Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1919 — Page 2

Soldiers Learn Poultry Fanning

A general view of the poultry farm at base hospital No. 28 at Fort) Sheridan, 111. The men are here seen feeding the chickens, looking them over, and making a careful study 5 of them, as some day they may have a little chicken farm of their own. They are improving their time to learn while Uncle Sam gives them the opportunity.

“What Is Man?”

Interesting Answer Dealing With Physical Makeup

A man weighing 150 pounds will contain approximately 3.500 cubic feet of gas—oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen — In his constitution, which at SO cents a thousand cubic feet would be worth $2.80 for illuminating purposes, asserts a writer in the Electrical Experimenter. He also contains all the necessary fats to make a 15-pound candle, and thus, together with his 8,500 cubic feet of gases, he possesses considerable illuminating possibilities. His system contains twenty-two pounds, and ten ounces of carbon, or enough to make 780 dozen, or 9,360 lead pencils. There are about fifty grains of iron in his blood and the rest of the body would supply enough of this metal to make one spike large enough to hold his weight. A healthy man contains fifty-four ounces of phosphorus. This deadly poison would make SOO.OOO matches or enough poison to kill 500 persons. This, with two ounces of lime, make the stiff bones and brains. No difference how sour a man looks, he contains about sixty lumps of sugar of the ordinary cubical dimensions, and to make the seasoning complete, there are twenty spoonfuls of salt. If a man were distilled into water, he would make about thirty-eight quarts, or more than half his entire weight. He also contains a great deal of starch, chloride of potash, magnesium, sulphur and hydrochloric acid in his wonderful human system. Break the shells of 1,000 eggs into a huge pan or basin, and you have the contents of a man from his toenails to the most delicate tissues of his brain. And this is the scientific answer to the question, “What is man?”

Britisher Reads Stars and Sees New World War to Begin in June 1926

There will be another world war beginning in June, 1926, according to a writer in the British Journal of Astrology. This prophet, who signs himself “Sepharial,” asks for a serious hearing, inasmuch as he claims to have published a year in advance In each case the exact date of the war of 1914 and of the cessation of hostilities. "The first phase of the next war,” he write.'*, “will begin with Turkey. Whose perfidy will lead to its final overthrow in 1921-22. This time Prussian intrigue will dominate the position tn the near East, affecting Greece, Turkey and Russia. But, according to my calculations, the great crisis Will not be reached until June, 1926. “In this great war, which may be regarded as Prussia’s counter to the war of 1914-18, the malevolent forces take their rise tn Vienna and Berlin, ascend to Petrograd, penetrate through the whole of Russia and descend via the Black sea and Turkey in Asia, on to Syria and Palestine.” Another allied victory is predicted by SephariaL

PITH AND POINT

You can always judge the wheels in a man’s head by the spokes that come from his mouth. When a girl makes an assignment of her love het sweetheart is immediately appointed as receiver. • *** Every time a man discovers that some woman has deceived him his vanity gets a severe paralytic stroke. Taking a .walk on an empty stomach is said to cure indigestion—but you should be careful whose stomach you walk on.

Bowlegged Fellows Are Not Likely to Face Poverty— Bad Luck for Turn-In Toes

There is an old saying that a bandy legged boy will nevwr lack warm stockings, meaning that he will never be in want of money, so that folk whose friends are apt to be rude about their manner of walking may find contherein, -says a writer in London Answers. On the other hand, persons who walk in a fashion which quickly wears down their heels are likely one day to be in need of cash, while knock-kneed folk, though they have the ability to get wealth, have not the power to attract love —so it is said : A long stride and. a swinging walk are good—they imply that there may be ups and downs, but good fortune will never get far away, and will come out on top eventually. Bad luck follows in the train of those who habitually turn in their toes, however, and an ancient adage has it that the man who always walks on the tips of his toes is likely to end his days in prison. So watch your step I

THE CHAPERON

I take my chaperon to the play— She thinks she’s taking mA And the gilded youth who owns the box, A proud young man is he; But how would his young heart be hurt If he could only know That not for his sweet sake I go Nor yet to see the trifling show, But to see my chaperon flirt. Her eyes beneath her snowy hair They sparkle young as mine; There’s scarce a wrinkle in her hand So delicate and -fine. And when my chaperon is seen, They come from everywhere— The dear o!6 boys with silvery hair. With old-time grace and old-time air. To greet their old-time queen. *l3l. They bow as my young Midas here Will never learn to bow (The dancing masters do not teach That gracious reverence now); With voices quavering just a bit, They play their old parts through. They talk of folk who used to woo. Of hearts that broke in fifty-two— Now none th’e worse for wear. And as those aged crickets chirp I watch my chaperon’s face, And see the dear old features take A new and tender grace: i And in«her happy eyes I see Her youth awakening bright. With all its hope, desire, delight— Ah, me! I wish that I were quite As young—as gay as,she! —Henry Cuyler Bunner.

