Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1911 — Page 2

His Only Brief

Fred Fairlee's friends looked upon !Qte affair as a joke. It was all right to go to college and stumble through m classical course, after a fashion, but to take up law and elide through ■with It and then open an office for practice—why, they couldn’t believe What their ears heard. % Fred Fairlee was the son of a millionaire widow, and he had money of his own. A college course was the thing, in order that he might cheer for Harvard, Yale or Princeton, when the regattas and football games came off, but why should he study law, and hang out a shingle sad wait for clients? It waa a fad of hia mother’s. In the long past there had been a Jurist among the Falriees. He had risen to such heights that he had been mentioned in the Log Cabin history *f Kentucky. Things had dated back to Mm. No one in the family since his time had been a jurist, and It had been decided before Fred was IS years old that he should pick up the mantel of his ancestor and wrap It around him. Later on he started out to be a jurist, simply to oblige his mother. Ihere were four or five years of football, rowing, boxing, suppers, vacations and study, and behold the jurist! That Is, Fred wasn’t quite a jurist yet, but on the high road to It . Bven Ms mother, who knew so little of law, argued that be must first set up an office and win a case or two. Fred was a good boy to a good mother, and he made a start. He was modest about It, however. He began at the toot of the ladder, by opening his office In a suburban village, near wMch was the family summer residence. It was one' floor up and only —one room. There was at least one law book—possibly two. There was a set of boxing gloves, a lifting machine, a pair of Indian clubs and a gun or two. The old-time Jurists didnnt have such outfits to begin with, and that’s the reason It took them so long to get their fame. For five long months Attorney F. Fairlee drove, walked, fished, rowed, hunted and waited for a client. He waa doing better than he had any reason to expect when Ms mother bustled In on Mm one day with the glad exclamation: “Oh, Fred, I’ve found you a client!" “Do I have to pay him anything for bringing the case to me?” was asked. “You will make a great name!" “That’s what I am after.” “Your client Is a young lady!” "By George, but I never expected to live to see the day!’’ “Be serious, Fred. YW legal reputation is at stake. You must have heard of Miss Losslng. The family Bvee three miles from us. She has neen at the house, but never when you were there. Che's tall and willowy and blonde, and the family is among the best” “Oh, that girl, eh?” mused Fred. “Oa three occasions she’s almost run me down In her auto. And what’s the matter with her?” “A farmer with a load of hay ran tato her auto and upset It and bruised her all over and did S2OO damages. Bhe wants to bring suit I was calling at the house yesterday and t<sld her about 'you, and she will come in with me in three days. Oh, Fred. It’s the chance of your lifetime!” “Thanks, mother, dear, I believe you. It’s going to be an easy case to win. Handsome young lady out for a spin. Farmer with a load of hay. Young lady la happy, but the farmer has a grouch. Sees the opportunity to crowd her Into the ditch. Does crowd. Her auto wrecked and her nervous system shattered by {he shock. Jury won’t be out ten minotea. Heavy damages and a moral lesson to the farmers of all America. Bay, mother, you're a brick!” Two or three days later, chaperoned by Mrs. Fairlee. the client appeared at the law office. She Instantly looked good to the coming jurist. The more he looked at her the more pleased he was with her as a client. It wasn’t a formal affair. That Is. Mr. Fairlee didn’t try to look as wise as a horned owl and go into all the little legal details of the case. Miss Losslng said she had been bruised. She was not asked the exact number at her bruises. Her auto had been damaged. She was not asked to fig ure the costs to a cent She had screamed as the auto went over. The number of screams was not solemnly recorded. When her case had been stated and she had looked up in a pathetic way and asked the young attorney what he thought the chances wars of winning, he heartily and promptly replied: "Mss Losslng, we’ll win in a cantor—that la. In a boat’s length—that Is. by a neck. Why, the case Is won before being begun. You must rest easy and leave it all to me.” Mr. Fairlee got down his law book and his sporting calendar and began work at once. The case should be In two days be found It necessary to drive out to the Losslng manor and ask Ms client two or three questions, Three days later he had to go again. Then Ms client had to coma la with his mother, and the trio torched at a hotel as they went over tb<*

