Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — Page 2

SOUNDS AND FURY

By O. HENRY

Copyright tgrt.C, KeUon. PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. ■Mr. Penne An Author Mtss Lore. An Aronnuensla Scene—Workroom of Mr. Penne’s popular novel factory. Mr. Penne—Good morning,. Mias Lor®. Glad to see yon so prompt. We should finish that June installment for the Epoch today. Leverett Is crowding me for It Are you Quite ready? We will resume where we left off yesterday. (Dictates.) “Kate, with a sigh rose from his knees, and —” Miss Lore —Excuse me; you mean "rose from her knees,” Instead of "his,” don’t you? Mr. Penne —Er—no—"his,” If you please. It Is the lore scene in the garden. (Dictates.) "Rose from his knees where, blushing with youth’s bewitching coyness, she had rested for a moment after Cortland had declared his lore. The hour was one of supreme and tender joy. When Kate — scene that Cortland never—” Miss Lore —Excuse me; but wouldn’t it be more grammatical to say "when Kate saw,” instead of "seen?" Mr. Penn—The context will explain. (Dictates.) “When Kate—scene that Cortland never forgot—came tripping across the lawn it seemed to him the fairest sight that earth had ever offered to his gase.” Miss Lore—Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —"Kate had abandoned herself to the joy of her new-found love so completely, that no shadow of her former grief was cast upon it Cortland, with his arm firmly entwined about her waist, knew nothing of her sighs—” Mi-t Lore —Goodness! If he couldn’t tell her size with hia arm around — Mr. Penne (frowning)—“Of her sighs and tears of the previous flight.” Miss Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —"To Cortland ithe chief charm of this girl was her look of Innocence and unworldliness. Never had nun—" e Miss Lore —How about changing that to “never had any?” Mr. Penne (emphatically)—"Never had nun In cloistered cell a face more •weet and pure.” Miss Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —"But now Mate must hasten back to the house lest her absence be discovered. After

“Blushing With Youth’s Bewitching Coyness.”

a fond farewell she turned and sped lightly away. Cortland’s gaze followed her. He watched her rise—” Miss Lore —Excuse me. Mr. Penne; but how could he watch her eyes while her back was turned toward him? Mr. Penne (with extreme politeness) —Possibly you would gather my meaning more intelligently if you would wait for the conclusion of the sentence. (Dictates.) “Watched her rise as gracefully as a fawn as she mounted the eastern terrace." Miss Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —“And yet Cortland’s position was so far above that of this rustic maiden that he dreaded to consider the social upheaval that would ensue should he marry her. In no uncertain tones the traditional voices of his caste and world cried out loudly to him to let her go. What should follow—” Miss Lore (looking up with a start) —rm sure I can’t say, Mr. Penne. Unless ( with a giggle) you would want to add “Gallagher.” Mr. Penne (coldly)—Pardon me. I was not seeking to impose upon you the task of a collaborator. Kindly consider the question a part of the text Miss Lore—Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —“On one side was love and Kate; on the other his heritage of social position and family pride. Would love win? Love, that '■the poets tell us will last forever! (Perceives that Miss Lore looks fatigued, and looks at his watch.) That's |a good long stretch. Perhaps we’d (better knock off a bit (Miss Lore does not reply.) Mr. Penne—l said. Miss Lore, we’ve been at It quite a long time—wouldn’t you like to knock off for awhile? Miss Lore —Oh, were you address- ***** me before? I put what you said down. I thought It belonged in the (Story. * It seemed to fit in all right Oh, no; I’m not tired. 'A Mr. Penne—Very well, then, we will continue. (Dictates.) “In spite of these qualms and doubts, Cortland was a happy man. That night at the club he

