Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1912 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican BAXX.T AND SEMI-WEEKLT I wutwv * err.*** - Fublishsrs VKB TBWAT ISSUE IS REGULAR WEEKLY EDIxaON. SUBSCRIPTION BATES ©ally, *>y Carrier, 16 Cents a Week. y By Audi, $3.75 a Yw. Semi-Weekly, in advance. Year, $1.50, Friday, August 23, 1912.

wepttblican national ticket. For President, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. For Vice-President, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN. For Congress, NDGAB DEAN CRUMFACKER. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DURBIN. For Lieutenant Governor, THOMAS T. MOORE. For Secretary of State, FRED L KING. For State Treasurer, JOB FREEMAN. For Auditor of State, L NEWT BBOWN. For Attorney General, F. H. WUBZER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL C. FEBRELL. For State Statistician, J. L. FEETZ. For Reporter of Supreme Court, WARWICK H. BXFLEY. For Supreme Judge, First District, WOODFIN D. ROBINSON. For Supreme Judge, Fourth District, LEANDER J. MONKS. For Appellate Judge, Southern District, DAVID A. MYERS. For State Senator, CHARLES C. WARNER. For Joint Representative, L. D. CAREY. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. f For Treasurer, ALSON A. FELL. For Sheriff, ALTON L. FADGITT. For Recorder, GEOBGE W. SCOTT. For Surveyor, W. FRANK OSBOBNE. For Coroner, WILLIS J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner, Second District, DANIEL S. MAKEEVEB. For Commissioner, Third District, CHARLES A. -WELCH.

Interesting Letter About Marketing of Onion Crop.

Knox Uogublican. Colonel C. A. Carlisle, of South Bend, member of the famous Studebaker family and a recent candidate for the republican nomination for governor, has written this office tihe following letter upon the subject of marketing the onion crop: “.Wihen I had the pleasure qf visiting you a few weeks’ ago I had some leisure time and interested myself among the onion growers. “I found that parties were building a new storage warehouse; one that would perhaps hold 25,000 bushels of onions, and I was told that last year the onion growers sold their crop in the field at about 40 cents per bushel and that later in the year these same onions sold out of the warehouse for more than $2 per bushel.

“Why don’t you call a convention of the onion growers in Starke county and discuss this problem? It seems to me that the onion growers and the consumer ought to get together upon a basis that would more equitably distribute the profit and reward between production and consumption. “I believe that there is room for the middle man and that his interests ought to be properly conserved, but at the same time, I believe that the farmers and the business men of your community* make a mistake when they fail to take advantage of a profit that would come to them by getting together and developing an elastic credit so that the producer can earry his product until the highest possible market is reached and then sell it. If you can hold that profit in your community it certainly would represent an advantage in preference to having it land outside of the community. / - ?■ -

“You understand, of course, my dear friend, that I am only making this as a suggestion to you. Perhaps you ihave already thought the matter over, perhaps you have talked it over with your farmers and business men and that you have already solved the problem to your own advantage. I have had this thought on my mind ever since I saw you and I wanted you to have the benefit of it if you find any interest in it” Colonel Carlisle’s suggestion is a good one, and shows the business instinct that has made the Studebaker corporation one of the most successful in the country. If the onion growers of the county can perfect such an organization as suggested, their profits will be vastly larger than at present

A decision gas/eonsUmerg of Des Moines, la.; a rate of 90 cents per 1,000 ctibic feet was given "Wednesday by Judge Smith McPherson In the federal court in the case of the city of Des Moines against the Des Moines Gas company.

AUTOGRAPH TELLS A TALE

Character of the kaiser Revealed to Expert by Close Analysis of His Signature. There is always a certain amount of interest attached to the deductions drawn by graphologists from the signatures of eminent men. Here, for example, is an illuminating description of ‘the kaiser’s autograph, supplied by an eminent Berlin graphologist: “To begin with, there is a crochet, a sign of pertinacity, followed by a vertical dash, showing audacity, gardless of any obstacle. Then there is an acute angle, a sign of firmness and aggressiveness. . The first stroke of the ‘W’ indicates a feeling of superioritv over the rest of the universe. The termination of the imperial ‘W’ suggests that the sovereign sometimes finds, himself struggling With the multitude of his thoughts, or the power of his instincts. “Theother letter’s Torming the signature show similar characteristics,” the graphologist proceeds. “The final ‘m’ is indicative of great diplomacy, which to the analyist suggests subtlety. The letter also suggests the impossibility of the suppression of the ‘ego.’ The flourish which terminates the imperial subgraph shows a suppleness of spirit, a desire to be loved, also self-es-teem. “The two terminating points indicate defiance and generally the characteristics dare those of an extraordinary imagination.”

