Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — Page 2

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Hobby—“ Any favorite object, pursuit, or topic.” To relieve the daily monotonous grind, to have a “hobby” provided its not detrimental to self or others, is a good thing. One may have more than one, owing perhaps to season of the year. To illustrate: at the present time ye editor’s hobby is the garden patch and he can’t even come for a meal without strolling out to see how things have “growed” and in this hobby, wilie happens to agree though we are all well aware there are hobbies that husband and wife don’t agree on, mostly the husband’s. The daily grind bn “Change” and in the business marts of the city is in most cases a nerve racking body wearing proposition either mentally or physically. Men get so absorbed, a hurriedly snatched meal is all the time he spares away from his office, and each is more or less a pull down grade against nature in the bodily sense. A Chicago paper recently commented upon the number of millionaires that have been laid away in their graves under the age of thirty-five. Their hobby was money, but after all did it pay? We can readily presume that too late they would have willingly given up a fortune to get back health. Perhaps a hobby that led to the golf links or out on the boulevards behind a favorite horse or other harmless and helpful recreation, would have kept him on terra firma much longer. Sure it is that in the following of some of our hobbies we pay the price. Some of us paying it now. Sometimes our hobbies are confined to certain seasons of the year as indicated before, but then again we have them in the different periods of life. During the “saphead” period the hobby is the best girl, but of times after marriage, said hobby gets to be a “nag” which is another definition of “hobby,” and then hubby sometimes follows other hobbies either in a business way to bury his marital disappointment or in some remote instances (and not so infrequent either) find his “affinityelsewhere. To admire horses —and who doesn’t admire a fine horse —is but natural and it isinany a man’s hobby, being a harmless diversion, but “following the ponies,” to copy a race track phrase, especially when one gets the most of liis money on the “slows” puts one in the has been or also ran class. Many employes in our cities owe their Saturday half holidays to the fact that the employer is a baseball crank. Many a staid quiet business man goes daffy at a ball game. One such told us that to utterly forget his office or business cares for the time being, the ball game wag the only thing that could take his mind entirely away. In some of the most strenuous business pursuits in metropolitian marts the man is keyed up to the highest tension with his faculties on the alert every minute of the day and too often far into the night. This tension must be relieved, like the strings of the fiddle, once in awhile, or something will snap, or the strings are soon out of tune, dead or useless. After the performance, the bow is unstrung till that of the next, but man gets “unstrung” by overdoing. He realizes too late the strings and sinews of life have been played upon at too high a tension and here is where a harmless helpful hobby would be of benefit, but all men do not have hobbies beneficial in his case or perhaps somothers one that would be, from greed of further gain, by begrudging the time that would be necessary to indulge in or enjoy it. Thus it seems possible by developing our harmless hobbies or diversions, we may add to our span of life. He has accomplished much indeed who can go home at • night and leave all business cares behind. We could dwell at length on the multitude of hobbies of our friends, including the maiden lady and her cat who retorts that a cat is far preferable to a dog of a husband, and perhaps some of the fair sex may at times regret they exchanged their hobby for a “hubby” but suffice it to say we all know what our hobbies are and we do not want in some instances for the world to know what they are. We know whether they are harmful or otherwise —“As a man tliinketh so is he.”

THE DEADLY GASOLINE CAN.

The mother who permits young girls to use the oil can to build fires may have a life regret because of it, as many a girl has been burned to death. Another more dangerous operation is the filling of gasoline stoves. Mothers should attend to such duties unless a daughter of matured years is accustomed to do it. Gasoline is dangerous when its vapor gets about a room and this is the time of year when fatalities begin to be reported. “Familiarity breeds contempt” is only too true in the handling of gasoline and one must ever have it in mind that death lurks in the shadow of the gasoline can.

Success means more than more than honor, more than any pf the things that most men strive for. Success mcaps happiness, contentment, peace. Without these things, neither money, power nor fame is worth one penny to the man who strives; and without them many of the so-called successful men live and die, while many unsuccessful men, in the world’s eyes, have them in fullest measure. —G. E. Harter.

Seems like Sunday with Roosevelt away. Wish Taft would get himself bitten by h dog, or something to get his name in the papers somehow. Are we to have a New World Spinx?

We may not always get the hook into the fish’s anatomy but we are sure to get it into all parts of ours.

It is said if you bring up a boy the way he should go, he’ll never go to the legislature. v

HOBBIES.

WHAT SUCCESS MEANS.

WAKE UP.

OF COURSE.

ANOTHER SHE BEAR.

KING OF SWAN ISLAND.

