Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1914 — Page 2

THEY MADE UP

By CLAUDINE SISSON.

Could she cook? She didn’t know enough about it to fry an egg. Could she sew? She had once almost sewed on a button. Had she ever made a purchase in the line of provisions? She simply knew that breakfast foods were ten cents a package. How about sweeping, dusting, bedmaking and window and dish washing? Oh, mother had always done those things. ' ' ‘ ■' ■ — r J She had started out once to beat a rug, but after the third whack with a stick she had seen a girl friend passing and had run over to the fence to talk with her. And had he ever bought groceries? Yes; when he was a boy he had once bought three pounds of sugar and a bar of soap for his mother. Had he ever split wood or lugged coal? Never. Had he ever sat down to a meal where the meat was burned, the potatoes underdone, the coffee slops,' and the pudding tasting like a mixture of sawdust and molasses? His mother had taken good care that he hadn’t. Had he ever replaced a broken window pane, repaired a lock on a door, made use of a pot of glue, handled a hammer or saw? Never, but he had handled a billiard cue. Did he know the water rates his father paid, or the amount of his gas bills? No. Had anyone asked him the price of a ton of coal he could not have given it correctly! He had a place in the office of his father’s factory at a salary qf $25 per week, and was really worth about five dollars of it

And Benson Chivers passed his twenty-first year, fell in love with Constance Jewett, and she with him, and they had matrimony on the brain within three months! "Benson, you are an idiot!” said the young man’s father. “Constance, you are an idiot!” repeated the girl’s father. “But I love Benson.” “Perfect idiocy!” "And he loves me.” "More idiocy!” ' , "And we are going to get married!” "Go ahead. There may be a law to ’ prevent two idiots from marrying, but I never heard of it.” “David,” said Mrs. Jewett, when the daughter had run away to her room, “we were young once ourselves.” “Yes?" “And we met and fell in love.” "Yes?” “And got married.” ' “Well?” “We were perhaps too young, and no doubt folks said we were idiotic, but we pulled through all right” , “Good Lord, wife, you could run a house bang-up, and I had a trade that was bringing me in five dollars a day! Our Constance don’t even know how to use a feather duster, and as for the young man, he couldn’t earn ten dollars a week outside his father’s office.” “But they wljl pull through somehow.” "Well, I have had my say.” There was a marriage and a brief bridal tour, and then came the cottage and housekeeping. It was fun settling that cottage. They did it all themsqjves. Nothing fitted. There were wobbles and wrinkles and puckers even in the dishes. It took a whole week to get the window shades to hang straight It took another to get the ache out of their wounded thumbs and the carpet tacks out of their heels. It was great fun, though, and while settling was going on there was no attempt at cooking. Crackers, cheese and sardines were good enough for them. On the first morhing of their real housekeeping theywere tor have a breakfast of beefsteak, fried onions and delicious coffee, with graham gems hot from the oven. The young husband was walking in the back yard to sharpen his appetite up when called in to the meal. He sat down at the head of the table and began to carve the steak. “By George!” “What is it, Benson?” He tasted of the onions. ■<. “By thunder!" “Is anything wrong?” asked the wife. He took a sip of coffee and spat it out with: "The devil!” "Benson, I ask you what is wrong?” “1 don’t believe any human husband was ever called in to such a meal before!” “Is —isn’t it cooked right?” “There isn’t any cooking about it. You have spoiled everything. Why didn’t you tell me that you couldn’t cook?” "You never asked me.” “But I supposed you could, of course." “And I supposed you knew enough to drive a nail!" “You may give the meal to Brown’s dog." • “And you may cook the next one!" The husband was too impetuous, and the wife was defiant instead of tearful. She deserved credit for trytlng to cook the meal when she knew that It must be a failure, but that is all. Had she burst into tears and sobs she would have received a pat on the ' head and a kiss, and all would have been over in five minutes. But bursting into tears wasn’t her way. She felt that she had been picked on, and that she would rather fight than weep. . .a■ ■’ The husband arose and clapped on

his hat and marched out of the house. This is a husband's privilege, and he always makes the most of it while knowing at the same time that he is making a fool of himself. In such cases a wife also has a special privilege. She can put on her hat and go home to mother and be sure of a sympathetic reception. In this instance it was a mile to mother’s.

