Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1917 — Page 2

Professional Gards £ —i DR. E. C. ENGLISH and Surgeon Opposite Trust and Savings Bank. Phones: 177—1 rings for office; 1 ring* _for residence ~ R—ssrihor, Indiana. C. E. JOHNSON, M. D. Office in Jessen Building. -Dffiee Hwct fftTU a. m. I to < pnd 7 to 8 p. m* Specialty: Surgery Phono 211. I" ■ J'** 1 11 1 , "" ’ . u LDR. t M. WASHBURN * Affowwiing clinic at Augustano Hospital on Tuesday mornmg from 5 a. m. to 2 p. m.— —— Phone «. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, Real Estate, Insurance 5 per cent farm loans. 1 Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. F. H. HEMPHILL Physician and Surgeon «iw»Ul attention to dlsaasas of woman and low grados of fever. Ottoa over rendig's Drug Telephone, ottos and reeldsnoo, *4B. DR. F. A. TURFLER Osteopathic Fhysicioa Room 1 and 8, Murray— Bottding; Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office —2 rings on 800>-«e*i*" derice—-3 rings on SOO. Successfully treats both acute ana chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a Hnirliilfy ——a. WILLIAMS & DEAN Lawyers /■■■ x Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows Building.

JOHN A. DUNLAP ------ Lawyer (Successor td Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts. Elstates settled. Farm loans. Collection department. - Indiana H. L. BROWN Dentist Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods in Dentistry. Gas ad ministered for painless extraction. Office over Lars ha Drug Store. WORLAND & SONS Undertakers Motor and Horse Drawn Hearses Ambulance Service Office Phone 23. Residence Phone 58 E. N. LOY Homeopath! omen PHONE 88 Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell. Office —Frame building on Cullen street Residence College Avenue, Phone 88-B. east of court house.

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

Next Palm Sunday, the "following will be the order of service: First mass at 7:30. The Holy Name Society and the Christian Mothers’ Sodality will receive holy communion at this mass. The blessing of the palms, highmass and sermon at 10. At 2:30 Chritsian doctrine, lenten devotions and benediction. The Holy Name Society will meet at 7:30. With Palm Sunday Holy Week begins And it is so named because in this week the church celebrates the mysteries of the passion of our Lord by imposnig ceremonies and unusual solemnity. This week should be kept holy by every true follower of Jesus Christ. It should be observed, as much as possible, with recollection and prayer. It was on Holy Thursday that the Blessed Encharist was instituted and Holy Communion given for the first time. Hence, nothing would be more fitting than for all who are able to receive on Holy Thursday. Then would the prayers of the people be more worthy of a hearing at the Repository; then could the people enter better into the spirit of Good Friday and gain the niany indulgences which are obtainable on that day. By beginning Holy Week with the proper spirit, and persevering in prayer and recollection throughout - the week, people would be disposed to make, a very earnest confession. . The bes. surety of immeasurable spiritual joys on the feast of the resurrection.

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WROTE CONTRACT FOR COOK

Shyster Lawyer's Plan to Retain Help All Right Until Marie Heard About It. life wife of the shyster lawyer was worried. “Darling,” she said, J’wesl niply-cai> -ntffkeep a cook. We’ve had three this week and a new one Is coming tonight.” ■ —— — —-- 7 ~ “Ah,” said the shyster and ainbu--1 ancg-chaser, “you are- lax in your methods. Each cook should sign a contract, and, once signed—ahem! They cannot leave I Now, I’ll write out a tractcon —I mean a contract, and have the new cook sign it. And there, you are I” On the stroke of 6:30 Marie Antoinette McCarthy, the new German cook, weighing 238 pounds, arrived. The shyster lawyer approached her carefully with a baseball bat.

