Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1912 — Page 3

hH HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. RENSBELAER,’ r INDIANA.

THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

Uhstntfces hr M. G. KBTTXEI

(Copyright, ISIS, by The Bobtu-Merrlll Oil) SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the 22-year-old eon ot the flfty-million-doUar copper kins of Blair* town, Mont, le a arueat at the English home of Lady Oalorey. Dan’a father bad been courteous to Lord Oalorey during his visit to the United States and the courtesy Is now being returned to the young man. The youth has an ideal girl In his mind. He meets Lily, Duchess of Breakwater, a beautiful widow, who Is attracted by his Immense fortune. CHAPTER ll.—Continued. Only Lady Oalorey hesitated, disappointed. • , 2 “Too bad —I had specially arranged for Lady Grandcourt to drive over with Eileen. I thought it would be a ripping chance for her to see Dan.' 1 ' When at length the duchess had succeeded In getting Dan to herself toward the end of the day In the red room, after tea, she said: “So yon wbn’t marry a London heauty?” 2.. 2 4.: And rather coldly Dan had answered : "Why, you talk, all of you, as If I had only to ask any girl of them, and die would Jump dowfi' my throat.” "Don't try It,” the duchess answered, “unless you want to have your month full!” Dan did not reply for a second, but he looked at her more seriously, conscious of her grace and her good looks. She wag certainly better to look at than the simple girls with their big hands, small wits, long faces and, as the boy expressed It, “utter lack of get-up.” The duchess shone out to advantage^ “Why don't you talk to me?" she asked softly. "You know yon would rather talk to me than the others.” "Yes,” he said frankly; “they make me nervous." “And I don't?” "No,” he said. "I learn a lot every time we are together." “Learn?” she repeated, not particularly flattered by this. “What sort of things?" "Oh, about the whole business,” he returned vaguely. “You know what 1 mean.” . ' 2 ■. “Then,” she Mid with a slight laugh, “you mean to say you talk to me for educational purposes? What a beastly bore!” . . , Dan did not contradict her. She K' as by no means Eve to him, nor was 3 the raw recruit his simplicity might .give one to think. He had had his (temptations and his way out of them jwoa an easy ono; for he was very alow to stir, and back of all was his Ideal. The reality and power of this (ideal Dan knew best at moments like these. But the Duchess of Breakwater !was the most lovely woman—the most dangerous woman that had come Us way. He liked her—Dan was well on the way to lore. • . 2 The two were alone in the big dark room. At their Bide the small table, from which they bad taken their tea together, stood with its empty cups and its silver. Without, the day was cold and windy, and the sunset threw along the panes a red reflection. The light fell on the Duchess of Breakwater, something like a veil—a crimson veil slipped over.her face and breast. She leaned toward Dan, and between them there was no more barrier than the western light He felt his pulses beat and a tide rising within hiin. She was a delicious emanation, fragrant and near, and as be might have gathered a cluster of flowers, so In the next second he would have taken her in his arms, but from the other room Just then Lady Oalorey,'at the plSho. played a snatch from Mandalay, striking at once into the tune.. The sound same suddenly, told them quickly some one was near, and the Duchess of Breakwater involuntarily moved aHMj, tad 80 knocked.-the small tray. Jostled it, and It fell clattering to the CHAPTER 111. The Blalrtown ftjtfplst Btairtown had a popuSßbn of some eight thousand. There was a Presbytarlan church to which Dan and hU father went regularly, sitting in the hare pew when the winter's sttWto heat and rattled on the,panes, or to the summer sunshine, when the smell of the pews and the panama fans and the hymn books came strong to them through the beat ~ T One day there was a missionary sertaj* hto - * *7 miij' ... 2. -2" ' Presbyterian cuurcu nfin Blair odArd . • » 2 ~ _ m 2. . « flit looKPu up snQ it BjSQ© a mark in white dresfl #ows glftvofl ami fifOldfiQ huff Wftfl -tPR

