Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1919 — Page 2

Odd Escape of Launch Party in Gulf Hurricane CORPUS CHRISTI. TEX. —“Kismet.” says the Turk —It is fated. Narrow escapes from death in the recent gulf hurricane would fill many volumes. Here’s one out of the ordinary: The launch Waldo left here the day before the storm for a trip In the outer bay.

stopped Saturday evening at Corpus Pass to pass the night at the Newport club. A t midnight they were awakened by the coming of the hurricane. Just then a tentUnnr carried on the crest of the waves was swept toward them.’ Two of the men leaped into the water and dragged it in. Tjing the women securely to the fiftoY, the men launched out just as a deluge of watjflOgycfedLiHieir place 4>frefuge. Z_—— Eor some titnr the unwieldy craft was battered about, entirely at the mercy of the churning waters. Finally it was. thrown ashore upon what remained of Mustang island.plot of groflnd hnrdly inoce; There they remained until the comfiig of dawn Monday. The waters had subsided somewhat ami from an old fisherman who hud survived the storm they-Obtained their first food in 3t> hours. La k’r aviators droppCiTthtan some miHtalmut ■ ~ > : ~ ■ ■ ■ • _ Woodward, by means of a raft, made his way to the mainland and brought In word that the party was safe, six days after their departure.

Sultan Bob McLean of the Marines and His Harem NEW YORK—The marine corps here Ispiftting on new airs over Sergt Robert McLean of the recruiting station. 24 East Twenty-third street. He’s just Jearned he's the sultan of Llang-I.lang. Philippine islands, and the proud

' possessor .of an island three miles around, and all It contains, including a harem of 40 women —count ’em, 40! And what's more. Sergeant McLean Is starring for Llang-Llang to take possession. You see. It's this way: The sergeant spent two years of his service .among the Moros. The sultan adopted him and dtedthe other day, making the marine hisheir. Says the sergeant: “The sultan’s. house was two

stories high and made of nlpa fiber. y It was set upon stilts eight feet high and had 20 rooms. Ihe cows and pigs and chickens were kept in the space underneath the stilts. The women of the harem were off in quarters by themselves, ami I never set eyes upon them. “The sultan was quite an educated man, and spoke English quite tiuently. He was eighty years old. I told hirfi all about America and our ways, and he would sit and listen for hours. He grety so fond of me that he said he wanted to make me his legal son, since he had no legitimate' male heir. One day I received a summons to come to him at once and bring two of my friends along. I took Frank Korncum, who was killed iterance. and Kergeant fValter of the marine corps along with me. When we reached the sultan’s home we were ushered into the public hall. There I found the sultan looking very stately and important. -My friends and I were taken inte an adjoining room and dressed in long flowing robes. The sn>»sn bared his chest and made a little slash in it with a Mcrokr 1 s. Then h e cut my chest. Taking a drop of blood from his chest he mixed it with a drop of my blood, and from then on I was his adopted son. J left that next week and I fiave never seen him since. French Heel and Manhole Stop Veda the Sprinter HR? AGO L For Veda Lyons had surrendered heart td Harry Holmes and Florence -"Murrav’s beat ns WWOUttliM orKm; ah—But tht .‘'■ < ; ? y- rfy zdetalfen i-Vedaßs 'S'hagtdOtb

have not beer found. Wherefore, Detective Sergeants Thomas M. McFarland and John Carton and Capt. Michael Lee of the Fiftieth street station tiptoed up to a building at 3541 Grand boulevard. There, in the second floor flat, lived Flo and Veda. \ of the house. He remembered that Veda, used to he a movie actress of the gymnast type. Pretty soon he descried two French heels emerging from a window. They were followed by two trim ankles. McFarland turned hil head .to see what time it was. In the interim, the possessor of the heels emerged from.the window ami made her way swiftly to terra firma. Deftly making a girdll of her kirtle. so as not to impede her perambulation, she darted away. He gave chase. She hurdled the back fence. So did he. She hurdled another fence and dashed into another alley. Then one of her French heels became wedged in the interstices of a manhole cover. w 111, Crippled and Weary Given a 1,200-Acre Farm MONTICELLO, ILL.—Robert Allerton’s gift of 1,200 acres to be used as r tuberculosis sanitarium and home for tired mothers and crippled children has been formally accepted by the' supervisors of'Fiat* county. The tract

which lies two and one-half miles to the northeast of Monticello, is one of . the most fertile farms in this section of the state. It now is under intense i cultivation, and it is expect M that profits derived from its operation will maketbe institution self-supporting. Attertmris giving the land to the county outright as a memorial to his father, the late Samuel Allerton of Chicago, and his friend, the late