THIEF NOT ALTOGETHER BAD

Proved He Had at Least Some Consideration for Victim He _____ Had Wronged ■ #" In the mail of a local sporting goods dealer, recently, was a letter which indicated that the writer was considerate, even though he failed to back up his consideration with square dealing in its entirety, relates the Indianapolis News. The letter bore a Peoria (Ill.) postmark and read in substance as follows: “Peoria, 111. Gentlemen —I am inclosing you a pawn check for $4.50 on the loan office in your city. The check is for an Arrow bicycle, which I know you sell. It was stolen in Indianapolis. By referring to your records and comparing the number on the wheel with your books you will be able to find the owner. No doubt he will be willing to present inclosed check with $4.50 in exchange for his wheel, I am, yours truly.” The writer neglected to sign his name, but the store was able to find the owner and the wheel wife redeemed. '

Benefits of Royal Academy.

A membership of the Royal academy of London carries with it numerous advantages. In a word the academy Is a benefit society founded on a very generous scale. The pension fund of Burlington house is a splendid one. Any Royal Academician who falls upon hard times or who is prevented by ill health from following his profession may claim a pension, and the pension sometimes runs into as much as $2,000 a year. The Royal Academician who dies In straitened circumstances and leaves his widow and children Insufficiently provided for is not thought any the less of for his 111 fortune. The Royal academy shows its sympathy by generously allowing those who were dependent on him a liberal sum for their maintenance. And the wife and .the children of a deceased Royal Academician receive many kindnesses and acts of charity from the hands of the living Royal Academicians, which are quite distinct from those given by this academy.-—National Magazine.

Source of the Brahmaputra.

For 40 years the birthplace of the great Brahmaputra river of India was thought to be among the high valleys of the eastern Himalayas or on the Plateau of Tibet north of those mountains. The theory could not be proved, for hostile Abors in the Himalayan valleys killed the explorers or barred their way when they sought to solve the mystery. It was believed 20 years ago that the Sangpo river, flowing far eastward through southern Tibet, was the upper part of the Brahmaputra. Marked logs set afloat in the Sangpop were watched for in the Brahmaputra, but were never found. At last, however, the explorers sent out with the troops who have punished the Abhors for their massacre of Williamson and his 200 carriers have shown that the two rivers are identical. The Brahmaputra rises far west near the headwaters of the Indus, among the mountains bordering southern Tibet.

Pretty and Novel Device.

A girl who has passed part of her life in Japan invited 16 friends to dinner recently, and in the center of the table was a large bird made of forget-rfe-nots. That the bird covered a phonograph was not known until the finger bowl stage of the banquet In the water were floating rose petals, and they gradually unfolded into a scroll, on which was written: “Get my secret from the bird." Curiosity was at high pitch when the young hostess turned the key and the bird softly sang “Marie and Philip want me to tell you that they are engaged and invite you all to the wedding.” Congratulations then were in order, but the secret was kept so well until the bird talked that no one suspected more than a casual friendship existed between the hostess and her admirer.— New York Press.

Home Course In Road Making

IL —Advantages of Improved Roads. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Abso- . elation, 191£ —

NO road is as expensive as a bad road. We spend about SIOO,000,000 a year on our roads, and th6y are costing Winaddition a bad roads tax of at? least $250,000,000 annually. It actually cocts the average farmer as much to haul a bushel of wheat from his farm to the railroad as it does to ship It from New York to Liverpool. 3,100 miles. The loss to the people of the United States annually on account of bad roads would more than pay for their general and widespread improvement The burden of bad roads bears heavily upon the shoulders of the entire

UNIMPROVED EARTH ROAD - MAXIMUM LOAD FOR TWO HORSE TEAM, ONE BALE OF COTTON, 500 POUNDS.

