Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1914 — Page 2

Cales of GOTHAM and other CITIES

Orang-Outang Ties Knot in Half-Inch Iron Bar

MEW YORK. —Ali, the big orang-outang of the Bronx zoo, is going to have Is a new house with three-quarter-inch steel bars Instead of his present one-half-inch iron stays. Following his transfer from Hagenback’s in Berlin to the

hars, opening more or less terrifying holes. Engleholm realizes that if Ali should get out, the gruesome tale of Edgar Allan Poe of what happened in the Rue Morgue would be uppermost in the minds of most folk, and there would be a great deal of unpleasantness. •> ■ There is no danger of All’s getting out before his new cage is ready. The bulk that goes with his 215 pounds cannot be squeezed through the openings he has made. But there is enough peril to make the keepers wary of going too close within the fence inclosing the cage. In a playful mood Ali, who has a nine-foot reach, measuring the extendi arms across the shoulders, poked his hand through the bars, took hold of Engleholm’s jumper and gave a yank. The buttons yielded; The orang-outang tore the garment from the man’s back and jumped with it to the big boom in the upper regions of the cage, where Ali skins the cat and turns giant swings. Ali’s palms are nine inches broad, and Engleholm’s arms are covered with black and blue spots where All has given him playful slaps. • .

Happenings When Clocks Were Set Ahead an Hour

CLEVELAND, OHIO. —“General Chaos,” known and famed wherever the sun shines, strolled into Cleveland bringing eastern time with him and covered the. bodies of nervous persons with goose flesh. Sixty perfectly good

minutes were lost, and when the hunt for them began arguments without number were started.. Taxicab and transfer companies eaught the brunt of the debates, and mildly excited patrons, nervous for fear they would miss their train, talked time with chauffeurs and drivers until the ■ situation in some instances. became almost alarming. In front of the Hollenden hotel a large woman, whose expression betokened authority, backed a boy-s|zed

chauffeur against his machine, you running by eastern, central, sun time or guess?” she inquired. * "We are showing a complete line of time this morning. Take your pick,” answered the youth. "But I’M you the truth, I’m running by guess today.” A real tragedy: A waiter In a lunchroom got home at midnight and set his alarm clock ahead an hour, setting the alarm for 4 a. m. His roommate came in an hour later, set the clock ahead another hour, thinking his sleeping companion had forgotten. The waiter showed up for work an hour ahead of the new schedule. Bill Smith wouldn’t turn his watch ahead Friday and he waited five minutes longer in the morning for a car because the rush hour extras had gone. The boss scowled as he sneaked into the office and glanced significantly at the clock. ‘ He was to meet his wife at two and give her tickets to the matinee. Wifey missed the show because Bill showed up at three. Bill arrived home to a cold dinner because wifey had adopted easte n time, and —perhaps she remembered the show she missed.

“Corpse” Raids an Alleged Gamblers’ Stronghold

CHICAGO. —In Forest Park the dust lay thick upon the road. Occasionally it was stirred by a passing automobile, but more frequently by some funeral cortege on its way to the cemetery. At Tw_elfth street and Hannah

at a radius of two miles he stationed "lookouts." These minute men” furnished the salpon with immediate information of the approach of all strangers. ' > For some time Mr. Peters had his eye on Mr. McGurn and the little room above the saloon. The chief deputy sheriff polished up his star and went to the home of his assistant, Virtus Rohn, 5007 Washington boulevard. “Vlrtie,” said Mr. Peters, “I have some bad news for you.” “What’s that?” asked Mr. Rohn. “You’re dead,” announced the deputy sheriff. “You died this afternoon. I’m arranging for your funeral now. We’re going to have a regular procession.” “Good night!” said Mr. Rohn, or words to that effect. But Mr. Peters was determined. Thirty minutes later an automobile hearse, equipped with a coffin and other necessary paraphernalia, drew up In front of the house. Six black-clad “mourners” occupied another machine. The other automobiles were filled with “pallbearers” and friends of the "deceased.” The "lookouts” were deceived. Suddenly the mourners became active. “Corpse” and “mourners” raided the saloon. “I said we’d ‘pull’ this place if we had to ‘kill’ a man to do it,” said Mn Peters.

City Hall Cat Actually Has a Correspondence

PHILADELPHIA, PA—lt is not often that a cat’s mail becomes so heavy that he must have a secretary, but this is the fact with Strike, the pet feline of the electrical bureau at city hall. Strike actually has a correspond-

ence —purely a social correspondence. It developed through no effort on his part, but because persons visiting this fcfty happened to see him and admired him and hi? tricks so much that they have insisted upon sending him letters and postcards on leasng here. His daily mail amounts to two letters and three or more postcards. - Of course, Strike does not actually employ a secretary, but his mail became heavy and had to be answered. Strike can do a lot of intelli-

gent things, but he cannot write, so Jim Rourke, an attache of the bureau, has to act as Strike’s secretary. Although Strike cannot read, he appears fully to understand when on* of his letters is read to him. He assumes and maintains a position of careful at ten ts oi as each letter is read. If the letter is one in answer to a letter he received, he appears particularly attentive. His objections are noted bv drag ging his paw over the floor. " He came Into the world as a very lowly, uneducated feline, but has so improved his mentality that he is now a feline Of high degree. He was a kitten when he first entered the electrical bureau. His name came to him through the fact that during Ere street car strike of 1910 he was thrown by a striking motorman’s wife at a non-union motormar. The Woman was arrested, and when she was brought to city hall for a hew tag she bad <UUe cat with her, .

