Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — Page 3

CATS ABOUT BODY

■ < Find Remains of Aged Woman Surrounded by Pets. Family of Felines Attack Police When Attempt Is Made to Remove Corpse—Father Was at One Time Cashier of a Bank. J «. ,’v, Philadelphia.—The body of an aged woman, attired in a dirt-stained wrapper, lying within a circle of cats, was found by two special policemen when they entered an unkempt, dust-covered front room at 640 North Sixteenth* street in answer to an anonymous telephone call. The cats were the only living beings in the house, and the policemen were forced to battle with them before they could move the body of the dead woman. Investigation showed that she. was Miss Sarah Lippincott Starr, seventy years old, who, with her sister. Victoria, and a horde of cats, had occupied the house for the last 12 yean. Shortly after midnight Miss Victoria Starr, who is slxty-elght years old, came upon her sister lying at full length near the cellar door on the first floor. She did not disturb her for several hours because she thought she was sleeping. Later when she knew her sister to be dead, she notified her nephew, whose name, she says, Is Walter Jordan. He called the policemen of the Twentieth and Buttonwood station. Miss Victoria was out when the policemen called. Police Surgeon John H. Egan found that the left arm was discolored and swollen from an infected scratch on the hand. Miss Victoria then returned and explained that her sister had pricked herself three days before with a needle but had refused to have medical aid. , “We never had a doctor in our lives "and we weren't going to begin with them," said the sister. “We were a couple of regular did maids," she Said complacently, “but nice ones,” .she added quickly. And then she lapsed .into the present tense as if her sister were still alive. “We love animals,* all kinds, birds, dogs, horses, snakes, but especially* cats; O, I love ’em, that is, four-legged ones. But I don’t like two-legged ones,” she mumbled reflectively, and ebook her bead decisively. “I like rats, too. Those in the cellar get many a scrap from me. Sure I feed ’em, but I have trouble keeping the cats away. Well, I’m all alone now, except for the cats, but I’ll scrape along, although money is •carce.” Miss Victoria Starr is now the last of the five children of Samuel Starr,, who was the cashier, 25 years ago, of the Bank of the Northern Liberties. The body of her sister, Sarah, was removed to the morgue. Doctor Egan said the death was due to natural causes.

May Cost Husband Riches

Young Mrs. Astor’s Money Bag Jibe Likely to Prove Costly In Many Ways. London, England.—William Waldorf Astor, the expatriated American who is seeking a dukedom, is reported to be very angry with his witty American daughter-in-law, formerly Nanny Langhorn. for her jocular remark in reference to the tightened strings of her father-in-law’s money bag. And it has

Mrs. Waldorf Astor.

brought about a rupture In the family which may cause the senior Astor to disinherit his ambitiota son. Waldorf. Mrs. Astor was one of the four beautiful Langhorns made famous by the Charles Dana Gibson drawing*. Her wit and hum<*r are the spirit of many notable gatherings and she is very popular in America as well as in Eng- , land. ' —

RED ARMY TROUSERS TO GO

French Soldiers Will 'Be Clothed In Gray-Blue—Take . Seven Year* to Make Change. Paris.—The death warrant for the French soldlere' red trousers was signed in the chamber of deputies. In the future the army of the republic will go to war clothed in a neutral

STENOGRAPHERS LUNCH IN GRAVEYARD

The graveyard of historic Trinity church in New York has been thrown open to the working girls of the financial district, and scores of young women may be seen daily eating their luncheis while resting their backs against gravestones. \

