Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1915 — Page 2

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at public auction 6Mi miles south and V 4 mile west of Rensselaer and 6ft miles north and H mile west of Remington, on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1915, at 10:30 o’clock, the following described property: 8 Head Horses— l bay mare 4 yrs old, wt 1400, in foal to Claude May’s draft horse; 1 3-year-old brown mare, wt 1100, in foal to same horse; 1 roan mare, 8 years old, wt 1300, in foal to same horse; 2 full aged horses wt 1000 each; 2 yearling colts; 1 spring horse colt. 2 cow’s. 10 head hogs, including 1 sow and shotes, shotes will weigh 100 lbs. each. Implements— l new sulky riding plow, 1 new Hayes cutlivator, 3-sec-tion harrow, 1 new riding tower gopher, 1 steel 3-section harrow, 1 corn planter, 1 mowing machine, 1 wagon, 1 top buggy, 2 sets work harness, one new set, 1 DeLaval cream separator and other articles. Terms—l 2 months' credit without interest if paid when due. If not paid

Republicans: Whom Do You Want Nominated?

The Republican will conduct a straw ballot to decide the choice of its readers for the offices of Governor and United States Senator. The bail 't.r.,r will close Saturday night, Oct 2nd. Readers are asked to cut out the coupon and mail it to this office, preferably signing your name to it, but it will be counted whether your name is signed or not. Please do not send in more than one vote as we do not want any repeaters in northwestern

FOR GOVERNOI v Warren T. McCray James P. Goodrich □ Quincy A. Myers □ R O. Johnson □ Charles A. Carlisle

Signed P. S. Information confidential. Don’t sign if you don’t want to, but send in your vote. ■ ■ *

The Clothing House Williißlniit You will always find us ready to stand back .of any purchase, made here and to right wrongs should any ever occur. It is our aim first of all to create permanent customers, not one time purchasers. We believe we can best do that by giving our trade full values and satisfaction; Glad to show you the largest variety in stylish Suits, Overcoats, Hats, Caps, Sweaters, Underwear at prices that can't be beat. If you buy once we are sure you will buy again. WILLIAM TRAUB The Reliable Clothier -• • Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer, Ind. - .

Trial Calendar, September Term, 1915.

Third Week. Oct. 1. Bruner va Jasper County Telephone Co. Statd vs Miller. State vs Polen. Fourth Week. Oct. 4. Yeoman vs Makeever et al. Makeevcr vs Rush, Trustee Newton township. Oct. 6. Kennedy et al vs Kennedy et al. Hardcnbrook & Erickson vs Oliver et al. Oct 6. Tillett vs. Tillett Estate. Parker vs. Tillett Estate. James vs P. C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co. Sept 7. Werner v- Dexter et al. Wyncoop vs Rowles & Parker. Camblin vs Archibald et al. Oct. 8. State ex rel Hammond vs Aldrich et al. Hanjmonds vs Hammonds Estate. Gobltr vs Hammonds estate. Harris vs Hammonds estate.

when due 8 per cent from date. 6 per cent off for cash. $lO and under cash. MRS. LAURA J. HARRIS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk.

Indiana. This vote is not limited to Jasper county, as The Republican has a number of subscribers living outside the county. The South Bend Tribune is trying to secure a report from all counties of the state and the information will be given from Jasper county based upon the result of this straw vote. Mark in the square at the left of the name the candidate you favor: FOR U. S. SENATOR— Arthur R. Robinson □ James E. Watson □ Walter Olds William L. Taylor Q Hugh Th. Miller

■ • THS EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

Lawmakers are recognizing that there is a greater need of road legislation than ever before. Congress will have the good *Toads question to answer at its coming session. There is a demand from all over the country and the issue must be met. There are over automobiles in use and they need good roads, must have good roads. Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, in a recent speech in his home state said: “First and last tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of wagons and buggies have been broken up ami destroyed by reason of the bad roads in Missouri, and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of horses, mules and oxen have been wasted in the same manner. Good roads mean increase of population, increase in wealth, increase in church and school attendance, increase in social affairs, in short, increase in the joy of living.” Former Secretary of State Bryan in an argument against any extensive military defense expenditure, set forth that $5,000,000,000 in eleven years would gridiron the United States with hard roads twelve miles apart, so that no citizen would live more than 6 miles from a paved road. Bryan said in another meeting that it is only a question of time utnil the federal government will lend its assistance in the building of state roads. The chairman of the state highway commission of Maine, referring to federal co-operation in road building, asserted that the first expenditure in a state should be for connected seacoast roads, which would permit the quick mobilizing of troops at any threatened point of attack. Everything points to new laws for road making. Isolated counties should not undertake the proposition. Connected north and south and east and west roads are of the greatest importance. The national congress and each state legislature should get busy on laws for road making. Federal aid for interstate roads and state aid for county roads looks to be the best plan. If there are readers of The Republican with well defined ideas about road building we should be pleased to publish communications from them.

