Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1911 — Page 3

JUST LOVE

(Copyright, ISU, by Associated Literary Frees.)

! Prom the first It had been foolish, an explosive combination of youth, summer, moonlight and the propinqcitles of a vacation house party, jack and Angle met in June, loved in July, ■confessed In September, and by Gbristptnfce had coaxed her parents to consent to a February wedding. The Alliens were reluctant, for Angle was [ridiculously young, but they had no [objection to Jack. j The course of true love ran, for a time, most smoothly. Holland, Sr., gave his eon an adorable little cottage; the Allens produced a check to cover furnishings. There was much shopping, much trousseau making, merry parties, and vows and kisses hardly as surreptitious as they should have been. There was peace—a treacherous peace. Jack had made one blunder —he had not “told her all.” The experience of his elders seems never to make a young man see that when he puts bis heart for life into a girl’s soft hand, he is thereafter in a tight place. She will be supreme; she wants to be not merely first, but all. She Is jealous iof his mother and sisters, his friends, Ihls bull dog, his pipe, anything whatever that before her time loved him or gave him aid or comfort. No occasion had so far arisen for jealousy, and Jack forgot the weak place in bis jarmor. He was oft guard, j Angie had come upon his consciousness like oblivion of all that had gone before. Like all lovers, he said he ;had never loved any one else —and [thought he spoke the truth. It was |a secret, unconscious disappointment to the girl that Jack had no “past” whatever. She would have liked to forgive him, to have consoled him for sorrows —deep wounds of a cruel fate from which her love would henceforth protect him. She would have liked details of past unhappiness offered up to her like incense, i ‘'Tell her before somebody else [does,” Is the first commandment to an ■engaged man. Jack disobeyed—and [suffered. At first, to do him justice, jhe had really forgotten to tell Angie [about Tessie Burton. He had been engaged to Tessie at college. The affair was brief, ending in trouble as the sparks fly upward. Tessie broko it because she saw another man. Her methods were prompt, at least. He bad told Tessie he would always be [true to her, and wait for her until he died, and other familiar quotations. When he did remember this, he know that if he told Angie now, she would ask vfhy he had not told her [before? It would have seemed serious, worth having hidden until he jwas more sure of her. No; it was too late. Jack trusted to luck, and to the [fact that Tessie was In the East and lived in another town. He thought himself safe. Early in January that fatuous young man took his bride-to-be on one of their many shopping tours, which .ended with tea or chocolate and a lovers 'tete-a-tete before going back to the family circle where everything was a bustle, despite the fact that the wedding was to be strictly a family-and-intimate-friends affair. The gift season, Just past, had broken Into prfiyraitnns. and dressmakers possessed the house. Now Jack and Angie were chopsing the last of the furniture—a sewing chair and table for Angle, who was hesitating between Ojiahogany, Circassian walnut or a perfectly cqnniijp arrangement in a [wicker. j Enamored of the wicker, Angie [stood with a dainty gloved finger to jher lip and considered. Jack was [loving every look of her, the brown hair and eyes, the fjpmure, bird-like [plumage of brown cloth and fur. Ab-. ject adotsUpJ? from his eyes. Then a light laugh beside him made him jump—it was a laugh he knew. A cold vt*ve scurried down bis spine, as he turned and knew that his sin had found him out. He lifted his hat and took Tessie’s offered hand rwitli what pace he might. - j Jack shamefully. Had he Immediately and delightedly presentled Angle tp his “old college friend, [Miss Burton, of whom he had so often spoken," It would have been all right, [instead, he presented “Miss Burton” {to Angle as he might have any mere acquaintance. Angie’s perfectly courteous but indifferent manner showed [that she had never heard Tessie Burkon’s name before. i Tessie, hardly believing her own senses, took characteristically prompt revenge—she never waited. Chatting lightly, she said she had come for a week with Cora Chandler, and was out shopping. Her manner to Jack was irtlpßily familiar. She called him by his first name, and several times by a college ojcfcnama, as if unconsciously. Also she let her hand rest a moment on his sleeve. “Cora told mq of your good fortune,” she remarked, settling her veil over her shining fair curls. “It makes me very happy for you. Mias Allen, lam delighted Jack had fallen into such charming hands! New I shall never rggsogeh myself about him again- he was so young and tragic, you know” Here she laughed. ‘1 forgive the oreature for having forgotten me. It’s fortunate men can forget so soon. Isn’t It? 80 -comfortable for them! So pleased to have pet you, and wish you all happiness! Good-by!” She flitted out, and Jack stood daasd. He wished dully that Tessie were