John Phalen. - The acceptance of the farm was made bv a select committee of the board of supervisors, consisting of Roy H. Jones, William Hughes and J. M. Branch. The legal .steps preparatory to putjting the sanitarium into operation must be delayed until toe regular meeting of the full board of supervisors. . A tax levy for the building of the sanitarium will be passed at the next (meeting of the board of supervisors and funds will Qe available for toe erection of toe buildings early next spring. *

IN THE CITIES

Those in the launch party includI .-d Mr =nf=Heuston. T. A. Shearer of Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Roark of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Guertz and daughter of. San Antonio, and Walter Agnew, John Webster and James McAllister of Corpus Christi, and L. M. Woodward of Houston. McAllister owned the launch. - The party was formed in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, who were recently married. The party

■ • ■ r . Holmes*, the boys called him—was a safeblower; ?o was Florence's king, whom.she addressed as Big Jim. June 17 the West Cleveland (Ohio) bank was held up by four men. They obtained $50,000 in cash and SIO,OOO ir Liberty, bonds. Sincp then Veda’s Lochinvar has been apprehended. Likewise £lor ence’s Don Juan has been pinched i They now languish in a Clevelanf | gaol. But the cash and the bonds

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NEW BUREAU OF MINES LABORATORIES IN PITTSBURGH

An elaborate program was arranged for the formal dedication, September 29 to October 1, of these new laboraitnries of the federal hnroaii nt mines in Pittsburgh. Inset Is a portrait of Dr. Van IL Manning, director of the bureau,

Answering Census Questions Will Help Out Farm Profits

Full and Fair Replies When the Enumerator Calls Are Likely to Aid the Farmer to Success —Every Question That Will Be Asked Is an Essential Question—Not Too Early to Get Facts Ready for Census Man.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Washington—When the census enumerator comes around to the farm shortly after January 1 next year, he will ask some questions -that may sound like prying into the purely personal affairs of the farmer. Now, the farmer, like every other self-respect-ing man, dislikes having his private affairs peeped into and, unless he thinks about this thing in advance, may have a disposition to be qnregponi sive if not actually resistant. In actual fact, every question that the enumerator will ask Is an essential question and has a direct bearing on the personal welfare and pro|perity of the Individual farmer as well as upon the advancement of the agriculture of the nation as a whole. When the bureau of the census decided to take the farm census in January instead of in April, it did so upon the advice of the United States ■department of agriculture. The farmer is less likely to be very busy in January than at the spring planting and breeding season, and his products and live stock are in better shape for statistical treatment. Also, every new question—and there are a number of ■them —inserted in the agricultural schedule was placed there after consultation with the agriculture and for the purpose of clearing up some specific situation in which the department of agriculture Is trying to aid the farmer. Here are some questions that will ibe asked: “Do you own all of this ifarm?” ‘‘Do you rent from others part but not all of this farm?” “Do

If You Aim to Climb This Ladder, Tell the Census Enumerator All the Facts About Yourself So That the Government Can Help You.

farm?” "If you rent all of this farm, what do you pay as rent ?-” “If you own all or part of this farm, was there any mortgage debt or other encumbrance on the land so owned on January 1, 1920?” “What was the total amount of debt or Indmbrande on land on this farm owned by you, January 1, 1920?’ Pertinent—Not Impertinent, “What rhe Sam Hill,” you may inquire, “has the government got to do with how much money I owe on my land?” Well, two of the things to which the department of agriculture has been giving deepest thought" during the past several years are farm tenancy and rural credits. The past three censuses have shown an Increase in the number of tenants. Alarmists have felt —and said —that the country is going to the bow-wows by the landlord route. The department of agriculture, however, looked Into the matter as well as it was able, and refused to be alarmed. Whe-e it was able to make surveys It discovered that while toe number of tenants 25 years .old was greater in 1910 or 1890, the number of tenants 45 years old was considerably smaller in 1910 than in 1900 or 1890. < The Inference is that tenancy is a step toward ownership, that the young fellow who becomes a tenant farmer when he marries, say, is likely Io be a farm owner before his first

