Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1920 — Page 2

Salton Sea Now Rapidly Receding

Waters Are Retreating at Jate M About a Mile 4 Yearly. SETTLERS GRAB THE LAND Opens Up Largest Area es Date *»•- tfMdng Land in the Country—Big Fish Cannery Planned by Arizona Capitallot*. ’ Lot Aagelek Cat—The Saitou sea, Sa the Imperial valley, one of the natural wonders of the West, is conatantly shrinking. At present it la about 18 miles long and nine oniles wide at the greatest point. During the last five years the water is said to have retreated about a mile a year, leaving a salt-encrusted adobe land, which is eagerly seised by homesteaders. Often their location stakes are .pleated far out in the water. The sea, which Ues 169 feet below the level of the ocean, abounds In mullet and carp, which local and Arizona capitalists are planning to utilize by the creation of a great cannery. The United States department of agriculture reports state that about the Salton sea lies the largest area of dateproducing land tn the country. Geologists say the Salton “sink,” as It once was known. In prehistoric times has changed from desert to sea and from sea to desert 50 times or more. Becomes Inland Sea. For centuries the Colorado river would fiow quietly to the Gulf of California and gradually build up a sand—bar across its mouth. Then some spring flood would cause a washout in the river’s bank farther north, and

Peer Is a Bartender; Has Title But No Cash.

London. —A member of the peerage who is a bartender, has been found In Bucklnghamshife. He is Sir Henry Echlinhart, now well up in years, who presides over the drinks In “The Bird In Hand’’ pub at Prince’s Rtsbourgh. The family formerly possessed. estates in Scotland and Ireland, but "AU had been dissipated before the title descended to Sir Henry.

NO SIGNS OF “DRYNESS” IN HUNGARY

Such a thing as prohibition is quite unknown in Hungary, and one of Hie chief industries in that country is the cultivation of the grape for wine. The photograph shows a grower selling grapes by the tubful to a merchant for wine making.

SCOPE OF FOOD LAW

Misunderstanding as to Application of Act Oom Not Affect Foods or Drugs Consumed in State Where N*nu- . factored. - - i WaahinrtM-—The federal food and mHßpy p®O“ ’“S m» monnfar* lll ™ add produced in one and not thereafter shipped out of. rteat state, that is. that are consumed

the whole torrent would sweep toward the Salton “sink.” The desert would become an inland see, remaining so for centuries perhaps, until seme great flood would carve out a shorter way to the ocean. The sea would be drained and the region relapse into a desert. Mud volcanoes abound near the sea, a short distance inland. They are of all sixes up to great mounds 16 feet in height. They all emit steam, some in a steady stream, others steam and nni(i alternately. Many of them give out a sulphurous gas. A*t times their roaring can be heard for miles. More and more the sea Is being visited by tourists, and during the heated season, when the temperature is from 10 to 20 degrees cooler than in the valley towns, dances are frequently held on an old wharf which once served as a landing place for fishing boats, but which has been left, high and dry by the receding waters. Of Interest to Tourists. Of especial Interest to the tourists are the bubbling “paintpots.” As the water retreats it is in a state of con-

Traditions 1,000 Years Old Upset

Ancient City of Pressburg Changes Character With Coming of New Rulers. RESULT OF PEACE PARLEY Resentment Shown Over the Employment of Czechs in Government Positions Formerly Occupied by Hungarians—Many Are Expelled. Bratislava, Slovakia.—lt is only on Czechoslovakian maps that this ancient Hungarian city of Pressburg can be located by its new name. Ruled by Hungary for a thousand years, it passed under the control of the new Czechoslovakian republic by the decision of the peace conference, and a large part of its inhabitants do not take kindly to the new order of things. Its people are dominantly Germanic or Hungarian. The street signs are in German and

are shipped or delivered for shipment from apy state or territory or the District of Columbia to any foreign country; (3) are being Imported into the United States; or (4) are manufactured. sold, or offered for sale in the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States. ; The words “food” and “drug” as defined in the federal food and drugs act have a somewhat different meaning from the popular understanding of those terms. For instance, water under the food and drags act is classed as food. The term “food” includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery. Or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed or _ • -

