Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1913 — Page 3

Foley-Wasy Pills Mm promptly the suffering due to weak, inactive kidneys and painful bladder action A They offer a powerful help to nature in building up the true excreting kidney tissue, in restoring normal action and in regulating bladder irregularities. Try them. are not only Purgative. They combine remedial properties whose special function it is to restore to healthy activity all the digestive and diuretic processes. Use them for poor appetite, souk stomach, sick headache, constipation and indigestion.

FIGURING OUT THE SCHEDULE

Farmer Needed No Time Table to Know Just When the Car Would Come Along. ~ ; “Out at Stop—well on - second thought we will not giv6 the number of the stop, because that would identify the person this story is about a little too closely. Out in the country, at a place where the interurban cars stop, we waited for a homebound trolled the other day. A man came out of a house by the side of the road, and waited beside us. _ “Are you going to take this car?” we asked. >- “Hope so,” he replied, “if my wife gets here in ,time I will." “How soon does the car cOme?” “Wait an’ I’ll see,’ was the reply. Then he shouted to the house: “Mary, how soon are you goin* to be ready?” “In Just ten minutes, John,” came the reply through an open upstairs window. The farmer nodded to us. “If she’s tellin* the truth,” he said, “the car’ll be here in jest nine minutes an’ a half. An' they alnt’ another car fer an hour.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrnp for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammaUon.allays wind a bottleU*

Finance as She Is Wrote.

To add to troubles of the Wall street man forced to spend his summer in the city comee the necessity of employing a substitute-stenographer in vacation season.. Wall street diction is hard enough for the regular stenographer; the substitute finds it next to Impossible. The employer of ©ne of the substitutes not long ago tried to be particularly careful and distinct in his dictation. Nevertheless, “comtroller of the currency” -emerged as “comptroller of the corn belt.” A remark about the drought district in Kansas’’ was interpreted as "grouch In Kansas." ' Reverting to money matters again, the employer talked about taking bullion into the Bank of England, and the copy showed that bouillon soup had been taken into the bank. Right there the bell rang for a new typist.—Wall Street Journal.

Gretna Green Ceremony.

A young couple who arrived at Berwick the other Sunday were married after the Scottish fashion in a delightfully simple way. They drove over the border into Scotland, End stopping at a spot where two men were seated, the young man said that he and the lady wished to be married and that they' could not adopt the conventional method, as ir would be stopped directly the banns x werd”'put up, The couple then formally took each other for man and wife before the two witnesses, and a document to that effect was produced and signed by the parties and the witnesses.

Cupid’s Lottery.

“Whatever became of that woman who was married on a bet?” “She is now giving her time to a crusade against gambling.”—Judge.

A FOOD DRINK Which Brings Daily Enjoyment.

A lady doctor writes: . “Though busy hourly with my own affairs, I will not deny myself the pleasure of taking a few minutes to tell of my enjoyment daily obtained from my morning cup of Postum. It is a food beverage, not an irritant like coffee. “I began to use Postum 8 years ago, not because I wanted to, but because coffee, which I dearly loved, made my nights long, weary periods to be dreaded and unfitting me for business during the day. “On advice of a friend, I first tried Postum, making, It carefully as suggested on the package. As I had always used ‘cream and no sugar.* I mixed my Postum so. It looked good, was clear and fragrant, and it was a pleasure to see the cream color it as my Kentucky friend wanted her coffee to look—‘like a new saddle.* "Then I tasted It critically, fort! had tried many ‘substitutes’ for coffee. I was pleased, yes, satisfied with my Postum In taste and effect, and am yet, being a constant user of It all these years. I continually assure my friends and acquaintances that they will like it in place of coffee, and receive benefit from its use. I have gained weight, can sleep and am not nervous.** Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Write for the little book, “The Road to Wellvine.’’ Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum—must be well boiled. Instant Postum is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a eup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage li»> atantly. Grocers sell both kinds. "There’s a reason” for Pvrium. "... *"*7 '

