Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1912 — Page 2

The RING and the MAN

SYNOPSIS. ▲ foollßh roun* tenderfoot become* CMdnated irttß the bold, artful wife of a drunken proepoctcr In a western mlnlnx town. They prepare to elope Id a bllndIn* bllctara out are confronted by the maudlin husband. Be la Shot by the Wtf*. buj the chivalrous boy pin* a note tc> {he body taking the crime non hlmsalf. In their flight to the railroad station the woman's horse rails exhausted, til* youth puts her on Ms own and follow* hanging to the stirrup strap. Seeing hs la an Impediment, the woman thrusts her escort Into a snow drift and rides on. Batf-frosen he stumbles Into the railroad station Just as tb* train hears the woman away. Tw**ty-*es rears later, this man. George Oormly, Is a multi-millionaire (n New Yeto. Hs meet* Eleanor Haldane, a beautiful and wealthy settlement worker, and 00-operate* with her in her work. Oormly becomes owner of a steamship Him and And* himself frustrated In pier and track extension plan* by grafting aldermen backed by the Gotham Traction ootnpany. An automobile accident brings the Haldanes to his country home. Gormly announces that he will be mayor of New York and redeem the city from corruption. The political declaration of the merchant prince produced a tremendous sensation. The whole machinery of the city's detective force la to be used to dig up something damaging to Gormly. The nreee heretofore unanimously favorable to the merchant candidate, under pressure, divide* and the oampalgn waxes Warm. A reeolutlonXla Introduced granting a gratuitous renewal of the traction franchise. Gormly offers ten million dollars for the franchise. Miss Haldane congratulates Oormly on what ahe terms a new Declaration of Independence, and he makes an unexpected declaration of love. He la shocked by the confirmation of his suspicions that her father is the head and backbone of the' notorious traction eoaspany which he la attempting to overthrow. Young Haldane discovers his father's connection with the Gotham Traction company, and la Incensed. In an Interview between Gormly end Haldane the latter practically offers his daughter's hand aa a bribe for Gormly to withdraw. Gormly refuse*. CHAPTER Xlll,—Continued. *1 love your daughter in ways that t doubt you are able to understand; but I would not take her on such conditions as those you mean me to Infer ; I would not degrade her by thinking of her on such terms, even If I lost her forever. I am unworthy of her now, God knows! bat I would be so far beneath her under such circumstances thnt 1 could not even look at her again. I don't understand how she could have been born of such a father." ~I will not be talked to In that manner by you, sir,” cried Haldane, who did not lack courage. “I here and now definitely decline your proposal for my daughter’s hand." "I will take that declination from kir. and from no one else!” said Gormly. “She will repeat it, I am sure, if she hears with what Insolence you have treated me.” £ "And I pray God for the sake of her lore toward you and her respect toward you that she may never hear one word of what you have said. I have had enough of this Interview, Mr. Haldane." He turned to the door. "Wait!” said Haldane. "To hear another Infamous proposition from you?” t "No, air. But I have something more to say. and it Is this: Tou are not io invulnerable yourself, sir, but that you might be glad for a little Judiclous silence.” “What do you mean?" “Never mind what I mean. You publish what you have there at your peril! 1 warn you that in two days thereafter, your name will ring as a scoundrel and a blackguard throughout the United States." -,“Havlng tried bribery and failed, you now resort to threats,” said Gormly. “But that, you are her father—” He clenched his fist, stood staring a minute, then shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and turned “You won’t be Warned, then?” said Haldane. .“Not by you." > "And you intend to publish my connection?” “Everywhere." “I shall tell Eleanor that you have done it.” “I shall tell her myself,” returned Gormly, tearing open the door. “Haldane," he called, aa he stepped into the hall. When the young man presented himself, he thus addressed him: “Your father and 1 have had a rather painful interview, into the details of which It is not necessary to enter. I have only to say, that the story I fold you goes to the newspapers tonight. And now,” he held out his hand, ‘‘goodby. T wish that we might have fought together until the “But we are going to fight together until the end,” cried the young man fiercely, "I love my father, and until now I have always respected him. , I have been content to follow his lead; but I can do'so no longer.” "You win both of you live to regret. . cried old Haldane after a bitter look at the pair. With his head high he mao-ehed oat through the door. “Do yoar worst!"he said ere he'closed it behind hiflt;: “You will see what will happen to you In a day or two!" ,*Wfcai does it mean r asked Miss • “It means,” said ~LtVtagstone, “that my father is tangled up with i gang «f scoundrels; that he is the brain backbone of the Gotham Freight Traction company that we are fight- - lag; and that he Is in dose alliance With the Sachem aociety. It means feat we—my family and I-*re dia tmmmd. It means that I no longer

