Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — Page 2

HIS NERVE FAILED

One Girl’s Face Spoiled a WeilLaid Advertising Scheme.

By H. M. EGBERT.

“You’ll never dare, to pull that off," sneered Chauncey B. Popoff, English manager of the Popoff Linoleum company, to Harry Burnett, as they sat in the company’s offices at Earl's court, England, t- ■ “I will dare, and, what’s more. I’ll carry it through to the bitter end," answered Burnett. “You largely exaggerate the difficulties because you don’t understand the English psychology,” he continued. "How will they know I’m not a duke in disguise? Besides, it always was done in the olden days, and a mere four or five hundred years are not enough to upset an established precedent in this country.” “Well, Burnett, I wish you luck,” answered Popoff sceptically. “Of course if you do—well, anyway, the materials are all downstairs in the shipping yard and the men have gone home. The gray truck horse has had a feed and you’d better get busy.” Burnett rose and, accompanied by the other, went down into the deserted yard. Ringed round by the blank walls of high buildings, it afforded a perfect spot in which to practice evolutions unobserved by curious-minded persons. At one end of the yard a huge gray, of the Flanders breed, stood munching at a few oats remaining In the bottom of his crib. Near by was a great packing case, -filled ■ with what looked like iron imple- , meats. “Now help me into the armor, Popoff, and stop your confounded sneering,” said Burnett, and together, not without difficulty, they took the pieces from the case. There was a steel helmet, with the vizor attachment, greaves, hauberk, arm-pieces—-all the complementary parts of a knight’s business suit, and, to complete the .outfit, a sectional lance, some 12 feet long, and padded at the point “By Barnum's tooth, I’m glad I’m not in your shoes,” said Popoff, as he helped the other to don the steel pieces. “You look hot, Burnett. Say, wouldn’t Miss Ware thro#" fits if she could see —” “See here, Popoff, you cut that out,” growled Burnett through the bars of his vizor. “Any more talk of that sort and we part company. Understand?” Popoff subsided sulkily and helped the trussed knight to adjust the leg and arm pieces. When at last this was done he propped him against a wall and proceeded to attire the horse In chest-piece and head armor. As this protection was more for show than for utility, he found it easy to carry and adjust the steel pieces, though the gray showed considerable restlessness during the operation. Finally, with a prodigious effort, he placed Burnett upon the horse’s back and, having taken his lance, Burnett passed round the yard at a ponderous canter, from time to time testing the accuracy of his aim against a circle chalked on a wall. After some half hour of this performance the perspiring knight was unharnessed, the armor peeked away, and the steed was given a drink of water and a fresh feed. Five days later the celebrated tournament was to be held in the Earl’s Court grounds, at which the nobility of English and many who were not noble were to participate in a grand revival of the medieval sport. Burnett, who had recently gone to England in the interests of the Popoff firm, had been an authority on the tournament; he had written a thesis on "Medieval Armor” which had attracted some attention among archeologists. When his father, obsessed by the belief that a commercial existence was indispensable for a young man, had given him the alternative between entering the employment of the Popotfs' and being stricken out of his will, Burnett had rather sulkily gone to England, as advfertising manager, to find the whole country agog over the forthcomiing pageant/ And the wild idea had come to him of engaging in the tournament. “I’m a pretty fair rider, Popoff,” he argued. “I didn’t often get thrown when I was bronco-busting in Wyoming—and I kept my seat on the greased rail at Coney last year, during the carnival, and won a pewter challenge cup. —Why shouldn't I enter as an unknown knight and -meet the nobility on equal terms “Because the copsjwill stop you before you can get in,” said Popoff. “We’ll see,” responded Burnett confidently. “I guess ij; will take some cops to stop me when I’m in my tourneying t£gs.” . And so, five mornings later, the workmen having received a special holiday on full pay, to enable Burnett to accouter himself unobserved, the young man fnounted the sullen gray and passed through the big gates into the busy Earl's court road, to the In the distance he saw a white pavilion set in a meadow; as he rode nearer he perceived a circle of tiers of wooden seats, on which were hundreds of spectators; in a roped-off portion was a group of ladies, and, in the center of these, the Queen of Beauty. On either side of a central jMis Jcnights were riding to•fard leicfi ,s other, thrusting with "Well, If I can’t heat that!” mut-

