Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1912 — Page 3

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THE GIRL from HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

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(Copyright, 1910, by The Bobbs-Merrill Co.) SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the 22-year-old son of the fifty-mllllon-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 Galoreys, Lily and Dan attend a London theater where one Letty Lane Is the star. Dan recognizes her as the girl from his town, ana 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 foes to see Lily; he can talk of nothing ut Letty and this angers the Duchess. The westerner finds Letty 111 from hard work, but she recovers and Ruggles and Dan Invite her to supper. She asks Dan to build a home for disappointed thepeople. 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. Ruggles thinks the westerner should not marry a public singer. CHAPTER XXlV.—Continued. He wanted to tell her that the girl Dan married should be the kind of woman his mother was, but Ruggles couldn’t bring himself to say the words. Now, as he sat near her, he was growing so complex that his brain was turning round. He heard her murmur: "I told you I knew your act, Mr. Ruggles. It Isn’t any use.” This brought him back to his position and once more he leaned toward her and, in a different tone from the one he had Intended to use, murmured: ' "You don’t know. You haven’t any Idea. I do ask you to let Dan go, that’s a fact. I have got something else to propose In Its place. It ain’t quite the same, but It is clear —marry me!" She gave a little exclamation. A slight smile rippled over her face like the sunset across a pale pool at dawn. "Laugh,” be said humbly; “don’t keep In. I know lam old-fashioned as the deuce, and me and is quite a contrast, but I mean just what I say, my dear.” She controlled her amusement, If it was that. It almost made her cry with mirth, and she couldn’t help It Between laughing breaths she said to him: “Oh, is It all for Dan’s sake, Mr. Ruggles? Is It?** And 'then, biting her Ups and looking at him out of her beautiful eyes, she said: “I know It is—l know it Is —I beg your part don.” ’ •“I asked a girl once when I was poor—too poor. Now this Is the second time In my life. I mean just what I say. I’ll make you a kind husband. I am fifty-five, hale as a nut. I dare say you have had many better offers.”

“Oh, dear,” she breathed; “oh, dear, please—please stop!" “But I don’t expect you to marry me for anything but my money.” \ Ruggles put his cigar down on the edge of the table. He looked at his chair meditatively, he took out his silk handkerchief, polished up his glasses, readjusted them, put them on and then looked at her. “Now,” he said, “I am going to trust you with something, and I know you will keep my secret for me. This shows you a little bit of what I think about you. Dan Blair hasn’t got a red •cent Ha has nothing but what I give him. The?6's a false title to al) that jjand on the Bentley claim. The whole thing came up when I was home and the original company, of which I own three-quarters of the stock, holds the clear titles to the Blalrtown mines. It all belongs now to me, if I choose to present my docrftnents. Dan knows nothing about this —not a word.” ’ The actress had never come up to wuch a dramatic point in any of her plays. With her hands folded in her lap she looked at him steadily, and he could not understand the expression that crossed her face. He heard her exclamation: “Oh, gracious!” “I’ve brought the papers back with me,” said the Westerner, “and It is between you and me how we act. If Dan marries you I will be bound to do what old Blair would have done — cut him off—let him feel his feet on the ground, and the result of his own folly.” X He had taken his glasses off while he made this assertion. Now he put them on again.

- If you give him up I’ll divide with the boy and be rich enough still to hand over to my wife all she wants to spend.** . ! She turned her face away from him and leaned her head once more upon her hands. He heard her softly murmuring under her breath, with an absent look on her face, accompanied by a still more incomprehensible smile./-.. L . v .. . ..r • ' "That’s how it stands," he concluded. She seemed to have forgotten him entirely, and he caught his breath when she turned about abruptly and said: "My goodness, how Dan will hate being poor! He will have to sell aU his stickpins and'his motor cars and all the things he has given me. It will be quite a little to start on, but he wIU hate It, he is so very smart." "Why. you . don’t mean to say— ** Ruggles gasped. And with a charming smile as she rose to put their conversation at an end, she said: ... “Why, you don’t mean to say that you thought I wouldn’t stand by him?” She seemed, as she put her hands Upon her hips with something of a defiant look at the elder man, as though she just then stood by her pauperized lover. "I thought you cared some for the boy,” Ruggles said. ——- “Well, I am showing it." "You want to ruin him to show It, do you?" As though he thought the subject dismissed he walked heavily toward the door. “You know how It stands. I have nothing more to say.” He knew that

