Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — Page 5

Bronze Statue of Evangeline

Memorial Will Be Erected cm Historic Spot by Dominion Atlantic Railway

Near Evangeline’s Well. Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, the same well from which Longfellow’s heroine drew water nearly a century and a half ago, and almost under the shadows of the anient Acadian willows, w’ill stand soon a bronze statue of Evangeline, staff in hand, wandering in search of her lost lover Gabriel. This historic spot has been purchased by the Dominion Atlantic railway, which has also commissioned a descendant of the Acadians to complete and erect the statue. When Philijjfce Herbert, most noted of French-Canadian sculptors, died a year ago in Montreal he was at work upon a statue of Evangeline, but this unfinished laboF of love on his part was not in vain. The statue will be finished.by bis son, Henri Herbert, also a talented sculptor. The expulsion of the Acadians in 1775 by the British because they w’ould not take an unqualified oath of allegiance to their new king was one of the tragedies of the century. The men were rounded up In church and later « •

Statue to Be Erected Near Evangeline’s Well.

thousands of men and women were landed in various cities from Maine to ■Georgia. During the "deportation an XeafiTan girl" was Separated from her lover, and the story of the wanderings of the lovers, looking in vain for each other until at last she finds him dying in a Philadelphia hospital, made a strong appeal to Longfellow. The name of the girl was unknown. “I know .not what name to give to —not my new baby, but my new poem,” the poet wrote in his journal December 7, 1845: “Shall it be “Gabrielle,’ or ‘Celestine,’ or ‘Evangeline?’ ” He chose Evangeline, and the poem, which at once became a classic, ‘added one more charm to that part of Nova Scotia where Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their klrtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline’s story, While from its rock caverns the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

FOOD FOR THE BABY CHICK

As the body of a baby chick Is composed of 75 per cent water a sufficient supply of good clean water should be 'kept before it at all times. One of the first requirements of a chick is grit. Common sand is preferable to commercial grit as it is not quite so sharp and it not inclined to irritate the delicate digestive tract. Nature has provided within the chick sufficient food for the first 36 to 48 hours in the form of the yolk of the egg. This is absorbed just before hatching. For this reason, no feed Should be given for the first few hours or until the chick shows Indications of being hungry. At no time during the first two weeks should the chick be given all the feed It will eat. In order to get the best results in raising baby chicks, it is necessary to make the artificial conditions under which they are raised correspond as nearly as possible to those which would have prevailed in the wild state.

Berry Acreage Falls Off.

The preliminary estimate of the strawberry acreage this year by the bureau of markets gives Alabama 1,190; Arkansas, 8,100; California, 4,000; Delaware, 2,585; Illinois, 1,496; Kentucky: 3,100; Louisiana, 8,940; Maryland, 5,273;; Michigan, 1,820; Missouri, 4,597; New York, 1,521; North Carolina, 2,000; Tennessee, 6.102; Virginia, 1,298; several other states, under 1,000 acres each. The total is 58,159 acres, compared to 83,139 last year, 107,000 in 1917 and 109,398 in 1916. ... ,

WORDS. OF WISE MEN

A man never appreciates ashes until he slips on the ice. A gude asker should hae a good naysay. A braying ass eats little hay. —ltalian Proverb. Assassination .has never changed the history /of the world. —Bea. In tM* world -it is necessary that we assist one,another. —La Fontaine..

WHAT THEN IS LIFE?

“What ia Life?" I asked of a wanton child. As he chased a butterfly; And his laugh gushed out all joyous and wild. As the Insect flitted by. “What is Life?” I asked. “Oh, tell me, I pray!’ His echoes rang merrily, “Life is Play!” “What is Life?” I asked of the maiden ... „fair.— —-- And I watched'her glowing cheek. As the blushes deepened and softened there,' And the dimples played "hide and seek.” “What is Life? Can you tell me its fullest measure?” She smilingly answered, "Life is Pleasure!” "What is life?" I asked of a soldier brave, As he grasped the hilt of his sword. As he planted his foot on a /oeman’s grave And looked "creation’s lord,” "What is Life?” I queried. “Oh, tell me its story!” His brow grew bright as he answered, “Glory!" \ > "What is Life?” I asked a mother proud. As she bent o’er her babe asleep. With a low, hushed tone, lest a thought aloud Might waken its slumber deep. Her smile turned grave, though wondrous in beauty, As she made reply, “Life? Life is Duty!" I turned to the father, who stood nearby, , And gazed on his wife with pride; Then a tear of joy shone bright in his eye For the treasure that lay at her'side; I listened well*for the tale that should come: z "My life?” he cried. "My life is Home!” "What is Life?" I asked the statesman grand. The idol of the hour; The fate of a nation ,was in his hand; He. sickening, turned from the world’s call ‘ ress. “ 'Tis a bubble!" he cried. ’Tis emptiness!” I turned and asked my inner heart What story it could unfold; It bounded quick in its pulse's start ' As the record it unrolled. I read on the page, "Love, Hope. Joy, Strife— What the heart would make it—such is Life!” —Sarah Brock, an English Poet of the Early Nineteenth Century.

