Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Byry Day Sunday HEALEY < CLARK, Publhhers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

OlutntiMS by M. G. EETTNER

(Oepyngtit, ISIO. by The Bobta-MerrtU Cod 23 SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the ,22-year-old eon of the nfty-mlUion-dollar copper king of Blairtown. Mont., is a guest at the English home ot 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 Gatoreys. Lily and Dan attend a London theater where one Letty Lane is the star Dan recognises her as the girl from his town, and going behind the scenes introduces 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 pan Invite her to supper. She asks 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. Galorey tells Dan that all 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, Dan escorting her home. Dan confronts Galorey and Lily together. Later he Informs Letty that his engagement with Lily is broken, asks the Singer to marry him, and they become engaged. CHAPTER XXIvT Ruggles’ Offer. He felt as he waited for her in that flower-filled room, for she had recovered from her distaste for flowers, as he glanced at the photographs of women like herself In costumes more or less frank, more or less vulgar, he felt as though he wanted to knock down the walls and let in a big view of the west—of Montana —of the hills. With such a setting he thought he could better talk with the lady whom he had come to see. Ruggles held an unlighted cigar between his fingers and gooseflesh rose all over him. His glasses bothered him. He couldn't get them bright enough, though he polished them half a dozen times on his silk handkerchief. His clothes felt too large. He seemed to have shrunken. He moistened his lips, cleared his throat, tried to remember what kind of fellow he had been at Dan's age. At Dan's age he was selling a suspender patent on the road, supporting his mother and his sisters—hard work and few temptations; ,he was too tired and too poor. Miss Lane kept him waiting ten minutes, and they were hours to het guest He was afraid every minute that Dan would come in. The thoughts he had gathered together, the plan of action, disarranged Itself in his mind every time he thought of the actress. He couldn’t forget his vision of her on the stage or at the Carlton, where she had sat opposite them and bewitched them both. When she came into the sitting-room at length, he started so violently that he knocked over a ■ vase of flowers, the water trickling all over the table down on to the floor , She had dazzled him before the footlights, charmed him at dinner, and It was singular to think that he knew how this dignified, quiet creature looked in ballet Clothes andina dinner dress, whtiifcWrankness had made him catch his breath.' It was a third woman who stood before Ruggles now. He had to take her into consideration. She had expectedshim, saw him by appointment/, She had not climbed to her starry position without having acquired a knowledge of men, and it was the secret of her success. She showed it in the dress in which she received her visitor. She wore a short walking skirt of heavy serge, a simple shirtwaist belted around, a sailor hat on her beautiful little head. She was unjeweled and unpainted, very pale and very sweet It if had not been for the marks of fatigue under her eyes, she would not have looked more than eighteen. On her left hand a single diamond, clear as water, caught the refracted . light “How-de-do? Glad you are back again." - ---- — She gave him a big chair and sat down before him smiling. Leaning her elbows on her knees, she* sank her face upon her hands and looked at him, npt coquettishly in the least, but as a child might have looked From her small feet to her golden head she was utterly charming. Ruggles made himself think of Dan Miss Lane spoke slowly, nodding toward him. in her languid voice; “It’s no use. Mr Ruggles,.no use." Holding her face between her hands, her eyes gray as winter’s seas and as profound, she looked at him intently; then, in a flash, she changed her position and instantly transformed her - . saw that she was a

woman, not an eighteen-year-old girl, but a woman, clever, poised, witty, understanding, and that she might have been twenty years older than the boy. “I’m sorry you spoke so quick,” he said. “I knew," she interrupted, “just -what--you wanted"to' say "froin' 'the start. “I couldn't help it, could I? I knew you would want to come and see me about it It isn’t any use. I know just what you are going to say.” “No, ma’am," he returned, “I don’t believe you do —bright as you are.” Ruggles gazed thoughtfully at the cold end of his unlighted cigar. It was a comfort to him to hold it and to look at it, although not for anything in the world would he have asked to fight it "Dan’s father and me were chums. We went through pretty much together, and“l know how he felt on most points. He was a man of few words, but I know he counted on me to stand by the boy.” __ Ruggles was so chivalrous that his role at present cost him keen discomfort “A lady like you,” he said gently "knows a great deal more about how things are done than either Dan or me. We ain’t tenderfeet in the west, not by a long shot, but we see so few of a certain kind of picture shows that when they do. come round they’re likely to make us lose our minds! You know, yourself, a circus in a town fifty miles from a railroad drives the people crazy. Now, Dan’s a little like the boy with his eyes on the hole in the tent He would commit murder to get Inside and see that show.” He nodded and smiled to her as though he expected her to follow his crude simile. “Now, I have seen you a lot

