Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1912 — Page 3

Rich Miss Gladys

By BRYANT C. ROGERS

(Cep?rich t. tor*, by A—noiafd Literary Pun.) “If his mother ever lose her money he can make his way," was often aaid of Fred Bingham, the rich Widow BlngEam’s son. And it was often .'added that Fred was a singular fellow. His mother was rich and he was Islngular. H she had had her way about it he would have been brought up as most rich men’s sons are—a ‘good deal of pampering and dawdling —a squeeze through some college—a jfashionable marriage and a useless life. He was started that way, but he rebelled. What he learned at college was sound; what he observed ‘he remembered. Nature had given him a bent toward mechanics, and early in his career he had his tools nnd his workshop. Before he had 'reached his majority he had invented half a dozen things the world wanted. Soon after that came the downfall. It was discovered that the lawyer iwbo was managing the rich widow’s business for her had embezzled a large sum of money—so large that she was no longer even moderately well off. There must be a great coming down to make ends meet on ;the small sum left. All estate all tangled up and not to be settled up for years was placed in the handß of A law firm, and Fred Bingham went iforth to make his way almost barehanded. At the big machine shops of Whit;ney & Son. Boston, they had need of to handy man, and their advertisement brought Fred Bingham as an applicant He modestly stated his capabilities in the mechanical line and was taken on. He was pleased in a. way, and yet displeased. The elder 'Mr. Whitney liked his looks and modest demeanor and was friendly. The son James, about twenty-two years old, had been taken in as partner and given the office department to manage, because —because he was his father’s son. Even the father could furnish no better excuse, unless it was the hope»of steadying the young man down. When two young men meet for the first time it depends almost on the first glance whether they are to like each other or not. It was not necessary in this case that there should be friendship between the office and the shop. Fred Blnfham would be treated as an employe, and be would cheerfully grant the respect due the office, but he found-withln two minutes that there would be- an antagonism with the son. There was tyranny and domineering in young Whitney’s every look and attitude. The applicant was a gentleman even If be handled tools. He had a solid education. He was an enthusiast in his work. He bad a way that commanded respect, even though it brought antagonism with it “That fellow needs a trimming down .and it will be up to me to do it,” whispered young Whitney to himself as the caller left the office. "1 see my finish here in a month. If the son has his say about it,” said young Bingham to himself, as he walked away to find a boarding place. .. Fred Bingham found a temporary home in a suburb within stone’s throw of his employer’s grand mansion, and when he gave in his address at the office he was met with the sneering remark from young Whitney; ‘ "I wonder that you didn’t buy a 120,000 residence out there and arrange to come down to the works in your own auto!” No reply was made to this. It was sufficient to start a quarrel on, but of what use? Fred Bingham was pleased to get a position in a big shop where he could fairly try himself out and met the many problems that would arise. In a fortnight the elder Whitney was saying of him; "I declare, James, we’ve got a real genius in Bingham." “Oh, I don’t knqw,” was the reply. "That’s because you don't go through the shops. All the men are talking about him. Kb has improved some of the machines so that we get a quarter more work out of them. He’ll save us five times his salary Inside a year.” The son replied with a grunt of disbelief, and there the matter dropped. On the third Sunday of his stay Fred Bingham attended Sunday services at a humble little church, and was ushered into a pew In which a young lady sat alone. There was congregational singing, and as they rose she offered him the half of her hymn book and they sang together. If any one had asked Fred as he walked homeward if the young lady, who had been so courteous, were handsome or homely he- would not have told. He would have admitted, however, that her voice had charmed him.. ' c On the following morning, as Fred left his boarding house to take the car to his work he found an auto standing In the streets in a helpless condition. The chauffeur was under It searching for the eause, and a young woman with' a vexed look on her face was standing by. As Fred approached she smiled and bowed. A sort If instinct told, him she was the one of the pew. With a flushed face, be lifted his cap and advanced and said: “I beg your pardon but perhaps I can be of asslstancef*

