Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican ImjrOkr Except B<md»j HEALEY & CLARK, Publishers. BENSSELAER, INDIANA.

THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

BkftrathM by M. C. KETTIfER

(Oopjrt«hl, 1910, by The Bobba-MerriU Oo.) 4 SYNOPSIS. Den Blair, the O-year-old son of the flfty-milllon-dollar copper king of Blalrtown, Mont., is a guest at the English home of Lady Galorey. Dan’s father had been courteous to Lord Galorey 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 and takes a liking to her. When Dan was a boy, a girl sang a solo at a church, and he had never forgotten her. The Galoreys, Lily and Dan attend a London thsater where one Letty Lane is the star. CHAPTER IV.—^bontlnued. At the end of the tenor solo Princess Oltary runs, into the pavilion and there changes her dress and appears once more to dance before the rajah and to proye herself the dancer he has known and loved in a case in Paris. Letty Lane's dress in his dance was the classic ballet dancer’s, white as the leaves of a lily. She seemed to swim and float; actually to be breathed and exhaled from out her film gown; and the only ray of color in her costume was her own golden hair, surmounted by a small coral-colored cap, embroidered in pearls. The actress bowed to the right and left, ran to the right, ran to left; glanced toward the Duchess of Breakwater’s box; acknowledged the burst of applause; began to dance and finished her pas seul, and with folded hands sang her song. Her beautiful voice came out clear as crystal water from a crystal rock, and her words were cradled like doves, like boats on the boundless seas. ... “Prom India’s coral strand. . . .’’ But there was no hymn tune to this song of Letty Lane’s in “Mandalay!” To the boy in the box, however, the words, the tune, the droning of the flies on the window pane, the strong odor of the hymn books and panama fans, came back, and the clear sunlight of Montana seemed to steal into the Gaiety as Letty Lane sang. The Duchess of Breakwater clapped with frank enthusiasm, and said: “She is a perfect wonder, isn’t she? Oh, she is too bewitching!” And she turned for sympathy to her friend, who stood behind her, his face illumined. He was amazed; his blue eyes ablaze, his bead bent forward, he was staring, staring at the Gaiety curtain, gone 4nn-«w first, act. He laughed soft]y,.-and~.the duchess heard him say: "Good! Weil, I should say she was! She’s a girl from our town!” When the duchess tried to share her enthusiasm with Dan he had disappeared. He left the box and with ho difficulty made his way: as far as the first wing. . ■ “Can you get me an entrance?" he asked a man he had met once at Osdene, and who was evidently an habitue. "I dare say. Rippln’ show, isn’t it?” Dan put his hands on dueal shoulders and Allowed the nobleman through the labyrinth of flies. “Which of ’em do you want to see, old man?” Dan, without replying, went forward to a small cluster of lights in one of the wings. He went forward intuitively, and his companion caught his arm: “Oh, I say, for God’s sake, don't go on like this!” But without response Dan continued his direction. A call page stood before the door, and Dan, on a card over the entrance read “Miss Lane.” The smell of calcium and paint and perfume and the auxiliary hung heavy on

Dan Stood Motionless, His Eyes Fastened on Her.

the atr. The other man saw Dan knock, knock .gain and then go in. Unannounced Dan Blair opened the -ffi w’ J ~ T.

door of the dressing room of the actress. Miss Lane’s dressing-rooms were worth displaying to her intimate friends. They were done with great taste in coral tint. She might lfave Men saiu to oeina coral cave under the sea, as far as young Blair was concerned. As be came in he felt bis ears deaden, and the smoke of cigarettes grew so thick that he looked as through a veil. The dancer was standing in the center of the room, one hand on her hip, and in the other hand a cigarette. Her short skirt stood out around her like a bell, and over the bell fell a rain erf pinkish coral strands. She wore a thin slip, from which her neck and arms came shining out, and her woman knelt at her feet strapping on a little coral shoe.. Blair shut the dobrTiehlnd him, and began to realize how rude, How impertinent his entrance would be considered. But he came boldly forward and would have Introduced himself as “Dan Blair from Blairtown,” but Miss Lane, who stood at the entrance through the smoke, burst into a laugh so bright, so delightful, that he was carried high up on the coral strands to the very beach. She crossed her white arms over her breast and leaned forward as a saleswoman might lean forward over a counter, and with her beautifully trained voice, all sweetly she asked him: “Hello, little boy, what will you take?” Blair giggled, quick to catch her meaning, and answered: “Oh, chocolate, I guess!” And Letty Lane laughed, put out her white hand, the one without- the cigarette, and said: “Haven’t got that brand on board—so sorry! Will a cocktail do? All sorts in bottles. Higgins, fix Mr. Blair a Martini.” As the dresser rose from her stooping position, the rest of Letty Line’s

