Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Page 2

County Surveyor Edgar Nesbitt and Charles W. Postill are the latest purchasers ofnJJodge ca*rs through the . M-1. Adams & Son agency. Nearly 11,000 aliens, eighty per cent of them of German or Austrian birth, have applied for first citizenship papers since Feb. 1, according to court records of Chicago just compiled. During the same period nearly 2,000 final papers, admitting them to citizenship, were granted to aliens. To demonstrate the wonderful features of the Vesta indestructible isolators we opened up a starting battery, removed the wood separators and assembled again minus its insulation. It worked ahd tested like any new battery. of it, a battery that will light your lamps and crank l your engfiae without insulation between the positive and. negative plates. No other battery in the world can do it. When we say “double life” we mean something.—Rensselaer Garage.

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COULD NOT EXPECT MORE

Two Years’ Illness Cured by Glando The Great Gland Tonic. Mrs. Susan B. Taylor, 348 S. Williams St, Paulding, .Ohio, said: “Two years ago I had a general break•down. 1 was nervous, languid, and harttly able to drag around. My liver and kidneys were sluggish and jny__ complexion sallow. I felt sleepy and drowsy most all day, yet I’ did not sleep well at night. My heart fluttered terribly at times. I was in this miserable condition two years. A friend persuaded me to try Glando Tonic. The first treatment helped me. s I am taking the sixth treatment and am feeling so w T ell that I gladly recommend Glando Tonic to any one who suffers as I did.” Nearly every case of poor health is due to inactivity of the liver, kidneys and other glands. There is enough poison produced in the body every day to cause poor health if it is not eliminated. This poison can be vemoved only by keeping the glands in a good working condition. Some of the most common symptoms of inactive glands are headache r dizzinessindigestion, constipation, backache, pain or ache under the shoulder blade, biliousness, tonsilitis and quinsy. These conditions can be most quickly relieved by using Glan--do the Grcat Claud Tonic. the glands to action, removes the impurities and builds up the entire system. Sold only in 50-cent treatments and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Manufactured by the Gland Aid Co., Ft Wayne, Ind. B. F. Fendig.

The Yellow Bus Rensselaer-Remington ’Bus Line* Schedule* 2 TRIPS DAILY Lv. Rensselaer . 7:45 Ar. Remington 8:80 am Lv. Remington ............9:10 ain Ar. Rensselaer ... ....9:55 am Ar. Remington 4:45 pm Dr. Rensselaer 4:00 pnf Lv. Remington .6:15 pm Ar. Rensselaer 6:00 pi BILLY FRYE. Prop Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. chicaoq,- muMAWia t i»otns- - - - ■< - -mxjt BY. - SOUTHBOUND. Lgalsrlße and French Lick. No. 8 ....11:10 pm Indianapolis and Cincinnati. No. 36 1:46 am Louisville and French Lick. No. 6 ...... :.. 10:66 am Indianapolis and Cincinnati. No. 187 ...11:18 *m Ind'polis, Cincinnati and French Lick. No. 33 ...................... 1:67 pm Lafayette and Michigan City. “No. 38 . 7 ’CrW-pm-Indianapoßs and Lafayette. No. 31 ....<77...... v .. 7:31 pm NORTHBOUND. No. 36 Chicago .... No. 4 Chicago No. 40 Chicago (acc0m.)...... 7.30 am No. 83 Chicago 10 .»« am No. 88 Chicago EJE No. 80 Chicago ....... 4.W P m

REAL BOYS, ALL OF THEM

Visitor Didn’t Quite Know Just What ( Form of Amusement Would Appeal to Them. ; lam a very dignified English woman, or was until a month ago. About two weeks after my arrival in the United States J was asked by a clergyman of a certain Episcopal church if I would undertake the practtctng of the choir Im>.vs. «« the organist was sick. I was only too delighted to be of any assistance, and, besides, they looked such “nice, quiet boys.” Before the practice began, to make the boys feel more comfortable with their strange teacher. 1 offered to play any game they cared to choose with them 4f they did their work satisfactorily. Needless to say, all went fine. “Now. boys, I am ready for the game; what shall it be?” They whispered in a bunch for a few seconds, then the youngest.asked_ me to bend down on my knees. I felt a trifle bewildered,' but there was my promise; so down; f went^onthe I had no sooner done so than one and all began playing “fe'ap-frog” over my back. I screamed with horror and fright, but it made nd difference; the louder 1 screamed the more fierce flew the game, and those “nice, quiet boys” kept me thex’e for quite ten minutes —it felt -10—when luckily for me the dean came into the room to see how the practice vyas going on. I felt terribly embarrassed, but the good man helped me out by saying: “Ah, I see, madam; you-are ‘stooping'to conquer.’ ” I got n v hat and coat and hurried out of that room without even saying good-by. Those rice, quiet American choir boys haunt my dreams still. —Mrs. W. Cookson, in Puck.

