Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — Page 2

The Daily Republican Kntjr Day Except Sunday HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. INDIANA.

EXCUSE ME!

Novelized from the Comedy of the Same Name ILLUSTRATED From Photographs of the Play as Produced By Henry W. Savage

By Rupert Hughes

Oowrlsht, UU. ty U. K. Fly 00. 16 SYNOPSIS. Lieut Harry Mallory" ta'ordered to the Philippines. He and Marjorie Newton decide to elope, but wreck of taxicab prevents their seeing minister on the way to the train. Transcontinental train is taking on passengers. Porter has a lively time with an Englishman and Ira Lathrop, a Yankee business man. The elopers have an exciting time getting to the train. "Little Jimmie" Wellington, bound for Reno to get a divorce, boards train In maudlin condition. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears. She is also bound for Reno with same object. Likewise Mrs. Sammy Whitcomb. Latter blames Mrs. Jimmie for her marital troubles. Classmates of Mallory decorate bridal berth. Rev. and Mrs. Temple start on a vacation. They decide to cut loose and Temple removes evidence of his calling. Marjorie decides to let Mallory proceed alone, but train starts while they are lost In farewell. Passengers Join Mallory’s classmates in giving couple wedding hazing. Marjorie is distracted. — lra Lathrop, woman-hating bachelor, discovers an old sweetheart, Anne Oattle, a fellow passenger. Mallory vainly hunts for a preacher among the passengers. Mrs. Wellington hears Little Jimmie’s vbice. Later she meets Mrs. Whitcomb. Mallory reports to Marjorie his failure to find a preacher. They decide to pretend a quarrel and Mallory finds a vacant berth. Mrs. Jimmie discovers Wellington on the train. Mallory again makes an unsuccessful hunt for a preacher. Dr. Temple poses as a physician. Mrs. Temple Is induced by Mrs. Wellington to smoke a cigar. Sight of Sreacher on a station platform raises lallory’s hopes, but he takes another train. Missing hand baggage compels the couple to borrow from passengers. Jimmie gets a cinder in his eye and Mrs. Jimmie gives first-aid. Coolness is then resumed. Still no clergyman. More borrowing. Dr. Temple puzzled by behavior ■of different couples.

CHAPTER XXlll—(Continued). \ Mrs. Wellington glanced the same *-«vay, and a shriek of understanding burst from her. It sent the porter Into a spasm of yah-yahs till he caught Ashton's eyes and saw murder In them. The porter fled to the platform and held the door fast, expecting to be lynched. But Ashton dashed away In search of concealment and soap. The porter remained on the platform for some time, planning to leap overboard and take his chances rather than fall into Ashton’s harids, but at length, finding himself unpursued, he gpeered into the car and, seeing that Ashton had gone, he returned to his (duties. He kept a close watch on Ashton, but on soberer thoughts Ashton had decided that the incident would best be consigned to silence and oblivion. But for all the rest of that day he kept rubbing his lips with his handkerchief. The porter, noting that the train had swept into a granite gorge like *£s enormously magnified aisle in a made-up sleeping car, recognized the presence of Echo Canyon, and with It the entrance into Utah. He hastened to impart the tidings to Mr. Fosdick :and held out his hand as he extqpded the information, .♦ Fosdick could hardly believe that his twelve-hundred-mile exile was over. -t- ---] “We’re in Utah?” he exclaimed. and the porter shoved his palm into view. Fosdick filled it with all his loose change, then whirled to his wife and cried: “Edith! We are in Utah now! Embrace me!"

