Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1911 — Page 2

Classified Column. ——■■ fOB BAlb. ■V; - l - hr Sale—Piano, bargain if sold •oon; also bed, dining table and chair*. Inquire of Mrs. Vera Schock. Per .Sale—Hood black oak cord wood. I. M. Yeoman, phone 51$ D. ■> 1m.1111.nn1i...- ■■■■■— ■■—■■■ Bk Sale-No. 2 Smith Premier typewriter at a bargain. Leslie Clark, at The Republican otace. Far Sye—Seven lota, with reslieene. plenty of small fruit If sold by Sept Ist. 1700. Box 217, RensseFsr Sale—Krakauer Bros, piano, new. Mrs Itank Foltz. Bar Sale—Typewriter ribbons. Republican office. Fsr Sale—Hardwood lumber of ail kinds; also cord wood. Randolph Wright. R. D. No. S, Rensselaer, or ML Ayr phone No. 20 I. FOB BENT. Fsr Bent or Sale — Two residence properties at edge of town; one has 7 acres of ground, good house and barn ; other has house and barn and four lots. Mrs. Mamie Williams, telephone sl9 D. Address Route 3, Rensselaer, Indaina. » Fsr Beat— An 8-room house, inquire of N. Littlefield. Vbr Beat— Furnished rooms. Mrs. -JL L. (Bark. Bbr Beat-Well finished, five-room sottag*. good location. F. Thompson. Bur Beat—No. 2 Smith Premier tgpewriter. Leslie Clark, at the RepabMoan ofllce.

FOB TRADE. For Trade —9 -room modern resideaoo and 2-story brick business Mldlng at WSlliamsport, Ind., for larm This property rents (or 940 per —nth. J. J. Weast, Rensselaer, Ind. WANTED. Wanted— Girl to do housework;' vicm |4 or 94.50 per week. Begin work Sept Ist Apply at State Bank. Wanted— A load of clover hay. Geo. Healey, phone 153. FABX LOANS 'Without Commission I OPT TOP Delay 1 Ual lib Without Office Charges , Without Charges For ■fl■ r Y Maklng ° ut or HUH U I Recording Instruments W. H. PABPNBQN. AUTOMOBILES. We have on our floor ready for delivery two of those convenient economical runabouts, completely equipped, for 9900. Call and let us tell you more about *• The tffcsxHSlr Bos Cholera Positively Cured—l will cure your hogs or get no pay for the treatment. Wire me or write me, and 1 will come and if I treat your hogs and fail to effect a cure, it costs you nothing. Ben B. Miller, ML Ayr, Indiana.

O. W. PLATT CBMSNT CONTRACTOR Sidewalks, Foundations, Cement Blocks. AH work guaranteed. Phene MB Beasselaer, lad.

OklMfo to Worth woot, Indianapolis, Ctaetamotl, and tho South. Xrf>alarm* and French Uck Springs. *ln hEc* August 27. 1911. toon sons ? No. 31—Fast Mail 4:40 a. m. No. *—Louisville Mail .... 11:06 a. m. No. 87—Indpls. Ex. 11:80 a. m. No. 38—Hoosler Limited .. 1:66 p. m. No. B*—Milk Accom 6:02 p. m. No. B—Louisville Ex. 11:06 p. m. loan lomnt No. 4—Louisville Mall .... 4:61 am. No. 40—-Milk Accom. 7:86 a. m. No. 38—Fast Mall 10:06 a m. No. 88—Indpls-Chgo. Ex. .. 2:48 p. m. No. o—Louisville Mail AEx 3:16 p. m. No. SO—Hoosler Limited ... 6:44 p. m. Train No. 31 makes connection at Motion tor Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at f:l6 a m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:80. oonnects with No. 30 at Monon. arriving at Rensselaer at 6:44 p. m. Trains Noa 30 and S 3, the "Hooeier Limited.” run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. A D. service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. W. H. BEAM. Agent LOCAL MARKETS, are-70c. Corn—s9c. Wheat—B2c Oat* —37c. Springs—loc to 11c. Dock*—7c. bSHgrj-p-nntnrs tr *

