Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1917 — Page 3

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Professional Cards I DR. E, C. ENGLISH Physician and Surgeon Opposite Trust and Savings Bank. Phones: 177—2 rings for office; 8 ring* tor residence. Rensselaer, Indiana. C. E. JOHNSON, H. 0. Office in Jessen Building. Office Hours —9 to 11 a. m. 1 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Specialty: Surgery Phone 211. DR. 1. M. WASHBURN Physician and Surgeon Attending clinic at Augustano Hospital on Tuesday - morning from 5 a. m. to 2 p. m. __ Phono 48. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, Real Estate, Insurance 5 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. F. H. HEMPHILL Physician and Surgeon Office ovsr T®ndlg;s Prug otore. ft *S<lsplioiiSi offloe. amL DR. F. A. TURFLER Osteopathic Physician Telephone, office and residence, 44.2. Hooms 1 and 2, Murray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on 300: Residence —3 rings on 300. Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. WILLIAMS & DEAN Lawyers Special attention given to prepar* ation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and farm loan*, Office in Odd Fellows Building* JOHN A. DUNLAP Lawyer (Successor to Frank -Foltz) . Practice in all courts, —Estates settled. Farm loans. -- Collection department. 1“ the -^ Ce ' - Indiana H. L. BROWN Dentist Crown and 4, ffiX: ° a “ rswstiswstt:tit.tor ———~~ _____. Homeopathist. - Oiurxox raOMB 89 ■ to Dr. W» W* Hartsell* building on Cullen street WORLAND & SONS Undertakers * * ** Motor and Horse Drawn Hearses Ambdiance Service - .Office Phone 23. Residence Phone 58

Motor Torpedo Boats.

According to Edward F. Chandler engineer inventor, there Is no Tensor why the high-powered motor boat should not be enlplpyed to carry and discharge torpedoes. To accomplis!! this Mr. Chandler has devised a Special type of motor boat to which torpedoes may be attached to the hull one along each side of the keel. Thus supported the torpedoes neither add nor subtract from the weight of the vessel; for the torpedoes have neither positive nor negative buoyancy. The motor boat need ohly be pointed at its target to be fired accurately. Imagine, then, a fleet of these motor torpedo boats collected at intervals of about 100 miles along our coast, each station harboring from 10 to 15 boats. And then Imagine a veritable swarm of these; tiny boats sent out the enemy's battleships and troop transports. A dozen boats are sent against a single battleship; one at least will strike a telling blow. What -chance has a big ship against a swarm of these lowlying motor torpedo boats? —Popular Science Monthly.

Think O’ That.

They were talking about wonderful parrots when Col. Harta Beetem pulled a chair up to the little circle. “Wien I commanded the Sally Lun, plying between Cape Spuds and the Malay with cargoes of typewriters and mouth organs.” Beezer was saying, “I had a parrot aboard that could, whistle ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ so beautifully,'so touchingly, that the tears would-posi-tively run down our faces.” “When I was a lad,” chimed in young Wullup, “we had a parrot at home that could Imitate a cat fight so faithfully that we all used to stand around and roar with laughter till we had to leave the room for fear of doing ourselves an injury." “Remarkable!” said Col. Harta Beetem, courteously. “But let me tell you. gen tiemen, of a parrot that I kept for company in my lonely tent while I was snaring lility birds for the Perkins In southern Yaloo. That bird, gentlemen, could sing ‘The Jolly Blacksmith’ so perfectly that,” believe It or notsparks would fly from its ing tall!” —Detroit Free Press.

Use for Raffia Palm.

