Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — Page 3

REFORMS MERELY 'INCIDENTAL WORK'

Missourian adds $5,000,000 Ta Tax List When attention Is Called to Dodging. SHUTH UP "TWIN HELLO* Because of Teachers' Complaint He Stops Liquor Sales oa MHcourt Railroads. Richmond, Mo.—Frank P. DtvslUss* Judge of the Seventh Judicial District, comprising Clay, Ray and Carroll counties, whose reforms have attraeted attention throughout the State, la not of the type of reformers familiar to the public. In fact reforming Is not a part of Judge Dlvelbiss’ program and what he does in that line is merely incidental to his duty as he sees It It merely happened that his attention was called to a tax dodging by a single tax campaigner And the Judge would not stand for the taunt that the tax laws were not enforced. As a result more than $5,000,000 hidden property was listed for taxation In hls three counties and a score of men were fined S2OO each for making false returns. Several Liberty women school teachers returning from St Louis were greatly annoyed that the tables in ths dining-car were being turned Into bare for the accomodation of holiday travelers. They told the local editor about it and Judge Dlvelbiss read of thetf complaint in the weekly paper. "The railroads will have to stop that rbootlegginb business,” remarked the Judge and no more liquor Is, sold on trains in Missouri. The closing of the "Twin Hells” ip (Richmond was just incidental. The Utwo old buildings had stood for the climax of evil resorts Jn the county town for ta generation and a typical reformer remarked to Judge Dlvelbiss, "isn’t it a shame we can’t stop that place.” This remark impressed the Judge and unwilling to admit that any gambling and liquor resort was more powerful than his court, when a formal complaint was entered in his court, he.issued an order that the two bidings be not used as cases, lunchrooms or residences. The owner repaired them and they are in use as a i garage. Incidental to the tax dodging reform, Richmond Is getting its long desired SIOO,OOO courthouse and the county tax ■ rate has been reduced. One farmer, ;alone, has listed $375,000 on mortgages he was concealing and a banker, postmaster and several merchants 'have been fined. Dlvelbiss did not become a candL idate for'-the judgeship with an Idea of changing the order of things. He Syas a lawyer and has served two tehjns as Prosecuting Attorney and two' as Probate Judge and decided without urging to try for the higher place. It was'after his nomination that he came in contact with the single taxer ■on the stump. The basis of the argument was that mortgages, notes and similar property escaped taxation tyrhile land could be hidden. <T3ut why should such property escape*taxation?” demanded the candidate for judicial honors. “The law says thaf -All property shall be returned for taxation and prescribes the manner. TO'' return a false list constitutes perjury. And it is the specific duty pf. every*.Judge who calls a grand jury to see that taxation frauds are sifted out/’ "Nice in theory,” the single taxer came back. "Nice in theory, only the Judge never has the nerve.” "Well, if I am elected," Dlvelbiss answered, “here’s one that will do it.* 1 On his first round of instructing grand juries Judge Dlvelbiss opened this question of tax dodging and he \old the jurymen where their sources ,ioV information were, of some schemes <at\.tax dodging that he had investigatea\and how to return Indictments. The grand juries went to* work with a Will, but .it big task and Indictime>qts were not reached until the second' and jn some cases the third sessions;- tljetf they came with a rush. Some df the mien whp paid S2OO fines wer supporters of Judge Dlvelbiss and they are yet

DEATH.

Whltehoupe'iN J. —When an old sword was hurled from the wail to a bed where he w&s\oleeplng when lightning struck the Meftwdist parsonage, Donald Trumbower, son pf the minister, escaped by a narrow xnargtn and would have been uninjured had he not grasped the weapon. He was fcadr, ly burned on the hands by the metal <of the sword, which he grabbed as he Reaped from the bed <aa it had been Seated by the electric bolt. | JTbe lightning threw a big picture I across the room, tore several relics ! of the Revolutionary War from the walls cared In one side pt the house and ripped a furrow across the lawn.

TOBACCO FUMES KILL MAN WHO NEVER SMOKED.

Two Hours £pent In Jury Room Where He Inhaled Nicotine Prove Fatal. A Detroit, Mich.,—ElikSnwden. aged 51. dE Sanilac County, is dead from nicotine poisoning, the result of being locked up with a Circuit Court jury In a small room for more than two i hours. Sawden never had used tobacco in * -any form. The other jurors smoked almost continuously while in tbe jary room, the fumed of the tobacco makSlng Sawden violently ill- He failed to recover, after the experience.

THAT RECORD JUMP BY WASHINGTON.

