Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Bmy D»r Bnipt gutej HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

Splendid shopping weather get ready for Christmas! Beware of a meek-looklng man or male. It may not last. Borne men smile In the face of adversity, but they don’t mean it. Perhaps a girl's red hair is for the purpose of keeping her temper warm. Many a married man spends the rest of his days wondering why he did it Most people manage to get stuck on themselves without the aid of any adhesive. Compared with the Balkans affair Mexico’s war looks like the comic opera kind. Sometimes a man tries to please his wife just the opposite way he would any other woman. The trouble with the man who says a smart thing is that he always books It for a return date. A southern aviator who Jumped from a biplane proved that it cannot be successfully done. We may be sure that it Is a wise ben which eats a cement floor in order to lay hard-shelled eggs. The discovery that typhoid fever Is carried also by bugs and roaches adds a few more things to be swatted. Moping in an aeroplane accomplishes the seemingly impossible by increasing the hazard of matrimony. That the stingless bee Is the precursor of the slngless mosqdlto is the earnest prayer of New Jersey people. November has no hay fever, no Christmas rush, and bo spring freshets. Yet very few poets sing Its praise. New York’s barroom for women Is variously considered. Some innocent observers are envious and some are not About the only thing that can be said for the eclipse of the moon is that one may watch it and smoke at the same time. A Texas woman left SIOO,OOO for the support of old maids. But how are they going to be convicted of being old maids? Nobody denies that automobiles are becoming cheaper, but then one cannot eat even the costliest cuts of an automobile. That man who pleads for anesthetics for rats would probably want chloroform administered to the fly before swatting him. A story from Chicago says there are calves there worth $5,000. That’s nothing; there are calves on Fifth avenue. New York, worth $5,000,000. The dictates of fashion has put the ban upon switches and puffs. We will soon know what our best girl really looks like without her disguise. There are some things we do not understand. One of them Is the mad and almost universal desire to change the colorvm a meerschaum pipe. A Los Angeles youngster stood on his head on the, top of skyscraper to "test his nerve.” He was arrested for shattering the nerves of passersby. A taxicab in Athens, according to an exchange, is called a pollpolytantoclnetharmoxaxe. That’s what a f«Ti chauffeur is called in this country when he presents his bill. Milk makes an excellent tonic for the hair, according to the prlma donna who discovered the $15,000 lump of ambergls. Those press agents do have to work hard for their money. Beef is probably going higher, but rabbits will soon be on the market At the same time they will not be widely popular until someone invents a device to dig shot out of the teeth. A playful person threw a melon into a passing taxicab in Brooklyn the other night Many an actor along the great white way is praying that melons do not become popular substitutes for hen fruit America’s oldest doctor says modern physicians are not much better on cures than the healer of a half century ago. But the old fashioned doctor didn’t have all th e ailments and diseases to treat they have nowadays. An increase of more than one-third in the number of cigarettes consumed la three months is another proof that advertising pays. ? Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston favors a law limiting hatpins to six inches. The county will await with interest Ills attempt to enforce it "Woman makes the most of herself," says ah "ad” writer for a department store. But that doesn’t prevent the department store from offer Jag her all the aid she will accept.

HOSPITAL ON THE RAIL

GOOD IDEA HAB BEEN EVOLVED IN SWITZERLAND. Invalid Who Can Afford to Pay the Price Can Travel in Perfect Comfort on These New Style of Cars. When people of means have a member of the family who is extremely 111,

the most part throughout the continent, this car may be hauled over any line of railroad. As the government of Switzerland owns its railroads, these traveling hospitals or hospital cars are federal property, always ready to be leased to any one who has the price. For a long time these cars have been operated, and they have been found to be a good investment, being in considerable demand at almost all times of the year. The sick room Is located In the middle of the long car. It Is finished in white enamel, with rounding corners to avoid all possibilities of dirt and germs, and every modern hospital appliance is to be found in it, from its white iron bed, sectional mattress and removable stretcher-like springs to the antiseptic leather couch and easy chair and adjoining lavatories. There Is also a roomJor the nurse and a couch for an emergency bed, operating table and linen closet. A kitchenette with electric cooking appliances is beyond the nurse’s room, —and there is also a heated baggage room, where domestics may find cots for sleeping. All doors are ball-bear-ing and noiseless, and the whole thing Is about as perfect an arrangement as far as details go, as could be found in any hospital. Patients have made trips from the tip of Italy’s “boot” clear to the northern German provinces without the least ill effects from the Journey.

Much Detail In Work.