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

etant ebullition. Gases from some UPknown subterranean source are continually finding escape through unseen ventp in the bottom. Layer after layer of colored pigment is deposited. The retreating waters have left uncovered acres of this deposit, said by experts to be fully equal to the dry sienna and umber colors of which no much is Imported. It is thought that the shrinkage of the Salton sea will continue until it finally becomes a salt “sink” with a pool of brackish water in ths center, unless a fresh outburst of the great Colorado should replenish its waters. ■

HOUSEMAID FOR PARLIAMENT

Hatiese English Lass Plans to Seek Election to Commons on Labor Ticket. London, England.—Jesrie Stephens, a housemaid with a mass of dark hair, and who generally goes about hatless, has signified her intention of entering the race for parliament on the labor ticket She is Endeavoring to gain a seat in the local borough council of Bermondsey and will then stand aa a parliamentary candidate. She has been employed as a cook, housemaid, cook-general, boss of a large common lodging house in Glasgow, porter in a chemical warehouse and driver of a three ton lorry.

Hungarian characters, and now to them is being added Czech. postal and telephone employees have beep replaced by Czechs and Czech high officers' installed in the governmentSlovak regiments on duty here have been replaced by purely Czech soldiers. In a city as old and conservative and routine as this, drifting through the centuries undisturbed in Its social customs, there things have made feeling run rather high in certain social strata. Many Are Expelled. Persons, regardless of sex, who have not acquired legal residence are being expelled. One man who told the Associated Press he had lived and done business here for forty years was expelled a few days ago. The list of those cited for expulsion is said to contain names <jf dead persons. Some Hungarians do not hesitate to express their resentment over the employment of Czechs In government positions here formerly occupied by the Hungarians. Czechs and many Slovaks of the educated classes who hold office under the government say this feeling is due to Hungarian and German propaganda, and has no real strength or extent. Also they admit the. necessity of Czech officialdom, as Slovakia has little of no educated class from Xvhich to draw executlves’of ability. Hard to Upset Tradition. It is hard to upset rudely the traditions of ten centuries, and talks with many persons, both in official and unofficial circles, would indicate that the antagonism displayed toward the Czechs is a natund condition of this period of transition and is not deeply footed. Probably Jt Is stronger herein Pressburg than in the other parts Of Slovakia, where the change Is not so apparent. The school question plays a very prominent part in the situation here. The government has abolished the German and Hungarian languages in the schools, and this means a general ousting of teachers and a reaction in households.

Dehydrated Beefsteaks.

Wichita, Kan.—A. E. Smoll, a chemist with a packing company here, is experimenting with a'view to reducing the high cost of living. His latest experiment is with beefsteak. By a process' of dehydration—drawing all the water out of the meat —the steak is in a good state of preservation and is capable of being kept almost indefinitely. When it is desired to bring the steak back to a condition of freshness all that is necessary, Mr. Smoll says, is to soak ft In water. The meat is said never to lose its odor of fresh meat and it is as tough as sole leather when dehydrated.

tion orprevention of disease of either man or the animals.

$4,000 in Shelf Paper.

Seattle, Wash.—How $4,000 of Seattle Improvement bonds, bought by a son for an income for his mother, were used by her to paper pantry shelves, was disclosed when some of the mutilated bonds were brought to the office of tnty Treasurer K. L. Terry to see if they had any value. According to the story told Accountant A. B. Lund, the bonds are the property of an elderly woman who has been living alone in Seattle several years. During a long illness five or six years ago she is said to have suffered a temporary lapne of memory, and when she recovered apparently had forgotten everything about the

Privation Despite Prosperity.

