Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — Page 3

OUT Of HIS CLASS

By JANE OSBORN.

Katherine Morley, old Doctor Morbeautiful daughter, wai the undisputed widow of Clayton college. And after the had ushered seven into Clayton she was smilingly spoken of by the other girls of the town as "The Youth’s Companion." Whether it was because she resented this or because of a deeper reason it Is hard to tell, but Just as the eighth freshman class since her eighteenth birthday was about to enter Clayton, Katherine Morley assumed anqther pose. College men failed to interest her any longer, she told people. “They had no true feeling. Her ideal man was more of a primitive.” This was all right as a drawingroom pose, but when Katherine put it Into practice and began to be seen walking on Sunday afternoons in the country and attending local attractions with a certain handsome young factory foreman whose cheap green suit and creaky shoes, wide spreading hat and gaudy neckties were suggestive of Hungarian peasant origin, the college community was filled with consternation. And when this flirtation lasted through the winter, and Katherine quite frankly mentioned this young peasant— Alec Brajaska —to her friends and received him at her home when her father was away, things began to look serious. Most to be pitied was Doctor Morley, her father. One day his- assistant in the sociology department, Beardsley Drew, suggested that he might be of some assistance. “Something surely will have to be done,” replied the father. “It Is getting to be outrageous* - I have spoken to Katherine myself about It. I dread taking the step, but I see no other way out of it. I am afraid Katherine Is serious. I can have at least the satisfaction of knowing something of the man’s origin. I must know whether there is any reason why Katherine ought not to marry him. I know of no one who can undertake the investigation so well as you, Mr? Drew.” The result of this conference was that Prof. Beardsley Drew undertook the task of looking into the record and standing of Alec Brajaska. As a professor of sociology, he had studied, perhaps more interestedly than Dr. Morley knew, the life and the customs of the factory elements of the men and women in town, who were so far removed from the college circle and college interests. He knew their various dialects, and the task was not difficult. '

Drew began his task in a sensible way by discarding his regular clothes, which would have branded him as an outsider, and with a shabby suit and a pair of brilliant tan shoes and a cheap broad brimmed felt , hat he sallied forth. He went to the house where BraJaska was known to live. It was at the hour when the young man would naturally be at work. A young foreign woman answered his knocking and proved to be the daughter of the woman who kept the boarding house at which Brajaska and several of his associates took their meals. Professor Drew arranged to take board at the same place. It was the easiest way to evade suspicion, and as he was having a week's vacation he could carry out his plan without fear of being suspected. N He occasionally talked with Brajaska, but more frequently with the associates. He lingered after the other boarders one morning at breakfast and started to speak of Brajaska to Magda, the young daughter. “You seem to know Brajaska,” he said. "How is it? Did you know him in the old country?" Magda told him a few things about his bringing up, his boyhood ambitions. He was thirty and she was twenty. They had lived on adjoining farms in the old country and for years her father had been saving to come to this country and had influenced Alec to come. They had all come together and then her father had died. Suddenly the girl stopped talking and then Morley looked up in surprise ,to see that she was crying. He put his hand impulsively on her shoulder and she did not resent it. She was apparently too much preoccupied with her own grief. “Do you not know,” she asked, "about me and Brajaska? I was promised to him, and we were going to be married in the spring, and then a beautiful, very beautiful lady with a great deal of money took him away. She will marry him. Brajaska has said so.” Drew’s first feeling was for the unfortunate Magda. This feeling was followed by one of anger at Brajaskg, who had the insolence to desert a woman of his own class and because of his good looks win the affection of another woman of his class. Drew remained at the boarding house a week, each day growing more and more acquainted with the sorrowful little Magda. The last day of his vacation was to be the day of the excursion and Drew had seen that Magda had refused the invitation of several of the younger men to go with them. Then he asked her to go with atm She looked away from him shyly. "No,” she said. 'lt would not be r<gfct lam promised to Alec—” “But don’t you see, Magda,” said Drew With more feeling than he usually showed, "perhaps if you go with me and are very happy and I - ■. *.. ■", - * :

seem to be very fond of you—-perhaps Brajaska will be Jealous. We are all made that way, we men.” “But the rich lady win be with him,” said Magda. “He will have no eyes for anyone else. 1 could never stand It*” * However. Drew was able to persuade her that a little skillful acting might bring back Brajaska’s affections. She was very pretty. Drew told her, even If the other lady was beautiful.