child is grown—the farm paid for and the money that used to go to pay off the mortgage available for sending the children to college. ' Now to .the_ department of agricul- , ture that looks like a thoroughly normal, healthy and beneficial process. To ■ Jflst the exteht thaf tenancy leads to" farm ownership, it is a good thing for the country and for the individual. Full Answers Essential. But it has not been possible to get a complete, nation-wide survey of the situation. The forthcoming census offers the opportunity for doing that. If every farmer will answer the enumerator’s questions fully and fairly the department of agriculture will have the data from which to analyze the situation accurately and to determine what things can be done to best advantage to help the tenant in his aspiration to become a farm owner. One of the directions that aid may take is encouragement of rural credits finding all of the ways possible of helping the young farmer to get the money that he needs to borrow. It is necessary, therefore, to know what proportion of farmers who advance from tenants to owners have to borrow money to make the change, and how much, in proportion to total value of the farms bought, they have Yo borrows The road toward ownership does hot necessarily start with tenancy. A great many farm owners were first farm hands, then tenants, then owners with a mortgage, then owners debt free. The census will show, if the questions are answered fairly, how many years, if any, every farmer

wo^fced. for wages; liow* many years he was a tenant; and how many years he has been an owner. The department of agriculture will have the basic information it needs to Help men to success in farm ownership. Other Important Queries. Here are some ofhdr questions that will be asked: “Has this farm a telephone?” “Is water piped, into the operator’s house?” “Has the operator’s house gas or electric light?" - Now that looks like an effort to find out whetljpr or not the farm family has the modern comforts—and it is just that, but it means something more than mere Inquisitiveness. Several months ago, when the bureau of farm management was in process or reorganization, the secretary of agriculture called a conference of heads of schools, social workers and others from all over the country. When thepebnlewere assembled ■to Washington, he asked their opinion as to the most usefhl thing that could be done by the office of farm management For a x whole day those people discussed' the matter. Jisst before night with a score of Items on the ballot they took a vote. The -wofk of promoting the comfort and, convenience* of the farm home received an overwhelming majority of the votes.* That, then. Is one of the things that, the department of agriculture la tajr-

SEEK JOBS FOR CONVICTS

Dr. E. E. Duddlng, founder and head of the- Prisoners’ Relief society,'and his assistant, Miss Evelyn Abbott. The society has organized a campaign to raise a million dollars from a million ..people. One of its chief activities is the placing of ex-convicts in suitable jobs, 5,000 having been placed last year. The headquarters of the society are in Washington. Doctor Dudflfng is himself nn ex-eonvict, who has devoted his life to prison relief work without pay.

Ing to do 4n aid of the farm population of this country. In dYder to do the work intelligently, the department needs as full Information as possible as to how the farm homes of the country are equipped for comfort and convenience.

Another Way to Help.

. Every farmer will be asked how many acres of drained land he has and how many other acres of land there are on his farm thati could be made suitable for cultivation if they were tile-drained or ditch-drained. When these questions are asked you, remember that they are asked every one of your neighbors. Possibly you have a tract of land that' would- be the most productlvlTTleld on your farm if you could get the surplus water out of it, but you can not doit because, to be effective, the drainage ditch would have to go far beyond the. borders of your own farm, would have to be a county enterprise, and the county has not seen fit to do anything about it. If that be true, several of your neighbors have' land that should be drained. If all of* you tell the census enumerator how many acres you have that need drainage, the department of agriculture will have the facts to show what is needed in your community. When the opportunity offers, 4t wiU be -ta position to do what it may to secure for you what you need. Those things are fairly typical of the questions that will be asked in taking the agricultural census. In order to answer all of the questions intelligently, the farmer will have to think about the matter a little before the enumerator calls on him. He ought to give the enumerator the most accurate information he can. What the individual farmer tells the enumerator is likely to benefit any number of other farthers. It is not too early now to get the facts- straight In your mind.

