Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1912 — Page 3

Anticipatioii

Hiving the Bees

By Clara Inez Deacon

(Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary . Press.) When the widow Skinner sold her farm on the High Hill road and bought another in the Red Bridge neighborhood she became the nearest neighbor of farmer Roberts, widower. Why they took an aversion to each other at first sight neither of them could explain, but an aversion there Was where there should have been neighborly friendliness. Farmer Roberts made up his mind in a day, almost, that he should neither borrow nor lend any tools or implements of any sort The widow made up her mind just as quickly that she wouldn’t be friends with a man who threw stones at her geese the very first day she moved in. There was the widower who needed a wife, and there was the widow who would have been much better off with a husband to manage things, and instead of taking the sensible way they avoided it. “What I want her to understand,” said the farmer to a friend, "is that if any of her hogs git into my 'tater field I sh'an't spare her 'cause she is a woman.’’ Of course the widow heard of the threat, and she wouldn’t have been a free-born American woman if she hadn’t answered hack. "The old skeesicks, but he hadn’t better pick no fuss with me! The first time I find that jumping old cow of his in my corn he’ll see that I’m not a helpless woman.” There are even more chances to pick a fuss with a neighbor In the country than in the city. It was. not long before one of the widow's hogs came squealing home with a bleeding ear. He had rooted under the line fence and feasted on the widower's potatoes. A week later thp jumping cow came home minus a horn. The widow could throw a rock or handle a dub. as well as a man.' There was a creek flowing through both farms. One day the widow’s ducks took a voyage of disbovery upstream. Farmer Roberts waited until jthey reached his line and he wrung the neck of the old drake who was acting as pilot The body was tossed back on the widow’s land with a grin of satisfaction. She discovered It land a day or.two later the widower’s biggest and favorite rooster lost his life while exploring a strange barnyard. Things like these do not pass in the country without being commented on. A minister in the village three miles away heard of them and drove out to talk of peace on earth and good will to men, but !he rather muddled instead of helping things. .-“Am I going to take his sass just .because I’m a woman!” demanded the widow. “No, sir! He begun this 'ere fuss, and he’s got to come to me and say he’s sorry before I’ll stop!” "You see,’’ said the widower when it came his turn to talk, "she never asked me a question when she came to buy that farm. Just went right ahead as if skS’s bought a farm everyiweek in the year. If she’d been the right kind of a woman she’d have come tp me for adylce. 1 never knuckled down to any woman yet, and I’m not going to begin now.” Of course, ~ things could not go on long without legal trouble. The widower picked some gooseberries oyer the widow's line, and she sauntered out that way and called him a thief. This epithet, being overheard by a third party, constituted defamation of character, and suit was brought While the law was delaying -the case to let it get ice-cold, the widow helped herself to pears from a tree clearly the property of the wid-ower--He was on the watch for overt' acts and called her a robber. The epithet was hot overheard by a third party, 'but she insisted on bringing suit jiust the same, asserting that the man made many gestures with his hands as be talked. The minister drove out from the tillage again. This time he took another tack. He began on the widow with: “Mrs. Skinner, you are a lone woman." "But nobody can scare me!” was her prompt reply. “No, of course not, but how much better not to have cares and worries and troubles. You being a widow, and Mr. Roberts being a widower, it would seem to me that—" "Hold right on, Mr, Taylor!” she Interrupted. "I know how it would seem to yon, but you can save your breath. A widow don't have to marry some old poke of a man to keep her rights.” "The farms adjoin, and you could be so happy” "Yea, the farms adjoin, but the widow and widower don’t speak and . never Will!” "If you and Mr. Roberts would stt down together and—"

Half the night I waste in sighs. Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the Ups, the eyes. For the meeting of the morrow, z The delight ot happy laughter, - The delight of low replies. -4 ; —Tennyson.

