Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — Page 3

Where Kaiser Will Be Imprisoned During His Trial in London

The famous Tower of London, where the allies intend imprisoning the •German kaiser and other war criminals during their expected trials.in London. The tower is made up of many buildings.

TEACHING THE CHICKS TO ROOST

Where a large number of chicks are being raised in one brooder house difficulty is often experienced in preventing the birds from piling up at night after the heat is removed, and causing serious losses, says T. S. Townsley of the University of Missouri college of To prevent this overcrowding the birds should be taught to roost as early as possible. If roosts are made out of 1 by 3-inch strips placed 12 to 15 inches from the floor, the birds can easily she taught to go to roost If the chicks do not go up on the roost of their own accord they should be gently placed on the roosts after dark for one or two nights until they get the roosting habit. H Look Out for Mites. —This season of the year a constant lookout should be Icept by all poultry keepers for mites In the houses and coops. A mite is very small and difficult to see unless special search is made. They appear as minute, gray or reddish specks. When present in large numbers, the mites Jiave the appearance of dust. Mites reproduce very rapidly and are a great source of annoyance to the hens when present in large numbers. The mites live by sucking blood from the hens. A severe attack of mites will cause the hens to lose flesh and stop laying, and -will oftentimes produce death. To get rid of mites the houses must be carefully cleaned and then painted or sprayed with repellent material. A heavy spraying with coal oil followed In two or three days by giving the roosts and surrounding boards a thorough painting with crude oil will clean up the mites and keep the houses-free for several months. This treatment should be applied twice yearly to all poultry houses as a precautionary measure against mites.

Quaint Remedies of Past Produced From Weeds Now Most Common in the Field

In old-time Philadelphia, says the Philadelphia Ledger, some quaint remedies were used. Thus we find pokeberries used to make plaster for a cancer. Grapevine sap was used for a hair tonic. To produce a sweat, tea was made from magnolia leaves. The berry of this plant was supposed to cure consumption. —For toothache the bayberry root was an accepted remedy. Berries of the cedar tree were supposed to stiffen the spine. A purge was made of alder buds or of elderberries. Goldenrod, the mullein plant and even the lowly burdock were laid under tribute for various maladies. It Is hard to find a common weed that was rejected by the eighteenth century pharmacopoeia. The grandmother of all the Philadelphia quacks was a beldame by the name of Sibylla Masters, who 200 years ago made a fortune by the patent and sale of “Tuscarora rice” for consumption. It was nothing more or less, appirently, than hominy? made from Indian corn. Her husband put up a water mill somewhere near the city to make It She was an Innocent practitioner compared with certain modern proflteers.

Oleomargarine Production Shows a Marked Increase

The production of oleomargarine in the United States Is three times as great now as four years ago. This Is less than three pounds per person whereas In Denmark 40 pounds Is consumed per person each year. The Norwegians average 33 pounds, the Hollanders 20 pounds and the Englishmen nine pounds. - .. f - _

Vegetables of the Home Garden Said to Possess Medicinal Properties

ZWatercress Is an excellent blood purifier. Lettuce has a soothing effect on the nerves and is excellent for. sufferers from insomnia. Tomatoes are good for a torpid liverv but should be avoided by gouty people. - Celery is a fine nerve tonic; onions also are a tonic for the nerves. Spinach has great aperient qualities, and is far better than medicine for sufferers from constipation. Beet root is fattening and good for people who want to put on flesh. ‘ Parsnips possess .the same virtues as sarsaparilla. Cranberries correct the liver. Asparagus stimulates the kidneys. Bananas are beneficial to sufferers from chest complaints. Celery contains sulphur and helps to ward off rheumatism. Honey is a good substitute for cod liver oil. The juice of a lemon is excellent for sore throat. It should not be swallowed, but used as a gargle. Carrots are excellent for gout.

A FEW SMILES

Diplomacy.

with you then, and I had a suspicion she would feel hurt to hear me call you ‘boss.’” / \ .

Professional Troubles. ‘‘Whatever became of that patient of yours you were telling me about last fall?” “Oh, he’s got a complaint now that’s giving me a great deal of trouble.” “Indeed! What is it?” “It’s about the amount of my bill.” Her Only Chance.

