Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1913 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Bvery Day Except Sunday HEALEY"* CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. ” TN DIANA.

In summer swat the Hies. In winter. watch your overheated flues! Anyway, explosive golf balls are Injuring very few golf players , these days. Harvard's football coach gets $lO.000 a year. A college education sometimes pays. A lawyer proposed to his stenographer in shorthand and was accepted off hand. The dihlects of the world number ’8,424. But this does not Include those, ■used upon the stage. Delaware has a pig that hunts rabbits. Would be a fine porker to grease on the Fourth of July. A New York physician has evolved a cure for red noses. Another blow at the liquor traffic, no doubt. Don, the talking dog, could not speak because of having a tack in his Coot, whereas with a man !! The trackless trolley car Is now in operation. Another rampant danger to dodge added to the automobile. A Boston judge ruled that everybody is crazy; but his decision probably will be reversed if it is appealed. “Sing and your ills will vanish.” Bays Mme. Calve. Not If your neighbor happens to be bigger than you are. Geoigla woman got a divorce from her husband because he got drutik on paregoric. What a childish thing to do! A Chicago judge has decided that a motorcycle is a deadly weapon, especially if the rider happens to be loaded. i A Cornell freshman has discovered a way of living on 85 cents a week. College students have some queer fadß, South African natives are said tp be adopting European clothing. Perhaps the Paris styles made a hit with them. A big steamship Is being built In New Jersey to be launched by fifty red-headed girls. Wonder If It’s a white ship. New York Is crusading against church bells. It is an awful thing to be kept awake by them just as you go to bed. • A New Brunswick hear has been trained to mind a baby, according to an exchange. Speaking of the story, it’s a bear. A New York man killed himself with a ticket to Newark in his pocket. Probably he preferred the lesser of the two evils. A woman doctor says that women wore corsets and hobble skirls 5,000 years ago. And they haven’t improved on ’em a bit. Paris Is planning to tax foreigners who reside there more than three months. Maybe Paris does not like our exiles, either. A poultry expert In Pennsylvania predicts dollar eggß. At this rate, canvasback duck will be cheaper eat ing than omelets. A German scientist says the human race is losing Its memory. But that doesn’t apply to some politicians who want to forget and can’t. When Mr. Glass, a glazier, cuts his foot by treading on a bit of broken bottle we must conclude that some men learn very little from experience. An aviator Is getting ready to fly across the Atlantic in 24 hours. And his preparations don’t include making arrangements with an undertaker, either. Widows are barred from the Splneters’ association of Massachusetts, organized to get eligible young men to call on lonely spinsters. Suppose they fear ’em. Chicago police captured a thief by the scent of the- perfume he used. Hard to say whether that Is a credit to the deduction of the detectives or a warning to petty thieves not to employ perfume. One may safely predict that none of the many enterprising automobile manufacturers Is going to claim credit for the machine that a San Franciscan dumped into the bay because it had coat him $2,000 for repairs. It is now discovered that the hobble skirt was worn in Crete 6,000 years ago. Which only goes to prove that they are relics of barbarism. The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo has been sent to jail for fraudulent operations in Paris. He should have stuck to Monte Carlo. Oerm&ny has a four-story hotel for horses The horse probably has Increased in value since It has been adopted as a food, according to cabls I dispatches. £ ___

MEN WHO THREATENED WOODROW WILSON

These are the three New Jersey mountaineers who threatened to “shoot” Woodrow Wilson unless he paid them $5,000. From left to right, Jacob Dunn, Seeley Davenport and W arren Dunn. They live near the village of Wharton, N. J., where the neighbors speak of them as law-abiding citizens.

ODD CIVIC SHOWS

Oueer English Election Ceremonies Seldom Heard Of.

Water Is Drunk to the Memory of Sir Francis Drake—Perquisites of London’s Mayor—One Sheriff Fined 50 Pounds for Insult.

London.—There are several towns in the united kingdom which boast an annual show day. London’s lord mayor’s show, so far as the procession is concerned, has no rival; but, nevertheless, the election of mayors of provincial towns is attended with functions both interesting and curious.

