Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1913 — Page 3

IS NO LAND FOR WEAKLINGS

7 <?. * —3 AR up on the northwest. P-J coast of America, in the ZgEtaN. Land of the Midnight Sun, OMgLI is a country which still VjMf / defies the hardiest traveler; a land where huge •1’ mountains risq sheer out I from the water's edge on I an icebound, storm-swept coast; the home of vast glaciers, unknown lakes and rivers, silent valleys and unpeopled wastes. Ponder a moment on these lines from the able pen of one who has lived the

life and tramped the trails across the great unknown: No! Theresa the land. (Have you seen it?) It's the cussedest land that I know, From the big, dtzzy mountains that screen It. ! :... ; —i To the deep, deathlike valleys below. Some say God was tired when He made It; Some say It’s a fine land to shun; Maybe: but there’s some as would trade it Fbr no land on earth—and I’m one. ‘So, indeed, does the wanderer feel, once he has fought Nature in her sternest moods, or reveled in the short but glorious summers of Alaska. The rapid changes of climatic conditions tn the arctic are constant sources of wonderment to the man who has never previously experienced them. Today he may roam over countless miles of

GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY

Models by 0. A. BEATY

They laud the mountains of the west, those peaks with which the landscape’s blessed, but e’en Pike’s summit seems quite nil when measured with the great Jim Hill. His top is snow-capped, somewhat bare, but mines of value nestle there, not coal or ore of any kind, but lodes of vast financial mind. He put the tracks in "trackless plains’* until scarce any trace remains, of all those wild and wooly scenes except on moving picture screens. Long freight trains labor up the heights which once beheld cruel Indian fights and in the valleys farmers toll, inducing the reluctant soil to give forth wheat in wealth untold where once the bison’s snort was bold. The "prairie schooner** now gives place to motor cars of dlssy pace and where smoke signals once did curl, we hear the telephone's sweet purl. The city where they make the flour is where James J. upholds his tower and warns the eager countryside to store what nature doth provide. All titles haughty doth he scorn, he doesn’t need to blow his horn. This fact is good enough for him: Throughout the state they worship “Yim.” i (Copyright, 1913, by Universal Press Syndicate.)

Hamlet In Japan.

Wo can never hope to see In London Shakespearian productions on the same lines as those which find.favor in Japan. Not long ago the Kobe Herald described a performance in that town of "Hamlet," with the scene laid in modern Japan. "The Prince-of Denmark appears first in a dilk hat and a swallow-tail coat; then on a bicycle, clad in a bright blue cycling suit and striped stockings; and then in evening dress again, with a flower in his buttonhole. This up-to-date collegian

desolate, barren wastes, where snow and frost still hold the earth beneath their iron grip. If perchance he passes there again within a few weeks’ time, when once the sun’s warm rays have played their part, the face of Nature seems to have entirely changed. Here, in this valley, where a short time since nothing but snow lay deep, far as the eye could reacii, what sight is it that meets the gaze? Luxuriant grasses waving in the wind and countless flowers all bursting into bloom. The tender green of spring shows forth On every bush, while Birds, and even butterflies, besport themselves where formerly no living thing was seen? Down through the smiling valley runs a babbling stream, and in its crystal waters numerous trout are busy feeding. What marvel, too, has brought to life myriads of mosquitoes

Words by GENE MORGAN

JIM HILL.

has little more resemblance to the Hamlet whom Shakespeare conceived than a Jew of the modern type would bear to the Shylock of ancient Venice.” Ophelia, for the purposes of the play, was transformed into a fellow student of Hamlet at the University of Tokyo.—London Chronicle.

In Defense of Mother Tongue,

Italy, an well as France, now has the football erase, and the fact has caused Sig. Luciano Zuccoll to raise a cry of alarm on behalf of hla mother

