Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — Page 2

TOGO'S MOVING DAY Dear Sir: Kindly to please notice my detachment from employ of Hon. Mrs. & Mr. Anna G. Bulkz. Cornstable, N. J. I shall tell you how they car* lusslv came to remove their home without including me among furniture. One morning a. m. Hon. Mrs. arrive to kitchen and observe me singing Japanese opera amid dish-pans. ■ ~ „ .. v ~. ‘Togo,” she say it. "date of Maytime will soonly arrive up. May Day are come when nervus prostration are enjoyed by all Homes which must travel for their health." “I should like learn this education." I say it. “You Bhall,” she pronounce. “Kindly to begin at oncely. Firstly you may rave through house tearing all pictures down and all carpets up. We must move on Wednesday before our lease stops doing so." ---; If ' “1 shall obey with faithful mania’* are promus from me So 1 do so to any extent. 1 seek forth with tack hammer and am so earnest from labor that entire residence look quite cyclone. Hut Hon. Mrs. Sulkz would not agree to this wisdoms. When plaster cast of Mr. Dante, famous inferno, fell over and stroked me on forelnad with his sharp nose, Hon. Mrs. make loudy ouch. “Awful!” she yellup. “Why must everything break that strikes you?” “I am grieved." This from me. “If that poet gentleman had less soft bead it would not explode when striking mine.” When Hon. Sulkz, important gentleman of Hon. Taft resemblance, retire homewards that night, he look round with anxious thumbs. “1 wish woman could vote," hp exaggerate, “because then they would get less time for housekeeping and home would be left comfo r «.able once in a whiles." j At lastly morning of May date arrive. I hear noise of considerable “Whoa!" befront of house. Look see! Three swollen wagons resembling circus was there while 3 drivers, assisted by enlarged Irish, spoke language to horses wearing overalls. 1 rosh downwards to open door and all Moving Vanners rosh inwards intending to make jiu-jitsu with furniture. “O please!” collapse Hon. Mrs. while them 6 Vanners looked cruelty at piano while unrolling their giant muscles. "O please be gentle with my home!” “Mrs. Lady.” say Hon. Boss Mover, making chawtobacco, “strong men are always kindest.” With such dictation he embrace Hon. Piano with terrible Turkish elbows and knock off several legs by removing door-knob while brushing too close. Assisted by considerable Irish, Hon. Piano make crashbang music by stumbling into Van. Pretty soonly all that Home was ejected outward into street. Ancestors, coal-scuttles, landscapes, dictionary, dust-pan, etc., all waltzed down stairway on top of that great muscle. Pretty soonly, when that Home were completely tied down in wagons, Hon Mrs. arise upwards from her nervus prostration and say so to me, “Togo, can your brain do some intellect?” “I shall be entirely brilliant, if brain is not,” I promus. “Well, if so,” she snagger, “I wish you would ride on front wagon with Chief Housebreaker and tell his brainless mind the number of new house where it should go." .. “Where shall it be?” I inquest. • “Remember this number exactly—l2s North Orange Street. Can your memory assimilate it?” “Doggishly!” I iaaur*-—— . . ■ '-t , : — 1 “Remember— whlle HOff. VaHToad chuckle off. This job of bossing boss make me entirely enlarged in my sensations which feel like German army. —• Pretty soonly we arrive up to home entitled Number 125. O such landscape of expensive house! Front lawn extending on all sides, considerable pompus windows, goddesses in iron nightgowns standing near fountains, and front door of considerable brass resembling Senators. Joy inflamed my ears. While thinking this intelligence I stood forth and commanded all those enlarged Vanners like Napoleon moving into France. Firstly we go to front

“Mantality of Mice! Do You Not Know Difference Between North and South?