soloist. He knew her. that Is, he had a nodding acquaintance with her. It wae the girl at the drug store who sold Boda water, and he had asked her some hundreds of times for a “vanilla or a chocolate" but it wasn't this vulgar memory that made the little boy listen. It was the girl’* voice. Standing back of the yellow-painted rail, above the minister’s pulpit, above the files, the red pews and the panama fans, she sang, and she sang into Dpn Blair’s soul. To speak more truly, she made him a soul In that moment. She awakened the toy; his collar felt tight, his cheeks grew hot He felt his new toots, too. hard and heavy. She made him want to cry. These were the physical sensations —the material part of the awakening. The rest went on deeply Inside of Dan. She broke his heart; then she healed it. She made him want to cry like a girl; then she wiped his tears. The little boy Battled back and grew more comfortable and listened, and iwhat she sang was, -2 v. “From Greenland’s Icy mountains, From India’s coral stra —ands." Before the hymn reached Its end he was a calm boy again, and the hymn took up Its pictures and became like an Illustrated book of travels, and he wanted to see those pea-green peaks of Greenland, to float upon the Icebergs to them, and see the "’ dawn break on the polar seas as the explorers do. '.' 2- He should find the north pole some day! Then he wanted to go to an African Jungle, where the tiger, “tiger shining bright,” should flash his stripes before his eyes! Dan would gather wreaths of coral from the stra —ands and give them to the girl with the yellow hair. When he and hla. father came out together from the church, Dan chose the"street that passed the soda fountain drug store and peeped in. It was dark and cool, and behind the counter the drug clerk mixed the summer drinks; and the drug clerk mixed them from that time ever afterward—for the girl with the yellow hair never showed up in Blairtown again. She went away! CHAPTER IV. In the Coral Room. “Mandalay” had run at the Oalety the season before and again opened the autumn season. Light and charming, thoroughly musical, it had toured successfully through Europe, but London was Its home, and Its popularity was chiefly owing to the girl who had starred in it—Letty Lane. Her face was on every postal card, hand bill.

He Liked Her —Dan Was Well on the Way to Love.

cosmetic box. and even popular drlnka were named for her. The night of the Osdene box party was the reopening of and the curtain went up .after the overture to an outburst of applause. Dan Blair had never “crossed the pond” before this memorable visit, when he London tbenters and London ltpelf. indeed. were unexplored by him. He had seen what there was to be seen of the opera bouffe in his own connM sx Gaiety he had yet to enjoy. The opening scene of “Mandalay” is oriental; the burst of music and the tinkling of the silvery temple bells that he lifted his head, pushed his chair back to enjoy. He was thus close to the duchess. With invigorating young enthusiasm the boy drew In his breath and waited to be amused and to hear. The tunes he already knew before the orchestra began to charm his c&r. v - An Undine tt Plymouth Dan had !»,« kMD to tool that *“ dene Park he had been dally* hourly liSfnT-r y?uV£?2L£ £

not taken Into consideration by an) of them. No one had treated him llk« a Junior. He had gone heck to neck with their pace as far as he liked, furnished them fresh gpmsement, and been their diversion. In all his rare unspoiled youth, Blair had been and denly dropped down in as ; effetn ael | that had whirled about him, and <m« by one out of the inner circle had called him to join them; and om by one with all of them Das had whirled. .... 2-.. V Lord Oalorey had talked to him frankly, as plainly as If Dan had been his own father, and found much of the old man's common sense in his fine blond head. Lady Oalorey had come to him In a moment of great anxiety, and no one, bat her young guest knew tow badly she needed' help. He had farther made it known to the lady that he was not in the marriage market; that she could not have him Tor any of her girls. And as for the Duchess of Breakwater, well —he had whirled with her until his head swam. He had grown years older at the Park in the few weeks of his visit, but now for the first time, as the music of “Mandalay” struck upon his ears, like a tipple of distant seas, he felt like the boy who had left Btairtown to come abroad. He had spent the most part of the day in London with a man who had come over to see him from America. Dan attended to his bust ness affairs, and the people who knew said that he had a keen head. Mr. Joshua Ruggles, his father's beat friend, whom Dan this afternoon had left to go to his room at the Carlton, had pat his arm with affection through the boy’s. “Don't look as though it were any too healthy down to the place you're at, Dan. Plumbing all right?” And the boy. flushing slightly, had said: “Don’t you fret. Josh, I'll look after my health, all tight.” .“There’s nothing like mountain air,” returned the westerner. “These old fogs stick in my nostrils; feel as though I could smell London clean down to my feet!” From the corner of the box Dan looked hard at the stage, at the fresh brilliant costumes ant! tbe lovely chorus girls. . “Gosh,” he thought to himself, “they 1 are the prettiest ever! Dove-gray, eyes of Irish blue, mouths like roses!” Leaning forward a little toward tbe duchess he whispered: “There Isn’t one who isn’t a winner. I never struck such a box of dry goods!” * The duchess smiled on Dan with good humor. His naive pleasure was

