Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1911 — Page 2

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

City Wages War to Rout Army of Rats

They fought the doge and killed the cate. And bit the babies in their cradles. They ate the cheese out of the vats. And drank the soup from the cook’s own ladles. -•The Pied Piper.’’ CHICAGO. —The health department estimates there are more than 600,000 rats in Chicago and that the number Is increasing day by day, despite the efforts of professional rat catchers and the use of mechanical devices for their destruction. War of extermination against members of the surmulot tribe Is carried on in ail parts of the city, but in no place Is the slaughter greater than at the etock yards. There the battle is waged continually. -- Every morning for breakfast men who have studied the subject say the little brown rat in this city consumes •a quantity of food equal to the meat of 52 cows. Since they eat three meals a day in each twenty-four hours, !they consume three times that quantity, or equal to 156 head of cattle. This

Weeping Widow Quickly Weds Consoler

SWAINSBORO, Ga. —Standing beside the open grave into which the body of her husband was be {lowered, Mrs. J. J. Jewell was hysterical with grief, and friends had to restrain her from throwing herself into •the grjivo upon the casket of the man 'with whom she had lived happily for 15 years and who was the father of Ober six children. Women tried In vain to comfort her land the scene was an unusually painKul one until Robert S. McDaniel, a young man who recently came here from Joplin, Mo., and who had become ■very friendly with Jewell, stepped close to the widow and whispered a few words through her heavy veil of black. Whatever McDaniel said seemed to give the widow courage to bear up during the soul-trying “ashes-to-ashes, dust-to-dust” period gs the ceremony, and she waited through those painful moments with surprising fortitude, considering her pitiful condition before the whispered consolation given to her by McDaniel. Turning from the grave when it was all over, she leaned on the arm of McDaniel as she walked to the gate, where she and her children were helped Into a carriage by kind-hearted neighbors and were driven to the fatherless home, a little farm for which

Horse-Poisoning Is the Newest Graft

NEW YORK.—The police here believe that they have finally succeeded in breaking up one of the strangest as well as one of the meanest forms of graft which the members of the underworld, always fertile in such schemes, have ever developed. This form of graft In no way resembles the good old bunko games of the professional sharper, but has brought about Instead the new calling of the professional horse-poisoner. The methods of earning a livelihood In this manner, as revealed by the capture of a gang of poisoners, are simple. As practiced here, the game has been worked by men acting in couples, one to handle the finances, the other to do the poisoning. The former, to begin operations, selects a cer-

Texas Papas May Prevent Elopements

FORT WORTH, Tex —Elopements of lovers under the legal age, twentyone for the young man and eighteea for the girl, will be effectually checked tn Texas by the new law adopted by the late legislature and now effective. Under this law no person under the legal age can obtain a marriage license without the written consent of the minor’s parents, and the paper must be acknowledged before a notary public like a deed. If a minor has no parents, a oounty judge’s consent to the union is necessary. If the clerk doubts that either the prospective bride or bridegroom has attained the legal age, he is authorised to require the affidavit of some other than the contracting parties. County Clerk Beavers has Interpreted the law to mean that the wMtten consent of both {parents, properly executed, must be filed, and that the consent of the fa Ither or the mother singly is not suffiI The old law authorised the county ■clerk to require the bridegroom or oth;CT person applying for a marriage 11censo to make affidavit to the ages of

estimate is based on an allowance of one ounce of food for each rodent each meal. Dogs, ferrets and cats are used in the war of extermination, and although thousands of rats are slaughtered daily their number continues to increase. This can easily be understood when it is known that from one pair of rats to a nest one thousand young surmulots will breed in a year. “Back of the yards” crowds of boys gather nightly to go on hunting expeditions for rodents. Garbage cans are overturned, and as the rats scamper away dogs accompanying the boys catch and kill them. The boy carry sticks or clubs in their hands and kill the rats when they attempt to escape. Many become so expert at rat catching that in after years they embark in it as a profession. Some of the stores in the loop district have a pack of trained fox terriers to keep the rats away, but the animal which has earned the name of ’’nature's police woman” is the plain alley cat that stalks the street at night. Rats cause heavy losses to business houses. They burrowthrough bolts of cloth to build their nests, destroying many thousands of dollars’ worth of goods.

