Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1919 — Page 2

White House Illuminated by Army Searchlights

A night view of the south front of the White House, lighted by powerful army searchlights. The Illumination is of the same kind as that used in locate ing airplanes during the war. Every detail of the building is shown perfectly.

ILLUMINATING POULTRY HOUSES

vancement has been made tn lighting poultry houses In the. It has been found that by turning on electric lights or bright Ught gasoline “lamps at twilight and continuing the liuht until nine o'clock ut night the egg production is materially increased. Most poultrymen who use this system also turn on lights at six or six-thirty on the winter mornings. Prof. F. C. Hare, of the division of poultry husbandry, Clemson college, S. C., recently returned from Cornell university, where he lectured at the Cornell summer course, reports that the experiments conducted at Cornell university last year went-to prove that the best results were obtained by turn- ' Ing on the lights at three .o’clock in

go tv roost at the usual time. However, this simply backs up the statement made in California, where this system originated, that it is only necessary to increase the hours of daylight to summer conditions. If you wake up the birds very early, they should go to bed at dusk.

INSPIRATION.

If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything. The verse is weak ahd shallow as its source. But if with bended neck 1 grope Listening behind me for my wit. With faith superior to hope. More anxious to keep back than forward itMaking my soul-accomplice there Unto the flame my heart hath lit. Then will the verse forever wear—lime "cannot bend the line which God has writ. ~ I hearing get, who hjßEj&uZZwx- ■— ? Aflg"sight,- who had bttt eyes' be?ntet 1 moments live who lived but years. And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. - Now chiefly is my natal hour. And only now my prime of life; Of manhood's strength it is the flower. • ’Tis peace’s end, and war's beginning strife. It comes in summer’s broadest noon. By ..a,gray wall, or some .chance place. Unseasoning time, insulting June. And vexing day with its presuming face. •" ■> - I will not doubt the love qntold Which not my worth or want hath ■ brought. Which wooed me young, and wodS me old. And to this evening hath me brought. ''UavW Thor eaul “'

Name “Whisky” Derived From Celtic “Usgebeatha”

—The name “whisky" was probably derived from'the Celtic "usgebeatha" (water of life), which was subsequently contracted to “usquebaugh" and still later to whisky. The liquor known as usquebaugh in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was .not, however, the same character of whisky of modern times, but was a compound of plain fruit of saffron, nutmeg, sugar and other spices and flavoring matters. .

Slow Growths Inherit Longevity

In animal and vegetable life it Is the slow growths that inherit longevity. Is ft different with states and nations? Is rapid growth in wealth and population conducive to permanence? If not, are there not things more to be desired than either?

38,931,000 New Pennies in July

The abnormal demand for pennies Is still taxing the capacity of the presses in the Philadelphia mint, the enormous total of 88,931,000 having been struck during July. The other coto- ( age consisted of 950,000 dimes and MPMOomcketa. -

Story of Great Charter Oak Tree Whose Hollow Protected the Document.

of franchise, governmental privileges,

and estates to companies for the pur* pose of -esrat)ttshTng“coTonTes,“fo The colonies in general or to individual proprietors, were embodied in charters. The Charter Oak was a large tree that~~stoo<Lin-Hartfprd. Conn., until blown down by a wind storm on Aug. 21.1856. Humorous -statements have been made regarding the age of this great tree, and there is a wide range of the estimates, which run from 200 to nearly 1,000. The tradition relating to the Charter Oak Is that when Sir Edmund Andros was appointed governor general of New England, he came to Hartford in 1687 to receive the colonial charter. This the colonists were loath to surrender, but. appearing to submit, carried it to the council 'chamber, when, during the deliate which followed, the lights were suddenly extinguished by a preconcerted arrangement, ami in the ensuing confusion the document was carried from the room to its subsequent hiding place in the hollow of the grea* tree. Here it remained for about tw’o years, when the deposition of the tyrannous and hated Andros made further concealment unnecessary.

Anybody Has to Hustle to Hold High Position.

Not every man can be great, but most men can be much greater than they are. Greatness is like everything else —you must pay for it. Why should fortune smile upon you with gifts it denies to others? The whole thing is a matter of first principles born with the race, but recognized and developed by the few. It's an inner something that has to be tested and constantly used to maintain the truest efficiency. Fortunate influence may be able to locate you Tn the seat of the mig'htv. but you will have tn da thehustlmgthatkoeps youthere.-

Countries Where Bell Ringing Is in Vogue.