delightful. It was like taking a child to a pantomime. She was wearing bis flowers and displaying a jewel that he had found and bought for her, and which she had not hesitated to accept She watched his eager face and his pleasure unaffected and keen. She. could not believe that this young man was master of ten million pounds. When Lfetty Lane appeared Blair heard a light rustle like rain through the auditorium, a murmur, and the house rose. Theri was a well-bred calling from the stalls, a call from the Lane—Letty Lane!” and*aa though she were royalty, there was a flattering of handkerchiefs like flags. The young fellow with the others stood in the back of the box, his hands in his pockets, looking at the stage. There wasn’t a girl in the chorus as pretty as this prima donna! Letty Lone came on in “Mandalay" In the first act In the dress of a fashionable princess. She was modish and worldly. For tho only time in the play she was modem and conventional, and whatever breeding she might have been able to claim, from whatever class she was born, as she stood there in her beautiful gown she was arace itself. M charm. She was distinctly a star, and showed he* appreciation of her audience’s admire Goo.

New News of Yesterday

Famous “Hale Storm of 1845.”

Sensational Climax of Debate Between »3ohn P. Hale, the AHtl-Siavery Leader of New Hampshire, and ' Gen. Franklin Pierce. John P. Hale is a name forgotten probably by all but a very few of those who were personally familiar with the leading minds In public life of the era which closed with the termination of the Civil war. To the younger generation at this time Mr. Hale's name has no significance whatever. Yet he was for a quarter of a century one of the leading figures in our public life. He was three times elected United States senator from New Hampshire. He was twice nominated by the Free Soil party for president, and he was United States minister to Spain through the four years of President Johnson’s administration. Hale was one of the great anti-slav-ery leaders of the late forties and the fifties of the last century; at one time he was the only anti-slavery advocate with membership in the United States senate. He opposed the annexation of Texas on the ground that It would be slave territory, and he alone, of all the senate, refused to vote In favor of the resolution tendering the thanks of congress to Oenerals Scott and Taylor for their victories In the Mexican war, which made it certain that this country would have Texas. Not until Chase and Seward entered the senate in 1849 did Hale havs any help in waging hid anti-slavery fight on the floor of the senate. Two years later Hale was Joined by Charles Sumner. Senator Hale possessed a, national reputation as a political orator. He was a man of Impressive personal appearance. His voice was clear and resonant, yet It had almost a musical quality In It; and be possessed a personal magnetism which caused him to be numbered aiflong the most effective speakers in the yearn between 1845 and 1865. One of his greatest triumphs of oratory came when he set out alone in 1845 to win his native state of New Hampshire over to the anti-slavery cause. He went to work in the face of an apparently invincible Democratic majority; he addressed meetings in every towp and village of the state, and when the votes were cast he had the satisfaction of knowing that the legislature, thanks to his single-handed battle, would be controlled by Whigs and Independent Democrats. That campaign, which has gone down In political history as the “Hale Storm of 1845,” was perhaps the most exciting campaign that Hale ever waged. It was full of exciting and dramatic incidents, but the one that Hale, in his closing years, took most delight in telling was the following: “One of my Democratic opponents in the ‘Hale Storm of 1845’ was Franklin Pierce, against whom I ran for president in 1852. We were both

