Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1917 — Page 3

MR. TROUBLE

Old Man Trouble come a-llmpln’ down de ' lane. Ke talk about de eunahine an’ he talk about rain. De sunshine it iis certain to perduce an awful drouth; An’ de rain will bring: a freshet If de wind Is fijom de south. Old Man Trouble saw de flow’rs a-bloom- ■ in’ gay. 'He said, "Dey’s nuffln’ only weeds dat can’t be cleared away! Tour hopes is muchly like ’em as so handsomely dey smile, An’ fade away like friendships In a very little whilq.” Old Man Troublg spoils de sunshine an’ de show’r. And everything dat blossoms is a weed an’ not a flow’r. Old Man Trouble, you kin travel on yoh way. I ain’t a-gineter listen to a thing you has to say. —Washington Evening Star.

Mother’s Cook Book.

Economical Dishes. Peanut butter Is a highly nourishing food and may be used in various ways In the preparation of the meal. Peanut Loaf. To one-half cupful of finely chopped peanuts add a cupful of boiled rice, and one cupful of fine bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly, add a tablespoonful •of softened peanut butter, one egg, well beaten, and a fourth of a teaspoonful of sage. Form into a loaf and bake half an hour. Serve with tartar sauce. Rye Mush Meal. Mix a half cupful of rye meal, onehalf cupful of cold water and a half •teaspoonful of salt, add to one and a fourth cupfuls of boiling water and -cook one hour in a double boiler. Serve with maple sirup. Tomato Mince Meat. ' Take a peck of green tomatoes, slice them and let stand in salt for 24 hours, drain and add 24 apples, five pounds of brown sugar, three pounds of raisins, two pounds of currants, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, a teaspoonful of cloves, one grated nutmeg and ® pint of good vinegar, cook one and a half hours, then put into gldss cans and seal. Bread Crumb Griddle Cakes. Take a pint of thick sour milk, a half teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of soda, one egg, one cupful of •whole wheat flour and enough white flour to make a batter with one cupful •of break crumbs. Beat well and cook on a hot griddle. Oatmeal Bread. Pour two cupfuls of scalded milk on one and a half cupfuls of uncooked oatmeal; add two tablespoonfuls of shortening, a teaspoonful of salt, and two tablespoonfuls of molasses. When ■cool add one-third of a yeast cake softened and mixed with a half cupful of lukewarm 'water, three cupfuls of whole wheat flour and two cupfuls of white flour; mix with a knife to a dough, adding as much flour as is needed. Wash the bowl and butter it, then put back the bread to rise in a warm place. When double its bulk, cut into two loaves, shape and bake one hour after it has risen to double Its bulk again.

About Persons.

N. E. Holister, ninety*two, paints houses in Terryville, Ky. C. I. Bailey of Bangor, Me., works as a traveling man though ninety-five. William Barnes, a Pennsyl-. vania hermit, starved to death while ill recently. J. G. Moore Has completed 50 years'in the service of a Washington bank. S. N. Murphy has returned to his home and family in Carrolton, Ga., after 40 years of! tramp life. J. G. Harbon, chief of staff of General Pershing, is a Kansas and West Point man. He enlisted in the army as a private. Dr. Gordon Edwards of Berkeley, Cal., has discovered how to administer quinine by spraying on raw wounds so it will act as a pain killer.

Method in His Madness.

When Alexander Dumas, the French novelist, was a young man he was grievously insulted by a man whom he had regarded as his friend. Every one expected him to punish the offender severely, but Instead he began looking out for him with more consideration and apparent friendliness than hd had ever shown before. At length, three years later, when the erstwhile friend was to be married, the novelist was asked to serve as best man and did so. When the ceremony was over and the guests were leaving, some one remarked to Dumas: “I have often wondered at your kindness to this ipan. Surely yours Is a remarkably forgiving nature, for, although he inrtulted you grossly, you have assiduously looked out for his happiness ever since and even assisted him in getting married.” “Quite right,” answered Dumas. “I flatter myself that I have given the fellow the most furious and' lynx-eyed mother-in-law to be found in France.”

