Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Page 2

DRESSING UP

A rainy day in early summer sent Jim Bomar's motherless girls to the attic to rummage in the capacious chests tor old-fashioned dresses, in "Oh, but aren’t we fine?" cried Mamie. "Let's go down and show futfrcr " "Father might make us take’ em -off,” rejoined practical Grace; "he’s feeling sad anyway." "I ’spose the house bothers him ’cause it’s so kind of mussy since Mrs. Mott left, but I tried to scrub that kitchen just last Saturday, and father washes the dishes himself whenever we leave ’em long enough.” And Mamie sighed over a housetrials. Poor Jim Bomar was used to cold meals and a general lack of cheer. Even before his wife’s death, the house had borne a down-at-the-heels aspect, and Jim had been wont to escape to the harness room in the barn, where he could find order and peace. * As a refuge the harness room was exceptional. Besides being clean, it was warmed in winter by a small wood stove, and made airy in summer by two enormous windows. The west window had the advantage of which they arrayed themselves with looking toward the homestead where Mary Andrews had lived alone since the death of her mother, Mary’s younger sister Jennie was Jim’s wife. He had never understood just how it happened that she had supplanted Mary,-if not in his heart, still to all intents and purposes in his life. He and Mary had been sweethearts for years, and at last he had written asking; her gto tell him where he might see her tor a most particular talk. He knew that Mary would understand. and he had laughed, when he gave her the note, at his little subterfuge, when he might so easily have told Mary he loved her then fend there. But Mary craved romance. and Jim was doing his humble best ih arranging this dark plot for her entertainment. Mary ran up the steps with his note in her hand, waved her hand at him in good-by—and he had not seen her again in months. She did not answer the note, and gave Jim no chance to ask an explanation of her strange conduct. Deeply hurt, he learned the next day that she had gone for a long visit to her aunt in the city. Jim took his dismissal hard, and Jennie was full of sympathy when he came,.night after night, for news of Mary.' She did not tell him outright, but hinted delicately that Mary had been courting only tn fun and had taken this way of letting him down easy. And after a time Jennie’s sweetness won Jim to believe that her heart was pure gold, and it was his fault if he could not appreciate her as he should. So on the night she told him that Mary was to wed a man in the city whom she had known for several years, Jim asked Jennie if she would care for what was left of his life, and Jennie admitted that she would. Mary did not return for Jennie’s nor did she make any preparations tor her own: and when she had lived quietly with her mother for a number of tnbnths doubts assailed Jim concerning the truth of his wife’s story of her engagement During the ten years of Jim’s married life Mary went in and out of his home and his children took their griefs to her more readily than to their mother. But Jim had seldom seen her/ and for several years he had not crossed the threshold of the Andrews home. As he looked over the fields green with sprouting grain and saw the apple orchard at the homestead in bloom, he imagined that he could see Mary herself walking among the trees in the sun that had just come out and was coaxing the earth to bloom and laughter. He knew that her brown head would be bared in the breeze and her eyes filled with a love for all growing and blooming things. He recalled the last time he had walked along the orchard path, when, after Mother Andrews’s death, he had gone to Mary in an impulse of sympathy, but had unfortunately managed to convey some expression of his long repressed love. Then did Mary’s brown eyes flash and her gentle mouth stiffen to rebuke. “Jim Bomar, never . let ~mo hear such words from you. There can be nothing between you and me .after what has passed. And I cannot bear the sight of your deceitful face.” Jim. sorely wounded, was roused to reply in anger. “Very well, Mary. I will never enter your door until you send tor me.” While Jim was dreaming in the harness room, Mamie and Grace, disporting in their attic finery, had grown tired of admiring themselves “Let’s go over to Aunt Mary’s.” Mamie was adventurous. “Let’s wear ’em over.” •«I don’t believe father’d want us to.” Objected Grace. ' “Huh, father’s in the harness room, and it’s no harm if be didn’t ' tell us uot to. Desides, be don't care very much what we do, so long as we don't Bother him.” reassured Mamie. • So the girls trailed up the road and

By ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG

(Cecvricbh wax. to Aasoctosd Uieraiy Froro)

surprised Aunt Mary in the orchard “telling secrets to che trees,” as Mamie called it. Ten or twelve years ago the silk gown which Grace wore had been familiar to Mary, for Jennie had worn it that fatal summer when she won Jim’s love-. Even now, with the gray In her hair, Mary felt the old pain fresh at the sight of the hated raiment Jennie had worn that very dress the night she delivered Mary’s note asking Jim to meet her at the foot of the orchard under their particular tree, where Jim had constructed a bench and where they often sat on summer evenings. On that summer evening Mary had gone to the trysting place and waited with her heart full of love and joy. But Jim did not come, and when, deeply hurt, Mary returned to the house, he was leaning over the front gate talking earnestly to Jennie. Later Jennie told her that Jim had dent her a message saying that he had decided he had nothing particular to say to her. “See, Aunt Mary, isn’t my dress full? It’s lots wider’n Grace’s.” "Maybe, ’tls, but my dress has got a pocket,” rejoined Grace, “a real deep one. You can’t B et tbe bot ‘ tom. Auntie, you feel and see if it has a bottom.” Absently Mary put her hand into the pocket of Jennie’s dress. Her fingers touched something that resisted, and she reached again to draw out two letters —Jennie’s love letters, no doubt. But no. She clutched them wildly. One was Jim’s note to her asking for a meeting. She remembered she had hunted in vain for it "after the evening in the orchard. But the other letter was her answer, and that answer had never been opened. Jim had not received it Suddenly a hundred little incidents crowded to her mind that made it clear what part Jennie had taken in her life and Jim’s. Then a rush of gladness came over her. How she had misjudged Jim! Mary could have laughed aloud as she thought of Jim and how she could make up to him for his years of puzzled wonder. Then she looked at the little girls staring at her abstraction and began to Unfold a plan that delighted them. When Jim Bomar came home from bis afternoon’s work he could hardly believe the evidence of his senses. An Immaculate kitchen gave forth the odor of such a supper as only a good housewife could prepare. In a swept and garnished living room his two girls were dancing about a prettily laid supper table. And beside the table stood Mary, his sweetheart, the woman he had always loved: Mary with a smile on her face and a light in her eyes as she stretched a hand to Jim and said: “1 came over to stay to supper, Jim. Am I welcome?” The light in Jim’s face was answer to that question even before his tongue stammered out eagerly a welcome in words. In the late twilight he went with Mary over the path that only the children’s feet had pressed for so long a time and bls eloquent eyes told the story. Silently they took their way along the fragrant path until Jim touched Mary softly on the arm and said: “Mary, this is our tree. See, it is all in glorious bloom. Won’t you sit down?” And the apple blossoms wasted their fragrance and their petals on two unheeding figures while the years of misunderstanding and pain were swept away to make room for the love that was to illumine all the future.

His Donation.

The queer looking, shabby old man, who for months had been going to the library and spending most of his days in the reading room aimlessly scanning the pages of magazines and books with his dim, ineffectual

eyes, walked up to the librarian the other morning and announced that he had something to say to her. “What is it?” she asked. “I want to make a donation to the library,” he replied. “I’d like to feel that I done something for it. I ain’t got no money to give, but I guess books is always acceptable. These here pamphlets,” he continued, handing out two back numbers of a wellknown magazine/ “I’ve been keeplu* for the last fifteen years and I guess they’re pretty valuable, bein’ so old. Es you’ll jest put ’em in the readln' room, I’ll be glad. You don’t never need to say who give ’em to the library. I don’t want no fuss made about it.”

Siamese English.

The proprietors of a Siamese newspaper have distributed handbills containing the following notice: " "The news of English we tell the latest, Writ in perfectly style and most earliest Do a murder git commit we hear of and tell it Do a chief die, we publish it and in borders of sombre. Staff has each one been colleged, and write like the Kipling and-the Dickens We circle every town and extortionate not tor advertisements. Buy it Tell each of you it* greatness tor good. Ready on Friday. Number first”—Everybody’s Magazine/ *

CURRENT VERSE.

1 Have Not Lived in Vain. U I have tried to lift the weight From some o’erburdened heart— Bowed down with care and sorrow— And helped to bear a part; If I have checked the scalding tears, And soothed and eased the pain, I have not lived in vain. If to an aged one I’ve been A comfort and a stay; AnA hAvno all chiMloh TtrnnlrnriiMiriii gAuU vviiiv cut vtxsauaott as utgm isuwiuv With patience day by day. If I have led the faltering steps To some green spot again. And brought a ray of sunshine there— I have not lived in vain. If I have shown an erring one - Some better place to "fill. Though banished from society— My sister woman still— If I have ever tried to help Her wipe away the stain. And caused a thought of good within— I have not lived in vain. x If, when the children hear my voice. With swiftly flying feet They run, with smiling faces My coming steps to greet. If to all of God’s dumb creatures I have tried to be humane, And wrought some deeds of kindness, then ’* • < I have not lived in vain. —Tacoma Ledger.

