Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — Page 3

Philosophy of the Simple Life

If you should ask me what counsel I would give to a young man starting in life —how I would attempt to set him on the road to happiness —it' would run something like this: Be industrious. Be honest. Be serious and sincere; don’t slur your work. Deal fairly; like your neighbor; lend a helping hand. And don’t forget how to play. I’lay

with any regularly thought out philosophy of life. I have simply loved and most of the things and the people me. Things becbme tools when you learn to grasp the right handfe, and people will lend a hand if you are naturally disposed to lend a hand in return. Sympathy begets sympathy, love begets love, and in the end if a man does not magnify his duties he is pretty sure to get all that is coming to him in life. I have never seriously thought about my dues, or if I had any dues. I have simply looked about me for things worthy of my love and interest. I seem to have been getting my dues and more every day of my life, With health and friends and Nature, with the sweet air to breathe and the husky old earth to walk on, or till, or study; with the press of one’s foot to the ground, as Whitman says, springing a hundred How could one fail to get his dues ? Invest yourself in the people and things about you deat huuestly with yourself and your neighbor; think not of rewards; think how well you can do your work, how much can.get in the way of satisfaction out of each day. Young men often write me that they want to be nature writers like myself, and ask me how to begin, what books to read, and so on. I tell them to begin where they are, at their own doorstep, and to read their own hearts to see if there is any real nature love in them. Can they serve the great trio, the True, the Beautiful, the Good, disinterestedly, or are they after fame or money?

Poultry Pointers

Chickens should he hatched early according to the period of maturity of the breed used, so that they will commence to lay when the last years hens are beginning to molt, and the price of eggs is high. Some kind of a grinding machine is necessary on every - farmer ---uuiklng chop or crushing grain, especially for the young chickens, which, alter the first week or two will eat almost anything which is ground finely enough. It is not the number of birds that will guarantee better results next season than you had this year, but the quality of the birds. Anything that is tough and stringy, like strong grass, pieces of muscle-in meat, etc., should not be fed to the fowls, for it is likely to become lodged in the crop and produce crop-bound. Be sure that nothing moldy or musty is fed to the fowls or chicks and that they do not find moldy material when on free range, as mold causes canker and other dangerous troubles. It is seldom that any money is saved by economizing when buying poultry feed. The cheapest food to feed is that which, will keep the hen healthy and make her lay well. Avoid crowding of chicks by keeping them in small flocks and by providing roomy coops. Thin out if there are too many. Cockerels in good condition bring a fancy price in the market. Common sense is an important fac- ’ tor in the poultry yard. It is most important never to select eggs for hatching from hens which have been laying heavily. The best are those which have been laid after a hard winter or a period of rest. Equal parts of boiled oats, corn and wheat, with now and then the addition of table scraps makes a good eggproducing ration. In the breeding pens the roosters should be changed whenever necessary ; inbreeding produces weak progeny.

Wise and Otherwise.

The demand for twins never exceeds the supply. Men seldom follow good advice unless they pay for It. It takes an all-round hustler to make both ends meet. It Is easy for a woman to keep a secret that isn’t interesting. Some music hath charms to Incite a man to start a rough house. Many a business man has been swamped by the weight of his dignity. It is much easier to break a dead man’s will than a live woman’s won’tIf we could only see ourselves as others see us —but we can’t, so what’s* the use worrying? ’ Don’t try to guess a woman’s age. Take it for granted that she is somewhat older than she thinks she looks, and let it go at that.