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have the right to ask y° u what I had intended to ask you when the campaign was over and we had wpn, to be my wife." " ’ ~T “Are you asking me now?’ cried Mias Stewart ecstatically. “1 would beTfJt was proper.” “It is proper," she said, blushing divinely. “You don’t mean—” “You goose!” raid the girl, “I don’t love your father or your family.” Here Gormly turned and west into tin drawing room again. When he carhe back, which he did not do until summoned by Miss Stewart herself, he confronted the blushing pair. “You could not have chosen a truer, better man than Mr. Haldane,” he said. “And as for you, Haldane, you are the luckiest man on earth.” He sighed with envy and regret as be spoke. “I want to do something for you now,” said young Haldane. “Well, there la one. thing you can do for me.” "What is that?” ‘1 want to see your Bister, and immediately.” “I will have her here In ten minutes,” answered the young man, tearing himself away from Miss Stewart without another word. I “““"V - ■Sy-Z* V CHAPTER XIV. Gormly Resists Hit Greatest TemptatlonT" Gormly had faced many difficult situations in his life. Even his succesß-

ful business career bad confronted him with crises of moment. But he had never contemplated anything which imposed so hard a task upon his judgment and his feelings as the approaching interview. What means young Haldane would take to induce his sister to come with him, how much of what had transpired he would tell her, Gormly had no means Of knowing of course; but he felt confident that by hook or crook the young woman would he produced, and that a few minutes would find him face to face with her. He did not in the least know how to begin or what to say, and the more be thought of it the more difficult became the situation. It was well that the time, for reflection was short. It la better for a man who has to do great things to do them before the mental and spiritual enemy has time to instil doubts Into the mind And it was with a feeling of relief In his growing apprehension and misery, therefore, that he heard the front door open. He heard voices that he knew in the hall, and in another moment the library door was opened and Miss Haldane entered the room alone. He bad risen on her approach and stood confronting her. ' She was evidently greatly surprised. • . ‘1 did not know yon were here," she began. “Livingstone did not tell me. I did not expect—” “It was to see me, or rather that I

"And This Is Why You Made Me That Offer of Marriage?"

< I - might see you, that you were brought here, and 1 alone am responsible.” . “It is a most extraordinary proceeding,” said the nervously. . “I can’t Imagine why I was brought to you.” “It was neceasary> for me to see you,’’returned foe man. J “Then why didn’t you come to my/ house?” , v “I could not.” - i “Why not V . “There are reasons which will probably render me torever an unwelcome visitor to your house.” *T believe,” said the girl slowly, slowly, “that something very serious must have happened, or you would hot have had me brought here.” “I can scarcely bear to tell you." “You alarm me beypn4 measurel“ cried the girl, pressing her hands to her breast as if to still its wild throbbing. “You must not keep me in suspense any longer! What is it that you have to teli me? What is it that Is likely to come between us?” “This,” responded Gormly, handing her a few typewritten sheets of paper. “Am I to read this?” she asked, taking it from him and looking very straight at him. '_. ' ; He was very pale now and she was scarcely less white. “Walt!” said the man, as she lifted the paper and bent her head. “Perhaps It would be more merciful to tell you." - “Just as you think best. I am a strong woman. I can bear, anything. Is It about,” there was a long pause—“my father?" He nodded his head. “What has he doner “Miss Haldane,” he began, ”1 say to you quite simply that I would rather be dead than stand here as I do now with the burden of telling you that your father is the head and front, the backbone, the brains, the genius, the everything, of the Gotham Freight company and toe Sachem society.” “My God!” exclaimed Miss Haldane, the paper dropping from her fingers to the floor. She was paler than ever. She stared at him almost in dumb incomprehension. Her body swayed slightly. Gormly stepped closer to her, seized her gently, supported her to a chair by the library table. She put her face

