Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1912 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Find Petrified Daddy of All Lobsters

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The progenitor of all the lobsters and the original oyster that existed eons before the first man who was brave enough to swallow ond, have been added to the geological collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, apd they are only two of 2,G00 specimens of petrified remains of prehistoric creatures gathered by Prof. Hervey Shimer and Mrs. Shimer during a six months* tour of Bohemia, France, England, Ireland, Wales and other countries. The lobster, a fine specimen, existed about 50,000,000 years ago, the geologists calculate. It was found in the mountains near Bohemia and many miles from the sea. This is not to say that lobsters grew on trees in those remote days; the

Razers Eye a Historic Old Mansion

Philadelphia.— Through the recent death of Miss Jane R. Haines, after a lifetime spent within its rambling, trauition-uaunted hails, Wyck, the ancestral Haines mansion, at Germantown avenue and Walnut lane, is threatened with possible destruction, should the historic ground on which it stands be sold. Under its weather-beaten eaves repose perhaps, more sturdy mementos of Philadelphians history than in any other private manse of the many for which the city Is famous. Flooring upon which the blood of British and American soldiers mingled during the battle of Germantown, is stored for keepsake in its cobwebbed old attic. The chair in which Lafayette sat when he visited Germantown in 1824, and when he was given a reception at Wyck, is still to be found in the midst of the silent quaintness of the now untenanted old homestead. ~ 7 The nucleus for the . old structure was first built in 1698, by one Dlrck Jansen, whose daughter married one Caspar Wistar; through the marriage of Wistar’s daughter to Reuben Haines in 1760, and by subsequent inheritance through direct kinship, Miss Haines came into possession of , the long, white, hospitable-seeming

Farm Waif Wins Fortune in the City

Kansas 18 m this city a woman, still young, whose ambition was born when she .was an unsophisticated country girl of 13, who did not know what failure meant, and who came to the city and made a fortune in open competition with shrewd financiers and daring speculators. Annie J. Scott, a penniless orphan, was sent to a farm in Lafayette county, Mo., when she was 8 years old, as nursemaid and “help.” The success of a neighbor’s child Incited her to study and save money, so that she might attend the Warrensburg Normal school. She milked cows, sold butter and saved SSO. Then she went to Warrensburg and worked her way in three years through the normal school, graduating in 1894. Her first ambition was to become a missionary, but she became ill and was cared for at the German Hospital in Kansas City. There she determined to be a doctor, and In 1897 en-

Aged Newsie Leaves Hoard to Church

53?.; LOUlS.—Lawrence Ring, for years a familiar character in the vicinity of Third and Chestnut streets, where he sold papers, died at the City Hospital of. apoplexy. Recently his will was filed for probate, and after that tales of fortunes deposited in various banks were heard. “Larry” lived Xhe life of a recluse. ■His home Was a single room in the antiquated structure at 6 North Third street. There he came of an evening, cooked Ms modest Supper, smoked his pipe and pored for hours over the news of the world. He was believed to be about 75 years old. He was a veteran of the civil war and a pensioner. He was on the vessel which was blown up at Fort Fisher. Of this it was his greatest pride to tell. Often he declared that Admiral Gebrge Dewey, the hero of Manila, had been his captain. But he never told anyone he had ts bank account '■ •.■-'•■*- ' ~ In his will he leaves to the pastor of tbe old cathedral on Walnut street' |SO for masses for the repose of his soul and the rest to the church fund. He named the Mississippi Valley Trust Company executor. Just what

water, receding in the course of ages, left the lobster stranded and he got petrified. Similar but much more modern phenomena are not cnnknown here. Harvard and “Tech” students pre sometimes left stranded after buying many lobsters of a night, but they do not get petrified, of course. Millions of years after this particular lobster passed away the sporty young men of the stone age cracked its descendants with their flint hatchets and treated the stony show girls of that period. Indeed, some geologists claim that the term “lobster” as applied to sporty young men who do that sort of thing has descended from the stone age; they have been doing so since. The' petrified oyster is much more ancient than any ever found in a church stew. It also lived and breathed and had its troubles and joys 50,000,000 years ago. Prof. Shimer found it atop the Jura mountains in north Switzerland. How it got there only geologists can tell you; perhaps oysters carried alpenstocks in those days.

