Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — Page 3

Because of Bennett

By M. C. England

The June evening was balmy end fragrant. The last long rays of the setting sun slanted over the grass and up on the wide, vine-hung porch, where two wicker ehairs were drawn cosily together. /< In one sat a girl, fluffy as to gown and hair, dimpled of cheek. In the other satla youth, impressive of manner, dark of eyes, - -of a type of physical attractiveness' that corresponded with ju satisfying completeness to_ the'girl, the night, and the general atmosphere of June and roses. .’'J’ -. ? ’• 4 “I brought you those flowers,” he was saying, an accusing finger -directed toward the table where they lay,, "not to be put over there and forgotten about, but to wear, or hold Six * She looked" around with a little* air of penitence. "1 “Why, I did forget them, didn’t I? Poor things!” . Rising, she went over to the table and picked them up tenderly, smoothing out the crumpled petals where • they had. lain. “I bet if Bennett had brought them ever you wouldn’t have forgotten,” he-said.. • « She paused in her advance toward him and ah odd, arrested look stole over her face. Presently she moved somewhat stiffly over, dropped precipltately into the chair again, while a burning blush spread slowly up tb her very hair and as slowly died away. J..-' : - The youth stared at her suspiciously. “What are you blushing about?” he demanded, a dawning resentment in his voice. L r 1 She retorted indignantly. “I’ll blush tlf -I want to. And, besides, I’m not, anyway,” she hdded incoherently. "You’re always imagining something.” “Imagining!” he scoffed, growing more resentful as his suspicions took firmer root. “Why, it was a regular sunset! I make a silly remark just to hear you laugh at it, and instead of that you give a color exhibition that would fade a bunch of firecrackers to a sickly pink, rd like to know What you mean by it,” . < ; “Would you really?” Inquired the

maiden with auspicious sweetness. “By what right, may I ask, do you—” i* "Right!” he Interrupted hotly. "What right? Haven’t I asked you _ to marry me every other night for the last three months? You know very well you’re going to say *yes’ some* time. I was going to do It again tonight if you’d given me, half a chance. I was only waiting till the moon came up.” ' • "Then I certainly wouldn’t have said •yes’ tonight,’’ returned Miss Dimples indignantly. “You look sillier in the than at any other time.” The youth rose majestically from his chair. “Very well,” he announced calmly, “that ends it! You’ve given me every reason to believe you’re in love with that Bennett I mention his name and you blush. Not only, that, but you refuse to explain. And not only that, but—"Go away!” a stifled voice commanded. “Ob, I’m going! You needn’t be in . .Meh a hurry. It’s the last you’ll see of me,” the youth threatened in sepulchral tones. ~ He turned on the third irtep. "You might walk down to the gate with me,” he conceded gloomily. “It’s the last' time”. - ."I will not!” explained a furious little voice. “I won’t stir from this chair—not If you stand there till the crack of doom!” She watched him as he strode to the gate, listened intently to the vindictive scrunch of his boots on the gravel outside till the sounds grew faint In the distance. Then she rose, walked forward three steps, gave an angry little shake to her ruffled skirts and carefully stepped out of a filmy mesh of lace and linen that was caught about her feet. < ... e , She picked it up, crunched ft into M It ta famt ot her lice. _ ■ #**•*•.; _ ** r ’ - _ _ I blushed .. aW-T'w mrcilaVVl gIUKIUg UUWJj IUIU lUv v*l<*A* I

