Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — Page 3

READY FOR VAIN DEFENSE OF LOUVAIN

Belgians guarding the*approach to a bridge at Louvain, the beautiful city which the Germans captured and utterly destroyed.

U. S. SCHOOL HELPS

Aids Educational Awakening in New Chinese Republic.

Play* Prominent Part in Spread of Liberal Idea*—Judge Loblnger'a Addreaa at Recent Commencement Day Exercise*. Shanghai, China. —At the commencement day celebrations at St John’s university, Shanghai, an American institution which has prospered in recent years, Admiral Tseng Ju-cheng, military governor of Shanghai, inspected the cadets and paid them some well-deserved compliments. At the presentation of degrees Judge C. S. Lobinger of the United 'States court for China gave an address on the subject of American educational work in Asia. He congratulated the university ppon having sent out so many to take their place in the new situation which confronted China, and observed that in the future development of China St. John promised to play a larger and still more honorable part. One of the facts which most impressed a newcomer to China like himself was the

ENVOY’S WIFE VISITS HOME

Mm*. L* Febvre de la Boulaye, Wlf* of French Diplomat, la Visiting in Her Native Land, Washington.—Mme. Le Febvre de la Boulaye, wife of the second secretary of the French embassy at Washington,

Mme. Le Febvre de la Soulaye.

and well known aa one of the beauties of the foreign diplomatic act, la visiting in France.

Motor Attack Routed Bull.

Crafton, Pa.—When ho aaw a bull chasing Mlsa Beaaie Kauffman, Charles Boyer, a motorcyclist of thia place, drove his machine straight at the animal. It was struck in the aide and Boyer was thrown into the gutter. Frightened at the unexpected attack the bull fled to a pasture and declined to renew the attack.

predominance, of Americans in the. educational awakening of China. In the vicinity of Shanghai alone there were several Institutions of higher learning which, like St. John’s, owed their origin and existence to American initiative. The speaker Instanced Soochow and Nanking universities, and said these institutions could be found duplicated in almost every one of the 18 provinces. He went on to refer to the increasing number of Chinese students in universities in America, and said that the forces of higher education in China were largely under American auspices. A very considerable portion of members of the American University club of Shanghai were Chinese who had graduated in American universities. These were facts which could hardly escape the notice of even the casual visitor. What was not so obvious was that this educational effort of America in China was part of a great national undertaking begun long ago, and now carried into almost every part of Asia. Along with the spread of the English language, there had been diffused ideas of democracy and liberty of which the English language and literature was so complete a vehicle. The movement had had much to dp with the Balkan renaissance, it was behind the struggle of Persia for liberty, and It was playing a part in the modern movement in China. It was to be hoped that the present intellectual and political changes now being wrought would be accompanied by a corresponding moral awakening. Mere learning without character was dangerous, and the government lacking a moral basis rested upon sand. Along with other nationalities Americans naturally hoped for a larger share in China’s foreign trade. If it was to be the good fortune of America to become the teacher of Asia, he did not fear that its commerce would flow entirely or chiefly into other channels.

GET PORTABLE STILL

Revenue Men Seize Moonshiners’ Tiny Outfit in Ozarks. Weighing Only a Few Pounds, It Often Was Carried From Place to Place by On< Man and Hidden In Wood*. Springfield, Mo.—" Old Tuxedo,” the wandering still of the Ozark country moonshiners, claimed by nobody but zealously guarded by many friends along the Big Creek valley in Texas county, has been captured by James Case, deputy internal revenue collector, and arrived in perfect condition In Springfield. * The still, which ultimately -will be sold at auction, was located by Case after a quiet search of several days, hidden under a bushy fence row near Hartshorn, Texas county. For several year* the officers have been' trying to locate the old stilt It wa* familiarly known to the residents of Texas county in the little region where the moonshiner* had operated, but all were equally Ignorant of its whereabout*. The reason for their ignorance, the revenue officer* learned, was that "Old Tuxedo" remained but a short time in one place. The arrest several month* ago of Pete Barton, indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of making whisky without a license, caused a halt in the moonshine business in the vicinity of Big Creek and gave the officer* a hint that Barton might have been the latest owner of “Old Tuxedo." A fermenter had been found in Barton's place by the revenue officers, but he had stoutly maintained that he knew nothing of the whereabouts of the noted still. Deputy Collector Case camped in the vicinity of Big Creek for a few days and let it be generally known that he was there tp stay until “Old Tuxedo" was found. Men who had

