Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1913 — Page 3

PHRASES YOU HEAR

Expressions of Noted Men That Have Become Common. v •**’ ■ “While There’s Life There’s Hope," “New Brooms Sweep Clean” and Many Other Old Favorites Mark Historic Epochs. London. —No less a person than Cicero first made use of the expression, "While there’s life there’s hope,” In a letter he wrote to Atticus. ‘‘We are in the same boat” is not modern slang, but occurs in a letter written by Clement 1., bishop of Rome, to the Church of Corinth in the first century. This letter is extant and is one of the prized documents of the early church. "I never put oft till tomorrow what I can do today” was Lord Chesterfield’s explanation of how he managed to do so much work. “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” he wrote later In the famous Letters tsHis Son.

In some of the expressions we use habitually may be crystallized an epoch of history. Such is the motto of the Order of the Garter, “Honi solt qui mal y pense” (shamed be he who thinks evil of it), which was given by Edward 111. of England. Wishing to draw the best soldiers in the world to him he proposed a revival of the Round Table of King Arthur, holding a tournament at Windsor Castle on New Year’s day, 1344. After the contest of arms, the guests were enters tained at his expense at a round table. Philip, king of France, was jealous over the Interest this aroused, and forbade his subjects to attend, at the same time misrepresenting Edward’s motives. Several years later, when Edward founded the Order of the Garter, he chose a motto that seemed to challenge his rival monarch to think wrong of it if he dared. Later English history has not been laggard in, increasing the supply of apt remarks that have grown Into everyday sayings. Lord Eldon, lord' chancellor of England during the first 26 years of the nineteenth century, continually mispronounced the name of Henry Brougham, afterward to be a successor to the chancellor's office. Brougham objected to being called Brdftam, and in this regard Eldon was the chief offender. Once, after Brougham had made an excellent speech Eldon, by way of apology, pronounced his name correctly and made a proverb, “New brooms sweep clean.” The same expression occurs frequently to different people who could have no knowledge that their thought had been given utterance before. "No man is a hero to his valet” has been paraphrased by scores, from Madame du Carnuel, a witty Frenchwoman of the seventeenth century, to Dr. Johnson and Napoleon. The first record

Beautiful Newport Beach

>ls One of the Great Show Places of the Atlantic Coast—Much Wealth Here. Newport, R. I. —One of the great show places of the Atlantic coast Is the sandy stretch of beach at Newport, (R. 1., the summer home of those whose wealth Is reckoned in millions and 'whose names stand for society in its 'highest and'most exclusive form. Dot-

Newport's Beautiful Beach.

ting the heights that that border the beach in the form of a horseshoe, are the pretentious bungalows and mansions, which for a few brief months of the hot spell, are the center of the social whirl. This picture Is the best niade this year, and shows the famoiis resort as it really is today.

SHOT TOOK PIPE FROM MOUTH

Fisherman Off Sandy Hook Has Extremely Bad Scare In Mock Battle. New York. —The Gleaner, a twomasted Ashing smack under the command of Capt. Robert Tamper, brought a badly frightened crew to the dock at Fulton street. The captain acted a bit excited himself, and the boat looked as if it had gone through ,a South Sea typhoon. The block was broken off the main igaff, the down haul had beed cut

GREAT SOLDIER MADE A SCAPEGOAT

- < This is a new photograph of General Savoff, commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian army, and his beautiful and charming daughter. After having accomplished the difficult task of driving the Turks from Europe back to Asia, this modern Napoleon is blamed for the present unlooked-for losses of the Bulgarians and, disgraced and discredited, may be court-martialed for the defeat of the army which but a little while ago he led to such wonderful success.

of it, however, is found in Plutarch 1 , who states that when Hermodotus addressed a poem to Antigonus L, king of Sparta, hailing him ps son of the sun and a god, the monarch replied, "My body servant sings me no such song.” » It was Diogenes, the cynic, who declared that “habit Is second nature.” The phrase “circumstances over which he has no control” was used by the duke of Wellington in a letter concerning some affairs in which he declined to interfere. Dickens also used the expression a few years later yhen he had Micawber write to David Copperfield, “Circumstances beyond by individual control—,” etc. “Conspicuous by their absence” has been used on many occasions in mod-

right in halves, besides a lot of other things that a landlubber couldn’t understand. "No.” said the captain, “we haven't been through a storm —we’ve been through a naval battle. And right off Sandy Hook at that. I thought, with all this talk of peace, an old fishing vessel might ply up and down the coast without being fired at, but she can’t. When we were about a mile off Sandy Hook, there was a shriek of a cannon ball in the air. The right side of my face felt like it does when a barber is scraping it with a dull razor—something took the pipe from my mouth. Before I had time to realize what had happened, the whole boat trembled from a tremendous shock. "The shell, which came from the Fort at Sandy Hook, had grazed the end of the main gaff, and had cut the down haul in halves. And it had actually knocked the pipe from my mouth, for I found myself chewing the broken stem.”

