Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — Page 2

The Lucky Man

(Copyright, 1310, by Associated Literary Press.)

She was young—and pretty. But —a physical bloom and softness, the prettiness was mostly mere youth. There was a tight little look to her thin but rosy Ups, and a hard look in her blue eyes. But the young men in the case could hardly have been expected to see this. There were two of them—and a number more, but 3ene Turner and Ebe Fisher were ahead—or it looked that way. Also it looked as. if Gene was having the best of it, if by best is meant the lady’s favor. It was odd, too, according to the ideas of the other girls at the Cosmopolitan department store. They would have thought Suzanne—born Susan Jane—would require “some sort of real style in a fellah!’’ • Gene was not stylish, but he was Foung, and straight, and wore his working clothes with a jaunty grace. He even carried a dinner bucket, as if that were a matter to be graced in the doing. And he earned thrice, at tarpentering, what Ebe Fisher did aehind a dry goods chunter. Ebe had style. He was a good dancer and dresser, a matter which must have absorbed most of his salary, had the firls stopped to think about it Suzanne, whose final name was Ryan, had somehow escaped the warm-heartedness of her race, which was a pity. But she was a good clerks, with an undesirable pert prettines, a wealth of reddish hair, a milky skin and large, moist, bright syes. And she herself had all sorts as style. She was the best dancer in -he store. She lived with an old aunt to whom she gave three dollars out nf her weekly seven dollars, and to whom she paid scant attention. The front room” was, she made it understood, for her own especial use, and she tricked it out with some cheap tidies and albums, a lot of photographs of everybody who would give her one, snd a bright rug and a settee bought on the installment plan. For the rest, she owed it to herself to dress like a lady. Her immense self-confidence gave her a certain charm to the circle in which she moved—she was gay, saucy, independent, with that little touch of feline cruelty which men laugh at and love in a pretty girl, not realizing its real unless they marry her! AH winter she had danced and flirted and —worked. Ebe, as the most desirable man in her train, she had taken pleasure in playing with. She iiked to make herself envied by the other girls who counted Ebe Fisher a sort of a prize, but snubbing him in favor of Gene, who was nonchalant and independent as herself. It was this recklessness of consequences which made the store figuratively hold its breqth. They began, the girl clerks, and the men, too, to bet on which would be the lucky man. Even Gene had become really interested in the game. He liked to see how, carelessly enough, he could get two dances to Ebe’s one, two fealks to his one, the privilege of taking her out to the theater or a park oftener than Fisher could. At first he had been not at all in earnest, simply amusing himself. He made love to no girl, for he had an old mother to support who was the apple of his eye, and he was paying for a little lot and cottage. And Suzanne? She had merely used him for a foil; there had been only flirtation, less clumsy than his, but certainly, even then, none too subtle. She would not, at first, have dreamed of. marrying him, but somehow he was not a man to pick up and drop.

He left his mark, the mark... of personality which is hard to erase. And his independence matched her own. Late in the spring Gene took to running over in the evening, once a week or so, and sitting in the front room with the girl and chaffing her. Finally he made himself welcome in the little kitchen, which old Mollie, the aunt, kept shining and comfortable and which, with its old furniture, handmade by her dead husband, and her old blue dishes, was far prettier and more characteristic than all Suzannes cheap frippery. It irked the girl that the handsome, laughing young fellow should spend a good hour of his call sitting with the old woman, making her chuckle at his jokes, mending a thing for her, doing a bit of hammering or sawing and always in a jolly companionable way. Once the girl joked—rather seriously—at him on the subject. "A body’d think you were dead stuck on Aunt Mollie,” she said. ”1 am,” he retorted. “She’s almost half as nice as mother—l’m used to old ladies an' I like them. Come out home with me some night and visit mother. She’s a bit lonely, and I try to stay home with her a good deal.” The girl tossed her head. She had no mind to fuss with the old lady. But, secretly, she did want to see his house. She had in the back of her head a notion that a strong, independent man with a house of his own might not be bad to marry, she had no Idea of wasting her you th.ln a department * store —she intended to marry. And as for Gene; he had become fond of the girl. He was, at times, sure he was in love with her. But he was by nature deliberate—he never hurrying a thing. She would get aoguainted with his mother, it even

