Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — Page 3

Good Heavens—We Must All Register Again

T•: r ■ •, , ,- - ✓ On |he closing day of the session the recent legislature passed a bill introduced Joy Senator Beardsley that means there will be a complete new registration of all voters pnor to the special election for- delegates to the constitutional convention which will be held on Sept. 18, next. Had not Senator Beardsley’s bill become a law the new registration machinery provided by the 1917 General Assembly would not have been put into operation until ne?ct . Underthe provisions of the Beardsley law the registration of voters for _ the constitutional convention election must be finished by- August 12, and . as the registration period must cover - at least 60 days, this means that the new registration machinery in the various counties-of the state must be organized and ready to receive registration blanks by June 13. , Under the provisions of the / new registration law boards of registration commissioners must be created in each county in the state and this , board mnst sitincontinuqus session during the full registration period, 4 Sundays and legal holidays excepted, in a room in the county court house. This board consists of the clerk of the circuit court and two others, named :by the chairman of the proceeding general election. This board is authorized to employ two clerks named by the chairman of the two leading parties .whose pay shall be $5 a day, and such' otfier clerical assistance as may be necessary to complete the registration of the voters* Under the new registration law registrations may be filed in any one of four different ways—in .person, by messenger, by mail or by depositing the registration blanks, properly verified, with the inspector at the primary election. As there will be no statewide primary this year, the latter method of filing registration applications cannot be hsed this year. The Beardsley law was enacted primarily for the purpose of removing all / doubt as to whether women will have a legal right to vote for the delegates to the constitutional convention. Under its operations there can be no doubt whatever as to the right of women voters to vote at the municipal elections this fall.

The Taxation Problem Big One for Indiana

One of the most important and difficult problems that will face the constitutional convention in Indiana will be tiie taxation problem, and many of the best brains in the state will attempt to solve it. Gov. Goodrich will take the lead. He already has made known some of the things he will recommend to the convention. He will give the widest possible publicity to these questions within the next six months. The bigest fight to be made will . make intangible .property .pay a tax proportionately equal to that now paid by real estate. Conclusions of the Indiana State Tax association; by Fred A. Sims, show the seriousness of the problem. He finds that taxes are raized not only by a horizontal increase, but by an increase in assessments on real estate, that the average rate in 98 cities in the state is 3.86 per cent; in 402 towns the average rate is 3.36 per cent; the average rate in 1,011 townships is 2.46 per cent;the average rate in 92 county seats is over 2 1-2 per cent. In every part of the state he finds there has been a big increase in taxation in the last two years. Gov. Goodrich it is believed, will urge the excise tax on corporations, which the legislature refused to impose, in the constitutional onvention. It is the contention of the governor that many corporations are assessed on their factories and shops at not more than 20 per dent of their true value, while real estate is assessed at 50 per cent of its value and often "~HRjrer- ——-— —— ■—— The Indiana State Tax asociation will wage a fight to get away from the general property tox .n favor of more direct tax on the income of the people.

“Hell to Home” On His Trunk.

When Strickland Gillihan wrote regarding microbes, “Adam, Had ’Em,” he penned the shortest poem, ibut when John Whalen of Hebron a memberjpf the Gary company cf infantry home from border service printed the phrase “Hell to Home” on his ornery looking trunk, he also wrote the equal of a large volume. Whalen’s trunk and its expressive phrase arrested the attention of pedestrains around the transfer points in Gary and Hammond. Whether he wrote it or not, those who know Whalen say it sounds like him.

Farm Help a Scarce Commodity

Farm help promises to be scarce and is becoming quite a problem to the farmers of this vicinity, yet free employment bureaus say the farm hand is better paid than the average city employee. Few farmers offer less than S3O per month and board, room and laundry added with other emoluments. Acording to figures giv en by an Illinois bureau it costs a man in the city $1 a day for his meals, sl2 a month for his room and $3.25 for his laundry every thirty days. This, it is calculated, amounts to $45.25 a month, and clothing is left out of the consideration. The city m?,n who receives S2O to $25 a week does not have as much money left at the end of the month as the farm hand who has $35 a month with the extras included, the employment bureau officers figure. The General Van Rensselaer Chapter D. A. R. will met with (Mrs. A. F. Long on Monday afternoon, March 26, Mr. A. W. Coen of Chicago will talk on “The Home.” Mrs. G. H. Jones of Redkey who has been herewith her daughter Miss Margaret Jones, sister of Mrs. F. D. Burchard, went to Monticello to spend the day with relatives. Miss Jones has ben quite sick ever since her arrival here some two weeks ago. Stallion Record Books on I sale at The Republican office.

