Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — Page 3

Impossible.

Startled he looked about him. “My legs are comfortable,” he mattered. “My knees aren’t cramped. I can get the kinks out of my calves and even lean back a little. My line of sight Is unobstructed. Why, npt only can 1 see everything, I can also hear everything! I can retire to the foyer without disturbing 15 people, or even one, but —I'm so comfortable sitting here that I’d rather stay just where I am. These lights—the music—the scenery —all look real, yes, they strongly suggest reality—hut it’s impossible. Whoever heard of a comfortable theater? 1 must be dreaming.” And, doggone it, that’s just what be was doing.—Masses.

ECZEMA SPREAD OVER BODY Roxbury, Ohio. —"When my little boy was two weeks old he began breaking out on his cheeks. The eczema began just with pimples and they seemed tc itch so badly he would scratch bi| face and cause a matter to run. Wherever that matter would touGh it would cause another pimple until it spread all over his body. It caused disfigurement while it lasted. He bad fifteen places on one arm and his head had several. The deepest places on his cheeks were as large as a silver dollar on each side. He was so restless at night we had to put mittens on him to keep him from scratching them with his finger nails. If he got a little too warm at night i* seemed to hurt badly. “We tried a treatment and he didn’t get any better. He had the eczems about three weeks when we began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. 1 bathed him at night with the Cuticura Soap and spread the Cuticura Ointment on and the eczema left.” (Signed) Mrs. John White, Mar. 19, 1913. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard “Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.” —Adv.

Plea for More Hygienic Gravy.

“Stray Shots,” the weekly paper issued by the inmates of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, offers this mild suggestion to the cook; “If the gentleman intrusted with the task of making brown gravy to accompany the T-bone steaks served at this great culinary center, will take the trouble to read a few lines in any old cook book he will discover that it is impossible to use hot water and produce lumpless gravy. If he has any spark of sympathy in his soul he will realize that uncooked flour Is the bosom friend oi indigestion. A little regard for the great regiment that feasts here should furnish comfort in the consciousness of duty well performed.”

Want Changeable Dresses!

At the recent International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London one of the most celebrated lecturers, Giacomo Ciamician, predicted that women of the future will not be contented 'with a dress which remains constantly of one color, but will demand colors that change in harmony with their sur .roundings. Thus the color of the apparel may be changed without changing the dress. Passing from darkness to light tbs color would brighten, thus conforming automatically to the environment —the last word in fashion fnrtha future. This prediction will come true as soon as chemists learn to understand better what are called “phototropic colors," or colors that change with the intensity of the light upon them. In men’s wear this might mean that the light-colored Buit of the bright summer day would be transformed into a dark suit at night Mosquitoes seem to be troubled with chronic Insomnia.

AN OLD NURSE Persuaded Doctor to Drink Postum.

An old faithful nurse and an experienced doctor, are a pretty strong combination in favor of Poatum, instead of tea and coffee. The doctor said: 'T began to drink Postum five years ago on the advice of an old nurse. "During an unusually busy winter, between coffee, tea and overwork, I became a victim of insomnia. In a month after beginning Postum, in place of tea and coffee, I could eat anything and sleep as soundly as a baby. ; “In three months I had gained twenty pounds in weight. I now use Postum altogether Instead of tea and coffee; even at bedtime with a soda cracker or some other tasty biscuit. "Having a little tendency to Diabetes, I used a small quantity of saccharine instead of sugar,' to sweeten with. I may add that today tea or coffee are never present in our house and very many patients, on ay advice, have adopted Postum as their regular beverage. * “In conclusion I can assure anyone that, as a refreshing, nourishing and nerve-strengthening beverage, there is nothing equal to Postum.” Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.) Write for booklet, "The Road to Wellville.” . Postum comes in two forms. Regular (must be boiled). Instant Postum doesn’t require bofllng but is prepared instantly by atirring a level teaspoonful In an ordinary cup of hot water, which makes It right ifor most persons. A big cup requires more and some people who like strong things put in a heaping spoonful and temper It with • large supply of cream. Experiment until you know the amount that pleases your palate and have it served that way In the future "There’s a Reason” for Postum.

