Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — Page 4

SENATOR VANCE’S READY WIT

(Record* Show That Very Rarely Did ! Carolina Statesman Fall to Rise to • the Occasion. ft ' Z The late Senator Vance used to say (that his liveliest campaign for the gov* lernorship of Carolina was that in which Judge fettle ran against him. RThey stumped the state in joint debate. All the white Democrats turned •out to hear Vance, and all the colored to hear Settle. On one tocc&sion, Vance was informed that some young ladies desired to testify their devotion to the Democratic party by hissing the Democratic candidate lor governor. Nothing loth, Vance descended from the platform and kissed a dozen or so of the young -beauties, <and then paused long enough to turn around toward his competitor and shout: “Settle, Fm kissing my girls; now kiss yours!” When he married ithe second time, he said to his wife on 'their wedding-day: “My dear, I'm a stubborn fellow, and you may anticiipate trouble. Now, in the beginning, while I am submissive, I want to give you one piece of advice. If you follow it, we’ll get on mighty well. It is this: Make me do just as I darned please.” A newspaper man, who was about starting for a rather out-of-the-way portion of Vance’s own state, was asking him one day what kind of accommodation he was likely to find. “They’ll give, you some of their fried hog and eggs,” the senator replied. “That’s better than nothing,” said the newspaper man. "I don’t know —1 don’t know,” the senator answered, in a dubious tone; ‘Tve tried both.”

PRINTING ONCE IN DISFAVOR

Follower* of the Art Have Been Known to Expiate Their “Crime*" on the Gallows. ' On the 18th of July, 1860, Martin •Lhomme, one of two who were hanged . ifn the Place Maubert by the decree of the parliament, suffered because he had published a writing entitled “Bpistre envoyee au tlgre de la France” (A letter directed against the Tiger of France), a satire directed •against the cardinal of Lorraine, then all-powerful, which had probably been rlmprlhted at Basle In Switzerland, or Strasburg, Germany. The culprit, according to the historian De Thou, was « poor little bookseller, a native of ftoue.n. While he was waiting at the gibbet, pays £hj&rles Winslow Hall In the National one of his fellow countrymen, coming into Paris on business, saw him on his way and recognized him. “Then,” says Regpier de la Planche, “not knowing why he WBB condemned to death, he alighted from his horse at a neighboring hos'teiry, and, seeing the ‘people very angry against the unfortunate man, & “Eh. what my friends, is it not enough that he dies? Leave him to the . executioner. Would you like to torment him more than his sentence demands?’ .They considered the Norman’s pity misplaced. He was forthwith arrested, judged and hanged (four days later without any form of process In the same fatal Place MauW 111 i

Promoters of Spirituality.

The old adage in regard .to the way to a man’s heart Is regarded by some persons as a libel on masculine humanity, hut Deacon Sampson of Cranston evidently did not regard it In that light. He went much farther than the •date, and was willing to express his opinion at any time when it seemed best When the members of the Gentral church were discussing the best way to Interest the young people of the town and bring them into touch with church affairs, Deacon Sampson spoke his word. "I believe in meetings,” he said firmly; “nobody believes in ’em more, and nobody attends ’em more than 1 do, but along with the meetings 1 don’t know of anything that promotes spiritual growth more’n strawberry socials and oyster suppers, each according to Its season.” —Youth’s Companion.

Meteor’s Rings.

In the entrance to the American Museum Of Natural History In New York stands a large meteor brought to that city and presented to the museum by the Peary Expedition company. To handle the immense mass of metal and stone large iron books and rings Were made fast at several places. "The other day,” said a museum guard, "a young New Yorker about seven years old stood with his mother admiring the exhibit The mother read the description, saying that this .came from another planet and was hurled through space, finally landing In the arctic regions.” “Mamma," asked the little Knickerbocker, "was that stone hung to ths other planet by those rings ?"

Policeman’s Novel Excuse.

