Ckiamello is on trial for killing him. The state produced a statement made by the accused in which he he said he told his sweetheart: "You will talk with your brother no more. He is dead in the street.” It was the alleged failure of the ■ • - • • ' •

passing 18 months in the forests it is no more difficult, for me to raise mink than it is for a Spokane county orchardist to grow first class commercial apples or a farmer to raise prise Pigs." ~

WHEN PEARLS ARE SOT SUCH

Paris Court Finds Against So-Callerfv "Reconstituted” Gems—Damaging to Legitimate Trade. Paris. —The Paris Syndical Chambers of Jewelers and Goldsmiths on the one hand and of diamond merchants on the other have won a case which is of Interest to buyers of artificial pearls. • A dealer In the latter has been restrained from advertising them as “reconstituted” pearls. The court found that there Is no such thing as a socalled “reconstituted" pearl. It consists merely of mothero’-pearl covered with some coating. The announcement that such a pearl Is of the same nature as a natural pearl, though artificially made. Is therefore such as to damage the trade of dealers In real pearls end gems, and must be restrained.

Eight Sleep In One Bed.

London. —In a case of alleged neglect of children by their father It was stated at Guilford that the mother, grandmother and six children occupied one bed in a single room.

woman to go to her brother that influenced her sister from Danesviile to produce the legless hen in court.

WOMAN FIGHTS OLD PANTHER

Beast Attacks Her and Two Little Daughters in Barnyard—Kills Two Prise Pigs and Goat Ukiah, Cal —Thomas Jeffries has lost his goat, also two fine young Berkshire pigs which he had recently received from the east It all happened when an old panther and her two cubs visited the Jeffries ranch and made a meal of the goat and the young swine. Jeffries, who owns a large ranch near Orr's Springs, left home early to work on the road, leaving his wife and their two .little daughters at home alone. Bhortly after noon she and the children went out to feed the small prize pigs, and when she reached the yard in which they were kept she was terrified by seeing a large panther leap from behind a bush and spring toward her, closely followed by two cubs. Seizing the children in her arms, the mother fled to the house, closely pursued by the ferocious California lion. They reached the house safely and she slammed the door In the face of the unwelcome guest After walking across the porch several times in search of an entrance, the angry panther espied the goat near the house, and after a race through the barnyard and into the chicken house she grasped it by the throat and carried it to her cubs. Not being satisfied with their meal the panther began another search and killed the two pigs, carrying one to each of he* cubs. Having satisfied their appetites they lingered round the house a few minutes and then disappeared in the redwoods nearby.

LICENSED 1909, WED IN 1911

Boston Couplo Thought Registrar's - Permit Married Them—Notary Bets Them Straight. Boston.—Although they have been living together as man find wife for nearly two years, thinking that they were really married, Anthony Hyatt lefsky, 69 years old, of 1387 Dorchester avenue,' Dorchester, and Minnie Lubrusky, 37 years old, of the same address, were married the other day by Clerk Frank L. Tuttle of the Dorchester municipal court. The ceremony took place In the clerk’s office. “On June 29, 1909, a marriage license was Issued to the pair at-the city registrar’s office. Being ofy foreign birth and not understanding the marriage proceedings of this country very well, both thought that when they swore to the statements required to receive a marriage Hcense they were thereby married. They were recently notified to return the marriage license, or tell what had been done with it. This notification mystified the husband and. accompanied by his wife, he went to James D. Henderson, a notary. The notary told! him that the marriage license gave Urn permission to be married, and was not a certificate of marriage. lefsky wanted Henderson to perform the ceremony then and there, but the latter referred the couple to Clerk Tuttle, and accompanied them to his office. After explaining the situation the wedding oeremony was per* fOMMtfl.

