Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Every Day Except Sunday HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Wireless has done much to minimize the terrors of the seas. Incubators have nearly driven the setting hen out of business. Even the wireless has to send back now and then the signal "line busy.” "Get ’em while they’re hot” applies to delegates as well as to frankfurters. The man who does the most kicking is generally in need of a kicking himself. The Turks have lost their base in the Aegean sea, where Icarus lost his balance. A Frenchman now claims he was in the house long before the clock struck 24. The boat-rocking idiot has started on his annual mutderous joke with the result of a life lost It is too early to pick a pennant winner yet; also it is too early in the season to give up hope. “American women are timid,” remarks Dr. Colt The doctor never has attended a bargain sale. Any fond mother will agree that however much it costs to keep the baby, it is worth the money. One of the chief faults to be found with gentle spring is that it generally carries a flareback up its sleeve. A* woman who was sent to jail for having ten husbands probably was found guilty of restraint of trade. A western woman, in a $20,000 breach-of-promise ' suit, compromised for $750, but she had the last word. New York is trying to secure a street car that is easy to enter if one be not a ballet dancer or high stepper. The report that the peanut crop has been ruined Is another blow at the ancient and honorable game of baseball. Reports that Wu may not come back after all, will be welcomed by those who have had to answer his questions. The Mississippi river Is not a trustworthy irrigation agent It is inclined to overdo the work every spring. A California man has secured a divorce because his wife went through his pockets. Cut this out and put it in your pocket A burglar appeared as a character witness in a New York case probably to prove the statement that there is honor among thieves. A Philadelphia man has discovered -a way to live on $1 a week. Thus is solved the problem how to attend all the games this season. The prince of Wales is going to take lessons in aviation. Some people find that even the next to the top step of a throne isn’t high enough. People who have nothing more important to do are beginning to argue about the respective merits of "Ty” Cobb and “Honus” Wagner. At San Diego, Cal., the police have seized 1,200 pounds of dynamite. We assume that the seizing was done without undue Impulsiveness. ■_ The sultan of Morocco is said to be taking care of 3,000 refugees in his Tangier palace. Our flat used to look like that in World’s Fair year. A Trenton (N. J.) man claims that he has not been able to sleep for 30 years. Why doesn’t he Indulge in a little run down to Philadelphia? A physical culture artist tells us that swimming is the safest exercise, but even if It is, the man who rocks the boat never will become popular? A convention of shoe manufacturers has decided that women’s feet are growing larger, and a new and, improved list of sizes Is to be adopted. An inventor claims that he has evolved a safe and sane aeroplane, but there are those who labor under the Impression that there hain’t no sech thing. An eccentric Frenchman has left behind a collection of buttons valued at $40,00. His life was one continual game of "Button, button; who’s got the button?” ; A Cincinnati woman advocates a curfew law which shall be applicable to men only. When the home can be made happy by chasing the man to it we shall cheerfully admit that the highest achievement of civilization has been recorded. An intoxicated Gothamite was arrested for celebrating too riotously the not-altogether joyful occasion of his acquisition of a cemetery lot. The police probably held such an object as running the celebrating idea into the ground.

ALASKA AS A GARDEN

According to meteorological experts there was a complete change of climate in Alaska last winter, which may be permanent The change was caused by the switching of the Japan current toward the shores of that country.. This is likely to cause a great change in the raising of agricultural products and will, perhaps, open up new fields of endeavor. Records show that it was Alaska’s warmest winter. Capt. Harry S. Knapp, the government’s chief hydrographer, declares that the Japan current probably has been switched from its former course to a position very near the Alaskan coast by recent earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands. Scientists are now at work on the problem endeavoring to ascertain whether their suppositions are correct. The Alaska known to the tourist, says the Philadelphia Record, is a strip of land and a fringe of islands about 425 miles long by 100 miles wide. This extends north to Mount Saint Elias and is about one-twelfth of the country. The main territory, beginning at Saint Elias, stretches northward 'about 700 miles to the Arctic ocean and the same distance westward to the Bering sea. The total area is probably about 590,884 square miles. Heretofore, the climate of Alaska has varied in different parts of that country. The impression is general that the Alaskan climate is arctic in its severity, but this impression is misleading. There is no typical Alaskan climate any more than there is a typical European or American climate. The extremes of latitude and longitude in Alaska find their parallel in Europe between Norway and Sicily. Equable Climate. -

