Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1918 — Page 3

HEARD and SEEN at the CAPITAL

And There Was Nothing Romantic About Him WASHINGTON.— He was a mid-age man with a bulge to his vest that showed for a life of good dinners. His gray suit would have been a credit to the king’s tailor —never mind what king—and his brand new panama

“I can read his type like a book. You can’t tell me! He’s a man who has been doing the primrose-daily act until his doctor has had to prescribe a moral diet of marriage and home. His, following of the prescription will depend on whether or not he can stand the shock of those price tags.” “No such thing.” The dissenting opinion was handed down by the other, who was obviotisly single, because —oh. well, maybe heaven, in its goodness, will explain sonie day why nature is allowed to make ugly women. “No such thing! I bet he’s a good man, who remained single because be had his mother and sisters to provide so now that he is free, the girl he loved is no more—and he is standing there, breaking his poor, dear heart because he can’t give her all those lovely things. And x I bet he is saying to himse.f, ‘Too late, too late !”* “You poor simp! We’ll ife too late ourselves if we don’t hurry up. So they hurried up. And when they were in their chairs and had turned around to see what sort of house it was going to be, about the first person their eyes lit on was the gray-suit man tucking his panama under his seat. It is always advisable to know when you are licked. Humble pie may not equal the pastry that mother used to make, but it saves a lot of wear and tear on your immortal soul. Therefore: The women had to admit that perhaps Just perhaps—the man was neither a primroser nor a provider for mother and the girls, and that maybe—just maybe—he had been loitering, like themselves, until time for the play to begin.

How Washington Landlords Gouge Their Tenants WHEN a brand-new population about the size of a manufacturing city like South Bend drops in unexpectedly upon a small-sized large town, already completely filled, such as Washington, there are bound to be a few crates of

pome up even for one night I might have given three rousing cheers. Not a chance. Still, I had no grudges; they’re more to be pitied than censured. I tacked around circles and squares enough to learn that in a war-time Washington there are, to wit: Hall bedrooms (or lf-you-can-get-’em hall bedrooms) of an antebellum rental of $lO a month which suddenly have puffed up into bellum if-you-can-get-’ems at S4O and SSO a month; that very swagger houses which recently were rented for SIO,OOO a year now bring $25,000 yearly; that one lady, who had an unfurnished apartment for'which she paid S9O a month, had. patriotically rented the rooms, furnished, during the first war winter at a rate of only SSOO a month, pocketing $3,000 for six months as her slight bit toward winning the war; that antebellum furnished apartments in the $l5O-a--month class bring often $350 and more a month in bellum days—that befo’-de-wah—ouh wah—flats, unfurnished at $75 now commonly are rented at $250 furnished. About the only government priority certificate which a man of influence cannorget is a priority certificate for a room and bath. It’s safe to say that the only vacant tiling to be found in Washington was the German embassy, which is still respected as an embassy, although emptyrespected, one might say, a hoflderned sight more than when it wasn’t empty.— Frank Ward O’Malley in the Century Magazine.

Yellow Flag Has Boused Ire of Students A COMPLETE conspiracy of a destroyed yellow flag, a mystery — and coming events —are elements in what promises to be one of the sensations of the yeac at Central high school. The facts are these: At the

Intercity scholastic spring meet Central high did not participate. At Central they say the rules of the meet were such as to bar Central’s best man. In any event, early the other morning when the students "began to arrive for school they were amazed to see floating from the top of the 60-foot steel AW mast on Central high building a yellow flag. Consternation reigned. Whoever had placed the yellow banner on the halyards which were Intended for the

Stars a'nd Stripes, had cut the halyards so the flag could not be lowered. , , Soon Jay Long, a Central athlete, was trying to climb the pole. Failing, his plpce was taken by a second-year man, Carl Stein of 628 Fifth street, northeast, who triumphantly brought down the yellow banner. It was torn to shreds, tbe students wearing the strips streamers. But feelings of the students were mixed. Some laughed. Others raged. An order was Issued by Principal Emory Wilson that no retaliation be attempted—but rumors about the school are that McKinley Manual Training school, otherwise known as “Tech,” will find her steps painted yellow some morning—from which It is obvious that “Tech” is suspected of hauling up the yellow banner on Central’s masthead. Meantime the students say, “The yellow-flag episode- does not represent •Tech’ spirit as a whole—it was a few of the-students who put up the flag, if •Tech’ did It at all.”