floor of new home for open him so furniture get in. How strange! Hon. Key seem disabled to unlock it. Howeverly much we twist and fubble, it make no impression on that brassy opening. v “You have got wgong key.” say Chief Mover. “But not be dishcouraged. I was once a burglar. Therefore I can deceive that lock into opening himWith talented thumbs and several pocket-knife he stroggled & ranched until— O suddenly!— Hon. .Door click apart and there we stood in grandy hall resembling theaters. But what I see there? Surprise! That home we entered were entirely filled with furnitupe of boastful appearance. Sofas, statues & gilty upholstery stood everywhere looking natural. “Last family have been too sluggish to move out in time,’' glub Hon. Vanner. “Shall we throw out this proud furniture and wedge ours in?’’ “Gentlemen with so much duplicate tables should lead double lives,” grubble Hon. Boss Teamer. “Shall we move inwards?” “With immediate quickness!” I signify, making Admiral Tirpitz eyebrows. So all Moving Vanners do so with immediate strength. Sooner than before all that Sulkz home was walking into midst of grandeur which look quite snobbish to see so many plain chair & fcible piled up in midst of that Czar of Russia parlor. No room was for another piano, yet we pile him next. When all this jobs were completely finished, that house look like a judge after Republican- banquetB —entirely grand, yet too filled to feel comfortable. 6 However! When all thOße Vanners_,aay “Giddap!”,tnd drove awgy^Jn Gen. Direction of more beer, I sat alonesome in house. 4 hours I await idly ' doing nothing. What had occurred to kill all Sulkz family that they do not come to reside in this new palace? I Vfas confused. Night time approach up. I could hear ghosts creaking under piano, so I lit SIO,OOO chandelier in diningroom and ate crackers while pretending I were King of Portugeese expecting reV °Bilence was interrupted by noise. What was? I heard many footprint, walking into house--and while it was too soon to hide. 2 realestaters, 6 police; Mrs Sulkz, Mr. Sulkz, child & dog walk inwards. “How you get in here?” howell Hon. Mrs. with voice. -I move in,” I narrate calmly. “This are number you told.” “It are right number but wrong house,” she snuggest. “I told you North Orange Street. This are South Orange Street.” “Would that make Borne importance?” I ask out. “Mentality of a mice!" she aggravate. "Do you not know difference between North and South?” “There are no difference.” I- explain with Abe Lincoln expression. “That were settled by civil war." But before i could complete finishing my talk, more civil war elapsed while Hon Sulk*, police, real-estate, child & dog poke me through mixed furniture while I elope away like an old-fashioned egg escaping from Dr. " Wiley. Hoping you are the same, y * Tours truly, HABHIMURA TOGO. ' (Copyright, ISM. Mr International Press -

JJOMESTIC SCIENTIST

by WA LLACE IRWIN

• \ vr THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

A TORPEDO ON ITS FELL JOURNEY

Photographed instantaneously from the stern of a vessel when the torpedo was running on the surface. Usually it runs a few feet below the surface, and Is only vlslhte by a thin trail of white water behind It. Sometimes in a very choppy sea a torpedo may become visible, but this is very -tinosual.- .. ,• ■ , - -■ ■ •

PERONNE IS LEFT SMOLDERING RUIN

Germans Post Ironically Worded Sign: “Don’t Be Cross; Only Wonder.” STATUE REPLACED BY DUMMY Beautiful Old Church a Pitiful Mass of Wreckage—Everywhere Is Evidence of Carefully Planned Destruction by Germans. British Headquarters in France.— On the wrecked front of the Hotel de Vllle at Peronne the Germans before evacuating the city painted a large sign. This, when translated Into English, reads: “Don’t be cross; only wonder.”. .

The meaning of this bit of parting irony was only too apparenf on all sides. Peronne lies a smoldering ruin. The picture is most abject. Some sections of the city have been damaged by shell fire, but everywhere else there is evidence of carefully designed destruction by the garrisop before retiring. ~ ~ Some fine old residences which, because of their outlying location, had escaped both shell fire and torch, had been wrecked inside, top to bottom. .Many of them apparently had been used for the messes of officers and men. All bear evidence of the parting orgies. Furniture, mirrors, crockery and pictures have been shattered the mantelpieces smashed. In some of them were found pickaxes that had been used as the wrecking tools. The dining salons’ mirrors and windows evidently had been .smashed with Rhine wine bottles, which were strewn about In scores. The deliberate character of the destruction wrought by the Germans before their withdrawal from Peronne Is painfully evident in the once beautiful avenue of trees leading to the railway station. These trees were untouched by shell fire, but each one was hacked In two with axes and the gashes and chips ohow that the work was done within the last few days. The beautiful gardens of the outlying houses also were wrecked and every fruit tree within several miles of the town was sawed two-thirds of the way through and then broken down. Views Great Scene of Rain.