SEEK TIE DURABILITY

GOVERNMENT CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS OF IMPORTANCE., In Connection With a Prominent Western Railroad the Authorities Are Experimenting With Processes of Various Kinds. Much has been published upon the durability of railway ties treated by various preservative processes, but there is little available Information concerning ties treated by different processes and laid in one track, where the treatments could be compared. In order to gather data for such a comparison, the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, through the forest products laboratory, in co-op-eration with the University of Wisconsin and a leading western line has, completed the first stage of an extensive experiment, the purpose and scope of which are given to the public by Secretary Houston in Bulletin 126, of the Forest service, recently issued. The ties used in the experiment were ordinary stock of the Cooperating railroad, and 100 of each of the two species, red oak and hard maple, were treatdti by each of six processes, selected so as to include at least one from each general type of pressure processes in common use. Thus, there were treated for the experiment 600 red oak and 600 hard ’maple ties, and 100 untreated ties of each species werb laid. The history of each tie up to the time of layinc is recorded, the preservative processes described, the methods of handling any laying given in detail, and everything needful for comparison of results of future inspection carefully worked out. In selecting a location for . the test track the effort was to secure normal conditions of site and traffic. The location is on a single-track road which carries a fairly heavy traffic in both directions. The track at the point where the ties are laid is gravel ballasted, well drained,- straight, and practically level. Nearly all the treated' ties are placed on a fill, but a few included in the test were laid in a cut Screw spikes with flat tieplates were used on 50 per cent, of the ties, and the remaining 50 per cent, unprotected by tieplates, were fastened to ordinary cut spikes. An extension to the original experiment included red oak and chestnut ties treated by a commercial plant, and a few spruce ties contributed by another firm were used. In order to avoid disturbing the track in the future new rails were laid at the time the ties were placed and aew fastenings were used throughout. It is thought that a series of observations and inspectors covering several years will yield valuable information relative to the preservation of timber and its behavior in actual use. The bulletin is illustrated with reproductions of drawings and photographs of apparatus and material, and all details as to ties are given in tabular form. ' '

Flood Cost One Railroad 3 Million.

An teastern line has just issued a booklet on “the 1913 flood and how it was met by a railroad.” After estimating the loss at $3,600,000, the following facts *are given: Bridges lost 24, damaged 50; spans lost 39, damaged 48; bridges lost, length in feet of road, 3,597, in feet of single track 4,318; bridges damaged, length in feet of road 4,189, length in feet of single track 6,239. The estimated cost of replacing these bridges is $1,027,116. Estimated cost of trestles is $336,144. Length of single track road requiring repairs, in miles, 88.7; of double track, 41,11, 3-track road, 2.5; of 4track road, 2.8, or, in all, 135.1 miles; length of road requiring repairs equivalent to miles single track, 189.6. Estimated cost of these repairs to the road is $1,396,390. In addition, damage to stations and other buildings was $70,900; to equipment, $84,285, and to telegraph lines, $107,505.

Nation of Individuals.

The French nation is a mass of individual particles, scintilating, assertive—strangers to all the ethics of cohesion. They are incapable of team work. Tou never read of French football or base ball or organized sports. They are a nation of individualists, brilliant individualists. Their philosophy, poetry, art, music, science, literature, all bear the imprint of a superlndlvidnallsm that has filled the world with its radiance. They defy every known law of human gravitation and fly off In a million fragments, careless of results. They have the child’s love for the doing, and the child's scorn for the thing done, They begin more processes, inventions, contrivances, experiments, and end fewer, than all the rest of Europe put together. The French propose, the Germans and the English dispose.

Gas-driven Russian Ships.

That internal combustion engines of Increasing size are being used for vessels in various parts of Europfe la shown by that the Russian navy is now engaged in building two vesels at the Nlcolaieff docks, which are of 12,000 tons draught. On the other band, the German navy is constructing a new type of marine motor of 8,000 .horsepower size. England already possesses boats of the "Eavestone" class having four-cylinder engines of 1,000 horsepower, and is going Into the construction of a new vessel engined at 6.000 horsepower, using a newly designed type of six-cylinder oil engine.—Scientific American.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

DEVELOPMENT OF 100 YEARS

Hard for the Mind to Imagine ths Progress Made by ths Railroads In That Time. A reminder from Railway and Locomotive Engineering by way of the Literary Digest indicates that in these days of celebrations we have overlooked one of the most important of all, being the perfection of the first locomotive to the point of doing regular train hauling. This historic event took place in 1813. It is not the centenary of the event, but rather the "consequences following the achievement, and the marvelous girdling and cross-jtoction-Ing of the earth with railroads within the period of 100 years, that challenge reflection. The latest compiled statistics give the total capital cost of the railways of the world at approximately >55,000,000, and their mileage in round numbers at 500,000 miles, nearly half of which is in the United States. A hundred years of

railroad building embraces this ot most inconceivable magnitude struction, and constitutes the pfor pal fact in the century’s revolution Of human industry jn ’ way of living. se _ While passing by the hundred of (he locomotive we have beenjj. tentatiously celebrating centenag. of much less importance, exer ie comparatively Jnsignificant influe upon world development. i_

IS BEST HEADLIGHT SIGN

Invention by Which Colored' Sli.t Can Be Operated by Engine- 1 man in Cab. I ■■———» At first glance it seems that e Washington man who invented C headlight signal shown in the illusf;

tion had hit upon Something of prime importance. Situated in the front of the headlight and just a little below it is a casing containing a series of colored glass slides. Air pipes leadfhg from the caboose ot the locomotive to' the base of this casing operate the

Turn Headlight Red or Green.

slides and by means of these pipes the engineman, from his seat in the cab, can turn the rays of his headlight from white to red or green by merely 'propelling a red or green slide, as the case may be, into place in front. The ability of the engineman to flash such signals at an instant’s notice is farreaching in its effects and only a railroad man can realize how important it is.

