Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — Page 3

Gathering Ladybugs to Be Sent to France

American Insects to Do Their “Bit* to Help Fanners Combat Plague

Millions upon millions of ladybirds, or, as they are commonly known, ladybugs, are being gathered in their winter quarters high in the Sierra mountain near Sacramento, Cal,, by‘agents of the department of agriculture for shipment to France. The ladybug kills or eats the aphis or plant lice -whicli

Collecting the Bugs at a Nest. They Are So Numerous a Scoop Is Used for the Purpose.

threaten to destroy the sorely needed crops of the French farmers. The ladybugs are collected in the mountains, packed In sacks and carried on horseback to Sacramento, where they are packed in crates for shipment The bugs are also distributed free to the farmers in this country:

HINTS FOR THE POULTRY GROWER

The unsightly scaly legs and feet of many farm hens are another point of attack for the poultryman who is looking for higher egg production from, his flock. The scales are caused by very small mites which dig under the skin on the hen’s shanks and toes and push up the skin by the deposit of scurf which they leave underneath. The scales finally become loose, fall off, and are succeeded by more scales. The disease makes the fowl’s legs uncomfortable and even sore, thus keeping the hen from scratching and getting the exercise necessary to good health. When the hen’s health suffers, egg production is lowered. Hens affected by the disease rarely lay many eggs and they spend much time standing idle, with their sore legs kept carefully still. They are likely to lose weight and may even die. Dipping the legs of the fowl In a mixture of equal <parts of kerosene and linseed .oil is the simplest and most effective method of -curing the disease, says J. G. Halpin of the poultry department, Wisconsin College of Agriculture. The application should be repeated two or three- times in very severe cases. Early treatment of the disease will keep it from spreading through the flock.

Should “Think Twice Before You Speak or Act”—Old Maxim

If there is one thing more than another which a disciplinarian should possess it is self-control. Lack of it in a teacher or parent is contagious, and It tends to incite disorder. Conversely, one who has his feelings and actions under good control is emulated by those with whom he comes in contact. One who “flies off the handle” easily (a phrase often used iijtethe young in describing their parents or teachers) cannot train children effectively. Siich a person will cause more disorder than he can correct. He should either overcome his failing or leave the training of the young to others ; he should at' least endeavor to observe the old maxim, “Think twice before you speak or act.”

WORDS OF WISE MEN

’ Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser. Accusing is proving when malice and force sit as jpdges. Of brothers-ln-law and red dogs, few are Provprb. o Advice after mischief isf like medicine after death. —Danish ’ Proverb. Affairs are. lost when one stands looking at another. —M. Greek. <■

Importance of Knowledge.

If you want to succeed you must prepare for the real rewards of work. You must be broadly read, well educated. You must above all* have a broad experience. You must never feel forced to go to other'people for advice or Information concerning the thing that you should have at your (Inger ends# You must have < sufficient knowledge to stand upon your own feet .

Sensation of Taste Must Be Aided by the Nose to Identify What One Eats

The sensation of taste, while of common and constant experience, is highly complicated In its nature. What is commonly called taste is not a simple sensation at* all, but rather a Complex. In addition to the actual functioning of the apparatus properly pertaining to the sense of taste, the tongue receives Impressions of various other sorts, all of which go to make up this complex. As finally recorded in the consciousness, the taste of any substance has to do with its heat or coolness, perhaps with a mild amount of pain, certainly with astringency or acridity —w’hich are in themselves further complexes of thermic and tactile sensations —and above all with smelt. The reader will profitably agree that ice cream and coffee are entirely different from their true selves when served at Inappropriate temperatures; and it is a matter of record that a of the keenest taste may make the most ludicrous errors if asked, blindfolded and wfth his nose stopped, to identitfy substances placed in his mouth.

Mothers’ Cook Book

The aim of education should be to teach us* rather how to think than what to think—Beattie. g ,i e Spring Dishes. Witlf the succulent, rosy and wholesome rhubarb plentiful in the markets, a most dainty dessert or d.ish of sauce may be easily served. Do not peel the young and tender stalks, as the color lies in the skin, making a much more attractive dish. , Wash well, then cut up, stewing with very little water until tender; then add the sugar and simmer until it is dissolved before setting aside to cool. Rhubarb Pudding. Spread slices of good bread, not too fresh, with butter and sprinkle generously with finely cut fresh rhubarb; sprinkle with sugar and repeat another layer of the fruit and buttered bread; add a .little water find bake in a moderate oven until the rhubarb is well done. Serve from the dish in which it is baked. •* —— Baked Rhubarb. Wash but do not peel one and onehalf pounds of rhubarb. Then cut into half-inch pieces. Place in a casserole with half a cup of boiling water, one and one-quarter cupfuls of sugar, a quarter of a pound of stoned prunes or the same amount of raisins which have been cut up. Bake until the rhubarb is soft. Serve in sherbet glasses gar-f nisbed with crushed strawberries. Salad Dressing.' A delicious salad dressing which may be served on head lettuce is this: Take three tablespoonfuls of evaporated milk, three quarters of a tablespoonful of salt, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of paprika, the same of mustard; beat into, this two-thirds of a cupful of salad oil, with two tablespoonfuls of lemoit juice or vinegar. Whip with an egg beater until well blended. Then add two tablespoonfuls of minced chives, one-third of a cupful of chili sauce, one teaspoonful each ’of minced onion and parsley and bne hard-cooked egg, finely chopped.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Railroad Men Outrank the Men of the Sea for Their Various Odd Superstitions