She flung herself into l?ls arms -with a gurgle of bliss. The other passengers gasped with amazement. This sort of thing was permissible enough In a tunnel, but In the full light of day—! * Fosdlck, noting the sensation he had created, waved his hand reassuringly and called across his wife’s shoulder: “Don’t be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. She’s my wife!” He added in a whisper meant for her ear alone: “At least till we get to Nevada!" Then she whispered something in his ear and they hurried from the car. They left behind tbem ~a~bewilderment that eclipsed the wonder of the Mallories. That couple spoke to each other at least during the day time. Here was a married pair that did not speak at all for two days and two nights and then made a sudden and public rush to each other’s arms! Dr. Temple summed up the general feeling when he said: - '1 don’t believe in witches, but if i did. I’d believe that this train is bewitched.” Later he decided that Fosdlck was a Mormon elder and that Mrs. Fosdlck waa probably a twelfth or thirteenth ■pouse be was smuggling in from the eaet. The theory was not entirely fei«A, for Fosdlck was one of the many victims of the crasy-qullt of American divorce codes, though he Whs the unwilling of polygamists. And Dr. Temple have up his theory in despair the next morning when be found the Fosdlcks still on the train, «iw< once more keeping aloof from each other. /CHAPTER XXIV. I The Train Butcher. Mallory was dragging out a miserable existence with a companion who

was neither maid, wife, nor widow and to whom he was neither bachelor, husband, nor relict. * They were suffering brain-fag from thelt one topic of conversation, and heart-fag from rapture deferred. Marjorie had pretended to take a nap and Mallory had pretended that he would leave her for her own sake. Their contradictory chains were beginning to gall. \ Mallory sat in the smoking room, and threw aside a half-finished cigar. Life was Indeed nauseous when tobacco turned rank on his lips. He watched without interest the stupendous scenery whirling past the train; granite ravines, infernal grotesques of architecture and diablerie, the Giant's Teapot, the Devil’s Slide, the Pulpit Rock, the Hanging Rock, splashes of mineral color, as if titanic paint pots had been spilled or flung against the cliffs, 6udden hushes oi green pine-worlds, dreary graveyards of sand and sagebrush, mountain streams in frothing panics. His jaded soul cculd not respond to any of these thrifters, the dime-nov-els and melodramatic third-acts of nature. But with the arrival of a trainboy, who had got on at Evanston with a hatch of Salt Lake City newspapers, he woke a little. The other men came trooping round, like sheep at a herd-boy’s whistle orchlckens when a paa-Ol grain is brought into the yard. The train ‘‘butcher’’ had a nasal sing-song, but his strain might have been the Pied Piper's tune emptying Hamelin of its grown-ups. The charms of flirtation, matrimonial bliss and feminine beauty were forgotten, and the males flocked to the delighte of stockmarket reports, political or racing or dramatic or sporting or criminal news. Even Ashton braved the eyes of his fellow men for the luxury of burying his nose in a fresh paper. “Papers, gents? Yes? No?” the train butcher chanted. “Salt Lake papers, Ogden papers, all the latest papers, comic papers, magazines, periodicals.” <•

“Here, boy,” said Ashton, snapping his fingers, “what’s the latest New York paper?" “Last Sat’day’s.” “Six days old? I read that before 1 left New York. Well, give me that Salt Lake paper. It has yesterday’s stock market, I suppose.” “Yes, sir.” He passed over the sheet and made change, without abating his monody: “Papers, gents. Yes? No? Salt Lake pa—" “Whash latesh from Chicago?” said Wellington. “Monday’s." “I read that before —that breakfast began," laughed Little Jimmie. “Well, give me Salt Lake Bazoo. It has basheball news, I s’pose.” • “Yes. sir,v the butcher answered, and his tone grew reverent as he said: “The Giants won. Mr. Mattyson was pitching. Papers, gents, all the latest papers, magazines, periodicals.” Wedgewood extended a languid hand: “What’s the latest issue of the London Times?” “Never heard of it.” Wedgewood almost fainted, and returned to his Baedeker of the United States.Dr. Temple summoned the lad: ”1 don’t suppose you have the Ypsilanti Eagle?” The butcher regarded him with pity, and sniffed: “I carry newspapers, not poultry.” “Well, give me the —” he saw a pink weekly of rather picturesque appearance, and the adventure attracted him. “I’ll take this —also the Outlook.” He folded the pink within the green, and entered into a new and startling world —a sort of journalistic slumming tour. “Give me any old thing,” said Mak lory, and flung open an Ogden journal till he found the sporting page, where his eyes brightened. “By jove, a ten-inning game! Matthewson in the box!”