dressing-room unfolded out of the mist and smoke. On a sofa covered with lace pillows Blair saw a man sitting, smoking aB well. He was tall, and had a dark mustache. It was Prince Poniotowsky, whom Dan had already met at the Galorey shoot. “Prince Poniotowsky,” Miss Lane presented him, “Mr. Blair of Blairtown, Mont. Say, Frederick, give me my cap, will you? It is over by your side. I’ve got to hustle.” The man, without moving, picked up a small red cap with a single plume, from the sofa at his side. In another second Letty Lane had placed it on her head of yellow hair, real yellow hair and not a doubt of it, like sunshine —not the color one gets from inside bottles. Her arms, her hands flashed with rings, priceless flashes, and the little spears pricked Dan like' sharp needles. “It’s the nicest ever!” she was saying. “How on earth did you get in here, though? Have you bought the Gaiety theater? I’m the most exclusive girl on the stage. Who let you tor Her accent was English, and even that put her from him. As he looked at her he couldn’t understand how he had ever recognized her. If he had waited for -another act he wouldn’t have believed the likeness real. The girl he remembered had both softened and hardened; the rounded features were gone, but all the angles were gone as welL Her eyes were as gray as the seas; she was painted and her lids were darkened. Seen close, she was not so divine as on the stage, but there was still a more thrilling charm about the fact that she was real. ,• •. \ ' •‘U“TMghlnk of any one from Montana beinflftere tonight! Staying very long. Mr. Blair?" Between each sentence she directed Higgins, whg was getting her into her bodice. “And how do you like “Mandalay?” Isn’t it great?” She addressed herself to Dan, but

she smiled on both the men with extreme brilliance. “You bet your life,” he responded “I should think it was great." Poniotowsky rose indolently. He jiad not looked,Toward the newcomer, but had, on the other band, followed every derail , of Miss Lane’s dressing. “Better. take your scarf. Letty. Hand it to Miss Lane,” he directed Higgins. “It is bo damned drafty in these beastly wings.” He drew his watch out, gathered up his long coat, flung it over his arm and picked up his opera hat which lay folded on Letty Lane’s dressing table. t The call page for the third time summoned “Miss La —ne, Miss La —ne,” and she took the scarf Higgins handed her and ran it through her hands, still beaming on Dan. “Come In to see me at the Savoy on any day, at two-thirty except on matinee days.” “Put on your scarf.” Poniotowsky, taking it from her hands, laid it across her white shoulders, and she passed out between the two men, light as a bird, smiling, nodding, followed by the prince and the boy from Montana. The crowds began to fill the lately empty wings—dancers, chorus girls with their rustling gowns. Letty Lane said to Dan: “Guess you’ll like my solo in this act all right—it’s the best thing in ‘Mandalay.’ Now go along, and clap me hard.” ° It gave him a new pleasure, for she had spoken to him in real American fashion with the swift mimicry that showed her talent. Dan went slowly back to his party. As he took his seat t>y the duchess she said to him: “You went in to see Letty Lane. Do you know her?" “Know her!” And as Dan answered, the sound of his own voice was queer

“She’s a Girl From Our Town.”

to him, and his face flushed hotly. “Lord, yes. She used to be in the drug store in Blairtown. Sold sodawater to me when we were both kida Whoever would have thought that she had that in her?” He nodded toward the stage, for Letty Lane had come on. She sang in our church, too, but not for long.” “Who was with her in her dressingroom?” the duchess asked. Blair didn’t answer. He was looking at Letty Lane. She had come to dance for the -rajah, and in her, arms she held four white doves; each dove had a coral thread around fts~Throat_ it was a number that made her famous, “The Dove Song.” Set free, the birds flew about her, circling her blond head, surmounted by the small coralcolored cap. The doves settled on her shoulders, pecked at her lips. “Was it Poniotowsky?” the duchess repeated. And Dan told her a meaningless lie. “I didn’t meet any one there." And with satisfaction the duchess said: “Then she has thrown him over, too. He was the latest and the richest. She Is horribly extravagant No man is rich enough for hdr, they say. Poniotowsky isn’t a gold mine.” The doves had flown away to the wings and been gathered up by the Indian servants- The actress on the stage began her Indian cradle song. She came, distinctly turning toward the box party. She had never sung like this in London before. There was a freshness in her voice, a \ quality in her gesture, a pathos and a sweetness that delighted her audience. They fairly clamored tor her, waved and called and recalled. : Dan stood motionless, his eyes fastened on her, his heart rocked by toe song. He didn’t want anyone to speak to him. lie wished that none of them would breathe, and nearly as absorbed as was he, no one did speak. (TO BE CONTINUED*) .

