Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Page 3

LOGIC AND REASON

An Instance Where Logical Man Gave the Impression of Being, in Earnest.

By CLAUDINE SISSON.

“In case war Is declared, what is the logical conclusion?" asked the professor of his class. “That some one is going to get hurt,” was the reply. “And in case of an earthquake?” “That buildings will be shaken down.” “And in case of love?" “That matrimony will follow.” “And in case of pinching the tiger’s tail at the too?” “You get the bounce.” “Correct, gentlemen. Always reason from logic and you will always be right.” Mr. Fred Clihton, a young man of 24, had been using logic for many months when he set out to walk the country, a distance of 30 miles, for a visit jto his old aunt. He found nothing to reason about until within four miles of his journey’s end. Then, as he was passing a farmhouse of the better class, he saw something that halted him. A young girl was on the roof of the tool-house mending a leak. Her back was towards him, but he saw that she had three or four shingles and a hammer and nails. There might have been men-folks working in the field, but they were not in sight. There might have been a mother in the house, but if so she gave no sign. “Now, then, here is v logic, and here are conclusions," said the wayfarer as he sat down to watch and wait. “A girl on the roof with shingles, hammer and nails means that the roof leaks. It also means that she is taking a risk. “If she pounds her thumb, which she is almost sure to do, she will yell out ‘Darn it!’ and roll off the roof. “If her foot slips she will clutch and claw and scream, but go down Just the same. “No girl will climb up on the roof of a shed if she knows there’s a man around. If she sees one after she gets up there she is startled and in her haste to get down slips, slides, and comes down ker-plunk. “Any way you fix it, the logical conclusion is that there is sure to be a fall here. Now, then, the girl is perched about 14 feet from the ground, and the ground is hard. There are nine chances in ten that she breaks a bone. any rate, she will get a hard Jar. She will need some one to hold the camphor to her nose and call some one from the field. It may be' necessary to telephone or send , for a doctor. “I am at hand. lam the it. It’s for use to do and dare. I don’t save her Hfe, but she thinks I do, so it’s all the same. When a girl thinkß she owes her life to a young man what does she do? The logical conclusion is admiration, gratitude, love. “And when a young man has been called upon to save the life of a staving-looking girl the same emotions are aroused and the same conclusions must prevail. If I go on and she does not see me I Won’t be at hand when she falls; if I remain I add to her risk. There is no logic here, and there are no conclusions to be drawn. It is a case of even up, and I shall stay." Five minutes after the young man had finished his soliloquy the girl changed her position to get at her work the better* and there was a scream and she went sliding. Her fingers dragged over the dry shingles, and when the edge was reached she took a drop. “Conclusion the first is all right!” said Mr. Clinton as he started on the run to the rescue.“l must tickle the professor by writing him a letter.” He found Miss Amy Logan in a huddle on the ground and insensible. The fall had dislocated her shoulder. Mr. Clinton dashed into the house by the kitchen door and shouted. No one at home. He ran through three rooms and came to the camphor bottle. It is among the equipment of every farmhouse in the land.' He returned to the girl and held it to her nose and then sprinkled her face with It. By and by she opeped her eyes and looked at him wonderingly. “Hart?” he asked. “Shoulder.” “I was in the road when you fell. Are you all alone here?” “Yes.” “Telephone in the house?” “Yes.” “I don’t know beans about first aid, but something must be done. I thtnk you have a broken arm and I shall telephone the doctor.” “Doptor Arnold —three rings.” . In five, minutes Mr. Clinton was back again to say: “Now we must get you into the house and onto the lounge I saw In the Bitting room. Careful, now. Put your arm well around me and walk slow.” “But I don’t know you!” protested the girl as she hung back. * “That’s logical. Since I live miles away and never passed this place before it follows that you don’t know my name is Clinton. Keep inhaling the camphor and brace up against any faintness. Here we are, and now let me get you a drink of water. Is It the arm or the shoulder?” “Shoulder.” “It's dislocated, but that’s a heap better than a broken arm. There’s a house a quarter of a mile back.

