Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — Page 3

ATTRACTIVE PACKAGE BOOSTS MARKET PRICE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

A New York business man who was forced to a New Jersey suburb on ac•count of broken health, is making a good living by repacking fruit and vegetables which he buys from farmers and truckers, repacking them, and selling direct to consumer. He drives on an average ?0 miles, and the outdoor life has completely restored his health. Three years ago this man commenced business with a one-horse wagon. He repacked his fruit and vegetables with the aid of a small son, drove his own wagon and conducted the entire business practically alone. He now owns two double team wagons, and two single horse wagons,, covering four routes, each from 12 to 15 miles long. This fall he will supplant the two-horse wagons with a light guto truck, as he has demonstrated that he

' can cover a much larger territory with one of these vehicles and thereby save the wages of one man. This man Is simply doing what the farmers and fruit growers from whom he buys his supplies ought to do themselves if they would make all the profit there is to be made in the business. Growing the crop is not all of the game. Marketing is a good half of it, and perhaps even more. This New York self-made huckster buys fruit and vegetables just as they come from the farmer’s wagons. -They are delivered at his place, often covered with dirt, the fruit bruised and scratched, vegetables untrimmed and all generally unsorted. The fruit, particularly, the larger varieties, such as apples, peaches and pears, are carefully sorted and graded by the huckster, the apples washed, and the fruit is packed in small boxes or baskets', clean, uniform and highly attractive in appearance. Small fruits, such as cherries and berries are often dumped out of their original packages as they come from the farmers, sorted and repacked In clean boxes. Cherries are packed In boxes that hold from one-half to one peek and over the top

POULTRY POINTERS

Little ducks often suffer from sunstroke unless given a reasonable amount of shade. If eggs are to be preserved for next season’s use they should be “put down” immediately, if it has not been attended to. Crows are likely to steal the eggs from the late turkey nests if the nests' are made at some distance from the Ibulidings. Fowls or chicks that are confined in yards during hot weather need a variety of food and plenty of fresh, tender (greenstuff. Although geese, both young and old, will obtain enough food in-the fields to_ keep alive and well, the young will* grow faster and be more profitable if given one good feed of grain each day. There is no better time to build henhouses than the present, if there is any spare time, because houses built in warm weather have a ohance to dry out thoroughly before cold weather comes. Place the roosting coops for growing chicks in the shade or near a shady . ylace so tnat the youngsters can find a

WISE AND OTHERWISE

The hen that sits on a china egg is better off. Premature gray hair is what ■ causes the good to dye young. Some men are ’ engaged once ' too seldom and some once too ; often. Women are naturally credu- i lous when their portraits flatter them. When the king loses he always comes within an ace of winning. Satan never gets tired of jollying people, who maintain they ; are prize beauties. / .

By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN.

Packing Products to Please Customers.

is tacked gauze to protect them from insects. All root vegetables are carefully washed, topped and bound in bunches. 7'omatoes are graded and repacked in clean baskets, and no damaged vegetables are offered for sale. This man can prove by his books that he makes a net profit of from 25 to 100 per cent by his method of handling and marketing. There is no reason why the men who grow the fruit and vegetables should not make equally as big a profit, provided they possess the faculty for organization and the patience and pride necessary to put up their products in a style that will most readily attract the eyes of This New York huckster uses covered wagons with three decks. Upon

these decks his fruit and vegetables are neatly arranged, and everything the wagon contains is covered with light cloth to keep off the dust and insects. He has a large list of regular customers among the residents of the numerous small towns of his vicinity, who buy all their fruit and vegetables from him, because they can depend upon getting them fresh, clean and sound. Of course this man’s trade Is mostly among women, and he leaves nothing undone which will attract their attention, and arouse their interest in the cleanliness and good condition of his product. His wagons are washed dally, his horses well groomed, and the harness kept clean and shiny; Once or twice a month he buys a big lot of sweetpeas or other flowers, makes them up Into small bouquets and presents one to each of his customers. i ' Little attentions such as these always make a friend of the customer, and this man has found that nothing counts more in his business than this kind of attention added to politeness, and an honest desire to* please the people with whom he does business.

comfortable place to rest and digest their food during hot weather.

