Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Balky Horse Blocks Cleveland Street

CLEVELAND. —An antiquated horse with a hang-dog, apologetic cast of countenance, a moth-eaten hide and the disposition of a Missouri mule, stopped on Cleveland’s busiest street the other afternoon. For twenty-five minutes the horse defied four of Chief Kohler’s “finest,” blocked traffic on the congested thoroughfare and kept a crowd of some 300 shippers, office boys, clerks, teamsters and chauffeurs in an uproar of merriment. The horse was pulling a cart which to all appearances was as antiquated as himself. A little negro topped off the outfit. When the horse stopped the ' negro carefully laid away his stump of a whip, extracted “the makln’s” from a place of concealment in a dilapidated coat and thoughtfully began to roll a cigarette. Just fifty seconds from the moment the horse had decided to cease movement a mounted traffic regulator arrived. “Get a move on that nag,” he shouted to the negro.

City Schools to Be Social Centers

CHICAGO. —Thirteen public school buildings will be opened In Chicago soon as neighborhood social centers. For the first time In Its history the Chicago board of education •will offer to persons not of common school age some of the benefits that the presence of school buildings may bring to a neighborhood. This decision was reached at a recent meeting of the board’s committee on social centers. To help the people get their money’s worth out of expensive eqquipment used only a few hours dht of the day is the object of the innovation. At variance with persons who would have the use of school property and resources restricted entirely to educational purposes, the committee of the board intends to maintain places of evening recreation wherever the people of a neighborhood accept the opportunities offered to them. "Our idea in opening these social qenters," said Dean Sumner, in explaining the new policy, "is to learn if there is a demand for the use of schools by adults. If there is Buch a demand or if we can create it, we shall develop the centers into evening meeting places for parents’ clubs, for

Gets Rich Selling Candy on Streets

NEW YORK.—The wind-swept corner at Broadway and Fulton street Is soon to lose one of its two old outdoor merchants. Phil Roman, the rubber stamp man, contemplates a future of solitude, aqjd the sparrows in St. Paul’s churchyard one of hunger, for ▲dam Schmalzer, friend and mentor to Phil and chief provider to the sparrows, is going to retlrei Profits accruing from the sales of a million penny sticks of candy have made Adam financially Independent after thirty years, and he has realized it suddenly. Phil will tell you, with a look in his eyes that belies his words, that he is "glad old Adam has got some sense at last—oughter retired long ago.” ▲dam has not been "old Adam" to

Take Revenge by Clipping Girl's Hair

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—Barbara Weaver, the 15-year-old girl who was shorn of her locks as she lay asleep, lost her crown of glory because she was “stuck up.” It is strongly suspected that the vandals who snipped off one of her silken braids were two boys, former playmates of hers, who resented what they regarded as her growing tendency toward aristocracy, a Little Miss Weaver Is the daughter Of Claude Weaver, an attorney, who is considered wealthy. Barbara Weaver had been on friendly terpia with the children in the neighborhood of the family home, but Is said to have ' gained the idea of late that her social standing did not permit of her continuing such relations. Two of her cast-off friends are believed to have adopted the “rape of the lock” idea to express their resentment of these high-flown notions; ■ —- This theory is strengthened by the fact Jthat Cynthia Powell, a girl df Barbara’s age, who attended school with her, received a “Black Hand” letter recently, threatening her with

