Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1912 — Page 3

A WOLF ON ICE

There were 12 farmers around the ehores of Black lake, and the wives es 11 of them were gossiping about Miss Ally Parsons, the adopted daughter of old Mrs. Parsons, the widow. If Mrs. Parsons had also gossiped it would have rounded out the 'dozen. " , It wasn’t scandal, but gossip, though there was a tinge of meanness in it Whenever two or three of the wives got together a listener might have overheard such sentences as: “Who does she think she is, anyway?” “She feels herself too good for anyone around here.” “That’s what comes from sending a girl off educated.” “If I was Burt Hazleton I wouldn’t look at her twice.” “What is she looking so angel?” And whenever two or three husbands got together a listener might have overheard such sentences as: “Heard your spotted cow was ailing, Jim?" - - . , “Wish we would have about six inches more snow.” “Have you fellers /read what the New Jersey weather prophet says about a late spring?” That’s the difference between the sexes. It has always been that way and will be to the end of time. Just because a cousin of the widow Parsons died and left a little girl twelve years old named Ally, there was gossip. Who was the cousin? What did she die of ? Why didn’t some one else adopt Ally? Was the child going to be petted and pampered, and various other things. That gossip died out, afad then, when the girl was sixteen and was sent away to school, there was more of it

She came home at eighteen, and the talk around Black lake raised the water a foot higher in three days. Burt Hazleton, son of a county supervisor, justice of the peace, chairman of the school board, and, the one who always furnished hay and straw to every circus that came to the village three miles away, knew Miss Ally before she went away to school, and fell In love with her after she returned. He asked her to marry him, and she did not “jump at the chance,” as they put it On the contrary, it came to be understood that she felt herself above him. She was going to marry a gentleman, thank you, or she wouldn’t marry at all No making soft soap, feeding pigs and peeling potatoes for her. Was there any truth in all the gossip? Just a grain or two. Miss Ally had received a fair education, but she had not become “stuck up.” She had always liked Burt Hazleton, but she was not in love. He had not asked for her heart Sometimes it requires a shock to develop love in either sex. That was all there was to it but those 11 women were having a more delightful time than they could have got out of 11 combined camp meetings. Black lake froze up in the winter, like all respectable and well behaved lakes, and there was always fair skating. Sometimes the skaters were in crowds—in couples—or alone. Since her return Miss Ally had skated with the crowd, with Burt and by her lonesome. On this particular evening she was out alone. During the afternoon old Mrs. Hedges, who had rheumatism in everything except her tongue, had called to pick at her and get. food for furthef gossip. One of the many mean things she had said was that if she had a daughter who felt herself too good to black the kitchen stove she’d lock that daughter up in the smoke house until she had learned that she was no better than other folks. Another was that the girl who had a few good looks and a little education, and who figured on marrying some one way above her on that accounts was going to get badly taken in and done for. She might marry, but she’d find out afterwards that she had married a lightning rod man instead of a millionaire. Farmer Jackson owned a fool dog. Everybody around Black lake, including farmer Jackson himself, agreed that he was a fool dog. They said he didn't know enough to bury a bone or bark at a bog. There were vzujny fool things that fool dog did to make talk, but he went right on in’ bis ypward career as if his skull/ contained the brains of a wise old odnine. This fool dog, had finished Jits supper and was loafing About When he heard the ring of stages from the lake. Without -rtalfnfng any credit for acumen, he inferred that some skater was abroad, and he went down to the shore to see. Yes, there was a girl gliding along half a mile away. She was all alone and must be lonesome. The company of a fool dog was better than nothing, and away he sped. Miss Ally had been told years before by an old woman that in pioneer days u npack <f wolves had caught a man crossing Black lake on the ice and pulled him down and devoured him. ftnd Jußt two aCTes surface were covered with blood, bones, boot-legs and trousers buttons. Thia story recurred to the lonely skater as she headed this way and ,h*t. and just at that Instant the fool dog arrived. He arrived on the run. and he bad a howl to let out as be sprang on the girl’s back and sent her sprawling. She uttered a wild yeU