In warm weather put the coops for growing chicks in or near natural shade or provide artificial shade. Do not keep a lot of spare males, which will not be needed next season, during the summer and fall to eat food, worry the hens and make the eggs more likely to spoil. It is almost impossible to succeed with turkeys unless one is able to furnish a wide range, for turkeys do not prosper in confinement.

The Invitation.

Two jecrults in a Scottish regiment were visiting an English church for the first time. They had not been seated long before the organist began to play a very lively voluntary. This was something new to them, and they listened in astonishment, not being used to music of that sort in church. One of them wds then aroused from a reverie by a tap on the shoulder. Turning around, he saw a lady, the owner of the pew, who smiled at him, wishing to pass to her seat. He did not take in the situation. “No, no, mum!” he said. “Take my mate here—you’ll find he can dance much better (han me I”

Eyeglasses for a Diver.

A new eyeglass has been patented for the use of submarine divers. It is well known that the human eye does not function properly under water, objects appearing badly blurred and distorted. This is due to the fact that the speed of light in Water is different from • the speed of - light in air, and hence the light rays enter the eye with a different angle of refraction. The eye. Being designed for focusing rays coming through the air, is unable to focus rays coming through' the water.

The Frog.

, “Please don’t call mie Frog,” said the boy whose nickname was Frog. “Frog means a good jumper,” the other hoy. answered. • “Ves," siiid the first one, “but I don't svhilk wmy skin.” , J. . '.: -

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. REN@ELAER. IND.

Odd Facts About Babies.

Incubators for babies were used by the ancient Egyptians. In many countries the belief is held that babies born at precisely twelve midnight are endowed with occult powers. In some parts of Ireland a belt made of woman’s hair is placed about a newborn baby to keep evil spirits away. If you rock an empty cradle, you will rock a new baby into it, is a superstition that is almost everywhere prevalent. i In the British museum are specimens of babies’ feeding bottles dating to between six and seven hundred years before Christ Statisticians tell us that 26,000,000 babies are born into the world each year—about seventy a-minute, or more than one every second. Everywhere and always more boys than girls are born into the world, the proportion approximately being 1,040 male infants to 1,000 female. Twin babies are npt always born on the same day. A little while back a workman’s wife at Barrow, in Lancashire, England, gave birth on February 24 to a son. Six weeks later a girl was born. These babies, said the doctor, were undoubtedly twins, notwithstanding the unusually long period intervening between the two births.

Americans to Become Human Penguins Unless They Walk More, Says Student of Feet.

America’s physical foundation —the feet and legs of her citizens —is unsound, If we are to believe P. A. Valle, who has made a study of feet. If we do not discard the present monstrosities In footwear and get into the habit of walking, using our legs and feet Instead of the automobile and street car, he says we will become human penguins. He calls attention to the fact that Dr. Lloyd Brown, the examining physician of Harvard, found that 596 of 746 members of the IQI6 freshman class stood in a manner that Indicated “a potentiality for sickness,” and that 476 of the 596 students had feet and legs so Imperfect that they were ineligible for military duty. Lack of leg exercise is supposed to be the cause of this condition. Mr. Valle says that the American woman has neglected herself for so long that her legs and feet are suffering malformations. There is no longer in her leg the beauty of the classic line.—Popular Science Monthly.

SOME SMILES

No Transfer. .... “.Tibbles married for money, you say?” “Yes." "Where’s the money now?” “Still right where it was when he married for it.” Likely. “Your wife, goes to the country, eh?” “Yep.” * “Oh, you I Kicking over the traces a bit, eh?” “Well, not exactly. But I had a poker party at the house the other night. And I’m afraid she’ll be kicking over the traces when she gets back!”

Family Secrets.

The Usual Piece of Mind. “Pa, mother’s lookin’ for yer.” “What’s she want of me now?” “She don’t want .nothing of yer, but she says she’s goin’ to give yer something.” Very Much So. “I hear Chloe'was much cut up by William’s conduct, Mandy.” “So she was, ma’am, so she was. But it wasn’t conduct, ma’am, it was bis razah.” Birds of . a Feather. Billy—Say, what do dey mean by «a smoker’s set;? Jimmy—Dat’s a cinch. It's de crowd what hangs round de cigar store. Self-Evident.