For instance, the annual election of the mayor of High Wycombe is not considered complete unless his worship is “weighed in.” The mayor, as well as each member of the corporation, takes a seat on a pair of gigantic scales, and the result is entered in a big book kept at the town hall for the purpose. It is declared that the custom dates back to the reign of Edward 1. When a man reaches the mayorship of Plymouth he is supposed, according to an ancient custom, to pay, at least one visit during his reign of office to the Lake of Bu’rrator. When this function takes place the whole corporation turns out in all its finery, and, led by the mayor, journeys to the lake.

Arriving there, two lines are formed, and a couple of ancient golden goblets, filled with water taken from the lake, are passed round from mouth to mouth. The mayor and corporation drink to the memory of Sir Francis Drake, who, when mayor of Plymouth, brought water to the town by moans of a canal more than twenty miles In length. When the water placed in the goblets is consumed the vessels are filled with wine, and the mayor, holding one at arm’s| length, exclaims: "May the descendants of him who gave us water never want wine!”

The visit to Burrator lake concludes with a feast, the first dish served being a sucking pig. The mayor of Peterborough’s show Is held every October, and his worship and the members of the corporation make their way to Bridge Fair, and declare it open from the bridge spanning the river. The bridge unites two counties —Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire —and the mayor, after adjuring all visitors to the fair to conduct themselves soberly and civilly, goes on to declare that “the fair may be held as well in Northamptonshire as in Huntingdonshire today, tomorrow and the day afterward.” A very ancient custom Is the presenting to London’s mayor and mayoress every year a selection of pears, apples and grapes by the master of the Fruiterers' company and the general purpeesn committee of the city of London.

It is interesting to know that in earlier times the lord mayor of London was entitled to a proportion of every consignment of fruit arriving In the metropolis by Bhip. The axaction of this due caused a good deal of disagreement in days gone by, and it was finally arranged that a yearly presentation of fruit should be accepted in its place. Ever since the days of William the Conqueror, the chief magistrate of the cit.' haj received four bucks from the Royal forests, while each sheriff has received three bucks, and the recorder, the common sergeant, the chamberlain and other city officials one each. Since the title of lord mayor was bestowed on Sir Thomas Legge by Edward 111., in 1354, the high office hah carried with it all manner of titles and dignities. In early days he sometimes used his power to the disadvantage of those lq office under him. For instance, Harrison, referring to the lord mayor for the year 1479, says: This year Thomas Byfield, one of the

sheriffs of London, was fined £SO by the court of alderman for affronting the lord mayor, which -arose from no other cause than his kneeling too near the mayor during prayers at St. Paul’s cathedral.”

DECRIES UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

Man Declares Work Is Caricature and Has Done More Harm Than Any Other Volume.

Camden, N. J.—ln an address at the Camden high school, F. Hopkinson Smith, writer and artist, said that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had done more harm than any other book ever written. He added that the general condition of the negro had not improved since the Civil war, and that ihe negroes of the south were happier, better cared for and more content in the days of slavery than they were now. Mr. Smith’s criticism of Uncle Tom's Cabin” was based on his belief that the book gave the world an erroneous conception of the negroes’ life and condition before the war. He said the chief incidents in Mrs. Stowe’s work were such as never Could have happened in the south. He attributed much of the bP’erness that prevailed in the south years before the, war to "misinformation conveyed broadcast” by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Mrs. Stowe, he said, was to be blamed only for making such use of Incidents that came to her knowledge at second hand. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” as a whole, he Insisted, was a highly colored caricature that did not reflect real life In the Bouth.

Death Betrays Ex-Convict.

* Denton, Tex. —The death of John Ellis, for 35 years a resident of this city, resulted in the revelation that Ellis was really Joseph G. Addison, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Buchanan county, Ga., in 1873, and escaped after serving, three years of a 15-year sentence. Five years ago Ellis told his story to a friend with the request that it be given to the world after his death.

FIGHTS AGAINST HER BABIES

Children, Two, Three and Four Years Old, Are Kept at Cradle Age by Mother.