By CLARA INEZ DEACON

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and scrambled up. But for her fright she must have seen that It was only a dbg, but she thought only of wolves and how to escape from them. She dashed for the far end of the lake, and the fool dog followed. Of course he followed! He wanted to be company. Now and then he nipped at the girl’s skirts, but It was only in fun. Miss Ally didn’t scream for help. She couldn’t spare the breath to do it. She would get ashore first. She seemed likely to succeed when the canine headed her off. Then she made for the left-hand shore. He headed her again. It doing It he went into an air-hole, but he didn’t mind that in the least It only made him run the faster when he had scrambled out How long can a girl keep up a skating clip when pursued by a ferocious pack of wolves? Miss Ally had seen only one, but the other 30 or 40 were somewhere close at hand, of course. She thought she had been flying for half an hour at least when the fool dog brought things to a climax. Seeming to be afraid that she would overtire herself he got in front of her and down she went and fainted away. Some one down at the foot of the lake had also come bn the ice for a little whirl. He was mad and wanted to work the feeling off. That rfternoon the old man Schemerhorn had saldto him: “Burt Hazleton, have you ever stopped to think that there are over 3,000,000 sorrowin’ married men in the United States alone?” “No.” “Wall, you just work your brains on that” “What are they sorrowing about?” “You might think It was because they ain't as rich as John Jacob Astor, but you’d be wrong. It’s because they are married to wives who are educated —wives who can tell you all about Cicero, and yet don’t know when a ’tater Is done through. Beware of ’em, Burt They will wreck the life of any man.” The best way to work off . the madness was to go straight up the middle of the lake and dig as hard as possible. Burt was doing this when he came across an unconscious girl and a fool dog was jumping back and forth over the body at times, and then varying the performance by chasing his tail in a circle around it “Ally, and how came she here!" The fool dog cavorted all around in reply! Young Hazleton knelt down beside the girl and shook her and talked to her and chafed her hands, and by and by she sighed and opened her eyes to ask: “Haven’t the wolves eaten me up!” An hour later, as they leaned on the gate at the Parsons home, Miss Ally said: “It was only a dog, instead of a wolf, but I’d fainted, and you camo along, and I came to, and —and —" “And you love me?” “Y—yes.” And three days later old Mrs. Hodges cracked the ice of Black lake In 50 places as she ran in on those ten other wives and exclaimed: “Well, what do you thlk now!" “What!” “Jackson's dog Is a fool —Burt Hazleton and Ally Parsons are fools —I’m a fool and you are a lot of fools, and there’s going to be a fool wedding next June to which all the fools In the county will be invited!”

EVERY SOLDIER A DEAD SHOT

Englishman Has Invented a New Kind of Rifle Sight That Seems To Be Deadly. Every soldier who has been in battle knows that the vast majority of bullets never find their mark. It has been estimated that in the South African war it required more than five thousand bullets to hit one of the enemy. . . This is due chiefly to the difficulty which soldiers have in finding their distance range tn the heat of battle. However good they may be at target shooting at Bisley, it is a very different thing when they have to fire at an unknown distance at living targets which are answering their shots. The boldest and gravest man is excited, and it is a supreme test of nerves and skill,to make that cool calculation which is .necessary to judge the distance between himself and the enemy —not an easy thing, however steady a man’s pulse may be. But now there comes an invention which promises to make every soldier a dead shot The inventor is H. Ommundsen, known as king’s prizeman at Bisley. i - By the application of a simple geometrical law—very simple, like other things, when you happen to know it — he has produced a new rifle sight which does away altogether with the difficulty of finding the range of distance. The soldier, simply has to judge the apparent height of the object which he desires to hit which by experience Is known to be absurdly easy, and to shoot according to a fixed sight, at a point below the object equal to its height A U he does that he ‘•drops" his man. Naturally the nearer he is to the object the taller it looks, so that the point at irhlch the rifleman aims varies to exactly the same degree.—London Chronicle.