Modem Joan of Arc of Italy

It was dusk in the Carfile Alps. The deep green hues of the mountain forests were blending In the gloaming, and a restful gloom was settling down In the mountains. Insects hummed and droned among the blue grass of the pastures. Devious pathways cut an uncertain course through the voluptuous color of the vegetation. Along one of these overgrown guiding ways a regiment' of the Italian Bersaglieri was making a tortuous ascent. The crests of the plumes in their helmets were rustled by mellow breaths from the Adriatic, and the gravel was crunching under roughshod soldier feet. Otherwise no sound came from this redoubtable column. For these men were moving forward to attack an enemy position which their air forces had failed to locate all through a humid day of death. The Austrian battery had swept with withering waves of steel the backs of these hoary Italian mountain crests. Thirteen thousand of Italia’s first line troops had vainly endeavored to pass the enemy emplacements. The blood of Italy’s sons dried on every leaf and gravel path, and her wounded lay where the Red Cross could never reach —at the feet of these eternal piles, mangled masses of human flesh. The Bersaglieri, Italy’s strange, swift-loping infantry, was going into the action; expert, accurate marksmen, every man. The advanced patrols and several on the flanks had engaged enemy patrols several times and had only succeeded in adding to the perplexities of the situation. Suddenly there was a challenge, an oath in Italian, and presently a corporal was seen making his way to the main body. With him was a woman—a young girl, self possessed and smiling. She inquires her way to the com-

This Is an Age of Young Men But They Are Still Young If on Sunny Side of Seventy

A generation ago it was customary to talk of those who had reached forty as of mature age. A man of those years is now considered young, and at sixty or seventy can have a brilliant future .still ahead. That our forefathers had no such conception of relative youthfulness can easily be shown, says Thomas F. Zagon in Leslie’s Weekly. The Constitution provided that no one should be eligible for election to the senate at an earlier age than thirty-five, the reasons advanced being that such a restriction was necessary in order to keep the senate made up of grave and reverend seigniors—elder statesmen, who would not be blown about with every veering wind of political doctrine. Today there is not a senator who is just barely beyond the age limit, and the great majority do not come into senatorial honors short of fifty and fifty-five. _ Alexander 'Hamilton was a sedate secretary of the treasury at thirty-two. The younger Pitt became prime minister, first lord of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer of England at twenty-four. Washington spoke of retirement from active life to well-earned rest and leisure for his remaining years when still but forty-six. In recent times we have had no presidents young in years by the former standards, unless Roosevelt be classed as an exception in connection with his first term of service. Even the popular novelists have sensed the change, now making their successful business men of forty or thereabouts attractive to the heart of the female reader. This is admittedly an age of young men, as has been claimed, but they are still young anywhere on the sunny side of seventy, and many of the most efficient have passed the three score mark. p

“THE WORLD DO MOVE”

Something like a gigantic ice cream freezer has been built at the Utah Agricultural college, large enough tosurround fruit trees, to experiment with frost effects under actual orchard conditions. Because Insects collect at the upper end of screen doors an Inventor Jias brought out one In two sections permitting children to enter through the lower section without admitting Insects to a house. So that automobile tourists can carry additional baggage an Englishman has Invented a trailer to be attached to the rear corners of a car and be supported by a single wheel. Violet light Is being used by French scientists to test precious stones, especially rubies, as it distinguishes the more valuable Burmese gems from Siamese ones of less worth. For sending messages from airplanes or balloons to the ground a Frenchman has Invented a missile to contain paper, which, on striking the ground, ignites a colored fire to signal Its whereabouts. A simple but accurate method for measuring the surface of a human being has been invented by a French scientist. To help women select gowns stereopticon apparatus has been Invented) which projects pictures of garments upon a mirror that also reflects a prospective wearer’s head as she stands behind a screen.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

