Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — Page 2

AROUND CAMP THE FIRE

TWELFTH WISCONSIN IN WAR

Company Was Fortunate to Participate in Several Expeditions and Won Much Distinction. Governor Randall called for the Twelfth Wisconsin some time in September. 1861, and it was organised at Camp Randall in October, with Col. George E. Bryant In command and De Witt C. Poole, now in the regular army, as lieutenant colonel, both s of whom had served in the First Wisconsin, writes Lieut Col. J. A. Watrous. TJ. S. A., in the Milwaukee Sentinel. “Who shall be major?’’ was asked. The governor was disposed to go to one of the regiments that had gone out soon after Uncoin's first call for that officer. Early In September the Second Wisconsin Infantry moved from Camp Kalorama, then several miles from the center of Washington, but now a beautiful portion of the capital city, to Chain Bridge, and from there across the Potomac river into Virginia, where ft was expected that the enemy was preparing to fight. It was customary for officers in that vicinity to ride out toward the Confederate Jine to investigate and see the sights. One warm afternoon CapL

A Shell Exploded in Company I.

William E. Strong of Company F. Second Wisconsin, rode out. When he cgme back he had a blood curdling story to tell that attracted much attention. He had suddenly run into a squad of several Confederates and, singe handed and alone, had whipped them, killing one or two and wounding others. As you know, that was. early In the war and an incident of that kind, at that time, was a big thing. Governor Randall and other Wisconsin people had seen the accounts of Captain Strong’s encounter with the enemy and it did not take long to decide that be should be major of the new regiment then forming, and he was appointed. The major was soon detailed as an Inspecting officer and on special duty most of the time, reaching the responsible place of Inspector general of the Sevententh corps. At the end of the war he was a brevet brigadier general The Twelfth left Madison the second week in January. 1862, and went direct to Weston, Mo., traveling from Hannibal, 236 miles, in open freight cars when the thermometer indicated 15 degrees below zero, and there was no fire in the cars. It did a great deal of guard duty in Missouri and Kansas, and participated in various expeditions until May of that year, when it went to Tennessee. It was its fortune to participate in several important raids and to be assigned to responsible positions in that state during the next three months. In these raids the Twelfth ran up against the enemy several times and won a good name. When the Vicksburg campaign came the Twelfth took its place with the attacking force and was on duty until Pemberton’s surrender, and then joined Sherman in his campaign against Jackson. Colonel Bryant was in command of the brigade. From the capture of Jackson until the opening of the campaign in 1864 the Twelfth kept up its reputation as a raider and a guarder of railways, frequently getting into hot skirmishes, losing a considerable number of men. At the affair at Bolton station, during Sherman's Meridian expedition, a sb ell-ex-ploded in Company 1. killing one man and wounding five others. The regiment re-enlisted In March. 1864. At the expiration of 30 days in Wisconsin ft was ordered to the front and joined the army on the way to Atlanta.* June 8, and from that time until the end of the campaign was almost constantly close to the front line of battles. The losses of the regiment from the time it joined Sherman In June until July 14. were eight killed and 1* wounded. The part. taken by the Twelfth at what was then called Bald Hill, but now known as Leggett Hill, in honor of an Ohio general who commanded the division, gave that regiment a test that few,

AMONG the spectacular happenings at the aviation meet at Chicago was the destruction of J. A. D. McCurdy's new biplane by fire. The aviator struck an electric wire running to a yacht club house and his machine was upset and burned up. Mr. McCurdy escaped unhurt. - t

AMERICANS IN PARIS

$100,000,000 Spent by Yankees in Europe This Year. French Capital Getting Its Share of Cash, Declare Tradesmen —Begin to Understand Ways of Shopping. Palis. —According to recent statistics something over >80,000,000 per annum has been spent in Europe by American tourists during the last few years. This year the figure will be well over >100,000,000, a good share of which goes to Paris, where the American invasion since May has beaten all records. Although the hotel men are satisfied with the unusual number of American visitors, only too willing to pay good prices for good accomodations, it would appear from an investigation that the money spent in hotels this year will represent only a comparatively small fraction of the total. ' . “We have done more business with American customers this season,** said a high official of one of the largest dry goods stores tn Paris, “than with all the rest of our foreign customers put together. “It seems. In fact, that Americans are beginning to understand that shopping in Paris is not confined to the Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix, where prices are so high that only a few can meet them. Although this is supposed to be the middle of the dead season, our staff is as numerous and as busy now as it was at the end of June. At present we are working almost exclusively for Americans. "I believe we have taken big business from our competitors In America, and, judging from the quantity of clothes, and so forth, sold in Paris to