Policemen on trial at headquarters are apt at excuses, says the New York Son. Former Inspector Williams used to tell of an officer who was charged With haring lost his whistle. When «aked to explain he said. “Yon 'see, I went home last night and pnt my whistle on the table. I turned round and, ‘bless me, one of my kids was choking and nearly black in the face. Yon see commissioner, he’d swallowed the whistler* ‘ls he dead?” asked the aympathetlc commissioner. “No, sir” wwythe reply. “He isn’t dead, but he’s got the whooping cough, and now every time he coughs the whistle fetows and.the cop on the post comes

Leap Year by Proxy

(Copyright, ton, by. Associated Literary Preaa) “I’m never going to get married,” said Kitty to her Aunt Katherine." Aunt Katherine, who was very tall and beautiful, and who was always dressed in sweeping black gowns, looked at Kitty severely through her gold lorgnette. __ “And you-are -20?” she asked. . “Men aren’t worth bothering over,” said Ktyty. “Now, there’s Rodney Hodge. He’s the only man who will be at the dfince tonight who Is really worth while, yet I wouldn’t be afraid to say that he’ll never propose.” . Aunt Katherine lighted the candles over the fireplace. It was one of her fads to spend the evening by candlelight. Electricity was for the mob, she said. “Why should you care?” she asked, “what Rodney Hodge does? You are not in love with him, are you?” Kitty composed herself.. Well, you see, I could be }n love with him,” she said Bagely, he were not such a clam. “He’s so—so fine, Aunt Katherine.” “Yes, he is fine,” said the older woman. „ Kitty’s little face was very grave now, and her little hand was laid In earnestness on Miss Severance’s knee. “And so,” Aunt Katherine finished for her, as she took the little hand In her firm clasp, “and so, my little Kitty, If you were a man and Rodney Hodge were a girl, you would ask Rodney to marry you?” "Yes,” Kitty whispered. “Then —why not ask him —anyhow?” said Aunt Katherine. Kitty gave her a startled glance. “Why—Aunt Katherine—” she stammered, "you don’t mean: — "It’s leap year.” “O.h, I knew you were joking.” Kitty’s voice had a note of relief in it. She changed the subject after that, and Kitty went off to her leap year dance happily. Miss Severance sat long by the fire, then she picked up the receiver of the telephone and gave a number. When the answer came, she said: “Is that you, Bronson? This Is Kather lne Severance. I want to ask you to come and see me. Yes, tonight. VsjM=-Jt’s important. You will? It’s very good of you. At nine, then?” She paced the room restlessly, as she waited, and when her caller came, a gray-haired, stately man, she welcomed him with a laugh that was slightly nervous. “It’s about Kitty,” Bhe said. She was seated in a high-backed chair which gave her a queenly dignity. “I —I want to make a sbrt of leap year proposal by proxy, Bronson.” He locked at her keenly. “You mean Rodney?” he asked. _ “Yes. Kitty likes him and I think he loves her. He did years ago. But —hut he hasn’t asked her to marry him.” “And he will not!” sternly. “Why not?” , > “He. shall not suffer as I have suffered,” was the quiet answer. “You know how I staked *ll rav Katherine, on your answer years ago, and you know, too, that I lost I will not have my boy hurt in a like fashion.” “Kitty—is sweeter than I,” said Miss Severance, "and I think she cares.” “No one could be sweeter than yon were,” the old man turned on her fiercely, “until you learned to break men’s hearts.” “And to break my own,” said Katherine Severance. Out of a deep silence he asked: “Then you, too, have suffered?” “Yes. Do you remember a leap year dance and a girl all in white, with sliver slippers and a rose In her hair?” “You,” he breathed. “And she made up her mind that she would tell the man whom once she had spurned that she had changed—and—and—that he was the only man in the world—for her. But she was proud—and —she could not, for he gave her no opening—and, after all, she was a woman—and a woman cannot woo.” “Katherine,” he said, and his voice broke; “dear girl, if you had spoken, how much of happiness life would have held for us.” And tonight when Kitty went to her leap year dance, all the past rolled back on me and I wanted her to he happy .with a man like you. It Is too late now for us—but surely they—” * I He laughed Uke a boy. “Too late? Why, how eld are you, Katherine?" “Forty.” "And lam fifty-two. Ami we’re young, deafest And the world is before us. Do you think Kitty and Rodney are the only ones In the world who oan live and love?”! He took her hands masterfully in his. "Look at me, Kate,” he said, “and tell me if yon want to ‘leave all the happiness to Kitty?” That njpht when gitty ombo ( home she was radiant < “Aunt Kate,” she cried, as her aunt wrapped in a white silk kimono, met her at the top of the stairway, "rm the happiest woman in the world.” "No,” said Aunt Kate, mysteriously, "you’re not the happiest. Because there are others.”