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SHE position of general manager of the biggest railroad in the country, or the biggest manufacturing plant, or the biggest mercantile establishment, would sink into insignificance when compared to any of a score of positions in the government service at Washington that have Just been filled by the new administration. These big jobs, nearly every one of which has to do with the well-being of millions of the people and carries with it greater responsibility than all civil life can parallel, pay, on the average, $5,000 a year. Quite naturally a five-thousand-dollar man is not big enough for such a job. So the appointive power •throws out the dragnet for men big enough for the given task who place public service above profit, or who regard the distinction of a federal office as compensation, or who are men of parts despite the fact that they may not have yet gained such financial standing as to make a hundred dollars a week look unattractive. Have a look at some of these jobs, says W. A. DuPuy, in the Philadelphia Record. Indian Commissioner. Take, for instance, the commissioner of Indian affairs. That official is in reality the administrator of a great estate. This estate is valued at $900,000,000. ft is the biggest estate in the world. There are 300,000 heirs to it. They are mostly, in the eyes of the law, minor heirs and the estate must be managed for them, their moneys must be collected, must be taken care of, must be distributed. Not only thiß, but each of the individuals in the 300,000 must be carefully looked after. He must be kept healthy. He must be given thfe advantages of schooling. He must be led toward selfsupporting manhood. He must be given the rights of manhood whenever I he proves himself fit. The man who is responsible for the administration of so huge an estate should be a man of unimpeachable character and of many parts. It fell to Secretary Lane of the department of the interior, to find such a man. He dragged the cpuntry for the individual of just the right qualifications and experience. Finally he settled upon Cato Sells of Cleburne, Texas, for the post. Mr, Sells was not a candidate for the post, but was appointed only after special agents of the department had looked Into every step in his career with the idea of determining whether or not he was the right sort of man to handle one of the most trying posts in the government service. Chief Patronage Dispenser. Over in the postofflce department is a man who is in the very midst of appointing 62,000 postmasters. In addition to this he is the chief of staff of an army of 66,000 clerks and letter carriers. In addition to this be is the superintendent of 60,000 postoflices and has the control of the policies that govern them. And still in addition to this he has direct charge of the development of the parcel post, which is attempting to carry packages for a hundred million people. Altogether no mean job. « This man is Daniel C. Roper, first assistant postmaster general. The slxtfy-two thousand postmasters who are appointed from Washington actually receive thei? commissions from the president or the postmaster general. First Assistant Roper is. however, the man who handles all the detail that leads up to those appointments. That army of city letter carriers, which haß increased from 10,000 twenty years ago to 30.000 at the present date, is immediately under his care, and every rule and regulation for its control originates in his office. The same is true of the 36,000 clerks, of the 62,000 postmasters .and various other odds and ends that go to make up the 150,000 people who are under tbe command of the postmaster general. This first assistant is to the postmaster general very nearly what the chief of staff of the army is to the secretary of war. But he has a bigger force to deal with, scattered over vastly more territory and performing a service of infinitely greater detail. Rural Organization. In tbe department of agriculture a brand new job has just come into being' and a brand new man has been appointed to fill it This job is one of

SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN A SAINT'S NAME

Adhm Croaker writes to the Holton Recorder: “Reading a news item the other day about John Wesley Smith being found incorrigible and sent to the reform school, reminded me of the risk parents take In giving their male progeny the names of the sainted good men of a past age. I once knew a boy who was loaded down with the name of John Calvin, who persisted in going to the bad and finally landed in