"Why, You Don’t Mean to Say That You Thought I Wouldn’t Stand by Him?"

he had signally failed, and as a sudden resentment rose in him he exclaimed, almost brutally: “I am darned glad the old man is dead; I am glad his mother’s dead, and I am glad I have got no son.” The next moment she was at his side, and he felt that she clung to his arm. Her sensitive, beautiful face, all drawn with emotion, was raised to his. “Oh, you’ll kill me—you’ll kill me! Just look how very ill I am; you are making me crazy. I just worship him.” “Give him up, then," said Ruggles steadily. She faltered: "I can’t—l can’t—it won’t be for long”— terrible pathos in her voices. "You don’t know how different I can be: you don’t know what a new life we were going to lead." Stammering, and with intense meaning, Ruggles, looking down at her, said: “My dear child—my dear child.” In his few words something perhaps made her see in a flash her past and what the question really was. She dropped Ruggles’ She stood for a moment with her arms folded across her breast, her head bent down, and the man at the door waited, feeling that Dan’s whole life was in the balance of the moment. When she spoke again her voice was hard and entirely devoid of the lovely appealing quality which brought her so much admiration from the public. “If I give him up," she said slowly, “what will you do?” “Why," he answered, “I’ll divide with Dan and let things stand just as they are.* ' -y. ; She thought again for a moment and then as if she did not want him to witness—to detect the struggle she was going through, she turned away and walked over toward the window and dismissed him from , .there. Please go, will you? I Want very much, to be alone and to think." r"■-£■.“ .'**-*****&_. J." CHAPTB..XXV. Letty Lane Runs Away. He had not> goto upstairs to his rooms at the Carlton before a note was handed him from the actress, bid-

ding him to return at once to the Savoy, and Ruggles, his neart hammering like a trip hammer, rushed up to his rooms, made an evening toilet, for it was then half-past seven, threw bls cravats and collars all around the place, cursed like a miner as he got into his clothes, and red almost to apoplexy, nervous and full of emotion, he returned to the rooms he had left not three hours before. The three hours had been busy ones at the actress’ apartment Letty Lane’s sitting-room was full of trunks, dressing bags and traveling paraphernalia. She came forward out of what seemed a world of confusion, dressed as though for a journey, even her veil and her gloves denoting her departure. She spoke hurriedly and almost without politeness. "I have sent for you to come and see me here. Not a soul In London knows I am going away. There will be a dreadful row at the theater, but that’s none of your affairs. .Now, I want you to tell me’ before I go just what you are going to do for Dan.” “Who are you going with?” Ruggles asked shortly, and she flashed at him: ‘‘Well, really, I don’t think that is any of your business. When you drive a woman as you have driven me, she will go far." He interrupted her vehemently, not daring to take her hand. “I couldn’t do more. I have asked you to marry me. I couldn’t do more. I stand by what I have said. Will ,jou?” he stammered. She knew men. She looked at him keenly. Her veil was lifted above her eyes and its shadow framed her small pale face on whleh there were marks of utter disenchantment, of great en-

nul. She said languidly: “What I want to know is, what you are going to do for Dan?” “I told you I would share with him.” "Then he will be nearly as rich?” "He’ll have more than is good for him.” That satisfied her. Then she pursued. “I want you to stand by him. -H< will need you.” Ruggles lifted the hand he held and kissed It reverently. “I’ll do anything you say—anything you say.”* Down-stairs in the Savoy, as Dan had done countless times, Ruggles waited until he saw' her motor car carry her and her small luggage' and Higgins away. In their sitting-room in the Carlton a half-hour later the door was thrown open and Dan Blair came in like a madman. Without preamble he seized Ruggles by the arm. “Look here,” he cried, “what have you been doing? Tell me now, and tell me the truth, or, by God, I don’t know what I’ll do. You went to the Savoy. You went there twice. Anyhow, where is she?” Dan, slender as he was beside Ruggles’ great frame, shook the elder man as though he had been. a terrier. “Speak to me. Where has she gone?" He stared in the Westerner’s face, his eyes bloodshot "Why in thunder don’t you say something?” And Ruggles prayed for some power to unloose his thickening tongue . (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Syphoned Oxygen.

