Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1916 — Page 3

ALTON'S HORN BLOWER ROUTED BY BUSY BUGS

Tub* Player Mistake* ’Em for Notes— Hl* Blaat* Make Leader's _ Hair Rise. Alton, Ill—An army of bugs, which hi ve been uninvited guests at the concerts of the White Huesar Band' m Seminary Park, finally become so ■nappreciatlve of the efforts of the musicians they literally pestered the band into silence. As a result, the bugs now have the park to themselves —the band has reformed its bitten remants in Riverside Park. The band has been playing in a temporary stand on which the lights were barely above the heads of the musicians. Thousands of bugs, with ears for light music, were attracted to the stand and soon broke up the harmony. About the only instrument the bug* didn’t attempt to explore was the interior of the bass drum and the band master was much mortified whenever the French horn exuded a cloud of Insects, instead of sharps and flats. The climax was reached at the last concert when thw tuba player explained his inability to keep time or in the right key by saying he mistook the bugs, sitting on the music, for notes. Some notes that he belched forth are said to have made the conductor’s hair stand straight up like quills on an angry porcupine. A man had been hired to keep the bugs off the musicians, but the bugs made a counter-attack with re-en-forcements and the White Hussars naulecT down their colors, wrapped up bugs and notes and executed a strategic retreat to Riverside Park, where the future concerts will be given.

ENGINE TOOTS OFF. ITS OWN SCREECHER

Engineer Finally Makes Startling DieCOV ery—Then It’s "Whoa! Back. Upl" * St. Louis, Mo. —When a Bluff line engine tooted for the first time in an hour at Hettick the other day, it tooted its whistle off. The engineer discovered the tooter was missing at the next station, five miles away, and had to back up to get it. The train was southbound and was spinning along at a pretty fait clip. When the engineeer pulled the string for the Hettick crossing the engine tooted so nicely he had to smile. It proved to him that he had plenty of steam. Nearly five miles further on the engineer pulled the string for another crossing. The whistle only sizzed but didn’t whistle. It was not for lack of steam. Bluff line trains always carry enough steam to run and whistle at the same time. The engineer could not make the engine whistle because it had no whistle. Whistling at crossings was necessary—made so by a railroad law that spelled safety for pedestrians and ethers. So the train was stopped. Then it backed up to where, the engineer knew the engine must have tooted its tooter off. Conductor “Dad” Jones and the passengers went whistle hunting. They found it near the tracks and it was put back where it belonged. Then the train went whistling on its way.

EVERY BOY IS NOW CLIMBER

Police Prevent Lads From Doing “Human Fly” Stunt. Sioux City, la—Police in the neighborhood of the Chicago House are now kept busy pulling boys off the walls. Frequently young men attempted to duplicate the feat of Harry Gardiner, the “Human Fly," who climbed the hotel building. About half an hour after Gardiner had left the building a years old drew a crowd around the north end of the building when he clambered to the third story. Hg_ did not attempt to swing over the cornice, hut stepped to the cornice on an ad joining structure. He was applauded by the crowd. His success had the effect of stim ulating several hoys In the crowd, but they were prevented from climbing by Patrolman John Ohlund. During the week several newsboys endeavored to make the ascent, but were prevented by police or hotel attaches.

BARBERS NOW WANT HAIR TAX

Next They'll Want Your Watch, Boots and Cravat. SL Louis, Mo.—Men who have more than the normal amount of hair td cause the barber trouble, and men who have less than the allotted amount, both should be subjected to e tax, In the opinion of the journeymen barbers. At a meeting of the St. Louis Journeymen Barbers’ Union a charge of 5 cents was indorsed for trimming a mustache heretofore trimmed free with a haircut or shave —and a charge of at least 15 cents was urged for hair restorer or tonic placed on the cranium of a baldheaded gentleman. Sj The present charge is 10 cents.

U. S. AVIATOR SETS RECORD

A new world’s record for distance covered In ten hourß, carrying a pas aenger, was made by Victor Carls trom of the Atlantic Coast Aeronau tical Station, who made 661 miles flying in a Curtiss twin motor land and- water machine. His actual fly ing was 8 hours and 40 min ates. The machine’s engines were slap «-ped only twice during the day. A heavy fog made flying difficult.