Word comes from Madagascar that it has been discovered there that the Raffia palm offers an excellent substitute for the carnauba wax, which largely enters into the manufacture of shoe polish and wood-finishing pastes, and if this proves true it will greatly_ relieve an Industrial situation which has become very acute recently owing to the greatly increased demand for wax. The demand has largely been supplied by Japan and China heretofore. Raffia has largely been made use of as a source of twine for agricultural purposes, and also for kindergarten and decorative purposes,' and the wax is made.from the residue of the leaves after the fibrous strands have been'stripped off. The wax substitute Ims about the safne melting point as the genuine wax and resembles It in many other particulars. It Is particularly suited for use in the manufacture of shoes and wood polishes. ■ .

Anchostral Characteristic.

That fragility of bones is a dominant characteristic in some families, and is handed down through the generations according to the regular Mendelian laws of descent, is the Conclusion reached by Davenport and Conrad, American eugenists. They find it rare that a fragile child has not had parents and other ancestors with the same weakness;- A striking example of this falling is a child that has Both thigh bones broken soon after birth and at thirty-four months had had not less than a dozen fractures of important bones, although the bones showed no deformity or softness.

In Real Japan.

In Japan if one will leave the hotel and the tourist office and the cocktail drinkers and go out Into the real native quarters, there are enough things to Interest anyone. One old man passes with his load of crickets, which sing in hot weather and are kept in cages like so many Canaries. These gentle creatures make a noise like a squeaky axle, and one hid under the hood of a 12-cyltnder car would subject the most careful chauffeur to scorn. They are caught with bird lime and make nice little pets, cheap to buy and not requiring gasoline for the upkeep;

Woman's Superiority.

Tn woman the “touch sense” is much more highly developed than In the male of her species. Thus, with the help of inherited experience, she is enabled to do such tricks as the tying of a knot with the fingers, of one hand. It gives her that wonderful facility in the tying of a ribbon bow, which she accomplishes with a couple of twists, two dexterous jerks and a pat to right and left. A man can tie a bow, but it is different—product distinctively masculine.

Breathe and Make Picture.

This sounds like an impossible feat, yetjs easy when you know how to do it Mix finely powdered fluorspar and sulphuric acid to make the thickness of ink. With a quill pen write or draw a picture on plate glass. After it has remained on the glass for five or ten minutes wash it off with water, The glass will seem to be the same as' it was, though in reality it is lightly eaten away. .To prove this, breathe on it and as If by magic will app«»- : ' ..

THE EVENING EE PUBLIC AN. RENSSELAER. IND.

KNOW LITTLE OF CRYSTAL DETECTOR

MOST AMATEUR ELECTRICIANS L ARE IGNORANT OF SENSITIVENESS Single Crystal Gives Better Results * * Than Combination. Ih spite of the fact that crystal detectors play so important a part in experimentation of electrical amateurs, their use is not understood as well as it should be. There are parlous combinations In use. It will be found, in general, that the more sensitive a crystal is, the more readily will it lose its adjustment or “knock out” from loud Sanais or static. The average amateur will get more satisfaction from using a single crystal than from a combination. For example, although a perikon has many desioble characteristics, there to apt to be trouble from particles of one of the crystal rubbing off and adhering to the surface of the other. This is constantly Occurring. Chalcopyrite and zincite, arsenic ?.nd silicon, and antimony and silicon are all used in combination, and are remarkably sensitive. An occasional w;.sh with carbon disulphide helps to remove grease and dirt from the surfaces, and oftgn restores them to sens>.. /eness. Carborundum is proof against all manner of knockouts, but is unfortunately not very sensitive. A stiff wire or needle makes the best contact with this substance, and should be pressed down into it with considerable force. A battery must be used with this detector Silicon is more sensitive than carborundum, and is correspondingly more easily knocked out by static. A light contact is required, and the efficiency is often improved by applying an exceedingly small potential. Galena is probably the most sensitive of the crystal detectors, but is harl to keep in adjustment. It is especially sensitive to static. The wire used should be as fine as possible. Certain violin and mandolin strings aie woimfi with very fine Silver wi re, this wrapping is more suitable for use with galena. A minute fraction may be cut off the end of the wire from time to time, thus always insuring a clean point. Cerunite requires about the same treatment as .galena. Iron pyrite works best with a firm contact and is almost as sensitive as silicon.—-Popu-lar Science Monthly.