WHEN COUNTRY WAS YOUNG

Two Historic Inaugurals That Recall Early Days in the History of Our CountrjLWhen Madison took the oath he was escorted merely by two troops of cavalry, who brought him back to his own residence, which he had occupied as secretary of state under Jefferson. That night he was given the first inaugural ball at Long's hotel on Capitol hill, which, according to the newspapers of that day. was so crowded and hot that panes of the windows were broken to give more ventilation. The inauguration of Andrew Jackson was attended by a larger crowd than had ever visited the capital before, and the accommodations being poor, many slept ea the park benches. Jackson’s personality was one to excite curiosity, since, in addition to winning the battle of New Orleans and fighting in many Indian waA, he had fought several duels, threatened to bang everybody who opposed him, and broken several laws which did not suit him. Like Jefferson, lie was extremely democratic. On the day-he was inaugurated the White House was thrown open for a reception in the afternoon, and the whole nation was invited. The result was disastrous. Diplomats, great ladies and congressmen were trampled upon and jostled about by the proletariat, who stood upon the delicately upholstered chairs and sofas, grabbed the refreshments and smashed the china, and finally ended by carrying pails of punch and ices away with them.

Aesop Up-to-Date.

•Once upon ir’itnir. —tirorrr was a crafty old fox that went and got married Ttyr m: didn’t anre hfro He loved to mingle with the boys and have a good time where the white lights _palpitate like a headache on the morning after. And the wife, who was 'fflore or less guileless,-grirduatty-bcrrrme-wise to the ways of the world. The fox exhausted all of his excuses, and she got hep to his every move. One morning, about 4 a. m. he cam. staggering in with a napkin under his chin and a lady’s fan in his vest pocket,. r “Where have you been?” she asked. Wearily, he responded: “There’s no use alibiing this: time. I've been out on a bat”L_. ; — — And she, knowing that he always lied, refused to believe him and gave him"credit for sitting up with a sick friend. Moral: Honesty is the best policy.

“Old Mother Hubbard!"

Probably few people could say who wrote “Mother Hubbard” and fewer still know where the writer is buried. The author was Sarah Catherine MarAta and she was-buried at Loughton, in horn in January. 1768,.and was about ' thirty-severr years old when she wrote the story of the old lady and her dog. Tradition says the original “Old Mother Hubbard” was t lie houseket'per at Kitley Hail. Ycalmpton, the resideneeof Miss. JMartinls-_marricd_slster^— jAL. any nite, it was when on a visit to her sister at Kitley that the famous xhj'ine was jtfiiiULdr 'nj4r<irigihabl>ubs: licatlon is still at Kitley and a cupboard is pointed out as being the “cupboard.”

Futurisms.

He —Have you sent off th.nt wireless telegram and ordered the horser less carriage? ——- -—= | Servant—Yes, sir. He —And paid off * the motionless messenger boy? Servant—Yes, sir. He—Good. Now go and get me a glass of cowless milk. »

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SUNS AND WORLDS IN MAKING

Astronomer* Admitted to "Workshop of the Universe" to View Wonders Therein. 7 We look today on the things of a century, a millennium, ago. Light traveling at the rate of 180,300 miles a second requires mdre than four years to come from the nearest star, perhaps thousands and tens of thousands of years from the farthest. Hence in every case we see not what is, but what was. Thousands of nebulae have been discovered in the heavens. The spiral pattern of some few nebulae has long been confirmation of the theory that they are the real beginners of a solar system. But there has recently come in much evidence of the spiral character of other nebulae, that the conclusion fceenjs forced upon us that practically all are in a state of rotation, and are hence, supplying the centrifugal force to throw off the rings which roll themselves up into planets revolving about central suns. When opportunity is given to look directly down upon a nebulae there results startling evidence of its being in rotation. Th,yre is no other way of explaining its remarkable details of Structure. Seme look like the propeller biAdes of a motorboat; some are actually caught in the act of throwing off rings, which are seen condensing at certain centers, rolling themselves into planets, henceforth to travel around their suns. The great nebulae in Andromeda gives striking evidence that it is working out another and a greater solar system than our own. In short, it seems that in studying the nebulae w-e’*are being admitted to the very workshop of the universe, and are permitted to watch the actual process of turning out worlds. Nothing in the heavens is better fitted to fill the very soul with awe. As in the case of the “fixed stars,” our lives are too brief, too feeble our eyes, to detect the actual motion. —Frederick Campbell's “Suns and Worlds in the Making.”

