Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1911 — Page 3

The GENEVIEVES I KNOW (Also their JAMIES)

tin*-r - i i ne VieuevievG Wbo iVliumecl in Him

s When a woman marries a man to rtgot it done there will be noting left but reform—the man will be entirely rotted away*. x James was a delightful man with only one bad habit It was the habit which moat women call “bad habits," He was a real estate man was .tames, and his bad habits were very active right after he had cinched a deal. He cinched a deal rather so often—perhaps— : :4 Genevieve met James at a club party, according to the commonplace "wont of things, and he was very nice to her. She was a nice little thing, and he got into the habit of driving out rather often to her father's home on the very edge of the town. It is not too much to say that Genevieve fell in love with him. James fell in love with her, too. Then he went driving out to see .Genevieve very often and was allowed to stay to supper, and he and Genevieve had a lovely time on die veranda in the moonlight. ' - Then, as cool weather came on, he was rather busy and fell from grace, as usual, when he cinched a deal. And at last, at a party, Genevieve saw him when he had fallen from grace. He was a bit above himself, and, besides, she danced with him and noticed something about his breath. Next momlpg big brother said, “Jim had a lovely souse on last night, didn’t he? But he certainly had a nerve to ' dapce with you. You should have turned him down.” —~ ..Genevieve gasped a bit. Then she said, "He was nothing of the kind, and I don't thank you.” And then she ran to her big, pretty, pink and white room and got down upon her knees ' and cried and cried.. Then, when she could get her breath, she remembered his; and then she prayed for Jim very sincerely and very girlishly, and felt better. _ She entirely failed to pray for herself, because she had not yet found out

"Nothingwrong, Hatetastestuff.’’

that she was the person who reallyneeded that attention. James came out In a few days, sober and in his right mind. He knew how bad he had been, and he supposed she did, too, so he told her he was hot fit to speak to her, but he was going to be a man now, and would she forgive him? And (lenevleve said he must be a man for her sake, and she would forgive Mm, because she was sure he was repentant and would n?v6r fall again. , 1 When James went back to the club the next night he lifted a restraining palm to his friends and said: "Never again! I’m on the water wagon for keeps.” And his friends laughed, because they had climbed on the water wdflon themselves at the bidding of a nice girl. About Christmas .Genevieve had a shock. James was doing great busibesides, It was the blessed holiday season. He was to dine with them on Christmas, and when he arrived, rather late in the afternoon, he had been warding off the cold of the driv«k»?\..- - Genevieve ariee her eyes out alght, down oh the floor beside her bad; and James wilt back to the club and gathered together a~ monumental —er —well, he was a lltle above himself again. Because he was extremely ashamed. By the time this wore off, he was truly repentant, and hated the very smell of the stuff. So he drove out to see Genevieve and toM her so. Genevieve had the theory, held by every well brought up girl, about a man reforming by the grace—well, by prayer and such things. She had prayed sto-

