Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican «wtyP«f fcwpt Soaday HEALEY 4. CLARK, Publishers. INDIANA.

There is bo fresher or better topic than baseball. >'- v S -Af* . . . The baseball knocker is simply a .reactionary in the field of sport. f' Thank goodness, the circus never threatened us with a farewell tonr. The wireless is fast being considered the greatest invention of the | **"• . pig Fortified by statistics, swat the first life and kill 9.327.648,595.671 other One person who need not be told that 'o the baseball team is in town is the office boy. ■- The bleachers are never willing to aduplt fhaf n hostile umpire Was born tree and equal. SBBEty..-' - ■B&3 If any person thinks that free Speech Is restricted in this country let him go to a baseball game. - Also, it is well not to forget that there Is a certain amount of healthy exercise in swatting the fly. pic ’ The best barefoot dance of them all Is the one the youngster does on the brink of the swimmin’ hole. * A London court is trying to decide what is a “sardine.'' Even the small fish get their day In court It appears to be absolutely useless to dispute with a locomotive for the right of way at a grade crossing. y There Is reason to suspect that the expressive slang phrase, “Never again!" originated on moving day. Despite the war of extermination on the mosquito and fly last year, the crusade will begin as usual this year. A Chicago reformer advocates the employment of policewomen In plain clothes. No use —they wouldn’t wear ’em! Every woman knows that she can be her own beauty doctor, but prefers the work of a more experienced masseur. .. i". ■ " A Chicago pastor refuses to marry eonples who are not physically sound, but we presume be winks at lovesickfeesß. King George’s doctor says that Chicago Is a pretty place. Anyway, most of the campaign portraits have come down. V' < J. *• Japanese children, It is said, are taught to write with both hands. It takes a halfnelson to master that language. . The price of gasoline has gone np as well as the price of hay. This 18 where the auto has nothing on the horse. Amateur gardeners sßbul2T"be“ ln-" formed that it Is not necessary to plant string beans to the music of mandolins. According to a fashion authority, styles in women’s hats this year are to be “more sensible." Going to raise garden truck on them? Certain dreamers talk about the millennium, but it will only come when baseball fans take the word of the umpire without a murmur. China now haß a native aviator of Its own. Very likely China before long will go to talking about the backward civilisation of the Occident. A food expert advises us to eat less wheat and more rice, but we* have a ▼ague suspicion that he Is doing press agent work for a chop suey factory. We see by the papers that two Los Angeles girls rescued two young men from the angry deep. This being leap year, there can be no doubt about the sequel. A Pennsylvania woman, charged with having ten husbands, has been sentenced to a year in -jail. If- the jury bad been made up of spinsters nothing short of capital punishment would have sufficed. A Boston professor Is quoted as saying that 1,000 westerners could restore rural New England to its former prestige. M-m-m. Well, it took nearly that number of New Englanders to : make a prestige for the west That story of a workman who fell 21 stories in New York and caught a rope several times on his way down and remarked on reaching the ground that he felt a little dizzy, certainly ,gives the reader a dizzy feeling. f Remember the cake walk? Perhaps . ths day will come when we can aak ths same question about rag time. A lady named Ylk Yug Ying is reported to be at tbe head of the woman suffrage movement in China. Nobody : can accuse her of not being a Y’s A five-story pickle factory In Chicago was destroyed by fire the other day. But, then, one could hardly sgjHWipl pickle factory to be prs-

TO OPEN UP RICH COUNTRY

New Connecting Line in Montevideo Will Cars for Traffic of Important River Cities. The American minister at Montevideo reports that work has just been started on a connecting 35-mile line of the Midland Railroad company from Tree Arboles to Piedra Sola, in the department of Tucuarembo, the contract announcement of which appears In Daily Consular and Trade Reports for January 12, 1912. The constructor Is Engineer Juan Storm, a well-kijown railroad builder. He is working a force of 600 men and expects to have the new line ready for operation in about a year. The 91-mile line from Fray Bentos to Algorta, finished last year, was also built by Storm. The new line, although comparatively short, is of great importance, especially to the river cities of Fray Bentos and Paysandu, as it will give d fairly straight through line to the border city of Rivera, the northernmost point of the department of Rivera. Paysandu, with upward of 20,000 inhabitants, is probably the greatest live stock center of Uruguay. Fray Bentos, the capital of the department of Rio Negro, 1b a city of seme 8,000 people. It has been made a port of entry, which will add greatly to its importance as a distributing point

