Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1912 — Page 3

Grandad’s Little Fling

“Give it up, grandad, do. An old mateof 70 to take a carload of cattle to Chicago! It’s the craziest notion I ever knew you to take into your head.” “Crazy!” ejaculated grandad Indignantly. “That’s not'sihe way to talk to (me, son.” - _ “Well, do be reasonable and let Dan go as usual.” "Now, boy, I’m just dying to have a little fling. I’m going to Chicago, and I don’t want no g’ardeen, neither. It’s nay last chance—at my time of life. Now or never, sonny," and grandad chuckled joyously as his six-foot grandson ' turned away with an impatient gesture betokening anxiety rather than anger. Grandad was a fine specimen of wholesome and vigorous age. Why, then, should he not go to -Chicago without a guardian? "Be a good little boy and take care of the ranch,” was his parting salute -from the car-window, accompanied by a radiant grin. “Take care of yourself,” Jack shouted, adding to himself as the train moved out, “you old infant!” Grandad enjoyed every moment of his Journey from western lowa to the great mid-western metropolis. So. when his carload of cattle was duly disposed of, and a thick wad of bank bids in his possession, he started out to take in the sights. As he was leavtag the stock yards he met two men, whom from their appearance he judged to be farmers. “Bless me! Ain’t it lucky we met? You from Indiana and me from lowa —the two finest states in the Union. I might have got lonesome, but now we can have a roarin’# good time,” he cried. So the three started out to see Chicago. Their car had gone about a block when it Btopped to take on a lady passenger. Sibella Graham —society reporter for one of the city's great dailies — had awakened that morning in her room at the Transit house, where she was the guest for the night of a former classmate —in the same disheartened frame of mind with which she had retired the evening previous. The curt, incisive words of her city editor were still ringing in he rears:, “Unless there is a marked Improvement in your work, Miss Graham, the T will be obliged to dispense with your services.” The blow was none the less disheartening because she had expected it The trouble was that she simply could not browbeat her brain any longer into taking ehough interest in the details connected with her department to satisfy the patrons of the paper, who delighted in seeing their importance magnified in print.” “Jack was right when he said that all Cbicago'had to offer could not compare with the freedom of western ranch life,” she soliloquized. “To think of my having had the nerve to try to compel him to give it all up for an unfamiliar and uncongenial existence here, because, forsooth, I preferred Chicago as a place of residence! How well I remember his sensible and manly answer: “ ‘I cannot leave Oakland*, Sibelia. I owe all I am, ever will be, to my grandfather, who is the dearest old boy in the world. It would break his heart to have me leave him. I must stick to the ranch. It does seem to me, dearest, that you might be happy there. It really is something of a place, if I do say it’ "Well, I have had my way—l am a newspaper woman, and I have my Chicago (Bless it!), and some other girl better worth having will marry—or has married, who knows—the only man I ever cared for. I ought to be satisfied, but I am not it long for a whiff of air from that self-same despised ranch, and a chance to rest my poor, overworked. Idealess brain.. It feels as empty of gray matter as my hat I declare, I would prefer to churn, make butter, or even milk the cows this morning, to doing my usual stunt” When Miss Graham boarded the car, she found every seat occupied. Suddenly she became conscious of someone tugging at her skirt Turning, she looked into the eyes of an ■old man with a bright and jovial countenance, who indicated, by a motion, the seat be had vacated. The old man was chatting genially with his companions. “You’re all right as long as you’re with me, boya My boy, out in lowa, told me to look out for them bunco chaps, but pshaw! they can’t sail me no Masonic Temple,” with a knowing chuckle. Miss Graham’s worst fears were realised. She received her dismissal that afternoon, along with a check for past services. "And now what am I to do?” she asked herself as she left the Polk street depot, where she had been seeing some friends off on the train. Pondering this question, she walked on and on, oblivious to her surroundings. She was aroused, however. in a very sadden and startling manner. A man—propelled by some invisible force —fell at her feet, blocking hei passage, while the sound of the barring and bolting of a door fed upon her ear. The man -lay motionless, his white hair stained with blood, his eyes dosed in atupor. To her horror, toe recognized In him the old man toe ted noticed in the ear. fafa-fov . '* * 'S -i v

By ANNE H. WOODRUFF

(Oopjrright, IMS, bj Awortatwd literary Press.)

