Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE CITIES

fled Ice Next Summer in Chicago From Long Lake FOX LAKE, ILL. —Long take, near fox lake, is turning red —blood red. Residents of the neighborhood first noted the lake water getting a pinkish hue several weeks ago. An investigation—thoroughly unscientific, of course -

was appealed to. “That’s remarkable,” the alderman said. “I wouldn’t want to dictate a solution right offhand, but follow this clue carefully. The Graham boys are great hunters, th# duck season has been with us. They have shot a multitude of ducks on the lake and the blood from the deceased ducks, you know ” J. R. Graham, one of the family of famous trap shots and dtick hunters, was reached over the telephone. “As a matter of fact, the duck hunting has been pretty poor this year.” he said. “But the story of the water turning red is true. Running out of the lake it looks red. The ice brownish colored.' We have sent samples of the water to Chicago for analysis, but have not heard the result yet. If the ice freezes thick enough to harvest Chicago may get a chance to eat red Ice next summer.” ' - That, Watson, is the case. We shall have to look into it—murder, mystery, or whatnot. * , ——— Of course there will be. an Increase in price next summer in Chicago—for red ice!

Mother’s Light in the Window for a Lost Girl AURORA, ILL. —Times have changed. The electric light has supplanted the kerosene lamp. The apartment has taken the place of the home. But girls still do run away from home. And mother’s love is still to be found

unchanged. Olive Nelson of this city quarreled with her sweetheart, Robert Binder, who appears to be a misnomer. Olive is but nineteen, so the quarrel bulked large in her little world. About three weeks ago Olive left home onemoraing and casually remarked as she went out the door, “Maybe you will see me again and maybe not.” When the gir! did not return for supper as usual, Mrs. Anton Nelson, her

mother, appealed to the police. Search was begun immediately. It has been kept up faithfully. Many clues have been run down only to end in nothing. Today the mother is in absolute ignorance of the fate of her daughter. The Nelson home is a humble one on South River street. It has no electric lights. It is a house, not an apartment. If Olive should be alive and should want to get in some night, she could enter without letting the people In half a dozen flats know all about it. So every night Mrs. Nelson lights an old-fashioned kerosene lamp and sets It on a table so that its light shines out of the front window and in plain sight of anyone passing by'on the street. Anyone' who knows that the daughter of the house is missing can read In that lamp a mother’s message: “There’s a light in the window for thee.” “People may smile at my lamp in the window,” says the mother. "1 might myself if I was not too sad of heart. But I know not what else I can do. The police canmSt find my daughter. I have done all that I can do. 1 have still hope that she will return —and faith. Faith may bring her back.”

“Perfect” Twins Find Fairyland in lowa Home CHICAGO. —Into a fairyland of automobiles and ponies and many toy§ have wandered Elizabeth Jane and Edward Murray, twins, and four and one-half years old, to become the heirs to the fortune of B. J. Ricker and wife of Grin* nell, la. December 12 the twins were

pulled up in front of the house of sorrow and the wealthy lowans alighted. The two little blond children greeted them at the door. When the automobile headed back downtown the twins were in it. « .. The next day there were sagelike specialists over at the hotel.. The twins underwent severe medical tests. “Perfect,” was the scientists’ verdict The next stage was the county court, where they stood solemnly before the judge. Little, quiet Edith became Elizabeth Jane Ricker and Ivar, her rosy-cheeked brother, took the name of “Edward Murray Ricker, the Edward after the millionaire’s father, and Murray for his dead mother’s maiden name. The children ■♦ere formally adopted and became their iegnl heirs. At night at the hotel there was a reception to friends, with Elizabeth Jane and Edward Murray acting as host and hostess. It was the official “coming out” of “the Ricker children.” Mr. and Mrs. Ricker are middle-aged and have no children. Even a Fiancee Has No Chance With Grim M. P. New YORK. —Cupid had the stage all set here for a joyful incident of a war romance, when q conventional M. P., who knows his orders and didn’t give a whoop for Cupid, balled up, the show. Miss Sydney Whiteside of

