Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1919 — Page 2

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uncertain.

“I know a fellow who Is very successful tn handling the grip.” “Is he a doctor or a bellhop?”

Cuticura Soothes Itching Scalp On retiring gently rub spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment Next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Make them your every-day toilet preparations and have a clear skin and soft, white hands. —Adv.

Out of the Catalogue.

A Franklin family had a catalogue from a mail-order house in their home, and the children had seen the different members of the family pjake their selections from the book and send in an order for them. One day one of the twins, Donald Ray, three years of age, had been unusually naughty, and the mother said: “Donald Ray, you are such a naughty boy, mother wonders where ahe got such a bad boy." Donald Ray, instantly replied: “Out of the catalogue, mother.”—lndianapolis News.

His Day of Reckoning.

When Bill Jones, buck private, returns to find his sergeant delivering the Ice; the lieutenant collecting the bills for the coal dealer; his captain trying to sell him a new car and his major running for state senator —take tt from us, boy, his time for revenge has -arrived. —Judge.

The Limit of Density.

“Your new hired man seems to be pretty stupid, Ezry.” “And he doesn’t deceive his loks much, either,” replied honest Farmer Hornbeak. “He knows less round the farm here every day than the average person does on the witness stand." — Country Gentleman.

Defending Himself.

Miss Tarte —I think bright; clever men are always so conceited. Mr. Featheredge—Not always. Take me. for instance; I’m merely self-ap-preciative, not conceited.

AU Food—No Waste If you want an appetizing ready-to-eat cereal that you can serve with no fuss and with fullest satisfaction, try Grape-Nuts

Not of Much Account.

Hewitt —Poor Gruet is no more. Jewett —He never was very much.— Chicago Daily News.

M Cold In the Head” is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Persons who are subject to frequent “colas !n the head” Vill find that the use of HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE will build un the System, cleanse the Blood and vender them less liable to colds. Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. , . HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is taken Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. 2100 DO for any case of catarrh tnat HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will not C F* J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.

Probable Parasite.

“We don’t want to tangle ourselves up in European politics. European politics are as distasteful to us as European ways.” The speaker was Jerome S. Mo Wade, the Duluth millionaire. “These European ways I” he went on. “A young count called on a wealthy friend of mine back tn predays, screwed his eyeglass in his eye, and said languidly: “ ‘Are you—aw —are you going to settle —aw —anything on your daughter ?’ “My wealthy friend gave a loud, harsh laugh and said: “ ‘Well, count, if she marries you I guess my daughter is going to settle something on me.' ”

Time or Length.

“I want a pair of the best gloves yon have." said Mrs. Nuritch at the glove counter. “Yes, ma’am,” replied the polite salesman. “How long do you want them?” “Don’t git insultin’, young man. I want to buy ’em, not hire ’em." —London Tit-Bits.

There’s a limit to every man’s capability—but very few men reach their limit. Girls are delicate vessels, which require a small fortune every season to keep them in sails.