of times.” And she couldn’t help reminding him, “Not of your own accord, Mr. Ruggles." “Well, I don’t know,” he slowly admitted; “I always felt I had my money’s worth, and the night you ate with us at the Carlton I understood pretty well how the boy with his eyes at the tent hole would feel.” But he tapped his broad chest with the hand that held the cigar between the firs); and second fingers. “I know just what kind of. a heart you’ve got, for I waitedat the stage door and I know you all the applause inside the Gaiety “Goodness” she murmured, “they make an atjful fuss about nothing.” “Now,” ie continued, leaning forward a tri|e toward her languid, halfthink of him as a little boy. He’s only twenty-two. He knows nothing of the world. The money you give to the poor doesn’t come so hard perhaps as this will. It’s a big sacrifice, but I want you to let the boy go.” She smiled slightly, found her handkerchief, which was tucked up the cuff of her blouse, pressed the little bit of linen to her lips as though to steady therm then she~askeaTibruptiy: “What has he. said to you?” “Lord!” Ruggles groaned. "Said to me! My dear young lady, he is much too rude to speak. Dan sort of breathes and snorts around like a lunatic. He was dangling ground that duchess when I was here before, but she didn’t scare me any.” And Letty Lane, now smiling at him, relieved by his break from a more intense tone, asked: "Now, you are scared?” “Well,” Ruggles drawled, /-' 1 '! was pretty sure that woman didn’t care anything for the boy. Are you her kind?" It was the best stroke he had made. She almost sprang up from her chair. “Heavens,” she exclaimed, "I guess I’m not!” Her face flushed. “I had rather see a son of mine dead than married to a woman like that/' he said. "Why, Mr. Ruggles," she exclaimed passionately, addressing him with in-

"Dan’s Father and Me Were Chums.”

terest for the first time, "what do yot ’ know about me? What? What? Yot have seen me dance and heard m< sing.” And he interrupted her. «> “Ten times, and you are a bullj dancer and a bully singer, but, yon. JR other things than dance and sing There is not a man living that woulc want to have his mother dress thai way.” Shfe controlled a smile. “Neve: mind that. People’s opinions are ven different about that sort of thing. Yot have seen me at dinner with your boy as you call him, and you can’t saj that I did anything but ask him tc ’ help the poor. I haven’t led Dan on I have tried to show him just whal you are making me go through now.’ If she acted well and danced well it was hard for her to talk. She wat evidently under strong emotion and it needed .her control not to burst intc tears and lose her chance. _ “Of course, I know the things you have heard. Of course, I know what is said about me” —and she stopped. Ruggles didn’t press her any further; he didn’t ask her if the things were true. Looking at her as he did, watching her as he did, there was in him a feeling so new, so troubling that he found himself more anxious to protect her than to bring her to justice. “There are worse, far worse women than I am, Mr. Ruggles. I will never do Dan any harm.” Here her visitor leaned forward and put one of his big hands lightly over one of hers, patted it a moment, and said: “I want you to do a great deal better than that.” * She had picked up a photograph off

tlie table, a pretty picture of herself in “Mandalay,” and turned it nervously between her fingers as she said with irritation: “I haven’t been in the theatrical world not to guess at this ‘Worried Father’ act, Mr. Ruggles. I told you I knew just what you were going to say.” “Wrong!” he repeated. “The business is old enough perhaps, lots of good jobs are old, but this is a little different.” He took the turning picture and laicL it on the table, and quietly possessed himself of the small cold' hands. Blair’s solitaire shone up to him. Ruggles looked into Letty Lane’s eyes. “He is only twenty-two; it ain’t fair, it ain’t fair. He could count the times he has been on a lark, I guess. He hasn’t even been to an eastern7*Oflege. He is no fool, but he’s darned simple.” She smiled faintly. The man’s face, near her own, was very simple indeed. "You have seen so much," he urged, “so many fellows. You have been such a queen, I dare say you could get any man you wanted." He repeated. “Most any man." - have never seen any one like Dan.” "Just so: he ain’t your kind. That is what I am trying to tell you.” She withdrew her hand from his violently. “There you are wrong. He is my kind. He is what I like, and he is what I want to be li£e.” A wave of red dyed' her face, and, in a tone more passionate than the had ever used to her lover, she said to Ruggles: 2 “I love him —I love him!” Her words sent something like a sword through the older man’s heart He said gently: “Don’t say It He don’t know yhat love means yet” (TO BE CONTINUED.) - ;

Employed.

