Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1912 — Page 3

The RING and the MAN

SYNOPSIS. A foolish young tenderfoot becomes fascinated with the hold, artful wife of a drunken prospector In a western mining town. They prepare to elope in a bunaIng bll2zara but- are confronted by tne maudlin husband. He is shot by r* l ® wife, but the chivalrous boy P*ns a note to the body taking tlus crime upon himself. In their flight to the railroad station the woman s horse falls exhausted; the youth puts her on his own and follows hanging to the ptirrup strap. Seeing he is an Impediment, the woman thrusts her escort into a snow drift and rides on. Half-frozen pe stumbles Into the railroad station just as the train bears the woman away. Twenty-five years later, this man, George Gormly, is a multi-millionaire in New York. He meets Eleanor Haldane, a beautiful and wealthy settlement worker, and co-operates with her in her work. Gormly becomes owner of a steamship line and finds himself frustrated in pier Snd track extension plans by grafting alermen, ba<3ced by the Gotham Traction company. An automobile accident brings the Haldanes to his country home. Gormty announces that he will he 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 Is to be used to dig up something damaging to Gormly. The ■ press heretofore unanimously favorable to the merchant candidate, under pressure, divides and the campaign waxes warm. A resolution is introduced granting a gratuitous renewal of the traction franchise. Gormly offers ten million dolJiU’9 for the franchise. Miss Haldane congratulates Gormly on what she terms a new Declaration of Independence, and he' gakes an unexpected declaration of love. e Is shocked by the confirmation of his suspicions that her father Is the bead ana backbone of the notorious traction company which he Is attempting to overthrow. Young Haldane- discovers his father’s connection with the Gotham Traction company, and is Incensed. In an interview between Gormly and Haldane the latter practically offers his daughter’s hand as a bribe for Gormly to withdraw. Gormly refuses. In an Interview with Gormly Miss Haldane learns Of her father’s baseness though Gormly vainly tries to hide it.-

CHAPTER XlV.—Continued. “Stop! You are on oath now, by Your honor as a gentleman, by your belief in God, by your faith in womankind, by your love for meL, J. want the truth. Indeed, It Is almost unnecessary for you to speak. Your silence, everything, confirms me in that belief. A man who would do what he has 1 done would not hesitate at that. But J must know, and I must have your answer.” “And I can’t tell you.” “You can.” “Well, I won’t then. I have told you enough. Anything else you must get from other people." “And so you refused me?” said the girl standing up. “Look at me!” She stretched her hands out and stood boldly, magnificently, defiantly before him. “You refused me! Many men have wooed me; many men have Bought me for a wife. I did not love you, I don’t love you; but I might have learned. You might have had me. You say lam the dearest desire of your heart. A little silence, a paper torn In two, a momentary forgetfulness, and I should have been yours.” She picked the paper up from the table as she spoke and held it befor her. “I could tear it up in a moment. Think what you might have had:" She stepped slowly around the table and approached him. She came nearer to. Mm. He stared at her fixedly without moving. She was by his side now. She laid her hand upon his shoulder. “Me,” Bhe said, “for this, and you refused 1” He nodded. It was the hardest task life bad ever laid upon him, this discussion. “What ire you made of?” she cried. “I don’t know,” gasped the man hoarsely. “I was a fool!" “Will you take me now?” she interposed swiftly, “and suppress this? If I say that I will marry you tomorrow, will you keep this a secret forever?” “Great God!” whispered the man, "how you tempt me!’’ “Will you do It? Answer!” ‘‘No!” said Gormly faintly at last. "I won’t’” “Why not?” “Fbr two reasons. I would not be Worth your respect for a moment If I did. I could never hope for your love In that case. And I won’t have any woman that I have to buy.” “And we have both tried to_bribe you. my father and I, and we have both failed." “You did not try to bribe me, El- 1 eanor. I am sure you did not know what you wore doing.” ‘1 did." she said. “I wanted to test yon. I wanted to try you, I wanted to see If it was true. I wanted, assurance that my father had done this thing. I wanted to measure your manhood by my womanhood. Oh!" she said in a sudden change of mood, “the light has gone out of life for me!” “My dear child,” he began tenderly. She shook her head and sat down once more and once more burled her face In her hands. He ventured to come near to her. He laid his own hand on hex head and stroked it gently, murmuring broken words; mean-'' lngless. save to her on whose ears they fell indistinctly. At last she lifted her head and looked at him. She caught his hand in'both her own. “You are a gnat man,” she said, “a strong man, a true man, and I am only a poor, wretched woman. I kiss the hand that smites me.” ( Before he cmild prevent it she suited the action to the word “Now,” she said, “go. You hare done all yon can. I understand. I believe. Sometimes I think But won’t you go now?"

