Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1917 — Page 2

Through and Through.

The two men In blue were exchanging confidences on the veranda of * big military hospital In France. “Did you go to the big society party they gave for us crocked fellows yesterday?" “Yes," said the other and shuddered. “What did you think of It?” old bloke. I’d rather have another ball go through me than go through another ball.”

Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOBIA, that famous old remedy for Infanta and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Uee tor Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria

Worse Than Blue.

Josephine went to her mother In apparent depression of spirits and remarked: “Oh, dear, I feel so purple today." “Baby, what do you mean?” asked mother. “Well, don’t all little girls whose fathers have gone to the war feel purple?”

To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach. —Adv.

Music of the Wind.

The wind in the trees sounds poetical. But the hot air that accompanies some family trees does not

Housekeepers Can Save $200,000,000 on Food In these days when the high cost of living pinches nearly every home, no waste should be overlooked. One of the most flagrant and the most easily prevented, is the destruction of food by rats. One rat will often do a hundred dollars’ damage of food and property in a single night, and a careful estimate gives over $200,000,000 as the value of foodstuffs destroyed annually by these pests. Exterminate them with Stearns’ Paste and save this enormous loss of food. A small box of Stearns Paste costs only 35 cents and is usually enough to completely rid the house of rats ana mice; also effective against cockroaches and waterbugs. Adv. Does Not Linger. At this season of the year she realizes that the summer resort kiss seldom has lasting effects.

You’re Flirting With Death! —Stop Kidney-Ills Now Dedd’a Pills Give Quick Belief. Take heed! Never disregard natures warnings of that great destroyer —Kidney Trouble. You know the signs—backache, shooting pains through the loins, stiffness in stooping or lifting, spots before the eyes, dizziness, rheumatic pains, swollen joints, bed-wet-ting, nightly arising. At the first sign of Kidney derangements, get in your preventive work with DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. Take no chances. Stop thinking ‘Til be all right in a day or two.” That’s the road to dreaded Bright’s disease. Every druggist has DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. Remember —the name with the three Ds. You don’t have to take box after box. and wait weeks for resulta The first box is guaranteed to help you, it it doesn’t, your druggist, wm gladly refund your money. But, to get results, you must refuse substitutes and accept no remedy of similar name. DODD’S do the work—and it’s DODD’S you want. To-day, get DODD’S PILLS and start on the road to Kidney-health. Tout drug store has the genuine—yom druggist guarantees them. Adv.

Concealed Art. The perfection of art is to conceal art, says a prophet. Fashion arbiters please take notice. —Exchange. GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER has been a household panacea all over the civilized world for more than half a century for constipation, intestinal troubles, torpid liver and the generally depressed feeling that accompanies such disorders. It is a most valuable remedy for indigestion or nervous dyspepsia and liver trouble, bringing on headache, coming of up food, palpitation of heart and many other symptoms. A few doses of August Flower will Immediately relieve you. It is a gentle laxative. Ask your druggist. Sold in all civilized countries.—-Adv. The average man has more than one kick coming—to him. © SE © Your Health CASCARA© QUININE Tha standard cold cure for 20 yean—la tablet form—safe, sure, no opiates —curse cold in 24 hours—grip m 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine boa with Red top and Mr. HUl's picture on it. ® Costs less, givaa more, eaves money. pE very Woman FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water for douches stops pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam■nation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co. for ten yearn. A healing wonder for nasal catarrh, sore throetand sore eyes. Economical. - Hm miijsifairrjfrmfo and gemicidsl tywy.

American Beet suoar of Vital Aid in food Problem

Not only does cut- A tivation of vegeta- f ble increase supply, but it adds greatly to land's fertilityincreasing area throughout country devoted to sugar beets

