Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1913 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Bw7 Day Except Suaday HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA

Just what does th* “slash’' skin • prove? ' Baseball is a good game, provided your team wins occasionally. •A Also our notion of a useless occupation is that of raising artichokes. In the barbers’ strike riots in New York revolvers were employed. Next! If all jokes were judged by points, a big bunch of them would score minus aero. Another much needed invention is a golf ball that will whistle whenever It is lost The silk hat has survived a century. But the green one—a few months should suffice. When the Balkan states feel like borrowing 11,000,000,000, what does Turkey feel like? The dollars are flowing in for turtle serum, but where are the absolute proofs of worth? It is our notion, however, that the world needs simplified talking more than simplified spelling. Los Angeles has two lady "coppers" and it is said to be quite a sensation to be pinched by one of them.

After all, why correct the proof even if the compositor does set it up vulgar instead of Bulgar styles. What a comfort it would be if mosquitoes were as fastidious as are rainbow trout in the matter of biting. Twas a mean man who insinuated that at a suffragette meeting he not only heard plain things but saw ’em. Pickpockets may conclude to plead that in this day of empty purses and dollar watches they earn what they get They say that the taste for Manila cigars can be cultivated. Anybody who likes artichokes ought to believe it When unnecessary noise is abolished the picture of a messenger boy looking at an automobile horn will be pathetic. What has become of the man who used to eat strawberry shortcake all the time and then wonder what ailed his system? Irrespective of currency reform, there should be dough for everybody soon. The winter wheat crop has the best of prospects.

An advance of $5 a foot Is announced in the price of show snakes. But an advance in the price of the bar room kind would be better. This country has imported $16,000,000 worth of gems since the first of the present year. Somebody must be trying to square himself with his wife. The strength with which a man wields a piece of bamboo depends upon whether said bamboo is a component part of a carpet beater or a fishing rod. The statement made that a woman mtw a soul passing from a dying relative’s lips is received by scientists with skepticism. Even were such a thing allowed to be possible there are so many souls so small as to be invisible under any circumstances. "How long since you have seen a woman darning a pair of socks?” asks the Cincinnati Enquirer, thus offering an admirable topic for the historical , societies.

The new British ambassador is reported to be a baseball fan, which may prove even more influential than proficiency on the tennis court or the golfing green. That all potato cars must be heated in winter is the mandate of the interstate commerce commission. There must be a society for the prevention of cruelty to the potato. The blasting at Panama is killing the sea serpent This will not do. At least one of the sacred traditions of ages must be preserved from the commercial iconoclasts of the age. You remember, don’t you, that Gau* temaia borrowed >2,500,000 from Great Britain in 1869? Well, Great Britain is unreasonable enough to think it is time for Guatemala to whack up, and is beginning to be unpleasant about it One sporting writer says that it is now anybody's pennant But from the claims put forward by the various baseball managers we are led to be Have that it is everybody's pennant The public health bureau says that fear of the germs they may contain need deter no one from amassing greenbacks as swiftly as possible, since the ink kills the germs. Was anyone ever discovered who allowed such a fear to keep him poor, and if such a craven-spirited soul exists, is it worth while to reaspure him?

VETERAN CATCHERS WATCH BATTER’S FEET

Veteran catchers, like Stange of thei Tigers, Sullivan of the White Sox, Thomas of the Athletics, Archer of the Cubs, and Gibson of the Pirates, watch the batter’s feet closely. They pay more attention to the footwork of the hitter than to any other motions. The reason for this is obvious. Take the prize-fight game, for example. Battling Nelson once said he could tell from the position of his opponent’s feet what he was intending to do; “I never watched his eyes,” said the former light-weight champion. “His feet betrayed every motion he planned. This never once failed. Persons often chided me for looking down all the time Instead of watching the eyes. But there was method in my madness.” The same goes for batters. Young backstops generally have enough keeping track of the baserunners and what the pitcher is throwing. They lack the coolness, as a rule, and allaround generalship. Among the first catchers who discovered the value of watching a batter’s feet were Charles Bennett of Detroit; Buck Ewing and King Kelly. All three were experts and seldom were outguessed. Johnny Kling also was a wonder in disciphering what the batter’s Intentions were, and so was Roger Bresnahan, the deposed manager of the Cardinals. The batter generally takes a certain natural position when he plans

Oscar Stange of Detroit.

the hit and run game with a man on first He usually takes a different stance —as they say in golf—when, a sacrifice bunt is his intention. Some have a way of moving around that betrays their purpose. Zimmerman is one of the easiest batters in the country to watch. It is only his natural swatting ability, his knack of slugging almost wild pitches, that enables him to break even with the crafty catchers.

League In Bad Standing.