MADE INTO VACUUM CLEANER

Simple Device by Which a Locomotive Adds Greatly to its Term . of Usefulness. An ingenious apparatus by means of which a locomotive is converted into a vacuum-cleaning plant is shown in the accompanying illustration. It comprises simply a suction chamber attached to the injector valve of the locomotive, a steam trap for the condensation of water, a dust collector, which is kept partially filled with water, and the necessary amount of hose types of suction tips or nozzles. Tfie steam trap and dust col-

lector are connected by means of a hose of large diameter, and the suction hose is attached to the bottom of the dust collector. When the injector valve is opened the live steam passes the opening of the suction chamber and creates v a vacuum therein, which produces the suction drawing the dust and dirt into the dust collector where it is retained by the water. The air, after unloading Its burden of dirt, then passes into the steam trap and is exhausted into the atmosphere. With a sufficient length of hose, several passenger coaches can be vacuum cleaned by simply back; Ing the locomotive up to one end. The apparatus is used on one of the German railways.—Popular Mechanics.

New Type of Block Signal.

A new type of automatic block signal, which Is being used on an interurban electric railway west of Cleveland, 0., is believed to furnish a solution of the problem of operating block systems in cold weather. During the last winter the various railroads experienced considerable difficulty owing to the accumulation of ice and frost on the signal lamps. The lighting of the new signal is provided by a single 25-watt tungsten lamp supplied from a trolley through a resistance. A high speed one-tenth horse power motor drives the mechanism, the motor being designed to operate safely through a wide variation of line voltage. Enough heat is furnished by the lamp and its resistance to prevent the accumulation of ice on the lenses and mechanism.

How Sun Yat Sen Got Money.

In his "Reminiscences” Sun Yat Sen gives a graphic account of the efforts that were made to capture him by the former Chifiese government. He estimates that ths rewards upon his head amounted to nq less than 700,000 taels ($1,000,000)! He has raised much money for political purposes, especially in America, und in this connection he says: “All over the world, and particularly in America, the legend has grown up that Chinamen are selfish and mercenary. There never was a greater libel on a people. Many have given me their whole fortune. One Philadelphia laundryman called at my hotel after a meeting, and, thrusting a linen bag upon me, went away without a word. It contained his entire savings for 20 years.”

Cigarette Barred.

“Did you insist on having ‘love, honor and obey* included in the marriage service.” . .. . . "No," replied Mr. Flimgilt; “the only thing I made my wife promise was thnt she wouldn’t smoke in tbs house."

IN SAFETY MOVEMENT

ORGANIZATION OP RAILROAD MEN DOING GOOD WORK. Committees Formed of Employees Are Constantly on the Watch and Report at Once AIJ Possibly Dangerous Conditions. “Of the 236,841 trainmen employed on the railroads of the United States

Ing 1,648,033, one out of every eight was injured. These ular Mechanics. “In the west an organized movement for safety has been started among railroad men,” the article says. “In September of 1911, officials of the ’Frisco road, inaugurated a ‘safety first’ movement to reduce, so far as possible, casualties on their lines. This ‘safety first’ movement has crystallized in the form of committees organized on each of the ten divisions and in the three shops, who are constantly on the watch for conditions by which life and safety are endangered in their territory. “The committee members are supplied with report cards printed, *1 have noticed . . . ’ to be filled out with suggestions for . remedying defects in roadbed, station platforms or operation of rolling stock, which might some time cause loss of life or limb. “Each member of a division committee goes over the main line and terminals of that division once a month, his expenses and time being paid by the railroad company. Some of the division men inspect the shops and some of the shop men inspect the divisions each month, being assigned particular points to observe. “A central committee meets onoe a month and considers all of the suggestions and complaints. They illustrate the bulletins with a great many photographs, showing every-day acts of carelessness to impress upon each employee the necessity of being care--ful.”