By JOHN BURROUGHS.

will keep you young. Lucky is he who gets his grapes to market with the bloom on. Beading the lesson of my Bfe to myself, it seems to teach one thing: that one may have a happy and not altogether useless life on cheap and easy terms. The essential things—the true values—are all simple and near at hand — home, friends, books, Nature, a little leisure, a little money, and, above all things, congenial work — something you can put your heart in. But uncongenial work, even drudgery, is better than idleness and indifference. A heritage of inestimable value is wholesome instincts, especially an instinct for the truth. I have never bothered myself

Women Best Letter Writers Because They Record Trifles

The art of letter writing is considered by the French an essentially femi/iilne gift, probably because for years it was the only means of literary expression open to women. But the real secret of women’s ability to write good letters is that they are not ashamed to record trifles. Men feel after they have described the weather and the state of their af~Tect|nns~lluii they have done their duty. A woman will tell what another woman wore, what her best friend said, who is rumored engaged to whom, what two best enemies are not speaking, and add, maybe, the breakfast menu. In letters women give a little of real life and their correspondence is really written conversation. Letter writing is a delicate and difficult art, for, aside from charming features, more harm has been done by the written word than by all the foolish converse in the world. Unkind remarks written are hard to erase from the heart. A foolish protestation of affection is a shame and grief forever to the writer. Every indiscreet written confidence is a curse that will come home to roost with the inevitability of the barnyard fowl. Letter writing should be an art —the art of trifles. It should be the art of being interesting, but not compromising.—Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Clock in a London Church Can Be Heard But Not Seen

A public clock which can be heard but not seen is one of London’s curious possessions. It Is in the tower of St. Mflry Abbot’s church, Kensington, and is the only public clock in the immediate neighborhood. It chimes the quarters and the hours, but commits itself no further. It has no dial, no hands, no outward and visible sign of any kind to show that it is a clock. This eccentricity, it is explained, is the result of two causes, one esthetic, the other financial. When the tower was built in 1879 a clock was suggested as an afterthought, but the architect protested that it would mean file addition of 15 feet to the tower, and the ruin of its cherished proportions. A second point was that the church, having but slender'funds, could not afford a clock with a dial. A compromise was arrived at by installing the works of a chiming clock in the belfry without dial or hands.

A Little Bit of Everything.

A wall tie that grips half a dozen bricks instead of two, as customary, has been invented by a Scotch builder. -( In the present war seven men die in battle, to one of illness. During our five died from disease for one'slain New York city is said to have the best system of street signs in the country, being clearly visible, perfectly legible and informing.

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Buttons in Favor.

One could talk forever about the buttons used this season. Almost every new costume shows a new button. Engraved crystal and aluminum are elaborate, a mosaic shell button is odd. The buckle button serves two purposes. Enamel and rhinestone and steel are artistic combinations. Ribbon covered molds. molds covered with bunched beads and some In leather In pinwheel effect are products of the dressmakers’ art. Some buttons are braided, many embroidered, and some even covered with straw. Handpainted glass buttons are used on lingerie, while buttons edged with wired braid loops are surely a novelty. ~

Not a Pigtail to Be Seen in the Chinese Parliament

The opening ceremonies of the Chinese parliament in Peking marked the full turn of the circle to Republican subplicity from the antique formalties and gorgeous ritual which President Yuan restored in the brief period when he was emperor-elect. But the frock coat of the president who walked in'and sat down while all the members were standing around gossiping was not such a surprise as the geniality and courtesy which prevailed. Old rivals shook hands and chatted of the prospects In a manner which was Impossible when everybody was wondering if his neighbor had sold himself or/would sell him, and the air of suspicion which hung about the place like a cloud in the Yuan days completely absent. Even the guards at the door were an unknown quantity in the old times. There were present 456 legislators and not a pigtail among them. Very few were in uniform. A good many wore modern Chinese dress, but those who hold official positions mostly came Tn Prince Alberts—

License Gave Privilege.

Angelo walking dpwn the street saw Tony coming the opposite way leading his dog. Being deathly afraid of it, as It was playful, he said to Tony- " Say, if your dog bites me I’ll have him arrested.” “Go on,” said Tony, “this dog has a license; he’s allowed to bite anybody.”

STAR OF THE MOVIES

Lillian Lorraine.

Pretty actress who has won big following among devotees of the silent drama.

World’s Only Sugar School.

