Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — Page 4

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WORLD'S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

PEST OF THE NEWB BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Motes Covering Most Important Ha> psnlngs of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. U.S.—Teutonic War News Ten million marks ($2,500,000) arrived nt Coblenz from Berlin by special train, this sum being the first payment by the German government of the $6,250,000 due in January for the jxpenses of the American army of ocjatlon. * * * Evidence that the bolshevlsts are mutilating allied wounded and dead came to headquarters at Dvina, in a report from Lieutenant Colonel Corberly, who was in command of American forces in the vicinity of Shenkursk on November 29. .* * * European War News

* Casualties in the French army, excluding colonial troops, up to November 1 were 4,702,800, according to official figures made public by the French high commission at Washington to correct conflicting reports. * * * Lieut. Arthur Sutton and Privates McCauley, Suess and Haston of the United States signal corps arrived in Berlin on Sunday from Coblenz. They will take photographs of happenings In Berlin. • • * A Paris dispatch says the first published engineering estimate of the total damage done in the French devastated regions is made by Maj. George B. Ford, head of the Red Cross housing research service, after a survey made since the signing of the armistice. It 1 places the total Dill which Germany ought to pay at something under $13,000,000,000. * * * A Copenhagen dispatch says 20,000 Ukrainians are besieging Lemberg, capital of Galicia. It is expected they will occupy the city soon. It is probable the population will be starved into surrender. • • *

Personal Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, who succeeded Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as coimfaander of the department of the East, died late Wednesday flight at the Presbyterian hospital in New York. The cause of death was reported to have been angina pectoris. *** , . Theodore Roosevelt, fqr seven years president of the United States, died at home at Sagamore Rill, Oyster Bay, N. X,.*. He passed away peacefully while asleep, .the victim of a blood clot in the lung, resulting from Inflammatory rheumatism traceable to an infected tooth, from wMch he suffered 20 years ago. *_ * * * The body of Theodore Roosevelt was laid to rest Wednesday. It was committed to earth at 1:43 p. m. in a family cemetery plot overlooking Long Island sound. * * * N Ex-Congressman David H. Mercer died of heart disease at Omaha, Neb. He served five terms in congress. * * * Mrs. Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, N. Y:, received a cablegram of sympathy from President Wilson, dated Modane, which is on the Franco-Italian frontier, reading as follows: “Pray accept my heartfelt sympathy on the death of your distinguished husband, the news of which has shocked me very much.” * • •

Foreign A Berlin dispatch says rioters forced General Harris to haul down the American flag, which was raised over the Adlon hotel to protect entente officials. ' ' 1 • * • A Paris dispatch says a French destroyer struck a mine in the Black sea, but succeeded in reaching Constantinople. Four men were killed. • * • A London speciaj says a detachment of army service men, training in a London suburb, Jaroke camp, commandeered a dozen motor lorries and drove to Whitehall, where they sent a deputation of six men to visit the ministry of demobilization. Several thousand British soldiers stationed at Shoreham marched into Brighton to protest against the delays in the British . demobilization. * • • ' A Copenhagen dispatch says the Spartacides have occupied the whole German railway system, according to a' Berlin message. Government troops at the railway stations surrendered to the “reds.” •** * * “Long live America, our friend !“ jarose from thousands of throats as President Wilson and his wife stepped off the Special train on their arrival in Rome, and the same ehout, with the name fervor and enthusiasm, them Godspeed ns the train pulled oat, leaving the Eternal city behind. . >

All members of the bourgeolse have been arrested at Riga by the Lettish soviet, which has abolished the ownership of private .property in that city, according to a Riga dispatch received at Stockholm. si • » • A Copenhagen dispatch says 300 persons have been killed and many hundreds wounded in Berlin since Monday. In Munich a mob of 5,000 unemployed men and women was attacked by machine guns. Two were killed. In Dusseldorff (on the Rhine), a bolsheyik republic has been proclaimed. In Schwerin, a Junker stronghold, the bolshevlki were driven from the barracks and public buildings. * * * A Salonikl cablegram says several thousand old offenders have escaped from prisons in Constantinople and elsewhere In Turkey. * • * A London dispatch says it is learned that the Armenian committee now in London has received assurances from the allies that the claim for Armenian self-determination and for a republican form of government under protection will be admitted ut the peace conference. >• ♦ •