Startling Facts and Figures

Entomology means the study of Insects. Not many years ago an entomologist wae looked upon as a harmless non-utilitarian, and the word called to mind the picture of a spectacled and bearded lunatic, wildly waving an Insect net and pursuing a flitting butterfly over the field and bog. Even now amongst many of our people the word is synonymous with “bug hunter,” au individual who collects, kills, pins, classifies and labels what the public btoadly characterizes as “bugs," said Individual adding not a lot or little to the world’s income, a dllltaate who in no way benefits mankind. Of late years the science of entomology is being everywhere recognized, as of great practical importance. We need only to refer to a few facts to emphasize terrible destruction caused by insect pests alone, havoc which Is rated by the millions of dollars and to mention certain appropriations made of late years to forward the work of entomology, to show the Important part played in our economics by insects, and the appreciation of the work of entomologists as shown by substantial assistance rendered them by Congress, state legislatures and the various state Institutions where the science is made an important feature of the work.

The average total monetary value of all the farm products of the United States each year, based upon Government reports, is approximately six billion, seven hundred and ninety-four millions of dollars. , Our forestry products will average about six billions annually. This added to our agricultural products, makes a grand total of seven billions, three hundred and ninety-four millions. Loss through insect ravages for one year in the United States has been found to be represented by the enormous sum of eight hundred millions of dollar!, nearly one-ninth of th 6 total output. In other words, eight hundred million dollars might be added yearly to our agricultural and forestry output If we could eliminate the work of Injurious Insects. This does not include the annual loss of human life through the ageucy of Insects. '

Although we estimate our average gheat crop as worth 9450,000,000, we lose yearly from ravages caused by incects, 1100,000,000, or more than 20 per cent of the total output. Of this, the Heeßian fly is yearly responsible for more than 920,000,000, the chinch bug gets away with $15,000,000, and the balance is sacrificed to locusts, grasshoppers, cut worms, army worms, etc. The corn root worm, the chinch bug and other Insects destroy 980,000,000 of corn each year. At least 10 per cent of the hay crop, or 960,000,000 worth of hay, is levied on annually by locuets, grasshoppers, etc. San Jose scale, codling moths, curculios and other pests rob us of 20 per cent of our annual 9135,000,000 fruit crop. We produce annually potatoes worth in the aggregate 9150,000,000, but lose by insects each year $30,000,000 on this crop alone. Of our annual products, which easily represent $1,760,000,000, ten per cent goes each year to satisfy insect parasites, and we might go on enumerating through a long list, the damage wrought by insect pests. However, the triumph of sciencd in recent years, through the practical work of entomologists, in restoring to the agricultural classes each year part of the loss occasioned by insects, has been one of the most notable achievements of modern times.

The South has lost annually 91*.000,000 in its cotton raising area, through the work of the Cotton 801 l Weevil, and in 1904 in Texas alone about 922,000,000 was sacrificed to this insect. Field work by trained entomologists has shown means of preventing a large portion of this loss. The Hessian Fly has, at times, until made a special study, levied an anual tax upon our wheat of from 9100,000,000 to 200,000,000, while Codling Moth, until remedlea were found for It by entomologists, destroyed each year at least 910,000,000 worth of apples In the United States. The corn root worm took" nearly or quite 9100,000,000 each year out of the Mississippi Valley, until entomologists found the proper means to combat it. A*. The value of stored product? such as mill stuffs, fruit, cotton, woolen and other manufactured goods, has, in the past, depreciated annually 9100,000,000 by Insect attack, but entomologists bare found that expert fumigation with'hydrocyanic acid gas, or bisulphide of carbon, will reduce that nearly or quite one-half. Within the last few years, state and government entomologists have learned practical methods of combating pur most destructive fruit insect, the San Jose Scale, so that growers putting the proper methods into practice. m«4 no longer fear it This saving, both to tree and fruit, directly traceable to the work of entomologists, amounts to millions of dollars.