Mrs. Jewell and hor husband bad worked hard to pay. Jewell died on Tuesday and the funeral was held on Wednesday. The next day the widow drove into Swainsboro, accompanied by McDaniel, and went to the courthouse. “The Widow Jewell ain’t losing any time in settling up the estate," remarked those who saw her enter the courthouse, and her prompt attention to business caused comment among those who had feared the day before that she would collopse at her husband's funeral. It wasn’t the probate judge that Mrs. Jewell was looking for, however, but the marriage license office. Guided by McDaniel, she walked isto the office and gave her age as thirty-one while he gave his as twenty-six. Lifting her black veil so that she could see to write her name, the widow signed the affidavit and in a few minutes they were married and on their way back to the Jewell farm.

tain section of the city, preferably one in which one or more big stables are located. His assistant is then sent out to poison two or three horses a day for a week. This is accomplished by giving them, as the opportunity may occur, a lump of sugar, half an apple or some other equine delicacy, loaded with poison. There is no monetary gain in this, the preliminary stage, which is merely done to create a favorable state of affairs —that is, from the viewpoint of the grafter. As soon as the poisonings begin to be talked of the financial man gets busy. He goes to the owner of a large stable, mentions the numerous deaths from poison, and offers protection for a sum varying from $25 to SIOO a week. If the owner refuses to pay, coercion is brought to bear in the shape of a few deaths among his animals. The fact that the two grafters were never seen together made the game a difficult one to stop, but the final rounding up of the gang of poisoners should end this peculiar graft, since the penalty under the law is a heavy one.

V>e parties, in case of doubt, but this law was frequently and successfully evaded. A common method of evasion was for the young man, if under age, to put a slip of paper, bearing the number 31, in his shoe, and for the girl to put in her shoe a slip of paper with the number 18. and then the man would cheerfully make affidavit that he was “over twenty-one," and with equal sincerity the girl would make affidavit that she was “over eighteen.” In a few instances indictments have been returned against bridegrooms for false swearing, but uniformly the fathers-in-law after a few weeks have decided to make the best of it, and have refused to testify against their unwelcome eons-tn-law.

New Elbow Bag

131,956—Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

THE elbow bag was designed for a certain princess who had to attend a royal function and was sadly put to for some way of carrying her vanity box. etc. She found the bag so convenient that she told her friends and presto it became the fad. As the picture shows, it is a pretty

HOME-MADE CLOTHES TRUNK

One Girl Provides Herself With Serviceable Substitute for More Expensive Manufactured One. Every girl who has seen a wardrobe trunk instantly appreciates the advantage of having one of them, but as such pieces of luggage are so expensive as to be beyond the reach of most of their admirers the best course is to try to provide a substitute with the aid of an ordinary trunk and the exercise of some ingenuity. One girl partially solved this difficulty by having the tray of her square trunk cut in half and one section of it nailed permanently in position after dividing it into compartments for lingerie and shoes. The space below the tray was then equipped with three hat holders tacked against the sides of the trunk, and into the adjoining floor space was fitted a large fiat box with a hasp fastening, which was divided to hold handkerchiefs, gloves, veils and neckwear. The half of the trunk lid which did not collide with the remaining portion of the divided tray was then equipped with hooks for a dozen garment hangers and made a satisfactory wardrobe for gowns and frocks of thin or medium weight textures, as they did not crowd one another unduly.

Colors to Wear.

In spite of advice to the contrary, blondes should avoid the lighter shades of blue, which make their complexions seem ashen. The darker shades, however, throw the complexion in high relief and are vastly becoming. True brunettes should not wear blue, which makes the skin yellower than ever, but florid brunettes can do so. Blondes may wear green, but not brunettes. Pale brunettes may wear any shade of red but crimson, which, howecer, looks well on the blonde. Yellow is the best color for pale brunettes, especially for evening wear. It clears the complexion and sets off the dark eyes and hair wonderfully.

Extravagant Rules.

There Is no doubt about the extravagance that rules the world of dress today. Never have frocks been made of such perishable fabrics, and never have trimmings been more elaborate or more beautiful than they are this season. Colors also are very vivid, bright scarlet, bright green, royal blue, and all manner of brilliant shades being used on all occasions, while more than half the frocks worn at afternoon parties and receptions are far more suitable for evening toilettes than for day wear.

