Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — Page 2

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS

A HOME-MADE CHEBT-WEIGHT. The objection to the common form of chest-weight exerciser because it cannot be fastened to a wall without marring the plaster, is eliminated iu the set shown below by reason of

its being attached to the edge or a door. -r —The cross board And - which the pulleys are attached (Fig. 1), should be prepared first. Cut this about 5 inches wide and 18 inches long. Get a pair of clothes-line pulleys, not screwpulleys, but the kind with “eyes” that fasten with staples. Attach these pulleys to the cross board one inch from the ends and the same distance down from the top edge. Fasten a pair of strips 8 inches long to the back of board A (B, Fig. 2), placing them in the center of the length of the board, one inch above what will be the lower edge of the board, and spacing them two inches apart, nr just far enough to allow the door to slip .between. Strips B are provided to rest upon the door knobs for support of the cross board. Fasten

them with nails driven through board A into their ends. Drive a nail Into each of the strips near the outer ends (C, Fig. 2), and tie the end of a sixfoot length of clothes line to one of these nails (Fig. 1). To attach the cheat weight to • a door, it is necessary to rest the bottom edge of board A upon the door latch, and strips B upon the door knobs, then run the rope attached to one of the nails C around the face of the door, around the hinged edge, beneath the lower hinge, back to the second nail, and then tie securely to the nail. To prevent board A from scratching the edge of the door, tack a piece of heavy cloth over the back. The weights are made of tin cams filled with sand or earth, preferably

sand. Sirup cans with covers that fit down into the tops are the best kind to use. Pierce two boles through each can. locating them directly opposite one another, and near the top, and run through them a wire long enough to extend up over the top and be bent Into a loop <Fi«*. 8 and 4). The handles (or the chest-weights ere made from a pair of pa:kage-car-rying handles (Fig. S)> with _tbe hooked wires removed, and V-shaped nrtre loops inserted in their stead ,

(Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)

FOR A SAINT VALENTINE’B DAY PARTY. Ask each one invited to your St. Valentine’s day party to bring a valentine for sending through Cupid’s post office. The names of the boys and girls must be, placed upon the back of their* valentines, and the valentines dropped into Cupid’s mail box immofUnieiy upon—entering your home. Cupid's mail box is easily constructed out' of a cardboard box. Cut a piece from the cover equal to onethird of its length, and with a strip of cloth hinge together the two parts (A and B, Fig. 2), and sew the rim of part B to the sides of the box.

Part A is hinged to provide for the removal of mail. In the end of the Box at C. cut a slot for the letterdrop. The arched top of the box is made by fastening the pieces of cardboard D (Figs. 2 and 3) to each end of the box, and then attaching a bent piece of cardboard to the tops of these. Slash the curved edge of pieces D, and turn them down for flaps to glue the curved piece E to. Have your little brother or some small boy friend play the part of Dan Cupid’s postman (Fig. 6). A schoolbag for a mail sack, a pair of cardboard wings (Fig. 6), a cardboard bow

and arrow (Fig. 7), and a postman’s cap (Fig. 8) are needed. Make the cardboard band A of the cap to fit the boy’s head, and cut tabß on the edge of the top piece B to turn down and glue to the inside of the band. Also cut tabs on the upper edge of vizor C, and glue them to the inside edge of band A. Make the heart D of red paper, letter “Cupid’s Mail” upon it, and glue It to band A. The postman should collect the mail previous to the serving of refreshments, and sort it over, placing in one pile the valentines posted by girls, and in another pile those posted by boys. Then taking the girls’ valentines in his bag, he should distribute them among the boys. Each boy’s supper partner will be the girl whose name is written upon his valen-

tins. When the partners have been selected in this way, the postman should deliver the boys’ valentines to the girl partners of the beys whose names are written upon the backs. , A hearrhunt is a jolly game for beginning the fun,# the valentine party. There should be large hearts, small hearts, half hearts and quarter hearts, and these should be concealed in every accessible biding place, prior to the guests' arrival. Count cne point for each" heart Tecovered. Make heart-shaped candy boxes like that shown in Fig. 9 for each place at the supper table. Cut the top and bottom out of heavy red paper, making them heart shaped by a pattern folded and cut as Indicated in Fig. 10. Cut little tabs upon the edge of the bt‘.tom piece (Fig 11). bend up these tabs, and paste a strip of paper to them to form the sides of the box (Fig. 12).

