Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1917 — Page 2

INTERESTING ITEME FRON THE CITIES

Shoplifting Business Is Declining in New York NEW YORK. — : The shoplifting -business; like many-other-liMfttstrJcs which formerly flpurtshedluTi'Wluiuts, bur which to find fnv<w In tlm » > y»‘s of the aiithiirilies.. is-18--H-4wTtbwftj*-4edeedrwwd 11 iffiglfi'S Td look as it tn the not

distant future the shoplifter will be about as rywe a Specimen in and about" this city as the gVRit auk and tlie manufacturers of wooden nntmegs. “ There are two most excellent reasons for this pleasing change. One of these is that the system of policing the larger stores of the city has bedn reduced almost to a science, the other is that lawswhich went into effeet a few months ago made it sible for the courts to inflict very severe sentences.

partment of the average large store today is the height of efliciency. is directed by persons of skill and experience, and works so quietly and in such an unobtrusive manner that few customers, though they may be aware that the store police system ever suspect, among the many persons they meet; the ones who are constantly on the watch to prevent thefts. . - -' A detArHvo who-4mw-dnnT~yeat‘S of experience in detecting crime in th#. larger stores of this city had this to say on the shoplifting evil : "The old-time, professional shoplifters, who used to steal thousands of dollars' worth of goods in the course of a year, are disappearing rapidly, and soon we shall have only the amateur—pilferers-to contend with. One of tin* (principal reasons; for the.present situation is the recent changes in the law. ijn the old days, shoplifters, even though arrested many times for the same offense, usually escaped with a 30 days’ sentence. But it is different now. If a person is arrested, for this crime, and it is the prisoner’s first offense, he or she may be released under a suspended sentence or fined from ?2.i to SI,OOO- _ If a person is arrested for shoplifting and has been before the courts before and found guilty of a crime, under the new "law he or she must be sent to the penitentiary on an indeterminate sentence, which may run three years.” School of Opportunity an Innovation in Denver DENVER, COLO. —“If you don’t see what you want, ask for it.” is the principle on which the new Denver School of Opportunity is founded. From the use being made of it, Denverites seem to have met in it a real home of

tunity school gives the chance to place that invention before the world. 'Between 500 and 600 day students of both sexes and all ages, rich and poor, are working in the classes between nine and five.. The student roll, day and night, now numbers more than 1,500.' ; The inventor of a new system of shorthand is teaching a class of 25 jhe_ merits of hls wononifCal Clnrographjk lt is an oppiirtunity given to a Denver invention. Side by side the classes of the old system, 250 strong, and of the new are at work. . A one-armed boy walked from the hospital to the school and took up the study of typewriting and stenography. Hope had not had time to get sick, much less to die. An auto repair shop fs about to be built in the basement of one of the school buildings. Women of Gotham Now Hang Their Hats on Dummies NEW YORK. —If you are a woman you don’t keep your hats in a flowerdecorated box under the bed any more, nor on the hatrack in the hall, nor hung on the bust of Schiller in'the parlor. If you're a pampered pet of for

tune, with ten hats or so to a season, you order ten headrests painted After your own image, and stand them up with the hats atop, on a shelf wherever there Is room enough to accommodate them. Pupae, they call the hatrests, which are really glorified dummies. And even if you think the sight of a row of heads on your closet shelf would remind yoti unpleasantly of Bluebeard, you can’t escape seeing them, for they are becoming quite the smart arid necessary bit of window fit-

ting in little hat shops where chapeaux are priced from $-’0 up. l l -tclf l irn anycreditf<>r having invented them,” Miss Frances Simpson tite onlj- girl in America who is making the headpieces, explained when found at tier studio. “They were not unknown to New York. One or two shops here import them from France. I got the idea from seeing some myself in a shop in Paris and started to make them several months after I returned." “ ' ... The hatrests, four or five of them, stood in front of her on a shelf in the studio They are made of papier-mache, are a little less than the Size of a human head and are painted in oil. The features and hair are all painted on the head forms. They are very posterlike in effect and exceedingly piquant and interesting. The idea of having them painted, often in the likeness of the owner,-came originally from sailors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They would carve and paint up ship’s heads, or round balls, to be hung from the top of gangways and name them after people. * “Sometimeswhere a number of them are ordered, a character in history or a famous actress is chosen as a model, as well as one In the likeness of the wearer of the hats,” Miss Stevens <?oncluded. • ■.

