Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — Page 6

BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN

MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS Of THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLC Complete Review of Happenings a Greatest Interest From All Parts o the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. Washington The steel schedule tariff bill anc the wool bill failed to repass In the senate by the two-thirds necessary tc nullify the executive veto. The stee bill received only 32 votes to 39 casi against It. • • • The house failed to pass the leglsla tive, executive and judicial approprla tlon bill over the veto of President Taft by a vote of 153 to 107. The de section of 17 Democrats prevented the house from passing the bill containing a clause limiting government era ployes to year terms and abol Ishlng the commerce court. • • • Former Governor Odell of New York told the senate committee investigat Ing campaign contributions that Mr Harriman after a visit to the White House made at the request of President Roosevelt during the campaign .of 1904 raised (240,000 for the state campaign. • • • Following President Taft’s disapproval of the steel tariff revision bill the house, by a vote of 173 to 83, passed the measure over his veto. Sixteen Progressive Republicans made an alliance wtlh Democrats to make the two-thlrds majority necessary to override the veto. • • • President Taft sent to congress a special message asking It to appropriate (400,000, half to be paid to Great Britain and half to Japan, to carry out the agreement under the fur seal convention, ratified by the senate last December. Domestic Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, was acquitted by a jury at Los les, Cal., of the charge of having attempted to corrupt a prospective juror In the McNamara murder trial. Another indictment remains against Darrow, charging the bribery of Robert F. Bain, the first Juror sworn In the McNamara case. • • •

With Supreme Dictator Arthur R. Jones of Indianapolis in the chair, the supreme convention of the Loyal Order of Moose opened in Kansas City. * • • Six thousand troops are taking part in the war game in Kansas between the Red and Blue armies, every branch of the service being represented. • • • Concluding sessions of the Catholic Press association’s annual meeting were, held in Louisville, Ky., preliminary to the opening of the convention of the National Federation of Catholic Societies of America. Most Rev. John Bonzano, papal delegate to the United States, will be present. • • • Sidna Edwards, one of the Hillsville court house assassins, pleaded guilty at Wytheville, Va., and was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Two of his kinsmen had been found guilty of murder in the first degree. On his mother’s advice he accepted a compromise. ~ • • • A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck an' outing party of eight on the Western Maryland railway extension one mile west of Frosburg (Md.) station, killing five persons and Injuring two others. * • • Chester Roach, accused of stealing a diamond ring from the Relnsberger hotel, Pittsburg, Pa., February 3,'was taken in charge by Detective R. H. Robinson at Washington, la., and ■tarted back to the Pennsylvania city. • • • A Jean Valjean in real life was disclosed in Philadelphia when William Burke, elected a city councilman on the reform ticket, headed by Mayor Blankenburg last fall, resigned his seat and told how under the name of Benjamin H. Tripp he had served a long term in the Massachusetts state prison, after a career of crime in Boston and New York. e • e Ernest Dickey, eighteen years old, and Euna Pashley, sixteen, of Chandlerville, 111., were married at Virginia, DI., by County Judge Charles Martin, breaking Cass county’s record for early marriages. Their parents gave consent. • • • Mrs. H. K. Hilloms of Omaha and Mrs. A. L. Burgent of Terre Haute, Ind., were injured when Wabash train No. 1; St. Louis to Omaha, went into the ditch half a mile south of Bineham, la. • • • Humphrey Owen Jones, F. R. s. Fellow of Clare college, and a noted scientist, and his wife, on their honeymoon, were killed by falling from the Freanay glacier in ascending the Aiguille de Peteret, one at the peaks of Mont Blanc.

THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES. Luke iv, 16-30—Aug. 25. “He came unto Hi# own, and they that were Hi# own received Him not."—John », 11. CHE people of Nazareth would of course feel a certain sense of pride in their fellow-citizen whose fame was spreading throughout all Galilee and Judea. They could scarcely believe what they had heard about Jesus. He never did such miracles in all the years that we knew Him, said they. They did not, of course, understand that He bad received His power as a special benediction when He was thirty years of age, as a result of His consecration of His life to the Divine service, symbolized by H:s immersion in Jordan. At length He came to Nazareth. It was on a Sabbath day. For long years He had done Jthe congregational read-

ing of the Scriptures. This was therefore just what they expected Him to do on His return. He went into the synagogue and read the lesson for the day. Th us far all went well; but when Jesus began to comment there were whisperings

of disapproval, and finallyt au outburst of wrath against Him. Ah! they thought, this young man has lost His head.