“Talking about age, Miss Nancy seems to be hold-, ing her own.” “You bet" she does. Nobody else ever succeeded in getting hold of it.”

-aQuite Necessary. “Blinks prides himself on being blunt. He says he always calls a spacje a spade.” . ' “Wen, he could hardly get one at a hardware store if he called it a spatulum, could he?” ' <• Sensitive About It “Ah,” said the visitor, “this villags boasts a choral - society, I understand.” “No,” said the native, “we never boast of it.” _ ' .

“Is your father a commuter, little boy?” “Not yet, sir, but I ’spect he’s goin’ to be. I heard ma say he was goin’ to git fils sentence commuted.”

MONEY KEEPS MANAGER M’GRAW IN FRONT

A good dash of fortune, scrambled In with the real ability that is evident is as much responsible as anything in the success of John J. McGraw. Touted a wonder as a baseball manager, It Is doubtful if McGraw would be able to produce the same results that have characterized the efforts., of several other big league managers If he didn’t have the wealth of his backers to draw from, leaving him free to choose at will from among hundreds of ball players. The cases of Eddie Rousch and Dick Rudolph are perhaps the most predominant. Rousch is near the top among National league batsmen. Rudolph is Boston’s most effective pitcher and was one of the main reasons why the Braves were able to battle their Way to a National league championship and a subsequent world’s championship. Both these men once were Giants. Rousch was kept mainly doing bench duty, while Rudolph scarcely got that far. Milton Stock is another example; Fred Merkle is a fair idea of a ball player discarded as a has-been, and who is doing great work. There arq

FAITH PLACED IN OESCHGER

Big Righthanded Pitcher I* Dark Horse of Manager Pat Moran's Pitching Staff.

“California Joe” Oeschger (pronounced Eskger), the big righthanded pitcher who came to the Phillies in the spring of 1914 from St. Mary’s college, the baseball Incubator of the Pacific

Joe Oeschger.

coast, is this season the dark horse of Pat Moran’s pitching staff. In Manager Moran’s opinion and of every player on the Phillies, Oeschger should be another Alelander.

EBBETS WILL REBUILD TEAM

Brooklyn Owner Plans to Reconstruct Hi* Machine With Youngsters —Signs Two "Vets.”

President Ebbets of Brooklyn is said to. have concluded his tea’m is a flivver and Is going to rebuild it with youngsters. Among the raw recruits then, announced are the gray-haired Bill Leard and Frank O’Rourke, who had. a trial with tfte Boston Nationals as far back as 1912. All of which reminds us of the good things that were said for the “youngstei” Fabrlque last sprine.

SOME STARS M’GRAW HAS LET GO BY.

many others. McGraw has cast them aside to make room for men he thought would do better with the men making up his team. He has been successful in winning pennants and has to his credit one world’s championship, but if he would gather the stars he has let slip from his grasp and form them into one team the chances are he would have a machine that would be able to crush the present galaxy of stars with which he is trying to fret his way to a pennant A little more than a year ago'McGraw set out to gather in a surplus of stars with which he threatened to make a runaway race of the National league pennant. Among these was Hans Lobert. Lobert didn’t even finish the season and Is used now only as a pinch McGraw considers him finished, yet it is only a brief stretch of time since he went into a breach and won a game for the Giants by the brilliance of his fielding and hitting. It is one thing to have money behind and still another to be able to build a championship team.