Eastern Shepherds.

The shepherds of the east —those to be found in Such countries as Palestine, Arabia and Persia—differ entirely from their brethren of the west, says the Wide World magazine. They are a class apart; even their dress is unlike that oTthe peasants of the land in which they live. Their shoes are of the roughest description, almost circular in appearance. They wear an outer garment of bright colors, woven from camel’s hair and without seams. Being square apd sleeveless, this garment fits any size of man, hanging in picturesque folds from the shoulders. A kerchief for the head, tied in two black rings of rope and wool, completes the outfit. In the winter, however, the eastern shepherd takes an undressed fleece, which he girds about his limbs, when he appears more than ever like a member of his own flock. Unlike the shepherds of the west, these men lead their flocks, this custom having arisen through the absence of roads and sheepdogs.

No Place for Postmen.

The new postman was called before the office superintendent for a reprimand. “You were seen loitering in the neighborhood of that big fire down the street,” the superintendent said. “I only stopped a minute," the man pleaded, “and I was already eight minutes ahead of schedule time.” “It is not a question of time bnt safety,” the superintendent replied. “The last place on earth a postman can afford to loiter is in the vicinity of a big fire. On the contrary he ought to make a detour to avoid it. “By neglecting that simple precaution more than one postman has had his leather bag drenched by a stream from the hose and a lot of ruined letters charged to his conscience if not to his pocketbook.”

Point Often Overlooked.

An invalid, driving down Fifth avenue tome years ago, stopped at a house. Two girls came along, lively, but not rich girls. They looked at her horses, and she heard one say to the other, "Oh, If I only had such horses!** As she beard It, she called those girls to the carriage. “You will pardon me, but I heard what you said. Now,” she added, "I want to tell you, I will give you-the horses and the carriage if you will give me the strength to walk up Fifth avenue that you have.”—Exchange.

Motor Cars as Auxiliaries.

British railroads use motor cars la calling for and delivering freight and they also endeavor to increase their passenger traffic in parte of the country which their rail lines do not reach by means of road-motor service.

JUST THROWING OUT A HINT

If Charity Fund Was to Be Given to the Needy, He Could Use Part of It. ' The children of a Boston Sunday school class had contributed their pennies for weeks to a fund which was to be devoted to charitable purposes, and on the day when they were to decide upon the matter of its distribution each child was called upon to express an opinion as to how it should be spent. The teacher explained to them that there were several charities which would be glad to receive the fund, either in Boston or among the foreign missions. She had impressed upon them, however, that the money might be spent to good advantage among the sick and needy children of their own parish. Several bright speeches on the subject had been made, when one seven-year-old boy arose and, evidently bearing in mind the teacher’s remarks about charity

escapade seems to be the mamaj of a girl at Star City, when he nave ready had a wife and four ehildrejhat Last summer he sent his wife any—the children here to live off his i 3W »” firm parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ch? Vick, and it is understood that t’ marriage to the other woman curred before them came here. Thi is nothing attractive about Chari Fre . and his line of talk is not apt! land any real prizes in his collect! of wives, but for the past twei or fifteen years he has followed practice of getting married eve cry once in awhile just for .the fun !e is the thing. Some years ago while living Datt, Rensselaer he had wives here, Chicago and at Sunman, Ind. Hdrd skipped out and for a long th be w<Aeu‘ as is tfwxniartte/L It.fi'in a

loose way. The suffrage leader smiled. “Yes,” she continued, “some people give this word as elastic a meaning as the witness gave it in a Georgia court. Asked why he was not present to .testify in a certain case, the man saidhe had had a ‘domestic trouble* just about that time. “ ‘What was the domestic trouble, pray?’ asked the examining attorney. “ ‘Well, to tell the truth, boss,’ said the witness, *1 was in the penitentiary for stealin’ a cow.’ ” .

PIMPLES ALL OVER FACE

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Many Norwegians in U. S.

So many Norwegians have either worked for a. few years in the united States or have relatives now working there, or have traveled or been educated there, that the number familiar with American goods is sufficient to have an appreciable effect upon the local demand.

Important to Mothers

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