H/ WAIIAN ISLANDS GIVE U. S. ROYALTY, VOLCANO

Contribute the Largest Active and Up- to-date Fiery Peak. in World. When the Hawaiian island! decided to become a part of the United States, we acquired, besides our first royal family and our most beautiful and exotic tropic garden spot the largest active and up-to-date volcano in the world. Kilauea has not boon advertised like Vesuvius and Pelee, by virtue of recent destructive eruptions, nor like Popocatepetl, by a jewel of a name that would have made the fortune of anybody perspicacious to apply it to a new brand of chewing gum. Retiring by disposition, o£recent years at least; and attending to BSat ness in a good natured way with only a few minor eruptions to. show that he is still on the job, Kilauea needs advertising. His advantages as a volcano are many. He does not perch up at the top of an inaccessible cone, like less considerate volcanoes. He can be reached by nervous ladies in an automobile with ease and safety. He Met in a country that revels In the luxuriant vegetation of half a dozen Italian gardens. He is the ideal tourists’ volcano —and his crater is nine miles across, the greatest on earth. It lies before you, a flat lifeless plain, in great smooth sweeps of lava run out and melted in long, graceful lines that are a delight to the eye. Here and there a fissure smokes reflectively, just to remind you that beneath the crust are depths unthinkable and temperatures unimaginable_ The wary tourist creeps to the edge of such a fissure and toasts bits of paper on the end of a stick by the heat of the fires of hades. It is a characteristic sight Where the crust breaks off in a pit and shows the living fire beneath, the United States government has erected a station for the study of volcanoes. Scientists peer into the giant lipless throat and make observations and take temperature*

The rain tree of Colombia measures about fifty feet high when at maturity, and about three feet in diameter at the base. It absorbs -an immense quantity of moisture, from the atmosphere, which R concentrates, and subsequently sends forth from its leaves and branches in a shower, in some ln,stances so abundantly that the ground ")n Its vicinity is converted tote aquasmire. It possesses this carious prop erty Ln its greatest degree to the summer, precisely When th* rivtks are at their lowest and water most scarce.

WHAT IS A COLLEGE WORTH?

