Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — Page 2

T.IAMM OF KEH. ' 0 When they are dead, we heap the laurels high Above them where. Indifferent, they lie; We Join their deeds to unaccustomed praise. And crown with garlands of immortal bays. Whom, living, we but thought to crucify. As mountains seem less glorious viewed too nigh. So, often, do the great whom we decry Gigantic loom to our astonished gaze—■ When they are dead; For, shamed by largeness, littlenesses diet And partisan and narrow hates put by, We shrine our heroes for the future days; ’ v And to atone our ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion try When they are dead. > —Florence Earle Coates.

“Do you know, I had Buch an extraordlnsry dream last night,” said Della, •• she poured out my first cup of tea at breakfast. “A delightful dream it was. Instead of those horrid things one generally dreams about —falling down precipices, and bulls, and trying to eatch trains, and all that; this was quite different” She had handed me my cup, and now, forgetting her own, sat with her albows on the table and an absent look In her eyes. Della came back from dreamland with a sigh, and stirred her tea. “It wasn’t so much what it was," she explained, cryptically, “as the feeling at It" “What sort of feelingT Rapture?" I hazarded. “Yes, that’s Just it," assented Delia. “I thought I was on the golf-links, playing, you know” (Delia knows as much of golf as she knows of Coptic), “and I had what you call (you know) a stymie in my hand, and I made a splendid shot with it, and a man there was awfully nice." She drew breath. “He was the most delightful man you erer saw.” “I didn't see him,” I interjected, but Delia paid no heed. “And somehow or other I knew we were engaged, and " “What?” I said, sitting up. “Oh, it was only a dream, you know, •f course,” said Delia deprecatingly. “He had untold thousands a year, and • lovely country place, and several motors, and a beautiful collection of pictures, because I went over it afterwards." “I should like,” said I, laying down my knife and fork, “tt* know exactly when you went over this place.” “In my dream, silly," said Della, impatiently, “and there was the loveliest lot of Jewels you ever saw ” “I never ” I began, but Della continued, with a rapt and almost ecstatic look on her face. "There were two ropes of pearls, unit plenty of diamonds, and a tiara much better than Mrs. Stuyvesant's.” She drew a long, deep, sighing breath, and went on. “And we were going to be married the day after.” "After you played golf?" I inquired severely.

“Ye —no —o, I don’t know, I suppose so,” said Delia, who was obviously not interested in a paltry question of date. “And then I found out he was a steel magnate.” “Good gracious!" I exclaimed. “Not till after you were engaged! Do you mean to say you didn’t know his name when ” “His name was Apeschill. Don’t you think it’s a nice name?” asked Delia dreamily. “I think it’s a most ugly name,” I declared. “It sounds something between • monkey and an illness." “Walter was his first name,” purred Bella softly. “Look here,” said I, firmly, “I should Kke to know one thing before we go aoy farther. Where did I come in?" “Oh, you come in," said Delia, sweetly. “You were—what do you call the person who runs and picks up the Balls in golf?” I have explained that Delia does not know very much about golf. She probably meant caddie. “Oh!” I threw as much sarcasm and irony and wit into this remark as was practicable in the close space. Delia sighed reminiscently, and took some JfcHy. “I woke up Just as we were going to be married.” she said sadly. "And high time, too," I said infiigaantly. “Where on earth we should have got to if I think I prefer those dreams of yours when you fall off precipices, though you call out so, or "Don’t be horrid, George!” said Delia severely. “You can’t help your dreams.” “No, but you can help gloating over them." I said. “I think you’re very absurd,” said Bella, with dignity. “Here you were engaged to some bar-ioi's-block Billionaire, and you could ooly conceive of me as a miserable caddie. I would have refused to pick op balls for you.” "You can’t help dreams, as I have ■aid,” said Delia, with chilling superiority. "and if it comes to that,” she added,“you never dream of me st all." “Oh, yes, I do," 1 declared; “not often, of course, for I’nj a profound sleeper as a rule. But Ido sometimes; 1 did the other night.” i stared meditatively through the

