Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1914 — Page 2

WORK of AMERICAN. DIPLOMATS

O entertain and to keep his mouth shut —these H are the duties of an 1| American ambassador r in time of peace. But \ ak when the country to \Wr‘ which he is accredited \ y/ is at war he is called \*/ upon to do so many \l things that pnly a man 1 ’ of the coolest disposition and flneßt ability could make headway against the flood of requests. His duties range all the way from telling a distracted tourist where she can find a doctor for a crying baby to serving as a means of communication between two of the great warring powers. Prom every capital in Europe come grateful appreciations of the splendid work done by the American representatives.

Take, for Instance, the case of Myron T. Herrick, ambassador to France. On August 4, when the German ambassador to France received his passports, Mr. and Mrs. Herrick were sitting in their dismantled mansion in the Rue Francois Premier. Their trunks were t packed and Mr. Herrick was ready to hand over his papers to his successor, Mr. Sharp. They had had a pleasant stay in Paris. It had cost Mr. Herrick something like $160,000 the first year at his post, when he had to purchase his furniture, and about eight thousand dollars a month the second year. Still they had met many interesting persons and no rude story about the crudity of American diplomacy had filtered back to America. Suddenly the avalanche fell upon them. Thousands of letters, telegrams and cables swept, into Mr. Herrick’s office every day. There were panic-stricken tourists wishing to get home by express train where there were no express trains, and there were anxious friends in the United States insistent for immediate news of their friends and relatives. Besides the pleasure-seekers besieging him night and day, there was the resident colony to be thought of, thousands of them craving a private interview and advice about the best way to manage their affairs with the sudden threat of a siege. From Switzerland and from northern Italy the cohorts poured into Paris. They mipßt be given care until they could be got down to the seaports and shipped across the Atlantic. Ships were lacking and there was a general clamoring for the ambassador to cable Washington to supply the deficiency. Added to the genuine cases of distress were the clever crooks and confidence men and women who took the opportunity to reap a golden harvest Then, too,, there were many instances

ARMOR PLATE IN WAR

It is a commonplace among pacifists that the ‘'armor-plate” interests and the “armor-plate” press foment wars. To a certain extent it is true that the manufacturers of armaments and the papers they own carry on the militarists’ propaganda, but it is said that the “armor-plate” interests do not want big wars. They want littlet, wars and rumors of big wars. This keeps a good steady trade going with plenty of orders, improvements every year, credit good and bills regularly paid. By way of evidence it is said that during the crisis before the present outbreak the only papers in Berlin which opposed war were the Socialist Vorwaerts and the Post, owned by Krupps of Essen, and the Tagllche Rundschau, another paper of the “ar-mor-plate” press. One quite sees the point of view. In a big war governments are using armaments more < *>,*»»•" - *

Samoa Again British.

To many Englishmen the greatest Interest In the capture of Samoa is the fact that it brings the grave of ]tob#lt Louis Stevenson into the British empire again. It is curious to recall that when he first touched the 4|]and daring the South sea cruise in 1889, Stevenson was by no means favorably impressed with place or people, and Intended to stay there only a obuple of weeks to oollect JThia boolean the fcuth s°is. ThJ

of base ingratitude. Women accustomed to luxury cried curses on the ambassador’s head for failing to keep them from slight hardships. Soon there came even graver duties for our hard-pressed ambassador. The United States took over the interests in- Paris of Austria and Germany. This was delicate business, enough in itself to keep an envoy at his wits’ ends. Frightened women and children of'nations hostile to France must be protected or at least were convinced that they must be. Then there were questions of state to be handled. Mr. Herrick immediately took advantage of offers of assistance from American friends in Paris and organized a large force as best he could. There were several committees formed for relief, work. He and Mrs. Herrick worked day and night. They placed their motor cars in service. They opened their house and refurnished it and here they gave the homeless lodging and supplied food to many. They used large amounts of their own money in their work. Both fell ill, but kept on working. Finally Mr. Herrick remained the only ambassador in Paris. Mr. Sharp and Robert Bacon, a former United States ambassador, luckily arrived in time to be of assistance, but Mr. Herrick did the principal work and his name will figure in history with that of Washburne, American envoy of 1871-1872, the only diplomatist of Importance to brave the terrors of the Paris siege. The story of Mr. Herrick’s work in Paris is largely that of Walter H. Page in London and of James W. Gerard in Berlin. London probably handled the largest number of tourists.

than they are toying them, and future profits are fi|mere gamble against defeat. Perhapiythe "armor-plate” interests have not overlooked* the possibility that Armageddon may ,put them out of business altogether.— Manchester Guardian.

Fresh Foods Best.