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BIG JOBS REQUIRE BIG MEN

considerable proportions in that it has as its object no less a thing than an improvement of the conditions under which dwell all those people of the farms who furnish the fobd supply for themselves and the 60 per cent, who dwell in the cities as well. This'nejv activity in the department of agriculture is known as the rural organization service. It has as its directors Dr. T. N. Carver, professor of economics at Harvard. Dr. Carver'ls the nation’s recognized ifest authority upon the subject of rural • economics. He has written a number of books upon this subject which are regarded as standard. He takes up his present work upon an indefinite leave of absence from Harvard. The rural organization service is largely financed through the national education board, endowed by John D. Rockefeller. The department of agriculture has co-operated with this board for a number of years in farm demonstration work in the south and is highly pleased with the practical results obtained. Uncle Sam’s Real Estate Office. This is a new commissioner of the general land office, who is a man who has 683,000,000 acres of land for sale. Sales of land are now running on pretty smoothly and amount to about $lO,000,000 a year. There have been better years and there have been worse. There was the banner year of the sales through this office away back in 1836, when the land-hungry AngloSaxons had reached that choice tier of states including Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and were buying fast. fiut today there are good lands for sale throughout the west. There are gold lands and coal lands and oil lands and farming lands. Alaska has a wealth of valuable real estate, but even Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan and Florida," in the east, still have federal lands for sale, and they are selling. The new man who has Just taken charge of this monster real estate business Is Clay Tallman, a young lawyer from Nevada, in the far west, where the chief activity of the people Is land-booming. In this office there are 500 employes in Washington. There are 125 branch offices In as many localities, and these and the field force are responsible for ap additional 1,000 men. _ Mr. Tallman is. not yet forty years of age. He grew up in Michigan, was educated at the state university and went to Nevada when he was ready for practice. A term in the state senate, an unsuccessful but closely contested candidacy for representative to congress, and other political steppingstones, led to his appointment to one of the big posts in the federal executive service. An Executive Hero. Rear Admiral Victor Blue, under appointment by the new secretary of the navy, sits, at the head of the premier branch of the navy department—the bureau of navigation. Some months ago this young naval officer held the rank of commander and was in service on the Pacific, being chief of staff of the Pacific fleet. Then he was called to Washington for service on the general board, and before long he found himself the head of that bureau which has offices immediately adjoining the secretary with the rank of rear admiral and authority to officiate as acting secretary when Mr. Daniels and Mr. Roosevelt are out of Washington. The bureau of navigation haß nothing 'to do with navigation but everything to do with the personnel of the navy. It is, again, the human branch at the given service. Every lad who is recruited into the service enlists through this bureau. All the training schools that work toward making .him

the penitentiary. ( Another boy named Matthew Simpson grew up such a reprobate that neither his parents nor teachers could do anything with him and be finally ran off and became a tramp of the worst hobo brand. I had a schoolmate once named Alexander Campbell Jones, who was an all around scalawag, and who, when grown to manhood, became a scoffer at all kinds of re-

a man-o’-wafsman are under the bureau of navigation. Even the naval academy at Annapolis finds its authority here. Every captain ambitious to get command of a squadron must look to this bureau for promotion N The enlisted man who overstays his leave, the lieutenant who has fallen a victim of the plucking board, the stout commander who has been too long on shore duty—each and all must take their cases to this bureau. Ruler of 9,000,000 People. Over in the sister branch of the military service sits another man who has a very human work to perform in that he Is the virtual ruler of 9,000,000 people. > This individual is Brigadier General Frank Mclntyre, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, and therefore charged with the active control of all matters pertaining to the government of the peoples of the Philippines and Porto Rico. General Mclntyre is not as new to his task as some, of the men herein mentioned, as he came to it through many campaigns in the Philippines and by work in the bureau under General Edwards, Its former chief. His task is an immense one, as the bureau of insular affairs is attempting for one thing to perform the miracle of molding into one homogeneous whole the 50 chaotic tribes, speaking as many dialects, holding to many religions, harboring many animosities and unenlightened as to civilized living, who go to make up the popular tn>n of the Philippines. The Gold Guardian. John Burke, three times governor of the great state of North Dakota, Is the guardian of the greatest aggregation of actual that has ever been gotten together in the history of the world. He is the new treasurer of the United States, and this government is the possessor of more wealth than any other institution since Adam. The other day he signed a receipt for $1,426,422,051.48 2-3. Nobody can think of a billion and a half of actual money and comprehend what the amount actually means. But that is the amount in actual money in the treasury at Washington that the retiring treasurer of the United States turned over to Treasurer Burke and for which he Is responsible. These vastly important government positions, that are so large in responsibilities as to appall the man who tries to measure them, are of great number, but one other should be mentioned in selecting but a few of ths most strikingly interesting ones. This other is that of councilor of the Btate department, a post just now held by one John Bassett Moore, college proThis is the man who advises as to the points of law arising between nations as the ordinary lawyer would give an opinion as to the points at difference between two individuals In ordinary business. Treaties and international differences are his regular diet, be they past or prospective. He is likely to patch up a little agreement any morning before breakfast that will lead to world peace or find a provision in an old treaty that will crowd some land-hungry European country off the American map.

