Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — Page 3

PLUCKING A GOOSE

By Martha McCulloch Williams

(CcpjriilM, 19*1. hr AwocUtod Literary Press.) “When you’ve got a goose to piek, don’t be greedy and take away the bolsters. Not unless you mean to kill ft right away,” Sister Ellet said meaningly, eyeing her gtepniece, Jane, over the tops of her glasses. Jane tossed her head saucily—she understood the allegory of the speech. But it would never do to let Aunt Phoebe know her shot ' had gone hornet ; “I wouldn’t let people know I was so awful old —and old-time-y,” she said. “Why it’s years and years and years since folks quit raising geese for their feathers.” Sister Ellet sniffed. “Unless you leave the bolsters to hold up the wings, your goose won’t thrive for the longest time,” she said, still allegorical —then with sudden anger: “My patience, Jane, I wonder you can look at me! You know men bury their wits when they bury their wives, yet here you keep poor foolish Ben Dancy tagging after you, spending money on flowers and books, and candy, and taking you to all the shows when you know he hasn’t got it to spend—not without letting Ellen’s poor little children go bare.” “I don’t make him do it,” Jane said loftily. Sister Ellet ran on: “It wouldn’t be altogether so shambful if you had the least notion of marrying him. Widowers will be fools—as well about you as another girl! If Ben had any chance —” “Maybe he’s got a chance,” Jane said oracularly, but flushing a dull red. > ' Her aunt looked at her sharply. ‘‘D’ye mean you'll take him if you can’t get Jeems Moore?” she asked. “Well, well! I never thought.even you'd be brazen enough to own to such a thing.” Jane laughed rather sourly, walked to the glass, looked at herself narrowly, then turned slowly about, saying: “I don’t call it brazen —only honest. You know and I know, I’ve got to marry before the year’s out. I’m twenty-five and going off in my looks. Father won’t live the winter through.

“She Eyed Her Stepniece.”

Your sister likes me even less than you do. And I don’t see myself going around, sewing and nursing and doing odd jobs for everybody, pinching and scraping, never daring to say my soul’s my own, for the sake of keeping it in body. I would rather have Jimmy Moore —he’s got a temper—but that ain’t as bad as three children. Ben Dancy would treat me better, perhaps, but I couldn’t treat myself nearly as well.” ‘‘Who do you lovfe best?” Sister E> let asked, shocked, yet in a way diverted. f "Myself!” Jane said, with a shrug, whereat her elder raised hands and eyes, muttering: "That’s the truth-r-ls ever anybody told it.” “What’s that. Aunt Nan? Can Miss Jinny tell the truth? I thought all the girls everywheres had forgot how,” Jeems Moore said, from Just outside the window. “Say,” he went on to Jane, “come outside for a little while. I want some yard or so of frozen truth —think you can reel it off for me?” “Oh, I don't know. Maybe So —unless you ask me about my age or my complexion,” Jane answered, stepping through the French window to join him. When they were out of earshot he blurted at her: "I’m in love —heels over bead. Reckon it’s bo news to you, but it’s best to get things right straight at the start.” "Much the best,” Jane assented, her heart beating fast. * Moore went on doggedly: “What l want to know is—have I got a fair chance?” - “Is there any other man in your way?” Jane asked, almost tremulously. Moore snorted: “I moat wish there was,” he said. “As far as I know. Tm the only man that’s ever looked at her this jvay. That’s what makes it so hard —she don’t seem to understand —” "Who in she? I don’t understand, either.” Jane cried, her voice sharp. ’'Who can it be but Penny? Miss