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Without another word Gormly turned and left her. =— - He found Miss Stewart and Young - Haldane still in the hall. They sESfetf at him awestruck at the tragedy In his grim face. '' " ’ “Go to her!” he said as he passed them. “She needs you." CHAPTER XV. The Last Council of War. Summoned by Liffey at Haldane’s urgent request, the governing members of the ring met that night at their secret rendezvous. There - were present besides the two mentioned, Van Slyke and Mcßonald, Rutherford, Connell,' Habberley, Benson representing the allies, and the mayor. When Haldane arrived, he found the others already assembled. “Well?” asked Mffey as soon as the other entered the room. “He’s found It out and he’s going to do It” “Pound out what and going to do what?” asked Rutherford. “Gormly has got onto us, Mr. Rutherford,” was Liffey’s reply. The boss realized Instantly that Haldane had failed to postpone the disclosure. “He’s found out the secret history of the Gotham Freight Traction company. He’s found out the whole bloomin’ history; where we git our money, how we spend It.” “And who was the traitorthat betrayed you?”, asked Benson fiercely. “I’d like to know that same,” answered Liffey, his fat jaws clamping together, his “pompadour” crest bristling. “I don’t imagine anybody betrayed us,” said Rutherford. “We’ve known all along that the thing was bound to get out sooner or later. If It had

been later, it wouldn’t hare made much difference; but now Is he going to publish it?” “He Is,” answered Haldane. “When?” demanded Van Slyke. “Tomorrow, It will be in every paper in the city except our own.” “Great God!” exclaimed Connell. “If we could only Stave It off for just three more days. Gimme three days, and—- “ Did you bid for him?*’ questioned the chief of police. Haldane nodded. “Did you go high enough?” asked Benson. s“I went so high,” said the man, "that his refusal covered me with worse shame than the publication will do” .T"'•' •" T -—— “And It wasn't enough?" queried Rutherford* wbo bad a clearer comprehension of what the offer might have been than the others. “No." “So it’s coming out tomorrow, Is itr ' V..'. •* “TYes.” “WelL I dqg’J kpow what we can do/ said Liffey. “but grin and take it> ’ . ' “Gents, hear me!” burst out CoaselL "1 can’t throw no light on this situation; I don’t see no way of keeping Odi rot out of the papers unlade we

"He’s an Adulterer, a Thief, and a Self-Confessed Murderer!"

