Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — Page 2

MOHAMMED ALI MIRZA t former shah of Persia, may yet recover the kingdom from which he was expelled and once more occupy his old palaces. Recently he won -a hard fought battle against the government troops, capturing a town and a store of guns and ammunition. £

BOY TIRES OF WORK

Seeks to Palm Off Murder Story, But It Fails to Convince. Didn't Want to Mind Baby, Get Evening Meal and Do Sundry Other Odd Jobe So Hatched Up Horrible Tale. New York.—The last-straw burden was placed on the shoulders of thir-teen-year-old Andrew Gussig when his big, married brother John augmented the Gussig household in the basement bf No. 829 East One Hundred and Sixty-seventh street with Ablenona Gussig, an infant daughter. Before her coming Andrew had no time for play. The front door had to be polished, the hallways of the house, of which his father is janitor, must be cleaned and the vacant flats shown to prospective tenants. Andrew, Jr., had had to assist his father in all there tasks.

But after the coming of the baby, while Andrew’s father, mother, brother and brother’s wife were out at day’s work In the neighborhood, the boy had the additional taßk of minding Ablenona and preparing the evening meal. "And there were a lot of fellowß had a tent in a lot," said Andy, after it was all over, "and they said I could go out and play with them and one of them had a gun and they was playing Wild West But I, didn’t have any time.

“So today when they left me all alone 1 saw a chance to get even. I put the baby outside with some little girls and I went in the house. I had a lasso and I tied it around my feet. I turned on the gas in the kitchen and then I cut a little bit from the lasso. I lay down on the kitchen floor, tied a piece of my mother's dress around my mouth, made a noose around my hands and turnedthem until it was tight “Then I waited on the floor for my father and mother to come home. I thought they'd believe somebody’d tried to murder me and they'd let me play outside and not leave me alone in the basement to mind the baby and mind the house. "John, the bakery boy, came into

China Hits at Cigarettes

Anti-Smokers Find Average Consumed in Tokio is 99,530 Hourly—Wu Ting Fang Interested. Rhm|h«l. —For some time an anticigarette smoking society has existed in China, but its seal has not been apparent in any missionary effort But this is to be changed. Hlb excellency Wu Ting Fang convened a meeting recently at Shanghai and arrangements were made for an energetic crusade against the cigarette habit Mr. Chen agreed to address a circular letter on this matter to all the members of commerce of the empire. Dr. Yao, director of the International Institute, offered to post letters to the open ports and large towns asking them to render help. Mr. King consented to appoint lecturers to busy streets and other places to proclaim the benefits to be enjoyed by Abstinence from cigarette smoking, the salaries to be paid by himself. A sum of SSOO was subscribed for propaganda work, and money for 500 copies of a booklet entitled “China and the Cigarette' was promised by two members of the association. A secretary, a treasurer four general workers, sixteen persons to dissuade the cigarette smokers. to make Investlgatlons and to collect data, and ten persons to deliver lectures were sez. : . Statistics were recently compiled with regard to the amount of tobacco daily consumed by the citizens of Tokio. As regards cigare.tes, 81,930 cigarettes with mouthpieces attached and 17,600 without are smoked every

FORMER SHAH MAY REGAIN HIS KINGDOM

the kitchen to leave the bread. The door was open. You'd ought to seen John! He ran out yelling.” John went to Frank Klein, Janitor at No. 825, and told what he had seen. Klein ran back to the Oussig kitchen and cut the ropes from Andrew’s feet and hands. “A big nan came through that window," said Andrew, "and tied me down and turned on the gas.” Patrolman Wolf was called. Acting Captain Place of the Morrisania station came with detectives. Captain Brennan of the Tremont station did likewise, after word had reached Captain Price of the Bronx detective bureau that murder had been attempted The block was surrounded, men went to roofs and others questioned' dwellers in the neighborhood. While an ambulance surgeon was working over the boy his mother ran in. ”My poor boy!” she wailed. "I left you all alone to mind the baby.” Andrew was equal to the occasion. "It’s better for me to play outside