"If you only coald.” she replied “It has ‘gone dead’ Just when I want •i speed the worst" V A minute later he turned to bei with a laugh and said: “They ar« Improving, these machines all the time, but they haven’t turned out one yet that will run without gasoline There’s none in the tank. Good morning.*** *—* ~ • ’-•* Miss Gladys Humphreys was an or phan, living with Iter aunt and accounted one of the wealthiest girls In Boston. A dozen gallants, including young Whitney, were "on her list oi suitors, and gossip said that the latter was the favored one so far. She and Fred Bingham had not exchanged names, . ■; w. A week after the auto incident, and at an evening hour this time, Mr. Bingham was sauntering about th* neighborhood smoking his cigar. The streets were very quiet, but as he passed a fine mansion, the front dooi of which stood open, he heard a woman scream. In a moment he was through the gate and up the step* and in the hall he found two tough looking young men, each having s bundle under his arm, fighting to free themselves from the grasp of a young woman. Fred Bingham took a hand in the game at once, and It was bad for the sneak thieves who had entered the house during the dinner hour, and had been discovered Just as they were making their exit. It was only when the fellows bad been turned over to the police that Fred felt sure of the identity of the damsel in distress. It was the rich Miss Gladys, and that was the house of her aunt. The affair had tried her nerves, but not so greatly that an introduction was not made and Mr. Bingham effusively thanked for his services and Invited to cal. He waited "two or three evenings before so doing, and one of these evenings a call was made by James Whitney. The matter of the attempted robbery came up, and as soon as he heard the name of Fred Bingham he replied: “Why, I know Mm. He is one of the workmen at the shops.” “But a gentleman as well, and a brave man,” said the'girl, “I didn’t know he went about playing th e gentleman after working hours.” “It seems to come perfectly natural to him.” The next morning tbe elder Whitney left for the west on business, and at noon the younger called Fred into the office - and" fired him pointblank, notwithstanding & contract, and further said to him: ‘A lot of cheek, you’ve got, to force the acquaintanceship of such 4 lady as Miss Humphrey. Better drop that et once, if you doq’t .want trouble with me.” Fred Bingham reached out and caught the other's nose between thumb and finger, and after holding it for a few seconds let go and walked‘out. That evening he called on the rich Miss Gladys, and Bhe insisted that It be a visit, She wanted to know many things, and she made the young man talk, and by and by she said; “I am the second largest stockholder In the Barrett Iron Works and we need you there.” A month later, when the elder Whitney returned and found his mechanical genius gone he threw up his hands and exclaimed: “Gone tn . our strongest rival, and that means a loss of SIO,OOO a year to ns!" “He was getting in my way socially,” was the sullen reply. “Why, you idiot,, he’ll marry that Humphrey girl within a year, and within two she’ll buy out the rest of the stockholders and hand him the business!”

CONFESS EUGENICS A PUZZLE

Modern Scientists, Arrogant as They Have Become, Admit That Subject Is Beyond Them. Already the professors of eugenics are moliylng their viewws. They are confessing that It la yet too early to lay down any laws of heredity, ao far as human beings are concerned, and that many years—perhaps generations —must be spent in merely accumulating facts before any laws can be formulated. As tbe Medical Record says, all our older learning concerning heredity must be submitted to Mendeli&n testa. It appears at tbe .outset, says the Medical Record, “that families, like individuals, do not bear prosperity well, and deteriorate as their material resources improve, and also that the menace of the unfit is not so great as It might at first thought seem, because here the death rate lu the resulting progeny Is phenomenally high." Nature has an excellent way of holding the balance even and there are thoughtful men of science who view with misgiving the efforts of philanthropists to upset the plan of nature by preventing the early death of the unfit. ' In the second June number of Popular Science, the editor sounds a warning against ‘‘lrresponsible eugenists,” and says: “We believe that we can breed out feeble-mlndness, „ because that is simple, but we know that we cannot produce genius by any lystem. not'even if we could treat mankind as Mendel treated peas, because genius is complicated and proportionately beyond our control.”

Fishing for Compliments.