The Aleutian isles are favored by most equable- temperatures through the influences of the Pacific ocean. These modifying oceanic influences affect the northern Alaskan coast, to the peninsula, and at Sitka and the country thereabouts is found a northerly extension of the temperature conditions of the California and Washington. coast region. The Sitkan archipelago has a humid equable climate, with cool summers, warm winters and frequent falls of rain and snow. Of the coast stations Sitka is typical, its mean of 33 degrees for the coldest month, February, is practically identical with the January mean of Saint Louis. Extremes are rarely known there. In the Saint Elias region westward to the Alaskan peninsula the winters are usually considerably colder. Farther to the northward the coasts are washed by the Bering sea, a cold body of water with an average temperature of about 39 degrees. In consequence of the cold sea and its adverse winds, it is natural to find a harsher climate on the northwest coastL In the interior of Alaska the climate becomes continental, with great ranges of temperature between the short, comparatively hot summers and long, cold winters. W ithin 100 miles of the coast the oceanic influence largely disappears. Whether the greater nearness of Jhe Japan current -would change this interior is not known. The southwest coasts of the territory would be afr fected most. The agricultural supply, which would be influenced by a milder climate, has in the past been valuable only for supplying the local market Heretofore views of all kinds, optimistic and pessimistic, have been advanced on the possibilities of successful agriculture in Alaska. A number of successful farmers live there; all in well-chosen localities, in the vicinity of towns of considerable Size. On the outlying islands, such as Baranof, where Sitka is situated, and Kenai, grain has been a failure for the most part, except when cut for hay. At Sitka, where potatoes do well for some years they fall off in size and quality,.

and other vegetables are raised only with care and In favorable seasons. Farms Now Cultivated. As one enters the valleys of southern Alaska the agricultural possibilities Improve. Potatoes and other vegetables have done well in the past, but as a rule grains fail to ripen and are valuable only for feeding stock. Farther north, In what is known as Copper valley, conditions are more favorable for vegetables, and quite a number of good gardens and small farms are now cultivated. The growing season heretofore has stretched over six months or more in the islands and the inlets of southeastern Alaska. It decreases to five months at Skagway, and is about four in the interior. While the Seward peninsula and the arctic coast have no agricultural possibilities, yet considerable parts of the Yukon basin are suitable for gardening to a degree astonishing to the uninformed. The best-known instance of successful farming is that at the Holy Cross mission, on the Yukon, 62 degrees north. There cattle have been raised for 12 years and more, and the products of the land under cultivation excite astonishment in all visitors. All through the valley of the Yukon potatoes and vegetables mature when proper ground is chosen and skilled attention given. At Fort Gibbon, at the junction of the Yukon and the Tanana rivers, and at Fort Egbert, near the arctic circle, the military garrisons have raised large quantities of vegetables, potatoes being especially successful. Even at Coldfoot, within the arctic circle, at 68 degrees north, potatoes, cabbage, peas, turnips, rhubarb and berries are grown of large size and good flavor. Truck farming and hay farming are flourishing industries in the lower Tanana valley, where that more than 30,000 acres of land have* been homesteaded. While grain will ripen only under favorable conditions, •potatoes, with other vegetables, do very well, and the native and selected foreign grasses are productive of good crops. That the productivity of Alaskan agriculture is important, both in quantity and in value, is clearly indicated by the diminution of ’the shipment of potatoes from the United States to Alaska, which dropped in two years from 211,215 bushels to 167,033 bushels. In the same length of time the value of all vegetable shipments fell from $696,928 to $483,855, a decrease of more than 30 per cent. A warmer climate in Alaska would, no doubt, cause these figures to diminish rapidly and soon disappear. In fact, it Is not an extravagant statement, according to men who have investigated the subject, to say that the switching of the Japan current may mean that Alaska will forge ahead in its agricultural products until its exports will be the very things which in the past were Imported.

What Horse Power Means.