Pennsylvania Dancy, Ban’s sister, * Moore retorted almost angrily. “Lord! If only she cared as much for me as she does for those brats of his. Right nice little tricks I must say— if only they weren’t always bo in my way. How can you court a girl with a lummox y three-year-old clawing to get in your lap, and a big boy telling you over all the things he’s learned at school—and a girl that wants to teach you kindergarten tricks?" “Why! I think it would be difficult" Jane admitted Judicially,' as Moore stopped short. lie rushed on: “Abd Penny thinks it’s all right. Rlghtest kind of all right. I know I’ never can get at her unless you’ll help me.” “How?” Jane asked. Moore looked deeply injured. “Just by* telling her you’re going to marry Ben—she says you’re the only woman litfeg she’d be willing he should put over her darlings. jSo here’s your chance of telling truth—are you going to take him?” “Not unless he asks me,” Jane said demurely and smiling a little as if there was a tightness in her throat. Moore laughed a huge-relieved guffaw. “Just you let me know if he don’t, and in short - order I’ll thrash him in an inch of his life.” “Thank you very much —but J had rather you wouldn’t. * Think of the children!” Jane returned. “Besides, can’t you prevail on Penny to adopt? you, anyway? One more doesn’t mean much when you have already a family.” - “I never thought of that. I’ll go right straight and ask her,” Moore said, giggling like a schoolboy. “And I’ll scare old Ben something awful. A good fellow, a mighty good fellow — but slout! My heaven! Even being a widower hasn’t <;ured him.” With that he shot away. Jane looked after him with a curious sense of anger mixed with relief. She had a saving perception of humor —in a minute she was laughing, not acidly, but with genuine amusement. “So I don’t have to choose after all,” she said to herself. “But Penny! Whoever would have thought it? I would rather she had Jim than anybody else —she deserves a good home; then she has behaved beautifully to me.” “You look as if you had heard good news,” Sister Ellet commented an hour later, when Jane came into the sitting room. Jane went up to her, straightened heT cap, picked up three dropped stitches in the glove she was knitting, then said, shame-facedly: “Aunt Phoebe— I will you please forget some foolish talk of mine? I’ve been talking with Ben down at the gate—he stopped as he went by—and—and—everything is settled. I’m not going to kill my goose, neither to pluck off the bolsters. We shall be married next month —won’t you give us joy?” .“Surely, child!” Sister Ellet said heartily. “And my silver teapot into the bargain. I know we’ve been often cVanky and criss-cross one with another —but it come over me, as I sat here, you’ve got a heap of good in you—and you haven’t had the best chance to bring it out. If you’ve got heart and courage enough to mother Ben’s children —” “I shall try,” Jane half whispered. “You see—l know what it is to lack mothering myself.”

SAME OLD TUNES ARE USED

Hearers Will Not Accept the Music Unless It Has All the Conventions. Why is it that all our musicians, in writing a nautical song, invariably use a portion of the best-known hornpipe as the introduction, “vamp,” or counter-melody? Why do the open fifths in the bass always appear in rustic songs? Because it can’t be helped, it seems. Our popular Irish songs always have a bar or two of a wellknown old Irish melody or a drone bass, otherwise they wouldn’t be Irish. The exhausted old Turkey and h-.s partner, the Straw, come to the rescue of every “Rube” song or dance that is perpetrated, and our national airs must run all through the accompaniment of patriotic songs to give them “flavor.” Because all of these things are “set” —they are conventions. Why must every song end on the tonic note, with the preceding tone either the second or seventh of the scale (unless we except the detestable third or the hollow fifth)? Because our audiences expect it. Should one of our composers, in a moment of bravery or recklessness, produce a score in which he disregarded these many conventions, his first-night hearers would go away remarking that the music was crazy. They do not realize that they expect to hear the same old thing, served up a trifle differently, of course, but still the same.—Metropolitan Magazine.

Poor Brown.

The marquis of Salisbury, in an interview in New York, said of Canadian reciprocity: “It is a good thing, and I’m sure everybody will agree it’s a good thing. Of course certain American lumber dealers and wheat growers will be a little annoyed. But they, too, will agree. It will be like Brown's case. "Brown got engaged to a pretty girl. The girl, a short time before the wedding, said to Brown with the humility of true love; “‘lt seems incredible, impossible, that you should love me.’ “ ‘Why, that’s Just what my mother says,' cried Brown. ‘How well you two will get on if you always agree like that!” .

