Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Krery Day Kxcept SantUy HEALEY & CLARK, Publisher*. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

THE GIRL HIS TOWN

By MARIE VAN VORST

IllastratiMts by ML G. KETTNER

(Copyright. 1310, by The Bobbs-MerriU OaJ SYNOPSIS. Dan Blair, the 22-y ear-old bob of the flfty-mllllon-dollar copper kins of Blalrtown, 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 recognises her as the girl from his town, and going behind the scenes introduces himself and she remembers him. He learns that Prince Ponlotowsky la 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 111 from hard ■work,, but 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 the time forgetting Letty, and later announces nls 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 ft 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, and endeavors to Induce Letty to give him up. She runs away, fearing she is not good enough for Dan, •nd Ruggles makes the latter believe she has abandoned his love. Finally Dan finds Letty in Parts. CHAPTER XXVL—-Continued. "Are you alone?” he persisted. "I have got to know.” "Higgins is with me." "Oh, God,” he cried wildly, "how can yon joke with, me? Don’t you inderstanfa you’re breaking my heart?” But she did not dare to be kind to him, knowing It would unnerve her for the part she had promised to play. He sat gripping his hands tightly together, his Ups white. “When I ’.eave you now,” he said brokenly, "I am going to find that devil of. a Hungarian and do him up. Then I am going to tackle Ruggles.” . “Why, what’s poor Mr. Ruggles got to do with it?” Dan cried scornfully: "For God’s sake, don’t keep this up! You know the rot he told you? I made him confess. He has had this mania all along about moneybeing a “handicap; he was bent on trying this game with some girl to see how It worked.” He continued more passionately. "I don’t care a rap what you marry me for, Letty, or what you have done or been. I think you’re perfect and I’ll make you the happiest woman in the world.” She said: “Hush, hush. Listen, dear; listen,.little boy. I am awfully sorry, but It won’t do. I never thought it would. You’ll get over it all right, though you don’t, you can’t believe me now. I can’t be poor, you know; I really couldn’t he poor.” He Interrupted roughly: "Who says you’ll be? What are you talking About? Why, I’ll cover you with jewels, sweetheart, if I have to rip the earth open to -get them out” She understood that Dan believed Ruggles’ story to have been a cock-and-bull one. “You talk as though you could buy me, Dan. Walt, listen.” She put him back from her. “Now, if you won’t be quiet I’m going to stop my car.” He repeated: “Tell me, are you alone in Paris? Tell me. For three days I have wandered and searched for you everywhere; I have hardly eaten a thing, 1 don’t believe I have slept a wink.” And he told her of his ■weary search. * She listened to him, part of the time, her white-gloved hand giving itself up to the boy; part of the time both hands folded together and away from {him, her arms crossed on her breast, her small shoes of coral kid tapping the floor of the car. Thus they rolled leisurely along the road by the Bois. “Are you alone in Paris, Letty?” And she said: "Oh, what a bore you are! You’re the most obstinate creature. Well, I am alone, but that has nothing to do with you." A glorious light broke., over his face; his relief was tremendous. "Oh, thank God!” he breathed. "Ponlotowsky”—and she said his name with difficulty—“ls coming tonight from Carlsbad." The boy threw back his bright head and laugher wildly. "Curse him! The very name makes me want to commit a crime. He will go over my body to you. You hear me, Letty. I mean what I say* ' People bad already remarked them as they passed. The actress was too well known to pass unobserved, but she was indifferent to their curiosity or to the existence of anyone but this oor fej S:' “ ' 1

Blair, who had not opened a paper since he came to Paris, did not know that Letty Lane’s flight from London had created a scandal in the theatrical world, that her manager was suing her, and that to be seen with her driving in the Bois was a conspiciisaML. thlffgTndeeßL“BEe thought of it, however. “I am going to tell the man to drive you to the gate on the other side of the park where it’s quieter, we won’t be stared at, and I want you to leave |me and let me go to the Meurice alone. You must, Dan, you must let me go to the hotel alone.” He laughed again in the same strained fashion and forced her hand to remain in his. ’ "Look here. You don’t suppose I. am going to let you go like this, now that I have seen you again. You don’t suppose I am going to give you up to that infamous scoundrel? You have got to marry me.” Bringing all her strength of character to bear, she exclaimed: "I expect you think you are the only person who has asked me to marry hirh, Dan. I am going to marry Prince Poniotowsky. He is perfectly crazy about me.” Until that moment she had not made him think that she Was indifferent to him, and the idea that such a thing was possible, was too much for his overstrained heart to bear. Dan cried her name in a voice whose appeal was like A hurt creature's, and as the hurt creature in its Suffering sometimes springs upon its torturer, he flung his arms around her as she sat in the motor, held her and kissed her, then set her free, and as the motor flew along, tore open the door to spring out or to throw himself out, but clinging to him she prevented his mad act. She stopped the car along the edge of the quiet, wooded al lee. Blair saw that he had terrified her. She covered her beating heart with her hands and gasped at him that he was “crazy, crazy,” and perhaps a little late his dignity and self-possession returned. “I am mad," he acknowledged more