Failing to Make First Effort.

A great deal, of talent is lost to th? world for want of a little courage. Eyr ery day sends to their graves a number of obscure inen who have' only retrained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making the first effort. —Sidney Smith.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND*

Girard the Man Who Built Up Maritime Commerce and Made Shipping Great Power

Stephen Girard, remembered now chiefly as the founder df a Philadelphia college, through whose gateways “no ecclesiastic, missionary or minister of any denomination” is ever allowed to enter, was also the man who built up our maritime commerce and made American shipping a great power early in the nineteenth century. So he is pictured tn John Bach McMaster’s book, “The Life and Times of Stephen Girard.” Girard was born in France and began his shipping career in 1771 with a financially disastrous voyage to the West Indies. Forty-two years later he had achieved such fame and wealth that Joseph Bonaparte, in need of money, tried to put Girard in permanent possession of his vast French estates. In spite of recurrent losses from the depredations of pirates and privateers, Girard’s fortune grew to be the greatest in his adopted country. His fundamental tfllory of trade which brought his chief - profits was that wars and uprisings bring starvation, and that the vital need of any country, at war is wheat. During the war of 1812, when the government seemed about to fail in its attempt to float a public loan of $16,000,000", fully two-thirds of the amount was subscribed by three rich men, David Parish, John Jacob Astor and Girard, who contributed the largest amount, and in whose bank the loan payments were placed. BelieVlhg ~ that a fortune should be a part of the nation’s wealth, Girard, in his will, made large bequests to the state of Pennsylvania, the cities of Philadelphia and New Orleans and an endowment for the college bearing his name.

Statue of Liberty Weighs 25 Tons and Cost $200,000

The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States by France, in commemoration of the good will which existed between the two countries. Frederick Auguste Bartholdi was the artist, and the statue was unveiled on Bedloe Wand, New York harbor, October 28, 1886. The figure is repousse, or hammered copper, 151 feet high, is crowned with a diadem and holds in its extended right hand a torch, while the left arm clasps close to the body a tablet having the inscription, “July 4, 1776.” The statue weighs 25 tons and cost $200,000, which was raised by popular subscription in France. The pedestal is 155 feet in height and is of granite and concrete. It cost $250,000, which was paid for by popular subscription in the United States. The nose is 4 feet long, the right fore finger is 8 feet long and 5 feet in circumference, and the head is 14 feet in height.

Mother’s Cook Book.

A bar of soap may become a murderous weapon. A poor cook stove has sometimes been the slow fire on which the wife has been roasted.

Food for the Family. A little meat with a combination of vegetables or dumplings make a meal sufficiently satisfying for an ordinary appetite. Veal With Vegetable Oysters. Cook a pound of vegetable oysters in salt water until tender. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two pounds of veal, two and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour and a cupful of water or stock; add w’ith the oysters and cook an hour at slow heat. Mutton With Vegetables. Rub two pounds or less of the shoulder of mutton with salt and pepper, then dredge with flour and browm in a little Kot fat. Cover with boiling water and a pint of finely shredded carrots and a small onion, cover and simmer for an hour'or two; serve on a plotter surrounded with the carrots. Pork Chops With Potatoes. Arrange a layer of thinly sliced potatoes in a baking dish, cover with a small shredded onion, then lay on pork chops to cover. Add a very little water or soup stock, and bake until the chops are done, in a hot oven. Serve from the dish in which jit is baked. Fowl With Dumpings. Cut a fowl as for fricassee, cover with boiling water,, add one small onion and cook until the chicken is tender, then drop in the dumplings prepared as follows: Dumplings. Take one cupful of buttermilk, add one beaten egg, a cupful of flour sifted w-ith a teaspoonful of baking powder and a half teaspoonful of salt; mix and drop by teaspoonfuls into the boiling hot stew, cover and cook eight minutes. Spanish, Meat Dish., Arrange a layer of thinly sliced potatoes in a baking dish, then one onion shfedded apd a layer of any kind of cold meat with a little gravy; add a cup of tomato and place in the oven to cook an hour or more well covered. Remove cover and sprinkle a spoonful of cooked green peas over the top and serve.

