Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — Page 2

WHETS” FOR LIHBOWELS For sick headache, bad breath, 'Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a lucent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach w bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indigestion, biliousness and sluggish bowels —you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don’t let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to-night; put an end to the beedacha, biliousness, dizziness, nervousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; etaanaa your inside organs of all the bile, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, happiness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress if you Will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don’t forget the children—their little insides need a cleansing, too. Adv. Notice for Yourself. "Old Mr. Grabbles says there Is {nothing too good for his daughter.” “He has a hard jolt coming to him (some day." “What makes you think so?" “A girl who is brought up that way (almost invariably picks out a man to many who isn’t worth killing”

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A “Flying" Malady.

The doctors are pussled concerning si strange malady that has broken out at more than one aeroplane works, and baa in one case ended fatally. The malady in some respects resembles yellow jaundice, and It is, rightly or wrongly, attributed to contact with an aeroplane “dope," or to Inhaling its odor. Further particulars need not at the moment be indicated, but it has been suggested that the source of the trouble may be amyl acetate, which is used as a “aope” solvent Some mystery attache* to the affair, the precise nature of the malady not having yet been determined, in spite of close examination and analysis; and, of course, until success is attained in this direction no satisfactory precautions or remedy can be devised.

Advantage of Silencer.

This crash of the bullet makes the ■value of the Maxim silencer very little, so far as military efficiency is concerned, in. the way that the fiction writer imagines the silencer to be useful, but not to prevent the enemy from discovering the position of the men firing as many fancy. Its value lies in the fact that It eliminates fully half of the recoil of the rifle from the action of the gases In its chambers, and it gives the officers much better control over the fire, because of the lessened noise of the rifles. It cuts down the roar of the Springfield to about the noise of the J 5-20 and thus the roar of the rifles at the firing line is much reduced, and the command* of the officers can be heard. —Outing.

KNOW NOW And Will Never Forget the Experience. The coffee drinker who has suffered and then been completely relieved by changing from coffee to Postum knows something valuable. There’s no doubt about it. "1 learned the truth about coffee in a peculiar way.** says a California worn* an. “My husband who has, for years, been of a bilious temperament decided to leave off coffee and give Postum a trial, and as I did not want the trouble of making two beverages for meals I concluded to try Postum, too. The results have been that while my husband has been greatly benefited, I have myself received even greater benefit. “When I began to drink Postum I was thin in flesh and very nervous. Now I actually weigh 16 pounds more than I * did at that time and I am stronger physically and in my nerves, while husband is free from all his ails. "We have learned our little lesson •bout coffee and we know something •bout Postum, too, for we have us“ > Postum now steadily for the last th* 'years and we shall continue to do so. "We have no more use for coffee — the drug drink. We prefer Postum and health.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Read "The Road to Wellfn pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in • •up of hot water and, with cream and «ugar, makes a delicious beverage ln•tantly. 30c and 60c tins.

NEW SWITCHING LOCOMOTIVE

A 300 Horse-Power Gasoline Switching Locomotive. From the Scientific American.

STOPS TRAIN AT ONCE

DEVICE SEEMS TO END POSSIBILITY OF COLLISIONS. Most Thorough Tests Are Said to Have Demonstrated Value of the Invention Beyond ’ All Possibility of Doubt.

At last a device has been invented and successfully tested which appears to solve the problem of preventing railroad collisions. This device goes to the root of the matter, acting automatically with,the proper setting of train signals and relieving the locomotive engineer of all responsibility. Whenever the safety of the train and its human freight depends on a sudden stop, this device insures, without human intervention, the closing of the throttle and the setting of the airbrakes. The most drastic tests covering a period of more than a year on 107 miles of double track equipped with 90 locomotives, made a triumphant showing in which there was not one failure of the device to operate. The device and its operation are thus described in a recent issue of the Railway Age Gazette:

The apparatus is electro-mechanical, so called. A ramp fixed on the ties, 22 inches outside of the track rail, engages a member depending from the engine. The ramps are fixed in the rear of each automatic block signal a sufficient distance to allow room in which to stop fast trains. The ramp, when not electrified, causes an application of the air-brakes; when electrified, it energizes an electro-magnet on the engine which prevents the operation of the brake applying apparatus. There is no visual or audible signal, and no speed recorder; neither is the operation of the apparatus affected in any way by the speed of the train; though these additional features have been worked out, so that they could be readily applied. Each ramp is 180 feet long with a short insulated section in the middle, making virtually two contact pieces. The outgoing end'of the ramp is kept constantly electrified, so that an engine moving backward, ad- in switching operations, would never be stopped. The ramps are made of 35pound standard T-iron. The contact member on the locomotive consists of a shoe fastened to the bottom of a vertically movable piston working against a strong spring, the whole being supported on the back end of the crosshead guides. The piston is raised three inches when it engages the ramp, the ramp being three inches higher in the center than at the point near the end where the shoe strikes it. The movement of the piston opens a valve, allowing air pressure from the air-brake train line to enter a small air cylinder in the cab of the locomotive. This pressure forces a piston upward; and this piston operates a crank controlled by an electric lock. The lock, mounted on an axle, revolves if its magnet is deenergized, but does not revolve if the magnet is energized. Revolving, an arm attached to it operates a threeported valve, allowing air pressure from the train line to enter the operating cylinder. This opens the engineman's air-brake valve, giving a service application of the brakes, and closes the throttle. The electric lock is operated by a current from the roadside battery conveyed through a wire extending from the shoe upward through a pipe to the box in the locomotive cab which Contains the lock. Thus the absence of the electric current at a ramp, from any cause, will result in the application of the airbrakes. There is train line pressure in all pipes, and a failure of pipes or their connection also causes a stop. *

Largest Locomotive.

A hundred years ago the first locomotive weighed about six tons, and drew eight loaded cars. At present the largest locomotive reported to be in use is a huge compound engine which measures 120 feet over all and weighs 750,000 pounds. It is an oil burner and carries 4,000 gallons of oil and 12,000 gallons of water. It cost >45,000 to build. These giants have reached a point where one locomotive is so long that it is hinged in the middle with a flex! ble joint so that it can turn a curve without upsetting

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MOTIVE POWER IS GASOLINE Switching Locomotive That Can Be Operated at Comparatively Small Expense. In some places it is considered a luxury to use a switching locomotive because of the expense of malntentance and the consumption of fuel, while the locomotive is not in service, says the Scientific American. Hence, unless there is enough work for the locomotive to do the 24 hours of the day the work of switching is done by the engines of freight trains. In order to provide a suitable locomotive for such conditions, in which there will be a minimum of expense for operation and no expense during the idle hours of the locomotive, a gasoline switching engine has been designed and is now in use at Matador, Texas. A photograph of this locomotive is shown herewith. It has a 30V horsepower engine and exercises a tractive effort of 12,000 pounds, at six miles per hour. The engiie is of six-cylin-der type, with cylinders 11 by 15 inches. The power transmission, which is pneumatically operated, is effected by means of a sprocket on the crankshaft connected by chain to a .sleeve working free on the rear driving axle and is then transferred under multiple disk friction-clutch to the forward driving axle, where, by an octaroon clutch, the power is either magnified by a series of gears to produce heavy tractive effort and high torque for starting processes, or is delivered direct to the driving wheels. Once the locomotive is in motion the gears are cut out, and it is operated by the direct connection.

FEWER ACCIDENTS ON LINES

Safety Devices and Greater Care Have Reduced the Number in a Gratifying Degree. The accidents on United States railroads in proportion to the total number of passengers varies widely from year to- year. The table shows that in 1900 the amazing toll of 2,550 deaths occurred among the employees of railroads, w.hile 40,000 were Injured. In other words, one man was killed for every 400 employees and one for every 26 was injured. The ratio improved in the next ten years, when only one man was killed for every 576 employees. In 1900 there were 294 passengers killed and 4,000 injured. The statistics show that in 1900 one passenger was killed for every 2,216,591 carried; while for every 140,000 passengers one was injured. In 1910 only one passenger was killed for every 3,500,000 carried. During the last year 270 passengers were killed in railroad accidents, 2,000 employees, 5,000 trespassers and 1,200 others, not trespassers, making the total for the year about ten thousand, as compared with 9,900 in 1911 and 9,682 lii 1910. During the last year the railroads paid out on account of injuries a total of 327,640,851.

Shows Perils of Rail Men.