simply toasted Kate’s bright eyes In a bumper of the rarest vintage. Afterward he set out for a stroll, with, as Kate on—” Miss Lore—Excuse me, Mr. Penne, for venturing a suggestion; but don't you think you might state that In a leas coarse manner? “r Penne (astounded) —Wh-wh — I’m afraid I fall to understand you. Miss Lore—His condition. Why not say he was “full” or “lntoxioated?” It would sound much more elegant than the way you express it .Mr. Penne (still darkly wondering) —Will you kindly point out, Miss Lore, where I have Intimated that Cortland was “full,” If you prefer that word? Miss Lore (calmly consulting her stenographic notes) —It is right here, word for word. (Reads.) “Afterwards he set out for a stroll with a skate on.” Mr. Penne (with peculiar emphasis) —Ah! And now will you kindly take down the expurgated phrase? (Dlot- 'i) —“Afterwards he set out for a stroll, with, as Kate on one occasion had fancifully told him, her spirit leaning upon his arm.” Mips Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —Chapter 34. Heading—“ What Kate Found in the Garden.” “That fragrant summer morning brought gracious tasks to all. The bees were at the honeysuckle blossoms on the porch. Kate, singing a little song, was training the riotous branches of her favorite woodbine. The suu. himself, had rows—” Miss Lore —Shall I say “had risen?” Mr. Penne (very slowly and with desperate deliberation) —‘‘The—sun— himself —had —rows —of blushing pinks—and—hollyhocks—and and—hyacinths waiting that he—might dry—tbelr—dew-drenched—cups.” Miss Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —"The earliest trolley, scattering the birds from Its pathway like some marauding cat, brought Cortland over from OldporL He had forgotten his fair —’’ Miss Lore —Hm! Wonder how he got the conductor to— Mr. Penne (very loudly)—“Forgotten his fair and roseate visions of the night in the practical light of the sober morn.” Miss Lore —Oh!

Mr. Penne (dictates) —"He greeted her with his usual smile and manner. ‘See the waves,’ he cried, pointing to the heaving waters of the sea, ‘ever wooing and returning to the rockbound shore.’ “ ‘Ready to break,* Kate said, with—’’ Miss Lore —My! One evening he has his arm around her, and the next morning he’s ready to break her head I Just like a man! . . . Mr. Penne (with suspicious calmness) —There are times, Miss Lore, when a man becomes bo far exasperated that even a woman — But suppose we finish the sentence. (Dictates.) *’ Ready to break,’ Kate said, with the thrilling look of a soul-awak-ened woman, ‘into foam and spray, destroying themselves upon the shore they love so well.*" Miss Lore —Oh! Mr. Penne (dictates) —Cortland, in Kate’s presence, heard faintly the voice of caution. Thirty years had not cooled his ardor. It was in hla power to bestow great gifts upon this girl. He jtill retained the beliefs that he had at twenty." (To Miss Lore, wearily) I think that will be enough for the present. Miss Lore (wisely—Well, If he had the twenty that he believed he had, it might buy her a rather nice one. Mr. Penne (faintly)—The last sentence was my own. We will discontinue for the day, Miss Lore. Miss Lore —Shall I come again tomorrow? Mr. Penne (helpless under the spell) —If you will be so good. (Exit Miss Lore.) Asbestos Curtain.

THOUGHT IT EASY MONEY

Fred Rush Gives a Tip to Harry Polack and It Proves to Be a Good One. “In the last race I have a good thing," skid Fred Rush enticingly to Harry Polack, the Pittsburg vaudeville agent. “Play Charlie Rothschild in the sixth race at Juarez. I have the tip straight from the firm of Rothschild, the bankers, aiyl they own the horse.” "I will risk >10,” said Polack, carried away by the apparent confidence of his friend; “where can 1 play It?" "Leave that to me,” replied Rush, and he clutched the money. When Polack had gone. Frank Bohn remonstrated with Rush. “That horse Is a plug.” he said. “He hasn’t a show in the world to win. Why did you give him to Polack?*’ “Hush,” explained the wily one. “you’re In on It. I won’t put the money down at all. The horse will lose, and then we can dine. Brains, brains —I got them." Several hours later the couple sat down in a Broadway restaurant Rush insisted on ordering and he went as far as the $lO would go. Polack beamed on him. “I thought," said he, “that you were kidding me on that horse, but K was a good tip after all.” “What!" exclaimed Rush, choking on his soup spoon. ‘Thirty to one was the price,” said Polack. s “Brains, brains.” murmured Frank Bohn.—St. .Paul Dispatch.

The Greater Loss.

Agitated Little- Boy to Mrs. Marsh —Billie Marsh’s new tin whistle is all broke. Mother —How did it happen? Agitated Little Boy—BlUy was playing on it when a steam roller went over It ‘

