Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — Page 4

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, F. E. BABCOCK, PUBLISHER.

A SIMPLE RULE.

It Tim* Lika the Bight Tima (or Doing Thtafca. If you have an Appointment, at a certain hour, to take a railroad train, or to meet a or to do a specified work, there ia no hour in the world that will do as well as just that hour for that specified thing. It will not do to be only 12 hours later. Not even six hours earlier will answer the purpose. Neither a little before the time, nor a little after, but the very time named, is the only time to be depended on. That is a truth to be borne in mind in doing what we have to do, or in meeting any special appointment. In all right use of our time, there is no time like the right time. We cannot improve on what ii just right.—S. S. Times.

BREVITIES OF FUN.

i Britt—“ What makes Smiler look to aober to-night?" Burke—“He’* tulL”—Town Topic*. I If it weren't for the poor little microbes the doctor would have to fix the blame elsewhere. Chicago Daily Kewe. “How much pleasanter Billson looks than he did a year ago.” “Yea. He bad a bicycle face then.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Customer—“ See here, waiter, I foundabutton in this salad.” Waiter -—“Yes, sir; that’# part of the dressing.”—Philadelphia Record. Miss Skreemer—“o,l am eing you my new song, “Throughout Eternity!” Mr. Binbored—“Er — l am sorry, but I must go home at four a. m.—Ohio State Journal. The following appeal is extracted from a church paper: * “Old man, lame, deaf, epileptic, desires situation. Will any Christian take him for a gardener?”—St. James’ Gazette. It Baffled Him.—“ This pool table,” growled the luckless player, “must be built like a woman’s dress, j I haven’t been able to find a pocket in j it for an hour.”—Baltimore Ameri-j can. The Worry of It.—“ Mrs. Gotrox is J always making excuses for those good-for-nothing sons of hers.” “Yes, and Mr. Gotrox has to make allowances for them. That’s what makes him sore.”—Philadelphia Press. The Visitor—“ You seem to be ! much interested in me, my little girl. What is it?” The Little Girl—“l don’t see how your face can be so smooth and clear. Papa says you have traveled all oveT the country on . it.” —Boston Transcript.

ALL OF GLASS.

Frenchman Has a Home Built of and Furnished with It How would you like to live in a glass bouse? Jules Henrivaux, one of the greatest French chemists, considers glass the most serviceable, available and sanitary material for building houses, says the New York World. k He has executed, says the New York World, a model building made of glass held together by angle iron. There are pipes for hot and cold water, electric wires, sewerage, everything needed for the comfort of a householder. Staircases, ceilings, wall decorations, fireplaces—all are of glass. The decorations are remarkable both for beauty of design and color. They are made of opaque glass, arranged in prisms and crystals, with facets like diamonds.. Chairs and tables are of vitrified glass, and the residence and its furniture are indestructible. The entire surface of everything, from top story to basement, can be washed clean with soap and water and dried in ten minutes. There is no dust and no cobwebs. The walls of the house are colored and entirely impenetrable to light except through window and door openings. M. Henrivaux is an enthusiast on glass. He points out that there is an inexhaustible supply of material for making glass. It can be manufactured outof sand. It never wears out. It can be molded into any Ehape. It is easily made nonbreakatye. . Paris has already begun lo her streets with glass. % Glass is made into dresses, pipes, baskets, and is now being substituted for many pieces of iron machinery.

Dogs That Never Bark

There are three varieties of the dog that never bark—the Australian dingo, the Egyptian shepherd dog, and the "lion-beaded” dog of Tibet.

OPENING UP OF SIBERIA.

Will Provide a Hew Field lor Industrial Development It is now possible to go from New York via Berlin, Moscow and Irkutsk to Vladivostock .on the Pacific in 25 days. A railway which shall connect Asia and America at the Behring strait will probably be built in the near future, and, notwithstanding the terrific cold of winter, it is believed that the road will not he 60 difficult to build as it was to construct the line of the W'hite Pass & Yukon railroad. In view of this and other facts, it is believed that the exploitation of Siberia on a large scale may not be far distant. There are several reasons why investment in Siberian enterprise* will be easy at first. The price* for labor in Russia and Siberia are exceedingly low, varying from 15 cents to $1.50 per day, the laborers feeding themselves out of their earning*. In central Siberia men can be contracted for by the year at sls per month; tbe workmen are of the peasant class. It is not thought that laborers in Siberia will at once alter their methods, but this will probably come in time. The mining laws of Russia, moreover, allow the taking up of mining claims by Russians or foreigners, though there are many «e----vere restrictions. Cities of 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitant* are now numerous in Siberia. Hotel* with comfortable room*, restaurants with electric lights and telephone connections, are not difficult to find. Anyone can traverse Siberia in great luxury in trains supplied with bath, piano, dining saloon, draw-ing-room, easy chairs, observation cars, etc. The cost of the journey from Moscow to Irkutsk, 3,200 mile 6, including sleeping car, is only $44. Siberia is practically unknown to most Russians, and they have an idea that furs are always necessary on account of the intense cold. Actual experience in the city of Krasnoyarsk shows that the thermometer reaches 110 degrees for days together in the month of August and any clothes hut those made of silk and' linen are absolutely unendurable. Chicago Daily News.