Dainty Uniforms Adorn Fair Society Women RED CROSS service uniforms are quite numerous on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons in Potomac park, where Mrs. Donald Washburn, the former Miss Georgia Schofield, and Miss Carolyn Nash have established a

of three years ago when the school opened is, however, much less becoming than the Red Cross veil of blue, gray or white. When not on duty at their new place of business, patriotic business, of course, with tea, toast and sandwiches at war prices, Miss Nash and Mrs. Washburn are just as modish as ever in their, summer attire. Miss Belle Baruch, daughter of “Barney” Baruch, who came to Washington for service at $1 per week, and paid SIBAJOO house rent for the season, is the only young woman of smart society entitled to wear the uniform of the Worn an's Radio corps, patterned very closely to that of the English aviators.

was as fine a 'hat as never came from Panama, seeing they don’t make them there. 1 And -while the man looked at the styles a couple of women who were loitering along because they were too early for the theater paused in the shadow where the arc light couldn’t get at them and looked at the man. The one who was a double-barreled widow —two wedding rings in stock knew exactly why the man looked in the window. '

relatives in the consignment. Consequently the residential sections of the national capital early in the war had become an omnibus family reunion, wherein pop and mom soon were all fed up with visitors. * “Come and see us one day while you’re here,” they said over the telephone to me, with ail the warmth of Charles Evans Hughes opening his front door and finding a delegation- of California voters on the front Stoop. Now, if they had only asked the to

teahouse, the proceeds to go to the Red Cross. This social and benevolent enterprise will operate two afternoons a week, when the Marine band concert is expected to bring the elite world to that particular part bf the park from four to seven o’clock. In addition to the Red Cross service uniform, Miss Nash and Mrs. Washburn are both entitled to wear the khaki skirt, shirt and jacket-of the national service- school, of which they are graduates. This very popular uniform

THE EVENING REPCBL.ICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Helping the Meat and Milk Supply

(Special Information Service, United Btatea Department of Agriculture.) LAWNS AS SHEEP PASTURES.

On Such a Lawn as This, Sheep Not Only Are Profitable and Beneficial as Weed Eradicators, but They Are Highly Ornamental as Well.

SCHEME TO FEED WASTE TO SHEEP

Opportunity Offered on College Grounds, in Parks and on Large Private Lawns. MAKE MONEY OUT OF FLOCKS Saving Also Made in Mowing and Weed Eradication— Investigate Before Launching into Enterprise. There are - thousands of places in the United States where grass is now going to waste that would support small flocks of sheep. Among such places are public parks, golf courses,, private estates with large lawns, and college grounds. Over most of these areas a lawn mower is run regularly to keep down the grass. If a flock of sheep were substituted for the lawn mower not only would the grass be utilized for food production but the labor nbw necessary to keep the grass cut would be released for other and more essential war work. Of course, considerable care needs to be exercised in the matter of stocking such open areas with sheep. The creation of a big demand for animals . for this purpose so as to interfere se-! rlously with normal market conditions i would not be desirable. The United States department of agriculture advises persons charged with the care of such properties to consider putting tn some sheep, but to investigate conditions thoroughly before they embark in the enterprise. The animal husbandry division of the department will be glad to answer requests for information, and has a number of publications on the subject available for free distribution. Pleasure and Profit. It is believed that in many Instances, particularly on the large golf courses and at educational Institutions having extensive grounds, sheep raising could be practiced in such manner as to bring a large measure both of pleasure and profit. This should be particularly true on school grounds where ordinarily some member of the faculty is a good enough animal husbandman to give them the proper care. In any event, it is a matter worthy of .careful consideration. The gross annual returns from ewes of breeding age may be expected to range as high as S2O a head. The fleece from one sheep averages from five to eight pounds and is now selling for from 50 to 65 cents a pound. One lamb to each ewe is a conservative estimate. The lamb at five months will weigh approximately 60 pounds and be worth probably 20 cents a pound. A flock of 20 ewes such as could be maintained on a good-sized college campus might be expected, therefore, to yield an annual profit of approximately $350, Which would go a good way toward endowing a lectureship. ; Weed Eradication. Aside from the question of direct profit, sheep would be useful on such lawns in eradicating weeds. For several years the Kansas state agricultural college spent over S4BO a year on the college campus In an effort to eradicate dandelions. About three years ago the animal husbandry department was short of pasture for its sheep and suggested to the college authorities that if the money formerly' spent for dandelion eradication were turned over to them they would undertake to get rid of the dandelions by graying the sheep on the campus. Today there are practically no dandelions on the Kansas agricultural college grounds. The same thing would be true on any other large lawn. In practically all cases, on order to keep them out of beds and shrubbery, sheep must be herded. This ran be

done, however, by unskilled labor, even by 'small chlldreb, and the expense need not be large. * Illustrious Example. People who install sheep on lawns will be following an illustrious example. For many weeks now a small flock of sheep has been grazing on the White House grounds, converting the grass which was formerly wasted into good meat and wool, and incidentally keeping down weeds that were a source of endless trouble. It has been found that the sheep are not only useful but ornamental. Many thousands of people have been attracted by the pretty picture of the fleecy animals in President Wilson’s yard.’