Cold rains in early spring will kill the tender youngsters. If they are not sheltered you may be sure you ’will fail in the business. ■ " , " To kill the mites with water it must be boiling hot and must reach every crack and crevice. Carbolic acid helps wonderfully. - —--- . M .->r,: '/ >!■£■ '

Laziness the Curse of Mankind

ONE of the Oldest gospels ii the world Is the gospel o: work. “ Instead of trying to say any thing new upon it I am going t< take you through the library and show you what the wise men o: the past have said about its opposite—idleness. After all, the old fellows wht lived and thought before we weri born covered the ground pretty wel on almost any subject you dan im aglne.' We have made some prog ress In sewing machines, telephone* and rubber heels, but the ancient! can still give. us points on jus plain thinking. Going back to that picturesque old king of Judea, who not only hai become a chief figure in magic and masonry, but Who also gained the reputation of being the wisest mar that ever lived, Solomon the Great we find in his book of precepts sucl familiar words as: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.” “A, little more sleep and a littl< more slumber, and a little more fold, ing of the hands in sleep; so shal. thy want come as one that runneth and thy poverty as an armed man.’ Plutarch’s words are a perfect mine of piquant anecdotes and say ings of. the Greek and Roman sages He tells of Apelles, the great Greek artist, that when some one asked him why he had depicted Fortune or foot, he replied: “Because she never sits down,’ by which we understand that if you want to catch her you’ll have te run. Plutarch’s words are a perfect the elder, that, being asked one day If he were at leisure, he answered: “God forbide that any such thing should happen to me!” From Laertius we get this saying of the greatest of, philosophers. Plato: “Never mix idleness with honesty!” from which we infer that no mind can remain honest that I* not diligent. -t •

Democritus, another Greek, said that “fatigue is better than ease, foi a man’s satisfaction never comes ex cept at the end of labor.” The Spartans carried industry ta an extreme. Erasmus says: “they were exceedingly saving of theii time, applying themselves ever tc serious and urgent affairs, nevei allowing any citizen to spend hie time in diversion or ease. For instance, the ephors, by which name the rulers of the Spartans were known, hearing that certain judges were In the habit of taking a walls In the evening wrot# to them, with usual brevity: ‘Don’t, walk!* the point being that it behooved a Spartan to exercise in the gymnasium and not in promenades.” Aristophanes, the poet of Greece, expresses it: To stand around in ease, And to have nothing to do, Is to live as the sheep live. Seneca, the great philosopher o! Rome, that interesting genius who wrote on a golden table such excellent things about poverty and it* privileges, and whom Carlyle call* “the father of all them that wear shovelboard hats” —i. e., master ol “bromides” —wrote: "Life without letters (study) is death, and the sepulcher of living men.” From Ovid, the Latin poet, we get: “A life of ease corrupts the soul, as still waters grow foul!” And Livy, the Roman historian, remarks upon the well known connection between idleness and uncleanness:

“Ex diuturno otio lieentia colligitur.” (Dally east breeds licentious ness.) The same Idea we find in the Latin verses of Palingenio: “Idleness is the seed of all the vices, be trays the mind Into vileness, is a companion to lust, and removes tie foundations of the state.” This reminds one of the pretty fable told by the Germans. The devil desirous of ruining mankind, and thus spiting God who had made men, called all his imps before him, to see which one he would send on this important mission. Greed, envy, lust, anger, pride, and the other sins each volunteered, but were rejected as incompetent utterly to ruin men. At last came idleness. whom the devil chose at once —"for,” said he, “when men are Idle all the other vices follow as a matter of'’course.” Plutarch, the''ltalian poet, was still more emphatic. “Fatigue is the stuff from which virtue and nobleness are made; if you are afraid of the first one,, you do not value the last two. Idleness feeds lust, renders the body fat and the mind heavy obfuscates genius, takes away knowledge, extinguishes memory, and . gives birth to insanity.” The greatest of the poets of Italy, Dante, says: “Without work which consumes thy life. Thou shalt not leave upon the earth More imprint than smoke in the air, Or foam upon the vasty sea.” Tasso was another poet of Italy. In his ovation delivered at the opening of the academy at Ferrara he said: “Where there is nothing but leisure there is no genius, there la no dream of glory or of immortality, there appears no Image, nor shadow nor trace of any of the things we call virtue.” An epigram of Lautier is: “What we steal from our nights we add to oar days.” This reminds us of recent statements made by a prominent physician in New York to the effect that most people sleep too much. John Wesley’s rule was: “Get up as soon as you wake up.** Muratorl sententiously observes: “Doing nothing is doing evil.” We can catch the rhyme in the original: "Nulla fare e mal fare.” A good motto to inscribe upon walls of some of our wealthy

