Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Page 3

MARRYING AGAINST WISHES OF FAMILY

An old farmhouse with* meadows wide. Sweet with clover on either side; A bright-eyed youth, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed without, ... . i (. Wished this one thought all the day: “Oh, if I could but fly away From this dull spot the world to See, How happy I would be." What youth of one and twenty and tnaid of sweet sixteen If they happened to become enamored of one another would not tell you that there is just one person in the world for them, and each, has met that one? It is all in vain for relatives or friends to attempt to dissuade them from their feeling. The young man declares he will leave home and all belonging to him and go out into the world to earn fame and fortune for the girl he has chosen. The maid declares that if she cannot wed the hero of her. heart she will never, never marry. Though her lips may not complain her sad eyes will tie a reproach to those who have separated her from her love for all time to come. How the parents are to deal with such a determined young couple is a problem. The youth’s parents know that it is his nature to fall quickly in love, and as quickly climb out of it. The girl’s parents realize that the kind of man who fills her fancy at sixteen she would possibly be heartily tired of at two and twenty. . r They met at a ball. The girl in her tulle party dress, white gloves, white

PLAYERS “WITH A PAST” ARE POPULAR THIS YEAR

Return to Big Leagues of Bobby Wallace, Veteran of Veterans, Shows Trend of the Times. I Major league magnates ‘and managers are showing a strong preference this year for ball players “with a past.” In ordinary times the big league pilots pay little attention to pill tossers who hav<\ seesawed back and forth from the minors to the big show. They usually break their necks bidding for the “phenoms” who spring up in the tall and uncut sticks, and they have paid some fabulous prices for this class of players. But 1917 Is no ordinary year. The majors have been slow to sign youngsters and seemingly eager to jump at the chance of getting players who have had big league experience, but who, because of age or some minor defects, have failed to stick on big time. The recent signing of Bobby Wallace by the Cardinals is a most vivid example of this tendency. Bobby Wallace, the veteran of veterans; a player whose name appeared in the box

Bobby Wallace.

scores before Lajole broke Into the limelight, Is back again in the role of utility inflelder with the Cards. His comeback marks finis to a 15? year absence from the National league, for he jumped from the Cardinals back In 1902 to, cast his fortunes with the Browns, who were making their first start In St. Louis. His long years of service wlth the Browns and hls ultimate release Is remembered by all fans today. It seemed only natural that Wallace should step down and out, and when he was made a member of the Wichita (Western league),club the majors bid him good-by tor all time. But Wallace is back, and the owners of the Cardinals figure that he is a valuable asset, In which they' are more than likely to be upheld by his work whenever the occasion arises to use him in the lineup. The return of the veteran Wallace recalls the fact that 1917 has seen a number of players in the veteran class return to the big tent while hundreds of youngsters are pining their young lives away in the bush leagues for a chance. Ping Bodie, purchased last winter from the San Francisco club by Connie Mack, has made good with a vim since his return. -Harry Walter and Charley Deal, brought back from the minor v leagues by the Gubs, and Jim Thorpe, recalled- by the Giants, and later sold to the Reds, are other examples.

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

slippers and pink roses, looked very alluring. He has taken henhome from dances, perhaps a half-dozen times and at the end of that time proposed marriage. Neither had peeped beyond the first chapter of the book of life. Their entire conversation had been about other girls and boys—what a jolly good time they had had at the skating rink or barn dance. Yet these two kldlings considered themselves in love and had the notMn that they ought to Red. The boy’s father does his best to have a serious talk with his son, endeavoring to make him -understand that married life is something more than continuous love-making; that it entails obligations, such as winning the support of two, to start with; that a pretty sweetheart transferred to the kitchenette is not always the amiable companion a youth fondly believes she would be. The girl’s parents do their best to make her understand that a young man should have at least a start in life before he essays matrimony; that all love-making, no work, would put out the kitchen fire. If, despite earnest parental advice on both sides, the young people take their own heads and marry, they have only themselves to blame for much of the tribulations that may follow. Parents on both sides should be eager for the match, then it will turn out happily. (Copyright, 1917.)

