Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1912 — Page 2

Monarch of Blood and Song

MB AT Czar Nicholas of Montenegro, aged seven-iF-m ty-one, lately sprained bls ankle, and lay three days under a fig tree, in the Dvorska Ulica, and scrawled mysterious

symbols. Under the fig tree Nicholas sometimes administers, or as Montenegrins say, “inflicts,” Justice. When a mountaineer, beautifully dressed in knives and revolvers, came to Nicholas and asked for Justice, Nicholas lost his temper. The mountaineer demanded that a next dpor neighbor should be hanged for stealing his pipe, which petition Nicholas rejected, not because hanging is too severe, but because, said he, “ I am writing a poem.” This reply astonished the brave Montenegrin, who believed that real poetry was never written down. A real poem is learnt by heart and chanted by a bearded bard to the deafening musts of the gusla, to the clashing of yataghans and swords, and to the explosion of precious gunpowder. But now Nicholas is not only writing a poem; he is preparing a complete edition of all his poems in the ‘ Servian language. It will be printed at Agram and read throughout the vast territory in which the Servians live; in Montenegro itself (when anyone can read), in Macedonia to the south, as far east as Roumania, and am far north as Styria. For the Serbs are Europe’s most scattered race, outnrmbering the Hungarians and many other nations that cut a figure in the world.

Fat old Nicholas is a genuine poet. His verse is full of the primitive, heroic, epic spirit Compared with It the effusions of his royal neighbor, Carmen Sylva, are the thinnest of skim milk. The old man comes of a stock which always spilt ink as fast as blood. Nearly all the Peters, Danilos, Mirkos and Tomos who preceded him as “Vladikas” of Montenegro were masters of the goosequill His great-uncle, Peter 11., was the best of Servian poets, and also a tolerable for he wrote h|p first ode on a mud wall in RJeka with the blood of a butchered Turk. Fat old Nicholas maintains the heroic strain. Poetry and war, he holds, are but branches of the same sovereign profession. You can even

This the Age of Concrete

Comparatively New Material Pushing i into Popularity for an Infinitude of Uses. At present a comparatively new material 1b pushing its way into popularity, and that for an infinitude of uses. Portland cement, as it was first Called, was first made known to the world about 1824 at Portland, England, where it was first manufactured, and came into favorable notice in connection with submarine construction where ordinary stone work had utterly failed. It was not until 1895, however, that it was manufactured in the United States, and it was only within the last decade that it has begun to supplant brick and stone as a building material. Made by the calcination of

TAKE NEEDED REST IN TIME

Great Mistake Mads In Walting Until Exhausted Nature Makes Imper- - atlve Demand for Relief. A few weeks’ vacation la the wisest Investment for anyone who has voluntarily or Involuntarily overtaxed his bodily or mental capacity. It Is absolutely essential for the preservation of health that we get out of harness and L change the monotony of our daily sur- ? waddings from time to time.

combine the two; for when Nicholas was busy besieging Niksie, in 1878, h- spent part of the day writing songs about the defending Turks. He agrees with Homer that slaying and plundering enemies and carrying off beautiful maids are the fit recreations of a poet, and the fit recreation of a warrior is the celebration of his own exploits.—-—— Nicholas’ muse is limited in scope; In fact, he rejects all the muses except Caliope, Clio, and Terpsichore, who stand respectively for the epic, history and the dance. Terpsichore is tolerated by rough Nicholas because a warrior has a right, to dance on his enemies' •’■raves. Nicholas has composed some lively “ kolas,” or round dances,,for men and maids. For such a swashbuckling sovereign he is tolerant of women; indeed, his best political poem, “ Balkanska Carica," the “ Empress of the Balkans,” is dedicated to Montenegro’s f'hir. If there were a muse of drink, she also would be permitted, for the warrior-king has written tolerable drinking songs, with admirable precepts. One is that while there are Turks in sight you should keep warily sober; but that when you have cut off the heads of a dozen Turks and bagged your weapons and money you have a right to drink to their shades. Pursuing this line of thought he bursts out again:

“Drink! drink, and you'll be sound and jolly: Drink, brave landsmen, for in wine Is red blood; and when ( thou drinkest— If enough—the world Is thine!”