New International Bridge.

Surveys have been made at Los Yacas, Mexico, for the proposed international railroad bridge that Is to be erected-across the Rio Grande to connec Los Vacas with Del Rio. This bridge, it is stated, will be built Jointly by the National Railways of Mexico and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient, and will form the connecting link between these two lines and thus establish a new International railway route between the United States and Mexico. The National Railways of Mexico will construct a branch line from its international division at Al* lende to Los Vacas, about 75 miles. The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient is already constructing its branch line from San Angelo south to Del Rio. It will also connect with the Southern Pacific at that place. - ■

Got to Know Their Engines.

In the early days of railroading engines were handled by one crew. They had a chance to learn all their peculiarities and knew how to take advantage of them. In the modern system of railroading, if you are on a main line run you might not get the same engine twice in a week. The crews have small chance to learn their faults, and they do not get attached to or take the interest in an engine that they would if handled by them wholly. ■f he old railroad man likes to look back to -the days when railroading was in its Infancy, and talk about the good times when he was practically his own master and was allowed considerable latitude in getting his train over the rails. —-

Beetle’s Great Strength.

If asked to name the strongest animals, most persons begin with the largest, the elephant, and continue with oxen, horses, etc. This is, of course, correct in so far as their total horse-power is concerned. But for real.., strength, proportioned to the size and weight of the animal, one must go to the insect world. Compared with insects, the strength of almost any large animal, and especially of -man, is absurd. A man is considered strong If he can drag a mass weighing three or four times as much as himself, but the beetle will walk with 600 times his own weight. If a man were placed under a wooden box with five times his weight on top to hold it down, he woufil remain there Indefinitely.

Indispensable for Success.

He who invests one dollar in business should Invest one dollar in advertising that business.—A. T. Stewart. . ' ■

Be Lenient In Demand.

In order to love mankind, we most not expect too much of them.—Jeremy Bentham.

in 1911, one out of every 19 4 wa 4 killed, and one out of every eight was injured.” “Of the 91,694 yardmen employed, one out of every 187 was killed, and one out of every eight was injured.” “Taking all railroad employees, covering trainmen, yardmen, bridgemen, trackmen and crossing watchmen, total-

An Intermediary

By Nellie Cravey Gillmore

(Copyright, Ml 2; by Associated Literary Press.)

After an hour’s attention to the flying landscape, Billy’s interest abruptly collapsed and his curly brown bead sagged against the brown plush corner of the seat. He was roused suddenly by the sound of a voice—it sounded very close —addressing his pretty young mother just opposite. . “Anything I can do for yon or the kiddie? I’m going Into the smoker for a little—” ; Billy sat up and rubbed his eyes. He turned them eagerly toward his mother’s face; then up to the pleasantlooking man who had addressed her. “Want to go, youngster?” Mrs. Harcourt shook her head and smiled. “You musn’t annoy Dr. Steel, Billy. I’m afraid—” “Oh, that’s all right. Come along. We’ll have a change of scene, eh, kid?” Mrs. Harcourt cast an appreciative glance into the doctor’s kindly gray eyes, and when they had disappeared hand in hand, she leaned back with a half sigh against the cushion, her lids drooping wearily. Dr. Steel found. Billy a comfortable seat on the arm of a great chair near the window and was soon immersed in the animated political discussion he had temporarily interrupted by his entrance. Presently, one. of the men, having “had his say,” withdrew and sat down In the big chair by Billy. “Hey—what’s your name, little fellow?” he asked, pinching the plump leg that dangled over his shoulder. “William,” was the dignified rejoinder. ---■ ' —- “That your papa over there?” “Oh no. That’s only Dr. SteeL I haven’t any papa. Have you any little boys?” “Yes —one.” Billy was too young to notice the tone and he laughed and clapped his hands. “I’m so glad. We can play together. Is he here?” “No. William; he Isn’t here. He—he’s at home you know. I haven't seen him for a long, long time. I suspect he’s such a big man now I’d hardly know him." “Do you live in New York, too?” “I used to. I live mostly in hotels now and on railroad trains. I’m what you’d call a ‘knight of the grip’—Just a plain old everyday drummer." “But you come to New York sometimes? You’re going there now, aren’t you? Perhaps you’ll bring your little boy to see me one of these days!” “I hope so. Who knows? That would be great fun, wouldn’t it?” “Bully. Is he as big as me?" “He’s seven.” "Do you know any good stories?" Somewhat to the stranger's -surprise, Billy suddenly slid from his perch to the man’s knee. “Tell me one,” he wheedled. But at this juncture Dr. Steel rose tc go and Billy ruefully took leave of his new friend. Tho latter watched him out of sight with dreamy, wistful eyes. A little sigh escaped him. The clouds, briefly dispelled by Billy's bright chatter, returned to his face. He rested his chin in one hand and gazed wearily through the rain-streak-ed window.