PANAMA’S BIG GUN

■ —5 Largest Piece of Ordnance in World Nearing Completion. Has a Velocity of 2,250 Feet a Second, and Is by 665 Pounds of Powder—Tremendous Instrument of Peace. Washington.—When its breech locking device has been perfected at Watervliet arsenal, the great 16-inch gun, the biggest piece of ordnance in the world, which was recently shipped from the Sandy Hook proving grounds, will be virtually ready for service in the Panama canal fortifications. The carriage of this great gun is under construction at the Watervliet (Mass.) arsenal. It probably will be taken back U Sandy Hook for tests aft6r being mounted, and will not be shipped to Panama befdrc next spring. A conception may be obtained of the tremendous power of this gun, destined to protect the Pacific entrance to the Panama canal, from the fact that it is 50 feet long, weighs 142 tons, and flreq a projectile about six feet long. The projectile* weighs a ton and is discharged by 665 pounds of powder. It requires eight men to carry the powder charge. This gun has a maximum range of from 22 to 23 miles, or half the distance between New York city and West Point The elevation permitted by its carriage will enable the gun to fire a projectile about 11 miles across the Pacific ocean. It has sufficient power, theoretically, to pierce two feet of the best armor at the muzzle. At 11 miles the gun "is calculated to

¥— . • shade of gray-blue, which, it is asserted, will make the wearers invisible to the enemy at 500 yards, instead of, as at present, being plainly discernible at 1,500 yards. The change is expected to take seven years. M. Meselmy, the minister of war, in urging the necessity for the measure, was supported in his argument by citing the example of the British army, which adopted khaki in the Transvaal, and the experience of the war in the Balkans.M. Lasies, an ex-cavalry officer, arotased the patriotic fervor of the deputies by saying that the French soldiers, whether they dressed in blue, red or gray, would always fight well M

THIEVES LEAVE A MESSAGE

•V--- ■ ■ 1 •, •* Robbers Ask Postmaster to Keep No More Pennies as They Weigh too Much. ■' • Branchville, N. J.—When Postmaster William P. Ellett arrived at the post office one morning recently' he found the Interior in disorder and the following sign painted on the back of a calendar hung over the Safe: "Have a heart! What's this place—a kid’s toy bank? Wise up! Never keep pennies; they weigh too much.” A hurried investigation showed that the safe had been robbed of about two dollars, all in pennies, which had been left in a drawer at night, after all the silver and bills had been taken home by the postmaster. In a drawer above the one where the pennies were left was $8 worth of stamps, but these were left undisturbed. The robbers gained entrance by forcing the lock on the front door.

SUFFRAGETTE WINS A POINT

Shovels Grain With Laborers In Order to Get Their Signatures to Petition. ——— Elden, O.—Miss Elizabeth Strauss, nineteen yean old, suffragist, and one of the most strenuous petition circulators in Ohio, asked a group of laborers who were persplrlngly shoveling grain into a box car to sign the “votes for women” paper. “Women ought not to vote, 'lessen they do the same work as men does,” one of the workers said, and the others agreed with him. Miss Strauss shoveled grain with a big scoop for 16 minutes, and left with the signatures of all the men.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER.IND.

* ■. —■ pierce a 12-lnch armor-plate, or any side armor afloat When .a shell leaves the gun it is revolving around'its axis at about 4,000 revolutions a minute, and develops a pressure of 38,000 pounds to the square inch. The pressure to the rear on the gun and forward on the projectile amounts, to 7,600,000 pounds. The projectile’s velocity of 2,250 feet a second gives a muzzle energy of more than 84,000 foot tons —that is, an energy capacity of raising 42 tons one foot every second. Army qrdnance officers believe this gun will be a tremendous instrument of peace when it is in position on the Panama canal

‘JANE ADDAMS’ OF THE SOUTH

Miss Kate M. Gordon of New Orleans, Noted Suffragette, Agrees With President on Question. Washington.—Miss Kate M. Gordon . of New Orleans, president of the Souttiern States Woman Suffrage association and frequently referred to as “the Jane Addams of the South,” if

Miss Kate M. Gordon.

visiting Washington on her way home from Newport, where she was a guest of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont In an in< terview she expressed herself as agreeing with the president that equal suffrage is a states rights matter and de Clared that southern women are not opposed-to suffrage as has been said.

