Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — Page 2

"WHM I WAS YOUNG." 1- — Thoro li a land where storm and calm and saa Mow each other with fast flying feet; ▲ land of hope, whose hours are {air and fleet. Where life seems long, and always just begun. With eager feet we press along its ways. Nor pause to watch the rainbow tinted skies; Another land of hope before us lies, And in our dreams it holds still fairer days. So slowly fades the brightness from the sky. So slowly hope turns backward from our side, We know not when we leave those highways wide,' Till we have passed the pleasant places by. Gladly would we that flowery path retrace, - i . And breathe that hope-inspiring air again; * But none among the weary sons of men Has found, once passed, the portajs of that place. Still memory bears us to that magic strand. With every year still dearer, brighter grown, And oft we speak its name with tender tone — ••When I Was young," oh, dear, enchanted land! * New Tory - . ■ - —' ■ • •

What Addie Did

Things really had been very dull in the town that winter, so when Addie Creamer was jilted by Alexander Bing the affair was like a revivifying draft te the jaded and wilting souls among the gossips. In a big city it is different. There when a young man or a young woman llnda a broken engagement on his or her hands he or she simply looks about and picks it another person of the opposite sex to cover up the situation; but when one lives in a place like Three Pines that is not so easy. Alexander, who was a tall young man with romantic eyes, was head •lark in the drug store. He simply walked off and married a girl in the next town whom he had met but twice. Then he sent back to Three Pines for his trunk. He was going into business with the girl’s father. “He knows better than to come hack here!” was the verdict of the exalted sewing circle. ‘He knows what n reception he’d get after treating Addle so! And Addie with six tablecloths and napkins to match, all initialed! Poor Addie!”

Addis was small and ash blonde, tbs sort that looks precisely the same at 40 M at 20. There was nothing Startling in her composition. Given a asrtaln: situation, one was perfectly sure what Addle would say or do. While this produces a soothing atmos-

phere, It Is not exactly the sort to lure on an admirer forever. Alexander bad fallen victim to a girl who always treated things In the opposite way from what he expected, so he had hastened to marry her as a relief from the monotony of Addle. "Addle nevgr looked at another man except him,” the sewing circle protested. "That's all a girl gets for being faithful and devoted. Men always lose their heads over the giddy, no-account kind. And Addle takes it so hard.” The sewing circle added the last sentence with a delightful relish. Certainly Addle was affording the gossips the full measure of enjoyment to be expected from the situation. The last time a girl had been Jilted in Three Pines, twenty-live years before, she had merely tossed her head higher and utterly refused to mention the affair. This conduct caused her to be disliked. Addie, however, wept herself red-eyed and pathetic and yearned for sympathy. The six tablecloths and the attendant napkins grew mussy and soiled from frequent exhibitions and handlings, for somehow she - extracted a mournful pleasure from showing them to her friends. Jt was as though Alexander's, wickedness thereby was made more absolute. Alexander having been snatched from the Immediate prospect, she was rudderless, aimless, so she let the town distract her. Above all. the sewing circle said, poor Addle must be distracted. She must be given an Interest In life. •o every one bent herself with raptore to the task. • Tales of atria whoHEaT pined away and died or lost their minds because of faithless lovers, were whispered —about wa rnthgly. Addle was so helptom and little that everybody said nobody could tell what might happen to fear unless her friends rallied' They got up tea parties and card

WEPT HERSELF RED-EYED.

“Yous daughteF was to glve in answer to a Very Important question this evening.” “Be seated, she will be down In a faalfrtenr wr so.” —-. “Is she making up her mind?” “No; that would not take long; It’s her tecs.” —Houston Post.

clubs and even a literature class, to all of which Addie allowed them to drag her, solemn-eyed and frequently sighing. She always sighed immediately if by any chance she so far forgot herself as to cheer up and smile at anything, for she had the vague feeling that she had transgressed conventionality under the circumstances if she found any pleasure in existence. She was the owner of a blasted life and outraged affections and usually she could remember it. The best of everything was given to Addle: She always got white meat without asking for it. The town felt very kindly toward her, because there was always something to talk about now. If one ran into a neighbor's to borrow a cup of butter one was apt to be told: "I saw Addie last night. She’s Just as thin as ever, poor girl! I don’t believe she'll ever get over it!” Then with the butter in one’s hand one could shake one's head sadly and say, ‘ No, she won’t. Once with Addle is forever. Alexander little knew what he was throwing away when he did what he did! I'm going to take her over some jell!”