PREFERS BLUBBER AND OIL

Eskimo Woman Quits Children to Return to Old Life—Couldn’t, Prove Her Marriage. Seattle. Wash. —American food and the ways of civilization pleased an Eskimo woman but a short time. When she first struck these shores with her white husband and children the contrast to her own Ice-bound home was attractive, but soon she tired of our ways and sighed for the snow-covered plains of her native land, for the luscious seal oil and the succulent blubber. She arrived here for the recent exposition. and her mate decided to make his home once more among his own race, purchasing a ranch on Vashon island. His wife learned a little English from neighbors, but American ways did not appeal to her and her temper suffered. Hubby traded his ranch and wished to establish near Springfield, Mo. Wifey, however, would have none of it, and learning that it was the white custom to settle matrimonial troubles in a law court applied for assistance to attorneys. Her native land, however, was far away, and she had no evidence of being married, so she contented herself by just embarking upon the first steamer bound for the Arctic regions, and our great civilisation knows her no more.

Cheaper Drugs for Russians.

St Petersburg.—A bill proriding for the nationalising of all drug stores in Russia will go before the Duma in October. ' It is contended the poor will thus be able to, get better and cheaper drags.

ONE OF THE PERILS OF AVIATION

Americans, the custom house receipt? should be something like a record.” Jewelry and antique dealers and others are unanimous in declaring that, while of late years, American visitors came to Europe merely as tourists, they have now dicsovered that things in Europe can be had at much better prices than in their own country, and have begun to come here to buy. These statements of Paris business men are further confirmed by the aspect of the city itself. Now that the usual Parisian crowd has left for the summer holidays, the boulevards would be empty and desolate were it not for American tourists, who, undaunted by the scorching sun and melting asphalt, can be seen all day and every day going In and out of shops, giving the central district the appearance of an American city to such an extent that nothing has looked more like the busy section of lower Broadway than the Boulevard Haussmann during the last few days. Of course, temperatures at between 95 and 100 do not encourage entertainments, but the gardens and roof gardens of the chief hotels are as gay now as they weresome weeks ago. Hundreds of fresh arrivals are every day filling up immediately the void left by those who, having concluded their European holiday, are returning to America.

FRANCE NOW PRODUCING JAM

Price of Sugar Goes Down, Although Bread and Meat Stay High— Paris Living Is Easy. Paris.—The Association of General Statistics in France has published a volume on the cost of living'in Paris The working classes as well as the middle classes have not been faced with any sensible increase in the cost of food during the last forty years.

Italian Battles for Hours Before Big Fish Is Landed—Odd Collection In Its Stomach. Boston. —Leonardo Romano- brought in this morning, a 200-pound man-eat-ing shark with which he fought from 10 o’clock in the morning until after dark the other evening. Romano was hauling his trawl off Middlebank, when the head of the blue-back shark came over the gunwale. As the shark made a quick turn and swung his tall square into Romano’s face, the fisherman swatted it with one bt the oars. The shark wriggled back into the water before the oar struck the spot for which it was intended, and Romano splintered his oar. The Italian took some rope and, forming a slip-noose, tried to drop It over the shark’s head. The nearest he came to it after repeated trials was to drop half the coll Into the shark’s mouth. The Italian was alone in the boat He would, have cuFthe trawl lose, but as the monster was attached to one of the first books, to do so would have meant to lose all his gear and fish. Romano hitched the trawl line to a cleat and started his gasoline engine, hoping that the shark would either get tired out or possibly ground up by the propeller. The sharp swished his tall into the propeller and the engine stopped running. The Italian had then been struggling with the fish for over an hour, and the big monster was about “all in** by this time. After much maneuvering, the fisherman got the noose over its head. Once the

Catches Man-Eating Shark

But new necessities and the desire for Increased comfort and luxury have raised the standard of living in Paris as well as in London, while taxation has increased. The price of bread and meat is higher in Paris than in London, and this is due to the Import duty on wheat, which increased the price of bread except In years of bountiful, harvest, and to the prohibition of the entry of dead meat, which is justified on sanitary grounds, but which is really a protective measure. On the • other hand, the price of sugar, owing to the signing of the Brussels convention, has materially decreased. Sugar is a food of the first class, and if the duty has decreased the amount or sugar available for France is much greater, so that the price Is considerably lower. Thia has given an Impetus to the industries which use sugar as a raw material, and for the first '.ime France has taken her place among the jam-pro-ducing countries. The price of wine has also diminished, owing to overproduction, and while the south of France has suffered Paris has gained. There has no doubt been a graduar rise in rent, and the working classes of Paris have to pay more for lodging in proportion, owing to the protective taxes on the raw material of the building trades, than the English working classes. But, on the whole, Tt Is reasssuring to learn that the cost of living in itself has not risen to any appreciable extent in Paris. Indeed, it is likely to decrease in the near future.

Stamp Out Pellagra.

