Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Page 2

J* •*•<?•☆ vvwZ. Environed In the Infinite *•£•£• And, that no day of life may lack roj, >j x manco, . _*_ * Ar 1 The spiritual stars rise nightly, shedding >7 • down . <* * A private beam Into each several heart, ... £ The seasons chariot him from this exile, 4 The rainbow hours bedeck his slowing • <j chair, - . * The storm winds urge the heavy week ,v • ® ;A- along, r "“T'VW ** *w# ’ Suns haste to set, that so remoter lights N * Beckon the wanderer to his vaster home. 3r*w« —Emerson’s “The Adirondacks.” wm&m

The Irregular Member

By Annie Hinrichsen

( Copyright, 1912. by Associated Literary Press! “Be stilt I wish to hear what Mr. Ralston' is saying." Mary Collins shook her head Impatiently at the men with her. "Nobody listens to Ralston,” scoffed the representative of a metropolitan .paper.’-.'-I “I do,” she retorted. “He talks swell.” "He is an irregular,” commented a 'member of the assembly, “a man who Votes according to his own convictions, instead of obeying his party’s mandates. He refuses to obey the •dictates of the party leaders. He will not make allianoes with the other' party. No party or faction can claim him. He votes as he chooses, regardless of party lines, and introduces all sorts of Impossible but {highly meritorious bills. Because he “will not stand by either party, neither party will stand by him. He is making a speech now in favor of one of his bills, but nobody is listening to him.” Mary Collins walked afaw from the •group of legislators and newspaper Imen to a place near the irregular member. . Accustomed from childhood to the lunwrltten laws of legislative procedure, trained to detect and understand ievery condition and change in the ‘mental atmosphere of the assembly, she knew that Ralston was speaking !to men whose ears were deaf to the {words of an Irregular party man. The members were reading, writing •or walking about The presiding of•fleer sat in his chair yawning ostentatiously. The pages clattered noisi(ly around the speaking member. Several times Ralston’s eyes met jMary’s. When he sat down, rewardled by the indifferent silence of his jfellow members, he turned toward •her. She shsiled and nodded with 1 emphatic approval in the shake of !h«ar pretty head. There was a flash of surprised pleasure and gratitude in ibis eyes. - When the house adjourned she was •standing near the. entrance of representatives’ ball. "Tour speech this •morning was a good one,” she said. When he smiled the firm-lipped, 'austere legislator became a boyish young man. "You are' tfie ofiiy per” son who thought so," he said, whimsically. “The members won’t listen to me and since I never accomplish anything you newspaper people pay no attention to me.” "Is it impossible for you to act in harmony with your party?” "I despise the sort of legislation my party is advocating, and I won’t work with them. I don’t enjoy being a Pariah —an irregular is a Pariah — and I’m awfully lonesome. But I’ll stick to Ay ideals.” "Ideals are sometimes cold companions,” said the girl bitterly. They had left the state bouse and were walking toward the hotel. "They are,” the man agreed. "But when we give them up we sacrifice the best of ourselves; we give up all that raises •us above the, common sordidness of life.” He pushed open the hotel- door for her. In the lobby stood Grant Warren, a leader of the house and a member of the party to which Ralston belonged. He came toward them, nodded to Ralston and spoke impatiently to Mary. Tve been waiting ages for- you. Let’s go in to lunch.” - “What do you see in that man to like?" Warren asked when were in the dining room. “His ideals, 1 think.” she answered absently. Tie irregular.jvss at a table not far from them.— ' - ——-