Growth Of Prussian Cities

German Kingdom Has Thirty-Two Municipalities of More Than 100,000 Against Twenty-Nine In 1909. Berlin.—According to the last census (autumn of 1910), Prussia has 32 cities of over 100,000 Inhabitants, against 29 cities of that size in 1905 and 25 in 1900. Sixty-one cities of over 50,000 inhabitants each have a total population of 10,880,000. In 1905 there were 57 such cities with a total population of 9,650,000, and in 1900, 62 with a population of 8,300,000. Cologne is now the second city in Prussia in size, having passed Breslau, second in 1906. Frankfort on Main, with 414,598 inhabitants, comes fourth. Heaviest increase during the period from 1905 to 1910 was noted in the cities immediately surrounding Berlin. OI these cities, sou burg, Rixdorf, Schoeneberg and Duetsch-Wilmersdorf —have now over 100,000 inhabitants, while the fifth, Lichtenberg. bids fair to att&ln that

If these cigarettes, says a statistician, could be connected from end to end they would cover a distance of 27,000 feet, which exceeds the height of Mount Fuji by 14,610 feet In the Nihonbasbi ward of the city the smoking is heaviest, each inhabitant smoking on the average from 63.50 to 64 worth of tobacco per year. In addition, over 1,100 tons of cut tobacco are smoked every year.

Troll for Fish, Hook Girl.

Wlnsted, Conn. —While trolling for bam in Lake Mahkeenac in the Berkslfifes. the other day, Frank Parsons got n ‘strike” and when be began to take in his line a society girl, who was in bathing 150 yardß away cried out: 'l’ve been nooked." She had taken a dive off the float after Mr. Parsons’ boat had passed by and the trolling book caught her bathing suit and held fast The girl swam to the Parsons boat where she was unhooked

Fear Restores Legs.

Harrisonburg, Va.—A cripple from birth, Joseph Summers the Other day threw away his crutches and crazed with fright after accidentally shooting a small girl, ran In his bare fejt into the country. He fled so rapidly that he has not yet been overtaken. -H- ~

Fee for Professional Services.

New York. —A process server got Into the presence of Dr. Maurice Strum by asking for a prescription. The doctor was awarded Judgment for $2 in court for pmesslonal services.

with the other boys,” he said. “Then no big men will come In and try to murder me." His mother agreed fervently. But Detective Mcllhardy became susplclous. "Where did you say that big man came in?” he asked. The boy indicated a window, close to which stood a feather bed in such a position that one entering by the window would have had to crawl over the bed. But there wasn’t a mark on it The detective took the boy Into another room and there made him confess. “I tied myself up," said Andrew. “I didn’t want to stay in here. I wanted to go out in the field and play detective and Wild West” When the detective informed the parents they cried: "Take him away to jail! He’s a bad boy.” So Andrew, Jr., was taken to the Children’s society rooms and will be arraigned in the children’s court, charged with attempted suicide and Juvenile delinquency. “Gees it looks like I’d never get a chance to play/’ he said.

figure within a short time. In DeutschWilmersdorf the increase in five years was over 72 per cent. Berlin itself shows only 1 per cent increase. All 61 cities in the 50,000 class show an increase in population. In all these cities births have been in excess of deaths. A number'of cities have lost by immigration, chiefly Berlin, From 1905 to 1910 people moving away from Berlin outnumbered new arrivals by nearly 60,000. Among other cities to show a loss in this respect are Elberfeld,. Altona, Aix le Chapelle and Crefeld. Among the cities which, in addition to increase' through births, attracted “immigrants," were the cities surrounding Berlin, as well as Frankfort on Main, Dusseldorf, Essen, Breslau, Dortmund, Cologne and Kiel. Frankfort on Main gained 25,000 inhabitants in this -manner. As compared with the period from 1900 to 1995, the figures for 1905 to 1910 show that increase of population in cities of over 50,000 was somewhat less rapid. Increase of urban population through “immigration" appears to be dimihishlng. Excess of births was more considerable between 1905 and 1910, although in proportion to population.births are also decreasing.

