Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Wrwj fawipt Sondar HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

HkstntMM by M. G. KETTNER

SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the 22-year-old son of the iAfty-uallllon-doUar copper king of Blairtown, Mont., is a guest at the English .home of Lady Galorey. Dan’s father had been courteous to Load 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 to 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 theater where one Letty Lane is the star. Dan recognizes her as the girl from his town, and going behind the scenes intro'duces himself and she remembers him. He learns that Prince Ponlotowsky is suitor and escort to Letty. Lord Galorey and a friend named Ruggles determine to protect the' westerner from Lily and other fortune hunters. Young Blair goes to see Lily; he can talk of nothing but Letty and this angers the Duchess. The westerner finds Letty ill from hard work, but she recovers and Ruggles and laßMtehffllto. tmr She-sates Dan to build a home for disappointed theatrical people. Dan visits Lily, for the time forgetting Letty, and later announces his engagement to the duchess. Letty refuses to sing for an entertainment given by Lily. CHAPTER XlV.—Continued. On the threshold of her door he asked her to let him know when she weald sing In Park Lane, and In touching her hand he repeated that she must count on Mini. 'With more tenderness in his blue eyes than he was himself aware, he murmured devoutedly: “Take care of yourself, won’t you, please?” As Blair passed from the sittingroom into the hall and toward the lift, Mrs. Higgins came out hurriedly from one of the rooms and joined him. “How did you find her, Mr. Blair?” “Awfully seedy, Mrs. Higgins; she needs of a lot of care.” "She won’t take it though,” returned the woman. "Just seems to let herself go, not to mind a bit, especially these last weeks. I’m glad you came in; I’ve been hoping you would, sir.” “I’m not any good though, she won’t listen to a word I say.” It seemed to surprise the dressing woman. ‘Tm sorry to hear It, sir; I she would. She talks about yotMJft- . on" ■ He cplored like a school-boy. “Gosh, it’s a shame to have her kill herself for nothing.” Reluctant to talk longer with Mrs. Higgins., he added In spite of himself: “She seems so lonely." “It’s two weeks now since that human devil went away,” Mrs. Higgins said unexpectedly, looking quietly into the blue eyes of the visitor. “She hasn’t opened one of his letters or his telegrams. She has sold every pin and brooch he ever gave her, scattered the money far and wide. You saw-how she went on with Cohen, and her pearls.” Dan heard her as through a dream. Her words gave form and existence to a dreadful thing he had been trying to deny. "Is she hard up now, Mrs. Higgins?” he asked softly. And glancing at him to see just how far she might go, the woman said: - “An actress who spends and lives as Miss Lane does is always hard up.” “Could you use moiiey without her knowing about it?" “Lord,” exclaimed the woman, “it wouldn’t be bard, sir! She only knows that there is such a thing as money when the hills come and she hasn’t got a penny. Or when the poor come! She’s got a heart of gold, sir, for everybody that Is in need.” He took out of his wallet a wad of Botes and pnt them in Higgins’ hands. '“Just pay up some bills on the sly, and don’t you tell her on your life. I don’t want her to be worried.” Explaining with sensitive understanding: "It’s all right, Mrs. Higgins; I’m from her town, you know.” And the woman who admired him and understood him, and whose life had made her keen to read things as they were, said earnestly: “I quite understand how it is, sir. It Is just as though it came straight from ’ome She overdraws her salary months ahead.” “Have you been with Miss Lane long?" “Ever since she toured in Europe, and nobody could serve her without tteiog very fond of her indeed.” Dsn pot out his big warm hand eagerly. “You’re a corker. Mrs. Higof ~ .t jiT. ’ - > h'V t ■ ■

excuse to the duchess. At the opposite table Dan saw Prince Poniotowsky, writing, as well. The Hungarian did not see Blair, and when he had finished his note he called a page boy and Dan could hear him send bis letter up to Miss Lane’s suite. The young westerner thought with confident exaltation, “Well, he’ll get left all right, and I’m darned if I don’t sit here and see him turned down!” Dan sat on until the nagereturned and gave Ponlotowsky a verbal message. “Will you please come upstairs, sir?” And Blair saw the Hungarian rise, adjust his eye-glass, and walk toward the lift. CHAPTER XV. Galorey Gjvqs Advice. Lord Galorey had long been used to seeing things go the way they would and should not, and his greatest effort had been attained on the day he gave his languid body the trouble to go in and see Ruggles. “My God.” he muttered as he watched Dan and the duchess on the terrace together—they were nevertheless undeniably a handsome pair—“to think that this is the way I am returning old Blair’s hospitality!” And 'he was ashamed to recall his western -experiences, when in a shack in the mountains he had watched the big stars come out in the heavens and sat late with old Dan Blair, delighted with the simple philosophies and the man’s high Ideals. “What the devil does it all mean?” he wondered. “She has simply seduced him, that’ all.” He got Dan finally to himself and