“The has a lot of crazy notions. The political whirl is no place for him. He will soon have a chance to redeem himself with his party. The franchise hill which was fa traduce# a few weeks ago will soon be voted on. It is a party measure and -we can pass it by a majority of one If all the members of our party vote for it But Ralston will probably refuse to support it The loss of his vote will defeat the measure. If ho stands by his party we shall forgive him his past misdemeanors. If he ‘ forsakes us we shall throw him out of the party and out of the bouse." “Shall you vote against the franchise bill?” Mary asked Ralston several days later. *T have announced my intention jet doing so. I can see nothing bat harm In it" .f-" Sou understand, do you not that your refusal to vote with your party ion this measure will cost your a great will probably cost me my seat iO the bouse I was elected by so •mall a majority that my opponent]

is contesting my seat Election contests are decided by a committee of the house.- The committee 4s ruled by men who favor the franchise bill. I have been told that my opponent, who ran on the independent ticket, has promised his vote to the men who will unseat me and give him my place If I persist in my detemination to oppose the bill I shall probably be unseated to make room for a man-whose vote will pass the blit 11 "Yet you persist in your determination?” “Of course,” he answered, as if be regarded the question as superfluous. “I can’t vote .for a bill I think is wrong. I shall leave the capital. I shall probably never see you again. I love you very-dearly,” he went on in a matter of fact tone. “But you are engaged to Grant Warren. If you were free-I’d do my best to win you.” The next morning shortly after the assembly convened Grant Warren rose and asked for recognition. . : “Mr. Speaker,” he said, “as chairman of the committee on election contests I desire to report to the house our decision in the case of Jones versus Ralston. After a careful consideration of the evidence presented we have pronounced the election of Mr. Ralston an illegal one, and declare that Mr. Jones is the lawful member from Pike county.” “Mr. Ralston,” announced the speaker, “having been declared illegally • elected, is hereby requested to leave his seat in the house.” There was silence as the sturdy, erect figure passed down the aisle. As he reached the door Mary Collins joined him and walked with him Into the rotunda. She drew him into the empty state library. "It is over.” he said briefly. “I am a political outcast, a legislative misfit I am one of those men whose misfortune it is to look oh subjects differently from their fellows. And I have to stand by my convictions.” “You are not a failure. You are a glorious success. For the sake of your ideals you endured this humiliation. Ideals are the only things worth clinging to. Do you Btlll love me and want to marry me? If you do I’ll marry you now—whenever you wish.” “What are you talking about Mary?” “When I first knew you I was engaged to Grant Warren. I did not love him. But the life of a self-sup-porting woman is sometimes very hard. Mine has been cruelly hard. He has wealth and position, t intended to marry him for the material advantages he could give me. I had had Ideals of marriage for true love, but I had put them aside. When I knew you I began to care for you as I had never cared for any other man. But Grant was a success and very rich. So I tried to smother the ideals and marry him. But I can’t do it, I realized today when you walked from the house that I honored and loved you and the nobility you represent beyond anything else in the world. I want the man I love and I want to live up to my old Ideals of love and marriage. But perhaps you don’t want a woman who has been so mercenary. I don’t care what you are politically and I don’t card how poor you are —” “But I’m not poor,” he said, staring at her in joyous bewilderment. “I’m only a poor politician. I am sound in business sense. I have a great deal of money, more than you can spend. Do you really love me, sweetheart? It Isn’t just pity for a political outcast?" “An outcast?” she said, scornfully. “I call him a hero.”

More Mirror Superstitions.

It is not only in Greece that mlr-v ; ro r superstitions survive. English folk still adhere to the belief that to break a mirror is to insure seven years of ill luck; in Scotland the same calamfty is regarded as a portent of a death. In the southwestern counties it is considered unlucky for a bride to look in a mirror on her wedding day—but the superstition must be strong indeed to prevent a woman taking "one last look” at herself in the glass on that most important occasion. Some folk, too, cover over all mirrors in the presence of deatb, and believe that anyone looking in a glass in a bouse where a dead man lies will see the dead person looking over the shoulder.

The Boston Courtship.

‘1 think 1 could make you happy," he averred. "We are not here to be happy," she explained. "We are here to missions.” “Then consider me as yours.” It was upon this basis that they become engaged.

Utilized Time.