"Am I very badly hurt, Mamma?” Mrs. Harcourt bent and kissed the small, flushed face above the cover; “Your arm Is broken, dear. It will be tedious, but you il be all right in the end. Dr. Steel gave you some ether and eet it nicely.” Billy closed his eyes drowsily. Suddenly he opened them wide and looked around. “Where are wo, anyhow? I don’t remember anything that’s happened since—since we ran Into the freight train. Mamma, I wonder if that nice gentleman we saw In the smoker was killed?” “No one was killed; some of the passengers were very badly Injured though. Perhaps we might ask Dr. Steel?” “I wish he’d hurry up and come. Mamma,” he asked abruptly, “why haven’t I any papa—like other little boys?” “You—we lost him, Billy. Let’s not .talk about it now. Walt till we get back home. Some day I’ll tell you all about it.” "When will we get back home?” he insisted. —rt—"ln a few days, I think. Meanwhile we must be satisfied to stay here. This is a country hotel about a mile from where the wreck took place. I think we shall be very comfortable — ah! here you are now, Doctor. Billy Is very much concerned about a gentleman he saw In the smoking-room—” “Laid op. kiddle —badly bruised. Nothing serious, though; I expect he'll be out tomorrow." ' “And you’ll bring him to see me? He knows some stories and —” "Yes. yes; certainly. By the way, he was inquiring about you: *tbe little tad’ be called you." Billy’s fees rippled. And presently be slept. / -V/s-r' ’i's ; V' *-'X. Dr. Steel came early the following morning. "I think you need a hit of fresh air," he said to Mm. Harcourt,