Largest Wheat Crop Is Forecast

Winter Grain Condition 99.8 Per Cent, and Guaranteed Value Near Two Billion Dollars

The condition of winter wheat in the United States April 1 w r as 99.8 per cent, the highest on record, on the largest acreage ever planted in this country, the department of agriculture announced. The winter wheat promise on April 1 of 837,000,000 bushels is nearly double the yearly average production in the United States for the five years before the war (442,000,000 in 1909-13) and is nearly 50 per cent "larger than the production during the war years 1914-18, when the average was 562,000,000. At the government’s guaranteed price of $2,26 a bushel, the estimated value of the crop is $1,891,620,000. The condition improved during the winter, an unusual occurrence due to the very favorable winter leather, particularly the absence of alternate freezing and thawing, W’hich appears also to have resulted in a minimum of winter killing. “A striking feature of the present situation,” the announcement stated, “is a uniformly good condition in practically all important wheatproducing states, ranging from 104 in Ohio down to 96 in North Carolina, among the states having 1,000,000 acres or more. “The lowest figure reported from any state is 89 in XV isconsin. Kansas with approximately 11,000,000 out of the United States total of 49,000,000 acres, shows a condition of 101. The present moisture conditions throughout the entire country, with unimportant local exceptions, are very favorable, it was stated. The condition of the crop is higher than has been reported on April 1 since 1882, and the indicated yield is higher than any actual yield in any year, with the exception of 1914, when the yield per acre was 18.5 bushels per planted acre, following an April 1 condition of 95.6. The average condition of winter wheat on April 1 was 99.8 per cent of a normal, against 78.6 on April 1, 1918; 63.4 on April 1, 1917, and 82.3, the average condition for the past ten years on April 1. There was a decrease in condition from December 1, 1918, to April 1, 1919. of 1.2 per cent as compared with an average decline in the past ten years of 5.9 points between those dates. The average condition of rye on April 1 was 90.6 per cent of a normal, against 85.8 on April 1, 1918; 86.0 on April 1, 1917, and 88.6 the average condition for the past ten years on April 1.

Farmers at the Polls

More Than Half the Voting Population Is Rural

It is like a dash of cold water full in the face to hold" up before many an excited city radical*? eyes the solid facts which prove that more than half of the voting population of this country is rural. The big centers of industry and traffic are prone to forget and grossly underestimate the power of the farmers at the polls, for the simple reason that they are not seen, every day, and are seldom coqnted. They are not like the city people who are being reckoned up, with more or less imaginative inflation of their numbers, by directory publishers, school officials, chambers of commerce and various local “boomers,” a little tipsy with their own urban conceit. The great cities are swarming with “reformers” who seldom give any consideration to the mental attitude of the farmers toward the" revolutionary schemes which they think will presently remake the world. They cannot tolerate the thought of dependence for authority upon such comparatively empty places as the rural counties and the distinctively, agricultural states. They seldom grasp the cold ■fact that they must win the country voters or else face failure, complete, hopeless and unending.

Good Manners—No Man Can Resist Their Influence Is Assertion of Authority

The power of manners is incessant — an element as unconcealable as fire. The nobility cannot in any country be i disguised, and no more in a republic or a democracy than in a kingdom. No man can resist their influence. There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that, if a person have them, he or she must be considered, and is everywhere welcome, though without beauty, wealth or genius. Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess. We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding school, to the riding school, to the ballroom, or wheresoever they can come intq acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex; where they might learn address, and see it near at hand. The power of a woman of fashion to lead, and also to daupt and repel, derives from their belief that she knows resources and behavior not known to them; but when these her secret, the*- learn “to confront her, and recover their self-possession.— Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Real Sun Not Visible.