In two years Addie was as much of a landmark as the old church tower or the stone bridge. She was always explained to strangers as a lovely girl, who had had an unfortunate love as-

fair, and whose heart was irremediably broken. She lent quite a tone to the town as she moved down Main street looking pathetic. People glowed upon her and Blghed sympathetically, for she was the romance of Three Pines personified. It was almost as good as going to a lovely sad matinee and crying one's eyes out. This being so, it can readily be seen what grounds for indignation Three Pines had when Addle, going away on a visit, captured an admirer and married him! Everybody groped about for a definite cause for complaint and, not finding any, toojc It out on the bride. She had disappointed everybody by d&rlug to cheer up and be like other human beings. - “Send Addie Creamer a wedding present?" cried the sewing circle as one woman. "Never! Not after her acting as she has: These girls who are ofT with one and on with another are too frivolous for us! We thought Addie was a nice girl, but evidently ehe didn't care much for Alexander after all. No doubt that's what made him do as he did. Poor Alexander!” —Chicago Dally News.

Inspiration.

Among the quaint scrapbooks of the late Clyde Fitch, all of which are now to be sold at auction, there was one devoted entirely to typographical errors. One of these errors appeared In a criticism of Ellen Terry. The reviewer wrote. “Her love of Portia made acting easy.’’ but the sentence appeared in the paper as “Her love of porter made acting easy.”—Washington Star.

Different.

HOME LOVING ROYALTY.

H*lm« Ml *r:» m Victor Oft*-* Set Q«t for Picnics with Children. No one was- more pleased than Italy’s king because circumstances compelled the Czar to visit him recently in the simplicity of his country seat at Racconigi rather than amid the pomp and circumstance which an imperial sojourn in Rome wonld have entailed. In contrast to that love of luxury which the majority of contemporary sovereigns affect, it would be difficult to find a more democratic royal couple than Vietor Emmanuel his consort. They seldom appear in public, preferring the society of their children and personal friehds, while his majesty's reception days are few and far between. The' ladies and gentlemen of the court are never invited to the royal table. Indeed, this function is the most homely of all, for few would recognize a Queen of Italy in the lady who sometimes has to help little Prifice Humbert through with his meal. Naturally, expenses at the Roman court have decreased enormously in the past nine years, but the King and Queen probably give the surplus in charity each year. Their majesties are ardent motorists and very often set out at crack of dawn with their four children for an all-day ride. On such occasions Queen Helena invariably attends to the luncheon, which is taken in a hamper. When King Victor does open the doors of the quirlnal he does ft with a vengeance. All the riff-raff of Roman society. If one may he permitted such a phrase, disport themselves at the two court balls of the year. On the other hand, the ladles and gentlemen in immediate attendance on the royal family are drawn from the most aristocratic and noble families of the kingdom. Besides' the ladles of the court who must lend their services for two months annually for a salary of SBOO, there are the “ladies of the palace.” These have to do duty In their own towns when occasion arises, and are unlimited in number. The Roman ladies of the palace, who only attend the chief festivals, are the Princesses Teano, Strozzl, Borghese and Countess Rusponi. Seldom, however, is there an opportunity for the feminine element of court to shine in all its glory. Quite another state of affairs existed in the days of King Humbert. When the celebrations in honor of his silver wedding were in progress Prince Doria gave so magnificent a banquet at his paMce on the Corso in honor of Emperor William. that the latter was forced to admit that such a show of splendor would be out of the question in Berlin, Quadrilles were common in those days when hhe flower of the aristocracy and the diplomatic corps would come arrayed in fancy costumes. King Victor has no use for such frivolity, and the immediate entourage of the throne of "Italy is the qqietest set of society leaders in the world today.—Rome Cor. New York World.

A Fortunate Moment.

Beaumarchais, whose plays, "The Barber of Seville” and “The Marriage of Figaro,” still command popularity, was an author whose head was turned at the slightest success. When “Figaro” was first performed, Beaumarchais was wild with delight. He rushed about like a madman, and on some one complaining of the heat, he did not give time for the windows to be opened, but broke all the panes with his cane. The Comte de Vaudreuil accordingly repented having accorded his protection to the author of “The Marriage of Figaro.” In fact, shortly after this representation Beaumarchais requested an audience, which Tie obtained at once, and went to Versailles at such an early hour that the count was barely out of bed. He began to speak of some financial project which he had conceived, and which he said would work wonders, and wound up by proposing to give Monsieur de Vaudreuil a considerable sum If he would undertake the guidance of the affair.

“Monjsieur de Beaumarchais,” the count replied, "you could not have arrived at a luckier time, for I have passed a good night, I have digested well, and have never felt better in my life. Had you come to me yesterday with such a proposition I should have thrown you out of the window.”