WHEN THEY WENT BACK HOME

Humorist Records Some Surprises That Attended the Occasion, of Popular Celebration. During a recent Old Home Week in an - up-state village the following “never-will-amount-to-anythings” were In attendance: Jbhn Wilson Clarke, who was always too lazy to do the chores, came up from New York in his big sevenpassenger car. On account of pressing work he could stay but a few hours. . *' •• Ex-Gov. Silby Kirkwood, who was naturally thick-headed 1 and half-baked in bis youth, stopped over in his private car to see his old home. Dr. WillusG. Dyer, one of the bedtknown surgeons in the country, called the town fool when a boy, dropped in and left enough money for a town library. Miss Caroline Jensen Atwood, too stupid to learn in the old red schoolhouse, now a popular authoress and playwright visited her relatives. Charlie Drake, the spendthrift, shut up his Wall street office long enough to attend. One of the most noticeable features of the whole celebration was the absence of The men and women who gave much promise of originality and worth during their youth. Lack of memory in their old age accounts for the fact that not one of the old fogies present ever said anything but good of anybody, including the successful boys present.—Don. Cameron Shafer in Judge.

DICKENS FITTED FOR STAGE

Kate Field, Excellent Judge of Character, Confident He Might Have Been Great Actor. No one ever paid a much higher tribute to -Dickens than did Kate Field. She had the soul of a poet, a discriminating taste In art and literature and wide knowledge of the world. In mentality she was fully as strong as either of her brilliant brothers, David, Dudley, Stephen ; J. or Cyrus W., and'she certainly was as good if not a better judge of character. She once wrote an appreciation of Dickens in which she declared the world lost its greatest actor when Boz became a writer. She gave a description of one of Dickens readlnigs that was masterly in its vividness of detail. Such versatility as she credited DickenS with displaying as he assumed the character of first one and then another of his creations, the pathos, the humor, the tragedy he put into a tone; the marvelous way in which he stirred the emotions of old and young in his audience, would appear to be a bit.extravagant were it n?t that ngw and th§n ig later years E6me old man, looked upon 5s stern and unemotional, told with faltering voice how he stood in line all one night to buy a ticket to one of Boz’ readings, and then went on to talk just about as Miss Field wrote, only before he got as far along In his story the tears were running down his wrinkled cheeks —his old - heart strings still atune to the magic of The Master.

Difference In Icebergs.

No two icebergs appear to be exactly alike In size and shape. Some look, for all the world, like Arabs’ tents as they glide along, and others like cliffs, castles. cathedraia, yachts, and occasionally they resemble some well known animal. Some of the pinnacles of a large berg rise nearly I, feet above the water, while the base may occupy an area of ten or twelve acres. Seen through a powerful glass, one may detect waterfalls upon these islands of Ice, and all kinds of arctic birds, and perhaps a tew seals. Then the colors are almost beyond description. The stately pinnacles glisten in the sun like powdered glass. At times the berg is pure white, at others it looks greenish.—From Harold J. Shepstone’s “Icebergs” in St Nicholas.

"Liked to Be Gulled.”

Sir William Gull, the well-known London physician, was once the victim of an amusing piece of repartee on the part of a fellow practitioner. The occasion was a dinner party at which several distinguished medical men were present. The conversation happened to* turn upon, the subject of quackery, and Sir William' Gull evpressed his conviction that a certain amount of it was essential to success in practice, adding: "It is an example of the old saying, ‘Populus vult decipi’” (people like to be deceived). “Quite so,” said the host; "now, can any one present give an, English equivalent to that?” “Nothing easier,” dryly remarked a well-known physician of one of the Manchester hospitals. “The public liked to be ‘gulled.’ ”

Prosaic "Ghost.”