The Genealogy of Rings.

They’ve studied up the family tree of Ebenezer Bings And proved that his descent is straight from dukes and earls and kings. He has a brand new coat of arms so handsome and so gay, A mixture of menagerie and patterns in crochet, They only mention relatives who fought with courage fine Or rose to great distinction in the intellectual line, But if they’d searched enough I’ll bet the fact they’d run across That somewhere in that family tree somebody stole a boss. Them fam’ly trees don’t alius tell as much as they keep Md. ~' It wouldn’t be a thing ’gainst Ebenezer if they did. He’s generous an* he’s kind and alius pays his honest debts, He doesn’t drink, nor chew, nor smoke, not even cigarettes. But then it takes all kinds o’ folks to make a world, you see. There’s a mighty wide assortment in ’most every family tree. Let’s Just admire the gilding an’ the trimmings an* the floss An’ be content to overlook the chap that stole a hoes.

Beauty's Sadness.

Hushed ’neath the midnight rapture overhead. The village hpusefronts facing northward shine' Like old romantic streets in lands of wine; Opposite—night—the wharves, where any tread Rings on the silent stone, are carpeted With silver, shadow patterned by the fine Rigging of anchored schooners. Wind’s low whine In cordage, and the plashing—ne’er ended While night lasts—of the tide, are all I hear. The spectral lighthouse ’gainst night’s fair blue deep, Those changing clouds, the moon, one star who’s had Splendor to brave them these warm winds —make drear The heart they uplight. And I steal home to sleep, Tls you alone, love, makes me always glad. —Louis How in Smart Set

The Main Thing.

She was a maid the men all wooed, Each wished her for his own, And why, the other maidens sneered, A mystery was alone. She was cross-eyed, had brick-red hair. Her form no grace betrayed; Her taste in dress was something fierce, But, oh, the pies she made! She couldn’t for the life of her Talk In a lively strain. Not had the power for one short hour Her guests to entertain. She nothing knew bf world events. Of books would no thought take, The theater got on her nerves— But sphe could broil a steak! She had no personality Of a magnetic kind; No deep affections, mind devout, No charm did any find Which could make men thus mad for her, And yet the prise she took From girls with beauty, brains and style— She was a splendid cook! —Baltimore Sun.

Leaders of Men.

When they are dead, we heap the laurels high Above them where, indifferent, they lie; We join their deeds to unaccustomed praise. And crown with garlands of immortal bays. Whom, living, we but thought to crucify. As mountains seem less glorious viewed too nigh. So, often, do the great whom t we decry Gigantic loom to our astonished gaze—- ; When they are dead. For, shamed by largeness, littlenesses die! And partisan anti narrow hates'put by, We shrine our heroes for the future days; And to atone our ignorant delays With fond and emulous devotion try When they are dead. Earie Oeates,

The Rarest Time.

Love wyi often come again. Though the first be best; Second childhood comes to men, Though ’tls robbed of zest. Opportunity comes back. Only changing guise; Through the centuries return Comets in the skies. r History repeats itself. Rings again its chiqie; But the fairies only come Once upon a time.

The Sting of Memory.

If I had only thought when last we met In life we two might never meet again, [ would not now be suffering regret That fills my heart and soul with bitter pain; * For I had paused ere I had given voice To cruel words that ctu you to the heart, And with the gladsome thought would uow rejoice: ? —— —— In friendship not in anger did we part*. —Henry Waldorf Francis, in Success.