By JOANNA SINGLE

entered his head that, if she should care for him and would marry him, Aunt Molly could have her little house moved to a corner of his lot, and he and his girl wife could have ’he|r “old folks” under their eyes. He was a born son. He noticed that Ebe Fisher was becoming more and more frequent, more and more serious in his attentions to the girl,. It wakened his sense of rivalry. And, though he hardly” knew* it, he was sorry for Suzanne. He wanted her to have a chance to be quiet at home, to dress her hair like a real woman, instead of a hairdresser's dummy, to stop chewing gum, and talking part nonsense at every turn in her patm He wanted to protect her—even from herself. He finally decided to ask her to marry him, and to sea if she. loved him. His mind dwelt on her bright eye, her little, wishful smile. She was so sweet and young—he was sure her flippancy was a mere matter of working in a store. He did not like the flippancy, but he thought it woifld vanish when real ove came to her. These thoughts were subconscious. One warm evening late in May he wandered over to her little house. If the coast was clear he would tell her all his heart, and, pondering these things, he entered the small green yard with its old-fashioned flowers, and went upon the little porch. He knocked, but no one answered. He could hear Susanne talking in the kitchen, her voice raised as in argument, but he did not hear the words. He knocked again more loudly, with no response. Then he carelessly enough sank down in the old rocker and waited on the porch. Probably she would come out in a minute and find him and he would tell her. Then, without warning, he heard a door fly open, and a stream of words come thick and fast. He did not mean to listen, but he was so stunned that he forgot he was doing so until it was all over. The girl’s voice was sharp and angry. 2N0,” she said, “I won’t ask Gene to fix it; and I can tell you right now that you can keep out of the way when he corned! Do you think he comes to see*you? What’s eatin’ on you, anyhow, Aunt Mollie? Well, it I do marry him—and I shaH if he asks me, and he will —you can bet you needn’t think you’ll live with us. Nor his mother, either! I’m no such fool as that, if I do look easy, what do you take me for? I shan t keep any old ladies’ home, and if he’s countin’ on that he’s got another guess cornin’ to him. I’m payin’ you board, but I don’t need any chaperon. He’s asked me over to see his mother. I’ll go, but I bet if we’re ever married she can come over here and live with you. That will be close enough for a mother-in-law, an’—”

Without a word Gene rose, went down the path, and out at the gate, and straight home. He did not go near her aagin. One day she asked him If he was “mad.” He said that he was not and asked what made her think of such a thing? But his manner was a final thing. That next day she told him she was engaged to Ebe Fisher—she met Gene on the street, and stopped him with her news, her head very high. "Oh,” he said. “I shall have to wish joy to you—and the lucky man.” But in his heart, Gene knew that he himself was the luoky man.

The stormy petrel builds her nest just above the Atlantic billows, on the islets near lona and the Hebrides. There, beyond the rocks, is a black, buttery soil in which the birds burrow like little winged mice and on nests of sea-pink lay one egg. There is, in the Outer Hebrides, a very pretty popular belief as to the way in which the eggs are hatched. The birds, say the people, hatch thefteggs by sitting, not on them, but near them, at a distance of six inches. There the petrels turn their heads toward the opening of the burrow and coo at the eggs day and night, and so hatch them with a song. This sounds like a fable made out of folklore, but it really has a basis in fact, according to one authority. Although he never heard the cooing noise by day, he often did in the evening. It is rather a purring sound. When the nest is opened the bird is usually found cowering a few inches away from its egg. Perhaps the truth is that the burrows are so warm that there is no need of a higher temperature induced by animal heat, and the parent bird can afford to sit down and sing over the excellence of the arrangement.— Harper's Weekly.

She—l don’t suppose you believe a woman ever lived who didn’t repeat something another woman told her? He—Oh, yes, I do. She— I’m glad of that And who might the woman be? He —Why, Eve!—Exchange

“You look rather hollow and longfaced,” remarked the fork. “No wonder,” rejoined the spoon. “Who is dttener In the soup, I’d like to know?”

Birds That Use Incubators.

A Precedent.

Table Repartee.