“Are Yeu-Atone?" He Persisted, "I Have Got lo Know?"

calmly, "and I am sorry that I frightened you. But you drive me mad." Without further word he got out and left her agitated, leaning toward him, and Blair, less pale and thoroughly the man, lifted his hat to her and, with unusual grace, bowed goodnlght and good-by. Then, rushing as he had come, he walked off down through the allee, his gray figure in his gray clothes disappearing through the vista of meeting trees. For a moment she stared after him, her eyes fastened on the tall, slender, beautiful young man. Blair’s fire and ardor, his fresh youthfulness, his pro: tection and his chivalry, his ardent devotion, touched her profoundly. Tears fell, and one splashed on her white glove. Was he really going to ruin his life? The old ballad, “The Earl of Moray,” ran through her head: “And long may his lady look from the castle wall.” Dan had neither title nor, according to Ruggles, had he any money, and she could marry the prince; but Dan, as he walked so fast away, misery snapping at his heels as he went, stamping through the woods, seemed glorious to Letty Lane and the only anything should happen to him really? What if he should really start out to do the town according to the fashion of his Anglo-Saxon brothers, but more desperately still? She took a card from the case in the corner of the car. scribbled a few words, told the man to drive around the curve and meet the outlet qt the path by which Dan had gone. When she saw him within reaching distance she sent the chauffeur across the woods to give Mr. Blair her scribbled word and consoled herself with the belief that Dan wouldn’t “go to the dogs or throw himself in the river until he had seen her again.” CHAPTER XXVII. At Maxim’s. » At the Meurice, Miss Lane gave strict orders to admit only Mr. Blair to her apartments. She described him. No sooner had she drunk her

cup of tea, which Higgins gave her, than she began to expect Dan. He didn’t come. Her dinner, without much appetite, she ate alone in her salon; saw a doctor and made him prescribe something Jtat. the ..cough -that racked her chesti looked out to jhe warm, bright gardens of the Tuilleries fading into the pallid loveliness of sunset, indifferent to everything in the world —except Dan Blair. She believed she would soon be indifferent to him, too; then everything would be done with. Now sh« wondered had he really gone—had he done what he threatened? Why didn’t he come? At twelve o’clock that night, as she lay among the cushions of her sofa, dozing, the door of her parlor was pushed in. She sprang up with a cry of delight; but when Poniotowsky came up to her she exclaimed: “Oh, you!” And the languor and boredom with which she said his name made the prince laugh shortly. “Yes, I. Who did you think it was?" Cynically and rather cruelly he looked down at Letty Lane and admired the picture she made; small, exquisite, her blond head against the dark velvet of the lounge, her gray eyes intensified by the fatigue under them. “Just got in from Carlsbad; came directly here. How-de-do? You took, you know— ’’ he scrutinized her through his single eye-glass —"most frightfully seedy.” “Oh, I’m all right” She left the sofa,, for she wanted ,to prevent: his nearer approach. “Have you had any supper? I’ll call Higgins.” “No, no, sit down, please, will you? I want to know why you sent to Carlsbad for me? Have you come to your senses?” He was as mad about the beautiful creature as a man of his temperament could be. Exhausted by excess and bored with life, she charmed and amused him, and in order to haw her with him always, to be master of her caprices, he was willing to make any sacrifice. “Have you sent off that imbecile boy?” And at her look he stopped and shrugged. “You need a rest, my child,”

he murmured practically, “you’re neurasthenic and very ill. I’ve wired to have the yacht at Cherbourg—it’ll breach there by noon tomorrow.” She was standing listlessly by the table. A mass of letters sent by special messenger from London after her, telegrams and cards lay there In a pile. Looking down at the lot, she murmured: “All right, I don’t care.” He concealed his triumph, but before the look had faded from his face she saw it and exclaimed sharply: “Don’t be crazy about it, you know. You’ll have to pay high for me; you know what I mean.” He answered gallantly: "My dear child, I’ve told you that you would be the most charming princess in Hungary.” Once more she accepted indifferently: "All right,' all right, I don’t care tuppence—not tuppence”—and she snapped her fingers; “but I like to see you pay, Frederigo. Take me to Maxim’s.” He demurred; saying she was far too ill, but she turned from him to call Higgins, determined to go if she had to go alone, and said to him violently: “Don't think I’ll make your life easy for you, Frederigo. I’ll make it wretched; as wretched —-’’ and. she held out her fragile arms, and the sleeves fell back, leaving them bare — “as wretched as I am myself." But she was lovely, and he said harshly: “Get yourself dressed. I'll go change and meet you at the lift.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) t

Ancient Roman Long Branch.