WELCOMED TO DIPLOMATIC CORPS

DIPLOMATIC circles in Washington Have extended a warm welcome to M. F. A. Pezet, the new minister from Peru, and to his wife. Mme. Pezet is a very beautiful and highly accomplished woman, and both she-and her husband already are popular in the capital city. x

“SOO” CANAL BUSY

15,368 Vessels Passed Through Channel in 1911. Handling of Large Number of Craft Accomplished Without a Blockade, Bays Commandant—Three Times Suez Record. Washington.—During the navigation season of 1911 vessel* to the number of 15,368 passed through the St Marys river channel, which connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron, according to Lieut. Philip H. Scott commanding the revenue cutter Mackinac, in charge of the patrol of St. Mary’s river. In his report to Commissioner Chamberlain of the bureau of navigation, department of commerce and labor. This is a larger transit of large steamers than on any other water of the United States and more than three times 4,533, which is the number of passages through the Suez canal in 1910. The daily average number of vessels recorded at Lookout Station No. 8, which is located just below Sault Ste. Marie, at the entrance to Hay Lake channel, was 72, or at the rate of one boat every 20 minutes. The week ended August 5 showed the greatest daily average for any week during the year, namely 86 vessels, and the greatest number recorded in any one day was 105, on AfigHst 24-~~ The passage of this large number of craft Was accomplished without any congestion approaching a blockade, and while there were a number of minor accidents, only one was due to violation of the navigation laws. The channels were open at all times, and no obstructions to navigation occurred other than due to fogs. St. Marys river markb the boundary

FROZE TO DEATH ON HORSE

Ranchman Bld well Lost His Life While Driving His Herd* to Shelter. Kansas City.—Many details of privations suffered by ranchers became known. Frozen to' death in his saddle, his horse dead under him, and scores of dead cattle about him, T. C. Bidwell, a ranchman, was found half-burled in the snow near Scott City. Kan. Bidwell lost his life trying to drive, his herds to shelter. 1 The railroads are still fighting fora passage'through western Kansas. The Santa Fe has -been open to Dodge City, but west of that point the line is blocked by drifts in some places 30 feet h igh. Although a rise of from 10 to 20 degrees in temperature has alleviated suffering here and in the southwest, normal condition* probably will not prevail inside of a week. Seven degrees below zero was recorded here.

GIVES YOUTH $15,000 A YEAR

New York Supreme Court Raleee Income, Although Father*! Will Fixed It at >3,000. New York.—J. Arthur Hinckley, five Tears old, had Ms income raised from 13,000 a year to >15,000 by, the supreme court. The order was made on application of the lad's mother, widow of J. Arthur Hinckley, a wealthy yachtsman who died in Paris two years ago. Mr. Hinckley left an estate of >2,000,000, providing In his wIH that his son should receive only >3,000 a year until he was twenty-one.

line between the United States and Canada at the northern extremity of Michigan. It divides at Sault Ste. Marie falls, and two canals make navigation possible at this point—one on the American side, equipped with two masonry locks, and the other on the Canadian side, with one masonry lock. The Hay lake route, being a comparatively straight cut, dan be navigated with reasonable safety at night, and it is well defined by many lights and buoys In charge of the bureau of lighthouses. Both the Hay lake and Lake George routes are open to either American or Canadian ships, free of toil. This channel forms the natural outlet for the vessels carrying manufacturing, mining and agricultural products from the shore cities on Lake Superior, especially Detroit and Duluth, and while freight steamers comprise the largest number of ships plying these waters, passenger steamers also form a considerable part of the heavy traffic. Lieut. William J. Wheelerr U. S. E. C. 8., will succeed Lieutenant Scott next season.

LOCKED UP BY HIS OWN WIFE

Author-Lawyer of Boston Toll* Court He I* Compelled to Hid* From Spouse. Boston. —S. Arthur Bent, of Boston, ha* filed a bill in equity in the superior against bls wife, Mrs. MafyTL Bent, seeking to recover securities worth $310,000, which he claims he was forced into transferring to his wife by threats while they were in Europe in 1909. Since then, Bent alleges, he has been treated with great Indignity and even locked in a room and has been obliged to hide from his wife. Bent is a lawyer and Author of several books.

