Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Page 3

The Highwayman

"Ter money or yer life! Hold up, Mr!" ' The woman repressed a startled imjpolse to scream. Then her inhom fearlessness coupled with an impatient contempt tor the 01-judgment What would hope to find money on her, probe forth in one crisp adjuration. “Oh, don't be an Id Jit!" she Mid. The raised dub wavered imperceptibly as Its fliuffled owner strove to ■hape his mind to this unexpected reception of his threat Had this solitary female some unseen guard in her 'wake? He glanced suspiciously along the dark road. "I said, yer money er yer life,” he repeated, somewhat uncertainly. "Well, you kin go on Bayin’ all night ts it amuses you. Lemme past!" Tie masked figure gave one final look into the dark. “Aw, stow that!" he growled. “None P* yer sass, old lady! You’re jest the hind wot carries a wad in their stockin'. Cough up nowl I ain't had a square meal in three days.” The woman clutched tightly a email plush bag which she carried. “I ain’t got no wad,” she retorted decisively, “but. I got a nice .little dlneymlte bomb in this here bag that'll blow you where you won't want meals for some time. Ton'll be too much occupied kepln’ cooL” As she raised the bag threateningly the man drew back. The arm holding the club Ml to his side. “Qo on 1 woh't touch you,” he grumbled sulkily. “Ton ain’t got no dlneymlte, but darned if I don’t/ admire yer pluck. Tou mind me of ” He watched her as Bhe stalked off Into the dark, strange half-forgotten memories stirring within him. Sudienly a grin widened his mouth. "By Jingoes! She's cornin' back! What's eatln’ her?’’ The woman approached with decision. "Tou got me nervous now," she admitted grudgingly, “though I* ain’t afraid of you, somehow. But if you’re flyin’ to make use of that there stick Of yours you can come along to protect me. There’s a bad place up the road a bit” "Sure!” “His heart warmed unaccountably at this evidence of femininity in the valiant tamale. It was a long time since be had been called on for protection, or help In any form. Unconsciously he squared his shofaflera, threw back his head, as he stepped briskly out beside her, "I’ll give you a good square meal when we git home,” she promised him. Hungry ,as be honestly was, the otwith its hint of reward, in some subtle way offended him.

“You needn’t < mind. I kin git along," he anawered loftily. She glanced at him curiously. “How long have you been doing . this?” “What?" "Why, this here highway robbery ' business.” s 7 ‘That’s tellln’,” he grinned. “I 'magine you’re new at It," she persisted. “Why?” Indignantly. “Oh, you’re sort of kind an’ nice. tl You ain’t no hardened criminal," she vouchsafed, the wile of the eternal feminine unconquerable even in this uncertain situation. ( The man felt an added warmth perJ ineate his entire being. A sudden desire to stand well with, this fearless, yet distinctly appealing individual surged up within him. Suddenly she started. “Ssh! What’s that?" They had reached the “bad part," a place where the road wound through a dense growth of forest, thick with underbrush and dark with an appalling darkness. Again came the crackling, as of a heavy body pushing through the brush. She clutched his arm nervously. “Don’t be skeered.’’ he reassured (her. “It’s nothin’ but some anlmlle {prowlin’.” He put his hand protectSngly over hers. It felt appealingly small in his powerful grasp. A rush of memories swept over hiss, rendering him suddenly solicitous tor the woman at his side. “What are you doin’ of. anyway, alone In the pitch dark on a road Uke this?” be queried. “I haven’t met nothin* worse yon, so far." Ho coughed, suddenly abashed. “That’s so." j “An’ I wish you’d take off that crazy mask. It makes me feel Uke a ’oomjpUce, walkin’ along with Jtl" She drew ffWay indignantly. “Sure!" He tore off Hie strip of black cloth obligingly and put it in his pocket. ‘ “I used to belong to these parts," be offered pacifically after a short siI tones. =•- ‘"v-7 7; $ “*Twasn*t no fault of the parts I then, I reckon.” : -. “Haw-haw!" Hs laughed enjoylngIt “By Cricky! bat you mind me of gay, of course it’s fifteen year now an’ I *’!»■« *h« ain’t here no more, but did you evir hear of"—he hesitated between a strong reluctance to speak the name and a burning de■lre to know—-" of Llndy Rastall—as * Tbs woman started Imperceptibly.' ffasw ber.