Shaped Calhoun’s Education

President Timothy Dwight of Yale Advised the Great Carolinian to Study Law In the New 8ch«i0l at Litchfield. John C. Calhoun was graduated from Yale college in 1804 when that seat of learning wae under the administration of the first President Timothy Dwight After his graduation Calhoun became a student in the first taw school established in this country, at Litchfield, Conn., within a stone's throw of the birthplace of Henry Ward Beecher. He received a diploma from this pioneer school*ln 1807, was admitted to the bar cd Connecticut on. the credit of that diploma, and then went Immediately to. his native, part of South Carolina and set himself np to the practice of law. At the time Calhoun studied law it was the almost universal practice for young men ifko aspired to be lawyers to prepare tot admission to the bar by reading In tbs office of a lawyer. So fur as I know, no biographer of Calhoun tells why the great South Carolinian broke away from this custom of long standtog. Briefly, he was persuaded to do so by none other than a Connecticut Yankee; and my authority fqr this statement to Rev. Jonathan Brace, who for many yeans was a prominent Congregational clergyman to Connecticut, and who, when Calhoun was beginning to gain great prominence, secured his information from the family of President Dwight of Yale. J -. , - ... “tit his earijr manhood Calhoun Was a stanch Presbyterian, and so he should have gone to Princeton Instead of Yale college." said Mr. Brace. “But certain intimate family associations with some of tbe Yale instructors induced Calhoun to enter Yale, where he speedily became a great favorite with President Dwight He entered the Junior class. In his senior year he had many conference* with President Dwight end there was powj. V “'J!* * - *:! . a. -j£t .

By E. J. EDWARDS

citizens of the same town. Concord— Chat is, I was practically a citizen of the state capital, though my legal residence was In Dover, some miles to the east “Well, I was going up and down and across the state talking up the antislavery cause, and General Pierce was ae busy in behalf of the Democratic doctrines. We were the leaden on the two sides of the qneetlon, and so It was arranged that we meet In political debate at the state capital. Pierce, of coarse, had long been known to New Hampshire voters; I had already gained prominenoe as an antislavery leader. The Interest In the debate was state-wide, and the church in which the debate wae held wae packed to suffocation on the appointed evening. “Let me tell yon right here that General Pierce wae an excellent speaker and a sincerely conscientious Democrat; he was a much abler man than many persons gave him the credit of being. And what a speech he made that night in reply to mine, which, of course, I made as strong'as I was capable of doing: It was late when we had said oar last says, and then. Just at adjournment there occurred the most interesting incident of the whole debate. Somebody—l never knew who it was—cried but In a voice that tarried all over the church: ‘Yon ought to go home proud because yon have been hearing tonight a man who Is

Lincoln’s Son Refused to Lead

Robert T. Was Urged to Accept Nomination for the Presidency In 1884, But Declined Because of Loyalty to Arthur. A few hours after the nomination of James G. Blaine for president by the Republican national convention at Chicago, in 1884, and the nomination of Gen. John A. Logan as vice-presi-dent, the late Gen. James H. Husted came to and, taking a seat by the desk at which I was writing, said to me: “You needn’t put It in your dispatches that the ticket which has just been nominated is doomed to defeat; but I tell you that It Is and that the Republican party has made a grave blunder to nominating Blaine.” I heard what General Hosted said with interest because I knew that he was one of the best judges of political conditions in New York state, at least in the Republican party. He had been many times speaker of the lower house ot the New York state legislature; he was the Intimate friend of all the leading politicians of each party, and he was always a great admirer of James G. Blaine. “Are you sorry that Blaine has been nominated?” I asked. “Yes, I am sorry for his sake and