WHALING IN BRAZIL

WHALING in Brazil is practically confined to a region extending along the coast of the state of Bahia from Assu da Torre, 12% degrees south latitude, to Caravellas, 18 degrees south latitude. According to Monk Vincent do Salvador, contemporaneous with the time, its history dates back to 1603, when Pedro Urecha came from Portugal, bringing two whale boats with crews expert in hunting. Soon other learned whaling, and It was not long before tbere was quite a fleet engaged in this pursuit. The industry has continued from that day to the present time, though it has been gradually on the wane during the last 20 years, chiefly due to decline in price of whale oil as a result of the Introduction of the cheaper competitor, petroleum and its products. The variety of whale hunted Is the Balaenoptera Mlsculus (Linnaeus), The family of Roquals, to which it belongs, is characterized by the large folds running along the lower jaw and forward half of the abdomen. This is a “whale bone” whale, having on an average about 360 plates of whalebone hanging from the root of its upper jaw. The plates of bone are short as compared with those of the “right whale.” They average about 32 Inches in length and because of their shortness have little commercial value. The length of this variety of whale Is said to reach from 60 to 70 feet. The largest one taken In this section gave 5,104% quarts of oil from blubber and 412 quarts from scraps. Its lower jawbone was 17.3 feet long and its total length Is given as 70 feet The average size killed Is from 30 to 50 feet

Each year this variety of whale migrates northward as winter approaches the south pole, and the return commences as soon as spring sets In there. They -are first sighted off Caravellas. They reach Bahia about the middle of May, and have entirely disappeared south by November, occurring in such quantities in July, August and September that the number which may be killed is only limited by the number of boats in their pursuit. As they pass along the coast they may be encountered from a mile and tipward out at sea, frequently entering Bahia bay. It is no uncommon sight to see them gamboling In the steamer anchorage. Other varieties of whales, such as the “right whale” and the “sperm whale,” have from time to time been encountered along this coast, but their appearance has been very rare. At present there are 13 whaling stations. Of these, eight are In the vicinity of Bahia City and five are located on Itaparica Island, In the bay facing the city. The other stations, with the exception of that the Caravellas at the extreme south, are all to the north of Bahia City. The boats used In whaling are very heavy, hand-made native affairs, capable of standing great strain. Their sides are from one to two inches thick. The ribs, keel, etc., are not bent to form, bbt are hewn from pieces naturally approximating the desired shape. The boats average 30 feet in length, with eight-foot beam and 3 (4-foot depth. On each side of the prow is arranged a born-like projection of natural bent wood, around which pass the ropes attached to the harpoons. The sail Is practically quadrangular, of Immense area, averaging 30 by 40 feet. It is lashed to a yard which is tied at Its outer third to a long rope passing through a single pulley at the top of a mast, which is 42 feet high, and situated slightly forward of the center of the boat. By

PREPARING TO CUT UP A WHALE

this arrangement the sail can he raised or lowered speedily, and without much trouble cpn,be changed for a tack. The boats are constructed on such lines that they are very buoyant, seaworthy, fast sailing, and easily managed. In a boat’s equipment are from 8 to 12 harpoons, each attached to about 160 feet of one-inch manlla rope. The harpoons are of various shapes, and makes, from those of local manufacture and ancient pattern to the latest American model, though -the latter are few and far between. A boat also contains from two to four lances, spear-pointed rods of iron mounted In long poles, to which are attached 35 feet of three-quarter-inch manlla rope, which lances are used for killing whales; a large knife used for cutting away the rppe should danger threaten; on each side forward a iso- - coil of two-inch rope, to which is attached the harpoon rope; and on each side aft a 440-foot coil of similar rope, to be attached to the 590-foot rope If necessity warrants; a couple of pairs of oars; and provisions and cooking utensils for the crew. A boat has a crew of ten men, each having his particular duty and all under the direction'Ttf the harpooner, who is stationed in the prow of the boat and directs the movements.

The boats leave for the open sea at sunrise and put In port each night. When a whale is sighted it requires considerable seamanship to sail near enough to permit throwing the harpoon, the chief use of which is'to hold the whale. As soon as a harpoon Is thrown, if It strikes, the whale leaps In the water and starts away at great speed, the rope whistling as it pays out round the horns already mentioned. At once the sail is lowered and the .rudder taken in. As soon as opportunity will permit a bight is taken In the rope, and then the boat, towed by the whale, shoots forward at torpedo-boat speed. From time to time the • whale slackens his speed, and opportunity is given to shorteh the tow rope, until finally the whale is near enough to permit lances to be thrown into It The lances easily penetrate the whale, and are as easily jerked out to be hurled again, until either a vital point is struck A* a whale succumbs from loss of blood. Often when a whale has been frequently lanced it suddenly turns, the boat gives a lurch, the harpoon pulls out, and the whale escapes. Perhaps three-fourths of the whales harpooned get away. The system leaves much to be desired, but the harpooners are averse to trying new and improved methods. Guns shooting explosive bullets, darts, etc., have been imported, but their use Is by no means common. When the boatmen are' successful In killing a whale it Is the particular duty of one of the crew to dive under the whale as soon as dead and pass g rope with which to tie up the mouth; otherwise such a quantity of water would be taken In that the whale would soon sink. As this takes pla6e usually on the high sea and the whale is always surrounded by voracious sharks which have been attracted by the blood flowing from It, the task requires no little courage and skill. Later on, the diver assists in passing the three other ropes with which the whale is lashed alongside the whaleboat that It may be towed to the station. Arriving at the station, the whale is drawn up on the beach and cut up, the fat, called “blubber," being separated from the meat and bones. The pieces of blubber are then taken to the oil factory, where they are placed in large caldrons and the oil is tried

HENRY W. FURNISS.

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ONE GREAT ENGLISH DOCTOR

Some Hitherto Unrecorded Facte About Discoverer of the Circulation of the Blood. It has been said that Shakespeare, Newton, who discovered and proved the attraction of gravitation, and Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, are the three greatest Englishmen. Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, in a recently delivered lecture, presented many new and interesting facts in the life of Harvey, whose private life is almost as little known as that of Shakespeare. Harvey was bom on April 1, 333 years ago. It was many years after Harvey conceived the idea of the orderly circulation of the blood before he permitted his observations to be printed. He lectured to his students on this subject as early as 1619, but it was not until 1628 that his work' on the circulation of the blood, a quarto of 72 pages, in Latin, was published at Frankfort. There were antivtvisectionlstß In that day, and his experiments, conducted on living dogs and in a day long preceding anaesthetics probably did not go uurebuked. He was loyal to bis royal master and patient, Charles 1., .and for that reason did not escape the vindictiveness of the Cromwellians. They ransacked his house and .destroyed many of his manuscripts that represented years of labor. Doctor Mitchell said that Harvey, while traveling in .Italy, had forgotten to bring with him a certificate stating that he had not been-in a plague-infested town. "Failure to produce the certificate was the cause of his enforced quarantine for three weeks, in an open field, on a litter of straw. One can picture the plight of the gouty Englishman, the physician of kings and the ward of princes, appealing In vain for release from a cruel quarantine imposed by a panic-strick-en community,” Doctor Mitchell read extracts from Harvey’s letters, written in Italy at that time, which show that when thorough angry Harvey wrote abominable English, and that the pangs of sciatica Were not conducive to that elegance of literary style which Harvey showed on other occasions.

His Bluff Called.

The greatest bluffer in the state of Minnesota, says Senator Nelson, was an Indian up -In! the lumber regions, who took great delight In walking up to. people and sayinfe: “Uh; me heap big Injun. You scared o’ me!” And as he was an Indian of considerable stature, with a face about as pleasant as a gargoyle’s, nearly everybody admitted to him that he was indeed a big Indian and that they were sure enough Beared of him. This nearly tickled him to death, and he kept up his habit of putting his stock question to everybody who came along, until one day he walked up to a tall, raw boned lumber-jack,-who had just come out of the woods after six months of log rolling. “Me heap big Injun,” said the big bluff. “You scared o’ me!” The* lumberjack replied by hitting the Interrogator a lick between the eyes that set him spinning for' a moment like one of those new-fangled revolving barber poles. “That’s how soared I am of you," remarked the lumberjack, as he bit off a fresh chew of tobacco, “you blamed bow-and-arrow sun-of-a-gun!”

Marie Dressler’s Wit.

Ive Bogan who is now sedately engaged in the insurance business with Barr Hook and Noble Eaton used to sow wild oats In company with Charley Clark of Burlingame before that scion of wealth became a married man. One night several years ago the two young men were dining with two women at the Havlin hotel in Cincinnati. The two girls were members of Migrf Marie Dressler’s company and Miss Marie Dressier herself happened to be dining at the next table. As the party of four arose after dinner Clark’s sleeve brushed a wine glass from thb table and it was shattered to bits on the marble floor. With a twinkle In her expressive eyes Miss Dressier leaned toward him and said: “I beg your pardon, you’ve dropped the Btone out of your ring.”— Town Talk.

Wages and Service in India.

Wages are not high in India. A native switchman on a railway native servant in a private family receive seven rupees, or about $1.90 a month. The farm hand receives much leßß, or about four rupees, or SI.OB a month. Of course, wages vary in different sections, and there is a somewhat upward tendency in prices Daw. However, the missionaries told me that you paid about as much for labor in India as you do in America; that one man in America would do as much as a whole company in India. —Christian Intelligencer.

His Wit Failed.

The house dated from the fifteenth century, and .visitors were permitted to go over It for sixpence a head. Of course Queen Elisabeth had slept there, and the boy in buttons who conducted the party mentioned this three times in the sacred bedchamber. Most of the furniture bad a„. look of the period, though there were a few doubtful embroideries. “And where," one of the visitors asked, “is the bed in which Queeen Elisabeth slept?" The boy in buttons hesitated for a moment, and then said, “That’s being made, sir.”

Disadvantages of Contiguity.

Knicker —The trouble with a flat la that you hear the people under you quarreling. Bocker—Same way with the United States.

SEE INTO THE LUNGS

X-RAYB INVALUABLE AID IN FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS. V I By This Means Presence of the Dread Disease May Be Ascertained In Its . Incipiency and its Progress Checked. Most people nowadays have learned that successful warfare on the “white scourge” consumption depends mainly on an early and correct diagnosis. As the longs are invisible, ordinarily tuberculosis may not manifest Its presence with certainty until the disease is too far advanced to be controlled by any means now known. Recently new hope has been given to victims of this dread disease by Instruments in the X-ray apparatus which make the instrument capable of revealing to its operator the very earliest appearance of the germs of consumption. “ V s So accurate have been the results obtained that a careful X-ray examination of the chest is now the routine treatment for all new lung cases, the symptoms of which give the slightest difficulty to the examining physicians in the receiving wards. The patient takes his place off-a bicycle seat fixed on a pedestal. Closd to hlB back, in a large blade box which can be raised or lowered, or swung to one side or the other, by a delicate system of balancing weights; is the X-ray tube. All but a small area of its luminous surface is protected by a lead glass screen, so that only a narrow stream of light falls on the patient’s back. When the patient Is in position the examiner puts on a pair of thick lead glass spectacles to protect his eyes, pulls over his hands a large pair of lead impregnated gloves, and wheels Into position between himself and the patient a thick lead screen four feet high. With a movement of his foot he touches .a button and the room is in absolute darkness. Then he waits ten minutes until his eyes get ueed to the darkness, for experience has taught that after the eyes have become thoroughly accustomed to the presence of White light the sensibility of the retina to the light of the fluorescent X-ray screen is increased from fifty to two hundred times. With another touch of the foot the X-ray current is turned on and the bones and tissues of the patient’s chest are visible on the screen. The upper parts of the lungs, the points most likely to be attacked first by tuberculosis, are then carefully studied. The patient Is told to empty his lungs of air by slorwly exhaling his breath. The lung tissues become more pervious to the rays and the whole surface brightens in color. The failure of any portion of the lung to brighten evenly with the rest of the tissues shows some abnormality and strongly suggests deficient air entry to the part, one of the earliest signs of consumption.

Woman Suffrage Plea.

“The feministic movement today is the last stage in the struggle upward. Woman proposes no longer to be just the pet, the Idol, the slave, the queen; she wills to be the equal of man; she feels in herself that power, and she now claims her birthright Civilization as we know it has meant the moving upward to light of one social stratification after the other. The French revolution meant the upheaval of the lowest stratum. Our own movement is the final step in the achieving of complete democracy. Democracy ik averseJto war. A whole people does not flame up in hate against another people. It needs the incendiarism of the few or the brutal autocracy of one to force a_ conflict. The Roman republic is not a counter-argu-ment My democracy is a democracy of millions, not of thousands. And the millions, who know how painfully they have to piece together all the little elements that go to make up a life, are not disposed to smash and destroy their handiwork.” —Madeleine Black.

He Thought It Was a Kindness.

‘l’m never going to play the Good Samaritan again,” a friend said. “One night last week I met a man who I know welL He was very much under the influence of liquor. I decided to send him home. I knew that he lived on Westminster avenue, so I got him on a Woodward avenue car, paid'' his fare and told the conductor to put him off at fbat street. I met him for the first time since then just a few minutes ago. I laughingly reminded him of the favor I had done him. “ ‘Oh, it was you. was it 7* he said. ‘Well, hereafter I'll thank you to mind your own business. Ton shipped me out to Westminster avenue and I wandered about for nearly two hours before I managed to collect my senses long enough to remember that we had moved from there two weeks ago to the far eastern side of the city."—Detroit Free Press.

The Farmer's View.

Farmer Bilow—Do yon alternate your crops? Farmer Timothy—Yep. Have ’em killed by one thing one year and another the neat.—Puck.

Between Husbands.

"My wife goes to her dub a good deal." "Are you doing all you can to maka home attractive!"