and other insect life from beneath those great stretches of snow and ice which lay for months upon the ground? No man can tell nor any pen describe these manifold mysteries of the frozen north. Here, in these brief, sweet summer months, the nomad may linger, gazing by day or night on a never-setting sun, breathing an air the purest and most invigorating that ever was wafted on the breeze, coming from snow-tipped peaks. and down their slopes which are densely clad with hardy mountain pines. But let the wanderer in quest of sunshine beware lest he overstaps his welcome, since once that great magician, King Frost, asserts his sway, this is no land for the weaklings: Send me the best of your breeding, lend me your chosen ones. Them will I take to my bosom, them will I call my sons. For this is the stern law of Alaska, and woe betide him who scoffs at it Even among the chosen ones and hardy pioneers of today terrible indeed are signs written on many of their bodies. Scarred and rugged veterans show, with a smiling face, places where once fingers or toes adorned their hands or feet, but which have now gone forever, a token of man’s struggle against Nature’s cruelty. Let those who sit in a comfortable chair by the fireside at home, in 20 degrees of frost, think what life is like in a tent with the thermometer ready 50 degrees or 60 degree below zero. Only those whb have been and felt it can realize what this means. Probably no country on earth has lured so many people to ruin and destruction, in proportion to the numbers visiting it, as Alaska has done in many of the great gold rushes which have taken place in recent years. The writer, during three seasons spent in that country, and in trips extending from its southernmost portions to the arctic shores, has per* sonally been an eye-witness of many pitiful scenes there. The time has already arrived when fast steamers make pleasure trips during summer, and convey tourists in comfort along the southern coasts of Alaska, through some of the finest fjords and scenery on earth. But probably none of these luxurious travelers has any idea of the privations suffered by many of the old-time pioneers who followed this route op their way to the new Eldorado. Nor can they hope to realize what a winter is like within the arctic circle. Mr. R. W. Service has more accurately described this than any other writer in the following splendid lines: The winter! the brightness that blinds you. The white land locked tight as a drum. The cold fear that follows and finds you. The silence that bludgeons you dumb, The snows that are older than history. The woods where the weird shadows slant. The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery. I’ve bade 'em good-bye—but I can’t. No mofe awe-inspiring scene can be witnessed than that of the ice breaking up on some big river, such as the Yukon, or many others in Alaska, when the pent-up waters burst their way in spring through many miles of icy fetters, with an accompaniment of appalling noises which bewilder the on looker. Or again, let the traveler gaze a while at some spot where one of the huge glaciers ends abruptly in the sea, towering aloft above the waters. Here vast masses of ice constantly fall off, drift aimlessly about, and form a continual source of menace to unwary mariners.

tongue. He complains that the most musical of all languages is being debased by the introduction of harsh sounding sporting terms imported from England, although for many of these, such as "match," “rush” ■ and "trial,” there are satisfactory homemade equivalents. Oner of the largest athletic bodies tn Italy has an entirely English name. "The Milan Football and Cricket dub.” Yet football. Sig. Zucoll points out. is a direct descendant of the old Roman game, "harpaa turn.”

IRON HAND IN EGYPT

Lord Kitchener’s Sway in Nile Country Is MasterfuL Speaking of Education of Youths, "We Don’t Want Them to Get Their Hands Soft,” He Says—-Holds Some Unique Views. Cairo, Egypt.—No explanation of the government of Egypt is adequate without the presentation of the name of Lord Kitchener, who since his appointment as British agent in October of 1911 has been increasingly the unique and dynamic force behind all the government agencies, alike the protector of imperial English interests and the humanitarian regenerator of the land he loves, writes Clayton Sedgwick Cooper in a letter from Cairo to the Christian Science Monitor. He came to Egypt to assist in the completion of the splendid work of regeneration commenced by Lord Cromer. He himself had before contributed to the problem as the soldier leader in Khartum, the conqueror of the Khalifa, sweeping out of the Sudan the fanatical dervishes, nor did he arrive one moment too soon to arrest the tide that was surely carrying Egypt backward from the high and superb statesmanship of Lord Cromer’s regime. The presence of an iron hand was needed and not a few of Egypt’s leaders were unconsciously turning in their minds toward Kitchener. As the conversation of a certain Egyptian officer who commanded a brigade at Omdurman Infers: “Lord Kitchener is a soldier. He is a man of iron. He made a clean sweep of the Sudan. He is just, but he is not to be trifled with. There is not a nationalist in Egypt who would not bury himself in the sand if Lord Kitchener came to Cairo. He is the man for the job." After an interview with Lord Kitchener in Cairo I realized that he was

Kitchener of Khartoum.

"the man for the job.” I also realized why the people of the Nile country, when asked why the nationalists were quiet, why the schools of agriculture and commerce were thriving, why thousands of acres of rich Egyptian land were being reclaimed by new systems of irrigation and drainage, why the European timeserver is unceremoniously disappearing, why the journals of the agitators have been going out of business at the rate of one' each day, why thousands of fellaheen were beginning to have a growing confidence in the government as evidenced by their trust in the postal savings bank, or why Turkey did not send its soldiers across Egypt in its war with Tripoli—yes, and why even Downing street see&ed affected with a new confidence —always gave the same answer —Lord Kitchener. It is said that without bayonets behind or before, moral force cannot exist. Egypt sees in the soldier who drove out the mad Mahdi hosts the spirit of command, which seems to be the only attitude deeply respected by

WED AT COFFIN OF MOTHER

Chicago Couple Carry Out Woman’s Last Dying Wish—Funeral a Wedding Trip. Chicago.—The most urgent request of the late Mrs. Peter Peterson. 1422 East Seventieth' street, to her son. Christ Peterson, during her final years was that he get married before her death. "If not before 1 die, then at least before I am buried,” she told him. The son was in no hurry, and not thinking there was any likelihood of his mother dying soon, he kept, putting it off. Perhaps one factor in the postponement was the hesitating attitude of the girl of his choice. Miss Hannah Jensen, 8818 Adams avenue. But on last Saturday Mrs. Peterson while visiting a neighbor was stricken with apoplexy. Young Peterson remembered the last wish his mother had expressed. He telephoned Miss Jensfen and obtained her consent, then telephoned the license clerk and discovered it was too late to get a marriage license. The Rev. William Steinmeyer, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church, was asked to officiate. On Tuesday the minister was telephoned again and asked to appear a few minutee before the time set for the funeral service. He was escorted

SUFFRAGETTES STORM THE CAPITOL

Scene at the front steps of the capitol in Washington showing the women who are working for equal .suffrage marching into the halls of congress to present petitions to the lawmakers for equal suffrage.