BABY WITH A RARE DISEASE

Kansas City Physicians Puzzled by Strange Case—Very Youhg Child. •Kansas City.—A case rare even to the older physicians of Kansas is attracting the attention of members of the resident and visiting staffs at a hospital there. A brfby one month old has suffered half its little life with streptococclco polyarthitls. which translated into less technical terms raeans an Inflammatatlon of joint cavatles caused by germs known as streptococci. The disease produced in joint cavities by these germs is not so rare among older persons, and usually is not very difficult to cure. There is an anti-streptococcic serum which is generally used with good effect, but in this case the wonder of the physicians is the age of the infant. Five places are Infected. Two weeks ago the disease started tn the baby's right shoulder and spread to the knee, wrist, the jaw and a place on its bead. The baby has been in hospital only one week, but it is much improved, and there has been no further spread of the disease. Physicians say it has a Aghting chance of recovery if it can stand the long strain of eradicating the germs with the serum. It Is not kdown when infection was started and no trace of the disease has been found in the Infant’s parents. The baby no longer cries and its temperature ifi about normal. It nurtes regularly and is in all respects, outside its strange and unaccountable disease, entirely normal.

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ern oratory. It was first used by Tacitus in relating that in the funeral procession of Julia, niece of Cato, sister of Brutus, wife of Cassius, many of the iffiages of the most famous families in Rome were seen, but “Cassius and Brutus shone pre-eminent because their images were not displayed.” “Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones,” was said by James I. of England, when his favorite, the duke of Buckingham, complained that a mob bad broken his glass windows, which were at that time a luxury. “Mind your P’s and Q’s” Is said to have been taken from an old French phrase at the time of Louis XIV.

PERRY’S SHIP, THE NIAGARA

Commodore’s Famous Old Flagship as She Looks After Being Raised From Lake Erie. Fairport, O.—Perry’s old flagship, the Niagara, rebuilt after having been raised from the buttom of Lake Erie where she had rested for almost a century, came through the storm which buffeted and threatened to send her to the bottom, victoriously, and with the old watchword of Perry, “Don’t

Niagara, Perry's Flagship.

Give Up the Ship,” Aying from her main spar, arrived at Fairport, O-, towed by the U. S. training ships Wolverine and Essex. In the mouth of the Grand river a big reception was held and thousands inspected the old vessel.

TO SEEK SUNKEN TREASURE

Efforts Made to Recover Millions of Wealth In the Nav- * arlno Bay. London. —A company has just been incorporated in London called the Navarino Bay Salvage company, to recover the treasure in the Bay- of Navarino, on the west coast of Greece, where 63 Turkish and Egyptian ships of war were sunk by the allied Aeets of England, France and Russia, in IM7. Of these 63, 43 have been located and buoyed, and as the water is very clear and no .deeper than 50 feet, it is expected that a rich harvest will be reaped. Many of the ships are knCWn to have gone down with specie and jewels on board, but aside from that the guns and other tblngg which can be recovered without njucb trouble have great value.