Let me run there while waiting for the doctor and fetch a woman.” “If you would be so kind, but I don’t quite understand yet.” “Oh, you will lgter on. I’ve got it all figured out. It’s a case of logic.” The young man returned, accompanied by a farmer’s wife, Just as the doctor drove up. “What’s up?” asked the M. D. “Girl got a dislccated shoulder.” “Who telephoned?" “I did.” "What did you want to swear for?” “Logic. The man who swears over the telephone wire gives the impression to the receiver that he is very much in earnest, and that he’d better do sojie hiking." Mr. Clinton sat on the veranda while the doctor and the woman cared for the patient. By and by the girl’s thanks were Bent to him, and he was asked to call in a week’s time, If he could make It convenient, and he wen»t away whistling and not even posted as to the girl’s name. “But odds is the difference,” he said to himself. “It may be Jones or Brown or Baker now, but it’s sure to be Clinton after a while.” When the aunt was told the adventure she replied: “Why, that’s the Logan girl!” “But why the exclamation?” "Because they are the nabobs of the country/’ “Well?” “And she turned down several offers of marriage.” "Well, again?" “And you are no nabob. Don’t be foolish, Fred, and fall In love.” “I’m not a nabob, but I’m a logician, and thd logical conclusion is that I shall marry her. Can’t beat logic, Aunty.” He managed to hear from some one every day as to Miss Logan’s improvement, and when he was told that with her arm in a sling she was walking about the house and grounds, he drove over to pay his call. When he had been received in a very friendly spirit and identified himself Miss Logan said: “Did you tell me that you were passing by as I fell?" "Not exactly passing by, but sitting down and waiting for theological “And they came?” “They did. The girl who mounts a roof to make repairs will not escape a fall one time in fifty.” “How silly of me to get up. there! The roof leaked, but the idea of repairing it was a sudden freak. Did your logic tell you what to do after I fell? I’ve been thinking it over, and I wonder that you got along so well.” “I knew there would be logical conclusions,” laughed the young man. “Oh. I’m very, very thankful.” “That’s one conclusion.” “And grateful.” “That’s number two.” v "And —and I really admire the calm way you managed things.” “That’s number three.” “But —but is there any more?” He said there was, but he would delay the telling of it until some other time. Several months later he said, "It’s only logical that I want you for a wife.” "Then you must look out for consequences!” she laughed as she gave him her hand. “Logic and its consequences make happiness!” said the professor when he had read the letter. (Copyright, 1912, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

NOTHING NEW IN THE WORLD

What Are Called Present-Day Evils Really Date Back to Beginning of Time. It is not only in modern days that the cry has been raised against impure foods or that the makers of foodstuffs have attempted to adulterate their products by the injection of unwholesome materials into their articles. Far back in the days when Rome swayed the world many of the socalled present day evils were prevalent. Divorces were more common then than they are today; at one time, in fact, divorces became so ordinary an occurrence that a woman who had not been divorced at least once was pointed out as a curiosity. And the adulteration of foods was another everyday matter. In the writings of that day c4n be found accounts of the evils, and Pliny tells of the manner in which the bakers in Rome mixed the dough of their bread with a white earth, which was exceedingly soft when touched and very sweet to the taste. In this manner they were able to put out a foodstuff that was fine in appearance and had weight, and yet it cost them little or nothing in the making and had practically no food value. Wines were another product which were adulterated to an amazing extent Even the wealthiest among the Roman nobles could not be at all sure that the expensive wines they bought were made of pure grape. Even the wines that were imported from the colony of Gaul, now France, and which we re considered to be the finest in the world, were artificially colored by aloes and other drugs. Deceptive weights and false measures were us§d continually, and almost all the modern tricks of the trade were practiced. It can truly be said of thja, as of all other things, that there is nothing new under the sun.

Odd Parallel.

"It Is queer that what.ls extremely reprehensible in the city is highly commendable in the coutry.” “What’s that?” ; . “Watering the stock."

This photograph shows Greek children, orphaned by Turkish bullets, waiting for free food at one of the relief stations that have been established in Athena.