could burp up the plants or ploae ’em down some way, which I’d like to haTe the job of doin’. But we ain’t beat yet. “This man that's posin’ as an angel of virtue before the people of New York and talkihY reform afad so onts an adulterer, thief, and a self-con-fessed ————- “What!” roared the men present “Vmi’rft iiraaitiing! You’re mad!” “I am, am I? Well, you just wait,” returned the chief, “and you’ll find I'm the sanest man in the whole bunch. You know the other night when you was jammin’, through the franchise at the city hall and Gormly made his great play?” .“Yes.” V " ■ ’ ’■ . ♦■well, nn(> of mv men—l had a bunch of plain clothes men scattered through the crowd —with his eyes and ears open heard a man say, lookin’ at Gormly standin’ up on that automobile and givin’ the crowd his infernal rot, ■Well, if that ain’t a dead ringer for a boy named Gdbrge Fordyce that I used to know back in Kill Devil Camp in Wyoming twenty-five years ago, I’ll eat my hat!’ My man sized up the speaker at once. He was a big western man free of speech as he was with his money. His name’s Bill Hamilton, and he’s a big Montana mine owner. They call him colonel out there. They struck up a friendship right away, had a few drinks together, and my man got enough out of him to get on the trail of the story we been lookin’ for without Hamilton in the least suspectin’ what he was after. 1 sent a dozen of the smartest men on the force out to Wyoming to rustle up old inhabitants of Kill Devil Camp, which has long since been blotted off the map. It seems that this Gormly, or Fordyce, or whatever his name Ib, once run away with a miner’s wife, first robbin’ him of his pile and shootin’ the miner.” The little group of men listened to the chief’s startling story in a fever of excitement and surprise, which Connell greatly enjoyed. “Now. we knew that fae irever came to New York with no woman,” he ran on. “We’ve got his whole history from the day he landed here, every minute of it. We reasoned that the woman must have deserted him, or he her. Naturally she’d make for one of the big cities, especially if she had the money. We believed that she had it; for he had practically none* when he landed. He went to work as a clerk

in a Btore at five dollars a week. A woman like that’d he pretty sure to turn up on the town soinewbere sooner or later. We’ve got a detailed history of everyone of ’tem here and elsewhere. If she went down to the gutter, she’d be dead. If she went up to the parlor, she’d be alive stllL It was only necessary to look among those that are runnin’ the thing. We found one, who’d come from Wyoming. I went to see her myself, and I’ve got her confession here.” He hauled a paper out of his pockeh “She didn’t want to tell nothing about 1L She don’t come out of. It especially creditable; but we had means to make her. All we got to git now Is the stuff from Wyoming, a witness or two to identify Gormly with Fordyce, and that’B the end of him.” Connell snapped Ills finger In derision. 7 . , •.•■,->----4 : “Has the woman seen the man?” asked Benson as soon as he could get his breath. \- “Often.” / “Does he still- " ' * “Lord, he, don’t know she’s on the earth.” “Is she sure be is the man?" “She says so.” “Has she never tried to UaOlanmil hlmr