The hazardous nature of the work of locomotive firemen and engineers formed the subject of the testimony presented at Chicago before the federal board of arbitration hearing the wage dispute of 65,000 employees and 98 western railroads. About 50 per cent of the firemen on western roads “die with their boots on,” according to A. H. Hawley, grand secretary-treasurer of the firemen’s brotherhood. Forty-seven per cent, he said, die in service and from railroad accidents. “Of 1,224 disabilities reported to the brotherhood, 691 were caused by blindness and amputation,” Mr. Hawley testified- For the last ten years there have been 5,026 deaths of brotherhood members and 1,224 disabilities.

Railroaders as Citizens.

The management of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad has promulgated a new code of operating rules wherein is set forth the close relationship the road is endeavoring to establish with employees and its desire that the latter shall be not only safe and reliable railroad men, but valuable and valued citizens of their respective communities, as well, To that end employees are adjured to maintain a correct attitude toward the public at all times, as well as to do their duty to, the best of their ability and are given assurance that everyone is regarded by the manageinent 'as “In line for promotion, preferment depending wholly upon himself;

BAR All GAY COLORS

FRENCH LEADERS OF FASHION Declare for somberness. World Is Likely to Fall Into Lina— Tones of All the New Spring < Shades Show Subdued EffectSome Early Hints.

That Paris will present many of Its models in black is well understood, although for the American openings there will be the colors that no city in Europe considers today; also, it is established that the garish combinations to which Paris has been overprone during the last three years have vanished for a time, at least, because these colors are the children of a reckless and slightly decadent era, as every student of dress history knows, and the world is sad, serious and virile today. There is no doubt that the entire world will follow the lead of France and garb itself in demure colors, if not in black. The tones of all the new spring shades show this subdued effect and one feels respectfully toward the fashion, knowing the heartache in which it was born. Blues, pinks, yellows are quiet in shading, grays have leaped to the front, and the tones of red used are so obviously inspired by the uniforms of those at the front that they, too, have a sinister and sober significance. Black will even prevail in tea gowns which are usually brilliant. A smart tea gown that has been sent over as a sketch is in black satin, an innovation, as everyone must admit. It is cut on dignified medieval lines with a piece of itself shaped in from the back to be adjusted in the front as a girdle, caught by a great diamond of cut jet which drops strands like tears toward the floor. There is a cape of black chantilly lace flowing freely over the back and shoulders, forming sleeves in keeping with the puffed sleeves that were tentatively shown in the early winter. Evidently there is to be a radical change in evening sleeves, so it is wise to be prepared for it. It does not come about through a revolt against the sleeveless bodice, but is due to a progression of ideas along the same epochal line. Another sketch sent over shows a polonaise of orange-colored velvet opening over the skirt made from two silver lace ruffles. At, or rather above the waist line there is an immense butterfly worked in rhinestones and jet. The decolletage is V-shaped and is a part of the orange velvet polonaise, and it, too, has a deep flounce to serve as a sleeve. One of the best houses sends a sketch for a new coat suit which has

Small Blue Velvet Hat.

two distinguishing features; the skirt is not wide and the coat Is laced down the side from shoulder to well below the waist line with a heavy gold cord. The suit is of green cloth such as the Belgian officers wear. The eyelets are conspicuously large and bound with green velvet. The long, small sleeves have flaring -cuffs and above these they are laced with the gold cord that drops in small tassels at the back. There is a full peplum attached

COVER FOR THE DECK CHAIR

Practically a Necessity When This Piece of Furtniture Is Given ■ Place in the House. Deck chairs*are to be found in most households and they are comfortable and very inexpensive to buy, but they

are not particularly sightly objects and, therefore, are more frequently kept for use in the garden than in a room,. With very little trouble the appearance of one of these chairs can be greatly improved when required for use indoors. Im the first place, the woodwork should be painted with some quickdrying enamel chosen of a color to harmonise with the other colors in the

to the long-waisted coat, the joining outlined by three rows of stitching. Each garment, as yon see, has a smart new feature, and one- that any of us are able to incorporate into clothes that we contemplate having in the near future. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

REVIVING AN OLD CUSTOM

Hand-Painted Decorations Recall What la Known as the “Victorian . Period.” Pussy willow green taffeta, with hand-painted butterfles in black and orange flitting across its surface, is used here for an enchanting full-skirt-ed costume of the late Victorian period. The little coat, lace frilled, is

quaintly in keeping, and so is the broad leghorn hat with drooping brim. The parasol, the new Vanity Fair as it is called, is of pompadour taffeta, with a trimming of green taffeta.