Chicago, has been awaiting news of the First gas regiment with what patience she could command. She learned the regiment was on the Celtic. She caught the fastest train for New York, and a taxicab for pier 60. ‘‘Got a pass? No? Stand back I Stand back!” announced the military policeman at the gate. “But, but; —” she ventured. "Sorry, lady. Orders. Got to have a pass.” “But, he’d hay—”

“Orders, lady, orders. Cupid himself couldn’t get in without a pass-” “But we're going to get—” “Orders, lady, orders. Get a pass or stand back!” Meanwhile Maj. John B. Carlock, from whose antecedents Carlock, 111., got its name, and who was a University of Chicago student, was on deck getting his regiment disembarked. He-was going through the motions, but really his mind was busy with this question: . “How can I get a marriage license on Sunday?” You nee, he had a strong suspicion that Miss Sydney Whiteside might be waiting at the gate. “M. P. won’t let Miss Whiteside on without a pass,” reported an orderly. "Tell her to meet me at CampJtferritt. See if you can’t get me a license somewhere, sqpiehow, quick. There’s a going to be a wedding In New York In three hours in spite of all the M. P.’s in the army.”

vicinity. The hunters and trappers, the old settlers and weather prophets were puzzled. The hotel keepers and resort owners who profit from the summer tourist trade then began to take an interest in the phenomenon, as did a Chicago ice company, which owns several Icehouses. Alderman George M. Maypole of Chicago, former police magistrate at Fox Lake, who knows the Long lake territory better than the native guides,

led into a darkened room in their home at 4040 North Keystone avenue, where lay their mother, Mrs. Sadie Rosier, dead, a victim of influenza. Their father and mother had separated since coming from Australia two years ago. A kindly neighbor took them in charge. A few days ago the Rickers camo to Chicago and took a suite at a hotel. Mrs. Ricker heard of the twins through a schoolteacher friend. It wasn’t hours afterward when a motorcar

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF PEACE DELEGATES IN SESSION

This is the first official photograph to arrive in this country showing the peace delegates in session in Paris. These delegates are from every country in the world.

RAINBOW MEN LIVE LIKE LORDS

150th Field Artillery Is Billeted in Famous German Health Resort. TAKf BATHS, SHUN WATERS Buck Privates Elevate Heels on Private Balconies and Hear Music as Often-as Military Duties Permit in Neuenahr. With the American Army of Occupation. —The competition for softest billets, open to all members x>f the American army of occupation, appears to have been won by the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery of' the Rainbow division. Its members are leading near-mil-lionaires’ lives, when not otherwise occupied by military duties, in Bad Neuenahr, “the Rhenish Karlsbad.” This “world fame cure and bath resore” (according to the guide books) was before the coming en masse of the Americans, visited annually by 22,000 guests, not countingtransients ; ancT though the Teuton sick, who suffered from ailments for which Bad Neuenahr’e hot spring waters are vouched sans specifics by legions of long-bearded German professors, are giving the Rhenish Spa a wide bertii just now, lt is probable that between the One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery’s Missouri mules and mixed personnel, and the bathing fans flocking in fromjieighboring garrisons, the Karlsbad of the Rhine nevei; enjoyed a more lively or picturesque season. Many Baths, No Bathti^s. From morning till night, the grand hallway of the bath hotel is well filled with men and officers, waiting their turns to"take hot mineral baths. The establishment boasts 100 private bath establishments and as one of our medical officers from the middle West put it, contains every bath fake known to science, but our military Kur- guests wisely confine their activities to the straight hot water variety. There are no bathtubs. The Individual bathrooms, averaging 'lO or 12 feet square, are done in spotless white tiling, sometimes figured in Pompeiian hlue. And the marble baths are sunk below the tiled floors, Roman style. Bustling German women attendants draw these, regulating the temperature electrically. When the rush Is on the men bathe in batches of three. After the bath, there are couches in each room on which they may recline. The German women attendants, accustomed to playing millionaires ffi* unoccupied times, may have been inclined to be a bit snobbish at first, and some seemed still to wear an air of suppressed resentment, but our military authorities see to it that they give efficient service to the buck privates and doughboys.