Nicholas is a newspaper man. He runs a poetical Journal named the Dove, which was founded by his poetical cutthroat ancestor, Peter 11. In this Nicholas printed his first poem, “ Vukassin," which describes an incident in the fall of the medieval Servian empire. There, too, he printed his “ O Namo, O Namo!” a political confession, which has risen to be the national song of the Pan-Servians in Montenegro, Servia, Turkey, and Austria. Turks, pashas, “ bussurmahs ” and padishas are the objective of Nicholas’ best poems. They inspire ma»y dainty and sonorous lines, such as Drink ye blood from the black Turk’s skull,” “When fifty Moslems fell from Vuka's hand,” “Our emerald valley’s blossom red; it is the

marl, clay, slag and other materials, It absorbs water freely and is mixed with sand and brpken rock in varying proportions, the'" strongest being one part of cement to two of sand and four of “aggregate.” It sets almost as soon as mixed; continues to absorb water and to harden for many days, and gains strength for many years. Millions of bags have been used in constructing the Panama canal; no fortification is considered complete without it; grerft hulks and lighhters are built of steel skeletons coated with concrete, and the belief is very common that it must soon replace both wood and brick in house construction. Indeed, the high price of lumber, the greater cost of brick, owing to higher fuel and wages, with

Do not wait until some incurable disease has developed, but do something to avoid itJ This is the most pleasant way as well as the wisest. A stitch in time saves nine. . _.— ?Go back to nature, and, for awhile at least, live the simple life as you were meant to. Listen to the song of the birds and caress the picturesque flowers and everything that is beautiful tn creation.

If people would only recognize how much suffering and how many unnecessary expenses they would save by

blood the Turk has shed; ” “ the glorious slaughter of the Moslem captives,” and so on. Like Homer and other true epic poets, Nicholas ignores the moral conventions of war. He exalts equally Montenegrins who have died for their country and Montenegrins who have merely tortured Turks, butchered them in their sleep or dropped poison into their drink. The Hague convention plays but a small role in the poetry of Cettigne. There is a touching Montenegrin poem describing Holy Night, 1702, when the brave hillmen rose and butchered in cold blood defenseless Turks. When you read Nicholas' verses -you conclude that a hero needs only two qualifications — first, he should be superhumanly courageous, and secondly, he should be endowed with a fine equipment of rascality. Yet this adipose literary prince has a real warrior’s chivalry. He is a knight and a gentleman. He hates the Turks as Turks; but as warriors and blood-lovers he welcomes them, and he Js grateful to them for supplying the potentialities of combat. That explains many queer inconsistencies in his verse.

On one page he extols massacre and treachery against the Turk; on ths next he writes poetical praise of Suleiman Pasha, with whom he crossed swords in 1878. Then a little further on is a touching poem, “ The Lament of Osman Pasha," which describes the Turkish defense of Plevna against a Russian army five times as strong. With this brave spirit in him, Nicholas permits no man to offend the few Turks who live in his barren land. This motive Inspires one of his finest poems. A white-bearded Podgoritza Turk limped to the Dvorska Ullca fig tree and complained to Nicholas that two chieftains had reviled him and called him “ old carrion.” He demanded Justice. “ Return,” said Nicholas, “ tonight and you will get it” When the Turk returned he found Nicholas under the fig tree by the light of a torch. Behind sat the two insuiters, looking uncomfortable and abased. “You shall have justice!” said Nicholas, whereupon he took up a copybook and declaimed to the Turk and to the prosecutors an ode running something like this: “Thee; old lion, they insult; they laugh at thee; they deride thee; they call thee carrion! Thou carrion? Thou? Thou that has conquered half the world; thou that hast watered they Arab steed in the Minclo and challenged under Vienna’s white walls the emperors of the west “ Yes, old lion! We that on battlefields have met apd measured words, we love one another as only enemies love? And we shall meet again on battlefields, old lion, and slay and love one another." And here, at the thought that he might some day slay the Turk, fat Nicholas embraced his racial enemy and sent him on his way with the echo: “ Old lion, old lion,” ringing in his ears.

the resultant use of inferior lumber and brick weakened by modern processes which hasten the burning but leave the product much more porous and softer than those made in the old way, must tend to increase the use of ' concrete for dwellings and small buildings of all kinds. Immense areas of sidewalk and pavement are laid yearly and swiftly increasing, and in the stupendous tunnels, sewers,. bridges, dams, sea-walls and other public structures, concrete has largely replaced brick and stone. — National Magazine.