SOME REMARKS FROM AUNTY

Inquiries and Philosophical Reflections ■ Show Deep Thought Has Been j'——Given to Them. g A couple of decades hence, should there by any pedestrians left to dodge automobiles, they will no doubt have a string of eyes all around their heads.. What has become of the old-sash- 4 loned woman who used to start grinding coffee at 3:30 a. m. We have looked in vain for the old gentleman with the goat whiskers, who used to eat peppermints in church. A dog is known by the fights he’s been in. * What’s become of she old-fashioned man that used to polish his shoes with stove blacking just before church on Sunday mornings? Keep your credit good with your grocer—he also sells gasoline. What’s going to become of-the livery stable loafer? There’s no room for him In the garages. - A gallon in the tank beats two In the garage. A writer of an article on how to avoid hurry and worry advises us never to start a second task till we have finished the first. Very helpful to the farmer’s wife with six children, for instance I A largwrwtfV-of the heartache and disappointment connected with' parenthood comes from regarding a child not as an individual with a right to live his own life, make his mistakes and profit by them, but as a choice personal possession, whose chief duty is to “reflect credit” on his parents. Services done out of a hard sense of duty are not likely to benefit either the giver or the receiver.—Farm Life*.

Some Climate.

--Thafr-oorner of Asia where the Turks have been fighting the Russians and the British comprises within a short distance the most extraordinary changes of temperature. The Russians stormed Erzerum with the thermometer recording 54 degrees of frost; barely 800 miles south the base of the British Mesopotamia force on the Persian gulf was situated, where 150 degrees in the shade has been registered on British warships. The Interior of the peninsula between- the Persian gulf and the Red sea is one of the few regions of the earth which remain terra: incognita, the terrific heat experienced there keeping the most intrepid explorer outside its 600,000 square miles. The sever!ty of the winter in the neighborhood of Erzerum results from its situation on an elevated plateau, which is at an average height of 6,000 feet above sea level, and thlsmakes -all the difference between its climate and that of the south of-Italy.- which is in the same latitude. The French Riviera Is 250 miles nearer the Arctic than Erzerum. and the Cornish “Riviera” at least 700 miles nearer the icy north, but Cornwall gets the full benefit of the Gulf stream, that marvelous hot water system of the North Atlantic which saves western Europe from the frigid temperatures of central Asia and Labrador, on the same parallels of latitude.

New Power for Battleships.

“Were it permissible to write of shipbuilding developments in another sphere,” says the London Telegraph, “a truly marvelous tale, reflecting everlasting credit upon those who design and build our ships* of war, could be told. But that - story, like so many others, will have to wait until after the final victory that these engineering triumphs alone will have made possible of attainment by the allied nations.” As the writer was at the time discussing the progress of geared turbines for warships it may not be a bad guess that he refers to electric propulsion for naval vessels. In referring to the progress of shipbuilding in 1916, he noted that whereas tn 1915 six vessels having geared turbines were built, the number had Increased to 52 vessels under construction a year later. Of these, 25 were being equipped with Parsons single-geared turbines and 27 with Curtis double-reduction-geared turbines. He then made his obscure hint of some great advance.

Riches In Tennessee Caves.

The development of two historic caves, known as Arch eave and Bone cave In Vai* Buren county, Tennessee, is now under way. The caves are estimated to contain from 50,000 to 75,000 tons of bat guano, which Is rich In potash and ammonia, besides other elements of plant food. The underground area Is about six miles. Millions of bats inhabited these caves for centuries prior to the Civil war, when they were driven out By the manufacturers of powder. It Is told that when Gen. John H. Morgan’s detachment which raided Nashville during the Civil war became separated and was hard pressed by superior federal forces they concealed themselves in the Arch cave for several days.

Flashlamps Without Batteries.