STRICTLY speaking. America has no reason to fear a sugar famine. That is to say, domestic ■ refineries and their sources of raw materials are ample to meet all requirements. But local consumption and native production are not going to determine entirely the factor of sufficiency. We have pledged ourselves to help our allies in the matter of food, and in the opinion of persons qualified to judge sugar is a necessary part of a balanced diet. Indeed, the harder the body is worked the more it insists upon that particular form of energizing nourishment which sugar contains to a marked degree. The war in Europe has radically upset the world’s sugar supply, and has affected especially the normal sugar sources of France, England and Italy. A recent report from abroad announced that the Italians were paying 50 cents a pound for a mixture of sugar and saccharine, and even this sweetening compound could be - KaiT only in very small quantities, y In England the administration of the office of food control specifically prohibits the hoarding of sugar, and so moderate an amount as twenty pounds in a household is deemed a hoard. This is suggestive evidence of the relative scarcity of sugar. Like the English, the French are paying a very high price for every purchasable pound of sugar in the country. Plainly, then, the shortage among our allies must to,a large extent be made up from this side of the Atlantic, and the burden of the undertaking will rest upon us. The United States department of agriculture has recently given out some extremely interesting data upon s.ugar production in the United States and foreign countries, and a brief analysis of the figure brings out the present situation and the part w’e have to play in providing a generous percentage of the lacking normal supply. It is evident that we cannot do this unless we practice economy and make every spoonful of sugar count. Wastefulness on the part of the individual would in a short time represent a national extravagance totaling hundreds, even thousands of barrels of sugar. We are being urged on all sides to conserve our perishable foodstuffs and the experts are busy explaining how this can be done in various ways. Fruits need sugar for their preserving and the sugar for this service, if we are to be truly economical, must be drawn from.that average supply which ordinarily is used up in meeting many other dietary demands. The American sweet tooth is going to persist; it is a consequence of climatic conditions as well as of the physical activities, which are a part of our national life. There are those that have preached against sugar as a food for children, but some of the highest authorities have vigorously declared that this prejudice “is little better than a superstition.” And, an eminent British expert has said: “There have been few mere important additions to our dietary or _ which - have done more to promote the health of . the rising generation than our cheap and abundant supply of pure sugar.” He spoke, of course, of the sugar •market before the war. In order to make it possible for us to save in the household and yet to have that measure of sweets to which we are accustomed, the department of agriculture has issued a bulletin explaining just how hundreds of thousands of us can grow sugar beets and make from them ourselves a palatable and a nutritious sirup for the table. Of course if anyone wants to carry the boiling .and evaporating 'processes further, the sirup can be made to yield a dark sugar.

Russian Brotherly Love.

“I saw two processions meet on the banks of the Neva.” writes Lincoln Steffens in Everybody’s. “One was of jolly Russians; men, women. girls and boys, soldiers and workers; the-other of Tartars, Mongols, and Chinamen, workers who did the dirty work of the city—-street cleaning, sewers, draining. They were shy, abashed, hot sure. The two processions cheered each other; then, moved a bit, they halted to sing the revolutionary song together; and then, at a moment I felt —everybody

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That sugar, so It is stated, will be found very satisfactory for home use for many purposes, as, for instance, in the baking of pies, puddings, dark colored cake, etc. The beet sirup otherwise is said- to be good for buckwheat cakes and tiie like, and the making of some candies, and it would probably lend itself admirably to the putting up of certain fruits. It is said that sugar beets can be grown in any locality which has a soil capable of producing good crops of vegetables. Anyone having a small piece of fertile, tillable ground and the usual garden implements is equipped to grow the beets necessary for the production of a home supply of sirup. Of course the beets raised in some soils will be richer in

sugar than when grown in others, but all sugar beets If properly handled are capable of yielding sirup. A few rows of sugar beets will generally suffice for an ample supply of sirup for home use. That is to say, a bushel of beets will produce any where from three to five quarts of sirup. Should the amateur farmer raise more beets than he needs for sirup making the’rest of them can be served upon the table. When partly grown the entire plant may be used as greens, and when mature the roots can be cooked and served just like garden beets. They are tender but richer in sugar than the familiar beet. Sugar beets, depending upon where planted, mature in from four to six months. Undoubtedly the raising of sugar beets by the people at large in this fashion would go a long way toward i ncreasirig enormously the volume of “native sugar or its equivalent, a rich sirup. But apart from this, the sugar beet may be confidently counted upon to do an immense service in fertilizing the adding greatly to the abundance of succeeding crops of other vegetables. This is because of the characteristic manner in which the roots of sugar beets, bore their way deep into the ground. When sugar beet culture was introduced' into Europe, the farmers were practicing what is known as the three crop system of rotation, three successive cereal crops, followed by one year of fallowing, the fallowing in order to rest the soil and to enable them to pull out the dense growth of weeds by hand. It is stated that in Germany, approximately one-third of the total area of level land was regarded as being too poor to pay for cultivation and the average yield of cereal crops on the better lands was but twelve bushels per acre. They were plowing but three to four inches deep, using fertilizers Jy^and_the_lertillty—of-the—thin-layeF-of loose surface soil was all but exhausted. The grain roots xxere unable to penetrate the hard soil underneath, unit could they have done so it would have been of no avail, for containing

OCEAN SAILORS FEAR SUBS

Many Deep-Water Tars Went to Great Lakes, They Assert, to — Escape Divers. Ocean sailors went to the Great Lakes this year in greater numbers than ever before. The majority of the applicants sought able seamen’s papers for work on inland waters. Sftme negroes, some white and some yellow. Most of them gave as their reason for leaving the ocean their fear of submarines, When John Ojala, a native of Finland, applied for papers, the examiner asked Ojala “ the usual questions, and then a few personal ones. Ojala said that he had _sailed the seas tor 15 years, but being twice on vessels sunk by submarines was enough for him. He said that he was going back to the ocean at the close of the lake navigation season. Qn November 29, 1915, Ojala was sailing dn the Mediterranean sea, about 50 miles from Malta, aboard the English ship Malinche, bound frdni Salbnikf to Philadelphia. A U-boat stopped the Malinche and two German officers, after chasing off the crew’, placed bombs in the boat. Ojala shipped again aboard the Norwegian sailing ship Falls of Afton, which was sunk about 20 miles off the coast of England. S£ven shots from a deck gun on the sub sent the Falls of Afton to the bottom.

seemed to get import of it—the two or thrge rapes rushed together, and embraced, and wept. A moment, and they recovered their dignity and marched on their way. But the Mon-gols-were not shy ahy longer; they looked a bit astonished at one another, but their step was sure."

Use of Platinum.

The chief use of platinum So far has been the construction of chemical and physical apparatus and instruments, and a quantity almost as great is reck- '

by Robert H.Moulton

no humus nnd not having been aerated it was not fertile. Being a deep rooter, a prerequisite to ideal sugar beet culture Is that the soil be stirred to a depth of 8 to 14 Inches. The tender beetlet having to undergo the shock pf thinning as sopn as It comes up, in order to leave only one beet in a place, demanded a wellprepared mellow seedbed. (lathering the sugar in its leaves from the atmosphere by the aid of the light and storing It up In the root, the sugar beet would not thrive If the light were cut off through being shaded by weeds And the eradication of the weeds before going to seed meant not only further stirring of the soil by cultivation and hoeing, but weedless fields for succeeding crops. Being plowed out In 1 the autumn gave an extra fall plowing, which left the land in condition to absorb, instead of shed the fall and winter rains, storing up the moisture for the following season’s crops. With the removal of the main root myriads of fibrous foots were broken off and left in the soil to an estimated average of a ton to the acre, and In rotting they not only deposited humus in the lower strata of the soil but they, left minute channels_.t_lirongh-.which It became aerated and hence fertile. The roots of subsequent crops followed these interstices and drewnutriment from two and three times the depth of the soil formerly reached, and hence the farmers doubled or trebled their soil without Increasing their acreage. Not only that, but the succeeding crops became heavier, and it is probably no exaggeration tty say that the sugar beet revolutionized German agriculture. Tlie sugar beet pays a handsome return upon the outlay involved, and depending upon the nature of the soil and tlie local climate, nets the farmer anywhere from S3O to S4O an acre. The widespread areas nt present under tivation illustrate how admirably suited is a great part of the United States to this department of agriculture.

The teacher was trying to impress upon her class the necessity of regulating the sinful human heart, and to drive her point home she produced her watch. “Now, girls,” she said, “you all see this watch” —an assertion so obviously true that there was no danger of contradiction. “Now,” she continued,' “just suppose for a moment that it did not keep correct time, that I found it was willing to go any way but the right way, what should I do with it?” There was the usual pause which pupils indulge in because it flatters the teacher by making her^suppose t hen problem is a very, deep one, and that her wisdom is therefore profound. Then a bright little girl held up her hand. “Please, miss,” she said, “you would sell it to a friend_____

“Aggravating, I call it.” *,. “Eh?” “To run for the elevator and than have ’em wait for a man who walked."

Now and again an automobillst will throw discretion and dusttothe -winds —a nd hit —th e' close 1 y wa t ched highway for a speed of 30 miles or more. This is strictly prohibited, of course, and is a reflection upon the law-abiding qualities of the speeder. But in the case of a man in the New York traffic court the same speed -was ■accomplished without discredit to the court, and inasmuch as he himself was utterly innocent, he was let off with a fine of $75. “It ain’t me, yer honor,” he explained, "but it’s the blame car I got. It’s one of those that’ll either go eight miles or eighty. It won’t do nothing in the middle. It ain’t no medium speed. A feller don't like to go along eight, and they won’t let.yer go along at 80. What’s a guy to do when he’s got a funny car like that?” So then the court told him what a guy, for the\ nonce. Avas expected to do.

“Here .is one war correspondent who is totally lacking in a sense of humor.” “Why do you think so?” "He has written a column about the ‘tanks' and there isn’t a laugh in it.”

“Do you know my hairdresser has Increased her rates for golden hair?” “The wretch! To the liigii cost of living she has now added the high cost of dyeing.” -

oned to have been absorbed in the manufacture of jewelry. The use of platinum in the ’dental industry is not so great as formerly because other material,B and alloys have been found equally satisfactory and less expensive.'”' ■

Note the Difference, Please.

The Haberdasher—One col tar. 15 i Yes, sir. Will you have one just like you’re wearing? The Customer —No; I want a dean j one.

Business Instant.

Pretty Mean.

He Blamed the Car.

Great Opportunity.

High Cost of Dyeing.

ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

Probably 50,000 women In the United are now making surgical dressing for the (tilled armies. Including cable and postal censors, there are now over 75,000 women employed in the British war office. - Mrs. Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese minister to the United States, was educated at Barnard college. The Mohammedan law gives woman a better status than she has in any country except the United States. Queen Elizabeth of Belgium recently made an airplane trip over a section of Belgian territory under German control. - Mme. Soller is the leader of the Male Symphony band in New York city and has 50 skilled male musicians under her. Today there are more than 6,000 female cooks and waiters in the 200 or more army caffips located in various parts of England. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of Food Dictator Hoover, is a real partner of her husband, whom she assists in all of his undertakings. Dr. Idii M. Ogilvie, professor of geography at Columbia university, Is dean of the new woman’s agricultural camp near Mount Kisco, N. Y. - •• To receive a bachelor’s degree and a lawyer’s degree In three years, to be mistress of French and Spanish and all points of corporation law and to make it a rule to sleep only four hours out of 24, Is a record held by Miss Helen D. Falkner of Cleveland, O. In Korea women occupy a place In society which has no parallel elsewhere In the Orient. They are both better and worse off than in China or India or Japan—better off because there are more fields open to them, worse because they are overworked, often illtreated and until recently were actually enslaved.

HIT AND MISS

Pay as you go, but save enough to go back on. right lacks the energy to go ahead. __ , ■ Men who drink to drown their troubles meet misfortune with a smile. The girl who is popular with the men is apt to be unpopular with the girls. A girl’s Idea of a ringleader Is the first man wKo arrives with a solitaire. Nothing pleases the average girl more than to be mistaken for an actress. Occasionally the world loves a lover, but more often it sympathizes w’ith him. Some men decline to look upon the wine when it is red because they prefer another color.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

The romance of a spinster is apt to be one-sided. - The right kind of a doctor leaves well enough alone. Speech that is too flowery should be nipped in the bud. Blunt language is often used in making sharp retorts. We can die only once—much to the regret of the undertakers. Women seldom or never admire the life work of Father time. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. The wise young man'goes home early. Many an untimely grave has been filled by the emptying of the wrong bottle. It takes more than an eye-opener to make the toper see the’ error of his ways. It’s easy to please a woman after yon find out what she wants—but there’s the rub. •> -t'l • ■ • it’s a safe bet that a girl doesn’t enjoy the first kiss she gets from a certain young man unless she pretends she doesn’t. —Chicago News.

FLASHLIGHTS

Nobody ever was so wonderful as gome men think themselves to be. Nobody ever thinks it worth while to save a dime out of his last dollar. The trouble with the spendthrift is that he thinks it is never going to rain on him. ■- When you waste a man’s time you are not only costing him money, but you are costing yourself a friend.

At War With Yourself! HELP NATURE TO DEFEAT THE DISEASE IN YOUR BODY. Keep up the fight; do not give up. Nature Is trying to serve you in conquering the wrongs that may exist. Red blood, vim, courage, vitality, all seem lacking. No wonder you are nervous and discouraged. Why not call to your aid a strong, dependable ally? Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has for nearly fifty years proven its merits as a most powerful tonic and blood bnllder to the many thousands who have been returned to good health by its use. Clear the coated tongue, get rid of unsightly skin trouble. Let this remark* able remedy rid your body of the Impurities of the blood, let it tone and strengthen you. It often cures the lingering chronic cough. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is absolutely a herbal tonic, free from alcohol or dangerous habit-forming drugs. All druggists. Liquid or tablets. Bluffs, III.—"For a great many yearsI have been troubled with nervousness., stomach and heart trouble. I took several kinds of patent medicines and doctored with five different doctors but nothing seemed to do me much good. About eight, years ago I had a bad spell; my heart would nutter and I thought I was going to die. My folks sent for a doctor and he. came and left me some medicine and told my iolks that I had but a short time tolive. I took his medicine for a while and it did me no good, so I told my husband so go to town and get me some of Doctor Pierce’s medicine as I thought that would help me. He went and got a bottle of Golden Medical Discovery and a bottle of Favorite Prescription and some Pellets. I commenced to take them and in a fewdays I could see that they were helping me, so J kept on taking them for several months. I don’t know how many bottlesI took, but I got so much better that I could do all my housework and washing and ironing. Now when I feel bad I get a bottle of the ‘ Discovery ’ and take it, and it helps me right away.”—Mbs. Maby E. Batley.

Small Pill Small Dose Small Price JNRCarterV jwimaP vittle l iver [pills. FOR CONSTIPATION have stood the test of time. Purely vegetable. Wonderfully quick to banish biliousness, headache, indigestion and to clear up a bad complexion. Genuine bean signature PALE FACES Generally indicate a lack of Iron in the Blood Carter’s Iron Pills Will help thia condition

Verbal.

Robert’s father received this communique from his son,.absent in the halls of learning: “Dear Father: lam sorry to say that I was mistaken when I wrote last week that the prof, had said that my abilities were mathematical. He said that they were problematical. Affec-

tionately.

CUTICURA STOPS ITCHING Instantly in Most Cases—Write for a Free Sample. Cutlcura iswonderfully effective. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal all forms of itching, burning skin and scalp affections. Besides these super-creamy emollients if used daily prevent little skin troubles becoming serious. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. —Adv.

Looks That Way.

“You know these war rates?” “Yes.” “Are they going to hurt matters?” “I dunno. I fear that 3-cent postage is going to put a lot of poets out of business.”

FLORIDA! FLORIDA! The famous Suwannee River Land Belt on Suwannee River has been thrown open to settlers on easy conditions. Fertile land, general farming, stock raising, poultry, dairying, fruits, vegetables, pecans; copious rainfall, excellent water, good health, splendid schools, churches, railroads, cash markets, good neighbors, long growing season, cool sea breezes in summer, warm sunshine in winter, fuel free. For -particulars write at once to J. B. Clark, Land Commissioner, Live Oak, Perry & Gulf Railroad Co., Box 1, Live Oak. Florida.— Adv,

Electric Furnaces.

The electric furnaces of Sheffield, England, alone can now produce 90,000 tons of steel per’ year, and it Is anticipated that in 1918 the output 'from these ■ furnaces alone will ba 150,000 tons.

It Is easy to reason with a man after you have staked him to a good dinner. Flattery Is Darmless to . thh woman who doesn’t flatter herself.

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