Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1911 — ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCALS.

due university and the State Normal school au official pat on the back for the excellence of the bookkeeping for the six months ending March 30. The vouchers for the three institutions, which sjjend approximately $1,000,000 a year, are audited every six months. The papers for the six months referred to have just been completed, and the totals were found to balance to the cent It is the first time 4n several years', the auditor found, that such balance was struck, sundry errors heretofore having been discovered in the auditing. Vern Robinson arrived Monday evening from Leeds, S. Dak., where he had been for a short time. Two years ago next spying himself and wife accompanied his brother Charley and family to South Dakota, where/he took up a claim. Two almost total crop failures followed and Vern decided to return to Indiana. Mrs. Robinson is at Leeds, in the Black Hills country, and will remain there for about three weeks and then join her husband here. Vern proved up his place In July and will probably sell it later. He is undecided what he will do, but for the present, at least, he will remain in Rensselaer. He stated that when he left his South Dakota farm the corn, planted in May, was up only 5 or 6 inches.

A. J. Zorn, a Grand Army man of this city; has without doubt the oldest American flag in Porter bounty today, of which fact he has just cause to be proud. A long time ago, before the war, when Abraham Lincoln was campaigning the country for the cause he led, Mr. Zorn purchased the flag. He procured it in Chicago at the rate o£ a dollar a foot and returned with it to Porter county. It is in an excellent state of preservation, is sixteen feet in length, and never since the day it came to his home has it left the bounds of the county. Mr. Zorn will exhibit the flag at his home, 602 Caiument avenue, tomorrow to any of his old friends who wish to see it. It would be worth one’s time to take a stroll to the 2brn home and look at this relic of Lincoln’s time. —Valparaiso Vidette. Midshipman James E. Brenner will leave tomorrow for Annapolis, Md., to resume, his studies in the United States Naval Academy. He has entered upon his third year Work, which gives him the rating of second classman at the academy. Mr. Brenner was appointed to the academy three years ago and took the entrance examination after a short preparatory course at Annapolis. He is the only midshipman from this congressional district. Since he owed his appointment to Congressman Crumpacker and had never met him, he went to Valparaiso Tuesday in the company of George H. Healfey, whose recommendation influenced his appointment Congressman Crumpacker was pleased to meet Mr. Brenner and when shown his grades at the jacademy highly complimented the young man. Last year there were 160 members of the class to which Mr. Brenner belonged and he ranked well up in all branches of his school. In marine engineering he was especially strong and stood eleventh in the class in that branch. He is much pleased with his school and his many friends here are gratified at his success.

Most parents imagine that because their children do not of their own accord practice several hours dally on the violin it betrays a lack of talent for the violin and & distaste for music. Nothing could be further from the truth. The average boy does not wish to do anything but play. He would not wash hip face or hands or go to school unless compelled to do so. He must be constantly urged to practice, except in rare instances. This urging and nagging at their children to get them to practice is the price parents have to pay to educate their children in music. Take the average child apd his violin lessons; at first he is in the seventh heaven of delight at putting under his chin the little red or yellow violin, with its hriltlant varnish and gay tones, and vows he frill never tire of it In a few weelu, however, his eagerness sensibly abates. He finds that instead of the silvery ripples of sound which his teacher makes, his own efforts are more suggestive of a lone oat on a back-yard fence with a bad case of colic. He also find* that violin practice has much of tedious drudgery In it His parents become discouraged, thinking that the child is lacking in talent for music. .My own experience is that a great disinclination to practice and even indifference to music is not incompatible with musical talent of the highest order.— Exchange. ■ ■ S I wish to announce to the public that I am now prepared to take bus calls. 1 have made arrangements with Barnes’ Restaurant, phone 432, or i«ek*s hitch barn, phone S4l, to take my bus' cells. Will endeavor to give good service* at the same old prices. Calls answered night or day.

JOE JACKSON.