Thinking they had seen a "ghost,” a number of Dundee (Scotland) townsfolk, while walking through the cemetery recently, took to their heels and summoned the nearest gatekeeper. The “vision” which had aroused their alarm —that of a figure in scanty attire standing behind a. gravestone, bad vanished when they returned with reinforcements, and all there was. to be seen was a large piece of red flannel. It afterward* transpired that the owner being greatly irritated by the flannel, which was next the skin, had gone to the cemetery with the Idea of getting.rid of It, which he conld not do without shedding his garments.

LIVE STOCK

AUTOMATIC HORSE FEED BAG New York Man Invents Contrivance That Baves Much Grain and Allows Animal to Feed Easily. The Scientific American describes an invention of George Doutney of New York for feeding horses as follows: One of the most tantalizing contrivances that the poor horse has to put up with is the common feed bag. The first few mouthfuls of feed are readily accessible, but thereafter the animal must toss his head so as to throw the grain that is out of reach into 'his month. This results in enormous waste, due to spilling of the grain out

Automatic Feed Bag.

of the bag. Mr. Dutney’s invention alms to overcome this defect by a novel Construction of feed-bag, In which the feed is stored in pockets at each side and feeds automatically to the bottom of the bag. The bag is open at the front and ba<;k except for the shallow box at the bottom, thus providing ample breathing space. There-ia no waste of the grain, for it Is fed to the animal as he eats it, and the feed Is regulated so that he cannot bolt his food. The feed pocketß are very readily filled. The tongueless buckles on the strap permit of adjusting the bag sungly to any animal, whether his head be long or short

TREATMENT OF LIVE STOCK

Importance of Creating Good Temperament In Farm Animals Should Never Be Underrated. Horses, and, In fact, all domestio animals are very much more impressionable than they are generally supposed to be. Cattle,, which have had a kind master, a man of gentle but firm nature, show the effect of their associations as a breed or strain. Years of good treatment not only make an impression on the individuals, but are impresaed with such, force as to become a breed characteristic. .In short, a keen jqfge can tell pretty nearly what sort of association a horse has had by his temperament - - - The Importance of creating a good temperament in a trotting or pacing horse should not be underrated. The horse with a good temperament will do more work and do It better than one which has not got a well balanced temperament

CONVENIENT CHUTE FOR HOGS

Device Bhould Be Btrong Enough for Heavy Animals, With Heavy Material for this. Floor.

A convenient chute for loading hogs can he made out of 2 by 4 material and 1 by 6 inch boards. The front pieces of 2 by 4’s should be long enough so that when the chute is set up to the wagon it wjjl come just right for hogs to. walk into the bed, says the lowa Homestead. The floor of the chute should be strong enough to hold up heavy hogs, apd in order for this It is well to use 2 by 4 ma-

A Hog Chute.

terial for floor braces, nailing them to pleoee running up the sides and held together by pieces running across the top.

Early Lambs.

The ado object in Raising early hunbs is to produce a fine animal of good size and flesh and get him to market at the earliest possible moment To do that requires good feeding, good care and good manSgement from tike time ho is born until ho Is ssat to market

The Mule.

The espenso of caring for a mule Is less than for a horse. He eats less, requires no blanketing, no stall and Is more easily kept ejsan.