A PHOTOGRAPHIC FREAK.

Picture of Postmaster General Smith Showed a Goatee. Postmaster General Smith was visited at his office by a photographer a few days ago and after his picture had i been taken and a number of prints had been run off it was discovered that the photographer had unwittingly furnished the head of the post office department with a goatee, whereas he had before a smooth face, excepting the possession of a mustache. The addition of the goatee made a remarkable change in the postmaster general's countenance, and he has been given the unusual opportunity of seeing just how he would look with this hirsute appendage before undertaking to provide it by the natural and more usual method. The trick of the camera which produced this illusion is only discovered by a care- j fill examination of the photograph. ' When so examined it is seen that the ; -knob on the back of a chair in the i corner of the postmaster general’s of- ; fiee protruded in the picture from the chin of the subject photographed in such a way as to form a goatee in so natural a way that those not well acquainted with Mr. Smith would j never suspect that it was polished wood and not hair. If this picture survives the lapse of time it may give rise in another generation to a dis- j cussion whether the postmaster gen- j eral did or did not wear a goatee.— , Washington Star.

Letters to the Pope.

A letter to the pope must be in Latin. The style need not be classical, but the language is obligatory. Some sort of Latin must be employed. The letter must be addressed to “His Holinesg Pope Leo XIII., the happily reigning(Pontiff)lt must begin with “Beatissime Pater,” “Most Blessed Father,” and must end with some expression of regard. When it reaches the Vatican it haslittlechance of arriving at its destination unless some special precautions have been taken, for the daily budget numbers 20,000 documents. An excellent way of getting a letter into the pope’s hands is to make use of two envelopes, the outer one directed as above prescribed, and the inner one addressed to “His Holiness the Pope, the Head of the Universal Holy Roman Inquisition.” A minor official who opened an envelope thu6 addressed would incur the penalty of excommunication. Such communications are handed to the pope, who opens them and passe* then! ofi unread to Cardinal Rampolla.—London Tit-Bits.

PROBLEMS THAT OPPRESSED.

Why the Vivacious Girl Is Seeking Another Roommate. “I led a very strenuous life last winter,” said the vivacious girl in the car. “I have thought as I never thoqght before. I even wore two deep line* between my brows in my efforts to solve enigmas, and not to appear at before my roommate. My roommate waa atudying kindergarten and' was deeply interested in psychology. “ ‘You know that “time is the life of the soul,” ’ she said to me suddenly one day. “‘Eh?’ said I. ‘Ol come, now, Edith, don’t let’* ask conundrums, I want to finish this book. Ifyoumust think about riddle* occupy yourself with “Why is a mouse when it spins?” or something deep of that sort, and let one alone.’ “But, do you know, she was in earnest and she talked to me about time being the life of the soul until my head swirled and I had to go thd lie down. This, however, was only the beginning of events. Now she would ask me if I realized that ‘thought waa superinduced by feeling’ and anon would declare that ‘the soul manifests itself through seeking itself.’ “Sometimes, just to show thatlwaa not quite an idiot, I would take issue with her on these important subjects and argue. in a series of dizzy circles until I felt that I was in a labyrinth from which I could never be extricated by my own efforts. But the student of psychology wouldn’t become either excited or confused, but would'argue composedly until I left the room in despair. “Next year, if I must have a roommate it is going to be some one who reads The Duchess novels and thinks ‘Janice Meredith’ sweet. I can’t have my young life wrecked on ‘time is the life of the soul’ problem now, can I?” —Baltimore News.

THE “SOAKER.”

A Character Who Gsts Business for the Pawnbrokers. In the neighborhoods where pawnshops abound the “soaker” flourishes, j The soaker acts as middleman be- | tween the pawnbroker and his customers. People employ me (said he) not because they are ashamed to be seen going into a pawnshop themselves, but because I can get more for the goods than they can. There’s an art in pawning a coat or a ring, just the same as in everything else. I’ve known people to go into a pawnshop with some old article to pawn, and to look the proprietor over with a supercilious air, as if they considered themselves far above him socially. Naturally, for sheer spite, be offers them only about half as much as they would get if they approached him properly. Having had a wide experience of my own, I know how to avoid such difficulties. lam not servile, but I am polite and respectful; and, as those two qualities touch the most generous chord in the broker’s bosom, I get all I want on the proffered goods. As recompense for my services, I charge my customers ten per cent, commission. I have regular customers, and, then, of course, I do many odd jobs.—London Answers.