Financier.

“He’s one of our most successful financiers.” “That so? I didn't know he was rich.” —•» “He isn’t. But he’s supporting family of five on sl2 a week.” —Detroit Free Press.

allowing themselves a short vacation every summer, there would not be as much sickness and suffering as there Is. A few weeks spent en Nature's bosom will heal many an 111 which unfavorable conditions have inflicted upon you and fortlfjbyou for another year's struggle.—The Naturopath. He who flatters women most pleases them best, and they are most in love with him Who they think is most la love with them.—Lord Chesterfield.

RAILROADING IN 70’S

VETERAN GROWS REMINISCENT OF THE EARLV DAYS.* Complicated Office Machinery for Running the Lines Was Not Then Known and Arrangements Were of the Simplest. - Railroading and' experiences with the wire in the 70’s are presented by

er to succeed Edward Warner, who left the employ of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg to accept the agency of the Utica & Black River railroad, which a short time before had established a connection with the C., W. & S. H. R. R. with a through line from Utica to Watertown. Mr. Hine offered me a position as operator and I accepted the same, commencing work under him on February 14, 1872. A few months afterwards I was promoted to a train dispatcher under Mr. Hine, a position I held four years, resigning in 1876 to engage in business. “The train dispatcher’s office was, until about the year 1878, located at Watertown Junction, at which time it was moved up town to its present location. The different men that hel<J the position as train dispatcher were not operators, they employing an operator to send their orders. “About the year 1873 the summer travel to the Thousand Islands commenced to increase, Cape Vincent being the gateway to the Thousand Islands. The officials of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg ordered two drawing-room cars to be built at the shops at Rome, being named Ontario and St. Lawrence. One of these cars was hauled into Watertown on the afternoon train from Rome, being cut out of the train at the rock cut near Pine street and run down the main line and attached to the Cape train. I remember how proud the late Frank Cornish was in riding down • the straight on the first drawing-room car with his hands on the brake wheel, Mr. Cornish being a brakeman at that time. ——-

- “While the writer was a train dispatcher in 1873 or 1874, the first circus train was ruh over the road by the late P. T. Barnum, consisting of two trains, and was accompanied by officials of the road. While these circus trains 1 were on the road, it was necessary to keep the dispatcher's office open at night, but at all other times, except at times during snow blockades, the office was closed at night and on Sunday, there being no freight or passenger trains run on that daV except when freight accumulated at the terminals on account of blockades. “The rolling stock of > the road consisted of forty engines, all wood burners. In 1873 William Jackson, master car builder of the shops and road, located at Rome, built the first coal burner engines ever run on the road. They were named J. W. Moak and J. S. Farlow, and used on passenger trains, the engineers being Sam Purdy and- Asa Rowell. The freight business and local freight office were located at the Junction, one engine named the Montreal handling all the freight during the day time only.”

China Building Railroads.

China is already making progress under the new regime in providing itself with railway transportation lines. Writing to the Department of Commerce and Labor from Hongkong, United States Consul General George E. Anderson declares that there is renewed activity in the construction of the Important Canton-Hankow Railway northward. This line, which will connect Hongkong with Central China, Mr. Anderson says, is already operating to Lai T’ang, a small village sixty-seven miles from Canton. Grading and bridging up to mile 79 is practically completed, but grading between there and mile 85 is backward, according to Mr. -Anderson, because of the prejudice against railroads still frequently met with among the natives. Work between mile 130 and mile 140 is in progress, and that on th? section up to 180 is being rapidly advanced.

Orange Optimist.

J. Willis Westlake, the noted Florida pomologist, said in a reent address at Lake Helen: “The orange grower must be an optimist to succeed. He Zan’t expect 10,000 oranges from every tree at the start. He should show the spirit of John Blanc. “Blanc’s first orange crop, when he settled in Florida, wasn’t much to boast of. The man, however, kept up heart. “ ‘How did your oranges do?’ a friend asked him at the season's end. “ ‘Oh. we had a few,’ he replied. “ ‘Good onesF “ ‘Fine!’ said Blanc. ‘My wife uses them in place of lemons. It makes quite a saving.’" r

Will Electrify Lines.