“Do it yourself, sah,” responded the erstwhile driver, complacently continuing to roll the "skag.” The spick and span officer vaulted from his mount, grabbed the bridle and gave it % jerk. Then he jerked again. Then he pulled. The horse regarded him with reproachful eyes, but it didn’t move. A bicycle patrolman, a cotton-gloved traffic cop, and then another, appeared within the next five minutes. Also a crowd gathered. The horse hung its head In a disinterested sort of way and the little negro puffed away in the same way. The “finest” reddened under the jeers and shouted suggestions from the office boys and teamsters, and finally gave it up. “Ah might unhitch that there hoss and lead ’im away,” suggested the little negro thoughtfully. "I’s ’gainst the rules to unhitch on a congested street,” responded an officer curtly, “you’ve got to drive him.” “A’m powerfully sorry, boss, but Ah jus’ naturally can’t do that,” said the little negro, and started to roll another cigarette. v Traffic had congested until it threatened to block Euclid avenue also. Then the officers admitted defeat. The little negro unhitched, the officers, aided by 1 volunteers, backed the wagon into an alley,' and the horse ambled dejectedly along.

social organizations and for civic debating societies, all under the direction of the principal of the eeiiter, who is also the principal of the school. “Last year we conducted ten Bchool buildings as centers for children. “Each of the centera for the children was provided with a principal and six teachers. Parents came in swarms with their children and so they really made use of the buildings as social centers for adults before the privileges were formally given to them. "For the children we. shall continue the privilege of recreation in the old schools and in those added thiß year. In the same buildings the older people will be urged to form social clubs, hear lectures, attend dramatics, join in advanced gymnasium work and hear and participate in debates.”

Phil very long. When he came to the corner in 1881 the rubber stamp man called him the "kid,” for Phil then had been doing business at the old stand for something like* twelve years. Adam wasn’t at the corner when a reporter went to see him the other day. Phil was standing guard over both stands. “Yes,” he admitted, “Adam, he’s going to quit. Thirty years I’ve seen him come and go. Six o’clock hi the morning I'd b6s him come across Broadway lugging his candy case from the basement where he kept it. "Guess there’s more money in candy than there is in rubber stamps. Now Adam’s to go, I’d quit, too, If I could afford it.” "My dad was the first man to sell lemonade on the streets of New York City. My grandfather was a sidewalk merchant, and a good one, too. Maybe I’ve been a little luckier than they. I’ve been able to give my girl and boy good educations and they are married now,” old Adam said. In the thirty years at the church corner Adam has missed just five days.

dire thingß unless she continued to speak to two boys of the neighborhood who are under suspicion. Miss Weaver's hair is a beautiful auburn and was long and silky. In preparing it for the night it was her practice to arrange it in two long braids. Miss Rosabell Teder sleeps in the same room with her, and discovered on awakening that one of the beautiful braids was missing. Hastily awakening her companion, they began a search and found the braid on the fieor beside the bed. Miss Weaver’s parents were aroused, and thei police were notified. Later the other braid was cut off, so that' Miss Weaver’s hair now presents a Buster Brown

FEMININE PHILOSOPHY

JfceiL hate crowed too loud and too long. —Mrs. MacDougall. The enemies of the new woman will soon find themselves in the scrap basket. —Gertrude Atherton. The healthy thing about suffragettes Is that they don’t care whether men approve of them or not —Mrs. Pankhurst. Nothing amuses a man more than a woman’s method of shopping. And probably the converse holds good.— M. Rittenburg. The marriage veil that a mother wraps round a beloved child becomes a symbol of the shroud that is to fold her from her. —Annie Sedgwick. Mr. Darling often Baid stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him. —“Peter and Wendy." (J. M. Barrie.) Wendy was -one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than other girls.—“ Peter and Wendy.” (J. M. Barrie.) At Sunday School. —Teacher— I“Define a friend to me.” Little girl—- “ Someone what knows yer, and still likes yer. . .” —(Said to my sister, a Sister of Mercy.)—Exchange. Mrs. Darting, with her nice, cool bands, tied his tie for him . . . Some fnen would have resented her being able to do it so easily, but Mr. Darling was far too fine a nature for that. — “Peter and Wendy.” (J. M. Barrie.)

RAM’S HORN BROWN.