The superstitions of railway men are so numerous that even the sailor, who is generally credited with being the most superstitious man in. the world, must needs take second place, London Tit-Bits states. -r — In Russia, when a woman is the first to enter a train, bad luck Is sure to com<? unless the next two persons to enter the same compartment are men. Friday, the 13th day of the month, black cats, cross-eyes, mirror breaking, lightning, coach numbers and their variations, and the weather are a few of the fantastic superstitions of railpway workers. Many drivers will not ctmunence a journey without a flower In the buttonhole, usually a white one, or a white ribbon. Others wear a peculiar button, the insignia of their fraternal orders, and even a piece of red string, often almost invisible A left-handed fireman or driver Is looked askance at by some railway men and as a lucky companion to others. In some cases transfers to other runs have been asked because sucs an individual is given a berth, while others request to be given a place by a lefthanded or ambidextrous person. As’for travelers, burning coffee after breakfast is better than an accident policy, while winding one’s watch on the train means a safe journey. Putting a wisp of straw in. one’s trunk or bag protects it from injury and insures safety. If dust blows in one’s eyes while in the train it means good health for a year; if it blows while going to the train It Is a sign of accident. A general superstition among railway men is that when one leaves his go to work he must not return and go indoors for something he has forgotten. Should he have to do so, the bad luck to follow will be nullified if he sits for even a second in a chair and lifts his feet from the floor.

Wisconsin Village of 350 Persons Issues Bonds and Builds Its Own Railroad

If you haven’t a railroad to youi farmhouse door, build one! That’s what the farmers of one locality have done. No longer is Ettrick, a town of 850 inhabitants, in isolation ten miles from the nearest railroad and without adequate outlet to the trade markets. For Yankee pluck has again triumphed Over all obstacles and citizens of that township in Trempealeau county proudly survey the ten-mile railroad they recently finished building. Ettrick wanted a railroad and the companies declined to build one. So, in spite of war conditions, the citizens financed the $300,000 project by a $175,000 bond issue and the sale of stock in the ten-mile branch line. Then they built it. Labor was not available, so the banker and butcher, doctor and merchant, old, middleaged, and young men, worked Sundays, week days and holidays, morning, noon and night, 4nd finally themselves completed the little railroad. Since January, when it was finished end connected with the Green Bay & Western at Blair, 34 cars of grain, many cars of stock and other products have gone by rail from Ettrick. The Green Bay & Western supplies the equipment

THE STRONG

Dost deem him weak that owns his strength is tried? Nay, we may safely lean on him that grieves; THte pine has Immemorlaily sighed, The enduring poplar’s are the trembling leaves. To feel, and bow the head, is not to fear; To cheat with jest—that is the coward’s art; . Bewarg the laugh that battles back the tear; He’s false to all that’s traitor to his heart. ) He of* great deeds doth grope amid the throng Like him whose steps toward Dagon’s temple bore; There’s ever something sad about the strong— ‘ A look, a moan, like that on ocean’s shore.

John Vane Cheney.

When Number Is Divisible by Four It Is Leap Year

Leap year is a year which leaps over, as it were, one day more than an ordinary year; a year which contains 366 days, as distinguished from an ordinary year, which includes only 365 days. Every year the number of which is divisible by four is a leap year, except when it happens to be any number of hundreds not divisible by four. Thus 1884 was a leap year, but not 1900, this omission of leap years tn such centuries being necessary to correct the error which arises from the excess of the addition of one day In four years. (1. six hours) tb the year over?the true length of the year, i. e., 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes.

Simple Disinfectant.