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HOW UNCLE BAM HELPB THOBE WILLING TO BTITDY

Many Classes and Bchoela for Various Crafts—Technical Courses Are Offered.

Washington, D. C.—Uncle Sam la anxious to lend a helping hand to the young men in his employ and give a boost toward better things in his service and toward a higher place in civil life. With this end id view the Navy Department maintains schools in more than a doxen trades' which *re open to men who enlist for service on warships. The schools not only serve as a medium for the sailor to advance himself in the navy but equip him to earn a good wage if he returns to civil life. Courses are offered to those willing to learn in electrical engineering, to the artificer, yeoman, hospital service, jjrusiclan, commissary, machinist, coppersmith, aeronautic and seaman gunner departments. Hundreds of young men who enter the Navy take these courses, and thru the work done while they are under pay, gain advancement in the service and provide for the time when they return to civil life. Electrical schools are located at the Brooklyn and Mare Island Navy yards. They are divided into two classes, general and radio. The lengths of the course for both classes is eight and students, either recruits or men from geneeral service, may enter at any time. In order that a recruit may enlist for the electrical branch he must have a knowledge of either general electricity or be an operator of the Morse telegraph code or have sufficient foundation in radio telegraphy to be competent to keep tip with the classes' at school. General electricians must know the names and uses of the various parts of the dynamo engine, and must be familiar with the ordinary, types of switchboards and methods of wiring Applicants for both classes _ must be able to write legibly, must understand elementary arithmetic and must be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Applicants for the radio branch must, in addition pass a creditable examination in spelling and penmanship, and the requirements in arithmetic include multiplication, division, simple proportion, percentage and square root. Testimonials as to good character and skill as an operator must be presented by the candidate, either from former employers or from the principle of the trade school where the candidate has been a student In either telegraphy or radio. He must be able to receive twenty words per minute. Such recruits are immediately transferred to the electrical school, where the course of Instruction com prises machineshop work, reciprocating steam engines, steam-turbine engines, internal-combustion engines, Magnetism and electricity; dynamos, motors,’ motor generators, alternating currents and batteries. Members of the radio class are trained in all the duties of a radio operator and are given constant practice in the use of the mechanism employed in radio receiving and sending. The artificer school Is located at Norfolk, Va„ Na,vy Yard and Is composed of classes for shipwrights, shipfitters, blacksmiths and painters. The sblpfltter class also Includes the duties of plumber and fitter. The length of the course is three months for each class, excepting that of shipfitter which is six months, Recruits sre admitted to tfce various classes of the artificer school, provided they know some one of the trades mentioned well enough to pass the examination, for the course of .instruction is not elementary and requires previous knowledge of and aptitude fer the trade. ' An applicant for the shipfltter class rhould have had experience as a metal worker, be able to lay out know how to chip and chalk and drive ilyets; understand the various rules for drilling and tapping; have some knowledge of pumping and drainage snd be familiar with the required tools and their usage and care. Applicants for the shipwright class should have some practical experience in carpentry and know the names of the tools used. The instruction is along the same line as for shipfltter, with the addition of cooperage, joiner work, repairing boats and spars, calking seams in wooden decks and cutting threads on bolts with hand dies. For the blacksmith class, a candidate must have had some experience at the trade. He is taught welding in different ways, “jumping on” pieces, working angle-iron, making shackles, chain, bolts, rivets, mast-hands, eyebolts, pad-eyes, iron work for blocks and all the fittings likely to be required on board ship which would have to be made with a forge. Blacksmiths are also given special in etruetioa in, shackling and unshackling chain. A candidate for painter must have bad some experience as a painter and must know the rules for mixing paint and applying it. He is taught paint ing of iron and woodwork inside and out, cabinet and hardwood work and the mixing of all kinds of paint and stain by the different formulas naM iai the naval service. J

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RUNAWAY JAVA SPARROW IS RETURNED TO FOLD

Is Back With Hl* Borrowing Mato After Months Bojourn In Parts Unknown. New York.—Tommo, errant Java sparrow, is back at the Children’s Museum in Brooklyn after a month's sojourn in parts unknown, and while he Is busy telling it all, bird fashion, to his mate Quinnie, Miss Anna B. Gallup the curator at the museum, is trying to figure out whether fate or providence arranged the remarkable chain of circumstances attending Tommo’s flight aqd return. It was a month ago that Miss Cullup, assisted by Eugene A. McCarthy, one of the students at the museum, was -giving Tommo and Quinnie their baths when Tommo flew out -of the cage and disappeared through an open window.