• Ten movements are Involved In the delivery of a special train order: Telegraphing the order to the stations; writing down of the order as received; repetition of the order by the station operator to the dispatcher; O. K. on the transmission by the dispatcher; acknowledgment of the O. K. by the operator; comparing copies with the recipients of the order and receiving their signatures; telegraphing the signatures, to the dispatcher; acknowledgment of the signatures and permission to deliver order; indorsement of this reply on the order, and final delivery of the order to the trainmen. Not until the final step in this round has been taken is the order considered complete. After it has been finally sealed the operator makes triplicate tissue copies, one of which he hands to the conductor, one to the engineer and the third he keeps himself. Some roads demand that the conductor read hls copy to the engineer In the presence of the operator. On some it is the custom to deliver the order only to the conductor. When his order has been carried out the dispatcher draws a blue pencil line through his copy book and signs his initials. If he is relieved before all steps have been completed hls relief signs the order to show that he understands it. The process of making orders and delivering them is as simple as a primer after a little experience. But when freight Is heavy and excursions are running, the business of a division entails many combinations.

Caution Causes Delays.

Delays on the rail In winter are caused as much by caution as anything else. All operators are warned to run no risks during extreme cold weather. Sometimes the cold prevents the automatic signals from properly working. The expense of operating a railroad during extreme cold weather is enormous. Fuel bills are greatly Increased and revenues are reduced beof the nonmovement of perishable commodities. This winter has been extremely cold, rather than one with quantities of snow. There are Instances where one night fall of snow will represent SIOO,OOO of expense to a railroad the next day. It is not uncomomn that the item of clearing a railroad system of snow will represent from $500,000 to $1,500,000 In a winter. Notwithstanding all this, passenger traffic has moved with considerable freedom and certainly a\ minimum amount of discomfort to the traveling public.

New Locomotives for Mines.

Storage battery locomotives, entirely automatic in the been in operation for some timefn the mjgegjgf jgennan/.

yet desires to travel, either from their home to some famous health resort or from some resort back to their home, practically throughout Europe, Switzerland can furnish a “traveling hospital” for them. These traveling hospitals are railroad cars, with every modern equipment, and as the railroad gauge is standard for

KEEPS TRACK OF ITS CARS

Every Railroad Employs Experts Who Look After This Business, Which Is Their Bole Occupation. In the course of a year many millions of dollars change hands in the settlement of railroad mileage accounts, and in no commercial operation is the same confidence displayed in handling such a vast amount of money. No 'opportunity whatever is given the different roads to go back of the signatures of the respective officers for an examination of the mileage as certified by them, and while this may be taken advantage of In some few instances, it is the exception and not the rule, and is only resorted to by roads on the edge of bankruptcy. A railroad must give foreign cars while on its line the same care as to oiling and packing that is given to its own. If a foreign car is damaged through a wreck or by careless handling, it must be repaired and put In perfect order before it is delivered to its owner. In order to prevent “badorder” foreign cars from coming on to a road, inspectors are stationed at all interchange points, whose duty it is to carefully examine every car offered and see that it is in perfect running order. If there are some small defects about the car which do not materially affect Its running, as a broken door or a cracked oil box cover, the car is accepted, but a defect card is tacked on each side of the car, it is accepted with such minor defects as may be enumerated. Freight cars rarely get lost or stolen. Connected With the car department of every road are several “lost car” agents, whose duty it is to look up delayed or lost cr.rs. Every month a list is furnished these men by the car accountant, giving the number of cars then on foreign roads which for some cause are being delayed. It is the duty of these agents to find out where the cars are and send them home.

BUILT TO CARRY THE SAND

Chicago Railway Has Found It Pays to Have Special Cars for this Purpose.

The Chicago City Railway operates two specially constructed cars for the delivery of sand to the supply boxes from which the train crews fill the sand boxes on the cars. The supply boxes are located at some 75 different points. The ordinary truck car used for the

One of the Tank Cars Used by the Chicago City Railway to Deliver Sand to the Supply Boxes.

transportation of sand proved inadequate, so the company constructed two tank cars provided with unloading apparatus. The capacity of the sand tank is 24,500 pounds of dry sand up to the dome, the balance of the space being left for air storage. The sand Is pneumatically discharged Into the supply boxes through a three-inch wire-wound hose. —Popular Mechanics.

Surprises of the Rail.

As a means of training to engine drivers so that they will not fatl to see signals, railroads constantly use test or surprise signals. The method is to flash signals calling for the driver to slow up or stop when there Is no real reason for it. Then if the driver fails to Bee the signal he is told at the end of his trip that at a certain point and a certain moment of his run he failed to obey a signal. Nothing has happened except that the driver has been made more alert by the admonition. The training is kept up until it becomes impossible for the driver to pass signals without regarding them. This sort of training Is regarded by many railroad men as constantly necessary to keep the men ever on the alert for signals, so that when the moment comes that there is real danger there will be no possibility. of their failing to heed the warning and obey it. Some psychologists of the road assert that the training makes It Impossible for the men to fall Into the habit of noticing certain-stereotyped signals and not recognizing others.