A SACRED TRUST.

la That of Kteping a Secret—Hot to Be Lightly Assumed A keeper of secrets is a bearer of troubles. When you promised one ; friend secrecy, you did not foresee j that your 'duty to another friend .might require the utterance of that I very secret. Secrets are like a nest full of complications and conflicts of duty—all ready to hatch. If a man is intrusted with money, and he finds that its administration clouds his honor or threatens other duties, he can usually return it; but he cannot return intrusted informatioirand be free of it. There may be occasions w hen it is a sacred duty to receive a secret, and then to guard ft, but it is not a duty to be lightly assumed, or even sought for curiosity’s sake. Beas conscientious about intrusted information as about trust money, and at least as slow to receive it.—S. S. Times.

Forty-Five Owners of a House

At the Westminster county court the other day it transpired, with reference to the sale of a house at Fleet, in Hampshire, that it was owned by no fewer than 45 persons, and when the sale was arranged it became necessary to forward the document to Rome, New Zealand, South Africa *nd several other parts of the world. Altogether the sale took 12 month* to complete from the date of the contract to purchase.

LAKE SUPERIOR ORE DOCKS.

Constructed at Immense Expense and Replete with Labor-Saving Devices. When the only method of transporting ore from the mine* to the docks was by means of wagons, fowr or five miles was about as far as it waa practical to bring the ore. Now, says the Engineering Magazine, it is transported over a hundred miles from the Minnesota mine* to the lake ports. When these great oi% trains arrive at the port run out on the dock and the ore dropped out through the bottom of the car into the pockets of the ore docks, whence it is afterward let through chute* into the vessels. These docks have been constructed at an immense expense, and with these, as well as with other labor-saving devices, every improvement possible has been made to 6ave running expenses. It is said that these docks have an aggregate length of over five miles and a storage capacity of 600,000 tons, one single dock being 2,300 feet-long, with a capacity of 57,600 tons. With the present dock equipment a vessel of 5,000 to 8,000 tons can be loaded in three or four hours. It is no uncommon occurrence to load a boat of 2,000 tons of ore in 1| hours. The dock at Duluth cost $425,000. Fifty years ago the ore wa* dumped from the wagon upon pile* along the wharf. When a vessel came in to load an army of men were put to work shoveling the ore into wheelbarrows, wheeling it along planks run out onto the vessel, and dumping it into the hold. It then required 2d men working ten hours per day ten days to load a vessel of 1,000 tons, at a cost of 40 cents per ton. Now a vessel five times as large can be loaded in two or three h ours, at so small a cost that jt is hardly worth considering.

STORY OF ITS ORIGIN.

Where a “Horn," Meaning a Drink of Whisky, Comes From. The customer wore the slouch hat and drooping mustache affected bywesterners and soutbwesterners, says the New York Times; the bartender presented the impassive Teutonic front that had evidently come from & determination to quit being surprised. “Gimme me a horn,” quoth the customer. “A vat?” “A born; don’t you know what • ffiorn’ is?” “No; it is a mixed drink; yes?” “No; it’s just plain whisky, that’s all, and I don’t want to wait all day. Never mind the water.” j “Curious,” commented the westerner, “how people in this section can’t understand plain English. Anybody down in Kentucky knows what a ‘horn’ is, and how it got its name. “How did it get its name?” inquired a bystander. “Well, along about 100 years ego the first distillery ever established in Tennessee was set up in Davidson county. It was called the ‘Red Heifer,’ and the customers who assembled at the still, especially on Saturday afternoon, todrink and gamble, ’ got in the habit of speaking of a dram j as a ‘horn of the heifer.’ As Tennes-j see was the first state to be settled west of the Alleghanies, the phrase spread all over the west and south- ! west, finally being contracted into the single word thorn.’ ”

ARTIFICIAL LEATHER.