Trials are not sent to crush us, but „to lift ns. The wider the Bible is opened the harder it strikes at sin. God makes some men strong in order that they may help the weak. The young man who° has no fixed purpose in life will soon be “fixed.” Whether truth is handsome or not depdnds upon who looks into its face. You can find a dozen honest men to where you can find one contented one. You can generally tell how much people love the lord by the company they keep. A rich man may give the lord too little, but a poor one can not give him too much v Every man wrongs the world who does not do what he can for the public good while he is in it It is not what we have, but what we are doing with it that sometimes makes the recording angel lay down his pen and think. One great difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man does his thinking today, while the fool puts his off until day after tomorrow.

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

A hornets’ nest usually contains about 15,000 cells. A diamond, when properly cut, will have about 60 facets. Sound travels throng! the air at the rate of 13 miles a minute. There is a spring in Nevada whose waters taste like chicken soup. It Is estimated that the meteoric dust falling upon the earth from outer space amounts to 100 tons a day. The population of Paris, within Its circle Of fortifications, is 2,847,000. "Suburbs and all, it is- 4,000,000. An Immense asylum for the Insane baa been built in Jerusalem by a movement that started in Berlin. Li Foggy days in London are not so numerous as formerly. The change is ascribed to the reduction of the amount of smoke in the air and in general to better sanitation. An altar, duly consecrated by ecclesiastics, has been installed upon an automobile, the object being to promote mission work in the rural districts of England. It is a portable church. While all other articles of diet cost a great deal more in London now than they did In 1900, yet rice and potatoes atfe a great deal cheaper than they were then.

OLLA PODRIDA.

A girl of beauty te a joy forever. There is no pipe like an old pipe. What is one loan without another's? A girl by any other name would be as sweet. A llttlo spelling now and then -is relished by tatensurting men. You can drive a car to water, but .you cannot make it swim.—Judge.

CURRENT VERSE

Bea Burial. *— Lay him not in the earth with whom (ha earth found. Where tree-roots blindly pushing in tha ground Would clasp his coffin In their moving girth; Or where the soil. In labor at the birth Of some fierce city, would molest tha mound Of his low tenement, or muffled sound Of tunneling mole trouble the dreamlesa dearth Of sleep eternal. Rather lay him deep fn that low grave undigged of any spade, —Where never sable mourner comes to weep And Vend with plods hand the flowers that fade,— The m any-peopled grave down In the free Untrodden cemeteries of the sea. —Martin D. Armstrong, In the Atlantic.

And Then You Shall Know.

What does It matter to you and to me That the earth is fair and that life la free, That things are just as they ought to be. If we know It not? What do we care that the rising sun Illumines our blessings one by. one. Revealing the wonderful work to be don% If we see it not? How can we know of the glory of God, Of fils loving touch from the star to the sod. Of His gracious power which lightens the rod, , If we are asleep? Ay, children of ages and child of today - Awaken to truth; let It show you the way To, power, to health and to God’s loya alway, And then you shall know. —Grace M. Brown In Nautilus.

The Discouraged Brother.

Tou say the world is old and cold, that men seek .riches blindly; : Tou say their only god Is gold, that not a heart beats kindly; Tou say that greed Is everywhere, that goodness is forsaken; That hope is gone and honor dead, That Virtue, scoffed at, hangs her head. That all is wicked and unfair—but, brother, you’re mistaken. Tou say the world grows worse and worse, that clouds are forming o’er us; That on us God has put a curse, that terror lies before us; Tou say that faith Is shattered by the sinners who pursue It; Tou sit and sing a doleful song, But I repeat that yeu are wrong. For I have work to do and I possess tha strength to do It. —S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald.

Music.

In ohildhod’s days so rosy Within the farmhouse prosy. The caves hung low and cosy. Of simple life a proof. I loved to hear the batter, I loved to hear the chatter, I loved to hear the patter Of rain upon the roof. The simple life may moulder. Luxurious and older I listen to them bolder Perform their light massage; * I love to hear the spatter, I love to hear the clatter, I love to hear the matter Of rain on the garage. —McLaughlin Wilson in New York Sun, ■I--". ' ‘ - ——— -—■ --— l —--

The War Hawk.

