Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1911 — Page 3

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Advice is Dirt Cheap

FAR be it from me to butt into another man’s business,” said Beeson to his neighbor “but I have been watching yoji spoiling good lumber for an hour and I can’t foelp saying that you don’t know how to make a wheelbarrow. Your intentions are all right, of and you may be able to make a windmill or a sawhorse, but when it comes to making a wheelbarrow you don’t stack up more than an inch high. “Now, if there’s one branch of industry in which I excel, it’s making wheelbarrows. I studied the difficult art under the great German and Italian masters and I believe in the general diffusion of knowledge. 1 say a man is a criminal who buries some valuable secret in bis breast, instead of making it public for the benefit of his fellow men. Although I gained my knowledge in a hard school, Ido not want to hoard it. I’m always glad to stow a man how to make a wheelbar.ow.” “I don’t want to make a wheelbarrow,” replied Jagway, sourly, still pounding away at the dog kennel he was builaing. “When I want any information from you I’ll ask you for it.”

“That’s always the way” said Beeson. “The man who really / is public spirited never is appreciated. He goes around trying to do good and people sass him and tell him to saturate his head. There was old Galileo, who inf vented a telescope or a clothes or something of that sort. What did they do to him? Did they give him a pearl handled umbrella or a gold headed cane? No sir,, they jammed him into a nasty dungeon away unde: ground and fed him on prunes and rye bread, and the school children pestered him with their bean .shooters through the barred windows of his cage. “Then there was Christopher Columbus. He was 1 man with a great idea. He took ' cold storage ege which was so strong that, it stood on end, and he reasoned that there must be a continent away beyond the jumping off place, apd he hired a steam launch or some cheap vessel and went and discovered it. What did they do to Columbu:?’’ “I don’t care a red Cent what they did to him. I wish you wouldn’t .both, or me. Don’t you see I’m busy?" v

“Yes, you’re busy in a misguided way. Eveiything you have been doing is wrong. If you want to make a wheelbarrow you must start rigfyt. You should select a couple of good pieces of ash for the handles. Some people say that . hickory is just as good, but it isn’t. Hickory will warp and twist until it looks like a corkscrew. The way you’re making that wheelbarrow is a disgrace.” “It isn’t a wheelbarrow, dad burn it! When I want a wheelbarrow I’ll go to the store and buy one.” “Well, if you’re not trying to make a wheelbarrow, you must be trying to make a cradle, and I can be useful to you there, too. If there’s anything I’m proud’ of it’s my skill In making cradles. I did nothing else for thirty years and I always want to be neighborly and give people the benefit of the knowledge. There’s a right way and a wrong way to make a cradle, and you’re taking the wrong way. There’s nothing more exasperating than a badly made cradle. “Mrs. Flinders, whq lives down the street a little way, had a great time with her youngest child. The infant seemed too fretful for any good use. It was yelling and sending in riot calls all day and all night, and the poor woman couldn’t get any sleep. I stepped into her house one day and saw at a glance what was the matter. That unfortunate child’s cradle was alt wapper jawed. An India rubber baby couldn’t sleep In it. I took that cradle home and rebuilt it on scientific lines and the baby slept so soundly in It that Mrs. Flipdera had to pour Ice water over the young one the next morning to wake it. Now” But Jagway had taken his tools and departed.

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FOUR BITES OF A CHERRY.

Continued from Page Two. ; / BITE THREE. With Little Difficulty. On the secorid day after Mr. Cossett’s interview with lawyer Fenton, the latter received the following: My Dear Mr. Fenton: 1 - Have yon anything to tell me? 1 am beginning to be alarmed because of the Uon-appearance of the newspaper second chapter. Yours sincerely, H. L. To which the lawyer replied: Dear Mr. Linden: With regard to the matter which alarms you, I can give no information. As for the call you know of—the details of which, I have no doubt, you are naturally curious to learn—l am, as always in such cases, under a pledge of secrecy. But in this particular instance I can say that you need have no fear of new complications. Sincerely yours, JOHN FENTON.

That is as much as I dare tell him,” mutttered the lawyer, as he addressed and stamped the envelope. The next day, at his home, Mr. Simon Cossett received the following: Dear Sir: I have asked your cousin, Miss Nellie Cossett, to become my wife. She has accepted me with the full approval of her uncle and aunt, who are, as you are perhaps aware, distantly related to myself. On account of the esteem in which Miss Cossett has always held you—an esteem which has not apparently been affected by the unfortunate break between yourself and the Malden Cossetts —she has asked me to send you formal notice of our intended marriage, which will occur in October of this year. Yours very sincerely, HENRY LINDEN.