Father —Satan always finds some work for idle hands to do. Tommy—Wonder if that's why Mr. Softly is so awfully busy holding sistor’s. —Judge.

A PARTY of forty Australian boys, members of the Young Australian League, are visiting in Washington and will be received by the president. The boys are traveling under the auspices of the Australian government and constitute the best representatives of the youth of Australia. They won the opportunity to come to America aftef tests as to their abilities as musicians, athletes and scholars. They constitute their own band and orchestra and attract much attention wherever they go. The ages of the boys range from 10 to 19 years.

HAS WEATHER NOTES

Philadelphian Has Records For 122 Years. Family Diary Shows Temperature Kept by Each Generation, Along With Daily Chronicle of Other Events. Philadelphia.—One hundred and twenty-two years of weather records, kept by three generations of the same family, side by side with comments on men and things long ago passed from memory, form the interesting contents of a large library of diaries, the property of Jacob R. Elfreth. True to the tradition of his Quaker forbears, this seventy-year-old chronologist of the weather since 1870 has written in black and whijte the story of the mercury’s vagaries as he observed them, and his records stand against the hazy contentions of any “oldest Inhabitant" who may venture’ fictitious tales of how cold it used to be. The story of the curious diaries which make up this interesting weather history is bound up with the growth of Philadelphia. From 1789 to 1850 Caleb Pierce, a native of Chester county, kept the first records. He was the maternal grandfather of Mr. Elfreth. His diaries were, not so complete as those of his son and grandson, but their interest and worth are enhanced by antiquity."""” “ ~ Most of these writings were done at his home, Seventh and Arch streets, where he lived while the Quaker town was booming into her early twenties. He kept a hardware store in Market street .above Second, but beforei _ha. plodded along the cobhie stones of a cold winter’s morning to open up the little shop he recorded the temperature. Long before he gave up the writing of his diary Jacob R. Elfreth, Sr„ took up the work in 1812. Sixty-eight volumes of nearly uniform size, painstakingly relating the happenings of those often troublous times, are now in the possession of the aged son. To J. R. Elfreth Jr. the task of keep-

WALK 30 MILES TO MARRY

Kentucky Mountaineer Runs Away in Blinding Snowstorm With „ 12-Yc.ar-Old Cousin. Whitesburg, Ky. Thirty miles “through a blinding snowstorm, with mountains to cross and angry parents behind them, came James Coombs, Jr., and Miss Virgie Coombs, hife cousin, to be married. They routed the clerk of courts from his bed early to give them a license and then persuaded the Rev. James E. Bradford to unite them. Later in the day they left Whitesburg on the trip back to the Perry county line, where they have both spent alt their lives/ —— The bridegroom is 20 and his wife has just passed her twelfth birthday. The bride wore dresses which came just below her knees.

Hoboes Starve in Prison.

Metuchen, N. J. —Three men who dropped off a freight train here and asked for a place to sleep were hauled out of the town lockup a few days later in a state of collapse from cold and starvation. They had been completely forgotten after having been lodged in the jail, in an out-of-the-way part of the village. Groans heard by a passerby led to an investigation. After being thawed out and cared for, they took the first train out of town.

Earth Is 710,000,000 Years Old.

Paris. —Prof. John Hosier, after examining various kinds of rock, ha* decided that the earth is 710,000,900 years old. j

AUSTRALIAN BOYS ON LONG TOUR

ing these records was then assigned, and he has kept them faithfully since 1870. They, together with the others, will be given to the Friends’ Historical society when the last entry has been made, for the present writer is the last in the direct line of ancestry. Not Infrequently he is a historical contributor to the local newspapers; in the Darby Progress he recently published a statement showing that January, 1912, was the coldest within the span of the family records. Among other things he states that the average temperature at 6 a. m. has been 18 degrees. On the 13th the mercury was 8 degrees below zero. On the 14th 6 below; on the 16th, zero.” The years 1815, 1820, 1821, 1832, 1840, 1844, 1857, 1866 and 1881, he states, were especially cold during this month. The coldest days of which he has record, in succession, were February 10 to 15, 1899. The coldest record was New Year’s, 1881, which was 22 degrees below.