“But we won’t! He’s the ’sort of a man who thinks he can boss the earth, and I’m the sort of a woman who can be coaxed but not be driv." “Maybe Providence will come to the rescue,” sighed the good man as he turned away. ' “Mebbe She will, parson. If She don’t there’ll be about sixteen more lawsuits before things are over with.” Mr. Roberts proved just as stub- ■ born;—'. — “Parson, it haln’t that I’m mean or sot in my ways,” he explained, "but It’s that folks have tried to walk over me roughshod.’’ “Meaning the VridowT' “Just so. It won’t db no good to go on and talk. She's got to be brung to time, and* I’m going to do it If it takes my farm.” One day farmer Roberts was legally deputized to call on the widow Skinner and notify her to cut down a tree which was a menace to his barn. It was a warm June day. The widow had two hives of bees, one of which had already swarmed. that day and been hived, and the other was getting, ready to. The widow sat on her back steps, empty hive waiting, and a tin pan to drum on by her side. The widower advanced, paper in hand and something like a grin on *hls face. He was about to be told to skate right off that farm when the bees began* pouring out of the hive that had been waiting. Before the paper could be presented or the widow beat her pan, the Insects began alighting on the farmer’s shoulders. He had kept bees In his day, and he knew that to rush at them or run away would bring about' a painful calamity. The woman retreated a few feet, and in ten minutes the hive was empty and every bee clinging to the man. He stood not daring to more than wink an eye. Then the woman sat down on the doorsteps and began: “Wring my drake's neck, will you! Steal my gooseberries, will you! Try to rob me of two feet of land the whole length of my farm, would you! Sue me because you haln’t man enough to fight fair! You are in a nice fix, you are!" “Widow, isn’t there any way I canget these bees off me?” carefully asked the man. "You can scrape 'em off!" “I wish you would run for help.” “I’ll do nothing of the sort!" "But I can’t stand the strain for long." “Then sit down to It! I didn’t ask you to come over here. What's that paper about?" "It’s a notice that you must cut down that tree by my barn.” "Oh, it is! Making me more trouble, are you? Well, I’ll cut it down after the bees get through with you. I’m going into the house now to read the newspaper for a spell.” She had been gone twenty minutes when she heard the widower calling. As she appeared in the door he said: "I shall drop dead in five minutes more!” “I don’t think so,” she replied. “Mr. Roberts, 1 haln’t mad at you—real mad.” “Nor I at you." "It’s jest that we kinder misunderstood." “I think so.” *Tm a hard and willing worker, and you are the same." » "Yes.” “I’m all alone in the world, and so are you.” "Jest so.” "And—and—?” The widower waited a long minute and then said: “Scrape 'em' off and hive 'em up and we’ll be married next week!"

Men Should Live Ninety-Three Years. Dr. W. J. Howells, E 1424 Tenth avenue, medical expert and former superintendent of the insane hospital at Medical Lake, believes In the theory of the eminent Chinese statesman. Dr. Wu Ting Fang, that men can live to a greatly increased life. Doctor Wu places his limit at ninety-three years, while Doctor Howells believes that eighty-five years would be ho unreasonable age for men to expect to attain under proper conditions. “Take most business or professional men today and they are old at sixty," said Doctor Howells. "I talked with a farmer seventy-nine years old, who during the last few months whittled 25,000 shingles by hand with a drawknife. He was halo and hearty and really looked younger than many men ot fifty.”—Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Keeping People Guessing.

"I am not a candidate.” “But. sir." I protested, "I don't give a rap whether you are a candidate or not; I want ttAmow whether you will be one.” ' “Great Scott!” he retorted, with eW . dent displeasure. “Haven’t I told you plainly, that I am not a candidate."— Judge. ' ~

A Fitting One.

Nero was muring sadly on Agrippina’s tough grip on life. “Some people," he muttered, “can keep their woes hidden, but my worst misfortune Is a parent**

HERE is a typical scene in the strike of anthracite miners. It shows the men of a Wllkesbarre mine, dressed In their "store clothes,” gathered around the pay office to receive their last pay envelopes prior to the general suspension of work.