By HELEN HELP

cerely and James now declared that he hated the very smell of the stuff. These two things stood to Genevieve in. the relation of cause and effect. And this was the exact moment chosen by James in which to ask her to marry him. - . When James and. Genevieve came back from their honeymoon, the happy bridegroom was warmly congratulated by his many friends. When he went home to Genevieve the first evening he said, “M’darling’ assure you nothingwrong—hatetastestuff.” • ■ • .■ • ♦ • « All the years that James was coming home to Genevieve perfectly sober —er—that is, sober at least three evenings out of the week, Genevieve was thinking with some pride that if be would only straighten up, he would show those friends of his who had so far outdistanced him in the race—because, really, said Genevieve to herself, James was far the ablest of them all. It wan, nothing but bls disastrous habits that stood in bls way. And at lash the day dawned, when James came to. He saw what he really looked like and decided that the time had come when he must straighten up and leave behind his boyish ways. So ba straightened up. Immediately? Yes, immediately. Was it an awful struggle? No, It was not an awful struggle. He was sick ® week or so and felt depressed and down for months, but that was about all. Because the truth is that it is not such an awful struggle, as a rule. The truth is that James and John and William and Charles are not often In earnest when they say they want to stay on the water wagon, so they cheerfully fall off again. Their wives think they are? Yes, but their wives only see them when they are depressed and down in the mouth. The minute James and the rest of them get Outdoors, they are different men. ’’You don’t believe it? Well, you ask your brother about it, Genevieve, my dear, and watch what he says. Well, when James really made up his mind to quit he just quit. And the saddest point of the story is right here—he never did astonish the world. He never set the river on fire, he never did a thing except to continue to make rather a shabby living for Genevieve. / She had reformed him, but the reform was about ell there was left. As Genevieve sometimes said to herself, “It seems as if he were only a ghost —only a ghost” As he was a perfectly commonplace ghost at that, perhaps Genevieve did not have much of a run for her money after all. .(Copyright, by Associated Literary Press.)

The City Policeman.

“Thc man in uniform,” says Magis> trate House of New York, “is a target for street loafers.” "It’s a funny thing,” mused Officer Findley some months ago, “but everybody is against a cop. If he gets the worst of 1' In a scrap, everybody is satisfied, and if p. cop was to walk his beat with a blacked eye every citizen ’would laugh hisself to death in the matter. 'Kill the cop!’that’s what they shout. And yet what is he doing? He is doing big.duty. Take a fireman; he does his duty, too, but he’s a hero. Why? His work isn’t any more dangerous than a cop’-. Perhaps you think It’s a cinch to arrest a dangerous character who is waving a gun or a knife or a razor. Well, it isn’t, and a cop never knows when he goes out in the morning whether his wife will be a widow by night. And say! Imagine this town without any cops for just one week! What?”

Baby Was Mother's First Thought A story of a mother’s sacrifice followed by her death comes from Coventry. Mr. Walter Clifford of Coventry took his wife, their child and a friend out for a motor drive, and when about a mile from Stonebridge, where there is a narrow stone bridge, the car got into difficulties. It was evident that a collision with the bridge was imminent. Mrs. Clifford, seeing the danger, took up from her lap the child, 'who is two and a half years of age, and in a moment threw it over the side of the car on to the grass. The car Immediately afterwards overturned and Its occupants were thrown out Mrs; Clifford sustained a bad concussion and died a few hours afterwards. Her husband and friend escaped with mere scratches. The child was uninjured. ■ Choice Engravings. J ’ "America is not deficient In patriotism nor in love of art,” said the cheery citizen. "No,” replied Hiss Cayenne. "But, just the same, the general eagerness to posess twenty-dollar bills Is not due entirely to the fact that George Wash ington’s picture Is on them.” * -ho, account of the pillars of aocietyF "Oh, give ’em a cotmnn."

EIGHT JILT FORTUNE

Thousand Dollar Bill Passed ArAiinn *l© nJ ata arouno as ♦iwjtoic. ■ . - ♦ ' ... >•' , ——— , Several Business Men of Hvde Park eight men in Hyde Park and Englewood who do not know a thousand dollar bill When they see it, Eight of them had it tn their possession the other Each one passed it on to the next man as a *IOO bill. The last to receive it deposited the bill to his ao count in the Guarantee Trust and Savings bank, 835 West Sixty-third street, still believing it to represent only |IOO. The receiving teller discovered the size of it Here’s the story: ; ■ S A business man walked briskly Into the Woodlawn Trust and Savings bank, 1208 East Slxty-thlrd street “Give me *100,” he said, tossing a check to the paying teller. The teller snapped a bill from a 'pile, ran it through his fingers and slipped it under the wicket . Theman walked out He made a purchase. » “Here’s *100," he said to the merchant with whom the sale was conducted. The merchant took the bill, glanced at it and tossed it into his till. / About this time the paying teller of the Woodlayn Trust made an invoice of bls cash. Then he ran for the Englewood police station. Detective Edward Dudley set forth for the missing 100 banknote. The cashier had given him the name of the man who had asked for *IOO in exchange for a check.