Louisiana claims the <)ply school in the world devoted exclusively to the study of sugar. It is located at Baton Rouge and includes a five-year course under the instruction of a faculty numbering 25. The z course embraces every detail of the refinihg processes of sugar, the methods of cultivating it in the fiqkf, the grading of it for trade and the commercial methods of handling it. Students are in attendance from the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico, the Canary islands and several other parts of the world. The school includes the largest library in the world devoted to sugar. A part of the technical work is done in connection with the Louisiana State Agricultural college.

Frocks and Hats

Sets of hat and scarf to match are the great successes of the summer among sports clothes. Metal ornaments, wings ribbon are about'all the millinery decs oration seen this fall. .Not for many seasons has there been such a vogue for m/tal laces, especially silver metals. A taffeta straight line frock has the plaited skirt of plaid taffeta, the waist of plain and the sleeves and collar fr* crepe.

DOGS DO GREAT WORK IN WAR

Perform Great Variety jf Tasks With Sagacity and Intel- * ligence. SAVE MANY WOUNDED MEN Correspondents Tell Many Stories of Remarkable Feats of Canines— One on Outpost Duty Barks Warning Into Telephone. Paris.—No medals are pinned on the breasts of the dogs of war, but they have played a wonderful p#rt as assistants to the ambulance corps, on patrol duty, carrying dispatches, and dragging machine guns into action for the Belgians and others. In addition to their work on the battlefield, dogs did much to aid refugees. They took their masters and their families out of the line of invasion. War correspondents have told how much sagacity and courage the Belgian draught dogs displayed upon the battlefield at Haelen, where with the aid of the Lewis machine gun they held back for a time the German advance through Belgium. Just how many wounded men on both sides of the firing line have been saved by sheep dogs and other breeds probably never will be known. These dogs have been trained to search for wounded, and by taking a man’s cap to.headquarters in the field a trained nurse or doctor follows the dog, who leads back to the place where the man is lying. Frequently a wounded man with his last ounce of strength will use it to drag himself out of the line of fire. It is in the out-of-the-way places that the dog has been partlcuuarly valuable. Training War Dogs. Europe has been training dogs for years to the work which.they did upon the battlefield. Those trained dogs immediately became attached to the Red Cross work and many of them gave up their lives in aiding humans. There is a story told of Belgium dogs which aided their masters. The Belgians, surrounded so that it seemed hopeless to break through, probably would have been destroyed but for the idea of a captain in charge of what was left of the machine-gun section. He gave orders to loose the dogs from the guns, and to encourage the dogs to fling themselves upon the enemy. The dogs did it with such telling effect that they made a lane through which some of the Belgian gunners escaped. Sergeant Major Pouissigue’s dog Artemis was wounded in the Argonne. Lying beside his master in the trench at a listening post he smelled the German advance guards and indicated a warning of the enemy’s approach. Sergeant Pouissigue ordered the dog back to warn the regiment to be on the alert. The dog. however, refused to go, when suddenly there was a slight noise behind the listening soldier and Artemis sprang over the parapet and flung himself at the throat of 1 a German soldier. In the fight between man and beast a bullet went through his right front leg. Later the dog recovered. On another occasion, when his master was attached to the Ninety-fourth regiment of Infantry in the Ypres sector, the soldier was .haying a fierce hand-to-hand fight with one German while the other was slipping up to bayonet him from behind. Artemis leaped at the latter’s throat and finished him. The dog’s master also got the better of his adversary. Some Hero Dogs. Other dogs which deserve medals for their work are Marquis, which carried a message around his neck to a far-off detachment, arriving breathless and panting at his destination only to die; Stop of the Fifteenth army corps, which saved many lives by his activities, and Flora of the Twelfth Alpine chasseurs, which did linking work for two days, running under a rain of shellfire. The French war department has on record a letter frOm the father of a family who wrote saying: “I already have three sons and a son-in-law with the colors; now I give my dog, and v|ve la France!” Dogs on both sides do sentry duty at night, carry messages back to line vylth more security than men and give notice of the advance of the enemy by barking. These Mogs are trained to bark whenever a stranger approaches witiiin’ r 2OO yards, and surprise attacks have often been frustrated by this advance knowledge. According to,,the de Franco a certain French regiment possesses a dog which is sent out from advanced sentry posts at night with a telephone strapped ovei* his mouth and a wire connecting the instrument with the post. If the dog hears the Germans approaching he barks quietly Into the telephone.