Astronomers aver that no one has ever seen the sun. A series of concentric shells envelops a nucleus of which we apparently know nothing except that It must be almost infinitely hotter than the fiercest furnace, and that It must amount to more than nine-tenths of the solar mass. That nucleus la the real sun, forever "hidden from us. The outermost of the enveloping shells is about 5,000 miles thick, and to Called the "chromosphere.” _ j

Tampa, Florida, Scout Will Receive a Letter From President Wilson

One of the finest records made by a boy in the sale of War Savings and Thrift stamps was the accomplishment of U. Grant Barnard of Tampa, Fla. Young Barnard is a distant relative of the late Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and is a member of Troop No. 8 of Tampa in the Boy Scouts of America. He has persistently put put Thrift stamps until the amount of $16,450.75 has been reached. Young Barnard is the high boy for the state of Florida in the stamp campaign conducted by the Boy Scouts of America for the government, and he is eligible for the personal letter of thanks from President Wilson.

U. Grant Barnard.

He has the ace medal of the War Savings committee showing $250 in sales to 25 individuals, and 162 bronze palms for the ribbon, each one indicating an additional SIOO in sales. Ten bronze palms are exchanged for a silver one and fifty for a gold one, so that Scout Ulysses Grant Barnard wears three gold, one silver and two bronze palms. He is fifteen years of age.

Believe in Witchcraft

The belief in witchcraft is not dead in rural England. A farmer giving evidence at the Swaffham county court, Norfolk, told the judge one of his cows had become bewitched, but he put a hot poker into the churn and the “spirit” went iip in a flame which illuminated the whole dairy.

SHORT ANO SNAPPY

Checks are often kited in an effort to raise the wind. A wagging tongue often spoils a lot of nice, sweet silence. Many a ballroom" dress in covering a warm heart reaches its limit. « • The average fish bone is easier to swallow than the average fish story. An optimist says that good tentions are better than no pavements at all.

Benny Kauff Is Candidate for Batting Championship of the National League

Benny Kauff has announced himself as a candidate for the batting championship of the National league. Benny, of course, has been aiming unsuccessfully at this title for three years. But he feels that he is ebout due to chine through? “I would have put it over last year.” says Benny, “if I had not been called to the army. At the time when I ra»

Benny Kauff.

ceived my notice I was hitting -390. When I knew I could not stay with the Giants the rest of the season Ii naturally fell off quite a bit. ‘Tt wasn’t that I didn’t try or that the army worried me. It was merely, that soldiering was on my mind more than baseball. I could not help thi*< and it affected my work. “I have hit over .300 for two seasons now in the National league. I think I can go to .350 this year, and that should lead the league.”

Americans Speak Numerous Languages Merged in One; Greek Quite in Evidence

* The American in his everyday conversation speaks Greek, Latin, French, Saxon, Chinese, Indian and a dozen other languages all merged in one. The English language is more varied and full than any other, says Dr. C. H. Weller, head of the department of Greek, in a service bulletin of the University of lowa. Latin derivatives, along with Saxon, form the large part of our common speech. Scarcely a sentence is spoken in English without the use of Latin. Professor Weller mentions a would-be purist who gave this advice: “Avoid Latin derivatives; use terse, pure simple Saxon.” This sentence is found to contain but one single Saxon word—" Saxon.” The other seven words in the sentence are all Latin derivations. The Greek element in our words Is widespread and is especially prominent in science. The doctor cannot discuss medicine without speaking Greek. From this source more than any other is our language now being enriched.

SMILES FOR ALL

Home Comfort*. “I understand Mr. Grabcoin is good to his family.” “Yes. He spends not less than $50,000 a year on his wife and daughters." “And what does he get out of it, I wonder?” “Why, a place to sleep when business permits, a dressing gown, an easy chair and a pair of house slippers. What more does a man want?" - - True. t-

An Alarming Suggestion. “There’s nothing in particular the matter with your wife.” “What had I better do, doc?” “Sit tight fn the boat.” “For heaven’s sake, doc, don’t recommend a sea trip.” Suspicious.

“There’s a friend in the outer office waiting for you, sir.” “Here, James, take this $lO and keep it till I come back.”

i Well, Hardly. Ever. Edith—So that’s Mr. Blank? Thafß your’ ideal? Helen —Dear me, no! Merely my fiance. One doesn’t meet one’s ideal In real life, you know. Self Consciousness. -“Have you lost your Interest in . dancing?” . ■ “Yes,” replied Uncle Floplethes. “What’s the use o’ me geftin’ out on the floor in competition with the cutting up in a jaaz bandr

“They talk about the fifth wheel to a wagon as being superflwous.” “Well?” “Many automobiles carry one, howeler.”—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.