Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — Page 4

THEY HAVE A DARK SECRET

Husband and Brother-In-Law Feast and Smash Piece of China, Which la Mysteriously Replaced. Since the coming of the X-ray and the perfecting of the Bertlllon system dark secrets have lost vogue. Yet occasionally one of them does escape the keenest vigilance and flourishes with all the old-time mystery, according to the Kansas City Star. Mrs. Miller has a set of chinaware, the real creamy ware that the light shines through. It Is very old. Mrs. Miller inherited it She also inherited the proud right to boast that not one piece had ever been broken. Mrs. Miller went away. Mr. Miller entertained his brother-in-law while she was gone. There were other relatives that he might have entertained, but in an unguarded moment he chose his brother-in-law. One night they made a feast They baked a great number of things all in one pan. when it came out of the oven it seemed to demand- that it should all be served on one plate. Mr. Miller looked over the supply of dishes that had been left out for his use and there was really nothing that would contain it. A wild spirit of revelry seized Mr. Miller. “We will do the thing up right” he shouted. He went boldly into the china closet and brought out the very largest platter. When the meal was ended, Mr. Miller’s brother-in-law suggested dish washing. Mr. Miller did not favor the plan, but finally yielded to it against his better judgment. What happened was quite natural „ r The platter slipped and fell and broke. After all the yean, after all the family pride and care I From that night on those two men took up and carried about with them a dark secret, for this is what they did ■ each carrying a piece of that platter, they went from one China store to another until they found its duplicate. They carried it home and brought in a woman to wash it and replace it on the shelf of the china closet. Now when Mrs. Miller entertains her friends and one of them says: “How I envy you these beautiful dishes, and It is sq remarkable that not one* has ever been broken,” Mr. Miller and his brother-in-law sit with a far away loqk in their eyes and a dark secret in their souls.

Servselfs Also Afloat

There isn’t a chance of. dodging them any more, either on land or on sea. The sailor boys on the U. 8. 8. New York form in line between decks and, tßiy in hand, select their food at the counter of the ship’s servself. A blackboard over the counter lists the bill and in all other respects except the presence of the grasping cashier the service is just like the midday lunch back home. The new method, which is to be installed on all of the big battleships, replaces the old system of messmen and mess units, says Milestones. Then all of the food for the meal was piled on the plates at the- tables by the messmen and the job of serving the entire unit was completed before the men were “piped down” to their cooling food. Surely hot food, in the amount you want and of the kind you want, must be an improvement over the old mess, but juggling a tray loaded to the gunwales with beans and corned beef and bread and coffee, on the rolling waves must be something of a fine art. s

Our Pensioners In England.

Tn his way, John Davis, who died at his Bermondsey home in Blue Anchor Taine—an appropriate address for an old sailor—did much useful work on behalf of Englishmen who, like himself, had fought in the American Civil war, relates a writer in the Westminister Gazette. There are something like 150 of these men still living in this country; and John Davis was instrumental in rescuing many of them from the workhouse and getting them pensions, which the United States government was always willing to pay if it had known where to find the men. On the last occasion I chatted with the old man in his little parlor, furnished like a ship’s cabin, he told me of a rumor that the pensions were to be stopped unless the men returned to America, but he wrote later to say that this rumor was quite without foundation.

World’s Rubber Production.

Early in the war England established an embargo on crude rubber, and through her control of the far Eastern rubber plantations was able to make it effective. Rubber manufacturers later were permitted to obtain crude rubber on their written agreement to withhold shipments of rubber or rubber products from the central powers and certain neutrals. The shipments of crude rubber to this country is still contingent upon the observance of this agreement. The world’s rubber production for this year is placed at 250,000 tons—about double the production at the beginning of the war. About 00 per cent I* used tn the United States.

Vain Thought

i -You are lookinc thin, Gadspur.” , “That's true.** i , “Appetite poorF •Very. I was just thinkinc that If my appetite for food were one-tenth as voracious as my furnaee'sappeOte sfor coal. I would soon be tipping the scales at 300 pounds.’’ . _.