. “Poor old Miss Sklnnay goes /to every blessed “rummage’ sale. I wonder what she’s looking for.” I “Perhaps she expects to find a cast-off husband”

Hobbledehoy. “See that fellow yonder marking time? He must be a returned soldier." “No, he Isn’t That is Billings. He’s a great ladies’ man and he is practicing to keep In step wlth the girls who wear narrow skirts.” ■ 1 • ' ****"? Appropriate Accommodations. “By gorry, there Is no room In this country for them Infernal bolshevik! I” sternly dpclsred the landlord of the Palace Hotel at Peeweecuddyhump. “Well. I don’t knoW,” replied a weary looking guest. It seems to me that Incarceration In the room I occupied in this hotel last night would be none too bad for them.” : Worse Than War. Corporal—What’s the matter? You look more scared than when you were bucking the Hindenburg line. Private—Pm getting ready to go inside to ask the boss for my old job hark—Life

“Traveling alone this trip, boss?” said the Pullman porter. “Yes, George,’’ replied the little man. “But why do you call me ‘boss’? The last time I was on your train you called me ‘chief.’ ” “Yes boss; but yotrr wife was

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HIS LETTER

Beyond the steel and the fire Gleams the old desire. War has not taken wonder away. More poignant where its lightnings play .The appeal of Beauty’s lonely cry! I shall go on dreaming till I die. I see wind-burnished coin-bright towns. And roads that shine across the downs; A dusk* of forest and a line Of light that silvers the design; Always the shadowed and the bright, A halo for the blackest night! —lslands where I have never been; The rainbow toppling down the green Of tilted seas that rake a ship; The molten lava streams that slip From fiery crater-rims and fill The dark with rose? and daffodil; Lakes, mountain-hid and spiritual; The undiscovered waterfall Like a white feather through the treei The undiscovered bird in these Singing, always alone, alone. The lovely voice of the unknown. This is Romance chameleon-clad That called me when I was a lad. That calls me now to follow well Through blighted Picardy to hell, Through hell to some elusive bliss Of new adventure after this; To follow without asking why; So you will know, if I must die Upon this last and strangest quest. It did not differ from the rest In simple wonder dark and bright A halo for the darkest ’night; And freedom like the unknown bird Was a wild voice I fought to hear! These words, to you, my very dear. Beyond the steel and the fire Gleams the old desire. - —Grace Hazard Conkling, in the Atlantic.

Immigration Loss Blamed For Present Shortage of Labor in United States

If every soldier were back on his old Job the country would still be 4,000,000 short of its normal number of workers due to the loss of immigration the last four years; if Industry does not quickly develop some means for overcoming this shortage it will be seriously handicapped in adjusting itself to new conditions, say officials of the United States training service of the department of labor. They point out that the country has gone without its normal supply of peace-time commodities for years and now it must replenish freely. Furthermore Europe has lost millions of men arid tens of billions of property in the devastated regions must be made good. It is urged that to meet this extraordinary situation the workers in factories and shops must be assisted by increasing their skill and interest in their work. The estimated shortage in this country of 700,000 houses is cited as showing how far the nation is behind normal production. Training courses in the industrial plants, conducted at the employer’s expense, are advocated as one' of the practical means 1 of putting industry on a normal footing. More than 350 firms have already Instituted courses of this sort and according to reports received by the training service, have benefited in‘better production and reduced turnover. The workers on the other hand have increased their skill and broadened their knowledge of their trades.

Plan to Make Safe Grade Crossings and Curves for Vehicles and Occupants

To abolish the danger of grade crossings without abolishing the crossing, is the object of the road commissioner of one of the Southern states. He suggests a strip of road running for about 100 yards alongside the railway track and joined to the highway by a broad curve, well banked, so that a driver, on approaching the tracks and suddenly becoming aware of an oncoming train, could swerve to the right And avoid a smash. Another road Improvement has been put into effect in some parts of California where the roads climb steep hills in long zlz-zags. At the sharp angles where the zig-zags meet, large circles of road have been cut, outside the angle, so that a car comIng down the mountains at high speed can swing around the circle and proceed on Its downward path without the danger of making a sharp turn. A car coming up the mountain makes a similar swing around and thus avoids the strain on Its steering gear Involved in making a turn at an acute angle when its engine is already strained to the uttermost.

SHORT AND SNAPPY

It takes a man of wisdom to utilize half he knows. knows more than to look pretty. •*- •—i - -- ' A sure sign that you don’t know much is to think that you know it/all. A genius is usually eccentric, but an eccentric person isn’t necessarily a genius. If you are convinced that the world Is growing worse cevery day take something for your liver.

Tuberculosis in France.

Twenty-five thousand French soldiers died of tuberculosis during the war and 120,000 men were exempted from service because of the disease, it Was said in the senate during a discussion on a bill to establish tuberculo* sis sanltariuma.