J. M. Clifton, of Fair has received a telegram that his brother died Wednesday at Beaverton, Mich. He is survived by four brothers, J..M., D S., Charles and Sam Clifton, and one sister, Mrs. Nettie Hopkins,- also of Michigan. He is also survived by a widow and three children. He moved to Michigan from Fair Oaks six years ago. The cause of his death is not known.

Com went down to 58 cents today, 4 cents less than the quotation of yesterday.

Road Building Discussed.

GOLD TAKEN FROM SWEEPINGS.

Thousands of Dollars Rseovsrsd From Wasts Of Silversmiths. Recovering the lost values that lie !n the floor cracks, the ceilings and the sweepings of Jewelry workshops, sllverwars factories and other places where precious metals are used has become a well established business. Once the waste dump received the sweepings and filings of jewelers and silversmiths, no attention being paid to the wealth thus lost and destroyed. By new methods of refining grains of gold, silver and platinum are saved In amounts which run up to thousands of dollars in value. One concern which has built up a big Industry along these lines has paid as high as $6,000 a ton for sweepings which once found their way Into city dumps. For essaying sweepings a series, of one ounce samples are treated and a variation of a hundredth of a grain of gold In an ounce means a difference of sls a ton to an offer to purchase the* refuse. Sweepings received In the rough are first burned In specially built furnaces and the ashes carefully collected and ground to a fineness that permits their passing through a fine mesh sieve. The different grades of sweeps are then mixed. The flux and litharge are added in the mixture and the entire lot put In a briquetting machines, which forms the mass into bricks for smelting. The lead Is separated in the first process from the gold, silver and platinum, then the silver from the other two, and then the gold from the platinum.—New York Sun.

Our Yearning for the Hill^ How much of the Influence of early environment, of those habituated reactions which comprise for each one of us the iron ring of his destiny, there is In even our deeper attitude toward the external world —toward what we call Nature! Not long ago I spent many weeks in the prairio country of the west, a sense of oppression constantly increasing in weight upon my spirit. Those endless, level plains! Those roads that stretched without a break to infinity! A house, a group of bams, a fruit-orchard, now and then a clump of hardwoods, alone broke the endless, flat monotony of snow-covered fields —no, not fields, but infinitudes where a single furrow could put a girdle about an entire township In my home land! My soul hungered for a hill; my heart craved, with a dull longing, the sight of a naked birch-tree flung aloft against the winter sky. Back through the endless plains of Illinois the train crawled, away from the setting sun. But the next daylight disclosed the gentle rolling slopes of the Mohawk valley, and before many hours had ..passed the Berkshire hills were all about, like familiar things recovered. The camelhump of Greylock to the north was sapphire-blue and beckoning. The nearer mountains wore their reddish mantles, pricked with green, above the snowy intervals, and laid their upreared outlines stark against the sky. Shadowy ravines let Into their flanks, suggestive of roaring brooks and the mystery of the wilderness. The clouds trailed purple shadow-anchors; the sun flashed from the ice on their sacred ledges. And a weight seemed suddenly lifted from my spirit The words of the ancient Psalmist came to my lips unconsciously: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills'. From whence cometh my help! My help cometh from God.” —Walter Prichard Eaten In Harper’s Magazine.

Is Vocational Training EnoughT If man could live by bread alone we might rest with vocational education. But by that very intellectual unrest that makes for evolution he cannot. Having eaten, he must learn to use the life he has preserved. But while sustenance is theoretifcally a very simple problem being only a question of how much you can earn and what you can buy with it, the use one makes of the vital energy into which life transforms is the most complex and difficult of all questions. Religion, ethics, education all bear upon it, intersect and blend so that it is almost as difficult to say what teaches one to live as to answer the question of how to live itself. It is enough to observe that education has a part here which is not vocational, and which is enormously important. This is the province of liberal education. Its services are indirect, because its effects must be transmitted into the art of living; they are uncertain in the same proportion as all life is illusory and never to be confined in measures made by man. Nevertheless, although these services are definite in their breadth, at least we can specify some of them. We know, for example, that the mind must be able to grasp abstractions; and so we apply mathematics. We know that it must have perspective and, background if it is to understand the passing show of brief reality allowed it; and so we instill history- We know that it must be able to interpret character, to feel the loftiest emotion, to perceive beauty and enjoy iti and so we give it literature and the arts. Man is to be liberalised. He is to be taught to comprehend life.—Henry S. Can by in Harper's Magaslne.