* If a college in worth $500,000 to a community, wouldn’t it be a great bargain to get one oir $25,000? A press dispatch from Evansville tells of an effort launched in that city to locate Moores Hill college. there and that this can be accomplished by raising $500,000. In Rensselaer all we are asked to do is to raise $25,000 for th® Monnett School for Girls, a well-founded school that is certain ‘o grow and prove Within the next five or ten years all that Moores Hill college now is. There is - a college bargain rapping at oiir doors. It is worth much more to us than iwe are asked, but this is Rensselaer’s good fortune. t It is our great opportunity. I wonder it we have been thinking, very much about the value of colleges to a community. Let us consider this in the light of some of the schools we know most about. To bring it out clearly let us use a short paragraph for each of a number of college towns. VALPARAISO—The seat of Valparaiso University, known over the world as the home of this wonderful school. A city made by its college and advertasea by its college and which has developed mainly as a result of having the college in it. Has an attendance of from 3,000 to 5,000 students. Think of the "mofiey they spend with merchants, restaurants, picture shows, transportation companies, etc. LAFAYETTE—Has other industries but the one big thing is Purdue Univeisity. Has an annual attendance of about 2,500 students, brings <in hundreds of visitors each month and each is a money spender in the city. CRAWFORDSVILLE—Seat of Wabash college. Has an attendance of only about 350 but it is the biggest thing, at Crawfordsville. When we Shrink of Crawfordsville *We consider it as the home of the famous author of Ben Hur, Gen. Lew Wallace, and as the seat of Wabash college. If you have never been there you have the impression of a fine, clean city, because it is a fine college town. GREENCASTLE—Seat of DePauw University, and also a fine, clean college city. Has an attendance of about 400.- You know of it as a college town and have a mind picture of a very beautiful city. Bloomington—Seat of the state university and that is about the only thing that makes Bloomington. When a bill was introduced in the stats legislature four years ago to combine this with Purdue and have .them located at Lafayette, there was an uprising at Bloomington. Not much, can you take our college away. Factories may come and factories may go,"but' colleges can not move. Real estate in Bloomington would have fallen to less than 50 per cent of-its present valuation and this fact was the controlling one in preventing the change. Has an attendance of about 2,300 and entertains thousands of vsiitors each year. The university is all there is to Bloomington. IRVINGTON—A beautiful suburb of Indianapolis and the seat of Butler college. The attendance is only about 300 but- it is a great thing for that suburb and for Indianapolis and its students spend much money there. RICHMOND—'Quite a city of industries but known as much for being the seat of Earlham college as for any other reason. TERRE HAUTE—Known mainly for the corruption probably that resulted in the federal election convictions, but most favorably known as the seat of the state normal school and of Rose Polytechnic school. SOUTH BEND—The great Studebaker and Oliver plants and the other industries share their honors with that great school, Notre Dame. In fact, ask almost any person what the really big thing at South Bend is and they will tell you Notre Dame and St. Mary’s. ANGOLA—Seat of the Tri-State college? Probably not so well known here but the town gets what advertising it has because the college is located there. The vice-president, Prof. Fairifold, was elected to coTjHgress last year, bringing honor to the school and the city of Angola. HANOVER- —Indeed, you would not know there was such a place were it not for the college of that name located there. Most of us know nothing about it but we associate it with the cleanliness and progress of other college towns.

RENSSELAER —Seat of St. Joseph’s college, with an attendance as large as either Wabash or DePauw and with a student attendance from many states. Probably nothing has aided in the advertising of this city so much as the railroad point to whicn all must come in reaching Collegeville, now the seat of such a splendid college., where the plain fields of a quarberief tt century ago are adorned with magnificent buildings that have sprung into shape in response to the artisans whose lives have been devoted to that cause. Also the seat of Monnett School for Girsl. This splendid institution has arrived at the point where growth is essential in order that it may respond to the demand for an increase! attendance and a wider field of Christian duty. Colleges are not built up from the money they earn. In every important instance they thrive because good and wise men and women interested in the world’s progress see the opportunity they present and make provision for them. Millions of dollars have been contributed in tiie form of endowments on many of our great colleges by men and women whose lives have been devoted tdjudictoua philanthropies. Rockefeller gave hundreds of thousands to Chicago University, Carnegie aided m education by giving public libraries, and the work of each has been a great factor in the education of all ambitious persons. It is placed up to us, here m Rensselaer, to provide a school for young girls, arid collectively iwe are asked to make up $25,000, an amount that might be given by any one of a number of j>ersons and not be seriously felt. Life is a ■ gift t 5 us, and in using it for substantial things we are only partially fulfilling the trust. We may have

cumulated vast awns, we may have educated our dependent's. and left them independent, We may have so laved that we can look with pleasureable retrospection upon our own lives, but' the fulfillment of' life’s higher purpose gives us the 'added duty if ‘ employing our fortunes in some constructive way. The way is at hand. Rensselaer’s opportunity and yours are here. . What is a college worth?' We are asked $25,000 for one. Evansville is trying- to raisfe twenty times that much for another. __—~ It is worth all that you can give and in seeking advice as to how much you can give you can ask your 'heart, .your conscience, your God. The-cause is as worthy as any ever proposed. Success will bring added dignity, better morals, improved civic pride, greater ambition and greater prosperity. Let us all show our appreciation of the bargain now offered us.

HANGING GROVE.

