Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — Page 2

PUN TO STOP THE WASTE IN EGGS

Poultry and Egg Shippers to Cooperate With the Food Administration. HOPE TD SAVE $50,000,000 ■■ Shippers Who Purchase Eggs to Pay Only for Those Fit for Human Consumption—Prompt Chlll- ' Ing of Eggs Is Advocated. Washington. New methods and equipment to save the SSO, 000, (MX) worth of eggs wasted every year In this country and make the poultry industry an effective ally in the cause of food conservation were discussed recently at a conference of representative poultry and egg shippers with the food-administration. --- - The conference was addressed by the food administrator, G. H. Powell, and E. Hearty nf his staff, and Dr. Mary Pennington of the United States food research laboratory, Philadelphia and W. F. Priebe of the food administration presided. The waste in eggs in 1914, according to the department of agriculture yearbook, cost the country SSO.(MK).(MX). This year it wlll be fully as large ; for although the supply has gone down, prices have Increased materially. Wasteful methods in handling poultry were also exceedingly expensive. The food administration made practical suggestions to remedy conditions, all of which received the approval of the conference. Pay Only for Good Ones. It was recommended that shippers who purchase eggs pay for only tho ie fit for human consumption., The custom has been to buy eggs by the case, without candling before purchase. Candling later was almost always sure to show that a large percentage of theeggs were bad. To get his money back, the shipper then had to throw away the bad eggs and raise his price, which was felt all along the line to the consumer.

NOW ATTACK RED CROSS

Officers Directed to Trace Source of Pro-German Propaganda.—Spread False Stories. f Washington.—Pro-German propaganda, which has long busied itself against the government of the United States, has at last attacked the Red Cross so nearly in the open that General Manager Harvey D. Gibson has sent a telegram to all division managers in the United States to report to him the source of every attack. “Rumors and innuendoes critical of and calculated to embarrass the Red Cross are being industriously circulated as part of an .unpatriotic propaganda," wired Mr. Gibson. “Many stories, utterly unwarranted in fact, emanate simultaneously .from too many parts of the country to be merely accidental.” Mr. Gibson intimates that the source of the propiaganda will be found. He says: “Every criticism or innuendo against the Red Cross should be immediately Challenged and follow’ed up.” The stories are of many kinds. One is that the Red Cross sells and keeps the money for sweaters and other articles given for the soldiers. Another is that nearly all money contributed goes for expenses and salaries.” Of course the stories are maliciously untrue. As Mr. Gibson says: “The Red Gross is run as an open book. It has no secrets. It is making a sincere effort to serve -mankind, and is doing it as carefully and economically as it kmJws how. The utmost effort is being jnade to give publicity to all its activities.”

$200,000 for Housemaid.

Alton, 111. —Miss Carrie Polntsalot of Alton is named the sole heiress to the large estate of Miss Matilda Lowery of Grand Rapids. Mich., who died in Philadelphia recently. The fortune, estimate at $200,000, was left to Miss Polntsalot after Miss Lowery met her on a cold November day while she was dong housework for a family in St. Louis.

WOMEN REPLACE MEN IN MACHINE SHOPS

■ t Ogden, Utah. —Women in overalls replacing men who have been called into the draft army or have volunteered for^ service with Uncle Sam’s Liberty army, made their first appearance here when the Southern Pacific railroad employed about a dozen of the fair sex for work In the local repair shops. The women will get their first experiencing in “sorting” scrap piles, separating the cast iron slugrf from the malleable, and removing the -steel and wrought iron. Nuts, bolts? screws and Other small pieces will be handled by the women, and if they display sufficient strength and ability in this line it is planned to put them to work Cleaning cars and ofher 1 heavier work about the yards and roundhouses. The “women in overalls” will receive the same compensa 11 on las that given the men who have la-en doing the same work.