zoo on May 5, Ali passed a few' sluggish days and then aw’oke to the fact that he has a reputation to live up to —the reputation of being the biggest orang-outang in captivity. It became evident at once that the cage fixed up by Keeper Fred Engleholm was a misfit by several sizes. All tested his prison the other day and tied a fair imitation of a bowknot in one of the half-inch iron bars. Then he bent most of the remaining

avenue William McGurn operated a saloon. In the room above the bar on the second floor there were telephones, racing charts, playing cards, poker, chips and dice —until the other day. Mr. McGurn, according to Charles W. Peters, chief deputy sheriff, was a cautious man. He acted on the theory that an ounce of prevention was worth a court full of lawyers. So cautious was he, according to Mr. Peters, that all about his saloon

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Cool Gowns for Summer Strollers

THE Camera Man. armed .with his merciless instrument and his alert, discriminating eyes, we have always with us. And now the Moving Picture Man is “taking” unawares, everything within his reach. Both are as insistent as the Jersey mosquito, and many a wrathful victim considers himself stung by all of them. But the Camera Man and the Movie Man are destined -to do us much good. We are about to see ourselves as others see us —and when we least expect it. On the Board Walk (which may stand for any fashionable dress parade)* the Camera Man has a chance to make comparisons and to look for standards by which to make comparisons.ln the picture shown here he has succeeded in catching the photograph of two wonderfully well-clad . women whose charming costumes are standards of excellence, that not many others measure up to. They demonstrate that modes of the season which have been much criticized and are unsatisfactory to the majority of the people, may be developed attractively, and more than attractively. The costume at the left is of plain and figured taffeta. The skirt is of the plain fabric, bound with plain silk in the color of the flower in the figured

Mourning Millinery in Lats Designs

MOURNING millinery in new designs, for spring and summer wear, has no strikingly new features to offer- — and does not need any. The smaller turban and toque shapes, which are familiar in other kinds of millinery, have afforded the best of foundations for specialists who make mourning hats. The persistent draping of veils at the back and the use of a portion of the veil as a drape for the body of the hat, are noticeable in all the best displays. And the use of net bordered with crape is a concession to comfort which »has also oeauty to commend it. On the round sailor shapes, with brims one sees occasionally square veils of net bordered with crape or of chiffon, finished with woven-in border, that are placed to fall over the face and are thrown **ack over the hat. Two very good examples of unpretentious but elegant hats of crape are shown in the illustration that heads this article. The toque, in all black crape, has a coronetmade of folds laid about it in diagonal lines. The crown

taffeta. It is a straight skirt wide enough at the bottom to allow a frei step. The shaped tunic is rounded at the front. There is a girdle about the small coat in the plain taffeta in the colors used in the skirt and in the binding. There is an underbodice of the sheerest materials, open at the throat and finished with deep folds of white chiffon. The skirted bodice, or coat, whichever one considers it, is finished with a turned-back collar after the Chinese model and opening below the bust. The sleeves are wide and full, with deep turned-back cuffs, and are three-quarters length. For summertime this dress embodies about all the good points that are to be considered. First, it is good looking, smart in fabric and cut, cool and delightfully refined in design. The other dress has a plain skirt, with some drapery arranged in the seams. There is a cloth coat finished with a draped collar in Roman striped taffeta. The model follows the Russian blouse inspiration, with skirt cut longer at the right than at the left side. This is a separate coat and practical for other wear. The Roman stripe decoration and the draped collar hav« been especially well handled.

Is covered with the plain crape. The long net veil is held cornerwise and pinned, at one corner of the toque at the right side toward the back. It is laid in folds without any attempt at regularity, and pinned down to the hat with pins having dull black heads. This brings the broad part of the veil below the shoulders and gives an effect of length which is achieved without weight. This design for first mourning may be duplicated in white crape for summer wear. But with the black net bordered with crape used as a substitute for the all-crape veil, and the drapery all falling from the back, the design is not heavy or burdensome. A round hat faced with white crape, with drape and trimming of black very attractive, depending for its charm upon good lines and workmanship of exquisite neatness. The white next the face and hair will be found more becoming to the majority of wearers than al! black.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

GATHERED SMILES

Those Opera Dresses.

Myles—You say you z like to have your wife go to the opera? Styles—Sure. “Why so?” “Because I don’t have to button up her dress in the back.” “You don’t?” “No; you see, the dresses she wears to the opera have no backs.”

Honeymooners.

“I see a tunnel in England is said to be four miles 642 yards in length. How would you like to kiss for four miles, dear?” said the man. “Why not kiss for the additional 642 yards?” a’sked the girl. “Oh, you would need the 642 yards to get your mouth back in proper shape, dear.”