“A man of perfect leisure I* « walking crime.” * Nature has always some peculiaj pain which she attaches to thos« traits and deeds which do not eui' her purposes. Too much food brings the agony of indigestion and too little the pangs of hunger; hon esty brings peace and a mean act it followed by remorse; so idleness has its punishment, as noted t» Joubert: **Ease Carries within it* self its own penalty—ennui.” The sharp and cynical La Rock sfoucauld in one of his famout “Maxims” says: “It is a mistake tc suppose that it is the violent emotions, such as love and ambltior that triumph over the other emotions Love of ease, soft, as th« feeling is, is one of the strongest elements of character; for It sub dues the will and the deed, and in sensibly consumes every other passion, as well as all one’s principles.’ And it was a markedly true thing he also said that “we have a vast deal more laziness of mind than laziness of body.” Vauvenargues gives another ol the laws of the spirit, one that each of us has often proved, Idlenes* tires us much more quickly than work. The same writer points out sharply the important truth that oui feelings grow strong and firm by exercise precisely as our muscles: “Sterility of feeling follows its lack of use.” And there’s a flash of wit In this subtle remark of his, and a sting also: It is the Idle who are always wanting ‘something to do.’ ” The “lazy man’s load” Is a common expression, for a lazy man works harder so as to get through more quickly and rest. L* Rochefoucauld also notes this in one ol his “Maxims”: “No one is in such a hurry as a lazy person.” Lord Chesterfield gives us another phase of the subject: “Only the Ignorant and weak are lazy Those who have acquired a greal fund of knowledge always want to add to it; it is the same with power, the more one has the more on* wants.”

Burton, In his famous "Aratomy of Melancholy” saye: “Laziness Is poison to body and mind, the ailment of perverseness one of the seven deadly sins; ’tis the devil e pillow, his bolster, his main support. A lazy dog is full of the mange, and how’ shall a lazy man not he otherwise? Laziness ol mind is also much worse than laziness of body; an untised talent Is a misfortune; and to the mind rust is a pest, a hell.” Jeremy Taylor writes that "an idle person is the same as a dead per son; both are merely passing the time.” We get the medical point of view from Dr. Marshall Hall: “Nothing is 60 noxious as having nothing to do.” The same thought is framed thus by the archbishop of Magonza: “The human heart is like a mill; if you put grain in it, it produces flour; if you put nothing in it, it continues to grind, only it consumes itself.” , From this glance at the words ol the thinkers of all time we gather that the soul of man is like a boat, floating down stream toward the rapids; to be destroyed, no more is necessary than to put up'' the oare and lie down. The theory of evolution discloses to us the great law of nature that perfection and perpetuity are the prizes of struggle.

Away to the War; Or, Inconsistency

Long the lady looked at the likeness. A big, shiny tear rolled out of the eye that is nearest you in the illustration, executed an improper but amusing wiggle dance on the Up of the fat girl’s retrousse nose and crashed to the floor with a dull but not sickening thud. He had gone away to the warn Per-

chance to get killed. Perchance to get the top of hfe dear head blown off. Perchance to get it all bloyvn off. Another tear, larger, If anything, than the first, but on the other side, and -hence invisible in the illustration, splashed gently on the oriental rug against which the beautiful creature was leaning. Ah, why had he not heeded her and remained at home? He had gone away to. the war! But, ah! There is a well-known footstep or two, and HE is with her. “I have hired a substitute!” he exclaims aloud. Indignantly the maiden stooped and searched for her two tears. ‘‘Coward!’’ she hissed.”

Some Light.

“I guess you see tnings In a different light, young man, since you were married?” “I ought to. Among our wedding presents werq fifteen brass lamps.” Cider Wasn’t Hard Enough. Bacon —I see a man up in the apple country has a lake of cider on his place. Egbert —And do they skate on It? <. ‘‘No; the cider’s not hard enough tor that”

The Soft Answer.