"would yon care to walk down ths road? Billy's pal ia on bis feat today and be will gladly come In and sit with him for a half hour. Corns, what do you say?" - --M Mrs. Harcourt glanced dubiously toward the cot. “Shall I, dearie T’ she asked. “O, please do—ls the nice gentleman will come and talk to me!” And so Billy’s mother rather reluctantly donned coat and bat and went down on the piazza to wait for Dr. Steel. When the stranger came In. Billy was propped up on snowy pillows, his eager, flushed face turned expectantly toward the door. “Well, well, little man, this won’t do at all What—a broken arm? And what do you think is the best cure for a thing like that, eh?” He fished a square white box from his pocket as he spoke and displayed It to Billy’s curious gaze. “Marshmallows. But only a dozen at a time, you know," he cautioned. “You’re going to tell mo the story now, aren’t you?” he questioned anxiously. The other sat down by the cot; drew a deep breath, nodded and began: “Once upon a time there was ths most beautiful little home you ever could dream of —all green and white and pink and gold with roses, in summer. There were great velvet lawns reaching down to a hedge in front, and great, broad fields at the back, full of big, gnarled old trees that hoys love to climb and a little amber creek running through, for boys to go swimming In. There were cows and horses and cats and dogs— ’’ Billy’s steady glance gave a flicker of suddfen delight “And a Shetland pony like Jim Bailey’s?’’ he interrupted breathlessly. “Yes; a little spotted pony—for my boy.” The words slipped out unguardedly, but he hit his lip and went on: “But one day something happened—it was little aid trivial, It wasn’t really anything—but it broke tip everything. The little boy’s mamma went away to live with h§r people^—and his papa went away by himself." "I’m so sorry.” The moisture gathered in Billy’s eyes and ran in crystal tracks down his cheeks. All at once he looked up and said earnestly: “I wish I was your little boy!” The stranger laughed heartily and reached over and patted his chubby hand. “Do you really?” he asked. Billy nodded. “Tell me another story,” he begged. “That one didn’t have the right ending.” The other took out his watch. “I wish I had the time, but I’m afraid It’s getting too late. You see I must catch that down coming train; I hear the doctor and your mamma coming now, and I’ll run across the hall and pack my grips.” “Wait till they come, please. I want you to —Mamma!” he Interrupted himself, “hurry up and come see the bjee, gentleman. He’s going away on the train and you might not get another chance.” Mrs. Harcourt entered the room with cheeks glowing from her brisk walk in the biting morning air; her eyes shone as they rested on Billy’s beaming face. She turned a smiling glance to greet Billy’s "nice gentleman.” She half expected to see a battered old hero of two wars with apple cheeks and silver hair. What she really saw was a man just verging on the prime of life —talk bFoad-sttoul» dered, strikingly good-looking. ■ “Will!” The name broke in a little quiver from her white, trembling lips. The stranger took a quick step forward ; hts own face had grown white. But the old smile, vivid and compelling. leapt to his lips. Ia silence he held out his arms. In silence she went to him and he held her there, as though he would never let her go. Suddenly they remembered and turned to Billy. But only the outlines of a tiny form appeared beneath the close-ly-drawn sheets. * v*Billy understood.

Hard and Soft Pencils.

“What makes a pencil hard or soft? Graphite, which composes the writing crayon in the pencil, is, as everybody knows, so soft that it will not scratch the most highly polished surface of burnished gold. Yet there are pencils so hard that they actually scratch the paper. A pencil Is hard or soft in proportion to the amount of clay added to the graphite. A pencil cannot be composed Wholly of graphite, for the reason that it would fall into a powder. Hence the use of clay as a binding element Sometimes the clay ts not evenly distributed through the mass and then one strikes a place that sets one's nerves on edge. That does not happen so much as was ths case a few years ago. Graphite is pure carbon, like that contained In the diamond The clay used Is \he finest that can be found and without grit—Harper’s Weekly.

Doubly an Agnostic.

Professor Mahaffy was once examining a man who had pat himself down as an “agnostic” on entering college. He was having a hard time at Mahaffy’s hands over some passages In a Greek book. "I believe, thir," said Mahaffy, “that you'are—aw—are an agnothtlc In religiouth matterth.” The man feebly acquiesced. “Well. then, thir," said the professor, “I can quite athure you that you are an agnothtlc in Greek ath well."

The Difference.

"I would have you know, sir, that I am very susceptible on the point of honor.” “Really? With mo H’s the soles of my feet.”—Eire. -~ A High Flyer. ; “Evir been on a flying machine?* ; “No, but I’ve been os a lark.”

Simplest Way of All.

The following story the Saturday Evening Post says is told of CoL George W. Goethals, who at the time It took place was an instructor in engineering at West Point One day, hi a recitation, he gave out this question tcv a class of cadets. “The post flagpole, sixty feet high, has fallen down. You are ordered by your commanding officer to put it np again. You have under your command a sergeant and ten privates of the engineer corps. How would you get the pole back into place?” ’r * Each cadet; after long consideration and much figuring over the derricks; blocks, tackle and so on, evolved a different method. “No,” said Goethals, “you are all wrong. You would simply say: "Sergeant, put flagpole!’”