The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean are continuously supplied with air, else life in the depths could not fie supported. Dr. Carl Hering suggests in Science that the oxygen is siphoned down by pressure. Those who have witnessed the opening of a champagne bottle understand that a liquid will bold more gas in stable solution under pressure than when unconfined. The spraying of the waves saturates the surface of the ' ocean with air. The layer beneath, which is under higher pressure, in turn forces the captured air particles still lewes, until at the utmost depth the richest content at oxygen should bo found. ’

SIVILWAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

March 4, 1862. Andrew Johnson, recently appointed provisional governor of Tennessee, began to organize the government of that state. He had been waiting until his nomination as Brigadier General by the president should be confirmed by the senate. It being advisable that he have specific military authority in the work which he was to undertake. The appointment was confirmed on the morning ofthle day. It was intended that Gen. Johnson should preside over the government of the state until a regular government could be reorganized. The Richmond Dispatch printed a story of a man arriving from the south on the fourth, who stated that “the whole country is In a blaze of patriotic enthusiasm. The late reverses have awakened a military spirit, which throws into the shade the demonstrations at the beginning of the war. The whole population is off<ing Itself en masse. Nothing like The universal and fervid awakening of the people to the exigencies of the time has occurred since the beginning of the war. Men of all ages are eager to unite In the work of driving back the foul Invader from our southern homes, and even the women, if they could procure arms, would buckle them on and hasten to the fields. As it Is, the prayers of mothers, wives, daughters, are sent np unceasingly to heaven In behalf of the case, the cause, and the course, that Is giving strength even to the arms of old age, converting boys Into veterans, and the weak and /timid Into heroes.”

March 5, 1862. John Ericsson’s turreted Ironclad Monitor was delivered to the government for trial. An order was issued ' at Jackson, Tenn., by the Confederate Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard assuming command of the Confederate army of the Mississippi. The order declared that the northern invader must be "made to atone” for the reverses experienced by the southern arms. The U. S. S. S. Water Witch, after a long chase off St. Andrews Bay, west of Florida, overhauled and brought up with the Confederate schooner William Mallory, which surrendered after several shots had been fired at her. The Mallory was from Havana, bound for any port that she could make through the blockade. She was an extremely fast sailor, having shown her heels to the Water Witch for five hours. A proclamation was issued by F. W. Pickens, governor of South Carolina, calling on the people to complete their quota of five more regiments, called for by the Confederate government The Confederate cavalry made a demonstration against the National picket line about Columbus, Ky., and forced It to contract until it came within touch of the gunboats. Maj. Gen. Bragg of the Confederate army Issued an order from Jackson, Miss., declaring Memphis to be under martial law. March 6,1862.

John Ericsson's turreted ironclad "Monitor” sailed for Fortress Monroe. President Lincoln’s views on the emancipation of the slaves were developed in a message sent to congress. Declaring his belief that emancipation must be gradual and not sudden, President Lincoln suggested that the house and senate join in resolutions offering “that the United States ought to cooperate with any state which may adopt a gradual abolishment of star very, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion to compensate for the inconvenience, public and private, produced by such a change of system.” The president said that the “war has been an Indispensable mean” for the pres* ervation of the Union, and declares that the present proposition is offered as something that promised “great efficiency toward ending the struggle." A squad of Van Alien’s Union cavalry surprised and captured a Confederate picket near Bunker Hill, Va. The congress of the Confederate states passed a bill making it the duty of every commanding officer in the Confederate army to destroy, cotton and tobacco when there was danger of its falling into the hands of the enemy. A clause providing for the compensation of the owner of the property destroyed was stricken out Citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, met to organize a market for the free distribution of necessaries to the families of soldiers, during the war. A squadron of the First Michigan cavalry surprised and dispersed a small company of Confederate Cavalry at Berryville, Va. March 7, 1882. In the English House of Commons, Mr. Gregory called the attention Of the house to the blockade of the southern ports, and moved for a copy of all correspondence on the subject, 'subsequent to the papers already before the house. He'expressed his strong sympathies for the struggle going forward in lbe Confederate states, and declared that a separation of the south from the north and a reconstruction of the Union were the only means by which they oould hope to see slavery abolished.