old structure, which took its name from an old English residence belonging to the family. The Germantown' rdad, when the original house was built, was nothing but a winding woodlapd path, and an Indian trail diverging from |t passed where now stands the conservatory on the Walnut lane side of the house. So much did the early settlers respect this Indian right of way that it was temporarily arched over in the enlargement of the building, and so remained until long after Germantown avenue was opened. Apart from its historic significance, this fine old haphazard bit of progressive building, between the dates of whose earlier and later portions runs the span of more than two centuries, is a favorite object for the artists brush to capture for portrayal on canvas.

tered the medical college of the University of Kansas, where on graduation she finished third in a class made up almost wholly of men students. It was the winter of the first smallpox epidemic in Kansas City. She was employed by the city and cared for 2,000 smallpox patients. When she left her position with the city in 1902 she had $2,000. With two partners she invested It in an 11-acre tract near Fortythird. street and the State line This tract was platted in city lots and marketed, and In a year she had her $2,000 back and $5,000 more. Then she put the $7,000 in an adjoining tract of 22 acres, with the same partners, and they cleared $55,000. In the succeeding five years she built and sold 200 houses and cleared more than SIOO,OOO. She draws her own plans, buys her own material and personally “bosses” each job she undertakes, overseeing every detail of thework. In 1908 this young woman of 33, who a few years before had been an ignorant country girl, without money, friends or relatives, paid the penalty of her success by breaking down In health. She was in a nervous collapse and had- to cease working. She lost more than half her fortune before her health was restored.

the “rest” will amount to no one knows. However, his deposit at the trust company was but SIOO. He also had a safety deposit box in his name at that institution, which has not been opened as the key could not be found. Father Eugene Coyle, pastor of the old cathedral, said Ring had been a. regular attendant at early mass Sundays as long as he could remember. An Italian grocer at Third and Chestnut streets said Ring was well to do and said the old man had told' of a saving of $4,000. p • , His room was modestly furnished and orderly, but there was nothing of value to be seen. Ring had been sick a week, and was taken to the City Hospital a few nlghto ago, friends having telephoned the dispensary that he was unconscious..

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

Scarf of camel hair with muff and pocket In combination —very appropriate for skating or any outdoors sports, where the hands are not in evidence. . It is light weight, yet very wapn.

IN THE JAPANESE STYLE

Excellent Suggestion for Linen Shower That Will Be Out of the OrdTnary—For Place Cards. A charming idea for a linen shower Is to carry it out in Japanese fashion with the colors of the cherry blossom as the decorative scheme.

If the luncheon is designed, darken the roonj and hang numbers of Chinese lanterns about. These may be suspended from red apd green cords festooned around the walls, and candles for the table may be in green, with the rosy color for the shades. Carnations, or better still the cherry blossoms themselves, so beautifully made now in paper, can be the flower, and placing some of the branches in crystal bowls and vases, just a few in each, gives a pretty effect. Tall screens covered with the blossoms Xnay be placed about wherever most effective, forming alcoves and cozy corners.

Have the parcels of linen wrapped in rose paper and tied with green ribbons. A girl friend wearing a kimono in the two.colors may bring in the packages, handing them to the bride-to-be, or placing them on a large tray ready for the purpose, where the' laughing recipient may open and display the contents to those present Place cards may be tiny fans with Japanese heads pasted on them.

Large Rug Muffs Eclipse Owners.

Some of the stoles and muffs that are being carried on cold days are so huge that they fairly eclipse a slip of a girl entirely. With the skirt and coat made as slim as the physical proportion of a slender girl can stand and then the addition of huge neckpiece and muff, to say nothing of an all-eclipsing hat, a girl is completely lost. Twenty, years ago she - could pever have carried the big muffs and neckpieces made of long-haired furs that are fashionable now without furrier has looked out for that, and the biggest muff weighs scarcely as much now' as the little old-timer did. One thing is practical about these giant muffs. No one’s arms are going to suffer with cold while they have such a shelter. The best of these muffs completely envelop the arms to Se elbows, and the muff itself covers e lap like a robe.

