Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Irtrjr Day Inxpt Sunday HEALEY * CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

Philadelphia la offering a bounty on rata to get the fleaa off them. A ticklish proposition. Naturally the baseball fans And In the restored Venus ot Milo a southpaw with good curves. The price of steel hoops has been advanced $2 a ton, but not because hoops klrts are coming In. A Minnesota health official says the only place to kiss a woman Is on her photograph. Not on your tintype! A man recently found 24,000 In an old mattress he was going to burn up. Probably some one left it to the hair. a The next thing to become popular Is the auto milk cart Then well probably find gasoline In the bottles. A New York suffragette says: “I'm thirty-eight and I don’t care a whoop for the men!" Probably it’s mutual. ▲ New York woman of eighty is starting to learn a trade. A person Is never too old to learn, even In New York. ~ls heat a substance?” asks the Literary Digest; and any householder can tell the magazine that heat Is an expense. Less than 1,000,000 New York children took advantage of the public baths last year. Childhood is ever the same. If they could only kill a few more bandits as they did that one at Delta, Cal., It might discourage the business of train robbing. And perhaps the worst thing-> the recent campaign Inflicted upon as longsuffering country was the mongrel yerb “straw-voted.” A Bantu tribesman has,been discovered with forty-five wives. If the tribe allowed suffrage, no doubt he’d be perpetual king. A Are in a snuff factory put the Chicago fire department out of commission. A Are of that sort la nothing to be sneezed at.

They say that the new diamond weighing 1,649 carats 1b a little off color, but. If so, we have seen neckties that would match it. A western telegraph manager advertises for "girls with wheels.” He ought to find them by going to any moving picture show. All the song birds migrate to the south except the particular kind that waits on the big cities for the opening of the opera season. Christmas trees from New England are to be quarantined. The next thing we know they will be fumigating Santa Claus* whiskers. A railroad company Is asked to pay 9200,000 for the death of a chlmpansee. Evidently Its owner Is not eager to for his living now. A bird said to be a French owl was captured by a policeman. France Is the last country In the world to think of for producing anything owlish. A New York bigamist has been sentenced to prison for five years, one year for each wife. Why not make him live one year with all five wives? Real babies are to be used In a school of mothercraft at Acton, Eng., where girls will be taught the art of infant management. Poor little kids! Chicago has a school for brides, but no guarantee of a position goes with a scholarship. A Philadelphia man has died, leaving SIOO,OOO, without any indication of where he wants It to go. However, the lawyers will get it, Just the same. When an artiste arrives at New York from Europe, carrying 600 pairs of shoes you may rest assured that she Is either a centipede or a dancer. It is maintained by a Boston minister that it is possible to marry” and live comfortably on sls a week. It is possible at least to marry on that income. The new Zeppelin airships are equipped with kitchens and the disposal of garbage from them Is, of course, a matter of the attraction of . gravitation. The horse no longer smells the battle afar off. The enemy afar off now gets a whiff from the approaching war auto when the wind Is blowing toward them. Chins has no forests. There are no woods for her unpopular politicians to take to. * .S k A New York corporation has liquidated because women are giving up petticoats And some husbands are liquidating beeause they won't give up petticoat rule. The Japs are reported to be taking to American beef In the hope of growing taller. After they get the butcher's bill they will find it really leaves them very much shorter.

ADJUSTING THE PARCELS POST RATES AND RULES

These are the men who are engaged In figuring out the rates and rules of the parcels post Their work must be done by January 1, wheb the parcels post goes into effect. They are, from left to right: George L*. Wood, superintendent of division of rural mail; A. A. Fisher, chief clerk to the second assistant postmastergeseral; Robert S. Sharp, chief post office inspector; C. B. Hurrey, chief clerk to third assistant postmastergeneral, and John C. Koons, superintendent of division of salaries and allowances.

VISION OF TITANIC

Great Disaster Pictured by W. T. Stead in 1886. Enormous Loss of Life Predicted by the Distinguished English Journalist in His Own Newspaper. London. —An Investigator, searching for material for a biography of W. T. Stead, the Englishman who went down with the Titanic, has discovered a strange prediction of his own doom made by Mr. Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette on March 22, 1886. This article, written by Mr. Stead, was headed, “How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic.” The article appeared a couple of days after the Oregon was lost, and purported to give a description of the scene of horror that ensued on the then biggest Atlantic liner, whqn at last the passengers realized the ship was doomed. In a footnote, Stead wrote: “This is exactly what might take place and what will take place If the liners are sent to sea short of boats.” Here are sotne extracts from Stead’s grim prediction: “From below there came a queer sucking sound, with an occasional long gurgle, and I saw that thekhip seemed to ‘hang* as the seas met her. “The boats were made fast to stand heavy weather, and only skilled sailors could launch them.