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When the fanner was served with a warrant Mr. Fairlee had to make another drive, to tell Miss Losslng that he was hustling on the case, and was sure of winning. Then he had to drive out again to tell her that the opposing counsel had asked for and been granted an adjournment, but It would make no difference with the verdict when the trial came on. That Is, if it made any would be In her favor. Then there were two or three times he drove out that no mention was made of the suit at all, but all the talk was social. According to the way Attorney Fairlee figured out the case, the farmer would sooner or later come to him and offer at least S6OO and the most abject apology to settle the case out of court. According to the farmer, he would fight it to the last ditch. He got two adjournments, and then the case was ready for trial. Between the two adjournments there was more driving out to the manor, but even lawsuits eannot go on forever. There came. a day when the attorney drove out to find his client In tears. He she had quite recovered from the nervous shock, but it looked as if she hadn’t. He was rather pleased. It meant a heavier verdict In her favor. When Miss Losslng could control her emotions she asked: “Mr. Fairlee, is there any law about driving on the highway?” “You must keep to the right” “Does that apply to women?” “Of course.” “But If a woman is on the lef£ hand side and doesn’t feel like crossing over—” “Oh, she mustn’t feel that way.” “I know that an old woman driving a milk wagon should cross over, but if It’s a girl, and she is in her auto, she shouldn’t be obliged to, should she?” “Miss Losslng,” said Mr. Fairlee, “I understood that when you met Farmer Jones you were on the righthand side of the road.” “I—l thought I was. but I guess I wasn’t” , “And he drove Into your auto?” “I —I guess I drove Into his load of hay!” Mr. Fairlee, attomey-at-lakr and coming Log Cabin Jurist, rose up and paced back and forth for two minutes and then delivered himself of this opinion: “Mlbs Losslng. we are beaten on our case higher than a kite!” “Oh, I’m so sorry!” “But It is just as well. I have decided to drop the law and take up—” "What?” she whispered. “This!” he replied, as he reached for her hand and continued to hold it until her mother was heard coming out on the veranda.

Famous French Hunting Dogs.

Like their masters the aristocratic (eerhounda of France were much dispersed in the days of the guillotine; »ut unlike them they made friends among the common people. So animals with pedigrees going back to Louis XI took up contented lives In homes of peasants. Thus they passed the period of the emigration, but not without certain damage to their heredity. Some pure old races were preserved only through a small pack or pair of dogs. Such Is the race of S&intonge. In 1789 It was on the point of disappearing. If it exists still it Is thanks to a physician of Saintea, Doctor Clemot, to whom the Marquis de la Porte-aux-Loups entrusted three dogs. On the return of the 1 marquis from the emigration Doctor Clemot gave back the Increased family, and these are the ancestors of all the pure Saintonge hounds of today.

Wants Aeroplane to Deliver Fish.

Who says the aeroplane has not reached the commercial stage? If anyone has any doubt about the aeroplane reaching the commercial stage, all he has to do Is to go to Flushing. New York, and see Frank H Baker, who has a fish market there. “I have advertised for an aeroplane to deliver fish.” said Baker. “1 have as yet had no replies. I never used an aeroplane In the business before and have not worked out the system for delivery, but I have advertised and hope that someone will come along with an aeroplane fit for fish delivery"

Peculiarities of Nations.

No nation loves nature so much as the German. The Italian travels to get somewhere; the German to travel. The country walk for Its own sake la a German discover)'- The Englishman’s ideal Is a park, the German’s a wood, and the Frenchman loves his boulevard.—Hamburger Zeitung.

Both Compatible.

“I bear that Dlcksie has bis business In a hole.” “Why, I heard he was making money at It" “So,he la You see, hie business to digging sewers.”

She Liked the Process.