The New Kind.

Among the passengers in a parlor car attached to a Southern train .leaving Washington were a reticent Individual desirous of reacting his paper and a talkative person equally desirous of engaging the reserved one in conversation. At first the reticent man took the questions of his neighbor In good part, returning short but polite answers. Finally, however, he grew somewhat Irritated at the persistence of the other. •The grass is quite green, eh?” was the Idle query that next came from the garrulous- one as he gazed through the window. “Quite!” said the bored one, with a smothered growl: “But, then, consider what a change it Is from the pink and mauve grass we've been having lately I’’—Harper’s Weekly.” ■ > jj A bey enjoys cold weather, except when It Is time to get up in the morning; a boy doesn’t enjoy any kind of weather when It Is time to get np lir the morning. But few, of the heroes v in novels would be able to make good in real Ufa. »—-

MAN WHO WROTE DIXIE

Dan Decatur Emmett, Pioneer Minstrel, Composed Now'Celebrated Song. \ \ FIRST POPULAR IN THE NORTH. Sung for Months Before It Was Adopted by the Confederacy— Career of the Author. Everybody knows “Dixie.” Its delightful music is as inspiring to every true born American as “Yankee.poodle” or “The Star-Spangled Banner." And yet very few whose hearts haVe danced to its -strains have -known much, 4f anything, concerning its author. that the city of Memphis has Inaugurated a movement to erect a monument to Daniel Decatur Emmett, the world at large will continue to hear for some time about that interesting personality, who is not only notable as the originator of “Dixie,” but also as one of the pioneer “Big Four” black-face comedians who invented modern American minstrelsy. “Uncle Dan” Emmett, for that used to be the genial old minstrel’s favorite term of address, once told himself the story of how he came to write his now celebrated song. Declared “Uncle Dan:” “In the spring of 1859 I was engaged at New York City, with the Bryant’s minstrels. My particular task was to compose comic negro and plantation songs. One night Mr. Bryant requested me to compose a -new plantation ‘walk around,’ one with a lively tune and catchy chorus, that the boys could learn quickly and sing through the streets, so as to make it popular. Next day, being a very rainy one, I was compelled to remain indoors, when I composed ‘Dixie’ as it is now sung verbatim throughout both sections of this Union. It was composed and sung north at least eighteen months before it was even sung in the south, when the Confederates adopted it as their national song.”

i Emmett was born of southern parentage, even though his birth d|d take place outside of “Dixie.” It was upon -a farm In Ohio that he lived for ten years after his career In negro minstrelsy. A 1 G. Fields found him living there In utter obscurity when in. his 81st year and took him touring with his burnt-cork* band. He was only 17 years qld when he left his little Buckeye home to Join a circus as musician and comic singer. Before the birth of modern minstrelsy he used to play a banjo in some of the New York theaters at night. This wa3 as early as 1842. It was in the next year that “Dan” Emmett, “Billy” Whitlock, Frank Brower and “Dick" Pelham organized the first minstrel company in history.. They did Essence of Old Virginia” and the “Lucy Long Walk Around.” Emmett composed his other.- famous song of “Old Dan Tucker,” also his “Boatman’s Dance,” - Along, John" and “Early In the Mornln'.” Emmett’s tour with A 1 G. Fleldfi was the last he ever made. Mr. Fields speaks in the highest praise of the character and innate modesty of this old-time Ethiopian impersonator, who never sought notoriety as the author of his universally sung masterpieces. Among Mrv. Fields' treasures is an original program of the T 859 Mechanics’ Hall entertainment when “Dixie” was first played and sung by Bryant’s dusky comedians.

BRITAIN’S YOUNGEST PEERS.

Where Wealth and Rank Have Been Inherited by Minors. The recent tragic death of Lord de Clifford has resulted In the adding of one more to the list of boys of tender years who have Inherited ancient titles and many acres, Tit-Bits says. The late Lord de Clifford —who married that popular actress Miss Eva Carrlngtoi three years ago—is succeeded by hiß son, who was born in 1907, and who thus at 2 years of age becomes the proud possessor of about 13,000 acres and is the youngest living pe^r. Perhaps the most interesting boy peer In the kingdom, however, is Lord Donegal, n)o(her enjoys the distinction of being the only Canadian marchioness in the peerage. Her marriage to the marquis was one of the sensations of 1902, for she was only 23, while her husband Was, 81. The latter lived for only seven months to enjoy the society of his who was born In 1903, and thus before he was 12 months old the young marquis not oniy Inherited his father’s title, but became hereditary lord high admiral of Lough Neagh—the largest lake in the united kingdom—a naval command dating back to t*e reign of Elizabeth. The little admiral derives no pay or emoluments from his. office, but he has several notable perquisites, Including the right to wear the uniform of an admiral of the fleet and to receive, an admiral's salute. In addition he Is hereditary' governor of Oarrick-Ftrgus castle, and Is at all times entitled to free quarters In that fortress. The tragic circumstances connected with the succession of the very youthffil Lord de Clifford remind one of the tragic death two years ago of Lord Cheaham, one of the most popular men in England, who was killed In the hunting field. He was succeeded by