RECORD FOR WORK

Freighthouse Razed by Fire Replaced Over Sunday. ..' ■ . ~ -■ ■ , Town Joins In an Effort to Repair Damage Done to Depot In Order to Prevent Interference With Business. Council Bluffs, la. —Some strenuous construction work was done here when a freighthouse, destroyed by fire, was rebuilt almost over night. At 6:45 o’clock on a Saturday evening the freighthouse of the Chicago and Northwestern railway was destroyed by fire. The building, 36 by 310 feet, included the office, which was two stories high. The problem presented was how to provide freighthouse facilities lor the opening of business on Monday morning. It was decided to solve the prolilem by putting up a new building. The telegraph and telephone were pressed Into instant, service. Necessary workmen and materials were ordered from a dozen points. Arrangements were made with a local lumberyard to deliver material on Sunday morning at seven o’clSck. At the same time everybody was busy getting near-by material concentrated and" mustering the different forces. Men were picked up as far east as Cedar Rapids and as far west as Fremont, Neb. On Sunday morning at Six o’clock a special train had arrived at Council Bluffs from Boone with men and material, and other forces had arrived on different passenger trains, bo that about eighty mechanics and artisans were on hand at seven o’clock. Twenty men arrived from the west at eleven o’clock. Then the work was under way in earnest. It was found that the transfer platforms and the platform In front of the old building had not been destroyed by thq. fire, so it was decided to erect a temporary building directly upon tiie floor of the larger transfer platform. The frame was up and partly sheathed at 11:30 a. m. At five

WANTED OPERATION AS JOKE

Occupant in County Jail Thought It Would Be Much More Comfortable In Hospital. Cleveland. —Jack Obbaum, a county jail prisoner, charged with contributing to the delinquency of minor children, was a very sick man. At least, be told deputy sheriffs he was very sick. He moaned, groaned, tossed and rolled. , "It’s here,*’ and Ohlbaum pointed to his right side. Deputy sheriffs were at first solicitous. When the jail supply of medicines failed to bring any improvement they became alarmed. They sent for the county physician, Dr. A. E. McClure, Dr. McClure came, examined, prescribed and left But Ohlbaum still rolled, tossed, moaned and groaned. He murmured something about' “colic" and “appendicitis,” and deputy sheriffs again sentYor Dr. McClure. Dr. McClure was skeptical on his second visit however. Again be examined. but this time be winked and telephoned for a fellow practitioner who makes a specialty of surgery. The surgeon arrived and was escorted to Ohlbaum’s cell by Dr. McClure. There a dazzling array of sharp-edged knives and operating instruments was laid out I* “What’s those torr anxiously inquired Ohlbaum. i “We are going to operate,” said Dr, McClure; “you said you had appendicitis.”

“Wow!” exclaimed Ohlbaum. “Don’t cut me open. 1 ain’t sick. Honest, I ain’t I was just fooling.”

SCENE IN ANTHRACITE MINERS’ STRIKE

o'clock in the afternoon the building was entirely inclosed and the roof was nearing completion. By Monday morning the building was entirely finished, 26 feet wide and 120 feet long. The work was continued till the building was 175 feet long over alt Platforms were built, but the building built on Sunday was entirely finished and ready for business by Monday morning.

SPARROW AS PEST KILLER

English Bird May Be Used Against the Alfalfa Weevil In the West Washington, D. C. —The English sparrow, originally Imported into this country to destroy insect pests, but known chiefly in recent yearv as a pest among birds, may come into its own again, according to the officials of the government biological survey. It has been found that the sparrow Is a vigorous enemy of the alfalfa weevil, an evil which threatens to spread throughout the alfalfa farming territory of the west as the cotton boll weevil has spread In the south. So far the weevil has appeared only in Utah and part of Wyoming, but a dozen other states, it is said, will be affected within a few years unless a real enemy of the pest is introduced to fight it. The biological survey is planning to experiment with other birds this summer and will not recommend that the English sparrow be sent into the alfalfa territory unless no other effective enemy of the weevil can be found. The bureau of entomology has received from its agent In Italy a number of parasites which feed on the alfalfa weevil and these will be sent to Utah at once.

Elgin, Hl.—Favoring open theaters on Sunday to keep young people from going to Chicago on that day. Rev. C. S. Thomas has launched a campaign for a more liberal Sabbath.