iu her bands and rocked to and iro silently. “It can’t be true,” she said at last. "You are mistaken. Surely not my father In that sinkofcorruption and bribery and iniquity and shame! Say it isn't true!” “I wish to heaven I could say it; but—” The man shook his head. *1 told you that I would rather have been dead than have brought this upon yon." —— . “You are not to blame,” answered the woman, her sense of Justice uppermost “It is the fact itself that kills, if it be a fact There most be some mistake.” “I wish there was.'* “Are you sure absolutely?” ~~~ “Your father-Confessed It here in this room a half hour ago.” “Why do you tell me of It?” "Because” was the answer, “the whole world has to know it, and I preferred to tell you myself rather than let you get it from the newspapers.'” “You are going to publish it?”"Tomorrow, ..morning." c “But wb ? -usrhy?” She threwup Her arms In nervous appeal. “Think," said the man. “It is the one fact that makes my election certain.” “And does your ambition run to the wrecking of my father's good name in order that yon may be elected!" : "No. If yoa wffl think, yon will *- .... “*

for the sake «f honor, for the sake of duty, for toe sake of humanity,” lie paused and raised his own hand. “So help me God 1 !” he cried with teat, y* ~~ “But is tt necessary?” “Absolutely." “Why?” . “The cause of popular government is being fought out right here. The contest transcends in importance any political battle that has even been waged. If the government of and for and by toe people Is to be a success, we have to demonstrate it now or else go down. It may be forever. The people have a right to know what is baek of the Sachem society, where it gets Its enormous corruption fund. 1 should be a traitor, false to my duty, a betrayer. If I did not make public this knowledge that has come to me.” “It is all true,” she said at last “You say my father was here?” “Yes.” “He was very much agitated at some news that my brother brought him a short time ago. Does Livingstone know?” “He does. I told him." “Why?” “To give him an opportunity to withdraw from association with us in view of this attack.” “And what djd he decider’ “He decided to stay with me.” “And this is why you made me that offer of marriage now rather than later V’ “Yes. I ’ wanted you to feel, after you had this news, that while I alone knew it, I paid you the highest compliment that I could think of; that my heart was Irrevocably pledged to you whatever was to happen.” “That was kind of you. You have always been kind to me.” “I don’t see how you can say so after this.”. He pointed to the paper. “This," she replied, her eyes following his outstretched hand, “makes a great difference, doesn’t It?’’ “I don’t know. I suppose it will. It does not make any difference in me." “But don’t you see it makes it impossible for me if you— How could I? The enemy of my father!" “I don’t suppose you could,” be answered. “That is another reason why I .wrote when I did, because I was fearful that you would hate me when my agency in the unearthing of this was known; that you would receive no communication from me; that our acquaintance would be broken off; and I wanted you to know before it was too late all that was In my heart” “I am surprised,” said the woman, "that you could still continue to love the daughter of —" “Don’t say that!" quickly Interposed Gormly. ‘T don’t love you because you are anybody's daughter, but because you are yourself. I can’t trust myself to speak about it when I see you,” he continued, turning away, “and I could curse myself for ever having become involved in such a situation. I wish Ihere was some way out of It Sometimes I am minded to—” “There is no way out of It” said the girl quickly. “No, I suppose not” He turned away from her and began to pace the room with long steady steps. “Mr. Gormly,” she said at last “come here. Sit down there on the other side of the table. I want to see you.” Amazed, the man complied with her request. “Now tell me the whole solemn truth. You say my father was here with you before I came?” “Yes.” v “Does he know that you know?” “It was to see me about that that he came.” “Did he make some effort to Induce you not to publish these facts?” “Naturally.” “What was the effort?” “He argued with me.” “Is that all?” “He threatened retaliation.” “Is that all?” ‘1 think he even pleaded.” “And Is that all?” , “Yes.” said Gormiy, telling her hie Jirst lie, telling it bravelf, audaciously, even looking her straight In the eye without blenching. “Mr. Gormly,” returned the woman, “whatever he Is, my father Is not a fool.” / "His worst enemy would not so describe him.” “He knew that you were not a man who could be moved by threats or entreaties. You have demonstrated that you can be, in this campaign at least, Iron hard, Inflexible, Immutable. And there is no argument that any mortal man could use which could indtSCe -you to hold your hand. Isn’t that true?” “I—l am afraid so.” “What then did he propose to Influence you?” “Great heaven,” cried Gormly, “I have told you all that I will tell you; all that you have a right to know! Suffice It to say that he did not move me;” — w? • ~— V. “Mr. Gormly, I ask you, I Implore you, I adjure you, did my father offer me to buy your silence?" _ Gormly stared at her In ghastly bat ror. “You don’t answer,” said Miss Hal- . ——, UailC. = fr r* “Ha" (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Du Quesne’s First Fight.