CARRY FOOD BY AIR

* Paris —The French government has decided to Install an airplane servicte to feed inhabitants of the redeemed districts of northern France until railways destroyed by the Germans In their retreat can be restored. With 200 airplanes at least 200,000 people of the stricken provinces can be fed daily. It is believed this number of planes could carry 100,000 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of sugar, 10,000 pounds of butter, 30,000 pounds of vegetables and 10.000 pounds of condensed food. While this will -be the most gigantic scale on which airplanes have been used for feeding a country, yet the system is not entirely new. During the war it was successfully used by the British in carrying food to their troops In Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Macedonia. In November. l0l7; during the French offensive against the Ghemin dea Dames, it was

who, after all, are distinguished bath guests of the German government,. which foots their bills. From the hotel your trail naturally leads to the Kurhaus, with its reading and conversation rooms, its theater and concert hall and, above all, the springs that made Bad Neuenahr famous. Here the signs of American military occupation are. quite unmistakable, for certain heavy field mortars are drawn up in line In front of the Kurpark, while along the favorite walks of wealthy valetudinarians are picketed flocks of. Missouri mules and long lines of artillery horses. Array of Mules and Monuments. You pick your way judiciously through the -park between the mules and horses and arrive at a large structural iron shed, with Its frpnt open and sides done In stained gldss, mostly cracked or broken. Over the entrance arch stands the inscription in Latin: “For the Edification and Benefit of the Sick,” while among the mules across the pathway Is a granite monument surmounted by the bust of the discoverer of these alleged alkali sulphurous hot springs. Mules and M. F.’s permitting, you climb down into the structural Iron shed or pavilion to drink the waters, if you dare. ; A tour of the principal, hotels of Neuenahr showed that every man jack of the garrison had drawn a bed; in many cases, the artillerists were billeted in expensive suites with private baths. In the garden of one hotel, the regimental band was giving an

“FLU” SERUM USELESS

Physicians Are Still Hunting for a Preventive. U. S. Laboratory Director Saya No Cure for Baffling Disease —- Is Known. .•======* New' York —Considering that the insurance companies of the United States lost about $130,000,000 during the three months last year when the influenza epidemic w r as at its height, it was but natural that when the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors met in annual convention in Newark the physicians and public health authorities* should concern themselves almost exclusively to the search for some preventive measure which would preclude another outbreak of the plague. And yet, although it was shown that about 6,000,000 people In the world perished from it, 400,000 of whom were Americans, all the medical experts admitted that the disease was completely baffling. Said Dr. G. W. McCoy, director of the hygienic laboratory of the public health service In Washington. “There Is no serum that I know of

used by the Germans. A detachment of their troops, completely encircled, was kept supplied with food by air planes that dropped baskets containing bread, kraut, canned meat and other supplies. For the airplanes that will- be necessary for the new service for feeding the north of" France, the French government will first of .all make use of its own bombing machines. After this it expects to be able to utilize not l eßs than 100 planes turned over by Germany Under the terms of armistice. In addition, France hopes that both England and the United States will place at her disposal a number of their bombing machines now lying idle in France. « Vital as the new service will be for feeding the north of France, It also will help solve the problem of the gradual transformation of the military aviation service for peace time*.

Allies’ Rifle Strength Greatest When Needed

--- Washington.—Fignres showing the rifle strength of the allied and enemy force on the western front during the last eight months of the war were received by the war department. They show that up to July 1 the allies were outnumbered from 200,000 to 300,000. but that they reached their peak on September 1, when they had 1,682,000 opposed to the Germans’ 1,339,000. Rifle strength is the number of “men in. the trenches ready to go over the top with the bayonet.” The rifle strength of an American division of 27,000 combat troops is 12,250. This shows that the actual armies on the western front totaled more than twice as many as the rifle strength figures. During the hard fighting from September 1, the Germans’ losses were appalling, the figures showing a drop in their strength from 1,339,000 to 866,000 on November 1. During the same period the strength of the allifed forees dropped only from 1,682,000 to 1,485,000.

afternoon concert, and buck privates could be seen sitting on their private balconies with their feet on the rails, smoking and resting after their midday “chow.” It’s a great life at Neuenahr, but after its fighting record, it is generally agreed the regiment is fully entitled to this break of luck.

which is of the slightest value in preventing Influenza, nor is there a serum thflt Is of any use whatever In the treatment of tho disease.” He made this statement after carefully experimenting with serums and vaccines in all parts of the country where the disease had broken out, and particularly in Pelham Bay and the army camps where the mortality was great.