By JOANNA SINGLE

not so confoundedly pretty. Would explanations help him? Angle did not look at him, but in a cool little voice spoke to the sales-j man. She was somehow dignified and! remote—out of reach. “I think I will not decide about the< chair today,” she said. Then she turned to the door, which Jack opened, and turned homeward. Jack saw that there would be no; tea together, no coxy tete-a-tete. He floundered about for words, and dldi the clumsiest thing possible. “Tessie Burton —I knew her at ool; lege " “One would—judge as much,” she; replied. ‘Don’t you think it’s gettting colder?” Her polite tone was down! to about zero. Jack agreed with her.. Nothing else was left him. He knew, he would have to explain pretty quickly and convincingly. “Angie, dear, let me explain” Angie lifted her pretty brows. “Explain—what?” “About Tessie—Miss Burton —she — “Anything that needs explanation should have been explained before.” “It was only a foolish college engagement ” “And you said you had never loved anybody but me ” ‘Angle—l haven’t. That wasn’t love, it was a silly—lt didn’t last long, and ’’ She Interrupted. Being spotless, too young to have been in love before herself, she was'merciless. “If it wasn't love, It was wicked to be engaged to her —a horrid girl like that, too! I knew happiness like mine —could not last! Your engagements don’t seem to last long—doubtless you will be as easily oonsoled this time as you were the first —or have there been still others?” ‘Angle,” he said sternly, “do you, know what you are saying?” You can’t mean to ” she had drawn off her} left glove, and was taking off her ring, which she handed him. She had; not, in fact, meant at first to do anything, but being angry, hurt, nervous from overwoork and waiting, she was hardly nerself. “Angle—you know I love you truly —this has gone too far ’’ “Altogether too far!” she assented, turning at the gate. “You can come in and tell mother it is all over. Tell her I would like to go to Florida for a month —if some one can go with me. As for you—perhaps ‘Tessie’ will have you back?*’ They were in the hall by this time, and she fled upstairs. She had taken him at a disadvantage—on the street, where he could cot forcibly take her into his arms and make her listen to him. ■ As for the Allens, they listened to Jack; then they went up and talked with Angie. She simply said it was all over, and she didn’t want to hear about it, and would not see Jack. Thinking her too young, anyhow, they did the easiest thing—postponed tjm wedding indefinitely because of their daughter’s health and called the family doctor, who obediently prescribed the southern trip. Then they waited to see what would happen. This happened: Angle, sorry for what she did, even while she was doing It, worked herself Into a fever and was really ill. Gloom settled over Jack, who sent flowers and letters. He persisted, but she would not give him a chance —she brooded over his “untrustworthiness” until it became a crime to her, and very real. Folly surely was with her, but she denied her own heart. Jack suddenly did the unexpected. She had grown used to his persistence, when it ceased without warning. He closed the little cottage, returned what goods would be taken back, settled all bills himself, and sent the house key to Angie by her father. He himself went on a bunting trip, a fact that the papers chronicled, and which Angie saw. He accepted her decision. This came to the girl like a shock. She dressed, and in a few days came downstairs to sew by the fire. Suddenly she refused to go South at all, and kept the family in hot water with her moods. She knew she had been a fool; she wished ab« were dead. Her young, terrified soul saw a long, unloved, unloving life before her. He had gone, and she had sent him —and for nothing—absolutely nothing! It all ended in a way as simple as It began. ‘One raw February twilight Angle chanced to be alone at the fire. She heard the bell ring. A queer terror seized her —was It a telgram? She actually was expecting any calamity at any moment. She hid her face In her hands. The door opened, and Jack walked in. He had meant to be Impersonal, to hope she was feeling better, to make no allusion to the past But when she lifted a pale, tear-stained face and gave a little cry of joy at seeing him, he took two long steps and gathered her into bis arms. It was as foolish as any of the rest of it. She had her face against his and Implored him not to explain—she did not care, anyway. Nevertheless, he made a clean breast of everything. It seemed about three minutes later when the family arrived to interrupt things. The family bad been haring a hard time through no fault or its asm. and was glad to have an end of the trouble.