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WOMEN TOIL FOR LITTLE PAY

Ask Commission for Privilege of Receiving Less Than Minimum Prescribed. Olympia, Wash. —The unusual feature of industrial workers pleading for the privilege of working for low wages is observed by the Industrial Welfare commission, following the establishment of the $lO weekly minimum wage for women working in mercantile establishments, together with the regulations relative to apprenticeships. A considerable number of women and girls have applied to the commission for the privilege of working for the apprentice wage established —$6 for the first six months and $7.50 for the second six months —notwithstanding the fact that they have in many cases had enough experience to entitle them to the regular minimum wage of $lO. Others who have had six months’ experience, and are therefore entitled to the $7.50 minimum provided for the second six months of an apprenticeship, are asking the commission to grant them the privilege of working for a lower wage. Applications are also coming in, it is stated, for special permits to Work for less than, the minimum wage. This is allowable under the minimum wage law in cases whereja woman is "physically defective or crippled by age or otherwise.” The commission will issue no such special permits for any other reason than actual physical inability to earn a minimum wage. Labor Commissioner E. W. Olson, chairman of the Industrial Welfare commission, states that he has received no complaints of violation of the minimum wage law as applied in the mercantile industry.

WOMAN A REINDEER RANCHER

Mis* Borthwick, an English Girl, I* Raising a Herd in the Spitsbergen Valley. London. —Reindeer ranching strikes one as being quite a new occupation for women, but a young Englishwoman hopes to make a very good thing out of a herd she keeps in a Spitzvergen valley, her idea being to export the meat to Norway. Her story, as she tells it, has all the elements of a schoolboy romance—the lonely valley, free to the reindeer and their owner, the bears and wolves as well as the valuable gray foxes, the salmon fishing, the cliffs whence the eiderdown is harvested, the harbor open practically the year round, so that meat can be exported winter as well as summer, the seals that haunt the waters, the hundreds of varieties of wild flowers that grow on Spitsbergen and the long, luminous twilight of winter. It all sounds very charming and one quite believes that Miss Jessica Borthwick enjoys her terms of supervision when she goes up to stay tn her log hut, the Boston Evening Transcript remarks. Reindeer, she says, are the tamest creatures, with none of the spasmodic ferocity that distinguishes some of their relations, and she tells a rather painful story about one mild creature whom fired at but missed, and who then came up to ask with gently inquiring friendly eyes, “What was all the trouble—eh, ‘what?” This sa.-.a Miss Jessica Borthwick spent an amazing year in the Balkans during the war, riding about the country and seeing many things which she believes were hidden from war correspondents.

been engaged in the making or selling of whisky showed signs of fear and offered to aid the government officer to find the plant. After numerous conferences the still’s location was made known to the officer, and following the directions of his Informers, Collector Case soon discovered the little “booze” maker in a fence corner. It was covered with shrubbery, but was not damaged. The old still is believed to be the most perfect specimen of the moonshiners’ art that had escaped the revenue officers. Without a flaw, excepting one place where the “worm” has been repaired, the still, cap and worm are in perfect condition and could be put to use immediately by an experienced moonshiner. The famous littls still weighs only 56 pound*. It consists of a copper boiler about a* large as an ordinary wash fob. On top rests the copper cap, through which the steam of the whisky or brandy mash passes into the condensing worm before it is changed into “corn juice” or apple brandy. The manufacture of whisky or brandy 1* not difficult and 1* inexpensive. The completed product can be sold for 30 cents a gallon. It may be made from sour meal, apple or peach vinegar. The still ha* handles on each side df the copper boiler and might easily be moved from place to place by one man-. It 1* not more than three feet high, and could be concealed entirely in a patch of weeds.

Shot Self Instead of Burglar.