The woman of moderate means, who markets in person, .with a basket on her arm, often gets better goods for less money than her wealthy sister, who trusts to servants or the telephone and takes what the market merchant chooses to send her, in blissful ignorance of food values or food quality. Some Cornmeal Dishes. The rainy consistency of cornmeal is an advantage when used in griddle cakes or waffles, for it renders them very tender. Cornmeal Pancakes. Take two cupfuls of flour sifted with a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder, with the same amount of salt. Add a cupful and a half of boiling water to a half-cupful of cornmeal, cook five minutes, turn into a bowl and add one and a fourth cupfuls of milk, one beaten egg, a third of a cupful of sugar and the flour mixture. Stir well, then add two tablespoonfuls of melted shortening. Cook on a greased griddle. Mush that has been molded makes a delicious breakfast dish, by frying the slices in a little hot fat. < Cornmeal and Wheat Waffles. ' Cook a half cupful of cornmeal, added very gradually to a cupful and a half of boiling water, for 20 minutes, then add a cupful and a half of milk, three-cupfuls of flour, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, 1% tablespoonfuls of baking powder, 1% teaspoonfuls of salt, the yolks and whites of two eggs beaten separately. When all Is well mixed, add two tablespoonfuls of melt-

Less Unemployment Likely In America in Near Future As Result of the Great War

At present, and In all probability in the near future, according to a report of a medical committee on social insurances reported in the American Medical Journal, this country will have less and less unemployment, and there is no question that with the war and with the destruction of life and peoples in Europe, in the very countries from which, in recent years, this country has drawn its vigorous unskilled labor, the immigration which has come to these shores so abundantly will enormously diminish, and there will be a dearth of labor and a rise in wages. At present, however, there is no question that even-in good times the wage earners of this country are Unemployed for from one-fifth to onefourth —20 to 25 per. cent—of the working days of the year. Those who are dependent on their dally wages have thus to consider a further diminution of what is apparently their actual wage. All investigations on the amount of wages have shown that about fourfifths of the men and nineteen-twentl-eths of the women earn less than S6OO a year to support their families, and this amount of wage is not able, even in this country, to support those families on a fair standard of living." This is ape cause of the enormous mass of woman and child labor.

The environment of the commander in.chief. Sir Douglas Haig, is strongly suggestive of his conduct of the war. Before war became a thing of precise science the headquarters of an army head seethed with all thq picturesque details so common to pictures of martial life. Couriers mounted on foamflecked horses dashed to and fro; the air was vibrant with action; the fate of battle showed on the face of the humblest orderly. But today things are totally different Although army

Mother’s Cook Book

Serenity in Thick of Broil.

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ed shortening, just before adding the stiffly beaten whites. Indian Pudding. Cook five cupfuls of milk and a third of a cupful of cornmeal in a double boiler, a half cupful of molasses, a teaspoonful each of salt and ginger. Mix all together and pour Into a buttered baking dish and bake two hours In a slow oven; serve with cream. / » Cornmeal Doughnuts. Put three-fourths of a cupful of milk and 1% cupfuls of cornmeal into a double boiler and heat together ten minutes. Add three-fourths of a cupful of sugar and a fourth of a cupful of shortening. Sift together 1% cupfuls of wheat flour with a teaspoonful of cinnamon and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add these and two well-beaten eggs to the meal. 801 l out on a well-floured board, cut and fry in hot deep fat. yieXCM.

EPIGRHYMES:

Td like to be as FORTUNATE as lots of MEN I know who rouse an agitation in all hearts where’er they go. Now take YOUR old friends Tyrus Cobb; he leads the COUNTRY, fans, In clever execution of the. tricks Hugh Jennings plans. And then, in little, old New York, LIVES “Muggsy,” John McGraw, and many other notables who follow “fame” quite raw BECAUSE it’s served to them so fast there is no time to cook the adulation that they get each blessed way they look. You’ve got to hand it to these chaps; they’ve earned all they have won, and it’s worth while to rouse the shout: “Gee 1 Attaboy! Well done!” But, humbly, may I ask-of YOU to porfder Garfield’s thought: Behold our land, in twenty years, and see the men who fought in this, we pray, the final war for everlasting peace, and hear all nations’ cry of thanks which nevermore shall cease! And then imagine, if you can, that reverence multiplied ten thousand times ten thousand, for the Fighting Men —who DIED! „ L Robert RusselL “Fortunate men your country lives because you died.” $ (Copyright, 1917, by Int’l Press Bureau.)

Brother Needed Attention.

Governor and Mrs. Stanley of Kentucky have an Interesting young family. They are also regular Sunday school attendants. The youngest member of the house of Stanley has been very much Indulged, but lately the wise mother has taught him that he must not ask God for such things as he coveted. The small heir ceased praying after that for a speckled pony and cart, which a little friend of his owned. One night r not long since the governor and his lady were entertaining guests in the executive mansion when the elder boy called his mother to the foot of the stairs. The visitors were amused to hear the lad saying, in a stage whisper: “Mother, I wish you’d come up here to brother —he’s worrying the Lord again about that speckled pony" and dog-cart.”—Harper’s Magazine.

units have risen from thousands to millions of men, and fields of operations stretch from sea to sea, and more ammunition is expended in a single engagement than was employed in entire wars of other days, absolute serenity prevails. It is only when your imagination the picture of flame and fury that lies beyond the horizonline that you get a thrill. —Isaac F. Marcosson in Everybody’s.