It was a gay assemblage that met in the Woods, and although Magda’s heart was heavy the sound of the music and the festivity brought the light into her eyes and the color to her cheeks. She laughed and needed little artifice to disguise the true feelings of her heart. Brajaska and Katherine had been watched by their associates more closely than Katherine enjoyed. She was very beautiful, Drew thought, in comparison with their simple, stolid peasant women. He had never before realized how beautiful she was. He was alone for a minute. Magda had gone off to take part in some contest He was surprised to see Katherine standing alone at his side, her eyes flashing and the color high in her face. “Professor Drew,” she said distantly, “I am surprised. I never thought it of you.” "Never thought what, Katherine?" he asked, feeling somehow that what he had come to the excursion for had begun to happen. "I never thought that you would come to one of these affairs with a Hungarian woman. Don’t you suppose that it will get back to father and the college?” “What about yourself?” asked Drew. “That’s quite different. Every one knows about Brajaska and me. And you are Just trifling with these people. It is quite different.” “How do you know I am trifling?" asked Drew, feeling the charm of her beauty now that she was angry. “Perhaps I am as serious as you are.” “You, you don’t mean—it isn’t that little Magda creature?”

“I wonder how serious you Katherine,” he said. “Do you really mean that you are going to marry Brajaska?” “Oh, no, I couldn’t do that quite. But Brajaska is wonderful. He has so much more spirit than any other man I ever knew.”

“But suppose you were to find that the men of your own class had more spirit than you thought? Supjpose that I were to tell you and prove to you, Katherine, that I had more spirit than to let you throw yourself away on a person like Brajaska, that I had feeling enough to fight for you. Suppose I were to tell you that I have been following you and watching you for the whole winter and that for a week I have been living with Brajaska Just to find out for myself whether you and he were really capable of being happy together?” “But what about Magda?” Katherine’s Jealousy was still uppermost. “That little Magda,” said Drew, “Is going to marry Brajaßka if you have the good sense to let him alone. You have been behaving like a child, but I love you.” Katherine looked him in surprise, her breath coming fast. * * * * * * *

At sundown Brajaska took Magda home to the little boarding house, and Magda had forgotten all about the long months of her unhappiness, so happy was she to rest her head on his broad shoulders and feel that after all they were promised to each other and would soon be married.

“But Brajaska,” said Magda, suddenly remembering that the kindhearted boarder who had gone to the excursion with her had not returned, “where is the new boarder? He was a good friend of mine.” “The new boarder. I will tell you about him some time,” replied Brajaska. “We had a long talk last night. He and 1 are always going to be friends. He is a man, like ourselves with great feelings, but he knows, as l do, that to be happy, one must love a woman of his own class.” (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

GARLIC GIVEN HIGH PRAISE

invaluable as a Remedy for Many Diseases, According to Man Who • Professes to Know. Garlic is one of the most wholesome herbs that can be eaten. It stimulates all secretions and its effect is strong upon the liver and kidneys. A teaspoonful of garlic juice and sugar will generally ward off an oncoming cold. Garlic eaters have good skins, for garlic is excellent in treating eruptions of /all sorts. Those races that use much garlic in their food are those that are least susceptible to tuberculosis. Many doctors in Europe treat tuberculosis with garlic, giving it internally in the form of a sirup, externally in the form of poultices, or making their patients inhale an infusion. - The essential principle of garlic, that which acts upon the system, is allyl sulphide. This also causes the characteristic —and to many persons disagreeablo—smell.—Exchange.

Placed.