“Mattie is most intelleckshal pitcher in the world,” said Little Jimmie, and then everybody disappeared behind paper ramparts, while the butcher lingered to explain to the porter the details of the great event. About this time, Marjorie, tired of her pretence at slumber, strolled into the observation car, glancing into the men’s room, where she saw nothing but newspapers. Then Mrs. Wellington saw her, and smiled: “Come in and make yourself at home.” “Thanks,” said Marjorie, bashfully, “I was looking for my—my —”

“Husband?” “My dog.” “How is he this morning?” “My dog?” “Your husband.”, “Oh, he’s as well as could be expected.” “Where did you get that love of a waist?” Mrs. Wellington laughed. “Mrs. Temple lent it to me, Isn’t it sweet?” I "Exquisite! The latest Ypfjilanti mode.” \ Marjorie, suffering almost more acutely from being badly frocked than from being duped in her matrimonial hopes, threw herself on Mrs. Wellington’s meycy. “I’m so unhappy in this. Couldn’t you lend me or sell me something a little smarter?" “I’d love to, my dear,” said Mrs. Wellington, “but I left home on short notice myself. I shall need all my divorce trousseau In Reno. Otherwise I —but here’s your husband. You two ought to have some place to spoon. I’ll leave you this whole room.” And she swept out, nodding to Mallory, who had divined Marjorie's presence, and felt the need of being near her, though he also felt the need of finishing the etory of the great ball game. Huabandllke, he felt that he was conferring sufficient courtesy

in throwing a casual smile across the ton of the paper. Marjorie studied his motiey garb, and her own, and groaned: ' “We’re a sweet looking pair, aren’t we?” ‘ m “Mr. and Miss Fit,” said Mallory, from behind the paper. “Oh, Harry, has your love grown cold?” she pleaded. “Marjorie, how 5 can you think such a thing?” still from behind the paper. “Well, Mrs. Wellington said we ought to have some place to spoon, and she went and left us, and—there you st<ind —and —” This pierced even the baseball news, and he threw his arms around her with glow of devotion. She snuggled closer, and cooed: “Aren’t we having a nice long engagement? We’ve traveled a million miles, and the preacher Isn’t in sight yet. What have you been readingwedding announcements?” “No —I was reading about the most wonderful exhibition. Mattie was in the box —and in perfect form.” “Mattie?” Marjorie, gasped uneasily. “Mattie!” he raved, “and in perfect form.” And now the hidden serpent of jealousy* which promised to enliven their future, lifted its head for the first time, and Mallory caught his first glimpse of an unsuspected member of their household. Marjorie demanded with an ominous chill: “And who’s Mattie?. Some former sweetheart of yours?” “My dear,” laughed Mallory. But Marjorie was up and away, with apt temper: “So Mattie was in the box, was she? What Is It to you, where she sits? You dare to read about her and rave over her perfect form, while you neglect your wife —or your—oh, what am I, anyway?” Mallory stared at her in amazement. He was beginning to learn what Ignorant heathen women are concerning so many of the gods and demi gods of mankind. Then, with a tenderness he might not always show, he threw the paper down and took her in his arms: “You poor child. Mattie is a man —a pitcher—and you’re the only woman I ever loved —and you are liable to be my wife any minute.” The explanation was sufficient, and she crawled into the shelter of his arm with little noises that served for apology, forgiveness and reconciliation, Then be made the mistake of mentioning the sickening topic of deferred hope: “A minister’s sure to get on at the next stop —or the next.” Marjorie’s nerves were* frayed by too much enduring, and it took only a word to set them Jangling: “If you say minister to me again, I’ll scream.” Then she tried to control herself with a polite: “Where is the next stop?" “Ogden.” “Where’s that? On the map?” “Well, It’s in Utah.” “Utah!” she groaned. “They marry by wholesale there, and we can't even get a sample.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