By G. Kay Spencer

manding officer. She carries an automatic at her hip and she knows the Austrian position. She is a native of the parts and has won the confidence of Austrian officers. The engine of blue steel flashes dully from her hip to her hand and points upward and onward. She cheers—a wild Italian mountain cry —and the troops respond. The officer had not the chance for orders —if he would have given them. Before he realized the situation the Bersaglieri were in motion; following the young •woman, who marched rapidly and firmly with her automatic in the fore, greedy for a target. They soon encounter their own advanced patrols and, Joining, they make a precarious way over piles of ageworn rock. — Direct to the task she leads them. She fights with them; her pistol spitting Its doses of death into enemy breasts; her cheers ringing shrilly above the maelstrom of swirling foes, and steel firing steel on its errand into enemy vitals. The encounter was violent and decisive. The Austrians were routed — to be technically correct —were annihilated. The Italians occupied the position and signalled headquarters the location of adjacent enemy outposts. The result was the eventual occupation by the Italian armies of the entire Austrian system on that sector. In Rome, a few days later, a “medal to military valor” was struck and presented to p coy young girl, who insisted that she had done nothing remarkable in thus serving her country. ’ Italian poets and novelists are perpetuating her name and exploit. She is the idol of King Victor’s soldiers. Her real name is Marla Abrlanl, but the men in the Bersaglieri know her as Jeanne d’Arc d’ltalla.

What Did She Mean? Minnie—So sorry to hear of your motor accident? Lionel —Oh, thanks; it’s nothing. Ex-, pect to live through many more. Minnie —Oh, but I hope not! Worse Than Broker “He’s in a bad way.” “Broke, eh?” “Worse than that. He’s down to the point where nobody will lend him money any more.”

Shor t —l say, old man, can you lend me $10? Longley - mpossible. I’ve tried to lend you money several times, but you always seem to look upon it as a gift.

Killed the Spies. Knicker —Why did you kill my chickens? Becker—They were spies trying to find out what I had planted.—New York Sun. Unethical. “Why did they manage to get Bullitt out of that automobile club?” “Because every time he. was arrested for speeding he admitted he was going just as fast as the cop charged.” Out of Date. Mrs. Longwed—l always congratulate myself on having a model frusband. Mrs. Justwed —But you’ve had him a good many years. My husband’s a this year’s model. Not an Economist. “Are you practicing food economy?” “I tried it out, but it didn’t work. My husband simply refused to eat the cold boiled egg. that was left over from the day before.”

Raindrops Make Lightning.

An English scientist declares that the splitting of raindrops in falling through the ascending air currents, which are characteristic of thunderstorms, is the source of lightning. The small drops with negative charges go up with the wind while large ones with positive charges stay below. Thus during a thunderstorm there is usually a region of positive electricity between the positive earth and the negative upper portion. When the charge has become sufficient a series of direct current discharges usually takes place along approximately the same line and these reduce what we see as a lightning flash.

JUST FOR FUN.

v Still at it

“SoPeg’s engaged to be married again?” ■ ■ “Yes, again.” “But she didn’t marry the last one.” “No. “There doesn’t seem to be any last one.” «

Loan Is a Gift.

MOST BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE OF HOPPE

WILLIE HOPPE, BILLIARD CHAMPION OF WORLD.

Unquestionably the most brilliant performance of William F. Hoppe, whose remarkable mastery of the ivory spheres lohg has. been the talk of the billiard world, was his astonishing defeat of Maurice Vignaux, the noted French expert, who had vanquished nearly all the other American players of renown. The match between the eighteen-year-old American boy and the veteran Frenchman took place at the Grand hotel, Paris, on January 15, 1906, and was won by the youngster by the decisive score of 500 to 323. When it is considered that the style of play was 181, the most diffimlt of all bulkline games, the victory of the boy was all the more remarkable. The fact that Hoppe’s average was 20 20-24, against 14 1-23 by Vignaux and that the victor made a high run of 93 and ran out with an unfinished break of 75, while the loser’s best run was 61, shows how completely the youth outclassed the older player. Vignaux Was Champion. Previous to this match Vignaux had beaten Schafer, Slosson and Sutton, and was the champion at eighteen, when Hoppe challenged for the honors. The French master and his friends were highly amused, for they had not been informed as to the ability of the little chap, who had discarded knickerbockers but a few years previously. Vignaux started off in the lead and played with the greatest confidence. The youngster performed with surprising skill and steadiness, but the onlookers were of the opinion that he would break down under the strain of the Frenchman’s progressive counting. At the end of the eleventh inning the figures were: Hoppe, 139; Vignaux, 164. In the twelfth, Hoppe, with a splendid masse, placed the spheres nicely