16-YEAR-OLD BOY SAVES TWO

Milton Smith Risks His Use to Rescue Men FSom Drowning at Coplay, Pa. Coplay, Pa. —Slxteen-year-old Miltoll Smith of this place proved himself a hero when he saved two men from drowning in the Lehigh river and jusi missed reaching Raymond Nolf, eight een years old, who was drowned. Le-d Stauffer and William Klepplnger wen the rescued men. All four, following their day’s work at a bakery, .Went in swimming in the river. As they wers wading about, the quartette suddenly stepped into a deep hole, forming a bridge pier. Stauffer and Klepplnger made an effort to t rescue Nolf and would have been drowned if Smith had not been near. After helping Stauffer and Klepplnger to shore, Smith went after Nolf, but he had sunk and his body could not bfe located.

Minister's Son Pleads Guilty.

Lob Angeles.—John F. Gray, said tc be the son of a Pasadena minister, pleaded guilty to stealing a gold watch from the body of Harry Baker offer an automobile had plunged over a cliff resulting In the deaths of Baker and three compahlons. According t 4 the police Gray committed the robbery while Baker was dying.

DO ONE THING AT A TIME

Too Many Housekeepers Lack System , and as a Result Work Hard With Little Results. There is a good old saying which is familiar in its excelleht advice to “let the head save the heels.” But jhe nervous, energetic modern woman, whose head, full of a score of things to be done immediately, is usually far in advance of her'Keels, finds the ancient and honorable axiom, “one thing at a time,” far better suited to her case. The woman who, passing through her bedroom to get her pocketbook out of a bureau drawer.to pay the milkman, notices that the bed valance is awry, stoops to adjust it and observes dust on the table leg near by, pauses to seize the duster fron\ its bag, remarks that, the duster should gojnto the wash, steps into the bathroom to drop it in the laundry bag, remembers that the laundry bag should be mended this week, carries it to her sewing table, notes that she will need more white spool cotton before the dressmaker comes, catches up a pencil to jot down the memorandum and thereupon discovers on her memo pad..£alf a dozen things which must positively be attended to before lunch time, is very likely tq have a nervous breakdown before her vacation time comes around, and her husband probably wonders what on earth she has had to make her so nervous. Every good housekeeper knows that enough small matters can be carried in the head in one morning to keep the heels of three maids, a hired man and all the children running most of the afternoon; and in these days when bridge, charitable interests, and club affairs occupy one part of the feminine mind and household business the other, the woman who refuses to allow herself to be harassed and distracted by too mapy thoughts at once, but who attends to one thing at a time with her whole- mind, is she who keeps serene and avoids the great American breakdown at fifty.

BETTER THAN HOT VEGETABLE

Salads, Easily Made and Inexpensive, Should Have Place on Table in Summer. It is not necessary to have expensive asparagus tips or pimentos to make the most delicious salad. The humble string bean, carrot, turnip, beet and lima bean offer most delightful possibilities. Finely shredded cabbage with lima beans and grated carcarrot is most attractive. Beets and string beans combine well, and to fhose who like to make salads, even the smallest scraps of left-over can be utilized to advantage. So then, in your summer cooking, substitute the salad for the hot, steaming vegetable. It will save time and bother because the» you can boil it in the early coolness of the day, lay in the icebox, and have all prepared for night without needing to bother Just at supper-time. Wash and clean the lettuce early in the day, wrap in a bag of paper toweling or square of clean cheesecloth and put it in the icebox, and your salad is practically done. A summer supper in some form of aspic; meat loaf, or even a hot meat dish, together with a vegetable salad dressed with plenty of olive oil, fruit and bread and butter is ideal.

Salada a la Creole.

Two solid, two sweet green pepjiers.or one green and one yellow Spanish onion and plain with crisp tended lettuce. Iryou cannot get the yellow peppers see it you cannot get yellow (large) tomatoes in order to get a genuine Spanish combination of colors. Slice the vegetables nice and thin, throwing the onion and pepper In ice water for half an hour. Drain and arrange In alternate layers -on the bed of lettuce. Sprinkle a few chopped, pickled nasturtiums or a chopped truffle over the whole and do not add the dressing until salad is served.

Russian Chicken.