Sentenced to 52 Years. x

Pitman, N. J. —Judge Schwekhamer Imposed a maximum sentence of 52 years bn Earl B. Green, Urirty, who pleaded guilty to seven separate charges of burglary. ; . ’

Must Stay Sober to Get Legacy.

White Plains, N. Y.—ls Harold Hunt “reforms and stays sober” for five years he will receive $8,333, says a clause ip his father's will.

PRIMA DONNA A FINE COOK

Madame Miriam Ardini, a Native American, Takes Delight in Housekeeping Work. Every prima donna has a temperament, and every temperament possessed by a prima donna is nursed and cultured and made the most of. As a general rule the temperament, possessed by prima donnas prevents them from accustoming themselves to the ordinary things of life. Exceptions there are to this rule as to every other. The big exception is Madame Miriam Ardini, an opera singer who is gifted not only with remarkable talent as a pt ano — virtuoso —and—-Awmpflger, but Is also the possessor of a beautiful lyric voice which has won her fame In all the large cities of Europe. While the name suggests the foreign, Madame Ardini Is a New Yorker born and bred. As one of nine children, she soon learned the fundamentals of

housekeeping. Then it was discovered that she was possessed of a voice which brought forth exclamations of surprise from no less a person than the noted Bond of the Metropolitan Opera company. She gave up her domestic inclinations and started studying for the prima donna’s goal. Back again in her native land after years of study abroad, she has surprised her circle of friends not by her singing but by her cooking. AU the dishes placed before the guests were cooked by Madame Ardini. During her sojolirn abroad the natives of Italy were shocked because madame did her own shopping. There no woman does her own shopping, but delegates it to her servants.

MAN DECLARES HE IS ALIVE

Probate Court at Seattle Had Said That Arthur George Was Dead. Seattle.—Arthur George, a painter living at No. 758 Market street, Tacoma, appeared at the county clerk’s office recently and filed a solemn declaration that he was not dead. He objected to the probate court’s action in declaring him dead and turning over $750 worth of Seattle real estate to Mrs. George, now dead, after he failed to claim his property or his wife after seven years’ absence. “I solemnly declare that I never was dead and am not now,” he swears in this statement filed with the county clerk. He was instructed to confer with the Swedish consul, who aided the heirs of Mrs. George to obtain the property. George said he lived under his own name at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, all the time he was supposed to have been dead until he moved to Tacoma about a year ago.

BOY IS TREED BY RATTLER

Nine-Year-Old Son of a Stockman Spends Nine Hours in a Tree. v . Oakley, Kan.—Treed by rattlesnakes for nine hours, James Cardin, nine-year-old son of a stockman near here,* was finally released when cowboys killed 16 rattlers in the rocks under the tree where the boy was perched. The little lad was returning from schobl when he saw a big rattler across the path in front of him. Starting back along the path he saw two more snakes. Then he climbed a tree and waited for aid. Cowboys say the snakes were -making for the rocky bluff to hibernate for the winter.

Dog Routs Robbers.

Chicago. —Two robbers held up William Rose as he was strolling along the street accompanied by Tuohy, a dog of uncertain breeding, but undoubted courage. Tuohy bit one ou the leg and rode half a block attached to the seat of; the other's trousers.