DELIA'S DREAM AND MINE

window to the sunlit lawn and the daffodils shaking in the spring breeze. “It was rather an odd, attractive sort of dream.” “Tell me,” said Della eagerly, "was it all about me?” “Well, not —not quite," I confessed. "But you were in it in a Bort of a way.” “Whom was it about” asked Della quickly. “Well, it was really mostly about someone I didn’t know—not a real person, you know,” I explained. “She—” “She?" Delia pricked up her ears. “She was, in her way, a remarkably beautiful woman,” I went on musingly. “Quite young, and with that very lovely blond cendre hair, don’t you know.” “It’s only worn by second rate actresses,” said Delia curtly. "With a wave in it;-, you know—a natural wave, not,like rijost people’s." My eye roamed over Delia’s head, quite unconsciously, of course. “You needn’t be Insulting,” she snapped. \ ‘My dear,” I declared, opening my eyes, “I’m only Just telling you what happened in my dream.” “No, you weren’t,” said Della, crossly. “What did happen?” “Of course, I wasn't engaged to the girl,” I went on hastily. “I merely admired her very much, as—as, well, as no one could have helped admiring her. We were in the conservatory alone together at a dance, and I could hear the distant music of the band " Indeed! ” said Delia in a distinctly chilly voice. "Then it all changed,” I hurried on. "You know what dreams are. Somehow or other we were walking in a field, and there was a pool of water, and ’’ “Do go on; don’t take all morning over It," said Delia, irritably. “Well, it changed again,” I rushed least, I mean, somehow or other she was in the water, struggling for life." “Ah!" Della’s eyes gleamed. “I made a plunge in. seized her, and dragged her from the pool, dripping with water. I carried her in my arms to the bank and laid her down; her beautiful hair had come down and was hanging over my shoulder. Its perfume came up to me. I could feel the beat of her heart very fast; and then, I don’t know what made me do it, but as I bent over her she looked so sweet and helpless ’’ Della had been ominously quiet, and I had not dared to meet her eyes. "What did you dor she asked in a hard, metallic voice. I did meet her eyes then, and I wavered. Delia can look \ery awe-inspiring “I —I rolled her back into the water," I said. There was a moment’s pause and then Delia exclaimed in another tone, “How perfectly horrid of you, Georgel’ How could you?” “I don’t know why I did it. You know what dreams are!” I murmured. “Oh, yes, aren’t they funny things V said Delia lightly. “Some more Jelly, dear?” —Pennsylvania Grit.

Of the many members of Parliament who have broken down in their maiden speeches there is no more dlstreesing Instance than that of Gibson Craig in 1837, thus graphically described by Disraeli: “Gibson Craig, of whom the Whigs had hopes, rose, stared like a stuck pig and said nothing. His friends cheered, he stammered, all cheered; then there was a dead and awful pause, and then he sat down, and that was his performance.” Another breakdown In a maiden speech was by a happy thought turned Into a success, says the London Chronicle. This was by Lord Ashley, who was a stanch supporter of a bill to grant the services of counsel to prisoners Indicted for high treason, but when he rose to make his maiden speech he found himself devoid of language. The house cheered encouragement. At last he managed to blurt out: “If, Mr. Speaker, sir, I, whe now rise only to give my opinion on the bill, am so confounded that I am unable to express what I proposed to ray, what must be the condition of that man who without assistance In pleading for his life and is apprehensive of being deprived of it?** The elaborate speech he had prepared would have been less effective. Is there another example of perfect waste equal to the bark of a dog?

Stuck in Maiden Speech.

AN “AIR JAG.”