Stanislaus Zalog Writes from Chicago Solution of the Pauline Monastery Puzzle. Warsaw, Russian Poland. —The mystery surrounding the theft from the Pauline Monastery at’ Czenstocjjowa of jewels and votive offerings valued at $4,000,000, which since 1909 has puzzled the brothers, seems at length to be solved by the receipt of a letter from Chicago. The ’ writer of this communication to the monastery confesses that he, Stanislaus Zalog, was the thief; that he was then a lay brother, and that Father Damatius, who Is now serving a sentence in the Siberian mines for the murder of his cousin, was not implicated, as has always been supposed. The letter seems genuine ‘and the Russian police are taking steps to have Zalog arrested, but tha former brother defies the police to trace him. It appears that Zalog remained at the monastery more than a year after the theft and not until Damatius was arrested did he escape to America. The robbery of the jewels which decker the ikon of the Virgin and Child in the Pauline Monastery created a great stir three years ago, and when, In October, 1910, Father Damatius was arrested in Austria for the murder of his cousin, Vaclav Macoch —which crime he confessed —it was believed that the motive for the deed was to be foudd in a desire to shut the mouth of a man who could testify against him in the matter of the robbery.

Ask More Liberal Sabbath.

Stole $4,000,000 in Jewels

SAYS WOMEN ARE SELFISH

Rev. Mary Andrews Assails Femala Sex In Speech at Kansas ■' City. Kansas City, Mo. —It is the tendency of American women to live beyond their means and to imitate their neighbors, regardless of expense, according to the Rev. Mary Andrews, formerly pastor of the universallst church here and well known throughout the west as a leader in the affairs of women, who addressed the Council of Clubs in Kansas City, Kan. “The tendency among the women of America to receive, accept and demand, rather than to give and sacrifice, is growing to an alarming state,” she said. "When a crisis of any klndi enters into the American woman’s life she is Incapable of meeting It because she is so used to receiving that she has no self-confidence left. When she wants a thing done she expects her husband or servants her hpsband pays for to do it, instead of doing it herself, as our grandmothers did. "A spirit of strife and unrest among women pervades all America. If a woman sees a thing that other women have she wants something just like it or better. It makes no difference whether she can afford IL”

BRAIN SMALLER THAN CHILD’S

Late Dr. Musser Shown to Have Developed Along One Lino _ Only, Philadelphia.—Experts at the Wister Institute of Anatomy have just completed the examination of the brain of Dr. John H. Musser, a noted diagnostician who died recently. They found that Dr. Musser’s brain weighed less than that of a well-developed child. It was 20 ounces lighter than the brain of Daniel Webster and 24 ounces lighter than that of James Fisk, the New York gambler who was murdered a few years ago. Scientists say Dr. Musser developed along one line, not broadening out in all lines, and therefore not fully developing all parts of the brain.

Dalnatius admitted the murder, but denied the theft of the jewels. He admitted also that he had taken money from the treasury and had squandered it upon Helena Ostrowska, wife of the man he murdered. He told how his servant, Stanislaus, evidently the man now confessing the thefts, had assisted him in disposing of the body in a large ottoman, which together they threw into the River Varta. Stanislaus Zalog disappeared and has never been heard of until now. The most valuable thing stolen was the jeweled crown fronr the head of the Virgin.

BIG CAT COMMITS SUICIDE

Great Ratter Is Found Dead Near Pipe From Which Illuminating Gao Is Still Flowing,* Everett, Wash.—Everybody connected with the Chelan Fruit house declares the cat deliberately and premeditatedly destroyed herself by inhaling gas. The cat had been a great favorite with her two masters. The way she captured mice and rats endeared her to their hearts. When the proprietors opened their place Of business the other morning a strong smell of gas met them. She was te a position that evidently gave her some trouble to reach. Further, she had her kittens a few days ago and had evinced a dejected spirit, losing her appetite for mice, rats and i milk.