A practicable flashlamp without a battery—either primary or secondary —sounds almost too good to be true, yet, according to L’lndustrie Electrique, the feat has been accomplished in Germany by utilizing a, tiny mag-neto-generator driven by a spring and clockwork. The mechanism is provided with an escapement which Insures constant speed of revolution for the generator armature, and hence constant voltage. Nothing (the Electrical Review observes in noting this interesting innovation) Is said about the initial cost of the apparatus, which must be greater than that of the battery lamp; but by manufacturing in great quantities It should be possible te bring it dqwn to reasonable limits.

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PARK TO BE UNIQUE

LATEST ATTRACTION PLANNED FOR CITY OF ANGELES. - _. . ( , Site of One of the Oldest Graveyards Known, Dating From the PlelstoE cone Period—Deathtrap for Animals. No other city in the United States can equal Los Angeles, in its unique type of public park, made possible by the deeding recently by G. Allan Hancock of a tract of 32 acres of land at the city’s western edge in the famous La Brea asphalt beds. The thing which makes thia tract, hereafter to be known as Hancock park, unique, is the fact that It is probably one of the oldest graveyards of which anything is known, for it dates back to the Pleistocene period. The tract, located close to some of the best oi 1 wel 1 s in the Southwest, has been the sources of both oil and asphaltum, and it was in pits from which the latter was taken that bones of prehistoric monsters were found. At first these bones were not deemed of any great value, those finding them having an idea that they were of animals of recent years. It was not until someone of a scientific turn of mind noticed that they were too large to belong to any modern animal, that the search for more bones gradually crowded the production of asphalt to the side, until, today, there have been made a hundred excavations within the tract, many of which have yielded rich finds of well-preserved bones.

Froin the bones and teeth which have been found, scientists have restored the skeletons of many varieties of animals, great and small,-which lived many thousands of years ago. It is believed that this is the only place and only Instance where the fauna of one period and One region have been preserved and handed down intact for modern man to study. If all the Pleistocene remains in all the museums of the world were to be brought together, the quantity would have to be multiplied by 50 in order to approximate the amount already taken from the La Brea beds, and the end is seemingly far off. Scientists who have studied the pits and the composition of their surroundings advance the theory that the tar beds were in reality deathtraps for the birds and animals which wandered through the section. Even today the visitor will see small pools of liquid asphalt which have oozed from the earth, and often will see ground squirrels, rabbits, hens and birds of various kinds which have been caught by foot or wing in the sticky tar, dying where Caught, and gradually sinking deeper into the asphaltum each day as the sun warms the pools. In the wonderful museum in Exposition park in Los Angeles have been assembled types of the animals which once roamed the region, whose bones have been taken from the La Brea pits, and these include mastodons, imperial elephants, saber-toothed tlgers, ®ve bears, giant Sloths, horses, Hons and mammoth birds that lived and died 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. Besides the mounted specimens, the store rooms of the museum contain some 3,000 boxes of unassorted bones, which will later find their places in the restored skeletons.

It is planned by the county authorities, to whom the tract has been deeded, to have set up about the park gigantic groups of statuary depicting the animals of the Pleistocene era. The asphaltum has served to preserve the bones In a wonderfully perfect state, making their study a matter of greater ease. It is probable that It will take a year or more to develop the park as planned, but the supervisors have voted $25,000 as an Initial appropriation for the work. Hancock park will, when fully developed, become one of the most interesting places in the already interesting Southwest.

Paying for the War.

Christopher Turnor, an English eeonomist, writing In the London Chronicle of recent date, says the agricultural resources of Britain can be so developed as to practically pay the cost of the present war. Turner notes that in normal times the 46,000,000 people of Britain yearly expend $2,000,000,000 for food supplies, of which amount only half is produced at home, the balance consisting of importations. Meanwhile more than 4,000,000 acres of arable British land is unproductive of food supplies and thousands of possible land workers are crowded Into cities, insufficiently employed and fed. Only a few British farms produce the maximum of possibility, owing to tax methods of cultivation. Turnor argues for some form of agricultural reorganisation and estimates that production can be far more than doubled, making it possible to realize $10,000,000,000 from this source to be applied to the war debt.

Dogs in Use at Battle Front.