UNCLE SAM’S PURE FOOD EXPERT AND HIS FIANCEE

DR. HARVEY W. WILEY, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, has been the subject of much good-natured joking ever since the announcement of his engagement to Miss Anna C. Kelton. At the same time, the government's pure food expert is being warmly congratulated, for Miss Kelton, who la a resident of Washington, is most highly esteemed by her numerous friends. The wedding will take place in the near future. •

GRAVITY IS A PUSH

Ohio Physicist Gives Old Newton Theory a Jolt. Assumes Ether to Be Endowed With Vast Kinetic Energy Relative to Atoms—Dr. Brush Explains His Idea of Gravitation. St. Paul, Minn. —The Newtonian theory of gravitation that has stood for ages was upset when Dr. Charles F. Brush, Cleveland, 0., one of the leading physicists of the country, ascribed the falling propensities of matter to a “pushing” property within itself derived from the ether through which it falls, rather than to a “pulling” power from the earth on the falling body. Doctor Brush established the converse theory that the energy exhibited in the gravitation is fully restored to the ether when the body is raised against the gravitation attraction. Doctor Brush assumes the ether to be endowed with a vast Intrinsic feiflCfifl energy, which Is in wave form and is translated to the atoms or molecules. In his paper on the “Kinetic Theory of Gravitation," read before the physics section of the scientists’ convention, Doctor Brush, after discussing at length the origin of the energy acquired by a falling body, concludes that the gathered enerjgy comes from the ether through which the body falls. “Conversely,” said Doctor Brush, “equivalent energy Is restored to the ether when the body Is raised against gravitation attraction. “The ether is assumed to be endowed with vast intrinsic kinetic energy In wave form. The waves are of such low frequency, or otherwise of such character, that they paBS through the bodies without obstruction other than that concerned in gravitation. -They are propagated in straight lines in every conceivable direction, so that the wavs energy Is Isotropic, being to this respect like radiation to the Interior space of a furnace with uniformly heated walls. Distribution of the ether's intrinsic energy is uniform throughout the universe as modified by the presence of matter. Any kind ofether waves capable of exerting mo &re action on the atoms or molecules of matter will fulfill the requirement*. “Atoms are imagined to be continually buffeted to all directions by the ether waves to path 8 almost infinitesimally short, but without collision because neighboring atoms follow very nearly paralelled paths. The moving atoms are likened to particles of a precipitate Suspended to turbulent water. “Each atom or molecule is regarded aa a center of activity, due to Its kinetic energy of translation derived initially from the ether. There is continual absorption and restitution of the ether’s energy, normally equal to amount. But the other is permanently robbed of as much of Its energy as It represented by the mean kinetic energy of the atom. This energy deficiency to the ether Is not wholly local, but extends Indefinitely Into space, diminishing to strength as the square of the distance increases. “A body of matter Is pictured M casting to effect a spherical energy shadow consisting of the sum of the shadows of Its constituent units, the depth or intensity of the shadow varying with the inverse square of the distance from the center of the body. Another body at any distance will cast s similar shadow and the two shadows will Intersect, each body being partially shielded by the other from waves doming from that direction, the extent of the shielding effect

depending directly on the mass of the shielding body. “Of the several components Into which the composite motion of each atom can be resolved, that one lying in the direction of an attracting body will be the greatest because the waves from that direction being partially Intercepted by the attracting body, are weakest, and the atom will be pushed to that direction by the superior waves behind It. If free to fall, the atom will continually absorb more energy from the stronger waves behind It than' it restores to the weaker waves to front, and will thus acquire additional kinetic energy of translation to the line of fall, measured directly by the number of waves Involved, 1. e., by the distance moved. Conversely, if the atom be forced away from the attracting body restitution of energy will exceed absorption, and the energy expended to moving the atom against attraction will be transferred to the ether. “It will be seen that gravitation is a push toward the attracting body and not a pull. It is clear, also, that the velocity which a falling body can acquire tends asymptotically to a limit, which is the velocity of the ether waves which push; the velocity of light, If transverse waves are Involved."

