Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — Page 2

A Plum Pie and a Personage

By Martha MeCulloch - williams

(Copyright, ISI2, by Associated literary i'i. Press.) ’ "Man has his will, but woman has —her way," Harleth quoted with elaborate mock deference, his hand on his heart, as he bowed himself away from Mrs. Austell. She . sent two looks after him, though others were crowding round her. In her way she was a personage, at least when she left herself be persuaded to giro one of her Intimate ■Talks on life and things, In somebody’s parlor. Critical folk said she could die with a happy consciousness that she must have advocated the eight things at least half her time, since she had a habit of believing everything—and going about proclaiming her belief of the time. Just now die was ardent for suffrage. Militancy seemed to her the finest thing In the world, a flame of pure martyr enthusiasm which was bound to lighten the world. Yet—that persistent Harleth had dared to laugh of her eulogies of window breaking instead of being converted to them. It was intolerable. She must somehow punish him, even If she had to g« to the length of captivating him. He deserved no less. Then, too, might it not be possible thus to win him over to the cause? Mentally she took stock of herself. She was still very beautiful, If a bit full-blown; She had fortune, position, the prestige of family. And though ahe had openly vowed herself to the cause, if she could win It bo eloquent an advocate by the sacrifice of her liberty, It was clearly her duty to do It. Votes for women might look differently to him through the vista of • wedding ring. And it should be a yellow wedding. On that she decided Instantly—with girl ushers and twenty bridesmaids at least. ■. The parson would have to be masculine. He must at least be a bishop; and the odious masculine injustice kept women from Oat high dignity. Yet, on the whole, ale was quite reconcife J to the bishop—he would give the Med acoent of contrast and so enhance the distinction of It aIL h ( Certaiply a strategist or diplomat of the firs! water was smothered In her by petticoats. She had come to Highview, Harleth’s aristocratic home suburb, to stay but a day and night. Yet she go managed matters that she appeared to be constrained against her will to stay there a week. Every day of the week brought her some touch with Harleth. Every day, also, in a manner deepened her determination to snatch him a brand from the burning of his unbelief. Too wise, (too feminine, to thrust herself upon

[?] Fortune, Position, the Prestige of Family.

■Vtoo wily to bore him with her »> s , she showed herself simply HBanly charming, and so much so HEleth wondered no little how she Bould possibly want to be anything "m A seasoned celibate, be was in some (Ways even wiser and wilier than she. 'ln others he was a child, a lamb ready for the sacrifice. But be did not know be was ready. It Is doubtful if be would ever have found out In time but for the other woman. The other woman was, on the face es things, an antagonist Mrs. Austell had no need to fear, being pale, plump, shortish, quite undistinguished as to feature, with snapping blue eyes, and a temper of her ownr-w - Harleth liked the temper better than anything else about her. They were cousins, distant ones, and he had over her from the day of pigtails. lint in one way she had a gift—sher could cook as few women can. Moreover, she was proud, not ashamed, of the gift, and delighted to exercise it --- William Harleth dined with her once a week, whenever be was at home. In between he hada way of dropping in for five-minute calls, - derings of her pantry, or at least her fpfro box. Being thus a cook, heaven horn, she was essential to all the functions in honor of Mrs. AustelL Not in any paid capacity—she had money enough to live as ahe chose. It pleam* her greatly to help out former'cakes, they could

