Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — Page 2

Martin Army Transport, Largest Plane in the U.S.

Exterior view of the palatial U. S. army transport plane, equipped with every modem device known to aviation, and designed for the aerial use of the U. S. army transport service. -

Bamboo Can Be Raised for Table Use in This Country as in China

An agricultural explorer from the department of agriculture spent six years in China investigating the possibility of introducing new and promising plants into the United States. His experiences are rather Interesting. The imlust rious Ch inesp have deyeloped from their native vegetation- a u i tiri si ngtv~tu rge 11u inher of improved varieties that are admirably suited to their local conditions. Many of the plants should be equally successful in the United States. The expert mentioned refers to the popularity of edible bamboo shoots in China, not to speak of Japan, and says that when they are of a good variety they are a vegetable dish that has no rival. Their crispness and their freshness of flavor appeal to nearly* every one the first time be eats. "them. Foreigners in the Orient become as partial to bamboo sprouts as Americans are to asparagUS. —"-y:‘‘ T; The varieties that are cultivated for their shoots are generally grown in gardens close to the house, and are heavily manured, in order to insure a maximum of sprouts and the greatest tenderness of texture. In California and some of the southern states are groves of one species’ that are producing sprouts nearly, if not quite, equal to those raised in the Orient. ' It is believed that the bamboo can be cultivated for table use in this country as successfully as in China, for the Chinese colonies in our large cities afford a ready market and Chinese restaurants consume large quantities In soups and other dishes. Moreover, there are who have acquired in the East a liking for the shoots, and would be glad to buy them if they could get them.

TIPS FOR GROWERS OF POULTRY

T The most common head, and throat tarrh. The symptoms of colds- artrunning. dirty and stopped up nostrils. The symptom’s of catarrh are difficult and rapid breathing, with mouth open and whistling or bubbling in throat, jue to phlegm. Those ..troubles, are most common in fall and early winter, and are easily overcome. Simple colds and catarrh can be prerented by removing the above causes a iid ‘Kreeding coh si antl y ~ f or hearth <nd To treat, search out and Isolate in separate quarters all in'ected fowls and give stimulating food seasoned with cayenne pepper, or the lulli.wim.-Ku.,: rerized ,ginger. A* p< -utid ; pulv erizedj saltpeter, Ai pound; pulverized irpn sulphate. Ai pound. Use two to three tablespoonfuls of '.he tonic to 10 quarts of dry mash. — Poultry Division, University Farm, Davis, Calif.

Pompeiian Discoveries Include “Thermopolium.”

The recent excavations of Pompeii tn the ancient “Street of Abundance" have resulted in such extensive finds that the life of the street can be almost entirely reconstructed. The principal discovery is that of a huge “thermopolium.” a kind 1 - of public house. This is in, a state of perfect preservation, and an exact idea can now be obtained vt a Roman place of refreshment. There is a long row of wine jars so’placed' that it seems the vintner was in the act of pouring wine from one into the other when overtaken by the catastrophe.

Battlefields for Sale. In a number of French newspapers advertisements are appearing offering for sale fields and ruins which were the actual scenes of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. These sites are guaranteed to be just as the opposing armies left them. •' ; ' -tv

FALL SMILES

The Curse of Riches. “The Grabcoins are having a hard time keeping up appearances.” “They are not in financial straits, I hope?” “Oh, no. but it seems Impossible to keep a staff nine “servants 7 inttwt longer than a week at a time. Mrs. Grabcdih, who used to be a wonder at the washtub. is_ quite helpless without a full quota of menials.” Topsy Turvy.

their wrists in straps.” . . “Jes’ think of that. U sin” the stirrups for their bands instead of their feet!” All of It. “Did you have a fine time on your auto trip?” ' . . “Oh, yes. We ran into a lot of country speed traps and it was nothing but tine.” The Use. “I understand thatrMrs. Blobs prepares her own meals, does her housework and puts the washing and ironing out/’ 2. "Then wfiat~do her“cbbk and launI dress- do?” “Oh, she has them just to let the ' neighbors know she can afford to hire hqlp.” Fashion’s Fuzzes. “Do you thfnk

side whiskers Wilt I fashion aghifiT”** fashion now,” said Mr. Rufnek. “The girls are wearin' ’em over their ears.”' .