So many thousands of dogs have been destroyed in the war that far pff Greenland has been calledr on for supplies of dogs for the battle fronts, and a number of dogs entered in the famous 412. mile all Alaska sweepstake race were mlsslrfg last year because they were engaged In hauling ammunition and doing other war work in the mountains of Italy and France.

Blase.

Minister—Of course you would like to go to heaven, Dorothy? Small Girl—Oh. yes; it would at least be a change. L.

NEW PROFESSION FOR WOMEN

They Are Miking Marked Success as Secretaries and Earn Very Good. Salaries. Evidence of rapid strides toward the creation of a new profession offering a good field for women is set forth in an article in the New York Evening Post by Raymond G. Fuller, director of the secretarial department of the Russell Sage College of Practical Arts at Troy, N. He points out that government and the -reports of such organizations as the international bureau of occupations. New York; the Women’s Educational und Industrial Union of Boston, and the bureau of occupatlons for trained women of Philadelphia show that secretarial work is “becoming one of the most attractive avenue? of vocational choice- trmoiTg- college women.” He states that Simmons college in Boston is the only institution of collegiate standing which offers a complete seeretariaL cuurse, and that

the demand for its graduates is so great that other colleges are rapidly falling in line. /InNew York salaries begin at from sl2 to sls a week, increase to from S9OO to SI,OOO a year at the end of two years, and to from $1,500 to SI,BOO a year within another year or two, or as soon as the secretary has definitely lifted herself from the stenographerclass and shown real interest In the affairs of her employer,' ability to grasp and attend to them without Belay and has developed a certain degree of judgment. Twenty per cent of the graduates of the secretarial department of Simmons go into business occupations, 10 to 15 per cent become teachers, and the rest find employment with lawyers, professors, doctors and other individuals, and clubs, settlement houses, colleges, etc. A recent survey of 800 college women in secretarial Vd'sitlons sho wed'3o percehtconnected with suffrage, social and religious organizations; 14 per cent employed by schools and colleges; 8 per cent by public officials; 7 per cent by business firms and banks; 7 per cent by lawyers, and 6 per cent by doctors.

Necktie as Life Saver.

A necktie saved a Glasgow captain’s life recently. He had been a passenger on board a Greek ship which had been torpedoed in the Mediterranean. He managed to keep afloat for a while, until a spar drifted along with a Frenchman on it To this he clung, unable to sera mill e on because he had lost the use of his right arm and leg. “Then,” says the Glasgow man, “a storm came up and we were lashed and buffeted about till I could hahg on no longer. ‘So long, old chap,’ I said, you and thanks.’ ‘Nonsense,’ he said. ‘Hang on for a second, and I'll fix you.’ Before I knew what he was about he had whipped off his necktie and had securely bound my arm to the spar. Then we passed the night in terror. I thought my arm would be torn out.. But in the first light of dawn an Italian destroyer came along and picked up everyone who had been on the ship. Yes,” continued the Scotchman, “if you are going to sea in these parlous times be sure you have a good, long, strong necktie with you and don’t lay it aside for an instant”

Taxidermists Are Sculptors, Too.

It is very doubtful if many of the 300,000 or more people who visit the animal exhibits of the National museum annually realize the great amount of work put on each animal In the mounting by modern taxidermists, on so-called “manikins” of re-enforced plaster, and are not, as is quite generally supposed, simply stuffed with exceisibr or sawdust The expert taxidermists employed by the museum are more in the nature of sculptors than anything else. are said to have been the in this kind of work, and at this time complete their work by constructing life-sized hollow plaster figures which are not only light and durable, but also far more realistic than those produced with sawdust and excelsior. •

He Was Married.

Th? two women had been to the opera and going home in the street car they discussed the evening’s amusement “I think ‘Lohengrin’ is just splendid!” murmured the lady in the large hat as she handed the conductor a nickel. “Do you?” asked her friend in the purple velvet, with a superior smile, “I think it’s not bad; but I just love ‘Carmen.’” The conductor blushed all over his plain features. , “Sorry, miss,” he murmured apologetically ; “I’m married. You might try the motorman, though; he’sa single man !” V

Norway's Shipping Tonnage.