FEWER SHIPS IN THE WORLD

Carrying Trade la Done in Bigger Vessels, Being More Profitable—Tonnage Crowing. London. —It will surprise many persons to learn there are fewer ships In the world than there were a few years ago. Lloyd’s Register now gives the total an 30,087, whereas the figure for 1907-08 was 30,303. The explanation is simple. The carrying trade of the globe is done in bigger ships, because it Is more profitable. The Olympic, for example, only counts as one vessel, whereas her 45,000 tons would in the old days have been spread over quite a respectable fleet Again, sailing ships have largely disappeared. A single steamer replacing three of them is at least as effective. All the same, the world’s tonnage keeps growing. The 30,087 ships represent 43,147,154 tons, whereas the larger number of a few years back stood for 89,438,917, a growth of 3.706.000 tons In four years.

Cow Wins Tug-of-War.

Narareth, Pa.—While Oliver Helmer whs driving through this town with a sturdy cow tied to the tall end of the wagon, the cow became frightened and. turning suddenly, pulled the wagon and horse In the opposite direction '' When the horse regained a foothold, a tug-of-war ensued in which the cow managed to pull the wagon over, upsetting Mr. Helmer and his wife and painfully injuring them.

RECALL AARON BURR

Historical Reminiscence of Old New York. Wooden Water Pipes Unearthed That Were Laid by Hl# Company Many Decades Ago—Proof of Hl# Shrewd Mind. Few persons whose business took them into the neighborhood of Beekman and' Water streets within the past week or so did more than glance idly at the heaps of logs and splintered timbers piled here and there along the curbs, says the New York Press. People passed them by. bestowing upon tbem no more notice than they give to the debris that follows upon excavations at every turn. Gangs of Italians have been busy there, digging deep trenches in preparation for new water pipes. In the course of their work tftey came upon some of. the quaintest souvenirs of a day long past that have been found in New York for u any years. They &r 6in fact, no less than the ancient and moldering wooden water pipes laid by Aaron Burr’s Manhattan company in a time when his name was mentioned oftener in connection with public affairs than that of any other man. These fragments of logs bring back the memory of one of the most renowned and curious charters ever granted—that obtained for the Manhatten company. Desiring to establish a bank, and unable to obtain a charter for ope In those dayp of more or less chaotic banking conditionr, Burr’s shrewd mind Engineered a water-right charter so as to make it-a blanket affair, which might cover almost anything from a sodp fountain to a state bank. He manipulated it so as to legalize his bank as an offshoot, a detail among the other outgrowthp of the grant, thus making the tail wag the dog. The water company built its reservoir at Collect Pond, near the site of the present Tombs prison, and a vestige of It still remains In a big wooden tank occupying a triangular bit of ground close to Center street.

No doubt there are many more of these forgotten pipes hidden deep below the city traffic. Rough hewn logs, they appear to be, judging from the. splintering remnants in the neighborhood of Fulton market. They are perhaps eighteen or twenty inches in diameter, with an inner pipe made of a different kind of wood from that of the thick outer shell. The opening for the flow of water Is only two or three inches in diameter, a curiously small stream for-so clumsy a carrier. But then the problem of water supply In those times was not the weighty matter of today.

Son Got the Key.

A South side woman .went calling for the day recently. When leaving home she remembered that her son would be home before she returned and that he carried no key with him. She decided that to place the key under the door mat would be the best means for allowing him to enter. When she had performed this act another difficulty presented itself —how would the son know the key was under the door mat? After some thought she struck a plan. Taking a piece of cardboard she drew the words in large letters, “Key is under the door mat.” Then she tacked the card on the door panel. Some friends passing on the other side of the street saw the card and wondered whether smallpox or scarlet fever had entered the home. They investigated and finally solved the problem with safety to household goods by leaving the key with a neighbor, who watched for ttil son and gave him the key when he arrived. —Youngstown Telegram.