The sea coast of JAurentum may have been In favor with the fashion* able and the wealthy for a brief space of time under Augustus and his Immediate successors, but was given up quite soon to parvenues and merchants and retired officers, and the same set of noisy people who haunt at the* present day the popular watering places of the world. To make the analogy more striking, an inscription has been found at La Capocotta singing the praises of a wealthy Jew, and revealing the fact that a synagogue had been built at Ostia for the use of the Semitic “villeggianti" on the neighboring coast I

PRESIDENT TAFT signing the trill that made Arizona the forty-eighth state in the Union. Left to right in the picture standing back of the president are: Gen. E. S. Godfrey, W. A. Dupuy, M. R. Loring, Delegate Ralph Cameron, S. P. L. Hubbell, James T. Williams, Special Messenger and new Secretary of State of Arizona Roland B. Kirk, Charles Wilde and Charles D. Hilles, the president’s secretary.

SAVE THEIR WAGES

Thrifty Convicts of Minnesota Prison Hoarding Earnings.

Some of the Long Term Prisoners at Stillwater Have Balances Ranging From SI,OOO to $1,500 to Their Credit. St Paul, Minn.—While the capitalists of the country have patronizingly advised young persons to “save their pennies and be rich some day,” the prisoners at Stillwater penitentiary have been biding their time, hoarding their small earnings until many of them have sums ranging from SI,OOO to $1,500 to their individual credit according to the report of a visit to the institution made by J. R. Swann, a member, and J. C. Matchltt, secretary of the state board of visitors. The report was submitted to Governor Eberhart. The report does not say how long these particular prisoners have been confined in the penitentiary, but some light is thrown on their saving ability by the following paragraph from the report: “In December, 1911, the 56 men employed in the farm machinery division received an average pay of $4.85 a man; the 205 men in the shoe factory received an average for the month of $4.03 a man; the 114 men in the support division (cooks, waiters, barbers, etc.) received an average of $4.63 each." Taking up the suggestion of Governor Eberhart that some means be provided for state aid to families left in need by prisoners committed to workhousedaffd the state pHsdh. the report, referring only to the latter, says that "but five per cent of the men in state prison have families they have left in need of state aid.” “This is because the prisoners as a whole are men of roving characters, who have no settled home and who, accordingly, have no one dependent upon them. “In this connection,” the report continues, “a law enacted in 1909 is of

HUNT PANTHER IN FACTORY

Workmen In India Factory Find Savage Beast In Building and Call Marksmen. London. —News comes from India of an exciting panther hunt in the government ammunition factory at Klrkee, Poona, in which an officer was 'badly mauled. ■ Two European apprentices discovered the animal asleep on a heap of sawdust in the annealing room' and went to raise the alarm. Two other apprentices, believing that the animal was a large wild cat, endeavored to hunt it out with iron rods. When the panther was roused fiftere was a staingede of the n&tive workmen, and a stoker, while climbing over a wall, ’had his heel torn off by the s animal. Several officers with rifles speedily arrived on the scene, but the panther sought cover behind the annealing ovens. Captain Kemble, R. A., assistant superintendent, and Conductor Chisholme, with, two shots succeeded in wounding it, but when Maj. Bertie Clay approached a window with his rifle the animal sprang at him and inflicted serious injuries to his head, face and .neck. • After two hours the panther was finally disposed by a well-directed shot from Lieutenant Wes. It. measured six feet ten inches in length. , '

Strikes Rich Ore.

Cripple Creek, Goto.—After working his claim for seven years and spending SIO,OOO in its development. Fred Johnson, a lessee on the Pride of Cripple Creek mine on Ironclad hill, has struck It rich. He has uncovered gold ore running SSOO to the ton. ~ ;

MAKING THE FORTY-EIGHTH STATE

special interest It provides for state aid for dependent families of men in the state prison. Families are now being paid as high as sls a month under this humane 1909 law.” Commenting on the recently established prison for the criminal insane at St Peter, the report says there are ten prisoners at Stillwater so advanced in insanity they are unable to do work, while there are thirty others who are able to work part of the time. Then ft adds: “It is doubtless true that there are a sufficient number of criminal insane at Stillwater and other state institutions to fill completely another such building as now houses this class of unfortunates at St Peter.” Conditions, from a sanitary and cleanly standpoint, are excellent at the institution, the report says, adding: “In spite of the fact that the buildings and general plant are old and out of date, the best is made of every disadvantage—a fact that has given Warden Wolfer for many years the reputation of being unexcelled.”

PICKS MONEY FROM A TREE

Kansas Lad Turned 644 Crow Heads Into $32.20 Bounty—Used Rabbits as Lure. Cottonwood Falls, Kan.—A farmer boy of Matfleld, near here, knows how to pick money from an elm shade tree. ’ He made several big trees near his home yield him a golden harvest in one week. The treeff have long been a faVoffte haunt for scores of crows. Each evening their limbs were black with birds. The county pays a bounty of five cents on every crow killed. George Golden had an idea come to him and he walked out of the county clerk’s office with a check for $32.20, the bounty for 644 crows’ heads. i ■ Golden had shot some of the birds and when that became too slow he put strychnine in the carcasses of rabbits he had killed.

HOSPITAL TO COST MILLIONS

Great Institution Is Projected by Methodist Church for Dallas, k Tex. I*l I Dallas, Tex. —Dr. John O. Mcßeynolds, dean of the Southwestern Medical college, says that it is the intention to raise $1,000,000 for the building of a new Methodist hospital in Dallas. The hospital will be a part of the co-related educational system and a branch of the Southern Methodist university, and will be in connection with the Medical College of the Southern Methodist university ——— The plan has the hearty approval of Dr. R. 8. Hyer, president of Southwestern uni ersity, and of the Dallas members of the Texas Methodist Educational commission. Other members of the board are expected to be favorable to the proposition, and it is hoped to have the ground broken for the actual building well within the calendar year. The, .first new building of the sanitarium or the group of buildings, if a cottage plan shall be determined, is to cost from $300,000 to $500,000. The $1,000,000 fund is to be the endowment It is planned to have each bed of the establishment endowed, so that whether the patient in that bed is wealthy or on charity, the work will go on without impediment If the patient is able to pay, then the money so received win be for adding to the endowment fund or for improvement of the establishment The announcement is that the big undertaking will be for a sanitarium

EARRINGS KEEP EARS OPEN

Italian Girl Tells Court That’s Why They’re Worn—Not Needed on Mouth. > Kansas City, Mo.—Why do Italian* wear earrings? Style, you say. Not a bit of it. Listen to the explanation given by Rosa Bruno, 15 years old, to Judge E. E. Porterfield In juvenile court. The judge wanted to know why an Infant in the arms of Mrs. Pasquale Bruno, Rosa’s mother, wore two big gold hoops which dangled al* most to its shoulders, and Rosa re» piled: “Us Italians, you know, we are 'dif* ferent from you people. We don’t believe in our babies’ ears stopping up. So we put In the big earrings to pull down the corners and keep ’em open, see?” “Quite an idea,” agreed the judge. “But what do you Italians do to keep their lips from growing together?” “Oh, d^S-funny.” -laughed Rosa. “Dat’s a joke. The baby he cries with his mouth too much, or we’d hang earrings there, too. Maybe sometime baby he cry with his ears and then we throw away hoops altogether.” An attache of the court hereupon stuffed his handkerchief in his mouth, but despite this precaution he led the laugh id. which the court joined.

DEEPEST WELL IS DRILLED

■New Shaft to Go 6,000 Feet Near Pittsburg, Pa., to Find What’s < There. Pittsburg, Pa. —Oil and gas producers in this part of the country are greatly interested in a well that ia now being drilled on the Geary farm, in Washington county, between McDonald and Candor. The well is being put down by the People’s Gas Company, a subsidiary company of the Standard Oil, and is to be drilled 6,000 feet deep, to find out what is in the earth at that great depth. Everything in the equipment for drilling the well is double strength. The derrick is eighty-four feet high. It will take almost a year to complete the well, even if the drillers have no bad luck. r

whose system will cover at least one block, will be centrally located, so as to be within easy access to the bulk of the emergency demands and so equipped as to be a drawing place for all the southwest, a hospital establishment as complete as may be found anywhere in the world. The matter of site, except that it is to be in Dallas, Is to be left to the educational commission.

WASH COAL TO ADD HEAT

Kansas University Proves Laundering Process Is Profitable—Leaves No Clinkers. Lawrence, Kan. —Wash your coal if you want to get more heat from it That is the advice instructors and students of Kansas university give for keeping down the family fuel bill. The advisers have just finished a job of washing a ton of coal. One hundred and sixty pounds of refuse was taken from the lot by the washing precess and the remainder produced almost twice as much heat as a ton of unwashed coal. Besides, the washed fuel left no clinkers, which form on grates, shutting off the draft and causing much of the efficiency of fuel to be lost

To Bar Dances at Ball.

New York.—Having received a tip from Mrs. E. H. Harriman and other wealthy patronesses the junior “prom" committee at Columbia has barred the “Turkey Trot’’ and the “Grissly Bear” from tfce annual balL