“So you're looking for a job in the chorus, eh?” “Yes, sir.” “How is your voice?” “Well, I’m a little hoarse now but—” : v “All right I’ll put you in the peg) hsaet”

TIIE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

200,000 USE DRUGS

Number of Addicts in' United States Overestimated. Officials of the Government Public Health Service Make Thorough Investigation of the Matter — Figures Based on Tax. Washington.—While holding it true that the amount of opium and coca consumed in this country annually is cut of all proportion to the actual need for medicinal purposes. Martin L Wilbert, technical assistant, division of pharmacology, hygienic laboratory of the United States public health service, is of the opinion that the number of drhg fiends is overestimated. To correct existing impressions the health service has been looking into the subject. Practically all the opium and coca used in this country is imported through legitimate channels, Mr. Wilbert finds. Because of the comparatively high import tax, care is exercised to Insure the reporting and recording of all the products so that fairly accurate data are at the disposal of the Investigator. The records show that for several years the total amount of Buch drugs imported has been fairly uniform and will aggregate an average of approximately 2,500,000,000 doses of opium, its derivatives and alkaloids, and 325,000,000 doses of coca leaves and cocaine. These figures serve to definitely fix the amount of available material, and quite regardless of the proportion of the several drugs that may be used legitimately or illegitimately, the sum total of Illegitimate use cannot well exceed the sum total of the available material.

The Investigator found a rather interesting source of ’information regarding the actual number and kind of addicts through the reports of the enforcement of the Tennessee antinarcotic law of 1913. Lucian P. Brown, the state food and drugs commissioner of Tennessee, in a recent report says that after 12 months of operation there were registered in the state of Tennessee under the provisions of the antinarcotic law 2,370 persons of all ages and color. “The average consumption per day of morphine addicts was 8.5 grains, or approximately 1,000 doses each montET or 12,000 doses a year,” said Mr. Wilbert “Tennessee contains slightly more than 2 per cent of the total population of the United States, and on the supposition that the same ratio of addicts and the amount of material consumed will hold good

SECRET OF EGYPTIAN DANCES

High Priestess of Dancing.

Lubowska, the twenty-two-year-old Russian mymph who translates into dances the ancient hieroglyphic language of the Egyptians, is said, by one of the foremost Egyptian authorities, to be the greatest exponent of the "Mourning dance” performed in .times of bereayement by the ancients. She has made a study of the chology of the dances and put together the forms of the expression inscribed in stone by those who held the Children of Israel in captivity for so many centuries. She has made the study of Egypt!ology her life’s business and has discovered why the Egyptians made their hands work in such peculiar movements during the performance of their dances. It seems that “every little movement of the hands has a meaning of its own.” What that meaning is. Lubowska discloses in her own dances. She has had an interesting career considering her youth. She wgs married at a very tender age and lost hear husband seven months after ihe nuptial knot was tied. Her parents are Russians, but she has spent rfuch time in South America, especially in Ecuador, where during one of th<sl recent revolutions she carried a gun for 24 hours. As the protege of Porfirio Dias, the Grand Old Man of Mexico, she spent much time in his court at Chapultepec where he gave her every facility and aid in studying and translating in her own way the Egyptian language transcribed on stone. '

AMMUNITION TRAIN AT AN OASIS

Tins photograph shows a Turkish ammunition train halted at an oasis tor the purpose of watering the camels.

throughout the country, we would have a total of something more than 118,000 drug habitues, consuming approximately 1,146,000,000 average doses a year.

“Granting the somewhat improbable assertion that 90 per cent of the opium imported is used illegitimately, at the rate that it is said to be consumed in Tennessee, we could have as a maximum not more than 187,000 users of opium, its derivatives and alkaloids, in all parts of the United States.

“In regard to the use of cocaine, a recent authority asserts that one ounce of cocaine Is enough to keep 50 fiends thoroughly well doped for a ydar. Granting that all the availame 160,000 ounces of cocaine were used illegitimately, there could be at this rate a total of 150,000 cocaine fiends in the United slates. “That this estimate is somewhat high would appear from a report by C. G. Steinmetz, who made a study of 15 men who acquired the habit while employed where the drug is manufactured. The daily quantity taken varied from 2Q to 30 grains; the method of taking it was solely by snuffing it. Even on the basis of the lower quality the consumption per annum would be in the neighborhood of 15 ounces, and this would reduce the possible number of cocaine fiends very materially. “Pharmacists will appreciate that the figures given by Steinmetz are much more in accord with actual practice than are the figures previously quoted. Taking all the available facts Into consideration it would appear that the estimate made by the Committee of the American Pharmaceutical association some years ago that the drug addicts in this country do not exceed 200,000 in number is approximately correct, even at the present time.