Gerald—You accepted me last night, and now rod aay you refuse me. May—Well. 11l tell yon what—yon propose again and well make It beet two oat «T three.—Stuff Stories

RUSSIA has awaked to the importance of aeronautics in modern warfare and has just had built, in Augsburg, Germany, the smallest of dirigible? for use in scouting. It can be taken apart and packed in small compass and can be made ready for flight in a few moments. There is no car, the crew having a seat near the 28-horse-power motor. The capacity of the gas bag is 80 cubic meters. This airship was invented and built by Willard Forssman, a Swedish engineer.

MUST CALL HER MISS

Unless Willing to Have Manners Branded as Passe. Familiarity of Past on Slight Acquaintance Must Cease Unless One Wishes to Advertise As Being Out of Swim. Chicago.—ls you call her Mary or Minnie or Olga—referring to the young woman who puts your meals before you apd keeps your home in order —it Is time to stoD. Hereafter It is to be Miss Jones or Miss O’Brien or Miss Olson —that is, unless you are willing to have your manners branded as hopelessly passe, not to say de trop. The familiarity of the past on five minutes’ acquaintance, or no acquaintance, must cease —unless you wish to advertise that you are totally out of the swim. Surnames alone are to be used in ordering the affairs of the household in the future, and you might as well begin rehearsing now. For fashion has so ordered, and, although there was the usual storm of protest, ridicule and revolt among the housewives of Chicago as the decree circulated, It is probable they will get into line as they always do. Furthermore, the discussion developed the fact that the whole servant problem and the attitude mistress should have toward maid is bound up In the question. Strong advocates were found for a complete change In methods of administering the American household, which shall include abolition of the custom of having servants live on the premises, and the usual attitude toward servants In America was declared totally undemocratic.

“Call Minnie by her last name? Let's see what It Is. O, yes, Morlarty. Just to show you how ridiculous It all to I will just try it,” said a South side clubwoman who lives in the University of Chicago neighborhood. Bhe was selected because Miss Sophonlsba Breckinridge, Instructor In household administration at the university, had said. In discussing the matter, that the young women who do the household work of that neighborhood are queens among women who earn their own living and the titular mistresses of the homes are meek and submissive before them. “Miss Morlarty, oh Miss Morlarty,” called the South side woman, and after an appreciable Interval a blueeyed daughter of Ireland put her head through the door and asked in a puzzled voice: “Were you a-callin’ of me, mum?" \

“Minnie—l mean Miss Mdriarty—would you rather be called by your first or your last name?*’ “It sounds sort of funny to have you call me that way after sayln' ‘Minnie’ so long,” said the girl. “There’re some people, though, that fresh grocery boy and then the people you have here, and your husband, too, mum, I’d rather have them call me by my last name.” “I hare always called my housekeeper by her last name, so if that Is the requirement I am strictly up to date,” said Mrs. Raymond Robins, who conducted the Investigations for the New York Association for Household Research, and whose report cm the employment of domestic servants was used as a basis for legislation In that state. “It Is because the attitude toward household employes has been so entirely undemocratic that It has been next to Impossible to get a girl of competence and spirit to go into domestic service. I know many girls who have refused good wages and many material comforts to work desperately hard at poor wages In a shop because they wanted a home and the Sundays and evening* and Saturday afternoons for themselves, which

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they never have In domestic service.” “The attitude toward domestic servants that now prevails is simply intolerable.”

BEEF SECURED FROM MEXICO

Shipments Are Now Coming Out of Chihuahua to the United States in Great Quantities.' Chihuahua, lAex.—The shipment of cattle from this country to different parts of the United States is constantly on the increase, and during. the past week two herds were shipped to California, one of them occupying 40 cars and the other 20 cars. The former of these shipments went to Fresno, the other to San Diego, both herds being shipped from ranches in Sonora. During the past season large numbers of cattle have been shipped from this district, the bulk of them going to the big cattle markets in Missouri. All cattle shipped from this country are thoroughly inspected, both on the ranches and again when they reach the border, and the inspections at the ranches, while it is not recognized by the government at the border, Is so thorough that it is very seldom that a herd, when it has been once inspected on the ranch, fails to pass the government inspection on the border. According to the rules of inspection, when a herd has once been turned back at the border, or has been condemned at the ranch, no more cattle will be accepted for export from that ranch for a period of six months, after this time another inspection may be had; If the cattle pass inspection the shipping may be renewed. The constant decrease in the cattle ranges of Texas has given a great boom to that Industry in this country, and there are numerous cattle ranches moving over the border and lopatlng In Mexico, where sufficient range land may still be obtained.