Apparently satisfied with the operation of their trains by electricity between Stamford and New York, 31 miles, the directors of the company have announced that the system is to be extended from Stamford to New Haven, a distance of 41 miles.

V D. Hanchette in the Watertown Times in a letter from Richard Holden, a veteran telegrapher. Holden writes in part as follows: “On February 1, 1870, Newton B. Hine was appointed train dispatch-

GREECE TO BUILD RAILROADS

Country Has Awakened to the Needs of Modern Methode of Interior Communication.

The kingdom of Greece has an area of about 25,000 square miles, a population of 2,700,000, and is bordered by the sea on all sides except along its northern frontier. Its coasts are so indented by deep gulfs that some 40 years ago Mr. Manitakls, the minister of public works, said that Greece was so well provided with natural waterways that she had no need of any others.

As a matter of fact, railway development in Greece has been exceedingly slow. Except for the plain of Thessaly, the country is rolling and mountainous. The arable land is scarcely 18 per cent, of the total/ Greece does not raise enough wheat to meet their consumption. The other products are raisins (near Corinth,) olives and qil, tobacco and wine. There is a little grazing for sheep and goats. The mines produce lead and zinc. Finally, near Athens, there are some important marble quarries. The ■principal industries are silk weaving in Thessaly, tanneries and boat building. While the methods of land communication are not well developed, the commercial marine has a registration of 350,000 tons, and is of some importance. The exports from Greece amount to about 150,000,000 a year, nearly all to European countries (32 per cent, to England). With the exception of Trikala and Larissa, nearly all of the cities of Greece are situated either on the coast or near it. It has only been within the last years that the improvement in the financial situation of Greece has made it possible for her to take up the fnatter of inland communication and engage actively in railway construction. The railways in operation comprise about 950 miles.—Railway Age Gazette.

TRAVELED ON A CABLEWAY

How Problem of Transporting Twen-ty-Ton Locomotive Across River Was Solved. The giant hands that are refashioning the surface of the earth at man’s bidding do something more than merely'pile up heaps of rock in river courses that the streams may be diverted to fields where water is needed, or tunnel through mountains or level off hills. Recently it was necessary to carry a fail way locomotive from one side of the Rio Grande river to the other in. connection with the construction of the Elephant Butte dam. To run the engine on rails to the nearest switching point and thus get it to its destination would take too long. So the power that has been trained to exert itself at the twist of a switch or the turn of a throttle was called into play and it picked up the engine and carried it across the river. There was a cableway of steel ropes stretched from" one side of the river to the other for the purpose of transporting material as needed. The cable swings 300 feet above the surface of the river. The locomotive, a twentyton affair, was equipped with slings which were in turn attached to the travelers on the cable and it was easily and quickly transported from one side to the other. —Popular Mechanics.

Got to Man Higher Up.

"Coming across Siberia on the railroad about the only diversion is playing cards,” said a traveler. “Four of us were having a game of whist when we stopped at a station. A big bearded man in uniform entered and came up to us. He said there was a tax of 50 kopeks on playing cards in that town, and we would have to shell out. We did. At the next station the performance was repeated, and then at the next and so on, the tax varying, according to the size of the place, from ten kopeks to two rubles. After two days it began to get , tiresome. Finally one of the party said there ought to be some way to provide against this systematic holdup, and \ye approached the conductor of the train and presented him with three rubles and pointed at the cards. Thereafter at no matter what station we stopped we were never molested by one of the local officials looking for ‘hisn.’”

Seeking Artificial Rubber.

The use of rubber in the useful arts in so many new ways has raised the demand far above the supply, so that the commodity is now extremely dear and likely to be more so. This has stimulated inventors to Experiments, the purpose of which would be to find a substitute for the rubber. Foremost among those experimenting is Prof. William Henry Perkin, professor of organic chemistry in Owens college, Manchester, Eng., where he has'held his seat for the last twenty years. His experiments have already cost $175,000, and he is under contract for nineteen years at an annual salary of ss r 000. When he is not busy with his experiments or writing books carrying great authority on chemistry he seeks relaxation in music, cricket and gardening.