Straws in Pies. A straw such as is used at soda fountains, cut in two and stood upright In the center of a rhubarb or berry pie when baking will allow the steam to escape and prevent the juice -mining over the edgu. . .

KEEPING PET ANIMALS^

Doctor Baya Too Much Care Consol Be Take*. Dr. Ziegler, director of the Philadelphia department of health and charities, has Issued a warning to the effect that too much care cannot be exercised in keeping pet animals. He cautions particularly against a cat that snifles because the animal may carry germs of wheeling cougJf and diphtheria. Cats,- borkes, dogs* wolves and even skunks, ‘he points out, can cause hydrophobia through at bite.—Pathfinder. About Nuts. About three fourths of the nuts produced in the United States are grown in California, almonds taking the lead. Almonds are a native of western Asia and Morocco, and are produced in large quantities In Syria and Palestine. They are exported largely from Malaga In Spain. The walnut is a native of the mountains of Greece and Armenia, add the northwest Himalayas in India, and Is largely cultivated in most temperate countries. Walnuts * in the United States are produced almost exclusive ly California. In nuts, California products practically the whole of the almond crop In the United States. The water chestnut, or horn chestnut (Trapa blsplnosa), an aquatic plant, produces a seedi or "nut” which somewhat resembles two curved horns united in one, the kernel of which is largely used as a food by the Inhabitants of Asiatic- countries. This»socalled nut 1b also* on sale In»the United 1 States, but chieflly In Chinese shops.! Another water plant (Eleocharls t«berosa) Is also known as the water chestnut, but in this case It Is the corn or bulb that is eaten. It is not unlike a chestnut in shape, and has a tough brown skin. This Is grown in Asia, but is imported by Chinese in America. A pointed nut or seed somewhat like a pecan in appearance, the pit of the Chinese olive (Canariiun sp.), is also on sale at Chinese shops in the United States. The kernels are oily but palatable, resembling the common American butternut (Juglans cinereal in flavor. Closely related species of Canarlum nuts are also imported to some extent for general trade, though they are by no means common. From time to time new nuts make their appearance on the market. A nut which seems to be growing in popuarity, though still uncommon, is the Paradise nut of South America, which resembles a Brazil nut in appearance and flavor. Still less common is the South American cream nut though it is sometimes shipped to the United States. The choicest member of the Brazil nut group is the true "butternut” of the tropics, which is very seldom found outside that region. Its flavor is very delicate and delicious, but it does not keep well; and even if it would bear shipment successfully the available supply is at present very small. The cashew not of tropical regions, which many consider one of the moat delicious nuts grown, has long been known, but, has never become common. It is sold to some extent and brings high prices. Cashew nut candy is also sold in a limited way in the United States. This nut must be roasted before it is eaten. The Kingsland chestnut was almost unknown a few yearsVago, but is now being cultivated in California. It somewhat resembles a filbert in appearance and is not a true chestnut. The tabebuia (Talfairia pedata), from Zanzibar is a nut eaten roasted, which has been grown in a very limited way at the Porto Rico agricultural experiment station, and is almost unknown, except in the region where It is native. The so-called nuts are the seeds of a pumpkin-like fruit, and the oval, rather flat, and much larger than pumpkin seeds. The flavor Is oily and fairly palatable. The use of such seed as a nut is in line with the common use in Russia of the sunflower seed, which is rich in oil and not unlike some of the common nuts in composition. The rawsunflower seeds are eaten out of hand at all times and by all classes. In China watermelon seeds are eaten In the same way.—Reno Gazette. Cleverness of Ponies. Will some naturalist explain wh7 ponies, as a rule, are more Intelligent < that big horses? There is no doubt they are, and the fact receives new proof in a story that comes from Maine. A farmer who owns a horse and a, pony was told that if he put good-sized stones In their feed boxes they would be obliged to eat slower, and would therefore digest their food * better. He tried the plan, and it worked well with the horse, but the pony picked the stenes out one by one, and' dropped them on the floor, and he did this just as often as they were' put in the feed-box. Bees Have No Common Bense. Henri Fabre, the “Insects’ Homer,” as Maeterlinck calls him. asserts that bees have no reason, only instinct, and gives many proofs of his assertion. For example, he opened the bottom of a cell hi course Of construction, but the bee that was bnildißg it kept right on with its work, building up the cell and storing honey in it, quite unconscious of the fact that the food for the future generation was oOzing out, and finally laid its egg and sealed tap the top of thq ceil, never paying any ] attention to the hole in the bottom. 1

CRIMINAL TENDENCIES.

