Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1911 — Page 3

At the Crucial Moment

j When Muriel Landis found that, by dint of much saving and burning of {midnight oil, she had assured herself one term of vocal Instruction with the igreat Poppini, a conscious pride glowed warm within her. The master {had given her an appointment for the following Saturday.' ' At the appointed heur, Muriel approached the brown-stone house i which served Popplnl as a studio. Aside from an occasional tremor she seemed to be wafted along on the wings of success. The maid to whom Muriel handed her card led the way up one flight of istairs and the prospective pupil of Poppini found herself in a huge rqom, the tone of which was an appalling cold tan. Save for a few straight chairs and a grand piano of white mahogany the room Was bare Of furniture. The lone picture on the walls was a fine, brown carbon of the Beethoven Sonata, the one human touch in the strangely chilling environment Muriel’s sensatlve ear caught the sound of approaching footsteps and her heart thumbed painfully when she realized that she was in the presence of the great music master. A quick glance "at his massive shoulders and leonine head told the girl that she would always slightly fear him; his aspect was so compelling and powerful. A closer study of his face revealed to Muriel that, dominant In the expression of his large, shaded eyes and in the cut of his lips, was a passion, deep and refined —fils passion for music. “Miss Landis," he acknowledged her inclination of the head and remained standing; “Let me hear your "voice before we discuss the future." His directness appealed to Muriel. She arose and stood beside him at the piano and, although she already felt his- powerful influence, she was conscious also of her own individuality and personal strength. Her first 'tones, clear and resonant, vibrated through the room. Poppini turned to {look at her and in his eyes and glance Muriel recognized his acktknowledgment of her gift “You have the quality of a splendid ■voice," he said. “It will please me to bring out its full power." He arose. '“Sing not another note until I give you your first lesson." “Oh, "but I must sing!" Muriel exclaimed. “I must sing in order that I may study. The church quartette position I hold is necessary to my maintenance." Muriel stated her case frankly, but the wistfulness in her eyes told much to Poppini. His Insight Into human emotions was one of the secrets of his success. The skill with which he handled the artistic temperament was much to his credit “Tell me exactly what you will lose, by giving up this church work. You must have further support, have you not? Are you in an office? /If so, that must be stopped.” He spoke almost brusquely', but his kind eyes looked steadily into hers while he waited for his answer. Muriel laughed whimsically. “The choir work means my room and —anything I may need during the week. 1 live on that |15.” "Yes,” Poppini said abruptly. “What else do you do?” The girl hesitated for a moment, but there was no avoiding the man’s directness. “I —I write fiction,” she replied, “it is from that source that I have saved enough to make it possible for me to have at least one term with you. I have so wanted to study with you. Perhaps at the end of the term I may find that I have been successful enough to enable me to continue. 1 do not mind work.”

“So I see." Popplni spoke in a different tone, almost as it he were communing with himself. “Writing," he said slowly, “is not tiring so long as the candle is snuffed out before it exhausts itself.** He ran bls hands through his hair while his thoughts 'took definite form. r “Miss Landis,” said he, “you are 'in possession of a wonderful gift Walk serenely past petty obstacles and refuse to let prejudices and jealousies hamper you in your study. ‘Give up this choir position; it will retard your progress. In return for your compliance with tny wishes I want you to accept a seat at my table and a room in my house.” Muriel cast a startled glance at him. but Popplni continued without allowing her to speak. “My household is large. I have two women in charge and some pupils of mine, a Mr. Warren and his sister make their home with me. ■ There, you can write practically undisturbed. Miss Warren’s voice will be an inspiration rather than a hindrance." An accountable twinge of jealously stung Muriel. “You are very generous, Professor Popping Jbut I could not do that The very sense of my obligation would oppress me.** “Miss Landis, 1 am sure that you have the broad mind which is a glorious part of the musical temperament Let your nature respond to its meanling and demonstrative that worldly misgivings have no part in your life. 1 Accept this trifle from me.” \Muriel iras suddenly made con■pcious of the fact that this was a crisis in her lite—a turning point

BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS

■Here was her opportunity. Should she take It or lenve it? She faced him and looked squarely into his eyes. will come,” she said, “and I will try to make myself worthy of your generosity.” She arose. ‘1 shall have to find a substitute for tomorrow’s service at the church." “Miss Warren, my pupil, is ready for such practice—let me send her," suggested Poppini. “And now, waste no time. Make your arrangements to come to my house and begin your work at once." Muriel extended her hand in grateful acknowledgment of his kindness and in that moment when his great hand closed over her she realized that here was a man whose magnetism she felt keenly, Muriel was only half finished with her term of lessons when she was forced to acknowledge to herself that she was In love with her music, master. Also, she was poignantly conscious of his indifference to her as anything but a pupil. Knowing this, she spent her energy on her literary work and as if in subtle reward acceptances literally poured upon her. For a year she fought against the love which she had for him. At the end of that time a great success came to her. She sold her novelette for an unexpected sum. This made It possible for her to take a coveted trip abroad. With this in view she sought an interview with Popplnl. She found him in his studio literally crushing out a great volume of tone on the plana. When she entered he finished With a tremendous clamor and turned to face her. Muriel went to him and stood elose to the piano, calm and composed even in the face of her difficult mission.

he finished with a tremendous clamor and turned to face her. Muriel went to him and stood elose to the piano, calm and composed even in the face of her difficult mission. "Professor Popplnl," she began, "I sail for the continent at the end of the week." Poppini turned his great, dark eyes upon her. Only for a moment did he show surprise. Save for a shade of white about his eyes and a feeling that he had suddenly donned a suit of armor, Muriel, could detect no mark of the effect of her words. “Will you study—over there?” he asked. “I—don’t know—as yet I have not made up my mind.” She met his eyes and th© pain in his own brought a flush to her cheeks. “Do you tell me that you are giving up your music? —you, with your' wonderful voice?—you whom I know to be wholly wrapped up in it? I will not permit it As my pupil I forbid you to go. Stay with me only six months more, if you like —but stay! Then all musical New York shall hear you and you may leave If you please.” He arose. “Now, get on your things and go for a long walk to think it over." The girl sought relief from the strain of her emotions in a peal of laughter—laughter that savored of hysteria. “There is no use in any one’s tuylng to have a mind of her own in this house,” she said.” “Not when that mind discloses flagrant weakness.” Poppini turned to the open window and Muriel, once more defeated, left the room. During the next six months it seemed to Muriel that the music master and Miss Warren were unnecessarily friendly. The lesson hours when Miss Warren was the pupil seemed unusually long and Muriel was forced to fight her jealousy as well as her love. At the same time, she made wonderful strides in her music and she could not help but realize that a glorious future awaited her. When, at last, the night of her debut arrived, she bad never been more beautiful. In her gown of white which she wore at the suggestion—nay, command—of Popplnl. she was a lithesome figure penciled In the lines of creamy chiffon. Her great blue eyes and her dull gold hair and the confidence of youth In her manner all lent charm to the picture as she stood In the dimly lighted alcove off the stage. . At this moment she was thankful to Popplnl for having, all unconsciously, carried her through the gamut of emotions; It would aid her in her power of expression. Also, she knew, that fulfillment alone would set the seal on her name In the world. So long as she knew that he loved no one. she could bear it; if he loved another — At the sound of his footsteps she turned and a deep color surged to her temples for very'fear that he had read the thoughts he interrupted. Wlthoiit preliminaries, Poppini took Muriel in his arms. “It has been thus from the beginning,” he said. “Did you not realize it?” Muriel looked up. She had never seen so great a light in the eyes of any man and all In that brief moment it came to her. " For her sake —for her art. her future—he had suppressed, his own love; he had kept from her the knowledge that be knew her secret. It was wonderful —the power this man bad to realize what a perishable quality Is ambition. Had be spoken of his love before, she would no longer have been bls pupil; she would no longer have held her art first It would have taken a secondary place In her life and this great moment might never have been here —this double triumph of love and achievement. -

BIG SOUTHPAW IS PRIZE SLUMBERER.

Bill Burns, the former Washington twlrler, who was recently purchased from Cincinnati by the Philadelphia Nationals, after Detroit failed* to land him, Is probably the sleepiest athlete who ever held down a berth In the big leagues. Bill has all others backed off the boards when It comes to taking naps, and he is not In the least particular about the time he picks out for a snooze. It was because of this that Burns was put under suspension by Clarke Griffith and later soldyto the Phillies. During a recent game at Boston the Cincinnati twlrler in the box was not going good and Burns was sent for to warm up. He pitched three or four balls to a catcher and then went to the clubhouse and fell asleep. At Brooklyn he was sent out to warm up for Gaspar, and repeated the performance, -falling asleep on the clubhouse steps.

BENDER’S PLAN WAS UPSET

Crack Athletic Pitcher Tells How Worst Ball He Pitched Won for New York Highlanders. “That only goes to show how a little thing will knock the starch out of baseball plans,” sagely* commented Chief Bender, talking about a game which he lost against Russell Ford In New York. “You know, Johnson had a threebagger, and It looked as if we would be able to get him there. I figured on nailing Sweeney and Ford on strikes, then passing Wolter and getting Daniels. That would have left the Swede sticking on third. “I got the two strikes, all right, on Eddie. Th'en I gave him a ball that dropped down and out. It was as rotten a ball as you could find, almost hitting the ground as it broke. I thought he might swing at It and miss it, or else pass it along, and then I would stick a fast one across and get him. ( “Instead of that, Sweeney uppercut the ball and smashed It on the fly to Danny Murphy. It was a sacrifice, all right, and Johnson came over. It was a cinch .to get the next men. That is what I mean. I don’t say that we would have won the game, as we

Chief Bender.

couldn’t hit Russ Ford. But the game might have been different if Eddie Sweeney hadn’t poked at the worst ball I fired aU day. That’s baseball for you. It is always a case of you never can tell"

Bill Burns.

Even during a game in which he is working, and where every other player ia on edge because of the closeness of the combat, Burns does not change his tactics.

During his career with Washington he pitched a game in Chicago in which the score stood 1 to 0 for the Nationals, in the eighth inning. The players were on a tension watching every move, but while the Washington players were on the bench in the ninth Burns fell asleep and actually had to be aroused to pitch the final inning. Then, he was so sleepy that the White Sox pounded him for two runs and won the game.

Many Players "Beaned."

“To bean or not to bean, that is the question*’ among most of the American league pitchers at present Hardly a box score is passed that at least one batter is not hit.

Scattering Notes of the Diamond

It looks as if Tenney has a pitcher in McTigue. "Can Mike Donlln come back?” is a baseball bromide. Ty Cobb believes that his brother Paul will make good. Mike Mowrey is developing into a murderer at the bat. Old Cy Young takes it as a joke that they have asked waivers on him. Walter Johnson is 'beginning to get back to his last year's speed. Bill Dahlen manages to draw fines, although he does not play any more. “Ebbets after players,” reads • a newspaper headline. Brooklyn needs them. Young is playing a better third base for the Boston team than many oldtimers. Stuffy aiclnnes of the Athletics has a brother pitching in the New England league. Ty Cobb seems to be going after whatever the manufacturers have to offer this year. President Charles Somers of the Naps denies he is Interested in the New Orleans club. Hal Chase expects Jim Vaughn to be as effective as ever, now that ho is tn condition again. Jerry Downs has been regarded as a failure on first base for Columbus and is shifted back to second. Jocko Halligan, the former Eastern league star, has ben appointed scout for the Buffalo team. Hugh Nicol, director of athletics at Purdue university, has been engaged to scout for the Cincinnati Reds. Christy Mathewson appears to be making pretty good, although be is said to have cut down his speed. ’ * Davy Jones of the Detroit Tigers has been beaned once and sent to first base three other times by being hit. Most baseball trades remind one of the magnate who traded his star for a yellow dog and then shot' th«| dog. The campaign for earlier finishes brought a 50-minute advance in starting time for the St. Louis fans at Cardinals' park. Gus Dundon, now utility man and pinch hitter for the Lincoln club of the Western league, but formerly of the Sox infield, la hitting around, the .4M mark.

BASEBALL CURE FOR INSANE

Treatment Is Not Altogether NewExpert Says It Quickens Sluggish Brains and Wits. Baseban dope, the batting averages, league standings, vital statistics and the rest of the assorted, flrst-aid-to-the-curibus information, is now being put to practical use in curing backward minds and incorrigible students In the Newton Technical high school, Boston. , However, thd use of baseball for the treatment of ailing minds is not altogether new, for Dr. W. O. Krohn, former professor* of psychology at the University of Illinois, and head physician at the Kankakee asylum, asserts that baseball was used most beneficially while he was at the state institution and he had as an aslstant Frank Pfeffer, who pitched for the Cubs last year and this year is with the Boston Nationals. Dr. Krbhn is a firm believer in the use of baseball as a treatment for the insane, but sdys that it is especially valuable in quickening dull wits and speeding the sluggish brain into activity. “You might say without departing from the literal truth that baseball makes the insane sake and *the sane insane,*’ said the doctor. “At least the sane often give manifestations of violent insanity while the insane seem rational while under the influence of baseball.” ( The new curative baseball scheme became effective when it was found that baseball was something which, if properly applied, instilled a new interest into the fading Intellects of the unfortunates. It made smiles of intelligence come on their faces. Their listless eyes brightened for a moment, apathy was dispelled, the half-open mouths closed—all at the mention of Hans Wagner’s batting average and its comparison to Lajoie’s cunning. Dr. Krohn is an all-around heavyweight expert in the psychological lore, and talks interestingly of his experience with the inmates of the state institution.. ' v

“In Kankakee there are men lunatics who sit from day to day and don’t move a muscle or think a thought,” said the doctor. "They don’t live; they merely endure like a piece of furniture. Come up behind a group of them and whisper to them, ‘How about a little game of ball.’ and you’ll see a change that is surprising.” Dr. Krohn told of the successful teams that had been organized from the material found in the asylum. "They’ll take their positions in the field when the game is called. A man who is in for believing himself to be the missing link is pitcher. Another whose ailment results from imagining himself a complete Egyptian dynasty Is catcher. The first baseman is the same sad fool you will see at other times, walking around with his head thrown back. He Is balancing his nose for fear it might fall off his face' if he didn’t. And so with the rest of them. Crazier than a quilt.

“And the fans. They’re still crazy, only in a conventional way for the time being. “The first ball Is thrown. It’s hit The batter runs to first base. His mind is as clear as a looking glass. “The whole thing is only a case of making the person occupy himself with something that is interesting to him and baseball is one of the very few things that can interest the insane. “With the same idea in mind, faculties of pchools for backward and incorrigible students have stimulated the feeble minded by making them employ their time working at something they liked, and the faculties learned that there was nothing as generally popular as baseball dope:”

JIMMY COLLINS IS RELEASED

Jakey Atz, Second Baseman, Appointed Manager of Providence Eastern League Team. Jimmy Collins, manager of the Providence Eastern league team and formerly with the Boston Americans, has received his unconditional release from President Crowley. Jake Atz, Hie

Jakey Atz.

veteran second baseman of the Grays, was appointed to succeed Collins. Dissatisfaction with the way the team has been directed is understood to have caused the owners to make the change. President Oowley said that every effort would be jnade to strengthen the team.

BEVERAGE FOR SUMMER TIME

How to Make Tea Punch, a Refresh-, Ing Drink If It Is Mixed With Tea punch is a much used beverage for summer poreh, tennis and golf) teas, and property made Is most refreshing. For a quantity of punch) make a quart of rich, heavy sugar syrup, and while hot pour over onoj cupful of orange juice, one cupful of! pineapple juice and half a cupful of strawberry or currant or raspberry or* cherry juice or a mixture of these iff preferred. Let stand until cool, then add one cupful of chopped ice to thoroughly chill. Meanwhile make one pint; of strong tea, using a mixture of English breakfast and Orange Pekoe tea if possible. The strength should be given by the proportion of tea used and not by the length of time the water stands on the leaves. Take a full teaspoonful of tea for each cupful of water and let this water be freshly boiled and just come to a boil. The utmost care must be used in makilng this tea, for the success of the punch depends upon tha flavor of the tea which should be there supporting the fruit flavors, yet without astrlngency or perhaps actual detection as tea.

TO SERVE POTATOES.

Sunday.—Mashed potatoes, peel thin, steam, place in pan and mash, adding milk, butter and salt; beat light Monday—Baked potatoes in jackets. Tuesday—Peel and bake with roast of beef. ‘ Wednesday—Slice thin, . place in cold water half hour; remove into a. dish, with salt, pepper and milk, half pint to an ordinary vegetable dish; put in oven and.bake for one hour; remove from oven and scatter butter over top. Thursday—Peel, steam and serve whole. Friday—Cut in thin slices lengthwise, sprinkle with pepper and salt and fry in butter or beef drippings.. Saturday—Potatoes boiled in jackets. Potato Gravy.—Put a tablespoon or more of butter into frying pan and let brown; mix a tablespoon flour into cup of cream; pour into butter; let boll, season with salt and pepper and turn over potatoes.

A Bread Help.

During cold weather many women who do their own baking find it difficult to get their bread to raise without the sponge getting chilled. With this recipe I make the sponge at ten o’clock and the bread is done in time for supper. Take six medium sized potatoes, slice thin, and boll in two quarts water; mash in water and add one-half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of lard, three cents’ worth of compressed yeast or one-half cupful of dry yeast in water; flour enough to make a stiff batter. Set on back of stove and stir from bottom every hour. In two hours will be ready to knead down. When ready .to make into loaves knead well for 20 minutes.

Gypsy Cake.

Make or buy a good sponge cake; cut it open and spread between jam or any sweet preserves youmay have bn hand. • Now get a few small macaroons. Cut the cake and put into the dish you are going to serve it in. Place the macaroons around and between the cake and steep the whole thing in port or sherry for two hours. Now make a boiled custard or sweet cornstarch pudding, not too stiff and flavored with vanilla, will do. 'Pour this over the cake and then bn top of that pour whippy cream and stick on top either blanched almondk or candied cherries. This is rich and delicious and win or small dishes, twelve-people.

Brownstone Front Cake.

Two squares of chocolate grated, one-half cup of milk, yolk of one egg. Stir and cook until the consistency of custard, stirring constantly. Addons teaspoonful of butter. When cool add one cup of sugar, one-half curb of milk, with one teaspoon of soda, dissolved tn it, one and one half cups of sifted pastry flour, one teaspoon of vanilla and a pinch of salt Frost with the egg white and enough powdered sugar to spread. Flavor.

New Way to Cook Peas.

Put your green peas, pods and all into the kettle and cook them the usual length of time; when they are done the pods will break and rise to the surface, while the peas pay be found at the bottom of the kettle: they have a finer flavor cooked in this way —National Magazine.

To Prevent Mold.

To prevent mold on preserves oe jellies put a few drops of glycerine abound the edge of the jar before putting on the cover.—National Magaslne.