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

RUSSIAN MOVABLE SHIELD TAKEN BY GERMANS

This movable armor-protected shield, behind which a squad or men could find shelter while pumping a rain of ihells into the enemy, is one of many being used by the Germans. It is the invention of Xhe Russians, who made use of It when the Germans were laying siege to the Russian fortress at Grodnow. The apparatus la equipped with six wheels. Two horses are harnessed to it in order to bring It Into position.

FACES MANY PERILS

German Youth, Fleeing War, Has Exciting Time. Adalbert Krause Reaches Texas After Eacaplog- Death at Sea and in Mexico—Gets $3 for Bale of Villa Money. Fort Worth, Tex.—When Adalbert Wiause, eighteen years old, a German youth, left Berlin just before the ■tart of the war, hoping to reach the United States and thus escape military service, he little dreamed of the exciting events he would experience before he attained his goal. Krause is industrially, not militarily,. Inclined, but before reaching this country he faced starvation, was pursued by German officers, was beaten by sailors, nearly shipwrecked, escaped from a ship at Tampico and was attacked and robbed by Mexicans. But Krause never lost hope and finally reached El Paso, a town he never had heard of in Germany, and only a few days ago arrived in Fort Worth, where he wants to become a captain of industry and a naturalized American citizen. _—. ' When Krause left his home in Berlin he first went to Hamburg, where he played hide and seek with the police and other officers and between times tried to get work. Despite rigid economy Krause soon was reduced to eight cents, and he was getting desperate when he obtained a position as mess boy on board a HamburgAmerican line vessel. This ship first took him to Spanish ports and later to T& m P ico > Mex. 0n tke way the vessel encountered severe storms and the crew prepared to abandon the ship. Krause thought his end had come, but the ship weathered the gale. Then the seamen began to treat Krause roughly, sometimes beating him. One night, when the vessel was at Tampico, Krause bade farewell to the ship. He could speak no Spanish, ahd having little funds he met difficulties wherever he turned. -Finally he got work at San Luis Potosi in an oil p|ant, where he could not understand the indifferent and lazy customs of the Mexican laborers. Once he went to learn why some peons failed to bring him water for his boiler from a nearby river. He found the peons sitting on the bank smoking cigarettes in good old leisurely Mexican style. The sight stirred his Teutonic blood and there was a fight. Krause fought with his fists, and being lithe and muscular was getting the better of the argument

A BEAUTY FROM TEXAS

Miss Mary Taylor of Tyler, a cousin of Attorney General Thomas Watts Gregory* is one of the most charming of the Texas belles now in Washington society

when other peons ran up with drawn knives. Krause fled to his engine house, the Mexicans in pursuit. When he bolted the door they tried to break it down. Krause poked a revolver out of a window and threatened to Are if they did not “rausm.it,” which the peons did. But San Luis Potosi is far'from the United States, and so Krause began to work his way toward Juarez, a dangerous, difficult tripr Part of the way Krause went on horseback, bht a soldier took the animal from him and he traveled the rest of the distance on foot. The German youth was delighted when he arrived at Juarez with 160 pesos in Villa currency. This made a big, eye-pleasing wad, and Krause with it. He crossed to El Paso and exchanged it for $3 in American money, which quite took his breath away.