hla son, who at that time was only 1$ i years'old. Tbs present Lord Bolingbroke attained his 13th birthday last March, and a romantic sto# is attached to his inheritance. Everybody thought that the late Lord Bolingbroke, the fifth viscount, who died ten years ago at the age of 79, was a bachelor. t As a matter of fact he had been married six years previously, and the present peer is his son. Lord Alkie, whose mother is one of the ladles in waiting to the Princess, of Wales, Inherited his earldom when he was 7 years old, his gallant father being one of the many for whose untimely death the Boer war was responsible. Another boy peer who inherited title and lands at 7 year* of age is Lord Lisburne, who succeeded his father ten years ago. Lord Congleton, 3110 recently celebrated his 19th birthday, succeeded his father some three years ago. Lord St. Leonards likewise sees his 19th blrthday thls year. and succeeded hla uncle, the second baron, in 1908. Lord Vernon, who achieved his majority at the end of has held his barony since he' was 10. He is the head* of the family of which Lewis Harcourt is a member, and can trace -his descent from Plantagenet kings, although the bhrony is less than a century and a half old. Other peers whose majority is still well ahead are Lord Carbery, Lord Shannon, who will be 12 years old in November, and Lord Exmouth, who Is 19-next month.

LAW IN THE WILDERNESS.

What an Officer of Canada’* Mounted Police Stand* For. An officer of the mounted police is not an exponent of the law; he is the" law Itself. When he rides his cayuse *to foothill camp or threads on snowshoes the worn- north trails of the trapper, he goes clad with the authority of courts. He preserves order, but he also makes arrests; he tries offenders ,ln_his own courts, and . then escorts the man upon whom sentence has fallen to a prison of his own making, where the lawbreaker may be for fen days or thirty years. .Back of that slight, silent, steel nerved rider is the strong arm of England and the whole of Cana-dian-jurisprudence, and when he speaks, it is as one with authority. In extreme cases, when the death penalty has to be enforced, one mounted policeman may have to act as clergyman, executioner and coroner. “All this I swear without any mental evasion, equivocation, or secret reservation. So help me, God”—with these impressive words do raw recruits and grizzled soldier - enter the service of the mounted police and swear fidelity to his majesty, Edward VII., says Agnes Deans Cameron in the Century. It is not prospective wealth that tempts a man to become an empire-builder in this mounted force of Greater Canada, “for hard is her service, poor her payment." The newly recruited constable gets 60 cents a day, his term of engagement is five years, and he may look forward to re-ehgagdment on a second term, with a staft/sergeant's pay of from $1 to $1.50 a day to work up to. Recruits must be between the ages of 22 and 40, active men of - thoroughly sound constitution and possessed of certificates of exemplary 'character. They must be able to read and write in either English or French, understand horses, -ride well, "measure up to the minimum height of five feet eight Inches, haye a chest measurement of thirty-five inches, weigh not over 175 pounds, and be unincumbered with a wife.

OLD ENGLISH COOKERY.

A Lively Feast with Much Delight and Pleasure. A study of Robert May’s “Accomplisht Cook,” published in 1865, will serve to dispel the delusion fostered by many foreign critics that English cookery lacks variety. One of May’j recipes Is for the construction of a ship of confectionery, with guns charged With actual powder, and a castle of pies, containing live frogs and birds. After giving directions as to the firing of the guns he proceeds: “This done, to sweeten the stink of the powder let the ladles take the eggshells full of sweet waters and throw them at each other. All danger being seemingly over, by this time you may suppose they will desire to see what is in the pyes; when, lifting first the lid off one pye, out skip some frogs, which makes the ladles to skip and shriek; next after the. other pye, whence come out the birds who, by a natural instinct, flying ffi the light will put out the candles; so that, what with the flying birds and skipping frogs, the one above, the other beneath, will cause much delight and pleasure to the whole company.”—London Chronicle.

The Portly Poet.

“What has become of the old time gaunt attic poet?,” “He’s moved down to the first floor front now, and is dictating to his stenog’.”—Boston Herald.