NEW SOCIETY LEADER IN WASHINGTON

ASHlNGTON.—Associate Justice Charles E. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes, , are now completly established as residents of the national capital, having taken a very beautiful house. They will entertain extensively, and as Mrs. Hughes is a charming hostess she will not need to rely on her official position to make her one of the leaders of Washington society henceforth.

LIFE IN YOKOHAMA

Sights in Thoroughfares of City Interest Strangers. Old-Time Courtesy of Little People Seems to Be Wearing Away in Seacoast Cities —Shopper Needs Full Purse. Chicago.—Yokahoma is very European. There are stately banks, marble office buildings and large hotels and business houses, and in some streets you could easily imagine yourself in any western city were it not for the whirling jlnrlkishas and the natives in kimonos, says a Yokohama

EVERYBODY TO USE AIRSHIPS

Moissant Says Flying Is Easy and That Planes Will Soon Be As Numerous As Autos. New York, —John B. Moissant, American aviator, declares that learning to guide an aeroplane is about as easy as learning to ride a bicycle or to walk stilts. “There is no great mystery or great difficulty about operating an aeroplane,” he said. “Everybody will realise this very soon. “The next generation will use aeroplanes as we are now using automobiles. The perfection of the flying machine from now on will be very rapid and its perils will be found to be no greater than the perils of bursting tires and skidding wheels and faulty automobile mechanisms. “Every person who makes a flight in an aeroplane comes back to earth with the same impressions. He tells you that it was a delightful experience; that it was something new, he was not a bit scared, and he is crazy to do it again. That tells the whole story.”

CO-EDS AID A BLIND SENIOR

Girls Forego Luxuries and Allowances to Enable Sightless Student to Graduate. New York. —Seniors at Barnard college, by sacrificing luxuries and donating part of their. allowances, have enabled Margaret Hogan, a blind student, to secure her degree. Miss Hogan, blind from birth and left an orphan when young, won a three-year scholarship at Barnard. Her advance was rapid. A wealthy woman became interested and took care of the girl up to the present year. Miss Hogan was about to leave college to earn her own living when her classmates heard of it. They raised >450 among themse:v»s for the girt

Watch New High Tides.

Seattle, Wash.—Observations of tides by the United States survey ship McArthur in Turnagain bay and Knlk Arm, Cook inlet, Alaska, show the first scientific data of what are probably the second highest tides in the world. Capt. Henry L. Deck of the McArthur, which has returned from the north, noted tides of 80 feet variation, and a tidal current of eight knots. The only tides which are known to exceed this record are in the Bay of Fundy.

correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. z It is hard to believe that only a little over 50 years ago Commodore Perry found Yokohama an Insignificant fishing village. In those days Kanagawa across the bay was the main port, but as it was on the main road, the Tokaido, and meetings between foreigners and the armed trains of the Daimyos passing to and from the capital were to be apprehended, Yokohama was brought into the foreground. Much of Yokohama is, of course, truly Japanese, and we reveled in the quaint shops on the Motomachi, where there are no sidewalks and life goes on in true native fashion. There in the silk stores we sat on

PROHIBIT HUNTING IN CITY

Mayor Proposes Amendment to Old Ordinance Aiming at Practise of Chicago Sportsmen. Chicago.— Though Chicago has a population of more than two millions, hunting in the city limits has become so prevalent that the mayor found it necessary to send a letter to the council, at the suggestion of the chief of police, proposing an amendment to the old hunting ordinance, which has been doing duty since 1905 to the satisfaction of Chicago’s stay-at-home hunters. Most Chicagoans, who live in districts so congested that the report of a shotgun would bring a dozen policemen on the jump, are not aware that it is the practise of many other Chicagoans, who know about the hunting grounds, to sally forth, in season, and return with a bagful of game birds without ever having left the city limits. In a letter to the council, which accompanied the proposed amendment to the hunting ordinance, Mayor Busse told ot the numerous complaints occasioned by “metropolitan hunting” that had reached Chief Steward and caused him to ask for action by the city fathers. Wolf lake, Hyde lake. Lake Calumet and the Calumet river have been swarming with hunters in the shooting seasons of the past. At the continuance of these as hunting grounds the amendment is not aimed, and in future the echo of the reports of shotguns still will ring over their waters. That section of the Chicago “happy hunting ground" which the mayor would move from the realm of the primeval into that of the metropolitan comprises a section of the lake shore on the South side, the shore of the drainage canal and several other favored haunts of game. The only restriction on hunting in the "open” districts is that no shots be fired within 750 feet of a house, factory or barn. The section where hunting Would be prohibited, as enlarged by the passing of the amendment, would be: Beginning at the Intersection of Seventy-first street with Lake Michigan, thence west along Seventy-first street to South Kedzie avenue, thence along West Thirty-first street to South Fortieth avenue, thence north along South Fortieth avenue to West Montrose avenue, thence east along Montrose avenue to Western avenue.