A combination of coffee and camphor* burned on a saucer makes an excellent disinfectant for a sick room. The odor of the coffee will counteract any bad odor in the room, and the fumes of the camphor will kill ordinary disease germa that may be floating in the air. >

Lung Diseases Lead Army Ills

Estimated That There Ar/ 40,000 Cases Which Will Require Supervision

Out of 7,710 cases of discharged disabled men from army, navy and marine con# whose cases have been passed upon by the war risk insurance bureau, and, who therefore are eligible for free vocational retraining by the federal board for vocational education, 2,791, or 36.2 per cent, have tuberculosis or lung complaints. The federal hoard stated it is informed that first .and last there will be between thirty and forty thousand tuberculosis cases. Not all of them will require vocational retraining, but the number expected is largf. ‘ These eases will be handled on a iseparate basis from the rest of tha injured and disabled men, and will require constant supervision and medical attention to insure the arresting of the disease and complete restoraa tion to health. , This is the primary consideration, and training will be only such during this period as to furnish enough occupation to keep the patient busy, contented and hopeful. Canada has been very successful in dealing with her tuberculous army men, and the Canadian system will, in many particulars, be followed by the federal board with men of the United States forces. The old idea that a man recovered from tuberculosis should do nothing but out-of-doors work is exploded, and, according to the federal board, there is a great variety of indoor occupations he can follow with perfect safety, provided bis living and working conditions are proper. According to official advices the total of “major amputation cases” in the United States forces to date is 3-,034, of which 2,308 are arm and leg cases, and of these approximately 600 are arm amputations and 1,708 are leg amputations. The remaining 726 are hands, feet and two or more fingers. Not all of these men require special training to enable them to make a living, the federal board for vocational education points out; in fact, the percentage is smaller than one would imagine. A lawyer, doctor, draftsman, bookkeeper, dentist, stenographer, office man or salesman is not necessarily affected unfavorably in making a living by reason of having lost a leg; but the loss of an arm may be a very serious matter. Those who in the main require re-education on account of leg or arm .amputations are fanners, artisans whose trade required great activity, such as carpenters, teamsters, structural iron workers and the like. • There are no hard and fast rules, and cannot be, for each case must be judged on its own merits, as for instance that of a professional violinist, who, having lost a finger joint of his left hand, found his occupation utterly gone and had to learn to do something else for a living.

The Monroe Doctrine.

A» Announced in Message to Congress in 1823

The Monroe doctrine, as announced by President Monroe in his message to congress in 1823, was a simple statement of the attitude of this country toward the South A.merican republics. Henry Clay had made an effort to have the independence of these republics recognized, and in 1822 their independence was acknowledged by congress. President Monroe had recalled John Quincy Adams from the court of St. James to become his secretary of state, and many historians credit Adams with the authorship of the message, in which the doctrine was stated as follows: g “As a principle,, the American continents, toy the free and independent position, which ti<y have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.”

Eucalyptus Fastest Growing of Any of Hard Wood Trees

Hard, fine grained, durable wood usually grows slowly. A most remarkable exception is the eucalyptus, and this gives the tree its great value in reforestation. It is said that the eucalyptus grows five times as rapidly as any other tree. Seedlings have been observed to make an average growth of six Inches a day, and one tree ab talned a height of 125 feet and a diameter of 36 inches in nine yetrs. The eucalyptus will not thrive where there are frosts, but In the South it promises to go a long way toward filling the place once occupied by other hardwoods which have been greatly reduced by demands for furniture and cooperage stock.

HERE AND THERE

Some persons’ idea of fooling away their time is to attempt to write poetry. Make the best of your surroundings. The duck pond is an ocean to the tadpole. A credulous woman is one who believes a dentist when he promises not to hurt her. It matters little if you are ignorant, for you will meet people daily who know it all.

Honeybee as Fertilizing Agent During Fruit Bloom

The value of the honeybee as a fertilizing ageftt during fruit bloom, and the dependence of apple growers especially upon the actlvitlest of “the busy bee,” are facts which are not well enough known. The work of the experiment stations in all parts of the country is proving beyond doubt that fruit Culture and bee culture are "mutually interdependent upon each •tber for the best results.

Simplest Remedies Found To Be Best Disinfectants During Severe Epidemics

“Years ago Marseilles was visited by a great plague. Rich and poor died tn their hundreds, and to rob the former four men invented aromatic vinegar, which, used as a disinfectant, enabled them to rifle the dead without fear of infection. During the great plague of 1665 those who were deputed to bury the dead always carried a phial of aromatic vinegar, and history tells us that whenever Cardinal Wolsey had cause to go among the poorer members of his flock he invariably held to his nose a golden orange fi’led . with the same preventative. Canary wine, too, was used in 1665 as a disinfectant. Doctors carried little cassolettes on the top of their canes, which they sniffed when visiting the stricken, and in the affected houses the smoke of juniper was used.

Motor Fuel Adds Ten Miles an Hour to Airplane Speed

Development too late for use in the war of a motor fuel which., miles an hour to the speed of airplanes and has possibilities for use in automobile racing was announced by the bureau of mines. The liquid, a combination of benzol and cyclohexane, so while of military value, it is not regarded as practical for commercial purposes at present. Another combination developed by the bureau, consisting of benzol and gasoline, has been found to be more powerful than gasoline alone and is expected to prove of value in industry. The comparative scarcity of benzol, however, makes its production to supplant gasoline on a large scale improbable in the immediate future.