Forty Fort, Pa. —Aroused from her slumbers by the operations of burglars on the lower floor of her home at Forty Fort, Miss Jeanette Winters secured a revolver, but in her exclto ment discharged It prematurely and the bullet went through her left hand. At the report of the weapon the bur glare fled.

IN ENGINEERS’ HAVE!

With the men who run the BIG LOCOMOTIVES. Have Abode of Their Own In Rail* road Yards, Which Is Singularly Interesting to the Man "on the Outside." Go to the Grand Central Terminal, the entrance to the city of tracks that begins at Forty-second street and branches out into the 48 states of the Union, sneak your way on Platform 25 of the upper level, walk between two Stamford, locals, jump over baggage trucks chugging along under. their own power, steer out of the way of little ice wagons. All of a sudden you come to .an incline, which seems the end. But beyond £re tracks and tracks and tracks, as closely interwoven as the meshes of some new hole-proof sock. But away over to one side you spy a soft green light, and nfext to it a door. You head for that light. Out there somewhere in the Stygian darkness lies the engineers’ recreation room, your goal, says the New York Telegraph. You take a chance at walking over 19 live rails with enough voltage to kill 19 large prehistoric dinosauruses in as many seconds. You strain your imagination, your feet are covered with rubber insulators. But you see only ties and ties and ties. You snap yourself into cement caving to allow the Empire State express to whizz by, and then you give a long sigh of twofold joy, .for it didn’t kill you, as you thought it would, and you stand at the entrance to the goal of that day’s ambition. - A square cement house stands there, surrounded on all sides by rails, an oasis in a desert of rustling, rumbling electric locomotives, parlor cars and dining cars, pay coaches and day coaches, sleeping cars ..nd baggage cars, like ameba forever restlessly moving backward and forward. Here and there is a steam locomotive whistling shrilly, blowing out steam, shoving back and forth noisily, strangely out of place. You pass the door. . Long tables are arranged parallel to. each other. Benches with comfortable backs are drawn up on both sides. In the background a series of lockers -nd washrooms. On the walls, instruction orders, dismissal notices, promotions, assignment of runs, general orders, and a poster announcing the annual ball of Local 234 of the brotherhood of Engineers. On the tables checkerboards and chessboards, some newspapers and literary magazines, and everywhere silence. There are men in this room. Big, strapping, clear-cut men with American casts of countenance. Men with overalls and tin palls in one hand pass in and out continually. Jim Delaney, seven years with the company, comes in from Run 53 to Stamford, nods his head to those about him, goes to the locker and leaves his overalls there, washes up, fills out his detention report, wherein all delays are reported, fills in his time and mileage slip, calmly sits down on the bench, unfolds the Morning Bugler and reads the editorials. And his neighbor continues his silent game of checkers with his cub fireman.

War Conductor Dead.

William Gaston Smith, veteran railway conductor of 54 years’ continuous, service with the Southern Railwajf company and a trainman during the Civil war, died at'Anderson, 8. C., after an illness of four months. “Captain Billy,” as he was called by his thousands of friends In that section of the country, was seventy-five years old. He was retired on full pay by the railway company on January 1, 1912. Captain Smith had many thrilling experiences as conductor during the Civil war. After Lee’s surrender he hauled two-thirds of the Confederate forces under Lee and Johnson. When Richmond was evacuated the treasury and records of the Confederacy were shipped from Richmond to Winston, N. C., and thence were carted to Alston. At this point Captain Smith, with one other railway employe, kept guard over the records and valuables, which were packed in ammunition boxes, marked “ammunition” and consigned to Gen. Kirby Smith. “Captain Billy” and his companion delivered the precious property to Abbeville, 8. C., but it never reached Washington, Ga., its destination, for the train was held up and raided in the darkness.

Elastic Railroad Ties.

Elastic concrete ties of great strength, holding nails and bolt* better than wood, are claimed a* a new German railway product. Ties of Iron and steel have been used to some extent for' many years, but are mueb more rigid than Wood and otherwise less satisfactory, and the reinforced concrete tie* hitherto tried have proved disappointing. The new concrete is made from a mixture of asbestos fiber* and cement

Microscopic Motor.