PARROT A DIPLOMATIC BIRD

Feathered Pet of Belgian Crown Prince With American Minister In Three Capitals. Brussels. —There Is In the Laeken palace a Brasilian parrot which enjoys the rare distinction of having been a diplomatic bird in the American legation at Rio Janeiro, Lisbon and Brussels before finally becoming the royal pfet of Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium. It is a fine specimen of the Amaxon bird, with rich yellow and blue colorings, and was acquired by Charles Page Bryan during hla stay as American minister in Brazil. The bird was Mr. Bryan’s favorite pet and acoompanled him to Lisbon when he was promoted to that post, where it occupied the place of honor in the marble hallway of the Palais Fos, the sumptuous quarters of the American legation In that city. It had hardly been Installed in Brussels when Colonel Roosevelt paid this city a flying visit last April. A regimental band hired by the burgomaster to welcome the African hunter was playing in front of the legation, and the parrot, whose musical Instincts were suddenly awakened, insisted upon competing with the band, to the delight of the waiting crowd In the street The competition soon grew so fierce that the bird was relegated to a secluded spot in the sttlo before Colonel Roosevelt’s arrival, bat It figured prominently In all the papers the next day as among the ‘nobilities present at tbe reception. The bird's fame spread rapidly and reached Prince Leopold’s ears. When Minister Bryan heard of the young

BEAUTY IN LOCUSTS’ WINGS

Rare Relic of Seventeen Year Pest Owned by Pennsylvania Is , Quite*Artißtlc. j Bethlehem, Pa.—James O. Kichline, a veteran resident of North Bethlehem, has a unique relic of the Invasion in 1885 of the seventeen-year locusts in this Vicinity. When locusts? by the million overran the country there he spent his spare time gathering the insects. Then, at his leisure, he constructed out of them a wreath and a star. He took a year to do this, and In the construction of the wreath used many thousands of locusts. The wreath Itself is composed entirely of locusts’ wings, arranged in flower-and-leaf fashion. The star’s center is also composed of locusts’ wings, while the six points are made of whole locusts. The background of the star Is made of leaves of locust wings. The wreath and star stand two feet high by three feet wide, and this piece is but one of the many novelties made during his lifetime by Mr. Kichline, who is seventy-four years old.

Egg Wags Its Tail.

York, Pa. —An egg with a tail that wags is a freak in possession of Mrs. Minnie Sechrist, wife of John H. Sechrist, tenant on the farm of A. B. Farquhar, near York. „ The egg was laid by a Plymouth Ro<;k hen. It Is of usual size and normal except for the tall, about two Inches long, and an outer soft shell covering the whole. Looking through this outer shell, which is extremely thin, the tail may be seen to wag slightly.

Sixty Wolves Killed In France.

Paris. —According to a report just issued by the* ministry of agriculture, sixty wolves were killed in France during 1909. The majority of these animals were killed In the departments of the Vienne, Charente and Haute-Vienne. The French government payß a reward varying from SSOO to $25 for each wolf.

prince’s interest in the bird he Immediately gave it to him. During the first few days it was treated aa an honored guest in King Albert’s study at L&eken, but it was so talkative and so frequently interrupted royal councils that it was removed to Prince Leopold’s playroom.

Egg, Aged 400.