EFFECT OF WIND ON SOU

Differences in Strength of Wind Is What Prevents the Spread of Sound. One of the government scientists gives an interesting explanation of the action of the wind in preventing the spread of sound. It is, he claims, not the wind, as such, that prevents sound from traveling against it, but differences in the strength of the wind. If, for instance, the wind is stronger at one side, its effect will be to tilt the sound waves In one direction or another. Differences of temperature in the air also cause deflection of the waves of sound. Other atmospheric causes exist which deflect sound from a straight course and prevent it from going as far in a certain direction as it may have been expected to goSome of the sirens in this country, says this scientist, produce sounds which ought theoretically to be audible at a distance of 1,500 miles, but, in fact, the authorities are satisfied if they are heard only two miles away. The reason for the discrepancy between calculation and experiment was probably atmospheric deflection of the sound.

Babylonian Tablets.

Among the tablets at the University of Pennsylvania museum, Dr. Stephen Langdon hits discovered one which is an excellent map of the-district-near Nippur. It is in effect a cadastral survey of a section about three by tour miles and shows canals, villages and fields. An Interesting feature is that the field belonging to the king is smaller than one belonging to the incantation priests. There is also a “field of nish food for the ordinary priests of the temple. There is a common for feeding sheep and a field of reeds open to the public, for the Babylonians depended on reeds, which grew to enormous size, as In the far Hast people depend on bamboo.

Scalding Fruit.

For cakes and puddings scald all the fruit by pouring boiling water over it. This cleanses the frult thoroughly, and causes it to swell and become fresh and juicy. Do this the night before cooking, so that the fruit is perfectly dry before being mixed with the other ingredients. If there is no time for this, put the fruit on a coarse sieve or colander, dredge some flour over it, and rub briskly. The flour and stalks fall through, leaving the fruit dry and clean.

Too Delicate.

' A man traveling in Maine met a mid-dle-aged farmer, who said his father, aged ninety, was still on the farm where he was born. “Ninety years old, eh?” “Yes, pop is close to ninety.” “Is his health good?” “ ’Tain’t much now. He’s been complainin’ for a few months back.” “What’s the matter with him?” “I dunno; sometimes I think farmin’ don’t agree with him.”

Pay Up Day In China.

At the Chinese New Year, the houses and other buildings are decked with flowers, and the streets are thronged with people, who come out to buy provisions, new clothes and gifts. One good New Year custom in China Is that of settling up all debts before the old year has died out A Chinaman who allows the New Year to dawn.before he has settled with his creditors feels himself disgraced.

IN THE HOT BATHS OF JAPAN

Immersion at Temperature That ... Would Scald the Occidental, Excites Wonder of Visitors. The number of baths taken by the Japanese at the hot springs, says the Herald of Asia, iifjid the length of time they remain in the water run counter to all western medical opinion regarding the utility of hot baths for invalids. THveoF*six times a day for an hour or longer" at a time would not be considered an uncommon regime. A smile of incredulity was raised some years ago when Professor dhamberlaln told us of a tiny spa where the bathers stayed in the water for a month er more, with stones on their laps to prevent them Trom floating in their sleep. Yet I could name another remote little spot where a very old man, well advanced in his nineties, in fact, has literally lived in the shallow warm water of the spring for years, his knees and neck supported by a beamrfrom early morn till midnight. The high temperature at which the baths are taken has excited the wonder es many travelers. At Kusatsu, for instance, that of the chief bath is 128 degrees Fahrenheit; but such a temperature necessarily involves special precautions before entering the bath, with a limit of from three and one-half to four minutes’ immersion. When we remember that water at 115 degrees Fahrenheit can just be borne by the hasd but not by the whole body, it is possible to realize the agony of afflicted humanity in the Kusatsu baths. At the same time the Japanese skin cannot be so sensitive as that of the European, for the daily tub is enjoyed by the native at a temperature that makes the boldest of us wince.