Bees Work for Women of Philadelphia’s Suburbs J • - - ■ • - ■ ■PHILADELPHIA. —Give women credit for putting the hoes in the suburbs P Scores of women in the outlying sectionsof the city are becoming ajdansts and the bees are earning pin money for them. Many of the woman beekeepers ana tne nees are ear i are Philadelphia business men

without care and attention. All the suburbanite’s wife has to do to become ap expert beekeeper Is to conquerher fear of the bees’ “‘Stingers,” establish iseveral hives in a comer of the backyard, make sure there are buckwheat Oi clover fields, or plenty of wild Howers within reach, and watch that the bees don’t catch disease. Beekeepers iq the Philadelphia district will share SIOO,OOO obtained from the business during 1918. The, average hive will produce about 300 pounds of honey which sells at about ten cents a pound wholesale. This means an income of from S3O S4O a hive. z > Thus the womAn who keeps from ten to thirty hives of boes will have <rom S3OO to S9OO a year for “pin money."

opportunity. It has an elastic schedule of hours Which will conform to the time that the seeker after knowledge and efliciency can devote to the opportunity it affords, whether that be day or night. The teachers declare it is . re-educational in the best sense of the word and if young or old have missed - thO' master -stroko ofwilTglve either a new trade or ambition and with. that. new. hope———— Even if a person has a new system of education to test out, the oppbr-

who live inthe suburbs. The apiary takes the place of the garden as a. money-making diversion. Others are wives of farmers for whom beekeeping is becoming more important as a side line. e - ™- Women usually make a success of taking Ih^,—experts say, because they give more diligent attention to details. You can’t turn a swarm of bees loose on a farm or suburban estate ami expect them toreturh profits

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GATHERING UP WHAT THE GERMANS LEFT

English troops collecting German rifles from the battleground of St. Pierre Divion after the terrific battle on the western front.

RATHENAU TELLS OF HIS GREAT WORK

Germany’s Great Organizer Describes How Difficulties Were Overcome. STRONGER THAN THE ALLIES Declares Success of Work Is Due to Fact That Germany’s Industries Quickly Adapted Themselves to War Conditions. Berlin-.—-Dr. Walter Rathena u. in charge of .all .raw. materials for - the German government, has written a book in which the famous “wizard” describes the enormous difficulties that ■confronted - blip when he was called to his post by the war minister, and the wonderful results accomplished. "When we started our herculean work the war department gave us four ...small-rooms,” Jhe great organizer says. "The war minister thought that these offices would lie sufficient and he was greatly astonished when 1 informed him within two weeks that I needed at least five times much space. "After much parleying I got twenty rooms, but in another-month I had to request forty more; That necessitated the removal of whole, sections of the war department. More than 100,1)00 iinportairfmocuments had to be transported to'other buildings and the work took weeks. ‘ " Cramped and Crowded. “In the meantime our labor threatened to come to a standstill. Although Weputdesks m eyery possible Corner, and even in the hallways, we were not able to make room for our ever-in-creasing working force. When we finally got our sixty rooms we were as cramped and crowded as before, and we continually had to ask for and more space. Our offices now cover an entire city block and -we still need more room. is difficult to give a description of our work, because much of what has been done and accomplished must remain secret until the war ends. The public has no idea of the difficulties we had. to overcome and the tremendous labor that was necessary to enable the empire Successfully to defy the British blockade. Every man in our department worked from sixteen

TEXAS BEAUTY MAKES HIT

Miss lipogene Young, daughter of Representative and Mrs. James Young of Texas, a debutante, is decidedly one of. the most popular of the season’s buds. She has the beauty, vivacity ind charm which have made Southern girls score so heavily in the present Democratic regime.

to eighteen hours every day, including Sundays and holidays, and we all only regretted that the days did not have forty-eight hours, instead of only twen-ty-four. “Conferences were always in progress from eight o’clock in the morning 'until midnight, as new Ilians had to be made continually and often it became necessary to alter them before they were completed. Z Hard Work Won. “It was hard work, but we won out. pne of our advantages was that the .press...paid.lLWe .attention to us, and -we were - not ham per ed—by public criticism. Sometimes professors called to tell us that all wrong and would have to start anew; Then members of the reichstag Came to convince us that the professors were as wrong as ourselves. . . “We had to listen to this talk And that meant the loss of muck valj|fele„ time, but otherwise it did iiot~Tffirt us. “Our success is principally due to the fact that the German industries adapted themselves to the war conditions with astounding rapidity and energy. Our manufacturers carried, out their task enthusiastically and without losing any words. “While our enemies were telling the world how they would organize and develop ’their resources we quietly solved the problem, and—new-we-e&n i■< m fidently look into the future. f Germany today is economically and industrially stronger than the allies and will never break down."

