Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

An American Asset. On the steamer returning home we met an Australian lady who was bringing her son to America to he educated. It was thought strange that she should want the boy brought here for an education,. with so many world famous Institutions of learning in Europe. "I want my sou to be taught consideration or women.’’ she said simply, and after having observed conditions in several countries on the continent one might well understand the reason for this high opinion of American chivalry.—National Magazine. Lightning's Affinity For Oak. Electricity in the clouds, like its companion lower down, loves to seek the earth, the great reservoir of all electricity, and it finds the most available way to do so, choosing always the best conductor, conspicuous among which are the much maligned lightning rods, the high trees or the elevated steeples. It has its choice of trees as well as other things and will leap over half an acre of trees to find an oak, for which It appears to have a special attraction, and It will pass a high point to find a building that has metal about it A Tree That Grows Dishes. There Is a tree in the West Indies that the natives say “grows dishes.” It looks like an apple tree. They call it the calabash. It bears very queer leaves and large white blossoms that grow right from the trunk and larger branches. After the flower comes the fruit just as our apples or peaches do. But this fruit is in the shape of a gourd, only stronger and very much larger, sometimes a foot in diameter. The shell Is so bard that all sorts of big and little dishes and drinking cups can be carved out of it Given pots and kettles are made and used over the fire, but of course they cannot last as long as our metal ones.—London Telegraph.

While attempting to prevent a maddened boar from escaping from a pen, William H. Wood, who, for fifteen years held the office of city engineer in Muncie, was killed at his farm, just west of Muncie, Thursday. Despondent because of 'ill health, which had kept him confined to his home for the last three years. Crlss Keck, 60 years old, a glass worker of Alexandria, committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor. Through the fall of a scaffold at the New Methodist church, under construction at Hammond, Thursday, three men plunged thirty-five feet to the pavement and were seriously injured.