Preventive Measures Save Loss of Money and Health

Loss of time, money and health often can be prevented by the use of some simple. Inexpensive preventive measure, says Thrift magazine. At all times, especially during, these days df influenza, you should never allow yourself to remain in a rundown physical condition. If attacked by disease while your resistance is low you may pay it with a long illness or possibly with life Itself. Most people think a doctor’s only use is to be sent for in case of emergency, like a fireman, and be brought funning with his pillbox in hand just in the nick of time.

Finger-Print Love Note Is Latest—and Means Business

A Wisconsin finger-print expert, who has aided the police many times on difficult cases, Is but with a letter, explaining how girls can make sure that their young men mean business. “If I were a girl,” explains the expert, “and a fellow wrote to me without signing bls finger-print to the letter, I’d have nothing to do with him. It’s only a trifler who woffid sign his name. That\lon't prove anything at all. But if a man declares his love over a fin-ger-print. You can bank on it he means business.”

Amusement Tax in Vogue More Than 150 Years Ago Declares London Writer

The entertainment tax of the present day was anticipated over 150 years ago by the Inventive genius who proposed that all places of public diver-' slon. Including playhouses, operas, masquerades, Ranelagh. Vanxhall. Sadler’s Wells and Astley's—the famous resorts of the fair and fashionable of his day—should be taxed, saya a writer In London Tit-Bits. Another proposal was that the very statues in the garden—and the lakes and the groves, the grottoes and the temples of those days, were thick set with statues of heath'en gods and goddesses—should have a price put on their heads. Time was when taxes were put on the watches attached to the seals that dangled from the fobs of the beaux or hung on the girdles that encircled the waists of the belles. Those who owned clocks were also regarded as fit subjects for special taxation. The “guinea-pig” tax—the tax a householder had to pay for every person In his household who wore a pigtail and covered his hair with powder —had its day arftl passed away. ,So, too, had a tax on soap—the Impost that gave Lord North his nickname of “Old Soapsuds”—and a tax on salt. Gloves and mittens were once taxed, and so also were scores of other articles and the shops in which they were sold.———

Home Output of Peanut Oil Is Now Only Second to That Of Linseed and Cottonseed

The war has brdhght the peanut into its own. Before 1914 peanut oil was almost unknown as an article of domestic manufacture and thousands of gallons were Imported every year from countries that grew no peanuts, all hough the South was producing millions of pounds and capable of increasing that production almost Indefinitely. But In 1917 the output of peanut oil had so increased that It ranked third amdhg all the vegetable oils made from home-grown products, being exceeded only by cottonseed oil end -linseed oil. Peanut oil. It is pointed out by experts in ailment, serves practically the same food purposes as does cottonseed oil, and has the advantage that it can be obtained by cold pressing like olive oil, and becomes thereby a superior table oil. It has the advantage over cottonseed oil also in that the cake, after the ell Is pressed out, forms a palatable human food very-high in protein. " A survey by the federal bureau of markets shows the great gain in the production and use of peanuts, not only for oil but for peanut butter, and as, a substitute for more costly nuts or as a component part in confectionery.

New York’s Tunnel Strangest City Street in United States

The strangest city street In, the United States is New York’s Tunnel street, which was cut through the hill at One Hundred and Ninety-first street and Broadway in Washington Heights more- than four years ago. The tunnel, which is now a street, cost $75,000. Persons living at the western end use it to reach the subway station at One Hundred and Ninety-first street 'and St. Nicholas avenue and elevators at One Hundred and Ninety-first street are at the disposal of those who wish to reach St Nicholas avenue, many feet above the level of Tunnel street.

SCRAPS OF HUMOR

Ways of the Sex. Mr. Bingham—Why did that woman keep you standing at the door for half an hour? His Talkative Wife—She said she hadn’t time to come tn.

Visits. “Angels’ visits are few and far between.” “It’s different with my wife’s relatives. Ain’t no angels on that list, however.” Not Meant That Way. • “I see this show advertises a chorus of forty,” “Better get some younger girls." Glad of That.

“Lobsters are getting scarcer.” “So I learn from fishery stat istics.” “It is estimated, however, that there will be enough for the present generation of chorus girls."

Preliminary Work. “The bookkeeper complains of pains in his stomach.” . . f . “He doesn’t look sick ” “He doesn’t claim to be sick today. I think he-is laying a foundation to-' ward being sick next week.

Here, Here. “This is a very worthy cause.” “Hear, hear." “Where is the man who will contribute SI,OOO as a starter?’’ “The hear, hear" was not repeated.