The correspondent of the Associated Press was among the first visitors to Peronne In the wake of the English troops, who have swept weir beyond that place. It was necessary to pass through half a score of ruined villages, which only a few days before were within the zone of intense artillery fire, before reaching the banks of the Somme. Crossing the stream on an improvised bridge and trudging through Halle, Peronne was reached over a road which had been reconstructed within 24 hours over succeeding rows of German trenches and through recurrent masses of rusted barbed wire, some of these being at least sK-feet in height and 50 feet in wldth.~There was a ghostly, silence in most sections of the city. No sound of war was to be heard, except once when a prvtng German airplane scudded over in the shelter of the high clouds and antiaircraft guns opened, driving him to quick retreat. British officers pointed out building after buildinjg where apparently the total damage had resulted from Interior explosions. In many cases walls, facing away from the line of British and French fire, had great squares blown through them, differing strikingly from the round holes made in other buildings by shells. \ Gaudily Clad Dummy Is Left. The beautiful old sixteenth century church of Saint Jean was a pitiful mnM of ruins, but one of its oil paintings stiit hung on a bit of wall In the transept and was miraculously untouched. The statue of Catherine DevoixT which bad adorned the great

square, had been taken away by the Germans and a gaudily cla(J dummy left in its stead. The railway station was wrecked. Including the tracks and crossing bridges. The Germans left many relics behind to show their occupancy of thp French military barracks. In some of the rooms Christmas trees gayly decorated with tinsel were still standing. In some- of the finer residences the libraries had been wrecked and the hooks torn to pieces and scattered in the streets. The Germans had left several foot bridges across the Somme, which were apparently intact, but, on closer examination, showed that false sections had been Inserted, which gave way at the first foot pressure. The correspondent, investigating one of these bridges too closely, had an Icy bath in the Somme. On the blank walls of the city there were many printed proclamations to the soldiers, including the entire text of some of Chancellor von Bcthmann-llollweg’s later speeches in the reichstag. At a chateau just outside Peronne the Germans had killed two magpies and stuck them -ou the Sharp point's of the iron posts at either side of the entrance. “I suppose that signifies some German curse or sign of bad luck,” said a British subaltern as he went whistling on his way to find, as he said, “where the war hud taken itself off to.”

BORDER TROOPS FIND SUN INJURES EYES

Atlanta, troops returning from the Mexican border h%ve brought, back a very large percentage of defective eyes. This, the soldiers state, was caused, by the fierce glare of the border sun. Eyes that were perfect when the soldiers left home have in many instances fallen to a very low rat- . Ink. , - ■ /■■■

ENTER PUPILS LESS THAN 5

Children May Go to Nebraska Schools If They Pass Mentality Tests. Omaha—The Binet-Slmon scientific mentality tests .will be used henceforth upon all children whose parents wont them to enter school before they Jiave reached the age limit of five years. Tests will be given by nerve specialists of the University of Nebraska. Under this test a child who is four years old, or even younger, hut who can pass a five-year-old mental examination, will be admitted to schools. One of the tests consists of having a child put a set of blocks together. In another be will be nsketj to repeat sentences until they are so long lie cannot repeat them, such as “I went down town." “1 went down town to bn.v something,” “Yesterday I went down town to buy something and came home.”