matted floors to examine the goods presented for our inspection with deep bows or wandered among the toy shops as delighted as children over the many quaint contrivances. One night every other week the Motomachi Is brilliantly lighted with strange little lanterns and the passing throngs carry others, so that the effect from the distance is entrancing, On these nights,booths are arranged all along the street and you can finger anything without annoying the salesmen. We fell in love with the dwarf trees and with the tiny urchins having their mouths stuffed full of spun sugar by the candymaker, who bristled with pride when we tarried long beside him. strange beads and potted flowers were offered to us by shy little girls and all around us was a'gay hubbub, every one good natured, every one out to enjoy life, laughing and nudging and scraping sandaled feet On Benton-dorl our hands ran to our purse strings constantly, so fascinating were the shops there. At Yamamotos wb were shown the most superb old embroideries, and It was hard to make a selection, as we wanted all of them. Nozawaya's is a modern department store, and the curio shops drive one distracted. Wonderful bits of old Imarl, cabinet pieces too precious for nomads like ourselves and old daggers and Dalmyo hats tempted us on every side. At a big silk store on Honcho-dori the proprietor and his little wife bowed to the ground and offered us “o cha” (tea), which we drank out of consideration for them. There Is something very charming about the old-time courtesy of these little people, and one is sorry to see it wearing away in the seacoast towns, where we learned to despise the stamp of modernism in Japan. Like most people who spring suddenly into prominence, they are becoming arrogant and showing an overpowering sense of their own Importance and a vanity not at all In proportion to their size. Tourists are doubtless largely responsible for this. Their manners shock even our hardened western sense of pn> prlety and to the courteous, gentlemannered native their brusque ways and loud voices, their harsh com. ments and loud laughter must strike home painfully. There is not much sightseeing to be done in Yokohama; the ride to Mississippi bay, to Mlkusu’s porcelain factory and to the little tea house on the bluff, which is reached by ascend-, Ing 100 steps and is hallowed by the memory of Perry’s visit to it, are the chief points of interest. It is the street sights, the shops and the comforts of living which hold the visitor Jn Yokohama. During our stay we had three hideous days and nights to live through, during a Buddhist feast, when up and down the native streets ran crowds of rough boys fancifully attired, carrying josses on long poles and screaming and beating tomtoms and making life a burden to every one In the neighborhood. We were told that no policeman would dare to stop them while they carried josses, and in consequence they sometimes became dangerously excited and do all sorts -of wild things.

and thence north along Western avenue to the city limits. Both ordinance and amendment prohibit the use of any weapon other than a shotgun.

THIS WARSHIP HAS NO CREW

Vessel Directed and Operated From Shore by Means of Wireless Is the Latest. New York.—The “crewless warship, a vessel directed and operated from shore by means of a complicated wireless apparatus, is the latest naval wonder in Germany, according to reports which have just reached the navy men here. Within a radius of 18 miles from the controlling apparatus the new warship, it is said, can be started, stopped, steered and its guns com trolled or fired by means of electrical waves communicated without wires. The German naval experts are marking experiments with a motor boat near Nuremberg. The statements of an eye witness who watched the progress of some of these trials Is pub, fished here. “The boat," he says, “was absolutely unmanned. All the apparatus on board was controlled from the bank of the lake by means of wireless telegraphy. : —, —— "When I first arrived the boat waS, lying motionless in the middle of the lake. No one was on board. Suddenly a gun was fired on the deck and I saw the screw begin to revolve and drive the boat forward. “I watched the maneuvers of the unmanned boat for an hour during the daytime and again in the evening. At the end. of each test the unmanned vessel was brought to her anchorage by the same unseen forces.”