FRENCH KNOT MUCH LIKED

One of the Easiest of Embroidery Stitches and Looks Well on Anything. The French knot,is one of the easiest and yet most fascinating of embroidery stitches. It is also one of the handiest, as it can be used to give a little handmade touch to even a machine-made article. Blouses coming ready-made from the shop can be much enhanced by a sprinkling upon the collars and cuffs, and possibly down the front, of French knots, which will take away entirely the frequently objectionable “ready-made” appearance. Small-tea aprons can also be given the handmade touch by this same convenient knot stitch. Neckwear bought at the shops can be ornamented with it. Lovely mourning neckwear can be made by purchasing a collar-and-cuff set or jabot of white organdieready made and then ornamenting them with French knots of black silk.

Drying Your Hair.

After a shampoo the hair may be dried by pulling it up through the crown of a hat from which the top of the crown has been removed. This ‘ keeps it away from the head and neck.

room. Then it is an easy matter to make a cover for the chair such as is shown in the accompanying sketch, and for everyday use it can be carried out in art linen, and for special occasions, perhaps, in silk. Diagram A shows the cover spread out quite flat, and it is trimmed at the edge with a hemstitched frill and at each corner tapes on by which it may be tied in position to the woodwork of the chair. In each corner a little floral design is embroidered consisting of three pale pink daisies with white centers and three leaves worked in various shades of green. Diagram B gives the detail of this design so that it can quite well be worked from our illustration. Diagram C shows the cover upon the chair, and it is, of course, tied on over the canvas. Materials of fast colors should be used in making this cover, and it can then be easily removed and washed when occasion requires. Prettily patterned cretonne made up in this way forms a very useful cover, aa it is easily washed.

Shirt Waists Are Severe.

Shirt waists cut along mannish lines severely simple in style are. having a tremendous vogue this season. They are particularly suitable to the bust ness girl. Three attractive models were seen here. One was a finely striped silk, black and white being the color scheme of the shirt waist This was made with a high collar —a new idea of the season —which buttons up tightly to the throat Very chic but boyish in, the effect... The other two blouses were handtaapchiqf linen and showedFa graceful should® line. » -

WOMAN WOULD NOT GIVE UP Though Sick and Suffering; At I-nat- Found Help in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Richmond, Pa. taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I w**™* dreadfully rundown Btate h®alth, had internal troubles, and was so exJEI* JEfi! tremely nervous and W® prostrated I fK * had given in to my feelings I would FTb* rSTlfnVi have been in bed. I I !•! w hl I I waß 1 had I PI w hl 1 I hardly strength at I I fn ß ffl B»! I— l time* to be on my feet and what I did do was by a great effort. I could not sleep at night and of coarse felt very bad in the morning, and had a steady headache. “After taking the second bottle I noticed that the headache was not so bad. I rested better, and my nerves were stronger. I continued Its use until it made a new woman of me, and now I can hardly realize that I am able to do so much as I do. Whenever I know any woman in need of a good medicine I highly praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.” Mrs. Frank Clark, 8146 N. Tulip St., Richmond,Pa. Women Have Been Telling Women for forty years how Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound has restored their health when suffering with female ilia. Thia accounts for the enormous demand for it from coast to coast. If you are troubled with any ailment peculiar to women why don’t you try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? It will pay you to do so. ; Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.

Consternation at the Front

The archbishop of York, in his early days, did a great deal of work among the uneducated classes, and on one occasion a very illiterate woman was godmother to a child at a christening. In the course of the ceremony she was asked in tie usual way if she renounced the devil and all his works, eta. —•— . 1 . • ~—— “Oh, yes, sir," she replied briskly. *1 recommend them all."

SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR Look Years Youngerl Try Grandma’s Recipe of Sago and Sulphur and Nobody Will Know. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur properly compounded, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years agn the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which ie mussy and troublesome. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy.’’ You will get a large bottle for about 50 cents. Everybody uses this old, famous recipe, because no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger. Adv.

An Old Contention.

“How did she happen to decide that he was her soul mate?” "He was demonstrating a new dance at her house and broke a costly vase.** “I don’t see how she figured that out” “Neither do I, but there is a great deal in the philosophy of women that can’t be figured out”

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