Forced Bremthln* la a Stimulant wltk No “Morale* After" Effects. It )ias been noticed by different investigators that deep violent breathing for several minutes so changes the system as to make respiration unnecessary for perhaps as much as live minutes after this preparatory breathing is over. One who has made the experiment found that after four minutes enforced breathing it was possible to hold his breath for three and a half minutes, though without such preparation his limit was only 56 seconds. The time during which It is possible to do without respiration, increases, or course, with the length of time during which the preparatory breathing is carried on, but only up to a certain definite limit, which varies somewhat with different persons. Long after this "washing out of the lungs,” as the Yogi philosophers would call It must have been completed, the preparatory breathing is still effective. The change produced in the system is certainly more fundamental than a lung transformation, therefore, and would appear to indicate a temporary alteration in blood constitution. The effect of this rapid breathing as a mental stimulant is very pronounced. Mental fatigue may be postponed, far beyond the usual point, by two minutes of rapid deep breathing at half-hour intervals. A feeling of sluggishness or sleepiness may be almost completely dispelled. There seems to be no reaction, as in the case of most stimulants, and in every way this “air Jag” is quite satisfactory. The effect on muscular fatigue is also striking. A difficult arm exercise with heavy weights which under ordinary circumstances could not be repeated (nore than 20 times, after four minutes of this preparatory breathing could be done 27 times. The pulse beat goes up rapidly while the breathing is continued. Another curious effect is the apparent rapid lapse of time during the latter half of a hard breathing period. This change in the time sense is very noticeable. As a mental stimulant, and as a means to increase the time during which the system can do without respiration, violent breathing might find considerable useful application,, and daring rescues from suffocation are common enough to make a knowledge of this possible threefold endurance without air of no little value.

BRUTAL CUSTOMS MEN.

What Happened to a British Sailor Who Went Ashore at Batonm, . Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, at a dinner In New York, defended the customs officials of the port, says The hjew York Tribune. “These Intelligent young men,” he said, "In a difficult position conduct themselves adroitly. The stories are false that make them out to be brutal and indelicate. If it were Turkey now! “In the days before Batoum fell to Russia,” he resumed, “a sailor on an English ship lying In Batoum harbor went ashore and bought himself a pair of trousers. He put the trousers on. His old ones were quite worn out, and he told the dealer to throw them away. Then he started forth into the street proudly. “Soon he met a group of customs officials. They stopped him, and their chief said: “ Those are new trousers you’ve got on?’ “ ‘Yes,’ said the sailor, ‘I just bought them.’ “ ‘Then,’ said the customs chief, ‘you must pay duty on them.’ “ ‘But I’ve got no money left,’ said the sailor. And this was true. His last copper had gone to pay the shopman’s bill. “ ‘No money?’ said the chief. ‘That’B very bad for you, then. You’ll have to leave the trousers with us in that case.’ “ ‘But I’ve got nothing under them,’ objected the sailor. “ ‘Never mind; we won’t look,’ and the chief and his men all repeated that there was no sea would none of them look. “ ‘But other people may look!’ shouted the desperate sailor. “The officials shrugged their shoulders. “ ‘That,’ they said, ‘is no concern of ours.’ “And so the poor sailor was forced, willy nilly, to leave his new purchase behind, and to gallop to his ship as best he could, making up In speed what he lacked" in drapery.”

Generous Revenge.

A young man desirous of getting rid of his dog took It along with him to tho Seine. He hired a boat, and, rowing Into the stream, threw the anlm&l in. The poor creature attempted to climb up the Bide of the boat, but his master, whose intention was to drown him, constantly pushed him back with the oar. In doing this, he fell himself into the water and would certainly have been drowned had not the .dog, as soon as he saw his master struggling In the stream, suffered the boat to float away, and held him above -the water till assistance arrived and his life was saved.

Misleading Pronunciation.

“Who is that young man standing there by that horseless machine—the what-d-’ye-call-it ?*’ ‘That’s the shover.” “The shover! By goeh! Can. he push such a heavy thing as that?”—Baltimore American. Daughter’s Idea of punctuality Is to manage to get up in time, or home In time, for her meals. What has become of the old-fash-ioned man who wore horde-made haircuts?

