Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1912 — Page 2

Betsey’s Name

“Betsey! Betsey!” “Yes, father. I’m coming.” She stepped round the curve of the veranda aB she spoke. “Where have yon been all these hours?” grumbled Mr. Whittlesey. “Hours!” laughed Betsey in response. “Why it is barely twenty minutes since I went in to give Sally her instructions for the day, and we have been rushing things at a great rate. Now I am at at your service again—hut just think how you would feel if I really should leave you for a. long time," Bhe ended teasingly. “I suppose that is all I have to look forward to now.” Her father gave a dismal groan. “Just take a fancy to some young limb you happen to moelr and then—presto—my baby is turned Into a lovesick maiden, with her poor old dad utterly forgotten.” Hia daughter assured him that falling in love was altogether outside of her plan of life and the last thing be need worry about Richard Whittlesey had had tp play the part of father and mother both, ever since Betsey was three years old. .Now she was entering her twentieth year, and her father was more than grateful that so far her interest in the masculine had been wholly centered on himself. She laughed again as she asked, “What young man of this present generation do you suppose would want a wife with such an old-fashioned name as ‘Betsey?’ How you could ever have given it to me just because it was my great-grandmother's is more than I can understand. But at least I has marked me out of the matrimonial market.” “I only wish it had," declared her father. "I would have called you ‘Hippopotamus’ If It might have had any such effect” “At least I can he thankful that yon did not have that awful thought In time to do any harm. But really I think that such a good * father and such a poor name as mine, between them, should make a voluntary old maid out of anyone.” “And yet that statement from one of your advanced years does not give me the safe and secure feeling that yon Intend it to.” "Every year that passes will make you feel a little surer, anyhow,” consoled Betsey, “now let’s go for a ride.” An hour later, as they were speeding smoothly along the lake road, they noticed ahead of them a saddled horse nibbling the grass at the roadside. Richard Whittlesey was driving, and stopped his car heßide the horse. “Must be something wrong,” said jMir. Whittlesey, "I never saw this Ihorse before." He reached across* to smooth the horse’s nose, then secured his bridle and passed it to Betsey. "Soe If he will let you hold him white I start the car.” He returned to his seat* and they slowly moved ahead. The horse followed without restst- , ance. After traveling a few rods they came to a sharp curve in the road. As they turned thlß they came upon -A-man clad in riding clothes. He was hitching painfully along on foot and a stout staff. As soon as he saw the horse he cried, **Tou old rascal! what do yon mean by deserting me this way?” The animal, giving a little whinny, pnlled away from Betsey and trotted to his master. “Had an accident?” asked Richard Whittlesey, as he stopped the car. "Tes, and a mighty silly one, too,” -answered the stranger. “I climbed on top of the bluff at that steepest place to get a view across the lake, and coming down I stepped on a thin edge of rock, which gave way with me, so I came the rest of the way in about half a second.” He smiled cheerfully as he added, "Guess I broke -the small bone of my left leg. Can’t use it at aIL” “Then the sooner you get In with us and let me take yon to a surgeon, the better off you will be.” Jumping down, Mr. Whittlesey bundled this unexpected passenger Into the tonneau as gently as possible. "You are very kind." The stranger's lips looked blue from the pain of his broken bone, but his voice was still cheerful. “Though I doubt if such stupidity as mine is deserving -of so much consideration.'’ “Folks have to get used to our -crumbly style of rocks," Mr. Whittlesey said. “Come along, Colonel, called the stranger to his horse, and that obedient animal followed after them like a well-trained dog. They were not far from the lake Tillage, and Inside of a short time a surgeon was setting the broken bone. “Broken In two places,” he informed them when his task was completed; “good, square breaks both of them, only means keeping quiet with the foot In a chair for five or six weeks.” “But wf*re am I to spend all that timer’ questioned his patient “Is there a boarding house in this place? 1 have no friends within several hundred miles —was just riding Colonel through this pert because I had been told of the magnificent scenery.” "There are two good boarding houses,” began the doctor, ard Whittlesey interrupted him “He is going back In the car with us. doctor; 1 can look after him and keep him from dying of the blues.” "Now that is more than good oi woo.” thfe injured mad Mid, gratefully.

