Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — Page 2

I NERVOUS BREAKDOWN , Mist Kelly Tells How Lydia B. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health. Newark, N. J.-" For about three years I suffered from nervous break* ik li . l -i, down and got so II D Ijflßi weak I could hardly ■I n dnggSß stand, and had heaa--11 II M aches every day. I IgfwiiiL. 7"'tried everything I • IrrC/Z think of and SSyin /rar was un<^er a P h y* J' sician’s care for two J Z-j m years. A girl friend ft Lydia E» ' P*“kbarn’s VegeCompound and WvA xHli OMI ®b® told me about SA FAPH From the first i day I took it I began la feel better and X JM< sl^ now 1 *“ a*** rX able to do most any mrc£sk\t kind of work. I “wWqmWrlm have been recommending the Com* sound eversince and give you my per* i mission to publish this letter.”—Misa Flo Kelly, 476 So. 14th St, Newark, N.J. The reason this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, was so successful in Miss Kelly’s case was because it went to the root of her trouble, restored her to a normal healthy condition and as ter nervousness disappeared. gSYCT-Catarrhl leHef Guarantewi I S FMANNS| RRHBALM MB VOVaMAWk ITTTYKnrV y> a deceptive disease IVUZIVE/X —thousands have it TROTTRT I? a” 3 don’t know it. If * KUUDLrIb y OU wajat good results you can make no mistake by using Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney medicine. At druggists in large and medium else bottles. Sample slab by Parcel Post. also pamphlet telling you about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper. LetCuticuraße Your Beauty Doctor All dntsgiote; Soap 26, Ointment 26 * 60, Talcum 26. Sample each tree of •'Cutkmra. D«pt K,SeH«a"

CALL WAS FOR “OPERATORS”

And Sapper Black Felt Justified In Believing He Came Within That Classification. The new-formed signal company had Just assembled on parade, and the O. 10. was classifying his men for their 'various duties. “Fall out any operators,” he shouted. A number of telegraphists promptly stepped to the rear, 'but the O. C. was surprised to notice 'Sapper Black among the party. “Are you a competent operatorF inquired the O. C "Yes, sir,” was the immediate response. “And your speed of working F "Five thousand feet per hour.” "Five thousand what?” roared the O. C. "Telegraph operators don’t send messages by the yard!” “Perhaps not, sir,” replied Black; "but, you see, I’m not a telegraph operator ; I’m a cinematograph operator.” —London Answers.

Couldn't Feaze Him.

Smith was telling Jones a story, f the evening wore on—•” “Wore?” Interrupted Jones, facetiously. “Did it? What did it wearF “Well,” said Smith, nettled at the Interruption, but equal to the occasion, “If you must know, it was ttie close of * summer day.”—Pearson’s.

Dissenting Views.

* “Did you think the new play rather ifatuous?” . “Well, no; I thought it rather thin." Unless the waiter is feed he may forget to feed you.

Children j? Like cereal drink POSTUM And itb fine for them too, for it contains nothing harmful-only the goodness of wheat 2nd pure molasses. JtaTUM is now regularly used in place of tea and coffee jn many of the best* of families. Wholesome economical and healthful. "There* a Reason"