SETS BRAKES ON TRAIN

PERFECTION 'IS CLAIMED FOR NEW SAFETY DEVICE. i If Signal Is Disregarded the Throttle Is Automatically Disconnected From the Steam Valve and Stop Is Made Certain. L. W. Horne, who is a testing engineer for the Brooklyn Interborough lines, has invented an automatic train-stopping device which he will enter In the competition f,or the |IO,OOO prize offered by a New England line. This competition requires that: Every essential part of the stopping and controlling mechanism must be so constructed that its removal or fail ure will cause an application of the train brakes. The apparatus applied must not con-_ stitute a source of passengers or employes. The apparatus applied must withstand snow, ice, sleet and temperatures below freezing. The device must operate only in the normal direction of traffic; a train backing up or running in the reverse direction must not be interfered with by track devices which would cause an application of the train brakes were the train running in the normal direction of traffic. A speed control device must be so designed that a train may pass a distance signal (by which is meant a caution signal which indicates to the engineer that the section still preceding the one he is about to enter is occupied by a train) or a signal which indicates that a train is to cross another track, without causing the air-brakes to be applied, providing its speed is less than a predetermined limit.' But should the speed of the train exceed the limit when approaching a cautionary point, the air-brakes must be automatically applied; and then, after the train speed has been sufficiently reduced, the brakes are to be automatically released, permitting the engineer to proceed. Mr. Horne says his device is very simple to construct and when applied to a locomotive can hardly be observed? j “Consider yourself riding in a luxurious parlor car, the landscape rushing by at 70 miles an hour, perhaps faster; an experienced engineer is at the throttle and he has never been guilty of carelessness. Engineers rarely are dangerously careless more than once. The train approaches a section where a detour to another track is to be made to avoid a stalled freight or a road repair gang, and the block signals Indicate the course the engineer is to take. If he reduces his train to a safe rate as he approaches the little trip finger that guards the crossover sticking up from the roadbed, the depending actuating handle of our device on the locomotive simply clicks against the trip finger and nothing happens. However, should the engineer absentmindedly disregard the caution indication of the semaphore and fail to reduce the great speed with which his heavy train is bearing down on the little guardant trip finger, the depending handle of our device, bangs against the trip finger, the Impact transmitting a high kinetic energy to the air-valve mechanism, and by the hiss of compressed air and the failing of his pressure gauge, the engineer realizes what has happened. Simultaneously with the exhaust of the brake pipe pressure, the device has automatically disconnected his throttle lever from the steam valve. He can only release his train brakes after the speed of the train has been sufficiently reduced. “Had the engineer been asleep or dead and, therefore, no hand at the brake valve to release the brakes, the train would have gradually come to a stop and the train crew would investigate.”

Free Life Insurance.

A scheme of free life insurance has been inaugurated by a New York railroad company for the purpose of increasing the interest of the employes In the affairs of the company and to encourage them to stav with the company, instead of making changes on the slightest provocation. Without any cost whatever to the employes, the company has announced that after one year’s employment the next of kin of anyone in its payroll will, upon death of the employe, be entitled to an amount eoual to one-quarter of the wages paid to the deceased. After two years the amount is doubled, and so on. In case of (Suspension the beneAts of this new rule are not operative until one year after the date of said suspension.

Cat Rides Forty Mlles Under Engine.

When the crew of a morning passenger train from Wilkes-Barre was making an examination of the train at Nescopeck (Pa.) station they found sitting on the engine truck a cat, the pet of the Wilkes-Barre train master. The cat did not seem at all pleased at being taken off the truck after enjoying a fast 40-mlle ride. It was boxed up by Station Agent Hoag and sent back to Wilkes-Barre.

Motion Pictures Handy.

Salesmen dt machinery too large to be carried around are Anding motion picture Alms useful In showing prospective customers the operation of the machines they have to sell. , A

How Vindictive.

The pastor will be glad to know of sickness in the homes of members of the church.—Worthing and District Baptist Herald.

RAN THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE

Engineer Now 92 Years Old, but Still In Active Service, Gets Medal of Much Historic Interest. George W. Scott, ninety-two years old, the oldest locomotive engineer who is now in the employ of the Camden & Amboy railroad; has been presented .with a medal. It bears a portrait of the engine John Bull No. 1, the first locomotive on the road of that company, of which Mr. Scott was engineer and which is now on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution. — Dispatch in the New York Evening Post. An ancient man and an honorable record. The history of New York-Phil-adelphia traffic is a stirring chapter in the romance of annihilation of distance. In the early seventeenth century the only road save Indian trails in Jersey was that over which the Dutch at New Amsterdam had contact with the settlements on the Delaware. It followed the New BrunsWickTrenton line and developed into what came to be called the “upper road” when' a later route through Amboy, Bcrdentown and Burlington was the “lower” route; In the eighteenth century Philadelphia moved up to within three days of New York, and the “flying machines” of 1766 made lt,ln two days—in summer. The Camden & Amboy followed the lower route, and it was a marvel to sit in one of the funny little coaches and be rattled across the Jerseys in a few hours. Mr. Scott could spin some time-anni-hilating yarns of pioneer days on'the road.

BRITONS TRAVEL IN LUXURY

New .Trains on London & Northwestern Road Have Been Given Sumptuous Equipment. New corridor trains have just been constructed by the Ix>ndon & Northwestern Railroad company for service between Euston station and stations on the Caledonian railway in Scotland. The entire carriage (57 feet long) is lit by electricity, the steam heating is controllable by the passengers themselves, and the old practice of passengers having to stoop while standing to look out of-the window is obviated by a line of additional window panes on a level with the eyes. ' Moreover, passengers who do not desire to go to the dining cars may now have their meals brought to them in their compartments. The seats and backs, with arm and head rests, in the first class compartments are of the most sumptuous description. rugs adorn the floors and electric bell pushes are fixed In all the compartments. The Internal finishing of the third-class compartments is polished teak, and the crimson seat are provided with loose cushions. A new feature is that all the seats are the back and made to turn W-

NEW TRACK WHEELBARROW

User of This Rail Wheelbarrow Does Not Have to Straddle the Track.