- agaln. “At least I couldnT possibly never ask me again till after I’ve exThe fluffy head sank down to the Weeks passed and the youth and the girl passed each other with averted looks or frankly belligerent stares. Once, notably on an evening of the fragrant, glamour-filled variety, IfiOeart of the youth softened and he started out through the moonlit ■Oantment toward the porch and the wicker chairs. But as he neared the familiar environment there came searing through him the memory of his innocent remark and the strange look And vivid blush that had greeted it. His resolution turned to gall within him. He drifted aimlessly down a side avenue, whence be wandered to the outskirts to sit on a lone rock and curse fate. Gradually he began to meet the jnaiden' and Bennett going about together. Presently he met her at a dance. Though she kept far from his vicinity, and*her silvery mirth seemed oftenest mingled with Bennett’s braying laughter, he imagined with a thrill of rising hope that her vivacity was not quite so genuine, her eyes not quite so sparkling bright nor her bdhuty so radiantly undimmed as in the days of his uninterrupted devotion- ' Nevertheless rumors began to reach him that the girl and Bennett were engaged. , There came an October evening, chill and gray. -The blood-red rays of the setting sun struggled through, banks of stormy cloud, across windswept reaches of dead leaves and up on a wide, vine-hung poFch, where two wicker chairs were drawn stiffly apart In one sat a girl, slimly plain as to long ulster and jaunty cap, disconcertingly distant of mien. In the other sat a youth, mournful, shadowed Of eye, 1 of an ensemble which accorded cheerlessly with the girl, the night and the general atmosphere of ruin and decay. brought you that autumn foliage,” he was saying bleakly, “not bercause I thought you would care for it, or value it as from a one-time friend, but merely as a symbol of the death of our—er—” “Thank you,” she murmured absently. He leaned back heavily, and the wind moaned in dirge-like’ cadence through the deepening gloom. “It was good of you to let me see you, for the last goodby.* “I had nothing else to do,” she admitted with, faint regret “Mr. Bennett is out of town.” ‘ The youth’s eyes - burned with a dull fury. The fiery rim of the crimson sun shot an angry gleam at thdir feet. Suddenly he leaned forward, cheerless decision in his air. 4 “You needn’t pay any attention to it, of course,” he chanted wearily. “I don’t expect yon to. But I’m going to do it again—just to round the thing out and —er —because I’m accustomed to doing It, and I miss it. Here it is. I love you. I have always loved you. I am going to love yqu to the bitter end.~ Will you marry me?” “Yes,” said the maid. The sun shot down precipitately, wrathfully. The youth sat petrified, Immobile,'his mouth still partly open, The girl looked back at him with level eyes. . ■ “I said you looked silliest doing It in the moonlight,” she taunted. “You -don’t.” - ' “Why did you bldsh?’’ he’sffiter tenderly. Annoyance spread over the face of the maiden. * f . “I refuse to discuss it,” she said. Again the mystery, unsolved! For one fateful moment the heart of the youth gfew cold .with doubt and things threatened to go wrong again for evermore. Then an illumining thought leaped in. She was going to marry him. What mattered it? “I have itT” he announced exultantly. “You were blushing over the thought of being silly enough to blush over Bennett.” “Exactly!" she murmured with joyful pride. "How clever, dear!" Then peace and darkness fell.

Not Familiar to Him.

The political game was wholly new to William 0. L. Ziehn when Harrison, Sears and Harlan fought It out for the mayoralty. He was a pat-tern-maker and lived in the old Fourteenth ward, now the Fifteenth. Mr. Ziehn was persuaded to ran for aiderman and he succeeded in defeating George Mugler. This was after he got going. At the outset campaigning was full of surprises to him, and he was naturally a bit suspicious, of that which he did not understand, \ It was arranged to give him a startoff with a meeting. A vacant store was hired and filled with chairs. At the far end of the store a brewery table was stretched across, draped with an American flag, and behind the table was Joe Strauss. The candidate’s entrance was timed so that he should be greeted by a fuli house, and as he progressed down the aisle Mr. Strauss shouted in welcome: ' “What’s the matter with Ziehn T’ Mr. Ziehn paused, glared at Strauss, : and shouted back: F ■ -t-a? “What the —— Is the matter with you?"—Chicago Evening Post.

To Bring Back Erring Husband.

Mrs. Alice Edwards, East Columbus, Ohio, firmly believes her husband will return, as she confided to a neighbor, who inquiredwhy his picture hung on the wall upside down. “If a wife deserted by her husband turned his picture upside down, he Is certain to turn," she declared.

