Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — Page 2

SYRUP OF FIGS FOR A CHILD'S BOWELS

It is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a sick child. Look back at your childhood days. Remember the “dose” mother Insisted on—castor Oil. calomel, cathartics. ■ How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. -—r--With our children ite different Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realize what they do. The children’s revolt is‘well-found-ed. Their tender little "insides” are . injured by them. if your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only delicious "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless “fruit laxative” handy; they know children love to take it; that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach, and that a teaspoonful given today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs,”, which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Adv.

Eighty Per Cent.

The Browns are celebrating their silver wedding next Saturday.” ; ,r ■ ■ - BiIVcF WCQuIDg f W Dyf UWj Vo been married only five years.” "I know, but that's five times as long as anybody expected them to stay married, so they feel they are entitled to a discoufit.”—New York ■. World. - ■* ■ - -V. ■ - Pimples, boils, carbuncles, dry up and disappear with Doctor Pierce’s Golden -Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid. —Adv.

CO-EDS SPURN SMALL INCOME

Wouldn’t Marry Man Who Gets Less Than $1,500 a Year, Girls Say. If any of the gay young Lotharios or Romeos of this bustling and enterprising village have designs on the charming co-eds at th eUni versify of Omaha, they are warned to look to their check books. Big, black eyes, pompadoured locks, glistening white teeth and neatly manicured nails don’t cut any ice with the Omaha co-eds. An income of at least $1,500 annually is the first inducement bachelors with an inclination to leap into the matrimonial sea with an Omaha co-ed must make. So the co-eds answered Prof. Harry De Lamatre, instructor in economics, when he asked them what they considered a suitable salary for a man who is going to be married, says the Omaha Bee. When De Lamatre said he believed an income of SI,OOO a year was quite sufficient from an economical standpoint, the fair young things burst forth with a simultaneous shout of protest and Incredulity. “Who would want to live on that?” they demanded. The Omaha don’t demand luxurious limousines, birds of paradise for their hats, ermine coats or bejeweled shoe?, but they insist it takes sl,500 a year to keep a home going. Upon hearing the views of their fair schoolmates the boys at the university promptly held an indignation meeting and decided to boycott . what they called the extravagant co-eds and find aren’t filled with “highfalutin” ideas.

She Simply Couldn’t Refuse.

Would you mind if I went into the smoking cat, dear?” asked the bridegroom. “What! To smoke, sweetheart?” retorted the bride. “Dear me, no," replied the young husband, “I want to experience the agony of being away from you so that the joy of my return will be all the more intensified.”

Before Drinking Coffee, You Should Consider Or Not It Is Harmful /J' 'T ■ • r - r ' ■ •There’s a Reason” for POSTUM

YOUNG HERO TELLS OF RUSSIA’S “FLYING COLUMN” UF RED CROSS

Colonel Kolpachnikoff Describes Experience in Deadliest Service Yet Disclosed by War—Under Fire in First Line as 40,000 Shrink to 4,ooo—Several Americans Are Serving in the Ranks.

.^wYark Stirring tul®B Ice that America has not heard much about, despite the countless pictures of the great war this country has been given, were brought to New York recently by Andrew Kolpachnikoff, nephew 'of John Burgess Camac of Philadelphia, former attache of the Russian embassy at Washington, and now head of a “flying column” of the Red Cross, in which he holds the rank and privileges of a colonel. ■ No other front than the Russian htfs these “flying columns.” Their work lies at the very forefront of and the men attached to them go into, the first line trenches on the heels of the advance guards. In leaving the trenches there remains behind them only the screen of cavalry that cover? the retirement. They are under fire as long as fire continues, "and into their hands first of all come the wounded that are later carried by the ambulance corps tothelmspitals iixXhe rear.