"How is it that Bunks studied law fa the spare time of such a busy career r "He read his books while bis wife was getting dressed to be ready fa • minute."

DIGGING UP OLD EPHESUS

EVERYONE who cares at all about -classical antiquity is glad—tohear that the Austrian Archaeological institute is resuming its exploration of the city of the great Diana.. It is, fortunately, rare for politics to interfere with science, but at Ephesus (as recently at Cyrene) the exception occurred. The right under which the Austrians be-, gan work in 1899 was based on a personal permission from Sultan Abdul Hamid; and with the new order, which was established in 1908, it not only lapsed, but could not be renewed in its terms consistently with the Constitution. Almost immediately followed the annexation of Bosnia. The difficulties of Austrian would-be concessionaries in the Ottoman empire were redoubled; the Institute had to shut up its house in Ayasoluk, stack its rails and cars, and leave the scene of ten seasons’ operations to be reoccupied by the rank vegetation which a marshy site on the hot west coast of Anatolia is only too ready to send up, writes D. Q. Hogarth, in Illustrated London News. I walked over the field of ruin in the autumn of 1910, and found it fast becoming a thicket of reeds and brushwood; but what it must have looked like last spring, after the heavy snows and rains of the severest winter ever known in the Levant, I can only guess. Four years ago the site gave me the best idea that I have ever been able to get-of the splendid appearance which a great Graeco-Roman city, built in a land of marble, must have made. True that even here the imagination had a great deal to do. Hardly any building except the theater had more than a course or two of its external walls, or more than a foot or two of its column-shafts upstanding. The least-destroyed' structure, the Library of Celsus, is not preserved above the height of a man; the larger agora was still uncleared of the deposit of ages, and the streets were littered with chaotic ruin. But still there ran the paved streets, plain to see; there were the monuments which had lined them, in their original places, or as near as might be; there were the marketplaces, and here, there, and everywhere, the gate-posts, lintels, architraves and columns which had made the splendor of the facades. It seemed that no building in this quarter of Ephesus had not been fronted with marble and carved richly. Truly this had been no mean city! How Germans Excavate. German excavators are very fond of such a superficial clearance of an ancient site, and, with that object the authorities usually place an architect at the head of their expeditions. There is much to be said for their policy. The evidence for one period of antiquity is made visible as a whole and on the spot; and the German diggers, having more to show the visitor than another digger has who burrows to the bottom of all things, removing what lies above as soon as he has recorded it, probably educate more people in archaeology (so far as a tourist spending two or three hours on a site can pick up archaeology) than any other. The lesson of a cleared site is so obvious and SO easily read. The other kind of digger, whose results are hardly to be seen and appreciated until they appear in the cases of some distant museum, appeals only to those who already know much of antiquity, and have studied elsewhere the lesson which he does but illustrate. When I dug at Ephesus myself for the British museum some years ago (though not in the city area), I made for the bottom of things at once, regardless of overlying things, once these had been recorded. That I did so, however, is neither to my credit nor to my discredit, for really I had no choice, Jf I was to get any results worth mentioning. I was commissioned to dive onoe more, and tor the last time (ift all likelihood) into the noisome pit which Wood had