ligiqus sentiment and put in most of his time abusing and opposing Christianity.' The safest way is to name your boy Bill or Tom or Jake ojr Jeff or something that don’t mean much.” —Kansas City Star.

Art and Truth.

"Art aims to reveal the absolute truth,” said the idealist. “Well,” replied the prosaic person, "the truth is all right But I don’t see anything so artistic about'a ther mometer.” *-

St. Louis trade boosters recently vl*ited 22 cities in one week. The rich mellow quality, of LEWIS' Single Binder 5c cigar gives the highest pleasure in smoking. Adv. Vm not denyin’ the women are foolish; God almighty made ’em to match the men.—George Eliot.

In New York.

Howard—Here’s a man who says that happiness depends on the cook. Coward —In more cases it depends on the delicatessen shop.—Judge.

Friendly Tip.

Ragman—Any old bottles today, mum? Woman —No; but yon might try Mr. Soakem’s, next door; his wife’s coming back from the seashore tomorrow.

The Kind You Have Always Bought. THIS is the caution applied to the jfublic announcement of Castoria that has been manufactured under the supervision of Chas. H. Fletcher for over 80 years—the genuine Castoria. We respectfully call the attention of fathers and mothers when purchasing Castoria to see that the wrapper beam his signature in black. When the wrapper is removed the same signature appears on both sides of the bottle in red. Parents who have used Castoria for their little ones in the past years need no warning against counterfeits and Imitations, bat oar present duty is to cell the attention of the younger generation to the great danger of introducing into their families spurious medicines. It is to be regretted that there are people who are now engaged in the nefarious business of putting np and selling all sorts of substitutes, dr what should more properly be termed counterfeits, for medicinal preparations nod only for adults, but worse yet, for children’s medicines. It therefore devolve, on the mother to scrutinize closely what she gives her child. Adults can do that for themselves, but the child has to ray on _ - the mother’s watchfulness. Genuiue Castoria always bears the signature of

Quite Late.

Tardy Arrival (at the concert) — Have I missed much? What are they playing now? One of the Elect —The Ninth Symphony. Tardy Arrival —Goodness, am I as late as that?

The Tender Skin of Children

is very sensitive to heat Use Tyree’s Antiseptic Powder for all summer skin affections. It quickly affords the little sufferer relief. 25c. at druggists or sample sent frse by J[. S. Tyree, Chemist, Washington, D. C. —Adv.

Availability in Prospect

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Important Measures Made Law.

Among the notable advances in the legislative enactments of this year, are the tuberculosis registration law of Colorado; laws providing for subsidies to local hospitals in Minnesota and Wisconsin, an act providing for the establishment of county hospitals in Indiana, and the establishment of state bureaus for the prevention of tuberculosis in Ohio and California.

Not Disorderly.

“So you have been to the art exhibit?” “Yes, and I found several Whistlers there.” - ' “You don’t say! Why don't a guard put them out?” —Birmingham AgeHerald. •

Washington's population last year increased by only 361.