, . Heights of Luxury. ~“Will gave*a diamond necklace lately to his wife-” “That's nothing. Tom lets his have Tried -chicken, for dinner every Sunday . - *

Many Need More Energy to Reach the Top Rung

pwe suecobS rs Ine wtwneman. the whole woman. Without exerting nil the force that is in you. you will never reach your highest possible mark. Many people failviiVthe'necessary initiative and energy, in confidence to branch outdo undertake the things'that they long to do. They are timid, retiring, hesitators, putters-off, balancers, bargainers. It is such people who gradually, unconsciously, but inevitably, drift into the perpetual clerkships, into the ruts where their powers become paralyzed and out of which they never seem to be able to climb.—New Success.

Tallest Man With U. S. Forces Returns Home.

Sergt. Troy Mock, said to be the tallest man in the A. E. F., has returned tb his home. Anthony, Kansas, after two years' senice in the army. When he enlisted, in the spring of 1917, Mock wag 6 feet 7, inches tall and weighed 186 pounds. When discharged he weighed 200 pounds and was 6 feet Sl4 inches talk Mock served with the Twenty-fourth aero squadron.

Linoleum Kills Bacteria.

According to a European scientist, linoleum on the floor of a room kills bacteria that may be brought in on shoes, with the linseed oil it contains.

“See any fancy Tidin’ while you was East?” asked Three - Finger Sam. “I sure . did 7 ” answered -Cactus Joe? “But everything’s topsy. turvy. People in the cars have to hang on with

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Smokers Scratch 10,000 Matches Every Second 15 Seconds Each Scratch

Next time you light a match, think of this: About 10,000 matches are scratched In this country every second that and of these 95 per cent are used by smokers to fire pipe, cigar or cigarette. The man whose head for figures turned out this Information also estimates that the time lost by the smolers in lighting matches-—not In smoking—-Is worth ?513,024 each eighthour working day. He arrived at his estimate by figuring that it takes 15 seconds to scratch a matchand use the light, and that 213,759 men whose time is worth 30 cents an hour are holding matches at the same time, thus losing, golden minutes.at the rate of $1,068 a minute, or $61,128 till hour. No one, so far as we can learn, has figured out how large a percentage of the match scratchers throw away the .matches.while they are still burning; but It has been estimatetUthat a half of -the tires.- which cost the United States $250,000,000 a year, are caused by carelessness. T® 7 * Wood, chlorate of potash. rosin, whiting and powdered flint lire the makings 5 of this little device.— popular Science

First to Originate and Use Forks and Napkins on Table of Family Home

“Fingers were made before forks,” trnd-thatis why we have napkins; Existence today would be <bad indeed without that” most essential of all table appointments, the napkin. ■ But can one conceive of its importance to our ancestors, who only a few hundred years ago ate without forks? ---For, as we know, it. was. not until i the seventeenth century that forks | imide - their bow to the most elite society of England, as a substitute for the time -honored fingers. In Ho- 1 I garth’s picture of a “Guildhall Ban- I quet” the whole illustrious company are seen eating with their hands. Small wonder at the necessity for the napkin, which was used not only during the meal itself, but afterward served the purpose of a towel. And then it was Italy, the home of reawakened fastidiousness, as well as the renaissance of art, that came forward with the inspiration for the new adjunct of the table, the fork, which somewhat modified uses of the napkin. But as long indispensable, the napkin had become second nature and.survives to our day.