Grandad and his companions had spent the morning together, and had lunched at a restaurant more in keeping with the outward appearance of his friends than was entirety agreeable to him. When they started out, he was gently but firmly propelled toward a locality which the two men had kept in view all along, where men of their ilk consort to the accomplishing of their nefarious designs. Granddad objected strenuously at last, declaring that he was going back to have a look at the banks and office buildings. “All right, Gov*ner,” said the older man soothingly, “we’ll go with you. Why, if here ain’t Jake Hopkins! When did you come to town, Jake?" “Got in this mornin’,” answered the rough-looking individual who was standing in the doorway of a narrow building between a Chinese Junk shop and a corner saloon. “I wish ,you could let me have that |5 you owe me, Jake,” said the younger man. “I’m short" “Come inside for a minute, then," replied Jake, "till I get a bill changed."* 1 [ > . Grandad followed like a lamb to the slaughter—lnto what looked like a poorly furnished office, where a hooknosed, hawk-eyed man sat at a desk. “No,” he said, to their request for change. “Short of change myself today.” “Can you change' a ten?" the young man asked of grandad, who obligingly hauled out his wad. In a second’s time the four were upon him and had. secured the money. They relieved him of his business papers, return ticket — everything. Then they thrust him through the doorway with auch violence tW he fell to the sidewalk, striking his head upon the pavement and almost upsetting Sibella. A crowd began to colleict; the patrol wagon drew up at the curb. The policemen searched his pockets In vain for a clue to identification. "He has been robbed,” declared Miss Graham. “What do you know aboift this case, young woman?” the policeman asked. Sibelia told him all she knew, and he said: “The man must be taken to the hospital at once. He needs medical attention.” "I will be responsible for all charges,” said Miss Graham, peremptorily. She spoke upon an Impulse. "A slight concussion of the brain,” was the verdict of the examining physician. When Sibella called, on the following day, to Inquire concerning her protege, he was conscious,.and she was allowed to see him. The nurse had explained to him the circumstances of his situation, and he was prepared to receive her. “So this is my good friend,” he said. taking her hand In his, and beaming upon her from the pillow, adding whimsically to the nurse: “She ain’t bigger than a pint of cider, but she has a heart bigger than all outdoors. Where have I seen you before?” “You gave me your seat in the car,” Sibelia reminded him. r “Yes, I know,” he said, “but it’s further back than that. Well, my boy will know how to thank you when he comes, better than I can.” “Do you expect your son?" she asked. "My grandson," he gently corrected her. “Sure, he’ll conie, when he knows. The doctor sent a telegram. He said I was crazy to come here, and —I s’pose—he—was about right Them bunco men buncoed me all right There’s no fool iike an old foot But, by ginger! I’m goln’ to ha- e a try at flndin’ them tellers —Oh, pshaw! and here I be on the fiat of my back!” “Them fellers” were troubling Slbella’s thoughts as she walked - from the hospital to Clark street. It seemed In no wise strange, therefore, that she should come face to face with them on the corner, as they were about to miter a saloon. They did not notice her, and hastily entering the nearest drug store,, she rang up the police station, waiting In a fever of impatience until the patrol appeared and the arrests were made. “Nabbed the whole bunch," one of the policemen Informed her gleefully —“and the money, too." “Then the old man will get his money hack?" asked Sibella. - The policeman’s “Sure!” made her very happy, and she could scarcely wait until the next afternoon to pay her charge another visit When she did call the next day the nurse left them alone for s few moments, and suddenly, without warning, a big, bronzed young fellow opened the door, and walked quietly to the bedside. “Well, grandad,” he said, “had about enough of Chicago T’ Grandad’s eyes opened wide. “Yon bet” he answered with a sheepish, but deligbtec. grin, “The ranch U good enough for me. I’ll not leave it again until I*m carried off. And you may thank this little girl here that I’m as comfortable as I be.” The young westerner wheeled about and they were face to face. “ffibella!. Jj _ _jt “Jack!” Both her hands were In his, and granddad entirely forgotten, when he recalled them to * sense of their whereabouts by crying excitedly: *1 tineas you needn’t begrudge yen* old grandaddy his Httle fling.’-

RAILWAY INVADES THE CENTER OF MAHDISM

EL OBEID was once one of the mystery places of Africa and a danger center of Mahdism. Now it Is in railway communication with civilisation, for recently Lord Kitchener, in company with the governor-general, officially opened the railway from Sennar and Khartoum to Ei Obeid.