do no less than invite her to everything. More than half the time she stayed away, or rather went home after seeing everything was as good as it could be made. But to one afternoon company rather early in the game she stayed. "What she saw determined her to do several things. She ordered in haste, from the city, two frocks quite eclipsing' anything in Highview. Next she waved her hair, and after that she took her grandmother’s silver and Jewelry out of the' bank, filled her house with flowers, lights and people, and gave a final party for the advocate of suffrage. "A blow out" was her own phrase for it, she being of the sort that speaks straight as if thinks. All this meant, of course, that she would be very busy. Mrs. Austell was charmed at the thought of coming. The other woman’s name was Vanmere, her home a true colonial house, fall of antiques. Moreover, Edith Vanmere herself had appeared very receptive. It would be only a less triumph for the cause to convert her than to take Harleth captive for life. It annoyed her a trifle to find that Miss Vanmere laid-heavy commands on Harleth; also, that he obeyed them meekly, even when obedience took him from her presence. "Ed thinks she owns me—and I reckon she does come near it," be explained to the visitor, who did her best to mask discomfiture with an engaging smile. The smile might have faded had she been able to read the Vanmere mind. Edith had seen through her —Edith would have none of her sort in the family. Moreover, If William Harleth was by way of being a fool in some things, he was a gentleman, also helpless—being a man. Edith must save him. Shewas nearly as much interested to doing it as in the entirely new plum cake she was evolving for the party. Many schemes came to her. One 1 by one she turned them over in her mind and dismissed them as impractical. Then all in a flash the solution came—so simple it made 1 her blush to think she had overlooked' it: Two bodies cannot occupy the 1 same: space, not even when the bodies- areringers, the space a wedding, ring. The only real salvation for William Harleth, now that women were grown So bold, was a wedding ring; set fast’ by law and gospel upon the rightfinger. Harleth was bidden to dine with; her before the party. Notwithstanding Ha Imminence, notwithstanding Edith’s labors for it, the dinner wasas perfect as a dinner could be.- At-' the end there were samples of the’ delectable plum cake; The response it evoked from Harleth was a sufficient reward. • Later when the crowd had-gathered, a crowd that held the best of all Highview, it gasped a bit to see Edith in trailing cloth of silver, softened' with illusion and old lace, Jewels' gleaming upon a neck that was singularly smooth qnd white; and nodding above hair pulled in wavy masses above a smooth , brow. She looked what she was, a grande dame. But underneath the grandeur there was the same bubbling good humor, and sharp, clean-cut speech. Pinery was no bar to ber special ministrations when It made three of the richest men present wait npon Mrs. Austell under her own direct supervision. When it came to the plum cake Mrs. Austell exclaimed:

“This is not food—nectar, or maybe ambrosia, rather I Dear Miss Van* mere, life owes you something for it I feel you are going to be one of us. Pray, pray tell me, what we shall demand for you when we come tp our own in reward for anything so heavenly.” “Oh, nothing,” Edith said, laughing softly, "Nothing!” Mrs. Austell echoed. "You are unjust to yourself.” "I think not —you see I have my reward,” Edith answered saucily, though her color mounted. "You see, I told Billy—Mr. Harleth. —tonight I shouldn’t ever make any more of this cake until I made it for —my husband —and he proposed ak once.”

Proper Point of View.

Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture was praising in Washington the agricultural school at nelL “It is a practical school,” he said. “It wastes no time on useless things. It teaches practical and scientific farming. The school’s viewpoint reminds me of the young farmer who was asked: ‘Which should you say—a setting hen or a sitting hen? “’lt’s immaterial which one says,’ the farmer answered. ‘But it’s tremendously material, on the otherhand, that we should ask ourselves when a hen cackles —‘Has she been, laying, or is she lying?*”

Gunboat a Hoodoo.

The old gunboat Bennington, which was one of the early vessels of the new navy, and whose career caused her to be regarded as a hoodoo ship, is reported from California to have been Bold to the Mexican government It was while lying in San Diego harbor some years ago that one of her hollers bnntt, killing five of the crew and seriously wounding a score of others. Boon afterward she was sold for old Junk, and the Junk men, after removing her fixtures, endeavored to blow out her interior portiou* with dynamite. 7. 7 -7 p. ■■ .'<• ■ - ■ » ; 1

Their Special Locality.

"Mom, the doctor aays Cousin Sally baa the shingles.” “Poor thing!” “Mom, are they in the roof of bar .mouth?”