COSTS MONEY TO BE PEER

London Society Interested in Beeing if New Ones Will "Give Up” for Regalia. London.—ln these days of war economy society is interested to see whether the newly created peers will go to the expense of purchasing full regalia of their rank in the peerage. The principal item in the bill is the coronet, which the owner may not have a single opportunity of wearing during the rest of his life. The market price of a coronet of 18-carat gold, with a jeweled cushion, is about $2,500. A viscount’s coronet is surrounded by 16 small pearls, while a baron’s is set with six large ones. Another expensive item is the robe of scarlet ahd ermine, the cost of which varies from S2OO to $250. This is a necessary purchase, as it has to be worn when the new peer makes his debut in the upper chamber. The particular rank in the peerage is de-

CANNOT STOP PAPER

Germans Fail to Suppress the Libre Belgique. Mysterious Belgian Newspaper Appears Regularly In Spite of All —_ Efforts to Prevent Bold in Criticism. Paris. From Brussels the news leaks out that in spite of the thousands of German spies in the city the Libre Belgique has succeeded in publishing a new issue. The boldness and wonderful tenacity of the mysterious Belgian patriots who continue, in spite of everything, to publish their daring paper, form an amusing and amazing side to the war. The Germans as soon as they had entered Brussels took possession of all the newspapers. The so-called Belgian papers published by the Kommandantur were in reality merely German sheets printed in French. Very soon after the Libre Belgique appeared. Who was the editor? Where was it printed? No one has ever been able to find out, but it has had and still has the courage to print all the things which the Germans want to remain unknown. Until now it has appeared in about sixty issues, that is to say almost weekly, and it kas published documentary proofs of the German misdeeds, has criticized German bulletins of victories, and has prophesied from .the start the inevitable downfall of Germany. • - In most merciless manner it teases the conquerors, it stimulates the Belgians, gives publicity to the thousands of little tricks which the irrepressible street urchins of Brussels play on the Germans, and flays the kaiser r the military governor, and German generals in every issue. , V ~~ —Von Bissing himself still receives a special copy with exasperating regu-

noted by the number of bars of ermine which traverse the robe from back to front. The stripes of ermine which appear to divide the mantle are supposed to Indicate that it has been torn while the wearer was engaged in mortal combat , on the field of battle. Another $250 or more is needed for the fees of patent of nobility, and for the preparation of crests and other armorial bearings.

BIG GAME IS SLAUGHTERED

Wolves Are Causing Great Havbc Among -Deer- In the- North? ern Woods. Duluth, Minn. Trappers arriving here with wolf hides for bounty report that hundreds of northern Minnesota deer are being slaughtered by wolves. The exceptionally deep snow and the alternate freezing and thawing have made a crust that will sustain the weight of the wolves, but the sharp hoofs of deer break through, and they fall an easy prey. The scarcity of rabbits, which have been wiped out, has made the deer the only food available for wolves, and even the small brush wolves have assembled in packs and become brave enough through hunger to attack young deer.

FOUR SISTERS ARE HONORED

Cross of War Is Conferred Upon Women Who Aided Soldiers of France. Vertus, France.—Four young sisters have been decorated with the cross of war in the presence.of a regiment of artillery. They were cited in an order of the day of the division in the following terms: “Marie, Helene, Camille and Madelene Vatel, at the peril of life in a region occupied by Germans, patriotically revictualed, in the thick of the woods, from the Bth to the 12th of September, 1914, seven French soldiers who were then surrounded by the enemy at Fere Champenoise, and who, thanks to their care, were able to find their regiment after the German retreat'’ —_

larity, and* Invariably the - ’ governor finds it on top of all the other papers on his desk. It Is as if a Belgian Kuklux Klan were at work. Recently the Jesuit College of St. Michel* and the Redemptorist convent of Jette tfere thoroughly searched. Several persons were arrested, suspected of being connected with the paper, but all had to be released again. The governor first promised a prize of 25,000 francs ($5,000) to any person who would betray the names of the editors and publishers, and the prize was raised to 50,000 ($10,000) and then to 75,000 francs, ($15,000), but in vain. I=3 The following story appeared in one of the recent issues of the paper, copies of which even reach Paris. It reprints the story told by the famous English war correspondent, Russell of the Times, who followed the Prussian army in 1870, about the destruction of the Chateau of Saint Cloud. Russell visited the chateau with a German officer named Strautz. A few moments before the chateau was set afire, Strautz exclaimed; “Gentlemen, I am the last commandant of Saint Cloud. For the very last time we will visit the magnificent apartments. We will throw a last glance at them, and in order that they may forever remain in our memory we will each take along a souvenir. Take whatever you want wines, painting*, or book®, whatever you like.” Russell adds: *1 went Inside with Lieutenant von Biasing and Major von Glass and when they saw that 1 carried away nothing they insisted that I must do so. I explained to them that my position was different and that I could hot take what had not been, offered to me. «■ “Then you ought to have seen what happened. From all sides gifts poured in on me, gifts so magnificent that it would take the author of the Arabian nights to describe them.” . The Libre Belgique tdentlflee this Von Biesing as the present governor of Belgium, who was born In 1844* and who served .as a lieutenant in the Prussian army in 1870. .