WITHIN SIGHT OF MILLIONS

Easy Fortune Seeker* Almost Get Century Old Treasure, When Weather > Discourage* Them. New York.—With more than a million pounds sterling in gold and silver bullion in sight, which treasure was part of the cargo of the British frigate Lutine, when that vessel foundered off Terschiling, In the Zuyder Zee, in 1799, the salvage steamer Lyons was compelled a few weeks ago to return to Amsterdam because of bad. weather. This was the statement made by C. H. Miller, second officer of the Lyons, who is at the Broadway Central hotel on his way to Philadelphia to visit relatives. “We discovered the wrecked frigate in about -four fathoms of water last July,” said Mr. Miller, “and we at once began to pump out the sand that covered the hulk. We pumped out a large ampunkof sand before wewere able to get at the interior. We' located the which lies beneath a mass of cannon balls, and which have been welded together by the chemical action of sqa water. We dynamited much of this mass and the pumps sucked up many silver and gold coins, proving that .the vessel was the Lutine. Bad weather forced us to give up salvage operations, but we wlll renew work about March 1.” The National Salvage association of London was formed Some time ago, with tM duke of Teck and Lord Dunraven as stockholders, to attempt the recovery of the treasure contained in the Lutine. -

SECRETS ARE BARED

Representative Harrison Say* British Have U. S. Navy Data. Assert* English Accountanta Employed by Department Have Acees* to Recorde—Resolution Calling for Information. Washington.—Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York demanded that the navy department tell whether it has been employing foreign accountants in capacities where they have had access to the confidential or secret processes of manufacture in the navy yards. He introduced a privileged resolution calling on Mr. Meyer, secretary of the navy, for full information. The New York Democrat made public a complaint of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, which says in part: “Properly to install cost systems it is necessary for the accountants to familiarize themselves with the process of manufacture, material, labor, efficiency of various machinery and overhead expense. Hence the secrets of the navy are accessible to British subjects employed as accountants. How easy It would be for secret service agents of Great Britain to be employed on the staff of these' chartered accountants in their navy yard work.” It is further said that British firm* of accountants have transferred firm member* and a majority of their minor assistants to this country, supplanting American accountants. Secretary Meyer has' replied In • letter to a member of the house that these accountants "did not have access to records, processes or types of machinery that could be considered in any way of a confidential nature.” Perley Morse, president of the New 1 York accountants, has written to Mr. Harrison that Secretary 'Meyer ha* notwtated all the fact*. Mr. Mono added that Mr. Meyer neglected to say that these British accountant* have been installing cost systems in American navy yards and that* they could not do this without access to secret processes and methods of manufacture. Mr. Harrison will call up hl* resolution in a few day* and it is ex.pected to pas* the house. The senate will not need to act on it.

SHOT BY QUEER WEAPON

Weapon for Palm of Hand Discovered In .Auto After Man la Wounded. ■ New York.—Through the •hooting of a machinist, the police came, into possession of a peculiar Spring gun, evidently made to be carried in the palm of the hand- George Burnett, of 703 E. 138th street, was repairing the side door of an automobile in a garage at 304 W. 49th street, when he was shot in the right hand. He was taken to the Flower Hospital. Employees of the garage were mystified, as it was not apparent just how Burnett had been shot. After a search they found the weapon, in a pocket of the door. It was like a bottle. The neck could be unscrewed, and when this was done an exploded cartridge, and also a full cartridge, were found in the single chamber. By holding the weapon in the palm of the hand, springs could be pressed. The weapon is about five inches long; ttTTbes not bear the maker’s name.

Teacher Begins 101st Term.

Ledyard, Conn. —Thomas Latham has begun his 101st term as a teacher in the public schools-of Ledyard, Conn., and walks several miles daily to and from the school. He is now teaching the grandchildren of some of his earlier pupils.

ARMY POST IS CUPID’S ENEMY

Buildings In Hawaii Will Be Built by Government to Diecourage Matrimony. Washington, D. C.—Plans approved at the war department for the construction at Fort Schofield, Hawaii, of what will be the most economical army post ever erected. The plans embody the ideas of General Wood. The new barracks will be in the form of a horseshoe, with a double line of buildings for officers in the center of the horseshoe. Double houses will be built, so arranged as to accomodate three or four bachelor officers each. It is Intended to discourage early marriages among the officers, by providing quarters adequate and comfortable but not liberal enough to form an Inducement to matrimony and additional expense to the government

SNOW TAMES GAME BIRDS

Connecticut Farmer* Find Quail and Other Wild Fowl Roosting Among Hens. Plainfield, Conn. —Owing to the, heavy fall of snow thousands of quail, bluejays and other wild bird* are driven to the shelter of barnyards. In Canterbury a fanner went ©uti to feed bls hen* and found a doaeeu quail roosting among them. The game wardens jxod assistants *rei building bush and feed shelters tors them.