The Confederate steamer Sumter, to; Gibraltar, was being watched by the United States gunboat Tuscarora. The United States gunboats Free born. Satellite, Island Belle, and Reto lute engaged Confederate shore batter les In the Potomac from Liverpool Point to Boyd’s Hole, Including three at Acquia creek. In the afternoon the Island Belle and the Satellite a brush with two batteries at Wade’s Bay, where they fired on a trainload of Confederate Infantry. Gov. Andrew Johnson left Washington with his staff for Nashville, Tenn, to assume duties in charge of the provisional government. John Park, mayor of Memphis, In a proclamation to the citizens of the town, who had been In alarm lest their town be destroyed by Incendiaries, reassured them with a threat that he would hang to the first lamp post any man who should be detected in the act of firing a building. The Richmond Examiner called upon all patriotic southerners to turn over to the government their shot guns for use against the northern Invaders. March 8, 1862. The battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, was ended after three days’ fighting. The Union forces under the command of Gen. Curtis, eventually prevailed over the Confederates, under Gen. Ben McCulloch. On March 6 the Confederates commenced the attack on Curtis’s right wing, driving up a detachment of Gen. Sigel’s rear guard to the main Union lines at Sugar Creek Hollow. The Confederates desisted at four In the afternoon. During the night Gen. Curtis, discovering that the Confederates were in position to attack by the flank and rear, changed front. Throughout the second day the fight raged without advantage of importance to either side, with the exception of the loss of Gen. McCulloch In the afternoon. On the third morning Gen. Curtis made another change of front. In the fighting which soon developed Gen. Sigel dislodged the Confederates, from their hills at the head of the Sugar Creek Gulch, and the Confederates retreated. Morgan’s Confederate cavalry made off with a National foraging train in charge of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry near Nashville, Tennessee, but the wagons were subsequently retaken by the Fourth Cavalry and a battery of artillery. The Confederate force that had been stationed near Occoquan, Virginia, and which had given Federal reconnaissance parties many a brush, withdrew from the position and fell back behind the Rappahannock. March 9, 1862. The entire north, and especially the Atlantic sea board, greeted the day in a panic of anxiety and despair. Early on the preceding afternoon a Confederate ironclad of new and monstrous power had played such havoc with the Union fleet in Hampton Roads, that no one held any hope that she could be stopped in her marine depredations by anything afloat or ashore. The craft, which was the old frigate Merrimac remodelled and sheathed heavily in railroad Iron, came steaming out of Norfolk Harbor early in the afternoon and blundered against the Cumberland and Congress, United States sailing frigates. Without paying the least attention to the balls that the Cumberland bounced against her iron side the Merrimac steered directly into her and opened her side with a blow amidships. Twice the new monster rammed the helpless frigate. Having done for the Cumberland, the Merrimac started for'the Congress, which discretely surrendered and was later fired. The Minnesota, endeavoring to get into the action, went aground, nnd was only saved by the fall of night. The Merrimac waited about for the morrow. At ten o’clock that night Ericsson’s Monitor arrived In Hampton Roads. When the men on the Merrlmao awoke to renew the attack they found the Yankee cheese box disputing the way. The fight was long and furious. Neither vessel was able to do any damage to the other. The Merrimac retired at noon, and the nation at the north breathed the first relief they had had for nearly twenty-four hours.