They drove Him out of the synagogue with angry demonstrations. They led the way toward the brow of a hill, that they might push Him over. For a little way Jesus went, but then He turned and passed thrbugh their midst, overawing them by the dignity of His presence.

The Truth That Angered.

At first we read, “All bare Him witness, and wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth.” What made the change? It was the plain declaration that they did not believe in Him fully, therefore it would not be God’s will that He should perform any miracles for them. He backed up His statement with illustrations the past which angered them still more.

Instead of the people of Nazareth getting angry and resenting these things, they should have said, Tell us, then, of our faults and help us to overcome them. If God has blessings, surely we, as Israelites, may have our share if we will but come into the right attitude of heart.'

The Lesson From Isaiah. The lesson for that Sabbath was from Isaiah Ixi, 1-3. It was an excellent text, and the sermon on it was from the ablest of teachers. How His hearers should have rejoiced to know that they were living in the day of the fulfilment of these words! Jesus, had been anointed by the Father with the Holy Spirit, that He might declare good tidings to the poor. Surely many of them were poor and needy! We read further that Jehovah sent Jesus to heal the broken-hearted. How

"They led him to the brow of the hill.”

ed, aud that “the acceptable year of the Lord’’ would be proclaimed. “Deliverance to the Captives.” This part of the message might have been applied in part to themselves. Were they not captives, bound by the fetters of sin, the fetters and chains of heredity, sickness, imperfection and death? Were not they actually blind also, as respected the eyes of their understanding? Evidently the time had not arrived for them to receive the blessing of the anointing of their eyes of understanding. Were they not all bruised by the fall—mentally, morally and physically! But the work that Jesus was doing was merely the proclamation of these things, with a few examples of healing, etc. The real time for Him to accomplish the deliverance of the captives, the liberating of the sin-bruised, and the giving of sight to the blind, belonged to the Messianic Kingdom time. What Jesus was doing was merely a foreshadowing <of the great things to be accomplished future—“in the Times of Restitution of all things which God hath spoken by all His Holy Prophets.”—Acts lii, 19-21. Proclaiming “the Acceptable Year.” This brief expression, so little understood, pointed out the special work of Jesus, far more important than the miracles. The term,, “acceptable year,” or acceptable time, refers to this Gospel Age of more than 1800 years. No opportunity had been granted in the past to become dead with Jesus, to walk in His steps. The proclamation of this opportunity waited until Jesus had made His own consecration, and all who accepted His Message and became His followers did so under this invitation or proclamation. It was the privilege of becoming the sons of God. by a begetting of the Spirit— John 1,13. :

In the synagogue at Nazareth.

those words would have api>ealed to any that were broken-hearted ’ The declaration further was that the blind would receive their sight, that liberty would he granted to the captives, that the bruised and injured would be heal-

CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR WOMEN

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has Decided Views on Subject A CONFUSION OF NAMES Wife of Democratic Candidate Gives Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on Smoking Habit. ? ——“ New York.—For the first time since Woodrow Wilson became the Democratic presidential candidate has Mrs. Wilson appeared. She attended in person her husband’s daily conference with reporters, although heretofore she has made special requests that she be not quoted nor written about In the papers. That Mrs. Wilson wished to have fully understood was that If she becomes the first lady of the land she will not, as has been said in a widely distributed Interview, have packages of cigarettes In her personal desk at the White House and Indulge In smoking them with her callers. Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. Wilson asked that publicity be given to a letter she had written to the editor of the State Journal at Columbus, 0., repudiating an alleged interview with her in which she defended cigarette smoking for women. The Interview had come to her in a letter signed "American Citizen," which said:

“Dear Madam—l can scarcely think of any greater calamity to the young women of the nation than to read such a preachment as your interview offers them. lam a workingman, and I see men lose their Jobs almost every day because they are Incapacitated for work by the use of the cigarette. If smoking does this for strong men what will It do for girls and women?” The "interview” was indeed a cordial Indorsement of the woman smoker. Here are some of its assuring phrases, all credited to Mrs. Wilson: “A woman writer for a syndicate of Sunday newspapers asked Mrs. Woodrow Wilson If she agreed with Gertrude Atherton’s opinion of the smoking of cigarettes by women. She smilingly exhibited three cigarette boxes plied in the corner of her desk, all but empty.