Fresh foods are always full of trophogen, and hence are decidedly the best for all of us. This also explains why savage nations that obtain their diet from nature in its fresh, wild state are so hearty and full of health. Trophogen is manufactured by herbs, vegetables, plants'* and the botanical kingdom generally. It is retained and stored up by man and the other creatures, but the animal world cannot make it, and is therefore forever dependent upon the vegetable world.

fascination of the island grew, however, as the days went by, and, abandoning the project of a winter home in Madeira in favor of Samoa, he bought land three miles from Apia, and, except for occasional trips to Sydney, neyer left the island again.

Only a Trifling Delay.

Flaggs—Did you succeed in persuading your wife when she gets angry to count ten before she speaks? •Fogg—Yes, but she's a very rapid oountor. —Boston Evening Transcript.

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Mr. Gerard had especial difficulties to contend with. When he took up his duties in Berlin and rented the Schwabach palace at $15,000 a year, besides spending

several thousands more in refitting, undoubtedly he had little thought for other than magnificent receptions and dinners, the usual things Uncle Sam always expects his diplomatists to do and to pay for out of their own pockets.

Bj*t the month of August found this same magnificent home filled with a mob of angry, complaining, frightened tourists, unreasonably demanding the Impossible. Mr. Gerard met them with calm patience. He stood in his office day and night, constantly it seemed, giving words of advice and cheer. Several times he even accompanied trainloads of Americans to Rotterdam just to see that they got through all right. In addition to these duties he had charge of the interest of England, Russia, Japan, France, Belgium, Servia and Montenegro. His efforts were misunderstood by a section of the German press, which saw in his assiduity in getting Americans home the threat of war by the United States against Germany.

Yet the bulk of Germans watched American efficiency with admiration, and Mr. Gerard was acclaimed as a worthy representative of a great neutral country. '• In Belgium Brand Whitlock, our minister, found himself in the actual theater of war operations. First he had to meet a swarm of frightened persons caught in the rapid advance of the German army and escort them to Antwerp. Then came the occupation of the Belgian capital. Undoubtedly Mr. Whitlock should have most of the credit for preventing scenes of violence in Brussels. He accompanied the burgomaster, M. Max, to meet the German conqueror, General Saxe von Arnim. If he did not actually, as told in some cabled stories, take Brussels “under American protection,” yet' he undoubtedly had much to do with arranging the terms of surrefader and in calming the populace. The Bruxellois swear by Mr. Whitlock now. In Vienna Frederick C. Penfleld, like Mr. Gerard, had to look out for the citizens of Russia, England, Japan, Belgium, France, Servia and Montenegro, as well as his own countrymen. His beautiful home was converted to the needs of charity.

.-.-Henry Van Dyke, minister to Holland, and Thomas Nelson Page, ambassador to Italy, also felt the heavy strain and acquitted themselves creditably. It is undoubted that one effect of the war will be to raise the estimation ot American diplomats and diplomacy apndad. The peoples of Europe realize the heavy debt they all owe to American representatives and when the time comes to settle this huge and dreadful war the ambassadors of Washington will have much to do with the difficult task of arranging the terms of peace. v

Trained for Loss of Arm. I met a German officer who had been wounded in his right arm. He was writing rapidly with his left hand. “Ton are so fortunate as to be ambidextrous,” I said. “We are a family of officers,” be replied. “When I was a boy I thought that what has happened might happen. Hence I trained myself to srtte with the left hand as well as the right. Today 1 find it convenient” He smiled oontentedly.—James O'Donnell Bets nett. In the Chicago Tribune.

MADE TIME FOR ONCE

OCCABION WHEN “OLD BILL” EXCEEDED BPEED LIMIT. Circumstances‘Over Which Engineer Had No Control Caused Pet Locomotive to Exert Itself As Never Before. “Old Bill’s fireman used to duck his head every time he stooped over to put in a fire from force of habit, he was so used to havin’ Old Bill kick at him,’’ relates a veteran engineer in the Railroad Man’s Magazine. “And whenever the brakemen wanted to know anything about their Work, they used to drop Old Pop Hickenlooper a postal card.

“Old Bill was perfectly dotty about his engine. He was eternally fussing about the old mill. He couldn’t run her half a mile without stoppin’ to oil round. He would' steal oil for her from the other engines, besides using about three times as much as any other man used that he got on requisition. He wouldn’t crowd her over eight miles an hour for fear of heating her brasses, and he simply wouldn’t pull a full train. “Any of you fellers that ljave been over the Denver & Rio Grande knows that cornin’ down the Cimarron canyon is like failin’ down a well. Pop Hick-

enlooper was at the Summit one day when he got a ‘can have’ to Gunnison. The orders didn’t allow any time for pickin’ flowers, so they started right down the canyon, with Old Bill grumblin’ as usual because his darling old mill would have to turmhef wheels so fast. *

“He had a string of a dozen empty flats, with a hundred Italian shovelers for passengers. Old Bill worked steam a little till he’d got ’em a’ rollin’ nicely; then he shut off, stretched himself out on the seat-box, and prepared for a comfortable ride, expectin’, of course, that the brakemen. would do the rest.