The Charlie Somers league is tn bad standing, according to the percentage columns. Cleveland is fighting up in the American league race, but both the Mud Hens in the A. A. and New Orleans in the Southern are tail endera.

Collins After Record.

Eddie Collins seems determined to capture the American league batting laurels Judging by the manner in which he has been billlag the ball.

Ira Thomas of the Athletics.

Hughie High, the Tiger youngster, started his baseball career as a pitcher. e\ • • Spitball pitchers should not sit in the draft of a hotel lobby and expect to win. • a • James, who pitches for the Boston Nationals, seems to be some pumpkins as a heaver. • • • George Mullin may prove 1 to be just the man that Clark Griffith needs to brace his pitching staff. • • * Fred Bender, brother of Chief Albert of the Athletics, is to be given a trial by the Cleveland team. a * • Clark Griffith, after seeing all the teams in the league, says he believes his team can land the pennant. • * • Joe Tinker says Bill Dahlen has a well-balanced team. Look how many years William waited for such a team. • a * Owner Ebbetts of the Dodgers has been forced to cut additional entrances in his new park. The fans are going after the baseball stuff hard in Brooklyn. a a a Brooklyn has a new pitcher named Rettinger, who halls from the amateur ranks around Jake Daubert’s Pennsylvania home. Daubert thinks he will be a find. • t ♦ “How in blazes,” queries a New York fan, “does Chance hope to make a ball team out of three Rays, a Roy. a Russell, a Harold, a Claude, an Ezra, a Birdie, and a Bert?” a a a Branch Rickey, former catcher of the New York and St. Louis Ameri-, can league teams, says baseball in the majors is so fast that players don’t have time to think. a a a Hal Chase, according to Frank Chance, is equal in trade to Wood and Speaker or Ty Cobb or Baker and Collins or Walter Johnson or the entire St. Louis ball club. “Germany” Schaefer made a great hit with the St. Louis crowd when he announced to the crowd that the Senators would be in St. Louin in October to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the world series. • • • “Pitchers who jerk their arms when they throw the ball never last long,” says Mordecal Brown. “The pitcher should follow each throw all the way through. I almost wrap my arm around my body at the end of a throw.*

Scattering Notes of the Diamond

KEEP OFF THE TRACKS

ONLY SAFE RULE IF ACCIDENTS ARE TO BE AVOIDED. Various Reasons Why sn Approaching Train Cannot Always Be HoardRules That, at Least, Should Be Observed. In England and Germany and some other countries, no one thinks of walk-

for the offense. Do not believe that a train can always be heard. It cannot. For. this reason people are killed. People think they can hear the noise of a train when it is far away. A lot of these people have been struck by locomotives when an instant before they would have taken their oath there was not a train within half a mile of them.

The noise made by a fast railway train is chiefly directed away from the train at the side. Comparatively a small portion of the noise is projected along tfce track in front of the train. Any other unusual noise at the same time may divert a person’s attention from the noise made by an approaching train. Another reason why trains may come upon a person walking on the track before he realizes their approach is a quality that sound possesses in common with other wave phenomena, although to a less degree, of traveling Jn straight lines. Thus a fast train approaching a sharp curve on the concave side of which there is high ground and on the convex side a broad plain will give a person on the curve almost no warning of its approach until it swings into view, a short distant away.

Walking on a road with two or more tracks is particularly dangerous. A large portion of accidents to trespassers occur on double-track roads where a man in getting out of the way of one train steps onto the other track in front of another train which he has not seen or heard.

It seems worth while, therefore, to set dowfi the following rules which should be observed by every one who walks on the railway track, as follows: (1) Keep constant watch of the track, both in front and behind; (2) watch and listen with particular care when approaching a curve, while on the curve, and after passing the curve; (3) when walking on a double-track road, keep on the left-hand track and do not fail to keep watch also in the rear, since reverse movements are sometimes made on this track; (4) it is better to walk beside the track than to walk the ties; (5) when tempted to walk on the track, remember that you are placing yourself in greater danger than exists in the most hazardous class of railway employment, and choose some other path! , Above all, remember it is much better to take a little more time and walk around by the road, rather than walk on the track and have your friends says (as they attend the services): "I wonder what he was thinking about that occupied his minds to such an er tent he*couldn’t hear the train!”

In 1912 there were built 2,997 miles of railroad in 41 states out of 46, and none in Alaska. The longest mileage was constructed in North Dakota, where 347 miles of track were laid, while Texas ranks second with 336 miles. The new equipment ordered during 1912 includes 229,196 freight cars, 3,623 passenger cars and 4,424 locomotives.

Three English railroads are preventing the formation of scale in their locomotive boilers by passing the water over aluminum plates, which disintegrate the calcium and magnesium contents, which deposit in the farm of easily removed mud.

