Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — Page 3

Building, but never sitting in the shade wllfytKtX Speaking their word of life with mighty tongue, j llui BUt ear ' n 9 not thC eCh °’ mi,l ' on ' voiced ’ j / \ V 4\lil VV liW From aM OUr r ' Ver vaICS and mountalnß flun 9M S °' takC th * m ' heroes ° f the Bon9ful paßtl To hall • arth ’* a ®bl«rt martyrs, and her taet. I' Inscribe their deeds who took"away Thy blame—- \ Mjj Give, for their grandest all, Thine Insufficient fame!

NAITONS DAY of REVERENCE

AYS there are that stand heroic upon the calendar for all time. These are days honored in common by races and nations. They are days that enlist the particular respect of nations because they perpetuate the memories of persons famed for what they have done in

one or another walk of life. The tendency of mankind is to seek to have the fame of the -great ones equal in duration with their bestowing upon their fellow-men. There is one day for the American people that stands alone in solitary grandeur, separated * in the high flights of glory that encircle it, isolated, yet majestic, in the pathos which will ever attend its oelebration. That day is Decoration day. In these times, when the peacepipes are as soundful as the pipes of Pan, when the bugle is becoming hoarse, while the herald's trumpet announces general arbitration treaties to the ends of the earth, in these times, when the progress of mankind appears to be Mt toward the fulfillment of the far-off prophecy that swords shall be turned into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, it is well tcTlay emphasis upon the day that has the most distinctive glory of any peculiarly American holiday. The glory of Decoration day Is that it holds in national hallowing the mighty deeds of brave men. Their deeds will be immortal, who fought not because they had spleen toward their brethren —now united in the bonds of a common home, endeavor and destiny—but because they saw a shattered nation wrecked upon the shoals of sectionalism! They will be immortal because the tendency of mankind is to have the fame of the doers of great deeds conterminous Vfith the benefits conferred. The benwill be everlasting and augmenting, so that Decoration day, far from having diminished glory when the last of the soldiers of the nation shall have passed away, will have §Yen more honor paid it. The growth of the nation, the working out of its destiny, the recession of sectionalism, the magnifying of the incidents of na-tional-progress and national purpose —these are all factors in the march of progress that shall forever make hallowed the day sanctified by memories of the blood of the nation’s defenders. Sad, indeed, the occasion for fratricidal strife, but the working out of the national issues from the glorious battlefields of the nation in’ its great domestic contest make even the pathos of the warfare eloquent with brotherhood, unity and.a common devotion. _ v jc The time may oome when war will be regarded as barbarism outright, when the closeness of the nations and the identical interests of the powers ■will be such as to obviate warfare, when the tribunals will exist for the support of all international causes without recourse to *war. But the time can never come when the laurels of the warrior will be dimmed. No

iconoclast will ever arise who will seek to tear down the monuments of the men who molded the world’s destinies, using the blood of the battle-’ field as the cement for their constructive efforts. Indeed, it is conceivable that the day may come when there can no more be opportunity for military distinction, but this very fact will Increase the glory of the ages of heroism. Then the nation will look back to the deeds of the heroes who Saved the Union, and they will be honored as living in an age, the majesty of which cannot be underrated by any change of ideas as to the utility of warfare. Hence the tribute -paid the dead heroes o£ the nation’s strife will be a less tribute than any to follow, for every year the meed of praise and the warmth of encomium will be increased, as the of the past lends addl* tional enchantment to the theme. The time will come when every part of the nation, without disparagement to the men who fought on the other side, will unite in acclaiming the men who preserved the nation and made it the mighty leader in all movements for the peace and'honor of mankind. War may be all that it has been painted and its horrors cannot be too gravely set forth, hut there is a profound religion in the warfare that reconstructs a nation, that re-establishes justice, that sets men free and liberates the intellect from shackles that fetter progressive thought and prohibit the full expression of progressive conduct. The south is blossoming today in its national fervor and industries teem throughout its domain. ‘ The north Js , clasping hands with all other sections in the movement of the American brotherhood toward the highest pinnacle of lofty ethics and serviceable achievement. The organ roll of American sentiment is heard with deep and resonant melody. All the nations of the earth are learning from the united American state, ths great federated people of the American republic, the righteousness that exalte th a nation. American statesmen, American educators, American theologians—all have done mightily toward giving this country its position of prestige in the realm of world affairs, its reputation for probity and honesty. But the men who gave their lives for the nation made all this possible. They exalted an ideal that has placed upon the American people the destiny of necessity to support every oppressed people and to uplift the standard of freedom and moral right. Out from the furnace of the war came the gold of American ideals, out from the blood and strife came the type of American statesmanship and the type of American sentiment that have caused the republic to be looked up to by the people of Europe and Ada as the moral mentor and the efficient ideal for alt of them. The vo/k of the mien who are honored upon Decoration day fa not concluded, will sever be. Their souls move majestically onward with the movement of the race, of the age, of the universe. Some day. there will