DIAMOND NOTES

Neale of the Reds is now hitting the .300 class. • • • Umpires probably would like to have close decision included in peace terms. • * * Imagine nine men trying to play the kind of baseball that Ty Cobb would recommend. w s' • < Bernie Boland, Detroit pitcher, has set back the New York Yankees eight times in a row. • * * When the war is over they can bring theJmlser over and make him president of the National league. ♦ * * Seventy million dollars is Invested in trapshooting in America, and the sport is following the flag. •• • ' Johnny Evers is about through. The Phils may get some good work from him, but it is doubtful. r; -J « A team composed of men like Heinle Zimmerman and Johnny Evers would fill any park in the country. .* * * A scarcity of base hits and winning tallies takes its place alongside the shortage of beans in Boston. Jake Fournier, former White Sex first baseman, is setting the Coast league afire with his batting. i• * ♦ Mann gets around $6,000 as an outfielder with the Cubs. On his army job he will draw down $2,000. • • » The Cubs have a»fine young catcher in “Pickles” Dillhoefer, who is sharing the backstopping with Art Wilson. Barney Dreyfuss says he would like to sell his Pirates. Connie Mack might like to sell his pennant chances. With all that McGraw must have taken the spirit out 'of Heinie Zimmerman, who has ceased to nag the umpires, i ■ * • • Jack Barry says he was hit 23 times by pitched balls last season, but doesn’t believe in the beanball. Jack’s optimism is admirable, anyway. • • * » -»•' Paddy Livingstone once refused to report to the Indians and Connie Mack made him a member of his world’s champions. He refusedMo report to the Brewers and they made him manager.

PLAY AT MONTE CARLO

Management of Famous Resort Planning Winter Baseball. Two Teams From United States to Piay Exhibitions—Casino Authorities Would Have Players Thors Instead of South. Next winter, or the winter after the war ends, the baseball fans who to enjoy a winter season of the sport would do well to reserve quarters at Monte Carlo, for, if the plans of the Casino management do not, go astray, the first Monte Carlo season after the war will have as its piece de resistance six weeks of baseball between the New York Giants and another leading team. The grounds have already been chosen. They are the present football grounds In Condamine, and the Casino authorities are only waiting for definite signs of the end of the war to open negotiations with American club owners, with a view to bringing two or more teams to Monte Carlo for a winter season. Their idea is that, instead of the teams going South in February for six weeks’ training they could come to Monte Carlo about the middle of January and give a Season there which would take the place of the spring training at Marlin and other Southern resorts.

M. Camille Blanc and hf t s codirectors of the Casino have suffered from the war so acutely that they are planning to have Monte Carlo more luxurious, splendid and extravagant than ever. They think one of the best ways to recoup their losses will be to attract American millionaires and million heirs in swarms to their gambllng-den-by-the-sea. - The war has cast a blight on the Casino, on Monte Carlo, and, worst of all, on M. Camille Blanc and hjs codirectors. It Is tearfully said that the Casino has lost large sums of money during the war, not because there have been huge winnings by the' players, but because the players have been so few. The two-course “herriot” dinner and war bread apply In neutral and independent Monte Carlo just as they do in France, 150 yards away. Sports do not exist. A large proportion of the shops are closed, while of those open a good share are closing out on forced sale, and In the remainder nearly anything one wants can be bought far below Paris prices. Jewelry is ridiculously cheap in Monte Carlo this year. There Is a pawnshop on nearly every other corner of Monte Carlo, but not half a dozen in the town are open.

O’MARA LANDS WITH ATLANTA

Former Brooklyn Star Has Short■topped From Coast to Coast, i Winding Up in South. Ollie O’Mara, who has shortstopped from coast to coast this year, has joined Atlanta. He started with Brooklyn, was shipped to Oakland, was

Ollie O’Mara.

shipped back and thence, to the New York State league, where the economy policy caused him to be discarded, whereupon the Brooklyn club unloaded him on Atlanta.

FANS DON’T LIKE ROWDYISM

General Demand for More Aggressiveness on Part of Players, Both Major and Minor. There is a general demand for more aggressiveness on the part of the ball players, both major and minor. This is proper enough, as there has been altogether too much refinement about baseban, which is, supposed to be a red-blooded masculine contest, and not a pink tea. But in encouraging aggressiveness, the magnates must not fall into the error, of reviving one phase of aggressiveness that is akin to and provocative of rowdyism in'its worst form. That te the Indulgence in more or less derogatory personal exchanges between ball players, known as “riding.” This forin of goading an adversary is intolerable and should be prohibited. Insulting opponents is supposed to be evidence of lighting spirit and ginger, and is favored by many managers, but seldom pleases spectators, especially women who sit close to the playing field? The famous Mackmen were “colorless,” according to scribes, because they did not indulge in “riding” opponents, but it is signlflCant that more women attended the games at Shibe park in the days of the famous machine than afe on hand at other major league parks.