| Washington Figures made public at Washington show that tlie production of munitions had grown so rapidly in the lust months of the war the United States .was far ahead of Great Britain and France. * * * Conversion of insurance carried by 4,000,000 soldiers, sailors and marines Into permanent government risk will begin within 60 days, Col. Llndsley, director of war risk insurance at Washington, announced. * • * A Washington dispatch says cash requirements of the government now are at their maximum ordinary disbursements, having readied $125,000,000 last Monday, the largest amount In the nation’s history. * * * • «*• Complete lists of casualties among the American expeditionary forces have been sent to Washington and 1,000 additional clerks have been put to in the adjutant general’s office to get them out. * * . .* .» American forces operating in Siberia and northern Russia total 12,941 officers and men, the war department at Washington announced. In Siberia are 255 officers and 7,267 men and in northern Russia are 5,419 men. ♦ * * Total deaths among the American expeditionary forces in northern Russia to January 4 were given as six officers and 126 men in a cablegram received at the war department at Washington from Col. James A. Buggies, American military attache with Ambassador Francis at Archangel. *. * * President Wilson cabled a proclamation from Paris on the death of Theodore Roosevelt, in which he paid high tribute to the deceased leader and ordered flags on all public buildings to be put at half staff for 30 days. * • • Republican opposition to the SIOO,000,000 appropriation requested by President Wilson for European relief was manifested in botli branches of congress at Washington. * * * A Paris special says Wilson will return to the United States about February 12 to attend the closing sessions of the present congress, according to present plans. He arrived in Paris at eight o’clock Tuesday morning. There were no formalities over his arrival and he proceeded to the Murat residence for a series of conferences which will begin to give concrete form to the work of the peace congress. * * * A Washington dispatch says naval guns and gunners placed on American merchant ships to protect ( them against German submarines are being removed as rapidly as the vessels reach home ports.

* * * A Washington dispatch says a thorough Investigation of charges alleged to have been made by army officers and troops aboard the stranded transport Northern Pacific Jhat the vessel went ashore because of neglect of duty on the part of naval officers in charge on the boat, will be made. • • *> Domestic August Thiele of Buffalo, N. Y., an aviator in the government airplane mail service, died at Plainfield, N. J., from injuries received in being hit by propeller blades. * * • Herman Scheffauer, poet and author, a native of San Francisco, born of German parents, was Indicted at New York by the federal grand jury for treason. * - • * * r The battleships Georgia and Kansas, bringing 2,650 troops home from France, arrived at Newport News, Va. • * * The UnitetKStates transport Louisville arrived in« New York from France carrying 964 troops and 573 civilians. Of the troops 878 are negroes comprising casual companies. * * * * Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee polltl-citn-publisher, and the only Socialist elected last fall to the Sixty-sixth congress, and four other national leaders of the Socialist party, were found guilty of sedition and disloyalty under the espionage.net by a jury in Judge Landis’ court at Chicago. Berger’s conviction bars him from congress, X

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

GOV. GOODRICH READS MESSAGE

Urges Completion of Public Work Halted by War. —“Y ESCHBACH ELECTED SPEAKER Lieut Governor Bush Preeide* Over Opening Session of the Senate — Organization of Both Houses Completed. Indianapolis, Jan. 10. —Governor Goodrich read his biennial message to the joint session of the house and senate and recommended many changes in the state’s legal structure. Representative Jesse E. Eschbach of Warsaw was re-elected speaker of the house of representatives after his selection for the honor by the Republican house caucus. Lieut. Gov. Edgar D. Bush of Salem presided over the opening session of the senate and William A. Roach called the house to order. A roll call was held in each house and then the organization of both houses was completed, after Judge Lawson Harvey of the supreme court had sworn the legislators into office. The senate came to the house for the joint session and the governor, still on crutches from his accident of several months ago, addressed the members of both houses, dilating at length on the part Indiana had playod in the great war.

The governor said at least $40,000,000 of public Improvements in Indiana have been held up by the war and must now be completed, so that there really seemed little doubt of enough work being available for all, who might temporarily be without employment because of readjustment conditions. Then the governor discussed needed legislation at great length. He recommended tax revision to the point that the more complex forms of property, such as intangibles* should be made to bear a relatively more proportionate burden of taxation than the simpler forms of property, such as real estate, which now bear the greater burdens., A new state highway law is an imperative necessity in Indiana, he showed, and the state should be given the authority and machinery to establish and build the main market highways of the state. He recommended the almlition of the office of state geologist ns an elective office and the creation of a conservation commission to have jurisdiction over fish and game, geology, entomology, forestry and parks and waters. He recommended abolition of the office of state statistician and empowering the industrial board of Indiana to license private employment agencies. He advocated separating the departments of banking and insurance from the state awfltor’s office and letting heads of these departments be appointed by the governor. He urged creation of a live stock sanitary board to have authority to appoint the state veterinarian.