be a general roll call, when those who have deserved well of mankind will pass in the review of the eternal ages, and the men who did the deeds honored upon Decoration day will not miss the tribute of the wider effects of their mission to preserve the American political tie unbroken. United, glorious and peaceful, with undimmed vision and with unshaken faith ini their primary principles, the American people are one in heart and one in spirit in their purpose to have the illustrious ideals of the nation made increasingly glorious for the blessing of mankind. It is easy enough after a war has been fought to prove the uselessness of it. It has often been shown how the difference between the north and the south might have been adjusted with such a terrible waste of life and treasure. Grant that within the devices of political expediency these preventions were possible, the fact still remains that the wars were fought, that great moral faults were purged, and the God of battles enforced his ancient law of eye for eye and drop of blood for drop of blood. Children are always bearing the faults of their fathers, and the men and women of ’6O to *65 poured out of their own veins and out oY their own souls an equal portion of blood' and misery that their fathers drew from the veins of an enslaved race. No moral debts, long remain unpaid. - What if the purging was drastic and the throes suffered Ty tSe warring elements brought it staggering to its knees, was not. the cleansing complete? The nation stands today the stronger and the sweeter for that conflict. For it was not merely the quarrelsome distemper of war that afflicted the people, hut a score of diseases; not human slavery alone, but factional jealousy, greed, selfishness, state misgovernment and federal abuses. How vastly these have been eliminated can be appreciated only by a study of the injustices of that ante-helium period. The nation in that memorable struggle was expected by cynical observers In Europe to crumble and fall. But these observers failed utterly to grasp the significance of the struggle that was being fought for national purity and national unity. Instead of perceiving a giant rending himself, as they thought, they were watching a giant wrestling with the evil that was within him. As the day of that conflict ever recedes, and the din grows less strident to the ear, its better significance makes itself felt. The broad page of history teaches a lesson that participation in the actual war itself might not have taught. If any soldiers stood In the trenches unmindful of the significance of the struggles in which be was a part, he is not unmindful now as he measures his step (o the beat of the muffled drum today. For time has shown all wherein lay the universal meaning of that conflict The nation was being bled of its distempers, even through his veins. And it rose np, weakened and saddened, but with the courage of the victor and the resolution of the chastened.

The Real Test.

Diogenes was searching for the honest man. “Find a suburbanite who will tell you his real opinion of country life in winter,” he advised. Herewith he departed to apply the greatest test of all.—Harper’s Bazar. '£ man Cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman nor anything worse than a bad one—Simonides. -*VT*»

WANTED TO KNOW TOO MUCH

Others than Thin Veteran EngineerHave Been Annoyed In the Same Way by Listeners, fc . • - -. . ..L- >- ' --* :v ■— » ' ijinii II I 'll ~|-' iff* 1 —i * **r*r?r , ' *•• . Old Mr. McClelland was engineer on the. train that ran from Summerville, S. C., to Charleston over one of the first railroad tracks laid in that country. And as he grew old and childish hds mind, unable to distinguish what he imagined from what really happened, went back constantly to his engine and the wonderful feats he could perform with it. One hot afternoon in the shade of a live oak befores a country Btore, he sat telling his stories of former greatness to Jerry, a simple fellow. “Yes, sir,” declared the old man, “I ran the first engine ever run. It was a engine, too, an' I knowed how to run it. Why, see here, Jerry, whenever' a tree blew down across the track I never waited to chop it away. No, sir, not me—l just histed the air valves . an’ pitched the engine over —that's what I done!” ' “But, Mr. McClelland,'’ mildly expostulated the credulous Jerry, “after you had got the'enjine over, how did you git, the cars over?” The old man leaned back and looked at his questioner with great scorn. “Go to the devil, Jerry,” he cried. “You ask such foolish questions!”—Kansas City Star.