TO DIRECT HIS TEAM FROM BENCH

Following in the footsteps of Jim McAleer, Jim McGuire of the Naps does not propose to spend much of his time on the coaching lines the coming season. The veteran Jim thinks that he can be of more service to his team by directing things from the bench, and he is hopeful of developing a good pair of coachers. McGuire explains that good coachers, in his opinion, are not those who make the most noise, but players who know the game And can detect an opening when it presents itself. ’lt’s funny what a soft Job the average fan believes a manager has,” remarked McGuire recently. “In the opinion of the fan all the manager has to do is sit around, enjoy the games and draw his pay envelope every Ist and 16th.

SEEK TO REINSTATE FRASER

Louisville Club Wants Former Cub— Chick Under Suspension for Failing to Report to Pelicans. President William Orayson of the Louisville Baseball club has applied to the National commission to haye Pitcher Chick Fraser, formerly of the

Chick Fraser.

Cubs, reinstated, in which case Fraser will be given a trial with Louisville. Fraser is under suspension and a S2OO fine hangs over him for his failure to report to New Orleans, to which club he was sold by Murphy.

BEST FORM OF EXERCISING

Bwimming Develops Body as Nothing Else Will, Says Medical Member of Athletic Club. One of the medical men members of the Baltimore Athletic club, who is very prominent in aquatic circles, gives the following account on why we should*know how to swim: It is only a matter of time when we all come to realize that to keep our bodies in good condition we. have to exercise. The body, a very complicated structure, is kept alive by two simple processes: First, by taking in nourishment to supply the tissues of which it is composed, and second, by collecting the waste material and poisonous matter, the product of the tis-

Jim McGuire, Manager of Cleveland Naps.

"Little do the fans realize how far they are from the real truth, for if there is one job that requires a lot of hard work, constant worry. It’s that of the manager,” remarked Jim. “Tffe part the fans see of the manager, the sitting on the bench or posing on the coaching lines, doesn’t look very hard, and In many ways it isn’t, but that is the softest part of the position. In order to appreciate what the manager of a ball team is up against one must become a manager.”

Honor for Weston.

Stuyvestant Fish, William Nelson Cromwell, Henry Clews and other prominent New Yorkers the other night participated in a dinner to Edward Payson Weston, the veteran walker, on the occasion of his seventythird birthday, March 15.

sues’ activity, and carrying this to the excretory organs to be sent out of the body.. The first process we seldom have trouble in doing. Unfortunately, most of us take too much nourishment, but the latter process is easier interfered with; the poisonous material, if not gotten rid of properly by the skin, kidneys, bowels, and lungs, will, in a course of time, injure the tissues. This being the commonest cause of indigestion, headache and often more severe illness, even going so far as to harden the walls of the blood vessels, prematurely making old men of us. We, being not as old as our age, but as old as our arteries, or blood vegsels, is very true; many a man at 60 years is really younger than some men at 30 years. Exercise is the means that stimulates the sluggish excretory organs, thereby preventing lots of ailment. We haven’t a better way of exercising in the club than by swimming. It would be surprising to know .the number of men in the club who cannot swim, because they have not tried, most thinking it a very difficult thing to do, when it is an extremely simple thing, principally a matter of confidence. Even if one does not swim for exercise he should learn as a matter of precaution against accident How many of us have lost some relative or friend because they did not know how to swim? We, who live in this part of the country, who use the open waters in* the summer time, should especially know, for the fool is always with us, and you can never tell when one of them will be the cause of making you swim to save your life.

Great Boat Race Due.

Probably the most important college rowing event of the coming season will be the two-mile race between the first 'varsity eights of Harvard and Cornell, at Ithaca, N. Y. This Is not only because Cornell led at Poughkeepsie in all three races last year and because Harvard romped away from Yale at New London in the corresponding contests, but because both have veteran oarsmen in the first ‘varsity shells. - - The makeup of the two crews will differ slightly from ths respective boats that met on the Charles river last spring, when Cornell won. The Cornell crew Is practically the same—one new man coming In, but a change in the seating order has been made. Harvard is not quite as fortunate, having lost Ward, Bacon and Whitney. Captain Cutler, Withlngton, Metcalf, Strong and Newton, however, form a big nucleus, and the three vacant beats have been easily filled. Fred Hunter of the Pirates says be started his csreer as a pitcher and lost three years by not being givbn a trial.

QUIT RACIN6 IN NEW YORK

Jockey Club's Action Will Cause Lose of *2QJXXM>Qfr Yearly—Eight Tracks Affected. The announcement of the jockey club that there will be no racing in New York state this year is the chief topic of discussion in sporting circles. Just what effect the action of the jockey club will have on thoroughbred racing throughout :the country is difficult for followers of the sport here to estimate. Racing will now be confined to three states only—Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland. Both Louisiana and California have recently barred racing and Florida will follow suit April 1. J. B. Haggin, the most extensive breeder of race horses.in the country, is finding a market for his horses in the Argentine Republic and Europe and several other important breeder# will be compelled to do the same or retire from the breeding industry. England will benefit largely from present conditions. H. P. Whitney, James R. Keene, John E. Madden, August Belmont and other owners will probably send their Btables to race for the big English stakes. The action of the jockey club affects eight running tracks in .this state. The aggregate value of the plants thus made Idle is about 12% million dollars, divided as follows: Belmont Park, $2,500,000; Sheepshead Bay, $2,600,000; Brooklyn, $1,500,000; Jamaica, $1,000,000; Brighton Beach, *$2,000,000; Empire City, $1,000,000; Aqueduct, $1,000,000; Saratoga, sl,OdO.OOO. Fully a. thousand thoroughbreds will be thrown out of training and about forty thousand persons employed directly or Indirectly in connection with the racing game will be compelled to seek work elsewhere. The financial loss from the closing of the tracks, as estimated by racing men here, will be in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 a'year. This includes the loss of Interest on the real estate and other investments. Then it is figured that patrons of racing have been accustomed to spend about $lO,000,000 annually in New York city and large sums also in Saratoga and Buffalo. The annual expenditures of the racing associations have generally exceeded $6,000,000 and the railroads’ share in the disbursements has included about $1,500,000 spent for fares and freights.

HOPPE CAN’T PLAY IN PARIS

American Billiard Champion Forbidden to Give Exhibitions in Paris— Demarest Is Worried. The police have refused to modify the order forbidding Willie Hoppe, the young American billiard player, to give exhibitions here. The trouble grows out of his hav-

Willie Hoppe.

Ing played In games in which betting was done when be was here before. Calvin Demarest of Chicago continues to play, but he is worried lest the police include him in the drastic order. In many quarters it is believed that Hoppe’s trouble was caused bjr jealousy between local billiardists who own rival halls.

GOSSIP OF SPORTDOM

Baseball fans are eagerly awaiting the first box score. These makeshifts don’t strike the right place. However, now that, most of the men admit they are professionals, the games deserve a little boosting. Baseball does not appear to appeal more strongly to the British mind than does cricket to the American. Why Is It that baseball players always “pull off” a play? Why not try one on some time? Perhaps the reason New York Is such a good sporting town Is that every one helps boost there. Outfielder Frank • Tarrant, who played In the Michigan trolley league last season, was signed by Manager Barrett of the Milwaukee American association baseball club. Eddie Hahn, who was with the world champion White Sox. will manage the Mansfield (O.) team this season. To the average American the idea of “livening" cricket deserves an 11. lustration on the back page. We wopld need more championship pennants to go around if all of the baseball clubs lived up to expectations. ,