THOMAS DE OUINCEY. ’ De Quincey was not stiff or staid. He had no fear at Mrs. Grundy; Bridge he very often played dn public, or at home on Sunday; Or, ls the day-was damp and cloudy, Enjoyed his opium con laud*. -.O 1 7 ' 7 , ■ Philosophers in high contempt He held. Spinoza, Kant and Herder From his dislike were not exemptwitness the gentle art of murder. The moral of which cheerful sermon Delights the Dyak and the Borman. One always likes to read again His essay called "On Conversation," Which art, resembles, it Is plain, The action of expectoration. For he explains with vivid wit Just how and when and where to spit. i Leonard Baoon in Harper’s Weekly. _

SLIGHTLY VEILED.

"You say that she called; me absorbing?” “Well, not In those words. She called you a sponge.”

Never:

Never put* your hopeOf bliss . In a prophylacTio kiss!

Letting a- Good Thing Fass.

"Will you have coffee?"' askedtlhwr hostess. "No,” she replied; "I think I shall have to give it up. People say it to bad for the complexion.” “Oh, well, w&at: of it? You. cam foe year complexions up again; WBt It afog be g long time before yon shall have a. chance to get another cup; of. coffee; aw good- as this.”"

Consolation.

With a sigh she laid dfcwn ttto magazine article upon: Daniel Q'Cbm nell. “The day of great; men;” rim said,. “la gone - former;” “But the day off beautiful: women* to not,”' he responded: SM» smiled and: blushed. 1 *T was; only joking,” she explained, hurriedly. —Western; Christian Advocated

A Memory Aid.

"Jinks is the only man to ttt» oflfi»' who has not on-made a- mistake to the-new date.” “His he a good? memory?"’ “Not so much, that as he. i*. a; amp player.” “How does that help him?"' “Because H- hr natural, focr him rto bam.it. ‘come eleven;’”'

A HIGH BROW FAKE.

■ “What is your Idea of scholarship?** : “The ability to keep from yawning, very largely.”

Ample Proof.

A woman wrote a letter—mind. No postscript did append-; That she waa hot the common kind I’m sure you. apprehend.

Happiness Before Dyspepsia.

Bacon —The darkest hour la justbe* fora the dawn, they say. Egbert—Yes, and a man’s happiest moments are just before he’s miserable. ’’Clew da. you make teat out?” “Why, haven’t you ever noticed how happy a man Js when bsfr eatingsomething Which js sure to disagree, with him?” —Yonkers Statesman.

Justified.

“A North Dakota editor abet two, moo because he suspected them of having stolen seme whisky from his office during his absence.” . ' v "' "I’m not at all surprised. Urn winters are very severe In North Dakota.” .. * ,

Had Enough.

, Clergyman—And how would you like to be a minister when you grow UP! Boy—No, thank you; Fm tired of wearing things that button up the back. —Woman's HomejCpmpanlon. ,rr

Getting Even.

Lawyer—ln this will you really insist upon being buried, at sea? “Tie. You see, my wife says that when I’m dead she’s going to danoe bn my grave”—Case and Comment

That Summer Home

“If,” said' the girl who likes to talk, “you happen to own a two-by-twice plot of ground outside of town with anything standing OB H in the way of a shack with a roof over it, your friends who don’t possess such a piece of property regard you reproachfully as spring cornea on. At inopportune times they thrust at you remarks like these: 'Well, T suppose you’ll be leaving soon for your place—lucky crea- 1 tore!’ Ts we only felt that we, too, could Idle In the country all summer?' ! “You feel horribly apologetic. You* linow that your envious friends could” 'buy a hundred plaices strah as yours and dump them into the lake just to Sear Che splash and never miss the money, so ft is a surprise Hr find yourself regarded as a wretched plutocrat when the overwhelming reason that led you to flee from town was that the bill' collector doesn’t come around so often In the woods. “Two days before I am ■ taking the boat' for Michigan I always-get favftationff to-the-opening dinner at the country club, an automobile ridh and a theater party, all to take 1 place the week after lam gone. As I ; wa*f tissue paper Into-the sleeves of - the new gown ,1 am packing and which'; I! won'thave a chance to wear again->ll sum-