The Piece Bag.

Here is a sensible method of “tagging" the contents of a piece bag. On the outside of the bag fasten the largest procurable safety pin. When the siege of the dressmaker is ovei* attach samples to this pin from •very remnant that goes into the bag. You will be delighted at the amount of time and patience saved by this simple device, for you can see at a glance just what the bag contains.

To Cut Silk.

When cutting sheer, pully goods or thin silks, which are apt to pull out of place, lay the material between two thin sheets of paper and cut oat the paper and aC.

trifle, that is worn gracefully over the fair elbow instead of being carried in the usual way. Its field of use has been enlarged somewhat, so that it now contains bonbons, a perfume bottle, handkerchief and the inevitable powder puff and tiny mirror. It is decidedly fetching. t

PACKING THE PICNIC BASKET

No Matter How Simple the Food, It Should Be Well Prepared and Appetizing. During the spring and summer months the call of the woods, the desire to feel the soft earth under foot, to watch the miracles of nature and hear the first song birds, are so irresistible, that one must needs go in quest of such joys. One seeks some congenial spirits to help enjoy it to the utmost A day in the woods means that the lunch basket must be packed and planned beforehand. And, oh, the horror of a cold lunch that is not dainty and neatly put together! No matter how simple the food, it must be well prepared and appetizing. The sandwiches should have the bread cut thin, the different kinds being wrapped separately in oiled paper to keep them moist. It is always a good idea to vary the sandwiches-—one of meat and another of lettuce or cress with mayonnaise. Paper napkins are inexpensive and always are a good comfort. /

EMBROIDERED WAIST.

This pretty waist is of embroidered batiste forming a bolero finished at the bottom with a frill of the same, headed by a heavy cord, which is finished on each side of the front with a motif and tassels. The collar, cuffs and blouse front are of milan lace, the last with round yoke of the embroidered batiste headed by a band of blue satin. The girdle is also of blue satin.

Children's Rooms.

For children's rooms and night nurseries pale pink and white is a delightful combination, and while striving to have everything as dainty as possible one must avoid unnecessary fluffiness, remembering that all draperies, etc., will be paying frequent visits to the laundry.

To Pull Bastings.

■ Few persons know that an ordinary orangewood stick, such as is used for the nails, is the best instrument for removing bastings. A scissors when used is very apt to cut or tsar the garment. Procure the stick at any drug store

GATHERED SMILES

No Answer to. Thia. Thomas A. Edison was explaining to a reporter the’ part played by M. Branly, the new French academician, in the discovery of wireless telegraphy. The poor reporter, a little bewildered by all the talk about Hertzian waives, transmitters, volts, ohms and so forth, ventured on a question that made Mr. Edison smile. "That question,” he said, “reminds me of the city father who rose and " ‘Mr. Chairman, I’d like to know, for my constituents’ benefit, whether this here proposed hydraulic pump is to be run by steam or electricity.”*

tn Time of Need.

“Now, would any one present like the prayers of the congregation f *1 would be glad to have them." "Are you about to start on a hazardous journey?" “Not exactly, but I have just remembered that I forgot to mall a letter my wife gave me, and I know she has found it In my othen clothes before now.” - •

Suspicious.

Bank President—What’s the matter? Bank Vice-President —I was just thinking. I sat next to our cashier in church yesterday and I don’t quite like'the way he sings "Will they miss me when I’m gone?"—Puck.

Deduction.

“It is no wonder the police fall to get knowledge of fights.” “Why so?” "Well, a mill is a cent, isn’t it?” “Yes, but what of that?” “Doesn’t it take ten mills to make one scent F’

Johnny Did It.

Indignant Master —What on earth have you been doing to my rug? Housemaid —I didn’t do it It was Johnny. He’s been running the lawn mower all over it —London Sketch.

Doing Uncle Sam.

Husband —My dear, do your duty to your country. Wise —If I can, dear, but those customs inspectors are so sharp

CURTAIN LECTURES.