“And What’s More, She’s Not in Love With You.”

without any preparation began, pushing Dan back Into a big leather chair, and standing up like a judge over him: - . "Now, you reblly must listen to me, my dear chap. I shan’t rest in my grave unless I get a word with you. Yous father sent you here to me and I’m damned if I know what for. I’ve been wondering every day about it for two months. He didn’t know what this set was like or how rotten It is.” “What set?” The boy looked appallingly young as Gordon stared down at him. There wasn’t a line or wrinkle on his smooth brow or on bis lips and forehead finely cut and well molded—but there were the very seals of what his father would have been glad to see. The boy had the same clear look and unspoiled frankness that had charmed Galorey at the first. He had been a lazy coward to delay so long. “Why, the rottenness of this set right here In my house.” And as the host began to see that he should have to approach a woman’s name In speaking, he stopped short, his mouth wide open, and Dan thought he had been drinking.

"You are talking of marrying Lily,” Gordon got out. “I am going to marry her.” “Yqu musn’t." Blair got up out of his chair. It didn't need this attack of Galorey’s to bring to his mind hints that had been dropped that Galorey was in love with the Duchess of Breakwater. It Illuminated what Galorey was saying fast and Incoherently. “I mean to say, my dear chap, that you musn’t "marry the Duchess of Breakwater. Look at most of these European marriages. They all go to smash. She is older than you are and she hal lived her life. You are much too young.” "Hold up, Galorey; you mustn’t go on, you know, i Your know I am engaged;. that’s all there is about It. Now, let’s go and have a game of pool” Galorey had not worked himself up to this pitch to break off now at a fatal point “I’m responsible for this, and by gad, Dan, I’m going to pnt you on your guard.” •You are, responsible for nothing, Galorey, and I warn you to drop it” “You would listen to your father If he were here, wouldn’t your *

”1 don't know,” said the boy slowly Then followed up with an honest “Yes, I would.” Gordon caught eagerly, “Well, be sent you to me. Your friend Ruggles has gone off and washed his hands of you, but I can’t.” Lord Galorey walked across the room briskly and came back to Dan. “First of all, you are not in love with Lily—not a bit of it. You couldn’t be —and what’s more she is not in love with you.” Blair laughed coolly. ‘‘You certainly have got things down to a fine point, Gordon. I’ll be hanged if I understand your game.” —- Galorey went bravely on: “Therefore, if neither of you are in love, you understand that there is nothing be? tween you but your money.” The Englishman got his point out brutally, relieved that the impersonal thing money opened a way for him. He didn’t want to be the bounder and the cad that the mention of the woman would have made him. The boy drew in an angry breath. “Gosh,” he said, “that cursed money will make me crazy yet! You are not very flattering to me, Gordon, I swear, and Lily wouldn’t thank you for the motives you impute to her.” “Oh. rot!” returned Gordon more tranquilly. “She hasn’t got a human sentiment in her. She’s a rock with a woman’s face.” Dan turned his back on his host and walked off into the bifliard-room. Galorey promptly followed him, took down a cue and chalked it, and said: "“Well, come now; let’s put it to the test.” Blair began stacking the balls. “How do you mean?” “Well, when you have had time to get your first news over from Ruggles,

tell her you have gone to smash and that you are a pauper.” “I don’t play tricks like that,” said the westerner quietly. . “No,” responded Galorey bitterly, “you let others play tricks on you,” The young man threw his cue smartly down, his youth looked contemptuously at the worldly man, and he turned pale, but he said In’ a low voice: “Now, you’ve got to let up on this, Gordon; I thought at first you had been drinking. I won’t listen. Let’s get on another subject, or I’ll clear out.” Galorey, however, cool and pitiful of the tangle in the boy’s affairs, wouldn’t let himself be angry. "You are my old chum’s boy, Dan,” he went on, “and I’m not going to stand by and see you spoil your life in silence. You are of age. You can go to the devil if you like, but you can’t go there under my rooh without a word from me.” “Then I’ll get out from under your roof, tonight.” “Right! I (ion’t blame you there, but, before you go, tell Lily you have lost your money, and see what she is made of. My dear chap’—he changed hiß tone to one of affection —“don’t he an ape; listen to me, for your father’s sake; remember your whole life’s happiness Is In this game. Isn’t !! worth looking after?" ~~f~ r “Not at the risk of hurting a woman’s feelings," Bald the boy.(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Queensland Pearl Divers.

The Queensland diver gets into his dress at daybreak, steps onto the ladder over, the side, and fastens the life line round him; the tender screws on the face glass, the pomps are started, and down goes the diver to look for shell If be Is on ground where shell Is plentiful he fills bis bag, then allows bis drees to fill with air, which brings him to the surface, when he Is hadled to the boat by the life line. He empties his bag onto the deck and goes down for another bagful. Some of the divers occasionally work in 25 fathoms. The greatest danger with which the diver has to contend is paralysis, and knowing the danger be rims he sometimes demands 31,000 in advance, and this amount is sometimes lost to the pearler through the zeal and daring of the diver.

TELLS OF JACKSON

Biographer Says Ex-President Would Be Muckraker. * Conditions Ajluch the Bame—Great Democratic" Leader Always Opposed National Debt, Now' Considered Harmless. Northampton, Mass. —“If Andrew Jackson were on earth today he would, I believe; be a muckraker.” This is the statement of Prof. John Spencer Bassett, the authorized biographer of the former president, whose “day” was recently celebrated. Hla biographer was asked: “If Andrew Jackson should come back to earth what would he do; where would be stand?" “I am no prophet,” he replied, “and I am not discussing politics, but I will tell you how I think he would feel about modern conditions, judging this from my study of his life. “Jackson’s keenest impulse was against political jobbery and he would be In sympathy with the present-day muckraker. He opposed internal improvements because he thought localities were taking advantage of the government to get roads built. There was a group of road contractors - n whom he thought were promoting the demands for roads for private profit “How did conditions In Jackson’s time compare with ours?” "There are some similarities between political conditions in our day and In Jackson’s,” replied the historian. “The people feel the Same as regards monopoly; they have the same suspicion of what is called a ‘money trust,’ and there Is the same demand for a etronger ieader whoim special mterests cannot control or corrupt “The tariff was almost as live an Issue In Jackson’s day as at present Protection has had two palmy days In our history—from 1816 to 1833 and from 1865 to date. In Jackßon’s time It was checked by a compromise which provided for a reduction so gradual that It did not damage industry, and when the schedule had been brought- down- ta - a—-revenue basis there followed nearly 20 years of public economy and business prosperity. “In his fight on the bank Jackson committed some errors. Some of his charges were not true, and the people could see It Sometimes he was

Animals Drunk at Feast

There Were Frogs and Lizards and Ducks at This Bociety Dinner. San Francisco. —The “animal dinner” given by Mrs. Andrew Welch, at the Fairmount Hotel Friday night, has created a stir in the highest society circles. Mrs. Welch’s dinner table represented a scene in a jungle. Figures of Hons and tigers, giraffes and elephants peered from miniature thickets, but It was the introduction of living creatures Into the picture that furnished an element of eccentricity. Ducks, parrots, frogs, lizards, canary birds and crabs kept strange company with the lay figures of the beasts of the lunele. The commotion of the seating of the guests aroused two parrots, and one began to cheer vociferously, while the second, which was of the exaggerated profane type, consigned one to perdition in its shrieking. .... ... .... ..... , - . Frogs hopped from the grass-covered table Into the laps of the guests and were received with shrieks. The climax was reached when a wag suggested that the “sportihess” of the parrots be tested by giving them bread

WANTED HANDLES FOR DRUM

Eastern Firm Hears From Irate Customer Who Resides at Ban Leandro, Cal. Camden, N. J. —Among the numerous letters received at a drum works was the following: “I got the Drum which I buy from you alrite, but why for god’s sake you doan send me no handels? Wats the übb the Drum when she doan have no handels? I loose to me my customah sure thing you doan treat® me rite, is my money not so good to you as the otha fella? I wate ten days, and my customah he holler like H— for the Drum, you know he is bot You doan send me the handels poretty quick I sen her back and order some drum from some Shermann companee. Good Bye your fren, Antonio S. Dutes.” In a postscript the writer adds: “since I rite I find the handels In the box excuse me." The writer resides at San Leandro, CaL

A War on Mosquitoes.

Montclair,' N. J. —The Montclair board of health has provided an advance fund of |2,000 for the extermination of the mosquito. President Moses N. Baker said It would pay the town to issue bonds and raise half a million dollars for the ahti-mosqulto cauea. - T£s plans for next rammer include toe organisation of a corps of special mosquito inspectors. It will be "their duty to Inspect every estate, no matter how humble, and see that no stagnant water Is permitted to stand, either to the shape of puddles, pools or ponds. If toe owners do not drain off toe stagnant water th#y will be proeecjrted.

CITY WHERE CHURCHILL SPOKE

WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL'S incursion into Ulster, which threatf* ened at one time to cause sanguinary rioting anti serious loss of life, has ended without eron a broken head. Mr. Churchill outlined the intentions of the government with respect to self-government for Ireland add declared that no greater boon could come to the empire than the settlement of the long and bitter quarrel between the British government and the Irish people. The presence in Belfast of the largest military force ever gathered to preserve peace among the Irish factions combined with a drenching rain to check the bellicose ardor of the anti-home rulers, whose hostility was mainly vented by booing and hooting.

needlessly harsh toward opponents, and the people could this. But for all tjiat they supported him, and these were not merely the Ignorant, stupid portion of the communities, but the average people, small merchants, farmers and planters, and Intelligent employes of all classes. They were

soaked In champagne. One became noisy and vociferous and changed his mild conversational tone to wildly declamatory comments: “Have a good time! Have a good time, but be sure to come home by 3!” and one that had been swearing all evening fell asleep.

MAY ALMOST LIVE ON ‘SPUDS’

DietetloN Expert Says One Can Exist on potatoes by Adding Nitro--1 gen or Protein. Paris, France. —Dr. Fletcher, the dietetic expert, who has been stopping in Copenhagen, has finished a course of living on potatoes and margar lasteri*K<4aya. Th« object was to prove that a man can live comfortably and do reasonable work on a diet* of potatoes plus a email quantity of nitrogen or protein. One thousand five hundred drams of potatoes a day and 250 drams of protein constituted tbe entire nourishment which Dr. Fletcher took. The American minister to Denmark, Dr. M. F. Egan, has been observing experiments in the laboratory of Dr. Hinhedes on the results of various

She Mends Baby Carriages

Yoting Boston Woman Makes Her Living Repairing Damaged Vehicles. Boston. —“My work is caring for 100 baby carriages at the rate of 31 a month a carriage, so you can easily figure out my income,” said a young woman, whose home is in one of our lesser eastern cities. “My mother owns our home. Though bur house is small, there- is a large, old-fashioned stabler which for a number of years we have rented. I had mended ray Bister’s baby-carriage so successfully on several occasions that several of bur friends bad either asked or hinted for me to repair theirs. Having five carriages on toy hands, the thought came to me, how much bettor those carriages would look and bow much longer they would wear if they had a stitch to time and also didn’t have to be battered by bumping up and down tbe stairs of the apartment houses in which many of their owners lived. “With the money earned recushioning those five carriages I had a hundred cards printed, setting forth the fact that Miss Mary Blank would be glad to repair and care for baby carriages at 10 X street These cards X sent by mail to mothers having small babies, beginning with those living immediately around me. “Of course, I spoke to friends who had babies. Fortunately, I had already gained toe confidence of the people whose baby carriages I had repaired, so I started to with those live and my sister's, making six in gJJ, As 'time

concerned with one chief purpose, and on that they wefb satisfied with the leader. They thought some of the charges against him the mere exaggeration of partisanship, and others,! if true, of such minor importance that! they could be Ignored in view of the! grand purpose.’’

vegetable diets. The tests made by Dr. Hinhedes were similar to onesi made at Tale. Dr. Egan proposes to send a report of his observations to his government.

BURGLARS GET OLD JUNK

N Funny as an Earache” to Watch-j man Who Witnessed Robbery. San Andreas.—-Stephen Cassinellf! perpetrated a cruel joke on three-! cracksmen by allowing them to blow] a safe that he knew contained noth-i ing but a lot of old merchandise cat-t alogues and a bottle of ink. He says! he does not believe In interfering ini other people’s affairs. Cassinelli sleeps on a couch in a general store owned by his brother, D. Cassinelli, and is the guardian of the store. The three yeggmen jimmied their way into the store and began an elaborate nitroglycerin job. Cassinelli lay on the couoh watching the operation. They blew open the door, took a look inside and hurriedly departed.’ “It was funny as an earache when! they looked in and saw those old cat-’ alogues,” said Cassinelli. “I had aj good laugh all to myself and finished! up a good night’s sleep. The safe was no good, anyway.”

passed the number Increased until IJ. could enjoy the feeling of having morej offers than 1 could accept. When! there were more than I could accommodate on the floor of the barn I had an elevator built by which I could take them up and down and so use the loft"

LIST A CITY’S BACHELORS

Kansas Newspaper Does What It Can* to Guide Bpinster Readers— ' Kiowa. Kan. —As a guide to spinsters desiring to take advantage of their leap year privileges, a local; newspaper is printing in its column* a directory of the members of a elute of eligible bachelors of the town. The* club has raised a purse for the first member who shall be made a hna-j band. The list is headed by Charles aJ Taylor, who is described not only as a! prosperous merchant, but also as the* champion ehecker player and horse-! shoe pitcher of the town. Some of the members have commercial ratings of »too,ooo.

Lizard In Stomach a Year.

Milton, N. V D.—Loss of flesh at the rate of a pound a day has been successfully combatted by Joseph Schneider of Wales since he coughed up a live litard about an inch and a hats long. The litard bad evidently got into his stomach last summer while he was drimgag water from a slough where he was banting.-. ■ • ’ V-• \ vj* y - s. - v.