OLD FANEUIL HALL

Cradle of American Liberty Is Soon to Be -Restored. Boston Landmark, Erooted In 1740, for Scores of Years Afforded Place for Patriotic Gatherings. Faneull hall is to ba made fireproof, also made over on the old model. New York has an interest in the matter. It was a native of New York state, Peter Faneull, born In New Rochelle, who built the hall and presented it to Boston in 1740. When he died three years later it was the scene of memorial exercises in his honor. What glorious patriotic meetings have been held in the building and its reconstructions since that time; in the Revolutionary war and all our wars, in abolition times and whenever the times demanded that free speech should have utterance, observes the New York Sun. No political campaign in the old days was complete without mass meetings in Faneull ball, on whose saw-dust-covered floor stood the democracy to listen, to applaud and to show its displeasure. What a wellspring of inspiration the picture of Webster replying to Hayne has been for two generations! The sight of that quaint and homely building, as one approaches it in.the bustle and tide of city life, brings back the stirring scenes of Revolutionary days when it got its name of the Cradle of American Liberty.

» Faneull hall, with its market below and meeting hall above, is to be restored to the original fabric and design as well as may be, and to be made as secure as possible against fire. In 1761 all but the shell was burned. Not since then, we believe, have the building and its additions been seriously threatened. Yet it has always been deplorably combustible. Here is what the finance commission has to say about it: “In the basement the floor timbers are unprotected. The refrigerator rooms are packed with cork. The cork and the unprotected timbers give an opportunity for fire damage in this part of the building. The windows are of commog glass- with wooden sashes and present a danger from fire on the outside. Over the upper hall there is a dumb waiter running from the room used as a kitchen which is constructed of Inflammable material.” And there is much more of the same kind. It is a painful thought that modern Boston has neglected the Cradle of American Liberty. Such, however, seems to be the case. What columns of grief and reminiscence there would have been if fire had gutted it and leveled its walls! Big Faneull hall Is to be -saved for poster. Ity now:. Bravo, Boston! Has the war waked you up to your duty? “If property done,” says a report of the society of architects, “the architectural restoration proposed will make of this building a unique possession of the city.” Faneull hall has always been that. Guard It well.

English Women In War.

When the war began, England had only a little army. Many Englishmen had never seen a soldier. A new army of 5,000,000, drawn from civilian ranks, had to be raised, trained, armed, clothed, fed and equipped with all the supplies demanded by a war which has turned every scientific invention to the work of destruction. This necessitated that the women fill the necessary places men had formerly occupied and also engage In the new Industries war requirements caused to spring into existence. Lord Northellffe says that the women have done this work, in the main, exactly as well as the men. They have entirely displaced the men in the operation of elevators, as clerks in stores, banks, and insurance offices and as drummers. In their enthusiasm the women attempted tasks beyond their physical strength: but this was gradually corrected. The fact that England has been able to maintain its credit and keep its exports at practically the prewar figures Lord Northellffe unhesitatingly ascribes to the wort: of the women.

Preserving Old Furniture.

Possessors of antique furniture should devote regular attention to it and especially to any of old oak, which sboiffil be kept in condition by periodical rubbings with flannel dipped in a mixture of beeswax, oil and spirits of turpentine. White painted French furniture Is best cleansed with lyrwffln: and after old mahogany has been gone over with a very little sweet oil any spots or stains may usually be worked off -or blended into the wood fiber by working an oxalic add and water dampened cork over the surface of the blemish. The brilliancy <ff the gilding of old furniture, mirror frames and candelabra may nearly always be speedily restored by being sponged off with sulphur which has been boiled for fifteen minutes In company with several bruised garlics, or with a preparation of common salt alum and purified nitre, such as any druggist will supply.

The Town Fool.

“Ladles and gentlemen,” shouted the long-haired one. “We are here to protest against the constantly increasing cost of living. Since the war everything has gone up. I defy anyone to name a single thing that has gone down since the war began.” “How about these here ships that have been torpedoed F asked the town fool from the back of the halL—Gar-

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LOYALTY BASIS OF ALL CIVILIZATION