If You Are a Trifle Sensitive

About the size of your shoes, you ean wear a size smaller by shaking Allen’s FootEase, the antiseptic powder, into them. Just the thing for Dancing Parties and for Breaking in New Shoes. Bample Free. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y.

Their Happiness.

“How about that newly-married deaf mute couple next door to you? Do they seem happy?” “Unspeakably."—Boston Transcript

A Cold Day.

Hewitt —So Gruet is-to marry a Boston girl this week? Jewett —Yes, he is harvesting an ice crop. The Paxton Toilet Co. of Boston, Mass., will send a large trial box of Paxtine Antiseptic, a delightful cleansing and germicidal toilet preparation, to any woman, free; upon request A girl thinks a young man who spends mqney freely is the whole thing—but if she marries him and finds he has spent it all she changes her mind. Cole’s Carbolisalve quickly relieves and cures burning, itching and torturing skin diseases. It instantly stops the pain of burns. Cures without scars. 25c ' and 50a by druggists. For free sample write to J. W. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls. Wis. Perseverance may be the mother ol success, but the offspring isn’t always just what it should bo. More important than the choice of President is the selection of Garfield Tea as ths remedy for constipation and biliousness. ' The Scotchmen are the heaviest on the average of all British subjects.

His Face .Entirely Filled With Pimples And Blockheads. Was Ashamed Used Resinol, Skin Clear A Jersey City man, Thomas Bruno, 170V6 Brunswick St„ writes: Mar. 29, 1912.—" About four months ago a pimple broke out on my forehead, which pained me very much. I began scratching it and within two weeks my face was entirely filled with pimples and blackheads. They were not only disfiguring, but also painful. I was ashamed to walk on the streets and soon became discouraged. I tried many remedies „ such as salves, cold cream, etc., but all were a failure. “I read of the Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment in the papers, and soon sent for samples which I used. They proved to be excellent, and after using two cakes of Resinol Soap and a Jar of Resinol Ointment, it removed every pimple rThis treatment lasted about three weeks, and now my skin Is clear and healthy. I gave some Resinol Ointment to a friend and it cured him of sycosis (or barber’s itch). My family use Resinol Soap for the toilet and shampoo; it stops dandruff-and falling hair. I recommend Resinol Soap and Ointment for all skin troubles.” Resinol Soap and Ointment stop itching instantly, and quickly heal eczema and other akin and scalp eruptions, as well as sores, burns, and bleeding piles. Your druggist sells them , (Soap, 25e; Ointment, 60c and $1). For a sample at each write to Dept. 8 K, Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore. Md. DAISY FIT KILLER STSS S fll««. Naat, clean or- . MKAtfagewHimMl namenta), convenient, U PjVSjjSIMKUHrTgXjSag cheap. Inti all , e**°n- Made of metal, can’t spill or tip over; will not «01l or S3U Guaranteed effect Ire. JUMOWiMIB— SoId by dealers or 6 sent prepaid for 81, EAXOLD BOItEXS, ISO DaKalb Art.. Brooklyn, *. T. nun BAsruc Box Morgan’* Catarrh Balm, snfflclenS for a weeks treatment, postpaid to any address lor BE Al, ESTATE FORBAUES^^i« 100 acre* In cultivation, balance timber. Good »ixroontbonee, good barns and onthttlldlnga Price very low at (ft.oo per acre. Smal If arm. 80 acres n Hlpley County, Missouri. About » acres in cultivation, small bonae and orchard, school adjoining farm, M mile from church. Bvery foot can he cultivated. rfY iTk I slfo 55!

The Farmer’s See’s Great Opportunity Why wait for the old farm to become yonr Inheritance? Begin sow to for A great opporlenity In lor Alberta, where yon jcansccnre aFreeHomea* steady admins* a fn I price. Gkrremment returns show iTS^tern^anada^Vrom Can., oi to Canadian Govt Agent. JJ| |