WAS MODEL FOR “PEER GYNT”

Ibsen Inspired in Creating Masterpiece Partly by an Eccentric Young Dane. There are many models back oi “Peer Gynt,” and among them a young Dane. Ibsen met the young man frequently in Italy. He was a peculiarly conceited and affected young bluffer, Georg Brandes writes in the Century Magazine. He used to tell the Italian girls at Ischia and Capri that his father, a schoolteacher in reality, was the best friend of the king of Denmark, and that he himself was one of the greatest men in Denmark. To prove this, he often appeared tn entire suits oi white satin. He called himself a poet, but could find poetical inspiration only in the wilderness or in desolate, dreary spots. He once went to Crete to write, he said, a great drama of tragedy. He returned, however, without having accomplished his purpose. He averred that he could feel tragic emotion only in the mountains, and lived in selfdelusion and illusion. Some of his characteristics have passed in “Peer Gynt.” Otherwise “Peer Gynt” is supposed to be an in -carnation of Norwegian foibles. Peer’s lies are not really falsehoods; if this Implies the intention to deceive others. They are rather self-deceptions. “Peer Gynt” has something in common with Cervantes’ “Don Quixote,” and is more closely related to Daudet’s “Tartarin?'

Height of a Camera.

A safe rule in most cases, Is to have the camera at such a height that the lens is about level with the eyes of a person of average height, standing. This Implies that most tripod stands, all ultra portable ones, are too short in the leg, f as even those - which allow the camera to be at this height only do so when the feet are so near togethier that The stand is unstable. With lenses of short focus It is usually advantageous, especially in interior work, to have the camera lower, while with very long focus lenses it maybe higher to avoid a, foreshortening of the ground. In the case of domestic interiors, it is important to have the lens well above the level of a table top, as the effect of the furniture seen from a lower viewpoint will be unsatisfactory.

Unrelated Potatoes.

Sweet potatoes have rut much in common botanically with their more familiar namesakes. They have long been cultivated as food in tropical and subtropical countries, and .were actually introduced into England at an earlier date than the common potato. The? two tubers* were often confounded by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the sweet potato won more popularity than its rival. Steepted in wine or made into a sweetmeat, it was regarded as an excellent invigorator. Sweetish and agreeable to the taste, its flesh-form-ing qualities are considered equal at least to those of the common potato.

Blind Children Learn.

Here is an original method used to teach a little blind child her alphabets that I hope may help other mothers who have little ones afflicted with the same handicap. Use the raised letters from old felt pennants and paste on four pieces of cardboard. Dividing the alphabet into four parts prevent the child from trying to learn too many letters at once. When the alphabet is mastered, the letters can then be made into words and put on small cardboards. The little .one’s touch soon learns to distinguish between letters audit is interesting to note bow soon it grasps both letters and words...

Safe to Be Around.

“How is your husband getting on with his golf?” “Very -well, indeed. The children are allowed to watch him now." ’ r«rr-Ttr. • . • » f- *

SAMPLE OF EASTERN WISDOM

Parable That Has Come Down Through the Age* la Worthy a Place in Memory. A - “Now, as all men know,, the Brahmaqs burn, whereas the Muslims bury, their ; wherefore the Rajah Birbal, holding all men to be brethren, made the proverb which declares, ‘Father Adam had two sons; one was burned, one was buried.’ “Then those who pondered mischief against him carried this word to the king with much scorn; and Akbar, seeming, as was his wont, to mock at Birbal, said to him: __ —““‘Thou wouldst have it that there is so small difference betwixt Muslim “ andTßrahman. me a Brail* man.’ - “ ‘Even so, my lord,’ replied Birbal; T shall make a Brahman of thee as soon as I shall have finished a like task that I have begun.’ “ ‘And what is this task ’of thine, rajah?’ asked the king. “ ‘I pray that my lord and his nobles do but come into the court of my poor house at eventide, and they shall see,’ answered Birbal. "So at set of sun they came to Blrbal’s house, and there they beheld him currying a shaggy-coated ass. “‘Oh Birbal!’ cried the king; ‘is this thy so great work? Truly, a task worthy of a rajah of Akbar! What art thou doing with that poor beast?’ ‘ “ ‘Mock not, my lord,’ answered Birbal ; ‘I am making a horse of him; and when I have accomplished that feat, I shall make a Brahman of thee.’ “Thus is it said in the bazaar, ‘Trimming a donkey’s ears will not make him a horse.’’’—Arthur Gulterman in St. Nicholas.