Citoyenne Jumpers.

The persistency with which the little basque effects shown In the peplums and frills to be used outside of the skirt have been brought to the front indicates that they have taken quite a strong hold. Jumpers are now brought out with this frill finish and are usually made of mess aline or soft finished silk. They are cut on surplice lines, the model underneath aPparing-, uncovered to the waist line both back and front.. The edges are finished off with a narrow puffing.— Dry Goods Economist

German Novelty

MADE OF SEAL PLUSH.

A genuine sealskin coat is handsome, no matter how shapeless it is, but the seal plush coat must be fajijtless and elegant in line to possess distinction. This coat is exceedingly smart and graceful, though the material Is the comparatively inexpensive brown seal plush and the collar and cuffs are of oppossum—also an inexpensive fur. Like all these coats, this model closqs far over toward the left hip and is quite straight from hip to ankle.

Home-Made Dress Box.

There are shirt waist boxes galore, innumerable dress chests and many improvised receptacles for us in the woman’s room, but the latest novelty is the result of an ingenious brain, which conceived the possibilities of having a dress box, full length, to match the hardwood floor tn her room. k . . 7 -- '7 '

A cheap frame was constructed of pine, lined throughout with white oilcloth, the edge glued on the outside. This was covered with linoleum, a clover imitation of oak. in two shades. It was glued to the outside and the raw edges were covered with tan leather strips, held in place with brass studs. The hinges and lock were of brass. Two stout straps were tacked to the Inside of the lid, making a good receptacle for holding two parasols. Ball-bearing .■casters completed the dress boa, and tbe owner paid much less for this treasure than a fancy one would coot at any store.

SMILES

' . SURE THING. "John.” said Mrs. Dor kins. -Welir z.;;,; . ' / “Stop reading your paper just a moment” z “All right; what is it. Martar "Before you come home this afternoon 1 want you to go to some store and get me a dozen thumb tacks. Think you can remember that?" "Certainly." -—— —- z---“R'tfiere'B more than one Sizelisten now— I want the larger ones. You won't forget?” "No.” Late that afternoon Mr. Dorkins remembered. He rushed over to the nearest department store. "I wish you’d tell me," he said to the floor-walker, “where you keep your—er—thumbscrews." “Chamber of Horrors, top floor, northwest corner,” said the floorwaite er, pushing him in the direction of the elevator.

Mrs. Browning's Sonnet.

They say- Mrs. Browning showed her husband with much diffidence the sonnets she had written in celebration of her love. “Sonnets from the Portuguese," she called them. Incorporating in the title a love name be had for her —for he termed her the Portuguese because of her dark skin and eyes. Faulty, it may be confessed, these sonnets are—hardly finished here and there, one might be tempted to say. But they are as spontaneous as the song of morning birds, as essentially true as the word we speak at unexpected meeting.—Ella W. Peattie, in Harper’s Bazar. ; . : .

A Vandal Declaration.

“1 don’t think I’ll ever go to Europe again,” said the patient looking man. “Don’t you enjoy the magnificent art galleries?’’ 7k “Oh, yes. But 1 get tired of curios, and antiques and things. Those oil paintings, they talk about so much — of course they’re hand work and all that But a good man with a moving picture machine nowadays could clean up twice as much work and make it three times as interesting.”

Origin of the Bath Towel.

A towel manufacturer found that his machinery was not working right and that bls towels were suffering a vast tangling of the threads. While adjusting the machine he used one of the damaged towels to dry his hands. He found it pleasingly absorbent, and from the idea to which that gave rise was born the bath towel and a fortune to the patentee.—-

PERTINENT QUESTION.