SET THE PACE IN RECEPTIONS

Splendid Affair Given by United State* _ Ambassador Guild Dazzled St. T Petersburg Society. The German and Russian newspapers bristle with reports concerning an official reception by the American ambassador at St. Petersburg, Curtis Guild, in the splendid palace he occupies, which was formerly the residence of Count Orloff Denison. Not even Ambassador Leishman, glittering at the kaiser’s court, could have been more imposing. The ambassador had at his side a functionary from the imperial court, who presented the guests. The ambassador’s wife was beautifully gowned. The guests were announced by a servant from the imperial ministry, who wore a black suit of eighteenth century style, with a lace jabot. Mrs. Guild was greatly fatigued, for she had to stand three hours with outstretched hand in order that it might be kissed by all the men, according to the Russian fashion. In the great dining hall on the floor above, hung with pictures of the Orlolls of the last three centuries, was a surprise for the guests. Instead of the usual tables with servants serving champagne, there were models in ice of a Russian farm house and an American cottage, lit with incandescent lights, from which flowed fountains of champagne. The American cottage fountain bubbled with dry wine, while the Russian emitted a fruity variety.

Drew the Crowd.

It was the ambition of the proprietor of the moving picture show to get a record house that week. The first two nights he failed to get It On the third night his unparalleled attractions were advertised thus through a megaphone at the hall door: “Ladies and gentlemen: Every picture I shall show you tonight has cost the life of a film actor. In the bridge wrecking scene two men were drowned, in the railroad collision one man was crushed to death, and the jungle scene three men were fearfully mangled by wild beasts. “Reprehensible tactics to mention those harrowing details,” said the proprietors of other shows; nevertheless they achieved the manager's purpose, for the next day the hooae was packed at every performance.

Diver's 'Good Fortune.

A native diver of Australia, while professionally engaged in exploring the submarine depths of the Torres Straits, not long ago, secured a magnificent pear shaped pearl, which ifhs sold for 91.500. \

HIS OF FLYERS

Aviators Pin Faith on Most Peculiar Mascots. Part of Machine in Slight Accident Regarded by Many as Indispensable in Subsequent Flights.

London. —’Tin sick and tired of believing nothing that can’t be proved,” was the remark made not long ago by a man whose whole life is spent in mechanical and scientific experiment and who would be the last you would think to be touched by the very slightest breath of superstition. Many airmen are evidently of the same opinion, for they pin their faith on the oddest of charms, and many of them have the strongest, though often secret, belief in omens, mascots and luck bringers, says Answers. Mr. Cody is at present flying a machine which, as he laughingly remarks, is a sort of resurrection pie, being made up of portions taken from many other defunct machines. Now a part of the machine which has been in an accident, yet'- an accident without serious results, is held to be lucky. But it would take a very brave airman to use any portion of a plane that killed its pilot Le Blon was one of those very brave m,en, and it is said that when his career was ended by falling Into the sea at San Sebastian in April, 1910, there was built Into the plane which fell with him some jpars from the machfne In which poor De la grange met his end. It Is ancient history that Santos-Du-mont never went aloft without his medallion of the Virgin which was given to him by the Princess Isabel