The young wife would go home. The idea of a husband finding fault with his wife because she couldn’t cook was something so outrageous that she knew her mother would advise immediate divorce. She might not be awarded alimony, but there was the stage to turn to. With her face and figure, and” the way she could sing “Coming Thro’ the Rye,” it would be as easy as grease to make S2OO per week. It was high noon when she was ready to set out, and she didn't even take Benson’s photo with her. As a matter of fact, she gave it a disdainful look as she passed out.

Arriving at the proper spot, she climbed the fence, and hadn’t progressed ten rods when she walked into an old uncovered well. It was six feet deep, with a foot of mud and water at the bottom, and when she had managed to get out, she was covered with a good deal of real estate and had lost a good share of her resentment. ' Some one that knew the young wife was passing and saw her, and further on he met her husband and told him about It.

“Going home to mother to tell what a brute I am!” exclaimed Benson to himself. “Well, I will follow on and relate my si’de of things.” He started off, took the short cut, and as if Fate had planned it for two weeks ahead, he, too, went into the old well. He, too, got a large and liberal dose of freedom’s soil. Behold husband and wife a quarter of a mile from each other, each under a bush, scraping off the mud and thinking of beefsteak and fried onions. Hearken to a low and ominous bellowing, such as preceded the Johnstown tragedy! Behold that bull who had scented and got his eyes on the trespassers! He paws the earth. He throws clods over his back. His tail switches the bushes. Mrs. Benson Chivers knew nothing about cooking, but she did know an angry bull from a placid cow. She knew that he was coming for her, and that her salvation was to climb up the tree behind her. She climbed. When the bull arrived where the woman had been she was there no longer. He figured over the mystery for about ten seconds, and then went looking for the man. The man was no boob to sit there scraping off mud while a bull as big as a freight car was looking up his record. He arose and looked for a tree. He saw one. The clutch was released and away sped Mr. Chivers. The bull got a fair sight of him with both eyes and bounded after him with bellows that made the bushes sway as in a gale. j When the man was fairly seated on a limb five feet from the ground he found a woman beside him. It took him only a few minutes for him to recognize her as his wife-—the wife who couldn’t cook for shucks.

She had recognized him as his coat tails flew and flopped across the pasture, but she had not welcomed him with glad words.

They looked each other in the face for a moment and then turned away. Fiye minutes passed, and the bull stopped his snorting to wonder what sort of people they were. Another five minutes, and then a snicker from the wife, followed by what might be called a giggle from the husband.

Another giggle. Another snicker, and then, as the disgusted bull walked away: “I ain’t mad, Constance!” “Nor I, Benson!” “Let’s go hoihe and be good!" And ie lias eaten of her cooking ever since. (Copyright. 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Tuberculosis in Packing Rooms.

No paine are too great for managers of some large corporations to take to help eradicate disease from the ranks of their workers. As an instance of this might be mentioned the experience of a corporation in Chicago which employs thousands of men and women. It had been observed in this and other industrial institutions that tuberculosis was apparently most prevalent among employes in the packing department. Inquiry showed that great quantities of waste paper, excelsior and similar materials were thrown 'indiscriminately on the floors. When this trash had accumulated sufficiently it was swept up and thrown down a chute, but not until it had been spit upon in numerous cases. The dust thus raised carried 1 the dried sputum, sometimes from consumptives, to the lungs of others. As a remedy, first of all the rule was laid down that care should be taken with respect to the sweepings. Then measures were taken to weed out the 29 packers whom examination proved to be tuberculous. Other precautions were taken. But to crown it all the corporation bought a forest in a northwest state in order that it might manufacture its own excelsior, thus taking means to see that its packers might not be exposed tc tubercular infection from this source.

Willing to Drop it.

“Miss Ethel,’’ he began, “or Ethel, 4 mean—l’ve known you long enough to drop the ‘Miss,’ haven’t I?" She fixed her lovely eyes upon him wlth-a meaning gaze. ' “Yes, I think you have,” she, said. “What prefix do you wish to substitute?”—Catholic Citizen.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

“FOOL-PROOF” AEROPLANE FOR THE GOVERNMENT

Side view of one of the novel biplanes which are being hurried to completion in the Burgess factory for the use of the United States army and navy. It is called “fool-proof* because the V-shaped construction-and the balance make it impossible to capsize.

AMERICAN ARMY CAMP SANITATION IN OLD MEXICO

Surgeon Genera! Gorgas Tells Proper Methods to Pursue. Sanitary Precautions Which Will Be Taken to Safeguard Health of Troops in Event of Invasion of Tropical Country.