tered Burnett to himself, as, he |*w one lightly touch the armor of his antagonist, saw the lance splinter, and heard the herald proclaim the victor amid deafening Bhouts. He adjusted his vizor and sent the gray at an easy lumber toward the knights’ pavilion. Again the horse was seized by the bridle. Looking down Burnett perceived that a gorgeously clad individual, flanked on each side by a boy bearing a pennant and followed by a trumpeter who looked like the Knave of Hearts, was accosting him. “Your name. Sir Knight?” demanded this individual, looking a little sheepish. For the question Burnett was prepared. “Sir;tl am a stranger knight,” he answered briskly, “and I have ridden hither from overseas to wmtest for my lady in your tourney aod to uphold her name against all comers.” “You cannot contest, Sir, unless your name is on the entrance list,” replied the herald, keeping a tight grip of the horse’s bridle. “It’s against the rules. Hi! Get off the grass, you there! Go round and pay your shilling at tne entrance if you want to see the tourney.” But Burnett broke short the colloquy by suddenly spurring the gray again and galloping toward the entrance, where he perceived a bevy of knights upon their steeds awaiting their turn at the jousting. The Mas-ter-Of-Arms, seeing him rpproaeh, came spurring out toward him. “Your name, Sir Knight?” he demanded.- “Are you an entrant in this tourney, and come to do battle for some lady?” “No, I’m a stranger,” answered Bur-, nett briskly. “But I guess from the little I’ve seen that there won’t be much of a battle when I get busy." The Master-At-Arms frowned an- 11 grlly. "Nobody who Isn’t entered can joust, unless some lady hrs nominated him,” he answered. Master-At-Arms carried an ug-ly-looking face, and there seemed a certain finality in his words. Suddenly Burnett, casting his eyes upward, perceived, looking at him, not twenty yards away—Emmeline Ware! The shock almost unnerved him. He had been thrown much Into her society since his arrival two months before, and had reason to believe that she was not wholly Indifferent to him. And now, looking at her, he perceived that she had overheard, and distinctly saw her lips frame the word “yes.” “I’m nominated by Miss Ware —Miss Emmeline \#are. She’s my nominator —I mean my lady,” stammered Burnett; and then somehow the strangeness of the scene caught the Imagination of all and the spectators rose and shouted and the Queen of Beauty smiled —and a moment later Burnett was cantering down on his side of the barrier again it a knight whose helmet was encircled with ducal strawberry leaves. And two moments latter the duke was galloping past clutching his horse’s mane, his shivered lance on the ground; while Burnett found himself the victor. Again a knight rode out at him, and the sullen grdy thundered past; and this time the knight was clanging übon the sandeJ ground, like an overturned turtle, while Burnett rode past and saluted Miss Emmeline and saw her smile on him. Again—again; he felt sure of himself, knew that he cotHd not be overthrown. And It was remarkably like riding on the greased rail at Cony, but not so hard. Now the champion was billed to meet him —the Duke of Clydesdale, a wiry, athletic man mounted on a magnificent Norman. He was a splendid figure as he rode down the lists, and the excitement reached its zenith. They stood up, women and men, and shouted and clapped their hands. Burnett thrust, but Btruck only air, and, reeling in his saddle, he galloped by. At the end of the lists the combatants turned anti drew together again. The lances smote true. Each shivered Into a dozen fragments. Burnett caught at the bridle and saved himself by the gray’s hard-bitted mouth. But when he turned amid the tumultuous acclamations of all, he saw the duke limping out of the sawdust The Master-At-Arms was heard above the tumult. “Unroll your standard, Sir Knight that the Queen of Beauty may acclaim you victor and crown you with the wreath,” he cried. And Burnett, looking up, saw Emmeline Ware’s eyes fixed on his and her parted lips, her face, wherein intense emotion strove with dignity. And he knew that if he unrolled his standard he must never see her again. His scheme had failed, but from that failure something of more worth than success was to spring. He beht his head, falsed his right *rm in salutation —and holding the precious standard tightly rolled in his stirrup bucket he galloped off the field. Behind him he heard shouts. Men came funning toward him, pulled at his bridle, hut he shook them off. Through a nightmare of yells and cries he made his slow way till he reached the gates, passed through, threaded the mazes of Jhe Earl’s Court Road, and at last entered the open gates of the. factory, which he succeeded in closing fast just as the foremost of his pursuers came up. “Gee, that was a close shave!” he muttered breathlessly, as he pulled off his helmet and gasped at the fresh air. Then from his stirrup bucket he took the standard and unrolled it H« lit a match and as the flames ate their way through -the silken tissues his breath came freely and b s heart pulsed quickly with Joy. For on the flag were the words: -USE HO POUF’S LI NO LI UMS The best-laid advertising scheme* go wrong sometimes. (Copyright, IS 12, by W. O. Chapman.)

AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE BATTLESHIP NEW YORK

FROM left to right—President Taft, Secretary of the Navy Geo. von L. Meyer, Miss Elsie Calder, who christened the battleship, and Miss Kathleen Fitzgerald, who acted as flower girL

APACHES ARE FREED

Government to Select Reservation in West for Indians. Tribe Long Held Prisoner of War After Conflict With Mexicans and Americans —Never Mixed With Whites. ■ Oklahoma City, Qkla. —Maj. H. L. Scott, representing the war department, and Lieut. Ernest Stocker, Anadarko agent, representing the department of the interior, were appointed to select the new homes for the 269 Apache prisoners of war held by the United States government at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The last session of congress granted liberty to these Indians, after holding them prisoners of war tor twenty-six years, and the committee of two will select for them an open reservation somewhere In the west, but the probabilities are that their new home will not be within the boundaries of either New Mexico or Arizona. A reservation in either of those states might incite in the savage Apache Indians a memory of their forefathers’ conquests and defeats, within those boundaries, and render their relmprisonment necessary. The Apache tribe Is one of the few tribes that never assimilated the white man’s way of living, and since the year of 1868 have not been on friendly terms with any member of the white race. In that year one division of the six branches into which the tribe is divided, went from the eastern line of Arizona, where they were ranging, into Old Mexico on a trading expedition. When near the outpost of the Kas-ki-yeh they camped, and, leaving their women and children, proceeded toward Casa Grande. Citizens from that town met them and entered Into a treaty of peace with them, though the Mexican government had placed a price upon their heads, paying SIOO for a warrior, S6O for a squaw and $26 for a dead Indian child. While In Casa Grande, trading, Mexican soldiers took advantage of their absence from camp and set upon the defenseless women and children, killing all within camp. When the warriors returned In the evening the Mexican soldiers opened fire upon them and the Apaches,' being armed with bows and arrows, were exterminated, excepting (Jeronimo, who at that time was a young brave, and one other Apache. In this massacre Geronimo lost his wife and child, and, accordlng to hli own statement made after he became a prisoner of war of the United States, he swore eternal hostility to all Mexicans. (Jeronimo returned to Arizona and, sought aid from the other five Apache tribes, in seeking revenge on the Mexicans. The citizens of Casa Grande sent him a disclaimer of an knowledge of the massacre of hiß people after they had entered into the trading treaty with his band in Old Mexico, but Geronimo could never understand how it was the citizens had no control over these acts of the soldiers, and from that year until 188$ made annual raids upon the settlements within 300 miles of the northern boundary of Mexico. The Apaches, while on their excursions to Mexico, ran off some cattle that were In charge of white cowboys, and shortly thereafter United States troops made their appearances, and the Apaches always professed to believe they came in response to the Mexican government's appeal for aid in exterminating the Apachea (Jeronimo died about eighteen, months ago, and most of the old race

of warriors had preceded him to the grave, and now the general government believes the younger generation can be once more trusted to run at large on an open reservation. • The failure of the Apache Indians to assimilate the ways of civilization which finally resulted In their becoming prisoners of war, was no doubt due in a large measure to the ascendency Geronimo had over the members of his tribe, whom he kept constantly avenging the wrongs he and his relatives suffered at the hands of the Mexicans and Americans.

ELECTRIC WIRES IN HIS BED

8o Sea Captain Believed and Fired a Volley to Awaken Citizens In Gotham Hotel. New York. —Charles Hoeser, a retired sea captain, blazed away with a rifle and revolver from his window In the Astoria. Neighbors called Policeman Mlndheim, who made his way cautiously to Hoeser’s door. The captain confronted him, with the revolver and rifle ready for action, a grizzled, wild-eyed giant. "Oh, you’ve come at last, have yon?” he said. “I’ve been trying to attract a policeman for fifteen minutes. Someone has put a lot of electric wires and batteries in my bed and I want you to take them out. And I want you tc arrest whoever put them there.” Mlndheim took the captain before Magistrate Leach, in Long Island city police-court, who held him in SSOO bail for examination. The captain owns tne house in which he lives and other realty in the neighborhood.