Memphis, Tenn.—After experiment Dr. A. J. Albright, secretary of the Tennessee state board of health, announced the other day that the mosquito transmits pellagra. The state board will begin war on the insect Over a thousand cases have been found in Tennessee, principally in lumber camps where several saw mills have been closed down on ac count of illness among employ ea Over 150 cases exist in Shelby county and around Memphis.

noose was drawn tight, it was an easy matter to choke the shark to death. Besides the coil of rope there was taken from the shark’s stomach this morning three full-grown codfish, one tinker mackerel, four haddock, a section of a swordfish’s sword, part of a tin can, a man’s cap, seven fish hooks, a clay pipe and a boot

TEA NOT GROWN IN CEYLON

Land Where Cheaper Grades Were Produced Now Given Up to Cultivation of Rubber Trees. London. —The tea tasters tn Mincing lane are in for a hotter time of it than 'tasual, and those who know anything concerning that mysterious art are fully aware that at the best It la anything but a sinecure. They are being called upon to exercise more than their usual amount of ingenuity in the matching, in both taste and appearance, various Ceylon grown teas of the cheaper grade. The explanation lies in the fact that the “low country” districts in Ceylon, the birthplace of cheap teas, have been sacrificed for the planting of rubber trees. A broker said that the housewife would not, because of this, be called upon to pay more for her pound of Ceylon tea. “The public,” be said, “has become so used to the low-priced article that it would never pay a substantial rise. It simply means that the tea tasters will have to be a little more cunning than usual and match exactly the Ceylon grown tea.”

STONE THAT BURNS ITSELF

East of the Jordan Lime Is Made From Rock That Contains Its Own Fuel. While making a trip through the Hauran district recently the writer’s attention was attracted to a curious stone which might be described as a “eels-burning limestone.” Our party came upon some natives burning it and was enabled to see the operation. This district is south of Damascus, east of the upper Jordan. At this place the rock lay in a stratum between ordinary limestone; it was of grayish black color, and when freshly broken had an odor of petroleum. Near by were outcrops of what looked like the same material many rods long and 20 to 30 feet thick. Quarrying Is easily done with primitive picks and other tools, as the rock is quite soft and full of seams. The stone is broken into small pieces with hammers and piled up against the bank of rock. A wall of the same material about two feet high is roughly laid up around the pile on threq sides, making a pile of small stone bight to ten feet long and nearly as wide, and two feet at the front, rising to nearly three times that height at the back, where it lies against the bank. In building the wall around the pile small holes are left for draft and in which to start the fire. When the kiln is ready to burn a few small bunches of straw are placed in the holes mentioned, lit with a flint and steel and in a short time the whole pile has ignited. The men then begin working on a new kiln while the other burns and cools. After about two hours of burning the stone has all* become converted Into lime, except the stones in the wall and the very top layer, which are only about half burned. When cool the lime is air-slacked and sifted to remove any pieces not thoroughly burned, which are thrown Into a new pile to be fired again. The workmen told us that it made a very black smoke with a bad odor like kerosene burning. The lime is white and said to make a very strong plaster, superior to the ordinary lime burned with brush. This stone Is so located that, should it prove to be of commercial value, it could be easily transported.—Consular Reports.

Fingernail Photography.

“Would you like your sweetheart’s portrait placed on your fingernails?” Is a unusual query at most of the swell Berlin manicurists just now. The new fad grew out of a whim of a pretty cousin of the kaiser who had an enameled portrait of her fiance worked on the nail of her little finger. The portrait was a gem of art in Its way and cost >9O. The manicurists, took up the idea, and now, for a small fee of 20 marks —about >5 —you can have anyone’s photograph placed on your fingernail. The main skill of the manicurist consists in rendering the photograph watertight; which is done by coating it over with a shellac-like which is burned upon the nail. This is the only painful element of the strange process. Quite a number of society dames have taken to the idea and everywhere you go you see fingernail photography. Mothers have pictures of their favorite and prettiest children placed on their fingernails; young men and maidens display their sweethearts tti the same fashion, and the fad has spread marvelously since it was first introduced. A portrait on a fingernail will last with careful handling, about four months without renewal.

Bird Music?. Bah!

Lying on the soft grass before his tent, a camper sipped a tin cup of coffee and listened to the birds. “You’d think from all this pure melody,” he-said, “that birds were musical —that, like the New York critics, they loved the best and only the best. But, as a matter of fact, they have a degraded taste. The thrush and the lark are as wrong in their musical ideas as Puccini and Leoncavalla are said to be. “I have tested the thrush. I have set him to learning the notes of the nightingale. But he doesn’t care for the nightingale’s divine music. He will have none of it. The sparrow’s ugly twitter, on the other hand, he masters with delight. “The finch and-the mockingbird are the same. They won’t learn fine music, the music of. Beethoven or Chopin or Wagner, but they take to rag-time and jigs like a pig to hog-wash. “Hark to that burst of melody from the plfie copse! You’d think the singers Inspired. But if thrush or lark or mockingbird went to New York, the critics would say their music was as rotten as that of Thais of Tosca.