Cleveland, Ohio. —In a little kitchen at her home, Mrs. Mood Thol has battled with nature for years secretly in an effort to keep time from touching her babies. Around her feet crept three children, two, three and four years old. Victims of a strange code her ingenuity devised to prevent them advancing beyond the cradle, they laughed, kicked their .feet and waved their handß as she crooned over them. The eldest boy did not creep faster or with greater ease than the younger oneß. He mumbled incoherently, and tugged at his mother's dreßS and Blobbered over a little bib, when she tickled him beneath the chin. He Is barely larger than a child of two years and apparently has not advanced intellectually beyond the cradle. To further defeat their development,' the mother has never fed them anything except baby food. What lay beyond the door, through which a stranger never passed, they had no idea. Neighbors say the woman never took her children away from home. Occasionally in the hot summer, they say. she would wheel therfi away in the darkness, but always guarding them closely from the gaze of any persons. •She has a strange desire to always keep them babies," Deputy Sheriff Sobczak said. “The four-year-old boy cannot talk or walk. He la not as large as an ordinary youngster of eighteen months old." Several days ago William James,

STUDENT HUNTS BUG

Member of Entomological Staff Tells of Expedition.

Small Beetle-Like Insects Are Never Known to Venture From Crevices During Daylight—Rare Species Are Worth $25. —f- . '

Washington.—Housewives who wage incessant war on cockroaches and other vermin are cautioned by entomologists to stay their hands and inquire carefully into the antecedents of any black beeltelike bug which peers around a corner of the kitchen sink. For the visitor may be none other than one of the amblychila baroni ciclndelidae, the most aristocratic family in bugdom, whose members retail at as much as $2.5 apiece, provided they are delivered with limbs and feelers intact. A former student of the University of Chicago, who is now on the en> tomological staff of the department of agriculture at Washington, a few days ago described his expedition into the native haunts of the amblychila, which he explored long enough to gather In considerable pin money by the sale of whole families. “When 1 learned the baroni bad been seen in an obscure part of Arizona only about half a dozen bugs were known to entomologists,” said the investigator. “One of these was in the Leconte and Horn collection in Philadelphia. Most of the others were in the River collection in San Francisco. i

“The first had been caught near Globe, Ariz. A naturalist named Schaeffer also located a few southeast of Nogales, Ariz. I was familiar with the characteristic of the creatures through my studies under Curator Snow of the University of Kansas, now deceased, and when he invited me to join a party into the mountains of Arizona to hunt the amblychila I was glad to go as if there had been buried treasure at the end of the journey. “We found conditions favorable at Peach Springs, near Ashford, Ariz. From there we went into the mountains. There were no amblychila to be seen, but we acted on the general supposition that they were in this neighborhood. We spent several days moving about in the mountains and finally selected a favorable spot for the bug to appear. “Now, the amblychila baroni family is most exclusive and has never been known to come forth In broad daylight Twilight and an hours before dawn are supposed to be the times when they appear. We tried several twilights and several dawns without result. One night a light rain s fell and we agreed that the dampness might invite the bugs out, although it made it decidedly uncomfortable for us.

"That night we scattered over the hills and kept watch near crevices in the rocks. I lay with my head resting on my elbow watching innumerable insects and bugs crawl by in the shady light Finally I saw the long, black feelers of what might be one of the amblychila appear, and then another. I waited until they got well out of the crevice, for they are decidedly cautious creatures, then scooped the two up In my hand. By their struggles I knew that I had the right species. No bug struggles as hard as the baroni. Then I stuck them into a small par of cyandie of potassium which I carried. The fumes killed them quickly. “I sold a number of my amblychila baroni for $25 r.nd some for sls and $lO. Our expedition multiplied the number of know specimens considerably and the price went down a little. I don’t know how many specimens our entire party captured, but altogther the expedition was a success from a monetary as well as an tentomological standpoint.”

clerk of the probate court, discovered the plight of the children and Investigated. He continued the investigation until he made sure the children were not imbeciles. James and Sobczak went to the house, arrested the woman and took her to the City hospital. The children will be placed in r.n Infant institution.

GIRL ROBS IN MALE ATTIRE

Young Woman Arrested as Burglar Bays Man induced Her to Commit Crime.