FARM TO SAVE CITY YOUTH

Pittsburg Begins Odd Municipal Experiment in Training Boys for Better Citizenship. Pittsburg, Pa. —An odd municipal experiment in training for better citizenship has begun to this county with the purchase of 900 acres of farm land, on which 500 boys, all wards of the Juvenile court, shall be taught close to nature, to become good men. A committee of prominent citizens, led by David B. Oliver, formerly comptroller of public schools of the city and a brother of Senator George T. Oliver, originated the idea, and, aided by the county commissioners, is carrying It out Mr. Oliver, who Is one of the wealthiest men to Pittsburg, has found that frequently the "bad boys” make the best mep, and be is giving his time and money to the project, which really marks a new step in the care of Juvenile court children. The only noteworthy Institution like It Is at Industry, N. Y., but that is a state Institution. On the land, which Is thirty miles from Pittsburg, will be built cottages which will accommodate twenty boys. A bead farmer will look after the youngsters. The present plan for the home is to build a central colony of five cottages around machine, carpenter and blackspilth shpps, where boys who want to learn trades will be grouped. Removed, however, from this central group will be fifteen other cottages. They will be occupied by boys who want to be farmers. It Is not the Intention to segregate the boys, but to keep them apart as much as possible. Half of each day will be devoted to school and half to work. Of course, s time will be set aside for playing. To still further carry out the family idea there will be a number of school buildings constructed at different places on the farm. Each of the school buildings will accommodate a certain number of pupils. It will be so arranged that children from probably four cottages will, go to each school. Thus the term win corrfspond to a country community and the school houses to country schools.

FIRM GRIP OF BULL-FIGHTING

J “Sport” Continues to Amuse People of Southern France, Despite Efforts of Officials. Paris. —The extent to which the practice or “sport” of bull-flghttogi still exists to the south of Frauoe,i despite all the efforts of the authorl-t ties to stamp it out, is Utle known bjH the rest of the world. A meeting wan recently held at Beziers of those Inter- 1 ested in the spectacles and a protest! drawn up against the bill of the mtois-i ter of justice which provides for the! punishment by fine and imprisonment! of those connected with bull fights. It developed at this meeting thatj there are 27 associations for the pro-! motion of bull-fighttog to the south of France, with a total membership of 24,000. According to the protest the hill would interfere with the fa! vorite pastime of these and many more people, would be a check to the liberties of the south and would bd against the interests of the country! Nevertheless there is an excellent chance of the bill becoming law.

“News Girl” 70 Years Old.

New York. —Anna Eliza Beach, who is said to be the oldest “newsglrl” in the United States, finished her fiftieth year as a paper seller. Mfks Beach, who Is 70 years old, lives lq Caldwell, N. J. She covers a route of eight miles, serving 100 customers with the local paper.

It Is the purpose of the commission! to keep from the home any semblance; of a reform school or prison, mo thati the children who leave can go out Into the world without any handicap of any kind to the form of a past to live down. The only gujly to the nearly one} thousand acres will be dammed up and there to the summer time the children can swim to the water flowing, from Brush Creek. The swimming to>l® will be shaded by trees on the, slopes leading to It and no sulphur' from mines will mar Its dearness.