“Thousand dollars? You’re kidding me,” said the man when Dudley found him. “But anyway, I haven’t got it 1 gave it to Jinks.” Dudley went to Jinks. Jinks sent him to Dinks. From Dinks he passed to Binks. finally he wound up with. August Nelson. 835 West Sixty-third street

"Thousand? No, you're bunked,” said Nelson. —“I deposited it at the Guarantee Trust The cashier took It for- a hundred. He ought to know.” Dudley dashed for the bank. “Gimme that thousand dollar bill quick,” said he. He got ffc/

Dudley was asked for the names of the business men who did not knew a thousand dollar bill when they saw one.

“1 have been requested not to give out their names,” said the detective. “They are laughing at the error they made. It turned out all right, so we will withhold the names. I guess the whole' bunch Is making so much money they don’t take time to look at hundred dollar bills." r

VACUUM CLEANER FOR FLEAS

Devotion of Big Maltese Cat to Modem Machine Results In Discovery of Benefit to Pet Animals.

New York —Through a discovery made by “Buster," a large Maltese cat, the flea population of Murray Hill, L. 1., is fast disappearing. Recently the animal’s owner added a vacuum cleaner to the household equipment After pumping the dust out of her rugs she applied the nozzle playfully to the cat’s fur. At first “Buster” showed alarm, but finding no damage followed, he lay still while receiving a thorough cleansing. When the vacuum cleaner was brought Into use a few days later "Buster” promptly ran to the nozzle, rubbing against It and purring until his coat received another going over. When the dust bag was emptied several fleas were seen struggling amid

BURIED COINS FOUND

Salvage Crew Successful in Raising V n-of-War.

Vessel gunk In 1799 Carried Gold Treasure Estimated at $5,000,000 -—Two Quaint Old Cannons and Some Balls Recovered. Tepschelllng. Holland.—The search for >5,000,000 sunken treasure believed to be aboard the old British man-of-war Lutine, which was wrecked in 1799 while on a voyage from Tarmouth to Hamburg, gets closer and closer to success every day now. Bit by bit the old wreck has been uncovered, the National Salvage Is•odation’s ship Lyons’ great vacuum pump having worked wonders in clearing away the masses of sand embedding her. Now she Is practically dear on the starboard side. The port side still remains more or less covered—the -Lutine must have heeled over to port when she went down,. or else the water gradually urged her over that way—-but the great pump should make little of the work of clearance. When this Is done, the exciting and romantic task of locating and bring-’ Ing up the bullion which has so long lain on the sea bottom will begin. Any day now. so the divers engaged on the wreck say, the sand may be' cleared and the first reel haul of Already, although no amount of the wealth borne on her

EXHIBITS SEEN AT MINING CONGRESS.

EQUIPPED WITH OXYGEN HELMET

WHEN the American Mining Congress opened in Chicago on October 24 there was on view an interesting lot of exhibits connected with the mining industry. Among these were the devices used by the government rescue corps, which has done such good work in recent disasters. Our photograph shows a member of the corps equipped with the oxygen helmet

the debris in the ash can. It was observed that the cat was less annoyed by bls tiny enemies than formerly, and it became evident he attributed his relief to the vacuum cleaner.

News of the new flea catcher spread among other owners of pet animals, and the nozzle of the weapon was turned on many dogs and cats. At the end of the onslaught the contents of the dust bags were burned. Hedges which had begun to show the effects of too much service as back scratchers, are beginning to thrive again and the pet animals in the Murray Hill section of Flushing expect to pass the dog days very comfortably.