Uniformed Like Troops. Uniformed like the troops they succor, the “Flyers” -may only be told from them by the fact that they do not hear arms and that they wear the Insignia of the Red Cross- —the men in the form of brassards on their left arms, the oflieers in the form of shoulder strap devices. Ro constant are the hazards to which they are exposed that flyers are mentioned repeatedly in general orders, and many of them have been decorated by imperial decree. Colonel Kolpachnikoff is one of these, the Cross of the Order of St. George being his, the distinction jhe most coveted of the Russian rewards for valor. _ i Colonel Kolpachnikoff belongs to a distinguished family of Penza, dne of the rich provinces in the southeast of the empire. His mothen _ a~gddchild of Czar Alexander 11. was descended from Nathalla Narischkine, mother of Peter the was a graml niece of General Clepzoff, one of the conquerers of the Caucasus, wTio died at thirty-two, a full general. The young man’s paternal great-grandfather was a general officer, wliodied in the Freeh victory of Boroding in 1812. Notwithstanding this military ancestry, Colonel Kolpachnikoff elected diplomacy as his profession. His fa-

HUNTS GAME ON HONEYMOON

Mrs. Angela de Aeoata Sewell of Boston, who has just arrived in this country after of six_ years, spent hunting big~ga'me/In Africa. After marrying W. E. Sewell, a big; gafne hunter and friend of Paul Rainey, six years ago, the couple went to Afri<a to hunt ganieldn their honeymoom Mr. Sewell is at present in the English army.

ther’s sister married burgess Ganuic Stears ago and mhde her home in Faris. Her nephew spent most of ids boyhood with her antiin 19J2 wasallowed, by tnrperirri decree,-J tr add damac to his patronymic, so-that he is really Andrew KolpachnikoffCarnac. While he still lived In Paris he took a course in the Sorbonne, then returned to Russia f • take his docto*’p degree in international law- Then he was sent to Washington in a position that corresponds with third secretary of embassy in the American diplomatic service. Ending 18 months in that capacity at the close of 1613, the young man returned to Petrograd to* join the foreign office. - Ue was there when war whs de-

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clftred tn 1914. As a diplomat he was exempt service, but like thousands of others of young Russians similarly situated he did not rest until he had found a place with the Red Cross, where he could work in spite of his lack of training. He chose a “flying column” rather than the more routine service of the organization behind the lines and the hospitals. Attached to the - Twenty-first column, equipped by Countess Tolstoy of Moscow, and popularly known by her name, Kolpachnikoff was under Are in seven battles within the first two months in the field. These actions were about Warsaw and Lodz and since the Twenty-first was assigned to the First Siberian corps, nicknamed the Siberian Ironsides, it was at the very brunt of the German attack. One of the tilings Colonel Kolpachnikoff recalls is that the Germans used gas shells In these engagements

for the first time It was not until some months later that they were tried on the western front and thereJj.y~ came info notoriety. Even more vividly dQ.es he recall the crisis when eight divisions of*the Prussian Guards and the Bavarians were hurled against Pleshkoff’s Siberians. only to saw. It is said the Siberians counted but 4,000 still In their ranks out of 40.000 when this tremendous feat had been accomplished. The end of these first two months found Kolpachnikoff second in command of the Twenty-first. Within another two months, when his chief had been wounded a second time and compelled to retire, Kolpachnikoff took over the command wWh the rank of colonel./ He still hold| to his place, and his present visit to the United states is being made under two months’ leave. • F’raised by Commander.

When "he salicyl for New York, he was accompan!ed by Alexandre Verblunsky, a great oil operator of the Baku and Ural districts, who found In Red Cross work the part in the war he could not take in Ihe army. In his party was also Dr. Thomas M. Cassiday of New York, a young surgeon who has been finding in Russia a continuation of the activity he had for some time with Villa in Mexico. Upon his departure from the Ironsides General Pleshkoff addressed to Colonel Kolpachnikoff a letter reading: “My Dear Andre Ivanovitch : “A few days ago was the anniversary of the second year of ydur work in the. flying column at the front, the greater, part of which has been devoted by you to the corps whose command I have the honor to hold by Imperial decree. “The merit of your service has more than once been cited by me in my orders of the day to the troops commanded by me, but I consider it today an agreeable duty to express again to you from the bottom of my heart my gratitude for your highly useful service and your gallant work. “At the head of your. glorious flying column you were always at the front, hastening where there were dangers and where you could make lighter the sufferings of thousands of our gallant Siberian fighters. The care you have taken of them shall never be forgot by them, and they will always -bless you in their prayers. "You are taking up a long journey for a good cause, and again in the name of the entire corps let me wish you a good journey. May success attend your every effort and undertaking., We are looking forward with great pleasure to your return to the old command in the corps that loves you so much. Yours, “M. PLESHKOFF, “Commanding First Siberian Corps, Active Army No. 35.” In Eighteen Battles. Eighteen battles of first magnitude stand now to Colonel Kolpachnikoff’s credit. In three of these. Tchervon.iia. Niva;and Tschidlovskain, where the relief work of the Twenty-first was carried on under shell-fire that was as heavy as it was uninterrupted. Colonel Kolpachnikoff was accompanied by Firs t IJ eu h military attache of the American embassy to Russia. Three other Americans Colonel Kolpachpikoff counts among his personal friends. Foremost among, these is Dr. MaTcohto Grow of Philadelphia, who is . chief surgeon of the Twentyfirst, and who won a medal of the order of St. George for his work. Colonel Kolpachnikoff tells how. when this medal was conferred, the commander of the Tenth army said to Doctor “I hope that try the time this war ends Americans will like us as sincerely as we like you ami all your people who have visited my army. I am very glad to see among my Siberians a representative of the glorious nation of ■the Stars and Stripes.” ’ The two Other Americans of whom the colonel speaks affectionately are Stanley Washburn and Walter C. Whiffen, correspondents. Wfotffen was wounded toy an explosive bullet when at the front with the Twenty-first, Colonel Kolpachnikoff’s column embraces 200 men. AR are mounted, and in mobility they edual light caValrv.