Flashlights.

About all that jealousy asks :j to make trouble is a chance. Fair as women are, even they •: are no excuse for the so-called •: ladles’ man. •: No matter how much a man may neglect his wife it always :• makes him mad to discover that i some other man is slightly inter- i ested in her. : This world may owe you a liv- : Ing, but if you don’t care enough : for it to hustle round and col- : lect it, the world isn't going to : do any worrying. , Luck doesn’t play nearly so ? big a part in the other fellow’s • success as you imagine.

Grenades of Many Types.

The grenade has become one of the leading weapons of the European war. Each belligerent uses several, types, Austria as many as six. Grenades are thrown by hand by means of a special “racket.” by catapults, shot from guns and from trench mortars. Hand grenades have a range of some twentyfive or thirty yards. The grenades fired from mortars may range up to five hundred yards. The most powerful grenade is a Danish invention. It is shot from a mortar, weighs about three pounds,, and In addition scattering the fragments of its case on explosion, it carries some 250 bullets.

Members of the officers’ training camp at Fort McPherson, Ga., candidates for commissions in the field artillery, practicing with range finders.

OUR WORK IN WAR SETS NEW RECORD

Army and Navy Journal Asserts That It Has No Parallel in Military History. ALL CRITICISM IS SILENCED Service Paper Points Out That No “Political General" Has Appeared to Hinder Operations—Praise . for Defense Council. New York.—That the achievements of the army and navy of the United States in the first three months of the war “have worked forward with a smoothness and an absence of scandal that have no parallel in our history of warfare,” is the editorial statement made by the Army and Navy Journal in a review of the part this country is playing in the great struggle. “In material accomplishments we have set up,” the Journal says, “a redord before the world of which we may well be proud. The great outstanding facts of these three months of war is that our military and naval operations have been conducted solely by army and navy officers, with never a ‘political general’ showing his head above the horizon. Between the people and the work of the navy there has been drawn, of military necessity, a screen of stecrecy more effective than anything we have ever known before, and which redounds to the highest credit of the press of the country. When that screen has been lifted now and again we have seen our," fleets of destroyers operating In British and French waters ; we have learned of another fleet being In the South Atlantic on patrol duty; we have learned of hundreds of merchantmen, armed and manned by navy guns and gunners, fighting U~ boats and losing their lives in that arduous duty; and finally, we have learned of the navy’s superb achievements In convoying to France the greatest body of troops we ever sent to foreign soil in one expedition, without the loss of a man. Great Growth of the Navy. “Our navy’s personnel has almost doubled in that time, so that now we have over 129,000 men in the navy, while In the Marine corps we have 29,361, as against the 13,266 on April 6, the day the state of war was declared. The auxiliary patrol fleet manned by the Fleet Naval reserve is gradually assuming the form of a really effective body of young men who are learning navy traditions more rapidly than would have been thought possible six months ago. In addition to its herculean task of training the great “influx of recruits to the regular service, the officers of the navy have taken on their shoulders the added burden of training thousands of young men to be officers and crews of the great fleet of merchantmen that the government is building as a part of the allies’ strategical plan to conquer the U-boats. “Even greater than this has been the army’s achievement owing to the signal change that has come to the nation’s. policy regarding a large army since the entry of the United States into the W. For on the army has devolved the task of the regulars up to tlio war strength set by the national defense act and putting that army On a war footing, while it has also had to face and carry through the many problems presented by training the National Guard for duty overseas, preparing the plans for the first selective draft registration and seei ing they were carried out, the plans for the working of the draft Itself and for housing, provisioning and equipping the 500,000 men that are to be in cantonments some time after the first of September. Coincident with this the army has had to perform the hitherto unheard-of task of conducting sixteen training schools for the making of officers and of three camps for the training of officers of the medical relief corps. Under-officered as every corps is in the service they have had not only to struggle along with the routine of the service but also to handle the problems of this enormous expansion of the regulars, the National Guard and the national army that Is In the making. And with all this, the,anny has sent to France General Perahing and his staff. General Sibert and his expeditionary force; has taken over com-