mer I remember what it cost; and seethe with anguish. “It is dark when the boat* puffs away front Chicago and if it doesn’t rain soggfly when I start I rest' aw j- sured that" it will be raining when I arrive in ; Michigan. It has to rain, at one or the other- of these times,*- be- ; cause I am- wearing my best flowertrimmed hat: that to too huge to pack: and I have* Just had’ ray suit pressed, i There seennto Be acres of my luggage 1 m the Michigan dock the next morning—trunks, new porch rugs, a sewing machine'and a kitchens stove-—and besides I have tb wade around town lia the sand, Bnytogt groceries and natlfr and mops and matches, before plunge Jtaff Into the* calm country ten mil bn I {from anywhere: “The boatman wfln comes for am does not seem exactly overwhelmed! ’with the joy T rathecr expected him tb» tebow on seeing’ me"again. ‘Huh!’ hce (groans. ‘Have yon- got load to these; there trunks??' ~ J “Some timnel> am; going: to make am exhaustive study of thn psychological; causes leading? baggagemen Invariably to be overcome witto surprise because 1 pocked trunks' cannot be wafted about ion one finger: They- always are aor righteously annoyed’at thlss discovery 1“It is raining as usual when I am shunted off atrmy osrn dock with my luggage. This is particulariy good for the ironwork on sewing machines and: stoves and iS-flne for the contents of trunks. TBO cottage seems oddly veiled and investigation shows the veiling to consist of unbroken spiderwebs and sheddingp- front rite beech l trees. It does not seem nrosible that* there are an many spiders to the; world.

“The strong-armed* scrubwoman who' was to meet me'iSK beautifully absent,-, but the full tragedy’ of this growsslowly as-I raise window shades and 1 see the tfiick dusk on every inch of everything. There- are- more cobwebs; Inside than outside and at the sight of the pantry I shed tears. Spiders rushfrom everything*!! touch. In a sort of desperation I open, the- box couch tot find a work dress* whereupon * rattle of beech nuts and cherry pits follower the hauitng forth of the top layers Then something furry and agitated* darts out and t sit down on the floorand shriek. It was a chipmunk routed from his winter lodgings and he now* darts nervously and malignantly under a bookcase, I would just as soon live in the same house with a maneating tiger as, with a chipmunk! ’ “‘No,’ said tbe men who brought up mgr soaked belongings from the pier. 'Mary won’t he here. She moved away. No, there ain't nobody else you. can get to scrub. No, we don't know any man yos can get to clean the- yard and fix the'pump—everybody’s busy planting the crops. No, there ain’t no one in town who wants a job. No, you can’t get no lettuoe nor berries nor garden truck —they ain’t ripe yet, don't you know that?* - “This when people back in Chicago are rioting in asparagus and strawberries and head lettuce and cucumbers! "Ther may be hundreds of birds outside amid the lovely greenery of June, hut I don’t know It, for I, am wrestling with unaccustomed backbreaking tasks inside the house. By 7 o'clock that night I eat some store bread and batter and cheese and a banana and tumble into bed more tfead than alive. There is dust In the air aad it is pitch dark and outside the tree frogs are dolorously singing. “Back in Chicago my brutal friends who envied me are dining on luxuries and Just starting out for an evening’s spin down lilac-scented boulevards through the parks. “Something drops kerplunk am the counterpane, and I know it is a large fat spider. There is a mouse gnawing busily somewhere in the room. Then 1 pull the sheet up over my bead and nervously shudder myself to sleep! "This is the reel truth about the way in which you start off summer resorting.”—Chicago Daily News.

Compulsion.

Compulsion is &-i the weak.