A Lunatic Lover

By HELEN HAYES

(Copyright, 1918. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) In her way, there was no better woman than Miss Bessie Randall’s Aunt Jane Pilaster, spinster, having her own farm and living according to her own lights. She was full of sympathy and charity and good deeds, but “propriety” had been her motto so long that even her best friends thought she carried* matters too far when she withdrew from the church because the minister called and found her up a cherry tree, picking fruit. For primness and. preciseness and propriety Aunt Jane was without a rival. In after days, and not so very long after, either, Aunt Jane admitted to herself that she must have been crazy when she wrote up to the city for her niece, Bessie, to spend July with her. She hadn’t seen the girl for several years. As she remembered her; Bessie was a long-legged child with a lonesome face and demure demeanor, who would sit and play with a rag doll by the hour and ask few questions. She had two real rag dolls made before she wrote the letter of invitation. She also had decided In her own mind that she would let the child chase grasshoppers In the back lot and climb fences, but she must not chase or climb boisterously—only properly. “Ton dear, darling old thing of an aunt, but I could just stand on my head for gladness!” was the greeting the spinster received one day two weeks later when a girl of eighteen was deposited at her gate by the stage from Sherlockville. The aunt felt chills of horror creep up and down her spine, but before she could do more than utter a groan the girl had seized her and waltzed her around —actually waltzed her up the path between the rows of pinks and peonies and hollyhocks, with the hired man looking on! That evening, after Miss Bessie had talked, about rowing, swinging Indian clubs, pitching quoits, bathing, climbing trees, and riding about in the electric runabout her father was to send down to her—talked and never observed the of her aunt’s face after she h^rtaifced —and had gone to her room, Aunt Jane said to the hired man: “James, something has got to be done.” “Yes’m, something has,” he replied. “You saw my niece waltz me around?” “I saw, ma’am.” “And was properly shocked?”

“Very properly.” ' , “And you may have caught some of her words about climbing trees, swinging clubs she bought of an Indian, bathing in the river and riding about the country on a machine of some kind? You were alsp shocked again?” “Properly shocked, Miss Pilaster.” “Then you must agree with me that we must take certain steps to save my niece from herself. She is a dear girl and a sweet girl, and she must not be allowed to fall into hoydenish ways. She must be reduced to a state of propriety and that without offending her.” “She must, ma’am—she must,” solemnly answered James. “Fortunately for us,” continued Miss Pilaster as a look of mingled hope and relief showed in her face, "we are situated within two miles of the insane asylum. Insane patients now and then escape and go roaming over the country. If my niece were to be told that a male lunatic had escaped from the place and was at liberty, and that he was a dangerous character, I don’t think she would want to go gallivanting around in that what-do-you-call-it”

“She surely wouldn’t, ma’am.” “Nor do any climbing of trees nor clubbing of Indian clubs. If you have heard of any male lunatics escaping from the asylum within a day or two, and haven’t said anything about it because you feared to render me nervous and perturbed, it will be your duty to notify my niece early in the morning.” • . On the following morning James found opportunity to say to the visitor: “Miss Randall, did your aunt mention the fact that we have a large insane asylum not far distant?” “Gee! A place for crazy people!" she exclaimed. ‘T want to go and see them this very afternoon!"_ “There are dangerous lunatics among them, miss. Sometimes one escapes.”

“Oh, I hope one will escape while I am here and come to the house! I shouldn’t be a bit afraid. Don’t you know that if you look a lion or a lunatic in the eye he will become as timid as a rabbit? If you hear of anyone escaping—” “But I have heard of one,” desperately interrupted James. “If I were in your place I shouldn’t go far from the house until we learn that he has been recaptured. Before you can look Mm in the eye he will murder you. This one who escaped the other day—” But Miss Bessie was gone to tell the news to her aunt, and to add that she should spend the whole day looking for the coming of the lunatic. If he came, she would wager her runabout against a hill of potatoes that she would subdue him and lead him back to the asylum. Three days passed

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and the runabout arrived, and she announced her intention of taking a long ride at Once. Miss Pilaster groaned and told more tales of lunatics. James groaned and predicted death by strangulation. Nevertheless the girl went. • She started out in a cloud of dust and had gone two miles when there was a bur-t-r-r-r and the. vehicle came to a stop. She' worked away at the levers without avail. She got down and peeked and peered, but it was no use. She was stamping her foot in anger when a man came out of the woods close at hand. He was a young man of twenty-five—a goodlooking young man, and he had a professional air about him. “Something wrong?" he pleasantly queried as he looked from the girl to the runabout. “Yes; it won’t go.”