INTERESTING FACTS

Telegraph girls employed by the London general post office now number more than 6,500. The height of St. Paul’s cathedral, London, i s as many feet as there are days in the year. In Sweden the public houses are closed on Saturday, pay day, while the savings banks are kept open until midnight,. 1 Before the-war the number of—people in Great Britain holding government securities was 340,- ■ 000; today it is more than 20,- : 000,000. The palace of the former German emperor in Berlin at. one time kept 500 housemaids and >I,BOO liveried footmen in employment ■ ■ ——-—-—

Parrot and Raven Live to Be 90 and 100 Years Old

Some birds live to a great age. The age of 90 is known to have been reached by a gray parrdt, and there are many statements of birds of the parrot family having lived for over a century. The raven also is credited with having reached 100 years. The domestic goose is another long-living bird. Many instances are known of geese attaining 40 years. The ordinary domestic fowTis seldom allowed to die of eld age, but in some country places old hens that have been rnu.de pets of remain until they are 10 or 12 years old, having long previously ceased to lay. --

St. Joseph County, Indiana, Largest Producer of Mint.

With the Indiana mint growers realizing $250 to S3OO an acre, reports given out by a county agent and a government crop estimator, show’ that St. Joseph ’'county is the largest mint production county in the United States, and Indiana produces two-thirds of the mint of the United States. During the summer season, 3,425 acres of mint were under cultivation and produced a record-breaking crop. This year the yield near Nappanee-has been unusually large and the farmers have received as high as $6.25 a pound_for their mint ...V. -t

Introducing Farming Methods.

Scientific American farming methods are being introduced in Crete and Greece' through the agricultural surveythat is,being made there by the American Red Cross under the direction of Major C. G. Hopkins of the Illinois agricultural department, and Lieut. G. J. Bouyoucos, a native Greek educated in America, and a former instructqr at Michigan agricultural college.

“Flu” Is Coming Back This Year, Warning of Surgeon General

“Will the ‘flu* come back this year?” This question, being asked by thousands of scientists and minions of laymen, is dismissed by Surgeon General Blue of the public health service in an official bulletin, in which it is said that the plague probably will 'appear but Tiot be as severe as last winter. “Probably,-but by no means certainly, there will be a recurrence of the influenza epidemic this year,” says General Blue. “Indications are that, should it occur, it will not be as severe as the pandemic of the previous winter. City officials, state and city boards of health should be prepared for a recurrence. The fact that a previous attack brings immunity in a certain percentage of cases should allay fear on the part of those afflicted in last year’s epidemic. ~~ “Influenza is spread by direct and indirect contact. It is not yet certain that the germ has been isolated or discovered, and there is yet no positive preventive, except the* enforcement of rigid rules of sanitation and the avoidance of personal contact. “We may expect at least local recurrences in the near futurfe, with an increase over the normal mortality from pneumonia for perhaps several years, and certainly we should be, as far as possible, prepared to meet them by previous organization of forces and measures for attempted prevention, treatment and scientific investigation. “There should be no repetition of the extensive suffering and distress which accompanied lastjeaEs pandemic. The most promising way is ‘preparedness.’ And now is the time to prepare. “No mention has been made of a cure. So far as the most careful scientific investigations have been able to determine, none has been discovered, and suggested remedies which gave most encouragement are even now in their experimental stage. i “Evidence collected during last winter’s pandemic points strongly to infectedmating and drinking utensils, especially in places where food and drink are sold to the public, as being one of the modes of transmission of this disease.” .. v-

THE OPEN WINDOW

My tower was grimly builded. With many a bolt and bar, ; "And here,” I thought, “I will keep my life From the bitter world afar.” Dark and chill was the stony floor, 'Where never a sunbeam lay, And the mold crept up on the dreary "wall. With its ghost touch, day by day. Onemorn,fri~niysullenmusings. A flutter and cry I heard; And close at the rusty casement There clung a frightened bird._ Then back I flung the shutter That was never before undone, And I kept till its wings were rested The little weary one. But in through the open window, Which I had forgot to close. There had burst a gush of sunshine And a summer scent of rose. For all the while I had burrowed —There in my dingy tower, • Lo! the bird had sung and the leaves had danced ~ From hour to sunny hour. And such balm and warmth and beauty Came drifting in since then, That the window still_stands open And Shall never be shut again. —Edward Roland Sill.

