Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — Page 2

THE GENEVIEVES I KNOW Also their JAMES

The Genevieve Whose Husband Was a Non-Husband

The James I am going to tell you about this week, was a non-husband I by nature. You know, there are husbands who are husbands by nature, and others who are non-husbands Well, this Jamie was a non-husband—-and what that Is I hope I shall here snake clear. ■---r"-"''' ; James had been unmarried for a considerable number of years after be had reached marriageable age. You see, he was harnessed to the chariot of the press for a sufficient number of hours every day. But right

So They Were Married and Lived Happy—Hum!

In the midst of things, he went east one year on his vacation—ever so far to the east, whence he had originally come. He looked upon the pretty, ..unspoiled girls in his native wffiage with a lit-up look in his eye, one pretty girl looked at him—and he was lost So was she, though she did not 'think so at the time. It takes a natural non-husband to stall recklessly in love. The other wart of man stays engaged indefinitely without uttering a complaint Why, I know a man —but never mind him now. The natural non-husband plunges, was what I started to say. He wants his happiness right away. Perhaps he instinctively feels that that’s the the only way he ever will -want it Anyway, thia man fell headlong into those two wells of beauty, his Genewieve’s blue eyes. Genevieve thought 9ilm wonderful. So he was, but in •quite another way. She blushed and smiled, tucked her gnwtty head down on his shoulder, ■and whispered the one little word-o’-dreams. So they were married and lived happy—hum! Genevieve went to the city with her James and they rented a dear little fiat on the north side. “James, will you try to be home to dinner tonight? I want to go to the theater.” Well, what do you think of that? And he a morning newspaper man! , "Why, James, you always did before we were married!” "Yes, sweetheart, but then I was on vacation. Now I have my own little wifie, and so I must make good all the more for her sake.” "James, I was so lonely today! Can’t you get home a little earlier tonight?” Well, James will try. But that night James is sent into the faraways after a most important story. He bids * tenuous farewell over the quivering wire. The office likes to send James after big stories. James is a good man. When he does get home his soul is glad because he has put over a fine, large scoop for the paper. He wants to tell little Genevieve about it Little Genevieve says, “Yes. Yes. But didn’t you miss me awfully?" And James wakes up to the horrid truth that, after the first, he had not missed Genevieve a bit It was not Bis wedding tour. He was out on asNow, don’t you ever think that little simple Genevieve doesn’t know thatsometl ting is wrong. She cannot toll what, at first. But the sweet, domestic maid has gone and married a perfectly good non-husband. But she is game is Genevieve, and she is * well-bred girt She is not jealous of any woman cm earth. She has utter confidence that James loves her. But oh, how deadly Jealous she is mt Ma work! , "Your mind is on that horrid office •ven when you are at home. Why can't you get into some civilised bus! mm so you can spend /our evenings James, bewildered

By HELEN HELP

Yet when James, who, though a nonhusband, is not silly, thinks this over, he recognises that she could not know. In her own town, the only town she ever lived in, men came home from business at six o’clock and took their wives to prayer meeting afterwards, or to the Ladies* Aid chicken pie supper. or just sat around the evening lamp like you read about That was the life Genevieve had pictured for her and James. But James never saw the evening lamp. The busa-z of the great arc lights for his.

Then the baby came, a boy and the pride of James* heart A non-hus-band may surprise you by being a born father. His day off now became the occasion, to Genevieve’s husband,* when he might see Babykins put to bed. Babykins, unrolled from his little duds, had so many dimples! One evening, just when these proceedings were at their highest point of excitement and Genevieve was wondering if James would ever take his eyes off Babykins long enough to see Babykin’s mother, something broke out In the hall of the apartment house just outside their door.

It bubbled with swears and shrieks, cracked with a pistol shot or two, and toward it James* face strained as the iron to the magnet. The negro janitor flashed past the door, as he opened it—just a black streak —and down the hall James found a girl, the janitor’s “girl," gory and unpleasant, revolver in hand, and a wound hidden away somewhere, in the mysteries and getting rather soppy. She had gone after the janitor in a jealous fury, fired at him and then turned the pistol on herself.