"Mtarphy, did yez Bay ye cud liek me wid yer eyes shut?" *T did, Misther Doolan, sir. Ye aee I always shut me eyes whin I’m dhrearnin’. Have a dhrink?’’

Worse Yet

"My wife always tears her half whenever I come home late.” “Which makes you feel mean, eh?” “Yes; and which also makes It npoessary tor mo to bur mnra hair.”

Winning Success

TUDGE SEWELL, of Massachusetts, once said: “Home is that place to which a man, having returned, he is no longer abroad.” Home Is made by all the minds of the family. Each member of the family thinks of the home as a whole or of a room in the home, and straightway the home or the room pictures these thoughts; not always clearly, to be sure, for no picture is ever quite ae curate. a

This la the reahon that you do not look like your photograph all the time. The original is always a sharper or a little different. But w«, may truly say that the home Is made by the thoughts of all who live in it. But the home changes? "Tes, It changes Just as family thoughts change. One day some member of the family brings in the thought of a new chair for the parlor When, after a while, every one in the family has that chair-thought, the chair comes.

Or, the daughter of the family wants a new bureau. She talks about it until she wakes up enough bureau thought In the family to get a majority, then the new bureau arrives. The real man back of mind and body owns both and should make them work for him. In the same way he must learn that home and surroundings are his to work with. They are his to make and to mold exactly as he sees fit. It is clear, then, that if a inan wanti to be surrounded by good things—that is, things worth having —he must think of them HARD ENOUGH TO WORK FOR THEM. When we come to talk about education, we shall see more clearly how this is to be done But we can see now that true e&uca tion has to do with many things besides books. It being with self-mas-tery, which means control of mind, control of body, and a knowledge how thought can make a pleasant place tc live in. Can it be done?

Anything can be done with patience A man learns a great deal by gainini the mastery of his own thoughts. Ani one of the first things he learns it this: A passing wish or a sudden notloi is not a thought. A rfoal thought is a powerful thing It acts with great force. There is at much difference between a thoughl and a passing wish as there is between a flash of lightning and a firefly. A real thought forces you into ac tion. A caterpillar surrounds Itself with a cocoon for the purpose of becoming 8 butterfly, later on. However, much a caterpillar may wish, in the morning, to be a butterfly in the evening, ii mußt go into the coeoon, and wait patieiUy to be Changed over to the new form.

A real thought, is like the caterpillar. It must make up its cocoon of the principal thought, and of all othei helpful thoughts that can be gathered about it. Then it must wait, and the thing for which the cacoon stands will come forth in due time in all its beau ty. The Norwegian writer, Bjornson once said this: “The EXPRESSION is the thought.” This is worth remembering, for it means that the thoughl does not reach its end nor fulfill its purpose UNTIL IT IS WORKED OUT Hence, thought, like iron in a forge must be heated and hammered and put into shape, and when the object ii made, the thought has reached the end of its career AS A THOUGHT but it is just beginning its career as a THING.

Home, then, shows perhaps mori clearly than anything ' else just wha> thoughts are actually heated and ham mered into shape by a person or 1 family. And back 'of his truth li« many things and conditions, mrbyatoobfmj Of these, the first is this: Homt should picture real thoughts, and no> mere wishes and notions. Thought! are things ye work for, strive for, anc pay for. Wishes and notions lead uj Into debt, or into a struggle with "tht Installment plan, or into the folly o. trying to picture somebody else’i thoughts who can produce a new bureau because she Is ready for it. A man who mortgages his furnltun to buy an automobile is trying to pic ture the thoughts of another man win can- perhaps afford it. He is making home and property tell a lie about him This untruth arises because he 1not able to govern and command hb thoughts. If he could command them he would not think of the automobll* until he was ready for it. Hence, to begin with, home TELL} THE TRUTH ABOUT EVERYBODY IN THE FAMILY. How, then, can a poor man have , beautiful home? There are two wayß. The first Is this: The home of : poor man must always tell the truth It must not spell debt and foolishness It can be as neat and tidy* as homellki and aB comfortable as any other man’i home. Bit by bit, one who owns the homi can think It into a new and fairei form by thinking new and fairei thoughts about It. These thoughts will come true. There Is another important thlnj about home. It is almost as much 1 part of us as the body itself. As w. make It, so It helps to make us. Fo that reason It should always show th< best of us, In order that the best o us may keep coming back to us, as 1 reminder. Mind, body and home are the begin nings of mil success in life. The mini Is the power that governs the bod) and the hone. As a man runs hli body machine, so he makes progrea in his work. As he makes home » more and more perfect copy of hfc true thoughts, the more it will lnspir him. As home is a little world created b; a man or by a family, it should be ' little world at beauty and of slmpll city. It will become more lovely a thought Is given to it, and aa the lor* Uness of the thought increases, th> loveliness of home follows. Then home becomes a place 4 beauty, and an inspiration to thoe who live in It, because Lnspl ratio makes it what It is. ' \