HERCULES STEALS BIG SAFE

Porch Climber Tosses Strongbox From Window of Residence In Chicago. Chicago.—Wilmette was visited by a "Hercules porch climber,” who entered the home of Albert Bersbach, treasurer of the Manz Engraving company, at 530 Washington street, Wilmette, and with apparently little effort seized a small safe and threw It from the window to the ( ground. The strong-armed robber was accompanied by a medium-sized companion, who was armed with a revolver to make up for what he lacked in physical makeup. The latter stood at the foot of a stolen painter’s ladder, while "Hercules” entered the residence. “The robbers, one of whom was the strongest and largest man that ever visited this suburb, stole a ladder in the neighborhood and entered the second Btory of my residence at about 6:16 o’clock last evening," said Mr. Bersbach today. “The robbers are evidently the same men who entered my house less than two weeks ago and stole Jewelry valued at a couple of hundred dollars. The strength of the man who entered the house was amazing. He took up the safe, which weighs about 150 or 200 pounds, and threw It to the lawn as If it were a toy. “My son-in-law, David F. Anderson, was at home with my wife and daughter, and they thought they heard some one upstairs. Mr./Anderson started upstairs, and pn the steps assured hlimself some one was in the house. He went down to Inform some neighbors, and as he left thd* house he was covered by a revolvwr jieid by the man on watch, who raised his overcoat to his face to hide his features An automobile was awaiting them near by. and they made their escape in 1L

SEVERE TESTS ARE REQUIRED

Seven Hundred Candidates for Aeronautic Corps Must Undergo Rigid Examinations In Paris. Paris. —The 700 candidates for France’s flying corps are to be subjected to very severe tests at the physical examination ordered by the ministry of war. Among the requirements are perfect vision, normal color sense, sharp hearing and absolute soundness of the organs of respiration and circulation. It is specified particularly that no men who have to wear spectacles shall do any flying, a rule made the more interesting because some of the world’s most notable airmen, past and present, wore or now wear glasses. The candidates are now learning to fly at the government aerodromes, some of them as pilots of dirigible balloons, but the majority as individual aeroplane pilots. The test is to be more severe for operators of aeroplanes than for' balloon aeronauts.

MAD DOG SPREADS RABIES

Horses, Cattle and/Hogs Are Bitten by Rabid Animal Near Holden, Mo. Warrensburg, Mo. —A mad dog in the farming community south of Holden bit hogs, cattle, horses and mules and Infected them with rabies. Six head of cattle belonging to one farmer have since died of hydrqphobla and another reports the loss of ten hogs. A score of other farmers report the loss of horses, hogs cattle and mules. The animals show unmistakable signs of hydrophobia and have to be shot in order to protect other animals from Infection. The farmers are also exterminating all the dogs.

The robber that entered the house was a yery daring fellow. He turned on the lights while he worked and disregarded the fuss made by our dog. The safe did not contain anything of value to them,- but I think they were prompted upon their last visit to return and take the safe.”

LOOT KNOWS NO LIMITS

Minneapolitan Is Charged With Bteal« Ing Everything From a Pollywog In Alcohol to Bible and Ether. Minneapolis.—Loot, the variety of which is said to be the most marked i:_ the history of the Minneapolis police department, according to officials, has been recovered by the police from the home of Stanley Wartkess, who was placed under arrest The goods, which according to the police was stolen from a hospital and two hotels where Wartkess worked, range from s pollywog in alcohol to a Bible, and from artificial flowers to ether. Silver, linen and clothing worth SI,OOO are said to have been taken by Wartkess while employed at the hotels.

BRIDGE TO BE MONUMENT

Minister of Belgium Pays $200,000 on Structure to Btand as His Father's Memorial. Boston. —Lars Anderson, minister to Belgium, has paid $200,000 to the state treasurer to build the Anderson bridge, between Boston and Cambridge, near the Harvard stadium. The bridge la given in memory of Mr. Anderson’s father. Nicholas Longworth Anderson of Cincinnati, £ graduate of Harvard In 1858 and a brigadier general In tha Civil war.