HERE’S A. CONSUMPTION CURE

Milk Stripping* From Healthy Cow Taken While Warm Said to Be Milk etrippinge when taken from a healthy cow that gives very rich milk and taken in qnantltfee of a quart twice a day immediately after milking, before it cools any, win core a Mrger per cent, of cases of consumption than any otheir method. It will alao prevent It when taken in time. The reason why it is so successful is because it is absorbed or transfused into the circulation almost immediately without taxing the digestive organs, as all other foods do, and as the strippings or last quart of the milking from a cow that gives very rich milk is nearly all cream, the patients will take on fat so much faster than can be accomplished by any other method that they soon gain enough strength and vitality to overcome the germs causing consumption. To get the best results one should begin with a glass of strippings and increase gradually; but if there is any disfcust for It created any time, the quantity should be decreased at once to one-half and then increase gradually again. In two or three weeks the patient can usually take a quart in the morning and evening. It is very Important to take it immediately after milking so as not to allow it to cool below blood heat. In cold weather it should be milked into a dish resting in warm water to prevent it from cooling any.—B. J. Kendall, M. D.

Drawbacks of Society.

In a town of this size, the husbands of the “society” women have dress suits which they bought to be married in and have outgrown, but when an evening affair occurs, the “society" women stuff their fat husbands into the tight dress suits, and go. Then, at the party, ail the married women get together, and tell what awful times they had getting their husbands into the dress suits. If there is a sound as of something tearing, every married woman turns as white as death; she thinks it is her husband's trousers. At a late evening affair a married couple came late, and the woman explained to a group of married women that at the last moment she had to put gussets in her husband’s trousers, “and even with those gussets,” she said, “he don’t dare sit down.” Another woman said she had buttoned her husband’s vest with a button hook, and that he vowed he could not stand it, and threatened every minute to unbutton It. “If he does,” she said, “we will have to go home early; 1 just can’t get it together again.”—Atlanta Constitution. . . ,

Australian Names.

“Nearly all my friends,” remarked an Australian the other day, “call me a ‘cornstalk.’ I've quit correcting them long ago. “Now, as it happens, the term should only be applied to the people of New South Wales. They are the tall, slim blokes who look as though you could break them in two between your finger and thumb. I come from the colony of Victoria, where we are known by the still more unattractive sobriquet of ’gumsuckers,’ on account of our great forests of blue gum trees. “Queensland is in the tropics, and its inhabitants are called ‘banana eaters.' The South Australians are ‘crow eaters,’ because in times of drought the natives are sometimes reduced to the use of crows as food. "So call me a ,‘gumsucker’ If you like, but never a ‘cornstalk,’ and the next time you want to apply a nickname to an Australian ask him from which colony he comes.”

Art Arcade for Carlsbad.

The project of an art arcade for* Carlsbad, which has been for so many years a vexed question among the tradesmen’s associations, is now making progress. The preparations have been pushed with noticeable energy. Extensive earth and rock excavations have been necessary to make room at one part of the Postbof Promenade for the building, and it can now be seen that useful work has been done. The little booths which formerly stood here and gave the appearance of an annual fair were certainly no ornament fOr the most fashionable promenade among the world’s watering places. Instead of this medley of booths of all possible colors and styles a tasteful, roomy and stately building will now appear, which will provide a worthy home for the creations of Carlsbad, industries, as well as those of natives and foreign artists, thus filling a long-felt want.

Mother's Pumpkin Pie.

A man’s measure of success is shown up in the quality and quantity of bow his meals arrive In time. The supreme end of everything even In politics Is pie; pie for the elect few. It may be; pie for the great mass—perhaps; but nevertheless now and forevermore the one great cry Is pie. And where is the pie that beats the good old pumpkin, pumpkin pie tike mother made? • / *

Real Cupidity.

Edna —Jack and l bad the most delightful time on shipboard. Katharine —Gracious! I don’t set how you could enjoy yourselves under the watchful eyes of the chaperon. Edna —Ob. we used a little strategy. Ton see, we told the chaperon if she would close her eyes she would avoid seasickness, and she kept her eyei closed most of the voyaga '