Familiar “Hoss-Shoe” Game Proves a Magnet for Many, Despite the Call to Duty

The custom of using horseshoes instead of the large, flat metal rings with which the game of quoits is professionally played was ancient when Joseph Strutt wrote his “Sport and Pastimes of the People of England.” well over a hundred years ago, and, according to a traveler in modern New England, they are still so used in that part of the world. The traveler tells of seeing two Maine farmers meet early one morning in the road in front of a farmhouse. “I’ll play you a game of hoss-shoes,” suggested one. “I’ll play you just one game,” said the other. “Fve got a lot of work to do today.” So they began playing, and when the traveler passed that way again late in the afternoon they were still at it They had been playing horseshoes all day. and the farmer’s wife confided to the traveler, not altogether with admiration, that they hadn't stopped even for dinner.

New Chances.

"We all get new chances, . . . not second chances in the same set of circumstances; but the great difference between one person and another is, how he takes hold of and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is • scored against him. —Thomas Hughes. * "

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Italy, the World’s Most Famous Source for Both Art and Building Marble

Italy is one of the world’s most famous sources of supply for both art and building marbles, and marble, granite and building stones are the common materials used for buildings in that Country. Venice is a fireproof city, built of stone of Istrla and marble; and the foundations and first courses, at least, of all palaces, public and municipal buildings, government and business edifices are of these materials. The most important quarries In the Veneto are at and near Verona, the Veronese red and’yellow marbles having been favorite building stones since the time when the Coliseum at Verona was constructed. For building, they rank next to the stone of Istrla in popularity, and are true marbles, while the stone of Istrla is not a true marble, although a very hard limestone, that is much used in Venice, because it resists the action of salt water.. Besides their value for cqnstructlon, the Veronese marbles are in great demand for decorative work. Among the names of the several varieties of Veronese marbles are white nembro, coral pink, white, peach, patridge eye, yellow snail, yellow azure, and paradise.

Public Asked to Abstain From Unnecessary Travel to European Countries

g as reiterated its request that the public abstain for the present from all unnecessary travel to European" Icountries. 1 countries. The department asserts that applications for passports to these ’countries were being received in such large and daily increasing numbers that it had been deemed necessary “to emphasize the fact that passports cannot be issued for Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Belgium or Italy unless positive documentary evidence is furnished by applicants which will satisfy the department of the urgent necessity for visits to those countries.” Business houses and in some cases relief organizations have applied for passports not in good faith, a statement by the department sai4- In some cases these passports have been Issued before the bad faith was discovered, but it was said that all firms found to have misstated the facts woultUbe blacklisted.

Mother’s Cook Book.

Make us meet what is, or is to be With fervid welcome, knowing ft la sent To serve us in some way fujl excellent. Though we discern it all belatedly. —James Whitcomb Riley. Refreshing Summer Drinks. acids in fruits as well as the mineral salts are especially good to quench thirst. Some drinks such as iced milk, chocolate and coffee with cream are of themselves food. Grape Nectar. To a quart of grape juice add a pint of sirup and the juice of four oranges. When ready to serve add a quart of charged water and serve. Grape juice served In a third of a glass of water with ice is a most refreshing and palatable drink. The grape juice when put up at home is not expensive and may be used for various frozen desserts or puddings as well as for drinks. Ginger Lemonade. Cook a half-pound of Canton ginger and one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, the rind and juice of three lemons and three pints of water 20 minutes. Add the juice of six lemons to the sirup, strain and cool. Serve with ice. Ginger Water. This is an old-fashioned drink which was used in early times in the fields for a harvest drink. Mix two tablespoonfuls of ginger with three tablespoonfuls of sugar, add a pint or more of chilled water, stir well and serve. Molasses used to be the sweetening instead of sugar. Orangeade. To each tumbler add the strained juice of an orange, two tablespoonfuls of prepared sirup made by boiling sugar and water together, and threefourths of a cupful of plain or charged water. ” Pineapple Drink. Add a pint of grated pineapple to a pint of prepared sirup and a quart of water. Set on ice for three hours, strain and serve. Lemon juice is sometimes added to this drink with a pint of charged water. Reception Coffee. Make or two of strong coffee. the amount depending upon the number to serve. Sweeten to taste. Strain and cool and serve in tall glasses with a spoonful of ice cream, on top of each. < Chocolate Sirup. Melt two squares of chocolate with two tablespoonfuls of boiling watebr a cupful of sugar and a speck of salt Add two cupfuls of boiling water, cook five minutes, strain and bottle. Keep in j*. cool place until needed.