Expense of Yale Students.

New Haven, Conn.—lt costs a Yala man at least >I,OOO a year on an average to go through the course at that university. A postal card canvass of last year’s freshmen class shows that 114 spent an average of >1,033 each ill sophomores >l,lOO, and 11» junior®’ >1,133. The lavish expenditures of a few men sent up the general average. Nineteen freshmen used less than >6OO each, 18 sophomores less than >SBO each, and 16 Juniors less than >550. Of the 53 men last 3MutMctod> 20 lived on less than >375.

TO PROMOTE SAFETY

WESTERN RAILROAD AIMS TO TRAIN EMPLOYES. New Kind of Campaign That Has for Its Object the Elimination of Accidents Wherever It Is Possible. The management of a great western railroad has entered on a campaign

pose of the campaign the employees and officers are being organized from the lowest rank in the operating department to the highest. - On every division there has been formed a committee of safety, each being composed of an engineer, a conductor, a fireman, a brakeman, a and a switchman, who are appointed by the superintendent. Similar committees have been formed in the various division shops, being appointed by the master mechanics. In the Chicago shops the committee is appointed by the superintendents at shops and the superintendent of motive power and machinery. These committees in the mechanical department consist of one man from each shop. There has also been appointed a committee on safety for the large yards in Chicago, composed of switchmen, who are appointed by the trainmaster of freight terminals. The personnel of these committees is changed constantly, one man on each committee retiring and a successor to him being appointed each month. Their duty, according to the Railway Age Gazette, is to investigate the causes of accidents, to seek to get their fellow employes to do all they can to remove them, and, when any action needs to be taken by employes, to recommend it to their superior officers. The purpose of the frequent changes of personnel is to familiarize with and interest in the subject of accidents, their causes and remedies, as many men as practicable, and thereby create among employes as much of the right kind of sentiment as possible. The committees meet monthly. A central committee to receive the reports and supervise the work of the committee of safety has been appointed. Matters requiring action which exceeds the authority of thia committee will be referred to the general managers.

Cuban Railroad Enterprise.

President Gomez of Cuba has contracted with the Ferrocarril de Fernandez & Placetas del Sur, a corporation organized for constructing a 40wile railroad, connecting the two places indicated in the company’s title, and has leased it to the old Trinidad railroad, which runs from Casllda, on the south coast, through Trinidad to Fernandez. The railroad company is to begi—n work on the new line and the reconstruction of the old by December 24, and it is expected that the whole line will be in working order about 18 months later. Trinidad will thus be placed in direct railroad communication with the rest of the Island, being the last urban center of any importance to be so connected. The new corporation will enjoy the benefits of the law of July 5, 1896, in regal’d to subvention. Another proposition which has been made by the Cuban railroad (Sir William Van Horne) t® take over the old line and carry it on to Sanctl Splrltus, on the main line, prejudicial to the interests of the other terminal cities. The Ferrocarril de Fernandez a Placetas del Sur is said to be backed by 1 French capital to the extent of $2,000,000.

China’s Railroad School.

An indication of the interest taken by the central government in the future of railways in China is afforded by the establishment last year, in connection with the ministry of communications at Pekin, of a school for training railway officials. The school is built for 600 students, but the number is at present limited to 350, who come from all parts of the empire and vary in age from eighteen to twenty-five. There are about 30 teachers, including one British, one American (a drill sergeant), two French and two German. Most of the teachers are Chinese students returned from abroad and they are well paid. The curriculum Includes the Chinese language, drill, geography, history of Chinese railways, mathematics, drawing, chemistry, physics, traffic management, railway bookkeeping, elements of engineering, steam and electrical, workshop administration and railway company law.—Psll Mall Gazette.

Though Very Dry.

“How was the sermon?” "Remarkably well preserved—considering Its age.”—T.lfa,

for the reduction of accidents, which is being carried on by methods that probably ar« unique. A large majority of railroad accidents ard due td the care, lessness or recklessness of employes; most of them would be avoided if em* ployes would give reasonably strict obedience to orders and rules. For the pur-