*■ THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

HAS MANY VALUES

Yuca One of the Most Prized of Earth’s Productions. . ' ' "■ ■ '. : _ /'■ . I Important Article of Diet Among South American Indians Should Find Ready Appreciation Here. If the war h»<! lasted much longer no doubt we would have been using real Indian flour bx num—flour made from the yuca, or manioc or cassava plant—a tropical shrub which grows to a height of six feet. Herbert J. Splnden of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, who has -spent much time in Central and South A merles, recently described the yuca and its value as a food. Manioc flour, he said, is made from the root of the manioc. It is probably the principal food of the Indians of the wet lowlands of South America, and is also much used in the West Indies. Two species of manioc are known, of which one contains hydrocyanic acid, a poisonous juice which has to be extracted by a special proces'k, while the other is non-poisonous. This latter variety is, however, gen-, erally considered to furnish an inferior meal, and is used chiefly as a fresh vegetable. In making manioc flour, the very juicy roots of the plant, which somewhat resemble sweet potatoes in shape, are grated according to Italian faslflon on a board set with rock crystals. The grated meal must then be subjected to high pressure in order to drive off the poisonous juice. The Indians accomplish this by stufflngthe meal into a basket tube, which is then stretched out so that its volume is decreased. Really tremendous pressure is exerted by this simple machine. Tlie poisonous fluid is drained through the basket-work into pottery vessels. The meal is then taken out of the tube and used chiefly foT making thin wafers, often of large size, which are slightly browned on either side by baking on griddles. These cakes will last for a long time and are considered excellent food. Btit it is the general utility of this .plant that would truly delight Mr. Hoover's heart. For besides the flour, the plant yields an excellent starch, a condiment, and tapioca—the lastnamed being the principal article of commerce derived from the yucu. The starch is contained in the poisonous juice which “Is extracfetT from the meal. The starch is allowed to settle in the fluid, which is then poured off. In certain places, the manioc meal is not subjected to pressure, but is thoroughly stirred in water in order to extract the largest possible amount of starch. Manioc starch, which commands a higher price in the tropics than corn starch, is generally regarded as of the highest quality. After the extraction of the starch, the juice of the yuca is subjected to heat sufficient to destroy the poison in it. It is then used as a condiment (cassareep). This extract, which has a sharp, peppery quality, has considerable commercial value, and serves as a base for certain table sauces and for the soup known as Philadelphia vepper pot. Tapioca is obtained by heating the starch while it is moist.

Then He Wilted.

There is a distinct frigidity to the atmosphere imthe home of Isaac Wilt, retired farmer, in Valparaiso, whenever the subject of groceries and delivery boys is mentioned in the hearing of the ma si er of the household. There’s a reason: Mrs. Wilt 'telephoned a C. O. D. order. There was the customary delay In delivery and Mrs. Wilt stepped across the street to a neighbor’s, leaving Mr. Wilt to receive and pay for the groceries. The boy with an armful arrived and laid his load on the taWe. Mr. Wilt scanned the bill and paid it from a pocketbook in which reposed five, S2O bills. He laid the purse on the table and proceeded to confirm the bill by an inspection of the goods, depositing the wrappings on that part of the table where the pocketbook lay. Everything being found satisfactory, he swept the wrappings and purse into a bundle and threw it into the stove. Indianapolis News.

Pleasures of Brussels.

A friend who has been in Brussels for some time, writes most tantalizing accounts of the delicious cakes and pastries which may be consumed with cups of chocolate and cream in the popular rendezvous there, says a writer in London Evening New%. None of the custard or crumb-filled confections we have become accustomed to here, but cakes etui ted with icing accompanied by almond paste, etc. He tells me that many of the improvements made in the city by the Germans during their occupation art* of the ct>stly and permanent type, which Illustrates the German view that Jthey would keep Brussels. DrainagX systems were altered, electric lighting was installed in parts which had hitherto ! been devoid of it, and dancing hhlls were provided.

Efficient Paris.

Visitor to France are much struck just now with the remarkable resilience of the French people. Notwithstanding that the German armies were encamped for nearly four and a halt years within 50 miles of Paris, the city is. in a wonderful state of repair and efficiency, thus justifying its coat-of-arms and motto—a ship, with, a Latin inscription underneath, which reads: “It often ' roils, bqt nevat sinks.’’

ADD “HORRORS OF WARFARE”

When the Army Captain and the Hospital Nurse Consult the Dictionary Together. •4 ' - I dropped into a French hospital the other day to see if my men were all right. There is the daintiest little girl in the office. She buzzes around among the books and flies and indices and things. She is very accommodating, too, and when the lieutenant doctor, who has a little English, is not in, she pilots you around the different wards. Did you ever notice an American when he talks to a foreigner and Realizes that it does not take? First he tries shouting at the top of his lungs, and then he tries talking very slowly and distinctly. Not so when a French girl sees that she is missing. She seems to feel that if she keepwon getting closer, and coos It, you somehow just must understand. Now, isn’t that too absurd? You stand very still so as not to frighten her away and look at her out of the corner of your eye, but you don’t put your mind on your business. Of all the ’mologies that might interest you just then, ety has the poorest chance. Of course, when I go to the hospital to see my men, I have to find out in the office where they all are, and of course I know the lieutenant doctor’s dinner hour. I go ip and she looks up and smiles. I say: “Smith.” She says, “Smeeth?” I say, “Out,” and we both smile. I say. “John Smith." She says, “John Smeeth?” I say, “Out,” and we smile again. Then she plunges into a drawer of well-thumbed cards and in a nioineht:.coiiiesr up' with a .bit of pasetboanL “Mumps?” says she. which in French sounds like munigs in English. “Oui, mumps,” say, I, and we fairly-beam. Sometimes we get a hard ’ one like measles, and then we resort to a dictionary. When you try to talk through a dictionary you nevdr get anywhere if you take it turn about. -You-must-both look together. One day we pursued a most elusive word through a very small dictionary. She got an arm around my shoulder before we had captured the third syllable. You see, don’t you, where going to a hospital might become a habit? —Capt. Hill P. Wilson in K. U. Graduate Magazine.