This track wheelbarrow, designed particularly for railroads and manufacturing plants having spur tracks in their yards or buildings, is equipped with two wheels, one in front and the other at the rear. There wheels carry all the load, which relieves the user of the necessity of lifting, and allows him to walk either inside or outside the rail instead of having to straddle ft when pushing the wheelbarrow along.—Popular Mechanics.

Railroad Ball Bearings.

, Nearly two years ago the KarlstadMunkfors railroad of Sweden began testing ball bearings on a bogie-truck passenger car, which has since been in regular use, and the management now announces that the test has given entire satisfaction. It is estimated that operating cost has been reduced at least 7 per cent., there being also a considerable saving in lubrication and working cost. Other cars are to be similarly equipped by the company, and the Swedish State railroads have recently Atted out a passenger car with these bearings, which will be put into regular use, drawn by an electric motor, with the purpose of making a thorough and systematic test.

Quick Change of Temperature.

If an English engineer's plan to run an electric railroad up the side of Mount Popocatepetl, in Mexico, be carried out, passengers will experience a change in temperature from 70 degrees above zero to 10 below within two hours.

Swarm of Bees Stop Train.

A swarm of bees stopped a freight train near Bridgend, England, when they gathered about the engine cab and stung the engineer and Oremen until they were forced to shut off steam, leap from their places and flee into the car.*" — ~

The ONLOOKER

by HENRY HOWLAND

The laundry girls go striking; they oft leave us in the lurch; The Choir Ladles’ Union wants a higher scale In church; ' The sewing girls are striking, and decline to arbitrate; The waitresses, assembled in their lodge, refuse to wait. As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con— Oh, cursed spite, that matters should have come to such a state. The lady cooks are putting down their ladles, and, alas! The lady clerks may strike before an-< other week shall pass; Posterity will look upon this as a striking age— The chorus girls are unionized, they're marching from the stage— As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con; The time is sadly out of joint, and striking is the rage. The chambermaids are striking; the stenographers, no doubt, Win next be forming unions so that they, too, may walk out; But the summer girls are loyal, they hre charming still and. gay; .... They are flirting on the beaches, they are splashing In the spray!— As the days go rolling on Girls keep striking pro and con— But the summer girls are busy tn the same old way,

How He Spunked Up.

“Josiah,” exclaimed Mrs. Henpeck, who had endeavored without success to convince the Conductor that their Charley, who has been shaving regularly twice a week since last April, was only six years old. “Josiah,” she exclaimed, “are you going to set there and let this man talk back to me this way? Why don’t you spunk up?’’ Suddenly arousing himself as if from a trance, Mr. Henpeck said: “Stop addressing your insulting remarks to niy wife, sir. I want you to understand, sir, that if any member of this family is to be talked down it Is me, sir—do you understand? Me! There, Maria, how do you like that for spunkin’ up, eh?”

Too Late.

A boy, five years of age, who had recently become the brother of another little boy, was sent to the grocery the other day to get some loaf sugar. By mistake the grocer gave him granulated, and the boy was sent back to have it changed. “How do you like your new brother?” asked the grocer, as he was weighing out the right kind of sugar. "Oh, I don’t like him very much* the little fellow answered. "He cries all the time.” "Why don’t you change him, then, as you do the sugar?” "We can’t change him now, ’causs we’ve used him three

The Pearl Fisher.

Smith dug up mussels from the stream; • "Some day. perhaps,” said he, "I’ll find a pearl Inside of one That shall bring wealth to me.” Jones worked away year after year And added to his store. And people envied him who saw The happy smile he. wore. One day Smith, who was old and poor. Cried out. "Behold! Behold!” The pearl that he had found was worth Teh times Its weight in gold. Jones looked, and envied Smith his hick. And Smith, with head a-whirl. Forgot that Jones* store was worth ’ A thousand times the pearl.

Kind Girt.

"I often heah people say they have to go away by themselves to think, don’t you know. It’s so funny. I can think just as well wight in a cwowd as I can anywheh else.” “Yes,” she answered after deciding not to say it, I‘but you must remember that you are so different from ordinary men.”

Important Advantage.

The man who is a stepfather frae one Important advantage. His wife can’t set up the claim that the children Inherited all their disagreeable traits from him.

Unappreciated Genius.

"She has married a wonderful chess player.” “Um. Does rtie expect to support him, or has he Inherited money T*