er which vary greatly impressed President Dwight It was an argument that lasted all evening, and when it was over President Dwight ventured to say to Calhoun that his gift for profound reasoning, his ability' to persuade those who heard him argue that his argument was sound, and his knowledge of historic as well as of contemporary government and politics would, without doubt if used to that end, make Calhoun a man of very great national prominence, and, perhaps might bring him to the presidency. “Of course, this encomium greatly pleased Calhoun, and it may have done something to persuade him to take up politics very early la his career. However, at the time of the Argument that drew forth this praise Calhoun’s ambition was to make a great lawyer of himself, and after his graduation from Yale he sought the advice of President Dwight respecting hla preparation for admission to the bar. The elder man strongly advised Calhoun to enroll himself ss a student to the taw school at Litchfield. Cobsl, saying that Calhoun could to that way more thoroughly ground himself to the fundamental prindplee of the Jaw than by reading the books to any lawyer’s office. > “The Litchfield taw school was then ft young Institution, not even its founders were certain that it would prove a successful experiment Calhoun at first wss doubtful about the wisdom of following President Dwight’s advice, so he started to read taw in an office to Charleston; but while he wss thus engaged he came to the conclusion that President Dwight had laid out the proper coarse for him to follow and he sat down and wrote a letter to the Litchfield law school. In which be asked If he would be accepted as a student in due course he received a favorable reply and shortly thereafter tiM-eHed as a student to the school—a step that Carolina’s greatest lawyer and ablest public citizen never regretted taking at the advice of a Connecticut Yankee.” .. ;

to to president ot the United States!’ The people cheered, Mr* Pierce and I exchanged compliments, neither of ns dreaming that Abe prediction would come true. Nor, of course, did It enter our minds that seven ?e*» later we wonld both be presidential candidates, he upon the victorious Democratic ticket and I at the head of the Free Soil ticket.” (Copyrlebt, HU. by B. J. Edwards. Alt Rights Reserved.)

Decay of Diplomacy.

s Diplomacy to not a career which encourages the growth of a strong personality. The diplomatist to necessarily the tool of other men. Wandering front capital to capital, he to the month piece of successive ministers, to whose divergent policies he must adapt himself with the good grace that leads to swift promotion. If he develops decided views of hie own, or allows himself to cultivate embarrassing sympathies, he to apt to to marked as a dangerous and uncomfortable subordinate. for whom there, will presently yawn some Bbscure and distant hole In a South American legation. The great ambassadors lived In the days when no telegraph had yet been invented to make bureaucracy omnipresent. It wants only.. some further perfgltton of the long-distance telephone to abolish tbe diplomatist altogether.— London Athenaeum.

Walking a Mile.

The man who walks a mile for his health is wise, but the one jvho does it to save a nickel cheats'-himself.

for his party’s sake, because I* am confident he is doomed to defeat,” was the reply. “And I am especially sorry because, but for one thing,- we could have named a candidate who would have swept the country, whQto nomination and election would have wiped out gll> factional troubles, in the Republican party.” •mo is that?” I asked. “Robert T. Lincoln," General Hosted ;■ replied. “I can tell you confidentially now that a movement was begun In Illinois some months ago which had for its. object the nomination of Robert T. Lincoln for president by acclamation by this convention after the first complimentary ballot Jiad been taken. The movement bad the support of many of the friends of General Logan, and I Sim sure it would have, received the support of nearly all the leading politicians of the Republican party had the opportunity come to them to give that support "Months ago ail of the strong Republican leaders realized that if Blaine were, nominated by this convention Senator Roscoe Conkling’s friends In New .York would knife bib? at the polls. I myself am certain that enough of Conkling’s friends will knife Blaine at the election in November to cost him the electoral vote ot New York state. You know, the quarrel between Conkling and Blaine was never healed. On the other hand, it was doubtful whether President Arthur,. If he were could carry New York state. - 80 It was suggested early in the spring of this year that we look around to see if we could not find some candidate who would receive the support of all factions of the party and who would be certain to carry New York state. “Prom some of General' Logan’s friends in Illinois the sugestion came that we take up Robert 'LLfacoln. it was a splendid suggestionj the movement that sprang from it made considerable headway, so that at last it was thought best to put matters before Lincoln himself. I think the better way would have been to say nothing, hut at the right moment'to have stampeded the convention for him. But per*' sonal friends of Lincoln were asked to approach him and Igy the matter before him. This they *11141; and after a brief interview with bifirthdy reported that the movement must stop then and there. They said that Lincoln had told thefit that only member of that be might be president again as *l* steps to -put m stop to it.’ * nominated. And certain .defeat is before us. But do you suppose that there would have been any check to the enthusiasm of the oH Republican!) as coin xor prwwniL • -» (Copyright. A» Rt|hts Tthso'l T> i a.) "

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