“Never. She’s glad enough to IM him alone, I guess.” “Why isn't she witness enough then?” asked the district attorney. “Well, she’s mixed up in it in rather a nasty way. j She’s afraid she’ll suffer if her part of it is made public.” * “I can fix that,” said Rutherford coolly euodgh. “A promise of Immunity, and “She won’t do it," returned the chief. “You can drive these women just so far, and there you stop. Besides, it ain’t never goin’ to come Into court.” “"What do You mean?” asked Benson. “I mean,” said Connell emphatically, “that Gormly is goin’ to gi?e up the game.” _ _______ = “Give up the game!” repeated Halr “That’s what I said. It’s goin’ to be put up to him as to whether he wants this told or whether he withdraws from the field.” “You might back your ‘put up’ to him with a warrant for murder, I believe,” said the district attorney. “If the evidence is what you say. Til have charges preferred against him.” “All right,” answered the rhlaf “Mr. Rutherford and I will fix that up. Now, gentlemen, you leave this to me. I am accustomed to deal with criminals, and I’ll fix Gormly. I ought to have all the reports in my hands the day after tomorrow.” “Wouldn’t it be well to spring it tonight?” “Hardly. Besides it’s too late. Not even Gormly himself could keep the stuff out of The papers now. 5 ~ “I guess now, Mr. Haldane,” said Rutherford, as the assembly dissolved and the two found themselves alone together, the others being gone, “that you are rather glad than otherwise that your bribe did not work.” “Yes, 1 suppose so. I don’t know,” answered Haldane brokenly. “I had heard some intlniations of this, nothing definitely. Connell has been very close mouthed. I tried to bluff Gorm ly with that. I don’t know what effect the disclosure is going to have. I don’t know how true it is. It seem* rather suspicious.” “Connell had better be careful whal he does,” returned Rutherford. “He’d better be very sure of his facts.” “Why did you leave the handling ol the affair to him?” “Well, he’d make a good scapegoat If anything went 1 wrong,” answered Rutherford with cynical indifference. Now, as it happened, Colonel Bill Hamilton was not so guileless as he looked. After the first Exclamation and the first few confidences' over the drinks which he gave to the plain clothes man who had so adroitly sought to get his story on that eventful night, Colonel Bill shut up like a clam. The Interest of ths stranger In the story was suspicious. Colonel Bill knew a great many things that he had not told, and did not intend to tell unless it was necessary. Therefore, he soon got rid of his new friend and went to his room to think it over. He was morally certain that Gormly and the man whom he had known as a boy as George Fordyce were one and the same. Fortunately he had always liked Fordyce, and he wag not “disposed to do anything that would injure him. Of course he had heard, as had everyone else In the United States, of the remarkable campaign of George Gormly for the mayoralty of New York. He had not had a great amount of personal interest In the matter, however. But when he identified Gormly with Fordyce, the affair at once engaged his keenest attention. Since the day he had left Kill Devil Camp, he had never beard one word of either the man or the woman. He had supposed, as everyone else had, that they had perished In the storm, and although their bodies had never been recovered there were plenty of reasons to account for that What was he to do? Was he. to sep Gormly, or Fordyce as he called him, and put him on his guard? Or was he to wait and be governed by circumstances? This was not an easy problem to decide; but Colonel Bill Hamilton finally came to the conclusion that his best game was the waiting one.. Besides he liked to play a lone hand, and he felt every confidence that he could do it. Meanwhile he determined ~to fortify himself with such evidence as he could secure, and at the proper time, If the story was ferreted Out and an attempt was made to make use of it, he would, as he phrased it, “butt into the game!” He eet the telegraph to work, therefore, and presently received from his partner in Butte by express a tin box full of very private official documents. Thereafter he amused himself by following the progress of the campaign .and doing some highly profitable local investigating on his own account, the result of which filled him with joy and satisfaction. The demonstration of the alliance between the Gotham Freight Traction company and the Sachem society, the publication of the membership of Haldane and his friends in the traction company, the exhibition of its iniquitous processes, came off according to schedule, Sq<ch a storm of wrath and indignation rose in the public breast after the disclosure as had never been equaled in any political campaign In New York. The stocks of the Gotham Freight Traction company had fallen off terrifically, and every other interest furthered by syndicate of which Hal dane was the head had suffered accordingly. The city was on the verge of a tremendous panic. Unrest, ex citement, uncertainty, were In the air The people had been aroused as never before. _ , (TO BE CONTINUED.) Too much son Is as great an evfl ai toe little ’

NICE SPANISH SUPPER

MENU FOR THOBE WHO LIKE HIGHLY SEASONED FOOD. ~ Makes an Agreeable and Appetizing Change When the Palate BecdmeaTired of the Ordinary Ameri- .* -i. • can Cooking. Chicken Btew. —Place cut up chicken In pot and add two chopped cloves of garlic and two chopped onions, salt, pepper and a little water. Let cook very slowly till half done and add following sauce and let cook till tender. Sauce. —Melt one large tablespoon butter in frying pan; add a tablespoon flour and a tablespoon chili powder; let cook a moment, stirring so as not to bum; then add. half a can of tomatoes and some water if too thick. Season with salt, pepper, sage, thyme and majoram. Add this sauce to chicken and be careful not to let burn. Poached Eggs.—Make the above sauce and drop the eggs in sauce and cook as you would in water, but Serve sauce with the eggs. Rfce. —Melt large tablespoon butter in good sized frying pan; add one finely chopped clove, garlic, one large chopped onion and a oup of washed rice. Keep stirring till rice is slightly browned and crisp. Then add one chopped tomato, salt and fill pan to top with boiling water. Cover loosely and let cook slowly \tlll rice is tender; then uncover and let cook till dry. Each grain will be sefiarate. Do not stir after adding water till ready to Serve. Beans. —Boil pink beans in plenty of water till soft. Set aside In cool place. Melt a cookspoon of butter in pan (granite is best), add a little chopped onion and beans. Mash with back of spoon and add some of the bean juice and salt and pepper. Let cook slowly half an hour or more. All the boiled beans need not be fried at once, as they will keep a few days in a cool place If boiled up every other day. Honrfe Made Lard. —Buy soft beef fat and cut up in small cubes. Put in pot and let cook slowly till cubes are crisp. Stir ocasionally, strain through cheesecloth or fine strainer into lard can and when cold cover. Much nicer than butter, for frying and keeps indefinitely.