THE collier Leonidas recently arrived at the Washington navy yard loaded with relics from the wreck at the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Among them was the main mast which it is Intended to erect in Ar- ■ llngton cemetery as a memorial to the men who lost their Ilves when the 111-fated battleship was blown np. No date has yet been fixed for the ceremony.

SUN YAT SEN’S LIFE

Chief of Republic Has Had an Adventurous Career. Went to Hawaiian School—Proficient In English, History and Literature —Narrow Escapes From Capture. Honolulu, H. I.—The “young Chinese party” in Hawaii is represented by 95 per cent of the population of Hawaiian both Chinese and 75 per cent of those whose birthplace is somewhere in China. Is it to be wondered at that progressiveness has had such a hold the president of the new republic was brought into the world? Dr. Sun Yat Sen was born in Kula, Island of Maui, November 24, 1870, and was taken to China by his parents when about four years of age, remaining there until he was ten years old. In 1906 he crossed the Pacific to the mainland and was admitted to the United States as a Chinese student and traveler on a certificate procured by him in China. After touring the United States and Europe he returned to Hawaii, making Honolulu his home. What remained of his family resided at the old homestead on Maui until about four years ago, when the price on the head of the doctor reached an exorbitant figure. Then they decided to take passage, from Honolulu to Japan, where they arrived safely. While in Honolulu and on the voyage to Japan agents of the dowager empress hovered dangerously close to the family, apparently with a 'dew to kidnaping the members and holding them as hostages against the revolutionary doctor. Chicago may not be aware of a census of Chinese taken in Hawaii! shortly after annexation. At the time registers of the birth of Chinese in the islands were made and certificates given. It opened the way to graft, and was a source of income to many attorneys, for the Chinese would pay any price for a certificate which showed their children to have been born

YELL OPENS CHURCH SERVICE

Choir Boys Whistle Hymns and Innovation ta Pronounced a Success in New Jersey. \ Hillsdale, N. J.-—Church services, opened with an excellent imitation of a college yell and Interspersed by music from a choir of whistling boys, is the novel winter program at the Methodist church here, of which the Rev. William Bird is pastor. The experiment was tried for the first time last night, and is pronounced a complete success by the minister. The choir of boys lined up on the platform at the opening of the services and gave their “club yell,” which is as follows: _— Say, my friend Have you seen Second Timothy / Two fifteen? First Thessalonians Five twenty-two Tells you exactly What to do. Then they whistled “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus,” “Wonderful Words of Life” and -other popular hymns. >

Toss of Coin Settles Fate.

Springfield, O.—Deciding by a toss of a coin that he would lose to his trial for several robberies, Gus Schreiber, sent tor detectives and made a complete confession. He implicated Charles Faudree, who was arraigned. In his confession he stated that he and Faudree made a solemn vow, with revolvers pointed at.each other’s heads, that whoever told on the other should suffer death.

MAIN MAST OF THE ILL-FATED MAINE

here, and which gave them the franchise. Also, holders of these certificates could get by the argus-eyed inspector of customs and immigration agents on the Pacific coast A certificate was a valuable asset and rare, Indeed, was the Chinese who was not willing to tempt an official to issue one on the payment of much fine gold. Those of the Chinese securing the coveted paper who .were old enough took the oath of allegiance to the United States. Dr. Sun Yat Sen was one of them. That he had once offered a certificate from the Chinese government was not considered a renunciation of his citizenship. His Chinese certificate, Issued by the Imperial government, was looked upon! as a proof of residence which carried with it the right to travel throughout the empire. Two years later, when the doctor was in China, the Chinese minister in Paris cabled his government that the much wanted man was traveling between Hanoi and Yunan and should be arrested'. Again the doctor escaped. In 1900 he personally led a little band of 600 rebels In a revolt which had for.its object the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a government on western ideals. His force was defeated by 4,000 imperialists sent against it. Later two towns fell before his little force of revolutionists. At night he remarked that the Manchu dynasty was surely weakening and that Chinese would rise and drive the Manchus out of China. He hoped to see erected a republican form of government Events transpiring in the empire during the past few weeks confirm the prophecy of the doctor, for the army and the navy turn now to the revolutionists as friends, not enemies.