made thirty-five years before in order to get down to the site of the temple of Ephesian Artemis. What little the Byzantine builders of churches and the moslem builders of mosques had left of the great shrine, as it had been in Roman and Hellenistic times, he carried almost entirely away. Below that stratum something had survived of the earlier temple which Croesus helped to build. Of this 'also Wood removed all except some patches of pavement, drums of columns, and bits of walling and foundations. Unless there were still earlier temples below this—and below, as it happened, the spring water-level to boot —I had nothing to do put put the place tidy, make as accurate a plan as possible of the meager vestiges, and come away. Therefore, my one chance was to probe below Wood’s lowest. I procured a big steam engine and pump, probed, and found there were remains of not less than three shrines below. Each had been smaller than Its successor, but all were built round the same central point which the greater temples above them used. That point was marked by a square basis of ashlar masonry which had four times been restored, enlarged and heightened; but through all its changes it had supported the cult-statue of the great goddess, looking seawards down the ever-length-ening naves of her successive shrines. Probes Rich Bhrlne. .. And I had Buch further rewardasa digger may always hope for if he probes to the bottom of a site once occupied by a very rich shrine. The floor of the earliest shrine of all was found to be littered with remains of offerings in ivory, gold, silver, bronze, terracotta and other materials; and the rubble cbre of the earll<«tpartestal was sown with yet more of these things —mostly gauds of pious women who had thrown them in when the square basis was first being built. Those which I found on the floor outside had, no doubt, been trampled into the slime when the earliest shrine was sacked or otherwise ruined, and they had been left for mq because their existence had been forgotten. Those within the basis may have been remembered, ‘When it came to be restored; but superstitious piety respected the structure into whose core they had passed until all memory of them, too, faded away. So I got them as well —nearly two thousand of them! They have proved of much more worth than mere loot; for they have told us what early lonian art could produce—have told us, in fact, just what the Austrian excavations in the city have failed to telL I left the site of the Artemisium to become a modus again, and even a worse one than of old, for the deep digging had tapped fresh springs. There was no help tor it, nor is then any hope of fresh discoveries there in time to come. The site of the greatest of ancient shrines must remain a pool in winter and a fever-breeding hole in summer. All our hope tor new light on Ephesus rests on the continuation of the Austrian excavation in the city. May it go deeper as it goes farther!

Ambition of Big-Game Hunters.

India has produced some of the finest big-game hunters in the world. First they kill deer, then tigers, and after that they climb into the titiiw after the mountain sheep, which are the most difficult of all their kind to follow and kill. But .there is,one ambition beyond the mountain sheep. That is the snow leopard. This beautiful creature, white as the snows it lives among, is rarely foqnd below a height of 11.000 feet, and is even there extremely rare. It is both wild and savage, and the natives have a superstitious fear of ita white eoat and deep-green eyes. The man who succeeds in killing a snow leopard steps into the very first rank of biggame hunters. . j

The HOME DEPARTMENT

HAND-PAINTED SLIPPER DAINTY FASHIQN WORTHY OF ITS POPULARITY. * - ... ' _ ; r —■—r ■ - - —— Not at All Hard - to Decorate, and Makes a Most Welcome Gift at Any Time-Two Designs That May be Copied. . One of the daintiest fashions introduced this-season was the hand-patofr-ed slippers for evening wear. Can you imagine a more attractive gift for the graduate or bride than a pair of these? The slippers are satin, white or any delicate tint, and the design may be of any favorite flower. With filmy gowns of chiffon, lace or net, these lovely slippers add just the

correct touch to produce a perfect costume. Any woman with the slightest artistic ability can paint these slippers and find it a delightful pastime. Two cleverly arranged designs are given here, which you may transfer to the Blipper in this manner: Over the slipper place, a small piece of carbon paper and on top of this the design. Carefully trace each flower with a sharply pointed pencil. You will find an exact duplicate of the design on the slipper. Use watercolors to tint the flowers. Wild roses are used for one design. These are always effective on account of their delicate shading. The coloring should rafige from the faintest pink to a deep rose. A daisy design is especially lovely. Daisies, in their simple beauty, make an appropriate decoration for the white slipper of the bride or the “sweet girl graduate.” Violets in an effective arrangement are good. Shades and tints pf violet should be used to color these lovely blossoms. A design of forget-ma-nota la exceedingly pretty. They should be tinted palest Wufr, with -yelow -centers; —The bow knot may be any color desired; however, pale pink with the blue always makes an effective combination. If you desire to purchase the handpainted slippers, you will find them rather expensive, —When decorated at home they cost comparatively little. They are the most acceptable of gifts, delighting any one fortunate enough to receive them.

Her Job.