TRAVEL BILLS BIG

Documents Covering Wide Range Expenses Come to Speaker. J" Uncle Sam’s “Road Men” Who Are ' "On the Wing” All the YearExpend Enormous Sums % of MonsjG. Washington—Executive documents that dribble' along in the mail of the speaker of the house show . where great sums of government money go with every passing year. Legislators who were real solons in their day and have long since passed the way of all legislative solons preached and practiced the doctrine of publicity, now supposed to be a modern thought, By enactments which first and last numbered scores, if not hundreds, they imposed upon the departments the necessity of making transactions public. , But these reports, are chiefly tabulations and columns of figures. Of course, up-to-date people, as a rule, pay. little heed to such an output.. They are Joo busy to scan and analyze. Who cares that SIOO Were paid to a civil engineer to make a survey of Podunk creek with a view to its improvement when an appropriation from congress could be obtained? Who cares 4hat the'traveling expenses of Special Agent Bill Jones, Investigating land frauds on the public domain, amounted to $987 Within a few months? But most of these comparatively small expenses, which ran Into toillions annually, are all reported in detail to congress. It would not be correct to say that the expenditures are Improper. Very many of them cannot be avoided if the government is to be run efficiently. And yet the fact remains that there probably could be much curtailment without impairing efficiency in the public service. Travel bills, for Instance, have Increased and multiplied during the last decade. It has become an attraction of office-holding at Washington that one has the opportunity of seeing the world without expense, as enlistment posters for the army and navy alluringly announce. The bureau chief who cannot get In a pleasant trip or two every year to some distant part of the country Is rather slow. He is looked down upon by his more enterprising colleagues? There are literally hundreds of “government men,” as they are often called out in the states, who are "on the wing” nearly all of the year. They have a great variety of missions. Some are connected with the score and more of commissions and-others are special agents, Inspectors and the like. All, of course, are within the ,|aw. Otherwise they could not draw their expense money. Primarily congress Is as much to blame as heads of departments If there are abuses. The comptroller of the currency, a stern official, must approve of every Item as coming within the law. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has just reported that "expedltures for travel” in his department for the year amounted to $197,509.85. That Is only one of the nine departments. Some spent much less for travel and some spent a vast deal more.. But the department of agriculture serves as a fair example- There were 76 different accounts, and some accounts carried expenses for a number of men.

Postal officials travel more, probably, than those of the other departments of the government, except it be the army and navy. That, however, is a service very near the people. As the poet office department is wellnigh self-supporting now, according to the method of bookkeeping followed by Its accountants, all those postal Journeys-are paid for out of the proceeds of postage stamp sales. The war department has the great travel account of all the government departments. Officers and enlisted men must be transported long distances and by the thousands and tens of thousands. There is a smaller but none the-less fat travel account for the navy. The Interior department, administering great affairs and enterprises In the west, likewise spends big sums upon its travelers. The government has become a mammoth business enterprise. There must be Washington men from time to time upon the ground. Inspection along costs millions of dollars. U. S. LEADS IN WARSHIP BUILD- ■ ; .« ? . ING. / • —The naval intelligence office has made good a statement contained In Secretary Meyer’s annual report of great Interest to shipbuilding circles by showing that with the exception of Great Britain the United States can anddoes turn out cheaper and bigger warships, and in less time, than any other maritime power. The naval Intelligence office has just issued a little pamphlet concerning “Some of the Principal Navies of the World,” Intended to answer many requests for Information from debating societies, journals and periodicals, as well as from individuals, concerning the relative strength of the principal naval powers. On the basis of the tonnagd already completed, the United States stands second to Great Britain, but Germany will occupy that enviable ptacwas soon as the vessels now hufiding ar© completed - One point of interest in this report that the big 31,»5-ton dreadnought Utah was bunt here in twa years and ® IX m °f ft nee oi tne x»nusn yara® ibbi year

.... ’ IT was to turn out the Monarch, displacement 22.500 tons, in one year and eight months. . Germany took two years aid eight months from the time the keel was laid to commission the battleship Helgoland of 22,440 tons; France took three years and one month to complete the battleship Danton, >8,019 tons,-while Japan consumed five years and one month In building the battleship Akl, of 19,800 tons. ’’ In the matter of cost, too, the American shipbuilders make a good showing. The 20,000-ton dreadnought North Dakota cost $8,472,150; the German. Helgoland, $11,239,800; the Japanese Satsuma, of 19,350 tons, cost $9,262,800, and the French Voltaire, $10,520,000. Even the British shipbuilders were driven hard by their American competitors, for the Superb, 1,400 tons, smaller than the North Dakota, cost $8,158,828, while the Mg* Lion, of 26,350 tons, or about the size of our New York, cost $9,125,875 without her guns and stoics. - I? 1 1 Sqmi KAW DESCENDENT PRESIDES. ——— . For the first time in the history of the senate a member of that body with Indian blood in his veins was selected as its presiding officer by a vote of the senate itself. When Vice-President Sherman’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Babcock of Utica, N. Y., died recently it was necessary that there should be a presiding officer chosen by the senate during the absence of the vice-president. Under the rules of the senate the vice-presi-dent may temporarily call some one to the ohalr and in this manner Senator Curtis of Kansas has presided over the senate in times past In cases ; of extended absence, however, the senate must have a president pro tempore to wield the gavel. • It will be recalled that many futile hours were used' In the last session of the present congress In trying to elect a president pro tempore of the senate. Senator Galllnger of New Hampshire was the choice of a large majority of the republicans, but he was opposed by the progressive republicans, who hold the bidance of power in the senate, on the ground that he had not kept full faith with them in the making up of the senate committee in the last session. Consequently, the senate has been unable to elect a president pro tempore. « So that Vice-President Sherman might leave Washington to attend the funeral of iris relative, a compromise was agreed to whereby Senator Gallihger nominated Senator Curtis to preside over the senate for a week and this motion was unanimously agreed to. Senator Curtis’grandmother was a Kaw Indian. He was born in Kansas and served eight terms in the house of representatives before his election to the senate. In 1908 he received 1,600 acres of land in Okla, homa as a part of the Kaw allotment. He shares In the honor of representing the native Americans in the senate with Senator Owen of Oklahoma, whose mother was a member of the Cherokee nation.