“1 have a contract for you to sign before you go to work. I’ll read.it: “ ‘The party of the firstpart, Marie A. McCarthy does hereby agree to cook, wash, iron, mend clothes, do dishes, sweeping and dusting for the Irttrty of the seCond part for one yea r from date. And the party of the first part agrees in part with the party of the second part to take part in any extra dinners planned by the party of the second part. And whereas the party of the firstpart.thusly— Here the shyster was struck on the head by a milk bottle and thrown down the cellar stairs.

Moonshine and Fishing.

We have made a good deal of fun of country folk who “set store” by the phases of the moon in planning their work or trying to forecast the weather. The general Idea seems to be that things will not turn out well when done “in _lhe. dark o’ tho when that luminary is waning, on the theory that a growing moon symbolizes increase, advance, growth, whereas a waning moon symbolizes decline and decay. But a new and somewhat more philosophical turn is given to the matter by an angler who writes in The Country Herald (England) and who suggests a novel explanation for the periodical dourness of pike as follows: “An old angler friend rather surprised me this week by asking my opinion of the effect of the full moon upon pike prospects. I had nothing to say, because I .had never considered there was any relation between the two. But he thinks so, his view being that the jack take advantage of a moonllgh’ which almost turns night into day, tc feed. Consequently when the anglei arrives the following morning their ap petite is satisfied and they have no de sire for his lures.”

Waiter Couldn’t See the Joke.

Dipping the other day into Mrs Stuart Menzies’ biography of Lord William Beresford, there is the following good storjn ' “It was at the Raleigh club” (write* Mrs. Menzies) "that ~ J Lorci WlUfair and one of his brothers, Lord Marcus I believe, for some reason, or perhaps for no reason, put the hall porter int< the refrigerator. “The heat of the man’s body, oi his language, caused the ice to melt •so one of them drew from the tai some water into a tumbler and sen’ it with his compliments to a frienc in the smoking room, describing it a» Garcon Glace (literally Iced waiter’) “The porter was left in a little to< long, and there was some trouble as terward. This became known as th< Garcon Glace incident. “Everybody thought It funny ex cept the waiter, and he had to be pact fled.”

British Manicure Lady.

“In English barber shops you do no' have to pay for mirrors, elaborately tiled floors and a manicure girl,’ writes Homer Croy in Everybody’s “Over there a manicurist is consist ered the last vocable in the way o 1 smartness. The manicure girl hasn’’ the run of the shop as she has here she has a little cage down in one cor ner, where she is bottled up as if sh» were a rare liquid. When a mar wants to have any light housewort done on his hands he thrusts one 01 them through the bars, While the pro prletor hurries up with a newspapei for him to read. In America we woulc he insulted if the owner of the shoj put something Into our; hand to rea< while the manicure girl was working on us. In England the art of jolly ing the manicurist is unknown."

Feminine Instincts.

Woman today is a product of age long inheritances. Her special ant peculiar faculties (only some of whicl are here discussed) have been devel oped through the activities of her sei in thousands of bygone generations These faculties may properly be callee “instincts” because shey represent in herited experience. * * _ They are particularly interesting ai s subject of study for the reason thal they are suggestive of the history ol feminine occupations since the earli est dawn of human existence on th« earth.

Look for Other Uses of Grapes.

The California state board of vitl culture is directed in a bill prepared by officers of the Woman’s Christian Temperance union and ■ presented in the legislature, to give attention to the question of what use can be made of wine grapes should the manufacture of wines containing alcohol be prohibited. The bill further directs the board to investigate methods of how wine grape vineyards may be transformed into other uses in the event qf prohi. bitioq.

the Republican, rexsselaer, ind.