GOOD RATION FOR FATTENING

Problem Is Important One and of Various feeds Com Is Boat Single Grain to Be Pod. The question of ration' for sheep at this time of the year is ffn important /one. All of the various form grains have been used with more or less success. Cofn easily heads the list as theTbest single grain for- fattening lambs. It is especially desirable because it causes the lambs to put on U it rapidly add does not stlmuate too much growth as in the case with many forms of concentrated feeds. _.Barley has also been used to very good advantage. It IF about on a par with sera'fed from the standpoint of rapidity and economy or gains, but lacks same. In palatability. Wheat and wheat screenings have both been used to fatten lambs. The feed has too much tendency to cause the lambs to grow rather than fatten. When combined with an equal* amount of corn the lambs put on fat much more rapidly. Oats is a useful feed, but, like Wheat, is more liable tSr< induce growth than fattening. It should be mixed With corn for best results. Oilmeal, cottonseed meal and gluten feed have all-been used in con junction-with com rations t«- good advantage? Not more than one-half pound of either ofimeal or cottonseed meal should- be ted a lamb' ; weighing from 50 to *3O pounds. While wheat bran itself is not helpful In putting on; fat, ft is one of- the best feeding- stuffs available to use to conjunction with; com or other: feeds in gettinglkmb* on fan feed. It fiirn&bes bulk, tiftra prevents the greedy ernes from getting too much concentrates and also acts as a regulator; of the digestiv4:syetem.

ALFALFA MANGER FOR SWINE

Hay Shoutd; Be From the First or Seo ond Crop,; ams Kept tn Dry Place —Feeding; Baric Is ShownI have bteen feeding a quart of Kaffir per day each; to> some shoatwand all the alfaifo. they would eat. They are doing well: am it and growing fast. When alfalfo. hay is fed to hog* it should be frem the first or second crop;, and It must he; kept to a dry place/tor if allowed tto mold, the bogs will toot rat it For:feeding the hay I use a rack made ottone: By four-inch stuffy aw shown in the*diagram; The trough! to

Hay Manger for Hogs.

f feet high a mil may he made as long as desired, write** Jl. SB Howard in the* manner's Mail. and’. Btsese. A trough; fjser inches deepandaifoot wide should) be placed belossv the rack to keep tbfc hogs from wasting the; leaves. The slats are four tochea apart so the hogs can pull the toy out. hut they canto Set their hea<to through.

Handling; Lambs.

There is a. vast difference In hamftBng lambs Intended for breeding and! for the market, The first should tiematured slowly, in order to produce; good bone and stability, but the lOtter should ha: forced to put on fat as quickly am possible*, as the weight is the only thing that, counts.

LIVE STOCK NOTES

Don't give the sow too much bedding. Never feed.’ at bone when it is-very warm. horse’s Legs is not aegood practice. Exercise sweating in a horses indicates weakness. Yon cannot begin to feed and, train n colt teo early. There, is a growing demand for ba-con—-goad- bacon. Kindness beats gruffness in getting work out of horses. Drive? a colt the flint time, with a fast walking horse. \ Silagp can be fed to sheep with satisfactory results. Buckwheat straw is not a. suitable bedding material for pigs. It is important that some grain be fed pigs intended for the market Treat the herd boar with kindness ami also with considerable caution. Stock raising is the best insurance against an impoverished agriculture. Handling colts from toe start obviates breaking and substitutes training. ’' The use of silage for sheep feeding purposes has been tried out to a limited' extent For horses doing a considerable amount of road work there is no grain equal to oats. So far as cooking feed for cows or any kind of live stock, only in rare instances is It profitable. The localities where some Of live stock may not be profitably maintained are few and fur between. v>_ For winter feed or summer reed there is no cheaper or better balanced ration for horses, cattle. sheep and ■wine than sllagei' Mules of all sisee find a ready market The mule is Mgs subject to disease than the horse, easier cured when sick and has • longer period of sendee.