BAPAUME WANTS GODMOTHER

French Town, Hard Hit by War, Asks Help From Some City to Aid Reconstruction. Washington. Bapaume, of the French towns which suffered most from the war, wants a “godmother,” according to an official dispatch received here. Ganton Stenne, mayor of the town is quoted by the dispatch as saying In the Petit Parisien : “If some great city would adopt Bapaume and assist it as has been done for some other destroyed towns, how delighted my fellow' citizens would be. I hope that some other great city, either of the old continent or the new, will listen to my appeal.”

Negro Wins War Cross in Crap Game

New York. —A disconsolate Indian was among the passengers on the George Washington, which docked In New York city wi.th a load of returning Yank troopers. The cause of his woe was a Chicago negro. The Indian was Corporal Walter Snow of West Virginia, known as ‘'Chief Little Dog.” He won the eroix de guerre in France, but on thq ship hfe met a Chicago negro, apd after he had lost all his money in a crap game that ensued he staked his croix de guerre against $1.50 and the Chicago negro got that, too. . - • ■

AH. human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is iuml nous,— Carlyle.

IT TAKES COURAGE—

To livo According to your eonvietlonfc. To be what too ire and not pretend to be what you are not. To arty ‘-‘No” squarely and firmly - when those around yon spy “Yes.” 4ro live honesty within your means and not dishonestly upon the means of others. > To speak the truth when by.a little prevarication you can get some special advantage. . _ > When mortified and embarrassed by humiliating disaster to seek in your ruins the elements of future success. To refuse to do a thing which la wrong because others do it, or because it is customary and done in trade. To remain in honest poverty while* others grow rich by questionable methods which you could easily use yourself. To stay home evenings and try to Improve yourself when your comrades spend their evenings having a good time. •Not to bend the knee to popular prejudice, but stand firmly erect while others are bowing and fawning for praise and power.—The New Success.

FROM CERVANTES

Bell, book and candle. —Don Quixote. Let the worst come to the worst.— Don Quixote. You are come off now with a whole skin. —Don Quixote.-, alone. —Don Quixote. Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase? —Don Quixote. You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.—Don Quixote. I find ray familiarity with thee has bred contempt.—Don. Qnlxote.

JOTTINGS

Nobody seems to observe the speed limits governing running into debt. There’s Just as much good luck in a man’s success as there Is bad luck in a man’s failure. As a general proposition the man who earns twice as much as another only saves about half as much. Winter doesn’t seem to be able to cool the average young woman’s enthusiasm for white stockings.

LEST WE FORGET

“The yellow peril.” ’ — « “Germans, be hard.” “Englander schwein.” “Meinself und Gott ” “Made in Germany." ==••== “Sink without trace.” “I rule by divine right.” “Americans won’t fight.” “The Lusitania was armed.” “The decadent French people.” “I will be in Ppris by April 1.” .“Treaties are but scraps, of paper.” “England’s contemptible little army.” : "I will have my Christmas dinner in Paris.” “The sword has been into my hand.” “Bring England to her knees in three months.” “Belgian babies assassinated our soldiers and we had to retaliate.” —Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. J

FRIENDSHIP

By united hearts, mud turns to gold.—Chinese Proverb. It Is well to value people for what they are, without expecting perfection. —Vary Lamb. . : Friendship Ip to be valued for what IS in It,, not for what can be got out of it.—Henry Clay Trumbull. Would you throw' away a diamond because it packed you? One good friend is not to be weighed against the Jewels of all * the earth. — Robert Smith. ' - friendship, which flow* from the heart'cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring does hot congeal In winter.?I. Fenimore Coooer,