“This was in the good old days of the Armstrong brake, you see. He didn’t take much notice until he saw a juniper bush on the rocks close beside the track bend violently over in the direction he was goin’, as no bush ever does except In a violent wind. Then he yelped for brake?.

“Did anybody ever see a flat-car anywhere that ever had a brake in good order? I never did. The only response Bill’s call for brakes was an extra spurt as them ornery flats dropped down over a little pitch. Old Bill let out another yelp add looked to see why it wasn’t responded to. “He saw the two brakemen on the caboose platform, both swingin’ on the caboose brake, the only one on the whole train that would hold two ounces,' with Pop Hickenlooper standin’ in the door, watchin’ ’em with his eyes stickin’ out till you could have used ’em for hat-pegs. “By this time they were goin’ so fast that the wind picked up one of the light-weight Italians and slammed him back agsiinst the two brakemen, biff! They all fell off. Old Bill kept yelpin’ for brakes and givin’ her sand, while the fireman made the greatest effort of his life 'with the tank-brake. Another Italian was picked up by the wind and carried off, followed by another and another until the train was depopulated.

“By this time the train was moving so swift that it cracked like the snapper on a whip every time it went around a reverse curve. The wheels were spinning so fast that the humming they made was keyed up to a pitch as shrill as the song of a mosquito. In their wake was an odor of scorching wood, caused by the friction of them old flats.

“They probably would have busted out into a blaze if it hadn’t been for the creek. The road followed every ben£ of the creek within three feet of the water, just like all mountain roads do. That truju was goin’ so fast that the suctipn just picked all the water up bodily and eddied it around over them flats, keepln’ 'em thoroughly drenched, and so preventin’ a fire.”

Pure Water En Route.

The interstate commerce commission has taken up the matter of impure water on railroad, trains and in ships plying in the coastwise commerce. Common carriers are to be prohibited from providing their crews or employes with polluted water for drinking purposes and are not to be permitted to maintain upon vessels or vehicles or in any of their stations or other ordinary stopping places over which they have control, any tanlt, cistern, receptacle, hydrant or article with water which may contain impurities. '

TRAGEDIES ALONG THE LINE

Seems to Be • Hard Thing to Educate the Public to Avoid Railroad Dangers.

The generation that remembers the beginning of the railroad has nearly passed away, but a younger one easily recalls the time when the railroad was a fascinating plaything as well as a means of transportation. To those |n the country, and to many in the city it was a convenient highway, a short cut “to the depot*’ or betwen points. The inhabitants used to gather at it to see the trains go by. The children used hut their crossed pins on the rails arid wait till a train went by to get their' “scissors.’’ They used to flatten cents by letting the trains go over them. They used the railroad in scores of ways as a plaything. Then the tramp found this convenient highway; indeed, it is even suspected that the railroad had much to do with making the tramp. He tramped its ties by day, he camped by its side at night. These are a few of the side ways in which the railroad was used. That it was not thus used in safety, even in its early days, hundreds of tragedies along the lines have testified. But the danger has constantly increased. Doubled and quadrupled tracks, more frequent and swifter trains whose speed made it unsafe even to stand by the side of the tracks when they went by, have steadily intensified danger. Grade crossings haye been replaced by bridges, ties have been raised from the ground and filled between with ballast of rough crushed stone, everything possible has been done to discourage walking on the tracks, and still the killings of trespassers on the rail are annually far in excess of the number killed in train accidents.

ENGINEER SWEPT FROM CAB

Peculiar Accident That Left Locomotive on Southern Railroad Without a Guiding Hand.

The lives of scores of persons leaving Baltimore for Philadelphia on an early morning train were placed in peril a few days ago when the engineer of the train, Benton L. Redmiles, of 328 Federal street, was swept from his cab by a piece of wreckage on an adjoining track, and instantly killed. That no other lives were lost as the train rushed wildly through the country without a guiding hand waß due to the fireman, who sprang to the throttle and stopped the long line of cars. The accident was due to the breaking of a car on a freight train bound for Bayview. At Orangeville there are four adjoining tracks. The freight train was proceeding to Bayview, and had arrived at this pointy when one of the

cars buckled over and acrois the adjoining track. Train No. 22, local bound for Philadelphia, passed red lanterns trainmen .had hung up to warn approaching trains, of impending danger. As the passenger passed the freight there was a terrific crash as the overhanging freight car tore the cab of the passenger train apart. Redmiles was catapulted from the train, together with the debris of the cab. It was then that the fireman of the passenger train succeeded in stopping the train and saving the lives of the passengers.^

ADDS TO VALUE OF BRAKE

Railroad Men Will Be Quick to Note What This Invention IsCapable of Accomplishing.