POWER FROM THE SUN’S HEAT

Scientific Records Show That Efforts to Utilize Old Sol’s Rays Date Back to 1615. , Scientific, records show that attempts to utilize the heat of the sun date back to De Caux, who 1n1615 undertook some solar work, and included the experiment of Buffon, who in 1747 succeeded in setting fire to a tarred plank by solar from a combHwrtfrnr'tif flat mirrors at a distance of 150 feet. He did this to show the possibility of'the legend that Archimedes thus set fire to'the fleet of Marcellus at Syracuse in 212 B. C. . One handicap, so far, has been the fact that the efficiency of solar en-1 gines has not been over 4.32 per cent of the heat value received, while that ( or the ordinary steam engine is about 11.5 per cent, and the gas engine as high as 25.5 per cent. It appears, nevertheless, that with experiments lasting over a number of years through which the coal-fed steam boilers have been improved, sun boilers will be brought to a far better state of efficiency. This view is said to be supported by recent experiments con- t ducted at Meadi on the Nile river, seven miles south of Cairo, during two years’ work. The plant was composed of five 205-foot boilers placed on edge and in the focus of five channel-shaped mltror reflectors of parabolic crosssection, totaling an area of 13,269 feet. The maximum quantity of steam produced was 12 pounds per 100 square feet of mirror surface exposed to the sun, and the maximum thermal efficiency of the mirrors was 40.1 per cent. The maximum output t for an hour was 55.5 brake horsepower, a result about ten times as large as anything previously attained and equal to 63 brake horsepower per acre of land .occupied by the plant.

Concrete Chimney Stack.

A concrete chimney, 300 feet high, built recently at the plant of a Texas smelting company, and embodying in its construction a number of new ideas, isdescrlbedinthePopularMechanics Magazine. The shell, or walls, forming a true circle and tapering from 20% inches thick at the bottom to 5 inches at the top, was built up with the aid of patent collapsible,’ or adjustable, steel forms, used in sections. These made it easier to secure the exact amount of tapering required as the chimney rose in height, the concrete being mixed and tamped in the forms. The upper part of the chimney was hiiilt with a patent top, including a number of 4-lnch pipe inlets, regularly spaced around the stack for the admission of air from the outside. This results in arresting many of the products of combustion carried up with the smoke —which then fall down the chimney into a hopper provided near the base.

Justice White Good Waiker.

Chief Justice White could give the noted Edward Payson Weston a good handicap and beat him in a walking match. Mr. White brims over with good nature, and he is a welcome visitor on any street which he picks for his rambles about Washington. He probably knows more women and chib dren in the poorer sections, between the capltol and the exclusive northwest of the city, than any other Washingtonian. Frequently he is seen trudging along in the midst of a lot of urchins none of whom show’ the slightest regard for the great dignity of his office, but who bask equally under the radiance of his beaming smiles, —Elisha Hanson in Cartoons’ Mazazine.

Six Feet Tall at Twelve.

A girl who has been growing for the last three years at a phenomenal rate and is now more than six feet tall, although she is only twelve years old, is interesting the physicians of Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, who expect to see . her without loss of normal mental powers. For the last three years the girl’s growth has been phenomenal, surpassing all records at the hospital and cases known to the scientists there who are studying giantism. Until she was nine years old she was simply a large girl. She now weighs 117% pounds and is above the average intellect ■- ———— —

The Logical Reply.

■ a fancy-dress ball for children, says an exchange, a policeman stationed at the door was instructed not to -admit any adult. excited woman came running up to the door and demanded admission. “I’m sorry, mum,” replied the policeman, “but I can’t let anyone In but children.” “But my child is dressed as a butterfly,” exclaimed the woman, “and has forgotten her wings!” “Can’t help it” replied the policeman ; “orders is orders. You’ll have to let her go as a caterpillar.”—Youth’s Companion.

Fighting Gophers and Moles.

Effective methods Of destroying jack rabbits have been devised and the depredations of these animalS have been greatly reduced in ■ many where they have proved exceedingly destructive. Similarly satisfactory results are being obtained against gophers and moles.

What Make of Car?