GUARDING OF AMERICAN BANKS

A new king of detectives has been brought into the limelight by the selection by the American Bankers’ Association of William J. Burns to head the detective service which acts'as guardian of the banks belonging to the Association. Burns may be said to have inherited his ability as a detective, for his father was a police commissioner in Columbus, O. Burns, Sr., kept a general store in Columbus; and that is where the boy got his first training. But when hi 3 father became police commissioner a new field was opened up to the lad. He was ever hanging about police headquarters, chumming with the detectives and helping them to unravel such mysteries as presented out-of-the-ordlnary aspects. It was not long before the boy’s ability became recognized. He did not go about the discovery of criminals in a hap-hazard way, but like a living Sherlock Holmes, by a process of deduction and elimination. Every thief leaves a track. There are no mysteries,” Burns says, and he has shown that his theory is correct by getting his man in innumerable cases where others have failed. In the criminal history of the United States and Europe there was never known a cleverer forger than Charles Ulrich, until Taylor and Bredell of Philadelphia made the SIOO silver certificates with the Monroe head that was so perfect a forgery that even Government experts declared it genuine. Ulrich had served a term of imprisonment in Germany and on his release all governments were warned that he was again at large and Secret Service agents learned that he was In Cincinnati. Burns was detailed to the case and instructed to get his man as soon as the evidence warranted. He decided that the only way to watch Ulrich thoroughly was never to let him get out of sight for a moment. Burns hired a flat immediately across the street from where Ulrich lived and had a wagon load- of furniture moved in. From his windows the detective saw that the forger was carefully noting all that was going on. Burns donned working clothes and every morning he left his home, carrying a dinner pail, as if going oft to his day’s labor. He would walk three or four blocks and then double on his tracks and re-enter his home by the back way. One day the detective saw Ulrich leave the house in a hurry. He followed him to the railroad station, where, without even waiting to buy a ticket, he Jumped on a train and came to New York, Burns close behind him. Arrived at the Cortlandt street ferry, the. greengoods man entered a telegraph office and wrote on a blank: "I have Just arrived ” At this point he became aware that Burns was looking over his shoulder. Are you Interested?” asked Ulrich. “If you are, perhaps you ha’d better finish the message for me.” “I can do that,” said Burns, and to the other’s amazement he wrote in the space intended for the address, the name of one of the most prominent officials of the New York City government. “What does this mean?” asked Ulrich, “a ‘pinch?’" "That’s what it is,” said the Secret Service man. So was caught the man upon whose evidence “Bill” Brockway got ten years in New Jersey, and Dr. Bradford, a well-known New York dentist, five years (n New York. In 1895 Gen. Frederica de Mora planned to start a revolution ip Costa Rica and by some means managed to get promise of support from President Zelaya of Nicaragua. Aiding de Mora in New York was Ricardo de Requesens. Part of the plan of the conspiracy was to upset the money system of Costa Rica by flooding the country with fraudulent 100 peso notes—s2,ooo,ooo worth of these were sent to Costa Rica, shipped in the back of a sofa. The Secret Service was instructed to find who had exported the greengoods from New York, and to Burns fell the tank. After a lot of work, the detective found that the only clue was a piece of the burlap in which the sofa had been packed. On it were XXX’s with the figures 64 beneath. For weeks Burns went from one store to another until he found a man who knew where that particular kind of burlap was manufactured. The factory proprietor acknowledged that the burlap had been made there, but, of course, couldn’t remember who had purchased it. But Burns was not to be denied He searched the Bales books of the factory until he traced a shipment to a Long Island City department store and there eventually found a clerk who remembered selling the piece of burlap to a woman. From the description he got Burns found that the purchaser was de Requesens’ mother-in-law and so the shipment of the greengoods was traced to-the conspirator.—Montreal Star.

MISS ALICIA’S HOUSE.