Tendon —Them were 28 deaths from an official statement..

ROMEO

By LOUISE M. ADDELSON.

(ft MW, by McClure Newspaper •yudicaU.) Romeo was his name, and like the more famous Romeo of old could make loving and Impassioned speeches when he wished. But he didn’t always wish. When things went smoothly Romeo was merry, bright and conversational. But if anything happened to ruffle his feathers he could be as temperamental as any grand opera star, becoming by turns, silent, morose and irritable. Nevertheless, be had bls fa vorftes, to whom his words were loving. and his accents sweet, though the uninitiated might have found his voice a trifle harsh. For Romeo was a parrot, whose dearest and most devoted friend was aged Mrs. Scott, his owner for 20 years, and whose bitterest enemy was her grandniece, Hester, aged seventeen. Hester had no respect, it seemed, either for Romeo’s years or his wisdom. She was in the habit of slyly poking him in the ribs, of teasing him, when she wanted a little, atflusement for herself or her friends, of. offering him gifts In a honey-sweet voice when he was fast asleep, and of withdrawing them when he was sufficiently aroused to accept the goodies she tempted him with. Romeo bore the laughter that followed valiantly. But he acquired an Implacable hatred for Hester. He did not sputter or make a fuss, as a parrot should have done. He waited, and blded his time. He was old and wise, and reasoned that some day the many blows to his comfort and dignity would be avenged. sHester, meanwhile, faced the world merrily, little dreaming that the future might bc*ng undesired complications Into her lite True, she had fallen off Mr her studies, but studies were a bore, Jftyhow, and she wasn’t going to al--low a trifle like that to bother her. For weeks Edgar Trafton had escorted her home from school, to the mortification of several of the most attractive young ladie£ in attendance there. He had become, in fact, Hester's abject slave. At a very early date Edgar began to regard himself as one of the family. The two would come in of an afternoon, devour Mrs. Scott’s choicest pastry, and when they had eaten their fill, start the phonograph, or perhaps Hester would play on the piano and sing, while Edgar accompanied her on the violin. Between the two of them they managed to make so much racket that poor Romeo’s tortured squawk went all unnoticed, and one afternoon Mrs. Scott felt called upon, out of sheer desperation, to order Edgar from the house, with strict injunctions never to enter it again without permission from her. A note from the principal of the school, received that day, had aided Mrs. Scott In her determination to expel Master Trafton from her home, for it had stated, in unmistakable language, that Hester would .not graduate unless she paid more attention to her studies. Seeing that young love was likely to suffer unnecessary tribulations if Edgar continued to call in the afternoon, the lovers met evenings, thereafter, in the parlor, where Hester was fondly supposed to be studying her lessons. Mrs. Scott usually retired early, so the coast was clear. Out of the corner of his eye Romeo, thought to be asleep, watched them evening after evening. Romeo didn’t know, perhaps, that it was only a few* days before examinations, but he did know that something out of the ordinary ms coming off. He sensed it on a certain day when Edgar entered the house a little more quietly than usual, and Hester met him at the door with a restrained and eager expression. Edgar regarded her with what was meant to be-a look of undying love and determination on his usually sheepish face. „ “Your aunt shall not separate us. Romeo, heard him say. “We love each other, and true love never will be thwarted.” “No,” agreed Hester, with a look of high resolve. “True love will find a way. True love is. not afraid.” “It Is not,” said Edgar, in a very exalted voice. “True love is not afraid. I have made alt the arrangements. We will slip away on the twelve-fifteen* The minister at Rosedale will marry us. I have the ring all ready.” And thCn came the supreme moment of Romeo’s life, the sacred hour of his revenge. They had not considered him at all, of course, and his beloved mistress had gone to bed .early with a - headache, but Romeo was prepared to .show them a thing of two—and make true love find another way. The lovers, intent on the arrangements, when, suddenly a loud, laughing, raucous voice broke upon their ears. “Hester! Hester! Shame on you! Tell that foolish boy to go home. Send him home. I tell you, you silly! Love will find a way I On the twelvefifteen! The minister at Rosedale. Love— Send him home, Hester! Send blm home! Love will find a way! On the twelve-fifteen! Ha’! Ha!" . Amazed. horrified, the lovers rose. Romeo still kept up his shrill, croaking laagh There was a sound from the room overhead. Edgar rushed for his hat and coat, made for the door, and was could be heard a quarter of a mile away, was still talking as Mrs. Scott came in. _/ me minister at Rosedale! The pt At *