Chilling pf eggs to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, or below, as soon after., purchase ins possible, was advocated. Most eggs are fertile, and the lifegerm will deteriorate fast If not chilled. Even lin infertile eggs the bacterial growth develops very sbon. Wholesalers were urged to equip their plants with the latest cooling machinery. All second-grade eggs, heated, shrunken or cracked, should be marketed as often and as near the source as possible- These are usual 1 y dessicated or frozen, and are used by confectioners and bakers. Before shipping, all eggs should be carefully rehandled and those Cbadly “checked"—that is, wltil shells cracked—should be removed. Packing in standard cases Is recommended, to prevent breakage. Eggs should be gathered by farmers daily and marketed at least twice a week. Cause of Many Scandals. The practice of selling poultry with feed, sand or gravel in Wir crops, w-hich Is pytf for by weight Vflth the bird, Is discouraged. This crafty device has caused many scandals in the industry, and several municipal investigations, notablycona-ln New York. Dressed poultry should be sold with the crop entirely empty. All birds should be kept in sanitary coops and yards, and as, soon as dressed.should be chilled to 40 degrees, or lower; to prevent bacterial growth. The conference passed resolutions of support for the whole food administration program, including federal license for dealers. ~ _____

Coin in an Apple.

Albany, Ore.—When the Rev. C. L. Schuster, pastor of the Evangelical church here, started to eat an apple presented to him at a surprise party here one evening recently, .he found it contained a sufficient quantity of gold coins to pay the expenses of himself and family on a trip to the minister's old home in Ohio. He had been planning to visit his mother and the congregation, learning of this, decided to pay his expenses.

SAWDUST IN GERMAN BREAD

Analysis Shows That About TwoThirds Is From a Wood Product. Rome. —That German bread is mainly sawdust is now proved by a military attache of the Swiss legation in Berlin, w’ho returned to Rome Til with dysentery. He broughfa loaf of German bread to see if it was responsible for his bad health. Berne experts just analyzed the loaf and found it contains corn, 12 per cent, barley, 22 per cent and the remaining G 6 per cent was wood sawdust. Bread tickets also are in force in Switzerland. The dally allowance Is

AMERICANS TELL VERDUN HORRORS

College Students Who Drove Ambulances Won Honors Before Enlisted Men Came. BATTERED VETERANS RETURN One Volunteer Describes Havoc Wrought by Shell Dropped Among Stretcher Bearers. —Two Hit While Helping Wounded. New York.—Some of the American college boys who went over to France last May as ambulance drivers for the excitement of the work behind the firing lines are returning home because the ambulance work has been taken over by the United/' States army and will be done by regular enlisted men. The following is ah extract from a letter written by a Williams boy two weeks ago, who went over with bls college unit to drive an ambulance at the front: . . The last six weeks we have been

serving in the Verdun sector with our base at Biercourt, which is eightjmiles from the town of Verdun. There are two front posts for the ambulances— Mort Homme hill and Hill 304. which have figured in the news of the new battle of Verdun. For two weeks the French were preparing for the attack, and the roads were only passable at night. The communication trenches were awful to get through, and were made worse by the heavy rains. One night iqst week two of the boys got lost in the darkness and could not find their way with their ambulance to the post/ Finally they sighted two dark objects, which resembled French soldiers walking along with theii; big overcoats on. After jabbering their peculiar brand of-French for 15 minutes without receiving any reply the lost ambulance drivers discovered that the dark moving objects were two American army mules, unable to speak or understand a word of French. Hit While Helping Wounded. “Two of our chaps were badly wounded at one of the first-aid stations while helping to load wounded men into the ambulance. One was blown right through the? door of the shelter hut and was discovered lying unconscious beside three dead French soldiers. It® boys who got tljem out had to go through a gas attack and a barrage fire. Two of them—each ambu-

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PARISIENNE’S LATEST FAD

The animal was caught by a bravd poilu ami is now the companion* of its\ mistress. It is submissive to one pery son only and that is the young la<te found in the photo. Paris has taJten to the idea and more than one is seen on the streets of the Parisian capital.

250 grammes, about nine ounces. Sugar tickets soon will be issued, with monthly allowance fixed at 18 ounces, and rice nine ounces. Butter is to be rationed too, the amount differing with districts, but nowhere to exceed three ounces a month. With the institution of rations in Switzerland hundreds of Germah and. Austrian visitors left for home. One reason was they can no longer send home food by parcel post, and the other, more potent, is that under the Swiss regulations food tickets are only issued after a thorough inquiry about the visitors’ nationality and business. A large inflow of people, Intent on spying, thus is also stopped.