In three minutes he had discovered the cause of the trouble, and after running the vehicle up and down he halted and asked If she were going over to Sherlockville. When he received an affirmative reply he said: “So am L If you have no objections I will ride with you and see that all goes well. The machine Is new and must "be coaxed a bit.” To her surprise Miss Bessie found herself seated beside the stranger and bowling along at a merry gait. They had gone a mile when she suddenly remembered that the young man had not Introduced himself. Then she remembered the escaped lunatic and the words of warning. For half a minute her heart was In her mouth. Then she took a sly peep and failed to see anything murderous In the man’s looks. They were a bit gloomy and preoccupied, but not savage. “Excuse me,” he finally said as he turned to her. “I am from the asylum, but I haven’t a card with me. My name Is Ashley, and if I mistake not you are the young lady at Miss Pilaster’s.”

Miss Bessie bowed in acknowledgment and her heart jumped again. This man must be the escaped lunatic! She developed her plan in a moment. She became very communicative. In fact, she gushed to throw him off his guard. If he was on an errand to the village she would wait and take him back, and to this he readily agreed. There was a wait of ten minutes and then he reappeared. Little was said on the return trip. The young man was moody, and Miss Bessie was wondering how to land him at the asylum without provoking a desperate resistance. Aunt Pilaster and James were waiting at the gate, and to her astonishment the vehicle came to a halt and the lunatic raised his hat to the woman and nodded to James. “Why, Bessie, where did you find the doctor?” asked the Aunt as she came forward. “Doctor?” repeated the girl. "Why, yes—Doctor Ashley of the asylum." "Good heavens, but isn’t he that escaped lunatic, and are all my plans for his capture to be knocked in the head?’ »

“Sorry for you,” replied the doctor with a smile. “I am from the asylum, but not exactly a lunatic. You have just kindly taken me to the village to have an aching tooth drawn.” “But I—l have captured you, you know.” “I won’t dispute it.” When it is said that from that day on for two months the doctor was a frequent caller at Miss Pilaster’s, and that he and Miss Bessie have been writing twice a week to each other since her return to the city, the reader can drawn his own conclusions. He will at any rate feel a bit of sympathy for Miss Pilaster, who turned to James the day her niece went home, and with her apron to her eyes tearfully exclaimed: “Oh James, things have so changed about since I was a g-gurl that I can’t make ’em out! We told Bessie to look out for lunatics, and now she’s going to marry a whole asylum full of ’em!’’

Tale of a Pipe.

It was quite the unusual thing for O’Connor to turn up late to his work and great was the surprise when he got in one morning ten minutes after time. “Hello! This ain’t usual!” said the foreman. “Did you miss the train?” “No,” answered O’Connor, “but when I got to the car, begorrah, I found I had forgot my poipe. Home I rushed, and the missus says: ‘Phwativer is to do?’ ‘Shure, I’ve forgot my poipe!’ says I. *Ye great loon,’ says she, ’it’s in your mouth!’ And, bejabbers, so it was; but if she hadn’t seen it I should have come without it, after all.”

Some Cat, That.

Short—l thought you were going to drown that cat. Long—Wait, they say a cat has nine lives, but that one has 20, I think. Why, I actually put that cat into a tub of water and tied a brick round its neck, and what do you think? Short —Goodness knows. Long—Well, ’ this morning when I went to look at the tub the cat had swallowed aU the water and was sitting on the brick.

Not Defenseless.

“Would you strike a defenseless animal?” “Boss,” said Mr. Erastus Pinkley; “you stand around attde hind heels of dat mulg foh half a minute an’ you gineter discover that defenselessness is de least of his qualifications.”

Quite Natural.

“Jones made iFvhry lame speech on the subject under discussion.” “No wonder, when his argument hadn’t a leg to stand on."