By WILLIAM C. GORGAS,

Surgeon General, U. S. A. Washington.-—ln the event of an invasion of » sub-tropical country by our army the sanitary precautions to be observed by our troops would be of supreme importance. The neglect of them might indeed be fatal to the success of the campaign, just as the British in 1763 were compelled by disease to withdraw from Cuba after they had taken Havana. Our precautions must, however, begin at home in our assembly and concentration camps. There is no question but that this will be done, and all sanitary precautions that military exigency can permit will be observed in Mexico.

In the war with Spain in 1898 we were handicapped by lack of training and experience in camp sanitation. We had practically no experience *ln the tropics. While we had gone into Mexico in 1846, there was little of the knowledge then existing of tropical diseases that has been since accumulated in India, Africa, eastern Asia and tropical America. Nor did the memory of what we may have learned in Mexico come down to us 42 years later. The great development of preventive medicine was not then in a stage convenient for practical application. The people were not educated up to its ideas. This is now all changed and the conditions under which we may go into tropical or sub-tropical lands give us considerable assurance, where before we went timidly and fearful of consequences. —>

Two Precautionary Stages. In any contemplated occupation of a country lying partly in the tropics by an army coming from the temperate zone there would be two stages to consider with reference to the precautions necessary to the preservation of the health of such a command — first, the measures required to avoid the “camp diseases” in the homeland while the’troops were mobilizing and training and, second, the measures required to avoid the diseases peculiar to the country to be occupied. It may be added that under theiatter circumstances there might be camp diseases in the occupied country, the same as. in the home country. The first sanitary precaution is to secure healthy soldiers physically sound men. Then it is necessary to safeguard their health while in training by giving them pure food, water and healthy camp surroundings and by preventing the entrance to such camps of infectious diseases. Our camps iuthl? country would naturally be selected with a view to salubrity. The supply of water must be given the same care and safeguarding that 'he supply of one of our cities receives. The selection of sites for large camps of concentration is influenced to a greater extent by this one matter than by any other consideration but military necessity. In successfully taking all precautions relating to water we assist in avoiding typhoid fever and the dysenteries — the camp diseases of all former wars. These diseases are also communicated by foods of some kinds, particularly the uncooked ones, and milk. Consequently the sanitary officers must inspect and examine the water and food, including milk, with the special purpose of keeping out the diseases thus transmitted. Of course,, as these diseases are spread by contact as well as mechanically by files and possibly other insects, such methods of transmission must be watched for and prevented. principally by the early exclusion of all cases of these diseases, ’’he means available to protect the

camp water supply in semi-permanent camps in the home country are all those employed by intelligent civil communities. Drinking Water Problem. In large, semi-permanent camps, when troops are assembled for the purpose of instruction and equipment awaiting transportation to the scene of campaign, it is usual to bring the water into camp and distribute it to the kitchens and shower baths by a fairly elaborate system of pipes. If the source of supply is good we have no more danger under the circumstances than we have in a small city.

When we have to deal with the question of potable water in the enemy’s country, and especially in the field, we deal with a more difficult problem, but by no meals a hopeless one. Efforts are made to ascertain

the quality of the water by examination and by its reputation when that is practicable. When deemed necessary—and this is the case with# all surface waters in the tropics, unless we except some mountain streams — we try to render the water safe for drinking purposes by such measures as may be possible in the field. However, it will often occur that under military stress, lack of time and transportation troops for short periods must use the water that the natives depend upon. Under these circumstances we may look for the appearance of such diseases as are water borne and are prevalent in the communities using the water.

The methods to render the water potable are naturally those used in temporary emergencies as a rule — boiling, filtering and the; use of chemicals. Portable appliances are used in the army to render the water safe. When this is not practicable we may always fall back upon boiling, for this may be actually done by the individual soldier with his metal cup as the receptacle. It has been found, however, that it Is an Impracticable and almost impossible procedure, as to accomplish such a measure requires fuel, the fire, time to boil and time to cool the water to enable it to be drunk. Either the soldier has, in the heat of the march or battle, to drink water as he finds it or some simple method has to be devised that may meet this necessity in a more practicable manner.