March 10,1862. Lieut J. D. Joak, of the First lowa cavalry, with thirty men, encountered a band of Confederates hidden in a log house and was severely treated by them before'he succeeded in dlslodging them. The U. S. Gunboat Whitehall, lying in Hampton Roads, took fire at three o’clock in the morning and was totally destroyed. The Whitehall had been a Fulton Ferry boat in New York. The Joint resolution suggested by President Lincoln offering aid to any state that should desire to accomplish gradual liberation of slaves met with disaster in the United States senate. Introduced by Mr. Wilson of Massachusetts, it was objected to by Mr. Saulsbury of Delaware. Maryland and Delaware were specifically mentioned in the resolution. Mr. Borwing of Illinois spoke against the conflsca-. tion bin. The house bill providing a new article of w&r, prohibiting officers of the army from returning fugitive slaves, was passed. . The National forces entered and occupied what was left of Centerville. Virginia, which had been devastated and deserted by the Confederates. Brunswick, Georgia, was also occupied by Union soldiers. Col. James Carter, with a regiment Of Tennesseans organized to fight tor the Union cause, attacked a body of Confederate cavalry at Big Creek Gap, defeating them after a sharp fight Fifty-nine Confederates were captured, many of them neighbors of their captors. (Copyright MU by a Chapman.)

The Criticism of Missions

By Rev. Edward A. Marshall,

Director of Maoooary Course, iviooay DiDie institute, vmcago

service and are spending more than 130,000,000 annually on the work. It would be unfair to say that criticism must be prohibited and that no critical questions would be answered. The critic could justly reply that since he was unable to learn how his money was being spent, he would cease to contribute. On the other hand the critic must be Jalr to the society and worker who naturally expect him to know what he is talking about before he speaks. Of course there are different kind* of criticism just as there are different kinds of people. One speaks with a view to helpfulness, another criticises because he desires to find reasons to excuse himself from responsibility while a third may talk against the work because he is not content to sanction the use of any ecclesiastical harness or work in harmony with hi* fellows on any task. . However the person who wishes to be accorded a hearing on missionary work (or any other work) should comply with certain rules, which. If observed. will make him an aid to the building up of that work in some substantial, beneficial way. I. The critic must be a Christian. A man out of Christ looks at the subject from the wrong viewpoint. He naturally thinks It unnecessary to send the gospel to the heathen if he has refused it himself. Neither can be be expected to support a teaching he does not himself believe. 11. The critic must be a soul winner. That is, he must have some adequate realization of the value of a lost soul and must have tried to bring’ souls to Christ. 111. The critic must be an honest student of missionary work. The great task of mission* cannot be learned by Intuition. It involve* matters touching the personal life and liberties of thousands and the purses of millions. It deals with the deepest principles of organization and requires a broad knowledge of the working value of policies and methods. Therefore the person who would dictate standards for the adoption of missionaries must know whereof he speaks. IV. The critic should have visited the mission fields or talked freely with missionaries. Theory Is one thing and practice Is quite another, especially when the theory is created In America, but has to be applied in Africa. Parents find that the course of training applied to one child Is sometimes worthless when applied to another, even though the children be in the same family. Then again, If a person 1* capable of offering criticism he must see that it is cautiously and wisely given, because: I. It Is unwise to criticise what God has especially commanded. The person who criticises the work of missions must remember that he is dealing with the triune God. Every person of the Godhead is vitally interested, and is also a personal. participant in the work of saving the heathen. Therefore the critic stands on perilous ground before his Creator. 11. There are 20,000 missionaries who have believed enough in missions to be out on the field today. The critic who remains at home in * well, feathered nest must realize that it f* no small thing to put hl* Inexperienced judgment up against the actual labors of consecrated thousands whose universal testimony Is that “mlsaions pay." . in. The transformation of the heathen, which ha* taken place during the past 100 years, overwhelmingly answers aU those who would say* that the work is not worth while. Any-, one who has watched the evolution of tribes and nation* by the process of divine regeneration; who ha* seen annihilating customs become only* Items tor the historian, and the number of printed language* leap from, fifty to more than five hundred, through missionary toll, ha* surely felt his thoughtless criticisms grow cold ou Ns Bps. These things make a wise man careful In Ms judgment for he realise*’ that hl* influence may mean the weal or woe of some of his fellowmen, at home and abroad. The man whoi 1* not both wise and carefill in hl*, •peecn cannot oi twnw eAtwcv who are in the thick of the fight to leave their post* and come back to where he reclines comfortably in the barrack* in order to answer his idl* words. K

It 1* natural to expect that missionary werk win be criticised when ■' one considers the great variety of people Interested and the many different /view* promulgated. There are three or four hundred societies belonging to scores of denominations now working in the field. They have over 20,000 missionaries in active