NO USE FOR CITY MARSHAL

“Golden Rule” Policy of a Kansas Mayor Brings Clean Streets to Town. Peabody, Kan. —Two months ago Peabody with Its 1,800 inhabitants dispensed with Its city marshal, because Mayor «Sulphln had adopted a “golden rule” policy in dealing with the Ifiefi " indulging in drinking” parties that caused about all the lawlessness the officer was called upon to quell. Today the absence of the marshal is not felt. - When William . Sulphln became mayor he called the town’s troublemakers before him. “You can buy liquor in gallon packages if. you want to,” the mayor told them, “but you shall nqt get your friends drunk. Drink your stuff at home, if you will, but drink it all yourself. Now, do by me as you would be done by.” The plea was successful. Instead of paying out good money to a city marshal who has nothing to do, it is being spent to keep the streets clean. ——

Our Trade With England

United States Has Sold Twice as Much to Great Britain as Americans Bought. t Washington.—More than a billion dollars’ worth of merchandise passed between the United States and British territory in the ten months ending with October, for which statistics have been compiled. The bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor reports that exports from the United States to British territory In the period named, aggregated >759,000,000 and imports therefrom >383,000,000, thus indicating that for every dollar’s worth of merchandise imported from the territory in question two dollars’ worth of American products are exported thereto. To the United Kingdom, the largest British'market for American products, our ten months* export increased to >419,000,000 in 1911; those to Canada, from >201,000,000 in 1910 to >249,000,000 in 1911. Australia and New Zealand rank third, with a ten-months’ total of >40,000,000. To British, Africa the ten months’ exports increased from >12,000,000 in 1910 to >13,000,000 in 1911; those to the British West Indies from >9,000,000 in 1910 to >lO,000,000 in 1911, and those to India,. >4,750,000 in 1905 to >6,500,000 in 1910 and >9,000,000 in 1911. The remaining British communities, which show in each case a total in excess of >1,000,000 in the ten months, include Hongkong, in which our exports in ten months were valued at >7,000,000; Newfoundland and Labrador, >4,000,000; the Straits Settle-

CHINA IS OFFERED MILLIONS

American and British Financlers Hav* ■ Vast Sum Ready to Pay for Oil and Minerals. Shanghai.—Two hundred and fifty million dollars was offered for control of the national resources of China. This vast sum will be guaranteed by a committee of American and British financiers, numbered among whom are the Interests affiliated with Standard Oil company, the moment the republic of China is recognized by • single world power. In return la asked a monopoly of the development of the oil and mineral wealth' of China. The republican leaders regard the plan fair, but Japanese and Russian financiers working together, are pressing their demands for consideration. They profess to be able to give just aa much money as the American-British combination and are backing up their demands with suggestions of interfere ence by both Japan and Russia, should preference be shown the Americans. , The fact that British financiers have united with the Americans, has angered influential Japanese, and the Jap-anese-English cordiality may be threatened. Realizing this, and also that both Russia and Japan are in strategic positions, where they could Interfere at any time in China under the pretext of "restoring order,” the republican leaders are sparring for time.

SEE BLACK FOX IN INDIANA

People of the “Knobs” Get Glimpsea of a Valuable Fur Bearer—May Be Freak of Ordinary Species. “Indiana knobs,” opposite this city, have caught glimpses of a rare blafck fox, whose fur is the most valuable of any of the North American foxes, and an old fashioned hunt is being organized by sportsmen in the hope of catching it. The black fox is a native of Alaska, and it is thought this one may be a freak of the ordinary species. A year ago a Canadian silver fox was captured among the knobs and its fur was sold in this city for S3OO.

ments, >1,750,000; British Guiana, >L» 500,000; British Honduras, >1,750,000, and Aden and Bermuda, each about >l,000,000. ( To Gibraltar the total was about >400,000; to Malta, Goza, etc., about >200,000, and to British China, the Falkland islands and miscellaneous other British possessions as a whole, about >300,000. Raw cotton, meats and breadsthfffe form the bulk of the exports from ths United States to the .United Kingdom though certain manufactures, such as agricultural implements, leather and machinery, are important articles in the yearly sales to that country.

SCARED COW KILLS WOMAN

Freight Train Frightens Animal as Pioneer Resident of Redwood, Cal., Is Passing. Redwood City, Cal.—The mad plunge of a cow, which’was excited by a freight train, Jias resulted in the death of Mrs. August Grimenstein, a pioneer of this place. Mrs. Grimenstein was walking through a pasture as the train passed, when the cow flashed past her and its stake, which it had pulled up, caught in her dress. Mrs. Grimenstein waa thrown to the ground and concussion of the brain resulted. Mrs. Grimenstein was 58 years old and had lived in Redwood for the last twenty years. She is survived by six children. ' °