TAKING A CAMERA ABROAD

It Behooves One to Be Careful at What It Is Pointed—Foreign Nations Are Peevish. If the American tourist carries his camera to Europe with him he must be careful to avoid photographing persons, private property and particularly government buildings, forts, docks and ships without permission. Many tourists have got themselves into much trouble in this way, especially in Russia, where the restrictions are unusually rigid and in Germany, also. A few years ago Germany passed a special bill through the reichstag dealing with this matter and imposing heavy penalties upon those who infringe the regulations. Damages to the amount of $1,500, with a fine of $250, or two months’ imprisonment, will henceforth be the fate of anyone who snapshots a private person, a work of art or the interior of a private building and circulates or publishes the picture without permission. Persons in the public eye, such as members of the royal family, statesmen, actors and well-known divines, are excepted. So, too, are public buildings and works of art in public galleries. In Portugal the authorities are curiously suspicious. A gentleman recently wrote to a London paper saying that he was arrested for snapping the royal palace in Cintra. It is possible, however, that under the new Portuguese regime the palaces will no longer be held so sacred. In Italy the camera of the tourist Is made the means of providing revenue for that somewhat impoverished country. If you carry your camera when on a visit to Pompeii or others of the recently excavated ruins you may take as many photographs as you please, but you are forced to pay a small fee for each plate exposed. Films are now obtainable In every large city of Europe, and in many smaller ones, so it is not necessary to carry a large supply, but a developing tank is advisable. With it one can develop anywhere in daylight, and

EUROPEAN "SPY” SWINDLER

Bogus Plans of Mobilization and War Made Profitable, According to German Publisher. London—A message from Berlin publishes the details of an extraordinary “spy” swindle by which several European governments have been imposed upon, according to the Deutsche Mittags Zeltung. A certain Glitch bought a few German military handbooks, ordnance maps and time tables relating to the German provinces near the French frontier and succeeded with their aid In concocting a “mobilization plan” of the Germany army, to be used in the event of war breaking out with France. He added elaborate notes and invented a secret cipher. Glitch dispatched hia forgeries to the general staff of the French army, dating them from Berlin. He said be must have the documents back in forty-eight hours. In due course the plans came bach with £SO and a request for morn. Then Glitch forged similar documents for the nse of Russia, and these were returned to him with £IOO.

As the\ officials of the two general aeked for still more documents. Glitch worked out a secret plan of a German mobilisation against Russia, France and England. In this plan It waa stated that Austria would send •a army to the Russian frontier, and that the German emperor would take

WHERE TURKS AND BULGARIANS FIGHT

THIS Illustration shows a fair example of the country along the TurcoBulgarian frontier. Here the hard strata or dykes, denuded by rain, appear as natural walls above the laker river and afford unusual cover for military operations.

There are many other pilots who will not fly without having/some similar charm about them. Hirtch, the well-known German aviator, once had a fall over fifty feet, from which by a sort of miracle he came out quite unhurt. Since then he treasures the shirt which he wore upon that occasion. He will not allow It to be washed, and when he makes ready to fly he Invariably ties it around his waist under hla clothes. One English pilot never goes up without his tiger whisker being safely stored in his pocket. Whether Grahame-White has any real belief or not in the efficacy of a

make sure before leaving a locality just what his results are. Standard chemicals for tank development can also be obtained In stores where films of American sizes are kept in stock, so one needs only to provide against possible need in small towns.

BEES SWARM IN RADIATOR

When Owner of Auto Makes Up His Mind to Take Ride He Encounters Trouble. San Francisco. —“One of the latest extreme auto stories concerns a Knox owner of Southern California, who was ‘done’ by a swarm of bees several dayr ago,” says Samuel Crim, bead of a local agency for an automobile concern. "The owner had neglected to use bis automobile for a number of

GERMAN SOCIALISTS GAINING

Result of Chemnitz Convention Gives Rude Awakening to ths Conservatives. Berlin. —The result of the Socialists convention at Chemnitz gave a rude awakening to German conservatives who had maintained that the Socialist party was hot dangerous in spite of its great numbers, because it was and would remain a minority in the German nation. 1 The convention not only did much to unite the party, but also, by failing to condemn the alliance with the radical party for the reballotings in the recent elections, left open the door for co-operations with Nonsocialist parties in coming elections. Socialists with progressive allies may become strong enough to control the German parliament, though they themselves may never emerge from the minority. 4 A break with the old autocratic system of party control under which the party affairs were in the hands of

command of the whole fleet in order to defeat the British fleet. Glitch himself handed this document to three French officers in Basle, who gave him £I,OOO. He sent a similar document to Russia and England. -