IS PRODIGY AT MATHEMATICS

’’Six-Year-Old Boy at Findlay, O.,“Excels in Addition and Subtraction. Findlay, O. —A child wonder with .Unusual mental powers, has been discovered In the first grade West State street school by Miss Helen Gaskill, the teacher. He is Master J toy Fork, aged "six, son of F—L. Fork, tvell-driller.resid-’ ing on Franklin avenue. While bright in all his school’work, the youngster is a prodigy in H 6 knows the calendar by heart and although given tlie most severe questions with regard to days and dates, never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell in a second the year you were born, and if you give him the date‘of your birthday. and ask him what day of the wee.k it comes on he replies at once, correctly and without fail. His ability cannot*-be attributed to inental telepathy, for in iniihy 'instances ‘he tells the day of dates in last year’s calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right. Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of months, Roy had them mastered when he went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also lightning fast in which deal with addition and subtraction of the eatendar, and catch questions are easily solved.

PAYS FARE AFTER FIVE YEARS

Troubled by Her Conscience, Georgia Woman Passenger Settles for Rjde. Du bl in. Ga .—Oh Fa passenger tratir to Macon a woman paid Hie conductor 40 cents for a ride she took five years ago. “This is for a ride I took and for which I never paid.” she said. “I got on the train and for some reason the Conductor did not see ,me untiF ttfter the train had left Dulfiih. " “I then paid him a dollar for fare from Dubjhi to. my station, and said nothing about the forty cents up to Dublin. I now want to pay that fare, as It is nothing but right that the road should have it.” •

EARLIEST MEN AMERICANS?

Geologist* Say Bone* Discovered ii) Florida Deposit Are 125,000 Years Oftk-——-Chicago.—Human brings inhabited the North American continent more than 125.000 years ago, according to the findings j>f E. H. Sellards. state geologist of Florida, and Prof. Oliver P. Hay, who made public results of a study of fossil remains discovered in Florida some months ago. Their opinion, however, is not fully concurred in by other scientists. Human bones those of the mas t odon, sabePtootTF tiger and-other extinct animals', were found in the deposit at Vero, and thither six geologists and anthropologists made their way immediately to study the find. Their report will be made in the .January-February (1917) issue of the .Journal of Geology. Advance sheets quote Mr. Seilard as saying: —“The study of the fossils of t Ins stratum, although not yet completed, has brought to light a considerable number of extinct species which suggest the reference <|f the deposit to the Pleistocene period. This is the oldest deposit from which human remains have ever been taken.” Doctor Hay. who is research associate of the Carnegie institution of Washington, expresses) similiir views; but four other scientists, whose articles will appear in the .Journal of Geology, are skeptical. They are Prof. R. T. Chamberlain of the University of Chicago, Thomas Wayland Vaughan of the United States geological survey. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the United States museum, fund Prof. George .Grant McCurdy of Yale. They are not convinced that the human race existed on this continent at so early a period.

MISS LOLITA ARMOUR

Miss Lolita Armour, only child of Mr. mid Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, recently made her debut In Chicago society. Miss Armour ls one of the most charming of thia winter's debutantes. It is only a few years ago that It was almost conceded that she would be a cripple for life. The fame of the noted German surgeon, Doctor Koch, having reached this' country, J. Ogden Armour, the little Miss Lolita’s father, decided after having heard of the marvelous bloodless operations performed by the famous surgeon, to' bring him here from Berlin. That his faith in the physician was well placed is shown now when Miss Arfnour, a healthy, vivacious young society bud, foncTof alb outdoor sports, is about to make her debut. Her addition to the ranks of this season’s debutantes is looked forward to with pleasure.