LONG DEFERS A RESTITUTION

Anonymous Letter Received by Aged Man Containing S9OO for Team Stolen In 1866. Lancaster, Pa. —An unusual occurrence took plaoe at Washington borough when Rev. H D. Boughter, pas-i tor of the Church of God, .was handed at his rectory a letter by a man and told to hand it some time during the day to Uriah Douglas, now nearly eighty years old, and a retired red-; dent. Rev. Mr. Boughter went to Mrj Douglas's bom* and the letter wan opened. To their surprise it contained five new SIOO bills. A note on the inside said the sender had dond Mr. Douglas a wrong forty-five years ago, and here was money enough to pay for it with interest, and that be would hear from him In h. few dnnN Mr. Douglas recalls that to 1865 a team had been stolen from him, and from which nothing had ever been heard, and it Is believed this Is thd man who handed over the letter. He had purchased the team with bountjj money received from the government after the close of the war, and while at the ptcnlo at Highvllle the team was stolen and nothing but the Unsq left The supposition the man who handed the letter to Rev. Mr. Boughter Is a wealthy ranch owner of thd west as several young mbn about that time went west and have M good. Mr. Douglas Is m tovnUA mot can use the monqpL

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West Union, O.—One hundred vote sellers appeared before Judg* Blair and paid their fines Monday. Danville, Ill.—Several public officials have expressed a willingness to tel! the grand Jury the entire story of the purchase of votes. What? Let the women vote? Why should the primal rights of man Be crushed beneath the heel that tramps the pathway of this plan? Man was created higher than the feebler, gentler sex; ’Twas he whom nature, fitted for the problems sore that vex The mind and try the heart and calT for intellect that sees The baffling frets of government and all its mysteries. «•» » And who should take a woman from tbs citadel of hbrne And send her out unshielded, ’mid the coarser class to roam? • Ah, no, my brethren, we, the men, must meet this heavy task. ’Tls not a duty that we have a right of her to ask! . 1 ■ O, Woman,, noblest work of all! Who’d smudge the lily’s white By tainting it with balloting? Who’ll touch it with that blight? Nay, let us bid her keep away from alt those common things. We’ll see her as an angel fair with halo and with wings. Aside from that poetic view, we will not soil her hands With all the work of government no woman understands. Aye, man, puce man, shall bear the brunt. and he shall overcome The onslaughts of the ones who strike at our palladium. What? Let the women vote? Why, down would tumble all our shrines! And governmental honor would be blown up as by mines! Ah, brethren, do not sully our ideals In i this way; Let all the women stay at home upon election day. They’re better far at dusting floors and wiping off the shelves— How can we trust the women when we cannot trust ourselves?

Simple Parlor Magic Again.

The Mysterious Watch- —For this feat you need no preparation. After a few moments of merry chafer yon borrow from some one in the audience a watch. Having obtained this —an open-faced watch Is best—ask some other person to loan you a small hammer. Almost any one. will have this implement to his possession. Taking the hammer to your right hand, approach some one with a smile and ask him for an anvlL Naturally, he will not have It. Prior to the performance, you will have concealed an anvil to your sleeve. Pretending to search the last person’s pockets, you will produce the anvil. Now, lay the watch on the anvil, and heat it to fragments with the hammer. Then ask any lady to lend you her handkerchief. Into this place the pieces of the watch. Fold the handkerchief neatly and give it to a third party to hold. Now pronounce some mystic word? slowly, and then unfold the handkerchief, taking therefrom the watch In pelYect condition. It is best to practice this feat many times until you Attain perfection. After you are sure of yourself you can do the same trick with a grandfather's clock.

Real Beauty.

The choree always seems to be A phalanx of rare charm. The prima donnas, too. we see ■‘•"Are fair of face and arm— But O. of all the loveliness That come before our scan. <* There’s nothing equal to —X guess— The leading tenor man.

And Then!

“What makes you so white and out of breath?” asks the friend of the man who has rushed into the store and is looking for a place of concealment. “I met Lieut. Peary down street and asked him to head a party to go and discover* Dr. Cook,” shuddered the other.

Unnecessary Talk.

“What did your wife have to Bay when you got home no late last night?” asked the friend'who la chewing oloves. “She didn’t have to say anything,” explained the man with the sleeplesslooking eyes, “hut that didn’t make any difference to her.”