An operable motor measuring about one half inch high by a quarter inch thick was exhibited recently by a jeweler at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. This motor, declares the Electrical World, weighs only five thousandths of a pound and its construction required the jeweler’s spare time for a month. A 2.5 volt battery operates this tiny motor.

ALMOST UNDER THE ENGINE

Child Plucked From Fearful Peril by Trainman Who Risked His Life in the AcL Little Johnny- Roe and his sister. Slavish children, four and five years old, respectively, sat in'the middle of the railroad in front of their home near the Remington Salt works at Ithaca, building toy forts out of the chunks of slag and cinders that compose the ballast So deeply were they engrossed in the war game that they did not hear the whistle of the approaching Ludlowvllle pick-up, or If they did hear it they paid not the least bit of attention. Johnny and his sister are used to trains anyway, and the only thing they mind is the sound of their mother’s voice. Mother didn’t call, so they supposed it was all right, and. kept on strengthening their fort against the attack of the hostile French and English, unconscious of the more imminent danger. The pick-up was speeding southward toward Ithaca at a fast clip when George C. Blake, a trainman riding on the cab, saw the position of the children, seated between the rails with their backs to the engine. In a second Blake broke the air line, applying the emergency pressure to the brakes. Then he climbed out on the running board and down to the pilot of the locomotive. The little girl managed to jump aside at the last but Johnny sat there spellbound, and Blake, with one hand holdings brace on the pilot, reached forward with the other and picking the lad up almost from under the locomotive, swung him aside into the grass, out of harm’s way. The engine rolled a few feet past the spot where the children had been sitting before coming to a stop.

HATCHED CHICKS ON TRAIN

Bantam Hen That Was a Pet of All the Men—Not So the Belgian Hare. “On one of our work trains in southeastern Missouri a few years ago we had a bantam hen for several weeks that became the pet of all the men,’’ remarked a railroader. “On one of the cars that we used was an Iron box, uncovered, that the hen discovered. She picked this out for herself. She laid a nestful of eggs, then went to setting, and finally hatched out a brood of chicks, and every day we pulled down the track, without disturbing her in the least. When we would stop for a while she would jump from the train, scratch and wallow in the dust, hunt something ~tb eat, and always be back in her box when the train would pull out. It got so that the men would look to see if the bantam was on her nest before they would start the train. “The smallest camp hanger-on that I ever encountered was a big Belgian hare that belonged to the foreman. Nor was the rabbit particularly a favorite with the men, for be would fight anyone at any time, and even the foreman had to watch him closely. The rabbit would jump at man or beast with the greatest ferocity and would leave the imprint of his teeth every time. He would tackle a dog or cat, and they would be glad to get away after the first round.’’

Rail Anti-Creepers.

One of the most troublesome difficulties experienced in the maintenance of railway tracks Is the tendency of the. rails to creep In one direction. Creeping is due to wave action induced in the rail by the passage of the heavily loaded wheels. It is much worse on tracks in which the travel Is all in one direction, the creep of course being in the direction of the traffic.. Much attention is being directed today to the arresting of this movement, and several forms of very efficient anti-creepers are upon the market. They consist, usually, of an inexpensive form of clip with end jaws which engage the base of the rail, the clips projecting below the base and fetching up against the adjacent ties, thereby locking the rail to the roadbed against any longitudinal movement —Scientific American.

Need of Dally Inspection.

There is one element in long distance touring neglect of which often causes the untimely end of a trip before the original destination is reached. This element is the dally inspection and care of the car at the end of the day’s run. Amateur tourists as a general rule do not realize the necessity of constant watchfulness for Indication* of future trouble in a tour of several weeks’ duration. They are prone to pilfer a hot dinner and bed after a long day’s drive through unfamiliar country to sitting up for an' hour or so with a vehicle that seem* to be in prime condition.

Special Salt Composition.

A German patent has been Issued to a scientist of Berlin for a special salt composition which behave* like ice under skates, sleighs and skis. Demonstrated on a rink in Berlin, scarcely any one of the numerous visitors who ventured upon the smooth surface was aware of the fact that it was salt and not Ice upon which h* was enjoying himself.