Mts. W. R. Willits returned hoi ie Wednesday from Rensselaer, where she had been to see her mother, Mrs. Eldridge, who has been in very-poir health for some tithe and her conation is such as to cause considerable concern. Born, Friday, March 9th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jordan, a son, it being their second child. Miss Leonia Snedeker has secured a ,position at the thread factory in Monticello and has been work there. Sam Cook’s case of grippe proved to be measles, frdm which he has been confined to his bed all week. Quite a number were exposed before it was known that the case was measles, so it is probable there will be , several cases in McCoysbuhg. The preaching service that was announced for Friday and Saturday nights has been called off on account of measles. R. L. Bussell took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Stewart Tuesday. Mrs. J. R. Phillips went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Marie, the little daughter of Mr. and M rs. ■ John Wuethrich, is quite sick. Since the thawing .weather wheat has brightened up considerably an I with favorable weather from now on, we may still have a fair wheat crop. There has not been large an acreage sown here for a long time and It is hoped all will be rewarded with a good crop. The sleet storm Monday night di I some damage to old orchards, bet nothing else very serious, except to the telephone lines.

REMINGTON.

Miss Katherine Carmody, of Clifton, HL, came Monday to visit with her sister, Mrs. Ves Vinnsky. Mrs. John Scott spent the week end with her father, A. J. Brooks, at Pontiac, 111. Mrs. 1 Wm. Sullivan, of Wolcott, is visiting her son, Earl and family htere this week. The Dorcas Club met with Mis. Walter Gillam Wednesday afternoon. The 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Matthews, of near Wolcott, died Tuesday after an illness of only a few days of typhoid fever. P. Knockel and family moved an';o their residence in the south part of town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Townsend started Wednesday for a trip in the south. Paul Stoudt has been quite sick the past week with pneumonia. The Federation of clubs met at the library Monday afternoon. Maurice Eek, of LaCrosse, Ind., came Monday for a few days’ visit with his parents. Marion Sutherland, of Danville, 111., is here for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Smalley visited the first part of the week with their daughter, Mrs. Max Broadie at Lafayette. Mr. Osborne, of Marion, Ind., is assisting in the Townsend drug store during Mr. Townsend’s absence. Miss Velma Rich returned to Indianapolis Tuesday after attending the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Rich. Mrs. R. Hanis, of North Dakota, is visiting 1 her sister, Mrs. Frank Howard, and other relatives here this week. Miss Helen Clowry entertained a number of her young friends Monday evening at the home of Mrs. V. Baicom.

LEE.

Uncle David Culp was moved to the home of his son will Culp last Thursday. He stood the trip real well and is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. John Mellender and son spent from Saturday until x..onlay with her daugther, Mrs. Elmer Hoover, near Reynolds. Mrs. Ella Noland called on 1 Mr,. J. F. Eldridge Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Ethel Jacks and son; Wade, and Miss Dotlie spent Friday afternoon with -Mrs. Ella Noland and daughters. _ ~Jas. Culp, wife and sons, called on his father Sunday afternoon. Orval Holman and family' took Sunday dinner with his brother Ray and family.

Important Notice to Telephone Patrons.

Work has started on a new directory, which will be in book form. Any changes in your name, number or location, changes of firm name, parties changing lines, parties contemplating haying phones put in, within .next few months, those wishing io hold or have’the SI.OO service on party' ifiSte, in fact, any changes wanted made must be made at office. Our desire is to get this directory correct. There will be a limited amount of advertising space. No soliciting for advertisements will be made. Call 636 for space. Home patrohs' Wfil be given preference. This information must be in office before March first—Jasper County Telephone Co. zrxZ ■ We have the Hoosier and. Advanct endgate seeders and the best line of discs.-—Kellner & Callahan.