He recommended (hat the following constitutional amendments be adopted, for recommendation to the 1921 session : Equal suffrage, limiting the right to vote and hold office to citizens of the Stated-abolishing the elective offices of state superintendent of public instruction and clerk of the supreme court, these offices to be made appointive; providing for the budget system and authorizing the governor to veto items in the appropriation bills; preventing an increase in salary of any official for the term for which he is elected; authorizing the legislature to classify counties for purposes; authorizing the legislature to adopt an income tax and classify property for taxation f i striking the word “white” from the constitution so that colored men may be permitted to become members of the Indiana state militia and National Guard.

The governor recommends the abolition of the office of attorney general and his appointment hereafter by the governor. He advocates repeal of the “teaching of German” law. He transmits the federal resolution for prohibition for the consideration of the legislature. He recommends law permitting cities to adopt commission or city manager form of government. He would create a woman’s division permanently In Inspection department of industrial board of Indiana. He advocates the all-time health officer bill. He urges creation of U commission to study and report on social insurance. He urges amendment of the existing teacher’s pension law. He recommends additional legislation to care for mental defectives in Indiana. He urges economy by the legislature. He urges legalizing the acts of the state council of defense, and additional appropriations to pay war costs of state institutions. He recommends removing the Indiana teformStory at Jeffersonville to a more central location and makes several other less noteworthy recommendations. Strongly denouncing any scheme for a centralization of power or for personal agrandizement, Lieut. Gov. Edgar D. Bpsh opened the seventy-first session of the Indiana state senate.

Boys Accused of Stealing $350,000.

New York, Jan. 10. —A theft of $350,000 worth of Liberty- and industrial bonds came to light when Lester Cregan and James Tunnjey, twenty years old, were arrested charged with- being accomplices of Cornelius Gregan, nineteen, in th« crime.

FIRST OF SEEDLESS ORANGES

Fruit That la Now 80 Much Prized Waa Brought to This Country From Brazil. In 1872 United States consul to Bahia (Brazil), W. F. Judson, was told by the natives that 60 miles Inland, up the Amazon, were native orange trees bearing fruit without seeds. Accordingly he sent natives after tree shoots and some of the fruit. The shoots were packed in moss and clay and sent to Washington. They were set out by the agricultural department, but attracted little attention until tht next year, when Horatio Tibbetts of Riverside, Cal.,, took the surviving four shoots to his home and planted them. One died and another was eaten up by a cow. At the end of five years the two surviving trees bore 10 handsome seedless oranges. Next year the oranges were even better, and the trees bore about a box of the fruit? From that time on the cultivation of the seedless oranges about Riverside progressed rapidly. As there were no seeds to raise the trees from It was founds necessary to graft buds of the seedless trees into seedling trees. Riverside has grown from a small village to a town of 15,000 acres devoted*to the cultivation of navel oranges. It is the greatest orange producing locality in the world. The two original trees were fenced about and carefully guarded lest harm should come to t(yun, and they are now enjoying a green old age.

PROCURE OIL FROM BIROS

Inhabitants of the Island of St. Kllda Are Especially Favored in Respect of Light. The price of coal oil Is a matter of no interest to the inhabitants of the Island of St. Kilda, a favorite haunt of that animated oil can, the fulmar, observes the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. So rich in oil is this sea bird that the natives simply pass a wick through its body and use it as a lamp. The oil Is also one of the principal articles exported from the Island. It is found In the birds’ stomachs, is amber colored and has a peculiarly nauseous odor. The old birds are said to feed the young with it, and when they are caught or attacked they lighten themselves by disgorging It. In St. Kilda it is legal to kill the fulmars only during one week in the year; but during that week from 18,000 to 20,000 birds are destroyed. The mutton., bird of the Antarctic also carries its oil in the stomach and can eject this oil through the nostrils as a means of defense against enemies. Quantities of mutton birds are slaughtered every year for their oil on the coasts of Tasmania and New Zealand. In its composition and properties this oil closely resembles sperm oiL

Made First Cash Register.