The field filter weighs 60 pounds, and this limits its use to such columns as are provided with transport tation to carry it about. The practical use of calcium chloride as a disinfecting agency is excessive in cities. Its use in portable plants in suitable form for armies has not been satisfactorily worked out but promises a possible solution for this vexing question. Disposal of Wastes. Only less important than a supply of potable water in camp is an efficient method for the disposal of. ,hu-„ man wastes. Excreta in camp become a most dangerous focus for the dissemination of such diseases as are spread through this means by direct contamination or pollution of water and milk and by files. In the last large camps maintained by the army in Texas in 1911 and 1913, a most efficient system was used. On still larger scale, but for a shorter time, the same system was fn use at the Gettysburg reunion in 1913. Briefly, this consists for each company organization of a, trench sixteen to twenty feet long, two to two and one-half feet wide and six feet deep. Over this is placed a box cover, which forms a seat with tight/ covers. The whole box ffts to the ground so closely and is so tightly made that flies are excluded. Each morning a gallon of oil and 15 pounds of straw are burned in this trench. This has the effect of destroying fly larvae, incinerating the I surface of the contents of the trench | and its solid walls and deodorizing. For "h year in the Texas canyis this system has given complete satisfaction. It will be observed that again the distinction must be made between camps semi-permanent In character and the camp of troops actually in the field. For the latter, of course, no elaborate system Is appropriate. Shallow trenches are used and covered after 2| hours. The facilities provided for the civil population are used when troops are in possession of towns and cities. The use of deep trenches In camp is somewhat limited by the character of the ground. High ground water and rocky outcrops forbid their use. ■Ate can then use very satisfactory Incinerate®! In setni-permanent camps. These are more expensive, aS fuel Is required. When a large camp is In

the environs of a city with a sewerage system and is to be occupied for a considerable time connection may be made with the established city system. This was actually done during the past few months at Texas City. This system was devised by the Vaughn-Reed-Shakespeare board, which investigated the typhoid epidemics in the camps during the war with Spain. This is known as the Reed trough system, and is merely a galvanized iron trough and urinal that contains a mixture of lime and water. As the excrement and urine are deposited into this they are not disturbed by flies. The contents of the trough are removed at intervals by an odorless excavator and deposited at a distance on fields as a fertilizer. This systemlslimltedtd wliathef condltions that do not reach the freezing poipt. Moving Armies Police Themselves. It has been an axiom in past wan that moving armies were healthy. This is merely an expression of the fact that moving troops- get away from their own camp pollution. This is still true unless the troops in semipermanent camps are protected from themselves by a sanitary system for the disposal of human wastes. To a lesser extent the other camp wastes are a menace to the health of troops, if neglected.

There exists, then, a yeast to deaven the whole that was absent in 1898. Since that eventful year the officers of the medical department of the army have been studying and practising military hygiene and sanitation with brilliant results, as demonstrated in the two large camps in Texas. Here 10,000 men lived for a year at a time with a sick rate lower than that at the average post. Better yet, the officers of the line, impressed with the value of the lessons In camp sanitation, have been enthusiastic supportters of these advances and. are hardly second to medical officers in their knowledge and experience In such matters. The army, then, Is in an entirely different position than at the outbreak of the Spanish war. The 20,000 cases of typhoid that then puzzled and distressed the people of this country will not appear as specters In our camps as a sign of sanitary incompetence.

Anti-typhoid Inoculation, which has been in vogue in the army since 1909, and which so efficiently protected it In 1913 that there was but one case among the inoculated in the army of 90,000, is to be trusted to keep our camps free of this disease so fatal to armies in the past. The dysenteries will be held in abeyance by many of the precautions that prevent typhoid, particularly the safeguarding of water and the early exclusion of such cases from the camps. Yellow fever is robbed of much of its terror by the fact learned In 1898 by Reed and his devoted band, which taught us the means of transmission and, consequently, the manner of avoiding ft. The soldier carries in the field a mosquito bar weighing 13 ounces that enables him to sleep tn comfort and safety. The sentry on duty is protected with, a head net that serves the same purpose. These are the diseases that, if avoided, will make any campaign in the tropics unique in history.

Typhus an Ancient Enemy. One other disease there is that may be a possible cause of alarm —that until recently might have been difficult to prevent. It is a disease that has played a tremendous part in all great European wars In the past and has even determined the fate of campaigns since the Peloponnessian war—, typhus fever. Fortunately, and thanks to officers of the public service, as well as to a brilliant Frenchman, we have learned that It is spfead by the bite of the louse and. In consequence, we . are enabled to limit its ravages. I have not mentioned smallpox, as it is not peculiar to armies, and its preventive measure of vaccination is so well known as to require no further mention.