TARASQUE OF DRAGON DAYS SHOWN CURIOUS

Molded Beast Treasured In Ranch City, la Child of Legend la* Concrete.' Some time in the days when people •till traveled in Europe for pleasure, you may have passed through the little city of Tarascon on your iway north from Marseilles. You remem* ber the wide empty main street with .the little houses set far back in the scanty shade of the plane trees and the row of drowsing carriage drivers drawn up in the center of the roadway, who offered to show you all the rights between trains—"only. forty minutes.’’ No doubt you gave Tarascon a comprehensive glance and decided to stay with the train. By so dolng you mlssed many interesting things; and ft was your own fault, for at the slightest encouraging sign the rnwchpsu would havd reeled off his catalog of attractions —the castle of King Rene, the shrine of SL Martha, the neighboring castle of Beaucaire —you to Beaucaire —and finally, as a grand climax, the lojcai monster, the local pride and distinction, the tarasque. 9he tarasque is a beast of family and genus unknown to biology; he is one of the creatures who have never been on sea or land. He dwells seeuiely locked in a house of his own, and he Is a monster of such unusual and formidable architecture that you will dream about him at night. The tarasque is * child of legend blossomed into concrete form. He is inseparably associated with St. Martha, whose shrine is the other local landmark. Back In the days of fable, when dragons ranged the earth, the tarasque held high rank in the fire breathing fraternity. He ravaged the country around Tarascon in the most approved fashiom,untilSt Martha came along and tamed him and led him by a string. . In the middle ages the people of Tai ascon revived the old legend and constructed a new tarasque, which they led through the streets at carnival* times to show how St Martha had conquered. The custom lived until recently, and this symbolic brute is the one whom you view in his stable today. He is the size of a small locomotive, with a vastly ferocious cast of countenance.

FALLS EXCEL NIAGARA?

Scenic Spectacle Near Washington Draws Visitors. “More beautiful than Niagara, though not so large” is the way Great Falls, the greatest scenic spectacle in the vicinity of the national capital, is described in advertisements. Whether or not you can agree in such praise as that, It is certainly true that Great Falls, though not properly a falls at all, is a post beautiful cataract, and worthy of more fame than it possesses. / The Potomac river, a wide stream of clear, green water, strikes a fault in the primitive rock of the country, and rushes for several hundred yards through two narrow Jagged gulches, so steep that the water is whipped into pure white foam, and the roar of It sounds for miles. The charm of the surroundings, however, are more than half of the spectacle, for both above and below the falls, the river flows between wooded hills with, never a house or a farm in sight The country retains an appearance almost primitive. Near tbs min said to have been built by George Washington, and standing near this and looking out over the tumbling waters and wooded hills, one feels that he is seeing the Virginia that the owner of the ML Vernon knew —a Virginia of untamed natural beaaty.

Yes, He Was Curious.

'lt’s curious about things, isn’t it?** said the man who had something on his mind and wanted to talk. "Yes,” replied the man addressed, but without interest “It’s curious how a feller gets into a bpx and then out again?** "Yes.” "You know the Widow Spicer, of course?” "Ob, yes.” "I heard last month that she had come into fifty thousand dollars. Sat right down and proposed marriage by letter, and rushed the letter off.” "Well?” * "Didn’t hear' from her in answer. Here’s the letter. Forgot to stamp it, and it went to the Dead Letter Office. Just got it back. Suppose it had reached the widow and she had accepted me?”-. "What do you mean?" “Why, a week ago I heard that she didn’t have 10 cents to her name. Curious, ain’t it?” "Yes, but t can beat it I married the Widow Spicer five days ago.” "Gee whiz!”. "And instead of having fifty thousand dollars she had seventy-five thousand.” ’ "Say—say!” exclaimed the other, ae ' he threw up his hands; but he could get tfo farther. It was too curious. !? ~ i Warren Clement of Milvale, Me., is the owner of a clever coon cat. Recently the cat went fishing with her owner, and took up a position on a stump on the border of a stream. Mr. Clement hearing a splashing in the water crept up to see the cause. Presently pussy appeared from ths water with a frog in her mouth.