TO BUILD MORE ZEPPELINS

Working Force at the Plant in Friedrichshafen la Being Greatly Increased. Berne. —The Zeppelin works * in Frledrichshafen are increasing their working force again. Advertisements In German papers show-that they seek 80 machinists, 20“1netal turners, ten toolmakers, ten tinsmiths and a number of other skilled workmen. This proves conclusively that the German government has no Idea of giving up the construction of Zeppelins, and that recently published by French “and English papers that the German army administration had definitely decided to discard the giant airships vat false. " >

DOCTOR FOR TREE THAT OWNS ITSELF

Athens. fia.— A specialist has been called In to treat Athens famouß “tree that owns itself,” one -of the legal curiosities of the world. Several years ago a pub-lic-spirited citizen wanted to donate the tree to the city, and ro prevent any possibility of the tree being destroyed, he made out a deed for the plot surrounding the tree to the tree Itself, built an iron fence around the plot, put up a marble slab, stating that the tree was owned by Itself, and had the deed legally recorded. The old oak has been showing signs of disease.

CZAR’S RICHES TO FINANCE THE WAR

Russian People May Seize Enormous Wealth of Their Former Ruler. RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD Private Fortune of Nicholas Romanoff Estimated at Not Less Than $2,000, 000,000 —Owns 70 Per Cent of Russian Land,

New ,York.—Nicholas n, deposed czar of Russia. Is the richest man In tse world. His private wealth Is not less than $2,000,000,000. In many quarters here It Is believed a large part of this will be seized by the Russian people to finance the war. Nicholas Romanoffs wealth is largely Invested in foreign bonds and stocks. His American holdings are said to be extensive. It Is understood thax he owns $50,000,000 worth of the Pennsylvania railroad’s stocks. His name does not appear in the list of that corporation’s stockholders for obvious reasons. Instead, some nominal owners appear.

The deposed czar also owns about 680,000,000 acres of land in Russia. Most of Russia’s mineral resources are his private property. Into the czar’s private treasury, according to the%Russian law, one-third of Russia’s gold and silver output is annually contributed. Since the treaty of Portsmouth the Russian empire has occupied 8,647,657 square miles, or one-seventh of the land surface of the globe. It has a population of about 200,000,000, or fewer than twenty-five square mile. Owns 70 Per Cent of Land. Nominally the autocrat “owns” both land and people, but he and his family out of the immense total of 948,063,763 acres actually own and receive the revenue from 680,938,927 acres, about 70 per cent of the whole land area of Russia —one-tenth that of the world. The balance, or 207,124,836 acres, Is distributed as follows, according to the 1910 report of the department of agriculture, the latest:

Acres. Nobility 181,006,519 Merchants - 36,321,303 Peasants 35.141,886 Landed proprietors 8,381,839 Other classes 5,673,289 Total 267.124,836 The nobility number about 1,400,000, the agricultural classes (peasants and landed proprietors), 110,000,000. Thus the tiller of the soil and the taxpayer “possess on the average about one-third of an acre; the Russian nobleman, who does not pay taxes, possesses on an ffverage some 128. To put the case in another form: From every 384„ loaves of bread produced by the Russian agriculturist the noble land owner alone takes away some 383 loaves for himself, leaving one loaf for the producer, from which the latter has yet to devote a part to satisfy the state or autocratic tax collector.

income Is Enormous. ~ Nobody knows exactly the amount of the czar’s enormous income. The expenditure of some of it is traceable to certain public works whose budgets are matters of public record, and .a large part Is known to be absorbed by his family and their dependents, who number about 3.000, and are entlrely apart from the noble dlass, which has no Romanoff affiliations. The czar had an annual salary of $12,500.000. Besides this enormous revenue he derives yet another annual Income from his private estates and mines, the latter being worked by common and political convicts. According to the Almnnach Hachette the czar enjoys an annual Income of $42,500,000. or SBS per minute. -All. this Is in addition to the income from the Romanoff property of 680,938,927 acres, 82,000,000 acres of which are'at present productive. This yields an annual revenue of $10,000,000. This sum goes for the support of the grand dukes and duchesses, who number 46. many of whom draw yet other incomes from private sources, or from various ’posts occupied in the army and navy, or in tjie general administration of the bureaucracy. The Russian autocracy has been, therefore, not only a political-701™ of government, bat a tremendously pay ing business for the autocrat himself and all hit relations, near and remote.