GREEN FOOD IS EXCELLENT

Ingenious Hopper Keeps Chard, Beet Teps, Etc., Off of GroundDevice Easily Made. , ’ . (From the Garden Magazine.-) . In feeding green food to poultry, we should see that it is pot wasted or contaminated. A few handfuls of green stuff, If thrown loosely Into the ordinary hen yard speedily becomes so befouled that hens will not eat it. A man who is handy with tools may construct p green food hopper in a short time in this way: Out of rough strips of board make two frames (A and 12 by 20 indies, and cover each one" with ordinary chicken wire. Frame A should have its-sides projected so that they meet the cross pieces B and B. The cross pieces should be 12 or 14 inches long so that the holder may not easily be upset. In joining the various pieces of wood, screws will usually he found to be more satisfactory than nails as they are less likely to split tlfb wood. Frame A should then have two pieces of straight iron or heavy wire (c and c) driven into its sides ‘about two-thirds of the distance from Its upper edge so as to project through holes In the frame A. This will allow one frame A to pe pulled or shoved away from the other. Bend heavy pieces of wire or Iron into a V-shape (d and d) and drive them Into the frame A so that they project six or eight inches beyond the sides. Strong springs (e and e) should than be fastened at one

Keeps Food Off of Ground.

end to the bend In the V-shaped piece of iron or wire and at the other end to the frame A as indicated in the drawing. Soldering Is the best way of fastening the Bpring to the wire. Chard, beet tops r slices of cabbage or beets may then be put between the frames which will hold them safely until devoured.

FEEDING HOT CORN TO HENS

Bhould be Supplemented With Wheat and Oats—Fowls Also Like Their Water Heated a Trifle. V. ' If the hens are fed hot com for supper, they will go to bed happy these cold winter nights. Feed it just as hot as they can eat it comfortably. Shell some in the baking pan, and stir and heat in the oven. As the. weather grows colder, Increase the supply of corn. It Is a heating food. But never feed it alone. A good grain mixture for winter is two parts of,whole com, one peyt each wheat and oats, all well mixed. . Many hens never know what It Is to he comfortable from one end of the winter to the other, except on a day when it thaws. You cannot ex-’ pect hefts to do well under such conditions. To do well they most be comfortable. The worst thing Is to make poultry drink Ice-cold water. They must warm that water before the work of digestion can go on again. Warm the water for them —not hot, but just comfortably warm.

POULTRY NOTES

Clean out the house and put in fresh litter. Take care of your poultry and it will take care of you. Capons should not be killed until their crops are empty. Spray a weak coal tar solution over the chickens on the roosts. Dunghill fowls, like incompetent labor, Is not worth having around. Color the drinking water of all fowls, pink with permanganate of potash. No successful poultry plant was ever established with mongrel stock. Thoroughbred fowls, like skilled la-bor.-are sure to create a profit for the farm. Simply because an egg is fertile is no guarantee of it hatching out a chick. Before packing and shipping poultry should be thoroughly dry and cool, but not frosefi- x Many of the fowls in this country are fed only enough to keep them alive and growing. ‘ ■?.- ‘ r - - . Exercise is great for hens. Give them a chance to get out In the fresh air . every day & their lives. Poultry Should be well fed and watered and then kept from 18 to 24 hours without food before killing. Cleaning roost rooms is too much neglected.' Some farmers do not clean them oftener than once a year. Oats' is one of the best of grains for feeding fowls and should constitute a part of every grain mixture we fsefL To check its progress in the flock, separate the diseased chickens from the others and place them in a clean airy coop. It is possible to raise turkeys in pens, just ss chickens are raised, but tee business cannot yet be said to he other than precarious. v -

SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Childish Mind, Groping In Darkness, Is Craving for Information That Is Denied It. Every trace of useful information la carefully concealed from the very young child. A rattle, or at most a rubber doll, is its onljr plaything. As It grows older It is very slowly and gradually introduced to the various forms of the animal kingdom. Of the mysteries of numbers and of languages it has as yet no conception. Its constant questions are for the most part answered “humorously” and hence incorrectly, or they are not answered at all. This eternal "hu-‘ mor” is most galling of all. Why should a human infant be such an irresistible joke?. The lower animals take their young seriously and train them from the start with a very definite purpose in view. Yet their possibilities are infinitesimal as Cbmpared with those of the average baby. And we sit calmly by and enjoy the "humor” of childhood *hd Insist that the child is enjoying Itself also, even though its little soul may be thirsting for information which is laughingly denied It. And we continue to put off the inevitable day when the child will have te take life seriously and hence, according to our tradition, sadly. One important point which is quite overlooked by the. upholders of the hrainlesß child is the fact that nonsense asd silliness are just as taxing to .the Infant mind as useful information would be. It requires no more mental effort to realize that A is A than to grasp the extraordinary fact that a mass of brownish softness is a “fuzzy ittle Teddy bear, yes it Is.” In fact, the letter A has a distinct advantage. And at a more advanced age It is certainly less puzzling to be told that five and five make ten than to have one’s own respectable pink toes described as a series of plgß going to market or entering Into the var rious other activities of life. — Sigmund Spaeth In Harper’s Weekly.

