Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1909 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY. - * '&.■ = Thm Friday Issue Is ths Regular WMklf Edition. ■ HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Sally, by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week. By Kail, $3.75 a year. Semi-Weekly, la advance, Tear $1.50. Friday, June 11, 1909.'

NEWLAND.

Art Kennedy spent Sunday with Claude Boman. Letha Rees took dinner with Zella Bowen Sunday. Art Kennedy weeded onions for Ed Oliver Thursday. Mrs. Wm. Rees called on Mrs. Ed Oliver Saturday. Mary Rees called on Lola Oliver Sunday afternoon. T. M. Callahan was a Rensselaer caller Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver went up next to Wheatfield Thursday. Miss Ethel Walker spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Lola Oliver. Ed Oliver and wife and Ed Walker were up near Wheatfield Sunday. Floyd Tow spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks near Wolcott. Wm. Rees and wife called on T. M. Callahan and wife Wednesday evening. I guess Claude got scared out a while back; as w r e don’t see him very often. Ernest Rees and Clifford Wells spent Sunday with Everett and Ray Walker. Claude Boman and Everett Walker called on Art Kennedy Wednesday afternoon. Zella Bowen and Newt Kaupke called on Letha, Mary and Ernest Rees Sunday evening. The graphaphone man is in these / parts again and brought a lot more new records with him. Jim, Willie and Homer Jordan spent Sunday afternoon with Everett, Ray and Flora Walker. The girls couldn’t play even one game of croquet with out Floyd, for fear they would get beat. .Ed Snider and wife and baby spent Sunday with the former’s parents; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Snider. Willie and Ora Watson, of near Medaryville, took dinner with the latter’s uncle, Wm. Rees, and family. The wheat, oats, corn, rye and potato crops look fine in this vicinity. It is a better prospect of a large crop than has been seen for several years around here. Dave Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen and two sons, George and Sam, and daughter, Zella, Newt Kaupke and Letha Rees attended the show r at Pleasant Grove Friday evening. Those that spent Sunday evening with Ed Oliver and family and Floyd Tow were: E. Kennedy and family, Letha, Mary and Ernest Rees, Geo. Gorbet and Everett Walker. They were entertained by Floyd Tow’s graphaphone. All had an enjoyable time. Sometimes you may be told that there are other things just as good as DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. That isn’t so. Nothing made is as good as DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills for any ailments of the kidney or bladder, which always result in weak back, backache, rheumatic pains, rheumatism and urinary disorders. A trial of DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills is sufficient to convince you how good they are. Send your name to E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago, for a free trial box. They are sold by all druggists. The ministers of the various Crawfordsville churches have decided to hold union services on Sunday evenings during the months Of July and August In the Airdome, the summer theater. Mr. A. F. Long is pleased to announce to his customers that he has secured the agency for Zemo, the best known remedy for the positive and permanent cure of Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Blackheads, Piles and every form of Skin or Scalp disease. Zemo gives Instant relief and cures by destroying the germ that causes the disease, a clean, healthy skin See display and photos of cures made by Zemo at Long’s drdg store. The county commissioners have voted to abandon the Orphans’ Home after June 15th. The, resigning matron, Mrs. Jacob Senour, goes to Mishawaka to take charge of a charitable institution, and the five children in the county home at now will accompany her.

SAYS LEAGUE CONTRIBUTES TO HANS WAGNER'S SALARY

Old Baseball Magnate Tells How Btar Player Was Kept from Jumping Old Organizstion. “Hans Wagner’s salary is not all paid for by Dreyfuss,” said an old baseball magnate the other day in discussing the national game, “and most persons will think there Is something ‘queer’ when they know how it is paid.” He then went on to explain that Wagner receives SIO,OOO a year, $6,000 of which is paid by the Pittsburg club, $2,000 by the National league and $2,000 by contribution from the other seven league clubs. “When the American league was started six years ago,” he continued, ’ “an offer was made to Wagner to pay him $50,000 if he would join that organization. This sum was to be guaranteed by depositing the $50,000 in some bank, and Wagner was to be to draw SIO,OOO a year from the fund. Wagner went with this offer to Dreyfuss, who demurred at meeting it, but agreed to pay Wagner a smaller salary and guaranteed to pay him the difference in five years from the amount he drew from the Pittsburg club and the $50,000 guaranteed by the American leaguers, should the American league be In existence. When this agreement was made there was present besides Wagner" and Dreyfuss, Harry C. Pulliam, now president of the National league, but then secretary of the Pittsburg dlub. At the,expiration of five years, in the spring of 1908, Wagner went to Dreyfuss and demanded the difference. The matter was taken to Pulliam, who at once remembered the agreement and declared Wagner entitled to the money. It was on the payment of the balance due Wagner, according to the magnate, that the present deal involving Honus’ salary was made. Dreyfuss is said to have represented to his National league colleagues that he was entitled to some Consideration for keeping Wagner in the National league and that it was not fair to make him pay the balance due Wagner. Then they all “chipped in,” made up the deficit, and later came to the salary agreement which makes Wagner not the property of the Pittsburg club, but the property of the whole National league.