Dknbury, Conn—Disguised in male attire, Amy Travers, a pretty 22-year-old girl, entered the apartments of Georoge Trumbley shortly after midnight and stole $22 from the pocket of Mr. Trumbley, who was asleep in the room. The girl, who had never been arrested before, accused George Smith of having induced her to commit the crime. Smith has a criminal record in Connecticut cities. The girl said she -retained only $4 of the stolen money, giving the remainder to Smith The man denied this, but the police found the money in his Bhoes. Miss Travers was released on bonds furnished by a relative. She will be arraigned in the police court Monday. Detectives who have been investigate ing a series of burglaries arrested the girl at her home this afternoon. She said Smith furnished her with the clothing she wore when she visited Trombley's apartments. She denied having participated la any other burglaries. ,

VALUABLE SCRAP BOOK

THAT ALWAYB USEFUL COLLECTION OF CUPPINGS.

May Be Very Easily Made at Home— Appropriate Classification Will Save Time When Special Rec-’ . > ipe la Called For.

There are several ways to keep clippings, but the simplest for the average housekeeper is to put them in books under appropriate headings. Buy a large blank book or make one from heavy yellow paper, which can be bought by the wholesale, cut in any desired size. A little broader than the ordinary magazine Is a conyenienF size to handle. Cut the pages for thumb indexing, but instead of having letters represent the Index make the spaces a little broader and put department heads. Thus for a recipe book have the different groups alphabetically arranged, as Aspics, Broths, Biscuits, Cakes. Custards, Drinks and so on in as many divisions.as may be convenient. It will be not only cheaper, but more satisfactory to make the book and bind it between cardboard covers. These should be punched with three or four holes and covered with either crash or a thin oilcloth that is easily kept clean. At small cost the paper can be punched with similar holeft, and the pages can be tied into the covers. In this way new pages can be added to each division as is necessary. Instead of making a conglomerate book, it is well to start several. One on household hints, house furnishing, laundry notes and cleaning recipes would prove a boon in every home. In such a book one of the divisions could be classified advertisements that most women think they will test some time, but never can remember where they are to be found when wanted. Another book on health and beauty clippings, care of the sick and nursing notes will prove useful, while no gardener who has ever had a classified collection of good garden clippings could ever be induced to part with it- T

Lemon Pie.

Grated rind and juice of one large lemon. Put in mixing bowl, add pinch salt, butter size of a walnut, large cup sugar and beaten yolkn of two eggs. Whip until light and creamy. When you begin to make pie have double boiler on stove and boiling water In the tea-kettle. Put heaping tablespoon of cornstarch into ■ cup with enough cold water to dissolve it, empty into double boiler and pour on It immediately a cup of boiling water. Stir until clear and ready for the prepared mixture. Pour the mixture onto the cornstarch and let cook eight or ten minutes. Have crust baked and add filling. Frost with the following and brown nicely In oven; Frosting.—Whip whites of two eggs stiff, add two tablespoons sugar. This reads as though it was a lot of work, but really is quite easy and always good. The filling will be quite thick after it has cooked the eight or ten minutes.

Uncooked Icing.

Uncooked icing is made by beating confectioners’ Bugar Into the whites of eggß. The rule Is one egg for a small cake, two for a large one.~~ The average egg will take up from four to five ounces of sugar. The egg should be beaten to a stiff froth and the sugar added gradually. A few drops of lemon juice will improve the color and the flavor. To prevent icing from running—when it is desired to ice the top only—dust the cake with flour. Brush off and proceed to ice.

Spice Cake.

One cup sugar, one qgg, one cup milk, two tablespoons butter, two cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, one-half teaspoonful cloves, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon, little nutmeg. Blend butter and sugar together, beat eggs well, add to butter and sugar, then the milk. Mix all the dry ingredients together, sift three times, mix with the butter, sugar, etc. If milk Is sour use one even teaspoonful soda Instead of baking powder; one cup of raisins if you choose.

Pepper Filling.

When you have a little beefsteak left over, chop it fine, mix it with rice, put in butter, pepper and salt and a mite of onions. This makes a delicate filling for stuffed peppers. Cut off the small end, clean out the seeds and fill them; bake them until the peppers are soft, but not until they lose their shape.