Good Poultry.

A young chicken is known by an abundance of pinfeathers, soft smooth skin on legs below the- first joint and a soft cartilage at the point of the breast-bone. The feet of old fowls are hard and covered with dry coarse scales, and the cartilage at the end of the breast-bone has become ossified. Good fowls should be plump, and the cartilage at the end of the breast-bone should be soft and pliable. Turkeys should have smooth, dark legs and the jcartilage at the breastbone should be Soft. Cock turkeys are usually better than the ben turkeys. Good £eese abound in pinfeathers and should, be plump, with soft feet and pliable bills.—Delineator.

Roast Ham.

Wash a small ham and soak It 24 hours in cold water, changing the water four times. Trim away rusty parts and wipe dry. Cover the flash side of the ham with a thick paste of flour and water, place it in a baking > pan with the skin next to the pan and bake in a moderate oven 25 minutes for every pound. Every ten minutes baste with sherry wine until a half pint has been used. After this baste with the drippings in the pan. When done, remove the crust carefully and peel off the skin. Dredge the fat of the ham with bread, dust and garnish. Serve plain or with sauce.

Dutch Fruit Cake.

Scald one cup milk, add one-third cup butter, one-third cup sugar and one-third teaspoon salt. When lukewarnt add one yeast cake, two eggs unbeaten and 3% cups bread flour, or enough to make a soft dough. Cover, let rise, beat thoroughly and let rise again. Turn Into buttered drippingpan, let rise, brush over with melted butter, cover with butter, sprinkle with cinnamon, sugar and currants. Bake In a moderate oven and serve with whipped cream.

German Almond Cookies.

Beat the yolks of-, six eggs until light, then add one cupful and a half of sugar that has been beaten to a cream with three-fourths cupful softened butter. Add a cupful blanched, chopped almonds, one tablespoonful cinnamon and three cupfuls of flour. Beat hard and drop by small spoonfuls onto a buttered pan, putting an almond on top of each cake. Bake In a moderate even.

Lemon Pie.

One cup sugar, one enp hot water, juice of one lemon and thin chips of the rind sliced in. 801 l a minute or two. Skim out the pieces of rind. a large tablespoon of cornstwciNtawater: Add butter Mse of walnuL When cool stir In one unbeaten yolk of egg. Put It Into a Bne-crust pie and bake with the pie.

The Club Man’s Potatoes.

Wash potatoes and boil with their Jackets on, drain and let stand 24hours. Peel and cat in one-third inch cubes. Sprinkle, with salt and generously with paprika. Put into a casserole 'with one tablespoonfui of butter to each cupful of-potato cubes. Add thin cream to corer and cook slowly 45 minutes. H