New York. —The largest egg in the world, eight times the size of an ordinary ben’s egg, Is one of the latest acquisitions of the American Museum of Natural History. It would probably not be classified even by an unscrupulous dealer as "strictly fresh,” for the scientists declare it was laid more than 400 years ago. It was popularly known in Madagascar, whence it came, as the product of the “flying elephant,” an extinct species of roc known as the Aepyornls Maximus. The egg is 2 feet 2 Inches aipund Its shortest circumference.

New Hair Twist a Wonder.

New York.—There ts a new coiffure In town. The Pike's Peak twist made Its entree along the Great White Way the other night If |t floats Into some theater tbe m«n behind had better either go to sleep or equip himself with a pair of stilts. The Pike’s Peak twist rises straight up from the dome of the head in a sort of leaning tower of puffs. If made by hand It looks like a day’s job. The hair la built up In a mass about 14 Inches high, with the spite bandeau girding It up and then a bunch of feathers abaft the bow to live It some ckPcness.

AROUND THE AMP FIRE

TELLS NEW LINCOLN STORY Ex-Congressman McCleary of Minnesota Spins Yarn of Effect of Words of Debaters. Prof. James T. McCleary of Mankato, Minn., who for 14 years represented a district in his state in congress, brought to town a new Lincoln story, says a New York dispatch in the Chicago Evening Post. “A*'friend of mine out west who is now about 65 years old told me that when a boy he attended, with his father, one of the famous Lincoln-Doug-las debates in Illinois,” said Professor McCleary. “My friend’s father was a Lincoln man, but the place in' which this particular debate took place was a Douglas stronghold. “Douglas spoke first, and he was frequently interrupted by vociferous

“How Many of You Can Tell Me What Judge Douglas Said?”

applause. The chpering and the handclapping at the end lasted four or five minutes. When Lincoln was introduced the crowd broke out into cheers for Douglass and kept it up for several minutes. Lincoln meanwhile waited patiently. “When at length the enthusiasm had subsided Lincoln extended his long right arm for silence. When he had partly got this he said in an impressive tone: ‘What an orator Judge Douglas is!’ “This unexpected tribute to their friend set the audience wild with enthusiasm. When this applause had run its course Lincoln, extending his hand again, this time obtained silqnce more easily. ” ‘What a fine presence Judge Douglas has!’ exclaimed the speaker earnestly. Again tumultuous .applause followed the tribute. More and more easily the tall, gaunt lawyer got si* lence as he went on with admiring exclamations: “ 'How, well rounded his sentences are! How well chosen his language Is! How apt his illustrations are!’ ending up with: ‘What a splendid man Judge Douglas is!’ “Then when the audience had again becoipe silent at his call Lincoln leaned forward and said: “And now, my countrymen, how many of you can tell me one thing Judge Douglas said?’ “My friend told me he searched his own heart for an answer and found none. Afterward he asked his father if he could remember anything Judge Douglas had said, and the latter remembered practically nothing. ’But,’ my friend said to me Impressively, 'even now, half a century later, I can recall practically all that Lincoln said.’ ”

Shafter Surprised Hit Daughter.

Mrs. Mary McKittrlck, General Shatter’s only daughter, to passtonatetly fond of her father. On his return from Santiago she traveled across half the continent to meet and welcome him. A concourse of people had assembled to witness the affecting meeting between the conquering hero and his daughter after those long, history-making months of separation. And what were her first touching words of greeting? She gave a little start at sight of the general’s form, by no means Attenuated, but less some 60 pohnds, lost in Cuba, and said: “Oh, you’re just as thin ss a rail!" The tension waa relaxed and the crowd smiled.

A Brave Surgeon.

Here is a story of bravery, and the hero was a surgeon of the Spanish army in Cuba, in the course of an engagement he proceeded to the front line to help the wounded. Forthwith a bullet shattered his knee-joint With the help of his assistants, he dressed hla wound and then went to work. Disabled and suffering, under a hot fire, the surgeon performed no fewer than 20 major operations on stricken soldiers.—'Tlt-Blta. '*#4 »’ &V. „ 1 ’•S* * > 1 *v>