Very few people realize just what a horse power, as expressed in engineering terms, really means. When it is stated that the world’s largest Curtis steam turbine, -which drives an electric generator in the Waterside station, New York, develops 30,000 horse power the meaning is vague and incomprehensible. Imagine this term reduced to man power and almost every one can grasp its full meaning. If it takes twelve men to equal one horse power then this mammoth turbine engine develops 12 times 30,000, or the working energy of 360,000 men. If these men worked in eight-hour shifts each day It would require the services of 1,080,000 men every twenty-four ’’hours to produce the working energy of this turbine unit.; —Electric News.

The Sharing Process.

"It seems to me the mothers are very anxious to talk a lot about their days.” “And the fathers are quite as anxious to keep quiet about their nights.”

“ONE MILLION LEAGUE FOR MANITOBA.”

The purposes of the "Million for Manitoba League” are set out in the fact that Manitoba wants more people. Today the population is less than five hundred thousand, and the determination of the representative men of the Province to devote their best energies to increasing this to a million is a worthy one. There is already a widespread interest in every municipality; committees are appointed, whose duties are to secure such a thorough knowledge of local Conditions that, whether the applicant for Information be a laborer for the farm, a would-be tenant, a probable homesteader, the buyer of a small improved farm or the purchaser of a large tract for colonizing farmers, the information is at hand, free. The advantages that Manitoba possesses are many, and with the exploitation that will be given them by the birth of this new acquisition to the settlement and immigration propaganda that is being carried on by the Dominion Government, there is no doubt that the establishment of the bureau will very soon bring about the results looked for. Manitoba is practically the gateway of the great grain belt of the West Its farm lands have demonstrated time and again that they have a yielding value that practically makes them worth Over one hundred dollars per acre. Added to the yielding value of the land, there is an increased value on account of its nearness to markets, and the matter of freight rates is carefully considered by the cautious buyer. But the information more valuable to the Incoming settler is that it still has an immense amount of vacant fertile land open for homesteads. This dispels the Idea that free homesteads in Manitoba are about exhausted. In addition to this, the territory recently added to the Province will open up a homesteading area which when filled should fully satisfy the "Million for Manitoba League.” Within the old boundaries there is an area of 47,360,000 acres, less than six million acres of the 16% million acres occupied being under cultivation. At present there ure over 20 million acres of available land capable of being put under the plough. If in every one of the 195,000 vacant quarter sections of the Province an average family of four persons were placed, there would be added a rural population of nearly 800,000. So there Is room for additional hundreds of thousands on the farms of Manitoba, without any possibility of congestion. The population per mile in lowa is 39.4, in Minnesota it la 23.5. That in Manitoba is only 7.1. A glance at the map, copies of which will bd forwarded upon application to any Canadian Government Agent, shows that Manitoba is wonderfully well supplied with railways. There are but few farms that are more than ten or twelve miles from a railway line: elevators are convenient, and markets are always good. The growing of grain, while a big feature in the Inducements held out, is well reenforced by the great possibilities that exist in all portions of the Province, for the raising, of stock, for dairying, for hogs, and for a successful class of mixed farming, and what gives additional interest is the fact that there is so much land in the Province open for free homesteading that improved farms in almost all of the 98 municipalities can be purchased at very low figures. Many of the owners of these have made sufficient upon which to retire and are becoming residents of-the cities. In addition to the export market for the produce of the farm, Manitoba has a number of large cities and towns providing a splendid local market. Truck and garden farming are highly profitable branches. Winnipeg is a city bordering on 200,000. Brandon is a splendid centre, Portagp la Prairie is the hub of an excellent district, and Yorkton, Minnedosa, Dauphin, Morden, Manitou and a dozen other towns are' important help as consumers. The Dominion and Provincial immigration officials are working in strong sympathy with the "Million for Manitoba League,” and in addition to the general literature sent out by the Government, the League has prepared pamphlets giving useful and concise information, which on addressing the Secretary/ Million League, Winnipeg, Manitoba, will be forwarded free.

A Hint.

He —I don’t approve of tips. She—lt has been noticed that you do not even tip your hat.