SHANTUNG

Hat 30.000,000 People; Size of Small State

If you wish to realize the blessings of your native land, where there is plenty of room and plenty to eat, go and look at the province of Shantung, writes Niksah. Shantung has thirty million people, but it is no bigger than the state of Illinois. Not a scrap of anything is wasted in Shantung. The Chinese girls there weave the discarded queues of their brothers into the hair nets that American girls wear when they go motoring. The silk worm, which probably yields more wealth in proportion to what he eats , than any other ’Vntx-treox l ?, -.,.' ■ meStic asset. •> The great majority of the thirty million Chinese in Shantung Just barely exist. To add to the misery of this human mass, the ruthless Hwano-Ho river splits the province of Shantung with a yellow flood, which once a year rises over its banks, and kills „and destroys. It is held back by dikes that tower above the homes poor, keeping them always in the shadow of death. As everywhere else in the civilized world, an aristocracy, both oriental and, European, sits on the shoulders of this impoverished yellow mass. Tsing-Tau the chief port, is a sort of Chinese Atlantic City full of splendid hotels and homes, rich and beautiful.

Nearly 7,000 Bison Are in Captivity, Records Show

The American bison has been saved. The species was threatened with destruction by wild game hunters. This has been prevented, says “Boys’ Life,” tod there are now nearly 3,000 buftalbes in captivity and some seventy running wild in the United States, and over 3,000 in captivity and 500 in the wild state in Canada, y Only a little over 1,000 head were known to be in existence when the protective movement started. Records show more than 900 calves born in 1917.

Spider Is Credited With Being Original Inventor of Familiar Diving Bell

It is said that the diving bell was invented’ by the spider; at least, that it was used by that Insect long before hydraulic engineers made one for the same purpose. The diving bell is a cup-shaped body, with an open end that is let into the water. The air is caught in the bell and keeps the water from rising beyond a certain level at any specified depth, permitting anyone inside to breathe. improvement of the diving bell known as the caisson is a huge pipe which has compartments, into which air is pumped from above. The spider’s bell is filled more in this manner than in any other. The spider’s abdomen is so made that a bubble of air can be caught underneath it and carried into its structure. In this little water house the spider spends the winter and rears its young. The house also acts as a lair from which the spider, known as the naiad, can jump on unsuspecting prey. Another peculiar thing about the naiads Ts^that 7 they never get wet. They have thousands of small , hairs’ on their bodies - which prevent the air from being washed off and which protect them.

Average Life of a Tank in Battle Was 47 Days, According to Figures

, The average life of a tank in battle was days,, and nearly onehalf of the American fleet of seventyeight were put out of action the first day of the Argonne battle. Brig.-Gen. Samuel IX Rockenbach, tank corps commander, has disclosed these figures to the senate military committee In urging continued development of tanks, pointing out that damage to the tanks and casualties ainong the crews were light. In August, 1917, he said, the United States had no tanks, but obtained 150 from the French id September. In the St. Mihiel fighting 417 French, British and American tanks took part. In the Argonne, while the American fleet-of ’forty-eightrhe second day and to twenty-four ultimately, only six were hit by shells. At one time plans were considered for equipping taxicabs with “tin covers,” lacking tanks, General Rockenbach said, as it was known that the enemy would surrender when the fighting machines hove in sight, so great was thg fear of tanks.

WISE MEN SAY

That working will get you farther than whining. That misery is rust on a mind that has stopped working. That the smaller the mind, the longer it takes to make it up. c That he who lives without folly is not as wise as he imagines. That the man who never does anything he doesn’t like rarely likes anything he does. That wit should be used as a shield for defense rather than as-a sword to wound others.