“Dog watches are common on ships, but what can a cat do?” “She comes In handy for a puyr, sir.”

USEFUL LITTLE WORK BOARD

Takes Up Only a Small Amount of Space and la Extremely Handy When Wanted. ■—■■ a This useful little board Is intended to hang on the wall near a dressing table, where it will be found most handy. A piece of stiff cardboard about ten inches long and eight inches deep is used as a foundation, ’ and this is covered with silk stretched

smoothly across and sewn together at the edges. Down the center a strap of broad elastic is sewn so that it forms a series of loops under which scissors, bodkin and thimble may be slipped and held in their places. On either side of this, small pockets are arranged capable of holding packets of needles. *v- ft--' . r-?--4.-->••• - < Along the upper edge and suspend-

SHOES NEED THE FRESH AIR Care In This Respect Wifi Add to Life and Assure Comfort to the Wearer. Fresh air is good for most things, tat»Jndfflg shoes. ißut in this instance as in many others the value of fresh air is not rightly estimated. At night the least-thoughtful shake out their clothes, birush off the day’s dust and' slip each garment over a hanger; and, many garments are thrown over a chair before an open window. But how many of even the most fastidious, germ-fighters think to air their shoes? CHckety-cltck, into a close closet, or closed shoe box, they go, instead of' being brushed, pulled into shape and placed where the air can play freely about and through them. A windowsill is an excellent shoeairing rack and is convenient for all. Shoes placed there for an hour or SO

after wearing each day, will not only prove refreshing to the feet, but will harbor no foot odors, and the dampness from feet warmth and weather conditions will evaporate, leaving leather and lining renewed to resist the day’s dear.

PRESENT AND COMING STYLES

' • ... • • t > . v- • • t . . . Little. That Is Really New, Though the Flounce Has Been Established In High Favor. The flounce is at last established in high favor. And many of the new taffeta frocks with fetching little jacketwraps to match have as many as three or four flounces reaching to the knee. Of course the flounced skirt is short, revealing plainly the pretty buttoned boots which are now so fashionable. It is also narrow, the measurements of the scant flounce being kept within 2% yards width decreed by Mme. Mode. In a season when taffeta as a< dress material is lifted to the pinnacle of favor it seems odd that ribbed ribbons should have such a vogue in mil--linr©ryT~lrat~Air the ribbon trimmings seem to be in grosgraln or ottoman weaves. These ribbons are plaited into all manner of smart bows, fans, cockades and cabochona When big, soft bows are used, silk by the yard in taffeta weave seems the favorite material. • Motor coats are simple and "Bmart in design. Even the inexpensive models* have good lines, with broad, roomy shoulders and a narrow effect at' the foot. These coats are made of English and Scotch tweeds and the good-look-ing American wool mixtures that repeat the tweed effects at moderate cost. Huge'buttons and eccentrically - shaped cuffs, revere and pockets give - them a knowing and modern look* ,

ed with little loops of narrow ribbon are three reels of cotton, from which the thread may be drawn off without removing them from the board. The board Is edged all round with a silk cord, carried Into three little loops at each corner, and a loop of ribbon with a smart'bow at the top Is attached to the back by which the workboard may be suspended from a nail in the wall.

New Parasols.

A handsome new parasol of green silk has a four-inch border of a heavy plush or long plied velvet of a gray and white mixture. At a distance the border quite resembles fur. Another style parasol is of changeable taffeta with a pinked ruffle of the same outlining the edge. The shirring of the ruffle is defined with a cord.

Gathers in Skirts.

Gathered backs are appearing in many of the new skirts of soft materials. This is contrary to the present fashion of the panel and plain habit, but the gathers are so cleverly held In place that the lines are just as slender.

[ HIGH COLLARB. ' '* j | Collars of ear-tickling height • and daytime decoßetage effects [are two extremes of the present i styles. The stock has returned [with all Its altitude, and the low [transparent yokes are again re.vived. • i> if t' ■■ --- __