GIVEN A NEW BRAIN

Delicate Organ Is Grafted Into Man’s Skull. Dr. Harry Cushing, Noted Specialist, Performs Marvelous .Operation Successfully at Baltimore Hospital —Patient Is Recovering. Baltimore, Md. —An operation that in the history of science has never had a parallel, either In delicacy or in skill, was performed the other day for the second time in the Johns Hopkins hospital by Dr. Harvey Cushing, the world-renowned brain specialist, and the patient, as a result, is on the road to recovery. It is believed the operation, which until a month ago was thought impossible by the best authorities on brain disorders, will prove a success. The patient, William Buckner of Cincinnati, came to Baltimore November 23, suffering with a peculiar affection of the brain. For weeks before his arrival he had been In a state of semi-coma, except at intervals.

He was placed under the care of Dr. Cushing. His case was a puzzling one, and after A number of X-ray examinations, during which photographs of the brain were taken, Dr. Gushing discovered that a portion of the brain had decayed and frayed tissues were causing the healthy section gradually to become affected. Dr. Cushing’s conception was this: To procure the brain of another patient as soon after death as possible and to transplant a portion of it into the skull of Buckner. The brain had to be healthy and from as young a person as possible. The transplantation of the dead brain and the procuring of it were two widely different things, however, and this was the difficulty confronting the physician, when one of his colleagues casually mentioned that a child had been born dead In one of the wards. Here was the opportunity. Dr. Cushing hurried to the ward and extracted the brain from the dead child before the body was cold. Meanwhile Buckner had been prepared for the ordeal. Then In view of about a score of professors and students, Dr. Cushing performed his greatest operation. He chiseled away the back of Buckner’s skull and with great care removed the entire brain, which was laid on a piece of linen beside the head; and could clearly be seen to quiver as each pulsation of the patient’s heart was noted. The diseased portion was then severed from the minor brain apd while Dr. Cushing was severing the

HAS HARD FIGHT WITH EAGLE

Bird Attacks Lumberman Who Killad Ita Companion Near North Creek Camp, N. Y, Glens Falls, N. Y.—Milton Steives of this city wag nearly killed in a fight with a bald eagle near North Creek lumber camp. He was rescued badly wounded by a fellow lumberman and Is under the care physicians. Steives came upon two eagles devouring the carcass of a. calf and shot one of the birds. Before be could reload his gun the other eagle attacked him. He struck at the bird repeatedly with his rifle butt, but the eagle, although one of its wlngß was broken, was getting the better of the battle when a hunter killed the feathered fighter with a club. The bird weighed seventy-five pounds and measured nine feet from tip to tip.

Stricken Dumb by News of Fortune.

Portageburg, Ont When John Dancy heard that he had inherited 12,500,000 from an uncle who died re-° oently in Chicago, and from whom he had not heard for 15 years, he was so overcome that he lost his power of speech for an hour. He had been engaged aa a riveter on a dry dock, and quit his job Immediately on hearing the glad news.

Professors Are Honored.

Philadelphia.—The American Asssk elation of Pathologists and Bacteriologists elected Prof. Herbert U. Williams of the University of Buffalo as president and Prof. E. R LeCount of His University of Chicago aa a eoon-

diseased section another surgeon was transplanting the infant’s brain. The major brain was left untouched, After the transplantation the member was restored to its former position and the section of the skull which had been cut out also was replaced. Buckner stood the operation exceedingly well, and it was later thought that he was well enough to leave the insttiution. vfath his wife at his side he was removed to the home of relatives in Charlottesville, Va., but a few days ago his condition became grave and he was sent back to the hospital. Dr. Cushing again performed an operation on the brain and replanted the tissues of the newly inserted member. Buckner was said to have been considerably improved.

SUN ECLIPSE WIRELESS TEST

One to Be Tried In Paris to Find Out Something About Violet Rays. . New York.—A series, of notable experiments in wireless telegraphy 1b to be tried in Paris April 23 during an eclipse of the sun, which will obscure four-fifths of its rays. It has been noticed by scientists that the distance over which wireless messages can be dispatched varies greatly, according to the time Of day and the direction. A message sent by rapid vibrations which will not carry more than 700 miles during the day, can be sent two or three times that distance at sunset, especially toward the south. When slower vibrations were used it can be transmitted further during the day. It is believed that these curious facts are due to the activity of the socalled ultraviolet rays of the sun, the theory being that these rays are a powerful factor in the energy of the hertzian waves. The eclipse, when a great part of these ray* will be suddenly cut off, will be an ideal occasion for decisive tests, and the wireless station on the Eiffel tower will send messages continuously from a little before the eclipse until a little after it In several directions.