CAVALRY CHARGE VERY THRILLING

Officer of Deccan Horse Telit How Mounted Men Got Into Action. DID NOT WANT PRISONERS * —————— But Eight Germans Who Threw Away Their Rifles and Called “Pity" Were Taken Alive—Under Fierce Fire.

London.—During the first two years ol the war cavalry played no part in the great battles fought on the western front. The men of this arm of the service were used In the trenches to reenforce the infantry. Recently, howr ever, the cavalry got its chance and how well the mounted arm responded Is Indicated In a letter written by an officer of the famous Deccan. Horse of the British army to his wife in Ireland, The letter reads: _ “At we started our famous ride into the enemy country, every now and then coming under heavy shell fire — shrapnel und higli explosive. No one can believe, without seeing, what a state the ground is in; there is not room for a table cloth on any part of the ground there, without some part of it touching a shell hole, so you can imagine the regiment galloping over it ut full gallop, barbed-wire —well cut by shell fire —old trenches, dead bodies, and every sort of debris lying in every direction. Words fail me to describe it. Bring Down Balloon. “That was for about three miles; then full tilt down a steep bank like the Haggard fiffid, but steeper, tato a very famous valley, where the shrapnel got worse, as Xve were spotted by one of their sausage balloons. This was soon driven down by the fire of our batteries, which just smothered it with shrapnel. On we went, pa»t the remains of guns and everything —tons oT ammunition and abandoned material and dead Germans everywhere; and we passed here an enormous gun they had left behind, so really I suppose it was us that took it. We were under cover here for half a mile, but suddenly, coining out of the valley, we had to turn sharp to the right up another little valley, and here we came under terrific, but rather inaccurate, machine gun fire from two directions. “It was now about 7:30 in the evening, and there were 24 aeroplanes hovering over us, and one monoplane came down to about 200 feet and fired his machine guns on the Germans just over us—going round and round — the finest sight I have ever seen. Well, we moved out under a heavy fire and got on about half a mile. During this advance we rounded up eight prisoners. while between us and the British regiment, I supose, we stuck with sword and lance about forty of them, a glorious sight. “Our men "were splendid and didn’t want to take any prisoners, but these eight had chucked away their arms, so we couldn’t very well do them In. They were simply terrified, and one clung on to my leg and kept calling, ‘Pity ! Pity!’ his eyes starting out of his head. Poor devil, I pitted him, and we sent him back to the regiment. We dismounted in a little hollow then and went on on foot through a good crop of wheat full of shell holes and dead Germans. Of course, we were creeping all the way, M the fire VMM very hot. At last, after going a quarter of a mile, we got to the flat top of the hill, driving them before us. Here we had to stop, as the ground was being swept by rifle and machine gun fire, and they were now shelling us heavily. We got our Hotchkiss guns into action and set to work. Not a Healthy Spot. “By crawling slowly forward we got a field of fire, and could see the Germans plainly and a battery about half a mile ahead. We plugged a few here, and then it happened to get dark, and we had to retire about 300 yards to a better position and dig in for the night. This we did all right, the Germans making a feeble charge as we did it. I was along at the time with a message, so I let fly six rounds at them with my revolver, and they all lay down. However, it was not a healthy spot, and I had to craw! back, and rejoined the squadron. We got our horses, and came back and rejoined the regiment. One shell landed in the middle of us as we amounted. These tin hats are good, especially for shrapnel. “Well, we got back and dug in like blazes. They made two weak attacks during the night, and shelled us all the time. We hung on there until four o’clock, put up wire in front of us, and our battery helped us well. Infantry relieved us then; they had just got up. “You see our job was to push on as far as we could, and hold the line to give ‘the feet’ time to get up. So we did our job all right. We then rode back —‘but not the 600.”

One Appendix in Family.

Green Bay, Mo.—When John Nachtwey, a farmer living pear Green Bay, submitted to an operation for appendicitis here, he was the seventh member of the family to feel the knife within the last three months. His wife, three sons and two daughters have already been operated upon. There is one son left in the family who has not had appendicitis.