IN THE SEWING ROOM

SHORT BITS OF WISDOM THAT ARE OF VALUE. Will Be Fouqd to Be Labor Savers aa Well as Economical —How Ruety Needles May Be EffectiveI ly Cleaned. When darning a rent In woolen goods, and It is impossible to ravel out the goods itself for thread to dam with, use long hairs from your own head. The loose weave of the wool loses the hair in Its meshes, and so the darn becomes Invisible. The best way to clean rusty needles is to run them up and down in the earth. Just go out in the garden and stick the needles in the ground, then pull them out. Have the needles threaded, with the thread tied double, so there will be something to catch hold of to extract the needle from the earth. This method is even better than using an emery bag. When buttons come off shoes and you sew them on again, run through all the other buttons with the same thread with which ybu replace the missing ones. It will strengthen them all and make the next button sewing a task far in the future. Small holes in black or white kid gloves can easily be mended with court-plaster. Cut the plaster a little larger than the hole itself,®and stick it to the under part of the glove directly over the hole, pressing the kid down smooth on the sticky surface of the plaster. This will last as long as the gloves themselves do. If the tip breaks off the end of your scissors, the jagged point may be smoothed off by rubbing it on a whetstone. The point will be uneven, but It will cut all right. The same treatment may be used for blunted needles. Glove clasps, or snap fasteners are better to use as a fastening for plackets on cloth dresses than are hooks and eyes. But when the latter are used be sure to buy those having the peat eyes instead of the ordinary loop eye. Silk petticoats always give way first at the seam; therefore, when you buy a new one, sew silk seam binding over each seam on the right side. This will often serve as a cure for wornout petticoats. When doing drawn work or hemstitching on linen, soap the place where the threads are to be drawn, using a thick soap lather and a soft brush. After the work is once started, it will be an easy matter to draw out the threads, as they slip very easily on the soapy surface.

Molasses Cornballs.

For a family of five buy two pounds of corn on the cob, or one pound all shelled. After popping pick it over and remove all hard kernels. For the/ sirup use two cups of molasses and one-half cup of white sugar and boll until hard, when a few drops are put in cold water, then add a piece of butter size of a walnut and a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda. Pour over the corn and stir thoroughly. Butter the hands and while the corn is warm form Into balls. You will have to work quickly as they cool fast. This makes anywhere from two to three dozen cornballs, according to the size you make them.

Marshmallow Fudge.

Heat two cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cup of rich milk; add two squares of chocolate and boil until It hardens lii cold water. Just before it is done add a small piece of butter, and thed begin to stir in marshmallows, crushing and beating them with a spoon. Continue to stir in marshmallows after the fudge has been taken from the Are until a pound has been stirred into the fudge. Cool In sheets three-fourths of an Inch thick and cut into cubes.

Peanut Fudge Filling.

*Two cupfuls of sugar, one pint of milk, four squares of chocolate, four 'tablespoonfuls of butter, one teaspoofaful of vanilla essence, one cupful of chopped peanuts. Put all Ingredients Into a saucepan and let this stand at the back of the range until the mixture liquefies. 801 l until a soft ball is formed; beat until creamy; spread between cakes.

Aunt Marla’s Cake.

One-half cup butter, one cup brown sugar, one cup sour milk, two cups flour, one teaspoonful soda put in dry flour, one teaspoonful cinnamon, onehalf teaspoonful cloves, one -egg (beat white separately), one teaspoonful molasses, one cup chopped raisins. Bake one hour.

Chestnut Salad.

Shell large chestnuts and blanch them. Then boll until tender. While they are still hot Immerse them In French dressing to which has been addedl little onion juice. Drain and chill thoroughly. Serve in a bed of watercress. |

Pickled Tripe.

To pickle tripe cut Into squares_,and tay in an earthen pot, nnd pour"over boiling vinegar enough to cover, in which a blade of mace, a dozen whole cloves and a stick of’cinnamon have been boiled. It will be ready for use in 12 hours.

Cleaning Bedsteads.

To dean white iron bedsteads use s damp cloth and a little cooking soda. This will leave the bedstead clean and white. So<ja will also remove nearly all stains from the sink.