PRIEST SAVES LIFE

Father Jose Algue Well Known in Philippine Islands. Director of Weather Bureau at Manila Who Has Made Extraordinary Instrument—Clergyman Is Devoted to Humanity. London. —Quietly and unostentatiously, without being in any way heralded by the press, a certain priest paid a visit to London recently who deserves to be ranked among the world’s greatest benefactors. His name, Father Joe Algue, is scarcely known, perhaps in this country, but every man and woman in the far east knows Father Algue, director of the Philippine weather bureau at Manila, for did he not, after many years’ labor, invent an instrument which is called the barocyclonometer, by which It is possible to guard against the most dreaded of fir eastern calamities—the typhoon? This instrument is now in use on upwards of 1,000 ships that sail the waters of the far east, while the American government proposes to fit its ships with a modified form of the Instrument in order that captains may be warned of the approach of hurricanes or storms, and thus make it possible for them to slip out of harm s way. And It was in order to have this modified barocyclonometer made under his personal supervision that Father Algue recently came to London. The instrument is really a combination of the ordinary barometer and a cyclone detecting apparatus, the latter being Father Algue’s own invention. The barometer used alone will tell of the approach of the storm, but will give no hint as to the direction in which the center or vortex of the storm is moving. It is this additional information which the cyclonometer supplies, and its use has undoubtedly led to the saving of millions of lives in eastern waters.

Not only, however, has Father Algue Invented the barocyclonometer, but in connection with the Philippine weather bureau, he has also organized a system of cyclone danger signals, which It is no exaggeration to say save thousands of lives every year. Father Algue has a corps of 80 native assistants who are scattered through the Philippine archipelago. Some are observers, others telegraph operators, others messengers, while at Manila Father Algue Is in direct communication with a score of other weather stations in the islands, and also with points far away from the Philippines—Hong Kong for instance. The approach of a typhoon is at once telegraphed to Father Algue at Manila, and he then sends the news to all quarters by means of his associates and messengers. At times he has been" able to give notice of the approach of a typhoon three days before it appears, and almost always manages to give news of it one day before. We, in this country, have little idea of the enormouß loss of life and damage caused by an eastern typhoon. When it is mentioned, however, that the average number of typhoons in the Philippines is 21 a year, and it is not unusual for the fall of rain in two days to equal the total ralnfell .cf other countries for a year, whUe the wind has been known to uproot churches, some idea of the value of the work which is being done by this priest, who has practically devoted his life to typhoon fighting, may be gathered. Apart from ’he barocyclonometer, Father Algue has invented several other weather Instruments of great value to mariners, but he cares little for publicity or fame, and it is interesting to not 3 that one of his treatises on typhoon fighting was translated into German and in Europe, yet his name aid not appear on

INNOCENT SUFFERERS OF THE BALKAN WAR

the cover. Instead, the readers were given to understand that the translator was the author of the book. Fame or wealth he cares little about, his main concern being the saving of lives which would otherwise be sacrificed to the storm fiend.

MUST LIVE WITHIN INCOME

Judge Refuses to Grant a Divorce to a Wife Who Charges She Was Subjected to Qruelty. Franklin, Pa. —That it is the right of a husband to insist that his wife keep the family’s expenditures well within his income was a rule laid down here by Judge George S. Criswell in refusing to grant to Mrs. Laura F. Sylvester, of Oil City, a divorce from William W. Sylvester. The wife asked for a decree on the ground of cruelty, and at the hearing it developed that their troubles wire largely financial, the husband restricting the wife’s expenditures for the family to a sum within his income. In discussing this phase of the case Judge Criswell said: “The husband had upon him the burden of the family maintenance. His Income, while fair, was limited, and it was only reasonable on his part to Insist that proper relation should be maintained between such income and the family expenses. The failure to preserve it could "resultln his humiliation and loss of caste and standing for business integrity among his associates and in the community, something highly prized by a man of principle and honor.’