Bell ringing, in the strict acceptation of the word, is exclusively confined to the British Isles, the British colonies, and the United States, the continental methods being quite different. Carillon or mechanical ringing, so largely made use of on the continent, especially in the Netherlands, Ts little practiced in England. At Cattestock in Dorset, owing to the enthusiasm of a former rector, there Asu-a,.splendid. Belgian -peal- of*.cariL. lons, and thee are also to be found at -Bradford . town halt; —Boston church, Worcester cathedral, and Rochdale town hall.

NOTES OF SCIENCE

Burial in dry flour will keep silver bright for a long time. Floating mooring buoys have been made of concrete by an English inventor. It has been estimated that 100,000.000 rubber stamps are in use in the United States. The science of bell casting has been practiced tn one English foundry for nearly 350 years. An inventor has designed an aluminum ironing board that can be folded and carried in a suitcase.—

Beverages in Japan.

Japan has 2.500 establishments manufacturing various kinds of beverages, 500 of them being in Tokio.

Coffee Pot Improvement.

A coffee pot bn the vacuum principle, the lid of which serves as a stopper, has been invented.

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Flavor and Quality of Honey Vary With Plants Upon Which Bee Feeds.

Honey, which Is now a luxury, was in old times a necessity; for it was then the principal sweetener of food. Sugar was pot Introduced until the latter days of the Roman Empire, and was first oddly described as an Indian salt that was as sweet as honey. The numerous references to honey in the Bible are due to its being the common sweetener used by the people. Honey from the comb is considered ta be the most luxurious form of this (leleeTable sw»Td7“and many persons eat the wax with the honey. That is a foolish thing to do, however—as foolish as it would be to eat the paper that butter is wrapped op in, or the bag fhaTlonmins migar. TThe wax in the honeycomb is in no way nutritions, and is decidedly indigestible. The proper way to eat.honey In the Ttnrtt Is to- phtre a ptece" of The "c»»b on one’s plate, with the cells in a vertical position, and press one’s knife firmly upon it. so that all the honey runs out. Eat the honey and leave th« wax. The bees do not care for blossoming flowers, as the poets imagine. They are practical, utilitarian creatures and prefer the period just before fructification. They dearly love clover, but most kinds of forest trees are very useful to them. The flavor and the quality of honey vary with the plants upon which the bee feeds. Heather honey is naturally popular in Scotland, and the famous* Narbonne honey owes its flavor to rosemary. Occasionally the bee is injudicious, however, and chooses injurious herbs. The soldiers of Xenophon. after eating the honey of Trebizond, became either mad or drunk. The effect was owing To The bees having eaten a poisonous azalea.

Habit of Cheerfulness Is Not to Be Acquired Without Some Thought.

Like other thingsr worth having, writes an authority, the habit of cheerfulness is not to be acquired without thought. And if you do think about the matter at all you will quickly begin to realize that depression and worry have their root in the fact that your life —your time, that is, the days and hours —are not really in your own control. You have no" program. Duties and demands crowd upon you without order or sequence. If you" took them one by one they would not seem f orm idable. But you allow their very . numbFF~“to disturb you. So many thing* To aftend to give you the sense Of hurry. And hurry is one of the most frequent causes of worry. Practice deliberation. Begin the day with a program covering the 15 or 16 hours of waking. If they are not to be golden hours they are, at least, yours to spend. Do not be rushed. Keep control of your time. Your time is your life, and, in a very real sense, yourself. It will not be easy to become the mistress of your own time, but it is worth practicing hard to do so. It is fundamental.. When once you have obtained control of your own time you will find you have largely obtained control over your own mind, whose possession all sorts of worries led by the Spirit of Fear their progenitor, had hitherto disputed with you. ' PT-

IT IS TO LAUGH

**l* understand you teach useful trades here,” said the visitor. "Yes." replied the warden of a model penitentiary, "but we have to draw the line somewhere.” "How is that?” "Several life-tenners have been urging me to start a flying school.” No Pieces.

' Going With the Wind. "It'S an ill wind that blows nobody good,” said the ready-made philosopher. “Yes,” replied Cap’n Starboard; "but the kind of man that sits around waitin’ for the wind to come from exactly the quarter that suits him is mightly likely to have no more sense than to hoist sail in a hurricane.” A Regular Dinner.

"Were you at their dinner party?” "Yes.” "Was it an elaborate affair?” "Very. They had enough for us all to eat.”

Home. I “What is your definition of home?” "Home is the place where you can’t find the hammer or the saw shen you really need Them.” An Expert Balancer. The Sire —Late hours are ruining you. For myself; I have alwaysgone to bed with the chickens. The Son —I don’t see how you managed to keep from falling off the roost.

Jimmie How much are the gingerbread horses, please? Lady Five cents apiece. Jlmiule—Put J don’t wanT —a piece: I want a whole one.