WOMAN KILLS BIG COUGAR

Rancher’s Wife Fired In the Dark With Two Shining Eyes to Guide Her Aim. Boundary. Wash.—With only a pair of shining eyes showing in the black darkness to guide her, Mrs. Alvin Thurston, a rancher’s wife, shot and killed a gigantic cougar. She was not sure she had killed the animal or what kind of a beast it was until her husband came home and lighted the lamps. Mr. Thurston had gone to town for supplies. At nightfall he had not returned and Mrs. Thurston sat in the doorway watching the trail. Hearing a noise behind her, she turned and saw two shining eyes. Her hnsband’s heavy rifle hong above the door near where she sat She took it down and fired into the dark room. Bhe heard the fall of a body, bat she was too frightened to move. Thurston arrived a few minutes later to find her huddled beside the door and a big cougar dead Inside. It weighed 300 pounds and six feet long from Up to Up.

mascot, he has been known to use more than one, and use them quite openly, too. A little red velvet shoe has been noticed tied to the machine just above his head. A bunch of white heather, a knot of violet ribbon and a small golliwog of peculiar hideousness are among his other amulets. Speaking of golliwogs, Wlentziers will never fly without his monkey. This is a most ordinary-looking child’s toy covered with, brown velvet and with black, beady eyes. But Wientziers has a most intense belief in its efficacy, and so far events have Justi- _ fled his belief, for he has never yet been damaged at all seriously.

days, and when he went to crank"“i£ a swarm of enraged bees, all in good working order, appeared on the scene. They had invaded the motor and started to make honey, evidently thinking that they had found a very, good hive with comb all ready and waiting for them to come and take dmrge, so they did not like to be dis-A-bed. even by the owner.”

DIGGER FINDS BIG TREASURE

1,000 Pieces of Eight In Old House— - Mob Makes Search for More v Silver Coin. New Haven, Conn. —Pasquale Valenti, a laborer, Btruck his shovel Into a pewter pot containing 1,000 pieces of Spanish silver coin known as eight reals. The face value so the coins Is about 60 cents each, but they were of dates between 1750 and 1786, and some may he worth more to collectors.

a committee of nine men waß mads when the convention decided to elect an advisory committee of thirty-si* members, one from each of the .districts in which the Socialists divids the empire for administrative purposes. Only one decision of the Chemnitz convention brought down general adverse criticism from the Nonsocialists and from a respectable minority of the Socialists themselves. This was the exclusion from the party of Gerhard Hildebrand, a scholarly man who has won considerable fame by his writings on socialistic and economic subjects. His offending consisted in advocating an eventual federation of all European states, with a protective tariff and adequate colonies, both of which are taboo to the orthodox Socialists.

DOG IS HELD AS WITNESS

Committed to the House of Detention In Female Department by New York Magistrate. New York. —Nellie was committed to the bouse of detention by Magistrate Breen. When a court officer appeared with her there the door manager said: “Hey! Ntx on the pup. No dogs allowed here.” But the attendant said: “She’s a material witness, and is committed here as such. * So Nellie was sent to the female department. Jacob Cohen claimed ownership of Nellie. He said that on October 9 Michael Batinsky of Jamaica took Nellie out for a walk, kept her and eventually sold her to Max Freinsky, a Park row saloonkeeper. Magistrate Breen held Batinsky for special sessions. Nellie made no protest against being Imprisoned. In fact, she seemed to appreciate the house of detention food. J

TURK’S FOE KILLS SISTER

Greek Patriot, ae a Preliminary to Fighting for Fatheriand, Takoa Life of Young Relative. Chicopee. Mass.—John Petropouloe. a .Greek, ahot and killed hla sister. Theodora, eighteen years old, because he did not like her lover, according to the police. Petropouloe, who has been preparing to return to Greece to fight against Turkey, used a revolver which he had bought aa part of Iris equipment. He escaped after the shooting and la supposed to be on his way to New York to join some of the bands t* hla countrymen which are forming there to go to the •