The Transformation of Percy.

His name was Johnny, and his ambition was to be grown up, says Answers. He had watched Cissy and Percy; but that’s another storiettte, as Kipling says. “Papa ”he piped, as he walked with his dad on the beach at Tlddleton-on-the-Tide. “what’s under those rocks?” “Limpets!” snapped papa. This was the first question. “Wouldn’t they rather walk abont, pa?” “No!” rapped out pa. “They prefer to cling where they are!” “Is everything that likes clinging to something else a limpet, pa?" “For goodness— Yes!” roared father. Johnny thought “Well, pa,” he concluded, “is Percy a limpet, pa, when he says good-by to Cissy in the passage?”

Told His Fortune.

While crossing the Bast Boston ferry the other evening a little fellow approached me, saying: "Tell yer fortune for a nickel, mister." . After a few words with the young fellow I consented, be took my hand and said: “At first I thought yon were going to become a rich man, bat It’s all off now," I asked him his reason. “Well, yer see. boss, anybody who parts with his money, on a scheme like I played yon for will never be one of them financiers." I gave him another nickel for hie philosophy.—Boston Traveler.

Adding Insult to Injury.

“I see where a 8L Louis man wants a divorce from his wife because she smokes cigars." “Maybe she blows the smoke In hie fsoe ”

HYDRAULIC BUFFERS FOR RAILROAD TERMINALS

Hydraulic Buffer Stops of 7-Ft. Stroke in the Terminal Station of the London & Southwestern Railroad. __

NEW SAFETY DEVICE

ENGLISH RAILROAD HYDRAULIC BUFFER STOPS. Designed to Put End to Collisions Between Running Trains and Platform Dead Ends at the - Terminal Stations.. .

The number of collisions between running trains and platform dead ends

to passengers and train crews. The installation of hydraulic buffers in the London terminal passenger station of the London & Southwestern Railroad is shown in the illustration: The operation of the buffers is simple. pair of cast-iron cylinders is mounted upon simple concrete foundations in line .with the buffers of the rolling stock, and from them piston rods carrying buffer heads on the outer ends project to a distance of«-7 ft. The cylinders are’ completely filled water, which passe through channels fronr behind the pistons to the front as they are forced home. The arrangement of the vtrater passages is such that when, the pistons are first forced back a pressure is set up behind them opposing the movement. As the speed is checked and the stroke of the pistons made, smaller passages for the water are provided, with the result that a constant resistance is afforded and the train brought to a standstill without shock or recoil. The water displaced when the piston rods are forced home leaves the cylinders at the forward ends through relief valves. The buffers are automatically reset by means of a constant supply of water connected up to the front part of the cylinders at a pressure of about 35 lb? per square inch. This pressure, acting on the piston rods, immediately forces them out again as soon as the train backs away.—Popular Mechanics. ~

Special Trains Common Nowadays.

Trains de luxe, special and not special, are now literally too numerous to mention, says a writer in the Railway Age Gazette. Thg Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Oklahoma City left for Rochester, N. Y., in “the first train ever sent out from Oklahoma City,” steel sleeping cars, dinipg car, etc., all electric lighted and with a conductor and brakeman who were members of the Shrine. Including their wives and a band of music, the company numbered one hundred. The train of steel cars, which is to be furnished by the St Louis and San Francisco and the New York Central for Texas members of the National Ad Men’s convention, to be held in Boston the last of July, will-be the “most modern ever operated in the southwest” To turn for a moment from outer to timer delights, the latest novelty in 'the transportation of merchandise is the “Raspberry Special” of the American Express company, running from New Albany, Ind., to Chicago.

First Electric Railway.