Safety in Perilous Times

By REV. L. W. GOSNELL

Superintendent of Iften* Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.

TEXT— But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your-most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal WaJude 20, ZL

The book of Jude sets forth the apostasy which began even in apostolic days, but which

whose light and warmth we need in dark days. A realization of the love of God will keep us from both discouragement and apostasy. But the Spirit .of God Is even more explicit and gives three directions which, If followed, will enable us to keep ourselves in the love of God, First, we are to build up ourselves on our most holy faith. John Wesley used to warn hla preachers that they would not grow in grace unless they grew In knowledge. We may add that many stray from the faith because so poorly instructed in its contents. They seem willing to trust their own powers in the conflict with Satan, whereas our Lord himself was content to meet the assaults of the devil with, "It Is written.” An excellent illustration of obedience to the direction of the text In found In the life of Charlotte Elizabeth, who lived in the days of the Irvingite movement. She heard of marvelous healings and “gifts,” Including the gift of tongues, and was very desirous of taking a proper attitude in the matter. Bhe felt that a few scattered texts were not enough, but that she should read the Bible in a connected way for light. So, night, after earnest prayer for guidance, she sat on the side of her bed, and, beginning at Matthew, read, straight on till she had gone through the seventh chapter of Revelation, completing-the New Testatment next morning. She saw that miracles may even be of Satanic origin and that they will characterize some things to be avoided in the last days. The prominence given to women In the Irvingite movement she saw to be unscriptural, and her judgment on the matter was confirmed Bhortly afterwards when she found that heresjr as to the nature of Christ was being taught. We tremble to think of the easy prey found by Satan among Christians because of a lack of such building up of themselves on their most holy faith. Next, we are instructed to pray In the Holy Ghost. We are familiar with the fact that the Holy Ghost prays in us, but the thought of the text is not bo common. It represents the Holy Ghost, so to speak, as the atmosphere in which the Christian lives and breathes out his petitions. Finally, we we to be "looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We shall need mercy when he comes, and looking for his coming Is a means of safety. While such an attitude of expectancy was common in the early church, it has unhappily become rather rare In modern times. Yet it appears v on the very surface of the New Testament as the normal attitude of Christians. A missionary who had spent fourteen years In China stated that all the native Christians In her district were looking for the coming of the Lord. She went on to explain that this was not the result so much of specific Instructions on this point, but because they had no book on doc.trine save the New Testament, and they found this truth for themselves as a commonplace of apostolic teaching. Jude speaks of false teachers who ran greedily after the error of Baalam for reward. Looking for the Lord Is a cure, for the greed which has led some into the ways of apostasy. John Wilkinson, the founder of the Mildmay Mission for- the Jews, was once approached at a railway station by two women who had heard him speak. They placed in his hands a large sum of money and one of them explained that God had Intrusted to them of this world’s goods and. they were anxious to prove good stewards lest the Lord at his coming should find his wealth in their hands unused. So, in many directions, looking for the coming of the Lord is a safeguard agatqst sidling from the faith. *-= Verse 1 of this epistle speaks of our being “preserved to Jesus Christ,” or, as the Revised Version renders it, “kept for Jesus Christ.” - We do not bonder that Jude with a confident doxology, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling (or, stumbling), and to present you faultless before -the presence ot his glory with exceeding Joy, to tha only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."

will reach its height in the end of the age. It is of high Interest In the perilous times in which we live, and we would Invite special attention to - the secret of safety for believers set forth to; J the text. The root of the exhortation Is, that we shall keep ourselves In the love of God. This is the sunshine