By MABEL CHASE ENGLAND

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There was silence for a apace. Presently the man looked around him with a start,;;:,' “Say, what’re you turnin’ in here for?” •’Because I live here," she answered tersely. She dosed the gate behind her andstarted up the path by his side. “Well, well! Bought the old place, eh?” he murmured absently. “S'pose her old uncle Jabe’s dead, then.” j. “Tea, he’s dead.” She fitted the key in tbe lock and pushed open the door. “Come through to the kitchen,” she said. ”1 ain’t had my owg supper yet Tou can have a bite with me.” She led the way back, groped about tor the lamp, lit it and apt it on a., small shelf over the table. The man looked about him eagerly.

“Fifteen year,” he murmured, “an’ jest the same. Well, well! He turned to tbe woman, who had thrown off her scarf and cloak and stood silently regarding him. “Lindy!" he gasped. “Yes, Sam Martin, it’s Lindy! I knowed you the minute you spoke my name. Now will you Just kindly tell me why yon ran off like that, sudden, without a word, when me an’ you had spoke our promise, an’ never turned' up from that day to this?’’ Her face was white with the rush of memories that overpowered her. i Tim man straightened up and faced her. ( “Yes, I’ll tell you, Lindy,“ he said, “an’ I can’t see as the fault was mine. You ’member the day we quarreled over that painter fellow, as I thought was foolin’ around you too much .an’ you went off mad. Well, I come over that evenin’ to beg your' pardon tor doubtin’ of you, an’ Jest as I got to tbe end of the path that leads into the orchard, l seed you—with him, under that same tree where I’d ast you, an’ got your promise. An’ while I stood there he put his arms round you an* kissed you." “It’s a lie!” “ ‘Tain’t no lie. I seen him! He put his' arm abound you an’ bent over an' —an’ then I jest couldn’t hear td see it an* I turned an’ walked out of the place an’ ain't never been back there since, not till now." “Yes, Sam Martin, an’ If you’d bad any sense In your stupid head you’d of come right on an’ knocked him down s*tead of mar chin’ off an’ leavin’ me to do it! My hands Is maybe little but I gave him one knock that night that—F “Lindy!” . “I wag just tollin’ him,'” she went on indignantly, “how he’d have ; to go, ’cause you said I must choose an* of course I’d choose you, an—an' then he tried to —Oh, Sam,” she half sobbed from his arms, “why didn’t yofi never come back?’’ He was silent tor a moment *Tve come now, Lindy,” he offered -at last, .uncertainly. - “Yes, you've come now—-an* how?” she flashed, drawing indignantly away from him as the memory of his earlier performance swept over her. "Thievin’, an’ scarin’ women in the dark an’ —” “Lindy, will you listen to me? This is the truth, Lindy, it’s the first time I ever made to hold up anyone. But things has been goln’ bard with me fer a long time now, an’ I was jest about desperate. People is so blasted indifferent when a man asks fer honest work, an’ the women Is worse than the men. Tonight I was Jest plumb mad. I says to myself. ’Ey Gum! I’H make someone cough up somethin', if I have to stand here, till the crack o' doom!' Lindy,” he broke off suddenly, a boyish anxiety lh his voice, “what made you so sassy? Didn't I look like a real one?” Lindy smothered a laugh. “Oh Sam,” she said, “you’re Jest the same old —” “The club was only to scare ’em,” hey Interrupted, abandoning the point in his eagerness to explain, “an’ honest. lindy, I wouldn’t of token more’s a dollar from yon, not if you'd handed out two hundred of ’em.” Truth rang 'unmistakably In his words. He paused and waited for her judgment Presently a small, firm hand clasped his. “All right. Sam.” she said. “lindy—dear!” He took her hands in his and his voice grew strong with purpose. “I have nothin' to offer you, now, hut "by Jingoes!* fll work.” “Sam.”* She looked down, hesftafcteg. . : £ “Sam,” she began again shyly, "this place ,la simply goln’ to rack an’ ruin tor want of a man to look after it!” “Oh lindy!” He drew her to him and stood silent, rearing his cheek on her hair. Presently a «mile of irrepressible humor spread over bis face. thought you’d giveme both, an’ of yer own accord.”