This invention relates to fluid pressure brakes of the Westinghouse or similar types, and its object is to provide a valve arranged to utilize an

Triple Valve for Air Brakes.

equalizing pressure and the combined force of the train line and brake cylinder pressure for properly controlling the triple valve and preventing uneven pressures in the brake cylinder and to prevent undeslred action application. —Scientific American.

Enoouraging Economy.

Trifles begin to assume the importance of big things when you multiply them enough times. A gallon of oil or a shovel of coal saved here and there will soon pay the wages of an extra man. Fifty shovels of coal r used unnecessarily on a trip means that the company will have to haul an extra ten of freight 200 miles to pay for it. t , An engineer can rough-handle his engine so that he will not only waste steam, and hence fuel, but he can jolt and jar the locomotive po that the mechanism will sobn give out Rewards are today offered on a dozen different roads to engineers and firemen who make their regular trips on a minimum supply of coal oil. This ( policy of encouraging economy has resulted in enormous savings.—Sunday Magazine of the New York Tribune.

PROPER CREDIT FOR GRANDPA

Happy Father Wanted Generous Contribution Entered Under the Proper Heading. When Mr. Otis returned from the office one afternoon, he was met at the door by his wife, who cried, excitedly: “Oh, Herbert, love, I received * lovely letter from father today ” “Yes," my dear?” queried be- “ Yes, dearest,” repeated Mrs. Otiß, enthusiastically, “he congratulates us 6n the birth of our baby.” ( “That’s good,” was the reply. “Yes,” went on Mrs. Otis, “and he says it will cost us more to live now babies are expensive.” “1* suppose that is true, dear,” assented' x the just jthink!” said the wife, joyfully, “father has sent us 8 check for J£DDO. Isn’t that just lovely ofvhim?” “I should say it was!” said Otis. “11l sit right down, dear? and thank him for his generous contribution to the Fresh Heir fund.”

SUFFERED FOR FOUR YEARS.

Mr. J. M. Sinclair of Olivehill, Tenn., writes: “I strained my back, which weakened my kidneys and caused an awful had backache and

Mr. J. M. Sinclair.

and was in a nervous state and very much depressed. The doctor’s medicine didn’t help me, so I decided to try* Dodds Kidney Pills, and I* cannot say enough to express my relief and thankfulness, as they cured me. Dia- ’ mond Dinner Pills cured me of Constipation.” Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer oif Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free. Adv.

CAR GOES 28.7 MILES ON GALLON OF GASOLINE

Red Crown Shows Remarkable Test. Judged by C. A. C. Committee. Surprising results were obtained Tuesday in Chicago, when, in a distance test on the boulevards, a 1915 big six went 28.7 miles on a gallon of Red Crpwn gasoline. The test was made to demonstrate the fuel economy of high test gasoline, by the technical committee of the Chicago Automobile Club. Red Crown gasoline, 58 test, was decided upon by the judges and drivers ae the beßt gasoline t 6 be used. All through the trip the clutch was not slipped, except when traffic congestion made it necessary. The dash adjustment on the carburetor was disconnected, and in order that the test be a fair one, the fan was in operation throughout the run. , Next came the acceleration test. With the carburetor adjustment the same as during the economy run, the car was driven from standing start to thirty miles an hour in 12 4-5 seconds. The flexibility test saw the car run at four miles an hour, then speeded up to forty-four. The test proves o that the six is not an excessive fuel consumer, where the best gasoline is used. Fancy sending fQr your physician, only to discover that he is traveling abroad for the benefit of his health!

DOCTOR KNEW Had Tried It Himself.

The doctor who has tried Postum knows that it is an easy, certain, and pleasant way out t>f the coffee habit and all of the ails following and he prescribes it for his patients as did a physician of Prospertown; N. J. One of bis patients says: “During the summer just past I suffered terribly with a heavy feeling at the pit of my stomach and dizzy feelings in my head and then a blindness would come over my eyes so I would have to sit down. I would get bo nervous I could hardly control my feelings. “Finally I spoke to our family physician about it and he asked if I drank much coffee and mother told him that * I did. He told me to immediately stop drinking coffee and drink Postum in its place, as he and his family had used Postum and found it a powerful rebuilder and delicious food-drink. / “I hesitated for a time, disliking the Idea of feeing to give up my coffee, but finally I got a package and found it to be all the doctor said. “Since drinking Postum in place of coffee my dizziness, blindness and nervousness are all gone, my bowels are regular and I am well and strong. That is a short statement gs what Posftum has done for me.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Weilville,” in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum —must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum —is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugars makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 500 tins. The cpst per cup of both kinds is about the same. “There’s a Reason” for Postum. . * —-sold by Grocers.

inflammation off the bladder. Later I became so much wprse that I consulted a doctor, who said that I had Diabetes and that my heart was affected. I suffered for four years