National Guard Loses Most

Suffers More Severely in War Than Regulars or National Army

Study of casualty statistics of thirty combat divisions of the American fighting forces in the war, issued by the war department and giving figures up to a recent date, sheds some light on the relative part played by the regular army, the National Guard, the National army and the marine corps in the war. The tables show those killed in action, dead of wounds, missing in action or taken prisoner. Field signal battalions, ambulance companies, trains, and some other specialized branches of the service are not included, but' the tabulation shows graphically the total losses of each basic section of the army. Slightly wounded or others who were able to return to the service are not included, the figures applying Ohly to those who were absolute losses so far as active military operations were concerned. Figuring the percentage of loss, not according to the numbers in each section but for the total American force, it is found that the losses of the regular qrmy were.. 30 per cent, the National Guard 39 per cent, the NatiQnaJtarmy percent, and the marine corps 4 per cent The table follows: 5 1 Killed In Died of Missing action-, wounds. In action. Prisoners. Total. Pct. National Guard H,555 4,566 5,445 1,457 23,023 .39 Regulars 8-524 3,549 5,297 551 17,819 .30 National army 8,023 8,207 8,890 798 15,801 .27 •Marines 1,390 707 271 76 2,444 .04 Totals ........29,492 12.029 14,903 2,882 59,087 •The marines are listed with the Second division of regulars. v

KEEP POULTRY FREE FROM LICE

Lousy hens are not likely to prove good sitters. Lousy chicks lose vitality and die. A lousy flock is unthrifty. With poultry and eggs selling at high prices, the poultryman can well afford to apply the simple remedies- which will keep his birds free from lice and mites. The University of Missouri college of agriculture has used sodium fluoride effectively and recommends a larger use of it by poultrymen. This chemical is exceedingly poisonous to all species of chicken lice. It kills both adults and young,' including the young which emerge from the eggs present at the time of treatment. One application of sodium flouride to fill fowls on the farm will completely destroy all lice present. Sodium fluoride may be applied as a dust or as a dip. One pound of, the chemical will be enough to dust about one hundred hens by the pinch method. This method, developed by the United States department of agriculture, is as follows: Hold the fowl by the legs or Wings with one hand while with the other hand a small pinch of the chemical is placed among the feathers next to the skin. Apply one pinch on the head, one on the neck, two on the back, one on the breast, one below the tent, one on the tail, one on either thigh, and one scattered on the underside of each wing when spread. Hold the chicken over a large shallow pan while dusting, to recover the material that might ordinarily be lost.

Only One-Fifth of Hen’s Egg is Nutritious; Much of Substance Is Water

In a hen’s egg only one-fifth of the substance is nutritious. One-ninth Is refuse, and the greater portion, about two-thirds, is water, according, to authority. White-shelled eggs are not so good as yellow ones, for they contain a trifle more water and less fat. Judged by the amount of nutriment, a goose’s egg is the most valuable, next in order are ducks’, guinea fowls’, hens’, turkeys’, and plovers’ eggs. Eggs contain a large quantity of sulphur, which is purifying to the blood and good for the complexion. To get the best egg you must feed your fowl on grain. And to cook it in the most digestible way you must not boil the water. Heat the water to 180 degrees and leave the egg in it for ten minutes. You will then digest every morsel. But if you boil it for three minutes no less than one-twelfth of it will Jail to be digested. Thus, if you eat two eggs boiled at 212 degrees every day you Vaste five dozen In a year.

Yankees in France Ate Millions of Pounds of Candy and Confections

An idea of the huge amount of candy consumed by the army is given in a war department announcement. During the five months from November 11, 1918, to April 11, 1919, there were purchased for shipment to the overseas forces 39,094,375 pounds of candy, 5,350,000' packages of salted almonds and peanuts and 2,625,000 packages of t popcorn confection. There was shipped during the month of February 5,335,696 pounds of candy. This included not only candy and confection? for sale in the sales commissaries, but also the amount authorized by the , ration allowance. The ration allowance of candy for our troops overseas for thp month of November amounted to approximately 3,000,000., pounds. it would take a convoy of 835 threeton trucks to carry this amount of candy. . -

Passed Up as a “Runt? Young Schalk Developed Into a Great Backstop

Back in 1910 Frank Navin heard of ■a kid catcher whose backstopping, running and hitting were startling inhabitants of a small Illinois city Which had a club in a bush league. The Tiger president immediately dispatched one of his hired, manhunters to look at the player. The scout liked the catcher, but did not let his enthusiasm get the better of him because the youngster was hardly five feet five inches tall and of slight build. Whoever heard pf a runt like that being able to stand up under the fire expected of major* league pitchers? In the meantime equally favorable reports were being received of another minor league catching star whose play

Ray Schalk.

attracted much attention in the Texas league. The same scout looked at this catcher. It finally came time for a showdown. Mr. Navin could get both catchers for reasonable prices, but in the meantime he agreed with the traveling representative that the kid catcher in Illinois was probably too slightly built and he took the one with the Texas club, who was a big man and also looked like a valuable prospect. The one he picked was Jack Onslow, a fair catcher but a little shy on big league requirements. The one he passed up because he was a runt was Ray Schalk. The rest is an old story. Schalk has been a star with the White Sox almost ever since and more than once made Mr. Navin holler “ouch I”

SAYINGS OF WISE MEN

A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in it. A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters. — Danish Proverb. I broke my leg perhaps for my good.—Spanish Proverb. Make it a point never to complain.—Bea. Boldness is never blind, therefore it is ill in counsel but good in execution. —Bacon.

Owls Eat Anything and Swallow All Food Whole

Owls have a peculiar method of eating. They eat everything they want, whenever they 1 find it, and swallow, the “whole works” —whole, says a writer in the Ofhaha World-Herald. The idea would be the same if you sat down to dinner and consumed the beefsteak, plates, napkins, tablecloth, knlves»-forks and spoons; After the owl has had this conglomeration in his department of the interior for time, and it has been digested for all the nutrition theirs is in it, his organisms inside permit him to drop th® refuse out through his mouth in the form of a hard, round pellet .

Cooking Wins Husbands, According to Advice of Friendly Marriage Clerk

The better a woman can cook, the more chances she has of not only getting a husband, but of keeping him. Such is the statement of a Wisconsin marriage clerk, before whom thousands of couples sign the papers required in making them man and wife. The clerk also says a poor cook has much less chances of getting a husband than one who can’t cook but is willing to learn. And he says "all women can cook if they try to.” He bases these conclusions”bn the effects of the culinary art in the game of love on inquiries he has made to thousands of brides-to-be when they appeared before him. "I have asked many future brides if they could cook and In practically every case they stated they could, and when they said they could not, they supplemented it with the statement they were learning,” he said. That many men have been won by good cooking was stated by the Badger state marriage clerk as a common occurrence. "Time after time a man will come for a license to wed his landlady or the one- who has cooked for him. It is no uncommon thing to have them tell me what a good cook they are going to marry and even often invite me to dine with them at their new home. "They say music hath charms in but it does not compare with what a good meal will do to win a man.” *

Equipment Necessary and Processes for Silvering Familiar Looking-Glass

There are several processes for silvering mirrors, the simplest of which, perhaps, is to provide n large flat stone table and spread upon it evenly a sheet of tinfoil without crease or blemish. This is covered uniformly to a depth of one-eighth inch with mercury. The plate of glass, perfectly cleansed of all grease and impurities, is floated in the mercury carefully so as to exclude air bubbles. It is then pressed down by loading with weights in order to press out the mercury which remains fluid. After about twenty-four hours it may be raised on its edge to harden, and should be finished in a few weeks. Anothep method involves the use of a solution made as follows: Mix one nnnee nitrate of silver, three ounces water, one ounce liquid ammonia and three ounces spirits of wine. Filter after solution has stood three or four hour's. To every ounce of the solution add one-fourth ounce sugar dissolved in equal quantities of water and alcohol. The surface to be silvered. 13 covered with this liquid at a temperature of 160 degrees, maintained till the deposition of silver is complete. When dry, coated surface is oovered with mastic varnish.

SMILES AND SMILES

Light 4-iterature. “And now we shall spend an hour in my library.” , “I’m agreeable.” “Which book do you prefer?” “Just gimme a book of cigarette pa* pers and I’ll be satisfied.” Did So.

Differ Only on the Board. “Some one has compared life to a game of chess. What do you think of that idea?” , “I don’t know. Anyhow, we are something like the pieces—when shoved into the wooden box at the end of the game, king and pawn are of equal value.” ■■— Musta Fallen Among Thieves.

“I had a queer experience the other night.” “Proceed.” “Two men knocked me do.wn and another held me up.” a -

More Dotnestic Discussion. "Kicking about a few millinery bills? Why, I could have married Wombat, who is now a millionaire. But I didn’t.” v ' \ “That’s one big reason why he’s a millionaire.” . Completing His Education. The Victim—That young fellow who had the next chair was a fine barber. Why did you send him back to the barbers’ college f The Head Barber—He was a good operator, yes; but he had an impediment in his speech, so I sent him back for a post-graduate course in conversation.

“Forty thousand muscles, eh? That’s a good many.” “What of it?” “I see the elephant’s trunk is said to contain 40,000 muscles.” “Well, well 1 Mother Nature displayed ingenuity when she packed that trunk.”