FLEECED PILOT BECOMES WARY

Experience has made Harry Poole cautious. Boole, a master lake pilot living at the Morrison hotel, Chicago, was swindled out of SSO by a gypsy fortune teller. Mary Stanko, twenty years ’ old, was arrested on his complaint. “Sign your name to this complaint,” said Desk Sergeant Patrick Brady, shoving an arrest blank toward Poole? “But what is it? Not on your life. They got me once, but they don’t catch me twice,” cried Poole. Sergeant Brady relieved the situation by filling out the complaint Then Poole, after read- •’ ing it, affixed his signature.

Three surgeons ar-> attached to the column, two nurses and five medical students. One of these students, Alexander Brailovsky, has comported himself with such gallantry that he wears on his breast the medals of aN four degrees of the Order of St. George. His distinction is, in a way, as’great as his commander, who was the first of the three colonels now decorated to be given the Cross of St. George. “Russia, like America, is a land of vast distances,” he said to a New York World reporter. “You, however, have mastered the art of conquering space as we have not. Our fighting fronts are w'ell supplied with roads, but we lack adequate means of swift locomotion,at any rate, for those in whose welfare I am most deeply Interested, the wounded. Rapid transit to the : rear-means the thousands Of lives.

Needs Motor Ambulances. “I have, after two years’ effort, succeeded in mustering 14 motor ambulances for my ‘flyer,’ but what are 14 ambulances for work with such fighters as the Siberian Ironsides? “Our whole Red Cross organization, which has 31,000 trained nurses working: at the front, does not boast more than 400 motor ambulances altogether, “Instead of 14 ambulances, I ought to have. to serve such a corps ar the First Siberian, from 100 to 150. I had been promised some cars by various British organizations.but they need all they have and friends have encouraged me to hope that in the nevei failing generosity of Americans I may find some assistance toward providing the Russian Red Cross with this sore-.. ly needed equipment. ' “Modern_warfare makes such terrfc. hie demands upon the physical and nervous powers that unless a wounded man can be got swiftly away from the inferno in which he has been at work, his chances of recovery are seriously Imperiled. Motor ambulances will do this, and no motors are so admirably adapted to use in Russia as your American makes. If I know, and I think I do know, the heart of the true American, my mission will prove an easy one.”

BUILDS TOMB FOR CHILDREN

Laborer’s Wife Works at All Sorts of Tasks to Provide Sepulchre for Offspring. Newark. N. J.- —After months of patient labor with her own hands, Mr*. Philomena Tonnelli of this city has completed a cement tomb in the cemetery of the Holy Sepulchre there. She had the bodies of five of her twelve dead children moved into it recently and in a short period she hopes that they may all rest there. Mrs. Tonnelli is the wife of a laborer, and all except one of her children have died soon after birth. After the first one died years ago she desired that the family should have a cement toiub, and when one after the other was taken from her this desire grew, according to her friends. She was able to rear a son until he was seventeen years old, and he died last summer. . Since then Mrs. Tonnelli has worked at housecleaning and washing, at all sorts of odd jobs, and with the money she had purchased cement. She learned to mix it, and during her spare hours, which have not been many, she has built t|ie tomb. It Is 15, feet long by seven feet wide, and its walls are 15 inches thick, Mrs. Tonnelli -is fortyeight years old.