SAYS THE CYNIC

Pride loses Its flavor when you have to swallow it. , Of course it makes a man feel small to get into a tight place. * - As a rule the quieter the wedding the noisier the divorce. Many a man’s philosophy is merely dyspepsia of the intellect. A man may forget himself and get away with it, but never when he for* gets him wife. Some husbands ahd wive sare so congenial that they even wear the same neckties. y : The .man who n£ver smiles inspires no more confidence than the dog who never wags his tail. A wife may be a man’s balance wheel, but he doesn’t always want her to operate the brakes. Life is full of contradictions. Why is it that the bashful, quiet man ah ways wears shoes that squeak? We all flatter ourselves that we have great powers of resistance till we stack up against temptation. My idea of an optimist is a young man who has been turned down by his best girl, yet realizes how happy he has made her. A group of married women can’t talk to a bachelor more than ten minutes without agreeing that he knows more than he has any business to know. r

NUTS TO CRACK.

Platonic love seldom works both ways. There are no express elevators running to heaven. The things we don’t have to do always look the easiest None are so blind as those who take too many eye-openers. The only time some people look up to us —is when they are in a hole. Imitators are like parrots. They are not always as green as they look. A little change is the best thing to vary the monotony of an empty pocket. Charity covers a multitude of sins, some of which might better be left uncovered. Ever notice that when a girl marries a man to reform him she always picks out a rich one? The boy who he would rather give his quarter to the benighted heathen than go to the ball game will bear watching.

SAYS THE OWL

When some women kiss each other, it must put Judas to shame. The world soon tumbles to the man who carries his pedestal around with him. Wisdom, like remorse, generaUy comes top late to do any practical good. The fellow who feels that he hasn’t a friend in the world ought to be saving money. A girl frequently entertains a young man when she isn’t very much entertained by him. S' ' Many a woman proposes to a man, but does it so subtly as to ihake him believe he did it himself. It all depends on the point of view. Many a woman thinks her hat is Just heavenly when a man thinks it look* like —well! Distance leads enchantment to the view. It is only in winter that a small boy is ambitious to be a baseball umpire.

ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.

Men forget scandals bujt women don’t. Some men quit their bad habits every day. A bore never pays much attention to the busy signal. Men who love the hardest don’t always last the longest * ' Some men are so active they never find time to settle down to work. An Atchison man says he owes every one in town but the undertaker. It’s awful hard for a real nice girl to love a young man who wean soiled oollan. : L J How often yon hear unsuccessful men say money gets more credit than brains! Some people an so strong on talk that they try to pay their bills with K. . ■ * ~ j ,

SAYINGS OF THE SAGES

i We are not here to have facilities found for* us for doing the work we like, but to.make them. —Matthew Arnold. Happines consists not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess.—Farrar. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promises.—Washington. We ought not to take faults of youth into old age; for old age brings its own defects. —Goethe. It is good to know much, but better still to make use of what we know. — Tyndall. Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions, forms our true honor.— Schiller. Happy is that man whose calling is great and spirit humble. —Demosthenes. Write it in your heart that every day is the best in the - year.—Sinclair. Man cannot make, but may ennoble fate by nobly bearing it.—Meredith. Nothing is good that does not cafcry us beyond itself.—F. D. Maurice. Great truths are generally bought, not found by chance.—Milton. The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. —Emerson. Tb rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better.—Seneca. Who is free? The man who masters his own self?—Epictetus. It is a glorious thing to leave life gloriously.—Euripides. To be womanly is the greatest charm of woman. —Gladstone. We are not men who love only our* selves.—Fenelon.

WISE SAYINGS

There is nothing we can go into that will pay like doing right The dog in tft manger might claim kinship with a good many men. It is better to aim high and miss than never to pull the trigger. A tract is a mighty poor thing to give a man who needs bread. Count the day lost in which you have not made somebody smile. The right kifid of religion is as certain to shine as sunshine is. Between love and self-interest there is always war to the knife. Tfike the nails out of the church, and down goes the steeple. No man can sell whisky without dealing in flesh and blood. The devil is never too busy to rock the cradle of a sleeping saint. —Elizabeth P. Brown in the Barn’s Horn.

ALL TRUE.

Dull business produces a sharp appetite. A man should be square and a woman should be plump. When women compliment each other every boost Is a slap. Beware of the talking machine that talks machine politics. There’s no use keeping the gate closed when the fence is down. The fewer friends you have the smaller the income you will need. Most family trees require a lot of whitewash to keep the insects off. Some men are too lazy to make anything but tracks toward the infirmary. There is nothing that cures people of wanting things like being able tc afford them, r

JUST THOUGHTS.