“Women are peculiar, aren’t they?" "How la that?" "Mrs. Wright said she had plain red hair and then got mad because 4 agreed that it waa plain"

DANVILLE GETS PUPIL OF MORDECAI BROWN

Anthony Carlo, the elghteen-year-old left-hander, the property of the Newark club of the International league, was transferred the other day from Terre Haute to Danville of the Thfee-I league. Carlo, who started his baseball career as a bat boy for the Chicago cubs, attracted the attention of Mordecai Brown, who took him In hand and taught him how to pitch. In recommending Carlo to Manager McGinnity Brown said: "That lad has a lot of stuff and hag made rapid

ROCHESTER’S BRIGHT STAR

"Cozy” Dolan, Former New York Highlander, Is Playing Cleverr~ Game for Manager Ganzel. The real feature of the Rochester champions’ play recently has been the remarkable and timely hitting of that great third sacker, Albert J. (Cozy) Dolan. Cozy is fast climbing towards the top in batting and today his average is .333 in 45 games. The feature of his hitting is its timeliness. On Sunday, June 30, at Jersey City Dolan hit one Over the fence in the tenth inning and it won the game for his team. At Toronto July 2 he hit another one over the fence in the eleventh Inning and the Hustlers won. At Rochester in the morning game of July 4 with the score a tie when the Champs went to bat In the ninth Inning and McMillan, who was first to bat, had been retired, Sir Cozy slammed the hall over the left field fence. Saturday, July 6, with the score a tie In the tenth Inning and McMillan on second base, along comes Mr. Dolan and hits the ball in left field, thereby winning the game and fifty dollara for himself. Not content with all this glory, he put the finishing touch to the second game at Buffalo the other day by lifting (me over the fence with one man on and it was enough to win again. Not only Is Dolan to be praised for his batting, but he is fielding In grand style and one must look beyond the

“Cozy" Dolan.

International league to find a greater pair op the left side of the diamond than rtolan and McMillan. Harry Wolverton made a big mistake when he let Dolan get away from the Yankees without a thorough trial.

Pitcher McConnell In Demand.

Pitcher George McConnell must be highly thought of iu a twirier by many of tbe clubs In the big leagues, even if he Is not by the Yankees. When the New York team asked for waivers on him five clubs in the National and five in the American were willing to take him at the waiver price. . \ |

Players and Writers.

Bobby Wallace la one of the star players who does not believe that a player can be a good writer and a good player at the same time. He la outspoken In denouncing the effort of some players to write about their fallow players.

Anthony Carlo, Youngster Southpaw.

strides at picking up the fine poipts of the game. Give him a chance and you will not regret it.” While with Terre Haute Carlo pitched but two games, winning the first from South Bend In handy fashion. The second contest was lost to Springfield by the score of 5 to 4 through an error of an outfielder, who dropped a fly, letting In two run in the ninth inning. It is expected that Manager Chance will give -the boy a try-out next year.

Among the Baseball Players

Ralph Mattls, who was with Washington in the Bpring, is said to be the best outfielder in the Virginia league this season. Bob Ewing, the National league veteran, has been dug out of retirement by George Stallings and set to work with the Buffalo team. Some enterprising theatrical manager would make a tremendous hit by signing Germany Schaefer and Nicholas Altrock for a vaudeville stunt. Jimmy Dygert believes that with New Orleans he will be able to pitch some of that kind of ball that made him famous three or four years ago. Jimmy Lavender of the Cubs surely has a fine record for a youngster. Before he beat Rube Marquard he pitched 40 innings without being scored upon. New names appear in the Highlanders’ lineup every day. It ia only a question of time until Frank Farrell will have an entirely new crew of tossers. John McGraw today weighs twice as much as he did in 1894, when he played third base for Baltimore. He’s making considerably more than twice aa much, too. The expected slump of the Washington team isn’t developing. "Can it possibly be,” the fans are asking themselves, "that Griffith really has a team this year?”

SPORTING AXIOMS.

If the game be fair, the spirit should be the letter of the law. Game sportsmen try harder In the face of unexpected misfortune. Men who quit under difficulties never won a pennant In baseball. It la not the high rollers who make the highest flights In biplanes. Prices being equal, class has all the magic of the opening punch. ' Never try to be unique If It’s going to make you look ridiculous. -'T": When you’re hunting for the big game never atop to pick wild flowers. Airship has ceased to be editorially synonymous with foolkiller. It takes a real optimist to diace rn a good omon In the wrong turn. Adversity tries men’s souls, but prosperity lays bars their hearts. ; Make friends while It’s yours, or you’ll be naked when you lose It . Success that comes by hard work will not repeat automatically. _

ADD TO LIFE OF TIES

VARIOUS PRESERVATIVE TREATMENTS THAT WORK WELL. Neither Metal Nor Concrete. Being - Found Effective as a Substitute for Wood, the Rallroeda Had to Do Something.