Frenchman Invents Method for Utilizing Refuse Skins and Hides. Consul General Hughes writes from Coburg, that, according to the German press, fibroleum, a new artificial leather, has just been invented by a Frenchman. It consists of pieces of refuse skin 6 and hides, cut exceedingly small, which are put into a vat filled with an intensely alkaline solution. After the mass has become pulpy, it is taken out of the vat, placed in a specially-constructed machine, and after undergoing treatment therein, is again taken out and fmt through a paper-making machine. The resulting paper-like substance is cut into large sheets, which ar? laid one upon another, in lots of from 100 to 1,000, and put into a hydraulic pres* to remove all moisture. The article is strong and pliable, and can be pressed or molded into all kinds of shapes and patterns. It is said to make the best kind of wall paper. Decorators who have used this article speak of it in the highest terms.

Built Good Roads.

#e Incas of Peru built very fine roads, one system of which traversed the plateau, the other followed the sea coasUnorth and south. The seacoast road is said to have been nearly 1,500 to '2,000 miles in length and 20 feet in breadth. Many portionsof this magnificent system of roads are still At foi use

LEGAL REMUNERATION.

Bone ThJpk it Radical Reform in TUa * Matter Desirable. The mode of legal remuneration has always been the ml stumbling block in the way of solid reforjg. It need not be, if lawyers will condescend to deal with the matter upon a commercial basis. Ever since they got the upper hand in this country, says the Nineteenth Century, the length of the proceedings has unfortunately been the chief test in our system. A disadvantageous and mischievous plan! Why, indeed, the length and not the subject of dispute? The principle is impolitic and unsound at the bottom; it is the causeof. our present unhealthy condition of affairs. Added to this, we get a procedure that unwisely offers to the weak and unscrupulous all kinds of excuses of a plausible nature for increasing the number of and prolonging attendances, multiplying documents and copies and stretching out the content*. Time and money »are wasted on work that is useless; expedition is lost sight of, and in this manner attention is diverted from the actual question in dispute. The revenue authorities, as a consequence, have been drawn into the mistake of setting the court fees on a similar illusory footing. The engineer, the architect, the auctioneer, the estate agent, are paid-according to the value of the matter they have to deal with. So also the remuneration of the lawyer should be tested by the nature of the task to be done, and not the length to which he may be able to extend it. Given the simplified practice, there should be a carefully prepared sliding scale of costs regulated strictly by the amount in dispute, and in certain cases by the difficulty of the question at issue. This work will encourage zealous assiduity and good work in the true direction. There are reasons 1 equally cogent in favor of providing 1 remuneration upon a similar basis when a solicitor settles an action. Under the present scale, if he exercises the great skill required to do this, he is often at a loss.

VEGETARIAN DIET.

Seems to Agree Well with the People of Jipan. Baelz gives the results of observations he has made on the Japanese, among whom the lower classes are almost entirely vegetarians, says the British Medical Journal. They are so, not from choice or from principle, however, but from necessity, since whenever they are able they buy a little meat or fish, and regard it as a gTeat luxury. Their main article of diet is not rice, as usually supposed, because this is too expensive, and is used mainly by the well-to-do, but barley and buckwheat and the soya* bean, which contains twice as much albumin as the best beef, and costs onequarter as much, while in addition it contains 20 per cent, of fat. The fallacy of Voit’s dictum that 120 grams of albumen daily are necessary for an adult is shown, for, as evidenced by the habits of the Japanese for generations, it is 20 to 30 per cent, too high, while it is demonstrated that a race may live on an almost exclusively vegetable diet and yet be capable of' vigorous and protracted labor. The' prevailing type of metabolism investi- j gation, in which purely arthmetical! results of analysis of the income and outgo are made, is unreliable and does not give a true idea of the -values of diets, etc., for different condition* may produce almost identical result* in figures. The disposition of the individual and l , therefore, hiscapacity for work may vary widely, and therefore the author proposes a new method of conducting such experiments, which shall include a study of this factor, »nd suggests the designation of ‘capacity balafioe” for jts results.

When a Man Feels Cheap.

“1 know of no meaner experience than to get caught in a lie that thereia no necessity of telling,” said a man. “The other morning a man with whom I have only a slight acquaintance came in and asked me to lend him $2. There was no reason why I should not have refused him outright, but instead I explained that I had come away from home with only some small change in my pocket. He accepted my explanation and we chatted awhile about local politics. It is a habit of mine, whenever I get into an argument, to polish my eyeglasses. The best eyeglass polisher in the world is a bank note. fL always keep a bank note in my weistcoat pocket for this purpose. I noticed my acquaintance looking at me peculiarly, and there I was polishing my eyeglasses with a $2 bill. No, he didn’t ask for it, but he made me feel like 30 cents.”—-Phila-delphia Timet.