"NdVer mind,” said Miss Gallup to the boy, "Tommo will come back." ' Days went by but Tommo, prodl-gal-like, did not return for the fatted seed. Quinnie, with every sign of grief, ate but little and spent most of the time with her beak through the wires of the cage looking toward tLe window through which Tommo had escaped. Mlsb Gallup feared the bird would die. Miss Nellie Francis MacCarthy. an aunt of Eugene, who lives near the museum, brought a Java sparrow in a box to Miss Gallup. The bird had flown that morning into the studio of Charles H. Budd’s gift shop, in Manhattan where Miss MacCarthy Is employed as an artist and designer. "Eugene has identified this bird as a Java sparrow,” Miss MacCarthy told Miss Gallup, “and as you lost one recently 1 have decided to present you with this one.” Miss Gallup examined the gray plumage, red beak and queer white spots on the sides of the face, that resemble little whiskers, and uttered an exclamation of joy. "It is Tommo!" she said and soon Tommo was back in the cage with Quinnie. There was a joyful reunion. Quinnie was her old self again and she and Tommo flew around the cage in an ecstasy of Joy. After dinner together Tommo listened patiently to a curtain lecture from Quinnie, and then entered upon a recital of his adventurers. To all appearances he has promised to settle down and become a model husband. At least, Quinnie’s manner would indicate such an agreement ,

TOWN LONG DEAD REBUILT BY FISH

Elk Springs, Mo., Now Back On The Map; A Center for Fishermen and Hunters. Kansas City, Mo—You hear a lot about towns that used to be, but here’s a story about a town that’s coming back.” Elk Springs, once the capital ot Missouri and the county seat of McDonald County, but for the last forty years just a whistling station, is beating back. The fish that roam up and down the gravel bottom of the Elk River, once the Cowskin, are bringing it back to its former greatness. At one time Elk Springs was a place worth while. It was quite a trading post for the hunters and trappers in the Ozark Mountains. At that time it was the county seat of McDonald County, of five hundred inhabitants. The Civil War came, and Elk Springs boomed. It was feared the Federals would capture the books and records in Jefferson City, and one night they were all loaded in wagons and carted thru the State to Elk Springs. There the executive officers remained with fheir records several days. Then the town began to fade. One night the county judges loaded up their documents and sneaked over to Plneville, six miles away. It was thus that Elk Springs lost the county seat, and its last vestige of respectability. In a few years nothing was left but memories. But the sun was again to shine for Elk Springs. The Kansas City South ern built a road down thru Missouri. They put up a shed there for a station. Some one built a store. Travelers began to go thru. The Ozarks, a part of Missouri that was practically unknown, began to he explored. A cool, clear river that wound in and out among the mountains, filled with fish of all kinds, particularly bass, was found. They also found squirrels, quail, wild turkeys, coons, possums, ducks, and other wild game. - Elk Springs becamo the center of the fishermen’s and hunters’ endeavors. 'I he mountains were filled with caves.

HORNETS ATTACK GIRL BATHER

Then Men Alarm Her by Rendering First Aid. Philadelphia, Pa; Margaret Ginroy, 19 years old, had disrobed in the woods at National Park preparatory to going bathing. While seek ing a snug place in which to leave her street apparel Bhe stepped on a cornet’s nest and the insects clung to her body, stinging her hundreds ot times before she could escape from their reach. Her screams brought a number of men to her aid, which only haded to her consternation. She was taken to a hospital, where her sufferings were somewhat relieved. Her body is badly swollen.

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DIES THREE TIMES RETURNS TO LIFE

CALLS FOR WATER AFTER Hit BECOND DEMISE

Strangs Cass of 300-Pound Laborer Fatally Injured by Fall From Hay Wagon.

Denver, Col.—Death comes but once to the ordinary man, but to Charles Gallagher, 58 years old, and weighing nearly 3QO pounds, it camt three times before it decided to re main. Three times in the early morn Ing hours nurses and physicians in the county hqspital pronounced their patient dead, only to learn in two of the Instances that the evidences of death had been false—that the tests had failed. It was not until rigor mortis stiffened the body following the third death that the authorities felt safe in turning the body over to the coroner.

It was about 1 o’clock on the previous afternoon that some farmhands, employed on the ranch of J. L. Taylor near Arvada, heard screams for help. Hurring in the direction of the shouts, they found that Gallagher, another workman, had fallen from a hay wagon with the result that his back had been broken. They summoned Mr. Taylor, who hurried Gallagher to the county hospital in a motor car, arriving there about 2:30 o'clock. There it as found that In addition to the broken back, Gallagher also was suffering from a fracture of the skull. Death was almost a certainty. But neither the doctors nor the nurses had even a vision-of the multitudinous death to come.

Therefore, when at 1:35 o’clock next morning, Gallagher’s pulse, heart and breathing ceased, the physicians applied the usual tests for death and nrdftrftd the body and bed of Gallaghei into the "dressing room” or “dead room,” to be shrouded. The garments of death were wrapped about the body of the man, the eyes were closed, the hands were pinioned that when the rigor of death came they, would be in place. Then the door was closed and the “dead” man left for the coroner. The operation had consumed about fifteen minutes. Five minutes later, Miss Grace Cramor, a nurse, passing the door of the dressing room, paused at a horrible, gurgling, straining sound from within. She turned and opened the door. With a scream the nurse half reeled, then leaped forward. There on the bed, his face contorted, his wrists purple, his broken frame convulsing and swaying as he struggled against his bonds, Charles Gallagher, pronounced dead twenty minutes before, was seeking to free his hands and to call for help. Quickly the nurse released his Bonds and summoned the physicians. The excited beating of the pulse soothed and became normal again. For fully five minutes there was every evidence of an entire return to life. Then the pulse weakened once more, the eyes glazed again and the stethoscopes denoted that the heart bad ceased its beating entirely. From one to another traveled the glances of the physcians. “There’s no doubt about it this t'me,” they said. “But just the same we’ll watch.’ And there they remained, watching the still form of the man on the bed. A quarter of an hour, a half hour, -,-hile test after test was made. And with every test there came the reply that life was gone. , Five minutes j, ore —eight minutes more—and then the cry, “His heart’s beating again!” It was a physician with his ear to a stethoscope. Another doctor listened. The faint beating of the heart became stronger; at the wrists there came evidence of pulse. Life had returned. But this time life was fainter, feebler. Where the pulse had been strong before, it was weak now. twice dead, turned his head slightly. His lips mumbled something. The nurse bent low. “What is it?” "Water—Water,” his lips gasped. The nurse turned. She hurried forth and returned. But when she entered the room again the doctors ence more were applying the steth oscopes and shaking their heads. For life had departed again. And this time in certainty. But with two returns to life already recorded, there was not even a chance for certainty now. It was not until three hours later, when the hospital authorities felt sure that life really had departed, that the authorities felt safe in notifying the coroner that the body really was ready for his care. “Explanation?” exclaimed one of the physicians when questioned about the strange case, “there isn’t any ex p’anation. The man Just died three times, and that’s all there to to It Every test of death that we know was applied to him and they all show«c that life was negative. The man was dead—to every possible test. Then he came to life again. That Is the only explanation that can be given.” V . ,

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Federation Day.

Ladies' Literary Club will observe anniversary and federation day Friday afternoon, Nov. 17, at the Trinity M. E. church. They will have as their guests the members of the Home Economics Club, Matinee Musical and the D. A. R. Members of the Fortnightly Club of Remington are also invited. The meeting starts at 2:30.

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