The Experienced Father.

Wise —My dear, the nursery needs -redecorating. What would you suggest for thq walls? ..Husband—Corrugated iron —Wotnan’s Home Companion.

An Advantage.

Brown —Yes, I’m acquainted with your wife, old man. I knew her before you married her. Smith —Ah* that’s where you had the advantage of me—l didn’t—Life. '7 ' i '• •• y;;'- 1 -'--: 1..

DIVING BELL SPIDERS.

Oatierlig Air -for I'm 1b Working Under Water.' The, diving bell spiders gather air to use Just as a soldier might draw Tfater and dispose it about his person-‘in water bottles. They do this In two wags, one of which is characteristic of many of the creatures which live both in and out of the water, as the spider does. The tall of the spider is covered with black, velvety hair. Putting its tail out of the water, it collects much air in the interstices of the velvet. It then descends, when all this air drawn beneath the surface collects into a single bubble, covering its tail and breathing holes like’ a coat of quicksilver. This supply the spider uses up when at work below until it dwindles " to a single speck, when it once more ascends and collects a fresh store. The writer has seen one of these spiders spin so many webs across the stems of water plants in a limited space that not only the small water shrimps and larvae, buTTevemi young fish, were entangled. The. otner and more artistic means of gathering air employed by the spider is to catch a bubble on the surface and swim below with it. The bubble is then let go into a bell woven under some pl&nt, into which many other bubbles have been drawn. In this diving bell he eggs are laid and the young hatcned under the constant watch of the old spider.— London Saturday Review.

WHY THE COOK STAYED.

The Social Matrons were having a meeting to discuss the never-ending question j>f cooks. It was the almost unanimous opinion of the assembly, after an hour’s talk, that it was impCesible to keep a cook more than a month without changing: “However,” announced the president, "if any person knows of an exceptional case, let ‘ her speak.” A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger tells the story: At this the new member timidly rose. “The exception is in my house.” y she said. <’ * “How long have you had your cook?” asked the president. “Over five years.” For a moment the others stared in amazement; then heads began to bob in admitation, and more heads began to swing sidewise in vigorous distrust of the statement. ' “Is this cook entirely satisfactory as a cook?” ...... • “My, husband thinks not, but she stays, nevertheless.” "How do you manage to keep her, then?” “Because she won’t go.” “Aha!” This ejaculation, which escaped frotn the president's -mouth, was flashed like magic through the meeting until it became a huge wave. The president regarded the new member with half-pity, half-scorn. “Mrs. Smith,” said she, the next moment, ‘instead of advancing a case in which a long-sought solution might have been found, you expose yourself as being worse off than any of your sisters. You show that by allowing this cook to stay over the month you have enabled the mental io attain and an ascendency oyer you and your husband—just the thing this society has so long fought against! No doubt you regret your position, Mrs. Smith ” “I do not!” she replied, bridling through the sniffs and tart insinuations that scintillated about her. “I am the cook!”

How Turner Painted.

If we are to believe Thornbury, the wonderful “Burning of the House of Lords and Commons” was almost entirely painted after the canvas. was hung on the walls of the Royal Acad- >. emy. So certain wqs Turner of himself at that period that jie would send to the exhibition Just a laid in sketch, trusting entirely to varnishing days to complete He would arrive at the academy as early as 4 o’clock in the morning and be among the last to leave in the evening. Unlike Lawrence, who had to step back constantly to Judge of effects. Turner would work, scr to say, with hla nose to the canvas. When Lord HiTI at too close quarters looked at the houses of parliament picture he condemned it as “nothing but dabs." Catching its magical effect from a Just distance, however, he exclaimed en- ' thusiastlcally: “Painting! God bless me! So it 4s!” According to Thornbury, Turner made.a number of sketches of the fire, but produced two pic- * tures only.—London News.

Stolen Place Names.

There are many- stolen place names outside Lancashire, the most flagrant instance of- theft being afforded 45y Etruria, in Staffordshire,'which annexed this name because Wedgwood’s copies of Etruscan pottery were manufactured there. Then In Wales vte find Bethesdd and Hebron, jmd in Scotland Joppa, Alexandria and Portpbello. entia, off the Irish coast, is named after Spanish town, but this is hardly a case of theft, as the Spaniards themselves bestowed the name on the island. Aspatria, in Cumberland, looks like a name filched from Italy, but IS in reality a corruption of Gospatrick.

Chinese Naturalisation Law.

By China’s law on nationality anjw person who has lived In Chips ten years and .is above 21 years jbY age,, of good moral standing, being helpful to China, may be allowed to assume Chinese nationality. If asked for.