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DRAINAGE AND PURE WATER

Two Essential* for the Wellbeing of Every Town, and All Too Often Neglected. In the majority of towns there are now efficient drainage and sewerage systems, and proper means of disposal. There are yet many towns without an efficient system. Many large country villages also have no system, and the conditions are most unsatisfactory. .These places do not bother about It; they seem content to go on in their own “swe’et way.” They will not hear scheme. Those responsible look upon themselves as economists; yet their economy is but false, and their interest a “pocket one,” the welfare and wellbeing of the people being the last consideration. A pure and efficient water supply is another essential for all places, yet we have many small towns and villages ’without it. Water is taken from defective and impure sources, while wells are close to cesspools and drainage from cattle yards, and other fouled surfaces have access to them. This is often due to the faulty construction of the well or cesspool. What appears to have happened is this —-two holes were dug, and lined with drylaid bricks, one being called the well and the other the cesspool. Can we wonder at disease being rampant? We also find the water supply taken from an open pond, full of mud and growth, and often a drain pipe discharging its contents into it. Many small towns and villages view with disfavor and are up in arms if an efficient system of sewers, sewage disposal, or nwater supply is suggested. They will tell you that their arrangements have sufficed for the past and no ill results have occurred; the Inhabitants, they say, live as long as they like; and yet facts prove otherwise. In places where proper systems have been installed the death rate Is lowered, infantile mortality reduced, infectious disease eradicated, or nearly so, and the general health bettered. —From the Architect and Contract Reporter.

TREES GIVEN PROPER CARE

Massachusetts Municipalities Praised by Writer in National Municipal Review for Good Work. Springfield, Mass., is a striking example of the fine results' of a municipality making it its business to care for its trees. Walk up State street from Main. Note the majestic elms on this broad highway. As you pass •the intersecting streets, look north and south on each and see, as far as eye can reach to left and right, the towering rows of lofty trees waving thelri green tops in the breeze, the sun glinting through the verdant roof that forms an arch high up above the road. The like amplitude of stately old trees, some of them of century age, adorns all the older residence of Springfield; while “on the hill” where the city is spreading toward the east the newly opened streets are glorious with young trees. Both old trees and young are thriving. „ No tree that is dead, or unsightly past remedy, is allowed to stand. The city takes it down forthwith. The most sedulous care is bestowed on all trees, whether old or young. All this, remember, by the municipality itself, through JJs city forester. Appropriations for tree work are generous. The like policy prevails, and the like results are manifest, in nearly all the municipal!tle> 6f Massachusetts. National Municipal Review. . /

Keep Money In Town.

Plant your town so as to disicourage the movement of the people ipto outside uncontrolled areas for purposes of buying supplies, so that the man W’ho wants your people’s trade must establish his store on your Jhnd and come with his family and clerks to live in your town. Make it, in other words, a self-contained and self-suf? ficient town by every legitimate device. If possible, make shopping attractive by the provision of a good store center, lights, arcades, etc., so as to draw trade from the neighboring villages and farms. Your commercial values will be your “velvet” and you can make your Main street frontages worth SSOO a front foot

Sensitive Instruments.

There are instruments made by the hands of men which surpass the eye in keenness and rival the nose. The spectroscope is generally considered one of the most perfect instruments, ft will detect the presence of one-hundred-millionth of an ounce of sodium. The electroscope, however, is more than a million times more sensitive than the spectroscope, and will detect one thirty-five-thousand-bll-tlonth of an ounce of radium, or one millionth of a millionth of a milligramme! The bolometer will register the heat of a candle a mile and a half distant * ,

Where Palms Should Be Placed.

Palms are stately 'plants and should be used where stateliness and formality need emphasis. This is not for curved or winding streets or roadways. As the latter are necessarily informal they are always best planted with roadside groupings.

Help That Weak Back! IN THESE trying times the utmost effort of every man and every woman is necessary. But the man or woman who is handicapped with weak kidneys finds a good day’s work impossible, and any work a burden. Lame, achy back; daily headaches, dizzy spells, urinary irregularities and that "all* worn-out" feeling are constant sources of distress and should have prompt attention. Don’t delay! Neglected kidney weakness too often leads to gravel, dropsy or Bright’s disease. Begin using Doan’s Kidney Pills today. They have brought thousands of kidney sufferers back to health. They should help you. Personal Reports of Real Cases C

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