BALL EXPECTS EVEN BREAK

Loss of St. Louis Browns Believed to Equal Profit Made Year Ago— New Players Bought. The St. Louis Americans, during the season of 1916. made a profit of about $25,000. The loss of the club during the current season Is expected to equal that figure, making an “even break” on the two years. Phil Ball, chief owner of the club, whose ambition it has been to give St. Louis a winning team, has spent about $600,000 in baseball since he first invested in the St. Louis Federals. This sum of course includes his losses. He says he will stay in the game, however, and already he has spent $27,000 for new players-for next year. Among the new players whom the" St. Louis club has obtained are Kenneth Williams, Pacific coast star; Earl Smith, star hitter of the Western league, and Grover 'Lowdermilk, one of the best pitchers in the American association.

OUTFIELD CAUSE OF BOTHER

Manager of Boston Braves Has Made Novel Record in Experimenting With Fly Chasers. - < George Stallings, who assumed the management of the Boston Braves In 1913, has made a novel record in experimenting without field material. In five years. Including the present season, he has used nearly thirty men in garden. He started out with Seymour, Zinn, Titus and Lord, but soon got rid of them. Since then the Braves’ outfielders have included Snodgrass, Sherwood Magee, Wilhoit, Connelly, Chappelle, Collins, Cather, Compton. Moran, Gilbert, Mann, Griffith, Whitted, Devore, Murray, Kelly, Rehg, IJugey, Fitzpatrick, Twombley, Clymer, Powell and others.

and ran a perfectly nursed 23, failiilg with an all-around shot to get outside the line. Vignaux, now on -his mettle, completed 47, this run being remarkable for a wonderful screw draw. Betting on Vignaux. When the interval came, with the score 266 to 288, in favor of Vignaux, there was a little betting on Vignaux at 5 to 4 in the French diviAon, but the Americans could not be drawn in at any price. L Recommencing, Hoppe scored only 2; Vignaux put together a moderate 4, leaving the balls well together. This although the little American had a narrow squeeze as a result of playing too gently at the eleventh stroke, he sailed ahead,, tying Vignaux when he had made 38. After putting together 51, Hoppe was ahead by 2 points only. After Vignaux had replied with 9, his breakdown being again a failure to get the balls out of balk, the game was in Hoppe’s hands, for in the five following breaks he made 219 to 64 compiled by Vignaux in his four innings. Runs 93 for Record. Hoppe’s 93 in the twenty-second inning was the record. It was made without a fluke. *’ The boy gave one of the grandest exhibitions of billiards imaginable. Time after time he had to stop until the applause ceased. When at the beginning of the twen-ty-fourth Inning, wanting 75 to win, Hoppe took his place at the table one could almost have heard a pin drop. In almost breathless silence broken only by the marker’s voice, he put on point after point, nurses, recalls and cushion carrows being faultlessly made. At 57 it looked as though he would break down, but with a four-cushion carrom he had the balls in close company and ran out.

AMERICA IS PUT ON MARKET

Ancient Yacht, Winner of Royal Squadron Cup, Is For Sale—-la in Good Condition. America, which won the Royal Yacht Squadron cup 66 years ago. August 22, 1851, is offered for sale by her present owners, Paul Butler and Mrs. Blanche Butler Ames. She is now laid up at a wharf in Boston, and is in first-class condition. That she will not go to the Junk heap is practically certain, for before the ■war several yachtsmen tried to induce the Butlers to sell without success, and members of the New YorkJYacht club have been anxious to have her. Furthermore, an examination of her hull showed her to be in first-class condition, and although she has been outbuilt by modern designers, she is still able to sail, and sail at a good rate of speed, if there is ample wind to drive. She never was a good drifter, but, given a gig whole-sail breeze, she will show her heels to many much younger.