Own Only Ground's Surface.

. ■ I In Japan individuals own only the surface of the ground and its products, all mineral deposits being government property.

Estimate Shows 8,000,000 Women and Girls Did Red Cross Work During War

The war achievement of the American women who are now being mobilized for the Third Red Cross roll call, November 2 to 11, is revealed In the announcement by Atlantic division headquarters that, in two years they produced nearly $100,000,000 worth of surgical articles and garments. During the 24 mdnths ending April 30 last the figures show RedCross chapter workers turned out 375,* 174,825 surgical dressings, hospital garments, refugee garments and knitted comforts for the soldiers and sailors, the estimated value of which was $98,184,359. In number of articles produced, the Atlantic division ranks first among the 13 divisions of the national organization. The women ."of“the - three states—New York, New Jersey and Connecticut—produced 77,859,904 articles with a valuation of $15,597,428. It is estimated that 8,000,000 women and girls participated in this tremendous work throughout the country, and it is among them largely thajt the Red Cross is now recruiting the 1,000,000 workers who will assist in the enrollment of members for 1920 during the ten days ending Armistice day, when a really universal membership will be sought to maintain the effectiveness of the organization built up In the war for the big peace programof the Red Cross.

Mother’s Cook Book

To be as good as pur fathers we must be better. Imitation is discipleship. When someone sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.—Wendell Phillips. ——- — : : Wild Duck with Turnips. Cut up the bird in neat pieces for serving. Slice one large onion and one carrot; melt four tablespoonfuls of sweet fat in a saucepan, add the vegetables; cook until nicely browned. Strain off the fat, add a cupful of stock and one bay leaf, place i.p the oven and cook for one hour. Peel eight turnips, cut four of them into quarters and fry in hot butter until brown; put them with the duck to finish cooking. Boil the other turnips until tender in salted water; mash and rub through a sieve; put them In a saucepan with one tablespoonful of butter to season and salt- and pepper to taste; add a quarter of a cup of cream and heat again. Take up the duck, dish it on the hot mashed turnips and arrange the fried quarters around it. Strain the sauce from the duck, thicken with flour, season and serve in a sauceboat. Squirrel Pie, Arrange thin slices of bacon in the botton .of a deep baking dish, season with salt and pepper; add one tablespoonful of chopped parsley, one tablespoonful of mixed herbs and a cupful of white sauce. Cut two squirrels in serving-sized pieces and place them over the bacon; cover with a layer of sliced potatoes and place a cover of pastry over the dish. Bake one hour in a hot oven. Add another cupful of white sauce through the vent in the top, brush with egg and brown. Roast Wild Duck. Clean and truss the duck and sprinkle with salt and pepper, (lover the breast with slices of salt. pork, cut very thin. Place on a rack in a dripping pan, add a little water to the pan and place in a hot oven to cook for ■ half an hour, basting every five minutes with the water in the pan. Remove the pork and serve with currant jelly. Rabbit This is a delicious dish when a tender young rabbit is served. Wash and wipe the meat carefully, cut it up in serving-sized pieces, brown in a little hot butter, then add water and a tablespoonful of vinegar; cook slowly until tender. Roast Venison. Rub a. hslf lemon over the piece of salt pork, cook until tender, but not overdone —15 minutes to the pound. Serve with spiced wild grape jelly. Game in Season. Most experts in cooking of game agree that the flavor of game birds is better if they are not stuffed with the usual highly seasoned - forcemeat.

New Aid for Aviators.

To aid aviators a New York physician has invented an instrument that tells the direction of flight, the points of the compass and angle from the perpendicular at which a plane may be traveling.

Single Blade Propeller.

A propeller invented* by a Massachusetts man for’ motor boats has a single blade that oscillates, like a fish’s tail or the motion of an oar in sculling.

World Is Getting Better.

The world is getting better to the man who is doing something to make it better, and remaining the same or getting worse to the man who isn’t