Forgotten Bank Account.

Quite forgetting that she had a substantial little fortune In the bank an old woman, Ruth Evans, residing at Carrog, Llangolla, Wales, had lived and suffered in direst poverty for 20 years. She died recently at the age of 90; neighbors paid for the coffinto save her from having a parish funeraL Afterwards a singular discovery was made by an officer. Upon taking possession of the effects in the little qpttage, which were only worth a few stillings, barely sufficient to pay the rent that was owing, he found in a rickety drawer a pass-book of an Aberbele bank, which showed a balance Of nearly £3OO to the aged pauper’s credit The last deposit wad made 30 years ago. The book was forwarded to the bank, and on the account being made up, it was found'to total £SOO, the original amount at compound interest having doubled Itself.

CAN’T FIND HAPPINESS

OLD MONEYBAGS IS BOTH A PLUTOCRAT AND PAUPER. Ho Has Amassed Great Wealth and Lost All That Was Best in Him.

Dun and Bradstreet rate him rich. His name works magic t at the bank. His check is good for millions. His vaults are stuffed with stocks and bonds. But his dollars have an actual value of five cents each. He is bloated with riches and writhing in poverty —he’s a plutocrat and a pauper at the same time. r Fate has made an ass of him —she has given him all the cash he asked for, but she omitted the formula that gives it value. He has the lock, but he can’t find the key—he doesn’t know what to do with his money. He is a lineal descendant of King Midas —he learned the golden touch, but he can’t control its power. In his madness for millions he has transmuted all the realities of life into useless trash. He placed his springtime in the minting press—he turned all his hopes and all his visions into coin—stamped all the tenderness out of his heart and milled the peace of his soul. Year by year he went on amassing wealth and just as steadily losing all that was best in him. All that was kindly—all that was'joyous—he turned to dross. Now in his silver age he is yearning for his golden youthT There is an ache that he doesn’t understand—a hungry hole in his breast where godly heritages shriveled and died from disuse. ' He can’t enjoy himself —he isn’t trained for the job.

His rapacity destroyed his capacity to comprehend the big message. He owns a yacht, but it’s a drifting argosy with dead sails —with all his wealth he can’t make It carry him Ihto the land of dreams. He can’t see—he can’t hear —greed has dulled his eye—made him color-i blind—none of the wonders of life has a meaning. For him the mountain summits are; bare —the flowers have died on the 1 slopes and the north winds have locked the brooks and silenced the waterfall. . He is a man without illusions —a moral cripple—a Croesus starving in his treasure vaults. When you were wrapping yourself In Ideals, he was rapping our ideas: You have only sold your services—he has put every drop of his blood Into the market —and the joke of it all is that he had to wait until winter before he found that every dollar is not the same size—that Its purchasing power varies with the Individual. He has overpaid. No man gets out of existence more than his legitimate allotment. If he gains in one direction, he loses a compensating something in another way. The price of the king’s crown is heavy with heartache. The meanest subject in his kingdom can marry as he wills, but the mightiest of monarchs must mate at the dictate of the state. The embezzler defaults with property that he did not earn, but from that moment every hour of every day is haunted with the dread of detection. The roisterer Indulges himself in every whim and w?lfulness, but settles the bill when his wasted vitality exposes him to disease against which the continent man has stored sufficient energy to defend himself. Old John Moneybags has the price of every form of enjoyment, but he can’t locate the trails that lead to happiness: It isn’t the size Of a man’s roll, but the size of a man’s soul that counts. — Woman’s World.

Good Luck Alloyed.

A howl from the upper story brought the mother to her feet. Rude laughter intermingled with the howling and the duet threatened to become a trio, with the bucolic breadearner trying to earn bread in his study. “Mummy, mummy,” cried Elsie, meeting her on the stairs, "please come up and spank Dick." “What has he been doing?” askdd her mother. “We are playing at weddings,” sobbed Elsie, “and Dick threw rice ,all over me.” "But you musn’t cry over that," soothed the fond parent. “Rice brings good luck to the bride, you know." Little Elsie opened her eyes wide as she held out her sopping pinafore, and asked: “Whnt, mummy—when It’s In pudding?"—Answers.

Turn About.

At Cumberland, Md., the colored servants as a rule go to their own homes at night. The cook In the family of the Episcopalian clergyman not only does this, but of late has arrived at the recdory too late to cook breakfast. Hence her mistress lately told her for each breakfast missed there would be a reduction in her weekly wages Dinah passively assented to this, but next day the, mistress heard the maid next door say to her: “’Pears to me you get to work mighty late." “I gets to work when I get ready," was the reply. "How does you manage about de breakfus?" “Oh, I pays de missus to cook de vreKras. nottMKeaping Magazine.