Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Brcrr D*r Kempt Sunday HEALEY A, CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

illustration* by M. G. KETTNER

(Copjntibt, 18X0, by The Bob be-Morrill Cod » SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the 22-year-old Bon of the flfty-nrfHlon-doliar copper king of Blair-" town, 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 theater where one Letty Lane is the star. Dan recognizes her as the girl from his town, and going behind the scenes introduces himself and she remembers him. He learns that Prince Poniotowsky is suitor and escort to Letty. Lord Galorey and a friend named Ruggl’es 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, hut she recovers and Ruggles and Dan invite her to supper. She asks Dan to build a home for disappointed theatrical people. Dan visits Lily, for tne time forgetting Letty, and later announces his engagement to the duchess. Letty refuses to sing for an entertainment given by Lily. Galorey tells Dan that ah Lily cares for Is his money, and it is disclosed that he and the duchess have been mutually in love for years. Letty sings at an aristocratic function. CHAPTER XVIL—Continued. Dan felt his heart grow cold. If she had awakened him when he was a little boy, she thrilled him now; he could hare wept. Lady Calwarn did wipe tears away. When the last note of the accompaniment had ended, Dan’s friend at his side said: “How utterly ravishing! What a beautiful, lovely creature!” He scarcely answered. He was making his way to Letty Lane, and he wrung her hand, murmuring, “Oh, you’re great; you’re great!” And the pleasure on his .face repaid her over and over again. “Come, I want you to meet the Duchess of Breakwater, and some other friends of mine." As he letter little cold hand fall uid turned about, the room as by magic had cleared. The prime minister had arrived late and was in the other room. The refreshments were also being serve<j. There was no one to meet Letty Lane, except for several young, men who came up eagerly and asked to be presented, Gordon Galorey among them. - “Where’s Lily?” Dan asked him; “I want her to meet Miss Lane.” “In the conservatory with the prime minister,” and Galorey looked meaningly at Dan, as much as to say, “Now don’t be an utter fool.” But Letty Lane herself the -situation. She shook hands with the utmost cordiality and sweetness with the men who had been presented to her, and asked Dan to take her to her motor. He waited for her at the door and she came down wrapped around as usual in her filmy scarf. “Are you better?” he asked eagerly. “You look awfully stunning, and I don’t think I can -ever thank “ you enough." She assured Mm that she was “all right,” and that dhe had a ‘lovely new role to learn and that it was coming on next month.” He helped her in and she seemed to fill the motor like a basket of fresh white flowers. Again he repeated, aB he held the door open: “I can’t thank you enough; you were a great success.” She smiled wickedly, and couldn’t resist: u* "Especially with the women.” Dan’s face flushed; he was already deeply hurt for her, and her words showed him that the insult had gone home. “Where are you going now?” “Right to the Savoy.” Without another word, hat less as he was, be got into the motor and closed the door. *Tm going to take you home” he informed her quietly, “and there's no use in looking at me like that either! When I'm set on a thing I get it!” They rolled away in the bland sunset, passed the park, down Piccadilly, where the flowers in the streets were so sweet that they made the heart ache, and the air through the window was so sweet that it made the senses swim! CHAPTER XVIII. A Woman’s Way. When the duchess thought of looking for Blair later in the afternoon he was not to be found. Galorey told her finally be had gone off ,in the motor with Letty Lane, bareheaded. The duchess was bidding good-by to the last guest; she motioned Galorey to wait and he did so, and they found themselves alone in the room where the flowers, still fresh, offered their AUiOt oompsay; the druggets strewn W*SEm&im2SEkA*-*Lr-'--'- .

with leaves of srmllax, the open piano with its scattered music the dark rosewood that had served for a rest for Letty Lane’s white hand. and the duchess turned their backs on the music-room, and went into a small conservatory looking out over the - “He’s nothing but a cowboy,” the lady exclaimed. “He must be quite mad, going off bareheaded through London with an actress.” “He’s spoiled,” Lord Galdfey said peacefully. She carried a bunch of orchids Dan had given her, and regarded them absently. “I’ve made him angry, and he’s taking this way of exhibiting his spleen.” Galorey said cheerfully: “Oh, Dan’s got lots of spirit." Looking up fFom the contemplation of her flowers to her friend, the duchess murmured with a charming smile: “I don’t hit it off very well with Americans, Gordon.” His color rising, Galorey returned: “I think you’ll have to let Dan go, Lily!” For a second she thought so herself; and they both started when the voice of- the young man himself was heard in the next room. “Good-by, I’ll let you make your peace, Lily,” and Gordon passed Dan in the drawing-room in leaving, and thought the boy’s face was a study. The duchess held out her hand to Dan as he came across the room. “Come here,” she called agreeably. “Every one has gone, thank heaven! I’ve been waiting for you for an age. Let’s talk it all over.” “Just what I’ve come back to do,” There had been royalty at the musicale, and the hostess spoke of her guests and their approval, mentioning one by one the names of the great. It might have Impressed the ear of a man more snob than was the Montana copper king’s son. “I did so want you to meet the Bißhop of London,” she said. “But nobody could find you.

“I Think You’ll Have to Let Dan Go, Lily!”

You look most awfully well, Dan,” and with the orchids she held, she touched his hand. “Don’t you think it went off well?” Dan said that it had been ripping and no mistake. “I like Lady Caiwarn; she’s bully, and I liked the king. He spoke to me as if he had known me for a year.” She began to be a little more at her ease. “I didn’t care much for the fiddling, but Letty Lane made up for all the rest,” said Dan. “Wasn’t she great?” “Ra-ther!” The duchess’ tone was so warm that he asked frankly: “Well, why didn’t you speak to her, Lily?” And the directness caught her unprepared. The insult to the actress by which she had planned to teach him a lesson failed to give her the bravado she found she needed to meet Dan’s question. Her part of the transaction, deliberate, unkind, seemed worse and more serious through hiß headlong act, when he had driven off, braving her, in the motor of an actress. “Wasn't it too dreadful?” she murmured. “Do you think she noticed it too awfully? I was just about to go up and speak to her when the prime minister —” Dan interrupted the duchess. He blushed for her, “Never mind, Lily.” His tone had in it something of benevolence. “If yon really didn’t mean to be mean —" She was enchanted by her easy viotory. “It pas abominable.” “Yes,” he accepted, ‘lt was just that! I was mortified. You wouldn’t treat a beggar so. Bqt she’s got too much sense to care.” Pfrgwf to do the duchess Justice, even though he was little by little being emancipated, he was all the mpre determined to be fair to her. "It was too sweet of her not to mind. I dare say her check helped to soothe her feelings,” the woman said. “Yon don’t know her," he replied

quietly. “She wouldn’t touch a cent.” The duchess exclaimed in horrori “Th£n she did mind." And he turned slowly: “She’s eaten and drunk with kings, and if the king hadn’t gone so early you can bet he would have set the fashion differently * Let's drop the' question. She sent you back your chfeck, and I guess you’re quits.” With a sharp note in her voice she said: “I hope it won’t be in the papers that you drove bareheaded back to the hotel with her. Don’t forget that we are dining with the Galch-ey’s, and it's past seven.” After Dan had left her, the duchess glanced over the dismantled room which the servants were already restoring to order. She was not at ease and not at peace, but there was something else besides her tiff with Dan that absorbed her, and that was Galorey. She couldn’t quite shake him off. He was beginning to be imperious in his demands on her; and, in spite of her cupidity and her debts, in spite of the precarious position in which she found herself with Dan, she could not break with Galorey yet. She went upstairs humming under her breath the ballad Letty Lane had sung in the music room: “And long may his lady look from the castle wall.” CHAPTER XIX. Dan Awakes. The next night Dan, magnetically drawn down the Strand to the Gaiety, arrived just before the close of the last act, slipped In, and sat far hack watching Letty Lane close her part. After hearing her sing as she had the afternoon before in the worldly group, it was curious to- see her before the public in her flashing dress and to realize how much she was a thing of the people. Tonight she was a completely personal element to Dan. He could never think of tier again as he had hitherto. The sharp drive through the town that afternoon in her motor

had made a change- In his feelings He had been hurt for her, with anger at the duchess of Breakwater's rudeness, and from the first he had always known that there was in him a hot championship for the actress. Tonight, whenever the man who Bang with her put his arms around her, danced with her, held her, it was an offense to Dan Blair; it had angered him before, but tonight it did more. One by one everything faded out of his foreground but the brilliant little figure with her golden hair, her lovely face, her beautiful graceful body, and in her last gesture on the stage before the curtain went down, she seemed to Blair to call him and distinctly to make an appeal to him:

“You might rest your weary feet If you came to Mandalay.”

Well, there was nothing 'weary about the young, live, vigorous Amer lean, as, standing there in his dark edge of the theater, his hands in his pockets, his bright face fixed toward the stage, he watched the slow falling of the curtain on the musical drama Dan realized how full of vigor he was; he felt strong and capable, indeed a feeling of power often came to him delightfully, but lit had never been needful for him to exert bis forces, he bad never had heed to show his mettle. Now he felt at those words:

"You might rest your weary feet”

how, with all his heart, he longed that the dancer shoqld rest those lovely tired little feet of hers, far away from any call of the public, far away on some shore which the hymn tone called the ooral strand. As h< gazed at her mobile, sensitive face whose eyes had seen the world, anc whose lips—Dan’s thoughts changed here with a great pang, and the doa< of all his meditations was: "Gosh, sh< ought to rest!” ’ „ (TO B« CONTINUED^ , —--rrV ‘ r

COL. GEORGE W. GOETHALS, caught by the photographer as he was landingjn New York for one of his periodical visits, had several good reasons for the cheerful smile. -One was the report he brought of the rapid progress being made in the work on the Panama canal, of which he is the chief engineer. He says considerably over 70 per cent, of the canal is finished and that it will be surely opened officially January 1, 1915. . The unofficial opening will be months before that date.

STEAMSHIP OF 1812

In That Year Henry BellYaunched the Comet. Scotchman After Many Struggles Succeeded In Making Vessel—Stone Pillar on Banks of Clyde Memory of Inventor. London. —On January 18, 1812, there i-pas launched at Glasgfcftv, on the Clyde, a little wooden vessel 40 feet In legnth and 10 feet 6 inches in breadth. She received the name of ,Comet, because jußt at the time when she began to be built in the summer of 1811 a remarkable comet was visible in the heavens. That comet Is still referred to in astronomical books as the great comet of 1811. The owner of this little boat was Henry ..Bell, originally a working mason, who had seen at Carron in 178> the first attempts at steam navigation on board a vessel which was built for the"purpose of towing barges on the Forth and Clyde canals. Henry Bell was certain that it was possible to employ steam for vessels intended for passenger trade. But the difficulty was to find the money. In 1800 he laid before the British government of the day his plans for the construction of a vessel that could carry passengers. But after waiting for some years he found there was no help to be obtained from the government. If there had been some farseeing man about the admiralty at that time the invention might have been taken up, and Nelson in his later years would not have had to wait on the winds when he went to attack the French fleet. Henry Bell did not lose heart. He went to Helensburgh, on the Clyde, and there built a small hotel, which still stand?, with additions to it,between Helensburgh and the North British railway station at Craigendoran. He made some money at this hotel, and in the summer of 1811 he gave an order to Messrs. John Wood & Co., shipbuilders at Port Glasgow, for the construction of the Comet, the first pas-

“SEE AMERICA FIRST” GROWS

Interior Department to Bpread Idea Throughout Country by Exhibition of Pictures. Washington, D. C. —The “See America First” Idea is making rapid headway in the United States, according to officials of the interior department charged with the supervision of the country's parks: A collection of handsome colored views in the parks, recently gathered by the department for loan purposes, already has been scheduled for exhibitions up to August 15 next The collection is about to be taken on a tour of New England cities, including Boston, Providence, Hartford and Worcester. Officers of the Scenic and Historic Preservation Society of New York are preparing to give a special exhibit of beautiful American views and have asked for the use of the Interior department’s collection. After the eastern tour the pictures will he unit through the south and middle west

Quick Wit Saves His Life.

Wilkesbarre, Pa.—The quick wit of fifteen-year-old Francis Scott of Avoca saved his life. While walking on the Delaware and Hudson railway he stepped out of the way of one train directly In front of a freight train which was backing up. There was no time to jump aside, so he threw himself flat in the middle of the track and 15 freight cars and the locomotive., passed over him.' The trainmen, expecting to find him dead, were surmised when be sprang up. He was xadly bruised and cut and his clothes sere torn from him, but no bones vere broken. - • \ . " 1 1 " - -

CANAL BUILDER HOKE ON A VISIT

senger steamer. The same shipbuilding firm that launched the Comet in 1812 launched for the Cunard line in 1839 the Acadia, the second steamer of the famous line, the Britannia being the first, so that from Port Glasgow there came the first passenger river steamer and the second Atlantic liner. At length all was ready, and in the autumn of 1812 the Comet had the sole passenger steam traffic on the River Clyde. She was pronounced a success. But her success brought imitators and rivals, and in the next year, 1813, there were three other steamers on the Clyde, all of them larger and swifter than the Comet. So that the first passenger steamer in the world already left behind, and as a result the passengers chose to go with the faster steamers and poor Henry Bell met the fate of many another inventor. His vessel was a success from the point of view of the engineer, but she did not bring in money to her owner. As the Comet had been beateh in speed on the Clyde, she was sent to the Firth of Forth, and for a time made better speed there than on the Clyde, because the water was deeper. But after awhile rival steamers appeared on the Forth and the poor little Comet, the pioneer of the tfteam passenger ships of the world, came to an inglorious end. She had not made a fortune for her owner, but left him to be dependent in his old age on an annuity of £SO granted by the Clyde trustees. Though there is a monument to Henry Bell on the north bank of the Clyde at Bowling about half way between Glasgow and Greenock, probably very few of the many thousands who go up and down the Clyde every summer take notice of the weather stained stone pillar at Bowling. Fewer still, are aware that the monument commemorates the man to whom the River Clyde and every navigable river and sea in the world owe so much. Choosing Right Moment. The true philosophy of life is to hit the right moment in all that we do.

Fails to Wed; Loses Wealth

Charles F. Corbin Refused to Marry Within Year and Loses Big Bhare of Father's Estate. Meriden, Conn. —Given the preference between single-blessedness and marriage with a large financial reward, Charles F. Corbin, son of the late Philip Corbin, president of the American Hardware Corporation, chose the former state and sacrificed $75,000.. The last opportunity for Mr. Corbin to decide whether he would agree to a clause in his father’d will and take $150,000 in cash, or remain single and worry along on half that amount came when the executors met in the New Britain probate court to distribute the elder Mr. Corbin’s estate, estimated at $1,850,000. A year ago, when Mr. Corbin died, his will was found to contain this clause: “If within one year from my death Charles Corbin, my son, shfll be legally married he shall receive $150,000 in cash. If be is not legally married he shall receive $75,000.” This clause held up the distribution Of the estate and directed much public attention' to young Mr. Corbin. The fact that a divorce had been obtained from him by Mrs. Lillian Blakeslee Corbin in 1908 was commented upon, aad rumors were started that a reconciliation might take place and that before the expiration of the year a second marriage ceremony might be performed. Many assurances were conveyed to ML Corbin that if be had other matrimonial plans he would not hare difficulty in finding a life partner

TO HELP SAILORS TO WED

Navy Boclety Has a Rule That the Women Muat Propoae to American “Tars.” Philadelphia, Pa. Announcment of a secret society among the enlisted men of the United States navy was made by members of the crew of the battleship' Maine, now docked at the Philadelphia navy yard. The society has for its object the promotion of marriages among the sailors with American women. One of the rules of the organization, necessitates proposals of marriage being made by the woman. An assessment will be levied upon the entire membership to supply a gift for every bridegroom. This attempt of members of the navy to promote higher ideals and a home life started some months ago from joking remarks passed in the ward room of the battleship Idaho by several college men who have chosen Uncle Sam’s service as their vocation. Criticisms of the character of the women with whom sailors often associated aroused indignation among the party and led to the formation of a. society.

LYNCH LAW THEIR PROTEST

Missouri Judge Calls Courts Only • Place to Win the Game —Justices Are Merely Umpires. Columbia, Mo.—Speaking to a mass meeting of students, Judge John D. Lawson, who announced his retirement as dean of the law school of the University of Missouri, said that lynch law had become our national disgrace, but that it is “the protest of a people ordinarily law abiding against a condition font. beeansA of -lag- - forcement of the criminal laws, has become intolerable. “In America we still cling to technicalities,” he said, “and court procedure has become not a place to secure justice but a place to win the g/une. Our judges become mere umpires, who cannot search independently for truth and justice. The same conservatism, if you please to call it that, in other practical affairs, would mean that we should be using the sedan chair Instead of the automobile.”

among Connecticut’s .fair daughters. But Mr. Corbin dashed many budding hopes when he announced flatly that the financial inducements were not sufficient to make him take another chance at matrimony. Up to the last moment friends of Mr. Corbin were hopeful that ho would marry within the time limit. When the executors met they learned that Mr. Corbin had win the additional $75,000 and they added this amount to the total, which was distributed among the other beneficiaries. s-i■ ■ - -

$2,500 IN PAUPER’S DRESS

Clothes of Aged Woman Token to Hospital Prove to Be a Veritable Treasure Trove, i Saratoga, N. Y.—After being taken to the hospital as a penniless old woman, Mrs. Anna Minkler, who died" there, was found to be wealthy. She had large sums of money hidden about her clothing. When she was taken to the hospital the woman appeared so poverty-stricken that Dr. Scott Towns, the physician, paid the cab fare. At Ike hospital the woman’s ragged dress was removed and the nurse discovered suspicious lumps about her clothing. An investigation showed that rolls of money had been sewed up in different parts of the dress. Cash’ and a bank book to the value of $2,500 were found. . Included in the collection was the woman’s marriage certificate and the papers granting her a divorce from her husband. - "