Cigarettes, 50 a Day, Kill.

Braddock, Pa. —Ernest Ferrin, a barber, died at Donora from the effects, physicians say, of smoking too many cigarettes. Ten years ago Ferrin began and smoked 50 a day, or 182,500 cigarettes in the ten years. Just before he breathed his’last today he asked for a cigarette. One was given to him, and as he threw away the “butt" he sank back on his pillow and died. X

SPEAKS, BUT LOSES MOTHER

Journey From Russia to “Promised Land” Proves Too Much for Mrs. Lipsitz. Chicago.—Mrs. Schule Lipsitz never heard her daughter call her “mamma.” Months ago the .mother and her children, (me of whom was a mute, left Russia for the promised land- — America. There was some trouble at the dock. Msriese couldn’t speak and therefore was barred from the states. Mariese regained her speech, verifying the wonderful stories that are told in Russia abont the goldgn land of promise, and the Lipsitz came to Chicago. Mrs. Lipsitz lived to enjoy the promised land only a week. Mortally 111, she called to 4 her daughter Mariese, "Speak to me,” she said. Her hearing had become affedted. Mariese spoke, Mrs. Lipsitz leaned forward to listen, but the power that had restored speech to the dumb girl took away the mother, and the aged immigrant fell back dead. & Mrk Lipsitz died at the home of her son-in-law, Philip Singer, 726 Ashland boulevard. The Singer family said her death was due to the excitement attendant on her passage through Ellis island. The doctor declared her death was due to weakness from age—she was 76. Bat Mariese believed differ-, ently. Her opinion was colored by the poetry and superstition of her race. “God gave me WT speech—God took from me my mothey,” she said, “Now I am able to mourn aloud her. whom I krvadisilently. But it 1s better, to love in dumbness than to

SLAYERS’ CURSE STILL WORKS

Many Who Had Anything to Do With Arreat of Philadelphian Have Met Violent Death. Philadelphia.—The prediction made nearly seventeen years ago by H. H. Holmps, the arch murderer, that anybody having anything to do with his arrest, conviction or execution would meet an untimely death, either by their own hands or otherwise, Is once again recalled. This time the victim is Richard Johnson, forty-eight years old, who committed suicide by inhaling gas. Johnson was a member of the jury which fodnd Holmes guilty of murder in the first degree. Since the execution of Holmes, on May 7, 1896, many persons who had connection with the famous case have either taken their lives or met deaths of violence, their fates recalling the curse of Holmes, better known as the “Murderer with the evil eye.” The'fatal seizure of Judge Michael Arnold, who presided over the trial, the deaths by violence of jurymen, witnesses and others, the loss of life or position by officials, the property loss of those who were in business, have from time to time appeared as evidence that the malediction of the criminal of the century was nbt Idly spoken. Holies’, victims were never counted. He confessed to slaying 47 persons. . Johnson, the latest victim to fall under the so-called “spell” of Holmes, suicided because of despondency. One of the first to meet death following Holmes’ prediction, was Linford L. Biles, the foreman of the Jury, who waa killed by coming in contact with an electric wire. Later, Howard Perkins, superintendent of Moysanning prison, shot and killed himself. Robert Motherwell, a former superintendent of the prison, also at the county jail when Holmes was there, dropped dead. William Shoemaker, Holmes’ counsel, was barred from practice for two years.

AUTO DEVELOPS THE CHEST

8o Bays New York Tailor After Five Years of Observation—Deep Breathing Causes Change. New York. —A Fifth avenue tailor, after observing for five years those of his customers who ride daily in automobiles, has come to the conclusion that automobile riding develops the chest The chest measurements of the average man, he declared, increases at the rate of an inch in two years after he begins to ride in motor cars regularly. The tailor thinks tbs Increased development is due to the Inhalations taken while automobiling.

mount even in the language of heaven.” >' '

Mrs. Lipsitz, before her death, said she was happy that she was to die in America. Persecution in Russia khd embittered her life there. When she left home, it was in the hope she would find freedom. The complications that arose at Ellis island grieved her, .but when Marlene regained her voice she. felt compensated. When she died the daughter, who had been dumb since a little girl, wag at her bedside and called to her continually. Mrs. Lipsitz could not hear, but she appeared to understand and smiled.