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“But yon must not bother yourself out of all reason on my account” “Not another word," his host announced. “This stranger is not going to be left at an inn; he iB coming home with me.” The doctor and Mr. Whittlesey helped the man back into the car. Betsey was petting Colonel when they appeared. “He is the deareßt horse I ever knew,” she said to his owner, as he gave Colonel a pat in passing. “That he is,” he agreed heartily. “It was only my faliing on him all in a heap that gave him such a shock that he ran around the corner.” Richard Whittlesey told his daughter of his invitation to their passenger. “He would die of being talked to death at either of the village boarding houses,” ho concluded. "And I knew yon would approve of saving a fellow being from such a dismal end.” “It is lovely of you, father —but then you are always thinking how to do nice things for everybody,” said Betsey admiringly. “You can amuse the master, and I will make love to Colonel.” Betsey grew fonder of Colonel every day, and her father and Colonel* master —whose name proved to be Max Pleyfair—became great friends. Betsey took part in many of her father’s discussions with their guest, and the crippled man seemed never to find his imprisonment anything bat enjoyable. Five weeks passed before he was able to attempt walking, and on the day that he first limped about a little, his host was surprised to realize how much he would miss his visitor. “Of course he will rush off the minute he can walk at all," grumbled Mr. Whittlesey to himself, “the smartest, clear-est-headed youngster I ever met —and how away he goes.” The following day Max Pleyfair broached the subject of his departure. “I can never thank you enough for your kindness,” he assured Mr. Whittlesey., “Bht now I am able to get about I must stop trespassing on your hospitality and go back to work.” “Just wha" I expected,” growled the elder man. "When we get well enough acquainted to begin to understand each other ttVen duty squalls for you —you know that you are always welcome here, m? boy." “I wonder if I should be as welcome If I made a feStrful revelation?” asked his goestV "Try me and see," answered Richard Whittlesey bluntly. “Well, then, here goes! Mr. Whittlesey, I did nut come through this region for the Sake of the soenery, it was for your daughter’s sake. Your cousins told me about you both and showed me her picture, which I must tell you—though it sounds foolish — that I fell in lovt? with at once. I went up that bluff to catch a glimpse of your place—its location had been described to me—and I was' thinking so deeply on my way down how I was to make any headway with the cruel father of my Imprisoned prinoess, that I fall headlong; but I hope Into hia “gObdgraceß." Richard Whittlesey regarded the speaker with astonishment, which slowly turned to amusement. “Yon young scoundrel, to have the nerve to tell such a yarn to an unhappy father,” he laughed, giving the offender a sounding thump on his shoulders. “Yes, you scamp, you did fall into my affections, and if you can get a ‘Yes’ from Betsey, there won't be any resistance here.’’ “Thank you more than ever,” and Max limped away to meet Betsey who was Just coming up the steps, while petting Colonel at the same time. To her Max poured forth the whole story. That young woman was literally swept from her feet, for no suggestion of her awful name had any effect on this persevering young man. “What could I do, daddy, when both yon and my name went hack on me?” Betsey asked her father afterward. “And there was Colonel wanting me to say ‘yes’ just as plainly as coaid be—l simply could not belp myself.”

In Place of Meat.

The man who had foresworn meat wound up his first vegetarian dinner with the accustomed tip. The next day the service was Indifferent, the third day it was abominable. "What’s the matter with that fellow, anyhow?” he growled. “He used to be a good waiter. Now he simply throws things at you.” "That’s because you didn't tip him enough,” said the man’opposite. "Waiters always expect bigger tips for serving a vegeterlan meal. It takes such a Variety of things to make up for meat that they have to handle more dishes, and make more trips to the kitchen. Any good waiter would rather serve one meat dinner than two of vegetables, and unless he gets tipped generously he gets ugly.” - -

Woman’s Baking Record.

Mrs. J. C. Harris of Bullockrille gives up an account of lier baking the past yearwhlch reads as follows: 881 loaves of wheat bread, 168 of graham* 44 of corn bread, 240. fried cakes, 1,669 white cookies. 4,035 ginger cookies, 410 pies, 230 cakes, 30 Johnnie cakes, 28 puddings, 310 biscuits and 15 shortcakes. This list does not include pancakes, of which she made so many she was unable to keep count.—Rush ford Soectator.