A Cologne paper calls attention to the fact that the 12th of May last was the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the first electric railway This was an experimental line about a mile and a half long from the Lich tenfeld military school to the Anhalt station in Berlin, equipped with a single car wlthspeats ■ for twelve passengers. * The speech made by Dr. Siemens on that occasion is remarkable for a modesty not often shown In introduo ing new inventions. "The child born today,” said he, “Is a sturdy little fellow, with abundant vitality. I think he will make out to live. But he has the diseases of childhood yet to meet and as yet has not even cut his teeth. We may be glad, however, that the babe has at last come Into the world. As to what will become of him, whether he ever amounts to anything, we mnst waif to see.” We have waited, and we have seen. —Railway Age Qasette. ' :V::

at terminal star tions in England has resulted in the utilization of hydraulic buffer stops as a means of preventing damage to rolling stock and possible fatal injuries

HAD “FUN” WITH ENGINEER

Veteran of the Rail Telia of Mean Trick That a Woman. Once Play on Him. "About the meanest thing that ever happened to me," said a veteran engineer in conversation the other day, “was when a woman walking ahead of the train refused to leave the track. I made the whistle shriek Its best* and when she gave no attention I put on all brakes, reversed the supposing she was-deaf. I succeeded in stopping within a few feet of herand then she calmly left the track, turned about and kisded her hand to me. Now, wouldn’t that jar you some? As she was a woman I didn’t say tocher precisely what I thought. . “A curious and really amusing incident, as there was no tragedy In It,, happened to me once at one of the country crossings In Ohio. It was'SLv passenger train that time and we were making full speed on schedule! I saw a buggy tolling ..along the road at a good gait and experience .was enough to tell me that If we each kept going at- that rate the buggy would reach the .tracks just in time= for a head-on ruction with the engine. I whistled for the dear lives of theother persons, and possibly something. . for my own, as you never knew what havoc even a little bit of obstruction may work. They kept their speed and I put on all breaks and reversed the lever. A man walking in the highwaywaved his arms and even stood in thepath of the spirited steed drawing the buggy, but there was no halt on part of the lively couple. It was Impossible for me to make a complete stop on my side of the unprotected grade crossing, but my engine wah going quite slow as it reached the horse.. “The afilmal wisely whirled short away from the pilot, but the steamchest caught the front wheels of the buggy and tore them away. The horse fell in' its mad whirl. The young woman pitched over the splash board and sat more or less gracefully exactly astride of the crosstree, or single tree, or whatever you call It. The man was pitched out to one side, but neither woman, man nor horse was injured except by the natural fright As It turned out, they were on eloping; young couple from the Pennsylvania side, and they were too much engrossed sh their own get-away to carefor railway trains or even cyclones.”

Railroad Building In Asiatic Russia.

At the present time Russia has railway communication with her Pacific seaboard only through Manchuria. If you consult maps of Asiatic Russia published during the last eight or* nine years you will find the route of a proposed railway indicated alongthe Amur river from Khabarovsk toStryetensk on the Shilka, an uppertributary of the Amur that is entirely" within Russian territory. According' to the Revue Generale des Sciences, acredit has been voted for the completion of this railway. Another greatproject about to be undertaken will give St. Petersburg direct railway" communication with the Trans-Siber-ian via Viatka, Perm and Ekaterinburg lo Kurgan in place of the present route to Moscpw. Most inyportant ■* of all, it is proposed to build a railway from the termination df the present Chinese line, which extends from Pekin to Kalgan, across the Gobi desent, along the route of the old Chinesepost road, via Sair-usu and Urga, toKiakta, south, of Lake Baikal. This would enable travelers to Journey" from Paris to Pekin in nine and a. half days.—Scientific American.

Sweepers or Baggage Cars.

It appears from a note in The Electrician that the Michigan United Railways company has recently equipped at the AlbiSfi shops two large snow' sweepers. Each of the new marines is no constructed that it may be used during the winter months as a snow sweeper and converted for use as a baggage car during the Slimmer. As the Michigan United Railways electric system includes about 80 miles o t third-rail track, provision Is f or operating either with third-rai} or trol--Ift current collectors, and smalt brooms are also provided for cleaning the third rail. These brooms aremounted on extensions of the main broom shaft Each.of the new cars is equipped with ” four motors. Thu brakes are supplied from an air compressor, and the brooms are operated by moton.