The 1909 Trend.

“The spring publishing season,** said Arthur Marchmont Brown, the well-known literary adviser of Chicago, “will be remarkable for its Dickens trend and its Chinese trend. 7 "Indeed, this trend in TOl2 will be as pronounced as the trend of 1909.” “The trend of 1909? What was that?” the reporter asked. “Cook books and Pearyodicala,” Mr. OiVWU repilOlL 7 -rt- •>' f. : ■- ■ o , *' , ■

JOHN BURROUGHS, the eminent naturalist and author, recently celebrated his 76th birthday at Pelham. If. Y, and his chief guest was his brother scientist, John Muir, tbe naturalist of the Pacific Mope. Thfa photograph, taken that day, shows Mr. Muir on the left and Mr. Burroughs on the right

DOG ACTS AS NURSE

Stands Guard in Elephant’s Cage to Catch Mouse. Fox Terrier Btops Great Uproar by Catching Rodent, Hereditary Enemy of the Huge Jungle Beasts. New York. —Speaking of nurse*, Miss Daisy, the fox terrier lady who came to the park from some home of luxury on Fifth avenue three years ago, overslept one morning in her cracker box in the elephant-house. The keeper explained she was up all night looking after her charges. She is about as big as a pinch of salt, but is nurse to two big elephants, one 70-year-old horned rhinoceros’ and her own incidental litter of puppies. At 1 o’clock in the morning the policemen on duty in the park thought some one was trying to steal the .fat old elephants, Queen and Pattie. They were tooting and screaming as if someone were prodding them with hot irons, and now and then a heavy thud of massive foreheads against the wails of their house showed they were trying to get out. The shrill bark of Miss Daisy now and then emphasized the pandemonium and sounded as if she were trying to soothe the big brutes. One of the keepers hastily entered the elephant-house and turned on the light. Queen was sitting in a corner displaying all the signs of intense fear, and Pattie was doing a turkeytrot about the lnclosure, eyeing a small

PRINCETON TO OPEN A FARM

University Will Provide Btudefas - Means to Work Their Way Through College. Princetdn, N. J.—The Princeton university authorities announce the opening of a large farm property near the college, which will provide any student who is not afraid of toil with the means of working his way through college. Plowing has begun and there will be steady work all through the summer vacation. It Is calculated that students will be able to earn $2 a day. The land will be tilled on a socialistic, democratic basis, the laborer obtaining the entire product of his toil. . The tract available for student labor will be increased as rapidly as students apply for work. The soil will be devoted to truck farming and the crops will be sold to the college commons and to various Princeton eating clubs. President Hfabeu aays that the idea his been adopted to rid Princeton pf the name of being a home for the sons of rich men. 4 . . : ...

St. Louis Editor Resigns.

Bt. Louis, Bio.—Horatio W. Seymour, editor-in-chief of the St Louis Republic for the last year, has resigned to resume his former position, as editorial supervisor of the New York World. * —— 1

Quarantine is Enforced.

Sprlngfleld, Hl.—State health board sent an inspector to investigate the charge quarantine was not enforced at the home of a dairyman near OeSTS*?* *. , : ire --

MEETING OF THE FOREMOST NATURALISTS

JOHN MUIR AND JOHN BURROUGHS

object in the center of her cage. Miss Daisy, unheeding the cries of her puppies in the cracker box, was dodging about among the elephants’ legs searching the hay for Aomethlug. As soon as the light Was turned on site made a quick spring and, came out with a small mouse in her mouth. Queen and Pattie, sweat rolling from their wrinkled faces, cObled down and became quiet Miss Daisy shook the life out of the mofise and went back to her puppies, whidh she stilled With a few reassuring whines. “Just another mouse,’’ said a keeper. “There is nothing that an elephant is so much afraid of. The secret is that In India a small mouse sometimes runs into the elephant’s trunk and causes it intense pain. That’s what we keep Miss Daisy here so kill the mice. Daisy looks after the elephants with all the solicitude she shows in the care ofherblindpupid«"