He's a Philanthropist and Well Liked* Especially by Seaman. Among the saloon passengers arriving in Boston recently on the steamer San Jose, from Port Limon, Costa Rica, was Alonzo Adams, owner of Swan Island, and who is known throughout Central America as the king of Swan Island. His domain is a fertile island situated in tne Caribbean Sea, upon which he has a beautiful residence and numerous houses for his laborers. He raises fruit and cocoanuts and employs several hundred men. Mr. Adams is a philanthropist, and has assisted not only the inhabitants of several of the friends of the Caribbean, but is of especial help to mariners. Knowing the value of a light to guide the vessels running through the Caribbean on their way from New York and Boston to Port Limon and other points, he built and maintains a light on the island, which can be seen for many miles, and rays of which warn the captains of steamers not to approach too close to the shallow waters in the vicinity. Mr. Adams is sixty-five years old and is a native of Eastport. He keeps informed of what is transpiring in the world by the papers brought to him by passing steamers.—Philadelphia Press.

The Ultra Microscope.

The ultra microscope is a recent device of science. By its aid it is expected that many micro-organisms which hitherto defied observation will be detected. As the classification of microbes has advanced, biologists have inclined to the conclusion that many must still remain unknown, too small to be perceived with any instrument hitherto in use.

The fiew apparatus is the invention of two Frenchmen, Cotton and Monton. It involves no change in the existing arrangement of lenses. It is the system of lighting that is revolutionized. The ray is used at right angles to the axis of the instrument, instead of coinciding with it. Thus the light sweeps across the objective parallel with its plane. By this means it is said that many particles so small that they have defied detection under the most powerful glasses become visible as brilliant points. It is a new world, enthusiastic microscopists say, that is opened to scientific study.

Italians Like Picture Shows.

Milan, the center of Italy for the moving picture machine trade, has already about 40 such theaters. Every available hall is being turned into a moving picture show, while nearly every second and third-rate theater and “case ehantant’’ finishes the evening’s entertainment with a few cinematograph pictures. During the dun summer months even the larger theaters are used.

Door For Great Occasions.

Many old houses in Holland have a special door which is never openeu save on special occasions—when there is a marriage or a death in the family. The bride and briaegroom enter by this door and it is then nailed or barred up until a death occurs, when it is opened, and the body is removed by this exit-

Children’s Playgrounds Increasing.

The number of children’s playgrounds is Increasing rapidly in many cities. —Recent statistics covering cities between 25,000 and 300,000 population show there has been in two years an increase of 94 per cent iu school playgrounds, and a total increase of all kinds of playgrounds of 54 per cent in that period.

"Bunny” Plentiful in Australia.

To keep the plague of rabbits from destroying the pastoral industries of Australia 16,152 miles of public and private rabbit-netted fences have been erected at a cost of $4,000,000. Queensland alone spends $400,000 a year in erecting and maintaining fences to keep out “bunny. 1 ’

Human Hair Crop Profitable.

The human hair crop is a profitable and expensive industry. Five tons of it are annually imported by the merchants of London. The center of the trade is Paris, where 200,000 pounds are harvested annually, with a valuation of $4,000,000.

Ribbon Manufacture Increasing.

The production of ribbons at 9t. Etienne amounted In 1906 to $19,000,000, being an Increase of $3,000,000 over the previous year. Exportation was somewhat over $6,000,0vu, or aA increase of $2,000,000 as compared with 1905. .

Children Praying About Dying.

A British scientist nas spoken against children praying about dying while they are asleep. It Is a great mistake, he said, to let children think of sudden death.

Chicagoans Spend $300,000 for Shines.

It is estimated that people in Chicago spend $300,000 a year in keeping their shoes polished. Of this amount profits are said to be SIOO,OOO.

Kipling’s School.

Rudyard Kipling said to me once in conversing on the subject of an exchange of ideas, “Why, all I ever knew somebody told me."

$365,000 to Receive The Czar. England tjad to pay $365,000 to bare Czar Nicholas visit London in 1644. Of this $60,000 was spent in redeooratlng Buckingham palace. • r ;

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LEE ITEMS.

Mr. Tomalson is pressing hay for Mr. Lathan. Mr. Guild, of Medaryville, was here on business Monday. Mrs. Watson, of Monon, was visiting Mrs. B. Dodd Tuesday. Mrs. Blankenship and children went to Rensselaer Wednesday morning. J. R. Clark, S. M. Jacks and A. R. Clark are pressing hay for Mr. Gilmore. Miss Anna Zable went to Monon Monday night to have her eyes examined. J. H. Culp and family Cassie and Flossie Holeman and Jose and Lural Anderson went fishing Tuesday. J. C. Lewis, of Remington, came Sunday morning and, after spending the day with relatives, returned, taking his family, who had been visiting here.

Life 100,000 Years Ago.

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Sam Caught On.

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