Ca Yea Answer These Questions Correctly, Off Hand?

■•'V r If you think that it is easy to secure final citizenship papers, you should be present in the circuit court when the final examination of applicants will be held. Som? questions will be asked, which it is dollars to doughnuts, very few full-fledged citizens could answer. If you don’t believe it, just see how many of the following questions you can answer: Who is the president of the United States?

How is he elected? Is he elected or appointed? Who elects the president? What are the presidential electors? How are they selected? What is the term of the president of the United States? ' Where is the capital of the United States?

Who is the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States? . Who makes the laws of the United States? How many branches in congress are there ? Name them. How are the senators elected? What is their term of service? How are representatives elected? What is their term of service? Who is the chief justice of the United States? , % How* many members composed the supreme court of the United States? Where does the supreme court pf the United States sit? Who is the governor of Indiana? Who selects the governor of the State?

What is his term of service? Who makes the laws of the state of Indiana? How many branches are there in the legislature? Name them. What Is the term of service so? state senators? What is the term of service for state representatives? What is the capital of Indiana? Who is the mayor of Rensselaer? Who makes the laws regulating the city? How many councilmen do we have? - How many legal holidays in Indiana? Name them. To whom does the law prohibit a * saloonkeeper from selling intoxicating liquors? How does the law require a saloon to be arranged during the time the law prohibits the selling of intoxicating liquors? Who grants a liquor license?

DON’T WAIT.

Take Advantage of a Rensselaer Citizen’s Experience Before It’s Too Late. When the back begins to ache, Don’t wait until backache becomes chronic; Till serious kidney troubles develop; Till urinary troubles destroy night’s rest. Profit by a Rensselaer citizen’s experience. Charles Malchow, Harvey Street, Rensselaer, Ind., says: “Kidney complaint and backache kept me in misery for years. The attacks came sofrequently that it seemed as if I %/as never free from the trouble. Thesmall of my back was the part most affected, but often the pain extended through my shoulders and even into* my neck. The kidney secretions annoyed me by their irregularity In passage and proved that my kidneys were at fault. Years ago I learned about Doan’s Kidney Pills, and getting a supply at Fendigk Drug Store, I foe-, gan their use. After taking a few doses, I knew that I had at last found the remedy I needed. My kidneys were strengthened and the pains in. my back were disposed of. I have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills since, then when having similar attacks and I never failed to get prompt and lasting relief. This remedy lives up to all’ claims for it” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.

Rev. and Mrs. C. L Harper went to Brookston Saturday an\ on Sunday attended a reunion of tile members and old friends of the Carlo Methodist church, which is across the Tippecanoe county line, southeast of Brookston, and in the neighborhood where Mrs. Harper was raised A big basket dinner and supper was served. Many old members of the church were gathered back after an absence of year* and it proved very enjoyable. Rev. Harper returned home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Harper remained for a longer visit.

The reip&ins of Samhel Remley, the aged Wheatfield c itizen who died last week in Poplar, Wyo., arrived here this Monday morning for burial. A short service was held at the residence of the deceased’s son, John Remlejr, on Main street, and the body wa? taken to the Praeter cemeterjf for interment y