SHEEP AS BENEFACTORS

A hundred times you have noticed and been annoyed by the man, horse and little moving machine going about clipping the grass on the golf course. Sometimes you have noticed another fellow, or a group of fellows," going over the course, bending, prodding In the grass with little trowel-llke tools. Annoying? Yes; but, In the ordinary course of things, necessary. The grass has to be kept short and smooth for your comfort and convenience. And the ugly weeds have to be rooted out. Still all of that work has to be paid for out of the dues of the members. And, after all, the whole business—annoyance and expense—might be avoided. A flock of sheep would keep the grass clipped as closely and as neatly as the mower does —and the sheep would eradicate the weeds much more certainly than the prodding fellows ppssibly can. Besides, they would convert thegrass and weeds into meat and’ wool to help the nation through an emergency In which It badly needs both meat and W’OOl. •_

Make Waste Into Meat.

The keeping of a, reasonable number of sheep on the .average farm does not necessitate thb keeping of fewer dairy cows or other grazing stock. > This fact was determined by tire United States department of agriculture in its recent investigation of sheep raising possi-' bilities in. New England. I| was found that farms-where sheep are kept successfully have practically the same number and kinds nf other live stoclfc as other farms of like area where no sheep-are kept, and that the acreage in . crops on tl?e two classes of farms is substantially the samdi The ipferencC is that the fanner who keeps no sheep Is simply throwing away enough pasturage that cows and othgr live stock do not utilize to nfit him a neat profit. I

Fighting Animal Tuberculosis.

Tn April, 22,492 cattle were tested for tuberculosis in the tuberculosiseradication work of the bureau of animal Industry, United States department of agriculture. This number was 8,494 more than were tested in the preceding month. The tuberculosis control measures are to be applied, in co-operation with state authorities and live stock owners, along three lines—eradication of tuberculosis from purebred herds, eradication from circumscribed areas, and eradication 'from swine. In the beginning efforts are being concentrated on eradication of the disease from purebred herds.

Cold Storage Space.

In view of the heavy demands for cold storage spake growing out of war shipments, thC bureau of markets of the United States department of agriculture is making surveys- of space available for the cold storage, of but ter and eggs throughout the United States.

FULL OF WISDOM

It’s easier to go broke for liberty than to go blind. —— It’s wanting the last word that keeps most of the arguments going. Selfishness is the hardest obstacle the cause of freedom has to meet. The biggest ambition any man can have Is to be the good father of a good son. A woman may love her husband even though he isn’t rich, but she can’t help wishing that he was. In this war our observation is that the gold givers are still a long way behind the boy givers. One of the false notions some men have is that they can be patriotic without it costing them anything. They can’t. There are two kinds of* profiteers. One is making money at his country’s expense, and the other Is saving' money at his country’s expense. A woman can get- along on bran bread and corn muffins and all other sorts of Hoover substitutes, but when she gets a desire for a new bonnet only a new bonnet will do. ■After a woman has been married for a few years she realizes that it is just as hard for her husband to be goodnatured all the time as, it is for her tn be good-looking every minute. ■ I*l One of the things we are not going to try to do this year is run a farm by long distance and twilight. We discovered last year that to be a successful farmer requires more than 40 minutes’ work Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

WE HAVE OBSERVED

That the man who thinks he lacks time generally lacks en- . ergy. That a fellow doesn’t have to ; be a Marathon runner to be longwinded. That no amount of culture will ; make a fat man stop snorting in ; his sleep. That in the constant sifting of : life men generally land about ■ where they belong. That there are lots of men with just enough knowledge to ; be nuisances. That a homely face saves a woman from hearing a lot of , rank nonsense. —Boston Tran- ■ script. ...

WHAT’S NEW IN SCIENCE

Ore from Bolivian tin mines is being smelted at a new plant in Chili. A phonograph attachment makes a new clock speak the time every quarter hour. One of the easiest ways to cool an overheated oven is to stand a basin of cold water in it. The Argentine government will install an electric voting machine in Its chamber of deputies. • Clothing made of pressed feathers as a substitute for wool has been Invented by an Italian priest. A shade that folds like an umbrella, for convenience in Carrying features a new portable electric lamp. A new system of incubation hatches chicks by the heat of an electric light under a glass bell In which the eggs are’placed. The building of concrete sea-going vessels having proved successful In Sweden and Norway, Denmark is embarking in the industry. Hardened copper phonograph needles are the invention of a New York man, who also has succeeded in making a watch spring from the metal. As a new cotton picking machine is driven over a field four men follow it and pick the bolls with nozzles connected to pneumatic apparatus with which it is equipped. It has been estimated that the wire In the cores and sheathing of the world’s submarine cables that have been made since they were first used In 1857 would reach from the earth to the moon.