Every Citizen Owes Moral and Legal Obligation to His Government SAME IN COMMUNITY UFE I People Have Duty to Their Homo Town Which Is No Less Binding Because It Is Not Fixed by Law. (Copyright, 1»1T. Wei Urn Newspaper Union.) Loyalty is the foundation upon which the whole structure of civilization rests. Loyalty to one’s country, loyalty to one’s state, loyalty to one’s city, loyalty to one’s business associates, loyalty to one’s friends! Loyalty is essential to the ordinary progress of the world. Without it the world must be chaos. There would be no stable government in the world were it not for the loyalty of the people to their government. There would be no successful business enterprise on the face of the globe were it not for the loyalty of the men and women who are connected with it.* No church .could exist for a month were it not for the loyalty of its members. The sacredness of the home would be a myth were it not for the loyalty of the members of the family group. The loyalty of a people to its government is based partly upon sentiment and partly upon the recognition of an obligation that a people owes to its government. A people that has the benefit of good government owes a duty to that government. Those who do not recognize this duty and perform it voluntarily are compelled by law to do so. The man or woman who is protected by the government in the pursuit of life and happiness, must contribute in money and service toward the support of the government. The man or woman who, under the protection of his government which preserves law and order, is able to accumulate property, must pay taxes on that property to help maintain the government which has protected him or her. In time of war the government has the right to call upon its citizens to take up arms in its defense. Loyalty Moral Obligation. In governmental affairs these things are regulated by law, and the man who receives the benefit of orderly government Is required to fulfill the obligation which that entails, but in the ordinary affairs of life, loyalty is a moral rather than a legal obligation. There are laws which prevent a man from stealing from his employer or his business associates, but there Is no law that requires him to be loyal to them. The success of a business Institution, however, depends more upon the loyalty of Its employees than upon the laws which prevent them from stealing its money. Likewise the stability of a government depends more upon the loyalty of its people than upon the laws which compel them to fulfill their obligation to the government It is equally true that the prosperity and growth of every individual community is dependent upon the loyalty of the people who live in it. Every citizen owes an obligation to his community, and the obligation is a moral as well as a legal one. The good citizen pays his taxes cheerfully and willingly. He serves upon the juries which administer the laws of the community. He fulfills every legal obligation that is Imposed upon him by his government, but there is a moral obligation which is of still greater importance to the community. This moral obligation consists In doing everything that is in his power to promote the prosperity and happiness of. his community. The man who is enabled to make his living in any community is under a moral obligation to spend his money in such a way as to help his community. Prosperity Worth Protecting. Anything worth having is worth protecting, and if the prosperity of a community is worth anything to the people living in it it is worth protecttng. If the chance for a man to earn a good living, to live well, to give his children a good, education, is worth anything, it is worth protecting. There is just one way to protect the prosperity of a community, and that is to keep the community from being drained of its cash—working capital. The only way to do that is for the people of the community to keep their money at home. Every time the citizen of a community sends money away from home to a mall order house Instead of spending it in his home stores he is disloyal to his community. It Is disloyalty to the merchants only indirectly. It is disloyalty to the community of which the merchants are only a small but a very important part This is the moral obligation that every citizen owes to his community, just as the payment of taxes and the loyal support of his government are his legal obligations. Disloyalty of a large body of the citizens spells disaster to any government and disloyalty of any large part of the people to their community is followed inevitably by the downfall of the community. Self-interest, if nothing Oat, should convince every citizen of the (advisability of fulfilling his moral obligation to bls community.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY CO. AGENT LEANING. Pig Club Formed. A limited number of boys of the county between the ages of 12 and 20 years, will receive registered gilts without cash outlay, according to plans made by a few breeders of pure bred hogs last Saturday. A breeders have agreed to furnish registered gilts to boys with the understanding that they shall return the 'best sow pig from the first litter and six per cent interest on the original value of the gilt. The purpose of this distribution is to encourage the production of better hogs and offers the young men an opportunity to engage in a profitable business with a small outlay. Persons desiring to receive pigs should apply to the county agent. Who Has Experience in Rolling Oats? “If rolling is good for wheat, why will it not give good results on oats?” is a question that Toben Brothers, of Jordan township, expect to solve this summer. They have a piece of loose muck ground sown in oats which they expect to keep rolled as long as possible this spring. They will leave an unrolled strip for comparison. Many of our soils are too porous to produce satisfactory gram yields and thorough packing my prove practical. • Hog Feeding Trials Progressing. Fifty-two pure bred spotted Poland China pigs weighing 1,360 pounds, were started on a feeding trial on the farm of W. C. Dooley, of Kniman, last week. A committee appraised the rye pasture on winch these hogs will -run at $8.50 per acre, the rape at $9.00 per acre and blue grass upon which cattle will also run at 7 cents per pig per month. Aside from the pasture all feeds will be purchased and the purchase price will be used in figuring the costs. Mr. Dooley will feed hominy hearts, middlings and tankage in self feeders, permitting the hogs to run on pasture during the season. A field of corn, will be hogged off in the fall. The pigs were appraised by the committee at $5.20 per head. In addition to the fanners named last week, John Jay, of Carpenter township, will conduct a trial* with 25 Chester White pigs, using com and tankage with the pigs running on timothy and clover pasture.