The Quietness of God

By REV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D.

Secretary ol Correopondenc* Department, kloody Bible loititute, Chicago

TEXT— For God la not the author of confusion, but of peace.—l Cor. 14:33. yathin the last two and a half years, many have had their faith shaken in

verse, and governing his words' thereby?” A distinguished Christian nobleman of England has recently written a book entitled “The Silence of God,” and after discussing the proposition, whether God, who Is holy, Infinitely powerful and unchangeable, can permit the present world-wide care to exist or not, he comes to the conclusion that God is the same as he was yesterday, and will be the same. God forevermore. Gur topic is “The Quietness, or the Tranquillity of God." Is that justified? Is he just as quiet lnd:he tribulations of the nations of the_earth as Jie was when peace ruled supreme? We strongly believe so. Our text says, “God is not the God of confusion, but of peacethat is, he is an orderly God. His character is brought into contrast with the turbulent religious assemblies of emotional orientals. Never for a moment does God become excited, lose his head, or act hastily, or under passionate Impulse. When David came to his best self, he saw that the steadfastness of Zion wa9 Secured by the fact that God dwelt in her, and therefore she could not be moved. That was what steadied Martin Luther and Melancthon In the stormy days of the Reformation, as they sang, “God Is Our Refuge and Strength,” especially as they heard God speaking to their very souls, “Be still, and know that I am God.”

A Vivid Contrast. In the second Psalm, the raging nations are brought into vivid contrast with the quiet of God. God Is sitting on thb 'Circle <>rrtfie\ heavens and laughing, as though utterly indifferent, unconcerned by the earthly commotion. At one of the crucial moment? in our national history, when the beloved Lincoln was stricken down, James A. Garfield; then a congressman, spoke In New York as to the dire event, and said: “The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty, the government at Washington still lives.” This quiet of God is based on hla infinite character. Nothing is more needed in these trying days of the shaking of nations, than the thought that God is sovereign, that he has majesty, is infinite in his power, holiness, goodness and truth; before him the nations are but as the small dust of the balance; he sets up kings and casts them down. Can Man Attain This Quality? Chn this characteristic quality of God be transmitted to men? Can man be tranquil and quiet in the midst of human commotion, contention and battle? The days in which we are living are described by the Lord as those in which “men’s hearts shall be failing them for fear and looking for these things which are coming on the earth." Three years ago, men were predicting the entering In of the day of universal brotherhood, of amity, of altruism, and as a consequence material prosperity, the wise diffusion of wealth and realizing millennial conditions, but now they are so overwhelmed with the facts that stare them in the face, that they are in consternation and confusion and fall into rage when asked to think about these things.

It is natural that the children of God should partake of his nature; consequently they may be quiet, If the link of faith Is strong. Is it not true that God will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind Is stayed on him? The voice of wisdom is the voice of God; and wisdom says, “Whoso hark»_ ens nntn me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” Many of the children of God have testified to this quiet that comes from .believing in his Word. .The patient going to the- operating table, or the soldier going into the battle, or the merchant seeing his being .swept away from him, can remember that God Is his friend and be quiet. The early Christians as they were thrown Into the arena to be torn into pieces by the lions were quiet abd sang togethez to tne honor of their Lord. Today God is not excited. The wrath of the world IS not confusing him, and he is Just as really interested in the fall of the sparrow as ha la in the adjusting of relationships of empires, kingdoms and republics. : Be this my Joy that evermore Thou rulest all thte«* at thywrfH, Thy eovereign wisdom, 1H adore And calmly, sweetly trust Thee *UB

the teachings of the Christian religion generally, and some hnve had their faith In God shaken. They ask Insistently, “Is the God that we were taught t q believe in, what we were taught? If there is a God, is he not just what othe r men ar e—swayed and controlled by what Is | transpiring In the world, or the unl-