VIVID DREAM PROVED REALITY

To impression Made on Section Fore- -- - man Was Oue-flie- Saving of • Pasesnger Train. Awakened by a dream that a nearby trestle had been washed away, a section foreman on the Southern railroad, living near Atlanta, Ga., who had been confined to his bed for some days,, arose before dawn one recent morning and proceeded to the scene of his dream, only to find that it was a reality, for the stream, swollen by heavy rains, had carried away a trestle spanning a 65-foot chasm. The man kftqw that a passenger train, en route frapp Atlanta to Columbus-Ga., soon wiflhue *to arrive at the opposite side of tRe river, but he had no means of reaching that point to warn the engineer of his danger, and the river Is three-quarters of a mile wide. Standing on the bank, he put his hands to his lips and repeatedly “hallooed” for half an hour. Finally he heard an answering shout and he called out a warning to the man who had heard him. The latter flagged the train Just as it neared the brink of the stream.

PUCES TORPEDO ON TRACK

Arrangement Becently Put In Operation Does Away With Necessity of Stopping Train. Since the railroads adopted the torpedo method of signaling there have been various devices for the placing of torpedoes along the tracks. The object, of course, was to drop the torpddo without stopping the train and without exploding the signal. A Kansas man ipm invented a machine which has & ■■fiWrrtyri extending from the rear platform of a train to the tracks, where It

runs on a small wheel at the bottom. Gripping jaws are on the end of the rod pivoted in this carrier and which can be raised to the platform railing for the Insertion of a torpedo. They are then lowered to the level of the track and at the point where the torpedo is needed it can be deposited gently by releasing the grip of the Jaws upon it.

First Train Message in Bronze.

A bronze tablet was recently unveiled at Harriman, N. Y., by the association of Old Time Telegraphers to commemorate the sending of the first telegraphic train order in 1851. The tablet is six feet high and three feet wide and cost $4,000. The $2,000 base upon which the tablet will rest was quarried from the Harriman estate and was given by Mrs. E. H. Harriman. The next largest contributor was Andrew Carnegie, who became a telegraph operator when he was 14 years old and sent the first telegraphic train order at Pittsburgh in 1852.

Stationery a Costly Item.

One of the great railroad systems, says a technical journal, uses 1,400 different tongs of stationery, and its bill for the paper and printing of this material amounted, in a recent year, to $2,300,000 —more than it spCnt in that year for steel rails!

Loves Labor.

Blushing Bride —What was that our friends stuck all over our suitcases, dearest? . Groom—Honey Jove, that was « union label.—Stanford Chaparral.

FASHIONS

MANY MODES IN FAVOR ~ ONE MAY CHOOBE ONE’S OWN BTYLE IN HAIRDRESSING. % That it Shall Be Becoming le the Only Point of Importance—Each Woman Muat Exercise Judgment in the MatterJust what is coming next in hair dressing it is impossible to telL Maids are still parting the hair demurely in the middle, but the little “biscuits” across the back of the head appear to be passing into the realm of forgotten fashions. The braid wound about the head, and the Psyche knot at the back, helped out with a few puffs, appear to solve the problem (which is just now engaging many minds) for a few. The smaU _pompa* dour, a light fringe across the forehead and five or six short curls across the back of the head, hanging from a flat chignon, is a reliable style which comes to the rescue of the hairdresser. The chignon may be a braid colled about, the crown, or coils of lightly twisted hair or the figure 8 arrangement Things are unsettled and in the experimental stage. No style has yet appeared which has made Itself decidedly felt. In the meantime, one may follow one’s Inclinations, adopt the style that is most .becoming and spend the time

experimenting. For no matter what may develop in hairdressing modes, each woman should exercise her judgment for herself and dress her hair in the maimer most becoming- to herself, he it the mode or not. The braid about the head, the small pompadour, the short curls, all features of present styles, are very generally becoming. It is a good thing to remember, too, that variety4*4he spice of life in hairdressing as in other things. " JULIA BOTTOM LEY.

Crepe Underwear.

Cotton and silk crepe, too, are in favor now for all articles of lingerie. Both wash admirably. Some of the finest cotton crepe is wonderfully attractive and admits of hand work to excellent advantage.