AEROPLANE FLEET FOR ARMY. Before the end of the present fiscal year the army will own twenty aeroplanes,. distributed among army posts, some even going to the Philippines. General Allen, the chief signal officer, is asking congress for an appropriation to buy as many more of the machines during the next fiscal year, and with that number at his disposal he believes It will be possible to demonstrate thoroughly the utility of aeroplanes for military purposes. Information us to the results obtained by the Italian officers who have used aeroplanes in the war with Tur* key In Tripoli is eagerly awaited, but so far the details of the operations of the Italian military aviation have been carefully guarded. It has become evident that there .must be a substantial addition to the number of officers In the signal corps if the branch of the service is to remain charged with the handling of aeroplanes in the military operations. The machines might be intrusted to civilian experts, but to make them of value for military purposes they must be manned by officers trained in military science and able to do scientific scouting work. BIG GUNS STAND TEST. Ithas become known that the big guns of the heavy defenses guarding the southern entrance to New York harbor were given an extraordinary test recently in the presence of Secretary of. War Stimson and General Weaver, Chief of coast artillery. The day was a raw one, the thermometer standing at about five degrees above zero, while a gale of fifty miles velocity swept over the harbor. The soldiers were obliged to operate the delicate range-finding instruments with their bare hands, and so bitter was the cold that the gun carriages worked stiffly and did not return to the loading position after discharge, making loading operations much harder. Under all these difficulties, however, splendid results were attained. Two targets were towed by a tug at a distance of three and a half to four miles from the batteries, and there is no doubt that every shot at them would have been a hit on the battleships of the dreadnought type. This was the first time the coast artillery ever held fire command service practice under such unfavorable conditions of wind and weather. Secretary Stimson was greatly pleased with ths results.

FASHIONS Of the MOMENT

IT’ is better to speak, of the future than to summarize the past and the dressmakers and the scribes are of one feeling—that if there is nothing more original and more;varied in clothes in the months to come than there has been In the twelve months just over It will be a dull world for us, indeed. I am not as sure that it will be a satisfactory world to the ones who buy clothes either, for if one'must have new gowns one at least likes to indulge-in a new style as well as a new fabric. We get tired of coats and skirts, of bodices and wraps, of hats and boots, all alike. - This Is weft enough when the ne> cessity does not demand near clc’hes. but as our modem life is deau to gowns, we want something new in cut as well as material. This pleasure we have not-been able to indulge in. Why, no one knows; the question is relegated to the stars for an answer,, for no human seem able to give one. The dressmakers all complain of slack times, the manufacturers deplore the small amount of goods used for a gown, which seriously retards trade; the shops are discouraged over the lack of costumes bought, and yet the dressmakers who are responsible for Ut sitddle. Set Fashions for All. A small handful of men and women In Paris decide on the fashions for the civilized world. We take them or leave them; we modify or exaggerate, but we do not get beyond the fact that they were created by this-group'to whom the world concedes power. In that group, as In the sun, there are upheavals and changes, there are spots and cyclones; but they continue to govern the sartorial system. Why is it, then, that they have given us nothing new for a year with the exception of the divided skirt, which

was sensationally advertised and then accepted by even the most conservative houses in a modified and graceful form? The taffeta gown, with its slightly gathered skirt, its puffings and ruchings at the foot line, its short bodice and voluminous fichu, its elbow sleeves and lace ruffles, is, after all, a direct copy from what has been. There is no originality about it, and I am* told by the best kind of authority that a little group of masters in Paris will project this gown again as the main one for its spring exhibition. Paquin, Bechoff David, Callot, Amy Linker have all sent over some projected spring models, but there is no no reason to take them seriously They may be in style when spring comes, but they are very plainly the models made for the French women in November. One must admit, however, that the dressmakers in Paris do not hesitate to sell to the American buyers in February the exact gown that the Europeans have been wearing for three months, and if they are new to America and if they spell spring styles to us, I cannot see that it makes much difference whether the French women have been wearing them or not "*■ Little New In Styles. There is nothing distinctively new even about those models that have Just come over. The materials are mohair, poplin, old-fashioned mohair, the other Is crash toweling and the third Is wash crepe. The former Is adjective applied to them with any honesty. ?* Crash toweling was brought into fashion by the use of ratine. A year and a salf ago ratine was Introduced