The Presence of Apparently InconKrnoua Furnishing;* Is Explained. could live In-Miss Alicia’s garden!” Constance exclaimed. "But oh, that agony of a house! I kept looking at Miss Alicia herself, as exquisite as If she had stepped out of an Ivory miniature, and wondering how she could endure It. I’ve always maintained that a house revealed character far more than any photograph could do, but my theories never had such a stunning blow as at Miss Alicia’s. Think of that atrocious perforated cardboard ‘air-castle’ hanging from the door of that glorious old secretary! I could have cried!" Mrs.. Campbell smiled. She had known Constance all her life. "Are you sure that you really have seen Miss Alicia’s house?” she asked. “Really seen it!” Constance echoed. "Really seen It! Florence Campbell, what do you mean? Haven't I been using all the words I am acquainted with to try td express its effect upon me?” “Suppose,” her friend suggested, “when you go to Miss Alicia’s to tea to-morrow, you ask her about the cardboard air-castle. Perhaps you’ll find that your theory is not so far wrong, after all.” "Something is wrong,” Constance declared, emphatically, “.If it isn’t my theory or Miss Alicia’s taste, I don’t see anything left except my eyes. I’d almost rather lose confidence in my theories.” But her curiosity was aroused, and after tea —served in beautiful china which had descended to Miss Alicia from a seagoing great-uncle—Con-stance led the conversation to . the cardboard air-castle. Miss Alicia took It down, looked ruefully at its broken corners. "I’m afraid I shall have to-put it away pretty soon,” she said, "but 1 shall miss It so much. It’s been hanging there twenty years—ever slnci Ellen Jasper sent it to me.” “Who was Ellen Jasper?" Constance asked. "Do you mind telling me?” Miss Alicia looked puzzled. “Why she was just—Ellen Jasper. She didn’t get along with folks very well, but I always liked her, and I used to run In whenever I could. She lived with a brother who was feeble-minded. She died suddenly—she wasn’t sick more than two days, and then we found that she’d been suffering fer years, But she wouldn’t let anybody know for fear they’d take Charley away. She sent this to me just a week before she died.” “I see,” Constance said softly. Presently she asked, “That poppy picture—did somebody paint that for you?” Miss Alicia smiled at the glowing panel. Yes, some one had painted It—-

a little crippled girl who was so foolishly grateful because Miss Alicia sent her flowers sometimes—as if things did not grow better for the picking! And that box was carved by Joe Giants in prison—just because she had written him every week. She always knew Joe would come out all riirht and he did. ■- ’ Constance’s eyes filled with tears. “I understand now, dear Miss Alicia. The rest of us furnish out houses with things, but yours is furnished with faith and hope and lov©. M v But she did not say it aloud; it would have troubled Miss Alicia.— Youth’s Companion.

Poor Heligoland.

An Important proposal has been made in Germany with regard to the island of Heligoland, ofT the mouth of the Elbe River. Despite vast expenditure It continues to crumble away. The proposal Is, unless some scheme of preserving it can be found, to blow It up. Apparently the Idea is that In the event of war Heligoland would need to be very strongly defended, and used as an advance base of operations against Germany. The trouble does not lie with the risk of its being seized so much as with the strain of having to defend it. Heligoland, says Fred T. Jane, the English naval writer, has become a political barometer. If Germany destroys the island It will mean an end to all doubtfuf relations between England and Germany. It may, however, mean determination for peace Just as well as determination for war, but It will certainly mean the end of any middle course.

The White House.

tTie White House 1b tne official residence of the President of the United States. The name arose from the fact that the building is built of freestone and painted white. It Is 170 feet long, 86 feet deep and two stories In height. The portico Is lonic and the main entrance faces the north. The reception rooms are on tfae first floor and the private apartments of the President on the second. The reception rooms include the Blue room, used for diplomatic functions, the East room, used for public receptions, and the Red and Green rooms. The original official residence was begun In 1792 and was first occupied in 1800 by Adams, but in 1814 it was burned by the British and four years later rebuilt. During recent years executive offices jhave been built on the grounds and connected with the residence, proper. For purposes of diagnosis, the people may be divided into two classes: those who have rheumatism, and those who know a cure for it.