Trespassers Killed on Track.

A report on the general subject of trespassing has recently been issued by an eastern railroad company. Its police department, during the year 1911, spent more than SIOO,OO on its campaign against trespassing, or nearly one-fifth of the total cost of maintaining the company’s police force. In the efforts of the company’s agents to enlighten the public on this subject and to enlist the Interest of magistrates and other local officers, attention is being given more especially to these trespassers who are not to be classed as tramps—wellmeaning people who use the railway tracks as thoroughfares. In the statement on this subject which has been given out by the company, It Is said that on American railways In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, the number of trespassers killed was 5,284. and the number injured was 5,614. That Is to say, there are more people killed In this way on the railroads than from all other causes combined.

Duties of Non-Sailing Sailons

BACK of planning to do things and doing them life seems to consist of planning to go somewhere and going. Most men are seeking happiness, and anticipation is said to be the climax of happiness In most cases. However that may be, going somewhere and getting ready for the journey- 4s the means of happiness for most persons. To have no place to go is a tragedy. Lightships do not go anywhere. They stay in one spot, day in and day out, month in and month out, year in and year out, save when the tide or the wind forces them to swing around their shackles and instead of pointing east their stubbed prows point north or south, or southwest-by-west, as the case may be. They bob up and down in the seaway, and if it is choppy they may be bucking broncos, as the lighthouse men describe them. The Scotland lightship makes a double pitch In seven seconds. To be forced to watch the steamships sailing past, within hailing distance, on their way to all parts of the world, or gliding in from the sea with their burdens of Americans, homeward bound and joyful in the realization of the fact that they will soon see their friends, and immigrants seeking and expecting to find that which should make the circumstances of life more satisfactory, is like placing a Barmecide feast before a mariner who has been floating In an open boat without food for a _week. That Is what the crew of a lightship outside of New York harbor has to face. A General Provider. At Tompkinsville, Staten Island, Uncle Sam has maintained for these many years a depot of the lighthouse service. It is the chief one in the United States. Not only has it a great deal to do with the supplies for the entire service, but from its wharves, crowded with buoys of a hundred shapes, ocean-going vessels, called tenders, put forth with all kinds of supplies for the maintenance of the precious lights along the coast and In the harbors between Narragansett Bay and Cape May. The tenders take compressed gas to the gas buoys, coal, oil and, food supplies to the lighthouses, and coal, water, oil, vegetables, eggs, Ice and other supplies of the kind that would be required on a vessel that makes port, perhaps, only once or twice a year. There are four or five of the tenders, all bearing names of flowers, such as the Tulip, the Larkspur, the Gardenia and the Pansy. Sometimes they are gone for a week, sometimes for a day only, bat there is always one designated to go out on a Saturday to the lightships at the mouth of the harbor. There are two of . these lightships—the Ambrose Channel, No. 87, and the Scotland, No. 11. The former lies outside the entrance to the Gedney channel, or main gateway, while the latter swings in the seaway at the month of the South channel, the passage used by coastwise vessels and barges on their way into the harbor. It behooves those who have secured the privilege of making the trip from the office of the lighthouse service, In Washington, to be on hand bright and early in the morning, for the tenders get away almost with the son. On this morning, however, the sun is invisible; it is foggy. The cook provides a cup of coffee as an appetizer, and in a little while a grocery wagon rattles down to the gangway. Several barrels of green stuff, fresh meat, and a case of eggs are carried aboard. The breakfast bell rings and as the tender works her way through the narrow passage out of the basin; the youthful waiter serves the meal. Slowly the tender picks her way down the Narrows through the fog, which seems to become denser rather than thinner. The breeze drives the