“ ‘Why shouldn’t a woman smoke if she enjoys it?” she queried. “ ‘Why hasn’t she just as much right to a cigarette as a man? Certainly I agree with Mrs. Atherton that any existing prejudice against women smoking is to the last silly and absurd. “ ‘Smoking cigarettes is a question of manners, not morals. It promotes good fellowship. “ ‘Come women feel that a cigarette calms their nerves and helps their brains Into working order. Personally smoking diffuses my thoughts instead of concentrating them. I enjoy it as I enjoy after-dinner coffee. Both are pleasant ways of ending and finishing off; both add to conviviality and good fellowship.’ ” The editor of the Ohio State Journal, it was clear, had been much incensed at the apologies for the cigarette habit among women attributed to Mrs. Wilson, so he wrote on Aug. 10 an editorial in which he called for the defeat of Governor Wilson or a repudiation from his wife. If there was no mistake about it, he wrote, “Mrs. Woodrow Wilson shouldn’t be mistress of the White House.”

If the Ohio editor was emphatic, Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so. After the reporters had said they would gladly publish her letter to the Ohio editor she asked for an hour’s time in which to write one. This was what she prepared: “Dear Sir —I have just received a copy of the Journal with your editorial entitled ‘Smoking Women,’ and I beg leave to Indignantly deny the statement that I approve of women smoking cigarettes. The interview upon which your editorial was based is a pure invention. I intensely dislike the cigarette smoking habit for women—tn fact, so strong is my feeling on the subject that my real danger lies in being unjust and unkind in my judgment of those who differ with me in this respect

“But certainly no woman in our household ever has or ever will smoke Quite apart from the bad taste of iL I believe with you that it has an extremely Injurious effect on the nerves. “ELLEN A. WILSON. (“Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.”) Governor Wilson, in approving the letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered what he thought might prove an explanation for the interview. "I do not think it was maliciously invented/’ he said. “There is a rather well known writer who signs herself Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no doubt has been confused with Mrs. Wilson.” Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly married to a relative of Governor Wilson, and it is understood that her views on the matter of women who smoke are different from those held in the household of the Democratic candidate.

It is reported that papers which are supporting the bull mooser have ordered extra fonts of “I’s.” Acd they will be needed when Teddy gets to talking.

Wonder how the colonel likes being aa outcast? K

Her Impulsive Way

“Why, Alice, didn’t you go out to lunch today?” “No, I didn’t.” The stenographer did not look up from the crocheting, “and what’s more, there’ll be no rest for me noons, nights, or Sundays, until these table mats are done.” “I wasn’t aware thta you were in any immediately need of table mats,” pursued the bookkeeper. “Isn’t this rather sudden?” ' “They aren’t for me, worse luck. When I need household goods I’ll let you know, never fear. These mats are for another and they are long overdue.” The stenographer laughed bitterly. “Behold in me a victim of the habit of promising In haste to repent when repentance is entirely useless.” “What?”

“I mean that I’m one of those unfortunate impulsive persons who are always gratuitously and recklessly offering to do things for people. Observe these mats. There was really no rear son why I should undertake the manufacture of eighteen doilies, six of each of the three sizes, you know, for a person like Mrs. Cor wine, but when she told me that Mr. Corwine had bought her a beautiful mahogany dining table I at once said, without considering the matter at all, automatically, you know, that I would make her a set of mats for it She took me up with a jump and hoped I’d do the pineapple pattern. It s the most difficult stitch I know. “Now she is probably wondering when I’m ever going to get them done. The truth is that I’ve only just been able to begin them, for I’ye been spending every spare minute for the last month on the border of French knots that in a moment of abstraction I promised to embroider on Gertrude Lane's white marquisette dress. She bought it ready made and she thought it looked to plain, so, of course, I suggested the French dots and when she said that she didn’t know how to make them, I volunteered to do them for her. “For four long weeks those knots have haunted me. Every evening that I’ve wished to read or play cards I’ve been obliged to stick to the dots, and the worst of it Is that my offer to do them was made so casually that Gertrude has no realization of what a Herchlean task they were. I wouldn’t feel so sorry for myself as I do if 1 thought I were receiving proper credit for my labor. “It’s the same way with these doilies. Mrs. Corwine thinks that because I said in a light and airy way that I’d make them they’re a mere amusement or pastime for me. Did you ever know such a goose as I am—to get myself into doing things and to hate myself for it? I’m one of those who jump in where angels fear to tread.” The bookkeeper laughed, and Alice, continuing to crochet violently, continued:

“You ought to be thankful you haven’t the habit. It gets one into all sorts of entanglements. A few weeks ago I met some, suburban friends on the street. They appeared so pleased to see me that before 1 really thought what I was doing I asked them to come to town some day and have lunch with me, and I promised to let them know very soon just what day to come. That luncheon, for which I can neither afford the time nor the money, and which wasn't in the least called for, has hung on my neck like a millstone. The thought of it has worried and depressed me ever since. The event comes tomorrow, and then, after these mats are done, I’m through! I shall not mortgage my time, money and industry any more Hear me vow!” “Yes, I hear it.” The other young woman assumed an accusing air. “But what about my essay for the Young Women’s league that I wanted you to type for me this week?” “Oh, your essay—certainly Til typewrite that for you, dear. I can do it after hours, just as well as not” Caroline laughed derisively. “But that’s different,” protested Alice guiltily. “Typing for you is Quite different from—” “Yes, of course it’s different, kiddo. Everything is different but you. You are just the same dear, reckless promiser as ever, despite your hard hearted, strong minded resolutions. But, anyway, you can’t type my essay for I’ve already hired it (lone.” “You mean thing! You know I should have loved to do it for you!” "Talk about helpless cases,” laughed Caroline. —Chicago Dally News.

Carry Your Wagon.

A northern man who had recently taken possession of a southern plantation found that in many ways the people spoke a different language from his own. By mistake a carload of supplies had been left at a railway station seven miles away and he was bothered about getting it to the plantation. “Why don’t you carry your wagon up and tote the things down?” a sympathizing southerner asked him. The northern man laughed heartily at this expression and repeated it to others. Instead of laughing they looked at him, wondering where the joke was, and he realized that to “carry” your wagon and tote things back was the proper idiomatic expression. He even heard young men asking young ladles if they might “carry” them to dances. ~New York Herald.

ANIMALS FOUND EFFICIENT FOR ALL-ROUND FARM WORK

Some Farmers Prefer Mule on Account of Fastidiousness in Appetite and Its Value tn Gardea Work-Man of Moderate Means Should Keep the Horse.

The following letters have been received from fanners located in various sections of the country on the merits and demerits of the mule and the horse.

“I have had thirty years’ experience in working horses and mules on a tobacco, wheat and corn farm, and I prefer the mules. Their feet are smaller and they injure very little of the tobacco and corn; they are less liable to disease, less fastidious in appetite, will endure greater hardships, are longer-lived, and worry the plowman less, as they are more steady. Not one horse is used for farm work to ten mules, in this section of the country.”-—W. E. E., Kentucky. “On large farms where there is steady work and lots of it, I have found the mules the most profitable. They can do a certain amount of work at a less expense for feed, are tougher, and, in proportion to weight, stronger than horses. While they stand neglect and ill-treatment better than horses, they appreciate kindness just as well. Mules are ready for work six days of the week and fifty-two weeks in the year, and are all the better for it. There is a prejudice against mules

Typical Belgian Horse.

here which I consider unjust. Their use on large farms in Ohio would be found profitable, I am sure.” —W. E 0., Ohio. “In this climate a mule stands the heat better, works with less feed, and stands the treatment he is‘'sure to get from the negro hands, better than a horse. A mule lives longer, too. I have seen mules doing service at 25 years of age. As a farm animal he is unexcelled in the south.”—W. H. G., Georgia. “The mule has a number of important advantages over the horse in farm work. A good mule is a treasure

GIVE CHICKENS BEST OF CARE

Birds of AU Ages Should Be K-e----axnined Burins the Hot Months for Little Mite* and Lice.