Thus, forewarned, we are forearmed and enter any campaign confident' of our ability and in the sanitary training of the line feel that we can exist in the campaign in such a state of "hygienic competence” that the disabilities of the war will be limited, for the first time in the history of the hew world, to wounds,“and‘thsit disease will not kill more than bullets. The American people will have what they should have for the generous support given every year—the most efficient army of its size in the world. L-Engineering Record.

LONG HELD IN HONOR

BEAMAN'S MAGAZINE OF ANCIENT HISTORY.

Claims to Be the Oldest Religious Publication of its Kind in America —Famous for Introduction of Hymn That Lives. Oldest of all religious magazines in America is the Sailors* Magazine, Jt published by the American Friend socieity, New York. Started in 1828, it has appeared without interruption ever since. Its monthly issue has been printed by the same family from father to son for twenty-five or twen-ty-eight years. For 60 yedrs its cover was unaltered. ' In this magazine appeared for the first time the world-famous “Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me.” It was '* written by E. Hopper, then pastor of - the little old Church of the Sea and Land, its edifice still standing, but almost unknown to this generation of New Yorkers. Colonel Roosevelt’s first speech, made when he was a boy, is also recorded here. Romances are traceable through its pages—true stories of adventure, heroism and tragedy that make up the life of the sea. One such story is behind the brief account of the loan libraries sent to sea by the dowager duchess of Aber,deen after her visit to America. The present earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutenant of Ireland, had a brother. This brother was the real heir to the title, but long years ago he'came to this country from England, and shipped from here as a common sailor under the name of Gordon. He rose to the position of mate, but shortly after that was drowned at Sea. Hi's mother came here and gave in his memory the libraries that today are multiplied and sent over the ocean to as great a number as the funds of the society permit. The magazine incarnates also a history of the change in the usage of English. It is a most valuable account of the moral tone of the past. One of the chaplains of the United States navy says in an article which the old issues hold, that he wishes “they would flog the men forward, instead of aft” for the reason that it disturbed his evening meditations. ( Probably the first account of the ' free churches in Sweden was published in the magazine. These churches are now grown to be rivals of the State church there. It was started, this brave little herald of the sailors’ life, with 250 subscribers, all in New York city. At the end of the first year, 1829, it had gathered, in Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston, S. C., 1,200. Its oldest subscriber today is Asher Sheldon of New Haven, Conn., who has Just celebrated his one hundredth birthday. He has been on the lists of the Seamen’s society for 40 years.

As to Amazons.

Not a few fancy horseback riding for women is comparatively new. To be sure onr great-grandmothers rode on pillions, but they were of a day when It was the fashion to be delicate. Later the sex took up riding, sidewise of course, but now many ride across just as did the Amazons of old. Though having the Amazon river for q namesake, these doughty dames are . supposed to have come froffi the country about the Caucasus, -their chief seats being along a river whiefi empties into Hie Black sea. They invaded at various times Thrace, Asia Minor, lßlands e of the Aegean, Greece, Syria, Arabia, Egypt and Libya. The ninth labor of Hercules was to take from them the girdle of the queen of the Amazons. It was a very unpleasant affair, as you no doubt remember. Instead of showing fight, Hlppolyta was sensible to his manly charms and gave him her girdle without a struggle and even went boating with him. Juno took alarm, warned the Amazons that their queen was being carried off, and they descended upon the ship. Thinking Hlppolyta had been treacherous, Hercules slew her and sailed away with the girdle. So much for the Amazons.

Not in Same Sea.

Winston Churchill, whose political future is the subject of a good deal of discussion, was an ardent Conservative at a very early age. Once, when a very small boy, he visited Dieppe, where some of his schoolfellows were staying with their parents. He used to bathe with them every morning, but one day he did not appear. “Where has Winston got to?” asked the father of his young friends. “Has he" left?" - “No,” replied one of the boys, “but I he says he has heard that you are a Radical, and he says he’s not going to bathe with you any more.”—Pearson’s Weekly.

Longest Telephone Cable.

The telephone cable which is to connect Aldeburgh, England, with Walcheren, Netherlands, is to be 79 nautical miles in length, making it the longest submarine telephone cable in the world. It will furnish telephone communication between London and Berlin. The cable is to be of the four* core Pupln loaded type. :

Argentine’s Great White Way.

A large shipment of electric signs has Just left New York for the Argentine <»publlc.—Edison Monthly.