Fertilizer Testa Start. To throw light upon the question of the profitableness of fertilizers under present conditions a number of farmers are making comparisons of the results obtained, with different combinations. Joseph Kolhoff, of Jordan township, is running an experiment to determine the value of manure. He has laid out a series of plots in his corn field which will receive applications of manure at various dates. Next fall the corn will be weighed up and compared to determine the rate most profitable. R. L. Budd, of Union township, will run trials with manure, acid, phosphate and duplex basic slag. James W. Amsler, of Marion township, will run a series of nine plots to determine the value of combinations of acid, phosphate, slag, lime and manure as compared to not treatment. P. H. Hauter will run lime, acid, phosphate and slag trials on corn. John Kolhoff will run acid phosphate trials. In addition a number of farmers will run lime These include Charles Moody, Jos. Kosta, Wood Brothers, A. Sayler, Wm. Fitzgerald, Ed. Lane and others. Farmers’ Club. The Milroy township club will meet Saturday evening, May 11, at the Center school house. Everyone is invited to attend. The West Carpenter farmers’ club will meet at the Welch school Friday evening, May IT. “More silos for Carpenter township,” will be the theme of a general discussion.

For More Silos. E. J. Randle, county silo leader, has perfected plans to encourage the building of the county’s quota of 116 silos this summer. He has appointed a township leader and assigned a definite number of silos for each township. In the larger townships two leaders have been appointed. The township leaden will make' up a list of all farmen who do not have silos but who keep enough live-; stock to justify the use of one. Meetings or personal solicitations shall be used m carrying the information to these men. The township leaders and number of silos assigned to each are as follows: Roth, 11 ;Bowrocfinfptison-b ,andH Carpenter, Charles Welch, 13; Jordan, Toben Brothen, 8; Milroy, Walter Gilmore, 5; Marion, Sam Roth, 11; Newton, George Daugherty, 11; Hanging Grove, Simon Cook and Clyde Randle, 9; Barkley, W. C. Rose and Kenton Parkison, 11; Gillam, S. C. Robinson and John Wuethrich, 9; Walker, Wm. Hershman, 7; Union, Charles Lakin and Firman Thompson, 11; Keener, Gebrge Naninga, 5; Wheatfield, Malcolm Clark, 8, and Kankakee, F. Maloney and A. Duggleby, 8. Recipe Exchange. At a township food club meeting, Mrs. Harvey Dexter suggested that we women exchange recipes. We think that a good plan to adopt in the entire county. When you attend a demonstration or dub, come prepared with a recipe that you think will help your neighbor solve the food question in her home. We must share each with the other.

PUBLIC SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS I will sell at public sale at the Public Square on Saturday, May 11, at 3:30 p. m,. the following household goods: Washing Machine, Garden Tools, Glass Fruit Jars, Cupboard, Kitchen Utensils, .Rockers, Couch, Stands, Chest of Drawers, Clothes Rack, 2 Iron Beds and Springs, 2 Wooden Beds and Springs, about 30 yards of Carpet and other articles. w I -I »«■"■«=■============= 4 j Terms: Cash. W. J. WRIGHT Fred Phillips, Auctioneer.

BOYS IN TRENCH NEED LIQUOR, SENATE IS TOLD

Washington, D. C., May B. Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, protested today with vehemence against discussion of woman suffrage or prohibition during the progress of the world war. “You cannot win this war,” he declared, “by talking about woman suffrage and prohibition. We won every war we ever were in without woman suffrage and prohibition. “We won the war in 1776 and 1812 and the Mexican war, and the war of 1860, and the SpanishAmerican war and there were no pink tea parties talking about putting pink chemises on the men and Plymouth Rock pants on the women. “The women do not propose to go over in the trenches abroad and do the fighting. It is the men who have got to do that. “Instead of bleating around .here about their saving democracy by forcing their way into the caucuses and conventions, they had better go home and knit, make bandages, pick lint, and get ready to take care of their brothers and sons and fathers who are going to be shot to pieces in the trenches abroad?” “The women,” interrupted Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, “are doing that very thing to an extent that they ought to be congratulated upon.” “Take the boys over in their trenches there, standing all night in two feet if ice water, with orders in their pockets to go over the top in the cold gray dawn in a chilly fog, to put their exposed bodies up against shot and shrapnel and machine guns and poisonous gas and they say in addition to frozen feet they are going to fill his belly full of ice water before he starts as a moral stimulus to him. It is perfectly absurd. “Every army abroad gives its men a drink of something to expand the cockles of the heart before they go up against the cold blue steel and it may be the last one the poor devil will ever get. Yet you would think that this war is going to be won by such fads and fancies and frills aS that. New let us get down to brass tacks and win this war.”

Demonstration at Remington.