BOSTON’S STAR OUTFIELDER.

Tris Speaker, the Texas importation with the Boston Americans, is the hero of the hour, and what the club would do without him is indeed a question. He has been clouting the ball like a wild man so far this season. • Speaker is a natural batsman, and all pitchers seem to look alike to

Tris Speaker.

him. He Is not only a fine batsman, but a wonderful fielder, covering a vast amount of territory and recovering himself quickly, and throwing strongly and accurately after the most difficult catches. He is very youngy and has a very fine career befpre him! He will give anyone a hustle for first honors in batting in the American league this season, according to critics.

Play Like Old-Timers.

Connie Mack has been robbing the kindergartens. Witl\.the exception of Davis, Plank and Murphy, his team looks a great deal like the freshman nine from Backwater college; but they only look that way. They play somewhat like a first division major league team. Eddie Collins, Barry, Baker, Barr and Oldring certainly haven’t been voting long.

Calls Sunday His "Jonah.”

The veteran, Theo. Breitenstein, New Orleans’ leading pitcher, declares he will never pitch again on Sunday. Not on account of religious Bcrupleg, but he believes the day is a Jonah to him. He has not won a Sunday game in several years, and rarely loses on week days.

MONEY CHANGERS KNOW A LOT.

Indeed They Have To, to Keep Track of European Cioins and Counterfeits. “I never realized until today/’ said a man who had Just returned from ’Europe, “what an undertaking It Is to be a money changer. “I came back with about S2O in foreign money, principally French and Italian. This I took to a money changer’s to cash in. “He lookeu over the coins rapidly, throwing them into little piles and putting down notes on a slip of paper. When he had cleared up the lot he said I had $10.25 coming to me. “At first I thought he was doing me. But he was not. He showed me a dozen or so Italian coins that had been demonetized and were wortn about 40 cents on the dollar. There was a nice little pile of counterfeits that were not worth a cent, and altogether only about a third of the coins that I brought home were worth their full value. “The only consolation I had was that I thanked by stars I am in the insurance business and not in the exchange business for my poor little brain could not carry half the things that those fellows have to remember.” The man with the coins did not exaggerate. There are thousands of different coins floating about that a money changer has to know. He has to keep in mind every demonetized coin made within the last hundred years. In addition to that there are counterfeits. The immigrants bring over heaps of bad coins. Many of them buy up counterfeits cheap with the hope of exchanging them at Ellis Island. Then there are the coins of the South American countries. They are worse than those of the European countries. Brazil for instance has a scheme all its own. Certain notes are good for ten years, after that time for every year they lose 10 per cent, of their face value until the whole value is used up and they are worth only the paper they are printed on. As one man expressed it you have to know the history of the world to be a money changer. A peculiar part of the business is the reshipment of coins back to the countries whence they came. Often during the rush season one firm sends back a million coins, while it is estimated that in the course of a year $10,000,000 in foreign money is reshipped to Europe and a million to the rest of the world. , Money changing is a business just like any other. They do not exchange money. They buy it. When you go there with foreign coins they buy them from you at a, stated price. When you go there to get foreign coins you buy them from them at a certain price just as you buy eggs and cigars.

CLOTH FROM IRON AND STONE.

A Wool Made in Electrical FurnaceFabric From old Ropes. Cloth of gold the fairy books describe; cloth of iron is a real product of the mills. Iron cloth is used largely today by tailors for making the collars of coats set fashionably. It is manufactured from steel wool by a new process and has the appearance of having been woven from horsehair. - Wool whi"h n°" Q, ~ g qw the. hack, of a sheep is being largely utilized on the Continent for making men’s suits. It is known by the name of limestone wool and is made in an electric furnace. Powdered limestone mixed with a certain chemical is thrown into the furnace and after passing under a furious blast of air is tossed out as fluffy, white wool. After coming from the furnace, the wool is dyed and finally made into lengths of cloth. A pair of trousers or a coat made from this material can be burned or damaged by grease and is as flexible as cloth made from tlie sheep’s wool. Some time ago an English clothing manufacturer succeeded in making a fabric from old ropes. He obtained a quantity, of old rope and cordage and unravelled them by a secret process into a kind of rough cloth. A suit of clothes made from it and worn by the manufacturer himself proved strong in the extreme and kept its color well. It is said that a number of goods sold by some of the best London tailors at low prices are made of old ropes.