In the locomotive repair shop of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway at Transcona, which is just across the Red river from Winnipeg, is a 120-ton overhead crane which is used to lift locomotives into the air from one ’ *■ . ■> ■ '

ing on the railroad tracks. They would no more do that than they would walk into a man’s private garden or bathe in his fountains. Any one caught walking on the tracks in those countries is promptly arrested and fined heavily

Railroad Progress In United States.

Stops Formation of Scale.

MOVING LOCOMOTIVE IN THE AIR.

ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PAT

Financial Gain Little Considered In the Construction of Railroads J -- in Asia. The question that a railway company in Europe or the Americas asks itself when considering the construction of a new line is, "Will it pay? Will the ultimate returns from freight and passenger traffic be equal to a fair interest on the money invested?” If this question is answered in the negative, unless there is a bonus or guaranty of some sort forthcoming, the line will not be built If this same test had been applied in Asia, 50 per cent, of the great continent’s present railway mileage would be non-existent, Lewis R. Ryeeman writes in the American Review of Reviews. Asia is—and will be for many years—in a formative state politically. Frontiers and spheres of influence are being advanced and pushed back, and the ability or inability of a power to speedily place an army at some remote point of vantage may mean the differing between winning or losing a province, or even a kingdom. Railways have been built, therefore, regardless of their 1 promise, remotely or even, to pay adequate financial returns. It is these strategic and semistrategic considerations which principally differentiate Asiatic —and to a lesser degree African —railway development from that of the more settled occidental continents. Russia had more in mind the winning of Manchuria, Port Arthur and the long striven for ice free port at Dalney than the development of the thousands of miles of intervening steppes when she embarked on the titanic task of constructing the TransSiberian railway. The branches of that line toward the borders of Chinese Turkestan, and the line from the Caspian to the Oxus and the Persian borders, were only stepping stones to the realization of Russia’s supreme ambition, the conquest of India. That all these schemes were given an indefinite setback in the defeat of Russia by Japan was no fault of the railways. Japan is constantly strengthening her position in Korea and Manchuria by,the construction of lines not warranted commercially, and India has gridironed with rails the bleak deserts of her vulnerable northwest frontier. Strategic considerations, too, will outweigh all others in determining by what route, and by what powers, the long talked of Europe to India railway will be built. It should be borne in mind, however, that many lines or sections of lines built primarily for strategic purposes have, later, yielded considerable returns through the channels of regular business, thus quickening into life great sections which must otherwise have lain dormant. In the long run, therefore, there has been real economic benefit from this con struction apparently abnormal from an economic point of view.

Important Railroad Decision.

A brakeman on a freight train has no right to remove a trespasser, under a decision by the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in Harrington vs. Boston. The court said it has never been decided before that such is the law of the commonwealth, and there is a conflict of authority in decisions from other states. Those favoring the rule do so on the theory that a brakeman in charge of a car is a servant of the railroad charged with authority to remove trespassers therefrom. Those opposed maintain that the doctrine is not applicable to the case of a freight train where there is a conductor, who is the person presumably in charge of the train, and for this reason giving the brakeman no authority over the passengers or the collection of fares. The Massachusetts court concludes: “On the whole, we think that on principle and the weight of authority the proposition that in a case like the present there is a presumption that the brakeman as such id vested with authority to remove passengers is not sound.”

Base Suspicion.

Guest (in cheap restaurant) — That’s queer. I ordered three dishes, and you are out of all. Waiter —It’s late, sah. Guest (suspiciously)—Not saving ’em for yourself, eh? Waiter (haughtily)—l don’t eat here, sah.

track, carry them over other locomotives and lower them to another track. The locomotive shown lifted into the air weighs 80 tons, and the crane ae com plished its task with the utmost oare.—Popular Mechanics. • * * : J- - -*

These Revised Versions.

Mayor Woodruff of Peoria turned with disgust from.a revised version of “Mother Goose." He said: “When one wishes to give a child a present ‘Hans Andersen,* or ‘Grimm,’ or ‘Slovenly Peter’ —one finds these books all revised, all spoiled. - “Give me original versions. I don’t like revised readings, which are usually as unsatisfactory as the ybung wife found them. “This young wife, after a stormy acene, cried: “ ‘lt was differnt before we married. Ah, yes, you loved me then — and now! “‘I loved you now and then,* said her husband, calmly. ‘Revised version, don’t you know.***

Progress.

“Thirty years ago,” said a woman of middle age, "it was the custom of demure girls to sit in public conveyances with their silk-gloved wrists crossed. It is now the custom of demure girls to sit in public conveyances with their silk-stockinged ankles crossed.” —New York Sun.

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