MAN “MINES” MUSHROOMS

Expert Uses Deserted Coal Mine inWest Virginia as Farm With A Success. _______ • '"?• " '•'' ■ : Morgantown. W. Va.—The queerei theplace selected for a mushroom garden, the finer, it seems, is the growth of th.is popular table delicacy. The last word in a mushroom farm, how* ever, is such a garden placed in th*i depths of a deserted coal mine, hufr deeds of feet below the ground. Not far from Morgantown there is located this old coal mine, known /ia the Pittsburgh coal seam in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Theodore F. Itnbach, an assistant in the state agricultural experimenting station at Morgrintown, obtained M permit from the owners of the property. He encamped oh the first level, and made 'cjiemicttl analysis of the rocky soil. -'He found it was rich in indisture and its constituents exactly those needed by edible fungi for their quickest pnd most luxuriant growth. He, therefore, started a mushroom farm and found the spot was ideal for his purpose. *Thls “mushroom mine” makes large shipments/ weekly to the city market*

TO LIGHTEN WORK

LABOR-SAVING DEVICE THAT WILL BE APPRECIATED. Roller-Tray Wagon Combines Many Conveniences—May Be Made From Variety of Articles That Have Been Thought Useless. A number of labor-saving devices which will lessen the housewife’s work may be constructed quickly and easily. The following contrivance actually being made and used by women county agents in the field and by the women who are working as their demonstrators in connection with the extension work, south, states relations service, can be made on the farm during spare time: A step-saving device made by the members of the demonstration club mentioned is a roller-tray wagon. This convenience comprises a china closet, serving table and roller tray all in one. device was built by using a box five inches deep for the top and placing it on four wooden posts for legs. Dimensions: Top of table 31% inches long by 16% inches wide and 29 inches high, and a serving compartment 5 inches deep. The top of the table is put on hinges and straps or small chains fastened to it to keep the top from falling back too far when opened. The bottom of the serving compartment is five inches below this top. Around the sides of this compartment are little screw hooks on which cups may be hung. In the compartment, which may be lined with white oilcloth, is space for serving dishes for six. Below the serving compartment is. a drawer which is divided in the center onerhaifTObh used for the linen and one side for the silver. The side used for the silver is lined with blue outing flannel because this serves the same purpose and is cheaper than felt. A spool was cut into halves to make the knobs for the drawer and a pair of these knobs was placed on each side so that the drawer

Combined China Closet, Serving Table and Roller Tray.

could be used from either side. The legs were square pieces of wood 1% inches square with rollers. Old rub-ber-tired wheels from toy wagons or discarded baby coaches may be used. This is an improvement because the tray rolls noiselessly. In some cases the legs from old tables can be used In place of having these made. At each end two brackets were placed so that the table could be pushed or-pulled. When the soiled dishes were taken to the kitchen and. washed, they were placed in this serving compartment with one handling only, the lid placed the roller tray rolled into the dining room, with the dishes and silver ready, for setting the table nt the next meal. * is nomecessary to put them away because they are out of ,the dust when the top is down; The estimated cost of this convenience is:

Dry goods box ; ..$0.25 1 yard blue outing flannel 10 1 nmnant White oilcloth 15 2 hinges .10 4 rollers .15 1 can of mahogany stain ................ .30 Total $1.05 With a small doily and a vase of flowers tills roller tray answers the purpose of a serving table and makes a very attractive piece of furniture.

Delectable Salad.

Soak one envetope ( one tablespoonful, or half a package) of gelatin in half a cupful of cold water two minutes. Whip htrtf a pint of heavy cream stiff. Heat one. cupful of water to boiling and dissolve the gelatin in Lt. When Cool,, add a Philadelphia cream cheese that has been mashed with hqlf a chopped green pepper and eight or nine olives, chopped fine. Fold In the whipped cream, seasoned with half a teaspoonful of salt and a few grains of cayenne. A one-pound baking powder till makes a good mold-from which circular slices may be cut when themixture has hardened on ice. Serve on lettuce with niayonnaise, garnished with pecan meats in halves or ground up and sprinkled over the slice. Individual molds about the size of a cordial glass make a very pretty salad.

Fish Filets.