FLASHLIGHTS

People who really know mighty little about the world stffi insist they know bow to run it What the world -really needs Is to get over the notion that it can have money without earning it. We like to see a young man dissatisfied with his job if he is honestly trying to deserve a better one. The trouble is that a man never again knows as much as he does on the day he graduates from college. As often as she lodks into a mirror a girt with the hanit evidently doesn’t see how she looks ehewing gum. It is easy to do the right thing when the right is popular but it takes courage to do right when the multitude can’t see it that way. Man never looks so ridiculous as when he ,1s trying to argue that the man who has succeeded has no business being where he is. A woman wouldn’t think she was going anywhere at all if it didn’t take her more than an hour to get dressed for the occasion.—Detroit Free Prf ss.

SOME POSTSCRIPTS.

An active tool never acquires rust. A genius is a man who can do almost anything but make a living.— Galveston News. A recently invented folding porch gate for the protection of children can be folded out of sight into a pillar when idle. After studying thousands of cases a South Dakota scientist decided that 4 per cent of human beings are born left-handed. After yehrs of experimenting a Missourian claims to have perfected a process for extr^ting potash from cottonseed hulls. — i New Zealand is reforesting with larch trees an extensive area that was devastated by a volcano a quarter of a century ago. To enable one-armed persons to eat eggs an Englishman has invented a wooden cup with rubber feet that prevent it slipping.

MOSTLY TRUE

The price for a cradle is hush money. The window with a painted shutter is color blind. A few men are self-made — but many more are self-unmade. The less a man wants of a thing the more he is apt to get of it ■ W ■ A woman never reads the preface until after she has read the story.

BREEZY BUBBLES

A bird of a time —in the cuckoodock. _ Near.the end of its days—the 1919 calendar. . The novelist is always looking out for his writes. Some ships still pass in the night, but not so schooners of beer/ Speaking of bargains, there are not many bars that are gaining much these days. - %■(’ * • ■' —. ' , • When a man is a perfect bore it doesn’t augur well for Ms getting out of a hole. " . ‘V - ~ Perhaps they are called “cereals” for breakfast because there’s a new 'installment every morning.

GEORGIA PHILOSOPHY

Uncle Jake says that if some men went home before midnight the dog would bite them, thinking them intruders. The world la composed of all kinds of liars, including the man who gets baldheaded and blames it on the use of his mental power. ■—l I ■*. s - The young boy that is a boy to the extant he will fight anything, including a buzz saw, usually turns out to be a preacher when he grows up.—Greensboro (Ga.) Herald.'

SAYS THE OWL

He who hopes for the best seldom expects It. Only fools think that they can’t ■Mk* mistakes. - ~-■: • --- ▲ storm of Indignation often ends With a reign of terror. •*“ man who' diss a& least two more are born. It** easy to win a smile from • woaean If she has pretty teeth.

SALLIE WINS

By AGNES G. BROGAN.