BURNS CURED BY SUNLIGHT

Johns Hopkins Hospital Tests OpenAir Remedy With Success in Number of Cases. Baltimore, Md. —A new method of treating serious burns that involves the use of air and sunlight has been put into' practice at Johns Hopkins hospital, and already in a number of cases has been successful. “Nature curbs” have.been recognized as the most practicable in a rapidly, increasing list of ailments. The general idea back of all these methods is that nature, with a fair chance, will do more for the sick body than" will drugs or surgery. In treating burns a small part of the the sun and air out of doors. The best r< ‘suits are obtained in temperate weatherr'w hen the pat lent can lie a.t ease for hours under the direct rays of the sun and the influence of the air. In colder weather only more indirect exposure is possible, and then the reresults ary.-not rapid. .-»■ j As a result of the treatment skin graft!ng will not have to be used In a number of eases—The effect of the air and sunlight cure Is "to keep alfve much of the burned tissue, and in time this tissue grows out over the burned surface. ,

Belt Heard Forty Miles.

Santa Barbara,* Cal.—The same eTectrie power employed in ringing bells has transmitted sound through space 40 miles. In experiments by Dr. H. B. Arringer Cox, the ringing of an alarfii clock at Los Olives has been faintly recorded at his station outside the city limits. It is wireless and the power used is the ordinary dry battery. which Dr. Cox invented several years ago

I - J ’ ' '■ Grippy weather this. Better get a box of— / CASCARAgQUiNINE The old family remedy-in tablet form-safe, sure, easy to take. No opiates—no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours—Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine box with Red Top and Mr. Hill’s picture on it-25 cento. AtAny DnwStore , /.'■>*' ~v~~. 7TTT YOU CAN’T CUT OUT A v Rog Spavin or Thoroughpin but you can clean them off promptly with g| Br J® X J ~11 Ba and you work tl»e horse same time. - Does not blister or remove the Il hair. $2.00 per pottle, delivered. k > Will tell you more if you write. Vj Book 4 M free. ABSORBINE, JR., yY the antiseptic liniment for mankind, AyA reduces Varicose Veins, Ruptured Orpvk Muscles or Ligaments, Enlarged Glands, Wens,' Cysts; Allays pain quickly. Price fl and 12 a bottle at druggists or delivered. Made in tbe U. S. A. by W.F.YOUNG.P D. F..3loTempleSt,Springfield,Mass.

Height of Boastfulness.

“Isn’t Blower inclined to be just a little boastful?” “Boastful? Well, 1 guess yes. After it beggar has touched Blower for a nfckej he will tell you that he has. just been"giving a little dinner to an acqutaintance of his."

THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF Girls! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy and beautiful—Get a 25 cent bottle.. of Danderine. If you care for heavy hair that glistens with beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable softness and -is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides it immediately dissolves every particle of dandruff. You can not have nice* heavy, healthy hair if "you have dandruff. This the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it produces a igverishuess^aßd^itehtag-of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loosen 1 and diU; then (he hairfalls out fast. Surely get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine from any drug store and just try it. —Adv. _

The People's Physique.

be given to the effect that the change in locomotion will make upon the physique of the people; for even the farmers are now using the automobile, and the horse is used for little but draft purposes. Will not the race become lax and nerveless that lolls upon soft cushions, protected in every way from thehard joltings of the road? More and more, machinery is brought into service, and less and less physical exertion is required in the carrying on of openair occupations. Man touches a butThis makes things easier; but the question is whether it confers an actual benefit in the end.—Mobile Register.

Exempt.

“Avoid criticizing," she said. “Don’t make a practice of finding fault with other people, or picking flaws in what ' they say.or do.” * - “Teacher,” spoke up a little boy, “that's the way my father makes his livin’!” - “You Surprise me, George!. What is your father’s occupation?” “He’s a proofreader, ma’am.” The teacher coughed. “Well, -George/’ she said, ‘‘l ni»ke an exception in the case -of- your father.”Youth’s Companion.

No News.

Teacher—Your daughter, sir, has a fine carrying voice. Father—t know that by the way it is carrying off my money.

His Literature.

“Not literature, eh?" “The only hook he cares for Is the < volume of business."

Why Wait Mr. Coffee Drinker, till ach “give way?” The sure, easy way to keep out of coffee troubles is to use the pure food-drink — POSTUM now, while you are feeling good, and try Postum, the popular American beVerage. “There’s a