FINE CHICKEN SALAD

SUBJECT THAT WILL MAKE WOMAN DROP EVERYTHING ELSE. New Combination Makes Most Talkative Woman Dumb Until She Tastes It—Here Is One That la Worth Trying, Women will turn eagerly from • magnificent display of spring millinery, from a bargain counter filled with real bargains, or leave a discussion on Browning unfinished to compare notes and tell their experiences with chicken salad. Before a new chicken salad combination the most talkative woman becomes dumb until it is served and then her tongue runs faster than ever. Far be it from me to essay to give a recipe for a perfect salad, still I courageously offer the following and say that it suits many: Dice enough chiqifen meat to fill a pint cup, do not use the meat grinder for cutting the meat, it makes it too fine; use the kitchen scissors and have the dices of uniform size, when cut sprinkle with the juice of a lemon or with not too sharp vinegar, set aside while you prepare as much celery as you have chicken; the celery must be cut finer than the chicken and should be salted lighted and then mixed in with the cold meat. Stand these in the refrigerator to chill. Make a mayonnaise dressing or a boiled salad dressing and soften It with whipped cream, as a chicken salad must be mild and the taste of the chicken predominate. The chicken and celery may be mixed with the mayonnaise and served on lettuce but a newer, prettier way is to sprinkle olive oil or salad oil over the mixture in the proportion of half as much oil as you have used vinegar, and heap the mixture In Individual salad dishes with cress or lettuce beneath and then put in a heaping tablespoon of the stiff, rich looking dressing. A brilliant pimento or two or any other embellishment may be added. Onion is never used in chicken salad but sometimes the tiny spring onions are used as a garnish. Hardboiled eggs have gone out of fashion < for trimming salads and for this let us be truly thankful!—Henrietta. D. Grauei, Domestic Science Lecturer.

Rolled Round Steak.

Take a nice round steak (cut thin) and,cut It into tour pieces; pepper and salt both sides; chop a good sized onion very fine and spread over the. pieces of steak; grate some - hard bread and sprinkle libel-ally on top of onions. Now roll np each piece 'Of steak so the onion and bread will be on the inside and tie securely with string so they will not unroll in cooking. Put a generous piece of lard in a deep iron frying pan and wheq ft hot put in your me?t rolls; brown them on all sides and then add enough hot water to cover. Boil slowly tor-one hour. Thicken the gravy with a little flour. Remove strings before serving. Hints for the Farmer's Wife. To keep celery fresh wrap the stalks in a cloth, wet in cold water and place in a cold place on the Ice. Biting off the thread when sewing, which Is a habit with many, scrapes the enamel from the teeth and exposes the nerve, causes suffering, a visit to the dentist and a heavy Mil to To remove scratches on furniture rub with a cloth dipped in boiled linseed oil. Crisp celery served with cold meat Is always appreciated and la a fine nerve tonic.

Pepper Salads.

These individual appetizers may be stuffed with any salad mixture, white potatoes and mayonnaise, cucumber and tomatoes, or boiled slaw made of red cabbage seasoned with caraway seeds, sugar and •viiwtpur If. the last is used it must be drained dry at liquid: before It is put in the peppers. A little top is cut off these at the stem! end, and after the filling is put in the top is put back and held securely with.' a bit of clean twine. The seeds and! pith must be removed from the peppers of course or else they will be too hot to eat • " ~

How to Keep Your Thread.

The following plan is a most sitefactory one for keeping the various spools of thread which accumulate tai a sewing machine dresser from getting fate an almost hopeless mass off entanglement Into a small board.’ which exactly fits the bottom at the! drawer, drive at intervals of one and: one-half Inches two wire nails. Upon' the projecting ends of these nails place the spools and they will remain stationary.

Mixing Cake.

Always beat the butter and sugar to* a cream with the hands, then add < little of the flour before you add the milk; then the milk, then the rest of the flour and baking powder, an< f last the beaten eggs. This rate appttto! to all latere with butter in. ■ s. After putting cake in pans lift the pans up by the side and let drop down on the table. Thia causes the air to, rise and prevents cake from falltag..

Home-Made Maple Syrup.

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