Some Expenses Not Put Down In the Books Are Disclosed by Wife of Hotel Manager. New York. —Every now and then one learns something new of the New York hotels. Mrs. Max Thompson, wife of the assistant manager of a Gotham hotel, is entitled to the gratitude of the public for letting in a little light upon the duties and emoluments of the hotel managers—even If she did do the letting in because, according to her husband, some dispute concerning a fuzzy poodle had risen between them. In her petition for alimony Mrs. Thompson alleges that her husband’s Income is $8,400 annually. "He is paid SI,BOO for his services; S6OO as agent for a champagne; $720 for certain unnamed services performed for hotels in Paris, Berlin and London and $1,200 by steamship lines for procuring certain business for them.” That happens to figure up to SIO,BOO a year, but the difference may be set down to the difficulty which ladles notoriously experienced in dealing with arithmetical facts: It also (happens that she does not state all the facts, if the facts in Mr. Thompson’s case coincide with the facts in the other hotel officials. For example, the assistant manager of the hotel is allowed his rooms and a certain specified sum daily in the dining-rooms. The discreet pushing of a brand of cigars is always worth something. One bartender in one of the great hotels admittedly received $lO a day for pushing a certain whisky. No doubt his Immediate superiors may have profited slightly by the same brand. The carriage callers, head porters, stewards, chefs, detectives, laundry chiefs, head waiters—every other employe in a position of even modified authority about a hotel —always are able to add to their income by certain other side incomes. No doubt they are sometime? moved by sheer gratitude to share such gratuities with the men who have the power of discharge over them. “I will take any position of responsibility whatever in any one of the great hotels," said a competent

WHY HOTEL RATES ARE HIGH

BRAGANZA DAGGER IS FOUND

Portuguese Officials Recover Weapon, Missing Two Years— Sought by American. Lisbon, Portugal.—The famous dagger of the dukes of Braganza, long coveted by wealthy American collectors, has been returned to the state as mysteriously as it disappeared from the royal palace of Necessidades on the night of October 4, 1910, when King Manuel fled .from his castle to find refuge on British shores. The weapon, studded with precious stones and bearing chlselmanship attributed to Benvenuto Cellini, is estimated to be worth $50,000. Many foreigners have sought to purchase it, romantic tales associated with the blade having added a historic worth to its intrinsic value. At the time of the revolution tha Republican leaders visits! the deserted palace and took possession of all the Jewels and works of art that the royal family had left behind. The dagger and some other valuables, however, failed to find their way into the hands of the new authorities. Some timeago the government decided that all the furniture, jewels and other property, seized at the palaces, but which belonged to the fallen monarch and his mother, Queen Amelie, should be returned to thlm in London, and the old inventory books of the Braganza family are being examined to separate what belongs rightfully to the royal family from what is considered as the property of the republic. Recently the dagger was secretly placed in the letter box of the official who is conducting the inventory. There was nothing to indicate by whom it had been restored.

hotel man, “and I will serve without salary'and with absolute honesty. And at the end of the year I will have made more money than the manager's salary amounts to. It isn’t any wonder that the public complains of the hotel charges. Look what those charges cover.”

WALK LINE FOR A LODGING

Cleveland Wayfarers’ Lodge Forces Application to Drastic Test in Proof of Their Bobrletv. Cleveland, Ohio. —Applicants for a; night’s lodging must hereafter be able to walk a literal chalk line—a white streak across an eighteen foot room —before there is any shelter for their at the Wayfarers’ lodge of the Asso elated Charities here. Superintendent Howell Wright of the Associated Chartles instituted the custom when he refused lodging to a tramp from Philadelphia because he wavered from the narrow path. Wright said that he believes the custom should become general and that applicants who are unable to negotiate the feat in proof of their sobriety will be turned out in the cold. t The more serious cases will be given to the police.

LETS THREE CHILDREN MARRY

Rushvllle, Mo, Man Gives Permissior For Bon and Daughters, Under Age, to Wed. St Joseph, Mo.—H. H. Seever « Rushvllle, Mo., observed a dinner as a marriage feast of two daughters and a son, all under legal age, for whose marriage he gave consent Elmer C. Seever, a son. aged nineteen, married Miss Ruby C. Kelly, agen sixteen years. Miss Florence Seever, aged sixteen,-was married to Roy Virgil Brown, aged twenty years, and Mias Alice N. Seever, aged seventeen, wedded Archie M. Russell of Atchinsor county' Kansas, the only one of tin six who was of legal age.