LEGAL INFORMATION

One who was engaged in blasting was killed by an abortive explosion of a charge of dynamite caused by a flash of lightning during a thunder Btorm. In Baccelll vs. North River Stone Co., 118 New York Supplement Reporter, 29, the administrator of deceased sued to recover damages for his death. The New York Supreme Court held the master not liable in falling to anticipate that the use of electric exploders would be dangerous In a thunder storm, in the absence of some proof that such an accident was likely to happen. The Texas law provides that an action for injuries to a husband be brought by him.' In Fort Worth 4 R. G. Ry. Co. vs. Robertson, 121 Southwestern Reporter, 202, deceased had instituted the suit, which had been interrupted by his death, not caused by the injuries in question. At -the time of his marriage with plaintiff deceased had another - wife surviving, but he had lived with plaintiff, who was ignorant of the spouse extant, for the teir years preceding his death. The statutory period of limitation having elapsed since the accident, it was claimed that plaintiff could not recover, first, because she was not the lawful widow, and, second, because the action was barred. The Texas Court of Civic Appeals held that under the circumstances plaintiff was entitled to the rights of a lawful wife in the community property, which included the cause of action, and that, the law having precluded her maintenance of the action before her husband’s death, the statute had not run against it. The president of a hotel company was seriously scalded by the explosion of a defective coffee urn, which the company had purchased through a jobber. In the action brought against the manufacturer to recover for injuries to his mind, body and nervous system, the president testified that naturally he was much interested in. the condition of things during his forced absence, because every dollar he had on earth was invested in the enterprise, and he had become personally liable to a bank in a large sum invested in it, and that he had expended $1,500 on a trip to the south to regain control of his shattered nerves and his scalded person. 11l Statler ys. George A. Ray Mfg. Co., 88 Northeastern Reporter, 1063, the New York Court of Appeals, while holding the manufacturer liable to the president for the damages caused by the negligently constructed urn, was unable to grasp the theory on which the anxiety caused by the financial concern and worry could be attributed to the accident. The testimony served to show either the interest which the plaintiff had In the business, and which was liable to suffer as the result of his injury, an element of damages not pleaded, or else it tended to show that business anxiety, rather than accident, affected his nerves and mind. If recovery for a trip to the south were allowed, recovery might be had for a voyage to Europe, and perhaps the hire of a palace which, of course* would be preposterous.

COST OF YOUR EYEGLASSES.

This Is Not a Trust—Hour Could tho Statute Create a Monopoly T Fixed prices to be charged the public for Its eyeglasses and spectacles, are the subject of a controversy among the wholesale opticians. The officers of the Optical Society of the State of New York'distributed recently a minimum prloe list. These prices are higher than those charged by many of the opticians. The action of the New York society is likely to be followed in other states, as soon as they get optometry laws like New York’s, which restrict the number of men who may legally fit eyes with glasses, the New York Sun pays. This city Is the headquarters of a campaign for optometry laws which are pending at the presentStesslons of the legislatures of "New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and several other states. P. A. Dllworth, the secretary of‘the Optical Society of the State of New York, is one of the officers who prepared the price list. He said yesterday that the new list is not binding ofi the members and has been Bent to them for their information with the explanation that it is the average minimum of the prevailing prices. Mr. Dllworth said that there is no Intention to force up the prices or form an eyeglass trust. Since the optometry law was passed in this state two years ago, he said, 2,100 men have received certificates and it would be Impossible to have them all agree as to prices. Besides publishing the mlnmum lists for the information of members most of the societies are urging the members to give up the old practice of announcing free examinations of the eyee and to charge for the service as doctors do. The examinations have never been really free, it is said, because the practice has been to add to the cost of the glasses an extra sum to pay the examiner for his time, but the customers have not known this.

The New Dramatic Crase.

“Good heavens, landlord, is there a case of hydrophobia on the upper floor?" "You mean the barking?" . v- . **Of course:" • - „ . “Well, don’t let that worry you. That’s the eminent Character-actor, Rodney Spotlight, going over his role! He plays the dog hero in the new bench show drama.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Anyone In a hurry la always entitled to pity. ,