NOW HUNTING WILD CATTLE

Descendants of Stock Taken to Washington by Sqotch Colony In 1840 Now Prey of Hunters. .

Seattle, Wash.—Although the state of Washington has its “No Trespass” sign tacked on the herds of elk in the Olympic mountains, and the open season for deer here lasts but three months each year, guides are returning from the wild regions with larger game -wild- cattle, unprotected by law. Grant W. Humes has Just brought in

last voyage by the old Lutine has yet been brought to the surface, single coins, many silver ones, have been found. Altogether, roughly, a handful of silver has been recovered. And coins are all that the wreck has yielded. The Lutine’s anchor, a big crusted iron thing, eighteen by eighteen feet, with the ship’s name engraved upon it, Is now on the lighter lying over the wreck, and two quaint old cannons and some old fashioned cannon balls have also been found. The anchor, which weighs about three tons, is in a ivmarkable state of preservation, as Is another anchor brought up. . ..'..5:.... One cannon was loaded almost to the mwoUe. The task of taking the charge out occupied a man practically a whole morning. Everything about it la really wonderfully preserved; even the cord and the flintlock apparatus is inUct. <■/ The longer the weathdr remains fine the greater the chance of the gold being found soon, in lino, smooth weather the divers can work uninterruptedly, but on stormy days all are forced to be Idle.

Rice Crop Prospects Good.

Tokyo, Japan.—The outlook for the rtco crop thia year fa gratifying, the yield being estimated at more than M.OOfi.OOO kokn (M 5,000,000 bushels). Thia is 14 per cent above the figures for laat year and eight per cent above the average for the laat ten yearn at 49.000.000 kokn (MS 006 000 bushala)

the shaggy hide~and long horns Of a wild bull he killed in the plateau region at the headwater of the Dusewalllps river. Humes, who has lived in the Olympics for 15 years, says a herd of several hundred wild cattle is at large near the source of the Dusewallips. Other herds, Humes says, feed on thousands of acres of wild hay in the plateau regions bordering the Queets and Hoh rivers. Two other guides confirm the story. Indian legend says the stock was brought to this country by a colony of Scotch settlers who landed from a sailing vessel in the early forties. The colony did not thrive, and its members returned to civilisation. \ Guide:, say the wild cattle and horses are more timid than deer, and more difficult to hunt. With a scent as keen as that of the elk, the wild herds flee to the almost inaccessible hiding places tn the hills when alarmed by the approach of man.

Gotham Death Rate Low.

New York. —The death rate of New York city for the first week of October was the lowest ever recorded, reaching 12.60 per 1,000. This is seventy-two-hundredths less than in any previous week since the records have been kept

NEW SOUP PLATE IS PRAISED

Noiseless Spoon Invbntor Lauda Chicagoan's Finger Proof Dish—lnvents Ladle for Spaghetti. -v':«L Louis.—Sterling H. Campbell of this city, inventor of the noiseless soup spoon, hastened congratulations when he learned that Isaac Allen of Chicago had perfected a finger proof soup plate They will go well together, he believes. Campbell resides at a hotel and ha, knows how it is. Observation in public eating places has sharpened his inventive genius. A ladle which will enable any one ndt Italian born to make reasonable progress with a dish of spaghetti is nearly perfected. He has discovered that a teaspoonfui of olive oil on a grapefruit will keep the juice from squirting into one's eyes.

Penny Lunches for Pupils.

SL Paul,' Minn.—Penny lunches will ba ptovtded for the pupils of some of the St. Paul schools. The board of education has voted $3,000 for the pur'WMOf making experiments with the proposition. Malnutrition and lack of proper food are said by physicians who have studied the case to be the cause of a heavy rate of mortality among the children of the city.

Potatoes Clive Fire Alarm.

Spokane, Wash.—A fire at the homo of R. MHler the other day burned a hole in a sack of potatoes suspended ortr the rear stairway, and the noise of the potatoes rolling down the stairway awoke Mrs. Miller. The fire was discovered and the family fled tot safety.