No man is so sharp that some one doesn’t try to sit on him. Q If you want to learn patience lend money to a chronic borrower. Many a man who is his own mastei might better be serving some other It is sometimes better to keep youi own counsel than to engage a lawyer There are some things that even th« most absent-minded of us can’t forget In being the architect of your owi fortune don’t Indulge in too much fret work. Take the average man at his owi valuation and you are pretty sure U get stuck. One of the greatest mistakes a mai makes is in thinking, he isn’t going h make a af \ • \

STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR

BLOWING UP VICKSBURG FORT - ■■ —— ■ . Chicago Man Tells of Attempt to Cap* A ture Fort Hill—Shell* Fired H Every Direction. — Oscar Ludwig, now living in Chicago,: enlisted in the Twentieth Illinois regiment, won his first commission as lleo-j tenant at Vicksburg and left the armjrj after four years of service with thetitle of captain. At the siege of Vicksburg, of which he has told the story, he was sergeant-major. “We were trying to capture a stronghold back of Vicksburg,” he said. “It was at the top of a hill and we knew! it as Fort Hill. Wp couldn’t get up; to it. They surrendered only when* they were starved out. We made an attack on it one day and gained the pits at the foot of the embankment.

“A Ditch Was Started”

We could get no farther and stayed there until night, when we retreated, one by one, under cover'of the darkness. . ; ,•>, “Then we were set to work to dig a tunnel, a ditch was started at some distance from the fort and advanced up the hill under the protection of some cotton bales that were pushed on ahead. In the protection of this trench the men ebuld approach the fort and they also carried up a wooden mortar that tossed shells into the fort wityout needing a large charge of powder. Our tunnel was begun and driven under the walls of the fort. The defenders of the place sank a counter tunnel, ] but they did not come near us. At last, when all was ready gunpowder was carried to the end of the hole under the fort and there it was shot off. The explosion tore a breach in the wall, but we were not able to rush it. Three men were thrown Into the air and fell on the outside of the wan, and so we carried them back to the lines. Two were mortally hurt, but the other, a slave boy, was not “One of the men asked him: ‘What were you doing in there fighting usr “The boy Uras sitting rolling his eyes. “ ‘ I warn’t fighting you,’ he said. “ ’What were you doing, then?’ “ ‘Toting grub for the colonel.’ “ ‘ What colonel Is th/t? “ ‘Colonel ub de Louisiana Tigers.’ “’What were you working for him for?* “‘Colonel told me not to quit till Td toted him grub. 1 set down his dinner an’ den I felt myself a-growih’ wings an’ a-rising up. in ■de went upfpbout to’ miles an? started to come down ag’in, an’ on de way down I met de colonel a-goln* up.’ “There were shells fired at us and at the rebels from every direction. Fort Hill was throwing shells toward Logan’s camp and our boats' in the river were shelling the city. 1 remember seeing eight shells In the air at one time. At night each shell is a ball of blue fire, turning over and over and rising up and up until it seems to stand still, and then whtrllng.down on the curve toward the earth. The shells from the fort came within ‘2OO yards of Logan’s camp. I was sitting there writing the sergeant-major’s report one day when a shell came alofcg and clipped off the branch of the tree above me. At another time I was sitting In a house exiting the report when a shot came through the wall. The other men did.not seem worried about it and I inquired why. One man pointed out to me that all the boles made by shot were in the upper part of the room. The guns of the fort on the hill could not be depressed far enOtigh to send the shot lower and so the only harm done waa to the plaster near the celling.”

Gets $l4 on War Claims

Justus Tyler of Grand Rapids, Mtch* threw down his ax in a Michigan lumber camp when President Lincoln called for volunteers and walked 300 miles over ice and snow to enlist in for |l4 in payment of his hardships was mailed to him the other . day, A previous ruling of the treasury department allowed |4.40. Tyler ahkbd for 1300 ? &&HBI