in Paris, but remained almost unknown in America, and because of Its lack of popularity was changed by the manufacturers Into a plush-like fabric that went by the name of velour delaine as well as ratino. It was almost the only cloth used In Paris all a» tumn, but it still has not made much headway in America. Even some of the best shops do not know the name when you ask tor the fabric, and few of the shops have velour delaine in its best French weaves. Just why our manufactuers did not take It up is hard to tell, for it is without argument the loveliest fabric that has been invented since coat suite were originated. It Is as supple as silk plush, looks like moleskin, is enchantingly warm and falls Into the lines of the figure as cheviot and corduroy earn not do. There is no rumor of war in the camps of the creators of clothes so far. The news from Paris tells of modifications Of skirts, the Incoming of the tunic on walking suits, the lengthening of the coats and the waist lines at the back, the narrowing of the shoulder capes into the triple revers cut on the bias after the Directofre fashion, but there is not a whisper of revolution. Likely to. Remain as They Are. It may be that the designers will spring something on us later tai the season, but so fhr they have no new ideas. They insist upon the fact that things are pew enough as they are, which no doubt the public agrees to. Whenever there has been a revolution In women’s clothes that affects the silhouette, fashions remain almost stationary for some years to come. When the dressmakers put through the deal that reduced a woman’s shape to the sac simile of a lead pencil, obliterated hsreurves, narrowed her shoulders,'and diminished her head size, they did so much that it 1* only natural that they should rest from their labors for a while. The woman who is goings to buy clothes In the next few days is quite safe in getting whatever the . season, offers. Nothing will change until June, and then she will need thin clothes. For the Intending Purchaser. It may be wise for her not tb put a large price into a gown that she thinks she can wear next winter, for the noncreative state may not last; that long on de la Paix. ft.?would be wise in choosing-a coat suit not to get the short jacket, although the belt, or trimming across the back. Is a safe choice. Unless « woman is quite careless as to whether her gown Is a trifle oldfashioned or not she had* best avoid the skirt with the ferpad panel down the back that is pot stitched lower than the knees. The one that is sash ened to the skirt from Waist to hem Is held down by three buttons on each 'side is not bad, and-is a conservative style that will probably last, but the half-loose panel dates back to a definite day that is done. The double panel that; swings entirely loose from the waist line has never been taken up much'fn America, although it is consistently popular among the French. - - The skfrfYhat I* utoto«Bkely to last than any of these Is the*qne with the tunic. The latter mayjtie idng or short, but it must slope up sh and cross ovei» a little at the left Wde. These tunics are untrimmed, upon a piping,,'i cord or a hem for a finish. Evening Dress. For the dainty dress pictured we have chosen pale pink satin for the under part, and white snk muslin ered with pink for the over part; the tunic is gathered In at waist, and finely tucked for about 6 inches at the lower edge, where, a frill forms a finish. A fichu of £be fouslin edged with a frill Is arranged on the bodlee; for the vest and sleeves the material is tucked; frills finish the sleeves. Cords with tasselled ends hang from a jeweled button at the left side of front. Materials required: 4 yards satin 42 inches wide, 3% yards muslin.

Present Styles In Hairdressing.

The predominating features in hair* dressing styles, says the Dry Goods Economist, continue to be the parted effects, either center or side, and the psyche knot formations or simulations thereof. Nothing more quaint has been introduced this whiter than the snail coiffure. This is accomplished by drawing the front hair forward an inch dr two and then folding it backward, leaving a bang effect, which is tied invisibly or through the employment of an ornamental band wound across the summit of the forehead. The hair that is folded back is then arranged in a large coil standing outward In a psyche, instead of flat at the back of h»dL Th** whnlo col Wnw* gests the shell of a snail placed as a hood on the crown of the head.

The Blouse Luxurious.

Quite the most luxurious erf the new blouses are those made almost entirely of real lace. In one model point de Venice, filet and Valenciennes laoes are combined* The scheme chosen is simple, but the laces are arranged in effective panels and motifs joined with the valenciennes, the most delicate of the three laces. The new real Bee blouses ha touches ot gold or silver thread Intel mingled with the lace. sometimes beneath heavy coats have long, close-fitting sleeves finished.with dalntT f

Only One Point to Consider.

Do not.be discouraged by the tiny .