Nobody killed, but a snappy little story because of the high standing of the apartment house. James at once ’phoned it to his paper. Then, “I’ve left Genevieve rather long, perhaps she’s worried,” whispered James to his conscience. And, “Worried?” hissed his conscience to James. ■ Genevieve was worse than worried. She was packing. She said that such occurrences were calculated to be of

"Genevieve Was Worse Than Worried She Was Packing.”

the greatest disadvantage to baby. She said that a man who would run after a “fight” and leave his wife in no one knew what danger—this time she did not mention the baby James was troubled. He had that sense of having to do his work which he had tried to -explain and make clear to his wife. But she had always said, "My! aren’t you glad to get home to me-e-e?” Genevieve went home to mother and stayed there. So did Babykins. No more evenings once a week when his dimples were unrolled out of his little duds. After six months of that, James went out and bought a weekly paper in a suburban town. It is very true that very few natural non-husbands would have done this. But some non-hus-bands are born fathers. “Genevieve doesn’t know news,” he sighs, “but the kid will learn the game.” And the kid resembles his mother. (Copyright, by Associated Literary Press.)

Lots of Hunting.

The talk had turned upon hunting, and by and by one of the adult visitora, noting Jamie’s rapt and 'eager look, remarked cheerily: “Well, sonny, I don’t suppose you’ve had a chance to do much hunting yet?” “Not many-klnds, but lots of IL” explained Jamie. “I’ve never hunt ed bears or Hons, but I’ve hunted grannie’s spectacles ’most all over the world!”

COMMENCING AMERICA’S GREATEST DREADNAUGHT

THIS photograph was made in the Brooklyn navy yard recently and shows the “cradle" of the battleship New York, which is being built by the government and, it is said, will cost >2,000,000 more than any that has been built by private contract. The New York will be the greatest battleship of the dreadnaught class in the United States navy.

AT WAR OVER BATHS

Water Commissioner Would Fix Limit at One a Week. Question Has Become Burning, One Throughout State of Massachusetts—Head of Board of Health Approves. •'■ - » Boston. —-How many baths does a person require in a week? The above question is being asked by about every one of Lynn’s 400,000 population, and the answers are varied ones. Some . people claim only one is necessary, thereby upholding Water Commissioner Thomas Campbell, who has decreed that one bath every seven days is enough. Discussion of the subject is not confined to Lynn, as the question has become a burning issue throughout the state.

The water supply at Lynn became low recently, and Water Commissioner Campbell, seeking to care for the city’s interests, asked that the citizens content themselves with one bath a week. The outburst of indignation which resulted fairly overwhelmed the water commissioner, and he Increased the bathing privilege to twice weekly. He did so grudgingly, however, and still insists that one bath a week would be sufficient—of course, taking into consideration the condition that exists.

Chairman Michael Ward of the board of health said he approved of the suggestion. He felt that the comparatively few who had become accustomed to the luxury of a dally bath should sacrifice their wishes for the good of the many. Their abrogation would be for a good purpose, he said, and redound to their credit Chairman Ward went a bit farther and expressed the belief that many of the politicians at the city ball should practice the self-denial asked for. He said that they were devotees of the dally bath and declared that now was

SNAKE ANCHORS MAN’S WRIST

Policeman, Reaching Into Ground *or Edible Roots, Is Given Big Surprise and Held Fast

Darby, Pa.—Policeman Tom Clark, Link Dutton, James Bogan and Tom Pappas, all of Darby, had an exciting experience with a bed of blacksnakes while hunting poke near the First regiment rifle range at Essington. They had gathered a fair supply of the edible root when Clark found a hug root, which stubbornly refused to be dug out After excavating the ground, Clark thrust his arm into the hole to cut off the root but a minute later when he attempted to withdraw his hand be found himself anchored. Not realising that his wrist was enmeshed tn the coils of a five-foot blacksnake, which held him fast Clark gave directions to Dutton to dig the root out, when It was discovered that be had thrust his hand into a nest of snakes. Seizing sticks, the three men went to the rescue of ’heir companion and after five minutes succeeded in beating the snakes off and killing three of them. Including the largest > Clark suffered only from a squeezed wrist and a bad scare.

Rattler Chokes Boy.

New Haven, Conn.—While George Nash, a fifteen-year-old boy, was asleep in the woods here the other day he was attacked by a big rattlesnake, which, contrary to the practice of such reptiles, wound itself about his neck. Nash was unconscious from strangulation when the snake was killed. " i

the time for the city fathers and other public officials to show their mettle by putting aside their custom of bathing daily and restraining themselves for the welfare of the public. Chairman Ward was asked point blank if he bathed daily, but he would not reply. He is, however, the most outspoken of the city department heads and believes that the citizens should bathe Infrequently for a while. Street Commissioner McPhetras was the real brave man in city hall. He was a boomer of the twice a week plan and freely stated his conviction that experience would never disprove that twice a week would be too infrequent bathing for any man. A lot of people have been wondering just what he meant, but his phraseology was so lawlike they still remain puzzled.

Chief Thomas Harris of the fire department raised a dissenting voice in the general choruil of approving acclamation of the plan. He asserted vigorously that neither he nor the other members of the fire department ought to be Included In any restrictions prescribing a weekly bath or a biweekly bath. He said that firemen had to bathe after every fire and ought to be allowed the privilege “or should I say right,” he continued. As for himself, he said that on his tours of the city in his automobile he became covered with dust every day and that a bath had become "not a luxury, but a necessity.” j The discussion still rages and it looks as if the twlce-a-week plan would be adopted. It Is said to be a decided advantage, viewed either from a sanitary, health, or even moral standpoint.

This Letter a Silver Dollar.

Lafayette, Colo. —A silver dollar frith a postage stamp on one side and an address pasted on the other, fvas mailed at Lafayette, to a man in Boulder. It was officially decided that it was all right and was delivered to the man to whom addressed.

China Power in Hen World

People Have Ever Been Enormous Poultry Raisers and Exporters— ■ Ducks Are pickled and Dried. Hongkong.—For hundreds of years China was the greatest producing nation in the world, and probably this is true today, not only as regards the total production, but also per capita use. Of the more than 300,000,000 population of China, shown by the last census, there are few indeed who do not in the course of a year consume something in the way of poultry—chickens or ducks or geese—and certainly a large number of eggs. For considerable portions of the population poultry is the only animal food used, and for the more well-to-do classes it is an ordinary meat diet the year around. Ducks are pickled, dried, tinned and otherwise preserved and shipped to many parts of the world to Chinese who are away from a home supply. Eggs of all kinds are used fresh and are cured by burying in clay and lime until they acquire something of the quality of cheese and are a great Chinese luxury. It is easy to calculate that to meet all these lines of consumption the output of poultry and poultry products needs to be enormous. For the most part chickens and ducks are produced upon the usual basis of practically all Chinese production —the family household—■or at most a small farm. There are few families in China, even in the larger titles, that do not have at least some chickens. Near the ports open to foreign trade there are a few rather good sized poul-

BRITTLE GIRL BREAKS BONES

Fall of Very Short Distance Always Proves Disastrous to Ruth Morgan, Aged 10 Years. Wilmington, Del. —Physicians in this and other cities are making a study of the case of Miss Ruth Morgan, aged 10 years, whose father, David Morgan, tenants the farm a'djoining the Minquidale Home, near this city. Miss Morgan is thought to have unusually soft or brittle bones in her body, for within a year she has had four slight falls in every one of which she sustained a broken bone. Her latest accident occurred when she fell one foot from a fence and broke an arm above the eltyw. Last spring she fell from a step and broke a shoulder blade. Later in the summer she fell from a chair and broke an arm, but this fracture was healed before the girl or her parents knew anything about it Three weeks ago she fell from a table and broke the other shoulder blade. j„

GARDENS LIGHTED BY WORMS

Luminous Insects Selling for 50 Cent* a Dozen Furnish the Latest Fad in London. London. —Glowworms are the latest thing in outdoor illuminations, and many people are adopting this novel way of decorating their gardens for the summer. L. Haig, a dealer in glowworms, at his farm at Newdlgate. Surrey, said: * “The idea of using glowworms as regular illuminant decorations occurred to me some little time ago, and it is certainly taking well with the public,” he said. “1 charge 50 cents a dozen for glowworms exclusive of postage, and we go out and catch the little creatures as the orders come in. This part of Surrey is particularly prolific in glowworms. "They are usually found adhering to longish blades of grass, and so long as they glow are easy to catch tn the hand. A fine night after rain is the best time for getting them.

try farms, as a rule. Ducks are raised in immense numbers on farms along the canals and rivets of central and south China and are much more common than chickens. One of the customary sights along the grand canal in mid-China, tor example, is that of a Chinese duck farmer in his boat watching his flock feed in and along the canal. The ducks are trained to obey him, and armed with a long bamboo pole to guide them, he controls their movements and takes them back to shelter for the night. The surplus of poultry and poultry products which China can export annually is immense. Up to- the present exportation has taken the form largely of egg products, mostly dried albumen and yolks.

Police Billies of Paper.

Lynn, Mass. —An order has been placed by the Lynn police department for thirty-six policemen’s “billies" made of hard rolled paper. It has been found that wooden sticks, formerly used, broke at times when violently thwacked over the heads of disturbers of the peace. It is hoped the paper clubs will have sufficient strength to cope with any condition of affairs that may arise.

Load of Hay Afire.

-Cleveland, O.—George Walken, who was driving a load of hay to town, was surprised when notified ‘.hat the hay was on fire. George’s descent to the ground was remarkable for its speed. . The hay and hayrack were entire consumed.

If the Pastor Falls Down

TOP and give a minute’s dear and honest thought to what a variety of abilities a minister’s position demands of him. He needs to be a smooth,

fluent orator. He ought to have not merely words, but ideas, too; he very decidedly needs to be a thinker. He needs a lot of book knowledge—theology, philosophy, history, and the like —all the time; people won’t stand for him unless he is also very much of a "mixer.” perfectly at home among men.

And, of course, the modern preacher should be an organizer—masterful as a general thing In fitting people into the places where they belong. He doesn’t dare, however, to show a bit of a general’s spirit of command; he's bound to manage pbople wholly by persuasiveness—which takes enormous persuasiveness. The preacher should be an acute, accurate, discreet business man—in order to keep a church “temporalities” out of tangle And above all, he must be a spirit-ually-minded man. though at the same time it is highly important that he must not be a visionary; people won’t listen to him if he is not practical. Many Qualities Combined. Just see what a tremendous bundle of qualities you’ve got. You could make a lawyer, a politician, a business man, a a settlement .worker, a popular lecturer, an author, a philosopher, a man-around-town, all out of that combination, and have a lot of qualities left over to distribute along a whole line of occupations from family physician to church janitor. Yet you’re supposing that you’ve hired the whole cofnblnation in the pastor of your church, and are expecting to get the benefit of each of these various elements of strength—all out of one man. But you won’t; somewhere in the list you’re due for a disappointment. If your minister is a great preacher, it’s more than likely he won’t be very strong on organization. If he’s a gentle, comforting pastor, he may very probably be a good deal lacking in the pulpit If he is a degp student, he may be awkward out among men. If he’s a hearty good fellow to meet, he may impress you as not very deep intellectually, or even spiritually. Some day before long you’ll find a weak side to him.

Every church when it calls a new pastor ought to watch narrowly to so see where he is going to fall down. But not to get a chance to complain— God forbid! When a pastor falls down, then the church has discovered where it can help him. How He Should Be Helped. If the preacher shows up inefficient in organizing the people for work, then that’s the signal for men in the church who are strongest in 'the knack of organization to turn in and line up the membership for effective results. If the pastor seetns to get tangled and befuddlfid when money matters are to be dealt with, then let men used io handling dollars step forward and get the money worry oft the pastor’s mind. If the pastor is slow about calling on strangers and diffident in meeting newcomers, let the folks that have easy social graces go in strong for friendly visiting and handshaking. If the Sunday chool lags or the prayer meeting is dull, and the pastor doesn’t seem to know what* to ‘.o about It, let the congregation boom those features of work with their own effort Finally, here’s a rule for a going and growing church: "Count on your pastor’s abilities as his chance; count on his abilities as your chance.”

MUST PAY FOR EVERYTHING

AU Things In Life, Both Worthy and Unworthy, Have a Price Set Upon Then* While everything has its price. It Is not true that every man has his price. It is a foul libel on our common humanlty to say so. There are men in every station In life not purchasable. Gold and place cannot buy them. The offer of a crown could not swerve Washington from the path of duty. However, there is a sense in which a man may have his price. Ambition may inspire him. The rewards of ambition stand for the price with which he is to be purchased. If he is seeking fame, the pains, research, adventure and tolls which accompany that seeking stand for his price. Then ho must pay the nrlce for the attainment of virtue by which- to attain the con sciousness Yf nerving Odd, a price beyond any arithmetical value.—Bishop Samuel Fallows, Reformed Episcopalian Chicago.

Faith Without Works.

Orthodox must bear fruit, for faith without works is dead: such fruits as are honoring to God and helpful to man. Can the church blame the world for its rejection pf its message when its membership are aiding Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydef—Rev. J. M Wilson, Presbyterian. Chicago.