American Farms Will Yield $9,000,000,000

American farms will this year contribute $8,938,922,000 to the world’s wealth from a yield of 5,713,000,000 bushels of com, wheat, oats, barley and rye. The value of the com is $4,768,475,000, wheat $2,577,420,000, oats $994,727,000, barley $254,100,000 and rye $144,200,000. These values are based on the government statistics presenting farm prices of July 1. According to the department of agriculture there is a promise of 2,815,000,000 bushels in com in reports received up to July 1, while small grains will approximate $2,898,000,000 bushels when the Jiarvest is completed. Compared with the figures supplied for the previous month this is a loss of 123,000,000 bushels, of which 75,000,000 bushels is wheat and 43,000,000 bushels oats. The com crop is attracting more attention than wheat, and shows unusual promise. The area is 102,799,000 acres, compared with 113,835,000 acres as given in July a year ago, and the revised acreage 107,494,000 in December. The total crop is 232,000,000 bushels more than harvested last year. If present condition is maintained to harvest the crop would be around 3,250,000,000 bushels, which would set a new record. A crop of 103,000,000 bushels rye, although cut down 4,000,000 bushels by blight, rust and drought, is a record one, and 14,000,000 bushels above last year’s high mark. Barley is somewhat of a disappointment with 231,000,000 bushels, compared with 256,000,000 bushels last year. The hay crop of 116,000,000 tons is 26,000,000 tons over last year’s. ~TA wheat crop of 1,161,000,000 bushels is 75,000,000 bushels short of the previous month’s returns, but is a record yield. The losses were due to rust and other unfavorable conditions which have made the crop a great disappointment from the early promise. The loss in winter wheat was 54,000,000 bushels, and in spring 21,000,000 bushels. The winter wheat yield will exceed all records, but the spring wheat is short, and is greatly below expectations. Prospective yields as of July 1, compared with a year ago, and farm prices follow; yields being in millions of bushels and prices in cents: - 1919. 1918. Price. Winter wheat 839 558 Spring wheat 322 359 All wheat 1,161 917 222.0 Corn 2,815 2,583 176.5 Oats ’ ..1,403 1,538 70.9 BarlPV 231. 256 108.4 Rye 103 90 138.6 W’hlte potatoes 391 400 128.4 Sweet potatoes 102 86 159.8 Tobacco, pounds .....1,453 1,340 Flax 42 14 444.1 Rice • • 42 40 Hay, tons -••• H 690 $21.74 Cotton 11 Apples, total v 174 197.7 Peaches • 50 39 331.4 Pa rm reserves of wheat on July.l were 19,644,000 bushels, compared with 8,063,000 bushels last year and a five-year average of 37,413,000 bushels. Supplies in all positions are 57,539,000 bushels compared with 22,372,000 bushels last year. This represents a carry-over into the new crop of below the average.

Who Won the War?

Pres. Wilson Says America Did. Gen. Haig Says Britain Did.

Who won the war? This is one of the questions that the peace conference failed to answer. President Wilson gave the American answer in a speech on board the George Washington July 4. Field Marshal Haig gave the British answer in an address in Newcastle. President Wilson saidi “Then America went in, and if it had not been for America the war would npt have been won. My heart swells with pride that I cannot express when I think of the men who crossed the seas from America to fight on those battlefields.” General Haig said: “Don’t forget it was the British empire that won this war. We talked a great deal about our allies. It was necessary and right that we should do so to buck them up all we could while the fighting was going on, but don’t forget it was the British empire that won this war.”

Ancient Chinese Poetry as "Written Pictures”

Several translations of sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese poems,, which have Just been printed in an American magazine of verse, will strike many casual.readers as being very much like occidental vers llbre; and it is Also noticeable, that these poems, widely apart in time, are very near together in feeling and technical manner. The Chinese poet, in fact, seems to have anticipated by several centuries the "latest thing” in Western verse expression. And perhaps this is really the case, The Chinese term for such poems is, literally translated, “written pictures,” which will also seem to many modern readers a good working definition for vers llbre.—Christian Science Monitor.

Novel Jardiniere.

Purchase a large-size bean pot in the shape of a flower pot with wide rim. Now use a dark green glossy paint to cover it. When dry dip a small brush in washable gold paint and draw a pretty design around the rim and you have a handsome ornament for your fern or other flowers for little cost.

Value Based on Government Statistics

Fighting Heart of Jack Dempsey is an Hierloom From the Days of Feuds

Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, although bom in Manassa, Col., sprang from the purest type of West Virginia mountaineer stock. The champion’s grandfather, Ance Dempsey, was a pioneer settler of Logan county. The report widely circulated, that flempsey was born near Williamson, W. Va. is incorrect. It is slightly over a quarter of a century since H. I. Dempsey and the mother of the new champion left their old home there. Jack was bom about a year after his parents arrived in the West. The old Dempsey homestead in the mountains is located only a short-dis-tance from the abode of “Devil” Ance Hatfield, who gained widespread notoriety during the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Although there are still many dose relatives of the Dempsey family residing in that vicinity, the present champion has never visited them. Both Dempsey’s father and grandfather were farmers and woodsmen and are remembered by old residents there as fearless mountaineers who stood high in a community where courage was demanded of all. At the present time there are two uncles and several cousins of the champion residing in Mingo.county.