“It only takes me twenty minutes to get to my office,” said Mr. Chuggins. “But you didn’t arrive until an hour after you telephoned that you were leaving home.” “Yes. It took me the other forty minutes to get the car started.” _■ —ll—l

RAILROAD SITUATION IS NOW LARGELY UP TO CONGRESS

Must Share Responsibility In Future Development. ; ROBERT S. LOVETT’S VIEWS “Unification of Regulation Io FMontial.’* -~A-6ompioto, Harmonioua,“€on»istent and Related Syotem Needed —Federal Incorporation of Railroads by General Law Favored— —.— — n Washington. March 20. Responsibility for the railway development of the country, for providing necessarytransportation facilities to care for t he growing business and population ol the country, now rests largely with congress and not entirely with the rail road managers-. *This was the state ment of Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive committee of the Union Pacific system, to the Newlands joint congressional committee when that body resumed its inquiry into the subject of railroad regulation this week. In making this statement of the changed conditions of the railroad situation Judge Lovett undoubtedly had in mind the decision of the supreme court on the Adamson law, hande.l down last week, which establishes the right of the federal government to fix railroad wages and to prevent strikes This decision is regarded by railroad men and lawyers as marking an epoch in the development of transportation in the United States. ♦ “We have our share of responsibility ." said Judge Lovett, “but it rests prima rily on congress. When the govern ment regulates the rates and the finan cial administration of the railroads, the borrowing of money and the issuance of securities it relieves the railroad offlcers of the responsibility of providing and developing transportation systems, except within the limits of the revenue that can be realized from such rates and under such restrictions. “For a country such as ours, for a people situated as we are, to blunder along with a series of unrelated, incon sistent, conflicting statutes enacted by different states without relation to each other, instead of providing a com plete-and carefully studied and [irepared system of regulation for a business that is so vital to the .life of the nation, is worse than folly.’’ He summed up the present problems and difficulties of the railroads as follows:—— '" : ’ First.—The multiplicity of regulations by the several states with respect to the issue of securities, Involving delays and conflicting state policies generally dangerous and possibly disastrous. Second.—The state regulation of rates in such a manner as to unduly reduce revenues, to discriminate in favor of localities and shippers within its own borders as against localities and shippers in other states and to.disturb and disarrange the structure of interstate rates. Third.-The inability of the Interstate Commerce Commission, whoever the commissioners may be, to perform the vast duties devolving upon it under existing laws, resulting in delaywhich should never occur in commercial matters—and compelling the commissioners to accept the conclusions of their employees as final in deciding matters of great importance to the commercial and railroad interests of the country. Fourth.—The practical legality that has been accorded conspiracies to tie up and suspend the operation of the railroads of the country by strikes and violence and the absence of any law to compel the settlement of such dis putes by arbitration or other judicial means, as all other issues between citizens in civilized states are to be settled. Fifth.—The phenomenal increase in the taxation of railroads in *= recent years. Sixth.—The cumulative effect of these conditions upon' the ihvesting public, to which railroad companies must look for the capital necessary to continue development“We believe that the unification of regulation is essential,” said Judge Lovett, “and that with the rapid in crease of state commissions in recent years congress will in time be com pel led to exercise its power in the premises. To unify regulation there should be a complete, harmonious, con sistent and related sy stemF-We Relieve thebest, if not the only practical plan, is the federal incorporation of railroads by general law, which will make incorporation thereunder compulsory, thus imposing on all railroad companies throughout the United States the same corporate powers and restrictions with respect to their financial operations and the same duties and obligations to the public and the government, so that every investor will know precisely what every railroad corporation may and may not lawfully ........

Judge Lovett contended that the so lution of these problems and difficulties rested with congress. He told the committee that jjnder the constitution the authority of the' federal govern ment is paramount, that congress has the power to legislate for a centralized control of railroads under federal char ters and that it only remains for that body to exercise that power.