CLOCK DOUBLES HENS’ WORK

Two Eggs Twice a Day Under Schedule Regulated by Alarm Cobbler Tries Innovation. Glsnoiden, Pa. —The problem of getting bens to lay twice a day has been solved by Michael Seibert, the village cobbler, and the secret Use in the application of an alarm clock to the dally life of his feathered charges. One day, for Instance, a hen that bad laid an egg at nine o’clock the day before laid a second at eight o'clock. Seibert’s scheme succeeds in dissipating the impression of the hens that a day consists of twenty-four hours for them, just as It doss for humankind. By setting the alarm to certain hours he has established twelve-hour habits in his flock and the unique idea works like a charm and with exceeding profit

KEPT THE PIPE ALIGHT

SOLDIER'S ONLY THOUGHT WAS OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS. Incident That la Typical of the Devotlon Field Marshal Blueher In* spired Among Men Who Followed Him to Victory. Old Field Marshal Bhicher was particularly, fond of three things—a glass of wine, a game of cards and a pipe of tobacco. With the two former he was - frequently obliged to dispense, hut he could not and would not do without the latter, nor could be help indulging in smoking if it were ever so little, before he undertook anything serious. A few puffs at the spur of the moment would satisfy him, but to do without them at all was a matter of impossibility. For this purpose he had appointed as his plpebearer one of his “hoys” (as he used to call his hussars a fellow countryman from Bo-stock—-Christian Hennemann who had charge of a large box of common long Dntch clay pipes, all filled with tobacco and ready for use at a moment’s notice. This box constituted the principal Item of the marshal’s field equipage. Hennemann was so devoted to his master and his charge, that he wonld have killed on the spot anyone who attempted to purloin a pipe from the box or bring the latter in danger of breaking some at the precious (to him sacred) contents. On the morning of the memorable battle of Waterloo Hennemann had just handed his master a lighted pipe, when a cannon ball struck the ground close by, scattering earth and gravel in all directions and causing the white charger on which Blueher was mounted to spring aside—a maneuver that broke the pipe into a thousand piece* before the owner had time even to lift it to his lips. “Just keep a lighted pipe ready for me; I shall be back in a few moments, after 1 have driven away the rascally French churls.” With these words, Blueher gave the command, “Forward, boys!" and off he galloped with his cavalry. Instead, however, of a chase of a few minutes, it was a rapid march of nearly a whole hot summer day, as we all know from history. » After the battle was over Blueher rode back with Wellington to the place where be first got a glimpse of the combating armies, and nearing .the spot where Blueher had halted in the morning they aaw to their surprise a solitary man, his head tied with a handkerchief, one arm in a sling and calmly smoking a pipe. “Donner and blitz!” cried Blhcher; “why, that is my Hennemann. How yon look, boy;, what are you doing here alone?” “Waiting for your speedy return,” was the grumbling answer. “Yon have come at last! I have waited for you here, pipe in mouth, for the whole long day. This Is the last pipe in the box. The cursed French have shot away every pipe from my ’ mouth. Have ripped the flesh from my head and shattered my arm with their Jeuoed bullets. If is well there is an nd to the battle, or you would have been too late even top the last pipe.” Baying which, he handed to Blueher the pipe, to enjoy the remaining fumes of the weed. Wellington, who had listened attentively to the conversation, here remarked to Blueher: “You have just admired the unflinching loyalty and bravery of my Highlanders; what shall I say to this true and devoted soul?” “But your Highlanders had no pipes to regale themselves with."—From Spofford's Library of Wit and Humor.

Lovers Waited Long.

A miracle of patience was the coart* ship of a worthy slipper-maker of the town of Elblng, Western Prussia, and his bride of a few days. Their betrothal had lasted for 30 years. When the man was 28 years of age a marriage between the pair was actually arranged, but at the last moment an affluent aunt on whose fortune they had been counting interposed with the threat of disinheritance in case this particular union should take place. Accordingly the wedding was postponed till the obstacle should have been removed. It was not long before the aunt died, but when her will was opened It was found -that she had bequeathed her possessions to her nephew only on condition that he did not marry the girl of his choice tor at least another 30 years. With a combination of fidelity and prudence which is deserving of wonder, If not of admiration, the couple calmly set themselves to wait out this term. It has at last expired, and they have,become man and wife, though it should be added that the marriage ceremony had to take place in the house - of the bridegroom, who is now confined to his room by a heart complaint.

Barge Canal Ready in 1915.

The New York barge canal for the transportation of ore to New York harbor will be ready for use In 1915), according to State Engineer John A. BenseL The Champlain canal, 81 completed and will be opened in lSll The boats to be used on this canal will be 207 feetta hwg» * ' . * '' '

Where Does He Stop?

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