The Quest

Anything that Is homeless arouses* one’s sympathy and a homeless cow: should naturally share In this outpouring of kindly emotion. But the night! that the McLane’s cow lost her happy home nobody in the summer community sat up and wept is tender commiseration. ■— ~-■ Just why the cow should have chosen to wander from the comfortable), hay stuffed bam toward dusk when the McLanes’ man had tito back turned for, a fatal Instant is onwofi the mysterle* of bovine psychology which nobody cam figure out The cow, intoxicated by her freedom, wandered far down the* Take shore. After wandering for a. while, however, the darkness and the scurrying of small unknown animals for the underbrush made her nervous and she began to look around for her warm and cozy barn. lin somethinglike a panic she-lum-bered along through the trees until she saw a light “Aha!” mid the cow, “home at last.” The light shone-from the cottage occupied; by Miss Atkinson, a maiden of a considerable number of years, who was entertaining at the moment three other staid elderly women at bridge. Just as one of foe three- had said disgustedly that she made: it spades' Miss Atkinson, who was focing this porch, gave a bloodcurdling shriek and her cards flew all over the-room. “A man!” she hissed. “There was a man peering in forough. the porch screen door! He-dfeappearedi when I jumped!” Her guests tipped over: the? card table in arising hastily Iff there were prowlers at this quiet: and safe resort they were of the indignant opinion that something ought to be done about HI

One of the braves*'of'the ftwr ventured out toi-the -porch and: im * quavertng voice demanded! to know who was there, while the others supported her with ike carvteggkniffce add the broom. Nothing answered :froar the sflence, which made ifcalistttteworeej The guests put Miss Atkinson; to bed with the hot water bag and: the; smelling salts and lacked esery window in the cottage. Then, shivering; with fright, the thiWiieldi band* and bolted ier the hotels ft was a litttteidtor tfihtf tits- Bundy cottage was upset* Mra* Bbndy had pat. the children** to bed' and was (yoefcetirfg whHfedibrv guest*. Mai Hulton,, was reading.-aloud: at; particularly gruesome detective story; Suddenly Mrs* Bundy made<a startled: clutch at Mrs: Hulton’s wrist and-said: ‘Xls-a-s----te*r Mrs. Hulton heard. iC tom. “Th-th-therre must bo two of: 'OnL?”’ stammered Mrs. Huttos "I» earn hear four f-f-feet Just as plain!” .171 There certainly were- several different footsteps outside the cottage—slow, careful flboteteps, “I Just knew something; awfid would happen when Charley- went hack to Chicago yesterday!” she-gasped. \ Mrs. Hulton said 1 wildly; “O-g-get the ga^ggun!’” Mrs. liulton’s .great-grandfather had fought In a war? so knew immediately the best: method! Of defense. Holding the family, revolver at arm’s length and with her- head: turned the other way, Mnbißundy/sa* down again and listened. There was nothing to he heard. They passed' the rest of the sight on guard.' Farther down, the lake shore, on the rustic seat fining the- moan, Laura. Spilger and her young mas sat talking. Their absorption in each otherwas so great;that they heard nothing; until something strange was thrust;, over Laura’S* left shoulder. Young: Burmaster made a wild but futile grab > as she leaped in. the; air. Landing on- the extreme edge of tber-* slippery terrace, she- tumbled down lihto the lapping waters with a gurgling splash. Then as* young Burmaster, too*, sensed the presence of something weird and inexplicable he felt’ bis. scalp twitch in Creasing horror, mut leaped after Laura. Hand in haad they arose*, dripping, and stood affrighted in two; feet of water at the Edum’n edge. From-the Spilger cottage came-fseo-tionlng rumblings. Laura’s father was demanding to know the reason; for all that uproar. Setting no answer, because the two in the lake were still paralyzed vocally, he came; forth to investigate. "What do you want?” ho roared at something'creeping by. ‘TO teach you to prowl around my house, consarn * you!” Presently there was a spiteful pop of the little Spilger boy’s airgun. Then there was silence. Nothing happened. The Spilgers and young Burmaster sat up very lata discussing the mystery. At an impromptu mass meeting the next morning the cottagers voted to spend |SO a month for a watchman. Then they took naps all the rest of the day to make up for their wakeful night vS ' : •• 7 v But early the same morning a weary and homesick cow had broken into a gallop as she spied the MeLanes’ barn and in two minutes more she waa munching her feed and switching flies, and appeared to be wondering what iwwsrWr* •***: