Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — Page 3

The GENEVIEVES I KNOW (Also their JAMES)

The Genevieve Who Wedpa^liftvT’hu

When a real grown-up elderly James decides that It Is time for him to range himself and getmarried, it is a season of rejoicing among all his friends. Lucky is the girl who Is chosen to share the sedate pleasure of his home —•because an older man Is so much more likely to think of his wife’s comforts than Is one of these careless, good-for-nothing boys who do no|'regard a single thing on earth except loving and kissing and such like nonsenseC'^-;!^;..' ; v ; . When such a James decides to take a wife, great is the fluttering among the wise mammas, because it is without doubt the case that James is well able to support a wife. And does he select a nice, quiet, grown-older Genevieve to do that little Hearts and Flowers grand march with him? Well, hardly! v The James 1 am going to tell you about was a very fair type of the gentlemen who have left their Boy-Jimmy days well behind them before bothering with that matrimonial noose; and the girl he honored by his choice was just Jenny, laughing, loving little Jenny, looking forward into life with such eager eyes, eyes that dreamed dreams and saw visions. They saw visions about a JimmyJames, stately and handsome and admired, and with a soul td match. And this.wonder did her the honor to woo her! She 'never stopped to think whether she loved him or not. She just tucked her little head down on his shoulder—half afraid of her daring—and vowed to make him ever so happy. Older by many years? Oh, what difference could that make? Besides, think how kind elderly men always

“He Was So Sleepy.”

are to their wives! And dear mamma wai murmuring something sweet about an old man’s darling. James had been the giddiest of young Jimmies in years gone by, and he knew a lot bf sweet little Jennies theb, and demure Janies and stately Genevieves, but such a giddy young fellow was he that not a single one of them could hold him. He flitted and flirted about, snatching sweets from rosy lips and dimpled cheeks —oh, such a gay young Jimmy! But that was yean and years ago, and he was a James now and wanted a wife. So he weds Uttle Jenny with the dreams in her eyes, and all the dreams gone from his eyes long ago. and they settle down in that Uttle flat. It was a little flat, because in his gay days James had not saved much money. . I knew these two in what the society columns call their, ante-nuptial days, and my heart ached a trifle for both of them. There were so many possibilities! “Ob, James,” says Jenny one evening, after they came home from their wedding Journey. “James, I do so want to see that new play. Can't we go tomorrow evening?" *TU see,” grunts James. And Jenny Is happy about it all day because in the days of their courtship that had always meant “Certainly.” It is, true that he did not exactly grunt at her then. No, be beamed. The next evening she runs to meet him. “Where did you get the seats, dear?” she asks, eagerly. “What seats?*' inquired James, “what are you talking about?” and then: ''Oh, I never gave it a thought. Ton don’t suppose you are going to drag me down town again tonight, do your ■ Tes, be did. He said those very words. Little Jenny opened big eyes at him and wouldn’t believe the test!jnony of her own two pink ears. “Oh, but James, we’ve been borne nearly two months now and haven’t gone anywhere at all! Too know you think it so far for me to go alone over

By HELEN HELP

to mamma’s. Of course, you didn’t understand how much I wanted to go—” “Well, I guess you’ll have to forget it,’’ says this poor, shop-worn imitation of her Jimmy-boy. “Because, when I come home, I’m going to stay here. I’ve had enough chasing around to do me for the rest of my life.’’ And this was true. You think no one could say just that to his little, brand-new Jennywife? Oh, but maybe you never saw one of those old men’s darling affairs from a really close viewpoint! . So James comes home night after night and eats his good dinner and goes to bed early.' Once Jenny tried to get him to stay up till nine o’clock and play casino with her—he declined to go out. Put he was so sleepy, poor fellow, Hunt he almost yawned his head off. Her friends say she is entirely changed. “Just like that husband of hers, she is getting,’’ they say. You see, they are young and disrespectful. >-• But she has to be. When she asked her friends to dinner they chatted and giggled till James came home and then they sat up straight and said, “Yes, sir," and “No, sir,” to him. And when she asked his friends' she did not chajtter and giggle at all, but sat up straight and said “Yes, sir,” and “No, sir,” to them. And then a dreadful thing happened. James yawned In the company’s faces right after dinner! “E-ough!” yawned James: “Well, you people know that eight o’clock Is my bed time,” and went to bed! That was Jenny's last effort. Because, in the morning, James growled at her, “I thought I’d as well teach you .sense now as later. I don’t want those fools here.’’ Once In a while, on a Sunday afternoon when the dinner has been satisfactory, James will become the old, gay Jimmy—in reminiscence. He has told Jenny all about his great times and the. Jennies and Janies and Genevieves he used to know then. And about some who had no names at all—properly. He laughed and chatted along, this blase man of fifty and more, and smote every one of his young wife’s illusions and ideals In the face so that they gave a horrified little moan and lay down and died. And Jenny was left gazing, dry-eyed, at the dry years. I told you thht I had been troubled about this marriage. It Is an old marriage now, all of five years, and James Is getting fat and very, very bald. Jenny is just twenty-five and amazingly pretty. .1 dined with them the other evening. He does not mind me. He says I have sense enough to go home when I am not wanted. 1 y . . Well, he came home and Jenny, loyal to, her ideals, though they are perfectly dead ideals now, went and held up her pretty iflouth to be kissed. Why, I’d have been willing to kiss It myself, woman that I am! “Aw, bother! We’re too old for such nonsense,” growls James, and shoulders past her. Oh, laughing Jenny and demure Janey and stately Genevieve, when they talk to you about being an old man’s darling, don’t you believe a word of It! Whist! Let me whisper! An old man hasn’t love enough left to recognize a darling by! What he needs Is a trained nurse. (Copyright by Associated Literary Press.)

The Drought in India.

The Indian climate is as stable as our own has recently become. Only on rare occasions does the weather afford a topic of conversation. But one of those rare occasions Is now with ns. The event dominating In* dlan rural life Is the monsoon, which Is expected In June and blows till September. Should the monsoon fall the crops perish and famine fa upon the people. This summer the rains have proved deplorably feeble. There Is still time for the crops to be saved* and as heavy clouds are generally re* ported, the situation is by no means hopeless. But there Is grave cause for anxiety. A shortage of rain is re* ported from 147 stations, and already there is serious trouble over prao* tlcally the whole of northwestern In* dla. One bright feature relieves the gen* oral blackness of the position. In the United Provinces and the Punjab Irrigation works have partially made up for the failure of rain. It happens that the spring snowfall In the Himalayas was exceptionally heavy, so that there Is plenty of water. It Is certain that the anxiety which has been felt In the Punjah these last few days will develop Into a demand for sew and more comprehensive Irrigation works.—London Globe.

The Whole Family.

Mother —My darling, it Is bedtime. All the chickens have gone to bed. Little Philosopher—Tes, mamma, and so has the old brown hen!

Bhe—Was It a restful place out ah that country boarding houseT He—Tes; hi the pallor was a slgatf “This piano closed for repairs."

Helped.

BLIND MAN VICTIM

Run Down and Killed by Speeding Chicago Motorcyclist ' Dr. Willett. Roused by Killing. Says It Is Hard to Believe Soma Drivers Have Souls of Their Own. : Chicago.—“ Before the motorcyclist sad time to realise that the man In his path was blind the machine struck him." This sentence, an excerpt from a morning newspaper's account of the accident at South State and Sixtythird streets the other day, which resulted In the death of Jacob Snapp, a blind man, from injuries sustained while the helpless victim was groping his way across die street, furnished a text for a sermon on speed fiends. It was preached by Dr. Herbert L. Willett, pastor of Memorial Church to ,Chrlst and associate professor of Semitic languages and literature at the University of. Chicago, when the tragic circumstances of the accident were suggested to him. Doctor Willett did not handle the subject with gloves. Any motorcyclist or antomobilist whose speed mania has brought him to the stage where he has forgotten that a common ordinary pedestrian is a human being and should have consideration even though not blind or crippled, had such a person overheard the minister's dissertation, would not have needed an Interpreter to aid him in determining just how great a menace he has grown to be, in the opinion of the walking population. “It Is hard to believe that some of these reckless antoists and motor- . cyclists, who imperil pedestrians, mess up our thoughts and tangle our nerves until we are near Insanity are persons with souls," Doctor Willett began, as be launched with fervor into his tirade against the dangerous speeder. , "Such as accident as the one in which the blind man met his fate it a horrible evidence of the pass to which things have come in the big city’B rage for speed. It raises the question of whether the pedestrian on our streetß has any rights whatever. Must he be continually on his guard, watching for reckless speed fiends who show not a whit of consideration for the lives of those on foot? Is the pedestrian obliged legally to be a)ert constantly and prepared to leap from the path of a speeder? The account of how the blind man met his death would almost seem to indicate as much. "Think of the Irony of the conclusion! 'Before the driver had time to realise thatthe man was blind his ms-

PRINCE OF WALES A SMOKER

English Rulers Allow the Heir Throe Cigarettes a Day Blnce His Seventeenth Birthday. London. Since his seventeenth birthday ,it has just become known, the Prince of Wales has been permitted to enjoy an occasional cigarette. Like the King of Spain, he shows a preference for the genuine Spanish cigarltos, which are very small and made of choice Havana tobacco They are not gummed, bat are held together by a dexterous Inward fold c f the paper. The king and queen did not wish their eldest son to smoke until his seventeenth birthday, and on that date he received many gifts representing the smoker’s small luxuries. If rumor speaks truly the young prince does not show great enthusiasm as a smoker, and is quite satisfied with tiie three cigarettes a day which are

$500,000 CINCHED BY BABY

Arrival of Infant Bscures Big Estate for Penneylvanlan. Nephew of Former Congressman. Scranton, Pa.-—When th'e stork dropped Into town the other night on his usual rounds he called at the home of Charles R. Connell, nephew of former Congressman William Connell, and now Scranton Is boasting of a "half million dollar baby," while the baby's mother Is proudly displaying Its charms to her friends and at the same time showing a 110,000 diamond sunburst, the gift of the proud father. Under the will of the baby's grandfather, It .was provided that If its father died without Issue the estate was to go to the children of the former congressman, and Inasmuch as Mr. and Mm Connell had been married eight years without having their union blessed by children, it began to look very much as if the behest of the will would stand. The arrival of the baby, however, seta sslds this provision of the will and the $600,000 will now remain In the other branch of the family. no provision having been made by the late congressman for its conversion In the event of the child's not living.

Lightning Shocks ?any.

Dunkirk. N. Y. —Bight oersons vbo were examining photographs st the home of k R Ditcher at Frodonta, were close to death when lightning shot down the chimney. A ball of lire circled the room several times, leaving a charred course In the wall paper sad tearing the plaster off the walla It passed out aa open door, shattertag a tree tn the yard. All hi the bouse suffered hem shook.

NAVAL GUN TO DESTROY AIR CRAFT

WITHIN a short time, each destroyer, cruiser and battleship of the United States will be equipped with one of the new aeroplane guns pictured above. This formidable weapon has a vertical range of three miles, and can fire from 15 to 20 shots per minute. The sighting arrangements are such that the object aimed at can be kept covered as long as it is In range. The adoption of the gun by the authorities Is proof positive that the offensive possibilities of the aeroplane have been fully recognized.

chine had struck him.’ The victim was lacking one of his God-given senses and did not perceive his danger. A horrible death was the result “Of all speed fiends of the present’ day. some motorcyclists are by far the greatest menace to the pedestrian. The machine is small, much lighter than an automobile and capable of darting Into and through a crowd with almost the wariness of a rabbit What chance has the man on foot with a reckless, daredevil driver likely to cross his path at any moment? Chicago, lam convinced. Is today lit great need of ordinances which will serve more effectively to protect Its pedestrians A motorcycle speed law is needed which will muzzle the mania of the careless driver.” y; | i ■■ &, 3 i-S.;, |■;

allotted to him until he reaches his eighteenth birthday. The nealth of Prince Henry continues to cause anxiety. The experiment of sending him to school at Broadstalrs has resulted in an improvement, but the gain in strength to hardly rapid enough to satisfy the royal physicians It is hoped, however, that a quick change for the bettor will come during his holiday sojourn in the Highlands Prince Henry’s lack of vigor is the more serious because he is growing too fast for his age. He is the tallest of the king’s sons, and he has the making of a handsome lad. His continued weakness does not seem to affect the prince's lively disposition, which has earned for him the family nickname of “Bluebottle.” He is the humorist of the royal children, and his comicalities of manner and speech are the delight, of all who know him

MACHINE TO CURE DULLNESS

Boston Savant Declares Charging of Schoolroom With Powerful Current Will Stimulate Puplla ■ Cambridge, Mass.—Dr. Andrew F. Christian, a Boston physician, believes that “If backward or sickly school children were made to study and recite their lessons In a room where the atmosphere was charged with eleoerlclty. the children would Improve, both mentally and physically, and would soon cease to be backward or sickly." Dr. Christian says: "The plain fact la that the electrification of a room creates whet Is known ss ozone, and the breathing of this has an absolutely stimulating effect. of which the reasons are well known *) medical men. "Not only In the case of school children, but also In relation to the efficiency of adults employed In offices. I think It would bo of great advantage If the air of the rooms were subjected to a high-frequency current of electricity." Continuing, Dr. Christian says: "I have noticed that a person fools better tn a room where the air has been electrified than be does tn a room with common air. however well the room may be ventilated. The reason Is that a high-frequency current In a room break* up the atoms of oxygen In tbe air and creates ozone. The ozone enriches the rod blood corpuscles and they become more numerous and more active. "The blood thus carries more oxygen to the tissues and the result Is that aa taoroase of simulation mesas an fnwsaai of Sssfaiflstlon and this In

HEWS BIG TREE AT TRINITY

Passing of Landmark In Few Green Bpots of New York City—Over Three Hundred Years OldNew York. —Busy passersby In lower Broadway have paused in the last few days before one of the few green spots in the business section to notice the passing of an qld landmark. This Is a tall tree In Trinity churchyard. on the sooth side, very ness Pine street This tree, which la credited with having passed Its three hundredth birthday, recently died, add Thomas Floyd, the venerable bead gardener of all Trinity’s grave yards, who has served In that capacity more than thirty years, decreed it must come down, Mr. Floyd hired a sailor, who has trimmed off all but the trank and Hie arms of its main branches. Even yet the tree reaches to the fifth story of the Trinity building and almost touches Its windows. This Is the only tree In Trinity church yard which has been cut down tor more than a year.

Mistake Snake for Whip.

Hartford, Conn.—George Desdy. a farm hand living' In Wilsonville. hag a hot time the other day and he fainted dead away from fright Deady picked up what be thought was the tip of a horse whip in the grass beside the road, only to find that the horse whip was alive. It proved to be a black snake. It wound around Deady’s arm and poked its head In Deady’s face and grinned at him. Deady let out a yell that could be beardall over Wilson ville and ran to Henry Pearl and implored him to pull the snake off his arm. Pearl refused to meddle, saying he was no snake charmer, whereupon Deady fainted la the road. Pearl says the snake then uncoiled and wriggled off Into the bushes. It was about five feet long.

turn means an Increase cf nutrition. For children or adults an atmosphere that Is electrified win hate a stimulating effect” It was with this knowledge that Dr. Christian set about making a machine which could electrify the air la a room thoroughly and quickly. The result of his experiments Is a cabinet which contains the three essential elements of a high-frequency electric oofl. an air pump and a vacuum tube. The high-frequency cod chargee the vacuum tube, which la inclosed in a glass air chamber. The air pump draw* air into the air ohamber and the air, after ctrouiatfng about the charged vacuum tabs, la carried out tote the room from tubes provided for the purpose. The oxygen In the air is broken up as It circulates about the charged vacuum tubes end the air passed out again Into the room is full of ozone.

Queer Freak of Lightning.

Mansfield Center. Conn.— A bolt of lightning threw Itself into the Up pocket of Joseph. Barrow, a farmer, aa be was sitting In tbs kitchen of his home here. The bolt came Into the house via tbe stove pipe and was sttraded to Barrow** Up pocket by the presence there of an Iron monkey, wrench and a big jackknife It passed down his leg. burning him severely, and then careened over the floor, upsetting a tub of water and splitting a huge chopping block, tn Barrow's pocket tbe end of tbs wrench and the blade of (be knife were fueed into a iftH4 pieoa of steoL

SOCIAL CRISIS

By Rev Dr. George W. Anderson

rotor of Uneo Methodist Epiecopo! V:-V>* - Cksrcfc, St. UMI» - s

TEXT—Jacob was a plain man dwelling among the tents; and aa a plain man haat them prevailed. / As men do not pick diamonds from trees, but rather search for them among the barren stones and soil, so God seeks for great leaders, not among the exalted, but from the great mass of common folk. Desiring to start a new race preparatory to Christ's coming, he searched among the common ones of Chaldea until he found Abraham, a worshiper of idols, and sent him forth not only to be the father of the Jewish race, but of the three greatest forms of monotheistic religion the world has ever known. God searched for an emancipator and he found Moses, ah alien, born in servitude, and sent him forth to lay the foundatolns of civilization. Desiring to reveal the power of-the strong will and the Indomitable ambition, he searched among the open fields until he found Jacob, a plain man, dwelling among tents*;’and sent him forth as a prince of God. The story. of Jacob- is the story of ambition, bad and good, laying hold of every means to meet Its end; filled with ipingled pathos and joy. As the bad ambition it sends its harvest of sorrow, and as a holy ambition it* harbest of joy. In no life Is the failure of ungodly ambition and the success of righteous ambition mere marked. » Jacob desired to rule, to lift himself out of the common place, to become a prince among men, and failing to realize the difference between right and wrong, brought dismal failure. He believed that birthright gave the power to rule, and unjustly sought to secure one not hi* own;;: At the doorway of a weather-beaten tent he sat one evening, a mere lad. The lengthening shadows were silently wrapping the landscape with haze. Before hint burned a blazing fire that laughed at the thickening shadow# with /defiance, cast its rich glow on his clear-cut features and caused the tent folds to stand out distinct against the dull background. The atmosphere is fragrant with the stream of cooking porridge, which he idly stirred. He was dreaming of leadership, when ofit from the shadows came one staggering with weakness and hunger and.crying out for food. Here was the age-long problem of supply and demand. Jacob, being careful, shrewd, farsighted , had provided for a time of need. Esau, careless, indifferent, wandering in disposition had made no Such provision. It was strength pitted against weakness. Strength said: "What I have is mine, and if any would seek it, let him pay my price.” There Is only one thing that Esau had, his birthright, the very thing that Jacob seeks. And in that hour the voice of ambition says: “Put your price high, young man. Get all you can." And Jacob, looking at his starving brother, said: "I wiU give yon to eat if you will give me your birthright” Faint with wearines and hunger, Esau made the bargain. With uplifted hands Esan gives to Jacob that which Jacob had no right to own, but possessed solely through the power of capital. Now, Jacob Is a shrewd and rich man in the sight ctf the world. He has deceived his brother, has gotten his brother's blessing and he Is the priest of the community. Behold him several days after fleeing In the darkness from his brother, an exile and empty handed. *Wby? Because money and power gotten by unrighteous methods never enrich. Behold Jacob In the open, fields, with no bed save sand, no pillow save stones, no covering save the open sky, the picture of a thousand characters of history. Then comes the vision of Jacob, the ladder reaching up to heaven and the angels ascending and descending. Jacob sees that while ungodly ambition brought failure, godly ambition could lift him up to God. The angels ascend, and descend; they go op only that they might come down. Ambition should lead a man up, only that, in the heights, he may gain power and strength to come back Into the lowly fields and serve his fallow rasa. Ho most climb the ladder to God only that he may come back to serve those who need help. A man becomes a prince, net through birthright, but through servIce. Esau came with his armies to catch the fleeing Jacob, but Jacob, having wrestled with the angel, conies to meet bis brother with arms extended, not to rule but to serve. And Esan, beholding the change in hla brother, leaps from hla horse and embraces Jacob. Jacob has now become - the prince of his own people, not through ambition to rule, but to serve. ♦*-d

Courage.

It is not moral courage that makes a man face the gallows without a quiver; it is the callousness of sin. This false idea of bravado and courage is leading multitudes of young men to the pit—Rev. W. H. Geist weit. Baptist, San Diego. . ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲

Helping.

When you give help tq him who Is down and out you project ypur life, if you oannot help another your Ufa la aot worth much.—Rev.W. & Him*