Traveled Faster Than Sound.

A railroad man was boasting about the speed of trains on his line. “We go so fast," he said, “that bells and whistles are no use—the train keeps ahead of the sound. “Once four miles away on a straight stretch an engineer of ours saw a wagon. He whistled and rang and yelled, but it was useless—the next instant we were on the Wagon—crash, bang—a derailment and the engine overturned."—Boston Traveler.

oot WILBUR IXZJESEUT -AJM AffIIFICIALWfIDf ' ' ..... . * .K. (W A 1 I r-i- WjW ■A run I TtejlW There was an artificial man— Hla hair was not his own; One eye was glass, one ear was wax. His nose was carved from bone; His legs were manufactured ones; His teeth were deftly made; Six riblr of rubber, also, were Within his form arrayed. He wooed a maid of* paint and putt Whose face and form were art. And found she had, when they were w«A An artificial heart However, they did not indulge In petty stress and strife. They hired their fussing done, and led An artificial life. They read by artificial light. Ate artificial rice. Drank artificial water, cooled By artificial ice. An artificial organ played Them artificial tunes; A phonograph would soothe their babe With artificial croons. Alas! At last there came a day To harrow up the 50u1,., The artificial man could not Buy artificial coaL And with no artificial heat —To warm their chilly breath, They imitated other folks In artificial death.

The Fat and Thin Men Reune.

The fat man stood on the corner, hi» ears hidden by a huge fur collar, his hands stuck deep In the pockets of his heavy overcoat, and a big cigar smoldr erlng luxuriously between his lips., The thin man, his nose red with cold,. his eyes watering, his hat pulled down, until it flattened ,hls ears, his collar turned up in an unsuccessful attempt to conceal his Adam’s apple, hi* 1 trousers flapping about his legs, fidgeted to the corner also, and waited, for a car. “Why, hel-lo!” exclaimed the fat man. “Happy New Year to ye! Goshli You look cold. But worse ’n that, you look as If you was dyln’ for a smoke. Ain’t ye?” /' • j, The thin man snapped his eyelids to rid them of the frost, but answered, nothing. “Ho, ho!” laughed the,fat man, hls< cigar rolling to the corner of hisi mouth in order to allow the laughter l to roll out. “Good resolution, eh?’ Smokin’s’s a bad habit, huh? Rubs up, expenses, an’ affects the heart, an" gets a man to tblnkln' he can’t do l anything without one o’ the vile weeds 1 stuck in his mouth. I know all about: it. Know just how you feel.” The thin man looked nervously down: the street for the car, but It wasn’t im sight. The fat man continued: “Bet you’re just dyln’ right now for a smoke. Huh? How you’d enjoy a. fieal, nice, big, soft, oily cigar! Been, a real good man now for two whole days—an’ there’s no livin’ with you at: home. Sure! When you get up from; the table you stick your fingers in your vest pocket absent-minded-like, reachin* for one o’ the enemies of; health! Then you recollect about your halo an’ wings, an’ growl around a while. Ho, ho, ha, ha!” The fat man shook all over with joy, while the thin man trembled all over 1 and gave one the impression he re- 1 celves when he .sees a dog shiver in, the wind. You could fairly see the thin man’s skin wrinkle. The fat man’ went on: “I’ll bet that right now you are thinkin’ o’ how fine it’d be to bite the end off a grea’ big cigar an’ light it, an’ feel th’ warm smoke curl up over your nose, an’.smell th’ perfume of It! Huh! Oh, how you would enjoy that! Like to pull on it like this” — The fat man took a long puff, then, exhaled a perfect cloud of smoke,, through which came his further remarks: “An’ you miss th’ company of it. You don’t know what to do without a cigar to chew on when you think, an* kind o’ puff slow-llke while you digest' your meals, an’ to hold ’tween your fingers while you read th’ paper, an’ to—Oh! Ouch! What’s th’ matter with you, anyhow?" But the thin man, having smashed: the fat man’s cigar into his fur collar with one hand and applied a vicious short jab with the other, was hastening on to the next corner to resume waiting for the ear.