BAD HABITS TO BE AVOIDED

Incorrect Postures, Sitting or Standing, Lead to Ills Which Creep Upon the Individual. The significance of the postures habitually assumed by individuals is the subject of serious consideration by physicians at present. Exhaustive investigations seem to Indicate pretty conclusively that bad postures, such as stooping shoulders, contracted chests or protruding abdomens, are not merely the result of careless habits in the individual, but are due to some slight physical deformity which should be corrected. Generally speaking, persons who have bad posture habits are not very robust. Everyone has observed that persons who are fatigued drop into bad postures temporarily; and there are many examples of unusually robust persons with whom bad posture was chronic. Abraham Lincoln, for example, stooped badly; but he was very powerful and never sick. Nevertheless, a tendency to bad posture undoubtedly “adds to the tbend toward weakness and chronic disease,” particularly In individuals who are not naturally fugged.

Treatment of Wounds.

If the wound Is touched by the hand billions of pus germs will be carried into it. If washed with water even more germs will be carried into the wound and not only 'that, but the deep parts of the wound which previously no germs had reached will have billions of germs carried to them. Therefore do 'not handle or wash a wound. Even if an antiseptic solution is used, it will carry pus germs from the skin and deeper than they have been before and no antiseptic such as bichloride of mercury can be used strong enough to kill, these germs, as it will also destroy the cells of the body and so make them less able to fight the germs. Peroxide is specially dangerous in deep wounds as it carries pus germs everywhere and is not strop tr enough to destroy them. “Placing a clean dressing; which means a dressing that has been sterilized surgically (such as the Red Cross dressing) s on the wound will introduce no more germs and will not injure the delicate tissues of the body exposed in the wound. Moreover, the flow of blood and blood serum (the liquid part of the blood) will be in the direction of the dressing, so the germs will be constantly going out. This, therefore, is the way to take care of a wound. — Red Cross Magazine.

Start a Snail Farm.

All snails are edible and nutritious. Even the common garden snail, though insipid, is as nourishing as calf’s foot jelly. There is a large white-shelled snail called Helix pomatla that is commonly eaten by connoisseurs in the South of England, while all over France, Italy and Spain several species are used for food. In France there are many small snail farms which yield a good profit to their owners. In the French and Italian quarters of New York snail* may be bought, either alive or cooked, and at most of the French restaurants they are served “escargots farcisl’ frying the most usual form of the dish. Snails are easy to raise in large quantities. They need lime for making their shells, but they do not have to be fed, as they can find their own food, which is the leaves of many plants. They eat nothing else.

Elk Becoming a Nuisance.

Elk from the Yellowstone park were shipped to Washington, largely for their sentimental value, but ft has been found that these animals can make themselves considerable of a nuisance. It Is said that in a short time damage to the extent of $20,000 has been done to the apple orchards of that state by these animals,

Professional Cards DR. E.C. ENGLISH |Phyiici» and Surgeon , Opposite Trust and Savings Bink. Phones: 177—2 rings for office; 2 rings for residence. RoMMiMV* Indiana. C. E. JOHNSON, M. D. Office in Jessen Building. Office Hours —9 to 11 a. tn. 1 to 4 ■ and 7toßp. m. Specialty: Surgery DR. 1. M. WASHBURN Physician and Surgeon Attending clinic at Augustan© Hospital on Tuesday morning from 5 a. m. to 2 p. m. Phone 48. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, Real Estate, Insurance u 5 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. F. H. HEMPHILL Physician and Surgeon Special attention to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s Brag MoraTelephone, office and residence. i DR. F. A. TURFLER Osteopathic Physician Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office —2 rings on 200; Residence —3 rings on SOO. Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. 2Z2 WILLIAMS & DEAN Lawyers Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and gprm loans. Office in Odd Fellows Building. JOHN A. DUNLAP Lawyer (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts. Estates settled. Farm loans. Collection department. _ Notary in. the ofllca Bensselaer - - Indiana H. L. BROWN Dentist Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods in Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Office over Larsh’s Drug Store. WORLAND & SONS Undertakers J Motor and Horse Drawn Hearses Ambulance Service Office Phone 23. Eesidence Phone 68 E. N. LOY Homeopathist OPTICS PHONB W Successor to Dr. W. W. Ifartsell. Office —Frame building on Cullen ■treet Residence College Avenue, Phone BH-B, east of court house.

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