AMBROSE CHANNEL LIGHTSHIP

mist across the deck in a way that bodes no good for the future of the day. The, whistle is sounded at regular intervals. The notes of other whistles and bells come through the fog blanket from different vessels. The former Indicate moving vessels; the latter vessels at anchor. There is the dull clang of a bell buoy sagging back and forth in the gentle swell. The engine room telegraph indicates that the engines are going at “slow.” On one side of the pilot house the captain is peering through the murky cloud with mouth partly open and ears oblivious to all except the sounds which come to him from every point of the compass. This is Saturday morning, and arriving and departing steamships are likely to be far more numerous than on any other day of the week. On the other side is the mate, aB alert and watchful as the master. They compare notes from time to time. “Well, I’ve got plenty of time,’’ the captain remarks at last, “and it is safer at anchor than trying to move through this fog.” Business Is Business. The lead is heaved and finally the anchor is ordered dropped. The whistle is replaced by the bell. There Is no breeze now. Over at the right a bell that reminds one of a cowbell is sounding. That must be a- freighter. A sidewheeler bound for the, fishing grounds, and carrying a party of fishermen, goes dashing past with foaming paddles. The fog does not delay the load of human freight. It'ls “going” somewhere. Another, carrying commuters from the shore of New Jersey, splashes north at a similar speed. Business is business! A steamship with deep-throated voice slowly makes her way up from the Ambrose channel, and drops anchor somewhere in the impenetrable cloud only a few hundred feet away. Soon the blast of a bugle communicates the Information that a steamship company must, regardless of any reluctance It may feel, provide Its passengers with another meal, and that it is about to be served. Curiously, owing to the thinness of the blanket of mist, it is possible to see the sun overhead, but nothing beyond 200 feet on, any side. A lookout on a mast a hundred feet above the deck would be above the cloud, and able to guide the movements of a vessel. Gradually the sun burns, up the fog, there being no wind to blotv It away. As it thins, the anchofls raised again, and, leaving the group of anchored steamships which gradually have been unveiled, the tender makes for the Ambrose channel on its way out to the Ambrose channel lightship, three or four miles at sea. She is “going;’ again, much to the satisfaction of everyone. Returning to the deck after dinner, it is discovered that the breathless atmosphere and oily sea have been transformed. A breeze is Mowing freshly and the waves are white crested. The great Gedney channel gas and whistling buoy, which marks the point of divergence of the Gedney and Ambrose channels—one of the largest buoys In the world —is groaning like an expiring bull as it Bags away in the seaway and then rises slowly to shake off in foam the water which has momentarily submerged its huge can body. Fog-bound steamships are passing in and out in a procession, fountains at their bows, curling whitecaps along their high black sides and dashing spray under their counters suggesting the breaking of waves upon a rocky shore. They form a picture that quickens the pulses ap they sweep along across the crested seas.

Just Flew.

Comedian—Did the ghost walk?

Soubrette —No; it was an aviation comedy, and the ghost flew after th« first week. —Judge.

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WHAT HE THOUGHT.

Wayback—What 1)0 yore son dotal* tew th’ city? Hayloft—He’s studyin’ fer a doctor. Wayback—The idea! Is th' doctor tew lazy tew study for hisself?

They Presented Arms.

Two very charming young ladies were chatting in a tramcar the other evening. “So you’ve been down to the camp?” said one. “Yes; and it’s splendid down there.” “Did the soldiers have their arms with them?” “Og course they did! You don’t suppose they would leave them at home, do you?" “I shouldn’t like to be there when they were firing. I hate firing.” “Why, silly, they don’t fire.” “Don’t they? What do they do with their arms, then?” “Why, they put them round you, of course, and it’s ever so nice.”

Explaining What a Snob Really Is.

“Uncle Roy, what is a snob?”' “A snob, Eddie, is a person who inherits a great deal of money, -goes abroad and buys himself a veneer of culture, returns home and poses as a connoisseur of something, and goes around calling his poor relations ‘parvennes.’ Why do you ask such a question, Eddie?” “Because I heard Donald’s big brother talking about you this afternoon and he said you were a snob.”

The World of Elegance.

“We never buy anything in this expensive store. Why do you gaze - for hours at those dummies?” “Well, Edward, one learns from them much good manners, don’t you know! *'

A DOCTOR'S SLEEP Found He Had to Leave Off Coffee.

Many persons do not realize that ft had stomach will cause Insomnia. /Coffee and tea drinking being such an ancient and respectable form of habit, few realize that the drug—caffeine —contained in coffee and tea, is one of the principal causes of dyspepsia and nervous troubles. Without their usual portion of coffee or tea, the caffeine topers are nervous, irritable and fretful. That’s the way with a whisky drinker. He has got to have his dram "to settle his nerves” —habit. To leave off coffee or tea is an easy matter if you want to try it, because Postum gives a gentle but naturfi support to the nerves and does not contain any drug—nothing but food. Physicians know this to be true, as one from Ga. writes: “I have cured myself of a longstanding case of Nervous Dyspepsia by leaving off coffee and using Postum,” says the doctor. “I also enjoy refreshing sleep, to which I’ve been an utter stranger for 20 years. "In treating dyspepsia in its various types, I find little trouble when I can induce patients to Quit coffee and adopt Postum.” The Dr. is right and "there’s a reason.” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. Postum now comes in concentrated, powder form called Instant Postum. It is prepared by stirring a level teaspoonful in a cup of hot water, adding sugar to taste, and enough cream to bring the color to golden brown. Instant Postum is convenient; there’s no waste; and the flavour is always uniform. Sold by grocers—so- - tin 30 cts., 100-cup tin 50 cts. A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer's name and 2-cent stamp'for postage. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich.—Adv. '} • _