Mrs. Binks—My husband says you were with him last night What did your wife say when you cameTiome so late? Mr. Winks—l really don’t know. I can just remember that I woke up three times, and she was still talking

A Strenuous Trip.

Vacation time he hiea away, Hla heart beats gladly In h!a breast; But when he’s had hla holiday He totters home In search of rest.

Appropriate Contribution.

"And after that eloquent appeal of the missionary to arrest the heathen op the downward. path, all you put in the box was a cent.” "Well, I thought if they wanted to arrest the heathen, the best thing to send in that direction was a ‘copper.’

Notable Exception to the Rule.

, Knicker—lt is said that you can keep a donkey from braying by attaching a weight to its tail. Bocker—Nonsense! The Democratic donkey has had Bryan tied to it for 12 years and brays as loud as ever.— Judge’s Library.

What Did She Mean?

“I’m quite a near neighbor of yours now,” said Mr. Bore; *Tm living just across the bay.” •„ “Indeed," replied Miss Smart, ’“I hope you’ll drop in some day.”—The Housekeeper.

Snobs and Others.

“It is something to rub elbows with the nobility in London during coronation week.” “Of course it is something, but whether something worth while or not, depends altogether on your point of view.” 1 11 11

Not Boycotted.

La'bellor—Have you seen the walking delegate’s bride? Carder —Yes. Labellor —Is she pretty? Carder —No! Even he’d have to admit she’s In the unfair list.—Puck.

A Neighborly Scheme.

“Tommy, you ought to play funny tricks like the Katsenjammer kids." » “I can’t think of nuthin* funny, Mr. Nexdcre." “You might break up your father's graphophooe with *» axe.”

Willing to Tell It.

The check which the comely young German woman handed In at the window of a Walnut street savings fund bank the other day was made payable to Gretchen H. Schmidt, and she had indorsed it simply Gretchen Schmidt. The man at the receiving teller’s window called her back just as she was turning away to rectify the mistake. “You don’t deposit this quite this way,” he explained. “See, you have forgotten the H." The young woman looked at her check and blushed a rosy red. “Ach, so I has,” she murmured, and wrote hurriedly: “Age 23.”

NOT A REASON.

’ “But why do you want to marry her’’’ “Because I’m in love with her.” “My dear fellow, that’s an not a reason."

Cant Get Away.

When days are hot . And nights are. too. The poor man's lot Is one. of rue.

Smoke.

“I notice that you have given up the fight for a cleaner city. You used to be one of the leaders in the opposition to the smoke nuisance." / "Yes. I’ve come to the conclusion that smoke cannot be abolished. It’s useless to beep harping on the question.” “By the way, what business are you in now?.’-’ “Oh, I’ve quit working for a salary. An uncle ot mine left me a valuable interest in one of our biggest machine shops." '

A Student of Nature.

The teacher bad been reading to the class about the great forests ot ~ America. “And now, boys,” she announced, “which one of you can tell me the pine that has the longest and sharpest neediest’ Up went a hand in the front row. "Well, Tommy?” “The porcupine.”—Tit-Bits.

Unworthy of Sympathy.

“I see that somebody has paid $50,000 for a Bible.” "Yes. Some people don’t seem to have any appreciation of money. If the fellow had paid $50,000 for a race horse or lost it buying things on margins, there might be some reason for sympathizing with him."

Quest of Tranquility.

"Sometimes,” said Plodding Pete, “I’m tempted to map out a route that’ll take me to them there ar*tlc regions.** “The climate’s no good,” ventured Meandering Mike. “No; but your nerves get a rest None o’ them Eskimos Is lookin’ fur farm handa”

Natural Consequence.

“I bear the department store made a good profit on the brooms they advertised as bargains." “Yes, they made quite a sweeping reduction, so the women came down with the dust” >

NO ODDS.

"How are you?" "Oh, Pm about even with the world." "How’s that r "I figure that I owe as many people as I don’t owe."

Hie Appreciation.

The work home who blue ribbon cot Almost forrot hl* dinner; And *ll who near him earn*, aoon knew He waa a “whinny" winner.

He Agreed.

She—l consider, John, that sheep are the stupidest creatures living. He (aboentenlndodly)—Yes, toy lamb! —Sketch.