RANGE-FINDING DRILL AT FORT M'PHERSON

pletely the conduct of six of the British base hospitals; has sent army surgeons up to the firing line; has landed Its first unit of woodsmen in England fully equipped with sawmills and other topis, and has at least one unit of aviators on British soil. And nowhere at home has the routine of army life been allowed to drop below Its accustomed efficiency, although the army has had to handle the additional task since May 1 of creating two new departments and providing them with headquarters staffs. Praise for Defense Council. “Criticism and fault-finding have entered, like rumor *palnted wljfi a thousand tongues,’ but they have pretty well disappeared since. In common decency, these elements have had to acknowledge the army and navy officers have carried out their allotted tasks efficiently and well. Europe has rung with praise of our men abroad, and our enemy,- by the tone of his abusive language. Is awakening to the fact that we are a foe to be reckoned with In the field instead of being merely a race of dollar-hunters. On the civil side of what has been done In these three months there Is another admirable tale of high achievement Through the council of national de-, sense and Its advisory commission the matter of the purchase' of supplies (fruitful source of scandals In the past) has been worked out In a manner hitherto unknown in the history of the wars of the United States. Through these bodies the railroads have been brought into a relation with the government more close and practical than most of us would ever have thought possible. War has brought about economies in railroad operation that were frankly declared impossible a year ago. Manufacturing plants have also been brought Into really effective cooperation with the government, and It would appear that the problem of supplying a great air armada is also to be brought about through this agency.”

Signe Patterson, the favorite dancer of the king of Sweden, who is here to teach the folk dances of her native land to the children of former subjects of Sweden, is appealing to the women of this country who were former subjects of Sweden to supply their countrymen now serving In Uncle Sam’s army with tobacco and pipes.

Sharon, S. C —J. D. Gwin of this town has a “grandfather” clpck. He Islable to trace Its age back 127 years, ’and is of the opinion that it is much older. The works were brought over from England and the frame of black walnut, inlaid with maple, was made in this country by a cabinetmaker named Samuel Gill. The clock has never ceased to keep accurate time, not a penny has 1 been spent on it for repairs of any sort, and its present condition is excellent

TO TEACH FOLK DANCES

Old Clock Still Runs.

GIRL MARSHAL ARRESTS MAN CALLED SLACKER

Huntington, W. Va. — Miss < Gladys Cornwell, dainty .and ‘ pretty, who, besides being sec- ; retary to United States Marshal ‘ William Osborne, Is the only < woman deputy marshal in West ; Virginia, has begun a campaign ■ against slackers. Miss Cornwell ‘ says she has a profound con- < tempt for slackers. She asked permission to go ■ out to the country dub add ar- ■ rest an employee, who, it was ■ alleged, had failed to register. ‘ She told her prisoner to submit ‘ quietly and he did.

RUBBER BOOTS SAVED HIM

Bam In Which Klpllnger Was Standing . Was Struck by Lightning. Charlotte, Mich.—The fine new large barn on the C. B. Lamb farm west of this town in Carmel township, which Is occupied by Grant. Klpllnger, was struck by lightning and the siding was torn off from top to bottom on both gables, the barn being about 50 feet In height. Mr. Klpllnger was standing in the barn at the time, and the stable doors, within two feet of him, were slivered and he was stunned, but not hurt by the shock. The fact that he was wearing rubber boots probably saved him from Instaiit death. The barn fortunately did not catch fire. It is 40 by 80 feet In size, cost $3,000, and is being built to replace the large barn destroyed by fire last autumn.

$1,500 FOR FORGOTTEN BIT

Savings Bank Account Accumulates Unclaimed in Brooklyn Bank for Sfx fv Years. New York,—A TTTags bank account of $1,500, which had been accumulating unclaimed In a Brooklyn bank for 60 years, has just found its owner in Yonkers, City Treasurer Albert Van Houten said today. It goes to Mrs. F. A. Gastlneau of Hancock avenue, Lincoln Park, that City. Mr. Gastineau, who died two years ago, deposited a small sum of money in the Brooklyn Savings bank in 1857. He must have forgotten it for he never mentioned it to his wife. For 40 years Interest on the deposit compounded, and It brought the total up to $1,500. Delivery of the money was brought about through a new law • compelling banks to search for owners of unclaimed deposits.

SQUIRRELS HOARD POTATOES

Rodents In Oregon Stole Them First and Then Hid Them InThelr Holes. Hood River, Ore.—Luhr Jensen will increase his plantings of potatoes by three pecks. Recently Mr. Jensen scattered poisoned wheat around the burrows and runways of a colony of troublesome digger squirrels near his barn. The poison was apparently fatal, for all of the squirrels disappeared. Recently Mr. Jensen out of curiosity decided to Investigate the underground tunnels of the rodents. As his excavations progressed he unearthed seven dead diggers and three pecks of fine seed potatoes that the squirrels had stolen from the rancher’s granary and had hoarded In the storage retreats of their underground home. 4

WAX STREET AND DANCE ON IT

Citizens of Huron, S. D., Make Outdoor Floor for Great Military Ball. Huron, S. D. —A thorough rubbing and waxing is not the usual treat-, ment given asphalt paving, and the city engineer has not recommended that the treatment will add to the longevity of the paving, but It adds to the dancing qualities* according to more than 500 persons, who danced with the footsore troopers of Troop G, local cavalry company. The troop was put through a flve-mlle hike just before being released to attend the benefit for the company, which netted more than JFSOO-