A monument of the gallant Admiral Du Queane has just been provided at Bouehet, where he was buried In MSS, and the story of hie first fight is therefore apposite. He was the son at a ship builder, and at the age of 1? waa placed In command of one of his father's vessels. He sailed forth, espied a Dutch vessel, boanded it, eompelled it to smmndnr and broiq&l it Into port Not nntfl be bad been car tied through the streets in triumph on the shoulders o t his fellow townsmen did it occur to the offieisls that

LIKES THE OLD SONGS

MIDDLE-AGED MAN ALLOWS HIMSELF TO WONDER. * P---v , * Will the Ditties of the Present Day Arouse Buch Pleasant Recollections as Do Those of tho Long-Distant Days? • • ' "Do you know what I wonder sometimes?” said the middle-aged man. “I wonder if any of the songs of the present day will live in the minds of the youngpeoplewiurstng them now to arouse pleasant recollections in them 50 years from now. “Do you see what I mean? I know, I guess, 40 songs—2o anyway—that we used to sing when I was a youth that we all thought were lovely. Some of these had come down tDus from older times and they are still living, and I suppose will keep on living. But there were other songs, written in that day, that appeal to us older people now as strongly as they dld %hen, and perhaps more so, though in a somewhat different way now because they bring back fond recollections. “1 have no greater pleasure than, hearing my children play and sing those old songs that were sung when I was young, and I wonder —I do wonder —if any of these songs written say around In the last ten years, will survive, to be sung by my children*,. 60 years hence, with an interest like mine now in the songs of my. youth. “I am inclined to doubt it. Lots of the songs of the present time are fool-, ish, fl'fdft’t they ? And with words poor or worse than poor. And still when I sit down with a book of my old songs and go over it In cold blood, -reading instead of singing, I have to smile over some of them, for some of them were pretty thin and meager stuff when you came to read them. Still youth likes high flown romantic things and it doesn’t apply the acid test. We don’t do that till we are older, and among the songs written in the present day there may be some that will survive, foolish though they may seem to be to people of maturer years. “And how do I know but that the old folks in my younger days thought the songs we sang then were foolish? Maybe they did; but we loved them then and as older people we love them now; they make youth spring up in us again. And It may be, it may be, that some of these present day songs that we older people now think of no account will still live, either by some charm of theiv own or by the charm of all things associated with youth, tu be sung SOyears fr*m now by our children then grown old, just as we now sing over the songs of our youth, and with just the same joy. It paay be. But I think they will then be singing too some if the songs that pleased us, the songs that go down through generation after generation.'*’

The Lady’s Leisure.

“The truth about the leisure of the lady is this: It was never, in women of our race, a leisure hands; it was, pre-eminently, a leisure of the mind. Aside from her first and mdst obvious function, the lady was sheltered, petted and adored that she might have a mind at leisure from itself, and therefore at the service of others. According to Jier temperament, whether a Martha or a Mary, she performed this service in a more active or toff® passive fashion. She was the Listener; she inspired, pacified, comforted.^.She bound up the wounds life made, poured in the oil and wine. Her heart was the home of homeless -causes; she cherished ideals as well as Individuals. It Is a priceless service, and cannot be overpaid. Her loving performance of it was the glory of the type whose loss we are deploring. To be worth her salt in our national life, the lady must be either Martha or Mary.—There is no other honest life for her.” —Cornelia A. P. Comer, in Atlantic.

The Good Shopper.

Some women are 'naturally good shoppers; they have the instinct for making a good bargain, and* the determination to get for- their money the thing they know they want Other women are naturally nervous and timid, but they should endeavor to shake this off and to gain confidence. When a shopman says, “Madam, I assure you foists just the very thing you want, everybody’s using it," do not forget that every shopman’s business is to sell whatever he has in stock, not necessarily to sell just what you want. If you have made up your mind to use a particular custard, or a particular brand of cocoa, of to buy a dress of a particular style and shade, hard it, or you will suffer disappointment, and be annoyed with yourself afterwards. Always remember- that the A. B. C. of good shopping is to stick eut for what you have made up year mind to buy.

Hard Suggestion.

"I have all the respect in the world for science,” said the patient man, but—” * “Well, go ahead and finish your kick.” “I can’t keep from thinking that what this country needs is fewer criminologists and more good policemen.” , ' x

A Lower Bid.

"B? Gorry, ' said Pat, fit he rend toe morplng paper. “Here’s Larry Doolaa failed for half a million.” “The graspin’ oarsdhsiln!” cried Mike. “Sure an’ oi’d do ut far tin!”— Harper’s Weekly.