On Tuesday, May 9, at 2:00 o’clock, there will be given a demonstration at the. Remington library. Come provided with pencil and paper. List of Substitutes. Wheat flour—White. Corn meal, whole wheat, corn flour, oatmeal, graham, rice flour, buskwheat, potatoes, oats flour, barley. Meat, Beef, Pork and Mutton. Poultry, fish, all cheese, eggs, skim milk, beans, game, cottage cheese, peas, Fat, Lard or Butter. Vegetable fats, nut margarines, cotton seed oil, oleomargine, clarified meat drippings, suet, peanut oil, poultry fat. Sugar—White. Brown sugar, cane syrup, honey, corn syrups, maple syrups, dried fruits, maple sugar, sorghum syrup.

Following Directions. , “Everyone must help if we are to win. The soldier must obey orders or there will be no army. The people must be one or there will be no nation. So that we win, all of us must follow directions. This is your war guide for use in your home. It tells you what foods we must save to provision ourselves and our allies; it tells how we can stretch our supplies so everyone will have enough without any hurt to your health of your strength. “Your government does not ask you to give up three square meals a day—nor even one. All it asks is that you eat less of the food we need to keep the armies going and eat all you want of the other things that we have in plenty. “Eat plenty—keep up your strength and your vim to help win the war. You have dedicated to the nation everything that you have; you are asked now to give up—just some habits of the kitchen and table. “America and her allies must not run out of wheat, meat of fata. If we let that happen, Germany will win the war. “We must save sugar, use every drop of milk, and we must learn to follow directions.’’ “Food is ammunition —Don’t waste it.”

THEY DO NOT OVERLAP—THEY CO-OPERATH

The Knights of Columbus and thJl Y. M. C. A. has the govern]] ment recognition because they aral doing the same work. There is n]| over-lapping because if only one off] these organizations did the all thal welfare work, it would need a faj|| larger budget. Co-operating, botflll organizations have all the worlil WELCCME’II slogan of the K. of C. has now bell come a password among the soldier]] and sailors of all creeds at our armwl training camps and naval training I stations. , _ ~11 Catholic, Protestant and Jew will I fight side by side; they should bdl backed by ALL their countrymen] I irrespective of creed or race id I every drive for funds. Let us pro] I mdte harmony by forgetting religious] I differences at home as they are for]! gotten at camp. . Here is what a Protestant mimstei] says of the work: “I want every Protestant boy tdl feel that his church is keeping right up close to him during this awful struggle, and we are doing sd through the Y. M. C. A. on the insiddl of the camps and through our open] door churches in all the camp wan zones, and I want every Roman Catholic boy to feel that his church is keeping right up close to him, just as truly as the church of his Protestant chum. And the Knights of Columbus are doing this, and are keeping up the courage and faith of thousands of boys and teaching how to live the clean life. And say to you, as a Protestant minister, from the Protestant pulpit, that it is great a necessity as the Y. M. C. A.” —Rev. Russell H. Brady (Meth.), Pontiac, Mich. Help America win the war. Give to the K. of C. War Fund.

GIVING OUT

The Struggle Discourage* Many a Citizen of Rensselaer. Around all day with an aching back, Can’t rest at night; Enough to make any one “give qut” Doan’s Kidney Pills are helping thousands. They are for kidney backache; And other kidney ills. Here is Rensselaer proof of their luerit: Mrs. R. W. Burris, says: “I was suffering from a steady ache in my back and could hardly move without having knife-like pains through my kidneys. When I went to stoop over to tie my shoes or get up out of a chair, those pains caught me. My head ached and I felt nervous am tired. I was often so dizzy I could hardly stand. My kidneys acted too often and caused me much distress. I used several boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills and they put me in good shape.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Burris had. Forster- Milbum Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

STOCKSALE BETWEEN 400 AND 800 HEAD OF CATTLE AND HOGS. 1 will sell at auction on the Ambler Pleasant Grove stock farm, 7 miles southwest of Winamac, on FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918. 100 extra good milk cows, 50 with calves at side and the others to be fresh by June L. . , . 14 pure bred Holstein cows, al heavy springers. 2 pure bred Holstein males. 1 pure bred Hereford male, 8years old. 15 extra fine Jersey cows, all with calves at side. 25 extra good fat steers averaging 1,000 pounds—on full feed. 75 two-year old and yearling steers—good quality. 80 fat two-year old heifers on full feed. 70 good stock two-year old and yearling heifers. 50 to 150 head of hogs. Don’t miss this sale of as fine a bunch of stock as you have seen in many a day. Terms made known on day of sale. J, H. Hopp and othm, wetiraMO.