TURNED LEAVES OF ROMANCE

Vangy Found, a* Other* of Her Bex Have Done, That Man Wa* Ever Fickle. “Will you have a cup of tea, Vangy?” asked Mrs. Greene, as Vangy came in from hanging out the clothes. “Ah don’ cayah es Ah do, Mis Greene. It right col’ on de roof an* Ah’s mos* chill to de marrer ob mah bones. Yo’s bery kin’” as, yielding to Mrs. Greene’s suggestion, she deposited her portly form on a chair near the kitchen table, “Yo*b alius tryin’ to make a pusson comf’able. Yo’ min’s me ob mah maw—o’ cos’ yo’ ain’ as ol’ as her, but yo’ like her In yo’ mannahß. Oh, yes’m, Ah likes sugah in mah tea. W’eneber anybody ast me es I like sugah In mah tea Ah t’ink ob a gamman fr’en’ Ah was ’gaged to oncet. ‘W’are he now?’ Lor, Ah dunno, he lef* de city. He aln’ no ’count no how an’ Ah don’ eayah es he nevah come back. Dere’s jes’ as good meat in de hash as eber come out ob it, Mis Greene. ‘W’ot’s his name?’ honey. His name Mistah Dobson, at dat time. He use come *roun to mah house to take his af’ernoon tea wif me an’ maw. He mighty sweet on me den. Ah ’member one day he come an’ maw, Bhe po’d out a cup o’ tea fo’ him an’ he taste It an’ den he say mos’ ’grayshatin’ like, ‘Mi* Vangy, would yo’ min’ puttin’ yo’ liTes fingah in mah tear—on’y de ve’y tip ob It?’ “Wot yo’ wan’ me put mah fingah in yo’ tea fo’?’ Ah say. ‘W’y,’ he say, _*yo’ maw fo’got to put in de sugah an’ I cayn drink tea ’less it bery sweet.’ Now days." she concluded with a shake of her head, “he wouldn’t drink his tea, .Ah reckon, es Ah was to put mah whole han’ in.”

Bomb’s Deadly Work.

Paris is truly a city of tragedies, ▲t a quarter past eight the other ■morning there was & terrific bomb explosion on the. Fl&oe do Montrouge. Policemen rashed up, and found a young man of eighteen, Alfred Herro, shrieking with pain, and rolling in agony on the ground. His face and hands were covered with blood and his clothes were burning. Two policemen put the fire out, put-Hervo in a cab, and took him to'the nearest hospital. The other policemen found the bomb, ft had been madd of two metal ebap boxes tied together, and filled with powder and nails. Hervo declared, that he knew nothing about the bomb. Ho wak on his way to his work, saw the thing lying on the pavement, and • kicked it off into the gotten It'broke open, and wondering what the black stuff in it was, Hervo lit a match and bent down to Add out An explosion followed. * ;"• -

Fashions Long Kept Up.

The British admiralty’s annual » der for black silk handkerchiefs for the navy, recently placed for 90,600, led to inquiry:, “why black?” It is said to be as mourning for Nelson’s death at Trafalgar. Another instance of long-continued mourning is Shown In the dark clothes officially worn by tho Anglo-Saxon rue; at the decease of the duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne's heir-apparent the bar went Into mounting and has never doffed this, though the lapse of the Stuart dynasty on the British throne wu scarcely to be regretted Doubtless the largest following of one fashion by men was after Alexander jet the style of having the face cleanshaven; this was kept up by the Graeco-Homan world for five hundred