HELD AT FALLS FOR HOURS

Woodcutter on Log WhHe Portion of Torrent From 20 Feet Overhead Drenches. Vancouver, Wash.—Pinned bjr a cut from a log against another log under a flume, while a torrent of water from a broken flume above drench, ed him for two hours, was the experience which nearly cost the life of Thomas Ward, a woodcutter, working for Craig & French, near Heisson. Ward, was cutting a four-toot log into smaller pieces for wood when the

Building to Be 750 Feet High

World’s Tallest Bkyscraper, Going Up In Gotham, to Cost tt&SMMXtt.

New York.—The tallest habitable building in the world is going up on Broadway, between Barclay street and Park r ayr. It will weigh 250,000,000 tons. It rests on sixty-sane pillars of cement, reaching down to solid rock from the street level.

TMa bnildimg, the tower- light of which, 760 feet in the air, will be seen ninety-six miles out at sea, has In it 20,000 tons of structural steel. Forty-five thousand dollars’ worth of glass has been ordered for windows and doors and skylights. 'ln the walls and floors are to be more than 80,000 square feet of hollow tiling and terra cotta. The cement order will run into the tens of thousands of bags. weekly pay roll ia a regimen of men from mere lifting and carrying laborers to the iron workers who play around at 700 feet in the air on slender steel beams like orioles on an elm bough. Their wages run from 21.60 a day, for the laborers to |4.60 and upward, and the pay roll is |6,000 a day. This has been going on for two" years. The 30,000 square feet of land on which toe building stands cost about 24,600,000. It cost, 11,000,000 to dig the basement and sub-basements. The cost of construction will be nearly 29,000*00, making the whole pile an Investment of approximately fll,-; SUCH p. OUllQlUg w

cut, which, was on a steep sldebill, broke loose, and before be cofad get away from it rushed him to tlje bottom of the hill and pinioned him against another log, at the same time hitting the braces under the flue 20 feet over head, permitting the water to come down in a terrific torrent. For two 'hours Ward was held cap- ‘ tiye, though, he yelled loud and. long fdr assistance. Finally a fellow worker, hearing his cries; found him and attempted to release him, hut he failed and ran pearly half a mile to the home of Mrl Craig. Ward was released and dropped helpless to the log by which he was held prisoner. Though Ward did not suffer serious injury he is weak from the Bhock of cold water.

HIS OFFENSE NOT OUTLAWED

Wife Deserter fa Arrested at York, Pa, Long After Spouse Remarried. York, Pa.—When Detective Flckes ran into Cornelius Lasage upon the street he remembered a five-year-old warrant which he had been carrying about ever since 1007 and clapped it upon him. It charged desertion of three minor children. Mrs. Mabel Lasage, whose name appears upon the time-stained document as prosecutrix, has since secured a divorce and remarried. The children, whose ages appear as six and three years, and nine months, are now agsd eleven, eight and six years, respectively. Lasage disappeared fa the time of tbe prosecution and has been spending most of the time in Connecticut. He returned home to see his children.

on the property to be raised from $2,250,000 to $3,200,000. There will be a floor space of twen-ty-three acres and 2,000 offices, and it Is figured that the daily population of the building will be 10,000 and the transient population about as many more.

RULES AGAINST KANGAROOS

United States Experts Rule Tiny Arrivals at San Francisco Are ~ Deer. San Francisco, .Cal.—Eight tiny tame kangaroos less than 12 Inches tall and yet full grown have been held as undesirable aliens by experts of the department of agriculture on the ground that they are deer. They have heads like deer. Hie animals are the property of K. N. Painter of New York, who, with his wife, arrived on the Tenyo Maru from the Orient He bought them In Singapore, where they had lost arrived from Australia. “There are no animals like them in the country,” said Painter. "The law was passed with intent to protect our domestic stock /'rom intestinal complaints common to Asiatic furred animals.” - 7^l

Volcano Story a Myth.

Pananw^— Residents of Panama are been killed by the eruption of Chiriqui peak, there has been no eruption of the peak.