The Russians have a delicious dish of stewed chicken which calls for a fat chicken, mushrooms, onion, cauliflower and one cupful Of fresh or French canned peas. The chicken should be cut up as for fricasseeing, then stewed in boiling water, to which the raw vegetables have been added, the onions being added whole. Cook slowly till tender., Drain off the gravy and thicken with flour and cream, place the chicken on a platter surrounded with the cooked vegetables and covered with the gravy.

Lactone, or Artificial Buttermilk

This is decidedly a health beverage, as the lactic acid ferment it contains acts as a prophylactic against the putrefactive bacteria. The tablets may be purchased at any drug store and contain full directions for making. Tliis is more nutritious than buttermilk, as it is made of whole milk.

To Clean Birdseye Maple.

Birdseye maple fdmlture which has become soiled and finger-marked can be cleaned very satisfactorily in the following manlier: Wash the furniture with a soft rag and lukewarm water to which a little kerosene has been added. Rub dry quickly knd pol-' ish with a soft «loth. V r

Broiling Chicken.

A chicken for broiling should be wrapped in a buttered paper bag. This will keep the meat moist and retain flavor. ' ' *

WHEN THE LOCOMOTIVE BALKED

“And There We Were Stalled, Twenty-two Miles From the Polling Place.”

OLD GIRL “GOT EVEN”

HOW LOCOMOTIVE DOPED OUT ITS SCHEME OF REVENGE. Resented Being Assigned to Work Train and Balked With Its Load of Workers on Their Way to the Polls. “If there’s anything that a good, smart, self-respectin’ locomotive don’t like to do it’s to pike around with a work train,” remarked the veteran engineer in a reminiscent mood, “and I know it because of my experience With old 326 some years ago. We had had a trivial accident —caboose jumped the track; little harm done —but the master mechanic got ugly about it and assigned me and the old girl to a work train. Right there I looked for trouble. “Sure enough, the next day the 326 was ordered out on the work train, an’ I went with her. I saw right away that the 326 didn’t take to the worktrain idea nohow. She’d muss an’ puff aroun’ an’ look like a cloudburst in disguise when she was cornin’ down the 4ine. She’d barely make steam enough to get us down the branch an* back, an’ I had all I could do to coax her along and keep her in a mood/ast enough to get us back home. “Finally election day came, and we went down the branch as usual. Our train left early, long before time for the polls to open; but the understandin’ was that we’d knock off work early in the afternoon an’ get the men back in time to vote. There was some three hundred odd went out with us every mornin’ and natchully, it would make some difference whether they got back in time. Well, sir, the 326 was as chipper as an old maid on her weddin’ day goin’ down the line that jnomin’ an’ she went about her work all day with *the steam singin* from her safety valve/ ” ’The old mut is bright an’ cheerful today,* I says to my fireman, ’guess she’s got over her pet an’ will soon be gettln’ back in fast company.’ “A little before three o’clock we knocked off work an* headed for home. That would give ,us ample time to make the 35 miles into town where we all lived, before the polls closed. But as soon as we headed for-home I could observe that the 326 was up to some devilment We couldn’t hold steam enough on her to boil an ‘egg. Even a blind baggage car could see that unless things mended we never could get in before the polls were closed. Yes, sirree, an’ we had only made about eight miles of our journey, when with a sort of malarial fever-an’-ague motion, k-e-r-s-l-app-, I heard somethin’ go in the firebox. Three of her flues give way an’ we had to draw the fire.

"We were stalled out there, 22 miles from the pollin' place until 'seven o'clock. The sad part of it all Was that the master mechanic’s son-in-law was runnin' for sheriff of the county, an* was only beaten by about one hundred and forty-nine majority. If we had gotten in in time most all of the boys would have voted for him, an’ he’d surely have been elected. “Sure. The 326 did it on purpose for revenge on the master mechanic for humblin’ her. She tried to throw suspicion from herself by bein’ chipper the early part of election day, but it only made the thing more plain to me. Haven’t I alius said that engines are 101 per cent human? . She just doped it out for herself an’ handed the master mechanic one good an’ hard.”

Porter's Leap for Life.

, JL pewter at-podalming station, England, Walter Simpson, was carrying parcels across the .line when he saw that an express was almost upon him. He sprang for the platform with a great leap, landing on his knees. The train swept by, carrying away the heel of his right boot. Simpson believes that gymnasium training when he was in the army enabled him to leap to safety. 11 ■ - ■ ■ - 1 - ■■ rm ' '

Desperate Moo d.

V “Do you want work I".' * “Yep,” replied Plodding Pete. "I! you’ll gimme somethin’ light an* easy I’ll engage. I believe I kin get 6 more rest as a regular band than to go on bein’ waylaid an” pestered by people that's tryin’ to hire me."

HELPS EMPLOYES TO HOMES

Eastern Railroad, as a Matter of Business Policy, Has Put System in Operation. A large Eastern railroad, appreciating the value of satisfied and permanent employes and realizing that an employe with a tangible interest in his locality is most likely to have these qualities, has made it possible for its workers to obtain homes without immediate capital outlay. The employe who wants his own home selects whatever type of house he prefers, and if the employers’ committee on investi- „ gation finds that the house is suitable and reasonably priced, money is advanced for the purchase, to be repaid in monthly installments. The benefits of this plan to the employe who finds it next to impossible to save out of his Income the necessary sum to make a first payment on a home, but can pay back its purchase price as he would rent , are obvious, as is the improvement of this method of home-making over the plan practiced by some Industrial concerns of selling homes com-pany-built and of uniform type. The company in starting this innovation is not animated by any motives of philanthropy. It is cold business. Satisfied employes are necessary to business success, and it has set about making them satisfied.

Whims of Locomotives.

. “Railroad engines are peculiar things,” said an engineer the other day, "and every one has her whims. A. dozen engines built to the same pattern will develop quite as many personal traits as an equal numbef of members of a family. No two engines have yet been known to behave alike. One will be a very bad hill-climber, and fly like the wind on the level, while another will only keep to speed for a short distance, owing to her being unable to maintain her steam pressure. Again, an engine rarely runs two days alike, as engineer and firemen know too well. A method of firing that win suit an engine one day may be worthless the next. "The engineer, when in the cab, has to keep a keen eye on the machinery, for there are bolts and pins which are liable to slip or snap.”

Fifty Years With One Road.

After 50 years of service. Conductor Edwin Birley on June 30 made his last official trip on his train, the Haverstraw express of the New Jersey & New York railroad. In all that time he never figured in a wreck and never once was criticized by his superiors. He is now past seventy. Birley nearly broke down when saying farewell to his brother conductors at the Jersey City depot just before the Haverstraw express left at 5:14 with Birley in charge for the last time. More than a hundred of the Haverstraw commuters gathered around “Ed” and shook hands with him on the trip. He began railroading as brakeman under Conductor James C. Blauvelt, who also retired ' when past seventy after 45 years of railroading. Blauvelt Is still living.

Electric Railroad in the Tyrol.

The electric railroad known as Mebertscher Bahn is a short line of recent construction in South Tyrol, and it serves to connect the southern railroad station of Bozen, by way of Kaltern and St. Anthony, with the Mendelpass mountain Incline, which /Starts at this latter place. Of ten miles length with standard gauge track. the line Is Operated entirely by adhesion, even though the maximum gradient Is 6,2 per 100. A sub-station at Eppan, supplied by a power line, serves furnish 1,200-volt continuous current for the electric road. Passenger and freight trains are drawn by motor cam carrying two electric motors of 10G horsepower each. Scientific American. < ■ _ j-

Lighting Yard From 100-Foot Towers.

Eight quartz-tube mercury-vapor lamps supported on as many steel tow-., era are employed to illuminate the yards of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad near Pittsburgh. Pa. The.'.'installation, according tor the Elect cal World, consists of quartz-tube lamps supported On 100-foot towers set at Intervals aronnd the boundaries of the yard. The lamps are rated at 729 watts each and have a specific energy consumption of 0.33 watt per candle making them among the most efficient J artificial lllumlnants known. , • /