.“So it has gone as far as a betrothal after all,” said Mr. Cossett. “What Is—” but here he stopped. Some peculiarity in the writing caught his eye. He plunged his hand Into the inside pocket of his coat and drew out the card on which was writ 1 ten the name of Mr. Louis Delaine. He compared the two writings. Though one was written with a pencil and the other with a pen, they were, in all essentials, the same. “The infernal scoundrel!.the thief!” he cried, leaping to his feet. “I have him now. While I thought there wa3 a chance that you were innocent,” he went on, fiercely, addressing the letter as though it were the guilty man under his hand, “I was willing to defend you against what might be the mistaken zeal of a police who had decided that my thief was a member of my own family. But now I will not try to save you. “You shall not marry my little Nellie, the girl who has been my pet from her earliest childhood. You, a trickster, a common thief! You marry my little girl! Not if the police are onehalf as clever as I think them. And i will aid them this time. This little card will be your undoing, my distant cousin, my skillful confidence man.!” Worn out by thi3 outburst, Mr. Cossett sank in his chair and buried his face in his trembling hands. Here was the end of Nellie’s romance, for Justice demanded a victim, and Nellie must be saved from a self-confessed thief. For, in writing to him in the same hand he had used on the torn postal, Linden Rad practically accused himself. And Tt was even possible, too, that he was defying the cousin of his betrothed. Assuredly this young villian did not merit the slightest consideration, and Mr, Cossett, determined to act at once on this latest impulse, wrote to Mr. Fenton as follows. Dear Sir: I wish to cancel the contract I made with you thjee days ago. A new development has changed my plans. 1 no longer desire to help the person I spoke of, for I am convinced that such a course would not be for the best interests of Mißs Cossett. Yours very truly, SIMON COSSEJT.

"A man from police headquarters, sir,” said the servant, after knocking at the door. Mr. Cossett folded Linden’s letter, and put it In his pocket. “Not this," he whispered, “I cannot have Nellie's name banded about headquarters. “If I am right they won’t need this. Ask the gentleman in, Jones,” he said, raising his voice. “Good morning, Mr. Dempster,” be said with a smile when the visitor appeared. “Take a seat. Wbat is the newest development?” Mr. Dempster, the detective who had been assigned to the Cossett case, smiled in his turn when he heard this inquiry. He had called on Mr. Cossett several times and heretofore had received more rebuffs than smiles. "Well. Mr. Cossett.” answered the detective, guardedly, “we haven't discovered anything positive, but we are following up a very promising clue.

We thought, maybe you might have something to help us. You may have found some little thing, you know, or remembered more about the night—” “That is going over the old ground again,” said Mr. Cossett wearily, “but I will give you a surprise. Three days ago I was robbed again, in my downtown office!” “And you didn’t—” ’ “And I didn’t call In the police,” answered Mr. Cossett, calmly. “I wanted to work a little for myself first. Your police did not find the first thief, and they might not have found the second. But I can help them now. Here,” handing him the torn postal card, “is the address given me by the second thief, who got just the amount the first one took. “I believe .that the two are the same. When you find the man who that card, you will have the man who robbed me of twenty thousand dollars. Now, Mr. Dempster, I think —mind you, I only think—that no professional did the work. That card was written under my eyes. Use it, work with it, and tike the thief.” Mr. Dempster was silent, and with good reason. Mr. Cossett, he was well aware, knew that the department’s suspicions had been directed toward Henry Linden. The financier had steadily refused to help the police. Now he was either giving up his relative to them or he had reason to know that this relative was not implicated. It was not Mr. Dempster’s policy to bring Linden’s name into the present interview. If Mr. Cossett chose to do so, that was his lookout. So Mr. Dempster said nothing, and waited. “That is all,” said Mr. Cossett. “I lunched with the thief, who, on this occasion, played a commonplace but clever confidence game. This goes no further than the department, you understand, until it is told in court. But —-Well, that is all, I leave the completion of the matter to you.” Mr. Cossett now described the gress and peculiarities'of the supposed Frenchman and Dempster realized that he was dismissed.

Mr. Cossett’s next duty was to write to Nellie. After many attempts he produced the following: Dear Nellie: Will yod come down to the city tomorrow and spend the afternoon at my house? In view of your approachin marriage, I have a proposition to make. I trust that our family troubles have not entirely killed the affection you once had for me. What I am going to say and do when you are here is for your best interests. I have, as you will understand from my reference to your marriage, heard from Mr. Henry Linden. Your affectionate cousin, SIMON.

Nellie received this letter early the next morning, and showed it to her unclje and aunt. Although their bitter feeling toward Mr. Cossett had not been allayed as time went on, the letter piqued their curiosity, and they did not attempt to oppose Nellie’s wish to see her cousin and hear what he had to say. So the young girl, arrayed in her very best, took the noon train for the city, and at two o’clock found herself greeting her cousin. “I am truly glad to see you after so many months, Nellie,” said the financier, “and I hope that you will be patient with me when I tell you why I have brought you here.” Nellie did not know what reply to make to this. Perhaps it had something to do with the old trouble, and she did not care to discuss that. “I hope, Cousin Simon,” she returned, “that you are not going to talk about that miserable lawsuit. It has made uncle and aunt very unhappy for months. I don’t understand the matter very well, but it seems to me that money should not create such deplorable dissensions.” “It ‘ creates more dissensions than any other known thing,” said Mr. Cossett slowly. “But I am not going to talk of that affair at all. I am going to speak of your personal affairs. And to begin,” he went on, “how long have you known Mr. Henry Linden?” “Three months,*' replied Nellie. “And you are going to marry him in two months?” said Mr. Cossett. “I don’t think that too short a courtship,” he continued hastily, for Nellie seemed about to make some protest, “but are you sure you know enough about him to risk your happiness for life?”

"I know that his people were distantly related to us. I know all about his early life, for uncle and aunt often visited his people when he was a boy. .1 don’t know of anything against him, and that ought to be enough, Cousin Simon.” “I don't understand you at all, cousin,” cried Nellie, with tears in her. eyes. “Your new interest in me will not be very consoling If you mean to try to turn me against Henry.” “But suppose,” persisted her cousin, “that he should prove unworthy of you—suppose. If you like, that I have reason to think him unworthy, and say that I know him to be unworthy of you—will you then go ahead In spite of my warning?*’ “You flo not know him!” cried Nel-

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lie, indignantly. “You never saw him, and cannot know anything so terrible as your suggestions would imply. You will break down all the affection and confidence that I still hold for you if you are trying to mislead me for some purpose of your owa-” “I am not tricking you, Nellie, and 1 believe what I say.” “Then tell me plainly what you mean,” flamed Nellie. “A girl cannot be expected to jilt the man she loves on a mere suspicion. You cannot think so meanly of me as to suppose I would do so unheard of a thing.” “But I don’t ask you to go that far, Nellie!” cried the financier, somewhat alarmed. “I thought it my duty to warn you. After all, I may be wrong, my child, and only time will tell.”

“But you ought to tell me what you have heard,” persisted Nellie. “You -have made me unhappy without giving the slightest reason for jour action. I know you are wrong when you insinuate such terrible things. You would never have known him,” with some little scorn she said this, “if he had not happened to come at first to the side which is opposed to you. “I think it perfectly natural that he has never come to you, for he could not help being influenced by the opinions of uncle and aunt. But he has told me often that there was still a chance that the old trouble could be remedied. He thought he had a beautiful scheme for righting what uncle called his wrongs.” Now Mr. Simon Cossett had the reputation of being an astute man. His success in life was one bit of evidence, and his management of the Cossett suit was another.

To be sure, he had been fooled by thieves on two occasions, but that was no sign that his astutesness had completely failed him. He caught at the phrase Nellie had used. (To be continued.)

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Many of the younger school children at Kansas City, Missouri, were dismissed by their teachers Wednesday on account of the excessive heat. A temperature of 95 degrees was registered Wednesday afternoon. Stokes Jackson, sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, and Mrs. Jackson, returned Wednesday to their home at Greenfield. They will remain at home a month and will visit relatives in Michigan before returning to Washington. Football will be abolished in the South Bend high school, according to announcement made Wednesday. The faculty, headed by Principal Frederick L. Sims, is opposed. Steps will be taken immediately to prevent the organization of a team this year. Prof. Francis P. Leavenworth, head of the department of astronomy of the State University of Minnesota, has sighted the Brooks comet. He says it is now visible to the naked eye In the early evening near the pole star, and never will be visible again. J. R. Robinson, living near the home of Speaker Champ Clark in Pike bounty, Mo., has a hog weighing 1,100 pounds. The hog Is years old, measures 9 feet from tip to tip and 7 feet 4 inches around the* girth. It is said to be the largest in the world. The hog is valued at 91,000. “Suffered day and night .the torment of itching piles. Nothing helped me until I used Doan’s Ointment. It cured me permanently.”—Hon. John R. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.

Proposed Modification of Existing Arrangements

A provisional modification of an arrangement which has existed for many years has reached between the Western Union Telegraph Company, The Anglo-American Cable Company and the Direct U. S. Cable Company, under which the cable systems of these companies now worked , exclusively in business connection with each othey, but operated and maintained separately, will be operated in direct physical connection with each other and with the Western Union land system. Twb objects are to be attained by this arrangement: Pint, more efficient and economical operation. Second, the introduction of new forme of eervice to the advantage of the public. The Trans-Atlantic Cable Situation and Competition The trans-Atlantic cable situation is as follows: The Mackay group of seven cables, including the German cables, owned by or worked in physical connection With the telegraph lines of that company form one system. The French cables comprise an independent system, using both the Western Union and the Mackay land lines for their United States connection. In competition with these is the Western Union group of cables, eight in all, owned by three separate companies, two of which are British companies owning five of the eight cables. Two only of the British owned cables terminate in the United States and all of them are entirely dependent on the Western Union for their connection with any telegraph system, or for their reaching any centre of business, and are now worked exclusively, so far as business is concerned, with the Western Union. Efficiency Increased, Waste Prevented The proposed arrangement between the Western Union, the Anglo-Amer-ican and the Direct U. S. companies will bring the eight cables of the three companies under one operating control. The consequent increase in effectiveness and economy will place the Western Union in a position to offer certain advantages in cable service not now enjoyed by the public. The other way open to enable the Western Union to make such improvements and introduce such new services as it proposes to do, would be to lay new cables. This would seem to be the height of folly. Duplication of the existing transAtlantic cable facilities at a cost of many millions, when there are more than ample facilities for all business, would put an unnecessary financial burden upon an already fully burdened business and would probably postpone the reduction of rates or introduction of new services. Limited Business Hours , and Idle Facilities As at present carried on, the transAtlantic cable business is practically all flash service, i. e. instantaneous. Owing to the difference in time, there are only a few business hours of the day common to both sides and during these at least of the cable business is done. This is demonstrated by the accompanying chart. In the interests of international business nothing should be done to interfere in any way with the so-called flash or instantaneous service, and the lines should be kept clear to accommodate such messages during the few business hours common to both countries; but to continue to confine the cables to this class of service, as at present, will utilize only about of the existing capacity of millions of property and places on that limited service all the capital, maintenance and operating charges. The limited time and the character of the business, if best results are to THE WESTERN UNION Hew York, Sept. Ist, 1911.

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be obtained, demand direct cable circuits between principal centres of the two sides of the Atlantic, as well as special circuits devoted to .special business. Efficient Service Requires Sufficient Facilities To meet these requirements it is essential not oqly that, there be st all times sufficient cab(e facilities, under one control, but that they should bs operated interchangeably with each other and in close physical connection with land lines as one Ample spare facilities are necessary to provide against the very frequent cable interruptions. Neither the Western Union nor any one of the companies of the Western Union group has, independently of the others, facilities enough to handle the business which at times any one company might be called upon to take care of, because of some particular rush of business, or because of some cable interruption. Nor could any one company furnish all the direct circuits necessary for efficient service, although the combined facilities of these companies are ample if they could be used supplementary to each other and interchangeably. As it is, each company operates its own cables through separate and distinct offices and under separate and distinct management. All interchange of business is by actual transfer of the business from one company to the other, with the consequent delay interruption of a service in which seconds are valuable. i . • 'Yj* ■ V. 1 j Daily and Week-end Cable Letters So soon as the proposed arrangement goes into effect, the Western Union purposes, with the consent of the British Post Office Department, to introduce at least two new features or services in addition to the proposed deferred rede—the DAILY CABLE LETTER and the WEEK-END CABLE LETTER at a very low rate for cable service only. This will enable the pabßc to save the six to eight days consumed in the trans-Atlantic passage of made. Monopoly of Cable Business Impossible There is uo cable monopoly possible. The three systems—the Western UniaS, the French and the Mackay—will continue to exist. The Mackay Companies is a holding organization with no physical property, but exercising through stock ownership, lease or contract, operating control of various companies owning land lines and cables which make up the Mackay System. Through this control all the various properties are operated as one system to great advantage in service over what could be given by thise same companies if operated separately. The French cables form another system. The Western Union System, under the proposed arrangement for one operating control over the present segregated units, will be enabled to make two distinct advances in the trans-Atlantic cable business: i-BETTERSERVICE. Thiswillbe insured by more efficient and econom-. ical working resulting from single' direction over the operations of both cableq and land lines. *—PUBLIC ADVANTAGES. The greater part of the cable capacity haa been and is now unutilized. It will continue to He dormant and unutilised under existing conditions and traditions. The Western Union purposes to make these wasted facilities useful to the public by means of new kinda of cable service. In addition, the Western Union intends to nationalize its land hues by opening them to all trans-Atlantic cable companies. TELEGRAPH COMPANY Then. N. Vail, President

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