Let earth born armies crawl below And navies swim the deep. Above them In the boundless blue From cloud to cloud I sweep. The wind is harnessed to my planes, My lighthouse Is the sun, I soar and circle out of reach Of hostile sword or gun. My freight It is the deadly bomb, I drop it as I go. At will destroying whole brigades Or squadrons of the foe. I swoop and smite the helpless world That far beneath me swings. And bind the bleeding doves of peace In triumph to my wings. V —Minna Irving In New York Sun.

Modest Ambition.

I do not care for wealth and fame. Particularly fame, I wouldn’t give a flg to have A great and honored name. I’m rich enough If I but have A luxury or two And leisure time enough to do The things I like to do. Let others have the glory and The Joys of swollen wealth; I’m satisfied If I but have Enough, and time and health. Others may tread ambition’s path If it delights them to; I only wafcit a chance to do The things I like to do.

Imperial Mother!

Imperial Mother, from whose breasts We drank aa babea the pride whereby We question own behest*. And Judge thee with no flinching eye:— Oft Mow to hear when thou float call. Oft vext with a divided will. When once a rival seeke thy fall. We are thy sons and daughters still. The love that halts, the faith that veers. Are then deep sunk as In the sea; The sea where thou must brook no peers And halve with none thy sovereignty. —William Watson.

"I Saw Eternity.”

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All Calm, as it was bright— And round beneath it Time, In hours, days, years. Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved; In which the world And all her train were burled. —H. Vaughaa.

The Unseen Bridge.

There Is a bridge whereof the spaa Is rooted i«f the heart of man And reaches, without pile or rod. Unto tea great white throne of God. Its traffic Is in human sighs Fervently wafted to the sides; ’Tls the one pathway from Despair * And it is' called the bridge of prayer. -

Grudge Not the Throe.

Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough. . Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, ': but go! ■ > '/ Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and bold chsap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; Data, never grudge the throe. ■ Robert Browning.

GOOD JOKES

SHAKING AFTER TAKING. There was a terrible noise coming from the dining room and the fond mother, alarmed, rushed swiftly in. On the floor her son, aged ten. was going through all, manner of contortions—somersaults, both backward and forward; bang, bang, he went “Willie—Willie," cried his mother, “what are you doing? ' You’ll—'’ For a moment Willie paused in Mi gymnastics. “Oh, it’s all right, mother,” he gasped. “You see, I forgot to shake my medicine before taking it —like you always told me to do. So I thought Fd shake myself up, aa the medicine was inside' me!”—New York Globe.

THE LAST STRAW.

An did woman entered a savings bank the other day and walked up to the desk. “Do you want to withdraw or deposit?” asked the clerk. “Naw Oi doant. Ol wants to put some in,” was the reply. The clerk pushed up the book for her signature, and said, “Sign on this Hue, please.” “Above it or below it?** “Just above it” “Me whole name?” •Yes.” "Before Oi was married?” “No, Just as It Is now.” “Ol can’t wroite."

Where to Stop.

Rabbi Wise, when be visited Boston for the first time, was undecided at what hotel to stop. As be wandered up Summer street from the South station he determined to inquire for a good hotel. 8o be accosted a fineappearing man who was coming toward him, confident that from such a citizen he would be sure to get the very best advice as to his choice of a stopping place. “What would be a good place to stop at?” he inquired of the stranger. “Just,before yon reach the at,” waa the disconcerting reply.—Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Still Going.

The reporter was trying to get the particulars of the automobile accident “How fast were you going when yon hit the obstruction?” he asked. “About fifty miles an hoar.” “Who aas in the motor car with you?” “Man named George Johnson.” “Yon landed, you say, in a cornfield to the right of the road. Where did Johnson land?” “I don’t know; we haven’t found him yet”

FEMININE PREROGATIVE.