The losses to Norway’s shipping arising from the war have been greater than those experienced by any other neutral and stand second to those of only Great Britain and France. In spite of'this gradual reduction In tonnage, Norwegian shipowners have placed orders for a large amount of new tonnage in home and foreign yards- The total amount is estimated at about 1,200,000 tons, a large amount of which la to be built in American yards.

The Assurance of Him.

Betty—The fortune teller says I am going to marry moneyjack—Good! . Did she say how I was going to make itl—Boston JfiveBing Transcript. - ‘ :

THACKERAY AS A REPORTER

Records the Case of Pat Fogarty, Who Thrashed Enemy 1 With a HorsesheaZ Thackeray once acted as police reporter for the Loudon Diogenes and performed his work in no perfunctory way. “How the future novelist must have enjoyed observing and recording this bit of courtroom humor I” exclaims a writer in the Los Angeles Times. Pat Fogarty went all the way from Manchester to London In order to thrash Mick Fitzpatrick, which he did, winding up the performance with the assistance of an “awful horseshoe.” He was detected and brought before Mr. Justice Simpleman. “Well, sir,” began the court, “you came here from Manchester, did you?” “Your honor has answered correct.” “You see the complainant’s head; It was cut by a sharp instrument. Do you know what cut it?” e “Ain’t your honor afther sayin’ that a sharp insthrumlnt did?” “I see you mean to equivocate,” said the court, becoming restive. “Now, sir, you cut that head; you came here to cut it, did you not? Now, str, what motive brought you to London?” “The locomotive, your honor.” “Equivocating again, you scoundrel!” said the court, waxing warm. Raising up the horseshoe, and holding it before Pat, he said, “Do you see this horseshoe, sir?” „ “Is it a horseshoe, your honor?” “Don’t you see it is, sir? Are you blind? Can you not tell at once that It is a horseshoe?” “Bedad, no your honor.” “No?” angrily. “No, your honor; but can yersllf tell it?”- - “Of course I can, you stupid Irishman.” “Oh, glory be to goodness, see what education is!” soliloquized Pat, aloud. “Sure, your honor, a poor, ignorant creature like mesilf wouldn’t know a horse’s shoe from a mare’s.” 1

The First Aerial Bombs.

It may be remembered that Garros came to the United States in 1011 and amazed vast audiences by his audacious flights. From here he went to Mexico to entertain the populace there. It occurred to him on arriving that, since fighting seemed to be the favorite pastime of his Latin brothers, he would be making a lasting “hit” with them M he could only arrange for an aerial sham battle. To his good luck, he • found the general in command of the army, then in Mexico Qty, a willing listener. Accordingly, one day he was seen flying over the Mexican batteries, armed with baskets of Juicy oranges that the quartermaster had given him. Suddenly the batteries opened fire and sent shot after shot at him... The immense crowd became wildly enthusiastic, although they knew, of course, that only blank cartridges were being used. Garros then started to let go the oranges upon the artillerymen. To his surprise almost immediately they began to scatter in every direction. The quartermaster had not realized that a juicy orange dropped from so great a height would rival a small bomb. The first aerial fight unquestionably was won by bombs of ripened oranges.— Popular Science Monthly.

Fifteen Acree of Daisies.

Despite the fact that we buy them by the dozens in the cities, paying a dollar or so for a small bouquet, daisies are a menace to the and a pat<fh or field of them is anything but welcome. The Popular Mechanics Magazine describes the experience of a Nebraska farmer, near Beatrice. Wishing to obtain a good stand of Kentucky blue grass in his pasture, he last season instructed a well-known mail-order house to ship him several bushels of seed. He prepared 15 acres of land and planted it, exercising particular care. The spring rains came, and following them 15 acres of yellowcentered daisies, a luxuriant crop. The unusual sight attracted motorists from miles around and hardly a day passed without parties stopping to pick armloads of the blossoms. It Is not dear how the mistake occurred, but mistake —and a serious one—it was. The company, needless to say, promptly made restitution so that the farmer in the end got a liberal return for his uns expected and undesired crop.

Roumania’s Country Giris.

The girls of Roumanian country districts take great pride In a dear, healthy complexion, and Just as the girls in our own rural districts a generation ago would get up before breakfast and steal down unobserved on the first day of May to wash their freckles away in the dew of the morning, so the girls of Rofimania take red and white threads, twist them into cords, from which they suspend coins around their nedks. These talismans they wear from the dead of winter until they see the first blossoms of spring, feeling sure that thereby they will guarantee themselves a milk-white complexion, rosy cheeks and ruby lips.