After a careful study of 1000 young criminals and their ancestry Dr. Edith B. Spaulding, resident physician of the Reformatory for women at South Framingham. Mass., and Dr. William Healy, director of the Juvenile Psyeopathlc Institute, Chicago, have been able to find "only 15 cases which in the least suggest fnhetltAnce of criminalistic traits.” "In no esse of the thousand," they jmy, "have we been* able to discover evidence of abti-social tendencies in succeeding - generations -without also finding underlying trouble of a physical or mental nature, or such striking environmental faults or mal-adjust-ments as develop delinquincy in tho absence of defective Inheritance.” They say there is much evidence of the indirect inheritance of criminalistic tendencies; that is to say, a child born of criminal parents is almost certain to be brought up in an environment that would tend to make him s criminal even If he had been born of the most moral parents. It Is impossible to say where heredity leaves off and environment begins. "With inherited Imbecility, no environment could make a good citizen. On the other band, if a normal individual where brought up in dives of vice from infancy, with no moral enlighten ment, he, too, would be a poor type of ~citiien.” They regard habitual drunkenness as an expression of nervous weakness which may be either inherited or acqulred. Commenting on one of the cases that seemed suggestive of criminalistic, inheritance, they say: "The boy, hbwever, suddenly waked ! up In the flildtt of his atrocious environment, broke Up his gang, reformed the worst member of it, and thereby upset our evidence that he had inherited any criminalistic tendencies. This made us skeptical of acceptance of •proof in the future.” Drs. Spahiding and Healy note two factors In producing young criminals sometimes run in families and that are factora of genius as well as of crime. These are superabundant energy and lack of inhibitions. The first, with ideal environment and wise guidance, will make a man a valuable member of society, but with repression and undesirable associates is likely to make a criminal. The second manifests itself spirit of abandon and absence of fear that make its subjects seek adventure. A Cute Yankee. Our government since its foundation has had periodical rows with Morocco, and the Moors have a wholesome fear of the Yankee nation, which has so many times brought them up with a round turn. The Moors are densely ignorant and prejudiced against all modem inventions, and it Is pleasant to record how a cute Yankee circumvented the Sultan and his'Prime minister. , This American, whose name is Cobb, wanted to erect a flour mill, and when he applied for authority It was refused. He went right ahead, however, built his mill and put In the machinery, and' only needed the grinding stones. They came at Hast, and the authorities- calmly impounded them at the wharf. Mr. Cobb immediately wrote to the United States consul, and received a formal reply. Informing him that since the sultan had forbidden the project, he must not look to the consul for aid. This letter was all that Cobb needed. He took it to the men who had his grinding stones in charge, and asked them if they could read English. "No!” "Then look at this!” cried Cobb. There were 1 the arms of the great American nation, and there was an undoubted official signature. Nobody knew* what complications might ensue If this fierce American were disappointed, so the stones were given up and the mill was finished. When the Sultan came to town; and heard the machinery whirring, ho scowled, but now he sends all his oora to that mill to be ground, and Mr. . Cobb has erase to chuckle. Hew to Use a Life Preserver. "The worst trouble about a life preserver,” said an old sailor, "is that few people know what to do with one when It’s thrown to them. Many a man would drown In trying to get a life preserver over his head. "The average person struggling about in the water would try to lift up the big life ring and put it over his head. That only causes the man to dnk deeper and take more water into his lungs. "The proper way to approach a life preserver in the water la to take hold! Of the side nearest you and press upon II with all your weight That causes ffe* other side to fly up In the air and down over your head, •ringing’ you aa flfOtlyaa amanrlnglng a ease at f •gantry fair. After that fha itnWr ®* naa 1,6 I ' ' - Rabbits on Layeaa Island, ta labbitsen Layasn Uand, tho wo* Mm Hawaiian bird reservation, sere multiplied to sudden extent yours aswao to-threatan the eadsteaoe jeopKrdtesfuie bird ooto* nko, Mfclelf tteed Ohada* especially tien vbichrecemly Wfcttod the i«i*«ni destroyed about 6*ooß rabbits, or oae>