(By M. B. BERNARD.)

All the old birds, and young, too, hould be examined frequently during the hot months because then it is that the lice and mites thrive. If cut bone or chopped meat is fed during the summer extra precautions must be taken to have It perfectly fresh. Many birds die from eating bone and meat scraps which have been allowed to lie around exposed to the heat and the flies. In feeding chickens, always remember that they are provided for to produce fresh eggs for human feed and therefore their own feed should be just as pure as that we eat ourselves. The hot sun will cause young goslings and ducklings as, well to topple over and die. provide shade for them until they are strong on their pegs.

Care of Stallions.

A stallion shut up in a dark stall without the companionship of other horses often becomes moody and savage. Some English stallioners ride a pony while leading their horses for exercise, and the horses become so attached to the ponies that they become fretful and uneasy when they are not near. At night the ponies are given a stall next to the horses. Of course, some horses are too savage in nature to permit their being led in company of a pony, but if broken to this treatment when young stallions can be handled in this way.

Team of Prize Winning Mules.

on the farm. He is tougher, stands the heat and hard work better; he is not so susceptible to disease as a horse. I know mules which, in plowing in a garden will step over hills of potatoes or other vegetables with as much care as the gardener would ask. I never saw a horse that would try to avoid stepping on a hill, and in some instances they seem to make a point of trampling down everything in reach of their big feet.”—L. W. (1, Tennessee.

“Our experience with mules leads us to believe they are hardier than horses; they are seldom sick, their shoulders hardly ever become sore and they are more easily taught what is expected of them. We have never yet known of a mule being injured in any respect from over-feeding. They know when to quit eating. For steady work and hard knocks we prefer the mule every time. The farmers of the west are beginning to appreciate them at their true value, as the number of mule teams now in use, compared to what there was a few years ago, fully attests.”—H. C. S., Kansas.

“Forty years’ experience with mules has satisfied me that they will not compare, in a financial way, with horses, not being adapted to saddle or carriage, nor will they bring any increase, as a horse does. They are mischievous, breachy and will often kill young stock if turned in with them on pasture. A farmer of moderate means should keep horses every time.”—H. M., Illinois.

“Where farming operations are carried on, on a large scale, and animals are kept solely for farm work, and not for alternate work and driving to buggy, I prefer the mule to horses. Mules endure a warm climate better than horses, largely because they do not over-feed or over-exert themselves In hot weather. No animal can take the place of the mule in the south. The mule is very valuable in garden work, from his close-stepping habits, which make it easy to work small plants in narrow rows without damage. As to feeding, while a mule will keep at work on coarser food than a horse, I have never found that a hardworked mule team would keep in fine condition on less than a similar team of horses. Never buy a long-legged mule. A big, “gangling,” long-legged mule is the meanest “critter” on earth. Whether heavy or light, see to it that he is compactly built.”—W. F. M.» North Carolina.

COVERING WALLS WITH WISTARIA

Common Purple Variety la Beet Adapted to Hide Great Vacant Spaces— Needs Prnninf-

(By WALTER B. LEUTZ.) ' We seldom see great wall spaces covered with wistaria, yet it is to our eye the most beautiful flower for that purpose that grows. The Japanese wistaria is not so well adapted to this purpose as the common royal purple flower of Amerca - To get the best results the vine must be constantly pruned and kept back for two dr three years, else it will run in long streamers and the flowers will hang straight down. The vines must be trained to run in all directions.

We can never forget the wall of & large old house in Richmond, Va., that is covered witlh this beautiful flower. The wall is abdut seventy feet high apd is one soft mass of ravishing beauty. In this climate the vine needs no attention after it has once been well started, and blooms early and late.

It is estimated by experts who have conducted experiments with nitrate of soda that under ordinary conditions 100 pounds per acre, applied to crops named below, will produce yields aa follows: Barley, 400; corn, 280; oats, 400; rye, 300; wheat, 300; potatoes, 3,000; hay, 1,000; cotton, 500; cabbage, 5,000; onions, 18,000; strawberries, 200 quarts; asparagus, 100 bunches; celery, 30 per cent; sugar beets, 4,000; beets, 4,000; sweet potatoes, 000.

What Nitrate of Soda Will Do.