Now Has Another’s Nerve.

Chicago.—Capt. R. Hugh Knyvett, intelligence officer of the Fifteenth infantry brigade, Australian imperial force, is on his way back to the front after being invalided home when a German shell inflicted twenty wounds. For six months he was paralyzed, but today in Chicago he was as vigorous as ever, the result, he says, of the transplanting of a nerve from another man’s leg to his own. Cuba is building a canal 32 miles long in the province of Matanzas to reclaim a large and fertile area.

lance has two drivers —had no time to get masks and were very sick after it was over? “but they were, going so fast that there were no fatal results from the gas. “ ‘Mac,’ one of our fraternity, has been wounded in eight places. He lost his right leg and two fingers, while his companion, ‘Vet,’ will have a stiff leg all his life from the effects of his wounds. They have both got the War Cross and military medals. “The worst experience of all happened to two of our college boys—Jim Alexander and Taffy Young. While they were driving along a road lined with batteries, which the Germans were trying to locate, with a wounded man lying in the ambulance, a shell burst right beside them. “Just before that the wounded man sat up and asked for a cigarette, and the shrapnel passed through the car where his head hafi been resting a few seconds before and strtick the stretcher bearer, who was looking out to see where we were. He died that afternoon. Had Jim not ducked he would have lost a leg. and if Taffy had ducked he would have been badly wounded. The anjlmlance was-shotto pieces by the shell, and they had to hold up the dying man for three hours until assistance came. During the attack we had about twenty-four hours sleep out of 184 hours, which was a fair average for all the ambulance drivers In our sector. During the German air raids one shell burst within twenty-five feet~PfJ3ur camp at Bler,court at midnighVThe roads are nearly impassable now for automobiles. We have been-treated very nicely by the French colonel _in .command branch depot, who feasted with champagne, cakes and cigars, and has given us seats for all the shows gotten up by the French soldiers. Volunteer Spirit Gone. “Several colonels and majors of the American Red Cross have visited us to see what we are going to do now. They all admitted tha’t we could do more for our country by enlisting in the regular army in Paris. This is. for all the able-bodied men in the, ambulance service. We were asked to enlist, |f we preferred, in the ambulance service for the duration of the war, but-It would not be the same. Most of the boys declined, and we are going to Paris to join up, including myself. Thepld/A'oiunteer spirit in the ambulance borps has gone forever—so now for the United States artillery or air service in search of adventure.”

AROUND THE WORLD

Alaska reports platinum finds. Canada is cutting down consumption of bacon. British Honduras has a branch of the bank of Canada. American fire losses total more than $200,000,000 a year. United , States congressmen send out seven tons of mall daily. -Jj Russian duma recently found one of its members to be a burglar. Maine last year raised in two counties $30,000,000 worth of potatoes.

FROM NEAR AND FAR

A new automobile spring lubricator resembles a hatchet, grease being contained in the handle and passing through the blade as it is Inserted between the leaves of a spring. To lessen the humming of telephone wires when fastened to buildings a system invented tba Europe encloses them in cement Cylinders that are softer on the inside than the outside. To facilitate rapid writing there ha,s been invented a metal device to be clamped to the little finger and with a shelf on which to rest the next finger and slide over a surface written upon. For tourists there has been invented a clothing closet mounted on a wire frame which can be folded and carried in a trunk, being extended and hung on a nail when a hotel room is reached. After experimenting for several years, Swedish railroad officials have -decided--that peat powder is an efficient and practical fuel for locomotives with a value about two-thirds that of coal. Because locusts are rich in nitrogen and phosphoric acid, the government of Uruguay has appointed a commission to ascertain if the insects cannot be utilized in fertilizers, soap and lubricants. To enable a rifleman to see where his bullets go an Ohio inventor has designed a target which, when hit, extinguishes lights In front of it and shows a light from the back through the bullet hole. Rubber tree tapping by a series of small borers set in a circle, the invention of an English expert in the Belgian Kongo, lias proven a more productive method than the customary vertical incision system.

WHY FRET?

Are the trains too slow for you? Caesar, with all his court, never “exceeded” the speed limit. Are your wages too small? In Europe people are content with making a living. ■ „./_?_— ’ Are the lights too dim? David wrote his pSalms by the light of a smoky torch. Are you cold? The soldiers of Valley Forge walked barefoot on the ice and snow. Are you hungry? The children of Inditt are starving for want of a crust of bread. Ate you tired? Why fret about It? Jacob was tired when he dreamed of the angels of heaven. Are you sick? Suppose you had lived 2.000 years ago when sickness was fatal ? .1. -■ Are you poor? The Savior of men was not wealthy. Cheer up I Praise God that you live in the midst of his blessings! Why Fret ? —Exchange.

“THE WORLD DO MOVE”

A recently patented eye shade is supported from the nose like eyeglasses and is re-enforced by a malleable mbtal band that permits it to be fitted to heads of all shapes. Engineers in Sweden are experimenting with perforating the webs of street car rails to increase their resiliency and increase their life when laid on rigid foundations. ’ The doors of a new street car designed with the safety of passengers in view cannot be opened while the car is in motion and the car cannot be started while the doors are open. Water valves 12 feet in diameter and so. constructed that they will close automatically in event of ?a break in the pipe have been built for a hydroelectricplant in Utah. Boat davits for seagoing vessels that an Alabama man has invented resemble long cranes that lower boats into the sea at a safe distance from a vessel or from one listed to the opposite side. ’ • / ‘\

Rome and Its Air Defenses.

ROME Is situated in an admirable position from the viewpoint of Tirrtt-aeriat defense; Not - only is it in the usual sense a fortified city, but it lies In a wide plain surrounded by hills at successive levels that render minute and long distance observation singularly easy. The theory of a hidden and possible Important airplane base somewhere by the Tyrrhenean sea, that could send its aircraft to Rome along the flat shores or the Maremma marshes, has now proved to be highly Improbable, writes Magda Sindici in the Chicago News. The latter would be the best side on which to attack, only it has the great disadvantage as a scheme, of not being—so far —feasible. Seashore and Maremma marshes would have to be approached, failing this western base, by crossing the higher Apennines. It is, perhaps, difficult to place anti-air-craft batteries along these peaks sufficient in number to protect the whole mountain chain; but spur after spur of the Apennines runs at right angles to the main range from this spinal celumn of Italy to the sea; and these spurs are protected at every strategic point, that is, wherever the mountainous district merges into a plain. Munition Works in Umbria. All over the dreamy province of Umbria, so called because of the “shade” once cast over the land by the thick woods that covered it, batteries are concealed. This province seems to have gathered to itself all the gentleness of Italy, as if* the spirit of its ancient agricultural inhabitants, older than the Etruscans, had managed to survive the impact-es Agree medlevalwar. Umbria holds the town of Terni, with its unresting steel and munition works —a great goal for bomb throwers and many times attacked. , The little river Nera comes tumbling along close by it, between high, cool banks, so hasty and vivid that its waters lash themselves into perpetual foam; and just above the Nera, the gray gleam of guns adds a contrasting touch to the peasants in blue overalls and the red tasseled white, cattle for which the district is famous. Close under an old rambling convent watched by ageless cypresses, which strike a warm brown note in a surrounding scale of hard grays, another battery lurks; Calvl, perched at the top of the last hill before the Apennines dwindle away into the valley of the Tiber, must not be left undefended. I know an old peasant there, who perhaps still trudges along the same road every dawn and nightfall with his ax and his spade, who asked me, not so long ago, if it were true that there now existed some mad folk, among other iniquitous children of this wicked century, who were trying to

DOWN THE DALMATIAN COAST

Strange Superstitions of the Mixed People That Live Along the Adriatic. A much mixed, backward, and strangely superstitious people are those who dwell along the eastern shores of the Adriatic sea, according to a bulletin of the National Geographic society. Greek colonies and Homan municipia; Byzantian officials arid sick Franks abandoned on the rocks of Zara by Crusaders; Italians exiled during the centuries of strife among their petty states o_r brought thither by trade ventures; the flood of Slavonian and, later, of Ottoman, invasion ; all these are the elements of the people living along Austria-Hun-gary’s seacoast. Franks, Byzantians, Croats, Bosniaks, Turks, Hungarians, Genoese, Neapolitans, Germans, and, of first importance, Venetians have ruled various parts of this coast*'at different times. The heavy groundtone of this shore people is Slavonian, but there is besides a jumble of almost every other racial element From Trieste downward, the Slavonians predominate. Latin writers noted that the'Siavonian tribes knew no form of monarchal government, but that all matters of the tribe were dealt with 'by a common national council. And today the individual Dalmatian and Istrlan is one of sturdiest Independence. These Slavonians wqi-shiped a god of thunder, sacred groves, nymphs, ahd genii, special-powered beings of all rtescripticns; and they still do inany

fly in the air. I told him the report was quite true. “Flying in the face of Providence;** he saidsadly; ‘‘tempting Providence!” Batteries All Around the City. On the hills above Tivoli, in view of the temple where the prophetic books were kept that held the story of Rome and where a wise sibyl uttered oracular truths tempered with probability, another battery, of straight muzzles takes heed only of the deep, silken' night sky. This Is a larger towhlet than the village of Calvi, and the inhabitants, lulled to a semihypnotic somnolence by the never ceasing spell of their waterfalls, know little of the wary guns that guard their slumbers. Along Rome’s immediate coronet of hills, above that Latium where ghostly lines of aqueducts and here and there a ruined group of gnatled old tower spell out the tale of Roman and barofiial days, more batteries guard the se- . curity of the eternal city, and the same is the ease farther down where a little well of acidulous water j:hat is much drunk in the hot weather sends in"TtS“ daily supply on summer mornings, together with the brightly colored fruit carts, to be sold in the streets heralded by a strange, sing songing cry. As far away as the Simbruni hills that lead in gradations of wildness to the harsh heart of central Italy, the Rome-Sulmona railroad has its grim guardian angels. And at Subiaco, the cradle of western monastic orders, all is ready against the incursion of illintentioned creatures of the air. Vatican Real Help to Rome. And yet, it Is perhaps the„ that constitutes the best and surest anti-aerial weapon. The pope lives within its walls, and Austria, the most Catholic monarchy, will send no bombs to Rome. As the capital of Italy, Rome would perhaps not be spared, but a stray bomb on the Vatican would trouble the consciences of the dual monarchy more than the slaughter of any number of innocent noncombatants and create complications for the imperial government greater than they care to face. It Is doubtful whether even Protestant Germany would care to affront the conscience of a not inconsiderable part of its population. There have been no formal assurances given to that effect—if they exist they have not been made public—yet there seems to be a tacit understanding that because of the pope’s presence Rome is to be respected. Thus, this city of many vicissitudes, though prayer and fastfng are as much out of date as a means of defense as the “terror by night” that haunted the old monks of Subiaco, carries within herself a purely spicltual defense more powerful than any girdle of steel.

View of the Vatican.

odd fetish services, though more Christian peoples, of more simple and’ abundant faith, are not to be found. Vampires, diabolical ghosts, witches, “vilen,” and vengeful spirits are held in great respect throughout this country, and the folklore Is rich in their doings and In the common mortal’s philosophy of self-preservation in a world filled with such discouraging things. The “alp,” or nightmare, is a bitter old maid, recognizable by her garb, who sits on the back or breast of the sleeper and torments him, mayhap fatally. She cannot, for some reason or other, sit-upon the sleeper’s side, and the true Dalmation never thinks of sleeping in any other way than on his side. The vampire pursues its peculiar Dalmatian orgies in the guise of a man or woman, lately dead and of faulty existence, and is said to be merely a human skin filled with blood and covered with a Shroud. Witches are bad-weather creatures; their evil is unfettered only with the storm and mist. To kill them, one throws three grains of corn and a wax candle at the lightning before the thunder sounds. Thus, they are best killed while the storm is yet a great way off. “Vilen” are .maids with horse’s hoofs. Mostly these “vilen,” or wood creatures, are good and tolerant of human happiness, but they have a fatal tendency for stealing handsome, new-born children. The newly arrived baby, therefore, in a. Dalmatian district frequented by “vilen” is, closely watched until baptism, when the abductors are powerless. > •