Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — Page 2

HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES

Actually, Dear Reader, Here Is a New “Con” Game KANSAS CITY.—The car was not so crowded as usual when thecredulous-* looking man boarded it, there being seat room for one more person. The vacant spot was next to a window, and the way to it was blocked by a square-

tor instance. Til bet you a quarter they get off at Twenty-eighth. I’ll risk a quarter on it. Are you on?” They shook hands. The car passed Twentyseventh street and the couple opposite made no move toward getting off. The mysterious man drew a quarter from a pocket. “Guess I lose,” he said. “But it never happened before.” Just then the man opposite leaned past the woman beside him and pressed the buzzer. The car slowed down for Twenty-eighth and they rose to leave it. “Don’t stare at them,” whispered the mysterious one. “They might misunderstand.” . The credulous man fished out a quarter and slipped it to his seat mate, and watched with a side glance. The couple arose and the woman smiled politely at the mysterious' man. “Well, gcod-by,” she said to him. • The psychic wonder still gazed stonily ahead. But he slipped up his port hand as if to scratch his ear, and furtively tipped his hat. He kept the quarter, too. And all the credulous man got out of it was a story. Sent Her Safety Deposit Vault to Be Half Soled »|*UCSON, ARlZONA.—Business was good with Engle the shoemaker. Many 1 persons attending the state fair had brought many shoes to his shop to be repaired, and his cash drawer was full of strange silver. Came a boy early one

morning bearing a pair of woman's shoes to be half soled. The boy departed. * Shortly afterward Engle picked up the woman’s shoes. From the toe of one shpe fell a purse, fat and tightly closed. Before the shoemaker had recovered from his astonishment another purse fell from the toe of the other shoe. Two purses, both fat. Engle open the first fat purse. There was S3OO in bills.

Then Engle turned to the second purse From that one came flashing diamonds, necklaces, rings and ear-drops. More than SSOO worth. The shoemaker gathered up the bills and the diamonds and put them safely away and turned to his work. Counting the bills or admiring the diamonds wouldn’t make money for Engle. Then a frantic woman btfrst into the shoemaker’s shop. No need for Engle to inquire what she wanted or why she was frantic. The shoemaker knew. The shoes belonged to her and so did the bills and diamonds and other gems. She had taken her safety deposit vault to the shoe shop. Almost in hysterics the woman recovered her money and jewelry, more than SBOO in all. She clasped the two purses to her and immediately a great relief spread over her. Placing 50 cents in the hand of Engle the shoemaker the woman left the shop. _ Jingle turned to his shoe repairing for business was good that week, it was fair week. - • ■ Too 111 to Marry, Too 111 to Sing, She Alleges NEW YORK. —Too cheerful conduct after avoiding marriage was alleged the other afternoon against John Rogers Everitt, seventy-one years old of 154 Bergen avenue, Jamaica, by Miss Florence L. Cooke of 7 Manhattan avenue, , “quite a few years younger,” who is

gayly, humming and smoking as he strode the veranda of his old homestead weih that was too much, If he was too ill to marry, she contended, he was too ill to sing and smoke. ‘ , Miss Cooke alleges that she expected to become Mt. Everitt s bride on December 21, 1916, but that he pleaded he was too ill, postponing the wedding two days and then indefinitely. He alleges that the plaintiff also was ill at the time and that the postponement was by mutual consent. He set forth in an affidavit that he suffers high blood pressure, asthma and other maladies. Miss Cooke made the assertion that when she went to see for herself after the weeding had been abandoned she saw the defendant singing and smoking very cheerfully. His counsel asserted that when Mr. Everitt inquired if she still was willing to marry, her counsel replied in a manner "which seemed to call for a financial settlement.” -

Boy, Elephant, and “Jocko” Mixed in Sad Story CLEVELAND. —“For who among you, in the heyday of your youth, never carried water for the elephant?” Before the case is completed some lawyer in Common Pleas Judge "Willis Vickery’s court will probably go on record as

having made this remark. When it Is all over, Harry Ingraham, eleven, son of Henry B. Ingraham, 1331 Irene avepue, Lakewood, will know whether or not It is worth $5,000 to be bitten by. a monkey. On July 19, 1916, the Johnny J. Jones Exposition Shows, Incorporated, were exhibiting under canvas on the vacant lots on Giel avenue, Lakewood, under auspices of the Lakewood,, retail merchants' board. Harry Ingra-

ham and other yougsters of the neigh- ' borhood appeared on the scene. According to the Ingraham petition the boys promptly closed a contract to carry water to the animals in return for an official document which would make them envied by their playmates and permit i thom to pass the gatekeeper without using such a thing as money. They passed the gatekeeper and were thoroughly enjoying the sights of the menagerie, when. It is alleged, a large African monkey got loose and began nyUgating the audience. Harry Ingraham claims that the monkey singled him out first and planted his teeth in the muscles of his right leg, causing injuries which entitle him to $5,000. t On the other hand, the show’s officials claim they did not hire young Ingra tMtm to cany water to the animals.

set young man. “What’s matter?” inquired the c. 1. m. as he took the seat. “You expect to get off In a block or two?” 7 - “I’ll get off before you do,” replied the other, mysteriously. “You go fairly far out” “Thirty-fifth,” admitted the e. 1. m. “I knew it. I can always tell. I can’t explain it,” mused the mysterious one, “but I can study people’s faces and tell at what street they will get off. Take that couple across the aisle,

suing for SIOO,OOO damages for alleged breach of promise to marry. Miss Cooke asked Justice Gavegan in the supreme court to grant an order requiring the defendant to submit to a physical examination. This was denied. ' ' It was bad enough to be jilted, Miss Cook« asserted, but when she overheard the septuagenarian defendant comporting himself with undue cheeriness thereafter, singing

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, tND.

AMERICANS IN FIRST LINE TRENCH

These two American soldiers in a first line trench in France are watching an enemy airplane which is maneuvering above them.

COMMISSIONS IN ARMY PLENTIFUL

Privates Who Show Right Timber Will Become Officers Under Pershing. MANY LIEUTENANTS NEEDED Promotional Scheme Outlined at Headquarters Which Paves Way for Rapid Advancement of Men From the Ranks. With the American Army in France. —Apparently .the humble doughboy is comitg into his own in this war. A promotion scheme has just been outlined at headquarters in conformity with a recent general order from Washington which paves the way for rapid advancement for men from the ranks who display ability for higher commands. Arrangements are already made whereby noncommissioned officers who look like they are made of officers’ timber will be sent to the army candidates’ school on recommendation from their superior officers.' ( If they make good they will be assigned to vacancies as second lieutenants in replacement divisions advancing later to combat divisions where {momotion may be expected to be raTid n the event of heavy casualties among the officers.

Many Lieutenants Needed. In order to have sufficient officers in readiness at all times no limit is placed upon the number of second lieu 1 , tenants In replacement divisions, it being recommended that they have at least three times as many as combat divisions. Under the new general order divisional and other unit commanders-are to consider “only fighting efficiency Units” in recommending temporary appointments for promotion to line officers. The general order makes it plain that such recommendations must be based solely on demonstrated fitness and ability to command. Divisional and other unit commanders are instructed to investigate carefully all Officers’ records. All recommendations must be submitted to the commander in chief for approval. The six Hooverites who are visiting the American camp awoke the other morning at reveille, after spending the night in hay lofts and barracks, somewhat better acquainted with conditions under which the American soldiers are living. Too Cold for Pig. To begin with, this was to have been the story of how Everett Colby of New Jersey, slept - with a pig. Mr. Colby and the other representatives of Herbert Hoover wanted to sleep and eat under exactly the same conditions as the doughboys. Thereupon the press officers in charge of the arrangements “framed it up” on the New Jersey man.' They happened to' know that in a

“TOMMY” FINE FIGHTER

Americans Admire the Spirit of British Army. Entirely New Feeling Growing Up Between Two Kindred Nations in Arma. London. —The military correspondent of the London Times, writing from France, says: “In France we have suddenly discovered America, and America has discovered us. How different we both are from our preconceived notions of each other! We did not know what a highly educated, professional and modest gentleman the American regular officer was, nor did we quite realise what a splendid body of active fighting men he was going to bring over with him. “We are a great deal more enthusiastic about the Americans, and, if I may say so, more proud of them, than we show on the surface. How can we

certain village wherein militiamen were quartered there were ideal advantages for roughing it. Ten soldiers were billeted in a certain barn owned by an old villager who obstinately refused to allow the Americans to disturb his pig, which had been occupying the same hay loft with them for some time. The press officers arranged to have one soldier move for the night to give Mr. Colby accommodations next to the pig. Then the following morning the correspondents were to interview the Jerseyan on his impression of the pig and the pig on his impressions of his fellow lodger. But the pig’s owner had been left out of the calculation. The night was cold so the villager moved the pig into his own quarters, where there was fir 6. So the world will never know what Mr. Colby thought of the pig and vice versa.

HORSE MEAT SALES REPORTED INCREASING

New York. —New York but- . chers have begun to awaken to the fact that the threatened introduction of horse meat at low prices had not only become a reality but is promising to get an overwhelming welcome in the poorer quarters of the city. Already the beef butchers in localities where the horse meat shops have been established are beginning to feel a falling off in trade, and in one section are charged with showing their resentment by violence.

OLD MILL AGAIN IN USE

Only Water Mill Now in Operation In Country Grinds Out Wheat Flour. Jeffersonville, Ind. Whole wheat flour is being manufactured at a mill In Clarke county which is 100 years old, and is said to be the only water mill now in operation in the country. The mill, which is three miles from Charlestown, is known as the Tunnel mill. It is so called because at a point in Fourteen Mile creek a tunnel has been cut through solid rock, 94 feet below the summit of the hill it penetrates and the mill race is fed through this tunnel, five feet wide and six feet high, to the oversfiot water wheel erected iff the mill below. The mill is of frame, 50 by 35 feet in size, and the wheel has a diameter of 20 feet, though it is said there is room for one of 26 feet. The tunnel is 300 feet long. It was built from 1814 to 1817 by Johjh Work, a Clarke county pioneer and mechanical genius, who with gunpowder and his rude bearing tools, cut .two’ tunnels, one from each end, that met exactly in the center, the work Costing him, it is recorded, $3,000. The mill has run practically ever since, and the grinding is done by big stone buhrs.

not regard as men of our own flesh and blood the relays of American soldiers of all grades who come to us, who speak our own language and bear our own names, who understand us in a flash of time, and whose point of view on almost every conceivable subject under heaven is our own? “These sentiments are, I hope, mutual. The Americans did not know what our armies were, nor what they had done or are doing. Many of them know now. They witnesses under fire our grand attacks and our raids. • “They seethe spirit, the discipline and the emulation of our infantry, and they are profoundly impressed by them. I hope that the pride which we feel, without venturing to express it, in the is a little reciprocated by them. I can only say that every American soldier who has told me of his experiences on the British front has spoken with enthusiastic admiration of our men, and that an entirely •new feeling, the consequences of which may be immense, is growing up between the two kindred : natlonsjn •HM." /

CARRY THE MESSAGE

Do* Your Bit in War and Talk About lt.< . .. , - ... Save Wheat, Meat, Fats and 4 Sugar, and Ask Others If They Are Doing Same. Washington.—Fight the war with food —and talk about it! Do not hide your light under a bushel If you are helping win the w’ar against Germany by following the teacifl nits of the United States food administration. Practice the doctrine of saving the wheat, rho meat, thg fats and the sugar and ask others if they are doing the same. Tell them what you are doing and how. Tell it in detail, by casual reference, humorously, seriously, intimately, or in public addresses. Tell them directly or by insinuation, as may be your method, that you think those who are not fighting through the kitchen are slackers.

, Bring home to everyone within the sound of your voice the, fact that we are as deeply involved in war as any other nation and that we must furnish food for our armies and our allies. Tell them of the hungry children in Europe who are growing daily more tifin and bloodless, losing all their childish gayety and joy, because of lack of food, added to horror and shock. Impress on your audience, be it great or small, that if love of humanity will not make them save food, the instinct of self preservation should. WE MUST HAVE FOOD TO WIN THE WARI

CUT OUT MIDDLEMEN

Mrs. Georgia June Pratt, well-Known society woman of Chicago and Benton Harbor, Mich., is on the* eve of organizing an anti-middle-man association as a result of her gardening experience the past summer. Her farm, just outside of Benton Harbor, produced some of the finest corn to be seen anywhere, corn vihich her friends were buying at 40 cents a dozen. Commission merchants offered her seven cents a dozen for her product. She brought her story to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission in Washington and was referred to-Mr. Hoover to the answer, If he hasn’t it she is determined to get satisfaction herself.

FINDS LIVE “GHOST” AT TOMB

Spook* Found In Cemetery by Caretaker Proves to Be Soldier, Probably Insane. ' Columbus, O.—-John Davis, caretaker of Walnut Hill cemetery, Hamlin township, never believed in ghosts, but he did have a “spooky” experience. Davis was strolling through the cemetery when he happened to see a figure sitting on a tombstone. Close inspection showed it to be a man with only a blanket thrown around his shoulders. His clothes were lying in a heap at his feet. As Davis approached, the figure arose and inquired if the referee was coming. Davis said he didn’t know, but would go hunt him. However, the man intimated that was unnecessary and said he wanted to have a little boxing match. Davis brought the man to the county jail, where an examination of his clothes brought out enlistment papers for the army. It was decided to hold an inquest for lunacy.

CAUSE THIRD OF DEATHS

Heart Disease, Tuberculosis and Pneumonia Are Most Fatal, According to Statistics. Washington. —Nearly a third of a million deaths reported to the United States during 1916 were caused by heart disease, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Figures made public by the census bureau, predicted on vital statistics regarding 70 per cent-of the country’s, population, sWsMhe deaths caused by heart disease numbered 114,171, tuberculosis, 101,396, and pneumonia, 98,334. Accidental deaths numbering 60,071 are Ascribed chiefly to railroad and automobile accidents. There were 10,162 suicides last year.

Only Once.

Redd—What’s become of that speckled carriage dog of yours? Greene —Oh, didn’t you hear -about him? Why, when I got my automobile— “l see; he wouldn’t run under the automobile?” * he did, once"

WALKING WITH GOD

Only Those Redeemed by the Blood x)f Christ Can Enjoy That Privilege. This has been the uppermost topic in my mind, and my.constant meditation, and the theme of several Bible studies, during these past summer days, and I can think of nothing so glorious while we sojourn in.these mortal bodies. Such a life is the privilege of every true believer, and gives ft foretaste of heaven even herd on earth. We cannot begin this walk, this heavenly life, till we are redeemed for the spirit through Micah, when he exhorts to do justly, love mercy and humble ourselves to walk with God, is speaking to those who had been redeemed, Micah 6:4, 8. It is impossible for those who are not redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, as Israel was saved from death by the blood of the Passover lamb in Egypt, to walk one step with God. It is the height of folly and unbelief to think or talk of serving God, or worshiping him, or holding communion with him, unless we have been, born from above and become children of God by faith In Christ Jesus. The sad thing is that so few of his redeemed ones seem to want to walk with him, for it is so ’costly, and the way is so narrow, yet he Is ever looking and longing for such, that he may show himself strong on their behalf, and be glorified in them, II Chron. 16:9. It is written of Enoch,Noah and Levi, that they walked with God, Genesis 5:24; 6:9; Mai. 2:6; hut if we consider the cost of it to each of them, and that the whole world still Heth In the evil one, the prince and god of this world, and that fellowship with the world means enmity with God (I John 5:19, R. V.; John 14 ;30; H Cor. 4:4; James 4:4), it may help us to understand why, though many are called, few are willing to be his choice ones. It means constant living with him, walking as he walked, walking in love, much study of his purpose as revealed through the prophets, full agreement with him about' everything and every detail of his plans, no will i of oUr own about anything, sincere and continual abandonment of our whole being to him, that he may work in us to will and to do all his good pleasure, and that we desire In all things and at all times only his approval (I Thess. 5:10; I John 2:6; Eph. 5:1; Luke 24:25; Amos 3:3, 7; John 6:38; 8:50; Romans 7 •.!, 2; Phil. 2:13; I Thess. 2:4). It implies patient continuance in well-doing till absent from the body or caught up to meet him in the air, not thinking of any set time on which he may come, but wholly occupied with himself, and ready to fill any appointment of service or suffering if only he may be glorified in us.—Rev. D. M. Stearns in Kingdom Tidings.

HOW TO LOVE IN GOD’S WAY

The Infinite Everlasting Never Failing Love of God Is Our Perfect Pattern. Love that depends on circumstances is not love. Love that grows deeper and better under the loved one’s response is not love. Perfect love, so perfect that it cannot be Improved upon, alone is real love. God loves us with that unimprovably perfect love; and we can love others with the same love. To have God’s own actual life as our literal life is the secret; and God’s perfect love offers to us his only son Christ, who is God, to be not only our Savior but our life and our love. When we accept God’s gift in entire faith in him, then “God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us” (I John 4:12). H. G. Guinness has described this perfect and perfected love: "There is therefore a love which Is Infinite in its measure! There is a love which is everlasting in its duration ; which is omnipotent in its power, which is unchangeable In its character, which is all pervading in its presence, which pas Seth knowledge! There is a love which has creation for its theater, earth for its footstool, Heaven for its chief abode, its everlasting home! Of all created love it is the source, and of all blessings it is the giver!’’ And it is with exactly this supernatural love that God asks and enables us to love others, —“because as he Is, even so are we in this world” (I John 4:17). —S. 8. Times.

Harmony.

If I must force myself to do a thing, then I am only partly adjusted to my true self. The ultimate will or law of the universe is harmony. There is a way of thinking, a way of doing and being, which will spare us the friction of life —an happiest way. . . But, just because it is the easiest and simplest way, it is the hardest to find, and the one which man Is slowest to adopt; for it calls upon each individual soul to do the hardest possible deed; namely, to conquer self, to let go, to trust, to become receptive.—Horatio W. Dresser.

The Spiritual Attitude.

Nothing is so important as the formation of spiritual habits. , Practice dally and hourly the presence of God, so that you can at all times hear Ida. voice speaking to you and through you. -E. V. H. fa- - —.

Momentum of Power.

Only those who are lifted up from the earth draw men unto them. The world is possessed by those who are not possessed by it. The momentum of love is the source of power.—Fraa* da G. Peabody.