ABUSE OF MARY PRINER

frleet and HU Houwkt«p*r Sent to Jell on Preliminary Trial. Neillavllle, Wis., Oct. 17.—The examination of Father Jungblud, the Roman Catholic priest, and Lizzie Nolan, bis housekeeper, charged with assault upon a girl, took place yesterday before Justice Dudley. Several -witnesses testified as to wounds received by the girl, Mary Priner, including the doctors who treated her. The girl testified that two days pre;ediDg i he arrest she was bound around the arms with a rope and swung to a hook in the ceiling, remaining each day from some time in the morning until some time in the afternoon, during which time only her tiptoes were allowed to touch the floor. She was whipped, she testified, because she could not remember the hard words in her catechism. The defendants were bound over in $2,500 in each case, and committed to jail in default of bail.

ANOTHER QUESTION SHELVED

Episcopal Convention Put* Off for Three Veers the Name lease. San Francisco, Oct. 17.—Considerable routine business was transacted at yesterday’s sessions of the Episcopal general convention. A new missionary bishop was elected, and in the house of deputies there was an animated debate on the proposition to change the name of the church. This question came up on a motion to concur with the house of bishops in creating a Joint commislson to which the subject should be referred, which was finally agreed to, which shelves the question nntil 1904. The house of deputies unanimously elected Dr. Cameron Mann, of Kansas City, to be missionary bishop of North Dakota. The Huntington amendment to article 10 of the constitution, which was adopted Tuesday by the house of deputies, was non-concurred in by the bishops.

NEW METHODIST CONSTITUTION

So For u Hunt from Is Klertod With a Little to >pare. Chicago, Oct 17.—The Northwestern Christian Advocate, the Methodist organ of the west, in yesterday’s issue states that of the 119 conferences of the church 103 have voted on the new constitutioft,adopted at the general conference held in Chicago last May. The votes cast number 9,839, and of these 7,388 are in favor of the new basic law. This number is just nine more than the three-fourths necessary to adopt. As there remain sixteen conferences to be heard from The Advocate says that leading churchmen realize a shift of sentiment In any one conference may change the history of the organization. If the constitution is- defeated it will be owing to the woman question, The Advocate says.

She Wedded a Priest.

St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 17.—Miss Millie Pottpdeser, to marry whom the Rev. Father Will.am A. Dolan, formerly assistant at the cathedral, forsook the church, has lost her priest husband. The church never recognized the marriage, and the Rev. Father Dolan is now doing penance in a monastery in Pennsylvania, while his wife is preparing to go on the stage.

Estate Depends on the Judgment.

Chicago, Oct. 17.—There is a novel case of survivorship in the probate court which is pnzzling Assistant Judge Casey and several lawyers. Here it is:* “Did Willie M. Sweeney, who was murdered by her husband, Charles H. Sweeney, die before her murderer, who committed suicide after murdering her?’’ The estate depends on tbfc judgment.

Strike in a Lamp Factory.

Elwood. Ind.. Oct. 17.—The MacbethEvans Lamp Chimney factory is idle, 700 men are out on strike. Inquiry at the office brought information that the men were out because of differences with their employers, but nothing an to the nature of the disagreement could be learned.

Illinois Central Stock Increased.

Chicago, Oct. 17.—At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Illinois Central railroad, which was held here vesterdav. an increase in the capital stock from $00,000,000 to $79,200,000 was authorized. The additional capital will lie used in physical betterments.

Madden Wilt Rule Arrangements.

Chicago. Oct. 17— Martin D. Madden has been selected as chairman of the committee of arrangements for the fifth annual convention of the National Live Stock association, which will meet here the first week In December.

Rolling Mills Expected to Resume.

Springfield. 111., Oct 17.—Probably within a short time work will be commenced repairing the rolling mills located near Springfield, and operations will be resumed. They have been Idle for two years.

Booker WuhlS|loi Oloea With Bo— r*lt Washington, Oct. 17.—Booker T. Washington, of Tuakegee, Ala., dined with the president last evening. HEWS FACTS IH OUTLINE The ninth annual convention of the National Ppiiituallata’ association la in session at Washington. The frlenda of General Bartolome Maso announce that he baa consented to be a candidate for the vice presidency of Cuba. John D. Rockefeller baa pledged $200, 000 toward the endowment fund of Barnard college. Twenty-nine students have been suspended from Missouri unlveralty for hazing. , Poison has been fonnd In the Internal organs of one of the alleged victims of the Dayton. 0., suspected murdeiess, Mrs. Wltwer. The Boston National League Imse ball club Is $25,000 behind on the season. The National Congregational council will hold the next meeting** In De* Moines. la., In 1904. Four men suspected of having been implicated In the attempted bank robbery at Danville, 0., have been arrested. The apple crop of 1901 Is placed at 28.000.000 barrels, against 48,000,000 barrels last year.