Blaine, Wash.—After she had apparently died and arrangements weer being made for her funeral, Mrs. Mercy, of this city, sat up and assured her husband and two children she was not going tollgate them. Physicians say she will live.

First Outbreak Reported at Boston In 1768—One Hundred and Eleven Deaths Caused by This Weird - Disease in 1908. New York.—Among the many beneficial activities of the United States public health and marine hospital service, a campaign against rabies, undertaken to 1908 and extended since that time, is just now of particular interest. The boards of health of the different states have been urged to make this a "reportable" disease —that is, one of which all cases shall be re-TTa»4-fl 1V m A Xo H/lAA tgS coraea. until mat snail uone m all states the full extent of this distressing and weird disease cannot be determined.. There is an increasing demand upon the public health service for. anti-rabies serum. That rabies has been prevalent in the United States for more than a century Is shown by the medical literature of the nation. The first outbreak was reported in Boston in 1768. The legislative council of the American Medical association to 1907 recommended that rabies be investigated by the public health service with a view to its prevention and control. In 1908 there were 111 deaths of human beings from rabies, and 534 cases among animals were reported during this time. The disease in both man and animals was practically confined to the territory east of the Missouri river. .It was found to be almost entirely absent from the western states, but during the last 18 months it has made its appearance on the Pacific

“Dead” She Comes to Life.

Begin Rabies Campaign

HAT SET AFIRE IN CHURCH

Nun Smothers Blaze, Started by Taper, With Wrap Ip Lackawanna— Women Uhinjured. Lackawanna.—The sight of a woman’s hat ablaze in the Church of Our Lady of Victory during the services threw priests and worshipers into excitement for a moment. The church was crowded to the doors. Just before the elevation of the host each of the worshipers, men, women and children, held lighted tapers in their hands. In some unaccountable manner the plumage on the hat worn by an unknown woman became ignited and in an instant the foliage and feathers which adorned her hat were burning briskly. Some of the children in neighboring pews screamed. One of the Sisters connected with the Protectory on Victory Hill seized a wrap and wound it about the burning headgear, smothering the blaze. The hat was a total wreck. The woman kept her presence of mind and was not injured in any way whatever.

MAN FASTED FIFTY-SIX DAYS

Hanley of Marlboro Apparently Has Fully Recovered from Terrible Suffering He Endured. Marlboro.—William B. Hanley, who disappeared from Marlboro April 2C and who was found fifty-six days aft erward in a swamp near Westboro in a weakened condition, has apparently fully recovered from the terrible sufferings that he endured. When he was found he was barely able to breathe, and his life was al most despaired of. He was taken in charge by physicians and sent away to Forge village, where, under ths open-air treatment, he was restored to health. He returned to Marlboro the other night, and he is apparently as well as ever. He is as heavy as h< ever was, and eats well and his mine is as clear as a bell. He speaks but little concerning his awful experience, but there is no question that during the entire fifty-six days he went without food. - - ■ ■ Jf. ■

coast, transmitted, presumably, by an! mala from the eastern part of the country. Dogs, cats, wolves, horses, sheep, cattle, hogs, squirrels and skunks can transmit the disease. Apparently the disease is increasing, but this may possibly be due in part to the greater pains taken in the collection of the mortality records. The census bureau statistics show 33 deaths in 1900, 41 in 1901, 4S in 1902, 43 in 1903, 38 in 1904, 44 in 1905, 85 in 1900, 75 in 1907 and 111 in 1908. During 1908 nearly 1,500 persona were given the Pasteur treatment on account of having been bitten by : rabid or supposedly rabid animals, r The inquiry by the public ' health service shows conclusively that the only effective way to suppress rabies in man is .to eradicate* the disease among animals. This calls for the destruction of infected animals and the muzzling of all dogs in infected areas.

CITIZENS BUILD NEW ROAD

Thousand Men, Including Bankers and Merchants, Spend Holiday at Hard Labor. Lawton, Okla. —More than a thousand men, including city and county officials, business and professional men and bankers, took off their coats and built three miles of mode! road connecting Fort SIH with Lawton. The county commissioners started the movement and the merchants here cooperated by sett ing Tuesday as a hoi* iday and agreeing to close every bosb ness place in the city.