RULERS IN TRADE

Kaiser Wilhelm Holds First Place Among Royalty. King Gusts vus of Sweden Makes Money Out of Real Estate Deals —-A Pair of Royal Speculators —Some Are Inventors. London. —Monarchs are not always making money. And perhaps the kaiser should be given first place among reigning sovereigns for shrewd commercialism. He makes a strong point of cultivating the friendship of financial magnates, not only in his own but in other countries as well. . The kaiser has some very large holdings in the Hamburg-American steamship line. He is extensively interested in the diamond mine enterprises of German West, Africa. In connection with the vast forests comprised in the crown domains and on his private estates he carries on a large lumber business. His horse breeding establishment In western Prussia brings him in a handsome revenue. He is the principal stockholder in the lager beer brewery at Hanover. And he carries on an extensive manufactory of pottery on his private estates at Cadinen. Gustavus, the present ruler of the Swedes, is a total abstainer. On coming to the throne he disposed of his father’s extensive brewery Interests But he still retains many other profitable investments. He has money in mills and mines, and he seldom neglects to extol the virtues of the Grand hotel at Stockholm, in which he is by far the largest stockholder. He is a successful speculator builder. In this way: When property In the slum districts of the Swedish metropolis is going dirt cheap, along comes the king and buys It. And soon on the sites of the dilapidated buildings rise handsome houses and thoroughfares, which increase the value of the property many times over. Few monarchs have shown themselves cleverer managers of a wife’s property than the king of Denmark. By shrewd Investments he has already multiplied Its value many times. In a large number of his enterprises he Is associated with bis royal brother, King George of Greece, who possesses an immense fortune, which he owes

SOUTH AFRICA GEMS

Greatest Diamonds Are Found in the Kimberley Fields. Sparklers Are Found In a Rock of Bluish Slafc Color Which Disintegrates on Exposure—De Beers Company in Control. London.—As Johannesburg and the Rand mean gold, so Kimberley means diamonds, the world’s greatest known deposit of this precious stone—-a deposit so extensive and so rich that it It were mined to the extent of the capacity to do so and its produce were thrown immediately upon the market, the supply would so far exceed the demand that the price of diamonds would decrease rapidly and steadllyraSTthe diamond would lose much of Its prestige as a precious stone. America is familiar with gold mining on a grand scale, even on the scale of the Rand, and there Is nothing either in the methods or the results of South African gold mining to attach the interest of novelty or the fascination of mystery to the digging of ore and extraction of the precious metal. But with diamonds the case is different, a correspondent writes. We have no sucb mines at borne.

MOUNTAIN IS MELTING AWAY

Colorado Peak 14,000 Feet High Loses Topknot Over Night—-Tumbles Into Canyon. Telluride, Colo. —With a crash like the discharge of a battleship's broadside, followed by a prolonged roar, the crest of Lizzard Peak, one of the highest mountains in Colorado, tumbled into the canyons at its base. The few residents of that locality did not discover what had happened until some one noticed a queer change in formation and an apparent lowering of the crest of Lizzard Peak, which was over 14,000 feet high. ' Advices from points surrounding the ‘peak, which is eighteen miles from here, indicate that- 1,000 feet from the crest had crumbled away. Lizzard Peak was one of the sharpest pointed of the many Blender tipped monarchs of toe San Juan range. It was difficult of ascension and the few who have tried to scale it have reported large caves and Assures near the summit

England Gets Rare idol.

Delhi. —In memory of the imperial durbar, Mr. Schwalger, the well-known connoisseur, has determined to present to the British museum toe famous incised steel peacock, which was the idol of the Yezidis in Mesopotamia. ''’V \- These men are worshipers of Lucifer, from the curious belief that the detU has now regained his place as the. highest archangel of God. Twenty-five years ago toe South Kensington museum vainly offered the previous owner SIO,OOO for this strange and exquisite work of art

SCENE OF SOCIAL GAYETIES

THIS photograph shows the house in Washington occupied by Senhor Domlcio da Gama, the new Brazilian ambassador. He is a bachelor and is doing a great deal of entertaining this winter, and invitations to affairs at the embassy are eagerly sought

in a great measure to undertaking certain operations in American grain about 35 years ago, which the closing of Odessa and other southern Russian seaports to tbe export of grain, owing to the war with Turkey, rendered extremely profitable. From the sale of beer the prince regent of Bavaria draws- immense sums. Our own King George is another monarch who does not scorn to make money by side lines. From his model farms at Windsor, Balmoral, Sandring-