“That other previously made estimates of the number of addicts in this country were altogether erroneous is further evidenced by the published reports on hospital admissions since the Federal Antinarcotic law came into effect. It has been predicted that the result of the enforcement of that law would be a besieging of hospitals by drug addicts and a crime wave of national scope accompanied by a trail of suicide and death. While the effects of the enforcement of the federal law have been clearly evidenced by hospital reports, the results have been by no means so far-reaching or so startling as had been expected.” One conclusion reached by investigators Ib that from 90 to 95 per cent of narcotic users do so unnecessarily. It has been asserted, he found, that the average person will develop an addiction to opium or one of its alkaloids after 30 days of daily use, and after continuing the use for three months or more it is impossible to discontinue its use without medical aid.

PIPES FOR THESE WOMEN

Minnesota Poor Farm Will Have Smoking Room for Aged Women Inmates. St. Paul, Minn. —When the new $150,000 woman’s building being erected at the Ramsey county poor farm is completed its inmates may smoke their pipes In peace. For they are to have an elaborate smoking room, fitted in modern style, and, said, Mrs. Albert Moore, wife of the farm superintendent, “if the dear old souls want the walls covered with pictures of race horses, prise fighters and baseball players, they may have them. n , . w-.-rj "When we took a poll regarding the establishment of a den for smoking,” she continued, "there was hardly a dissenting vote. We shall furnish the tobacco and we expect the ‘smoker’ to be one of the most popular places of the institution."

Doesn’t Like Water.

Marion, Ind.—John Dinkle, arrested for vagrancy, told the police he had not taken a bath for 17 years. When Wmi ’turned over to O. P. Wright, sheriff, it was directed a bath be given the man. Trusties of the Jail applied soap and brushes with the result that Dinkle received a scouring he will remember for some days.

WAR ON “TWO FOR” CIGARS

Montclair Citizens Want Health Board to Pry Into Manufacture of Cheap Smokes. Montclair. N. J. —Captious citizens want the health department of this town to extend its paternalism to the “two for” cigars sold here. The board of health’s operations now include, among other things, the supervision of the milk supply and the manufacture of ice cream, the dispensing of soda water, the washing of glasses in beer saloons and the elimination of mosquitoes. Those who would have the health authorities pry into the manufacture of the cheaper cigars assert that they are as much a menace to health as impure milk, infected beer glasses and the mosquito. Few cigars are manufactured in this town, but it is asserted that the health department has as much right to control the source of the cigar supply as it has to Insist on certain regulations for the ’protection of the town’s milk supply, most of which comes from New York state. ,

DON’T KISS, JUST “PAT PAT"

Tap Her Lightly on the. Cheek, You Might Spread Disease, Bays Health Chief. - Huntington, W. Va. —Dr. E. W. Grover, president of the board of health here, has announced that the ancient custom of kissing must stop, because, he says, it spreads tuberculosis and other diseases. Dpctor Grover advocates the “pat pat'' as a substitute. This method of greeting was originated in the Republic of Dominica, where a campaign against the kiss was waged with disastrous results to Cupid. To apply the “pat pat,” the doctor explains, a couple osculatorily inclined should approach each other within hand-shaking distance, pat each other lightly on the cheek and smile. Doctor Grover says there is too much kissing.

AS QUEEN TITANIA

Queen Titania XV., who in private life is Miss Mildred Morgan, is shown here in her royal robes seated in her royal chariot driving by the great assemblage gathered at Asbury Park, N. J., to witness the silver jubilee baby carnival. One of her young attendants is shown seated in the chariot with the queen.

Cuts Teeth at Sixty.

Findlay, O. —Thomas McMichaels, at sixty years of age, is cutting hla second set of teeth.