Mrs. Henpex—Oh, Job, did I tell yon Mr. Stillman is going to marry my sister Maria 7

Henpex—No. Have you and your sister told Mr. Stillman yet? j

The Homeward Way.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The shopper holds * bundle on her knee; She keeps six more beside her all the way. And leaves a greasy-looking strap for me.

No Chance for Detection.

“Townley says you’ll have to count him out of the theater party.” “Eh? What’s the matter,?” “He’s so hoarse he can’t speak.” “Tell him to come, anyway. You can pair him off with the Gabber girl —she won’t give him a chance to say a word."

Next, but Not Proximate.

“The daintiest and most particular customer I have,” said the manicure boarder, “is a well-known gambler." “I’ve always heard,” remarked tbe contemplative boarder, after a long pause," that cleanliness is next to godliness—but sometimes it’s a very bad second."

What He Drew.

“Did your unde leave you anything in his will?" J "Only new responsibility.” "What do you mean?” “He left me an equity in a bouse be was buying on the installment plan and I’ve got to pay S3O a month for twenty years to win."

Holds the Record.

"Old Hunks is the meanest man in the community." “What has he been doing now?", “Got. Ms wife out of the notion of , buying a feehfonebla mnff by tattfUS her that muffs are made larger than they used to be because women’s hands are growing bigger."

ON THEIR SLENDER INCOME.

On bls way homeward from where he toiled at his dally vpcatio® Mr. Bllllger McSwat, carrying into feet a stem and sinister purpose h«‘ bad cherished for months, stopped at “ a barber shop and had a portion of hi» beard removed. Half an hour later he entered the ® humble dwelling whfch, in defiance of newspaper style cards, hes called his home. Mrs. McSwat was sitting in an easy zM chdlr and gazlnz pensively at thefird that burned cheerfully, but, eoonopslo- y ally, in the grate. ’ "Lobeilia, my dear," he said, "loolr at me.” \ “/Will She arose to her feet and looked; at him. Then she sank back nervelessly into the easy chair. During the 20 years of their married . y life, as it may be necessary to explain, sinking nervelessly Into cbairttWg had been one of Mrs. McSwat’s leading specialities. ’ , . “Billlger,” she gasped, “we hever “5 can live up to that pair of side Whie-*J'. kers”

A FATAL CASE.

Mrs. Gosslppe—ls It true that your late husband was very absent-minded? Mrs. Weedes —Yes; it caused hin death. He went to sleep and forgot U»-s wake .up! \

The Dubious Sort.

To fads and fads ■; There’s just so end. . . ~ But the man with scads / g » Ne’er lacks a friend. 1

The Eyes and the Nose.

It was Pat’s first attendance at a meeting. When the chairman announced as the result of a- vote that there were 42 noes to 21 ayes. Pat began to fidget in his seat and then got up and started for the platform. “Sit down, there!" yelled the chairman. “No, begorra!” said Pat, “not until I look this audience in the face. I want to see them humans what has more noses than eyes.”—Judge’s Library.

Put. Out of the Pale.

The latest circulation scheme of • Berlin newspaper is the engagement of two physicians to attend gratuitously upon their yearly subscribers. An annual subscription carries "with ft the free services of one of these two skullful doctors. A few months ago the paper telephoned to one of the staff physicians: “Don’t attend • Herr Mueller any more. His subscription has expired.”

And He Beat It.

“I will give you your dinner if youli beat those rugs,” said the woman with the gingham apron, at the back door. “Ah, madam,” replied the wanderer, his hat In his hand, “those rugs ar® really and truly beautiful—exquisite. I don’t think they possibly could be beat!” k

EVENED MATTERS UP.

Assistant—This quarter that girt gave you is bad. The Fortune Teller—She’s got noth* tag on me at that The fortune I told? her was bad, too. . . - Life Would Be Glorious. A man would have bo time to eet. Mach lees to be a stager. If every peach bo chanced to meet Should prove to be a clinger. Wanted Protection “In granting your wife her petition, for a divorce,” said the fudge "I am also going to pfWbtt you fronai marrying again wiijMatwo years." please,” said the man quickly. “Mar] be by that time FU get out of the habit of taking chances."