AS the result of an inquiry into, the strike of the mill workers at Lawrence, Mass., conducted by the house committee on rules, an investigation of the American Woolen company, its organization, capitalization, and labor conditions will be made by the house of representatives. During the hearings before the committee on rules the group of strikers’ children' shown in the photograph appeared to plead their cause and tell the story of their hardships. : , ....... . ... .*. .i , ... . M

POOR MAN’S HOTEL

Budapest Has Hostelry With Rooms for 14 Cents. Guests Served With Breakfast for Three Cents—Building a- Beauty of Architecture Equipped With Modern Appliances. Budapest.—Rooms, including steam heat and electric light, for 14 cents a day, breakfast of coffee and rolls for S cents and dinner for 14 cents are provided at the new Municipal People’s hotel which has just been opened here for people whose earnings are not more than S4OO a year, says a Budapest correspondent. Budapest has for some time suffered because of a lack of dwelling houses and reasonably priced hotels for the working classes. This need was particularly keen among the petty “Beamten,” as all persons employed by the city or state are known, whose Income Is small but who by reason of their position must keep up an appearanoe. Some time since a large number of houses were built by the city for its small officials who were married. The rental, while low, was well, within the means of the class of people for whom they were Intended, and at the same time Insured thp return to the city of the money expended. It was a happy experiment. - Next, the municipal authorities considered the matter of providing a' hotel for the transients of little means, workingmen, clerks, small merchants and petty officials, who could not afford to stop at even the cheapest hotels when they vistteff The unmarried of small wage or income, who might want permanent quarters, also were to be provided for. With this In view the municipal authorities built the new People’s hotel, which has just been thrown open. I was shown a large handsome fourstory structure covering a corner of a block. The exterior was as architecturally beautiful as the interior was modern, comfortable and homelike. Many of the hotels in Vienna, Berlin, London and New York where you pay more In tips than you do here for

Annual Snow Battle Is On

Enormous Cost of Maintaining Snow Plows and Crews—Much Damage la Caused by Avalanches. Denver, Colo.—The annual battle with the snow king is on in the Rocky mountains. From the middle of February to the Ist of May the struggle is at Its hardest. Western railroads are hurling their giant rotaries against the drifts that threaten to impede transcontinental traffic. Snowslides are booming down mountain, sides, sweeping away valuable timber and sometimes carrying away mining camps, villages, stage coaches and trains. To Becure an accurate estimate of the amount of money spent in fighting the snow king in the Rockies every winter and to cast up the total amount of damage done by avalanches is not easy. Authorities on the subject say that $20,000,000 would not cover the total. Every western railroad is under tremendous expense In maintaining snow plows and their crew*. The first cost ot a modern rotary plow is about $15,000. -- '■ : In Colorado, which contains the highest mountains of the continental divide, snow fighting has been developed to a science. Every railroad In Colorado has a full equipment of snow plows and maintains snow fighting crews for eight months of the year. t Necessarily when the snows are severest attention .Is centered on the main lines, which are kept clear most

WOCLEN MILLS INDUSTRY UNDER FIRE

your room are not half as inviting in appointments. The corridors and halls are tastefully decorated; the rooms are .of fair size, have large windows and are light and airy. The furniture Is Bimple but serviceable. Each room has electric light, cold and warm water and steam heat, which many higher priced hotels In Budapest, Vienna and other continental cities do not have. A bath in most European hotels costs from 25 to 50 cents. Coffee and rolls for breakfast may be had at the People’s hotel for 8 cents. A plain, substantial hungersatisfying dinner, which here as all over Europe Is eaten at midday, is served for 14 cents. Should the management of the People’s hotel, appointed by the municipal authorities, find that these prices are Insufficient to make the enterprise self-sustaining, the deficit will be charged pro rata to the rooms and meals and the prices raised accordingly. It was explained to me that the project was in no sense a charity but a place where any self-respecting workingman, clerk or member of the small official class may stay for a day or two or make his permanent home