Love for Hairless Dog Lands Mexican in Jail

Dallas, Tex. —His Ibve for a hairless dog from Chihuahua, the home of his birth, got Jazza Morales in jail this week. The dog catcher hooked the Mexicans canine and took him to the city pound, Morales went to the pound and demanded his friend. When he was refused he broke the gates down and attempted to take the dog. He was arrested. Morales’ canine went the way''of hundreds of others—the gas- route. v

Home Town Helps

PLANT ELMS AND LINDENS For the Parkway fhey Have Many Advantages Over Others That Might Be Selected. askT aidvice regarding the kind of trees to plant in the parkway in front of his home. “Several people advised elms,” he writes, “but they are such slow growers; and as I am not young I* would like to plant some kind that I will have a chance to enjoy. I am also thinking of planting four fruit trees in the yard, probably three cherries,as they seem to do better than mdSt fruit trees, and a pear or an apple.” i The American elm is by far the best tree for this purpose. It grows fast enough, starts to branch high and does not obstruct the view. It arches beautifully, high up over, the street, and is a long-lived, hardwood variety, not seriously affected by insects and fungus, pests. The American linden might grew a little faster, but the tussock moth likes it too well. The American ash grows faster, but it soon gets shaggy, is susceptible to boring Insects and drops its leaves in August. The sycamore is good and a faster grower, but its bark is shaggy. The hackberry is just as good as the elm, but slower growing. and pin oaks are better, but no one has the patience to plant them. Do not plant cottonwood, box elders, soft maples, nor poplar where an elm, hard maple, hackberry, oak or gingko will grow.

NEED TO SHOW CIVIC PRIDE

Individual Citizens Must Recognize They Are Responsible for Town’s"" Good Appearance. Prosperity and a spirit of progress have caused a vast charige for the better in the appearance and development of the smaller towns of the country in the past 25 years. This is strikingly noticeable in’lndiana, which formerly showed too many villages with ragged edges, uninviting < streets, tumble-down sheds and other unattractive features. Now the outlook of the traveler is quite different. He sees clean, paved streets, cement sidewalks, beautiful shade trees, well-kept lawns, and a general appearance of cheerful wellbeing. There are exceptions to the rule, however; Indiana has many beautiful towns, but there are still some which are slipshod and carry the suggestion ' that their public spirit languishes. Some stimulus to their pride, something to encourage local improvement and arouse the people to the fact that they are not keeping up with the titnes, is needed. It might be dohe by a state society that would grade the work, offer suggestions and show that a town may be made beautiful without great expense and with each citizendoing his .part.—lndianapolis Star.

ITS TURN COMING.

Bome day we’ll find unheeded Grim war’s relentless frown, And we’ll think upon what’s needed For our own home town. To fat-off people’s movements - We’lb be lending less lenown, 7 And we’ll hustle for-improvements Ip. our. own . home town,■■ When we’ve taught the distant nations To lay their burdens down, We’ll claim just appropriations l-%r our own home town. —Washington Star.

Natural Desire for Home.

Civilization was founded on the decision of the ctfveman to establish for himself a home in the rocks, or ground, and it progressed as he toiled to make that home a better place fpr his family. And today, even asi tlien, the torch of civilization is being carried .by the home-building Instinct. Man, today, wants a home; something not ornate tMrt-beabtlfuh to kindle Ws imagination and formfhecenter for his dreams. *A place that will be a proper setting for a wife and children. A dwelling place that is a sentient thing.

Dirty Piano Keys.

It is more important to keep the keys, clean than many people. are aware, especially it several students are practising on the same instrument Dirty keys are a source of -infection. They should be wiped with a damp cloth every day. Not so wet that the water runs down between the keys, but sufficient to cleanse them of all matter. Dry with a soft cloth, and close the piano when the room is being swept't but open the lid afterwards, as ivory keys require light in order to keep them from turning yellow.

Why Soap Bubbles Collapse.

—The am ordinary room ia filled with tiny particles of matter which fall on an airy soap bubble, alter the y surface tension, and —poof—it is gone. The effect of these minute particles on the stability of bubbles wps first brought to light, according to Popular Science Monthly, by Sir James Dewar. He experimented in clarified air until be was able to produce babbles which lasted for months. He has even produced a soap film which was a yegr old recently and Which seems to remain just as It was made.