Alleged Origin of Thackeray’s Story of the 22 Foot Leap. Three college athletes have had an ideal shattered by reading a paragraph in a speech that Sir G. Trevelyan made in London before the Publishers Circle a|/a recent dinner. These men,An addition to being athletes, are'aevoted to Thackeray and “The Virginians.” There Is a reference in that book to the prowess of ■ George Washington as an athlete, particularly as a broad jumper. This is to the effect that Washington was able to jump 22 feet, which,' considering that It was away back In the eighteenth century, was some leap. Although the best American record how is >4 feet 7 % Inches, It has not been standing so long, and in the early "days of American athletics 22 feet was a remarkable performance in the broad Jump. These three used to pride themselves on knowing about that performance credited to Washington, and they pointed out how in 1876 and for three years following the American championship was won by leaps of less than 20 feet, and that from to 1885 Inclusive the champion did not do 22 feet, although close to it on several occasions. So they used always to tell folks who asked about great broad jumpers that Washington held the American record from 1752 to 1885. What shattered all this was the following from the Trevelyan speech: , “I was present at a dinner where Thackeray discoursed to a delightful audience of young people about “The Virginians,” which he was then writing and which seemed to fill his mind to the exclusion of everything else. Among other matters he asked us, all around the table, what was the widest jump any of us had ever known, and when we agreed upon twenty-one feet, he said: ‘Then I must make George Washington jump one foot more.’ ”

A Little Devil in the Heart.

An 4nsane devjh lurks in the heart of even the most sainted woman. It is the little devil that makes a young wife ask her devoted husband which of the two he would save If she and her mother were drowning, writes William J. Locke in his storv “Simple Septimus,” in the American Magazine. It Is the same little devil that Is respolslble for Infinite mendacity on the part of men. "Have you said that to another woman?!’ No; of course he hadn’t, and the wretch Is Instantly perjured. “My Immortal soul,” says the good fellow, Instantaneously converted into an atrocious liar; and the little devil cooes with satisfaction and Curls himself up snugly to sleep. x

Uses of Irish Peat.

Consul Henry S. Culver, of Cork, writes that the peat beds of Ireland may yet become a valuable asset in the country’s Industrial development other than for fuel if, as is now claimed upon the authority of an Austrian experimenter, the fibres of the remains of the reeds and grasses of which peat is composed can be utilized not only for paper-making and carpets, but for weaving the finest fabrics as well. The claim is put forth 'that the fibre Is el&stlc.and durable, and, being a non-conductor of heat, the cloth manufactured from it Is as t.ough as linen and as warm as woolep.

India-Gestion.

Here is a istory the fcishop of D°ndon told John Morley the other day, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. They were holding an “exam.” in an Eastend school, and the teacher was explaining the chief products of the Indian empire. One child recited a list of cosmestlbles. “Please, miss, India produces curries and pepper and citron and chillies and chutney and—and—” "Yes, yea, and what comes after that?” “Please, miss, I don’t remember.” “Yes, but think. What is India so famous for?” “Please, ’m, Indla-gestlon.”

Hens Hatch Fish.

Chinamen have a way of tricking hens, so that they assist in the hatching of fish. Fish eggs hre carefully placed in an egg shell, which is then sealed and put under an unsuspecting hen. In a few days the spawn is warmed into life and the contents of the shell are then cast into a shallow pool, where the sunshine completes the work.

Demand for Artificial Flowers.

Makers of artificial flowers in New York city are receiving an unusual number pr orders from all parts of the country for the fall and winter trade. Moat pt the supply for the nation comes from New York, where more money is spent tor the manufacture of imitation flowers than in any other city in the world.

Picking Out a Job.

"Work," observed the reflective deadbeat—"work is all right if you can get the sort to suit ypur individual needs. I, for instance, wouldn't object to calling out the stations on an Atlantic liner/'

Spread Happiness.

Is not the first duty of those who are happy to tell of their gladness to others! All men can learn to be happy; and the teaching of it Is easy.

Italian Proverb.

Little dogs start the bare, but great ones catch IL

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MACHINE TAKES MINERS' JOBS

Owner* Wonder if New Epoch in the Industry Ha* Arrived* DEVICE IS "FOOL PROOF"! Invention of H. A. Kuhn Will Mean! • Saving of 50 Per Cent, / It I* Said. Pittsburg, Pa. —Has a new epoch, ooxre to the coal-mining industry? This was the question in the minds of numerous coal operators and others taterested in coal mining as a day or two since they watched the operation es the first practical coal-mining ma ehlne a machine that has stood the hast of months, being quietly operated In one of the larger mines of the |Mttsburg district turning out thousand* of tons of commercial coal dliroet from the face of the coal seam, placing the coal in pit cars and keeping men on the jump to get the loaded car* out of the way when loaded. For years such a machine has been th* dream of coal-mining companies. It has been needed to solve the increasing problem of coal mining—-such a* mine disasters, increasing cost of labor, the growing expenditures for mine equipment, miners’ homes at the mines and other outlays, of which the average citizen has little realization. The new mining machine is the development of entirely new principles in mechanical mining. It is the product of H. A. Kuhn of Pittsburg, one of the foremost mining and mechanical engineers of the Pittsburg district, who ha* spent more than ten years ; in close application to the task which I lie has at last completed, and in the perfection of which he has expended • fortune in development work. In th* early years of his experiment* h* •pent hi* time discovering fundamental*. He sought a principle upon which a machine would work. He made this a success, and from it built an economical, practical, cheap and , "foolproof” machine that does all the , work Of the human miner—only it doe* this twenty times a* fast and 50 per eent. cheaper. A* the machine stands, itls a struo.

. I »urai sreei name, ooiong in Which rents on a steering truck which rides on the floor of the mine. It carries motors for operating the cutting tools and the tools themselves, and it attacks the coal seams in any .position, moving up and down, sidewise or in any direction the coal seam leads. It also removes the roof slat* when necessary. Electricity and compressed air can be used in operating the motors, and so little power is required that the cost for this item is less than 1 cent per ton of coal mined. One peculiar feature of the machine , that impressed the spectator 1* that it seems to be fully as flexible as the human coal miner. It is estimated that the machine will cut the cost of mining in half. From the time the machine takes the coal from the seam, cuts it, places it on a conveyor and loads it in a pit: car, no human hand touches it. With twenty ordinary laborers ten of the machines will produce 1,000 tons of■ coal a day, as but two men are needed to operate a machine. More than this, the machine cuts the coal cleanly from the roof to the floor of the mine, leaving both as even as a billiard table, and it takes out in excess of 90 per cent of the coal in the ground; whil* the best practice of to-day seldom goes better than 75 per cent of the ooaL the rest being lost because of the; too great effort to extract it Mr. Kuhn takes exception to th* idea that any miners will be thrown out of, or,, rather, left without employment by the Introduction of th* machines. He says that 40,000 additional miners are required each year In the United States to keep pace with the growing demand for coal, due to the increase in population, while 20,000 miners, it is estimated, leave the mines annually for other occupation*, thus making a demand for about 60,000 new miners each year. It is becoming more and more difficult ea«h year to obtain the increase mine labor required, The inventor believe* that his machine will replace this labor, but only in tbe way of reducing th* •umber of new meh, called upon t* enter the mines each year.

Catholics at Newland. There will be Catholic church srr- j vice at Newland Sunday*morning at' 8 o’clock/ Christian doctrine fol-, lowing the service. ■ —* | Typewriter ribbons for all mak< of machines for sale at The Repul j lican office. .

Died By Order. After the battle of Custozza, a soldier supposed to have been killed was entered on the books of his company: “Died' on the 24th June, 1866,” etc. A few days afterward it turned out that he was still alive, and the honest sergeant made the following entry: “Died by mistake.” At length there came a letter from the ministry of war announcing the death of the man at the hospital, when our sergeant recorded the fact as follows: “Re-died by order of the ministry." CATCHES A SEAL IN FISH NET Prove* to Be Animal That Escaped From Zoo Month* Ago. Philadelphia, Pa. —When Howard Armstrong began to drag in his shad net the other evening, he shouted that he caught a whale and called other fisherman to help drag it in. The animal fought bard and was not overcome until its neck became entangled tn the net and it was strangled to death. It proved to be one o| ten hair seals, which escaped from the Aquarium pool. Only one of them 1* now unaccounted for. .BLACKSNAKE’ AS GARTER Vicious Rsptle Attack* Country Girl as She Hoe* in Strawberry Patch. York, Pa. — A. blacksnake that wrapped itself about her leg as tight a* a garter was killed by Miss Mary Sloan of this county after a struggle. Miss Sloan was hoeing strawberry plant*, when she disturbed the reptile, which coiled about her. Retaining presence of mind she grasped the reptile and succeeded in flinging it from her. Then she killed it with her ho*. If your stock of engraved calling cards is running M bring the plate ' to The Republican and have dupli cates made. If you do not have en graved cards order them today. Dr. F. A. TURFLEH OSTEOPATHIC PHTSXCIAM Room* 1 and 2, Murray Bulldin*« •>-. Rensselaer, Indiana Phone*. Of?~e —2 rina* on 3«0. tenre—3 rlnpe on 300. Successfully tresis both v-ure »r hronlc Rpinal curvature* ipeclalty. ■

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