Lad Declared to Be a Surviving Grandson of a Wealthy Mining Pioneer. San Francisco. —By an action file}! in the Superior court a Londoft newsboy, fourteen years , old, became a contestant for a fortune. The suit, filed by Mrs. Amelia A. Dierks in behalf of Etienne Buillard, a lad whom she by chance found selling papers in London two years ago, reveals the story of the boy’s abandonment in Paris after the death of his mother. According to Mrs. Dierks, she discovered 1 that he is the grandson of the late Dennis Hayes, a wealthy pioneer miner of California. The boy sues for all of the Hayes estate of

of the time, traffic seldom being impeded an hour by the worst blizzard. The braflfcfi 1 ' lines, which penetrate the high' hills to the mining camps, do not fare so well, and some of toe Colorado mining towns like Silverton and Breckenridge are cut off from toe rest of the world for weeks, in spite of toe efforts of«the snow fighters. Probably the Moffat road, which is the popular name for the late David H. Moffat’s Denver, Northwestern ft Pacific railroad, now in course Of construction from Denver to Salt Lake, Is called upon to do more snow fighting than any other line In toe world. The Denver, Northwestern ft Pacific crosses the continental divide. about 60 miles west of Denver at ah 'altitude of more than 11,000 feet above sea leveL For miles on both sides of the divide the snow plows are required to do heavy service. The (rack must be swept clean every day, for the reason that the high winds are' constantly filling the cuts with snow. Hie drifts accumulate on- each side of the track until the trains are overtopped many feet and they pass through miles of snow lanes, yet so systematically is the track kept cleared that traffic ia seldom impeded. The damage caused by avalanche*, in the. Rocky mountains each winter is past all accurate computation. These sttowslldes are full of tfeachery and descend at the most Inopportune times and in the most unexpected places. There are some slides In the San Juan mountains in western Colorado which follow beaten trails and ■, v.

Newsboy Sues For Estate

at a cost within his reach and that without taking all his earnings. In order that those whose Income enables them shall go to a public hostelry, those who wish to take advantage of the low rates must produce reasonable proof that they do not earn more than S4OO a year. This may seem very small In America, but in Austria, Hungary and other continental countries there are hundreds of thousands of men whose Income is considerably less than that. Education and recreation have not been forgotten in the People’s hotel. There is a large Smoking room and a reading room where the leading newspapers are on file.

GIRL WINS BET BY CLIMBING

Kentucky Young Woman Hampered by Bktrts Clambers Up 18/Foot Tower. Louisville, Ky.—Miss Susan Dlannell, clad In a coat suit and wearing her street shoes, clinfbed the framework of a tower 187 feet high at Lakeland, a suburb, and won a wager of S2O. ■ Miss Diannell was with a party- who v?ere discussing the hazards of working'on so high a frame. She said she could-climb the structure and a young man offered to bet S2O she couldn’t He lost the money in less than twenty minutes.

approximately SIOO,OOO. The boy’s memory of his parents was vague, but Mrs. Dierks learned by Investigation, she said, that his mother was Annette Hayes, daughter of Dennis Hayes, and that she had married Etienne Buillard, a suposedly wealthy Frenchman, against her father’s wishes and had gone to Paris to live.

Deaf From Melon Seeds.

Williamsport, Pa.—Treating thir-teen-year-old Carolina Garrison for deafness. Dr. G. D. Nutt found two watermelon seeds in toe girl’s right ear and one in the left. They had evidently been there since she was a child, and likely stuffed there by herself, unnoticed by her parents. Her hearing now is normal.

which come booming down the slopes at about the same time each year. Their paths are avoided and they do little damage. But toe average snowslide seems to be a creature of whims. It forms at the foot of some crai£ far above toe timber line. The winds whip the snow into deep drifts at the head of a slope leading thousands of feet into a deep valley below. Under the spell of the lengthening days and warm suns of February and March the drifts begin to loosen. Tiny rivulets trickle from beneath the white mantle, and suddenly, with a roar that is never forgotten by those who halve (nice heard it, the whole mass starts on its Journey to toe valley.

WOLF LEAPS 150 FEET; LIVES

Animal Escapes from Extermination Party in Northern Michigan and . Plunges from Cliff. Marquette, Mich.—Deer, elk and other animals 'in toe game preserve of an Iron company on Grand Island are at peace again. .. The “wolf In the fold” has gone, although in his going he performed what seemed to the hunters who had cornered him a suicidal feat For some time the animals have been preyed- upon by a huge timber wolf which had .crossed from toe mainland on the loe. An extermination party was organized and drove' the animal to bay upon a high promontory. Although the distance to the ice below was 150 feet, the anima’i when it discovered there was no hope of escape leaped from the cliff to toe ice below, and loped unharmed to the mainland. : A -