Stubborn Dog Stopped Train.

As a passenger train on the CareyFindlay branch of the Big Four neared Huber, 0., the brakeman called the town. Then the traih stopped suddenly, A couple of passengers alighted and looked for the town. They couldn’t see it. They then discovered that the engineer had stopped to remove a small but stubborn dog from the track.

Very Much to It.

"What’s in a name? The rose, you know, will smell as sweet by any ether name.” "Yes, but it won’t taste Ilka one te call it a potato.* j „ -- -

First Christian Church

Study of graded Sunday School lesson at 9:30. Service continues with sermon until 11:16. Evening service at 7:30. Flease tell your friends about the service and be present. , Mrs. John Remley who has been visiting relatives here for the past 3 months or more has returned to her home at Popular, Montana. While here Mrs. Remley sold their residence property to County Clerk Nichols. Since going to Montana the Resnleys have succeeded splendidly. They now have a large tract, 960 acres, worth about $26 an acre. The land was homesteaded, Mr. Remley getting 320, his” daughter Opal and his son Estal each the same amount. The land is very nroductive. They raise wheat, oats, flax and some corn. Mr. Remley is the uncle of Mrs. Henry Gilbransen, of this city. The following were Lafayette goers today: Wilbur Florence, B. Forsythe, Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English, and Stella Ketchum and daughter.

That’s Why.

“Myers Is a changed man since he bought that When he lived In the cfty-bajsed to be too lazy to hang up the pictures when he moved from one apartment to another, but now he’s always pottering about his house and grounds, making some improvement or other.” “Maybe he’s trying to fix the place up so he can sell it again.”

Why Do You Worry?

Why should anyone worry? To worry shortens life. Like anger, it reacts and poisons the system. The federal health service has taken worry so seriously that it has issued a bulletin warning the American people against the danger of worrying and the blessing that comes to those who are active members of the glad-han£lSE” ciety.

What “Peeves” a Juryman.

We have served on several juries, and our experience has been that when the witnesses made fools of us we bore it calmly; but when the lawyers got up to rub it in with the final arguments, only the fear of a contempt fine kept us. from doing murder right there.—Kansas Qty Star.

No Need to Tell Him That.

“Yes,” said the young wife proudly, “father always gives something expensive when he makes presents.” “So I discovered when he gave you away,” rejoined the young husband. And with a large, open-faced sigh he continued to audit the monthly bills of his better half. —Stray Stories.

Sensitive Institution.

The seismograph at Georgetown, D. C., is so sensitive that it will clearly record a slight earthquake in faroff Borneo, but the New York stock market will go all to pieces in an hour over something that never happened, anywhere I —Boston Advertiser.

United States Has No “Penny. "

The habit of calling the one-cent piece of our American coinage a "penny” is utterly without foundation or excuse, We have no penny in our coinage. At one time half-cent pieces were coined but now the unit is one cent, the hundredth part of a dollar.

Little Things Count.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things tn which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. —Sir Humphrey Davy.

Plant Mentioned In Bible.

The common garden plant called coriander is found in Egypt, Persia and India. It has globular, grayish seedcorns and is mentioned twice in the Bible, in Exodus 16:31, and In Numbers 11:7.

Shameful Secret

"Who is that beautiful girt over there?” “She’s the daughter of a corporation lawyer. But keep It from her, old man. She is sensitive, and has been brought up in ignorance of the fact!”—Life. ’

Kickers.

“A man may establish a reputation as a kicker,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “but he doesn’t want to get the Idea that the mule is his inferior.”

Hard Position.

Demonstrator (after the spill)— "How can I explain to him that it wasn’t the fault of the car while he is quite senseless. After that it will be too late.”

Bamboo Shoots Palatable Food.

Bamboo shoots * are considered edible tn China, and it Is said that when they are of good variety they form a vegetable dish that has no rival

Meat Preserved Without Salt

Lean pork strips are sun-preserved without salt i» Spain. Deer, buffalo, caribou, bear, goat and tuna meats ] are preserved in much the same way. Stallion Record Books on sale at The Republican office.