Goose on Michaelmas Day.

The origin of eating goose on Michaelmas Day dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth. On her way to Tilbury Fort on Sept. 20, 1589, she dined on roast goose and Burgundy wine. With the last glass she drank “Destruction to the Spanish Armada.” As she drained the glass news came of the destruction of the Spanish fleet by a storm. Thereupon she ordered that roast goose should be served for her every year on that day, and the custom soon became general among the people. - ,

Quite True.

“The best laid plans—” “Yes, go an.” , “I was going to say that the best laid plans of grafters are sometimes discovered."

Tall persons live longer than short ones, and those born in the spring have sounder constitutions than those born at any other season.

CORRECT WALKING POSITION.

Keeping One Knee Stiff Prevents * ‘‘Wobbling” Wh«n in Motion. It Is quite true that correct walking is the exception, which isa pity. As an exercise it is one of the best that can be taken, and when done as it should be improves the figure, makes good poise, grace and ease. Every woman knows the heels together toes apart position that Is taught to children as soon as they begin to toddle, but few know precisely what standing erect is. Without this walking canribt be at its best, for the weight of the body must be properly poised; else the figure will be thrown out of drawing. Every one almost knows that the balls of the feet should support the Weight, and that the shoulders should be thrown back. Too often thinking they are attaining this and a “straight” figure, women hold themselves so that the abdomen is thrown forward instead of being held In, and an exceedingly awkward carriage Is developed. Correctly, the weight of the body is a little thrown forward to the balls of the feet, the heels, of course, being together and toes out, the abdomen is held in, the shoulders are thrown back and chest and chin are raised. This chest raising Is too little done, and when practiced will give a woman not only a good carriage, but a firm, rounded neck, which will have ho hollows or angles. It Is easily known when the chest Is being held correctly, for it will be literally brought up the shoulders are thrown back. If one can rise on the toes without swaying the body the position is correct. A line dropped from the nose would fall only a little in advance of the toes without touching any part of the body but the chest. Breathing must of course be deep.

A girl who wishes to walk properly, and at the same time improve her figure, cannot do better than to practice in her room, wearing only loose clothes with a short skirt. Leaving off corsets will train the muscles of the body to depend upon themselves, will force the shoulders into the proper line to avoid “sloppiness,” and a girl who holds herself well then will have a beautiful figure.

The first position for walking is merely that of a correctly held body, which instinctively sways forward for the moment as one foot goes forward for the step. The knee corresponding to the foot that goes forward, bends a little as the foot is raised. The last movement of the foot forward throws the weight on the ball, which holds it as the other foot gets ready to go through the same movements done by the flrst. The secret of good walking consists in keeping the weight properly poised, and the knee stiff when the foot corresponding is on the ground or at the back.

Hetty Green’s Religious Views.

“The meeting doesn’t begin until half past 7, and It’s not yet 7 o’clock,” she explained as she led me down the long aisle to the second pew and invited me to sit close to her in the corner of it. “My friend and I came early, in order to get good seats.” ‘ls this church your shade of belief?” I asked. “Oh, no,” she retorted In the confidential whisper which characterizes all her conversation. “No, I was bred a Quaker, but I go to every kind of a church, and I once held mortgages on twenty-eight. It doesn’t matter to me what the denomination Is; T beneve that any oT them will serve, so long as the people who attend them keep the commandments; but I am a Quaker, just the same. I believe In simplicity. It’s that, you know, that makes me what folks call ‘mean.’ The fact Is, I prefer not to be extravagant. When I went to Quaker school they used to make us eat at the next meal Whatever we had left on our plates. The directors said that If the rich girls did not learn to economize there would be no money left with which to educate the poor girls. So that was what made me like this.” —• Carol Ford In National Magazine for September.

THE HOME DRESSMAKER.

One of the most successful ways to darn wools and silks Is to take ravelings from the material. Split the thread into the needle, with the help of wax. In this way the thread or silk matches the goods exactly. The poinsettia flower, so popular In winter house decoration, Is largely featured in many cushion tops of the season. Strongly tinted in brilliant reds It is tremendously effective. One of the simplest and prettiest of corset covers Is made in round baby shape, simply gathered at the waist and around the Bhoulders. The front of the waist is made of allover embroidery In Bmall clover or other figures. The back Is plain, and so is the material, which basques sufficiently below the waist to actually protect the corsets from skirt bands which might soil them. Val. lace finishes the garment around the neck and Bleeves. Drawing threads in linen for hemstitching is done with greater ease If the fabric is soaped. Make a lather and apply over the space with a shaving birush, and when the linen Is dry the threads will pull out mote readily.

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