He Was for It.

■ “Do youbelievein this back to the farm movement?” “You bet I dot I’m for it” “Think it’s the right thing, eh?” “You bet! Back to the farm for mine! If I had a farm you'd find me on every pleasant day with my back to it, either fast asleep or fooking up through the branches at the sky.”

In England.

“Just criticism is one thing, and improves art, but it hurts an artist’s feelings to have his masterpieces criticised with—” “What? With malicious acerbity?” “No; with ax.”

His Only Feat.

“That amateur wrestler is boasting of the professional men he can throw.” “That fellow? Why, the only thing anybody has ever seen him throw is his shadow on the pavement.”

HIS CHANCE.

Mrs. Henpeck—Next summer at the seashore I’m going to learn diving. Mr. Henpeck—You’ll never succeed. You’ve got to keep your mouth shut to dive. ’ I

Early Example.

While Caesar fought, he’d also write And send stuff 0:1 in batches, Convinced no doubt that half the fight Was in the news dispatches.

The Star Attraction.

Hostess —I ari glad you children decided to come for dinner. — Tattlh Josie.—We didn’t turn for dinner; we turn 1.0 hear Willie’s grandpa eat his soup.—Judge.

The Drawback.

“In your automoblling, are you running under your first estimate of expenses?” “I would be, if I could only keep from running over people?” —

Absent-Minded Man.

He rushed into a laundry office in a good deal of a hwry. "How long does it take you,” he asked, “to do up a white waistcoat.” “Generally about two washings, sir,” said the attendant, before he thought. He was discharged shortly after making that break. —Cleveland Rjain Dealer.

A Query.

“Pop, tell me something.” “What is it, my boy?” “Do the cowboys use the sand of the western deserts when they scour the plains?”

Time Flies.

Wise —John, what has become of the alarm clock? It’s gone. Husband —I put it on the mantel last night and I heard It go' off this morning.

Cryptic.

“You used to say that you could never live without me." “Yes; my dear, but then I didn’t realize what good shape I was in.”

Indians Wore Feathers.

Mr. Flatte —It is believed that previous to civilization baldness was unknown amqng American Indians. Mrs. Flatte—Well, I can’t understand why you object to my putting some money into feathers.

His Guess.

Mrs. Flatte —I see that discarding the queUes In Canton, China, have glutted the market-for human hair. Mr. Flatte—Which accounts for the pink, blue and green wigs on the market. I suppose.

NO LEGAL WAY TO STOP HIM.

However brave the policemen are, they are careful about not breaking the laws and ordinances. A patrolman was kicking his feet down on one of the docks on the river front the other morning, when an excited citizen ran up to him and cried: “Say, hurry up! A man has just jumped off the pier!” "With hie clothes on?” asked the officer. " “Yes—fully dressed. Hurry!” “What do you want me to do? There ain’t no ordinance against a man swimmin’ as long as he’s properly dressed.”—Philadelphia Times.

GOOD PARTNERSHIP.

Cholly—Well, I hear that you and Grace are to become life partners. George—Yes, she puts in the capital and I put in the experience.

A Beauty Spot.

I kissed her on the spot, Of nectar I did sip; But when I’d finished kissing That spot stuck ft my lip.

Disqualified.

“I should like to be excused, your lordship,” said a man who had been, summoned on a jury. “What for?” “I owe a man $5 and I want to hunt him up and pay it.” ■ “Do you mean to tell this court you would hunt up a man to pay a bill insteadof waiting for him to hunt you. up?” “Ygs, your lordship.” “You are excused. I don’t want any l man on the jury who will lie like that.”; —London Chronicle. /

A Rare Work.

Fogg reports that he overheard thin in the book department of one of our big stores: * Customer Have you Arnold’® poems? Saleslady (turning to head of department)—Miss Simpson) have we Benedict Arnold’s poems?—Boston Transcript.

What She Preferred.

“What’s this entente cordiale I heat so much about?” “Oh, it’s a French drink of some kind. Look out for them foreign cordials, my boy.”—New .York Sun.

Subtle Distinction.

“.■Why are you down on Senator IVomFat’" - ~ “I think he upholds the trusts.” “Don’t be too hasty. I suspect he merely holds ’em up.”

So, Naturally

“So you didn’t marry the widow?” “No, she wouldn’t promise to support me in the same style in which she had supported her first husband.”

TRUTH MAKES ENEMIES.

She —Does she always tell the truth T He —She could hardly do that and be the most popular woman in society.

Its Song.

“Ah, ha!” sang our banner, “I gloriously fly 'With my stripes proudly waving, To the star-spangled sky.”

Gloomy Alternative.

“Will yon make a speech at that; banquet?” • “I don’t know whether to do so or not," replied the eminent personage. ‘ When you make a speech no vadays, it either attracts so little attention! that you’re or so much that you’re embarrassed ”

Doesn't Play Golf Either.

Mrs. Goodlelgh (after feeding tramp) 11 —Are you a Christian? Tramp—Well, mhm, nobody can a> cuse me er workta’ on Sundays.