Orientals, especially in certain stages of their development As Lord Kitchener sat and. talked and questioned in the British residency with its beautiful tropical gardens sloping down to the Nile; as he spoke in short, crisp phrases his gospel, the new plans for the fellaheen, telling us of his ideals for the practical rather than the theoretical education of Egyptian youth—"We don’t want them to get their hands soft"—l was inclined to agree with the Egyptian opinion. It is to be hoped that this efficient official who commands an army to whom the name “Kitchener" is an incentive similar to that of the name “Napoleon" to the old guard, and who in a comparatively brief time has gained the confidence of the Egyptians who have most at heart the country’s good, will receive the unstinted support of the home government in the progressive and highly, utilitarian measures which he iq now promulgating for the new Egypt.

CRUSADE ON NOISE

Woman’s War on Nuisance Becomes World Wide. Battle Begun in New York City Eight Years Ago to Suppress All Needless Clamor —Zone of Quiet Extended. New York. —That movement to suppress unnecessary noise which Mrs. Isaac L. Rice began in this town eight years ago has now extended to foreign countries, and the suppression of unnecessary noise has been added to the reforms of international scope, says the Evening Post Three years ago Prof. Theodore Lessing of Hanover, through the efforts of Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, the founder of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise has been added to the band, the first organization of its kind in Germany. Today there are 39 local societies scattered throughout that country, and Professor Lessing, who is in constant communication with Mrs JRlce, reports the movement is steadily growing. In England practically nothing had been done until Mrs. Rice had successfully launched her campaign in this city. There is, however, at this time the Betterment of London association, working along these same lines, with the hope that its efforts will eventually be emulated throughout England.

into the room where the casket lay. At the head of the coffin in deep mourning stood young Peterson and Miss Jensen hand in hand. Some one whispered the circumstances to the shocked clergyman, and after he had regained his composure he marched forward, forgot the funeral service temporarily, and united the couple in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson took their places with the other mourners and the funeral proceeded. They went to the cemetery, watched the burial, and returned to the house. That was their only wedding trip, Peterson said philosophically.

HAS BALE OF WIGS TO SELL

U. 8. Seized Them When Attempt to Smuggle Was Discovered In Hoboken. Jersey City. N. J. —Going! Going! Who wants a wig? The United States government advertises for sale a whole bale of them, of all kinds and colors of hair. The sale will be at auction in the Jersey City poet office. The wigs were seized recently by customs officials in Hoboken when an' attempt to smuggle them into this country was discovered.

MIRROR AS A LION PACIFIER

Cleveland Officials Take Odd Action Following Death of Female Animal at "Zoo.” Cleveland, O. —To console Columbus, the big lion in the Brookside zoo, for the loss of his mate, park officials will place a mirror In the side of bls, cage so that he will gaze at the reflection of his neighbor, the leopard,: and believe a new companion has been Sent to cheer him. The deception will! be practiced on Columbus to prevents him dying from grief over the loss of hie mate.

Live Leeches in Parcel Post.

Middletown, Conn. —The postoffice is holdink a parcel post package containing a dozen live leeches for lack of sufficient address. The package, which was deposited on Saturday, is correctly stamped, but bears only the address “N. Y

Through the association in New York all unnecessary noise has been regulated in hospital zones, and night, with "its great gift of sleep," is no longer a menace to the patient School zones, too, though they do not rejoice in primeval quiet, are no longer beset by the noisy pests which once destroyed the nerves of teachers and made* real work for the children difficult Mrs. Rice feels, however, that the greatest work of the association has been done in promoting and popuiarizing the sane Fourth throughout the* country. There Is still a great chance to extend this branch of the work, and an effort is being made to convince the school children, not only of the danger of the firecracker, but of the pleasures to be derived from the* new method of celebrating. Statistics show that in 1908 there were 5,623 casualties resulting from the efforts of Young America to celebrate the national holiday. In 1912 this number had been re-

Dr. N. H. Maxwell.

duced to 988, but from these figures one can easily see that there is still much to be accomplished. Mrs. Rios has had the co-operation of the mayors of many cities, who have put themselves on record as opposed to anything but the same celebration. Since the crusade against unnecessary noise was started in 1905 there has been an improvement of 85 per cent, in tugboat whistling on the rivers It was then a personal matter, but as the Hudson is a federal waterway, William 8. Bennet, member of congress from New York, succeeded in having a bill passed on February 1, 1907. which regulated this unnecessary disturbance. Last year, through the ruling of the board of health, the noise of motor boats was also regulated. Associated with Mrs. Rice as an advisory board are William Dean HowOils, Nicholas Murray Butler. Cardinal Farley, Dr. W. H. Maxwell and others, while the board of directors is made up of various superintendents of hoepitata. .