USED WIND POWER

Ancient Chinese Records Tell of Kite Carriage. Same Idea Was Involved in Patent Issued for “Motor Car" to Hugo Upton Purina Relgg.,ofJlames I of England. The first record of a vehicle traveling without animal power is found in the ancient Chinese records, which give an account of the kite carriages. These vehicles were driven by the wind blowing against a sail attached to the carriage. In the early reign of King James i was Issued to Hugo Upton, reading aS follows: “For the sole making of an instrument which shall be driven -by the winjl for the transportation or carriage of anything by land.” Some believe that Upton secured his idea from kite carriages in old China. However, the history of mechanically driven carriages dates. back to 1680, when Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage to be driven by the reactive effect of a jet of steam issu-ing-frofh the nozzle at the fear of the vehicle. Some years later a crude carriage was built, an (‘arty record of which reads as follows: “Mr. Pinchbeck has recently built a curious steam machine that has graveled without horses for 40 minutes’ and has covered a considerable distance.” In JL759 there appeared an English advertisement reading as follows: “Mr. Ladd’s patent four-wheel carriage that goes without horses and will carry four or five persons at the rate of six miles tin hour is built on solid mechanical principles.” In 1802 Richard Trevithick built a steam carriage, which wastexhibited at London, having driven itself 90 miles. In 1830 a horseless carriage named “the automotion” was built by Walter Handcock. This was really the first steam carriage that 200 miles during its life and carried a total of 12,761 passengers.

The first internal combustion engine was invented by Abbe d’ Hautefeuille in 1678, in which the explosive power of gunpowder waj employed to drive a piston in a cylinder. This was the forerunner of the modern gasoline engine. Some years later John Street developed an engine operated by liquid air ignited by a flame. The first internal combustion motor which used gas was invented in 1884 by Gottlieb Damler. In 1885 he successfully applied this engine to a bicycle, andrin 1886 Carl Benz invented his single hor-izontal-cylinder, water-jacketed engine, which he applied to a three-wheeled carriage. The first practical gasoline automobile built in America was constructed by C, E. Duryea in 1892, but It was found to be underpowered. In 1894 he bul 11 a new four-cylinder car which proved quite successful in the Chicago Times-Herald race. The first automobile endurance race of international Importance was held in France in 1894. Two Panhard machines contested. Both claimed a 3.5 horsepower and were driven by Messrs, Panhard and Peugeot. In 1895 the second automobile endurance race was held in France and covered a distance of 1,730 miles at the then remarkable average speed of 15 miles per hour. Six years later, however, the same course was covered at the rate of 50 miles per hour. In 1897, at the ParisTroville road race, a speed of 29 miles an hour was developed in a gasoline automobile. What a difference today. Not long ago a 300-horsepower car raced ata terrific speed of 148 miles an hour. Even pleasure cars easily run off 50 miles an hour.

Elbows.

Everybody has elbows and especially famous people, so that occasionally they can rub them with the masses. The elbow is a symbol of democracy and if people hadn’t discovered how to rub them we might still be living In an age of feudifiism. The elbow is very useful and some people who haven’t a brain In their heads elbow their way through life and don’t seem to mind the dlfference. Selencehas: frequently been asked what people would have done if they had no elbows and has explained the baffling question in this way—they would probably have something else just, Eke them. The elbow is a valuable organ, or member, and if you have ah arm to cut off you will need an elbow on it so that toe arm ’can be cut off either above nr below the elbow. Elbows are of all sorts, such as ragged, wrinkled, shiny and. rheumatic. Elbows are well enough In their way, but a great nuisance at quick-lunch counters.

India's Sunday School Growth.

The first Sunday school in India was established at Serampore, Bengal, tn 1803, when three boys were the founders and teachers. There are now 16,936 Sunday schools in India, with 636,614 teachers and scholars, speaking 45 dialects. Every year the India Sunday School union conducts an all-India Scripture examination, covering both oral and written work. In 1905, this examination was taken by 20,495 students in 28 different dialects, and of these 17,592 passed the tests satisfactorily.—Christian Herald.

Defining a Gentleman.

Lord Chesterfield had his own crude ideas about what a gentleman Should be, but Frank Flest, of Atchison, says a gentleman is a man who can play a cornet but won't.

Mrs. Janie Eldridge Dies At Home of Her Daughter.