people, for such roads diminish the profits of the farmer because he must haul fewer loads, make fewer trips and market his products when the roads are passable and not when prices are best They are a burden which compels the consumer in the city to pay heavily, not to swell the farmer’s earnings, but to help the farmer to pay the money value of the absolute waste of energy and property due to bad roads. There would’be an Immediate and tangible saving by road improvement in reducing the cost of hauling. How much this saving would amount to in dollars and cents would depend upon the character and extent of the improvement and the amount of traffic passing over the road. In 1908 the railroads of the United States handled about 800,000,000 tons of freight originating on the respective railroads. Of this amount about 265,000,000 tons represented agricultural, forest and miscellaneous products, all of which moved over the country roads at Initial or terminal points or both. The average haul from farms to shipping points in the United States is about nine and one-quarter miles. The average cost of hauling on the country roads Is about 23 cents per ton per mile. The total cost of hauling 265,000,000 tons would therefore be about $2.16 per ton, or a total of $572,930,000.

The possibilities of saving by the improvement of the roads may be understood when we compare the cost of hauling in Germany, France and England with the cost of hauling in this country. The average in these three countries,is about 10 cents per ton per mile, and in many cases it is as low as 7 cents. If we cut the rate in the United States exactly in half by the Improvement of our main roads we would still be IVi cents over the average for the three European countries named. If we could do this it follows that our annual saving would be in the neighborhood of $250,000,000 on hauling alone. ■> The wear and tear on horses and vehicles due te bad roads may seem a trivial matter until we take into consideration the fact that there are about 25,000,000 horses and mules United States, valued at $2,770,000,000, and about 1,500,000 carriages, buggies and wagons, valued at about $83,000,000. If by the improvement of-the roads the vehicles would last one year longer and if one-tenth of the amount paid out for repairs were saved the resultant sum would run far into the millions. ■ - Property is much more valuable on an Improved road than on an unimproved road. This increase in the value of the to the improved road has been sufficient in many cases to pay for the improvement. An effort has been made to estimate the general increase in land values due to improved roads, and the average has been placed at somewhere between $2 and $9 per acre. There are positively thousands of examples where forms have been sold at an increase of from SSO to S2OO per acre over their value before road improvement An investigation recently made in Ohio-shows that there are sixteen agricultural counties in the state that have less than 10 per cent of the roads

Improved, while there are forty-five agricultural counties that have more tnan 10 per cent improved. The average price of farm lands in The sixteen counties, according to the report of the United States census, was $48.50 per acre, while the average price of land in the forty-five counties was $65.79 per acre. In other words, the average price of farm lands in the good road counties was $17.29, or 35 per cent more than in the poof road counties. When we consider the fact that there are 873,000,000 acres of farm lands in the United States the possibilities along this line are rather startling. Even assuming that the land would be increased only $5 an acre the total enhancement on —farm lands alone would be $4,365,000,000. Improved roads will yield an additional income by enabling the farmer to cultivate with "profit land which otherwise would be less profitably employed. . v .■ There are about 400,000,000 acres of unimproved, farm, laudin the United States. An average annual profit of 50 cents an acre on this land would mean a net gain to the wealth of the United States of $200,000,000 a year. Truck products and small fruits must be delivered quickly to market if any profit is to be realized. Truck and small fruit farms cannot be maintained with profit if a long haul over bad roads intervenes between them and the railroad station. A network of first class hard smooth roads will almost immediately increase the number of truck, fruit and dairy farms in any community. While the average value of wheat per acre is only $7.03 and corn $8.72, the average value of vegetables per acre is about S4O and of small fruits SBO. There is a steady trend of population from the country to the city, and this may be attributed to some extent to bad roads. During the ten year period 1890-1900 the cities gained 2,174,000 more people than the country. In 1860 only 16.1 per cent of the population lived in cities, in 1900 the city population represented about 31 per cent of the total, and now it is probably about 45 per cent With hundreds of millions of acres of land uncultivated we have the spectacle of hundreds of thousands of human beings crowded into the cities, while year after year the human tide rolls restlessly in from the country to furnish more consumers and decrease the number of,producers. To prove that a relation exists between the question of population and roads the following illustration may be cited: In twenty-five counties selected from eastern, southern, western and northwestern states it has been found that only 1% per cent of roads were improved in 1904. These same counties show an actual decrease in population averaging 3,112 for each county for the ten year period 1890-1900. Twenty-five other counties located in the same states containing 40 per cent of improved roads show an actual Increase in population for each county of 31,095. Whether good roads cause good schools, or vice versa, it is true that they exist together and that one of the most important reasons for their improvement is their effect on school attendance in the country. If the country schools are to have a maximum efficiency in training and instruction the children must be afforded facilities for reaching them. With improved roads the graded school and the consolidated school will replace the little one room" one teacher schools so prevalent in many sections of the country. The possibilities of a region of improved roads are made apparent by