A man named Jacob Ritty, a merchant of Dayton, 0., took a vacation trip to Europe. While crossing on the steamer, he sauntered one day Into the engine room and noticed a device that mechanically recorded the number of revolutions of the propeller shaft. Immediately came the idea to the mind of Mr. Ritty: “Why not invent a machine that would record each coin put into the cash drawer?” When he returned home he invented the first "cash register.” John H. Patterson was keeping a grocery store In a small town 80 miles from Dayton. He heard of the Ritty contrivance, sent an order for one, and that was the Inventor’s first order. The machine was crude, but It Interested Mr. Patterson and he saw how it could b£ perfected. “If it’s good for my stbfe,” he argued, “why not for all stores?” Forthwith he went to Dayton, bought the Ritty interest out,'and started the National Cash Register Co., which has now 1,800,000 machines and every year turns out more than 60,000 cash registers.

Primitive Station.

There is in England a railway station which has only one train each way a week —at Blackwell Mill, situated midway between -Miller’s Dale and Buxton. Blackwell Mill consists of eight workmen’s cottages on the banks of the Wye. They are occupied by railway workmen, and It Is for the convenience of the wives who wish to Journey to Buxton for marketing that on Friday mornings the 9:10 train from Miller’s Dale stops at Blackwell Mill. The two uncovered platforms of the “station” are of the length of a railway coach, and composed of rough stone and gravel. The “waiting room'* Is a platelayer’s hut, where the travelers are glad to shelter from the keen wind on winter mornings. The train carries the stationmaster, who distributes the privilege tickets.

Loops the Loop in a Storm at Sea.

Looping the loop In a kite balloon was the hair-raising feat performed some time since by a young balloonist when the government was testing the use of captive balloons on battleships doing, convoy work, according to a story in Popular Mechanics Magazine. The balloonist in question had been aloft in his basket several hours despite very rough weather when a 40mile gale struck the'fleet. Instantly the gas bag ma&e a spinning nose dive, swinging the basket and occupant through a complete circle. No sooner-was one loop completed than another and another followed —fifteen la aIL

HASH IS HASH.

In one of her famous “Rebecca” stories, Kate Douglas Wlggin had written this sentence: Rebecca sat by the window, chopping hash. The proofreader put an Interrogation mark after It, and added. In pencil : “As hash Is the finished product, was she not, Instead, chopping meat or potatoes?" When the author rallied from the ' effect of the comment, she wrote her answer under the question: “There Is a psychological moment when the meat and the potatoes blend into hash. It was this moment I had In mind!”

Shrewd Guess.

“For half an hour Gadspur has been standing at the telephone saying, ‘Uh, huh ; uh huh !’ ” # “Who do you suppose Is at the other end of the wire?” “It must be his wife. He would feel in duty bound to be more polite to anybody else.”

TIME 18 MONEY.

Wise —There was to be a meeting of my creditors today. Howe —Well, wasn’t there? Wise —No. They unanimously agreed that they couldn’t afford to spend the time.

Got Him Going.

This life Is tough, beyond a doubt, And full of interferences. The fellow has his work cut out Who's keeping up appearances.

The Good Old Way.

“My goodness, woman, do you believe in castigating children by way of discipline”? / “I don’t believe in norie of these yere new-fang;Jed ways of bringing up children. Il believe in a good lickin’.” /

Finality.

“Why are some of your colleagues so anxious to print their remarks in the Record?” “I don’t know,” answered Senator Sorghum; unless it's the only way they can feel that they have had the last word in an argument.”

Then and Now.

“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torkins, “do you remember when you used to stand dutdoors and serenade mef* “Yes. What reminds you of it? The way I now have to stand on the front doorstep and holler for the latchkey?” .

A Mistake.

“Poor thing! She labors under the hallucination that she Is the queen of Sheba.” “Whoever told you so must be mistaken. Even in her crazy moments she would never dream of Imagining herself somebody who went to another person to learn wisdom.”

His Training.

“A ship’s chaplain ought to make • good* aviator.” “Why ought he?” “Because he’s already a sky pilot.”

A TAME LOVER.

Hack —She refused me point-blank. Fred —Did she give any reason? Jack —Yes; she said , I didn’t look half as eager and Interested when I proposed as I did when rushing the puck down the Ice in the hockey game.

Reflections at Forty.

Age teaches many things, by Jink, ’Tie Just immense. And every now and then I think I’m getting sense.

Yea, It'll be There.

Mrs. Fusserly (testily)—l shall not go to that butcher shop again. Why, the .lmpudent thing gave me a pain. Fusserly—Don’t be too sure, my dear; he’s probably included It In his bill. *

Doubt of It.