LIKELY TO LOSE ITS RATING

With Denver Out of Western League Standing aa Class A Circuit May * Be Surrendered. > If another attempt Is made this winter to reclassify the leagues remaining under the protection of the National association, then the Western league is likely to lose its standing as a Class A league, a rating it has claimed by concession rather than actual population. With Denver out of the league, .as now seems possible, next year, and a small tpwn like Hutchinson in the circuit, the Western might have some trouble mustering population enough even to make a Class B league. The circumstances are of interest, in connection with territorial changes.

FRED ANDERSON’S RISE

Only Ex-Fed Hurler to Share In World’s Series Coin. Was Ushered Into Citizenship Twenty. Five Year* Ago at Statesville, N. C.—Valuable Player to Call On In Pinch. Fred Anderson, who came to the Giants from the Buffalo Feds, Is the only ex-Federal league pitcher who shared in the cutting of the world’a series melon this fall. Incidentally, Anderson’s rise to major league class has been a rapid one, for prior to Joining the Giants, in 1918, he had only a glimpse of big league company, and he probably has the Federal leargue to thank for the fact that he came into notice as a pitcher who possessed league class. Like Rube Benton, one of his pitching mates, Anderson is a native of North Carolina. He was ushered into citizenship at Statesville, N. C., somo twenty-five odd years ago and, like Benton, he started pitching independent ball before he was eighteen years old. Several years ago the Boston Americans got wind that a young hurler named Anderson was going great guns Ln professional ranks “somewhere below the Mason-Dixon line and a scout was sent South to give him the up and down. As a result Anderson got a tryout with Boston, but was turned over to a minor league club in New England for more seasoning. About that time the Buffalo Feds were scouring the minors for pitching material, and as Anderson was dissatisfied they had no trouble getting bls name to a contract. Then, when the Feds busted up, McGraw picked him from among a host of Federal league pltchets and he has succeeded in making good. AndetSon is a right-hander, and although not the most sensational of McGraw’s pitchers, Is a hard worker.

Fred Anderson.

He uses a good assortment of twisters and is capable of taking his regular turn, in the box, but because McGraw’s three southpaws have been going great guns this year the ex-Fed wiggler has not been called upon to do a great amount of work. When the Giants went-South last spring many of the scribes who accompanied the team thought that Anderson would be forced to step aside for Jimmy Middleton, the right-hander secured by McGraw from the Louisville club, but when the weeding-out process came it was Anderson who stuck, and still there. Anderson is a valuable man to call into the box as a pinch pitcher, for he has good control and is steady under fire.

RECORD OF CENTRAL LEAGUE

Did Not Sell a Player to Major League Club—Several Went Up Again Under Recalls. The Central league made the record of not selling a player to major league clubs, according to a Grand Rapids correspondent. The Brooklyn clutt was supposed to have bought Pitcher Wachtel from Muskegon, but that deal is reported off. Catcher Harry Smith of Fort Wayne Is to get a trial with Cincinnati, but that sale is only conditional and the sale announced by; Peoria of Catcher Bob O’FarreM Is not an actual purchase. Several players go up again under recalls, but the actual sales are nil.

TWO BOXERS ARE PATRIOTIC

Kid McCoy and Terry McGovern Helping to Boost Recruiting—Urge Fans to Enlist. Kid McCoy and Terry McGpyern' a?e spending the greater part of their time these days in helping to boost recruiting in the army and navy. Both of these old-timers appear at New York boxing clubs and make speeches urging the boxing fans to enlist, and though neither one is an eloquent speaker, the plain, forceful talks they’ make have been getting better results tlian ail the flowery language in the dictionary could possibly do. 1