TO TAKE OUT STAINS

NONE 80 BTUBBORN THAT THEY CAN’T BE REMOVEDI Grain Alcohol One of the Best Remedies to Employ, or In Bome Case* Tfavelle Water Will Do the Work Better. Alcohol will usually remove the stains made by grass and fruit juice, although it will not discourage in the least the stains of some kinds of fruit. Only grain alcohol should be used. It acts better if used warm, and can be heated by holding the bottle containing it in hot water. If patches of the stain remain pour bott~ ing water on them. If they still persist, dilute muriatic acid, in a one per cent, solution, can be applied. Care should be taken to rinse the fabric thoroughly afterward in several waters, with a very little ammonia in the last one, to counteract the effect of the acid and prevent it from injuring the cloth. Javelle water, which can be made at home, is a trustworthy means for removing almost any fruit stain. It is especially good for peach and pear stains, which are usually the most obstinate of all spots. Soak the 1 spots in it for three or four minutes, and then rinse in cold, clean water. Afterward launder the article as usual. Alcohol is usually a perfect solvent for the stain of green vegetable matter, whether or not the material be washable. Some housewives find ordinary kitchen molasses sufficient remedy for such stains upon any sort of fabric. It is rubbed thoroughly into the stain, allowed to stand ten minutes, and then washed out with warm water and soap. If the article cannot be washed, the molasses is left on, with the stain thickly covered, for two or three days. Then it is wiped and sponged off with clear water. If traces remain they will probably yield to a sponging with alcohol, or a mixture of equal parts of ether and alcohol with a dash of ammonia.

HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS

Use very little blning In washing laces, for the lace absorbs a great deal of blue. To smooth an Iron, plunge it while hot Into cold water with a little soap in it A roast of veal will be greatly Improved if larded; this prevents it being dry and tasteless when cooked. Never try to clean yokes, collars or cuffs while sewed on the gown. Snch things should always be made detachable. To remove the leather stains from light colored stockings, pat a couple of tablespoonfuls of borax in the water In which they are washed. To clean ribbons sponge with alcohol and over the spot with some clean, olean, white soap. During the process the ribbon must be kept straight When clean rinse in alcohol and place between two towels. Press out with a hot iron. In the directions for washing white silk sugar is recommended also. The silk should be washed in warm, not hot, water, With pure castlle soap, then rinsed thoroughly in water to which has been added a teaspoonful of granulated sugar. The silk garment should be washed by itself.

Birthday Cake.

" One cup of flour sifted seven times, three heaping tablespoons of cornstarch, sift four times, one cup of sugar, sift four times. Cream scant half cup butter, with sugar and cornstarch. Beat in one at a time whites of six eggs, one-fourth cup of milk, one-half teaspoon almond flavor, flour to thicken, one and one-half teaspoons of baking powder. Beat until. it looks like a mass of whipped cream. Put in a pan lined with buttered paper and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven. This recipe is original. It is the way I made my little girl’s birthday cake. It was delicious and fine grained. When it was cool I put on a nice, coating of chocolate frosting. After that gets hard put on a thick coat of white and cover it thickly with cocoanut. Put in two little candles, one pink, one white.

Creamy Rice Pudding Without Eggs.

One quart of milk, one-half cup of rice, eight level tablespoons of sugar, two level tablespoons of butter, one teaspoon of vanilla and a little nutmeg or cinnamon. Bake In a moderate oven for one and one-half or two hours. For the first hour stir every 15 minutes to stir down the top as it forms, letting it brown for the last hour without stirring, when It will be found nice and creamy and is delicious either hot or cold. A moderate oven is essential to success, however, for if pudding cooks too rapidly and milk boils away it will dry, but if perfectly cooked the rice grains will not be mashed, but win be much swollen and milk creamy.

Potatoes en Surprise.

Wash some potatoes, and bake m their skins till soft Cut each In half lengthways, and scoop out the mealy part, taking care not tp break the skin. Pass the potato through a stove and season with salt and pepper, and add a good piece of batter. 801 l some spinach, pass It through a sieve, and carefully line each half-potato with the puree. Put a poached egg into the cavity, cover with the potato puree, and mark with, a fork. Put little bits of butter on the top of the potatoes, and set in a brisk oven till of a golden color.