LEARN OF OSPREYS’ HABITS

Ornithologists Gather Knowledge From Visits of Birds to Island* Near New York. A great colony of ospreyß, or fisbhawks, built their nests at one time upon the property of various owner* of btad on an Island near New York, a circumstance that enabled ornithologists to gather some Interesting data, with respect to the breeding habits'of* this bird. One osprey’s nest was built upon a pile of old fence railß, only seven or, eight feet from the ground. It had! been added to annually until its bulkof sticks, sods, decayed wood, seaweed and the like amounted to something like-three cartloads. Two other nests were built In cedar trees. These,too, had been occupied every year for many seasons, and had been increasedby the addition of fresh material, until; they filled the whole upper parts o£ the trees. - In the wooded parts of the island the nests were very numerous. The larger trees In the Interior of the wood were all occupied, and on the edge of the wood every, tree, large or small, had at least one nest, and some o£ them two or three. On the sandy plain, beyond the woods a hundred or more nests were built on the ground, and on the north shore, where the beach was strewn with boulders, almost every one of the larger rocks had a nest on it. When one investigator approached some of the nests, the older birds flew silently away and did not return until all was quiet. In other cases the hawk* were noißy, and even showed fight, darting down at the visitor’s head, and striking out with their talons. These birds, however, would return 4 to their eggs when the caller remained quiet, though he might be only fifty, feet away. One nest was seen to contain an old broken ax, a bootjack and a straw hat. Of the variety of materials wrought Into the different structures the following is a brief list: Barrel staves, barrel heads and hoops, the tiller of a beat, a small rudder and parts of life preservers, brooms, an old plane,—a feather duster, a blacking brush, part of a hay rake, a fubber boot, several pairs of shoes, a pair of trousers, a long fishing line with hooks and sinkers wound on a board, bottles, tin cans, a door mat and a rag doll. In the interstices of many of the larger structures smaller birds had built their nests, well protected from the weathei;. The grackles were especially given to doing this, and were very bold In collecting fragments from the fishhawks’ tables.—Harper 1 * Weekly.

Walking for Heart Ailment.

The chief statistician of the health department of New York says overcoating, lack of exercise and the constant: use of automobiles have increased the deaths fronr heart disease 150 per cent, in the past 40 years. Between the ages of 35 and 45 the increase has been only 61 per cent., but between 55 and 65 the increase hae been 240 per cent. , The doctor says the automobile is, in part, to blame for this, because it keeps men frein, walking. He thinks walking is the best preventive of heart trouble. . “The legs and arms were made to use,” he says, and especially after a meal. The habit of most men who do not work to lie down after eating, or take a big chair and lounge. Resting makes them lazy. The stomach and the heart are closely related, and a full stomach strikes directly at tixa heart, especially if the person is running along the three-score line somewhere. So the lesson-is, walk; walk courageously; walk a great deal, and do a little deep breathing, while you are at it, and then, if heart trouble comes, you can’t help it; you have done your best to treat the heart kindly.—Ohio State Journal.

Pure Air in London Tubes.

The objection to underground travel In London—that the air is Impure and often stifling—will soon be .overcome if the plans and promises of the Central Railway company are carried out. These plans include a system of ventilation capable of pumping daily 80,000,000 cubic feet of ozonized air into the tubes and tunnels of the company. One plant is already ki operation and an official of the company states! that it will pump 400,<y)0 cubic feet of pure air per hour Into the station, or at the rate of 900 cubic fSet per person. The air is drawn from outside through a filter screen, which removes dust and dirt and Impure gases. A’ part of the air is then highly ozonized by being passed over highly electrified plates, the proportion of ozone in the whole being one part in 10,000,000. The air is driven by fans to the level of the bottom of the station, and two-thirds of it is distributed over the platforms by ducts, with «outlets at a height of seven feet above the plate form. The remainder is driven lute the tunnel • *£' : . '

As He Saw It.

Senator John Sharp Williams teile of an aged preacher In Mississippi who was asked what he thought of his two sons, both preachers, too. “Well, sur,” replied the old man, “George has a better .show in his shop winder dan John; but den John he’s got a larger stock in his warehouse.”

Exceptions.

“The pass system has been generally abolished, han’t Its ; ’ “Not so generally. The corporation I’ve invested in has not abolished it about their dividends.” . , - ; . V ... •' 4r.