OLD POLISH CAPITAL

CORRESPONDENT WRITES OF THE CHARMB OF CRACOW. City Has Many Beauties, and Ha Citizens Are Refined and Gentle—--Bcenes In the Mafket Held in the Great Square. t Is it not true that cities, like houses, reflect the characters of tbeii Inhabitants? Somebody said that Berlin has the air of a rich, well-fed woman who is dressed by the most expensive modistes and has everything that money can buy but never the unpurcbasable quality of charm. Now, Cracow is her opposite; she is like a lady of ancient but unhappy race conscious but uncomplaining of her great sorrows; she is fascinating, distinguished, simple. Cracow, small as it is, is the heart of Poland, and in Poland’s days of freedom, long ago, was its capital. But the object of this little article is not to relate the tragic history of Poland, but Just to give a brief sketch of the simple life in beautiful Cracow, before the war began. In the middle of the town is the great square where stands the splendid church of Our Lady. There is a covered market, where the stalls are mostly kept by Jews, but in the open are the peasants from the country with their milk and cheese, vegetables and poultry. The peasant women wear gay-colored clothes and carry huge burdens on their backs, — a dozen milk cans, a bundle of brushwood, a bushel of bread baked in great loaves nearly two yards long. In their high clumsy boots they tramp sturdily along, quite able and willing to do a man’s work in the world as well as to bear a woman’s burden. A lady who visited Cracow shortly before the outbreak of the war was greatly impressed by the burdens borne by people of a little higher rank than the peasant. These burdens were mostly geese—white, longnecked, squawking geese. Every other man, woman and child seemed to be carrying a goose. Sometimes they were carried under the arm of the purchaser. Often under each arm, sometimes in a carppt bag with long neck protruding and the bright eyes eagerly searching the passers-by as though enjoying the novel ride. Sometimes a basket contained as many as three geese and sometimes they were slung unceremoniously over the shoulder of the owner, their legs tied together and their necks craned up to prevent a rush of blood to the head. Now and then a stout lady would pass with a goose in the ample bosom of her dress, or coat, only the head of the fowl showing under her chin. The geese were generally treated with consideration and respect, children stopping to ctress their snaky necks. It was hard to believe that these pets were destined for the pot on the morrow. To be sure there were other things for sale besides geese; rolls of golden butter and leaves of cheese folded together in a way that you never' see outside Poland. In another part of the great square is the vegetable market, with its green and pui pie cabbages, cauliflowers and Brussels sprouts; salsify, onions, and driwl mushrooms on long strings worn like a necklace over the necks of the vendors. But on goose market day in Cracow the center of the stage belongs to the goose. A few abashed hens were offered for sale or a lonesome turkey, but they seemed to feel they had no right there, and were ready to hide their heads. In the center of the square sat the public weigher with his scales. If an olci lady felt that she had been given short weight for half a pound of butter she brpught it to him to weigh, and he even took a hand in the disputes about the size and quality of the geese. The people that you see in the streets of Cracow are beautiful to look upon. They do not look rich, but they know how to wear worn clothes with a kind of natural elegance. Then their faces are expressive, clean cut and fine; they know how to walk and how to stand, they are not rude, but gentle. What is to be the destiny of these clever, refined, unfortunate Poles we do not yet know.—Exchange.

Notes From Commerce Reports.

A German patent has been granted to H. Stefferia for making a lubricant from beet sugar molasses. American interests are about to erect factories in China for the manufacture of dried and desiccated eggs. The Krupp works are making a burglarproof safe, constructed of steel, which required one and one-half hours with an oxyacetylene flame to produce a hole two inches in diameter in a plate one and one-half inches thick. The government oil fields of Chubut, Argentina, produced in 1914 more than 275,000,000 barrels of oil, which was refined there. The world’s coffee production in 1914 was 893,000 tons, a decrease of 92,000 tons from 1913.

Eagle River Gold.

The first gold mining in Alaska was in the belt near Juneau about thirtyfive years ago. Since that date more than $60,000,000 worth of gold has been taken out in this region. The goldbearing belt was known to stretch 60 miles northward, Including the Eagle river region. There are many goldbearing lodes in the region of this river now under development tod many others still awaiting dgretogment. -