Doctor Advised Resinol for Eczema A Stubborn Case. Relief at Once. Then a Perfect Cure. Mrs. V. A. Collins, McSherrystown, Pa., tells a story that will Interest every (sufferer from Itching, burning skin troubles. She writes: “We had a rather stubborn case of eczema several years ago. Acting on the advice of my physician, I immediately procured a Jar of Resinol Ointment and a cake of Resinol Soap, which I found gave relief at once, and finally effected a perfect cure. Of Resinol Soap I cannot speak highly enough. I think it invaluable in the home, especially among the children.” : ~ And as if in confirmation, comes this letter from Mrs. W. A. Lucas, Montclare, B. C. "My little babe was a great Sufferer from eczema of the scalp. I used Resinol Ointment regularly for about two months, and it healed her head beautifully.” . Resinol Ointment stops itching instantly, and quickly heals eczema, rashes, ringworm and facial eruptions, a* well as boils, carbuncles, ulcers, burns, scalds, wounds, and Itching, inflamed, and bleeding piles. Resinol Soap is medicated in the same way as Resinol Ointment, and Is highly beneficial, used alone or in-con-junction with tt Your druggist recommends and sells them (Soap, 25c. Ointment, Wc. and 21.00), but you can get a •ample of each on application to Dept. 4K, Resinol Chemical Co.. Baltimore. Md.

START OF CHARLEY O’LEARY

Was Messenger Boy of 17 When He Broke Into Fast Company— Now With Indianapolis. The release by Detroit of Charley O’Leary, who goes to Indianapolis, recalls an interesting story of his entry into professional baseball. From a messenger boy’s uniform to that of a major league club all in one afternoon was the lightning change he made. O’Leary had played ball around the lots in Chicago all his life and had distinguished himself as the star of the Mandel Bros. nine. One afternoon in 1900 he was sent out to the White Sox park when the South Side team was new in Chicago. It happened the shortstop, Shugart, had been injured and the club not provided with a capable man to take his place. The Sox really were in desperate - straits and hardly knew how they would fill in their line-up until somebody who knew O’Leary spied him and said: “There is a kid who can play the Infield; give him a chance.” The manager asked O’Leary if he thought he. could fill the bill and Dip, who was willing to take a chance on almost anything, replied that the job was made’to order for him. They dug up a uniform for the boy, then but seventeen, and he doffed his messenger’s togs. He made good from the jump and might have finished the season with the Sox if he hadn’t sustained a broken arm as a result of stopping one of "Rube” Waddell’s wild ones with his personO’Leary went to Des Moines of the Western league the next season and

Charley O’Leary.

played with that club for several years, going to Detroit in 1904. The White Sox won the pennant the year O’Leary was with them and his fine playing was responsible in a large manner for this success. Comiskey’s reason for letting Dip go the next season was that he had an idea the youngster would be a better ball player if given a chance to gain some minor league experience.

DREYFUSS SEES THE PENNANT

Pirate Chief Is Certain of Victory in National League This Year —Breaks His Rule. President Barney Dreyfuss of the Pirates is a silent man. In all the years of his baseball experience he never claimed anything in advance, at least verbally. Now he has broken the rule. He says Pitsburg will win the pennant. .-1 "It has been my motto never to claim the flag until it has been won on the diamond,” said the Pirate chief. “I believe in sawing wood and letting the other fellow do the talking. “It is different this year. Pittsburg will take the pennant I never felt so sure of anything as I do of that. I am absolutely certain we will show the way home this year. I can’t see anything that can beat us. Good or bad luck may break our way, but we have the team, and that's what does the business.” So there goes another record. Dreyfuss never talked that way before.

Couldn’t Worry Clarke.

Clarke was awakened at 3 o'clock in the morning in Chicago by somebody who told him that Alex. McCarthy had fallen in a fit and had been run over by an automobile and Was removed to the Cook County hospital. Knowing that the little Infielder is not subject to any fits excepting bls fits of fine ball playing, also being sure that Mac would never be out so late at night, Clarke asked the Informant what color the injured fellow’s hair might be. When told it was very black the Pirate chieftain saw there had been some mistake and hung up the receiver.

Konetchy Is Indifferent.

“Why do the St Louis pitchers persist in throwing to Konetchy when there is a runner on first? He doesn’t even try to put the ball on the returning fugitive, but simple catches it, never looks at the runner and tosses back to the pitcher. Doesn’t care to overwork himself, apparently,” says a contemporary. / '

BACKACHE AND ACHING JOINTS.

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