•Mrs. Jane Eldridge died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Arnott, of this city, Friday morning at 2 o’clock. She had been sick for some time. - '. Mrs. Eldridge was bom in Ohio August 26, 1842. Her maiden name was Jane Brasket. She was married to Henry Eldridge Feb. 5, 1860, and since his death in June, 1876, she haa -fflmte h&P With her daughter, Mrs. William Arnott. They lived for a number of years at MeCoysburg and later at Crown Point. Upon the death of Mrs. Arnott’s husband last year they bought property and moved to Rensselaer. - Mrs Eldridge—was the mother ol five children, Mrs; Maggie Elevens, of Wichita, Kans.; Mrs. William Willetts, of McCoysburg; Mrs. Hattie -Arnott; of Rensselaer; ’William Eldridge, of Rensselaer, and a son, Francis, who died in infancy. The tour children were at the bedside of their mother at the time of her death. The funeral will be held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Arnott, on the corner of Elza and Clark streets —Saturday artemoon at and interment made at the Nauvoo cemetery in White county. Rev. Asa McDaniel will have charge of services.

First Christian Chuerh.

Study period at 9:30. Business at 10:15. —Wbrship "at”111:30. Serman at 10:50. Social period of 11:15. Good music and practical sermon will be the special features in the program Sunday morning. The union service in the Presbyterian church at 7:30.

C. B. Steward went to Chicago today. ■ Mrs Perry Dirham and two children, of Twin Falls, Idaho, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman, of this city. Mrs. Dirham is a cousin of Mrs. Allman. Mlle. Zara, New York’s favorite palmist and clairvoyant, has subvert and is stepping at Mrs. E. L. Clark s; on Van Rensselaer street. See W& advertisement. Harry McColly, deputy sheriff, took. Charles Collins to the Indiana penal farm near Greencastle today. Mr. Collins - thinks that he deserves the punishment and says he is going to> be a model prisoner and return heye when his hundred and forty days have expired and hopes that his friends will give him a chance to prove that he will 'be a man, • You can reduce the high cost of living if you will only try White Star flour. Cheaper than other brands in price but not in quality. Your money cheerfully refunded if it fails to please you. == ROWLES & PARKER. •aitaJUf) jon[assuoy —-3uo[ st? Xaqr ' B: I S9 A M3U B uo u ! M u.i'nj, ’l.lO sXejd Xxoweq -tnoX uaqM io JtioA aureiq -ra3uo[ oai[ [j,no£ pun joao jaded cqi tunj, -siq; puaa o; ‘pnjq inoA uo T.uoq The Vesta Co. bought out and control the three greatest iipprovements to lead storage batteries. Haye tiiese exclusive features explained buying a new buttery.

Abundance of Money. I can lopu you all the money you want on tnat farm. My rate is 5 per cent an j my limit is SIOO per acre.— P. D. Wells. Morocco, Indiana. ONION SET SALE. ' 30 bushels sprouted seta, red and yellow, 75c per bushel, or 20c for a peck. Nd less than one peck sold. 2 p. m. Friday, March 30th, north enrii of storage.—B. Forsythe. Who said “High CbsTd Tiv&g ?’* Wait for Fendig’s big one cent. RexaJl Sale, April 5,6, and 7. You can save money and still get as; good bread if you will try our White Star flour. Just received another car. Better buy now as all indications point to much higher prices on flour* ROWLES & PARKER. Rank Foolishness. You occasionally see s ; stated that colds do not result frm cold weather. That is rank foolishness. Were it true colds would be as pre' alei-t in midsummer as in midwinter. The microbe that causes colds flourishes in damp, cold weather. To get rid of a cold take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It is effectual and is highly recommended by people who have used it for many years as occasion required, and know its real value. For sale by all dealers. •' c

Bloominff Plants FOR EASTER

All those wishing blooming plants and flowers of all kind# should order them early. You • can have them sent to your • church in memory of some ; one dear to you and we will ; deliver them any place.

HONE 42C J. H. HOLDEN