Christian Art of Getting Mad

By Rev. INGRAM E. HILL"

Yanar «f Nortk Shore Baptist Cbardi. OifT

TEXT—Be y« angry and sin not.— IV ’* It is a great thing to know how t®> get real angry without making a fool of one’s self. Not everybody knows, how to do It It io an accomplished! art, the ability to get mad ifite a gentieman/ To know when to get angry? is a criterion of character. It is an. accomplishment which is not learned in the schools. It Is acquired in the relentless training of practical experience. It is not a sin to get angry. Any man with half an ounce of ginger in his system ought to get angry occasionally. Temper is the impress of God upon the soul. It is the mark of personality and intellectual stamina. The scriptures say that God is angry with the wicked every day. Jesus got angry. Can you not see him standing at the temple door? Can you not see the market scenes which were enacted there? Can you not see his eyes kindle? Can you not see his illujnined countenance blaze fierce and glorious? Can you not see the miraculous energy of his personality as he cast out all them that sold and; bought in the temple and said Unto, them: ‘My house shall be called a? house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.* Christianity is something more than, a religion of love. Jqsus said: ‘I came not to send peace, but a sword.’ Passivity may be all right for weaklings, but action is the birthright of heroes. The man who tries to be sweet with everybody will find some day that he is nothing but a lemon. It is very easy, however, to get angry foolishly. Sometimes it is proper to get angry, and sometimes it is not It may be proper at times for a: man to get angry with th<s. janitor. It may be proper at times for a. manto get angry with the umpire. It*

may be proper at times for a map get angry with the family upstairs. But it is never, never proper for a man to get angry with his Wife. There is many a man who will say nasy things to his wife that he . would not think of saying to his chauffeur. Temper is good. A bad temper Is what you have made of a good thing. A rifle is a good thing in good bands. But when it has become rusted and out of repair it Is going to explode some day in the hands of some cheerful idiot who did not know it was loaded. If your temper gets the best of you what you need is to go off to the repair shop and be made over. These fits of temper, this sour disposition, this iceberg atmosphere, this spiteful spirit are as contrary to the Christian as light is opposed to darkness. Tell me, what do you get mad about? That is the practical question. A man calls you a liar and you retort in similar language. But men are making God a liar every day and you do not get angry. Wherever there are wrongs to be righted, wherever there are evils to be trampled under foot, wherever there is Justice to be meted out, wherever there is iniquity in high places or low, there is your opportunity to show of what stuff you are made. Somebody treads on your corn and you get mad at him. This very night a courtly and attractive son* of perdition will lure a girt in her teens to one of the winerooms of this prodigal city. Re will give to her a drink that will inflame every passion and deaden every moral sense. He will lead her forth to her ruin and laugh like a devil over the havoc he has wrought. If you are going to get angry, in God’s name get angry at,something worth while. Wa are tn the midst here of a society which is fond of wine and joy rides and clandestine flirtations. A society that is rotten to the core. Gilded resorts or doubtftil character flaunt their disregard of high morality Fiends in human shape are stalking the streets and outrages are committed at our very doors. There Is a time to be angry. There is a time for Christian men to speak out, and that time is now. When the good people wake from their lethargy and begin to tackle something that Is really worth their mettle, then shall right be triumphant and justice win the day. . '

The Law of Love.

The consecrated Christian brings to the lowliest duties the loftiest motives. His consecration to Christ carries with it consecration to the service of his brother men. The law of Christ is the law of love. We fulfill it in doing welt onr part of the world's work as well as in direct acts of sympathy and burden bearing. The holy man la the mbre energetic tn XinTllto to C S , s nt h^K <> AsThrls! a wiuui m _ —, will _ a* tO Ch^8 m tioV of*burtT

Heroiam.

M m _ T. Root, Congregationallst. Provk ■#t ■ .