To Commemorate the Sailing of the Mayflower

The movement to celebrate next year the tercentenary of the sailing of the Mayflower seems attracting far more attention in England than in America. Simultaneous observance is to be had in both countries, but the English plans, under the direction of a committee Lord Bryce is deputy president, have progressed so rapidly as to be announced. — to that liking for pageantry which marks England. ‘ Tfie lives of those Englishmen who fled from the mother country for conscience sake are to be reconstructed with fidelity. Xot merely the sailing of the Mayflower, but the whole Pilgrim movement will be commemorated. There will be pageants and moving pictures and ceremonies at Austerfield, Scrooby, Boston, Cambridge and other places in England where the Free church had. its adherents. 'Aft'be invited to attend observances, and work on the restoration of the ancestral home of AV ashington, at Sulgrave, is being rushed, in the hope that its formal dedication may take place. Then a combined American and British delegation will visit Holland, “the common harbor of all heresies, 5 ’ where the Pilgrims sought refuge from IGOg to 1620. Meetings will be held at Amsterdam, Leyden, Delftshaven and The Hague. The celebration will culminate with the sailing of another Mayflower, laden with Englishmen and Americans, from the port of Plymouth, a landing being made on the storied Rock, or, rather, where the Rock was. Other compliments to America are reported. The Saint-Gaudens monument of Lincoln is to be installed in Westminster, while the Barnard “Lincoln” will be unveiled at Manchester. The English have established a chair or lectureship (at a cost of $75,00.0) in American history, literature and institutions, and there has been provided an annual scholarship to give young British scholars an opportunity of one or two years’ research and study in America. :: . / ■

July Imports Break Record

Were Largest in History of the Country

Foreign trade of the United States came nearer reaching a balance during July than it has in any month in several years, the department of commerce announced, owing to an immense increase in imports and a sharp reduction in exports. _________ Imports valued at 8345,000,000 entered- American ports, the total exceeding the amount brought to the United States (luring any previous mouth in history. Exports dropped $350,600,000 from the higli figure of June, but amounted to $570,000,000. For the seven months ended with July exports totaled $4,618,000,000. while imports amounted to $1,955,000,000 for the period.

Believe Magnetic Poles Have Slow Motion Around the Geographical Poles

The geographical poles of the earth are the extremities of the imaginary line passing through its center of gravity and about which it revolves, and are therefore symmetrically located with regard to the equator. The magnetic poles, however, are not coincident with the geographical poles. • nor are they diametrically opposite to each other. Prior to the recent attempt of Amundsen to determine the north magnetic pole, the only other_ was by Capt. James Ross in June, liß3l, who found the dip of the xnagnetic needle to be 89 degrees, 50 minutes, 5 seconds, in latitude 70 degrees, 5 minutes, 2 seconds, north, and longitude 96 degrees, 45 minutes, 8 seconds, west, which is in King William Land. Canada. The result of Amundsen’s observations has not yet been published by the Norwegian authorities. For the south magnetic pole, from a consideration of all the results available, according to the United Coast and Geodetic Survey, the position of latitude 72 degrees, 7 minutes, south, and longitude 156 degrees, east, has been tentatively adopted. These values are only rough'll approximated and for that reason are given only in degrees and tenths.

By reason of the r.nnuar variation of the magnetic needle, it is believed the magnetic poles are not stationary, but have motion, around the geographical poles. The subject is shrouded In mystery and "constitutes one of the many as yet unsolved problems in terrestrial physics.

HERE AND THERE

Oil ts all right in its place, but beware of the man who has an oily • tongue. Unless a man has true faith he never calls for a second plate of hash. Take things as they come — then call in a physician for further Information. Family quarrels would not be so bad if other families would keep out of them. The logical deduction from many so-called statements of facts is fully 100 per cent.

New Use for Phonograph.

For advertising purposes in street crowds a Frenchman has mounted a phonograph in a case resembling a camera. „■

Vitt Family in Limelight, With Oscar as the Ace of the Western Aggregation

Every baseball fan has heard of Oscar Vitt. the San Francisco high-school kid who started with that cpast league club, went to Detroit and is now with the Boston Red Sox. But

Oscar Vitt.

Oscar, it appears, has some Illustrious cousins, all of whom are members of Vitts 1 Grays, an. Oakland team. Lawrence Vitt who recently returned from 18 months' service in France, Three other brothers also were in the ranks —Henry, second base; Ed, shortstop, and John, left field. Joe Vitt, the brother, acts as manager. He was ready for an officer’s training camp when the armistice came.

First Safety Bicycle Was Placed on Market in 1880

The first’of the safety bicycles was put on the market in 1880. In this the high front wheel was reduced and the rear wheel was about two-thirds the height of the front one. The machines with wheels of the same size appeared in 1885. Bicycling began to be popular about I*9l, and the “craze” reached its height about 1895, when wheels had become low enough in price to be within the means of the multitude.