Fish should always be fried lite doughnuts, in deep fat Bacon drippings are perhaps as good a material as any. Butter should not be nsed for frfing fish. It should be cooked until well browned, and then removed and allowed to drain, but not to grow <jool, before serving. If the filets prepared as above are cut into individual portions before being cooked, the housewife lias no crumpled mass of fish as the result of her labors, but firm, well-cooked squares of delicious food. ■ 'fr . ’ ’

FAILING HAIR MEANS DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE

Save Your Hair! Get a 25 Cent Bottle of Danderine Right Now—-Also Stops Itching Scalp. Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; of dandruff —that awful scurf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair of its luster, its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverishness and itching of the scalp, which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die- —then the hair falls out fast. A little Danderine tonight—now—any time —will surely save your hair. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine from any store, and after the first application your hair will take on that life, luster and luxuriance which is so beautiful. It will becojne wavy and fluffy and have the appearance of abundance; an incomparable gloss and softness, but what will please you most will be after just a few weeks' use, when you will actually see a lot of fine, downy hair —new hair —grooving all over the scalp. Adv.

Horticulture in Mustaches.

Children are consistent and logical in their thinking, if nothing else. Uncle Jim removed a mustache he hnd worn for a year or so. A relative remarked she never had seen Uncle Jim with a mustache, and another member of the family said: “Oh, yes, he grew it about two years ago.” “Did he plant the seed?" little Bobble asked. —Indianapolis News.

CUTICURA COMPLEXIONS Are Usually Remarkably Soft and Clear—Trial Free. Make Cuticura Soap your every-day toilet Soap, and assist it now and then as needed by touches of Cuticura Ointment to softeal soothe and heal. Nothing better to make the complexion clear, scalp free from dandruff and hands soft and white. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address -postcard, 'Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. —Adv. Some Reason For.lt. “That man Jones backed me into- a corner last night and kept me there two hours telling me the bright things his two-year-old boy has said.” “Gosh! You must owe Jones an awful lot of money if you’ll stand for that! ”■—St. Loui s Pos t-Dispatch. A Comprehensive Comment. “This is our baby,” burbled Proudpop. “What do you think of him?” “Ah! A very seldom sort of infant, ' I should say.” politely replied Philo Pumpelly.”—Kansas City Star. '

When Work Is Hard That kidney troubles are so common Is due to the strain put qpon the kidneys in so many occupations, such as: Jarring and jolting on railreads, etc. Cramp and strain as in Barbering, moulding, heavy lifting, et£. Exposure to changes of temperature in Irion furnaces, refrigerators, etc. Dampness as in tanneries, quarries, mines, etc. Inhaling poisonous fumes in painting, printing and chemical shops. Dean’s Kidney Pills are fine for strengthening weak kidneys. An Illinois Case Chas. Masson, Depot St., W. Chicago, 111., says: "I was annoyed |J by having to get up |jk—often during the night to pass the kidney se- ‘dFKBK&L cretions. My b a.c k .7 ached so badly 1 couldn’t straighten. Sitting down so much at my work had a lot SP, 1 / to do with bringing on jjEgbSKW' the trouble. Doan’s Kidney Pills fixed me J* up in good shape and 1 I have been free from wMre kidney weakness ever Erlmrek since.” Get Doan’* at Any Store, Me a Box DOAN'S VBIS’ FOSTER-MILBURN CO- BUFFALO. N.Y.

The, Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day. CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS responsible they not only give, relief DTrn'c they •tipation. B* lions B PILLS, them for Biliousness, indigestion, Sick Headache, Sallow Skin. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature GRAY’S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN Relieve Feverishness, ConstipaTzp [ tlon.Colds and correct disorders of the Htomach and bowels. fxert'Ay jo jvsrr. All Druggists, - (autaiußK. dress Mother 6raj Co;, Lefioj. l.Jf. u ROU6HonRATS ,,^ o^ M^n G ALLR°e~S Aches in stomach, Baek, Side or Shoulders: Liver Troubles. Stotnacb Misery, Dyspepsia. Colic, Gas, glHousness, Headache,Constipation, Piles,Catarrh, ervousnese, Bines, Jaundice. Appen<Ucltts.Thesa are common Gallstone symptoms—CAN BBCURBD. Send for home treatment. ■•Steal Bwk m FRrr Ure. etoawb. Sall TrmHm *•<> AppnsSMcta. * KDL n.mrei reawiy ca. w-a,aw a k.aio,, W. N. U, CHICAGO, NO. 3-1617.