In many lines substitutes are being found for wood. The great buildings

formerly or it does now. But there is one place where no substitute seems to be possible for wood, and that is the railrod roadbed, says tbe Boston Advertiser. It is true that both metal and concrete ties have "been experimented with to a certain extent, but it is also true that neither of these has attained the position of of a satisfactory substitute. For some reason the railroad engineer prefers the old fashioned wood kind of ties. This haß created a distinct problem for the railroads. Ties become worn out and need to bp replaced. New lines are laid and ties must be forthcoming. Extra tracks, on lines where the traffic has increased, demand ties before they demand anything else. Formerly ail that was necessary was for the engineer to make a requisition for so many ties for the department of construction. The ties came as easily aB could well be imagined. Persons all along the road had trees which would make up into splendid ties. Oak and chestnut trees were excellent for this purpose and were to be had at a very reasonable figure. But that was before the price of lumber went skyward with the rest of the market. There was a very good reason for the price of lumber going up. It was In response to the shortness of the supply. The railroads waked up to the fact that the supply of ties was short. * The situation was so critical that It resulted in instant action on the part of the roads. They were forced to go Into forestry. Nothing else, no other course, was open to them. Today many of the railroads have their reservations, where they are growing the sort of trees which they need for ties. But they Are doing something else which is quite as important as the growing of trees. They have been making experiments In order to find out how the life of these valuable logs of wood may be increased. Various preservative treatments have been adopted. and the result has been that the life span of ties has been increased enormously. The more expensive woods now can be used for as much as twenty-five years If the preservative treatment accomplishes what Is expected of it. The life of - the less expensive varieties has also been increased. It is thought that the life of the railroad tie has been tripled by the various means of preservation which have been adopted. The whole master shows how the railroads are being constantly called upon to solve new problems and how successful they are in finding ways out of difficult situations. It also goes to show that if men will only keep on experimenting and hoping they will find a way out of many a seemingly impossible situation.

Lives Without Air.

While the snail has lungs, heart and a general circulation and is In every respect an air breathing creature, it can nevertheless exist indefinitely without inhaling the least breath of air, the element that Is usually considered the essential to existence In all creatures supplied with lungs. “To all organized creatures,” said Leppert, “the removal of oxygen, water, nourishment and heat causes death to ensue.” When that statement was made Leppert did not appear to consider the snail as one among the great host of “organized beings;” for experiments by Spallanzani have proved that any or all the usual life conditions can be removed In the case of the snail without terminating Its existence or In any vay impairing its function* The common snail retreata into his abeli on tfib approach of frosty weather, and the opening or mouth of its whell is hermetically sealed by a secretion which is of a silky texture and aleditttely Impervious to air and waiter. In this condition it Is plain that it is deprived of three of the four elements of life mentioned above — air, water and nourishment.—Harper’s Weekly.

Unnecessary Railroad Fatalities.

“Stop. look both ways, listen, and don’t walk along the tracks,” are Injunctions that would, in the light of recently published statistics, materially reduce the number of fatalities on the railroads, if carefnly observed. The majority of the people killed by accident are classed as "trespassers” Of 10,396 killed on the railways In 1911, 6,284 were trespassers. In ten years the totsil number of deaths by accident was 61,089, of which only 4,340 wers of passengers.

of the modern city are so arranged as to need hut little' wood, when compared with the other material which goes into their construction. Steel cars are today the type which is likely to prevail. The time will come when wood will play a far less part in the construction of ordinary private houses than it did

HAS GRADE OF 49 PER CENT

Railroad That Scales Peeke of the Bernese Alps In Switzerland Steepest In World. rThe rack road up Mount Pilatus, one of the loftiest peaks of the Bernese Alps. In Switzerland, Is said to have the steepest grade of any road in the world not operated by cable#. Rising from the western shore of Lake Lucerne the rails ascend the preclpitoue side of the mountain, 04108 feet to lie summit When the road was being constructed It was necessary to fasten spike* Into the rock, says Railroad Men’s Magazine, against which the construction gang could brace their feet while laying the roadbed. - . • .. Starting from an elevation of 1,450 feet above the" sea level, -this line climbs 5,400 feet in a distance of 16,150 feet to the summit. The grade at the station of Alpnachstad is 36 per cent. At no place is it less than lit per cent. In several places it Is 48 per cent. In order to climb the grades an entirely new system was devised by Col. E. Locber. The roadbed is built throughout of solid masonry, capped with’ granite flagstone. The ties are steel channel bars, anchored to tbe masonry with U-shaped bolts at every three feet. The gauge la 2.52 feet. The rails, as in other rack railroads, merely support the weight of the train. The track bars are set on edge, so that the cogs are vertical. This arrangement Is necessary because on the steepest grades cog wheels would have a tendency to climb out of any horizontal rack. Engine and car are built on a single frame. Tbe hortlontal boiler, six feet long, is placed crosswise of the track, so that the water level In It will not be disturbed on the grades. Tbe speed is a little more than three feet a second, or about two miles an hour. Thirty-two passengers are carried. Parts of this road, particularly on the Eselwand, an Immense, rocky wall nearly vertical, are the most sensational bits of road building to he found anywhere The railroad creeps along the face of this wall of rock on a shelf tilted up at an angle of 58 per cent. Men had to be suspended over the precipice with ropes to start the work. There are four short tunnels on this precipice. This remarkable line was built lu 400 days.

TO OPEN UP FERTILE REGION

Railroad Along Northeastern Coast of Africa Means Much to the Commerce of That B*ectlon.

A railroad Is now building along the northeastern coast of Africa that will Insure the agricultural and commercial development of a fertile but longneglected region, and at the same time greatly reduce the length of tbe Journey from Europe to Egypt. Staging at Alexandria, the new railroad crosses Lake Mareotis, and follows the coast line of northern Egypt to the west, at a distance of a few miles from the Mediterranean sea. The track has been completed for about 145 niiles. The terminus of tbe line will be the port of Mersa-Matruh, about 200 miles from ( Alexandria, It la predicted that the railroad will eventually be continued to Benghazi, in Tripoli. The Journey from London to Alexandria can then be made in three days by the following route: London to Messina, 40 hoars; Messina to Benghazi, by zteamer, 20 boors; Benghazi to Alexandria, by the Marint railway, 12 hours. The new railway will traverse a region that was crowded and prosperous centuries ago. It is believed that it will create new and rich markets where the ancient cltiea of Ptolemais and Apotlonla once stood—Youth’s Companion.

Origin of a Name.

The Tenderloin district In New York derived ita name In this way: Within its limits are many gambling houses and other disreputable resorts. About 36 years ago, when Capt. Alexander Williams of the police department was transferred from a down town precinct to the precinct bounded by Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, be anticipated some choice pickings, and remarked: "For a long time I have been accustomed to round steak, but hereafter I shall have plenty of tenderloin." The name seemed to hit the popular fancy, and from that period the district came to be known aa the Tenderloin.

Very Dangerous.

Dr. Albion E. Hazard of Ottawa, at a dinner during the Railway Surgeons’ convention In Philadelphia, told a seashore story. “4 physician,” he said, “was asked at Atlantic City If bathing was dangerous for old men. “The physician with a frown replied: "Very dangerous. My millionaire uncle, a widower of seventy-one years, started bathing on the Fourth, and Xjseterday ran off to New York with a summer girl of eighteen and got married at the Tittle Church Around the Corner.’ ”

Modem Slang.

Sunday School Teacher —-Johnny, what do we learn from the story of Joseph? Johnny—That Joseph was straight and his brothers were crooked. Sunday School Teacher—Why, Johnny. how do you make that out? Johnny—Well, you see, Joseph must have been straight because Fharoah made a ruler of him, and n bin brothers were bent on getting rid ol him they must have bean crooked.