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

An inventor has combined a cigar cutter with a watch for men. Java has taken the leadership in the cultivation of quinine away from Peru. Levers* outside a ne# gas range move a broiler Inside to any desired position with relation to the heat. Blades of recently patented shears are operated by an electric motor controlled by a button in its handle.

Kangaroo Farming Is One of Australia’s Big Industries

In Australia, kangaroo farming Is an Important Industry. The hides are valuable and the tendons extremely fine. They are used In the sewing up of wounds, and especially for holding broken bones together, being much finer and tougher than catgut, which is used extensively.

Connie Mack, Developer of Greatest Baseball Machine, May Retire as a Manager.

The retirement from baseball’s managerial ranks of Cornelius McGillicuddy, known to the sporting world as Connie Mack, is shadowed in the recent return to baseball of Harry Davis, long the lieutenant of Crafty Connie. Reports from Philadelphia say that Mack has tired of the task of managing a ball club and is about ready to devote his attention to the business end of the game. Davis Is to succeed Mack as boss of the Athletics on the field, the rumors go on. , Mack, the developer Qf the greatest baseban machine of recent years, if not the greatest of all times, seems destined to pass out of the managerial

Connie Mack.

ranks with a string of failures marring a record that had known nothing but success at Quakertown for fourteen years. Connie dismantled his great machine after losing the 1914 world’s series, and since that time he has been trying in vain to develop another winning combination. For four consecutive seasons Mack’s teams have finished in last place and the aggregation he is piloting this season promises no highera finish. Mack has been the directing head of the one team for a longer term of years than any other manager now in the game. Likewise, he has been handling ball clubs longer than any other pilot in the history of baseball'.

Mother’s Cook Book.

When I have passed a nobler life in sorrow; Have seen rude masses grow to fulgent spheres; Seen how today is father of tomorrow. And how the ages justify the years, I praise thee, God. Meat Flavors Extended. We may extend the flavors of meats in various dishes which will satisfy the appetite fully as well as a meal of meat, by using bread, cereals and vegetables. Chopped Mutton Cutlets. Remove the lean meat from two pounds of the forequarter of lamb, and put through the meat chopper. Mix the meat with one cupful pf dried crumbs, one egg slightly beaten, one cupful of canned tomatoes or milk, three chopped pimentoes, two and onehalf teaspoonfuls of salt. Form into cutlets and put into a very hot wellgreased frying pan. Turn the meat frequently until well served on both sides, cook six to eight minutes and remove to a hot platter. Serve with Pimento Sauce. Brown two tablespoonfuls of fat and two slices of onion in the pan in which the cutlets were cooked. Add two tablesp6onfuls of flour, one cupful of stock from the bones, salt anc pepper to taste, stir until smooth and thick; strain and add hall a pimento cut in bits.

Ric. With Fried Hun. Take a cupful of fried ham put through the meat chopper, a half cupful of rice cooked until tender. salt to season, half a small minced onion and a tomato or two for moisture. Bako until well blended and piping hot; Serve from the baking dish. Tamale Pie. Add six cupfuls of boiling water to two cupfuls of cornmeal, stir’ and cook five minutes adding two and onehalf teaspoonfuls of salt, then cook over water for an hour. Melt one tablespoonful of fat, add one chopped onion, one pound of chopped beef, a teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth of a teaspoonful.of pepper, a green or red - pepper cut in strips, two cupfuls of tomato, a few ripe olives and raisins. Put a layer of the mush in a baking dish, then a layer of the seasoned meat. Cover with round pats of the mush and bake one-half hour. Galantine. Put a pound of steak and half a pound of raw bam through the meat grinder, add two eggs, beaten; Juice and rind of a lemon, one and threefourths cupfuls of bread crumbs, a grating of nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste and one spoonful of tarragon vinegar. Pack into a well-greased pan and steam four hours. Serve with tomato salad, the loaf cut in thin slices. ... . .

Ring of Lighthouses.

The coast of the British teles te sot well protected with lighthouses that if a ship sailed right around England. Scotland and Ireland by night, only on six occasions would it be where it! could not see the light of a lighthouse lantern. - t ‘ Ms ' . J*- " . .