WM. Nvwapaper Union) Before Sallie was four weeks old, her resemblance to her father waa very noticeable. Nervous Mrs. Arden sighed as she gazed at her baby’s small, determined chin, and the already discernible black arched eyebrows. Lillis Arden had been an adoring, pitifully pleasing wife, from the time she entered her austere husband’s home. His will had been her law. and Amos Arden’s will was evidenced in the most trivial matters... r—t* The baby girt must be called Sarah, he decreed, after a succession of Sarahs in Ms family. The Sarah Ardens had one and all been honored women, proudly reigning in successful households. It was Lillis Arden who first called her baby “Sallie.” hugging the tiny face to her breast. And Sallie, true child of father, adopted the name as she grew, and stubbornly refused the Sarah of her ancestors. The mother subsided fearfully as time went on, when the wills of these two Ardens clashed. Then slowly, and wonderingly, she came to realize that It was Sallie, the small and imperative, who invariably came off victor. Not that Sallie was disagreeable or aggressive. This was the amazing part of her triumphs. She emerged each time radiant, friend with the world, and with her secretly admiring father. « The crisis came when Sallie’s teens were behind her and she came one evening to announce to her parents the news of het engagement. “That Jack Topping?” her father contemptuously declared. “Do you think for a moment that I would consent to your marriage with him,? Ridiculous! No money, no family, no prospects to speak of. Dismiss the idiotic idea at once; and. Incidentally, dismiss the idiot. I won’t have hjm In the house again.” Sallie raised’ her arched Arden eyebrows. T am—going—to—marry—Japk Topping.” she repeated emphatically. Her father understood the significance of her measured words'. “If you persist In the insane notion ” he angrily retorted, “if you disobey my wishes, you shall' have no further help from me.” “Meaning,” asked Sallie sweetly, “that I shall be cast upon my own resources?” “Exactly! And taking inventory of your resources, you will find them useless. You are not prepared to teach.” Sjdlfe paused in her tirade to whisper reassuringly in her mother’s ear. Then she flashed a glance of defiant, mockery into the dark eyes like her own. “I trill be doing something,” she answered smilingly, “to bring Amos Arden to time, and to reason. Good night, dad.” “She is really gone,” the little mother told him fiext day. “It seems that Sallie found work* at once. But oh! Amos, what can it be? The child is totally unprepared for a, business life, and she left a note saying that she took only the remainder of her allowance, a pltifyl ten dollars." The dominating.. Arden grinned. “She will come back tomorrow,” he said. But on the morrow Sallie did not return. Neither had her voice (when she called, him over the wire) the ring of the vanquished. “Dad,” Sallie announced;, “I start in to work tomorrow morning- I’m afraid that you won’t approve my job," she chuckled. “It isn’t exactly in line with the other Sftrahs, father. Perhaps yoii’d like to come down to see me before you read of your daughter’s enterprise .in the papers. Full ad tomorrow. I’ll be nt 369 Main street, ground flpor—-nine o’clock in the morning.” Much disgusted Amos man of affairs, replaced the telephone receiver. What was Sallie up to. now? Perhaps it would be as well to see. She was a girl of unexpected developments. At precisely ten minutes to rflne, therefore, on the next flay, Amos Arden stepped from his car before 369 Main street. Golden-letters across a, silken draped window proclaimed merely the name Mansard. A neat maid escorted the perturbed father to a / room designated the “Gray Shion.” And there he beheld Sallie. She was seated in a gilt chair, her luxuriant dusky hair falling about her shoulders' almost covering the dainty white satin frock he remembered. - - “Sallie!" he gasped. The Arden chin tilted at him. The black eyes danced. . , “At ten o’clock,” said Sallie, “I begin worit. rt’s very simple. All I have to do is to stand or alt in the store window, exhibiting to an interested crowd outside my heavy locks, which are supposed to have readied this state of perfection through the faithful use of ‘Mansard’s Matchless Hair Tonic.’ I carry a bottle with me. The remuneration bestowed Is out of all proportion to my task. An autographed picture advertisement also being included. \ ? “Td rather marry Jack. Of course, than have all this publicity, and PG rather have Mm kept on in «« tion. But if these things are denied-” p fscod i>©r - window at Amos Arden darKiy bcowibcu tw# Sallie,” he said. “You win.”