“I calculated that, by loading all the eight boats down to the water’s edge and by packing the children along the bottom boards, we might accommodate 300 pepole. We were carrying 916 altogether. “A loud crack, followed by a wallowing noise like a thunder, rendered all other sounds insignificant, and a captain who was going out to New York, said: "The bulkhead’s gone. We must take our chance.’ The ship stopped nearly dead, and began to tremble curiously, but it was only the river of water pouring aft, and we Boon saw the firemen driven up like rats from a burrow. ‘Stand by the boats.’ ‘The order was given, and the boatswain’s call rose in a long, tremulous screech. One of the starboard boats was Bu««essfully launched, and the officer stood, revolver in hand. "Women first here. Thompson, you will steer her. Take four men and no more.' The young English lady was lowered down, although she clung to her father and begged him to let her stay. ‘No. darling, goodbye. Be happy,’ he said, and then stood composedly amid the hurly-burly.” By an extraordinary coincidence Stead describes the girl as "a dark beauty, about eighteen years of age.” One could almost fancy that he saw as in a glass darkly the then yet unborn Mrs. John Jacob Astor. "At last only one light boat remained, and still there were over 700 of us Jammed in the narrow space left by the awful list. The captain has dropped his hands —he could do no more. One sailor said: "We’ve stood it long enough, Tom. Let’s have our turn.’ “And he, with three sturdy Swedes, managed to get at the davits. They were just In time, for the steams* began to sway as they floated, and tjfcey were all but swamped by tbe charge and leap of a crowd who flung themselves Into tbe water. Then I was left with a great multitude, whose agonized clamor stunned me. T felt a mighty convulsive movement, then the sea seemed to flash down on me in one mass, as If the wall of water fell from a high crag. Then { heard a humming noise in my ears, and with a gasp I was up amid a blackened, wriggling sheet of drowning creatures. “A boat came past me and I struck out lustily. I raised myself tb the funwalfc. ‘Shall I hit his fingers?’ said

a man. ‘No, let him come,’ and I laid, sick and dizzy, on the bottom boards of a crowded boat. You know that we were picked up after a nasty time.” The great journalist’s friends would have wished that last sentence of his vivid forecast could have applied to his own case, when the mammoth White Star liner’s “great multitude” were hirled to their ocean tomb.

PRUSSIA TO TAX BACHELORS

All Getting $750 a Year Up Will Be Specially Assessed for Remaining Single. Berlin. —The Prussian diet Is now giving its formal official consideration to a project for taxing bachelors. The original bill has peen amended so as to make the tax Jeffectlve only In the case of unmarried men whose income exceeds s'(so a year. Such men will be called upon in case the bill passes to pay a tax of from ten to twenty per cent higher than married pien with corresponding incomes. The bachelor tax will take the form of an income sur tax. The Idea of the legislators who are backing tbe that men who have have to support wives or children ought not, in Justice, be compelled to pay as much toward the support of the state as men who are leading the carefree, irresponsible lives of bachelors. The project is fathered by the conservatives of the diet and has every prospect of becoming a law.

CLEARS CHESTNUT MYSTERY

Worm Girdles Tree and Stops Flow of Sap, Says Grower at Fleetwood, Pa. Fleetwood, Pa. —William D. Becker, an extensive grower of chestnuts and peaches, of this town, says there Is no such a thing as the chestnut blight, but that the chestnut trees are being

CREW COMMITS HARA-KIRI

Six Japanese Sailors on British Bark Helpmate End Lives When Mikado Dies. \ Rehavana. Java. —The British bark Helpmate, Captain Steers, arrived here from the north Borneo coast manned by an island crew of natives picked up by the skipper after his former crew, six Japanese, had committed hara-kiri upon the deck of the vessel after learning of the death and burial of the mikado. Captain Steers says that he was proceeding from Pelori island to Zamara on the Borneo coast to complete his cargo of copra when he was hailed by the British barkentine Clyde Town, from the master of which he received a number of items of news, among them being the information of the Japanese emperor’s death and burial. Without realizing what it might mean, Captain Steers gave the tidings to the men, and immediately thrr were as stricken, raving about the ship and engaging in load lamentations. When he remonstrated with them for allowing the bark to drift aimlessly they threatened his life and he said no more to them until he saw them gathered on the deck, each with a knife in his hand and stomach bared. The captain thereupon realized what waa about t 6 happen and cams forth from his cabin with a repeating rifle, but the men paid no heed to him and upon a signal each killed himself. The Helpfist*. the captain alone alive on tmard, drifted helplessly, bnt finally made Hadgona bay without serious injury; and here Captain Bteers succeeded, after some days, in prevailing upon enough natives to man his ship and sail it to-this port

killed by a small white worm, ranging in length from one-half to threefourths of an inch and about oneeighth of an inch thick. This bores beneath the bark of the tree, leaving its exqrement, which, when the limb or sapling is girdled, prevents the sap from ascending, and then the tree dies. Becker says he has been a close observer for a number of years and finds that this destructive worm nearly always begins its work at the trunk of the tree. He also claims that the reason so many die is the killing of woodpeckers by boys, who, as soon as they get a gun, begin v to exterminate the most useful bird-guardian of the forest. He claims to know dozens of trees in his neighborhood where he can show how this worm does Its ravages.

U. S. HORSE DECLARED FIRST

Fico, Ridden by Lieutenant Adair, Leads Big Field In Broad Water Jump. New York.—The United States won the international broad water jump at the horse show and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt won the Nata challenge cup contest for the third year in succession with his Sir James, thereby taking possession of the trophy, valued at SBSO. The latter event was confined to amateurs driving their own horses attached to rigs. William P. Kearney, driving his splendid black stallion. Triumph, war given Becond prize, the reserve ribbon. , Flco, ridden by Lieut. H. R. Adair of the Tenth United States cavalry, outclassed thirty-five other horses, including several foreign entries, ip the first-named event by jumping eighteen feet. Second prize went to Spes, ridden by Lieut. C. H. Labouchere of the Royal Holland Efuzars, and the third to Deceive, exhibited by the United States Mounted Service school.

Mayor Elated by Gift.

Boston. —Mayor Fitzgerald, baseball fan extraordinary, is as happy as a school boy over the possession of the last ball used in the world series games.

WANT TO REBUILD TRAIL

Young Mormons Will Ask Utah 'Legislature to Appropriate Fund to Improve Old highway. Salt Lake City, Utah.—A movement has been started here by the Mutual Improvement association, a yonng people’s organization or the Mormon church, to induce the state legislature to appropriate sufficient money to improve the “old Mormon trail” from the point where It enters Utah to Salt Lake City and make It a part of the proposed trans-continental automobile highway. The route which .the young Mormon people are seeking to have made Into an automobile highway was the trail over which Brigham Young led his followers when they entered the Great Salt Lake valley in 1874.

THROWS OUT RED HOT STOVE

Philadelphia Resident Also Whips Hia Wife and Spanks Two Bisters. Philadelphia.—John Lepis, of 804 Buttonwood street, doesn’t like to have his wife ask him for money on pay day. Just because Mrs Lepis asked him for money he gave her a beating, then spanked his two sisters who went to the assistance of Mrs. Lepis. after which he proceeded to throw a red hot stove into the street He was finishing his house wrecking Job by breaking the last whole window In, the house when Policemen Nonamaker and Lokweine took him to the police station where he waa locked up after the police had separated him from his pay envelope sad given it to Mrs. Lepis

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GOOD PLAN.

The Parson —Do you say your prayers regularly? Rastus —Every night I sleeps In a folding bed now, sah.

Lost Trousers Playing Poker.

William Verne appeared in a Detroit police court attired in a dress coat and some underwear —he had bet the trousers in a poker game the evening before and lost. His cash, his watch and his diamonds preceded the trousers into the “bank.” The trousers were of good quality, so William bet several blue chips on them. But his luck didn’t turn, and when he was cleaned out again he broke up the game by quitting. He begged tbe loan of the trousers to go home In, hut the bank took no risks and declined. So William started in dress coat and underwear and was arrested.

Two Guesses.

“Well,” said the proud father as the doctor entered the room, “what Is it—a boy or a girl?” “I’ll give you two guesses, and even then you won’t guess right,” said the doctor. “Tush! nonsense!” said the proud father. “Boy?” “Nope,” said the doctor. “Ah —girl, then?” said the proud father. “Nope,” said the doctor. “Ah —I know,” said the pond father, sadly.—Harper’s Weekly.

No Call for Anxiety.

The citizen put the solicited coin In the hand of the tramp. “And now I want your assurance,” he said, “that this money will not be used for any unworthy or unnecessary purpose." The tramp drew back. "You don’t think f’r a minute that I’d waste it on food an’ clothes, do you?” he indignantly demanded.

NEVER TIRES Of the Food That Restored Her to Health.

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