“Did you hear anything of a lobster famine?” “No; the gold brick schemes seem to be prospering as usual.”

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11,

FOR SALE For Sal©—On© 1017 Ford Cte.—J. M. ALLEN, Fair Oaks, phone 950-F. J-14 For Sale—A few more M. B. turkey hens and .one tom—MRS. CHAS. BOWERS, phone 946-D j-16 For Sale or Trade for Live Stock— My Overland touring car, "Model 83,’’ 1916, in good condition, with five tires. Car has not run over 10,000 miles. Price reasonable.— GEO. WENRICK, 3% miles north of Goodland, Ind. J-22 For Sale—Paragon lever paper cutter, 23-inch, recently rebuilt and In A-l condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale —Good town residence and lots; good truck patch. S4OO cash, can take rest in young stock and poultry. Might trade for Missouri land.—BOX 4, Newland, Indiana. J-ll For Sale—Some very fine pore-bred M. B. turkeys, both hens and toms. Some extra good toms. Want to dispose of all except those I will keep for my own use. Call early if you want some of these birds before they are all taken. — WM. HERSHMAN, Medaryvfcle. Ind., R-l. ts For Sale—ln The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department—steel die - umbering machines, rubber stamp daters, rubber stamp pads, typewriter ribbons for all practically makes of typewriters, spun glass ink erasers, account files, filing cabinets, typewriter papers, legal blanks, etc.

Office Supplies—Rubber stamp daters, Ink pads, steel die numbering machines, carbon paper, all kinds of typewriter papers, secondeheets in. onion-skin, both white and colored, etc., etc., at The Democrat office. For Sale—6oo-acre farm 1 mile from Oloster, Miss., nice city of 2.000 population. Farm Is well Improved. Located on Prentice highway, a macadam road being built from McComb to Natchez and which Intersects with the Jacksea highway. Price S3O per acre.— HARVEY DAVISBON, phone 2if or 499. W For Sale—Some real bargains la well improved farms located within three miles of Rensselaer. 120 a., 133 a., 212 a., 152 a., 80 a. I also have some exceptional bargains in Improved farms of all siaes farther put from Rensselaer. For further particulars see me or call phone 246, office, or 499. home.— HARVEY DAVISSON. tl FOR RENT For Rent—My house on Park avenue, electric lights, city water. — MARY JANE HOPKINS. ts

LOST Lost—Saturday afternoon, some place In to/wn, a pair of child’s brown kid mittens with black fur tops. Finder please leave at Democrat office. Ml Lost—Crank for Buick car, lost in Rensselaer last Saturday. Finder please leave at Democrat office. — ERNEST SAYERS, Phone 917-G. Lost—Brindle dog, answers to the ' name of “Sport.” Will pay $5 reward to anyone letting me know where he Is.—FRED MONSON, phone 207-R, Monon exchange. Jl6 WANTED Wanted Wood-choppers to cut cordwood near Rensselaer. —• JOHN J. LAWLER. See J. E. Walter, Mgr., phone 337. ts Married Men Wanted —To work on farm in lowa, good wages, steady work year around, furnish good house to live in, anilch cow and garden. State age of each In family, also experience in farming in first letter. Address J. W. CROWLY, Emmetsburg, lowa, J-18 Wanted —More farmers to know about the great land movement in the clover lands of Wisconsin. See me about the next excursion. Office in Wright Bldg., near Washington street bridge. Open evenings. Telephone 418. ELMER GWIN. . ts

MISCELLANEOUS Found—New Year’s eve, near Monnett school, tire chain for large car.—ORVILLE HUFF. Owner mayhave same iby calling at The Democrat office and paying for this ad. J-15. Lost—December 21, some place in the business section of Rensselaer, .a lady’s small black pocketbook containing between $5 and $6. Finder please call wDRS. W. H. TODD, plhone 925-D. J-15 Standing Timber—We Fare dry wood, standing timber, 2 to 3 miles west of Parr. Will sell In patches, any quantity desired.— J. J. LAWLER, phone J. E. Walter, Mgr. 337. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan.—CHA*. J. DEAN I SON, Odd Fellows, Building, Rensselaer. 1 p Mutual Insurance—Fire and LirM nlng. Also state cyclone. Infgnß of M. I. ADAMS. Phone Farm Loans—Money to loan eg farm property In any sums an M SIO.OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Advertise in the “Wlaait Column.'*