HELD HILL FIVE WEEKS

MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES BRAVE ACT OF PIONEER* v ‘ y, •V , — i — Early Colorado Bettler, With His Fam- . Wy, Held lyir Party of Indians at Bay on Spot Now Known as “Simpson’* Rest.” Prominent among, the rocky, mesalike hills that surround Denver, is a* rugged, gray point, within the outskirts ofthe town, known as “Simpson’s Rest.” Recently there was erected on this hill a monument commemorating the brave fight put up at-this spot by John Simpson, one of the earliest settler's of Colorado, against A war party of TJtes aid Cheyenne's in 1855. The Indian fighter and his wife are hurled on top of . the hill. The Utes and Cheyennes made the foothills and the plains adjoining the Rockies their hunting ground, but they rarely gave trouble to settlers. Consequently, one May- morning In 1855, when Simpson’s children, Bob and Nora, aged 15 and 13, were making their way to a small stream neartheir home, they were surprised to see a large party of Indians riding toward them at a terrific pace, shaking their lances and uttering blood-thirsty cries. At the same time they heard a cry from the direction of the cabin, and saw' their father running toward them with his rifle In his hand. Simpson had just returned from ah" expedition.. He had heard that theCheyennes an<f Utes had gone oh the warpath, and he had hastened home just in time to rescue his family. Seelog, the trapper, the Indians hesitated, for Simpson’s fame as a shot had : spread throughout the frontier, and-the-redskins knew that several among: them would meet death if they persisted in their attempt to capture the children. j Two burros were packed with provisions, a keg of water and all the ammunition the trapper possessed. Driving the burros ahead of them the members of the little family set out from the, house. Simpson covered the Indians with his rifle when they approached too near, and the family was unmolested. The hill which appealed! to the trapper as a good place for defense was accessible only by a single narrow, rocky path, up which ope must climb today- in reaching the sum-* mlt of “Simpson’s Rest.” The summit of the hill Is fiat, about half an acre in extent and surrounded by & high rocky wall. It would he Impos--, sible to storm such a natural fortress except by over-powering the defenders at the narrow defile.which served as an entrance. The Indians saw that It was hopeless to attempt to storm the natural fortress, so they surrounded the hill and began a siege In the endeavor to "starve out” the defenders. The siege has no parallel In the history of the west. For five weeks the plucky pioneer and his family held their fortress. They killed their burrors when provisions ran low. Fortunately, there had been heavy rains, and depressions in the rocks at the top of the hill were filled with water, giving an ample supply. At the end of the fifth week, when hope was nearly abandoned, the Indians suddenly brought in their ponies and rode away with shrill cries. A troop of cavalry from Fort Lyon, 150 miles distant, .which had been sent out to render aid to any settlers who might have escaped the marauding Indians, soon came in view, and Simpson and his family were rescued. . ” 1 ■'

Woman’s Chances.

The plan of the Brooklyn prießt who suggests a fine of SIOO for every young man wko reaches his twentyfifth birthday unmarried, and a legal requirement that every Unmarried'woman must propose at least three times each leap year, recalls an Interesting table which was once complied. Reckoning a woman’s entire chance of marrying at 100, toe table purports to give her varying chances at different times of life. For example, between the ages of 15 and 20 her chance is 14 % per cent** Between 20 and 25 It jumps to 52 per cent, falling between 26 and 80 to 18, and to 15 per cent, between 80 anl 35. After 40 itj is only 2 per cent, and after 60 she has only one chance in 1,000. v The priest thinks that “training, ; tradifion and the natural bashfulness i jA toe American girl”, keep her from, speaking first Undoubtedly they do, and it Is to be hoped they will con-; tinuesotodo. “Natural bashfulness,”; as the father calls it, will go farther i and faster in getting a good husband; than any amount of cultivated boldness. f

Wanted It, and Got It.

Here Is a story that will be as pleasing to a true American as it will be! obnoxious to a European. Arthur' Gleason tells it of Joseph Fsls In the. World’s Work. It is about Mr. Eels' invasion of London. He looked around the streets a hit, and found the office he wished, the„ right situation and right qlse. 4 Til take it." ha said to the owner. “But that is not customary. To whom will you refer me? To your solicitor r .**>; “I haven’t any." “But friends of yours In London?" "ream* here yesterday, haven* got acquainted with anybody yet; Here’s the rental money for the first six months. Take it or leave it.” TBut won’t tomorrow be more satis, factory for coming to a settlement?” “That's one day too lata. 1 wan* the office today, now" - * He got his office. T