IDIOMS OF TRAINMEM

PICTURESQUE SLANG GREEK TOl THE UNINITIATED. ■ Only Those Belonging to the Hone** able Fraternity of the Rail Under, stand Expressions In Common Use—Some Instances. The talk of trainmen is about a* rich in picturesque slang as any in

heavy “drag” up a steep hill 6r around a sharp curve. Once at the top of the grade the “hogger* just “lets her drift” “Plugging her” is an old term, used when the throttle is closed by a quick motion of the left hand , while ,at the same time the reverse lever is thyown back with the right hand. This is not calculated to do any good to engine frames and cylinders and is resorted to only in great emergencies. It isn’t so common since the introduction of automatic air. ■ , 1 An old box car or a small building occupied as the yardmaster’s office Is known as the '•doghouse.” It Is sometimes used to Indicate the small fourwheeled caboose used by some roads at the tail end of freight trains. Thia is also called the “hut,” “crummie," “crum box,” or “cage.” “Hitting the grit” is what nq -trainman likes to do, but he sometimes has to when a train is running at full speed andbls only chance of not being caught in a wreck is to jump. “Getting her down in the corner” is setting the reverse lever down, m the lowest forward notch of the quadrant so that the engine has the full length of the stroke. “Patting her on the back" is an expression used whefa the reverse lever is down in the corner and is gradually hooked up notch by notch on the quadrant as the saturated steam is worked off. “Making her pop” IS to maintain a fire so thAt the fastant thel engine stops working she blows off. To “keep her hot” is to maintain a Are as a steady heat, thus furnishing all the dry steam needed, nd "matter how hard the engine may be working or regardless of the condition of the weather. As every fireman knows, the weather often tests the mettle of a “diamond pusher” on hard nma with a heavy drag of “rattlers.” . A thin plume of dry steam escaping from the pop is “carrying a white feather.” This usually occurs after an engine has been working bard and the condition of roadbed and gradient permits of the engineer easing her off a little. ' When an engine has to haul a particularly heavy load up a steep grade It is often necessary to “pound her.” The engineer gets over the bill with her, but is apt to strain the engine In so doing. Working an engine to full capacity after she has been reported for light repairs which have not been given her or working an engine to a. higher limit than her builders designed is also called “pounding her.”

Railroad Station Built of Mine Waste.

A striktog<example ot whAfmay be done wito the waste of Wd affiT lead mines has been demonstrated in the construction of the new union station at Joplin, Mo., the concrete of which is largely made up of Mat and limestone tailings taken from the waste piles of the "mines of the district. Of the 22 parts in the concrete mixture used in constructing the station, 15 parts came from the mines, 19 parts being average tailings, and 5 parts the fine tailings from the sand jigs, called Chitwood sand. Of the seven parts, three were of'MVdFTßtnd and four of cement. The center of portion of the station, built in the old Roman type~of is two stories Tiigh;-Wb sheds and platforms' cover square feet.—Popular Mechanics. - - • - -

Screwing Railroad Tracks Down.

With railway traffic ever <m theincrease and timber for ties becoming ever scarcer, the problem of keeping our railroads supplied with suitable ties is one of the biggest that * railroad management has to face. Our railroadswear out upward ot 150,000,000 ties a year, and as they cost oh an average 50 cents apiece the bill runs up pretty high. Hardwood ties, of course, last much longer than soft wood, but they are also much morw expensive. -.-a - • .

For Use in the Mountains.

A UvUUlt'-rHUtv built by an English firm for use onthe mountain rallror.ds of Mexico. has the appearance, of--two--with a single car te tift center.

First Amerlcan. Locomotive.

was called the -*** 1 point rounary.

this land of free and fancy speech. Some of‘the lingo can he understood even by the outsider. A “side door Pullman,” for - instance,- is a, father common way of referring to a box car. But most of the phrase* are Greek, to.the uninitiated. "Taking her by the neck,” for example, is used when an -engine is made to pull a