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many exaqwles of schools which operate wagonWregularly, which gather up the pupils and carry them to and from school. When the roads are placed in such condition as to make this practice general a tremendous impetus will be given to education in the United Slates. To illustrate this phase of the subject the following example may be cited: In five states conspicuous for their good roads there Was in 1904 an average school attendance of 77.13 per cent, while in five other states having exceptionally bad roads the average was only 59.16 per cent. Furthermore, it has been ascertained that in the five states having an exceptionally high percentage of improved roads the white illiterates formed only three-quarters of 1 per «nt of the total population, while in the five states which showed a scarcely appreciable amount of road improvement the white illiterates formed 4% per <-ent of the tottil population, a percentage six aud a third times as great as in the former case.

MIOISANT FLYERS AGAIN AT KANKAKEE

Miss Mathilde Molsant Will Make 4 Dally Flights—Kankakee Fair Closes Contract for Week of Aviation. The Advance of Aerial Science The Kankakee Interstate Fair has closed a contract with the famous Molsant International Aviators to again hold an earial meet at their coming session, September 2 to 6. Miss Mathilde Molsant, a “near-native daughter” of Kankakee, will make a flight every day. She will make the exhibitions in the latest approved type of 1912 Military Type, Molsant Monoplane, which will be equipped with 4 fifty horsepower “Gnome” motor. Miss Moisant’s Reputation Established. Miss Moisant has recently returned from a winter tour of Mexico and Central'America, where she has made exhibitions almost daily. During these months she has established a reputation as the most skillful aviatrix of the world. In several instances on this tour she displayed remarkable courage and ability. In speaking of her experiences, Andre Houpert, one of the most experienced and oldest flyers, paid Miss Moisant a great compliment. “At Guadalajara,” he said, “while in the air, Miss Moisant showed her wonderful nerve, for in all my experience, I never found such air currents as those at Guadalajara, Guanjuata and Silao. There were few men who would have attempted to fly, but Miss Moisant, with true nerve, took her machine up where it was risking one’s life. In nerve she is equally as strong as poor old Johnnie, who met such a tragic death in New Orleana on December 31, 1910.” That she is a reliable operator is shown when it Is remembered that In Mexico and Central America an advertiser must perform all he has advertised to do, or be arrested. Miss Moisant made the four months’ tour wlth-

Miss Matilda Moisant.

out a single complaint from police officers. The “Home-Coming” Exhibition. Miss Moisant will regard her week at Kankakee as a “home-coming” week. Quite recently she remarked: “I will certainly give the Kankakee Fair the best there is in aviation. I have always thought of Kankakee as my home, and the home of my people; and it will give me great pride to return home and outdo all my past efforts.” It is expected that the people of Kankakee and vicinity will turn out in large numbers to give an ovation of welcome to the “daring daughter of Kankakee.” The Record of the Moisant*. The Moisant International Aviators have an unbroken line of achievements. Early last year . they made an extensive tour of western Europe, making records at nearly every one of the large International meets. At the Chicago meet the Moisant flyers captured the distance- and altitude events. Rene Currier, Edmond Audemars and Rene Simon, the latter being the man who gave the wonderful exhibitions at Kankakee last year, are now in South America; and several of these men have been chosen representatives to the great World Meet to be hold late this year. These aviators can justly be said to have made the monoplane famous It is more difficult to interest men in the monoplane; for, while the monoplane is more graceful and capable of more diverse uses, it is somewhat the more dangerous type to fly. The Moisant Flyers have reduced the operation of the monoplane to a definite science. They have shown that the future of aviation lies in the development of this type. The Interest In Aviation. Many of the people who came to Kankakee to see the flights last year, came to see what they considered a passing fancy. But the genius of Rene Simon’s flights convinced them that aviation has come to stay. When aviation was first attempted ft wm greeted by some of that same scepticism that greeted Fulton with his steamboat and Stevenson with his locomotive. And as the steamboat and the locomotive have twice revolutionised transportation, so the aeroplane will again revolutionise it

ZEMO FOB YOUR SKIN.