STILL SEEK TREASURE

PEOPLE OP SCOTCH HIGHLANDS FIRM IN FAITH. , Tradition of Buried Wealth Lingers and Is Occasionally Made Stronger by Finds—Some Heavy Gold . Ornaments Uneartflpd. For centuries the search for ancient treasure has been pursued in the glens and wild places of the highlands of Scotland, and sometimes • unexpected “finds” have been made, Jbe duke of Argyll in Youth’s Companion. For instance, a tradition that a treasure was hidden at Inver&ry had )oag been banded down. According te the legend, it would never be found except by a stranger. Generation after generation of children searched tor Itr If a badger made a hole in the hillside the children believed that the badger bad the scent, and dug up his burrow; but no young or old badger ever came forth with bangles on its neck or its nose. The children watched every rabbit scrape or hen scrape to see if animal or bird ted been attracted by apy thing shining under the sod or In the sand. Then drainage was introduced. Formerly the glen was too wet to be cultivated, except on dry slopes where water could not gather; and a hand plow did all the necessary furrowing. But now red tiled pipes weaie put down to drain off water from fiat! :er ground, and It was possible to sow in comparatively level places. One pretty piece of grass land under a cliff was pointed out as a good bit for plowing. From the precipice above a great rock had fallen in long past ages. This had to be Removed. The man at the plow tail was a stranger, an Englishman. %. He pnt a bag of powder under the rock to blow it up. The explosion followed, the partly splintered rock hekvetf and fell on Its side. Underneath where it had beenwaa a gleam - of the lost treasure! Therdinece three bautiful, heavy gold bracelets, two of ***** u . th « T . “?.*■ j*. treasure had been found, and by a “stranger,” as prophesied. ‘ Those bracelets were beautifully wrought; one of them bad plain end* wbeje tbe wrist was slipped through. As for the pair with the hollow cape, an old tradition was recalled which declared that no person who bad committed a fault could be forgiven unless the cups of gold at the gap fa the bracelets were filled with his penitential tears. There Is just room for the nose, like tbe wrist td slip in between the golden ends, and It is possible to bold the cups under the faro eyes. Sometimes ignorant men who have found such bracelets have looked qn the gold as mere brass. In one cnee a number of bracelets found fa an Island of the Hebrides were need an drawer handles for an old pine cheat of drawers. A peddler eame to the cottage, found that the old chest had very heavy handles, and gave 16 shillings. or |8.76, for it He took it away and sold the old bandies for £2O each. Buch heavy ornaments pis the bracelets must have been a burden to a Celtic beauty. For a warrior the gold was beaten out until It was thin, for then it was more portable and easily worked. Patterns of all kinds could be punched in it, so as to gtnea good effect fa front. We can imagine how grand an old chief from Brittany or Wales or Ireland looked with a shinmg yellow band on his conical r a broad plate of gold on hie right shoulder and on his left a long yellow mantle girt in by the belt itself. ■ . ■ - - . "•

Tramp Then Wondered.

The first hobo of the spring season arrived fa Hast Cleveland. He looked even more dejected than the first robin and shivered quite as much. 4«d since then there have come other robins and other tramps, all wondering why they left the southland so soon, and ail appearing blue and pessimistic. One of them —a bum, not a- bird—appeared at the residence Of Cofonel Bush the other morning. It was Sunday mid the colonel himself answered the knock. The hobo took fa the wellknown military bearing at once and said: “Could you please help an old soldier?” “Regular army?” asked the colonel, laconically. “Yesfar.” “Discharged?” - : / “No, sir; no, sir!” the hobo assured him. “I quit of me own accord! Nosir; they didart discharge mfe” And probably that tramp fa ganderfag yet why he was kicked 0# the

Didn't Feaze Sambo.

Sometimes the more you get a gro cornered, the less cornered yon have him. This fact, long, known to many, was discovered toe other day by a leather man in toe Swamp, j J Tide man suddenly auoke to the fact that certain hack mufr were dingy with dirt and deefafcftettey’d look hhfttffished. So he summoned bis old negro- factotum and told him to get-busy with his whitewash- brush, givia* special „ direction to put two coats on. When the Job apparently bad been' finished, the leather merchant ing pec ted It end found tht* whitewash auspiciousiv thin looking