Long Australian Line.

With the completion of the transcontinental railroad which is now being built in Australia, it will be possible to travel by rail from Rockhampton, Queensland, along the eastern coast and southern coast to ths west coast, and Inland to Kalgoorlia a distance of 4,500 miler

HOME TOWN HELPS

AVOID ALL WASTE OF GROUND Italian Gardener* Utilize Space Which Americans Would Consider of Little Account ~ Just outside the railway station at Springfield, Mass., is a row of tenement houses occupied by Italian families. Between them and the tracks is a garden, divided into long,- narrow strips, each strip being tilled by one of the families. In the early morning and evening laborers from the factories may be seen busily at work in these small patches, some of which are not more than ten feet wide. In the daytime the women and children are busy In' them. These Italians raise enough vegetables for their own tables and have a supply left for sale. It is intensive gardening. Not an inch of ground is wasted. Connecticult, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have thousands of such patches and thousands of abandoned farms have been taken up and made highly profitable by these expert gardeners from Italy. They do it by wasting nothing. The refuse from their homes is returned to the earth, as nature Intended that it should be. Chickens and pigs are made to fertilize unbroken ground, and the pigs root up underbrush and loosen stones. The simplest of implements are used, but the Italian gardeners know that constant attention Is the secret of success. Never a weed Is allowed to spring up; the soil is not allowed to go without hoeing and raking. The fence is a support for tomato, bean, pea and other climbing plants. On an area smaller than that of the ordinary city backyard an Italian will grow vegetables enough to supply his table the year around.

TREE PLANTING AS A DUTY

Effective Way In Which Each Citizen May Take Part In Bettering the Community. The man with a vision plant* a fruit tree, and there Is pictured upon the canvas of his mind the full grown, developed tree, laden with the fruit of its kind, painted and flavored with the richest colors and most delicious extracts, but he knows that before that picture can become a reality his hand must give that tree a fertile soil, the best cultivation, a scientific trimming and spraying for year*. But nature thus assisted, doe* her part, and the tree, a* the year* go by, develops and in time produce* it* perfect fruit and rewards the labor of the tender. But the tender took the greatest delight In his work, knowing that the time would come when his labor would bear its reward. His work waa a work worth while, and the community in which he lived was made better for his work, for he who doe* nothing more than plant a tree by the wayside and tends It to maturity has deme more for mankind than he who sits and dreams and talks great things of accomplishment, but doe* not a thing to bring them about; or even he who ever works at his task with stolid indifference to its great importance or unmindful of its pleasures.—From “The Business of Farming," by W. C. Smith.

Lamp-post Gardens.

Dame rumor says Minneapolis is out-classing all other cities in utilizing flowers to ornament the business streets. Last year window boxes and hanging gardens were introduced in the shopping thoroughfares, and there were more than 15,000 feet beautified in that way This year, by private subscriptions, a fund has been raised to- put 500 miniature gardens on aa many lamp-posts and to keep them bright with blooms. “Flowers on lamp-posts would astound New Yorkers,” says the New York Evening Mail, “and would certainly set the kids to climbing. How long would the lamp-post gardens last on the east sider’

Why City Planning Pays.

It promotes trade by supplying direct and easy ways tor the extension and development of commerce; fosters city growth by making it easier and cheaper to conduct all classes of business, increases and insures all property values by preventing ths many evils of haphazard building; makes every citizen a more efficient worker by saving time and money in transit of pood* and people; and. above all, it assures to that city which adopts It, a future citizenship sound in body, mind and moral*.

Prizes for Bibliophiles.

A first edition of “Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.” by Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson), fetched >I,OOO at Sotheby’s In London. It was bought by Mr. 3. D. Smith of New York, who also paid 1000 for Keats* “Poems,** and 1300 for the same author’s “Lamia." with. Harrison Ainsworth’s signature on the fly leaf, >B4O for Byron’s “Poems on Various Occasions'’ (privately printed, and a great part of the edition destroyed by the author), and <550 for Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe."