Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Page 2

WORK FOR SCHOLAR

What Fairfax Harrison Did for Transportation in South. SINGLE UNIT IDEA WINS OUT ■ Great Work of Double Tracking and 'Realigning Main Line of Southern Railway, Brought to Successci;; 7” ful Completion.; The Southern railway is the main •tern of the South. With its head at Washington its many arms reach for long distances —to Atlanta, to Savannah, to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis; Memphis and to New Orleans. It is 7,000 miles of railroad, and today remarkably well operated railroad. Time was when this was not so. The South was suspicious of its namesake —and many times for good reason. For it is never an easy process to evolve a single great railroad from a group of rival and ambitious smaller lines, ofttimes connecting and co-operating in theory but not in practice. Even after the Southern came into existence—a little less than twenty-five years ago—the battie was not won nor the problem solved, Edward Hungerford writes in Leslies. The new road was a single system, but only in name; the old jealousies still existed. For a time it seemed as if the road could not stand. Men came and men went. It was hard work for the single unit idea to take hold. Gradually it did. 'Progress began. And then came the day—in the fall of 1913—when a new president was announced for the property. And the wise men of the South, knowing him, said: “At last, the Southern has come into its own." New President Was Harrison. The new president was Fairfax Harrison and his very name was half the battle fought. Tradition, good blood and old blood —how it all does count south of the Potomac! Harrison’s father had been private secretary to President Jefferson Davis —think of [what that meant to a land which even today lives in the memories of “the

DESOLATION SEEN IN “NO MAN’S LAND"

The desolation of No Man’s Land in Flanders is well portrayed by this British official photograph of the wrecked railway station with a wrecked locomotive In the once beautiful resort of Nieuport-les-Bains. It Is in this oftdisputed stretch of territory so well named “No Man’s Land” that much of the fiercest fighting of the war Jias occurred, and the war has left its mark throughout the sector with scenes of desolation such as this.

RAILWAY SWITCH AND SIGNAL

Automobile Device Invented by Two Michigan Men—Adapted to Be ” Actuated by Train Trip. ' In Illustrating and describing a railway switch, invented by F. Evans and j>. Butt; Riverdale, Mich., the Scientific American says: This invention relates particularly to a switch and signal of the type adapted to be actuated by a train trip, and is so connected and arranged that the switch bar, connected with the switch points, will be rocked by a train trip and a sliding axial movement will be given to the switch bar, the rocking movement serving to ao-.

Railway Switch.

tuate a semaphore while the sliding movement serves to throw the switch points, the operation being automatically effected by a train coming from either direction at any rate of speed.

10,000 LESS CARS ARE IDLE

Locomotives and Cars Now in Service Only Slightly in Excess of Number Last Year. Railroads report that on October 1 the excess of unfilled orders from shippers for freight cars over and above the idle cars at different numbered 70,380. Compared with last year this is a slight increase. This is the figure commonly but Inaccurately referred to as “car shortage.” It compares with 77,682 on July L 83,376 on

four years." And his mother, Mrs. Burton Harrison, is one of thh few really distinguished women in the short annals of our American literature. No wonder then that the son writes easily and fluently—that the annual reports of the. Southern railway are documents which for exquisite literary style are without peer in the commercial annals of the land. Nor does the pen of Fairfax Harrison stop at English facility. If the man were not a railroader, and a very great railroader at that, he might have become an American Macaulay or Bagehot. He is, unquestionably she finest Greek anti Latin scholar among the big business men of this country. Record Speaks for Itself. . For Harrison’s record had begun to speak for itself. It has continued to speak for Itself ever since he took the rudder of the Southern. The great work of double tracking and realigning the main line of the road begun by a distinguished earlier president of the road —Samuel Spencer—he has carried forward to completion. The troops that slipped down into the camps and cantonments of.the southeast during the past few weeks rode over a main line that stretches from Washington to Atlanta and today is completely double tracked—save for a few inconsequential links which will be finished within the next few months. It would seem to follow almost as a matter -of course that any man with such a practical notion of preparedness should be made chairman of the war board of the railroads. The war board is one of the most interesting of all the emergency organizations that have sprung qp in Washington within the last six months—lmportant because It holds In the hollow of its hand the destinies and the operating control of almost every mile of the 275,000 miles of railroad in the United States of America.

Technically the war board is the war defense committee of the American Railway association. . . Its operation divides, both geographically and functionally, into subcommittees, also composed of railroad executives and located in the various corners of the land, and into other subcommittees having in their care such Important functions as car service, military operation, governments accounting, military tariffs, express service and the like. Its powers are sweeping.

August 1, 34,605 on September 1. The actual number of unfilled car orders on October 1 was almost identical with the number on October 1 of last year, the figures being 97,573 for October 1, 1917, and 97,854 for September 30, 1916. On the latter date 34,157 cars were idle, whereas on fast October 1 only 24,192 were idle, thus indicating a more efficient use of the available equipment. Returns to the railroads’ war board show that the actual number of cars and locomotives now in service is only slightly in excess of the- number at this time last year. The war board on October 10 had been in existence exactly six months. During that period the railroads have rendered upwards of 15 per cent more service than during the same period of last year, with practically the same plant. The outstanding feature of the situation is the degree to which the railroads® are co-operating wholeheartedly with one another and With the railroads’ war board. „

WILL USE KEROSENE AS FUEL

Peculiarly Constructed Locomotive for Work in Yards and Industrial Plants. A peculiarly shaped locomotive that weighs only two tons and runs on kerosene for fuel is being employed on construction work in yards, industrial plants and contracting work. Its strange appearance is due to the fact that the boiler with the stack sits on the center of the truck while the water tank is in front. Under the latter is a small unit engine that transmits the power to the solid car wheels. This type of 011-bumlng engine, the largest size of which Is 20 tons, can be operated by one man, who can learn the trick tn one or two days of preliminary lessons. Kerosene may be the future motor fuel. , \

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HOME TOWN HELPS

MORE HOME GARDENS NEEDED Necessity Will Be Greater Coming Year and Organization and Co-Op-eration Should Be Begun Now. Co-operation has been suggested as a solution of many problems In farm production, and now J. T. Rosa, Jr., of the University of Misouri college of agriculture suggests co-operation as a means of reducing production cost for the vacant lot gardener. The average city gardener is not in position to plow anil prepare a garden plot himself. Mr. Rosa suggests that a number of gardeners in a given neighborhood employ a man and team to prepare their gardens. In this way the expense can be divided among them and the man and team can be kept busy throughout the day. If the community garden movement is extensive enough men and teams may be hired by the day or week, and each gardener’s plot can be fitted in turn. In this way the work can be done more cheaply than where each gardener hires his plot prepared by the job. A great deal of trouble can also be eliminated. Other advantages, such as purchasing fertilizers, manure, seeds, plants and other garden supplies can be had through cooperative effort. Since the spring garden should be planned in the fall, Mr. Rosa suggests that organization be effected immedi- , ately. The advantages of fall plowing and fall manuring have been demonstrated. The work should be done while the weather permits.

Co-operation will also provide efficient means of marketing the surplus products. Mr. Rosa suggests that every town have an organization of this sort. If the project is not supported by some other civic organization; the municipal authorities, or some industrial concern, the community garden movement should be organized on an independent basis. If the movement is large enough a technically trained man or woman might be employed to superthe work. This would be advisable only where the community garden plan was extensive and where the gardeners were well organized. While it may not be possible to organize the whole town, it is entirely possible for neighbors to obtain some of the benefits of the organization by co-operating in preparation of their garden plots. The necessity for home gardens will be greater than ever in 1918, and plans should be made immediately, so that the garden work will be more efficient and give better results during the coming season.

WINTER STOPS THE INSECTS

Black Ground Beetles and Others Not Killed, But Merely Experience Suspended Animation. With the coming of the frosts and freezing weather the insects are silenced, and as long as the temperature holds" below 50 degrees Fahrenheit they are rendered also inactive, according to a writer. Above that the hardier beetles and grasshoppers, along with a few spiders, are moving about, and when the sunshine warms the air more- and more certain moths and butterflies and two-winged flies, including the gnats, are on *he wing. Some species of insects feel the effects of cold far less than others, and this does not seem to be Influenced by sturdy bodies, hairy coverings or the situations in which they are found. The gnats are among the most fragile species, but they and the slim-bodied water striders are found active later in the autumn and earlier in the spring than any other creatures, excepting perhaps the mourning-cloak butterfly and the wasps, all of these creatures responding to the sunshine on the warmer, thawing days of winter. The black ground beetles also are quickly resuscitated by slightly warmer airs. This proves the fact that most insects are not normally killed by cold, but merely experience suspended animation, and are ready to resume their activity after any length of time.

Hidden Seas.

In boring for oil, it is a common experience for the drill to strike enormous flows of salt water. Formerly this salt water was supposed to be rain water, which soaked through beds of salt on its way down to some chasm in the bowels of the earth, says Rochester Union and Advertiser. The latest scientific opinion is inclined to believe hat the salt water comes from prehisoric oceans, buried in the earth by -eologic changes, in much the same .ay that buried forests gave rise to he coal beds. These hidden oceans re not conceived as lying in a subtermean space or hollow, but as filling he billions on billions of crevices in eds of porous rock.

Petroleum From Shale Banks.

An important new process for exracting petroleum from the enormous >anks of oil-bearing shale of Certain vestern states is indicated in anmuncements from Nevada. Stick a irocess if successful would help greaty in solving the gasoline problem. The lew process, which Is now being test•d, was developed by a prisoner in the Nevada state prison. A special pardon vas granted him to give him an oppor unity to continue his chemical work.

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“I was in a train the other day w’hen a spark from a cigar fell on a lady’s dress and set her oq fire.” “How was she saved?” “She happened to be in the smoking car, and so the conductor put her out.”

Constipation, indigestion, sick-headache and bilious conditions are overcome by a course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring. Adv.

“Say, old chap, lend me ten dollars.” “This eagerness for money is very bad; don’t you know that money, after all, is nothing but trouble?” “Well, it’s my disposition to be borrowing trouble.”

Important to Mothers

imponani w muuiv. o Examine carefully every bottle or CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Caston*

Army life did not agree with Ginger, a Boston bull. After a three-weeks’ career as mascot in the Canadian army, he has returned to his o’d haunts, and is happy again. The dog is owned by John Hamilton, a Los Angeles resident of fifteen years’ standing, who recently enlisted in the Canadian forces. He took Ginger along, but the dog did not take to the“arn>V life. In fact, he was wasting away, until Hamilton decided to send him back to Los Angeles. On his arrival he ate six meals in three hours, and now has a joyous bark for all his old friends.

Large numbers of Danish lighthouses will shortly be extinguished, or else will show a greatly diminished light, owing to the shortage of oil. This, It Is declared,, will mean additional difficulty in the way of Danish navigation and Danish exportation towards the west. In addition the allowance of oil for domestic lighting has been greatly curtailed.

Instructions have been sent to all English army and navy canteens t« save all used tea leaves, which are to be carefully kept In muslin bags and forwarded to central depots. The old leaves are not to be used again in making beverages, but are needed in connection with munition making. Self-Interest is the principal Ingredient in the interesting things of life.

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Regulation Rescue.

Admonition Wasted.

Not Fond of Army Life.

Scarcity of Oil.

Tea Leaves In War.

TheßichHavor Grape-Nuts is due to the blendingof malted barley with whole wheat flour Wheat alone does not possess this rich flavor The wonderfully easy digestion of GrapeNtife is also parity due io ihe barley for the barley, contains a digestive which wheat lacks. *There*s a Reasorf

AS THEY SHOP IN GUATEMALA

Visiting Is Principal Feature of Buying Expeditions, Business a Later Consideration. “Our own way Is always the best way,” said a philosopher who understood human nature, and why everybody else does not go our way is a cause of constant surprise. For instance, in shopping. How would you like to shop in Guatemala? They are a very polite people, and on coming into the store, will pass some remark about the weather, and ask how business is. Then comes a string of questions about the health of the proprietor and all Ms relations and friends; and when all the questions are asked, the proprietor turns around and asks the same questions of you. Then the proprietor gets down to business, and takes down all his stock, which is all examined and priced, and then you say you will go home and think about it The next day, you return with the whole family—men, women, children and visitors—all the salutations are repeated, and all the stock displayed again. After two or three hours of this sort of thing, you buy perhaps a yard of muslin, and have it charged on 30 or 60 days’ time. This so delights the proprietor, that he follows you to the door, and asks all the questions of your health all over again. It is needless to say that Guatemalan merchants were never known to get rich.

WHAT THUMBS ARE WORTH

Digit Is Estimated to Represent Fully .One-Third of the Total Value of the Hand. One has only to grasp a pen or a tool of some sort to realize that the different fingers are far from having yie same value in regard to their usefulness in performing work. The most important, states a writer, is the thumb, for without it seizing or holding would be very imperfect. The hand is no longer pincers, but merely a claw, when deprived of the thumb. It may be estimated that the thumb represents fully a third of the total value of the hand. The total loss of the thumb is estimated by competent authorities as 15 to 35 per cent for the right and-10 to 1$ per cent for the left hand, except for workers in art, whep 40 to 50 for the right and 25 to 40 per cent for the left hand comes nearer the value. The total loss of the index finger causes an incapacity estimated at from 10 to 25 per cent for the right hand and 10 to 15 per cent for the left. The middle finger is less Important than the index. The ring finger is least Important, and the little finger may be compared to its neighbor, except in the professions in which it serves as a point of support for the hand. '

Kiss Under the Mistletoe.

The mistletoe was held in great reverence by the Druids. It was believed to be particularly and divinely healing; In fact, It was given this attribute for ceuturies. It had special significance as the cause of the death of Balder, the Norse Apollo, who was killed by an arrow made from it? branches. Subsequently Balder was restored to life, the mistletoe tree was. placed tinier the care of Frigga, and from that time until It touched the earth was never again to be an instrument of evil. The present custom of kissing under the mistletoe is the outcome of an old practice of the Druids. Persons of opposite sexes passed under the suspended vine and gave each other the kiss of love and peace, in full assurance that, though it had caused Balder’s death, it had lost all its power of doing harm since his restoration.

Churches in Queer Places.

People at Tunbridge Wells, England, rarely say that It is impossible to be in two places at one time, because if they enter the beautiful old chapel of ease in their town they can stand in two counties and three parishes. This chapel stands partly in Kept and partly in Sussex. This is how the problem is worked out. When the ..clergyman leaves the vestry he comes out of the parish of Frant, |n Sussex. If he is going to officiate at the altar he walks into the parish of Tunbridge, in Kent. If, on the other hand, he is going to preach the sermon, he walks from the parish of Frant to the parish of Speldhurst on the way to the pulpit. In half a minute he can enter the tw r o counties and the three parishes named. The members of the congregation, however, have to content themselves by sitting in one county and one parish like ordinary folk.

Scaled Mount Ararat.

Mount Ararat in Armenia is now generally believed to have been the spot where Noah left the ark. Not until 1829 did a mountain climber succeed in scaling its steep assent Doctor Parrot,. an Englishman, achieved that distinction. For centuries the mountain had defied the efforts of mountain climbers, and the Christian eccloßiactlcs of Armenia asserted, as an article of faith, that Jehovah had made the peak his earthly home, and that no human could possibly reaeh the top and escape divine vengeance. When Doctor Parrot declared that he had accomplished the ascent the priests refused to believe him and they cling to this attitude of skepticism in spite of the fact that dozens of explorers since have stood on the top of the Greater Ararat and gazed out over Armenia from an altitude of 17,000 feet.

TO RESIST THE ATTACK

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germs, if the liver is inactive and the blood impure. , , What is needed “most is an increase in the germ-fighting strength. To do this ✓successfully you need to put on nealtnv flesh, rouse the liver to vigorous action, so it will throw off these germs, and purify the blood so that there will be no • weak spots,” or soil for germ-growth. We claim for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery that it does all this in a way peculiar to itself. It cures troubles caused by torpid liver or impure blood. In tablet form 60c. Quincy. lll.—"Some years ago I moved to Colorado and the climate did not agree with me, I got all run-down, could not ea* nor sleep. I became very thin and weak; my blood was also in very bad condition. I sent to the druggist’s for some medicine and he sent me Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and it soon restored me to health and strength.”—Mbs. A. E. Gbeen, 833 S. Sixth Street. Beecheb, lll.—"Eight years ago I had bronchitis very bad, out I took Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and was curtd in a few months. Two years ago I had a bad cough. I again took the ‘ Discovery ’ and was cured in a short time. Am always going to keep it on hand for it has saved my life. If it had not been for this medicine I believe I would be in my grave.”—Mbs. Herman Bredemeier, Route 3, Box 5. Quincy, lll.—"About five years ago this spring I had a very bad attack of the Grip. I doctored to rid myself of it but it seemed as though it would hang on for ever. I had read of Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and decided to give it a trial. It helped me right from the start, and four bottles made a new man out of me. Recently I became ill with another attack of Grip and I took the Discovery ’ with the same good results. I do_not hesitate to recommend IL”—G. G. Wn> LIAMS, 503 N. Hth Street.

Anti-Leak Device for Brushes.

The following is a good method for preventing the color or wash from running down over the handle of a large brush when overhead work is being done. Take a good, large sponge, oblong in shape, if possible, and cut a slit in it to allow it to slip over the brush handle. Push it up as far as it will go and tie a cord on the handle to prevent it from slipping back. The sponge, we are assured, will take care of all the leaking color, and it can be wrung out at any time while on the brush.

Mahogany Embargo Removed.

Consul General Skinner reports from London that the controller of timber supplies announces the withdrawal, until further notice, of the restriction on sales of mahogany of all kinds. Notice was given recently that the board of trade had taken possession of all stocks of mahogany exceeding 5,000 feet

RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR. To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay Rum, a small box of Barbo Compound, and *4 oz. of glycerine. Any druggist can put this up or you can mix it at-home at very little cost. Full directions for making and use come in each box of Barbo Compound. It will gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. It will not color the scalp, is not sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adv.

When Sin Will Decrease.

Sin will never be legislated away. It will never be rubbed or scoured from the texture of society. But Its black and hideous stains will be wonderfully diminished when the church of Christ shall understand Its own potency In social salvation. —J. M. Dean.

The Sort.

•‘Talking of the gullible public, I know a business which is a regular plant.” “What is that?” “The florist’s.” Look at a picture In the best possible light,: and be as courteous to your fellow men as you are to a picture.

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Grip, Malaria, means for all of us —fight or die. ■These germs are everywhere in the air we breathe. The odds are in favor of the