DIET FOR COLD WEATHER - ——i~- v ' - - -**» Heavier Foods Are Taken in Winter i Than Summer and in Greater Quantity. The choice of foods In Wlnter‘ ff"oY ';;"Jl special importance. Upon its digestion and assimilation 3 depends the quality of blood, and aT healthy body is not possible where this vital fluid is in an anemic eondl- 9 tion. Heavier foods, of course, are taken in winter than in summer, and ia cor- 9 respondlngly greater quantity. J Heat producirig foods should be selected, especially where the vitality la IOW. ——-H ~■■ ■ ; - V-| Healthy, robust people do not require as much of this heavier food, as -h their blood is sufficiently-rich and of. “sturdy warmth. " . While pork is not desirable’ as an everyday diet, a little is beneficial on account of its fat when very well J cooked, and it can be digested with- | out 111 effects. ;n Beef is also desirable, as also are potatoes. Beets are bipod makers and a moderate amount of sweets In any form Is especially desirable for the winter 1 fare. Cocoa and cholocolate are nourishing, and better results are obtained m than where tea or coffee Is taken. “ Warm milk may be taken at night - before retiring where Insomnia is present. -■ This is also especially good to take before starting out into the cold, as it warms and nourishes at the same time. 73 Fruits, fresh and stewed, especially {is prunes and ripe figs, should be eaten M in winter. 1 '

FOR MAKING GRAHAM GEMS

Good Rule to Follow. When Milkman Is Late In Making His Appearance. -—Sometimes the milkman does not put in an appearance at the usual time; therefore recipes for muffins and other breakfast breads which call for water insted of milk are useful. For graham muffins (hat do not call for milk, have ready two cupfuls of graham flour, on? cupful of wheat flour, two of warm water, a tabelspoonful of butter and two of molasses, a teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of .tartar. Mix together in the usual way By sifting the two kinds of flour together with the soda and the cream of tartar and then adding the butter, the water and the molasses. It is well to add a little salt. Bake in hot gem pans •in a quick open. Graham mead will "ndrtake the place of graham flour.

A Modern Convenience.

A new firelees cooker is made hmch. like a refrigerator with a door that opens at the front and three shelves for foods. The box itself is of sheet iron with an outer frame of wood. The top of the stove has a heavy sheet of galvanized Iron on which the gas burners are mounted. The gas is lighted and left burning until all the foods to be cooked are heated through thoroughly and then it Is turned out, the hood is let down and the cooker does Its work lh the usual way. The top of the stove may be used like any gas stove, when the fireless cooker’is not wanted.

Children’s Delight Cookies.

One cup sour cream or a tablespoon each of batter and lard, one cup sugar, one egg, os# teaspoon soda, dissolved In s little hot water, one teaspoqn baking powder, s pinch of salt and floor enough out quite thin. Spread half of the dough with pitted raw prunes chopped fine and a few drops of lemon added to the prunes, or the lemon may be omitted; double over the other half of the dough, roll slightly, cut and bake in a hot oven. Any kind of jam, raisins, or any other fruit can be used lusteau of prunes.

Oyster Dressing.

Add to one pound of bread, grated fine, omitting! the crusts, one scantcupful of melted butter, two stalks of eelery and half an onion minced fine, and salt and pepper to season. Next add two quarts of fine oysters, with enough of their llqjtor to moisten, Be careful that no pieces of shell get in. Fill the turkey and baste with equal parts of oyster liquor and water.

Keeping Bread Fresh.

Bread and cake may be kept fresh by soaking a medium-sized new clean sponge with cold water. Set it on a saucer or in a small bowl and place it In the bread box. When all the moisture Is absorbed, wet the sponge again.--.. ’ ' The bread stays moist and fresh for several days.

Crumbs for Frying.

Care should be taken in Aiffing bread to be used for crumbs. Do not let It remain In the oven long enough to frrovm, for cutlets or croquettes rolled ip overbrowned crumbs will not brown when frying. ■ ,

Sweet Potato Stew.

Slice potato half an inch thick, slew with chops or pieces of tenderloin, and take up all together when done. Season the gravy with cream, salt and pepper, and a little parsley minced . fine.

Grandmother's Pancakes.

Scant one pint sour milk, cup sugar, one-hair cup. molaase& ope egg, one teaspoon Boda. little ginger. a Mix with one-half Indian meal and , drop from spoon into fcof fat