There is a peculiar fascination about the diamond, in some cases even crime Inciting in its intensity. One feels a distinct thrill of excitement in following the diamond mining operations from beginning to end, from blue ground lo the cupful of precious stones which represents a mine’s day’s work. The diamonds at Kimberley are now found In a rock of bluish slate color, familiarly known as “blue ground.” a breccia composite, which decomposes on exposure to the air, sun and rain, and In a few weeks or months crumbles into powder or into a condition in which it is easily pulverized. This diamond bearing rock is a deposit in the oval shaped funnels of volcanic vent holes, which descend almost vertically from earth’s surface toward Its Interior. Each of these volcanic vent holes is a diamond mine, and the diamond bearing conglomerate has been followed downward at some points for 3,000 feet. Most of the world’s diamonds have in the past been found on or near the earth’s surface in soft soil or crumbled rock which readily yields its treasure to crude washing or sifting. The first diamond mining at Kimberley was of thiß sort, but now diamonds are mined here from the rock and deep under-

Family Safe; Feeds Men

Man, Fearing Children Would Be Massacred Because of Treaty Abrogation, Offers to Celebrate. Detroit, Mich.—A Hebrew with a strong foreign accent inquired several times at the telegraph office in the Griswold house If a cablegram had come for him. “J. S. Groenlng is my name,” be told the operator. As he sat listlessly in a chair In the hotel office, a page called “Mr. Groenlng.” The map Jumped to his feet, walked swiftly towards the page and seized from his hand a cablegram. An instant’s glance acquainted him with its contents. He burled his face in his bands. “My children, my little ones are safe,” be muttered In German. Suddenly straightening himself he walked to J toe clerk and said: "I want to make as many people happy ha possible today. 1 have just had a great happiness and 1 want to share it. I shall walk out Into your Detroit streets, find a dozen men that look hungry and send them in here to be fed." - Later he returned and with him were a dozen men, not nondescript tramps, but men neat in appearance, that looked' as If they were temporarily in hard luck. “That Is the type us man 1 like to help,” said Groenlng. Fred Postal, proprietor of toe hotel, provided toe party with a private dining room, and the meal the dozen men got was the best the hotel could pro-

ham, he derives a handsome revenue and maintains a herd of several hundred superb cattle, which take prizes at agricultural shows all over the country. His majesty Is also keeping up the late King Edward’s horse breeding establishment at Sandringham, where, in addition to race horses, he raised hackneys, coach horses, carriage horses and hunters. Many of the scions of Europe’s reigning houses are in receipt of big sums from Inventions for which they have been responsible.

ground, by processes approximating those employed in gold and silver mining. At Kimberley the diamond mines are nearly all owned by the De Beers company, the consolidation of many; weak and hostile individual interests into a monopoly and a trust, frankly confessed to be such, having been effected by the organization genius of Cecil Rhodes. Everything at Kimberley seems to be owned or controlled by or exists by grace of the De Beers company. The company has 20,000 employes, 2,500 white and 17,500 natives. It has built a model village for its employes. It has evolved special stringent peculiar laws to prevent or punish unlicensed sale or purchase of the rough diamonds. On every side its dominating influence is perceptible.

Ride Wave on Blanket.

San Francisco, Cal. —Using a sheet of cotton cloth about the size of a counterpane and weighing two and a half pounds for a raft, three men cruised about a local swimming tank, giving a deminstratlon of a life-saving invention. The cloth had been saturated with a solution that gave it a peculiar buoyancy. It is the invention of a Dane. The three men were amply supported and left the raft dry shod. A pillow was used as an aquatic head rest, and two coats weighing less than three pounds did service {fa boats.

vide. Groenlng told Postal that be had feared the Russians, aggrieved at the attitude taken by the United States in regard to Jewish passports in Russia, wou|4 be infuriated and massacre the Jews. “I sent money to my wife and children to leave for the United States immediately, and this cablegram told me they bad crossed toe German frontier and were safe," said Groenlng quietly.

TOBACCO JUICE IN HER EYE

After Forty Yeara of Married Life Woman Filea Divorce Buit Against Husband. ' Stockton, Cal. —After having been married for nearly forty years, Mrs. Sarah E. Myers of this county baa filed a divorce complaint against George , Myers, in which principal allegation is he persisted in spewing tobacco juice In her eyes. She asserts that ou one occasion be directed a stream of the fluid against her face with such force that she was blind for several weeks. Mrs. Myers declares tost her husband’s cruelty began in 1890 and extended up to a few months ago, when sbe was driven from their home in LodL According to the aged woman’s, story, it was not an infrequent occurrence for her husband to knock her down.

Bones of Wrist and Fingers.

The wrist contains eight bones, the palm live, and the fingers 14.