Ethel—l think it la Myrtle’s plaoe to propose to Harold. Helen—Why? Ethel—She knows whether she can support him or not

A Philosopher.

“I Barer quarrel with my wife," Remarked a placid man; “Whene’er she’s in a mood tor strife, I simply rush the can.”

Wedding Gift.

Husband of To-Morrow (reviewing wedding presents)—That awful cruet seems familiar. Wife of To-Morrow —Tee, dear, you saw it at the Browne. They got it as a wedding present, and gave it to the Smiths at theirs. It’s the Smiths’ present. But never mind, dear, Harry’s wedding comes off soon! —London Opinion.

Laughter vs. Reform.

“I am convinced,” said Shelley to his friend Hogg, “that there can be no entire regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.” There have been moments tot most of us in which we have felt inclined to agree with him; but these are. in general, unpleasing to recall. —London Nation.

At an Educational Force.

-“What brought you here, my boy. at your tender age?” asked the philanthropic visitor at the Jail. “Bad surroundings? Familiarity with crime?” “Yes*r,” said the boy with the tough mug, “been seein’ too many o’ them movin’ pictur shows.”

That Rumble You Have Heard.

”1 see where a new play is called TbeTbunderOod.'” “I saw him mice.” “What are yon talking about?” .- - “The thunder god. He stood In the. wings at a theater and. gmgte on * M« bass drum.”

WHERE OUR DEAD GO, TOO.

, Maj. S. Harris, one of the Australian* who fought In the South Afrleaßf war, visited British Columbia and finally settled down in Vancouver. Now he tells of a man In his province whp* went over to see London for the flrit'., time Hat year and was being shown* throught Westminster abbey. He got* tnto conversation with a tourist agent who was shewing a party abbot and', at intervals the man who was explaining asked the British Columbian tions about Vancouver. “1 suppose? that in your country you gave no* place like the abbey?” he “No,” replied the other. “Then what, may 1 ask, do you do with your illustrious dead?” , “First,” replied the British Columbian, “we appoint a commission to seif whether the man lg really dead, ami then If the commission decided in the* affirmative, we sen<! him to the legia-i lature.”—ArgofiauC

Cruel Papa.

“Papa says If 1 give up my slnglngf lessons be will present me with a pair* of diamond earrings.” '.-H “Yon have never worn have you?” “No; 1 should have to bare my sard pierced.” -------- “Ah, yes! 1 see his idea. He wasbi to pay ,you back In your own coin."--* Western Christian Advocates

GRAFT! GRAFT! GRAFT!

The Congressman—What do yo» think of the Idea of electing senators by .direct vote? The Senator —it would save as money, bat it would pat a crimp is the legislative business.

Wintry.

The leaves are withered on the tree; Chill breeses blow. Upon the blasted pine we see A lonely crow.

The Outward Show.

“Those two women always greet each other with the most effusive cordiality.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Each takes pride in showing the other how • artistically she can conceal her real feelings.”

Inevitable.

“Why, she used to be a theatrical star, but since she has grows fat she’s just an ordinary actress." Nothing strange about that Any astronomer will tell you that as stars increase in magnitude they decrease in brightness.

A Piteous Plea.

“Will you help a poor onfortunatn mortal, sir?” . ; - "What can I do for you?” “Ob. sir. I would gladly accept on* of your cast-off automobiles, if yonr would throw In a chauffeur and a lews gallons of gasoline.”

EARTHQUAKES.

The Joker —This earth Is becoming very unhealthy. The Serious One—Whdt makes you. think that? The Joker —Look at that h*«A broken out all ever her facn lately. i

The Baseball Fan.

He waiteth grum. As In s dream. TIU string shall emus i ; And bring tfts t«a^|

Wanted to Get Back.

Captain—Can’t you do something* for tbng'aeaalck passenger, doctor? -HgtroaSrlbe eartht^/Sr*