France Building Long Canal.

Notwithstanding the war, the largest tunnel in the world is well under course of construction in France, its object being to give Marseilles connection with Paris and the interior of the country in general by rail and water. The canal will provide ample waterway Tor. barkes. The entire project involves the building of a new harbor and the cutting of a ship canal, actually tunneled through solid rock for five long miles, joining the old harbor and the Mediterranean to the River Rhone. The Rhone's upper stretches are placid, and already- are used extensively for barge navigation, but near Marseilles the stream is far too turbulent for commerce. A range of hills had prevented the construction of a canal in days gone by. Now, with France energized by the war and with the necessity for the canal emphasized thereby, the tunnel is being cut and the canal will soon be opened. The work was begun in 191112, and has been continued through the war. By this canal and links already available, barges can be sent from the Mediterranean to the English channel.

The Human Hyena.

“How easy it is to fling a coin to a beggar!’’ philosophically said Professor Pate. “Thus you purchase regef from the sympathetic. feeling aroused by his misery, but love is withheld. If you really love the beggar you would do more for him." “Possibly," returned J. Fuller Gloom. “At any rate I have taken your little lecture so much to heart that hereafter I expect to carry with me small cakes of soap instead of coins, and to each measly mendicant who importunes me fling one cake, with the admonition that he wash his face therewith, so that on the morrow when I come by that way I can see how he looks and thus determine whether or not I can ever love him.” —Kansas City Star.

Paris Craze for English Nurses.

The Bois de Boulogne (writes a special correspondent of Manchester Guardian) is a lovely scene. Besides United States soldiers riding and French soldiers walking, and members of the Polish legion with their square, floppy caps, one sees there numbers of children —French children, of course, but more than half of them had English nurses, and were speaking English to them. It is very noticeable, this fashion for English-trained nurses. The children’s clothes are modeled much more on the lines of English children’s clothes —bright-col-ored cloth coats and little beaver hats.

Fear Radium Shortage.

A shortage of radium was recently forecast by Dr. Blanchard B. Moore of the United States bureau of mines. “It is difficult to estimate the amount of radium in existence at present,” said Doctor Moore. “Six years ago the engineers of the bureau of mines estimated that at the current rate of production the deposits might, last, commerciallyj .10 or 12 years.”

There Are Some.

Two little boys were overheard re-. cently discussing their respective schools. “My teacher is a war bride,” boasted the older one. The little one thought a minute. Then a look of relief spread over his face. “That’s nothing,” he retorted, “ours is a Civil war veteran.” " „

DON’T BUY ASPIRIN IN A "PILL" BOX Ask for “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” in a Bayer package—marked with “Bayer Cross.”

You must say “Bayer.” Never ask for merely Aspirin tablets. The name “Bayer” means you are getting the genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” proven safe by millions of people. Don't buy Aspirin tablets in a pill box. Insist on getting the Bayer package with the safety “Bayer Cross” on both package and on tablets. No other way!'• ■ r---. Beware of counterfeits! Only recently a Brooklyn manufacturer was sent to the penitentiary for flooding the country yrith talcum powder tablets, which he claimed to be Aspirin.

Physically Impossible.

“The, prisoner is accused of uttering forged notes.” “He couldn’t possibly utter anything. He’s dumb.”