THINGS WORTH KNOWING

The French “horizon blue" is said to be the best color for a military uniform. A whitewash is now made from the “sludge” refuse of the acetylene gas manufactory. An X-ray picture of a specimen of “silk hosiery" will reveal the “tin” filling of the fabric.; Bivalves suspected of bearing pearls are examined by the X-ray to avoid destroying the shellfish.

DAN CUPID’S WORK

By LOUISE OLIVER.

(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa- ’ per Syndicate.) They say love laughs at locksmiths J It does. And It has been proved thaO It also laughs at gas bomb and shrapnel, bayonet and trench knife; the :• depth of the sea and the tops of the . highest mountains, the icy terrors dO the frozen North and bitter agony of the desert. But there is one thing left. We shall | learn how love conquered that. Betty Barstow was a very pretty girl, but spoiled. Perhaps that was why she merely laugh'ed at Jerome Gilbert, a young superintendent tn her father’s mill, when he fell foolishly, desperately, pitifully In love with her. “Betty,” he plead, “no one ever loved as I do. You see it’s the only thing I live for. Other people have been in love, or thought they were, but it was nothing to this. Can’t you feel it? Don’t you see it, that I can’t live without you? You’ll find it out some day, why can’t you give me a little hope?” Betty laughed. “Eventually, why not now?” she quoted frdm an advertisement. Jerome colored. “You’re cruel, Betty. You don’t mean it, I know, but it hurts awfully. I can’t stand it any longer. I —l’m going to enlist and I hope I get killed.” But Betty had heard that before, and It worried her not. He did enlist In the aviation corps. That was the next thing Betty heard of him, and he was gone without saying good-by. Then she grew thoughtful. Perhaps she had been a little unkind. She really hadn’t Intended to go so far. She had only meant to tease him a little and make It up the next time he came. “He doesn’t deserve any credit for going,” she said to her father one morning. "He went because—because he was cross about something, I believe.” “I don’t think so,” returned her parent. “He confided to me a couple of months ago that as soonras we had certain Important work done in the mill he thought he would go.” “Oh 1” Betty’s eyes filled with tears of humiliation and she left the breakfast table hurriedly. For the first time In her life Betty had a rebuff, and with characteristic wilfulness, fell In love with the unattainable. And then she discovered that she had really been In love with Jerry all along. Then her mind being serious for the first time in her life, she began to think earnestly of the war and of what she could do to help. She went in for Red Cross work for a while, and work? ed tirelessly in the Woman’s Motor

corps. But there were others who could do her work and she wasn’t satisfied. She wanted something distinctive. Then one day she read how carrier pigeons were needed in France, and how difficult it was to get people to train them. And Instantly she decided that that was her work. , She went out to their house In the country, with only the caretaker and his wife for company, and started out with twelve birds. It was interesting work and kept her busy. She would take the birds a short distance away from the farm at first, in her motor car, and let them fly back. Then gradually she Increased the distance*, letting the birds fly alone. At last it got impossible for her to take them herself, as the distance grew greater, and she would ship them to friends in different cities to release. They came back unfailingly, always with their little brass tubes containing a friendly note. White Wing was the swiftest of them all. Betty was very proud of him. Ope day she sent a message to her* self, or rather'to Jerry. She had been so lonely all week, and the solitude of the country gave her plenty of time to think. “Oh, Jerry, Jerry, If you would only come back,”’ she cried nightly on her pillow. “I’d never let you go away a? lhe next time she went to the city, her father was shocked at her a PP®*[* ance. “You’re working too hard with those birds,” he said. “Pack up and we’ll both go to the seashore for * week. They can get along for a wee* without you.” So Betty went, but she took her birds to test them In a five hundred mile flighrhome, the longest they had ever made. And that was when she sent the message to herself, or rather to Jerry, for on the little slip of paper she tucked into the tube on White Wing’s leg was written: “Oh, Jerry dear, come home. Ido love you. Betty.” _ Now arctic ice, and burning sands, gas bombs and trench knives not having baffled love, such a thing as a few hundred feet in the air was not going to get the best of the wily little fellow. Jerry was out on a trip, flying low, when suddenly something hit him in the breast There was a flutter of white.and behold, a pigeon lay stunned by the impact in his lap. Here was romance! Jerry, keen fox adventure, spied the tube and extracted the note, and thus received by Dan Cupid’s special delivery Betty’s heartbroken roessage. Jerry’s leave of absence came just when Betty arrived home. There was no preliminary. He just gathered her In his arms and kissed her. ‘ “How did you know, dear,” she asked curiously. “A little bird told me.” he “-