Bagdad Is Important as a Distributing Center.

Attention is directed to the importance of Bagdad as a. distributing center for cotton and woolen textiles. Bagdad supplies the Tigris valley as far north ’as Mosul and vicinity, also the Euphrates valley to the northwest as far as Der-el-Zor. To the northeast very large quantities are sent into Persia via Kermanshah and Hamadan. All this business is supplied and controlled by merchants in Bagdad.

Bark for Tanning.

Quebracho bark, one of the chief exports of the Argentine, will tan leather at least three times as fast as the bark of the oak or the hemlock. The growth of the tree is of the slowest, and it is estimated that a thousand years are required for it to reach maturity.

Chickens in China.

China is estimated to maintain one chicken for every inhabitant of that country, or about 400,000,000.

Tiger-Hunting Elephants Must Display Bravery or Forever Be Disqualified

Not all elephants are qualified for tiger-hunting. Every animal used in the sport must be steady, obedient, and fearless, for if a single elephant misbehaves or bolts when he confronts one of the the deadly contagion of fear may spread broadcast, and runaways, broken palanquins, and loss of life may result. This is the way in which men select the animals to train for the hunt : As a prelimtoatw—step. they-walk the elephants back and forth In a court where are ranged cages containing tigers and leopards, for the sporting rajahs generally maintain private menageries. When they become accustomed to the smell of these animals, a tiger is chained to a post in an open space, with a leash carefully regulated to limit the length of his leaps The mahouts then force the pupil-elephant to approach as near the post as safety allows and to remain for some time within a few steps of the tiger. Each day the tiger’s chain is lengthened, and the prisoner, which is kept half-starved, charges fiercely at the elephant as it comes near. Those elephants which stand their ground without flinching are considered qualified for the hunt in the jungle, but those that have revealed the least timidity are degraded from the rank of hunter—the aristocracy of their kind —and are turned over to Ignominious labor. According to a zoologist of the Calcutta museum, among every thousand elephants that undergo this training only about fifty will not bolt when brought face to face with the chained tiger; but nearly half of those that stand their ground bravely at first retreat before a more ferocious assault.

Mother’s Cook Book

Brood not on words or slights; their biting force Is measured by their housing mischief seeds, Which, nursed and tended, bring forth poison-weeds Whose bitter crop is hatred and remorse. —Martin. Out of the Cooky Jar. A cooky which will keep is the most desirable. One may prepare three or four varieties and they will keep for weeks. With a well-stocked cooky jar the children will never go hungry. - Whiter Cookie*. Take one cupful of shortening, one cupful of sugar, two eggs, one-half a cupful of milk or cream, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in the flour; add nutmeg, and flour enough to roll. Chill and handle as moist as possible, rolling very thin. Ginger Cookies. Take one and one-half cupfuls of shortening, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sugar, two eggs, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in half a cupful of boiling water. Add ginger, cinnamon, cloves and salt to taste. Add flour to make a moist dough and let stand on Ice to chill before rolling. Sunshine Cookies. Take one-third of a cupful of shortening, one cupful of sugar, two deaspoo.nfuls of cream of tartar and one teaspoonful of soda sifted in three cupfuls of flour; add a half' cupful of sweet milk and salt to taste. ■ -p —n- ' Filling—Take one cupful of raisins, half a cupful of sugar, half a cupful of hotwater. onetablespoonful offlour, the juice and rind of half a lemon. Cook until smooth and thick. Put a spoonful of filling on a cooky, cover another and bake.. White Cookies. Take two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of shortening, a teaspoonful of salt, two well-beaten eggs, a cupful of sour milk a teaspoonful of soda and four cupfuls of flour sifted ■with one teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix and roll, adding flour to the board, using as little as possible. Flavor with nutmeg. This makes about 60 cookies. Ceeenut Maearoens^-— ~ Take the whites of two eggs beaten stiff, one cupful of sugar and one cupful each of corn flakes and coconut; salt flavoring, and two tablespoonfuls of flour. Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered sheet and bake In a moderate oven. 'Xttuc

Miracle Plays Populat in Fifteenth Century

In the fifteenth century almost every one of the great guilds acted some sort of knlracle play, usually chosen with reference to patron saint of the giiild. Inventories of these theatrical properties still exist, and include gorgeous silk and gold damasks and magnificent damascened armor. The story of St George rescuing the princess from the dragon was a very favorite subject.

Plant’s Odor Is Fatal

The “death plant” of Java has flowers which rontinually give off a perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time, a fullgrown man, and which kills all forms of insect life that come under its io fluenca.