VfestemCtnada'siSh. "Horn of Pleirtir" OffcrsVwUoaHh - Western Canada for ■ years has helped to feed ■ ML the world—the same response H * bility of production still rests upon her. ■ <<22zz/While high prices for Graft, Cattle and Sheep ■ are sure to remain, price of land is much below its value. I Land capable of yielding 20 to 45 bush* /a els of wheat to the acre can be had on ■ easy terms at from sls to S3O per aero—good grazing land at much less. ’■ Many farms paid for from a single year’s crop. Raising H v cattle, sheep and hogs brings equalsuccess. The Government B * encourages farming and stock raising. Railway and ■ Land Companies offer unusual inducements to Home Seek- W ers - Farms may De stocked by loans at moderate interest. ■ Western Canada offers low taxation, good markets and ship- ■ ping; free schools, churches and healthful climate. ■ W For particulars as to reduced railway rates, location of land, Dlue- B trated literature, etc., apply to Supt. of Immig., Ottawa, Can., or M C. J. Brourhtoa. Room 412.112 W. Alauu Street, Cliiea«. in -, I B M. V. Hadime.. 176 Jeffenos Arense, Detroit, Mich. I ■» Canadian Government Agents

JAP ADVERTISERS NOT SLOW

Experts of the Occident Might Even —Borrow a’Few Ideas From Their Oriental Colleagues. An advertising man who has returned recently from the orient says the Japanese merchants and mafiufiaqtfurers who have occasion to make use of printer’s ink are not disposed to limit themselves to dull, prosaic statements concerning the excellence of their wares. Among the entertaining bits that the traveler noticed in his study of Japanese advertising are these: “Goods dispatched expeditiously as a cannon ball.” “Parcels done up with such loving as a wife bestows upon her husband.” “The print of our books is clear as crystal; the matter charming as a singing girl/V ‘‘Customers are treated as politely as by rival steamship companies.” “Our silks and satins are as smooth as a lady’s cheek and colored like the rainbow.” It ought to be possible to get advertisements read in Japan without scattering them around next to “pure reading matter.”—Dayton News.

What the very young man doesn’t know he thinks he knows, and it answers the same purpose. Our character is our will; for what we will we are.—Archbishop Manning.

Means Family Comfort when the boiling pot of Postum sings jts song of health and satisfaction on the kitchen stove. ♦' ■ ? THE ORIGINAL POSTUM CEREAL led the way to comfort for many a family of coffee drinkers, for with the coming of Postum, away the headaches, nervousness, sleeplessness and irritability that so often follow the the use of coffee. You can still buy that original Postum from your grocer—an invigorating drink of rare, delicious flavor —a beverage that is really part of the meal, not merely X something to drink. _ “There’s a Reason” Two sizes, usually sold at 15c and 25c.

In the Bayer package are proper di-; rections and the dose for Headache, Toothache. Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica. Colds,. Grippe, Influenzal-Colds, Neuritis and pain generally. “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” American made and owned, are sold in viest pocket boxes of 12 tablets, which cost only a few cents, also tn bottles of 24 and bottles of 100 —also capsules. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid.

Shaving at Home.

“Why do you start the talking machine when you shave?” “Makes it seem just like a real barber shop.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.

MARRY ON LITTLE CAPITAL

Natives in the Belgian Congo Appar- - -.- ently-Are Willing to Take Most Desperate Chances. When an African boy in CongoBeige reaches the age of eighteen and has saved what in American money would be about two dollars, which is enough to buy a piece of cloth for himself and his wife, he proceeds to get married. The courtship period lasts only while the prospective bridegroom gives presents •to the girl’s' parehts. Then if the presents are considered large enough the wedding day is set. In Kapanga in the Methodist Episcopal mission the ceremony takes place. The bride walks with an umbrella over her head to protect her from the sun, and is preceded by a bridesmaid who carries the garment the bride wore before marriage. Other bridesmaids follow, all walking single file. After the deremony the bridal procession goes to the bridegroom’s house. The bride never walks with her husband, but follows him. A wedding breakfast is served, usually consisting of goat meat and corn mush or gruel made from some kind of a root. ■»

He Wants to Know.

“Opportunity is at your door.” “With what —a wheelbarrow or an, automobile ?”