Eczema, Pimples, Bash and All Skin Afflictions Quickly Healed. No matter what the trouble, eczema, chafing, pimples, salt rheum, Zemo in* stantly stops irritation. The cure comes quick, sinks right in, leaving no trace. Zemo is a vanishing liquid. Your skin fairly revels with delight the moment Zemo is applied. Greatest thing on earth for dandruff. .Zemo is prepared by E. W. Rose Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo., and is sold by all druggists at $1 a bottle. But to prove to you its wonderful value it is now put up in liberal size trial bot ties at only 25 cents and is guaranteed to do the work or your, money back. Sold at A. F. Long’s Drug Store.

U. S. Apple Barrel Standardized.

Saturday, August 3rd, President Taft signed the Sulzer Apple Barrel .Bill. This bill established a standard barrel and grade for apples when packed in barrels. The standard barrel will be of the following dimensions: length of stave, 28% inches; diameter of hear, 17 1-8 inches; distance between heads, 26 Inches; circumference of bulge, 64 inches outside measurement. It should contain as nearly as possible 7,056 cubic inches. The grades provided for in the bill are “U. S. Standard Minimum Size 2% inches.” “U. S. Standard Minimum Size 2% inches.” Prof. C. G. Woodbeury, secretary of the Indiana Apple show, which is to be held in Indianapolis November 13-19, says, “Indiana growers should make every effort to acquaint themselves with the provisions of this law before July 1, 1913, when it goes into effect. The bill is not compulsory. Growers are not compelled to use - the standard barrel or grades. However, the trime will come when only apples branded as “U. S. Standard” can be sold on the open market. Just as soon as one grower packs his fruit so that it can be sold under a United States guarantee every other orchardist will be forced to It as the buyer will show preference to the branded fruit. The enforcing of this law falls under the jurisdiction of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Growers should aim to use their short measure barrels this season and only contract for Standard barrels for next season’s crop.”

LOCAL MARKETS.

Corn—7o. Wheat—7o to 90. Old Oats—2B. New Oats—26. Rye—6o. Eggs—lß. Butter—2o. Ducks —white, 8. Indian runners, 6. Roosters—s. Geese —5. Chickens—ll. Springs—l 3. Turkeys—9.

. A vast amount of ill health is due to Impaired digestion. When the stomach fails to perform its functions properly the whole system becomes deranged. A few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets is all you need. They will strengthen your digestion, invigorate your liver, and regulate your bowels, entirely doing away with that miserable feeling due to faulty digestion. Many others have been permanently cured—why not you? For sale by all dealers. W. P. Stanley, of Evansville, is a grandfather at 36. Tuesday his daughter, Mrs. Mary McCulley, presented him with a Stanley was married when 20 years old. Fifteen years ago his daughter Lillian was born. Last November she slipped away to Boonville and married Henry McCulley. After whistling several warnings at a man on the track at Bedford, Homer Holmes, a brakeman on a Monon freight train, hurled his body from the pilot of the engine at Henry Graves, a deaf and dumb man of Bloomfield, in order to knock him from the track and to save him from being ground to pieces. Neither man was hurt ; Mr. Hansen is an expert in the matter of gaining beautiful and effective tone qualities.—lndianapolis News. At the Presbyterian church, Friday evening, August 30. Tickets on sale at Long’s drug store. What have you to sell at this time of the year? Try a classified ad in The Republican and you can sell It Runember, that all classified ads go in all Issues of The Evening and SemiWeekly Republican. • What have you to sell? Why don’t you sell it A Republican classified ad will bring you a buyer willing to pay what it is worth. Don’t put it off. Three lines one week in all issues of The Daily and Semi-Weekly Republican for 25 cents. ‘ Let thfl people of Rensselaer and Jasper county know what you have to sell; use The Classified Column. Let your wants be known through our Classified Column, Phone 18.