NAILS NEED ESPECIAL CARE

Systematic Attention Needed, but the Time Taken Will Be Amply Recompensed. Form the habit of caring for your nails. Select a certain time each day for the treatment and let nothing intrude to prevent you from carrying out your duty. A slipshod manner of treating the nails will do no good. 'File the nails .into the shape you like best and then soak the finger tips in warm soapsuds to which a little benzoin has been added. While the nails are wet rub some vaseline around the roots. Take the orangewood stick and gently push the flesh hack all around the nails. Each one in turn, not only about the half-moons, but the entire length of the nails. For cleansing under the nails, an old handkerchief dipped in a hit of lemon inice and passed under the nails by means of the orange stick is all that is required. Apply a nail polish and brush with a buffer. If one is in perfect health, rubbing the nails in the palms of the hands' will give a sufficient polish to them.

Sachet in Shoes.

Many girls like to have even their shoes scented with their favorite perfume, and the way to do It Is to sew a satchet Into the lining and into the » leather of the shoes. Even the tonguelaced shoes may he slit and a little of toe sachet powder sprinkled in. Underneath the buckles there may be room for a sachet, and the wide silk ribbons sometimes will conceal aHttle

TO HANG OVER THE MIRROR

Practical-Hatpin Holder That la AJ» Ways H«ndy and Not Likely to Be In the Way. Our sketch illustrates a practical little hatpin holder for hanging over the post of the looking-glass, that can be made with the aid of one of those cardboard cylinders that are so often used for sending unmounted photographs thtough the post. They may be obtained from almost any stationer at a trifling coat. The cardboard is neatly covered with silk, gathered into a tiny frill

at each end, and upon which the word "hatpins” is worked. The cylinder Is further ornamented with bands of ribbon tied tightly round either side and finished off with smart little bows. Sewn at the back of these bands is a long loop of ribbon with a rosette bow for suspending the holder from the glass. Inside a ball of cotton Wool Is pressed well Into the center so that it is in no way via* lble, and through this wool the pins can he thrust from one side of the holder and held securely in theilr places. A glance at the sketch will explain this, and diagram A illustrates . the cardboard cylinder prior to being covered with silk.

LINOLEUM IN THE BEDROOM

English idea Has Become Deservedly Popular-—Saves Time and Labor for the Housewife. The Introduction of the English vogue for using linoleums as floor cov- • erings in bedrooms has led to an enormous increase in the demand for rugs. Housekeepers appreciate the cleanliness of a floor covering that can ha , washed without requiring a further polishing with oil or wax. The patterns in the bedroom linoleums are pretty, and when ornamented with a few rugs look very attractive. Inexpensive velvet and tapestry squares are often used for this purpose and are to be had in old Persian patterns, in which the duU, rich tones of blue and the beautiful, varying tints of soft rose are seen to wonderful advantage. Among the novelties for curtains and draperies the Murillo fabric, a dull finish silk and satin material obtainable In beautiful colorings, and the Napier satin, which has a bright appearance of silk satij* although it 'is simply a mixture of cotton and wool, hold first place. This,, is chiefly due to their moderate price, combined with their decorative effects. They are importations. *• ♦ • pf $ \ - - vr 1 rfc#

Curtain Rings.

Sew large battenberg rings on sash curtains to run the brass rod through instead of putting it through the hem of the curtain, advises the New Era. These rings will keep the muslin from wearing out quickly and.tnay be left on the curtains while they are In the wash.

Fashion's Fancies

Newest dress models show a continuance of one-sided effect. Wide girdles appear on most of-the elaborate afternoon frocks. ;’ Shortening sleeves means an inevitable season of long gloves. Filets of gold mesh, Jewel sprinkled with pearls, crystals or colored beads, give a note of magnificence, yet preserve the simple lines of the coiffure. Many small buttons are to be used on the summer dresses, sometimes of contrasting color and again in harmony with the trimming or main material. For the evening the hat trimmed with flowers may be-worn, but bats trimmed with aigrettes or feathers are more effective and certainly more popular. Tucked and bordered cotton crepes are among the latest materials . for evening gowns for the young girL They are flimsy, clinging fabrics and look well on the slender, ures. A pretty collar for a is made of fine white net. cut in sailor fashion, with an inset of an inch wid* strip of black net next the hem. Within this the white net was embroidered in black sUk dots.

Moths From Furs.

To keep moths out of tors pliee a as it is, in your chest or wardrobe, and wodw food* 1 D * Ter COM * **** ***