Ginger Loaf.

Place In a bowl a cup each of molasses and sour cream, and mix Into this two rounding cups of flour sifted with two level teaspoonfula of soda, the same of ginger and a little salt. Add a well beaten egg, mix thoroughly and bake.

Unique Fruit Cake.

One pound seeded dates, one pound seeded raisins, one pound uncooked prunes, dne pound walnut meats, one pound almonds. Put all through meat chopper, mix thoroughly and press In a bread tin. Let stand forty-eight hours; delicious.

Good Light Dinner.

A rich and Bavory soup, with fried oysters and sweet corn cakes, maket a delightful and unusual dlnn/r.

WAS DRIVEN BY STARVATION

Jonsmlth'a Method of Getting Key Was Rather Extravagant, but What Could He Do?

His wife had been spending a week or two at the seaside with her own people, and, Jonsmith had been living the, lone and simple life. But there was a curious look of calm desperation in his eyes when his wife came back. And presently the wife began to make discoveries. “Where Is—she began. “Goodness! What have you done with my dresses? And what has happened to the lawn? What’s that black patch In the center? Why ” Jonsmith took a deep breath, then spoke bravely and manfully. “Julia," said he —“Julia, I starved for two days, and then you wrote to say that the key of the pantry was In . the pocket of your second-best, tailor-made walking skirt —not the bolero or the morning ” “I said morning-skirt, and not the tailor-made, nor the ” "It doesn’t matter,” Jonsmith Interrupted wearily, and yet with a touch of savagery in his voice. “I don’t know a tailor-made from a morning-skirt nor a bolero from a fichu. Sq I just took the whole lot out on the lawn and burnt them. Then I found the key whilst raking among the ashes!”

MATERNAL INTUITION.

Mrs. Pig—Now, Curly, when you’re at the party I want you to behave like a perfect hog!

Not Missed,

“If a man gets an idea Into . his head that the community he lives in cannot get along without him, the surest cure is for him to take a month’s visit somewhere," remarks E. B. Going of Osawatomie. "When he comes home he will find that the cow has been milked regularly during his absence, that the corn has bqp husked and cribbed Just as well as he could have done it, that the chickens and ducks and pigs didn’t stop growing during his absence, that the regular winter literary society has been organized and is making progress without his august presence, that the roads have been dragged regularly and that some of his own neighbors didn’t even know he had been away. There are Just a few of the little things that make a fellow realize he is not so many potatoes to the hill as he thinks he is."— Kansas City Journal.

Eager for His Rights.

As little Freddie had reached the mature age of three, and was about to discard petticoats for manly raiment in the form of knickerbockers, his mother determined to make the occasion a memorable one. The Bristol Times tells what happened. The breakfast table was laden with good fare as the newly-breeched infant was led Into the room. “Ah,” cried the prouij mother, “now you are a little man!” The fledgling was in ecstasies. Displaying his garments to their full advantage, he edged closer to his mother, and whispered, “Mummie, can I call pa Bill now?"—Youth’s Companion.

STEADY HAND.

A Surgeon’s Hand Should Be the Firm, est of All.

"For fifteen years I have suffered from insomnia, Indigestion and nervousness as a result of coffee drinking," said a surgeon the other aay. (Tea Is equally Injurious because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee). "The dyspepsia became so bad Chat I had to limit myself to one cup at breakfast. Even this caused me to lose my food soon after 1 ate it “All the attendant symptoms of indigestion, such as heart burn, palpitation, water brash, w&kefulnefes or die- ■ turbed sleep, bad taste in the mouth, nervousness, etc., were present to such a degree as to incapacitate me for my practice as a surgeon. "The result of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum was simply mart velous. The change was wrought forthwith, my hand steadied and my normal condition of health was restored.” Name given upon request. Read the famous little book, “The Road to Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There’s a reason." 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 flavor is always uniform. Sold by grocers—6o- - tin 30 cts., 100-cup tin 60 cts. A 6-cup trial tin mailed for grooer's name and 2-cent stamp for pastage. Postum Cereal Co, Ltd., Battle Creek. Mich. Adv.